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Scientists searching for habitable planets beyond Earth shouldn't overlook F-type stars in favor of their more abundant, smaller and cooler cousins, according to new research from University of Texas at Arlington physicists.
Stars fall into seven lettered categories according to their surface temperature, but they also differ in other factors such as mass, luminosity and abundance in the universe. Scientists looking for habitable planets typically have focused on the less massive end of the spectrum, where our own G-type sun as well as the even less massive K and M-type stars reside.
F-types are the in the middle of the scale, more massive and hotter than our Sun. Their increased ultraviolet radiation has been thought to be a limiting factor for sustaining life. In addition, there just aren't as many of them.
But, UT Arlington Physics Professor Manfred Cuntz, contends: "F-type stars are not hopeless."
Cuntz said: "There is a gap in attention from the scientific community when it comes to knowledge about F-type stars, and that is what our research is working to fill. It appears they may indeed be a good place to look for habitable planets."
Cuntz and UT Arlington Ph.D. student Satoko Sato teamed with researchers from the University of Guanajuato in Mexico for a new work published this week by the International Journal of Astrobiology. They argue that since F-type stars have a wider habitability zone – the area where conditions are right for general Earth-type planets to develop and sustain life – they warrant additional consideration.
The researchers also explored the potential limitations caused by UV radiation by estimating the potential damage that carbon-based macromolecules necessary for life would sustain in F-type stars' habitable zones. To do that, they used DNA as an example and compared estimates of DNA damage on planets in F-type star systems to the damage that would be done on Earth by the sun.
The research included calculations for several different types of F-type stars, at different points in their evolution. It found encouraging results. In a few cases, the damage estimates were similar to the damage on Earth, if Earth did not have an atmosphere. The damage estimate was even less if an atmosphere on the planet in the F-type system was assumed.
"Our study is a further contribution toward the exploration of the exobiological suitability of stars hotter and, by implication, more massive than the Sun … at least in the outer portions of F-star habitable zones, UV radiation should not be viewed as an insurmountable hindrance to the existence and evolution of life," the study said.
The study is called "Habitability around F-type Stars" and is available online here: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=IJA&tab=firstview. Co-authors from the University of Guanajuato were Cecilia Maria Guerra Olvera, Dennis Jack and Klaus-Peter Schröder.
Pamela Jansma, dean of the UT Arlington College of Science, said the collaboration between Sato and Cuntz is representative of the research advances that can result from a strong faculty-graduate student mentorship.
"Astrophysics as it relates to habitable planets is an increasingly popular topic, and Dr. Cuntz and his student have enriched that conversation by weaving elements of theoretical biology and planetary science into their outstanding work," Jansma said.
The new paper suggests that further research be done that would include detailed chemical models of planetary atmospheres, examples of specific star-planet systems with observational data and cases of F-type stars that are members of binary or higher-order systems.
About UT Arlington
The University of Texas at Arlington is a comprehensive research institution and the second largest institution in The University of Texas System. The Chronicle of Higher Education ranked UT Arlington as the seventh fastest-growing public research university in 2013. U.S. News & World Report ranks UT Arlington fifth in the nation for undergraduate diversity. Visit http://www.uta.edu to learn more. Follow #UTAdna on Twitter.
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Dakota Electric Association is now accepting applications for the Touchstone Energy Community Award, which recognizes non-profit groups, community organizations and businesses that have shown a strong commitment to the community. The award acknowledges the efforts of those who have impacted numerous people, collaborated and shared resources, addressed unmet community needs or provided necessary services.
In 2019, Dakota Electric will provide three Touchstone Energy Community Awards; accompanying each award will be a check for $500. One award recipient will be chosen to contend against other award winners from across the state for the Minnesota Touchstone Energy Community Award and a cash prize of $1,000. The statewide award winner will be recognized at the Minnesota Rural Electric Association annual meeting in March.
"As a member-owned electric cooperative serving this area, we are committed to community involvement," President and CEO Greg Miller said. "This award allows us to highlight and encourage those organizations that have shown an outstanding commitment to the community."
The deadline for applications is November 1. Applicants are evaluated on project scope, use of resources and the impact or value to the community. To receive judging criteria and an application for the award, call Brenda Kadlec at 651-463-6234, or go to www.dakotaelectric.com and look under "about us" and "community."

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Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell Volume One (2013)
When it comes to death/doom metal I am not a fan of the vocals at all. Usually the music is stellar, but the growling, gravel eating vocals destroy the song for me. When it comes to Five Finger Death Punch, I never gave them many listens. I had heard one or two songs on the radio and thought they were okay, but the growling vocals immediately had me stereotype the band and not explore them more. When it comes to The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell Volume One, I am a huge fan. Five Finger Death Punch has won me over and I will definitely be seeking out their back catalog.
Having not listened to much Five Finger Death Punch, I did not know what to expect when I slipped in my ear buds and fired up The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell. What I received was amazing music that blew my senses away. It was a symphony of spectacular sounds drifting through my eardrums and creating a grin on my face. Nothing brings me more joy than discovering a new (to me) band that I want to listen to over and over again.
"Lift Me Up" gets the disc started and it was this song that captured me instantly. There is so much happening on this one little song that it causes an explosion in the brain. With a cataclysm of sound, "Lift Me Up" is a terrific album opener, especially if it is one of the first times you are listening to Five Finger Death Punch. The song drew me in immediately and by the time it was completed, I was hooked and had to hear more.
"Dot Your Eyes" is another excellent song that just demands you jump around, scream and shout. Ivan Moody's voice is strong and the rhythmic beats and blistering guitar solos will find fists flying in the air on first listen. The power that "Dot Your Eyes" delivers is unrivaled. The song demands attention and action. This would be the perfect song to work out to, rally behind, or start your day with. It's an instant shot of energy and emotion and one of the best songs that The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell has to offer.
My favorite song on the album is "Anywhere But Here." The song is just magnificent. It revisits a familiar theme of what would you do if there was no tomorrow, but Five Finger Death Punch put their own spin on it. Most songs dealing with the theme of today being your last day on Earth discuss how the final moments should be enjoyed and treasured. Five Finger's version is a little darker. "Anywhere But Here" approaches the world ending by proclaiming that no tears would be shed and that being anywhere but here but would be for the best. The narrator of the song is clearly not happy with where he is in life and it is time to get out and move on to something better. Throw in a magnificent Jason Hook guitar solo and some fantastic drum beats from Jeremy Spencer and it is easy to see why "Anywhere But Here" is one of the best tracks on this record.
Sad as it is to say, "Mama Said Knock You Out," is a poor cover of the classic LL Cool J jam. The idea of a hard rock cover of this stupendous hip hop song gave me high hopes, but Five Finger just didn't deliver as crisply as I had hoped. It is but one of two weaknesses on the album. The follow up song, "Diary Of A Deadman," is not great either. In short, it's a blatant rip off of Sixx AM's Heroin Diaries. Thankfully, these are the last two songs on the record, so there are only two bad songs to endure. The other 9 tracks are flat out stellar.
It's also worth noting that Five Finger Death Punch included 2 different versions of 3 songs. The first version was their own recording and the other version included guest vocals by Jamey Jasta ("Dot Your Eyes"), Max Cavalera ("I.M. Sin"), and Maria Brink ("Anywhere But Here"). It was interesting to hear the two different takes on each of these songs, and it has added some replay value to the record.
Overall, The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell Volume One is a superb record that has me waiting in earnest for volume 2. If you are yearning for a modern rock sound with a real hardcore edge, I highly recommend this record. It has made me a Five Finger Death Punch fan.
Rating: Out of 10
Track Listing:
- Lift Me Up (featuring Rob Halford)
- Watch You Bleed
- You
- Wrong Side Of Heaven
- Burn MF
- I.M. Sin
- Anywhere But Here
- Dot Your Eyes
- M.I.N.E. (End This Way)
- Mama Said Knock You Out
- Diary Of A Deadman
- I.M. Sin (featuring Max Cavalera)
- Anywhere But Here (featuring Maria Brink)
- Dot Your Eyes (featuring Jamey Jasta)
Five Finger Death Punch Is:
Ivan Moody – Lead Vocals
Zoltan Bathory – Rhythm Guitar
Jeremy Spencer – Drums
Jason Hook – Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals
Chris Kael – Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals
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Fighting games generally center around two combatants squaring off one-on-one or in a tag-team format. Persona 4 Arena combines these styles, requiring you to control two fighters in harmony: your character and his or her persona, an imaginative creature that fights at your side. The mechanics are easy to grasp--while maintaining a level of complexity in keeping with Arc System Works' pedigree--and support a fully featured game with few setbacks.
As with any fighting game, the quality of the combat mechanics is paramount. The game's basics will be familiar to anyone acquainted with Arc System Works' previous fighters, such as the BlazBlue and Guilty Gear series. Each round, two characters duke it out on a 2D plane using a combination of physical attacks and the abilities of their persona.
One of the most interesting features in this game is the personas: the unique-looking warriors who fight alongside your avatar. At first glance, these secondary combatants may remind you of the "stands" from the 1998 fighter JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. While this is an apt comparison, there are some key differences.
In JoJo's, most stands were toggled on or off, while in Persona 4 Arena, the personas are always active and ready to assist. Generally, a persona's attacks are situational tools--such as an anti-air grapple or projectile. The avatars handle the general-purpose, quick-hitting combos and are complemented by their personas. A few characters, such as Yukiko and Elizabeth, rely more on their personas to do the heavy lifting. Finding a balance between physical- and persona-based attacks, and using both of your fighters in harmony, is an interesting puzzle that's constantly changing depending on whom you're fighting. Plus, the personas' creative designs and outrageous attacks add spectacle to the fight.
Similar to JoJo's stands, personas can be "broken" in combat if they take too many hits. The four cards below your health represent the persona's vitality. Each time a persona is attacked, you lose a card. Lose them all, and you must wait for a brief cooldown to expire before you can call your persona again.
Most cast members also have a unique fighting mechanic. For example, Labrys' massive axe increases in power as she fights, while Aigis has an ammo counter that depletes after certain attacks. Effectively managing these individual traits helps each fighter feel distinct from the rest.
The bulk of the remaining fighting mechanics are managed with a single energy meter. The most important one to master is One More Cancel, which lets you instantly reset your fighter's animation to extend combos or quickly block if you miss a big attack. This technique costs some meter, but its numerous applications add flexibility to the combat system with one simple execution.
For newcomers, Persona 4 Arena is very accessible, thanks in part to the auto-combo system. Similar to the boost combos in Capcom's Street Fighter X Tekken, auto-combos are a series of easily connecting hits that automatically cancel into a special move, and then into a super move (if you have the meter), simply by tapping one button. This combo is simple to execute, but is hardly the most damaging combo in any character's arsenal. More experienced fighters will find success using their own custom combos.
The plot of Persona 4 Arena is centered around a group of high school students. After seeing a strange late-night broadcast, they travel to a fantastical world hidden within a television set where they experience hallucinations and are tricked into fighting each other for the amusement of a cartoon bear wearing a cape. Think this sounds bizarre? You're not alone. Thankfully, for those unfamiliar with the preexisting Persona lore, this game's narrative modes takes great pains to bring you up to speed.
Each member of the 13-character roster has his or her own story to tell, and they have a lot to say. The overarching tale is the mystery of the P-1 Grand Prix: a fighting tournament taking place within the television world. For those who really want to sink their teeth into this, there are branching story paths within certain characters' storylines. These paths can offer additional insight or lead to some strange alternate endings--which adds some extra replayability. Sadly, the presentation of this mode is not as interesting. It's mostly two character portraits talking back and forth in 15- to 20-minute text-filled blocks--a static (if not efficient) form that will quickly bore all but the most enthusiastic.
If you're looking for a slimmer single-player experience, Persona 4 Arena's Arcade mode is for you. This mode condenses each character's storyline into a few brief snippets before and after each fight, as well as a short ending. Playing through it reveals a few of the story mode's key plot points, but you can finish it in under an hour.
If you find yourself stuck in a fight, you can turn to the game's educational modes. The first, Lesson mode, introduces the fundamentals. This series of trials covers everything from movement to move canceling--albeit in a very basic way. These single-completion lessons do not match the quality of education offered by Skullgirls and only scratch the surface of fighting game theory.
The game's Challenge mode is more helpful once you reach the intermediate stage. This mode introduces the basic moves for the entire cast, as well as a long list of simple, and advanced, combos. It does a good job of providing some shorter, practical combos up front that help you understand how a certain fighter should be played. Once you feel comfortable, there are plenty of more advanced combos to learn, including a special expert challenge at the end--such as "Inflict more than 9000 damage at once!"--for you to puzzle out.
Online, Persona 4 Arena offers most of the amenities fighting fans have come to expect. The basics of player and ranked matches are in place, with all the standard ranking and filtering options. Player match options let you decide how players are rotated out (winner out, loser out) and how many matches a player can play in a row--that way one person can't dominate the entire session, if you so choose. Unfortunately, at the time of review we were unable to download replays from the dedicated replay leaderboard--unlike in the PS3 version where the replay leaderboard is functional. However, we could still download replays from other leaderboards provided the listing included the green camera icon. This is a severe handicap for replay functionally.
Online performance was inconsistent. Matches against opponents within the same region suffered frequent spikes in lag, while matches against overseas opponents stuttered to an almost unplayable crawl.
Persona 4 Arena is a fast-paced fighter that can be easily enjoyed even if you're not a Persona fan. With the auto-combo system, combat is initially accessible, but it quickly reveals its complexity as you explore the intricacies of each character's persona and individual traits. For those who are Persona fans first, and fighters second, the game's lengthy story mode will keep you intrigued, so long as you don't mind its dry presentation. It's an elegant game and a great entry point into the catalog of Arc System Works' fighters.


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FOX May 2014 Sweeps Spoilers
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As the television seasons comes to a close over the next few weeks, every regular season series will be throwing out their biggest and boldest moves in order to gain the coveted sweeps audience and go out on a high-note. To prepare TV fans for the onslaught of special episodes, premieres, guest appearances, finales, and all that in between, FOX has become the first network to release episode descriptions for their May sweeps schedule, including what to expect from the likes of Bob's Burgers, 24: Live Another Day, and American Idol.
FOX will reveal its 2014-2015 schedule Monday, May 12th, nine days before the official end of May sweeps.
Sunday, April 27
BOB'S BURGERS (7:00-7:30 PM ET/PT) – "The Kids Run Away"
When a dentist-fearing Louise (Kristen Schaal) finds out she needs a cavity filled, she runs away and seeks refuge with Aunt Gayle (guest voice Megan Mullally), where she is quickly joined by Gene (Eugene Mirman) and Tina (Dan Mintz). Ken Jeong guest-voices as Dr. Yap.
AMERICAN DAD (7:30-8:00 PM ET/PT) – "Rubberneckers"
Stan (Seth MacFarlane) is interviewed by an intimidating insurance inspector (guest voice Terry Crews) when his "rubbernecking" causes a massive traffic accident. Meanwhile, Roger (MacFarlane) and Klaus (Dee Bradley Baker) spill wine on the new couch, and plan to cover it up by sitting on the stained spot for the rest of their lives.
THE SIMPSONS (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting"
Bart (Nancy Cartwright) makes a voodoo doll of his art teacher, but when his spell makes her pregnant instead, he becomes a savior to Springfield couples trying to conceive, only to be kidnapped by Fat Tony (guest voice Joe Mantegna) to help conjure up a thoroughbred race horse.
FAMILY GUY (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "Baby Got Black"
Peter (Seth MacFarlane) and Jerome (guest voice Kevin Michael Richardson) express concern when their kids, Chris (Seth Green) and Pam (guest voice Keke Palmer, "Akeelah and the Bee"), start to date. Meanwhile, Peter pretends to be a staff member at Wrestlemania to give himself backstage access.
COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY (9:00-10:00PM ET/PT) – "Sisters Of The Sun"
Discover the remarkable story of Annie Jump Cannon (guest voice Marlee Matlin) and Cecilia Payne (guest voice Kirsten Dunst), two incredible women who challenged conventional wisdom and uncovered the real-life story of the stars.
Sunday, May 4
BOB'S BURGERS (7:00-7:30 PM ET/PT) – "Gene It On"
Gene surprisingly makes the cheerleading squad, and he and Linda (John Roberts) get swept up into the cheering world. Meanwhile, Tina falls and bites her tongue, leaving her unable to speak intelligibly, so Louise volunteers to be her translator. Guest-voices include Keegan Michael Key ("Key and Peele") and Jenny Slate ("Saturday Night Live").
AMERICAN DAD (7:30-8:00 PM ET/PT) – "Permanent Record Wrecker"
When Stan is fired from the CIA in a round of budget cuts, the only job he's able to land is at the local grocery store, where Steve (Scott Grimes) is the manager. Meanwhile, Roger bets an annoying coffee shop musician (guest voice Robin Thicke) that he can out-play him and enters into a Faustian bargain with a guitar-instructing infomercial host (guest voice Stanley Tucci). Alan Thicke also guest-voices as himself.
THE SIMPSONS (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) – "Brick Like Me" – Milestone 550th Episode
In the milestone 550th episode, Homer (Dan Castellaneta) finds himself in a world where Marge (Julie Kavner), Bart, Lisa (Yeardley Smith), Maggie and the rest of Springfield's residents are made of LEGO bricks, and he must figure out a way home before he's stuck in the world of bricks forever.
FAMILY GUY (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "Meg Stinks!"
Meg (Mila Kunis) has fun partying with Peter when he takes her to a college for an interview. Meanwhile, Brian (Seth MacFarlane) must learn how to live in the wild when he gets sprayed by a skunk and is prohibited from entering the house.
COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY (9:00-10:00PM ET/PT) – "The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth"
The Ship of the Imagination embarks on a journey through space and time to grasp how the autobiography of the earth is written in its atoms, its oceans, its continents and all living things. Later, American geologist Marie Tharp (guest voice Amanda Seyfried) creates the first true map of Earth's ocean floor, and discovers microscopic life that exists deep beneath the ocean.
Sunday, May 11
BOB'S BURGERS (7:00-7:30 PM ET/PT) – "Wharf Horse" (or How Bob Saves/Destroys the Town – Part I)
Motivated by the promise of a new beachside burger joint, Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) conspires with Felix (guest voice Zach Galifianakis) to convince Mr. Fischoeder (guest voice Kevin Kline) to sell Wonder Wharf. Meanwhile, Tina protests the destruction of the wharf's carousel by chaining herself to it.
AMERICAN DAD (7:30-8:00 PM ET/PT) – "News Glances With Genevieve Vavance"
Hayley (Rachael MacFarlane) starts an internship at a local news station working for a Nancy Grace-type reporter, who happens to be Roger in disguise. T.J. Miller, Nat Faxon and Josh Groban guest-voice.
THE SIMPSONS (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) – "Pay Pal"
Marge swears off befriending any more couples when Homer offends their charming new British neighbors. But when Lisa declares that she, too, doesn't need friends, Marge reconsiders. Guest voices include National Public Radio's Peter Sagal and Carl Kasell as themselves, and comedian John Oliver.
FAMILY GUY (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "He's Bla-ack!"
Cleveland (guest voice Mike Henry) returns to town, but is instantly banned from spending time with Peter when Lois (Alex Borstein) and Donna (guest voice Sanaa Lathan) get into a big fight over parenting.
COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY (9:00-10:00PM ET/PT) – "The Electric Boy"
Travel to 19th century England and meet Michael Faraday, a child of poverty who grew up to invent the motor and the generator. His ideas about electricity and discovery of magnetic fields changed the world and paved the way for future scientists to make giant strides in the world of high technology and instantaneous communication.
Sunday, May 18
BOB'S BURGERS (7:00-7:30 PM ET/PT) – "World Wharf II: The Wharfening" (or How Bob Saves/Destroys the Town – Part II) – Season Finale
It's Linda and the kids to the rescue when Felix (guest voice Galifianakis) takes desperate measures, and puts Bob and Mr. Fischoeder in danger. Gary Cole ("Veep"), Jordan Peele ("Key and Peele"), Paul F. Tompkins ("Comedy Bang! Bang!") and Jenny Slate guest-voice.
AMERICAN DAD (7:30-8:00 PM ET/PT) – "The Longest Distance Relationship" – Season Finale
Hayley, still heartbroken over Jeff's (guest star Jeff Fischer) abduction, meets millionaire Matt Davis (Dee Bradley Baker), who begins to help her move forward, until Steve and Snot (guest voice Curtis Armstrong) discover that Jeff's alive and trying to make it back to her. Comedian Sinbad guest-voices as himself.
THE SIMPSONS (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" – Season Finale
Bart is plagued with guilt when he wins the annual "last day of school" race around Springfield Elementary, with an assist from Nelson (Nancy Cartwright), who beats up frontrunner Milhouse (guest voice Pamela Hayden). Meanwhile, Homer tries to bring back the annual 4th of July fireworks display after it's canceled for budget reasons. Glenn Close returns as Mona Simpson and Olympian Edwin Moses guest-voices as himself.
FAMILY GUY (8:30-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "Chap Stewie" – Season Finale
When Peter and Chris interrupt Stewie's (Seth MacFarlane) TV time, the angry baby goes back in time to break up Peter and Lois so he's never conceived, but is shocked when he is reborn into a "Downton Abbey"-esque British household.
COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY (9:00-10:00PM ET/PT) – "The Immortals"
The Ship of the Imagination travels across the cosmos to discover the possibility of some beings that live forever and explain why other civilizations perish. Then, visit the Cosmic Calendar of the Future and contemplate what lies ahead with a hopeful vision.
Monday, April 28
BONES (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "The Spark in the Park"
In an encore episode, the Jeffersonian team investigates the murder of a nationally ranked gymnast, whose remains were hit by lightning and scattered throughout a public park.
THE FOLLOWING (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) – "Forgive" – Season Finale
In the shocking second season finale, Mark (Sam Underwood) and Luke (Sam Underwood) turn the tables on both Ryan (Kevin Bacon) and Joe (James Purefoy), forcing the two sworn enemies to come together to save the woman they love.
Monday, May 5
24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) – "11:00 AM-12:00 PM/12:00 PM-1:00 PM" – Event Series World Premiere
Set and shot in London, the suspenseful event series once again will follow the exploits of heroic Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland), as he attempts to thwart an unthinkable terrorist attack that could change the world forever. Retaining the real-time, nail-biting, fast-paced format with split screens and interweaving storylines, the highly-anticipated series also stars Mary Lynn Rajskub, Kim Raver and William Devane reprising their original roles. Newcomers to the series include Yvonne Strahovski, Benjamin Bratt, Tate Donovan, Giles Matthey, Gbenga Akinnagbe and Michael Wincott.
Monday, May 12
BONES (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "The Drama in the Queen"
When a swim coach is found dead inside an abandoned well, the team investigates his secret past, leading them to a world of drag queens. Also, new "squintern" Jessica Weaver (guest star Laura Spencer) catches Sweets' (John Francis Daley) attention.
24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) – "1:00 PM-2:00 PM" – Time Period Premiere
Kate Morgan (Yvonne Strahovski) continues her hunt for Jack, as President Heller (William Devane) prepares to address Parliament after a devastating attack. Margot Al-Harazi (guest star Michelle Fairley) proves she is willing to sacrifice anything for revenge.
Monday, May 19
BONES (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "The Recluse in the Recliner" – Season Finale
In the Season Nine finale, directed by series star David Boreanaz, the team investigates the death of a man who had offered Booth (Boreanaz) information on a possible government cover-up related to a previous case, but was killed before their meeting took place. As Booth and the Jeffersonian team dig deeper into the burgeoning conspiracy surrounding the man's death, it's evident Booth may be in over his head, and his future with the FBI is put in question.
The terror threat escalates as Jack heads for the U.S. Embassy with the CIA closing in on him. Meanwhile, Margot asserts her authority with unthinkable force; President Heller makes an impassioned speech to Parliament; and Kate takes matters into her own hands.
Monday, May 26
MASTERCHEF (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "Top 30 Compete" – Season Premiere
MASTERCHEF returns for an exciting fifth season, giving talented home cooks from all walks of life the chance to showcase their skills, knowledge and passion in front of the show's esteemed judging panel: Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and Graham Elliot. In the premiere episode, after a nationwide search, 30 of the best home cooks in America present their signature dish to the judges, but only the Top Finalists will earn a coveted white apron and compete for a chance to win the MASTERCHEF title, a cookbook deal and the $250,000 grand prize.
An unlikely duo joins forces to forestall an impending attack. The terrorist reveals her demands. The President orders a military lockdown, but it may be too late.
Tuesday, April 29
GLEE (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "The Back-Up Plan"
Rachel (Lea Michele) jeopardizes her leading role in "Funny Girl" when she auditions for a television pilot. Meanwhile, Mercedes (guest star Amber Riley) tries to help get Santana (Naya Rivera) in on her recording deal, and Blaine (Darren Criss) befriends rich socialite June Dolloway (guest star Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaine).
NEW GIRL (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) – "Dance"
Jess (Zooey Deschanel) fears someone is trying to sabotage her first middle school dance, so she enlists the gang to help her chaperone on the big night. Angela Kinsey ("The Office") guest-stars.
THE MINDY PROJECT (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) – "The Girl Next Door"
Danny (Chris Messina) offers Mindy (Mindy Kaling) the opportunity to buy the other condo he owns in his building, but gets jealous when she dates a police detective (guest star Tim Daly). Meanwhile, Peter (Adam Pally) dates a brain surgeon (guest star Tracey Wigfield) whom he fears may be too mature for him.
Tuesday, May 6
GLEE (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "Old Dog New Tricks"
In an episode written by series star Chris Colfer, Rachel attempts to salvage her reputation among Broadway gossipers, by hiring Santana as her publicist and creating a charity for rescue animals. Meanwhile, Kurt (Colfer) nabs the lead role in a retirement home production of "Peter Pan."
NEW GIRL (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT) – "Cruise" – Season Finale
In the Season Three finale, Jess and Nick (Jake Johnson) invite the gang along with them on a cruise they booked while still together as a couple. Kerri Kenney ("Reno 911") and Oscar Nunez ("The Office") guest-star.
THE MINDY PROJECT (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) – "Danny and Mindy" – Season Finale
In the Season Two finale, Mindy thinks she has met the man of her dreams after he writes a description of their encounter in a New York newspaper, leading to a surprising reveal.
Tuesday, May 13
GLEE (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "The Untitled Rachel Berry Project" – Season Finale
In the Season Five finale, Rachel meets a famous television writer (guest star Kristen Schaal), whose eccentric personality catches Rachel off guard. Meanwhile, Sam (Chord Overstreet) and Mercedes deal with the pressure of commitment as their careers take off, and the time has finally come for Blaine's big showcase with June Dolloway (guest star Shirley MacLaine) at NYADA.
RIOT (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) – "Steve Carell and Andy Buckley"– Series Premiere
From executive producer Steve Carell and Shine America, and hosted by Australian comedian and talk show host Rove McManus, this new series features the nation's funniest celebrities and comedians facing unpredictable song, dance and sketch challenges, often while navigating the show's trademark one-of-a-kind set, tilted at a 22 degree angle. The series premiere features Carell and Andy Buckley ("The Office").
Tuesday, May 20
AMERICAN IDOL XIII (8:00-9:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) – "Two Finalists Compete" – Season Finale, Part 1
The two finalists take the stage to battle it out on the last performance show of the season at the NOKIA Theatre L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles.
RIOT (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) – "Jason Alexander and Cheryl Hines"
The nation's funniest celebrities and comedians face unpredictable song, dance and sketch challenges, often while navigating the show's trademark one-of-a-kind set, tilted at a 22 degree angle. The series' second episode features guest stars Jason Alexander ("Seinfeld") and Cheryl Hines ("Suburgatory").
Wednesday, April 30
AMERICAN IDOL XIII (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) – "5 Finalists Compete"
The five remaining IDOL hopefuls perform LIVE to impress the judges and the nation. After the performances, it's up to America to vote for their favorites to keep them in the competition.
Wednesday, May 7
AMERICAN IDOL XIII (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) – "4 Finalists Compete"
With only two weeks left before the finale, the four remaining finalists perform LIVE for America's votes.
Wednesday, May 14
AMERICAN IDOL XIII (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) – "3 Finalists Compete"
In the series 500th episode, it's getting down to the wire as the Top Three Finalists perform LIVE for a spot in the Finale.
Wednesday, May 21
AMERICAN IDOL XIII (8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) – "Winner Announced" – Season Finale, Part 2
The most anticipated night of the television season is finally here! On the second part of the two-night season finale, the Top 13 reunite on the stage one last time before host Ryan Seacrest reveals the newest American Idol.
Thursday, May 1
HELL'S KITCHEN (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "13 Chefs Compete"
Chef Ramsay announces that HELL'S KITCHEN will be hosting a 160th anniversary party for the Phi Mu sorority, so the Red and Blue teams are tasked to prepare a southern-inspired menu for the sorority's social committee. The team with the most impressive dishes earns an elaborate trip to Las Vegas, while the losing team stays behind to transform the restaurant for the party. Later, Chef Ramsay puts the pressure on the chefs to execute a flawless dinner service, but each of the teams struggles to communicate with each other, delaying the dinner service.
AMERICAN IDOL XIII (9:00-9:30 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) – "1 of 5 Voted Off"
In another nail-biting LIVE results show, the finalist who receives the fewest votes will be eliminated from the race for the title.
SURVIVING JACK (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) – "She Drives Me Crazy"
In an effort to have Rachel (Claudia Lee) more engaged in school and take her future seriously, Jack (Christopher Meloni) gets her a spot on the wrestling team, much to the chagrin of the wrestling coach (guest star Neil Flynn, "The Middle"). Also, Joanne realizes that Frankie is now too embarrassed to be seen with her during their annual mother-son trip.
Thursday, May 8
HELL'S KITCHEN (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "12 Chefs Compete"
In the ultimate adaptability challenge, the remaining contestants are given 30 minutes to shine and create entrées made up of the surprise ingredients hidden under four domes. Chef Ramsay and VIP guest judge Chef Michael Cimarusti will determine which team will go down the coast for a scenic lunch and volleyball lesson with Kerri Walsh Jennings and which team will stay behind to do all the chores for the servers at HELL'S KITCHEN. Later, tensions rise as Chef Ramsay announces it is time for one-on-one performance evaluations, and then he decides to do something never done before in the history of HELL'S KITCHEN.
AMERICAN IDOL XIII (9:00-9:30 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) – "1 of 4 Voted Off"
The tension mounts, as another finalist is sent home in an all-new LIVE results show.
SURVIVING JACK (9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT) – "Parents Just Don't Understand"—Season Finale
Jack and Joanne are at odds with each other when both kids betray their trust – Frankie has his first taste of alcohol at a varsity baseball party, and Rachel wants to go on birth control.
Thursday, May 15
HELL'S KITCHEN (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) – "11 Chefs Compete"
In the continuation of an emotional elimination round, Chef Ramsay takes the remaining contestants on a surprise field trip to a local gastropub. Later, during dinner service, the two teams must prepare meals inspired by Chef Ramsay's cuisine. While one team rules the kitchen, the other struggles with communication, resulting in yet another dramatic elimination.
AMERICAN IDOL XIII (9:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) – "1 of 3 Voted Off"
It's the end of the line for another finalist, who is sent home in an all-new LIVE results show.
Friday, April 25th
KITCHEN NIGHTMARES (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) – "Mangia Mangia, Part 1/Mangia Mangia, Part 2"
Chef Ramsay heads to Woodland Park, CO, where he is tasked with saving Mangia Mangia, an Italian joint with an identity crisis. But the atmosphere, food and service prove to be the least of its problems, as tensions flare and the morale among owner Julie and her staff is at an all-time low.
Friday, May 2
KITCHEN NIGHTMARES (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) – "Zayna Flaming Grill, Part 1/Zayna Flaming Grill, Part 2"
Chef Ramsay travels to Redondo Beach, CA, to visit Zayna Flaming Grill, a Mediterranean restaurant owned and operated by aunt-and-niece duo Faye and Brenda. Faye believes she has the weight of the entire restaurant on her shoulders, while Brenda does not feel she is treated as an equal in the partnership. With tensions rising, the food not up to standards and everyone playing the blame game, Chef Ramsay is faced with one of the stickiest situations he's ever encountered.
Friday, May 9
An encore of the two-hour Event Series Premiere, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer.
Friday, May 16
An encore of the May 12 episode.
KITCHEN NIGHTMARES (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) – "Bella Luna" – Season Finale
Three years ago, Rosaria and her two sons moved from New York to Easton, PA, to open an Italian restaurant called Bella Luna. Rosaria bought the restaurant to fulfill son Gianfranco's dream of becoming a chef. But the restaurant is failing. Find out if Chef Ramsay can save Bella Luna and restore this family's dream, in the Season Finale.


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I don't know about you, but I woke up to, I don't know, 50 or so emails alerting me to the various holiday sales that started around midnight. I do not have the effort necessary to talk about all of them so I'll mention Rugby's since that's a brand a lot of you guys enjoy - not to mention their F/W 2010 gear has impressed the shit out of me as of late. At checkout you can use the code "RUGBYHOLIDAY" to get 25% off all styles and free shipping. Not bad if you ask me. Was anyone even asking me? No? Okay, never mind.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
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A new beta build will be deployed on beta realms soon. We will be updating these notes frequently, so keep checking back!
Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-ChampionCompanions
- Terky is now a Battle Pet.
Death Knight (Forums)
- Death Strike now does 280% weapon damage, up from 230%. Damage increased by 43%.
- Heart Strike now does 115% weapon damage, down from 170%. Damage reduced by 54%.
Hunter (Forums)
- Black Arrow damage reduced by 24%. Now has 11.5% AP scaling, down from 15%.
- Explosive Shot damage and RAP scaling increased by 20%.
- Improved Serpent Sting now increases the damage of your Serpent Sting by 50%, down from 100%.
- Burrow Attack no longer costs 50 focus, instead costs 10 Focus, plus 5 per sec.
- Fire Breath now increases magic damage taken by 5% for 45 sec, down from 8%.
- Froststorm Breath no longer costs 50 focus, instead costs 10 Focus, plus 5 per sec.
Monk (Forums)
- Gift of the Ox healing reduced by 50%. AP scaling remains unchanged.
Shaman (Forums)
- Searing Totem now has a 25 yd range, up from 20.
Warlock (Forums)
- Grimoire of Sacrifice now has a 60 min duration, up from 20.
- Hellfire mana cost is now 2% of Base Mana, plus 2% per sec, down from 4% of Base Mana, plus 4% per sec.
Warrior (Forums)
- Defensive Stance now decreases damage taken by 25%, up from 15%.
- Revenge now generates 15 Rage in Defensive Stance, up from 10.
- Shield Slam now generates 20 Rage in Defensive Stance, up from 15.
- Unwavering Sentinel now increases your armor value from items by 25%, up from 10%.
- Running Wild now can't be cast in Tree of Life Form, Moonkin Form.
Raid & Dungeon Abilities
- Crush Garalon crushes his foes, inflicting 800,000 Physical damage to enemies within 12 yards and
100,000Physical damage to all enemies.
- Overwhelming Assault Inflicts 150% weapon damage to his current target and increases damage from further Overwhelming Assaults by
100% for 45 sec.
- Spiritual Grasp
Inflicts 40,500Shadow damage to the target.


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At what point will our world wake up to the fantastically rewarding scam that our hedge fund masters of the universe have been running?
By Sam Pizzigati
No single individual in the United States had a more lucrative year at the office in 2011 than Raymond Dalio. Working out of his Bridgewater Associates headquarters in Westport, Connecticut, the 63-year-old hedge fund manager pulled down [1] a sweet $3.9 billion.
By any rational benchmark, hedge fund manager rewards remain positively stratospheric.
The typical American worker, by contrast, ended 2011 [2] earning just under $40,000. That typical worker would have had to labor over 97,000 years to equal what Dalio made in just one.
The irony here: By the hedge fund yardstick, the United States actually became a little more equal in 2011. The year before, in 2010, the typical U.S. worker would have had to labor over 120,000 years to make as much in compensation as the year's top-earning hedge fund manager.
For these stunning hedge fund compensation totals, we can thank the AR financial trade journal. AR has been tallying up hedge fund pay ever since the start of the 21st century, and the magazine's new figures for 2011 appeared just over a week ago.
Hedge fund managers, AR informs us [3], experienced a bit of a downshift in 2011. The top 25 hedge fund only collected a combined $14.4 billion for the year. That total does run higher than the $11.6 billion the top 25 collected in 2008. But last year that top 25 amassed nearly $22.1 billion.
By any rational benchmark, of course, hedge fund manager rewards remain positively stratospheric. Back in 2002, a hedge fund manager needed to earn $30 million to enter the hedge fund industry's top 25. In 2011, a downer of a year for hedge fund managers, that entry level stood at $100 million.
Top hedge fund managers make hundreds of millions, the industry line posits, because they bring such incredible smarts to the table.
How do hedge fund industry movers and shakers justify such incredible windfalls? Top hedge fund managers make hundreds of millions of dollars, the industry line posits, because they bring such incredible smarts to the table.
Hedge fund industry superstar James Simons, industry apologists love to note, used to chair a university math department. Simons and his fellow hedgies, we're told, have honed the tools of "quantitative" analysis. Their super sophisticated statistical models can work a magic the rest of us can't possibly comprehend.
But the investing gains from this magic, the hedge fund industry line continues, should nonetheless gladden us all. High hedge fund earnings, the industry's friends and flacks insist, mean a better tomorrow for Main Street.
"My customers are pension funds, teachers," as superstar hedgie Raymond Dalio noted [4] in one recent interview, "and I'm going to say that they are very grateful."
Most Americans have a hard time evaluating these hedge industry claims, mainly because hedge funds operate almost entirely behind closed doors that average American never get to enter beyond.
You can't, after all, just walk off the street into a stockbroker's office and invest in a hedge fund. To enter hedge fund land, you either have to be a person of means — with at least $1 million available to invest — or an institutional investor, a college endowment, for instance, or a pension fund.
Hedge funds, at base, amount to mutual funds for deep pockets.
Hedge funds, at base, amount to mutual funds for deep pockets. Normal mutual funds face all sorts of federal regulations designed to protect the general investing public. Hedge funds don't serve the general investing public and face precious little regulation. Federal law assumes that deep-pocketed investors have the sophistication to protect their own interests.
This regulatory hands-off leaves hedge fund managers almost totally free to invest anyway and in anything they want. They can buy new-fangled speculative assets they think will soar in value. They can also "hedge" their bets, by laying down financial wagers that a particular asset's value is going to sag.
For all this investing and hedging, hedge fund managers demand majestic levels of compensation. They typically charge clients by a "2 and 20" formula. Investors pay the hedge fund wizards who manage their money an annual fee that equals 2 percent of the total money they invest, plus 20 percent of any profits that selling their invested assets might bring.
The biggest hedge fund industry stars charge even more [5]. The clients of Tudor Investment's Paul Tudor Jones II pay a 4 percent management fee and cough over 23 percent of any investment profits their money makes. SAC Capital Advisors kingfish Steven Cohen grabs away 50 percent of all investment profits.
Hedge fund clients gladly pay these exorbitant fees. Hedge fund managers, they believe, possess a secret wisdom that reliably delivers spectacular investment returns. But hedge fund managers, in real life, have no secret wisdom. And they don't reliably deliver spectacular returns.
Hedge fund managers, in real life, have no secret wisdom.
One example: Kenneth Griffin, the hedge fund manager at Citadel, personally pulled down $700 million in 2011, and the two big funds he manages each gained over 20 percent for the year. But those same funds lost 55 percent in 2008.
Another example: John Paulson took home [6] $4.9 billion in 2010, that year's highest hedge fund manager windfall, after his investments in gold returned over 35 percent. Last year, Paulson's bets on Bank of America went the wrong way [7] and gave clients in one of his funds a 52.5 percent haircut.
Some hedge fund managers do, to be sure, seem to deliver consistent results. SAC Capital Advisors founder Steven Cohen, for instance, trumpets "double-digit returns for the better part of two decades." One apparent driver of this consistency: insider trading [8]. Seven former SAC Capital employees have either pled guilty to criminal charges or settled fraud charges in civil proceedings.
Most other hedge funds don't have rap sheets. Nor do they show anything close to consistently positive results. Those institutional investors that have placed pension and endowment dollars in these funds have been coming up short.
Over the last five years, the New York Times revealed [9] last week, the ten public employee pension funds with the highest share of their dollars invested in hedge funds and other "alternative investments" only gained an average 4.1 percent a year on their money. The ten pension funds with the least share of their dollars plowed into hedge funds returned an average 5.3 percent.
The ten public employee pension funds with the highest share of their dollars invested in hedge funds only gained an average 4.1 percent a year on their money.
The only consistent gainers from the billions that institutional investors have dumped into hedge funds: hedge fund managers. The ten pension funds most invested in hedge funds paid almost four times more in investment management fees than the ten pension funds with the least hedge fund exposure.
California's giant state pension system, notes [9] Times analyst Julie Creswell, saw its fees nearly double, to over $1 billion a year, after the system "increased its holdings in private assets and hedge funds to 26 percent of its total in 2010, from 16 percent in 2006."
What does this California pension system have to show for these lofty fees? A modest 3.4 percent annual return over the last five years.
And California's public employees actually did better than clients for the hedge fund industry as a whole. Industry-wide, hedge funds lost their clients 5 percent [5] of their money in 2011, according to the Hedge Fund Research Composite Index, a tally that tracks almost 2,000 hedge fund portfolios
"Boring low-fee index funds," notes [10] one Forbes analysis, "continue to run circles around many investing titans."
But these titans continue to pull in hundreds of millions year after year. Why? The assets they manage have become so huge, the financial journal AR points out, that the income that their 2 percent management fees generate has become [11] a "huge profit center" in and of itself.
And if hedge fund manager investing labors should actually produce "performance" gains, the 20 percent chunk of these gains they grab gets preferential treatment in the tax code, the notorious "carried interest" loophole.
On the bulk of their earnings, the nation's top-paid hedge fund managers pay federal income tax at just the 15 percent "carried interest" rate, not the 35 percent that applies to ordinary income in the top tax bracket.
[12]Congress has so far done nothing to stop this preferential treatment. In fact, Congress is moving in the wrong direction. A bipartisan majority has just passed legislation — the Jump-start Our Business Start-ups Act, or JOBS Act — that will free hedge funds in the future to more aggressively market their wares [13].
This new marketing flexibility will likely add to the over $2 trillion in assets now under hedge fund management — and add even more to the paydays of hedge fund superstars.
About that possibility, a great many of our pols seem absolutely giddy — and why not? In the third quarter of 2011 alone, notes [3] the AR financial trade journal, hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin and his spouse deposited $300,000 into the super PAC that conservative political strategist Karl Rove runs.
Sam Pizzigati edits Too Much, the online weekly on excess and inequality published by the Institute for Policy Studies. Read the current issue [14] or sign up here [12] to receive Too Much in your email inbox.


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We're all still mourning with the families and loved ones of those so frightfully killed in Newtown, Connecticut. But as grief is joined by reflection on how this could happen — again — I believe we do a disservice those close to the victims as well as ourselves unless "all options are on the table" as we examine Americans' predilection for killing en masse.
We all know that "actions speak louder than words" and "we teach by example." But as a nation, we're not heeding those truisms. After all, if actions indeed speak louder than words, what must the impressionable and the young be learning today?
Our nation spends more on murder and suffering than education or medical care. Our culture celebrates violence and militarism but considers peacemakers and the nonviolent as simple, starry-eyed dreamers and more often as downright traitors. We promote and glamorize the military even as the awful truth about what the military actually does is kept behind the curtain. We sell more weapons to the world than all other countries combined. After our embassy in Benghazi was attacked, our president preached, "There is no excuse for the use of violence," yet he keeps on sending drones to bomb whomever is next on his list and anyone standing near them.
Do we really think we can say one thing and do another while still teaching that violence is never how to handle whatever aggravates or frightens us?
Without a doubt, the forces that can twist a human mind enough to kill dozens of innocents must be complex and frightening. Some may be locked deep in the human psyche beyond our reach. Regardless, we must still explore the question: "Why?"
While we search for an answer, unless we fear the answers enough to retreat under the covers until the next tragedy, we must bear in mind the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Exactly one year before he was murdered by an assassin's bullets, he regretfully called our country, "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today," and warned that, "A nation that continues year after year to spend more on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
If we want to have an honest discussion about the American epidemic of mass murder, it has to include the question of why we value war and militarism so highly.


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Autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is one of the most common genetic disorders, affecting one in every 1,000 people and responsible for up to ten percent of patients on dialysis worldwide. The disease is characterized by the development of cysts that lead to progressive kidney failure and necessitate dialysis or a kidney transplant in most patients aged around fifty. Moreover, the persistent cyst growth causes high blood pressure and painful complications. Although we have known about the disease for over a century and its genetic basis for almost 20 years, there was no effective treatment until now.
Kidneys stopped growing
"Our study highlights a potential treatment that reduces kidney growth and the associated symptoms and slows the decline in kidney function," explains Professor Olivier Devuyst from the Institute of Physiology at the University of Zurich – one of the chief researchers in the phase-three clinical trial just published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Over 1,400 patients were given tolvaptan over a three-year period at 129 centers worldwide. The drug is a selective V2 vasopressin receptor antagonist that lessens the effect of the antidiuretic (urine-concentrating) vasopressin hormone and increases urination.
The researchers studied whether tolvaptan slows the progression of the kidney disease by slowing the cyst growth. "The study achieved its goal," explains Professor Devuyst. In patients who received tolvaptan for three years instead of the placebo, the entire kidney volume decreased with fewer complications resulting from the disease, the pain eased off and the decline in kidney function was slowed. Adverse events such as increased urination and thirst as well as increased liver enzymes and blood sodium level were apparent.
15-year research project
The study is the culmination of 15 years of research done by several research groups including that of Olivier Devuyst. They began by examining transport mechanisms in cells that coat the cysts and, in particular, identified the pathway of the V2 vasopressin receptor as a potential trigger for cystic kidney disease. The demonstration that blocking this receptor slows the disease and improves the kidney function in various animal models provided the rationale for the intervention study with tolvaptan.
Vicente E. Torres, Arlene B. Chapman, Olivier Devuyst, Ron T. Gansevoort, Jared J. Grantham, Eiji Higashihara, Ronald D. Perrone, Holly B. Krasa, John Ouyang, and Frank S. Czerwiec. Tolvaptan in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. New England Journal of Medicine. November 3, 2012. Online publication: NEJM.org.
The study was conducted in collaboration with the clinical research of the ADPKD at the University of Zurich's Institute of Physiology and the Clinic for Nephrology at University Hospital Zurich (PD Dr. Andreas Serra and Professor Rudolf Wüthrich). The research team at the Clinic for Nephrology looks after one of the largest groups of ADPKD patients in Europe in close collaboration with SwissPKD (Schweizer Gesellschaft polyzystischer Nierenerkrankung) (www.SwissPKD.ch).


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Separation Games (The Games Duet #2)
CD Reiss
Publication Date: January 3, 2017
Genre: Contemporary Romance/Erotic Romance
"CD Reiss writes the best erotica I have ever read." ~ Meredith Wild, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hacker Series
The stunning conclusion to the New York Times Bestseller.
There's one, unbreakable rule in the game.
Stay collected. Compartmentalize. Think your next move through. Never let your heart dictate your tactics.
The heart is impulsive.
The heart makes bad decisions.
The heart doesn't see the long game.
Because the heart may have decided to get Adam back, but when the endgame comes, the heart's going to be the first thing to break.
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CD Reiss is a New York Times bestseller. She still has to chop wood and carry water, which was buried in the fine print. Her lawyer is working it out with God but in the meantime, if you call and she doesn't pick up she's at the well hauling buckets. Born in New York City, she moved to Hollywood, California to get her master's degree in screenwriting from USC. In case you want to know, that went nowhere but it did give her a big enough ego to write novels. She's frequently referred to as the Shakespeare of Smut which is flattering but hasn't ever gotten her out of chopping that cord of wood. If you meet her in person, you should call her Christine.
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The new Chumby One model ditches the old beanbag casing for a retro-clock-radio-inspired look and slashes the price, though the internals are unchanged. It remains a pretty frivolous gadget, yet I can't help really liking it.
The Price
$100 for a limited time, $120 afterwards. Includes international power adapters and AC charger, but battery is sold separately. Starts shipping 11/25.
The Verdict
It's the same questionably essential yet unquestionably adorable Chumby, with a new case and a lower (and very tempting) price. I have no idea what its makers meant the original beanbag Classic (newly renamed) to be used for, but the One is more than a little reminiscent of old-school clock radios. And if you look at it as simply a badass clock radio, rather than an amorphous connected widget device, you really appreciate it. Imagine waking up to Pandora, then rolling over and checking your email and Twitter before hitting snooze for another ten minutes of sleep. Awesome, right? But what exactly has changed from the Chumby Classic?
Instead of the touchscreen-in-a-beanbag look, it's now rocking a smooth white plastic casing with a big honking volume knob on the side and a 3.5-inch resistive touchscreen. I really like the design: It's playful and chunky and thoroughly charming. Some may be bummed that the One loses the beanbag look, which is kind of a signature of the line, but I don't think it'll make that much difference. The Classic (beanbag) Chumby required a power cable so it's not like you could toss it around, and luckily the new design is still distinctive and fun—and if you really want the beanbag, it's not going anywhere. The One is simply joining the Classic, not replacing it.
The Chumby One does lose a few features found in the Chumby Classic—it only has one USB port compared to the Classic's two, and the formerly stereo 2W dual-speaker set is now mono speaker with the same wattage. The speaker is noticeably more distorted and muddier, and could use definitely use improvement, although it's not horrible and is fine at lower volumes.
But the Chumby One also gains 2GB memory (the Classic has 64MB), a li-ion battery (in addition to AC) and a faster processor. I didn't notice much improvement in speed, but it's not like it really needs a whole lot of muscle to display weather and New York Times headlines. The Chumby One's screen also seems sharper than the Classic's, and the overall package is shorter and narrower, though thicker. Chumby's selection of widgets, by the way, is quite good, with a huge selection of clocks, social networking services, news, RSS feeds, games and other fun little timewasters.
I'm conflicted about the Chumby One. On the one hand, it's totally unnecessary—it can't really do anything a modern smartphone with a dock can't do better, and at $100 it's sort of expensive for an alarm clock. On the other hand, I'm undeniably taken with this thing. It does a good job delivering the time, weather, news and RSS feeds, running Pandora and waking me up, and it looks adorable while doing it. If you're comfortable dropping $100 on a little plastic cube of widgets for your bedside table, go for it.
Awesome retro design with clean and simple UI
Runs widgets admirably
$100—substantial price cut, but not quite impulse-purchase territory
Doesn't do anything your smartphone can't


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In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, Weezer rocks out on Yo, Gabba Gabba!, a commercial suggests cheating on your spouse with an Avatar, and we discover the worst ever Crap Text Message From A Dude.
1.) "Men and women are different"
Except we all put our adult diapers on, one leg at a time.
2.) Larry King Live's poor clip choice
Corey Feldman appeared on LKL this week to discuss the death of his friend Corey Haim. The producers of the show ran a clip from The Lost Boys (the first of several films the Coreys starred in together). Perhaps they should've found a segment that didn't end with Feldman's character telling Haim's, "It's your funeral."
3.) Corey Haim really did sell his teeth on eBay.
To capitalize on Haim's death, The Insider dug up an interview clip from 2004 out of its vault which had never aired, most likely because Haim was claiming he was sober in it, and really wasn't. Anyway, he bragged about selling his molars on eBay for $5,000.
4.) Sober House is back
Kari Ann Peniche came in with dirty urine (testing positive for meth). She started up her "Go fetch me some juice" act, and then got extremely rude with house manager Jennifer Gimenez, calling her a "fat bitch." Jennifer actually just lost a bunch of weight in between seasons of the show the old fashioned way, with diet and exercise, and has expressed her sensitivity about her weight issues in the past. I'm not saying that name-calling is the most mature way to deal with a person like Kari Ann, but it'd be really hard for me in this situation to not refer to her as a "butt-crack bitch." Seriously girl, pull up your pants. The low-rise thing was old when it was still new.
5.) Boob cheese
That's sounds grosser than it really is. Um, actually, no. It's exactly as gross as it sounds. A NYC chef decided to make cheese out of his wife's excess breast milk. It supposedly has a "gelatinous" taste.
6.) Weezer on Yo, Gabba Gabba!
The dressed up as insects and sang a song about them.
7.) Now you can cheat on your wife with an Avatar
Why in the hell did AshleyMadison.com do this? Are they trying to bring in more SciFi geeks or something? Those kinds of guys are usually lucky to get laid with one girl, let alone cheating on her with multiple women.
8.) Paulina dishes about Tyra
When Tyra was wooing Paulina Porizkova to be a judge on ANTM (before she fired her), she took her out to dinner and talked all about…Tyra.
9.) Crap Text Message From A Dude
On this week's episode of 16 and Pregnant, a teenage girl named Chelsea got knocked up by her emotionally abusive boyfriend. Really, he was such a shit bag. He would be horrible to her, and she kept thinking that maybe she deserved it. She finally realized that she was through with him when he sent her this text message. She said she didn't care so much about what he had said to her, but that she was upset about how he treated her daughter, who she said "didn't even do anything." Maybe now Chelsea understands how her parents were feeling during her relationship with this guy.
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There's been quite a brouhaha over the past couple of days around the subject of standardising responsive images. There are two different matters here: the process and the technical details. I'd like to address both of them.
Ill communication
First of all, there's a number of very smart developers who feel that they've been sidelined by the WHATWG. Tim has put together a timeline of what happened:
- Developers got involved in trying to standardize a solution to a common and important problem.
- The WHATWG told them to move the discussion to a community group.
- The discussion was moved (back in February), a general consenus (not unanimous, but a majority) was reached about the picture element.
- Another (partial) solution was proposed directly on the WHATWG list by an Apple employee.
- A discussion ensued regarding the two methods, where they overlapped, and how the general opinions of each. The majority of developers favored the picture element and the majority of implementors favored the srcset attribute.
- While the discussion was still taking place, and only 5 days after it was originally proposed, the srcset attribute (but not the picture element) was added to the draft.
A few points in that timeline have since been clarified. That second step—"The WHATWG told them to move the discussion to a community group"—turns out to be untrue. Some random person on the WHATWG mailing list (which is open to everyone) suggested forming a Community Group at the W3C. Alas, nobody else on the WHATWG mailing list corrected that suggestion.
Then there's apparent causality between step 4 and 6. Initially, I also assumed that this was what happened: that Tess had proposed the
srcset solution without even being aware of the
picture solution that the Community Group had independently come up with it. It turns out that's not the case. Tess had another email about the
picture proposal but she never ended up sending it. In fact, her email about
srcset had been sitting in draft for quite a while and she only sent it out when she saw that Hixie was finally collating feedback on responsive images.
So from the outside it looked like there was preferential treatment being given to Tess's proposal because it came from within the WHATWG. That's not the case, but it must be said: the fact that
srcset was so quickly added to the spec (albeit in a different form) doesn't look good. It's easy to understand why the smart folks in the Responsive Images Community Group felt miffed.
But let's be clear: this is exactly how the WHATWG is supposed to work. Use-cases are evaluated and whatever Hixie thinks is best solution gets put in the spec, regardless of how popular or unpopular it is.
Now, if that sounds abhorrent to you, I completely understand. A dictatorship should cause us to recoil.
That's where the W3C come in. Their model is completely different. Everything is done by committee there.
Steve Faulkner chimed in on Tim's post with his take on the two groups:
It seems like the development of HTML has turned full circle, the WHATWG was formed to overthrow the hegemony of the W3C, now the W3C acts as a counter to the hegemony of the WHATWG.
I think he's right. The W3C keeps the rapid, sometimes anarchic approach of the WHATWG in check. But the opposite is also true. Without the impetus provided by the WHATWG, I'm not sure that the W3C HTML Working Group would ever get anything done. There's a balance that actually works quite well in practice.
Back to the situation with responsive images…
Unfortunately, it appears to people within the Responsive Images Community Group that all their effort was wasted because their proposed solution was summarily rejected. In actuality all the use-cases they gathered were immensely valuable. But it's certainly true that the WHATWG didn't make it clearer how and where developers could best contribute.
Community Groups are a W3C creation. They don't have anything to do with the WHATWG, who do all their work on their own mailing list, their own wiki and their own IRC channel.
I do think that the W3C Community Groups offer a good place to go bike-shedding on problems. That's a term that's usually used derisively but sometimes it's good to have a good ol' bike-shedding without clogging up the mailing list for everyone. But it needs to be clear that there's a big difference between a Community Group and a Working Group.
I wish the WHATWG had done a better job of communicating to newcomers how best to contribute. It would have avoided a lot of the frustrations articulated by Wilto:
Unfortunately, we were laboring under the impression that Community Groups shared a deeper inherent connection with the standards bodies than it actually does.
But in any case, as Doctor Bruce writes at least now there's a proposed solution for responsive images in HTML: The Living Standard:
I don't really care which syntax makes the spec, as long as it addresses the majority of use cases and it is usable by authors. I'm just glad we're discussing the adaptive image problem at all.
So let's take a look at the technical details.
src code
The Responsive Images Community Group came up with a proposal based off the idea of minting a new element, called say
picture, that mimics the behaviour of
One of the reasons why a new element was chosen rather than extending the existing
img element was due to a misunderstanding. The WHATWG had explained that the parsing of
img couldn't be easily altered. That means that
img must remain a self-closing element—any solution that requires a closing
/img tag wouldn't work. Alas, that was taken to mean that extending the
img element in any way was off the cards.
picture proposal has a number of things going for it. Its syntax is easily understandable for authors: if you know media queries, then you know how to use
picture. It also has a good fallback for older browsers : a regular
img element. This fallback mechanism (and the idea of multiple
source elements with media queries) is exactly how the
video element is specced.
Unfortunately using media queries on the
sources of videos has proven to be very tricky for implementors, so they don't want to see that pattern repeated.
Another issue with multiple
source elements is that parsers must wait until the closing
/picture tag before they can even begin to evaluate which image to show. That's not good for performance.
So the alternate solution, based on Ted's proposal, extends the
img element using a new
srcset attribute that takes a comma-separated list of values:
Not nearly as pretty, I think you'll agree. But it is actually nice and compact for the "retina display" use-case:
Just to be clear, that does not mean that
otherimage.png is twice the size of
image.png (though it could be). What you're actually declaring is "Use
image.png unless the device supports double-pixel density, in which case, use
Likewise, when I declare:
srcset="/path/to/image.png 600w 400h"
…it does not mean that
image.png is 600 pixels wide by 400 pixels tall. Instead, it means that an action should be taken if the viewport matches those dimensions.
It took me a while to wrap my head around that distinction: I'm used to attributes describing the element they're attached to, not the viewport.
Now for the really tricky bit: what do those numbers—600w and 400h—mean? Currently the spec is giving conflicting information.
Each image that's listed in the
srcset comma-separated list can have up to three values associated with it:
h, and x. The x is pretty clear: that's the pixel density of the device. The
w and
h values refer to the width and height of the viewport …but it's not clear if they mean min-width/height or max-width/height.
If I'm taking a "Mobile First" approach to development, then
srcset will meet my needs if
w and
h refer to min-width and min-height.
In this example, I'll just use
w to keep things simple:
(Expected behaviour: use small.png unless the viewport is wider than 600 pixels, in which case use medium.png unless the viewport is wider than 800 pixels, in which case use large.png).
If, on the other hand,
w and
h refer to max-width and max-height, I have to take a "Desktop First" approach:
(Expected behaviour: use large.png unless the viewport is narrower than 800 pixels, in which case use medium.png unless the viewport is narrower than 600 pixels, in which case use small.png).
One of the advantages of media queries is that, because they support both min- and max- width, they can be used in either use-case: "Mobile First" or "Desktop First".
Because the
srcset syntax will support either min- or max- width (but not both), it will therefore favour one case at the expense of the either.
Both use-cases are valid. Personally, I happen to use the "Mobile First" approach, but that doesn't mean that other developers shouldn't be able to take a "Desktop First" approach if they want. By the same logic, I don't much like the idea of
srcset forcing me to take a "Desktop First" approach.
My only alternative, if I want to take a "Mobile First" approach, is to duplicate image paths and declare ludicrous breakpoints:
I hope that this part of the spec offers a way out:
for the purposes of this requirement, omitted width descriptors and height descriptors are considered to have the value "Infinity"
I think that means I should be able to write this:
It's all quite confusing and
srcset doesn't have anything approaching the extensibility of media queries, but I hope we can get it to work somehow.


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Dear Colleague:
As the use of emerging technologies in the classroom increases, schools at all levels must ensure equal access to the educational benefits and opportunities afforded by the technology and equal treatment in the use of the technology for all students, including students with disabilities. To assist you in this regard, I write to share the attached "Frequently Asked Questions About the June 29, 2010, Dear Colleague Letter" (FAQ), developed by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR). This FAQ is a follow-up to a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) that we sent to college and university presidents on June 29, 2010, regarding the use of electronic book readers and other emerging technologies in educational settings. The legal requirements that are articulated in the June 2010 DCL, which are reiterated in the attached FAQ, also apply to elementary and secondary schools.
The June 2010 DCL outlines concerns of the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice that arose in the context of reviewing several complaints regarding compliance with long-standing requirements of civil rights law. In those cases, postsecondary educational institutions were using electronic book readers that were inaccessible to students who are blind or have low vision. The DCL explains that under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, educational institutions cannot require the use of electronic book readers in a classroom setting if the readers are not fully accessible to individuals with disabilities, including individuals who are blind or have low vision, unless those individuals are provided accommodations or modifications that permit them to receive all the educational benefits provided by the technology in an equally effective and equally integrated manner.
The June 2010 DCL generated interest from educational institutions, students, parents, advocacy organizations, and others. OCR is releasing this FAQ in order to provide more information about the obligations of schools (both elementary and secondary schools and postsecondary institutions) that provide benefits to students by means of electronic book readers or other emerging technologies. Please share this FAQ with your administrators, faculty, and staff.
For more information, the June 2010 DCL is available at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-20100629.html, and the FAQ is available at http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/dcl-ebook-faq-201105.html.
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WOODS, JOSEPH, newspaper editor and proprietor, printer, and politician; b. at St John's, Nfld., in 1813, son of Joseph and Mary Woods; d. at St John's in March 1871.
Of Joseph Woods' early life we know only that he was born into an Anglican family and that his parents were converted to Methodism while he was still a child. In 1843, in St John's, Joseph Woods and William James Ward became proprietors of the Morning Post. The partnership was dissolved on 14 May 1846; Ward became sole proprietor of the Morning Post and Woods purchased the Morning Courier (Courier after 1855) from Ebenezer Winton. In addition to editing the Courier, Woods was compiler, printer, and publisher of the Newfoundland Almanac.
The Morning Courier, a semi-weekly established in 1844 by William Beck, carried local and foreign news but became much more political in tone with Woods as editor. As early as 1847 he declared himself in favour of the principles of responsible government. In supporting this Liberal demand Woods was an exception among Wesleyans, most of whom supported the Conservatives. He admitted that his primary goal was to gain a share of government patronage for the Wesleyans, who "generally are poor," from the Episcopalians, who "generally are rich." The Liberal press, including the Morning Courier, suggested to the Wesleyans that their interests would be promoted by joining the Roman Catholics in the struggle for responsible government. In the crucial 1855 general election, just before the introduction of responsible government, Woods was defeated as a Liberal candidate in the district of Burin. However, as the Liberals won a majority in the House of Assembly, the Courier duly received a share of much-needed printing jobs and Woods continued to give his paper a Liberal bias. Accordingly in 1861 it opposed the dismissal of John Kent's government, violently criticized the Conservative and Protestant government of Hugh William Hoyles*, but supported the coalition of Frederic Bowker Terrington Carter* and Ambrose Shea* which followed. When confederation became the issue, Woods advocated union with "increasing warmth" until July 1869 when he suddenly switched allegiance to the anti-confederate party led by Charles Fox Bennett*. This change created the suspicion that the Courier was being subsidized by Bennett. Woods said he was convinced that confederation had brought no real benefits to the mainland provinces and that Newfoundland would not suffer by remaining outside the union.
A prominent Wesleyan, Joseph Woods was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist School Society and the St John's Day School Committee. He was married and had two daughters. After his death the Courier and the Newfoundland Almanac continued to be published by his brother John on behalf of Joseph's widow and children.
Newfoundland, Department of Provincial Affairs, "List of affidavits of proprietorship of newspapers," 1836–1900. Courier (St John's), 1847–72. Morning Chronicle (St John's), 4 March 1871. Telegraph (St John's), 8 March 1871. The Newfoundland almanac, for . . . 1858 . . . , comp. Joseph Woods (St John's, 1857). The Newfoundland almanac for . . . 1877 . . . (St John's, 1876). E. C. Moulton, "The political history of Newfoundland, 1861–1869," unpublished ma thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1960. E. A. Wells, "The struggle for responsible government in Newfoundland, 1846–1855," unpublished ma thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1966.
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