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EUROPEAN captain Paul McGinley has named Padraig Harrington, Miguel Angel Jimenez and Jose Maria Olazabal as his final vice-captains for the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles later this month.
The trio have 17 Ryder Cup appearances between them and join Des Smyth and Sam Torrance in McGinley's back-room staff as the home side look to retain the trophy against the United States from September 26-28.
Olazabal played in the contest seven times and captained the side in the 'Miracle at Medinah' in 2012, while Harrington has made six appearances and Jimenez four.
Jimenez was vice-captain to Seve Ballesteros in 1997 and Olazabal two years ago and was also made captain of the European team in the inaugural EurAsia Cup by McGinley.
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McGinley, who yesterday finalised his 12-man team, said: "I know it's been common in the past to have three or four vice-captains but I've gone for five because I feel an extra person is justified due to the additional workload which comes from being the home team, in addition to how well I saw such a system working when we ended up having five vice captains under Colin Montgomerie at Celtic Manor in 2010 (Sergio Garcia was a late addition).
"Padraig is my oldest friend on Tour and is a guy I have known most of my life. We went to school together, came through the amateur ranks together and have been together in many contests for both Ireland and Europe over the years, so I know what he can bring to the team room.
"As far as Miguel is concerned, he is someone that the spectators love as well as being very popular with all the players. However, he is also a person that I respect very much. I have sat beside him for over a decade on the Tournament Players' Committee and have seen him exhibit an integrity on many occasions that is very admirable.
"Finally, Jose Maria's passion for the Ryder Cup is recognised the world over. It was obvious in his legendary partnership with Seve and was also so very apparent two years ago at Medinah, so I'm delighted he has accepted my invitation to be involved again, once more maintaining that important continuity."
"I have complete confidence and trust in all five of my vice-captains and the help they will give me in the difficult quest of trying to retain the Ryder Cup."
Harrington said: "I am really looking forward to being part of the Ryder Cup from a different angle to the playing side. That aspect of things is something that really interests me and I'm therefore delighted that Paul has given me the opportunity.
"Paul is a good friend of mine and I think he's done a great job in the captaincy thus far, therefore I don't necessarily think he needs that much help. But he knows I'm happy to get involved behind the scenes to give him and the players as much assistance as I can."
Jimenez, whose EurAsia Cup team secured a dramatic 10-10 draw in Malaysia in March, said: "I thoroughly enjoyed being captain of Europe at the EurAsia Cup which was a great opportunity for me and I am looking forward to bringing the experience I gained there to the team room at Gleneagles. I have a great relationship with all the players, having played alongside them regularly over the years."
Olazabal added: "Everyone knows how much the Ryder Cup has meant in my career and it's an occasion that I love being part of. It is a unique and special event - and I know that will be the case once again in Scotland in three weeks' time.
"I think we have a very good team in place but, as Paul said yesterday, we are under no illusions about how formidable a test the United States team will present. But he knows I will do everything I possibly can to help him and the players throughout the week."
Scotland's Paul Lawrie, who had been widely tipped to be a vice-captain, wrote on Twitter: "Extremely disappointed not to be involved at Ryder cup but all the best to all of the European team £goeurope."


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Biotech investor R.J. Kirk became a billionaire thanks to big bets on two neuroscience drugs: Vyvanse, for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Viibryd, for depression. In both cases he sold the company that developed the medicine to a larger drug maker. And the results have been impressive: Vyvanse generated $1 billion last year for its current owner, Shire Pharmaceuticals; Viibryd, in its first year on the market, generated $56.5 million for Forest Laboratories.
Investors hoping for a repeat performance with Kirk's latest investment, ZioPharm Oncology, got a big disappointment today when the company's lead drug for sarcoma, a type of cancer, failed in a late stage clinical trial. "It's very clear here you're not going to enable approval," says Dr. Jon Lewis, ZioPharm's chief executive. The drug, palifosfamide, did not significantly reduce the time it took for tumors to grow or get worse compared to the current standard treatment. Shares of ZioPharm are down 63% to $1.90 in morning trading.
An independent committee charged with monitoring the safety and ethics of the study from a patient perspective told Lewis that the company might consider tracking the patients longer to see if those that got palifosfamide would live longer. Lewis, who is an oncologist, says ZioPharm is undecided if it will even do this, and that the recommendation is more a "could" than a "should." (Not following the committee's recommendations can be ethically tricky.) Even if the result proved positive, he says, there is no chance it could result in getting the drug past regulators. "In sarcoma, the answer is no, we're not going to continue development," he says. He does promise that the results of the study will be published in a medical journal, and trials in other indications, like testicular cancer, will continue. He says that he has had "a long hard battle with sarcoma" as a doctor and that he is "deeply disappointed." "The data is telling us a story here and we're going to follow that," he says.
Kirk's interest in ZioPharm was never in this drug, but in his next big idea: a company called Intrexon that is using synthetic biology to develop cancer gene therapies. In a Forbes profile two years ago, Kirk said Intrexon could become "the Google of life sciences." Lewis says that it is "the most advanced and technologically sophisticated synthetic biology in the world." But little data has been presented publicly, and run-of-the-mill investors are skeptical. Lewis promises that the company will be able to decrease its costs enough to not have to dilute current investors further.
"We have no intention of raising money," Lewis says. "The cash position was $73 million but as we're taking all these steps on being highly focused and we're going to be able to extend our runway."
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We've all talked a lot about mental health in the last week or so, but when it comes down to the hard health risks, which disorder currently has the highest mortality rate?
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New research finds there are shared traits between autism and anorexia, such as repetitive behaviours
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The U.S. military's highest court has reversed a Marine's conviction for a suicide attempt.
The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces issued the 3-2 split opinion late Monday.
It says a military judge shouldn't have accepted Pvt. Lazzaric Caldwell's guilty plea in 2010 to a charge of wrongful self-injury without intent to avoid service.
Caldwell slit his wrists at Camp Schwab in Okinawa, Japan, after learning of a friend's death back home in California. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail and received a bad conduct discharge for that offense and convictions for larceny and violating orders.
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The Crazy pet Obsession continues - Mini Thor
I did have a small fright when I picked up my package from the post office today. I had ordered a Collector's Edition, and when I picked it up, I could clearly see DJ Hero 2 through the wrapping....
I didn't want to open it so I could return it in mint condition in case it was some special sealed thing. So I emailed the seller and got an INSTANT reply!
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Anyway, here is what I got it for. Yay for my Mini Thor the Destroyer! Now, to level it to see if it's any good as a pet...
You probably would have seen this battle pet before - if you have battled Nicki Tinytech in Hellfire Peninsula.
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I'm glad the collecting part is still fun! I have to admit I've slowed down on the battling part but I was so thrilled the other day when I finally found my rare Prairie Mouse who had been eluding me!
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That's a great pet you got, though! I love the animation when he shoots his guns and flies up into the air. So cool!
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The matzoh layers are soaked in coffee and though softened, they dry out when chilled and hold the dessert together. The first version of the recipe was made in a loaf pan and served ten but I quickly realized that on Passover, the crowds are bigger. To serve ten, just halve the recipe and prepare in a 12-inch loaf pan.
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well I gotta say it was an easy dessert to make but not so impressed with the outcome. There was no way for me to get 4 or 5 layers. max was 3. Plus the mousse was difficult to spread out over the matzo. When it thawed for the hour it was easy to cut but fell apart as I plated it. Which made for an ugly presentation, big bummer! It was an interesting idea but I won't make it again.
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Anger and hostility are significantly associated with both a higher risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) in healthy individuals and poorer outcomes in patients with existing heart disease, according to the first quantitative review and meta-analysis of related studies, which appears in the March 17, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Management of anger and hostility may be an important adjuvant strategy in preventing CHD in the general public and treating CHD patients, according to authors.
"Anger and hostility were found to predict a 19 percent and 24 percent increase in CHD events among initially healthy people and those with pre-existing CHD, respectively," says Yoichi Chida, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College, London, UK. "The harmful association of anger and hostility with CHD events in healthy people was greater in men than women. This suggests that the accumulation of stress responses in daily life might have a greater impact on future CHD in men."
Authors extensively reviewed the literature on the longitudinal associations of anger and hostility with CHD events, and identified 25 studies of initially healthy populations and 18 studies of patients with CHD. While the damaging effects of these emotions have been widely asserted, previous reviews have been inconclusive.
"This review provides further evidence that psychological factors do matter in the development and progression of CHD," says Johan Denollet, Ph.D., CoRPS research center, Tilburg University, The Netherlands, and co-author of the accompanying editorial. "Clinicians should take symptoms of anger and hostility seriously, and may consider referring their patient for behavioral intervention. We need to closely monitor and study these personality traits in order to do a better job at identifying high-risk patients who are more liable to future fatal and non-fatal coronary events."
Interestingly, there was no longer a significant association of anger and hostility with CHD when researchers performed a subgroup analysis of the studies that controlled for behavioral covariates (e.g., smoking, physical activity or body mass index, socioeconomic status) and disease treatment, suggesting that the major pathway between anger and hostility and CHD might be behavioral risk factors. In addition, a direct physiological pathway should be considered in future studies; this might involve autonomic nervous dysregulation, increases in inflammatory or coagulation factors such as C-reactive protein, interleukin 6 and fibrinogen, and higher cortisol levels.
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Colorado State University's Well-Known Veterinary Heart Surgeon Becomes Department Head
A Colorado State University veterinarian, who has built a premier program in canine heart surgery, has been hired as the new head of the Department of Clinical Sciences, a department that plays a critical role at CSU by staffing the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, by training future veterinarians, and by leading medical research that advances health care for animals and humans.
Christopher Orton has served as interim department head for the past 18 months; he will assume the post on a permanent basis starting July 1.
"In Dr. Orton, we have a leader who provides the focus and steady hand of a surgeon, while also inspiring students, faculty and staff to think critically and creatively about medical solutions," said Mark Stetter, dean of the CSU College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. "I'm pleased that he has accepted the job, and very excited to see the innovations Dr. Orton will continue to lead in teaching, research and clinical services."
Orton will head a department of 140 faculty and staff and 350 students, the great majority of whom are enrolled in CSU's outstanding Professional Veterinary Medicine Program. The Clinical Sciences faculty teach, conduct medical research, and provide care to pets and livestock at the CSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
A leading authority in veterinary cardiovascular surgery, Orton is highly regarded for starting the first veterinary open-heart surgery program in the world. He has built his career at CSU since joining the Clinical Sciences faculty in 1983.
Orton said he hopes to incorporate new technology for teaching innovations; wants to further interact with Colorado livestock producers, especially in the beef, dairy and equine industries; and wants to encourage research advances, including those with translational potential.
"Translational" research refers to discoveries that may be built upon and applied broadly to help both animals and people. Orton's own work, examining use of new technologies and techniques in heart surgery, exemplify this so-called "One Health" approach to medicine.
"I am super proud of CSU. I think we have the top veterinary medical program in the world," Orton said. "We are uniquely positioned to take discoveries in our laboratories and bridge them, by using animals with naturally occurring diseases, to bring new therapies to other animals and to humans."
Orton earned his bachelor's degree in zoology at Oregon State University; his doctor of veterinary medicine at Washington State University; a master's degree in clinical sciences at The Ohio State University; and a doctorate in cardiopulmonary physiology at CSU. He completed his residency in small-animal surgery at The Ohio State University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Cardiopulmonary Research Laboratory at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. He is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons and serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Veterinary Cardiology.
Orton holds multiple patents for discoveries in cardiac surgery. He teaches cardiology and respiratory medicine, and has directly advised or served on committees for more than five dozen graduate students. He has published dozens of papers in refereed journals, has authored a textbook on small-animal surgery, and has written or edited numerous textbook chapters and periodicals.
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Friday, Friday, Friday! It doesn't have quite the ring of the "Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!" monster truck show commercials of my youth, but it does mean that the weekend is nigh, and that's what I'm focusing on. Another big perk of the weekend? We spent yesterday trolling the Internet for the most lust-worthy bag sales that we could find, and we've compiled our findings into a nifty little list of what we think you guys should be splurging on this weekend. Without further ado, the bags wait for you after the jump! Extra bonus: they're all under $500 this week!
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Fourth Session of the Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies (TOS-ICP)
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Geneva, Switzerland
The substantive segment at the session will include the Applied Policy Seminar:
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Technological parks, a tool for innovation policies. An example: Sophia Antipolis. | | |
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Late statue of Leon Battista Alberti. Courtyard of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence | |
Birth name | Leon Battista Alberti |
Born | February 18, 1404 Genoa, Italy |
Died | April 25, 1472 Rome |
Nationality | Italian |
Field | Architecture, Linguistics, Poetry |
Movement | Italian Renaissance |
Works | Tempio Malatestiano, Palazzo Rucellai, Santa Maria Novella |
Leon Battista Alberti (February 18, 1404 – April 25, 1472) was an Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer, and general Renaissance humanist polymath. In Italy, this first name is usually spelled "Leone", but Alberti is known as Leon. Alberti's life was described in Giorgio Vasari's Vite. Alberti is often seen as a model of the Renaissance "universal man".- He was born in Genoa, because the Albertis had been expelled from their native city, Florence. When he was a child the family moved to Venice. In 1428 Leon visited Florence at first time.


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Joseph WeberVidar VXR-12 X-Ray Film Digitizer
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Hospitals are tough on equipment. Fast-moving gurneys can ding anything in their paths. And hard-pressed technicians have little patience for gear that isn't easy to run. As cost pressures mount, no one in a hospital can spend time reading 100-page operating manuals for complex equipment.
So the folks at Paradigm:design in Philadelphia had quite a challenge in fashioning a new X-ray digitizer, a scanner that converts X-ray pictures into computer images that can be transmitted to specialists in other cities. They wanted a product that could sit out of harm's way on a counter and be virtually self-explanatory in its use. The result: the Vidar VXR-12.
Rival products require a technician to feed the X-ray film horizontally, as with a photocopier. That makes for slow processing and machines that take up lots of space. But in the VXR-12, the film slides down vertically, reducing friction and speeding up the process. Industrial Design Excellence Awards juror Seth Banks of GE Medical Systems calls this digitizer "as intuitive to use as it is pleasing to see."
With space at such a premium in hospital radiology labs, compactness was a major requirement for manufacturer Vidar Systems Corp. in Herndon, Va. The VXR-12 takes up about half the space of conventional units. And at 36 pounds, it can be moved easily. Vidar has packed it with electronics to link up with most host computers. What's more, the digitizer sells for about $16,000, at least $4,000 less than rival models. That makes for the kind of picture that's pretty to the eye of the toughest hospital cost-cutters.


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Shit happens to me. Tonight, my best friend and I were driving out to Tae Kwon Do class (I started taking it for the first time in my life a few weeks ago). Right after the sun went down and as I was driving 50 mph or so, a deer darted out in front of me. I didn't have enough room to react, and there was a car to my right, so I ran into the deer.
It all happened in super slow motion (think "bullet-time"). One second, we were carrying on a conversation, the next, I was slamming on the brakes while hitting a deer at 50 mph.
Then, the deer rolled up the windshield (approximate speed of the vehicle around 40 mph at this point). It hit the windshield, an antler or two broke off, and then it was gone… no where to be seen.
600 milleseconds later or so (I'm rounding) the deer appeared again mid-air about 15 feet in front of the car (I was still decelerating the vehicle) and I hit the brakes harder. We came to a stop right in front of where the deer landed. (Thank God the guy behind me had the competence to stop too).
We took a quick inventory of our persons (neither of us had been wearing our seatbelts) and looked for any personal property that might have gotten thrown around in the cockpit, sorry, car. I turned down the iPod. Then we looked at each other and then back at the deer.
The guy behind me was pissed that I stopped (he obviously didn't see the damn deer) but I didn't care. I got out of the car to drag the deer into the ditch (he was in the way) and took a quick glance at the dront of my 2 year old Jetta. Ugh:
We got on down the road after I got back in the car and had a laugh after I got over being pissed. My buddy and I have a history of stupid car accidents (usually while I'm driving).
Read his rendition of the event and a short history of our driving history here. See photos of the aftermath (no deer photos sorry) here.
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Sound Like your mom is pretty busy !I hope you have some fun with those boxes : )
Boxes live a long time in my house too Poppy. But they're never any fun to play with.
Till Christmas? Boy, that's a lot of work. I think you should make your guests feel welcome!
You are doing a good job helping Mom!
Oh very cool boxes! I love helping with boxes!
Poppy, you can send some of those extra boxes over here!
Slowly getting settled in. Don't worry, mum has boxes that got moved in and never opened again.
Visitors? On your weekend with your mum home? Oh no! But you have a gorgeous garden retreat so it won't be too bad, will it?


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The Healing Heart Program, a special grief program offered by the Centre for Living with Dying, is a resource where families and youth can connect in life-altering times of grief and loss. The program offers grief groups for youth ages 5-17, as well as parent/caregiver groups to assist adults supporting children through the grieving process. For more information on the Healing Heart Program, please click here: Healing Heart Program
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A solar outburst over the weekend delivered lovely aurorae Monday, setting the night sky aglow over mid-latitude regions rarely treated to such sights.
Plasma that erupted from the sun Saturday in a burst called a coronal mass ejection reached Earth Monday and delivered charged particles into the upper atmosphere. Those charged particles can excite atoms in the ionosphere, which emit light as they return to their unexcited state. The resulting aurorae (aka the aurora borealis) could be seen in parts of more than half the 50 states, according to Spaceweather.com, where users reported sightings in distinctly non-Arctic locales such as Alabama, Virginia and Kansas.
Thanks to the efforts of amateur skywatchers, those of us who missed these aurorae can still share in their beauty.
Click here for a slide show of Monday's northern lights in a series of photographs taken from sites across North America.
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare and pension policies, as well as being a key player in tackling child poverty. As the biggest UK public service delivery department its two arms – The Pensions, Disability, and Carers Service and Jobcentre Plus – serve more than 20 million customers.
DWP has a long-term network infrastructure contract with BT that covers voice, data, contact centre, and conferencing services. Under the contract, BT delivers wide area network (WAN) connectivity, manages in-building local area networks (LANs), and provides IP telephony services. It also supports a virtual IP Contact Centre across sixty-four Jobcentre Plus offices. According to Kable1 DWP's IP Contact Centre is the largest deployment in the world, while its converged IP-based platform is the largest of its class in EMEA.
DWP has a duty of care to respond efficiently and effectively to citizens' needs. Take the credit crunch. Major institutions went to the wall, leading banks sought government support, and lending dried up. Jobs were lost and UK unemployment soared. The consequences for the Jobcentre Plus organisation were clear; it needed to react quickly to deal with the knock on effect of a sizable increase to its caseload.
DWP's Economic Downturn Programme (EDP) was established to provide additional office, communications, and IT facilities to accommodate the large volume of additional temporary contract or redeployed staff required to manage the increased demand for Jobcentre Plus services across the UK.
Andy Barnes, DWP Client Partner at BT recalls: "DWP needed to respond quickly to the needs of Jobcentre Plus to provide the necessary IT systems and hardware whenever and wherever it was needed. The nature of the programme meant that the biggest challenge by far was in managing the inevitable uncertainty in terms of Jobcentre Plus staff and location forecasts, which depended on the success of recruitment activity. To deliver efficiently we normally rely on accurate stable forecasts, but here we needed to find a way to be extra flexible to meet the department's needs."
1 Kable is a leading provider of ICT public sector research. Data correct as of June 2010.
DWP established a Programme Board, which included senior BT people, to oversee the project and overcome any obstacles. This first hand engagement of senior BT representatives proved critical, as they marshalled the necessary BT resources to deliver and implement DWP driven BT process changes. These included streamlining process steps and relaxing commercial constraints in order for BT to condense delivery lead times for certain services.
The scope of the BT deliverables included installation of structured cabling in new and existing buildings, and the supply and commissioning of LAN switches and IP telephones, in line with Jobcentre Plus estates implementation dates. WAN links were upgraded as necessary to support the additional people and new circuits were provided to interconnect the new buildings. Work was also carried out to extend and reconfigure the central IP telephony platform and optimise the IP contact centre to cope with additional call volumes.
Further, BT provided new PSTN lines at sites that needed additional public telephony and broadband services. Throughout, BT worked closely with the DWP project team handling estates provision, as well as other technology suppliers.
Over a period of 15 months BT successfully delivered these services to 430 existing DWP offices and 40 new temporary locations, many at short notice and the majority during peak times. A total of 15,000 LAN ports and IP telephones were added, and other existing services were redirected, to provide communication facilities for 16,000 additional staff. In the process, some fifty WAN bearers were upgraded from 2Mbps to 10Mbps, alongside circuits commissioned for the all-new sites. All of the work was completed without disruption to day-to-day DWP activities.
The project was not without its challenges. Initially, for example, BT and its supply chain partners had to stretch to cope with the volume of site surveys necessary, and it took a while to establish the necessary bespoke procedures between its operating divisions. Looking back on the project, Andy Barnes observes: "I'm sure the DWP would agree that we proved to be co-operative and proactive. We had a strong project team and despite the fluidity of the programme the project was a success with the vast majority of the communications and IT implemented on schedule."
Aided by BT, DWP's effective response to the challenges of the economic downturn has not gone unnoticed. In early 2011 the DWP was selected as a winner at the seventh annual eGovernment National Awards. From a strong field of seven nominees the DWP Economic Downturn Programme won the Central eGovernment excellence: Take-up and usage growth category. This recognises the delivery of high and growing take up of e-enabled services through effective delivery and marketing.
With the new resources and infrastructure in place, the DWP has been able to cope with the additional caseload; supporting people with welfare payments and assistance in returning to the workplace.
Andy Barnes concludes: "The Economic Downturn Programme occurred at a time when DWP relied on BT as a key partner to do whatever necessary to keep its business operational. I am delighted that all the BT teams responded to the challenges that were presented in such a professional and collaborative way. This is a great example of what we can achieve together."
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Thicking uterus after 1 yr of Tamoxifen08/24/2009 |
I have been on Tamoxifen for 14 months (added treatment for DCIS breast cancer) and during my yearly pap discussed some issues which lead to an ultrasound. The lining of my uterus has thickened and some cysts are on my ovaries. Continued Tamoxifen but took 7 days of another med to start a cycle. Nothing happened. Second ultrasound showed the same as first. The Dr. tried an endometrial biopsy but could not get through the cervix and has scheduled D&C. Does this happen often during a biopsy and why? What should I expect?
Depending on your age, the cervix may be very stenotic (closed) and doesn't allow the passage of a biopsy instrument. The next step is to gently, but forcibly dilate the cervix so the uterus can be entered. At this time, your doctor should look into your uterus and then take biopsies. Most of the side-effects from the surgery will be from the anesthesia which makes you feel like you have a hangover and/or jet lag. You may experience some bleeding/spotting and cramping afterwards too. This shouldn't last long.
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text: The Cylons' Secret Weakness: Microwave Ovens!Charlie Jane Anders7/27/12 11:29pmFiled to: found footageBattlestar GalacticaGalactica 1980killer robotsHoly crap wtftweetFb60EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Galactica 1980 is full of ridiculous things, including the Battlestar Galactica crew giving a small child a mind-control device. And trying to team up with the Nazis. But nothing is as ludicrous as this scene, where a Cylon centurion comes too close to its most deadly nemesis: a microwave oven.AdvertisementThis is a clip from "The Night the Cylons Landed, Part 2," the second part of a story where a Cylon ship crashes on Earth. Two Cylons survive: a human-looking one, and a single centurion. And somehow, they wind up at a costume party where they meet Wolfman Jack — playing himself. They strong-arm Wolfman Jack into helping them signal the Cylon fleet. And along the way, they face the peril of... someone microwaving meatballs.You would think that after traveling through interstellar space, and visiting countless planets, the Cylons would be pretty well shielded against stray microwave radiation. (Of course, maybe the centurion was damaged in the crash. But they don't really offer that explanation.) In any case, the next time the Cylons attack a Battlestar, it turns out all they need to do is make some Pop Tarts.


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The Peacekeeper
Across America this weekend, wives and girlfriends will accompany their fellas to GI Joe: Retaliation, as boys-shooting-boys movies are considered movies for everyone, their violent heroism the default American fantasy. How many of those fellas do you think will reciprocate with a trip to The Host, a post–alien-invasion survivalist tale based on a novel by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer — and to feature a heroine whose problems involve whom to kiss rather than just whom to kill?
I ask not because The Host is something I recommend especially. Like GI Joe: Retaliation, it's a competent fulfillment of its generic promise, the kind of movie you'll like if it's the kind of movie you like.
As with the Twilight series, The Host's infelicities — drab dialogue, ridiculous plotting, more emotional crises than there is story — are enlivened by its thematic eccentricities. You know how most fantasy adventure films have their orcs or stormtroopers or Germans whom the good guys have a grand time genociding? The Host's heroine — or heroines, more on that later — actually forbids her friends to kill any of the parasitic space-protozoa who have taken over the bodies of most of the Earth's population and are actively hunting down the last human survivors.
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Not rated.Of course, that's only after she's slumped about for much of the story (in true Stephenie Meyer fashion) trying to choose between two hunks who seemed to me interchangeable — despite living holed up in a Utah cave, far from civilization, both appear to have gym memberships and limitless access to hair product. That heroine is named Melanie, or Wanda the Wanderer: Captured by the aliens in the film's first scene, her human self, Melanie (played by Saoirse Ronan), was subjected to the implanting of a part-doily, part-Sea Monkey space-soul, a new consciousness that is supposed to wipe out the earlier her. But people are stubborn and hopeful — if we weren't, we wouldn't keep turning out for multiplex movies. Melanie's mind insists on continuing to occupy her body, even as that body's new mind, belonging to the alien Wanda, is tasked by its supervisors with ransacking Melanie's memories for the locations of the not-yet-implanted humans Melanie knew. For a while, this plays out like a buddy-cop adventure in which the two cops share one brain; while Melanie bickers with Wanda over what their body should do or say, Ronan has to strike an expression and just hold it, kind of like sitcom stars waiting for the canned laughs to die. In the opening scenes, she's often shot in the electro-blue tint and with the pained eyes familiar from commercials for antidepressants. (Ronan makes catatonic two-brain freakouts somehow personable.)
To the credit of everyone involved, there's an unsettling tension to these sequences as well as some of that urgent, real-life–gone–genre-fiction allusiveness that has made Meyer's books so popular: Here's a miserable young woman forced to fit into a homogenized society even as a voice inside urges her to rebel, to be herself instead.
Melanie and Wanda learn to work together, and arrive at a common cause, then escape from the silliest of all possible imprisonments: a third-story hotel room with unlocked windows, located over a swimming pool.
There's plenty of time to wonder, during the rote chase scenes, whether the glossy, hive-minded Earth of the aliens is meant to suggest the Mormon church that Meyer belongs to. The conformity! The King Family smiles! But then Melanie/Wanda meets up with a band of desert survivors led by a brilliant, grizzled farmer (William Hurt) who everyone thinks is mad — and who has it in him to plant underground wheat fields in which his people engage in picturesque toil right out of the Dutch impressionists. Maybe it's all an inter-LDS conflict.
In this new Eden, waiting out an attack from the aliens, Melanie/Wanda spends far too much screen time frumping about, each of her selves in love with a different survivor. This being Meyer's world, no affair of mind or body is consummated. Much of the movie passes with Melanie/Wanda waiting for men to make her decisions for her — that leader, a kid, both of her paramours. Once she is stirred to action of her own, it is to argue for peace.
This isn't quite like if Princess Leia, post-Alderaan, urged appeasement with the Empire as she sulked over whether she preferred Luke or Han. Instead, Melanie/Wanda understands the low odds of a human victory and hits upon a solution that isn't all pew-pew. She even suggests to the surviving Earthlings that the best way to handle the invading force is to show it love — the thing that makes us human and the thing that the aliens can learn from. For all her programmatic love triangles, Meyer's fantasy is at least humane.
When the UFOs come down and hijack our bodies, I probably won't be on the side of love. But it could not be a bad thing if fans of G.I. Joe on occasion had cause to consider an option besides killing every motherfucker in the room. YA fans, if you're going to see this, please trick some angry young men into coming along, would you?
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Decision time is underway right now for NHL GM's as the two week window is open to buy out players at 2/3 of their salary and have that cap hit spread over double the length of time. As an example if Player A has one year left on his deal at $3M he can be bought out for $2M saving the team a million dollars in real money. The cap hit would be $1M for the next two seasons.
So GM's have to decide if they do want to part ways with a player is it worth the additional cash that their owner has to pay out, and do they want to kill some of their cap space for a player that is not with the team.
The other option is even uglier in some people's minds (not mine but some) and that is to bury a player in the minors. How this works is again Player A gets sent to the minors on a one way contract. he is immediately placed on waivers and any other team can essentially pick that player up without giving up an asset.
However that team would then be on the hook for his salary and cap hit. Leaving our original team off the hook for Player A. This is actually rare because if you are sending a player down in this fashion they generally have a bad contract that no one else wants.
Now if Player A clears waivers after 48 hours he is assigned to the minor league team. The original team still have to pay his $3M to play in the minors, but he is completely off the teams cap space. He can also be recalled from the minors at any time. However he must go through re-entry waivers where another team could pick him up at half the salary! With your team paying the other half.
In my opinion the buy out is only an option for a player with a no movement clause in his contract, or for a team that is tight on money and wants to save a few dollars. If your team has the money and if willing to spend it I think burying the player in the minors is the way to go.
That brings us to the Calgary Flames and their situation with bad contracts. I am going to use four players as examples for this team. Daymond Langkow, Ales Kotalik, Cory Sarich, and Steve Staios. I have nothing against the players but they are all overpaid in terms of what they bring to the ice in a cap era.
Langkow, Kotalik, and Sarich all have two years left on their deals, which makes the buy out option not palatable. Only Ales Kotalik could be a possibility as he has 2 years left at $3M per season. So a buy out would cost you $4M in real money and one million dollars a year for four years on the cap. True it saves you $2M in cap space this season. But it is a long term penalty for a bad trade.
The only options for these three players are to either trade them at the draft for any pick you can get. Or you bury them in the minors and pay them a lot of money which isn't practical. Or and in the Flames situation if they can't trade them they will be stuck playing them this year, and reassess their situation next year. I think this will happen in the case of Kotalik. Sarich and Langkow should have some value to some team to only have to give up a draft pick for.
Which brings us to Steve Staios. I still don't fully understand that trade but the fact of the matter is he has 1 year left on his contract at $2.7M. Honestly if he can not be traded at the draft, he needs to be buried in the minors for the season. The Flames can afford it, and there is no sense in wasting cap space in a buy out.
What will the Flames do if anything prior to and at the draft? I suspect that two of the four I have mentioned will be traded. As for the other two I would guess they will be in the lineup starting the season. I don't believe that Flames management has the gumption to make a very hard decision as to burying a player in the minors.
What do you think?
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The premiere episode of "Defiance" got off to a solid start for Syfy, becoming its top-rated scripted series premiere in adults 18-49 since "Eureka" debuted in 2006.
The second episode, "Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go," which focused heavily on differences in beliefs between the various races that inhabit Defiance, stayed relatively in line with the premiere. Total viewers fell slightly from 2.7 million to 2.4 million and adults 18-49 went from 1.3 million to 1.1 million.
Meanwhile, it's looking as though "Defiance" is a show that will be aided by DVR viewings. The premiere rose from 2.7 million viewers to 3.5 million when the first three days of DVR palyback were taken into account. The adults 18-49 demo also increased, from 1.3 million to 1.77 million.
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Lot 10: Bruce Nauman (b. 1941)
Post-War & Contemporary Art (Evening Sale)
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June 23, 2005
London, United Kingdom
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Hanging Heads # 1 (Blue Andrew, Mouth Open/Red Julie with cap)
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Andrew: 11 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 6 3/4 in. (29 x 25 x 17cm.)
Julie: 10 1/4 x 7 1/8 x 5 1/2 in. (26 x 18 x 14cm.)
Executed in 1989
Executed in 1989, Hanging Heads #1 (Blue Andrew, Mouth Open/Red Julie with cap) comprises two casts of the heads of Nauman's collaborators Andrew and Julie, their expressions captured precisely in the all-revealing dental wax. Despite the precision of the dental wax, used for medical purposes, the faces of Andrew and Julie remain strangely inscrutable, while their suspension upside-down from the ceiling, and their disjointedness in being heads without bodies, fill the work with a mysterious tension. Their eyes are closed, the so-called windows of the soul unable and unwilling to convey anything to the viewer. In this way, Nauman highlights the flaws and limitations of human communication, and of art in particular. The casts are unable to convey anything subjective, either from Nauman or from his collaborators. Indeed, their closed eyes imply that the cast people are determined both to keep their feelings hidden, and to close themselves off from the world of the viewer.
Nauman's reprisal during the 1980s of casting bodies and body parts in wax marked a return to one of the techniques that had characterised his early career and which had been used in many of his most famous masterpieces, such as Henry Moore Bound to Fail and From Hand to Mouth, both of 1967. In returning to this technique, Nauman was returning to his interest in the space physically occupied by art. Art involves self-revelation, and Nauman's casts of his own body in the 1960s externalised this exposure. For Nauman, the act of looking at art is deeply penetrative and invasive. The artist is expected to bare his soul, yet in Nauman's case is determined not to allow this. Instead, he manages deftly to ward off the viewer's curiosity in a manner that also actively illustrates the inherent limitations of art and communication. In Hanging Heads #1 (Blue Andrew, Mouth Open/Red Julie with cap), Nauman has kept himself at one more remove, displaying the heads of others in his place, while their uncommunicative faces eloquently tell us nothing at all.
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Artist or Maker: Bruce Nauman (b. 1941)
Exhibited: Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, on long term loan.
Literature: J. Simon (ed.), Bruce Nauman, Minneapolis 1994, no. 414 (illustrated, p. 317).


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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
/lkI drove through my old neighborhood a few weeks ago. It is like many suburban neighborhoods that sprouted up in the 1960s.
Many of the people who moved there grew up in the city. All of them wanted big yards in which their kids could play. Many wanted to be near St. Germaine Catholic Church and its elementary school.
We moved into our new house in 1964, when I was 2. It was a basic, square house -- brick on the bottom, white siding on the top -- designed for raising children.
And there were a lot of children. I was born at the tail end of the baby boom. Neighbor kids were everywhere. The Gillens had four; the Bennetts, three; the Greenaways, four; the Kriegers, five ...
It was a traditional time, to be sure. Fathers worked and worried about the bills. Most mothers stayed home and worried about the kids.
But there was less to worry about then. Moms ran the neighborhood. Kids were free to play.
One summer, the fad was to make skateboards by nailing old roller skates onto two-foot pieces of 2-by-4. So many kids rode their skateboards down Tracy Drive, the pavement turned gray.
When the young families moved into their new homes, a lot of work needed to be done. Grass, shrubs and trees were planted. Concrete patios and driveways were poured. Porch roofs were built, basements remodeled into family rooms.
Most of the fathers were in their 20s then. They spent Saturdays helping each other. They enjoyed breaking a sweat and drinking a few ice-cold beers.
Most every decision these young parents made was based on the needs of their children. The principles they lived by were simple. They treated their children as little souls that God gave them to watch over. They wanted them to have a solid moral foundation and good education. Most of us attended St. Germaine School.
Despite the struggles these parents encountered -- all people, rich and poor, encounter struggles -- most stayed married. Most believed they would be together "until death do us part."
More than a decade ago, after my parents moved out of the neighborhood, they threw a party for the old neighbors in their new house. I tended bar at the event.
The last time I had seen many of these people had been more than 20 years earlier, when I was still a kid myself. At the party, I had a chance to learn about these good people.
Every person in that room was a child of the Depression who came from nothing. One told stories of how the row house he grew up in was freezing cold in the morning. He wouldn't get out of bed until he heard his father go down to the basement to fire up some coal.
Another told me that for nearly 20 years of his marriage, he worked three jobs -- 60 hours a week -- to keep up with the bills.
In spite of the fact that they hadn't saved much money and worried about their futures, they married young, had families right away and worked hard.
They scrimped and saved and gradually built a wonderful world for themselves and their children. And every one of them raised children who are all doing well in life.
These good people are in their 70s and 80s now. They're retired and living the good life. They have plenty to celebrate.
It was my honor to spend an evening with them.
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Talmud Comics
Ever since I discovered this great Talmud Comics site, I've been gnashing my teeth trying to decide how to portray it. Yonah Lavery constantly produces a great, sometimes clever, sometimes thoughtful and always outright stunning adaptation of the Talmud in the form of comics. It doesn't get the whole scope and nuance of a Talmud page — but, then again, it's not supposed to; it's a totally different dimension of interpretation. What's cool is how, the same way that the Gemara itself switches from dishing out laws to narrative storytelling and then into arguments that jump between the two, Lavery's adaptations also jump, dodge, and veer between them, from a sleeping woman wondering when to say Shema to Rabbi Yose's unfortunate venture into abandoned ruins.
But the great Jewish art site Mimaamakim beat me to it. In a great interview, Mimaa's Aaron Roller asks Lavery about her background in art, Judaism, and being Canadian, and digs deep to explore the questions of just why Talmud obsesses people so. (Lavery herself doesn't have a deep childhood background in Talmudic study. But that's okay. It even lends a fascinating spark to her artwork, the freshness of discovering this material for the first time.) She's also not afraid of pushing boundaries, much like the Talmudic stories themselves: the frontspiece to her volume, the first page of Berachot, features a naked (though strategically-posed) woman; one of my favorite adaptations, below, in which R. Kahana, a student of R. Yochanan, follows his teacher into the bedroom to learn, well, everything from him:
AR: Most of your drawings relate to Aggadata, the narrative component of the Talmud. Is that your primary interest (as opposed to the more legalistic passages), or is it just that those sections better lend themselves to illustration?
YL: I'm very interested in halachic passages. But I feel like we have lost a certain fluency in aggadah and midrash that came very easily to Chazal – it is an entirely different way of learning. In a sense, studying this kind of material lets you be a Kahana, hiding and watching how people loved Torah. It fosters a closeness to the text and those in it which I think is important.
AR: What is a kahana?
YL: I mean someone who behaves like Kahana in Berachot 61a (he hides under Rav's bed to find out how his teacher has sex).
AR: Of course. Kahana's response upon being caught: "It is Torah and I am required to learn it,†was my yearbook quote.
( read the rest on Mimaamakim's site )
And that, my friends, is why I wish I went to high school in a yeshiva. And why I wish I could draw.


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text: Sony Trademarks Echoshift (Which Is Probably Echochrono)Michael McWhertor7/07/09 6:40pmFiled to: TrademarksSonyechochromeEchochronoEchoshift18EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Black and white perspective shifting puzzler echochrome is getting a semi-sequel in echochrono, as revealed at E3 2009. Perhaps that name was a bit too similar, as the PlayStation maker has filed a new, familiar sounding trademark. Advertisement Sony Computer Entertainment America recently filed a trademark for echoshift, which might be the new name for echochrono, not a brand new game. After all, Sony did issue the caveat that echochrono was a "working title."The puzzle game, which keeps things more 2D (and more 4D), looks to borrow from time manipulation games like Braid and Cursor*10—clearly good places to borrow from. It's slated to hit the PlayStation Network and PSP in Fall or Winter of this year. We'd expect that Sony will have news on any potential name changes soon, but reps did not respond to requests for clarification.Instead of clarification, here's a trailer. ECHOSHIFT [USPTO]Reply18 repliesLeave a reply