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horizontal gene transfer
...both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. For example, the transfer of a gene encoding a unique metabolic enzyme from a species of
Pasteurella bacteria to the protozoan parasite
Trichomonas vaginalis is suspected to have facilitated the latter organism's adaptation to its animal hosts. Likewise, the exchange of a gene from a human cell to the bacterium ...
role in
cellular activity
In this process the cell membrane engulfs portions of the external medium, forms an almost complete sphere around it, and then draws the membrane-bounded vesicle, called an endosome, into the cell. Several types of
endocytosis have been distinguished: in pinocytosis, the vesicles are small and contain fluid; in phagocytosis, the vesicles are larger and contain solid matter; and in...
horizontal gene transfer
Prokaryotes can exchange DNA with eukaryotes, although the mechanisms behind this process are not well understood. Suspected mechanisms include conjugation and
endocytosis, such as when a eukaryotic cell engulfs a prokaryotic cell and gathers it into a special membrane-bound vesicle for degradation. It is thought that in rare instances in
endocytosis, genes escape from prokaryotes during...
human digestive system
...energy, but it involves a carrier, or protein molecule located on the outside of the cell membrane that binds the substance and carries it into the cell. The carrier may be competitively inhibited. Endocytosis takes place when the material to be absorbed, on reaching the cell membrane, is engulfed into the cell interior.
lysosomal digestion
...for use in lysosomes, endosomes, or the plasma membrane. The lysosomes then fuse with membrane vesicles that derive from one of three pathways:
endocytosis, autophagocytosis, and phagocytosis. In
endocytosis, extracellular macromolecules are taken up into the cell to form membrane-bound vesicles called endosomes that fuse with lysosomes. Autophagocytosis is the process by which old organelles...
nervous systems
...transmitter molecules are then expelled from the vesicles into the synaptic cleft. This expulsion process is called exocytosis. Vesicle membranes are then recovered from the plasma membrane through
endocytosis. In this process the membranes are surrounded by a protein coat at the lateral margins of the synapse and are then transferred to cisternae, which form in the terminal during nerve...
viral penetration
...enclosed not by walls but by a flexible lipoprotein bilayer membrane. Most animal viruses, whether or not they are encased in lipid envelopes, penetrate cells in an intact form by a process called
endocytosis. The membrane invaginates and engulfs a virus particle adsorbed to a cell, usually in an area of the membrane called a coated pit, which is lined by a special protein known as clathrin....


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This will be my new go-to summer potluck side. It is fantastic! The lime zest is such a fun surprise and kicks this fruit salad up to top notch.
2 ripe peaches, cut into cubes
1 can mandarin oranges, drained well
2-3 ripe kiwi, peeled and sliced into thick half moons
1 cup green grapes, halved
1 cup strawberries, quartered
Zest from one lime, about 1 tablespoon
2 tablespoons honey
1 teaspoon poppy seeds (optional)
Combine the fruit in a medium-large serving bowl. Add the lime zest and poppy seeds, if using, and gently toss.
Drizzle the honey over the fruit and again, gently mix until the fruit is evenly coated with the honey. Serve.
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I'm behind on this story so hopefully someone can fill me in. Why is Jenelle in the legal system? Was she arrested for something?
I'm behind on this story so hopefully someone can fill me in. Why is Jenelle in the legal system? Was she arrested for something?
According to this - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz...ossession.html
Her and Kieffer were arrested for marijuana possession and breaking and entering.
The link also has their mug shots.
Yeah, that's what was a little confusing to me because I thought I read about it after they had stopped filming. I guess I wouldn't be surprised either way. lol
Here's a link - Teen Mom 2 Star Jenelle Evans Admits Ex-Boyfriend Andrew Isn't Jace's Father | Celebrity Gossip Talk and News
Saw on a "news" website yesterday that Jennelle appeared in court this past week. Im going to spoiler it because it's real time, as opposed to where we are in the show.
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"Alot of people when they listen, they don't listen. They hear but they don't listen to what the person is saying. " Boston Rob (Mariano)
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OMG. I'm now really wondering if Jenelle has even a small chance of getting her head on straight. She has every opportunity in the world to her at this time in her life. (She can get her education, make a decent living, have help with Jace, get counseling, have some fun traveling and have a little fun with her celebrity.) But she just seems to want bad things to happen. She just refuses to say yes to right things and no the wrong ones. There are just some people like that and you just can't change them no matter what you do.
I wish her the best, but honestly. I feel like I have seen people like Jenelle before. I work in the legal field and I have seen many women like Jenelle and 20 years later, they have several children, all of whom have been taken away from them and placed in foster care of other family members, they have been in and out of prison during that time and they have nothing but the clothes on their back to show for it. I pray Jenelle doesn't go down that road.
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It's called immaturity. Most people change with age, moreso females. I was raised to be mature....what about you? I don't think Jenelle was.
"...each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one." - Mitch Albom, one helluva writer.
When you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, you know which one you hit by the one that yelps!
Unfortunately in Jenelle's case I think its more than just immaturity that she will grow out of. She seems to have a profound sense of selfishness and entitlement, a real lack of understanding of other people's needs or feelings as well has a completely unrealistic view of how the world works, and she doesn't seem to think that rules apply to her. I think there is something seriously wrong and missing with her.
In my opinion, everything that you just listed defines immaturity, and I think she wants better when it comes to Jace, but she's in limbo because of the way that she has been, permissively, raised. I will admit that I have seen children with stronger sensibilities than she has, but I think these things have been encouraged in them. Children learn these things when you guide them, and by watching your actions. These people don't grow up in a vacuum...they observe and learn. Now, if they're pointed in this direction and they still "just don't get it", I think you have a bigger problem on your hands that needs outside intervention.
"...each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one." - Mitch Albom, one helluva writer.
When you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, you know which one you hit by the one that yelps!
this article gave me some hope that maybe Jeanelle was finally getting her act together..then I read today about her court appearance with Keefer..and that maybe he was abusing her and SHE IS TALKING ABOUT THEM GETTING BACK TOGETHER...OMG...don't do it Jeanelle..it finally sounds like you are getting your life on track ..don't mess it up again
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A Pink Easter Egg Gradient
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All three of these Gradients are the sort of patterns that I wish I could make on my own dyed eggs. Maybe some day I'll take Ukrainian egg decorating lessons!
I like the green based baby shower gradient a lot, because it can be worn for many occasions. It could be worn to celebrate a baby girl or a boy, and it is springtime colors as well. The Pink Persona is a variation on it. As for the blue violet one, I might make variations on that one if people are interested. Leave a comment/request on it if you are. C0l1
(pastels, pink, deep rose, yellow, light blue, purple, violet, triangles, triangular, eggs, holiday)
An original Holiday Design by CollieSmile
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Novo diabetes site adds new tools to self-manage
Novo Nordisk has unveiled a revamped diabetes care Web site to communicate with patients seeking help in the self-management of the disease.ChangingDiabetes-us.com features new tools and content developed in response to findings from the Diabetes Attitudes, Wishes and Needs (DAWN) study, a 5,426-patient survey commissioned by Novo Nordisk.
"The DAWN Study has given us valuable insights into how people cope with diabetes at diagnosis and throughout the disease process," said Susan Harrow Rago, associate director, patient services & professional relations, in a statement.
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I was able to use Javaloader fine up untill I added some more classes to my project then suddenly the Javaloader aborts at 72432 bytes of 100178
The command line I am using :
javaloader -usb load C:\javaworkspace\MyProject\MyProject.cod
and reports :
RIM Wireless Handheld Java Loader
Copyright 2001-2007 Research In Motion Limited
Connecting to device...
Connected **
Loading MyProject Error: file is incompatible with data stored on the device
0 bytes sent at ~0 bps
'#javaloader' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Also my application uses persistant store, I added some new properties to the persistant store between updates, could this have caused this problem?
What is happening?
Solved! Go to Solution.
I solved it myself though trial and error.
I had to change the GUID for this line
PersistentObject po = PersistentStore.getPersistentObject(ClientProfile.
Not elegant because I leave old data on the device.
This is caused by changing your persistent class (adding or removing members from it). You'll need to delete the application before installing the new version.
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Although this corrected the issue on my device, what will happen when I release this update to the customers? Will the update of the app do this automatically or will have need to tell customers to delete the app before re-downloading the new version?
If you have updated your persistent class, users will need to uninstall before installing the new version.
Another way to handle this is to keep both versions of your persistent classes in your application, changing the name and or package of the new version. Your application can then be upgraded. It would then be up to your application to detect the class saved in persistent store (version 1 or 2), copy the data to the new class and save it over top of your old data.


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Los Angeles Times, 10/21/11– Every day in 2011, Republicans have voted to weaken the EPA and the nation's environmental laws. Their hide behind the falsehood "environment vs. jobs" in order to persuade their colleagues to support rollbacks of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. The Republican-led House is currently pushing passage of a law that would weaken standard compliance for power plants, delay upgrades to industrial boilers, and remove protections for America's prized water bodies, including Lake Erie. EPA foes are trying to convince Americans that they have to choose between their health and their economy, which is a false choice. The EPA mercury and air-toxics standard would create 31,000 short term and 9,000 long-term jobs and reach health benefits of $140 billion by 2016. Republicans must stop this assault on the environment.
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Breeze Systems today announced availability of DSLR Remote Pro v1.5, adding support for Canon's EOS 40D and 1D Mark III. The software allows the live view feature of these cameras to be operated remotely including contrast-detection autofocus. This is currently a unique capability with interesting possibilities for many fields of photography. DSLR Remote Pro v1.5 is available now at a price of US $95 - or $75 until the end of October for users of Breezebrowser Pro. A 15 day trial version is also available from Breeze Systems, link after the jump.
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Breeze Systems DSLR Remote Pro v1.5 introduces Remote Live View with Autofocus for Canon EOS 40D and 1D Mark III
2nd October 2007: Breeze Systems announce the immediate availability of DSLR Remote Pro v1.5 for controlling Canon EOS cameras on Microsoft Windows. This innovative and highly regarded remote control application now controls Canon's new EOS 40D and 1D Mark III cameras. DSLR Remote Pro v1.5 has the unique ability to autofocus the 40D and 1D Mark III from a PC using a contrast detection algorithm on the large remote live view display.
New in DSLR Remote Pro v1.5
Canon EOS 1D Mark III and 40D users can use DSLR Remote Pro v1.5 to view full frame live images on a PC screen, autofocus at a distance from the camera using the remote live image, and focus manually from a PC with the mouse wheel or using the cursor keys. Fine control over focus is obtained using the large live view image and the ability to zoom to pixel level and view the magnified detail live on the PC screen. Lining up panorama shots and stop frame animation is made easier using DSLR Remote Pro v1.5's unique onion skinning ability combined with the remote live view.
Breeze Systems expect to add support for the new Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III with similar live view functionality later this year.
DSLR Remote Pro also allows professionals using Canon's EOS-1D Mark III, 1D Mark II, 1Ds Mark II, 5D, 40D, 30D, 20D, 10D, 400D/Rebel XTi, 350D.Rebel XT and 300D/Rebel cameras to
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- Enable customers to view pictures while continuing to shoot
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*Multiple camera support available only for Canon EOS-1D Mark III, 40D, 30D and 400D/Rebel XTi cameras.
DSLR Remote Pro supports the tethered operation of the following Canon cameras: EOS-1Ds Mark II, EOS-1D Mark III, EOS-1D Mark II, EOS 5D, EOS 40D, EOS 30D, EOS 20D, EOS 10D, EOS 400D/Digital Rebel XTi, EOS 350D/Digital Rebel XT, EOS-1D, EOS-1Ds and EOS 300D/Digital Rebel.
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cma is a valencian company, set up in the late eighties. in 1990 it started to build hydraulic and pneumatic threading machines which were exhibited at the bilbao machine-tool biennial that same year. since that time it has developed a wide range of machines with over 20 different models adapting to each different customer's threading needs. it now has modern installations built in 1997 in alzira, the chief town in the ribera county, 35 km to the south of the city of valencia, with ideal access possibilities by land air and sea. it designs, builds and markets its machines to offer a quality well-finished product, as well as providing personal attention in its day-to-day work and a fast response to its customers' demands.
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MOTU's entry into the growing field of sampler plug-ins strikes awelcome balance between simplicity and functionality. Although itboasts a long list of high-end features, MachFive never sacrifices itsstraightforward architecture and easy-to-use interface. For example,all of the operations are managed from a single large virtual frontpanel, and there are clear, concise pop-up hints for each control andfeature. If you're the type who likes to dive right in, you could learnto use most of MachFive's capabilities without ever cracking themanual. What's more, MachFive comes with almost 5 GB of high-qualitysounds, and you can import and convert most popular sampler formatsusing the included UVI-Extract software.
MachFive is currently available for Mac OS 9 and OS X in severalplug-in formats: MAS and VST for both operating systems, and RTAS,HTDM, and Audio Units for OS X. A Windows version supporting VST, DXi,RTAS, and HTDM is due out by the time you read this review. MachFivedoes not presently stream sample playback from disk, which means you'llneed a lot of RAM; at least 1 GB is recommended. (MOTU plans to releasea free update shortly that will add support for sample streaming.) Toprevent piracy, the software uses the Pace copy-protection system,which requires a USB port for the iLok hardware key (dongle).
MachFive comes in three varieties classified by the number ofoutputs: stereo, quad, and 6-channel for 5.1 surround. (These are allincluded and available, when appropriate, in the plug-in menu of thehost application.) As of this writing, the Audio Units format supportsonly stereo, although the new surround support in Panther may changethat in the near future. MachFive is also 16-part multitimbral,allowing a single MachFive instance to play up to 16 differentmultisampled instruments.
To make full use of MachFive's synthesis and effects options, youneed a fast CPU; a G4/800 MHz or better is recommended. For thisreview, I used a G4/800 MHz PowerBook. By minimizing the use of filtersand DSP effects and working in 32-bit mode (more RAM, less CPU), I wasable to get 24 voices from the VST, Audio Units, and MAS versionswithout pushing the CPU meter over 50 percent.
As mentioned earlier, all of MachFive's operations are carried outfrom a single multisection control panel (see Fig. 1). Thatallows for fast and convenient access to all of the features, but someof the text displays are quite small and, especially in the orangeareas, difficult to read. Many of the gray-on-gray labels are alsounnecessarily hard to read.
The File Browser at the top left of the panel manages samples,presets, Soundbanks, and Performances, all of which must reside in theMachFive Sounds folder on your hard drive. That isn't as limiting as itmight seem at first, because aliases to folders containing samples canbe used instead of the actual sample data. A preset consists of themultisample map, defining key and Velocity zones (called Keygroups)together with synthesis and effects routings and settings. A differentpreset can be loaded into each of MachFive's 16 Parts, which aremanaged in the section below the File Browser.
A Performance consists of all Part settings, together with allMachFive global settings. The same information is automatically savedby the host software along with a project, so Performances are reallyneeded only for exchanging setups between projects. MachFive offersseveral convenient archiving options when saving Performances: you canelect to simultaneously save all presets with or without their samples,and you can save the Performance as a Soundbank, which saves everythingin MachFive RAM in a single, new Soundbank folder.
MachFive supports direct loading (including drag-and-drop) ofsamples in WAV, AIFF, and SDII format. You can import other sampleformats as well as instruments and banks in other sampler formats usingthe included UVI-Extract software (see Fig. 2). UVI-Extract islaunched directly from the MachFive control panel, and its operation isseamlessly integrated with MachFive in the sense that imported data isautomatically placed in the correct folders and loaded into MachFive.Supported instrument formats include SoundFont, Giga, Akai, E-mu,Pulsar, SampleCell (instruments and banks), EXS24, and Kurzweil. Iconverted SoundFont, Giga, SampleCell, and EXS24 instruments withoutany problems other than having to adjust a few parameters, which is tobe expected.
As I pointed out, MachFive Parts hold presets, but Parts alsocontain settings beyond those of the preset: for example, MIDI Channel,audio output, and mixer and effects settings. Because the MIDI channelfor each Part can be freely assigned, setting up layers couldn't beeasier. Using the optional Expert settings, you can assign MIDI notesto mute and unmute individual Parts, you can set up automatic fade-insand fade-outs across MIDI note ranges, and you can even assign MIDIcontrollers to fade Parts in and out. Parts also contain alternatesettings for octave, tuning, Pitch Bend range, Velocity curve, monomode, and glide. That allows you to have temporary settings for thoseparameters saved with the project or Performance without affecting thepreset settings.
By default, the Display Area shows a Keygroup Editor in the lowerpane and a Sample Editor in the upper pane (see Fig. 3). Theupper pane has five additional modes: List Editor, Group Editor, SampleInfo, Spectrum Analyzer, and Sample Tuner. The last two are very handyfor setting synthesis parameters, such as filter cutoff and EQ, and forfine-tuning individual samples.
The Sample Editor lets you set start and end points, looping styleand boundaries, and basic DSP functions, such as normalizing, fading,and reversing. Edits are initially nondestructive, affecting only thesample in RAM, but you can also make them permanent by saving thesample. Although the Sample Editor is the largest part of the MachFiveDisplay Area, it can still be a bit awkward to use for detailedediting. It can, however, be expanded to take up the entire DisplayArea, which provides a better view of the data, and you can zoom in tothe sample level to improve editing accuracy.
PROS: Easy to use.Supports most sampler formats. Flexible effects routing. Includes largelibrary of samples. Versatile editing capabilities.
CONS: Doesn't stream fromdisk (yet). Panel can be hard to read. Requires USB port forcopy-protection key
Manufacturer MOTU tel. (617) 576-2760 e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com Web www.motu.com
The List Editor lets you numerically edit sample-mapping parameters,such as note and Velocity range, base (root) note, trigger mode(several forms of Note On and Note Off triggering are provided), outputrouting, and routing to four insert effects buses. The Group Editorlets you assign each zone to any of 16 groups (multiple assignments areallowed). You can then use the Select menu to select all Keygroups in agroup and edit their parameters simultaneously.
The Keygroup Parameters section (bottom center) providessubtractive-synthesis-style processing. It includes a resonantmultimode filter with overdrive, a pitch-modulation section, and anoutput-level and pan section. Modulation sources include three AHDSRenvelope generators and four multiwaveform, syncable LFOs. Two of theLFOs are global, but all other parameters can be applied on anindividual Keygroup basis. MIDI Pitch Bend, Note Number, Channel andPoly Pressure, Velocity, and Control Change messages are also availableas modulation sources. (There are 28 modulation sources in all.)
MachFive offers 29 DSP effects and an extremely flexible busingscheme. The effects cover the usual bases and more, including fivetypes of delays, three types of reverb, chorus, flanger, tremolo,phaser, "crossphaser," autopan, rotary speaker, auto wah,multiband EQ, "filter" effects, "drive"effects, and gate. There are also a number of unusual effects, such asRobotizer and UVI Drive. Each of the effects has a submenu for presets,but surprisingly, you can't add your own presets to that menu.
Sixteen effects slots are organized into groups of four: four inserteffects arranged in parallel for each Part, four more Part effectsarranged in series, four send effects arranged in parallel (each Parthas its own aux-send controls), and four Master effects arranged inseries and applied to MachFive's overall output. As the manual pointsout, that adds up to a whopping 88 effects paths and 136 effects slots.Of course, DSP effects and synth processing both suck up CPU cycles andneed to be used sparingly to maximize MachFive's voice count.
If MachFive is your first sampler, the large library of includedsamples will be a welcome addition, and most of the banks aretop-notch. The Soundlib Büsendorfer Soundbank is a great-sounding16-bit, 48 kHz multisampled Büsendorfer grand piano extracted froman upcoming commercial 24-bit, 96 kHz version.
The Electric Keyboards Soundbank contains five Rhodes pianos and twoHammond organs, each sampled with 24-bit, 96 kHz audio quality andoffered in four sizes. For example, the largest Rhodes preset hassamples for every note at four Velocity levels; the smallest preset hastwo sampled notes per octave at three Velocities. Guitars and Bass isanother 24-bit, 96 kHz Soundbank with a modest number of exquisitelysampled instruments: three acoustic guitars, three electric guitars,and three basses.
The Drum Kits Soundbank includes four stick kits and four brush kitsin the General MIDI format, and it also includes presets dedicated toindividual percussion instruments; the 24-bit, 96 kHz samples areexcellently recorded. The rest of the Soundbanks are "sneakpreviews" of various commercial libraries. I found some usablestuff, but mostly it just whets your appetite for the fullversions.
MachFive offers a welcome compromise between complexity and ease ofuse. Its synthesis and effects sections take you far beyondload-and-play sampler plug-ins that allow you to map and playmultisamples but do little else. And best of all, getting around onMachFive is not rocket science; you won't spend a lot of timescratching your head wondering what this or that module does. Thesoftware is generally CPU efficient and has the significant advantageof being available in a wide range of plug-in formats. If you are inthe market for a professional-level software sampler, especially onewith a streamlined, up-front user interface, you should definitelycheck out MachFive.
These are my comments.
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After graduating Rose-Hulman in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering, Brendan joined the Alliance for Catholic Education, a service through teaching program run by the University of Notre Dame. There, Brendan taught inner-city youth in New Orleans while earning his Master of Education.
"My experiences at Rose were instrumental in defining my professional educational philosophy," McKiernan states. "While at Rose, the academic expectations helped me experience and value the idea of challenging yourself in your education. My experience through the Learning Center and being an RA showed me the value of asking and answering questions and of community in your education."
McKiernan is currently teaching high school math, developing the Advanced Placement curriculum, and directing the middle school intramural and interscholastic sports for Holy Cross School in New Orleans.
"As a non-traditional Rose-Hulman graduate, I am both surprised and honored to receive this award. Rose not only provides excellent academic preparation but also outstanding development as a person and citizen; ideals I bring into my classroom daily."


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Denton: One-Year Anniversary of Vucevic's Historic Night
By John Denton
Dec. 30, 2013
ORLANDO – Orlando Magic center Nikola Vucevic used 2013 as a breakout year to establish himself as one of the NBA's most dominant rebounders and an emerging low-post threat.
And none of it might have been possible without a performance for the ages on the final day of 2012.
Now, exactly a year later, Vucevic is hoping to repeat a performance in which he grabbed more rebounds in a game than anyone in the 25-year history of the Magic. It was last New Year's Eve that Vucevic announced himself to the basketball world with a 29-rebound performance that unseated Shaquille O'Neal from the Magic record books and established the 7-footer as a rising star.
``It's a night that I'll always remember. It was a huge night for me to break Shaq's record,'' Vucevic said of his record-shattering performance. ``Knowing that it was Shaq and Dwight (Howard, who have played in Orlando), two guys who have led in rebounds, it was huge for me and my confidence. I feel like that game got me going for the rest of the year.''
Whereas Vucevic ended 2012 with a bang and it set him up for a big second half of the season, last year also put him in a good spot to make major strides this season. Heading into the Magic's 5 p.m. New Year's Eve game against the Golden State Warriors, Vucevic ranks fifth in the NBA in rebounding (11.5 rpg) and he's become a much more assertive post player. The usually mild-mannered Vucevic has become so much more aggressive that he now fights hard for position and demands that teammates throw him the ball. ``He didn't really know who he was (last season), but now he understands what he can do and how he can contribute every night,'' gushed Magic power forward Glen ``Big Baby'' Davis. ``Nik's thirsty and he wants more. He wants to be a driving force on this team.''
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The future of sex?
Once derided as being like a plastic bag with the erotic appeal of a jellyfish, the female condom is being reinvented as the next big thing in safe sex. Emily Anthes from Mosaic investigates.
1. Excitement
In 1987, an American pharmaceutical executive called Mary Ann Leeper flew to Copenhagen to get a firsthand look at what she thought might be the world's next great health innovation. She didn't expect to find it tucked away inside an old cigar box.
When she arrived at the old farmhouse owned by Danish doctor and inventor Lasse Hessel, he opened the door with a cigar in his mouth. Then he fetched the box. "Inside were all these bits and pieces – metal, plastic, all different kinds of stuff," Leeper recalls. "I took a deep breath and thought, 'Holy mother – what have I gotten myself into?'" Somehow, these bits and pieces fit together to form a contraption that women could wear during sex to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections – the world's first female condom.
The presentation may have been unconventional, but Leeper and her colleagues at Wisconsin Pharmacal had high hopes for Hesse's invention. "The AIDS crisis in the United States was just fully being recognised, and it was clear to us that for women to have a product that they could use to help protect themselves would be a good thing," Leeper says.
Indeed, when Wisconsin Pharmacal finally introduced the female condom to the USA in 1993, public health experts hailed it as a game-changer. The condom, a polyurethane pouch inserted into the vagina before sex, would protect women from sexually transmitted infections even if their male partners refused to wear condoms.
Technically, the female condom works. When used correctly, it reduces a woman's risk of contracting HIV by around 94–97 per cent each time she had sex, according to estimates. Studies show that making female condoms available alongside the male version increases the percentage of sexual acts that are protected, and decreases the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections.
Yet, two decades after its much-celebrated introduction, the female condom still isn't living up to its potential. Less intuitive and familiar than the male condom, the device simply never caught on. Journalists mocked it, clinicians ignored it, and women shunned it, claiming that the condom was aesthetically unappealing and technically difficult to master. Today, only 1.6 per cent of all condoms distributed worldwide are female condoms.
There may finally be an opening to change the female condom's fate. For years, a handful of researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs have been quietly tinkering with the device. Their efforts are now maturing and an assortment of redesigned and reinvented female condoms are beginning to make their way onto the market. The introduction of new, more user-friendly products – coupled with renewed efforts to promote the technology around the globe – may finally be positioning the female condom for a breakthrough.
2. Plateau
From the start, the female condom was a difficult project – far more difficult than Leeper had bargained for. After buying the rights to the technology, Leeper and her colleagues at Wisconsin Pharmacal needed to turn Hessel's prototype into a marketable product. After some tweaking, they ended up with a thin polyurethane pouch with a flexible ring at each end. A woman would insert the device by squeezing the ring that sits in the closed end of the pouch and pushing it into her vagina. Once expanded inside the vagina, this inner ring would keep the condom in place. The larger ring at the open end of the pouch would sit outside the vagina, covering the external genitalia. When a man ejaculated, the internal condom pouch would trap his semen, preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
But before Wisconsin Pharmacal could put the condom on the market, they needed approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Because the female condom was an utterly new kind of product, the FDA decided to regulate it as a class III medical device, a category that is generally reserved for "high-risk" medical equipment – such as pacemakers and certain lasers – and that requires the highest level of regulatory scrutiny. (The FDA classifies male condoms as class II medical devices, so they are subject to fewer controls and do not require pre-market approval.)
It took six years for the female condom to wind its way through the regulatory system, and when the government finally approved it, in 1993, Leeper breathed a sigh of relief. "I thought that the hardest part was going to be getting it through FDA because it was really difficult and they kept changing the specifications, the requirements, the clinical studies," she says. But she was wrong. The hard part was just beginning.
As Wisconsin Pharmacal prepared to launch the Reality female condom in the USA (it would go by other brand names in other countries), they made all the standard arrangements, hiring sales reps to visit medical practices and commissioning a big advertising firm to market the product directly to consumers. "We did all the checklist things that you're supposed to do," Leeper says. "And we fell flat on our face."
The challenge, in part, was the era, and the public's squeamishness about a sex-related product. "In those days, you couldn't talk 'condom' out loud," Leeper recalls. "Male condoms were referred to as 'rubbers'. You said them in a whisper and they were held behind the counter by the pharmacist." And although the AIDS crisis was raging, for many American women, the risk of contracting HIV was abstract, something that happened to other people and not to them. While women in focus groups had said they liked the idea of the condom, according to Leeper, "when push came to shove, when they were in that bedroom, the female condom was out on the dining-room table".
There were other barriers, too. The condoms cost as much as $5 a piece, compared to male condoms, which can typically be had for $1 or less. Krissy Ferris recalls hearing about female condoms when she was a student at Oberlin College in Ohio, but the price was a deterrent. "I didn't actually try one until I got free samples," recalls Ferris, who now works at a medical practice in Cleveland, Ohio. "Am I going to buy $6 worth of condoms to try this out a couple times? It seems like maybe not. You're getting male condoms for free everywhere when you're in your 20s."
What's more, the female condom was, frankly, strange. Unlike the male condom, which is sold rolled up and compressed, the female condom came fully open. Women and men alike were turned off by the unfamiliar, big, plastic-bag-like device they found when they undid the packet. Though some women did eventually come to like the condoms, there was a definite learning curve and as many as one-third to one-half of women had difficulty inserting them. Once in place, the condom had a tendency to squeak or rustle during sex.
The media pounced on these complaints, and utterly skewered the female condom. They ridiculed its aesthetics with seemingly limitless creativity. As sociologist Amy Kaler recounts in her 2004 paper on the condom's introduction, journalists compared the product to: "a jellyfish, a windsock, a fire hose, a colostomy bag, a Baggie, gumboots, a concertina, a plastic freezer bag, something to line Boston's Inner Harbor with, a cross between a test tube and a rubber glove, Edvard Munch's The Scream, something designed for a female elephant, something out of the science-fiction cartoon The Jetsons, a raincoat for a Slinky toy, or a 'contraption used to punish fallen virgins in the Dark Ages.'"
Though the media treatment was especially harsh, journalists "were picking up on what were genuine design issues of the first generation of the female condom," says Kaler, an assistant professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. "It wasn't the most beautiful thing in the world. It was easy to make fun of. It was kind of laughed out of existence before it really got a chance to take off."
Still, there were signs that Wisconsin Pharmacal was onto something. In 1995, two years after bringing the condom to market, Leeper got a call from an official at Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health and Child Welfare. The health worker had received a petition demanding that the government of Zimbabwe bring the female condom into the country. It had been signed by 30,000 women.
Though Leeper had initially envisioned selling the female condom in America's private sector, the call from Zimbabwe, coupled with the condom's poor reception in the USA, prompted the company to shift course.
International nonprofit groups and aid organisations have long been big buyers of male condoms. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the US Agency for International Development, Population Service International and others regularly purchase male condoms in bulk and then donate them – or sell them at a deeply subsidised price – to clinics and programmes that serve particularly high-risk populations.
In 1996, Wisconsin Pharmacal changed its name to the Female Health Company and began to focus on this global public sector, working with governments, global health organisations and aid agencies to get the condoms into the hands of at-risk women in low-income countries. The female condom became a particularly important tool in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where, in the early 2000s, 60 per cent of new HIV diagnoses were made in women, who often contracted the virus through their long-term partners.
Patience Kunaka, who was teaching nursing and midwifery students in Zimbabwe when she first heard about female condoms, knew these risks all too well. Two of her cousins had died of AIDS-related causes, and three additional family members were infected with HIV. Like many other women, she was not initially impressed by the female condom. "When I first saw one my immediate reaction was, 'Wow! How does it remain inside with penile movement?'" she recalls. "I thought it would be sliding in and out and what a messy act! I also thought the plastic would crumble inside me causing discomfort."
But Kunaka suspected her partner at the time of being unfaithful and was – in her own words – "obsessed about sexual hygiene", so she decided to give the female condom a shot. It didn't go well at first. "I had problems inserting it and felt discomfort from the inner ring," she says. Slowly, after some practice, she got the hang of it. Kunaka even came to like the device, especially "the fact that I don't have to beg my partner to use a condom".
She became a female-condom convert. "In my African context, where men are at liberty to have as many partners as they can have, they give me power to negotiate for safer sex," she says. She even went on to get a job as the condoms and training manager for Population Service International Zimbabwe, and now spends her days spreading the word about female condoms to men and women throughout the country.
The female condom received a better reception in Africa than it had in the USA, and as the Female Health Company sought to expand its global reach, it tweaked its original product, switching from a polyurethane condom to one made of nitrile, the same material used in many medical gloves. The nitrile condom, called the FC2, is significantly cheaper than its polyurethane predecessor, now commonly referred to as the FC1, and also less noisy during sex. In 2007, the UNFPA 'pre-qualified' the FC2, making it eligible for bulk purchasing by public-sector agencies, and between 2007 and 2010, the number of female condoms distributed globally doubled from 25 million to 50 million.
Not bad for a contraceptive device that's been likened to The Scream, but it's still a drop in the ocean compared to male condoms. For every female condom that the major donor organisations purchase, they buy 71 male condoms. And although female condoms have got cheaper, price remains a limiting factor. An aid agency purchasing the FC2 in bulk will pay anywhere from $0.55 to $0.88 per condom but can get male condoms for as little as $0.02 a piece.
In many clinics in low-income countries, the supply of female condoms can be inconsistent, and the situation's not much better in the private sector. While pharmacy shelves overflow with male condoms of every imaginable kind – ribbed, studded, ultrathin, warming, aloe-enriched, neon pink, glow-in-the-dark, bubblegum-flavoured – it can be difficult to find female condoms for sale at all.
In some places, the condoms are stigmatised, thanks to clinical trials and distribution programmes that initially focused on sex workers. Elsewhere, the devices are still saddled with the baggage of the product's first, failed introduction. In March 2013, for instance, a writer for Jezebel, a popular feminist blog and news site, published a post titled 'Stop Trying to Make Female Condoms Happen'. She expressed scepticism that "women will change their minds about wanting to line their vaginas like a waste paper basket", and concluded by noting that "female condoms are just ew".
More than two decades after the first female condom hit the shelves, this is not exactly the revolution that public health experts had in mind.
3. Orgasm
For nearly 40 years, PATH, a global health nonprofit based in Seattle, Washington, has been radically reinventing basic medical technologies. The group's designers and engineers, for instance, created the Uniject: a disposable syringe pre-loaded with a single dose of vaccine. They built a one-size-fits-all diaphragm, removing the need for women to visit a doctor to have one specially fitted. And they invented a portable, handheld scale that health workers can bring to home deliveries. The scale requires no electricity, can be read in the dark, and is decipherable even to birth attendants with low literacy, making it easy to identify underweight infants.
In the late 1990s, PATH turned its attention to the female condom. "The Female Health Company did an incredible thing," says Maggie Kilbourne-Brook, a programme officer at PATH. "They created a product that had never existed, and they got it approved, and they got it registered and marketed in more than 100 countries. They actually changed people's perceptions of what barrier protection could be." But as it became apparent that the condoms weren't quite living up to their potential, some experts began to think that perhaps a radical makeover was in order. "In product development," says Kilbourne-Brook, "We always expect first-generation devices will need to be improved."
PATH prides itself on its user-centred design process, and so, in an effort to create a female condom that women would want to use, those at PATH decided to do something both radical and obvious: consult actual women. In 1998, PATH began convening focus groups in four countries – South Africa, Thailand, Mexico and the USA – asking women and men what they thought about female condoms and what they wanted from them.
From Durban to Seattle, it turns out that users' desires were pretty basic: "a product that was going to be easy to use, easy to insert, stable during use," says Kilbourne-Brook. Plus, "if it was possible, they wanted something that was more aesthetically pleasing".
These requests became the guiding principles for the designers and engineers working at PATH's product development laboratory in Seattle. The team ran an iterative, multi-step design process, building prototypes of potential new condoms in the lab and then sending them out to heterosexual volunteers in each of the four countries. These women and men handled and examined each model, sharing their impressions with researchers, and couples received samples of some of the more advanced prototypes to try out in their bedrooms. The product designers used the feedback to refine – and sometimes utterly rethink – their designs and then sent new, tweaked models back for further testing.
Early generations of female condoms had relied on a ring-based design. One of PATH's first prototypes was similar, with a polyurethane pouch anchored between two fixed rings. But some women reported that it was difficult to push the inner ring into the vagina – the same complaint often made about the FC1 and FC2 – and that it was painful once inside. "Device is stable but uncomfortable," one Mexican tester reported. So PATH decided to scrap the rings entirely. They briefly tested a prototype that could be inserted using a tampon tube applicator, but the condom didn't deploy reliably.
They spent a lot of time talking about how to improve insertion. "We know from a user perspective, if you have a difficult time the very first time you try to use a device, a woman may never come back," says Kilbourne-Brook. "We wanted this to be not only easy to use, but it needed to be easy to use for someone who's never used it before."
According to Kilbourne-Brook, the ultimate breakthrough was inspired by feedback from testers and researchers in Thailand, who said, "Wouldn't it be wonderful if you had some kind of insertion device that helped you insert it and then it got out of the way?"
By 2003, they had hit on the solution: a dissolving applicator. The engineers created a condom that looked like a funnel, with a thin sheet of polyurethane that narrowed into a rounded tip. This tip contained the main pouch of the condom, collapsed inside a dissolving capsule. To insert the condom, women would simply push the capsule inside, much the same way they'd insert a tampon. Once it came into contact with the moisture of the vagina, the capsule would melt away – often within 30 to 60 seconds – releasing the full condom pouch.
The product designers gave the condom stability by attaching four small, thin pieces of polyurethane foam to the outside of the condom. Once the pouch expanded, these foam pieces nestled up against the vaginal wall, keeping the condom in place. Like other female condoms, the model also featured a flexible outer ring to cover the external genitalia.
Between November 2003 and January 2004, 60 couples received samples of this prototype to try at home. They were impressed. Eighty-eight per cent of the women said it was easy to insert and 97 per cent said the pouch was stable during sex. The vast majority of men and women asked said the condom was comfortable, and 98 per cent of women and 100 per cent of men said it allowed for satisfactory sensation during sex.
It had taken six years and more than 300 unique prototypes, but by early 2004, PATH had found its female condom.
The final product, which PATH named the Woman's Condom, is "just a brilliant design," says Kaler, who was not involved in its creation. "When you look at it visually, it isn't huge. It's clear what you do with it. And the way that it's been designed with these foam pads means that it doesn't move around."
A series of larger clinical trials – conducted in Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, China and the USA – has reinforced what PATH found in its initial testing, with users reporting that the Woman's Condom is comfortable, stable and easy to insert. Several studies have found that both men and women tend to like the Woman's Condom better than the FC1 and FC2. Users' main complaint was that it does not come pre-lubricated, as the FC2 does. Instead, each condom comes with a packet of lubricant that users can apply themselves.
In 2011, the Woman's Condom received the stamp of approval from the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration and is currently under review by the UNFPA; approval is expected in 2014. In the meantime, limited quantities are already being sold in China and South Africa.
The Woman's Condom isn't the only new female condom on the scene. In 2012, the UNFPA pre-qualified the Cupid, which is manufactured by an Indian condom company. The Cupid relies on a ring-shaped foam sponge tucked into the closed end of the condom pouch for internal stability. Made of natural latex, the Cupid may be the cheapest female condom yet, and is now available for purchase in both the public and private sectors.
Several other condoms, each slightly different in design, are currently under UNFPA review. For instance, the Phoenurse, which is currently sold in China, comes with an optional insertion stick. Then there's the panty condom, in which a condom pouch is affixed to a pair of reusable panties with an opening over the vagina. Before sex, a woman can push the condom inside with her finger – or a man can with his penis – without her having to take off the undergarment.
And there are still more designs in the early stages of development. Origami Condoms, based in Los Angeles, California, has developed a silicone female condom that unfolds like an accordion as it's pushed into the vagina. The company just completed a small phase I acceptability study – overall, participants preferred the Origami condom to the FC2, though they said the FC2 felt more stable during sex. The company plans to conduct a larger clinical trial this year.
Not every product will be right for every woman or couple, but that's precisely the point. "In the studies we've done, we've found that some women will say, 'I really love this one and I don't like this one at all'," says Mags Beksinska, research director at the division of maternal, adolescent and child health at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. "There are different aspects that appeal to different women in the different designs. So it would be good if there was a wider choice."
Krissy Ferris, the woman who was initially turned off by the cost of female condoms, came to see their advantages while dating a man who had trouble maintaining an erection with a male condom. "It was definitely a barrier to male condom use, and I was not ready to compromise on using a barrier method," she says. The female condom was a "low-stress" solution.
Over the years, Ferris has tried several different products, including the FC1, the FC2 and the VA w.o.w., which, like the Cupid, uses an internal sponge to hold the condom pouch in place. Ferris found that she preferred the VA w.o.w. because the sponge made it feel more secure during sex. "If you're using something with this desire for safety, having this extra measure of security was definitely a positive for me," she says. But the FC1 and FC2 felt more natural, she acknowledged, and for some women, that may be more important.
There is some evidence to suggest that women are more likely to have safe sex – and less likely to become pregnant or contract sexually transmitted infections – when a larger selection of contraceptive and barrier products is available. Giving women a greater choice in female condoms may increase the odds that they choose any female condom at all.
Meanwhile, male condoms are also getting a redesign. In November 2013, the Gates Foundation awarded 11 grants of $100,000 to designers, engineers and scientists with ideas for a 'next-generation condom' – male or female – that would be easier and more pleasurable to use. The winning proposals include a male condom that is packaged with a built-in applicator, allowing the condom to be removed from its foil wrapper and donned in a single smooth motion, and a one-size-fits-all male condom designed to tighten during sex.
4. Resolution
Of course, upgrading a product is merely a first step. While the FC1 certainly had its flaws, they weren't the only reason that female condoms didn't take off. "Some technologies are harder than others," says Laura Frost, a partner at Global Health Insights, a research and consulting firm. "Compared to other products where there's one huge issue, like affordability or awareness, this one had those barriers at every stage."
That's why, for the female condom to truly break through, advocates will need to invest in comprehensive marketing and education campaigns at the local, national and global levels. "It takes more than just putting it on the shelf," says Susie Hoffman, an associate professor of epidemiology at Columbia University in New York.
Female condoms remain less straightforward than male condoms, and one of the major lessons of the last two decades is that women often need a little bit of training to use them correctly. That means that clinicians and counsellors may have to do more than simply tell women that female condoms exist – they'll need to give them the opportunity to practise inserting one, either on a pelvic model or on themselves.
In addition, women may need help figuring out how to broach the subject with their male partners. Though the condoms have won praise for being female-initiated, they're not entirely invisible, and most men will notice if their partners are wearing them. "In many cases, she's probably going to want to mention to her partner before having sex that this is a new product that she's going to try," Hoffman says. "Ideally there's going to be some kind of a conversation about it, and women need help in figuring out how to do that."
Male partners are also a potential market. "Men probably feel, when it's called the 'female condom', that it's not something that's for them," Mags Beksinska says. But "there's no reason that a man shouldn't take one and bring it home and introduce it to his partner". In fact, she adds, once men get used to the female condom, they often prefer it to the more constricting male version. Female condoms even enhance sex for some people: the outer ring can be used to stimulate the clitoris, while the inner ring of some designs can bump up pleasurably against the tip of the penis.
The female condom may remain a tough sell, but the good news, experts say, is that there are now more organisations trying to make the pitch. "Now we're seeing a much bigger coalition of advocates, which is what we need," Frost says. Some existing agencies, most notably the UNFPA, have stepped up their support, while champions have created a variety of new advocacy and awareness groups, including the National Female Condom Coalition in the USA, and the Universal Access to Female Condoms Joint Programme, based in the Netherlands.
Alongside this, the condom's supporters are getting more creative in their promotion efforts, establishing Global Female Condom Day;– the first one was held on 12 September 2012 – and holding female-condom-themed fashion shows and film festivals. Several organisations have turned salons and barbershops in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Cameroon and elsewhere into female condom distribution centres, training hairdressers to promote and sell the product to both male and female clients. And all-out media blitzes in Africa – in which the condoms are promoted on billboards, television and the radio – have fed a sharp increase in demand.
"I think people had kind of written off the female condom," says Beth Skorochod, a senior technical adviser at Population Service International. "But now people are beginning to say, 'OK, with more competition and more interest, maybe this deserves another look'."
There may even be hope for the hard-to-crack private sector in higher-income countries. After winning FDA approval for the FC2 in 2009, the Female Health Company relaunched the female condom in the USA, creating female condom campaigns and programmes in a handful of major American cities, including New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC.
Some local US groups are also beginning to lay the groundwork for the future. Staff members at the Chicago Female Condom Campaign now show off samples of some of the newest products – including the Cupid and the Woman's Condom – in their training and education sessions. The goal is to make sure that healthcare providers and consumers will be familiar with the products if and when they appear in the USA. But there's an added benefit. "Frankly what this also does is it helps to cultivate new female condom advocates," says Jessica Terlikowski, who coordinates the Chicago Female Condom Campaign and the National Female Condom Coalition. Seeing other products, she says, can prompt women to ask, "'How can I get that?' 'Why don't we have that here?' People can't ask for or demand what they don't know about."
Women may soon have choices beyond the conventional condom. Scientists have been developing interventions that would be truly invisible to women's partners: oral antiretroviral pills and vaginal gels that prevent HIV. Despite the enormous excitement surrounding these drugs, they won't be magic bullets either, and the public health community will still have to grapple with the thorny issues of education, access and adherence. In 2013, for instance, researchers announced that a clinical trial of two different HIV prevention pills and one vaginal gel, conducted among women in three African nations, failed because women weren't using the medications regularly.
Such outcomes are making it increasingly obvious that the global fight against HIV and other sexually transmitted infections is unlikely to be won with any one technology, no matter how elegantly designed. Instead, it will require an arsenal of weapons, a diverse array of tools that allow women and men to protect themselves. The female condom may never be as cheap or as popular as the male condom, but that doesn't mean it has no role to play.
Among those optimistic about the female condom's future is Lasse Hessel, the Danish doctor who started it all. The condom's champions made some mistakes in the early years, Hessel says, but he's encouraged by the recent resurgence of interest and the new products that are hitting the shelves. In fact, he wishes other inventors had redesigned his condom sooner, especially because there was so much room for improvement: "How can my ugly, clumsy female condom get any worse?" Hessel says. "It can only get much better."
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Colli Leaving Fox CT
We're told that one of our favorite Connecticut TV reporters, George Colli, is leaving Fox CT. Apparently he and management couldn't come to terms on a new contract. We wish him well and hope this Suffield native stays in the market. We contacted George who said, "I had a great experience at Fox CT and I'll be forever grateful to (News Director) Coleen Marren and (General Manager) Rich Graziano for giving me this opportunity and the same to all the great people who work there and have become friends."
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Diane Steps Into the Silver Circle
Congratulations to Connecticut's Diane Smith who was inducted into NATAS' "Silver Circle" this week in Boston. Read all about the honor…and here's what they had to say about Diane:
An Emmy award winning TV journalist, radio talk show host, author and speaker, Diane Smith has been on the air in Connecticut since 1982. Diane is the anchor and senior producer for program development at CT-N, the Connecticut version of C-SPAN. She works to promote transparency in government and to increase citizen engagement in their democracy. The Globe Pequot Press has published six books based on Diane's "Positively Connecticut" TV series, the longest running local TV series in state history. Diane's next book Food Fight, written in collaboration with MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski is about solving the American obesity crisis. Food Fight will be published in May 2013 by Weinstein Books. Diane was an Emmy winning reporter and anchor on WTNH-TV in New Haven, and co-hosted the Morning Show on WTIC-1080, a CBS owned 50,000 watt AM radio station. She is a frequent on air contributor to the state PBS network, producing and hosting award winning documentaries and other programming.
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25 | At that time Jesus declared, "I thank thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; |
26 | yea, Father, for such was thy gracious will. |
27 | All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. |
28 | Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. |
29 | Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. |
30 | For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." |


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A key moment came one hour into the race when race leader Jani brushed PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports' No. 52 Molecule ORECA FLM09 as Dane Cameron exited the pits. As a result, that team lost 20 laps in the pits before Mike Guasch returned to the race in seventh position. The team was able to work its way back through attrition to finish fifth.
Cumming and co-drivers Kyle Marcelli and Stefan Johansson had to come from behind to win the third straight PC race for the No. 8 BAR1 Motorsports ORECA FLM09. Ozz Negri and Sean Rayhall led much of the race — including eight laps overall — in the No. 25 8Star Motorsports entry, with Marcelli taking the checkered flag by 11.442 seconds over Rayhall.
The victory enabled Cumming to take the driver's title by one point over Guasch, 141-140, while BAR1 Motorsports took the team title in a tie-breaker over CORE autosport (145-145, three victories to two). CORE finished third in the finale with Jon Bennett, Tom Kimber-Smith and Colin Braun in the No. 05 Composite Resources ORECA FLM09.
"After Baltimore, where we scored no points, we thought the season championship was completely out of our reach," Cumming said. "We showed up at Circuit of The Americas with the attitude to go all out and win some races. We won COTA, and ended up winning at VIR. We came here with an outside shot at winning, but we needed everything to work out. It was one of those dream days where everything worked out."
Team Falken Tire took a dramatic GT class victory, while Corvette Racing's Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia took the drivers' title with a sixth-place finish in the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón finale.
Nick Tandy, Bryan Sellers and Wolf Henzler took their first triumph of the final season for the American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón in the No. 17 Team Falken Tire Porsche 911 GT3 RSR. The winning vehicle was a show car until it was pressed into service last month after an opening-lap incident in the Grand Prix of Baltimore presented by SRT damaged the team's primary car beyond repair.
The class featured drama all the way to the checkered flag. Tandy nearly lost control following the final restart with 11 laps remaining when he clipped a curb, but he recovered and held on to win by 0.741 seconds over Dirk Muller in the No. 56 Team RLL Crowne Plaza BMW Z4 GTE co-driven by John Edwards and Bill Auberlen.
"It was clearly difficult winning a race in GT, especially when it's a 10-hour race," Sellers said. "It was all about resiliency. Nobody gave up and the guys were fantastic in the pits. It's pretty special to be here in the last ALMS race and go down in the history books and be part of what is to be part of what is considered to be the best GT racing in the world."
A sixth-place finish for Garcia and Magnussen in the No. 3 Compuware Corvette C6 ZR1 co-driven by Jordan Taylor was good enough to capture the GT drivers' title, winning by six points over Muller (135-129).
"After not getting points at Sebring, we didn't think getting the championship was possible," Garcia said. "But we kept fighting and it came together in the end."
The competitive battle saw seven of the 11 competitors representing five manufacturers take turns in the GT lead. The No. 91 SRT/Rush Viper GTS-R of Marc Goossens, Dominik Farnbacher and Ryan Dalziel led 126 laps before losing ground after contact with a prototype, while the winning Porsche led 124.
Spencer Pumpelly won in GTC by 5.839 seconds over Andy Lally, but came up short in his bid for the title. Pumpelly co-drove the No. 45 Venezuela/eSilicon/UIS Porsche 911 GT3 Cup with Nelson Canache Jr., and Madison Snow for Flying Lizard Motorsports, while Lally shared the No. 27 dempseychallenge,org Porsche with Dempsey Racing teammates Joe Foster and Patrick Dempsey.
The victory gave Flying Lizard Motorsports the GTC team title by 12 points over Alex Job Racing (157-145). Alex Job teammates Jeroen Bleekemolen and Cooper MacNeil won the drivers' title with a fourth-place finish in the No. 22 WeatherTech Porsche shared with Sebastiaan Bleekemolen, beating Pumpelly and Canache by six points (145-139).
"We won the last ever ALMS race and the last ever ALMS pole," Pumpelly said. "We wanted to win the team and driver titles and a lot of races. We missed the drivers' championship but won the team. It's really easy coming to work with Flying Lizard. The guys are just phenomenal."


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County Commission Minutes
Thursday, March 27, 2014
The Honorable Commission convened at the Huntsville Courthouse with the following present: Susan Carter, Presiding Commissioner; Wayne Wilcox, Eastern District Commissioner, and Jerry Crutchfield, Western District Commissioner. In the absence of Deputy Clerk Shelby Creed, Commissioner Carter recorded the minutes.
9:00 a.m. Com. Carter called the meeting to order and moved approval of the agenda. Com. Crutchfield seconded and motion passed (3-0).
Com. Crutchfield returned a call to John Brillhart to respond to concerns that the KCS Railroad Bridge Project had not begun. He was told the county continues to wait for KCS's approval on the final plans. Com. Crutchfield also reported on his attendance at the NECAC Board of Directors meeting in Bowling Green.
Bob Bauer arrived to comment on the proposed county administration building.
9:05 a.m. Rick Howard, Maintenance, arrived to discuss recent vandalism in the recreation area of the jail, de-humidifiers to be installed at the Moberly Courthouse, and an additional door to be added in the basement there.
Interim Road and Bridge Supervisor Dale Herron reported on improvements to ditches and road banks on CR 1210, which were coordinated with a landowner. Discussion occurred on culvert replacements and improvements to CR 2220. Mr. Herron also reported receiving a complaint of lack of rock on CR 1510, which the county shares with the Moberly Special Road District. Mr. Herron stated the county had delivered rock to its portion of the road.
Com. Crutchfield left the meeting to meet a State Health Department Representative and an MU Extension Housing Specialist Tom Fuhrman at the Moberly Courthouse to follow up on the recent air quality study there.
Commissioners received several letters opposing the Clean Line Energy project. They were forwarded to the Public Service Commission.
Assessor Richard Tregnago received notice that the Pictometry flyover to update the county's GIS database had been completed.
The Commission received the county's copy of the final closeout documents for the Training for Tomorrow CDBG grant which was administered for the Moberly Area Community College.
Commissioners received a call from a citizen concerned with lack of maintenance on her road in the City of Cairo. She was referred to the Cairo City Clerk to be put on the agenda for a city board meeting.
Joe Hemphill called concerning the proposed road use agreement with AmerenUE. They will be sending an updated copy for signature.
11:00 a.m. Com. Crutchfield returned to report on his meeting at the Moberly Courthouse with Missouri Department of Health inspector Thelma Thorn and Mr. Fuhrman, MU Extension Housing Specialist. Also present was Janet Murray, Randolph County Health Department. Ms. Thorn said the Commission will receive an official report of the findings but indicated at first inspection, there was nothing of a serious nature discovered.
Commissioners received a call returned from Kevin McIntosh, KCS, to discuss lack of progress with the CR 2580 BRO-BO88 (22) KCS Railroad bridge replacement project. Mr. McIntosh was told the Commission had received complaints from landowners that construction had not yet begun. Mr. McIntosh said he would respond to their complaints.
Under Old Business, Com Crutchfield made a motion to approve the road use agreement with AmerenUE and authorize Com. Carter's signature on the document. Com. Wilcox seconded, motion passed (3-0), and the document was signed.
Commissioners received invoices for payment. Following review, Com. Wilcox made a motion to approve invoices as presented. Com. Crutchfield seconded, motion passed (3-0), and checks were signed.
1:10 p.m. Com. Wilcox left the meeting to attend a Workforce Investment Board meeting in Paris.
Jorgi McNamara, Executive Director of the Randolph County Sheltered Workshop, called to inform the Commission that Kit Brewer has been hired as the new Director of the Randolph County Sheltered Workshop.
Commissioners reviewed direct deposit and payroll expenses. Following review, Com. Crutchfield made a motion to approve direct deposits and payments as presented. Com. Carter seconded, motion passed (2-0), and checks were signed.
3:20 p.m. Commissioners welcomed members of Randolph County's Junior Excel class that was touring County Government offices today. They were given an overview of what the duties of the Commission are and answered questions from the group.
Com. Wilcox called to check in.
4:00 p.m. Meeting was adjourned.
APPROVED by Susan Carter, Presiding Commissioner, Wayne Wilcox, Eastern District Commissioner, Jerry Crutchfield, Western District Commissioner, and Will Ellis, County Clerk
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Iodine - what is the correct daily dose?
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The benefits of micronutrients in modern medicine have been hugely dumbed down. The Government recommended daily amounts (RDAs) of micronutrients are the lowest levels required in order to prevent obvious pathology. These amounts do not reflect the optimum amount of micronutrient for optimum health. The two amounts (i.e. the RDA and the optimum amount) for individual micronutrients may be very different and this is well illustrated by iodine. It is now assumed that iodine is only necessary for the production of thyroid hormones, but actually breast tissue requires just as much and deficiency results in fibrocystic disease of the breast and in breast cancer. It is notable that countries with the highest iodine intake have the lowest risk of breast cancer. Indeed, a tendency to cysts generally, including polycystic ovaries, may well be an iodine problem.
A normal thyroid gland contains 50mgs of iodine, fat in the body and breast tissue contain 700mgs, striated muscle - 650mgs (lack of iodine in muscle may result in muscle pain). 20% of body iodine (about 400mgs) is present in skin and without it the skin cannot sweat.
Complete lack of iodine in the unborn infant and young child results in cretinism with severe mental deficiency. A deficiency results in low IQ. Mothers who supplement iodine during pregnancy have notably brighter babies!
Iodine is also essential for production of oxytocin. This hormone is the "love" hormone - it is what Puck must have given to Titania so she fell in love with Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream! Without oxytocin there is no empathy. Indeed, it has been postulated that there is a deficiency of oxytocin in autism and early trials have shown that oxytocin is helpful in this condition. See Oxytocin Infusion Reduces Repetitive Behaviors in Adults with Autistic and Asperger's Disorders in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.
Jean-Francois Coindet in 1820 used 250mg a day of iodine in order to treat goitre with great success. The French physician Lugol in 1829 used 37.5mg per day for the treatment of infectious disease, again with good results. Indeed, he developed Lugol's iodine, which was a mixture of 5% iodine with 10% potassium iodide, which greatly enhanced the absorption of iodine. British physicians then used between 20 and 40mg daily to treat both hyper and hypothyroidism, with some patients requiring 90mg daily. This resulted in a 90% success rate for treatment. It became recognised that there was a pandemic of iodine deficiency. As a result of this, iodised table salt was introduced generally and the benefits of iodine supplementation were forgotten. However, iodine competes with the other halogens (such as fluorine, chlorine, bromine) for absorption and adding iodine to table salt would have severely impaired its absorption as it lost out to chlorine in the salt. The situation has been made worse in recent years because many people are subjected to high levels of fluoride because of their water supply or because of dental treatments; bromine was routinely used in bread making and also as a fire retardant. Thus the high levels of chlorine, fluorine and bromine in our diet and the environment mean that we are all at great risk of iodine deficiency. Furthermore, the recommended daily amount of iodine is 150 μg - that is to say a thousand fold less than the sort of doses that were used in the 19th century.
Interest in iodine was re-awoken in 1993, when Gent demonstrated that 5mg a day of iodine is highly effective in the treatment of fibrocystic disease of the breast. A study in Japan showed that the average daily intake of iodine was 13.8mg (because of their high intake of seafood) and the Japanese have the lowest incidence of breast cancer in developed nations.
Work done by Professor Guy Abraham (whose work I have been following for many years now and whom I highly respect) has lit up an interesting new way of using iodine as a therapeutic intervention. Indeed, he quotes from the Nobel Laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, who discovered vitamin C in 1928, who commented "when I was a medical student, iodine in the form of KI was the universal medicine. Nobody knew what it did, but it did something and did something good. We students used to sum up the situation in this little rhyme: If you do not know where, what and why, describe ye then K and I."
Abraham has developed Lugol's iodine into a tablet form (Iodoral) which is well tolerated. It contains a mixture of 5mg of iodine and 7.5mg of iodide. He recommends a three month loading dose of 4 tablets daily, starting off with 1 tablet a day for a week, then 2 tablets daily for a week, 3 tablets daily for a week and then 4 tablets. Absorption of iodine is enhanced by vitamin C 3 grams daily and this should be taken along with my standard recommendations for micronutrients (namely multivitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and of course vitamin C). After three months the dose should then be reduced to a maintenance dose of 1 tablet daily.
The clinical observations Abraham has made as a result of many patients taking this regime are as follows:
1. The excretion of mercury, lead, cadmium, aluminium, fluoride and bromine is hugely increased.
2. There is increased well being and energy levels with lessening brain fog.
3. Patients feel warmer, they seem to need less sleep, their bowel action becomes more regular and their skin complexion improves.
4. Interestingly, there is often an increase in body odour for the first two weeks (which probably represents excretion of toxins) and some patients have cloudy urine for several months.
This regime strikes me as being eminently sensible and safe. My online shop sells IODORX, which is equivalent to Iodoral. Please see Sales at DrMyhill IODORX tablets. Iodine can be stimulating and disturb sleep so it should be taken in the morning.
It is likely that anyone with hypothyroidism, especially when it is not due to autoimmunity, will be iodine deficient. Because iodine is so necessary in tissues other than the thyroid (eg breast, bone marrow, immune system, brain), the iodine levels should be tested by a urine test.
Symptoms of iodine deficiency also include high cholesterol, hypochlorhydria (see Heartburn - at last I have sussed out why this is such a common problem) and inability to sweat. The tongue is often enlarged, and when protruded, fills the entire space between the corners of the lips.
Iodine can be used to treat conditions associated with excessive production of scar tissue such as keloid, Peyronie's disease and Dupytron's contracture.
Refs: Much of the above I have learned through attending lectures by Dr Jorge Flechas (Nov 2011) and Dr David Brownstein. For further information about Dr Brownstein's work, see Transdermal Iodine on the website Alkalize For Health
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External links
- Iodine Resources page on Breast Cancer Choices, Inc., a nonprofit organization "scrutinizing the evidence for breast cancer procedures and treatments"
- Oxytocin Infusion Reduces Repetitive Behaviors in Adults with Autistic and Asperger's Disorders
- Transdermal Iodine
- Alkalize For Health
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(d) On February 26, 2013, the Board of Directors of New York Community Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") appointed Lawrence J. Savarese to the Board of Directors of the Company as well as the Boards of Directors of the Company's wholly-owned subsidiaries, New York Community Bank and New York Commercial Bank (together, the "Banks"), effective March 4, 2013.
Mr. Savarese is expected to serve on the Audit, Investment, Risk Assessment, and Nominating Committees of the Company and the Banks. As an independent director, Mr. Savarese will receive the customary annual retainer, fees, and benefits for his service, and will also be eligible to participate in the Company's stock-based incentive plans.
A copy of the press release announcing Mr. Savarese's appointment to the Boards of Directors is attached as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated herein by reference.
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Wednesday, November 6, 2013
TONASKET — A Veterans Day parade is planned at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 11, on Whitcomb Avenue.
The procession will go from the Tonasket Visitor and Business Resource Center, 215 S. Whitcomb Ave., to the U.S. Armed Forces Legacy Project, 1 Tonasket Shop Road.
A ceremony, including a gun salute and prayers, will be at 11:30 a.m., spokesman George Frank said.
A free dinner for veterans will be at 12:30 p.m. at American Legion Post No. 82, 319 Western Ave. Others may attend by donation.
The Legacy building and memorial will be open until 4 p.m., with refreshments available.
Several other events are planned around the region. All are open to the public. Those responding to a request for information are:
The school district's assembly will be at 10 a.m. Nov. 8 in Champions Gym, 503 S. Seventh St. Students from kindergarten to 12th-grade will be represented through songs, videos and other presentations.
The elementary and high school choirs will sing, and the middle-high school band will give a presentation.
Veterans are invited. An American Legion color guard will make a presentation.
• American Legion Post No. 97 plans a free appreciation dinner Nov. 9 for all veterans at the hall, 102 Third St. A social hour is at 5 p.m., with dinner at 6 p.m. and awards after that. Post and community volunteers will be recognized.
Guests are welcome.
A Veterans Day assembly, which is open to the public, will be at 8:30 a.m. Nov. 8 in the high school gym, 1400 Tacoma Ave.
Students in third- through 12th-grades will attend.
The American Legion will present the colors, followed by singing of the national anthem. A PowerPoint presentation, created by the high school associated student body, will commemorate veterans.
The event closes with "Taps" by the American Legion.
The Leo McCormack American Legion post will participate in the Curlew School Veterans Day observance at 10 a.m. Nov. 8 at the school, 47 Curlew School Road.
A lunch is planned afterward.
Keller School will honor veterans at 9 a.m. Nov. 8 at the school, 17 S. School Road.
Guest speakers will be Arnie Holt and Darlene Wilder. Children will recite their own poems.
A Veterans Day assembly will be at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 8 in the school gym, 491 Road 14 N.E.
A veteran will speak.
Methow Valley
An assembly is planned for 2:30-3 p.m. Nov. 7 in the Eagle Gym at Methow Valley Elementary School, 18 Twin Lakes Road, Winthrop.
Jean Koreski's sixth-grade exploratory class is planning the assembly, which includes poetry, music and speeches by veterans. Willy Duguay will play "Taps" to close the assembly.
Second-graders created a bulletin board where students can recognize relatives who served the country.
A veterans powwow, organized by the Colville Confederated Tribes and Nespelem American Legion Auxiliary Unit 114, is planned at 7 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Nespelem Community Center, 4000 Lower Columbia River Road.
The event begins with a grand entry. Naming, giveaways and rejoining ceremonies are planned. Outgoing royalty will be honored and winners of the Americanism contest will be announced.
The powwow continues at 1 p.m. Nov. 9 with a grand entry and special dances. Dinner will be at 5 p.m. A second grand entry is at 7 p.m., followed by a veterans honor dance at 8 p.m.
• The Colville Confederated Tribes' Veterans Day memorial ceremony and dinner will be at 10 a.m. Nov. 11 at the tribal veterans memorial monument, 1 Colville St.
The event includes a presentation of the colors by a tribal color guard and other veterans, opening prayer by Soy Redthunder and laying of wreaths.
Speakers include Colville Business Council Veterans Committee Chairman Andy Joseph Jr. and other council members and Darlene Wilder of Nespelem American Legion Auxiliary Unit 114. An open microphone session is planned.
Yvonne Moses, auxiliary chaplain, will give the closing prayer. The color guard and other veterans will retire the colors.
An honor dinner is planned afterward in the Nespelem Longhouse off state Highway 155 north of town.
• Okanogan Middle School's Veterans Day assembly will be at 9 a.m. Nov. 8 in the school cafetorium, 244 S. Fifth Ave.
The event includes guest speaker Doug Cline, an Okanogan graduate, and a musical tribute by the middle school choir and video honoring veterans.
Trisha Bradley's English classes are putting together a display.
"We really would love for our local veterans to attend," Bradley said. A special seating section is planned for veterans.
• A program, planned by the fifth-grade honor choir, is planned at 2 p.m. Nov. 8 at Virginia Grainger Elementary School, 1118 S. Fifth Ave.
Each grade level will sing a song, and other songs are planned. Posters will honor students' family members who have served in the armed forces.
• A Veterans Day dinner will be from 5-8 p.m. Nov. 11 at the Okanogan Eagles Club, 1820 N. Second Ave.
Veterans eat for free; there's a charge for guests.
The menu includes fried chicken, mashed potatoes, corn and a salad.
• East Omak Elementary School plans an assembly at 9 a.m. Nov. 8 in the school gym, 715 Omak Ave.
Girl Scouts will present the colors and those assembled will sing "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Students will learn why Veterans Day is celebrated. Other patriotic songs will be presented.
Three staff members — Steven Duncan, Leland Barnett and Diana Litehiser — will be recognized as veterans. Duncan and Barnett were in the Army; Litehiser was in the Air Force.
Visiting veterans will be recognized.
• North Omak Elementary School will host a Veterans Day assembly at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 8.
The ceremony will feature Omak High School students who are Air Force cadets, life skills teacher Nancy Bishop said.
The ceremony is expected to last about 45 minutes.
The school is located at 615 Oak St.
• Omak Middle School will observe Veterans Day at 9 a.m. Nov. 8 in the Omak Performing Arts Center, 14 S. Cedar St.
The music department, under the direction of Don Pearce, is planning the event.
A speaker will talk about the importance of Veterans Day and of serving community and country.
Patriotic music is planned.
A reception for veterans is planned afterward in the school library.
An assembly for all district students will be at 9 a.m. Nov. 8 in the high school gym, 1008 Ironwood St.
Veterans are invited. The American Legion will participate.
An assembly is planned at 1 p.m. Nov. 8 in the school gym, 344 Beach St.
The band and choir will perform. First- and second-graders and the high school U.S. history class will contribute.
American Legion Post No. 97, Brewster, will present the colors.
• The Leo McCormack American Legion post will participate in the Republic School's Veterans Day program, starting with breakfast at 8 a.m. Nov. 8 at the school, 30306 state Highway 20.
An assembly will follow.
• A Veterans Day dinner will be at 5 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Republic Eagles Club, 42 Knob Hill Road.
Veterans eat free.
The high school associated student body will host an assembly from 9-10 a.m. Nov. 8 in the school commons, 35 state Highway 20.
Veterans are encouraged to bring items for display on a memorabilia table.
Refreshments will be served from 8:45-9 a.m. by the student body and Family, Career and Community Leaders of America.
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