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Timkat: An Ethiopian Celebration of Epiphany
Ethiopian Orthodox Christians are showered with water from a cross-shaped pool that was blessed by priests during Timkat. (Photo by Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images)
Last week millions of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians celebrated the feast of Timkat, the most important holiday for the Ethopian Orthodox faithful. Timkat began on January 19th and was celebrated for three days.
Forty percent of Ethiopians identify as Christians and are among one of the oldest Christian traditions in the world. This celebration of the Epiphany remembers Jesus' baptism in the Jordan River with a ritual reenactment and parades with replicas of a holy relic — a relic many of us may know from the Steven Spielberg film Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Ethiopian Orthodox Christian priests bless a cross-shaped pool of water during the annual festival of Timkat. (Photo by Carl de Souza/AFP/Getty Images)
A model of the Ark of the Covenant, called the Tabot, is wrapped in cloth and carried through the crowd in every city. A representation or model of the Ark resides in every Ethiopian Orthodox church. This holy relic is said to hold the Ten Commandments, which adherents believe God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai.
"To come close to the tablet is to come close to the word of God itself."
The Tabots are carried only by the most senior priests of the community and completely covered because they are too sacred for anyone to gaze at them. Even the head of the Ethiopian Orthodox church is forbidden to see it; only its guardians can look at it. The actual Ark of the Covenant is said to be in the city of Aksum, guarded by monks who have vowed not to leave the chapel grounds until death.
Priests carry models of the container said to hold the Ten Commandments in brightly colored cloth. (Photo by Gordontour / Flickr, cc by-nc-nd 2.0)
One of Ethiopia's most spiritual places for Christian Orthodox followers is Lalibela. The town hosts a church that was not just built, but hewn out of the region's rock.
A view of the rock-hewn Church of Saint Emmanuel where Ethiopian Orthodox Christians gather during for the annual festival of Timkat. The site is now protected by UNESCO. (Photo by Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images)
An Ethiopian Orthodox Christian prays before taking part in celebrations for the annual festival of Timkat in Lalibela. (Photo by Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images)
Ethiopian priests and monks walk in a procession and carry embroidered fringed umbrellas. (Photo by Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images)


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Pamida Sale Marks First Step in Shopko Conversion Process
The liquidation sale at Pamida that started last Monday marks the first step in converting Pamida to a Shopko Hometown store. About 90 percent of the store's items are on sale ranging from 10 to 30 percent off regular price. The sale is an effort to clear out existing merchandise to make way for Shopko's enhanced merchandising mix.
Shopko and Pamida have been familiar with each other since 1999 when ShopKo Stores Inc. purchased Pamida but ran the stores separately. But in 2007, Pamida and Shopko split, and Pamida reestablished its headquarters in Omaha, Neb. Finally, the beginning of this year, Shopko and Pamida announced their plans to merge and have all but four Pamida stores converted to Shopko Hometown Stores.
Shopko, which was later bought by investment firm Sun Capital Partners Inc., is focused on smaller and rural communities. The company is headquartered in Green Bay, Wis., and plans to invest $80 million to convert most Pamida stores into Shopko Hometown stores.
Tara Powers, spokesperson for Shopko Hometown, said the liquidation sale should take 10 to 12 weeks, and once the sale is done, customers will start seeing changes in the store.
Some of these changes include new signage, new and expanded merchandise, a different layout and general updates.
While the store will stay open throughout the entire conversion, certain departments may be temporarily closed or have limited merchandise.
Powers explained that the conversion will take place one department at a time. Shopko is a general merchandise retailer just like Pamida, but Powers said customers can expect to see more variety and a lot more depth of product selection in certain departments, such as apparel and household.
"There will be more national and high quality, private-label brands that are not currently available at Pamida," Powers said.
Another big change in the departments will be their location within the store. Powers said that the layout of the store will change based on the research and work Shopko has done to identify what works best to meets customers' needs.
Powers said Shopko has had overwhelmingly positive response from the stores that have already been converted, and she expects to see the same thing here when the change is complete around mid-October.
The store will have the same hours of operation, which is 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, and 12 to 6 p.m. Sunday. The store will also employ the same staff, including general manager Scott Schmitz.
Mary Ann Johnson from Hannaford visited Valley City June 28 to do some shopping. She said she really likes Pamida, and although she doesn't know much about Shopko, she'd like to see expanded merchandise, and "if the prices go down, I'd like that."
Pauline Lentz of Valley City has been to a Shopko store in Colorado where her daughter lives. She said she imagines the quality of the store will stay the same after the conversion.
"I'm just glad we could keep a store like this in town," Lentz said.
Paul Jones, Shopko President, Chairman and CEO said in a press release, "We are eager to be one step closer to bringing the Shopko Hometown experience to Valley City."

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Few topics get as much airtime with new parents as the subject of sleep, or lack thereof, and few topics are as polemic as sleep training. Los Angeles is home to some of the country's most noted pediatricians, but they don't all agree on how, when or even if to train your child to sleep. A study out of Australia about the effects of sleep training on children has experts and parents talking on both sides of the debate.
Published in the September issue of Pediatrics, the study looks at the levels of the stress hormone cortisol in children's brains.
Opponents of sleep training such as Dr. Bill Sears, associate clinical professor of pediatrics at UC Irvine and author of 30-some parenting books, cite spikes in cortisol levels that may harm a baby's brain development if they are left to cry. The new study, however, indicates that there are no long-term emotional harms to sleep training. "Sleep training is safe around 4 months when children are able to start to self-soothe," says Dr. Scott Cohen of Beverly Hills Pediatrics, and author of "Eat, Sleep, Poop." Cohen concurs with the study, whose findings show that babies allowed to cry for short periods of time are no more stressed out than those with parents who camped out with them.


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Squint: Showroom Opening in London
Location: South Kensington, London
Specialty: Patchwork Home Furnishings
Price Range: $$$
Last Thursday evening I had the pleasure of attending the opening of Squint's new showroom in South Kensington. Squint has been a fixture in the edgy Shoreditch design scene for years, but with their price point they were long overdue for a stunning showroom in the West End.
The evening was a celebration of the British made over the top colorful patchwork furniture creations of Lisa Whatmough. It was nice to see their signature patchwork style evolving into gorgeous monochromatic pieces and more delicate silk patchwork pieces.
The new showroom boasts an open garden space and a gorgeous open ceiling. The South Kensington location will have lamps, cushions, and other small accessories available for takeaway. In addition to her bespoke furnishings, Lisa is also releasing her first line of fabrics and wallpapers.
For more about Squint, visit their store page over at Marketplace.
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4 Cole Hill Cir is a single family residence in Standish, ME 04084. Built in 1990, this property is located on 3 acres lot and features 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and 960 sqft of living space. The estimated market value for this property is $212,000.
The surrounding community of Standish, ME 04084 has a population of 7,880 residents and 3,847 housing units. Many of the homes in this area were built in 1990 or earlier. The nearby schools are average and include Bonny Eagle High School, Steep Falls Elementary School and Edna Libby Elementary School. 4 Cole Hill Cir is located in a neighborhood where the median household income is $63,778.


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Problem Steps Recorder, also known as PSR, is an incredibly helpful troubleshooting tool available in Windows 7.
With Problem Steps Recorder, a recording is made of the actions you take on your computer which you can then send to the person or group helping you with your problem.
Making a recording with Problem Steps Recorder is extremely easy to do which is a big reason it's such a valuable tool.
Time Required: How long it takes to use Problem Steps Recorder depends on long of a recording you're making.
1. Click on the Start button.
2. Type the following Command in the search box and then hit the Enter key.
Problem Steps Recorder will start.
Note: It's a small, rectangular program (as shown in the screenshot above) and it often appears near the top of the screen. Depending on what windows you already have open, it could be easy to miss.
4. Close any open windows other than Problem Steps Recorder.
Problem Steps Recorder will make screenshots of what's on your computer screen and include those in the recording you save and then send off for support. Unrelated open programs in the screenshots could be distracting.
5. Before you start the recording, think about the process involved in producing whatever issue you're trying to demonstrate.
For example, if you're seeing an error message when saving a new Microsoft Word document, you would want to make sure you're ready to open Word, type a few words, navigate to the menu, save the document, and then, hopefully, see the error message pop up on the screen.
In other words, you should be prepared to properly reproduce whatever problem you're seeing so Problem Steps Recorder can catch it in action.
6. Click the Start Record button in Problem Steps Recorder.
Problem Steps Recorder will now log information and take a screenshot every time you complete an action, like a mouse click, program opening or closing, etc.
Note: You can tell when Problem Steps Recorder is recording when the Start Record button changes to aPause Record button and the title bar flashesRecording Now.
7. Complete whatever steps necessary to show the problem you're having.
Note: If you need to pause the recording for some reason, click the Pause Recordbutton. Click Resume Record to restart the recording.
Tip: During a recording, you can also click the Add Comment button to highlight a section of your screen and manually add a comment. This is really useful if you'd like to point out something specific that's occurring on screen to the person who's helping you out.
8. Click the Stop Record button in Problem Steps Recorder to stop recording your actions.
9. In the File name: textbox on the Save As window that appears, give a name to this recording and then click the Save button.
A single ZIP file containing all of the information recorded by Problem Steps Recorder will be created and saved to your Desktop, unless you chose a different location.
10. You can now close Problem Steps Recorder.
11. The only thing left to do is get the file you saved in Step 8 to the person or group helping you out with your problem.
Depending on who's helping you (and what kind of problem you're having right now) options for getting the Problem Steps Recorder file to someone might include:
· Attaching the file to an email and sending it to tech support, your computer expert friend, etc.
· Copying the file to a network share or flash drive.
· Attaching the file to a forum post and asking for help.
1. If you're planning a complicated or lengthy recording (specifically, more than 25 mouse clicks or keyboard actions) consider increasing the number of screenshots that Problem Steps Recorder will capture.
You can do this by clicking on the down arrow next to the question mark in Problem Steps Recorder. Click on Settings... and change Number of recent screen captures to store: from 25 to a number no greater than 100.
2. Unfortunately, Problem Steps Recorder is not available in operating systems prior to Windows 7. This of course includes Windows Vista and Windows XP.
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Filled with idealism and some trepidation, Mona Ayoub bought a plane ticket this summer to fly from her homeland in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon to Colorado and bundled up her $2,000 in savings at the behest of Andrew Baron, the chief executive of the Boulder-based charity Humanwire.
Baron told her he needed her to help him stabilize his nonprofit, which was managing refugee campaigns for displaced Syrians living in three continents, Ayoub told The Denver Post in a recent interview. Baron promised her temporary housing in his family home and help getting a work visa. He told her she would work as his accountant, and then she would get to crisscross the United States helping him unleash what he described as the unlimited potential of Humanwire, Ayoub said.
Now, she is practically homeless, living in a room provided by strangers. She said Baron, 47, turned against her after she became convinced he was fleecing his charity. A Longmont family, one of many disenchanted donors to Humanwire, agreed to take her in. And Ayoub now counts herself as one in a long string of former Humanwire workers, donors, volunteers and refugees who say they've been left devastated by an elaborate scam perpetrated by Baron, whom they describe as a con man.
"It is like I'm in a Hollywood movie," said Ayoub, 26. "It's like a really bad experience for me. I didn't ever expect that he is like this. I never expected that he is this type of people. He surprised me. I was shocked. I felt like I was betrayed because I trusted him a lot. I called him a brother to me, but no, he was thinking a different way."
"I feel like I am a refugee now in the United States."
She once was a key ally of Baron's in Lebanon, documenting the plight of Syrian refugees who had fled to Lebanon and photographing refugee families. The tragic stories and photos of refugees were posted on Humanwire's website to solicit money from donors, who gave nearly $1 million in two years. Ayoub said she saw troubling signs when she was in Lebanon. Delays in aid to refugees started occurring. Humanwire stopped paying her salary and the salaries of other staffers in Lebanon. She says she agreed, at Baron's insistence, to fly from Lebanon to Boulder to help him prepare the nonprofit's tax filing and to help find out what had gone awry. She says she wanted to believe the best. Weeks after her arrival in Boulder, she defended Baron, agreeing to accompany him when he met with a reporter wanting to know why promised aid for refugees had been delayed.
Ayoub said that not long after that interview, she found evidence as she went through the bank records of accounts connected to Humanwire that Baron had been pilfering from the charity he created two years ago. She is now a key witness for Boulder prosecutors, who last month charged Baron with felony counts of charity fraud and the theft of $130,000 that donors gave Humanwire to provide housing and food for refugees the Syrian war had displaced to Lebanon, Greece and Turkey.
Ayoub said she secretly recorded a conversation she had with Baron and then turned the recording over to Boulder police as evidence.
"He was trying to put me in a very bad situation over here," Ayoub said in a recent interview. "He was trying to destroy me over here because I discovered all these things. He was threatening me."
Last week, Boulder District Court Judge Marizela Cano ordered Baron, as part of his pretrial conditions, to refrain from soliciting or accepting donations for Humanwire. Baron's lawyers, Gary Zolow and Lara Baker, said their client is adhering to those conditions.
"Mr. Baron has facilitated the raising of considerable funds for the benefit of the displaced populations in Lebanon, Turkey and Greece," the lawyers said in a prepared statement. "That effort was a humanitarian plan to alleviate a multitude of housing, medical and related problems for those affected by war.
"It has run afoul of lack of business expertise, but no lack of good faith. Mr. Baron trusts the criminal justice system will get to the bottom line of measuring good faith charitable endeavors by accomplishments rather than flawed bookkeeping."
But a Boulder police report states that despite Baron promising that 100 percent of Humanwire donations would go to intended refugee families, he took at least $130,000 of the donations for his own personal expenses.
Baron diverted money from two accounts that received donations and pledges for Humanwire and put that money into a personal account, authorities allege. He then used that personal account to pay for restaurants, airline tickets, gas, groceries, out-of-state and out-of-country travel, children's activities, retail purchases and utility payments, police said.
The criminal charges against Baron followed an investigative report in The Denver Post on the practices of Humanwire. While Baron was diverting the money from his charity, delays in promised aid to refugees began to occur, The Post investigation found. Amid those withdrawals, more than 100 refugees who had been promised aid from Humanwire faced evictions and other deprivations, according to interviews The Post conducted with former Humanwire volunteers, workers and donors.
A former volunteer, Anna Segur, who was helping Humanwire's campaign in Greece, first brought concerns about the nonprofit's activities to The Post and the Boulder County District Attorney's office, which prompted an investigation. Eventually, Ayoub also began assisting authorities. Baron has defended the withdrawals as justified because he was due a salary, but no salary diversions were ever approved by the nonprofit's board of directors. Donors have said they were misled.
Ayoub says that once she got to Boulder, she pleaded for Baron to pay the $19,000 he owed her for her work and expenses for nearly two years in Lebanon. He had been persuasive before her move to Boulder, traveling to Lebanon to meet her. After her arrival, though, he continually rebuffed her, she said, telling her the charity had run out of money. As she delved into the financial records, a disturbing picture emerged.
"I told him, you took $130,000 for yourself," Ayoub said of one confrontation. "He started crying and said, 'How will I get all that back?' and I told him, 'Why don't you get a job and pay it back?' He said, 'I cannot leave Humanwire. It will crash and burn.' He said, 'I don't want to do this.'"
She met Baron a final time and confronted him over his broken promises to her and all the refugees and donors and other workers. He told her he would pay her what he owed, she said, but pressured her to sign a document promising that she would not help the police unless they compelled her to do so. Secretly, Ayoub was recording the conversation.
The next day she resigned from Humanwire and then days later turned the recording over to Boulder Police Detective Traci Cravitz. She posted on her Instagram account what she had discovered about the nonprofit. Baron began sending her threatening e-mails, threatening to sue and telling her that he would accuse her of theft if she did not delete her post, she said. In one email, Baron accused her of being "motivated by profit, vengeance and deceit," and of stealing. Baron claimed Ayoub did not receive her salary in Lebanon because she was a business investor "banking on a return on their investment." Baron still has not paid Ayoub any of the money.
"I hope that everything will be fine, and that he will get the punishment he deserves," Ayoub said. "He needs to pay the money back or sit in jail. There are damages on everybody, first on the refugees, second on the hosts, then on the employees, and also the people in between. Everyone is getting damaged in one way or another."


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Shared Guest Room/Nursery
We can't leave May behind without leaving you with some more inspiration for shared spaces in small homes. If your nursery will have to do double duty as a guest room, you'll find plenty of great ideas in our archives.
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• Dooce Creates a New Nursery/Guestroom
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il padrone wrote:RonK wrote:By my reading of the manual the cache battery is just that - a small buffer battery that allows continuous charging of an iPhone. No battery capacity is given in the specification, and I suspect that it cannot be used off the bike, nor can it be charged from a wall outlet or USB port as the Reecharge can, as it only accepts AC input.
I read the phrase "cache battery" when I looked at it and thought it was just that - a battery to be used with the E-werk to stabilise the power output. Not a storage battery.
Personally I regard even the Biologic Recharge as a bit limited. I use the Power Monkey Extreme which has 5 times the capacity. Heavier of course.
From my use when I had the e-werk cache battery, it works off the bike as well. But like il Padrone I've got the Power Monkey Extreme which holds heaps of power and comes with a small solar panel to recharge if your stopped for a day or so. Does take more than a day to recharge it via solar, but can be charged via dynamo as well.


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When Juan Carlos Chavez was put to death at 8:17 p.m. Wednesday, his execution marked the 13th on Florida Gov. Rick Scott's watch -- a record among first term Florida governors since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Since then, 83 have been executed.
Charlie Crist (2007-2011) oversaw the fewest executions, 5, in his single term. (Crist, now a Democrat, is running against Scott).
Jeb Bush (1999-2007) was the prior first-term record holder with 11 executions in modern times. He still holds the all-time record: 21.
Lawton Chiles (1991-1998) executed eight people in his first term and 10 more in his second.
Bob Martinez (1987-1991) executed nine.
Bob Graham (1979-1987) executed two in his first term and 14 in his second.
For who was executed and when, here's the link
There's a chance another governor, prior to 1976, executed more in his first term or overall. The link to those executions is here.


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The Royal Live Oaks Academy fourth- and fifth-grade students showed off their musical talent last week at the Sun City pavilion.
Since December, the Sun City Chimers have been visiting the charter school in Hardeeville, teaching students how to play the handchimes. On Thursday, Joyce Gerald, assistant executive director of RLOA, brought the classes to Sun City to perform about six songs.
To see a video clip and more photos, go to blufftontoday.com


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The Orange County Board of Supervisors has selected Boingo Wireless as John Wayne Airport's new wireless network partner. Boingo will provide comprehensive connectivity services for the Airport per the terms of a long-term agreement, and will expand the Airport's existing free Wi-Fi service into areas not previously covered by Wi-Fi, boost cellular coverage, and improve overall wireless connectivity.
Work stations are available throughout
Terminals B & C for passenger convenience.
Ad-supported free Wi-Fi service will continue to be available to all travelers, enabled by the Boingo Media platform. The new network will also be Passpoint-enabled, providing seamless access to a secure Wi-Fi network using the industry's latest technologies. Users who have Passpoint-capable devices and have installed a Passpoint profile will automatically be connected to the WPA2-encrypted network.
Boingo is the leading provider of neutral host Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) in U.S. airports, and is the world's leading airport Wi-Fi provider, managing services at more than 75 airports, representing more than 40% of the world's top 50 airports. Boingo manages Wi-Fi services at five of the top 10 highest traffic airports in the United States, including Chicago's O'Hare International, Los Angeles International, New York's John F. Kennedy and Miami International.


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Todd "MJ" Schnitt wants a new trial in his defamation case against radio rival Bubba the Love Sponge Clem.
TAMPA | Todd "MJ" Schnitt wants a new trial in his defamation case against radio rival Bubba the Love Sponge Clem.
Schnitt and his wife did not get a fair trial last month, according to court documents filed by their lawyers late Monday, because the opposing counsel orchestrated the DUI arrest of one of the Schnitts' attorneys Jan. 23 and hid the fact they had that lawyer's trial bag for about 18 hours.
The only motive the law firm of Adams & Diaco had for doing that was to gain an unfair advantage over Schnitt during the trial, according to the motion for new trial.
The issue stems from a dramatic sideshow to the Schnitt vs. Clem defamation trial, which led to allegations of attorney misconduct that Circuit Judge James Arnold said were unlike any he has ever heard in his 40 years practicing law.
The Schnitts' attorney, C. Philip Campbell, was arrested Jan. 23 and faces a DUI charge after drinking and chatting at Malio's Prime Steakhouse with a woman who didn't disclose she was a paralegal for Adams & Diaco, the law firm representing Clem.
Tampa police pulled him over at about 10 p.m. as he drove the paralegal's car near Malio's. Police say they had been sitting on the location after being tipped off by a lawyer at Adams & Diaco.
When police arrested Campbell, he left his trial bag — with confidential information — in the paralegal's car. It was returned the next afternoon.
When Campbell and his firm discovered this, they filed a motion for mistrial and on Jan. 25, called the paralegal and two lawyers from Adams & Diaco to testify.
It's possible employees at Adams & Diaco could have gone through the trial bag, the Schnitts' attorneys said. They also accused the Adams & Diaco lawyers of setting up the DUI arrest.
The judge listened to the allegations and, assured the jury had not heard any of it, continued with the trial. On Jan. 30, the jury found that Clem did not defame Schnitt or his wife, Michelle Schnitt. It did not award any damages.
With the trial done, the judge allowed the Schnitts' attorneys to begin gathering evidence about their claims against the Adams & Diaco firm. Arnold said last week he will not make any decisions about a new trial, attorneys fees or any sanctions against attorneys until he has reviewed the additional evidence.
During the hearing on Jan. 25, Stephen Diaco, a partner at the firm of Adams & Diaco, pleaded the Fifth Amendment multiple times. He did not answer whether he or anyone from his office called Tampa police Jan. 23.
On Monday, Diaco said he would not plead the Fifth and looked forward to cooperating with the investigation.
The Schnitts' attorneys also have filed a motion for contempt against Diaco because he did not bring his cell phone to court on Jan. 25. He was ordered to show up to testify about his involvement — and the subpoena instructed him to bring his cell phone.
He did not bring it, saying he simply forgot the phone. He also said he could not remember his cell phone carrier, adding that his wife deals with that.
The Florida Bar recently opened an investigation into Diaco, as well as two other lawyers at his firm, Adam Filthaut and Robert Adams.


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The Old Homestead at 453 Ash Point Dr. in Owl's Head will be open to visitors from 2 to 4 pm on Wednesdays, July through September. When the Old Homestead was leased by the Mussel Ridge Historical Society from the town of Owl's Head in 1963, it had not been lived in since 1938. The buildings, in utter disrepair having been taken by the town for unpaid taxes, were about to be burned for practice drill by volunteer fire department.
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There's been a few big reputations who haven't performed this time round.
But who is your biggest disappointment?
For me it's got to be the man who now holds a Brazilian record, most consecutive games in the number 10 shirt without scoring...
There's been a few big reputations who haven't performed this time round.
But who is your biggest disappointment?
For me it's got to be the man who now holds a Brazilian record, most consecutive games in the number 10 shirt without scoring...
marc71178 - President and founding member of AAAS - we don't only appreciate when he does well, but also when he's not quite so good!
Anyone want to join the Society?
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Any one of Lampard, Gerrard, Ronaldinho, Schevchenko, Toni, Ibrahimovic.
Gerrard hardly let anyone down did he? H wasn't used properly, and din't play as well as he is capable of but doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath Lampard and Ronaldinho in disappointments, both of whom are supposed to be two of the three best players in the world. I'd say both Brazil and England can look to these two players and cite them as reasons why these sides never went as far as they should.
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Ronaldinho .
For past 12 months he looked untouchable in Europeand then he comes up with these ****** displays. What could be the reason he dosent come across as someonewho gets fazed by pressure.
Definitely, Ronaldinho. He looked very out-of-sorts, nearly the whole brazillian team looked quite tired really, barring a few players in cafu, carlos methinks.
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Have to say Fat Frank myself. He's been absolutely shocking. Robinson & Terry also haven't quite lived up to their pre-tournament billings.
Ronaldinho & Ibrahimovic were anonymous & woeful respectively, but the former is massively overrated anyway (oh yes he is) & the only one who really rates the latter is the latter.
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Every day I get scousers telling me how great he is. How he's better than Lampard. How he's right up there with Ronaldinho. How many people would have backed him to be England's best player? Just look at his reputation. Look at his Liverpool performances, then look at this tournament (and the vast majority of his other England appearances) and you'll see a complete player and inspirational leader, then a shadow of the one in Red who is distinctly average as international midfielders go. Disappointment.Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero
Lampard and Ronaldinho for mine. Thought that Ronaldinho was overrated going into this tournament, and Brazil's results proved it. Still a good player, mind, but not in the Zidane class.
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Ronaldinho obviously the big one, problem is that there have been very few stand outs so you cant say that many players have under performed that much...
Ronaldinho was rightly rated, he was the standout player for the best club in the world throughout the last season.Originally Posted by BoyBrumby
Ronaldinho is the obvious one. Awesome player if not hyped a bit too much.
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Seems like Ronaldinho is a bit of a big game bottler, he was rubbish this tournament, rubbish in the CL final and he wasn't much cop in World Cup 2002 when he got himself sent off against England. Dunno what he's been like for Barca in big league games, presumably a bit better?
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The Taunton man who took the clear, high-quality photographs of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, which were seen in media all over the world, is returning to the site of the tragedy with his camera in hand to take pictures of this year's race.
The Taunton man who took the clear, high-quality photographs of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, which were seen in media all over the world, is returning to the site of the tragedy with his camera in hand to take pictures of this year's race.
Bob Leonard, a 59-year-old electrical engineer from Taunton, said he plans to photograph the runners and spectators at the Boston Marathon on April 21, as he has done every year. Leonard, who attends the marathon as a family tradition, takes up a spot at the Prudential Center, near the finish line, to snap thousands of pictures of the runners and the crowd cheering them on.
"I'll be there," said Leonard, a regular at community events as a photography hobbyist. "Hopefully, we have a sunny day and it will showcase what the event is all about, what it deserves to be, and we'll move on. You can't help anytime you go there, to Boylston Street, to think about the victims. You think of the police, the firemen and the bystanders that joined to help, without any concern for their own safety. … All those memories will probably come back."
Using his Nikon camera, Leonard was able to capture eight pictures that he sent to the FBI, clearly showing the bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died in a confrontation with police four days later, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is facing trial for killing three young spectators and the murder of an MIT police officer.
The pictures show Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wearing a distinctive white, backwards baseball cap, and the older Tamerlan Tsarnaev wearing dark sunglasses and a black hat, with his hands in his jacket pockets. They were both wearing backpacks, standing behind the metal barriers, next to families who were holding signs and rooting on the runners.
After the marathon, Leonard saw video surveillance footage released by the authorities, which showed the two suspects walking by Whiskey's bar on Boylston Street, which he used as a reference point, while combing through hundreds of photos he took in the 20 minutes before the timestamp on the video.
"I'm glad the pictures were helpful," Leonard said. "I was pouring through pictures all night looking for potential suspects. At first, because I was a little bit away from the finish line, I didn't think I had them. … Then I found them, with the faces of the suspects that seemed to be looking right at the camera."
Leonard said the release of his photos throughout the news media unfortunately did not stop the suspects "from going on a rampage" and allegedly killing MIT police officer Sean Collier just hours later. But he said a friend of his, who had a connection to a member of federal Department of Homeland Security, passed the word down to him from that investigators were happy to have a clear image of the suspects.
"He said, 'Great, we got them,'" Leonard recalled.
After the bombing, Leonard said, "I almost didn't want to leave Boston," recalling that he stayed in the city and had some pictures of the bombing's aftermath developed at a CVS store.
Leonard said it will be different this year. For instance, he won't be bringing a backpack after public safety precautions were beefed up, but that he wants it to be a great day.
"I just hope for the safety of all," Leonard said. "I felt so bad for the victims and proud of the responders. 'Boston Strong' was a great thing. The thoughts still have to be with the victims, the senseless loss, and the great respect for the community in Boston. I'm just looking forward to a nice event. There will be a lot of emotion. There always is when you are back there."


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Patience pays off for champion Li
Li Na's Australian Open title was a long time in the making.
The 31-year-old defeated Dominika Cibulkova 7-6 (7/3) 6-0 to add a second grand slam title to the French Open crown she won in 2011.
But, while that came as a surprise to China's heroine, this was a title she has had her eye on for many years.
Li made her first final at Melbourne Park in 2011, losing to Kim Clijsters, and then was beaten again by Victoria Azarenka 12 months ago after falling twice on court.
The fourth seed was a big favourite to beat surprise finalist Cibulkova, and she said: "At least I made it. Not like the last two times, always feeling it was one more step. I'm so proud of myself.
"I would say I prefer this title. I prepared for this one already for two weeks.
"Every round, every day, I was thinking about what I should do. I prepared for if I played semis, if I played final what I should do.
"At the French I was feeling I just went for it. I didn't think about winning or losing. But this one, I really wished I could do well. Maybe you don't know how hard I was working mentally to make this one happen."
The Chinese player is one of the game's great characters and she had the Rod Laver Arena crowd roaring with laughter after receiving the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup from Chris Evert.
Li thanked her agent Max Eisenbud "for making me rich", and said husband Jiang Shan, always the butt of her jokes, was lucky to have her.
She said: "Actually I didn't feel I was very funny when I spoke. I was feeling this is normal, this is the way I have to thank the team.
"But after I finished people said, 'Oh, we love your speech'. I was thinking maybe I speak too much. Maybe next time I should speak even longer."
Cibulkova had only previously made one grand slam semi-final, and that came at the French Open five years ago, so Li, who saved a match point in her third-round win over Lucie Safarova, had big expectations on her shoulders.
The pressure seemed to get to her in an opening set that featured plenty of errors from both players.
At one stage Li's first-serve percentage was 13 and she missed the chance to serve it out.
But the fourth seed was the stronger in the tie-break, and that hurdle overcome, she raced through the second set.
Li took her second match point when Cibulkova hit a forehand long, and she admitted she had let her mind wander in the final game.
She said: "When she served at 15-40, I was thinking, 'Okay, after I win the match, what should I do?'
"But after I lost the point, I was like, 'Okay, don't think. Just focus on this point'. After I won, I was really, really excited. I think I had tears coming down. I tried to hug my team, but they were too high up.
"At the beginning of the match I think both of us were tight and nervous. I tried to hang in there. After I won the first set, I started the second much better."
Cibulkova, the 20th seed, beat Maria Sharapova and Agnieszka Radwanska on her way to becoming the first player to represent Slovakia in a grand slam singles final.
"I'm really looking forward to going back home," she said. "In Slovakia it's a huge thing. I am happy I represented my country so well.
"I just lost the final but maybe tomorrow morning I will be 100 per cent proud of myself. But now it's just maybe 50 per cent.
"It was my first grand slam final and I'm proud of the way I handled it. I wanted to play my best tennis. It wasn't easy against her because she was playing extremely well."


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- These articles were first published many year's ago and whilst some are as relevant today as they were when new, many are now mostly of historical interest as modern research and coaching methods have superseded them.
Three Week – Three Days – Three minutes
By Frank Horwill
Surprisingly, we can go three weeks without food and live. (Ghandi went longer, but he cheated: he drank orange juice.) However, don't try it! You have a good chance of dropping dead with a heart attack. In that time the body loses 10 pounds every five days. That's a total of around 40 pounds, nearly 3 stone.
In a temperate climate we can go 3 days without water, less in hot weather. Don't try it.
We can go 3-minutes submerged under water without air. After that time you drown and if you happen to survive you may wish you had drowned - brain damage may occur.
So, in order of importance to existing it is:- 1) Oxygen. 2) Water. 3) Food.
Now, the first is of particular importance to the runner. When we breathe in oxygen it goes into the lungs and thence into air sacs where it's diffused into the bloodstream. When it arrives there it has to be carried around the body by special transporters made of iron called haemoglobin (Hb). One gramme of Hb conveys 1.34mls of oxygen per 100 mls of blood. Females on average possess 13g/100 mls and males 15g/100 mls.
If you go to altitude, within 7 days there is a 15 per cent increase in Hb. This increase lasts for six weeks on returning to sea level. This is one of the benefits of altitude training. If you are born and bred at altitude, the high Hb level stays with you for life. If you are one gramme below the stated average, you are in trouble as a runner and if you are two grammes down you can be classed as anaemic. A decline of 33 per cent Hb will lead to total exhaustion.
The World Health Organisation has set minimal levels of iron intake in our food at 10mg for males and 18mg for females. Now, a very strange thing happens to this intake every 24 hours. Only 10 per cent of it is used - that's 1mg for males and 1.8mg for females. The rest is discarded. But, if you were to take double the WHO figure, the body will take 10 per cent of that ie 2mg and 3.6mg respectively. These figures assume that all of the 10 per cent iron is absorbed. There is a snag here - iron on its own is practically useless. It requires five parts of vitamin C to one part of iron for starters. It also requires the presence of vitamins B6, B12, E, folic acid and the mineral zinc. A shortage of any one of these will mean poor iron absorption. But, we aren't out of the woods yet. If you are a strict vegetarian there are plenty of vegetables that contain iron but, the iron in them is not bio-available (not readily released). However, the opposite is the case with meats. To add to this tale of woe, every time your foot hits the ground when you run, the muscular pressure destroys red cells. This is not too serious because we get a complete renewal of red cells every few weeks, and if we have a diet high in vitamin E it protects red-cells from destruction.
Let's see how what little iron we absorb is used if we run for one hour a day.
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We do not need to be a mathematician to realise that in order to get our 10 per cent for the above - males need an intake of 18mg of iron daily and females require 23mg. Both figures way above WHO minimums.
There are still more snags. You feel tired, you have headaches, suffer from insomnia, possibly have pins-and-needles in your feet and hands, but, above all, racing isn't going well. You are sure you're anaemic. You ask your doctor for a blood test and when the result comes back you are amazed to find that your Hb count is normal! The Hb test is only a measure of the oxygen-carrying power of your blood, it's not a true measure of your body's iron reserves. To his cost, this is what Alberto Salazar, the marathoner, discovered just before the 1984 Olympics. At that time he held the world record (2:08:13). He began to lose form, and blood tests - serum iron and haemoglobin - were normal. An accurate measure of your iron stores comes from testing serum ferritin levels. If the serum ferritin level falls too low, the bone stem cells that grow into blood cells may be permanently damaged. Always emphasize to your doctor when you want a blood test that you must have particular attention paid to your serum ferritin levels. These should be:- males: 30-160ng / 100mls, and females: 25-100ng / 100mls. Ng stands for nammogrammes. Figures of 20 and 12 respectively are serious. Some research on an American High School cross-country team who were monitored throughout the season suggested that girls who had low serum ferritin levels were three times more prone to injury because their muscles tired more easily and gave less support to tendons and ligaments.
What's the bottom line? All runners are recommended to take synergistic iron capsules made by QUEST. These contain all the pro-absorbing vitamins and minerals as well as 15mg of iron. That, plus iron in your diet should keep you well topped up. The highest concentration of iron is found in curry powder and oysters. Only cereals which are fortified with iron should be consumed.
We are conditioned to drinking water when we feel thirsty. Too late! When you do this, you are well on your way to dehydrating. Make no mistake about it, this affects performance. At a BMC training day at Aldershot in the winter, two females had a lactate threshold test (4 minutes of sub-maximal running repeated with blood tests to ascertain what running speed produced an upsurge in lactic acid.). The tests revealed a malformation of red cells caused by dehydration. And, this was after sub-maximal running efforts lasting 4 minutes only. Run the tap a few seconds in the morning in case water has been in lead or copper pipes overnight, then, knock back a pint. By the way, avoid drinking soft-water. It may be good for washing-up but it's not good for your heart. Heart troubles have now been linked with areas of soft water. Drink bottled water if you have a water-softener in the house, better still, chuck it out.
Once the temperature climbs above 70 degrees F. (20 degrees C.), make a point of drinking half-a-pint of water every hour. Assuming you are awake 16 hours, that's 8 pints of water daily. Signs of dehydration are dark-coloured urine and daily loss of weight even if minute. Some revealing research has been done with WATER BOOSTING before a marathon. Twenty-three marathoners were asked to run the marathon with and without water-loading. ALL of them ran 20-seconds a mile faster with water-boosting.
The procedure was:-
1. Four hours before the race drink 8oz glass of water every 15 minutes.
2. Stop one hour before the event but drink another two glasses between 30 and 20 minutes before you start. You will pass urine in the last minutes up to the gun.
3. Take on water at all feeding stations.
Don't worry about urgent loo visits. You will pass 50 oz of urine during the four hours, but you will be pre-hydrated by some 40ozs and if you have carbo-loaded you will have another 46ozs. That's a total of 86ozs to combat sweat loss which can cause a 5 per cent drop in bodyweight. This method restricts weight loss to 2 per cent. Try it out in training before your long run several times before the big day.
If you like running, you will like it more if you get better at it. This requires leaving no stone unturned. Be able to say 20 years hence, "You know, I gave running my best shots. I surprised myself. I achieved what I thought I would never achieve - I felt I had done something special."


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The nation's craft brewers have a loyal and growing customer base, and they hope to leverage that into something quite helpful: a tax cut from Congress. The New York Times reports that the brewers visited Washington, D.C., this week for their industry's first big conference in the nation's capital. "They were there to engage in a local pastime that goes pint in hand with drinking: lobbying," The Times notes. "As part of the conference, hundreds of small-scale brewers met with Congressional staff members to press for a tax cut that they say would make it easier for them to brew more beer and hire more workers." The newspaper explains the tax situation for the craft beer industry this way: Commercial beer makers pay a federal tax on every barrel of beer they produce. It is a progressive tax: small breweries, producing fewer than two million barrels a year, pay $7 on their first 60,000 barrels. For every 31-gallon barrel above 60,000, they pay $18. Only about 100 craft breweries in the United States produce more than 15,000 barrels a year. About 95% of craft breweries and brew pubs produce less than that. Bigger brewers, like Anheuser-Busch InBev, which produced 98.5 million barrels in 2011, pay $18 for every barrel. The Small BREW Act would reduce the tax on the first 60,000 barrels to $3.50. For every barrel beyond 60,000 but before 2 million, the tax would be $16. After two million, breweries would pay the full $18 tax. Patrick Conway, co-owner of Great Lakes Brewing Co. in Cleveland, tells the newspaper, "We are the victims of our own success." The Times reports that Mr. Conway "brought a delegation of 12 employees to Washington to network and publicize his brews with tap takeovers at local bars." He adds, "We're always being courted by distributors. It's not our intention to sell in every state, but we are flattered."
A tax cut for craft brewers? They'll drink to that
Looking up: In a reversal of recent trends, the United Auto Workers union says its membership rose slightly last year as the U.S. manufacturing sector continued its recovery, according to this Associated Press story. The UAW reports it had 382,513 members in 2012, up nearly 1,800 workers — still less than 1% — from 2011. The union "said it gained members at auto parts plants in Alabama and Kentucky and a bus factory in Oklahoma. More than 1,000 workers at a casino in Cleveland also joined the union last year," according to the AP. Guess he's not a fan: The Wall Street Journal reports that legislatures in half the states, including Ohio, that require electric utilities to buy renewable energy are considering proposals to roll back those mandates. "The policies have helped fuel a huge expansion of U.S. solar and wind capacity in recent years," according to the newspaper. "Now debates are arising, especially in Republican-held statehouses, about whether they increase costs for customers." The Journal says there is "no federal rule requiring utilities to purchase renewable energy, but mandates require it in 29 states." This year, the newspaper reports, "legislators in at least 14 of those states have introduced bills that would water down or repeal renewable-energy mandates," according to the Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency at North Carolina State University. (None has been signed into law so far.) Ohio state Sen. Bill Seitz, a Republican who is leading a review of the state's renewable-energy mandate, goes big in talking with The Journal and says the policy reminds him of "Joseph Stalin's five-year plan." He noted his main interest is "in what delivers the lowest price for electricity in our state. That is what we are trying to figure out." You're saying there's a chance: March Madness seems to have obscured the impending start of the Major League Baseball season, so it's only appropriate that this look at the 2013 season sizes up teams in NCAA Tournament terms. In other words, the Cubs and Mets are 16 seeds, the powerhouse Detroit Tigers are a No. 1 seed, etc. The Cleveland Indians fall into the category labeled "the potential Cinderellas." "These teams seem just bad enough to be largely overlooked but just good enough for you to think one of them could be this year's version of the 2012 A's or Orioles," The Wall Street Journal says. "The Indians' starting rotation is thoroughly unimpressive, but an off-season highlighted by the signings of Nick Swisher and Michael Bourn has created some hope."
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Chrysostomos (Kalafatis) of Smyrna
Metropolitan Chrysostomos (Kalafatis) of Smyrna (1867-1922) was the diocesan bishop of the city of Smyrna in Asia Minor during and following the First World War. He was murdered by a mob when the forces of the Young Turks burned the city in 1922 and sent the Greek population into exile.
He was born in Triglia of Bithynia in 1867.
In 1902 he was elected Metropolitan of Drama by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Drama, located in Eastern Macedonia, had a predominantly Greek population but at the time was part of the Ottoman Empire and was engulfed in the Balkan Wars. The metropolitan worked to encourage the Greek population to build schools and churches, take back churches occupied by the Bulgarians, and to build athletic centers, hospitals, and nursery schools.
His actions lead to his exile on August 30, 1907, by the Turkish authorities. On May 10, 1910, he was elected Metropolitan of Smyrna. During World War I and the persecution of the Greeks of Anatolia by the Ottoman Empire, he helped members of the Greek population to take refuge in the Greek islands of the Aegean. Additionally, he served as a spokesman for the civillian population to diplomatic officials and the world press. The German ambassador in Constantinople wrote that Chrysostomos "stands to the best of living clerics." His actions resulted in a second exile on August 20, 1914, when he left Smyrna for Constantinople.
Following the end of the world war, he returned to Smyrna. On May 2, 1919, the Greek army occupied Smyrna in accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Sèvres. Chrysostomos continued his work with the Greek population while also supporting the needs of the Turkish and Armenian populations.
He was notable for his charity work and for having been deeply involved in the politics of his day [1]
After the defeat of the Greek Army in Anatolia and the reoccupation of Smyrna by the Turks, Chrysostomos refused to leave Smyrna and abandon his flock. The metropolitan was abducted by a mob incited by Nureddin Pasha on September 9, 1922. According to eyewitness accounts, he was tied to a barber chair, cruelly tortured, and put to death.
The metropolitan is generally considered an ethnomartyr of the Orthodox Church and the Greek nation, and there have been calls for his canonization.
Wikipedia entry "Chrysostomos of Smyrna"
- ↑ . The American Consul at Smyrna, George Horton, wrote in his book The Blight of Asia that he "was there [in Smyrna] up until the evening of September 11, 1922, on which date the city was set on fire by the army of Mustapha Khemal". Horton refers to "Metropolitan Chrysostom" several times: "on one occasion I was present at an important service in the Orthodox Cathedral, to which the representative of the various powers, as well as the principal Greek authorities, had been invited. The [Hellenic] High-Commissioner [for Ionia, Aristidis Stergiadis, which Horton spells 'Sterghiades'] had given the order that the service should be strictly religious and non-political. Unfortunately, Archbishop Chrysostom (he who was later murdered by the Turks) began to introduce some politics into his sermon, a thing which he was extremely prone to do. Sterghiades, who was standing near him, interrupted, saying: 'But I told you I didn't want any of this.' The archbishop flushed, choked, and breaking off his discourse abruptly, ended with, 'In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, Amen,' and stepped off the rostrum." [1] Marjorie Housepian (Hovsepian) Dobkin remarks in her book The Smyrna Affair that "The Archbishop's murder was reported to Admiral Dumesnil aboard the French flagship."
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This wish stems from http://nanohub.org/wishlist/general/1/wish/109
Requirements as per Gerhard:
Handling of version annotations, or release notes for EVERY new version of code. It should be part of the contribtool process where the developers are being asked to enter some ptoper english text about the new release.
Look for example at the very cluttered description that is now in tools/rtdnegf
All these version notes should go with the "versions" tab.
Also each of the releases a developer should see the list of open tickets, questions, or wishes that may be "clicked-on / chosen" indicating that the new release of the code closes these items or addresses these items.
That should create a link on the versions tab to the question or the wishlist or a ticket number. It should also close these tickets, questions, and grant the wishes.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. D.J. Augustin had 24 points and A.J. Abrams scored all of his 13 in the second half, helping No. 5 Texas beat Kansas State 74-65 on Monday night, the Longhorns' eighth straight win.
Texas (24-4, 11-2 Big 12) didn't get much production outside of its two speedy guards, but the Longhorns put the squeeze on Kansas State with their stingy defense and improved to 8-0 in February to match a school record set in 1962-63.
The Longhorns need one win in their final three games to match the school record of 25 regular-season wins, set two seasons ago.
Kansas State (18-9, 8-5) got another big night from freshman Michael Beasley 30 points and 15 rebounds but had trouble solving Texas' aggressive zone and lost its third straight. The Wildcats shot 32 percent and got almost nothing from second-leading scorer Bill Walker to see their 10-game home winning streak end.
Augustin gave Kansas State all kinds of problems at the other end.
The 6-foot sophomore seemed to get where he wanted whenever he wanted, dribbling around the perimeter, poking and prodding Kansas State's defense to open up 3-pointers and drives to the basket.
Augustin had 12 points by halftime and helped Texas to a 57-50 lead midway through the second half, scoring on a floater then a three-point play after snatching the ball from the hands of Kansas State guard Fred Brown.
Abrams, coming off a season-low five points against Oklahoma on Saturday, wasn't much of a factor early, taking just two shots in the first half, missing both.
He didn't score until hitting a 3-pointer from the corner 5 minutes into the second half, but that shot seemed to boost his confidence. Abrams suddenly became more aggressive, hitting two more 3-pointers in the next 2 minutes, then another that put the Longhorns up 62-54 with just under 5 minutes left.
Abrams finished 4-of-9 from the field after going 4-for-20 with 14 points the previous two games combined.
Kansas State missed 12 of its first 16 shots overall and its first eight 3-point attempts. Somehow, the Wildcats scratched out a 30-all tie at halftime thanks to Beasley.
Aggressive from the start, the 6-10 freshman made quick moves instead of waiting for the defense to collapse around him. He had Texas big men Connor Atchley and Gary Johnson in foul trouble in the first 10 minutes, and had a double-double by halftime with 17 points and 10 rebounds.
Beasley finished 10-for-21 from the field after scoring a Big-12 record 44 points in a 92-86 loss to Baylor on Saturday.
While Beasley followed one big game with another, Walker didn't.
The freshman forward scored 31 points against Baylor, but was clearly frustrated by the physical play inside, complaining to the officials repeatedly in the second half. He finished with one point, missing all of his 14 field goal attempts.


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Jayaraj Rajagopal, MDPhysician, Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Massachusetts General HospitalInstructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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The lung is a vertebrate invention that allowed the early tetrapods to leave the water and colonize the land. Oxygen is the essential actor in aerobic metabolism and the lung's cardinal function is to mediate the efficient transfer of oxygen from theatmosphere to the circulatory system. Given the lung's essential function, diseases of the lung are often life-threatening or incapacitating.
We seek to isolate and culture lung stem cells and to understand their role in normal lung epithelial homeostasis and in regeneration after tissue injury. Lung stem cells purified from a donor animal or obtained from embryonic stem cell culture will provide novel reagents for generating in vitro models of human lung disease. We are also exploring the in vivo engraftment of lung epithelial stem cells as a basis for regenerative medical therapies. Our inquiries into the mechanisms underlying embryonic lung development and adult lung epithelial regeneration serve as a framework within which we seek to understand how the reactivation and distortion of normal developmental processes results in human lung disease.
In a parallel effort, we study the murine trachea as a robust model of organ regeneration. We seek to answer longstanding historical questions in regeneration biology using this highly reproducible, rapid experimental model. Our goals include:
This work will culminate in the identification of cells capable of carrying out regeneration, but it will also teach us how to modulate these cells for human regenerative therapies. As an example, we have already identified the Notch pathway as a regulator of mucous metaplasia in the embryonic and adult tracheal epithelium. Indeed, Notch antagonists can block human mediators of allergic asthma and prevent mucous metaplasia of the airways.
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Identification of a lung stem cell
There are no definitively characterized lung stem cells. We are now prospectively identifying and culturing candidate lung stem cells. In the case of the hematopoietic system, the development of bone marrow irradiation was the key to the identification of hematopoietic stem cells. By analogy, we have developed an in vivo functional engraftment assay to characterize the full spectrum of differentiation of FACS-isolated tracheal progenitor cells. A variety of techniques including label-retention assays and in vivo single cell lineage analysis will be used to identify and sort putative stem cells from both normal and regenerating tracheal epithelium. We have already identified a number of novel cell surface markers that would be suitable to sort subpopulations of mouse tracheal epithelium.
Developing an In Vivo Functional Assay for Lung Stem Cells
The adult trachea is known to display continual cell turnover during normal homeostasis. In addition, the tracheal and airway epithelium are known to heal after toxic and thermal exposures. In aggregate, this phenomenology suggested that the trachea is capable of clinically relevant regeneration. Using an orthotopic tracheal transplantation model (Figure 1A) in which an injured trachea is grafted onto the trachea of a donor animal, we have developed an in vivo model of regeneration. Using genetically labeled donor and recipient cells, we demonstrated that regeneration is a local phenomenon mediated by rare residual cells that survive at the sites of injury (Figure 1B). These cells possess markers that suggest they are tracheal basal cells, and they initiate regeneration through a process of rapid proliferation. This is then followed by a well-orchestrated cascade of cellular differentiation that recapitulates the orderly progression of marker maturation seen in the embryo during the initial generation of tracheal epithelium. We next sought to identify the precise cellular origins of the progenitor cells which mediate this regenerative phenomenon. To do so, we developed a functional model of tracheal cell engraftment. Initially, using frozen and thawed trachea, we showed that cells resident in a host animal's trachea can repopulate a tracheal "husk." While cells that mediate normal regeneration act locally at the site of injury, they can be induced to spread and migrate over a suitably prepared recipient substrate (Figure 1B). By using a frozen and thawed esophagus, we have shown that tracheal cell identity and regeneration is independent of basement membrane and mesenchyme. This result focused all of our attention on the information present within airway epithelial cells themselves. As an extension of this work, we have engrafted dispersed singe-cell preparations of tracheal epithelium onto donor trachea in an adoptive transfer experiment and we subsequently demonstrate full epithelial reconstitution (Figure 1C). Quantitative repopulation experiments are underway. The question of the precise cell of origin of the regenerative phenomenon remains uncertain, but certainly suggests the possibility of a bona fide stem cell in the proximal airway.
Using developmental biology to dissect lung disease
Our work on lung developmental biology and organ regeneration is the biological platform from which we attempt to cure diseases of the respiratory tract in man. Many diseases of the lung are characterized by abnormal cellular proliferation and differentiation. Diseases of the airways such as asthma, bronchitis, and Cystic Fibrosis are all characterized by mucous metaplasia, in which there is both an aberrant epithelial hyperplasia and an excess of mucous cells. On the other hand, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) and radiation-induced fibrosis are characterized by the aberrant proliferation of mesenchyme cells of unclear identity and origin. Similarly, cancer is fundamentally an unrestrained proliferation of both tumor epithelium and mesenchyme. Dissecting mouse models of human lung disease
We employ modern mouse genetics and in vivo lineage tracing to study lung organogenesis and mouse models of human disease. This will enable us to identify the 'cells of origin' in diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis and lung cancer. Future studies will aim to identify and manipulate the specific signaling cascades that drive the pathologic cell behaviors that produce abnormal tissue responses in disease. This work will, in turn, form the basis for chemical screens designed to discover new drug targets that act by inhibiting these pathways.
Human developmental biology applied to lung disease
In parallel with our laboratory-based approaches, we have also established collaborations with clinicians, clinician-scientists, and human tissue banks in order to directly study human disease-causing cells. Using laser capture micro dissection of well defined populations of lung cells, we will identify unique markers for various disease-associated cell types. This will begin with a comprehensive systems level analysis of the transcriptome of each specific population of disease-associated lung cells. In collaboration with the Broad Institute, these pathways will then be compared to the genome-wide data we have already assembled on the transcriptional networks that orchestrate mouse embryonic lung development. This will be complemented by a computational analysis of data derived from mining publicly available lung disease microarray datasets. The computationally identified networks are then used to elucidate the specific transcriptional and signaling pathways that result in aberrant proliferation and differentiation of human cells in both human tissue culture and mouse xenograft models. Lineage analysis will be performed on these human models themselves, to directly complement our lineage studies in mouse models of human disease.
Human model systems of lung disease: airway stem cells from induced-pluripotent stem cellsWe are currently optimizing the production of airway progenitor cells from human induced-pluripotent stem (iPS) cells that are derived from the skin fibroblasts of patients with various lung diseases. The production of embryonic endoderm from hES cells has already been optimized. To optimize the differentiation and amplification of airway progenitor cells from endoderm derived from pluripotent stem cells, we are using high throughput chemical and biological screening platforms on genetically modified iPS cells which signal lung identity using fluorescent reporters of lung differentiation (SP-C-gfp, CC10-gfp, and Nkx2.1-gfp). Generating In Vitro Cellular and Explant Models of Human Airway DiseaseWe have succeeded in growing airway epithelial cultures and regenerating tracheal explants in vitro. Various systems that permit the clonal analysis of progenitor cells and their progeny are now being deployed in vitro on tracheal explants. Screenings for chemical compounds that promote or inhibit cell proliferation and differentiation in our explant system is also underway. Such screening may identify novel signaling factors that result in mucous metaplasia or hyperplasia. Screening on human tissues will complement the work done in mouse. Screening of diseased human airway epithelium (such as asthmatic airway) should offer the possibility of identifying specific drug targets for specific diseases. Intriguingly, the application of Notch to regenerating tracheal explants produces an in vitro model of mucous metaplasia, the cardinal pathology associated with proximal airway diseases including bronchitis, bronchiectasis, asthma, and Cystic Fibrosis. Further chemical screening of such metaplastic tracheal explants should allow for the screening of therapeutically relevant drugs to be used for inhalational therapy in these disorders. In fact, we have also begun to explore the utility of inhaled gamma-secretase inhibitors in an animal model of allergic airways disease.Cell therapies for lung disease: Curing Cystic Fibrosis with airway progenitors
We have chosen to focus on Cystic Fibrosis (CF) as a prototypic lung disease that can be studied, and eventually treated using stem cell-derived therapies. We have done so because CF is the most common monogenetic disorder of the lung, and because it affects the young, often resulting in premature death. CF is characterized by repeated bouts of pneumonia which, over time, cause the airway and lung architecture to become grossly distorted, precipitating further infection. This vicious cycle of infection and injury ultimately results in death. The cause of this phenotypically complicated disease is genetically rather simple: loss-of-function mutations in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator (CFTR), an epithelial chloride channel. The loss of chloride secretion eventually leads to the production of abnormal airway surface fluid which then results in abnormally viscous mucous and infection. By targeting the mutant CFTR locus in iPS cells produced from CF patients, we will replace the defective disease-causing CFTR mutation with a normal gene. As described above, these corrected CF-iPS cells and their disease-bearing counterparts will be used to produce airway progenitor cells. These iPS-derived airway progenitor cells can then serve as human model systems to test novel CF therapies and to further dissect the cellular and tissue level mechanisms that contribute to the CF phenotype. The use of patient-specific human cells circumvents the lack of phenotype in mouse models of CFTR deletion. Furthermore, genetically rescued CF iPS cells can themselves be used as patient-matched cell replacement therapies. We have already developed strategies for in situ engraftment of airway stem cells and are refining and optimizing these techniques in preparation for future clinical applications.
The Rajagopal lab is currently hiring for a Postdoctoral Fellow.
To apply for a position within the Rajagopal Laboratory, please email your current CV and 3 letters of references to Dr. Jayaraj Rajagopal.
Rajagopal J, Doudna J, and Szostak J. Stereochemical Course of Catalysis by the Tetrahymena Ribozyme.Science.1989;244:692-94.
Coutre S, Ellington A, Gerber A, Cherry J, Doudna J, Green R, Hanna M, Rajagopal J, Szostak J. Mutational Analysis of Conserved Nucleotides in a Self-splicing Group I Intron.Journal of Molecular Biology.1990;215:345-58.
Rajagopal J, Anderson W, Kume S, Martinez O, Melton D. Insulin Staining of ES Cell Progeny from Insulin Uptake.Science.2003;299:363.
Hanson M, Madsen O, Semb H, Rajagopal J, Melton D, Serup P. Artifactual Insulin Release from Differentiated Embryonic Stem Cells.Diabetes.2004;53:2603-9.
Zhou Q, Law AC, Rajagopal J, Anderson WJ, Gray PA, Melton DA. A Multipotent Progenitor Domain Guides Pancreatic Organogenesis.Dev Cell.2007;13:103-14.
Tu X, Joeng KS, Nakayama KI, Rajagopal J, Carroll TJ, McMahon AP, Long F. Noncanonical Wnt signaling through G protein-linked PKCdelta activation promotes bone formation.Dev Cell.2007;12:113-27.
Shaw AT, Meissner A, Dowdle JA, Crowley D, Magendatz M, Ouyang C, Parisi T, Rajagopal J, Blank LJ, Bronson RT, Stone JR, Tuveson DA, Jaenisch R, Jacks T. Sprouty- regulates oncogenic K-ras in lung development and tumorigenesis.Genes Dev.2008;15:694-707.
Anderson WJ, Zhou Q, Alcalde V, Kaneko OF, Blank LJ, Sherwood RI, Guseh JS, Rajagopal J, Melton DA. Genetic targeting of the endoderm with claudin-6CreER.Dev Dyn.2008;237:504-12.
Rajagopal J, Carroll TJ, Guseh JS, Bores SA, Blank LJ, Anderson WJ, Yu J, Zhou Q, McMahon AP, Melton DA. Wnt7b stimulates embryonic lung growth by coordinately increasing the replication of epithelium and mesenchyme.Development.2008;135: 1625-34.
Zhou Q, Brown J, Kanarek A, Rajagopal J, Melton DA. In vivo reprogramming of adult pancreatic exocrine cells to beta-cells.Nature.2008; 455: 627-32.
Yu,J, Carroll TJ, Rajagopal J, Kobayashi A, Ren Q, McMahon AP. A Wnt7b-dependent pathway regulates the orientation of epithelial cell division and establishes the cortico-medullary axis of the mammalian kidney.Development.2008; 136: 161-171.
Stenman JM, Rajagopal J, Carroll TJ, Ishibashi M, McMahon J, McMahon AP. Canonical Wnt signaling regulates organ-specific assembly and differentiation of CNS vasculature.Science.2008; 322: 1247-50.
Guseh J, Bores S, Stanger B, Zhou Q, Anderson W, Melton D, Rajagopal J. Notch signaling regulates epithelial cell fate in both embryonic lung and adult airway epithelium. Development,Development. 2009 May;136(10):1751-9. Epub 2009 Apr 15.
Mou H, Zhao R, Sherwood R, Ahfeldt T, Lapey A, Wain J, Sicilian L, Izvolsky K, Musunuru K, Cowan C, Rajagopal J. Generation of Multipotent Lung and Airway Progenitors from Mouse ESCs and Patient-Specific Cystic Fibrosis iPSCs. Cell Stem Cell.2012 Apr 6;10(4):385-97.
Longmire TA, Ikonomou L, Hawkins F, Christodoulou C, Cao Y, Jean JC, Kwok LW, Mou H, Rajagopal J, Shen SS, Dowton AA, Serra M, Weiss DJ, Green MD, Snoeck HW, Ramirez MI, Kotton DN. Efficient derivation of purified lung and thyroid progenitors from embryonic stem cells. Cell Stem Cell.2012 Apr 6;10(4):398-411.
Mou H, Zhao R, Sherwood R, Ahfeldt T, Lapey A, Wain J, Sicilian L, Izvolsky K, Musunuru K, Cowan C, Rajagopal J. Generation of multipotent lung and airway progenitors from mouse ESCs and patient-specific cystic fibrosis iPSCs.Cell Stem Cell.2012 Apr 6;10(4):385-97.
Kim JK, Vinarsky V, Wain JC, Zhao R, Jung K, Choi J, Lam A, Pardo-Saganta A, Breton S, Rajagopal J, Yun SH. In vivo imaging of tracheal epithelial cells in mice during airway regeneration. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol.2012; 47: 864-868.
Muzykewicz DA, Black ME, Muse V, Numis AL, Rajagopal J, Thiele EA, Sharma A. Multifocal micronodular pneumocyte hyperplasia: computed tomographic appearance and follow-up in tuberous sclerosis complex.J Comput Assist Tomogr.2012 Sep-Oct;36(5):518-22. PubMed PMID: 22992599.
Pardo-Saganta A, Law BM, Gonzalez-Celeiro M, Vinarsky V, Rajagopal J. Ciliated cells of the pseudostratified airway epithelium do not become mucous cells after OVA challenge.Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol.2013; Mar: 48(3): 364-373. PMCID: PMC3604083.
Watanabe H, Francis JM, Woo MS, Lin W, Fries DF, Peng S, Snyder EL, Tata PR, Izzo F, Schinzel AC, Cho J, Hammerman PS, Verhaak RG, Hahn WC, Rajagopal J, Jacks T, Meyerson M. Integrated cistromic and expression analysis of amplified NKX2.1 in lung adenocarcinoma identifies LMO3 as a functional transcriptional target. Genes and Development.2013; Jan 15:27(2): 197-210.
Tata PR, Pardo-Saganta A, Prabhu M, Vinarsky V, Law BM, Fontaine BA, Tager AM, Rajagopal J. Airway Specific Inducible Transgene Expression Using Aerosolized Doxycycline.Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol.2013; Dec: 49(6): 1048-1056. PubMed PMID: 23848320.
Weiss DJ, Bates JH, Gilbert T, Liles WC, Lutzko C, Rajagopal J, Prockop DJ. Conference Report: Stem Cells and Cell Therapies in Lung Biology and Diseases University of Vermont, July 2011.Ann Am Thorac Soc.2013; 10: S25-44. PubMed PMID: 23869447.
Tata PR, Mou H, Pardo-Saganta A, Zhao R, Prabhu M, Law BM, Vinarsky V, Cho JL, Breton S, Sahay A, Medoff BD, Rajagopal J. Dedifferentiation of committed luminal epithelial cells into functional stem cells in vivo.Nature, 2013; 503; 218-223 (highlighted inNatureNews and Views and featured inCellLeading Edge Select where a paper from another journal is reviewed as well as in aCell Stem Cellpreview, and selected as an F1000 Prime article).
Guha A, Vasconcelos M, Zhao R, Gower AC, Rajagopal J, Cardoso WV. Analysis of Notch signaling-dependent gene expression in developing airways reveals diversity of Clara cells.PLoS One. 2014 Feb 21;9(2):e88848. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088848. eCollection 2014. PMID: 24586412.
Zhao R, Fallon TR, Saladi SV, Pardo-Saganta A, Villoria J, Mou H, Vinarsky V, Gonzalez-Celeiro M, Nunna N, Hariri LP, Camargo F, Ellisen LW, Rajagopal J. Yap Tunes Airway Epithelial Size and Architecture by regulating the Identity, maintenance, and self-renewal of stem cells.Developmental Cell, in press.
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"Today's new law sends a powerful message to our young and new drivers that texting-while-driving will not be tolerated here in New York State," Cuomo said.
Junior license holders will now have their licenses suspended for 60 days following a first time offense, while second time violators will see a 60-day suspension.
Probationary licenses can also be suspended for up to six months for a second offense.
"Statistic after statistic shows that texting-while-driving is a chronic problem in our society, particularly among teenagers, and it will only get worse if we do not take action to prevent this deadly behavior," he said.
The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has also increased the number of points against a driver's license from three to five for texting while driving.
"It will make drivers of all ages think twice before taking their eyes off the road to answer a message on their phone," Cuomo announced. "It will avoid loss of life and better protect all those traveling on our roads and highways."
Bill co-sponsor Assemblyman David Weprin attended the signing.
"As a staunch advocate for consumer and driver's safety, the health and safety of all New Yorkers takes primary importance to me," Weprin said. "Cracking down on texting while driving will prevent accidents in New York State that are avoidable."
"The number of distracted driver-related crashes have been steadily increasing, which is why this law is so important," added New York State Police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico. "This law will help deter cell phone use which will lead to fewer accidents and will help to save lives."