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Check out video manual for "Reports"
When strategy description is accomplished, strategy execution just begins. The members of your team might need to discuss a strategy in the conference room, report the progress using specific indicators, or work according to the action plan.
Sometimes, you might need to get a certain projection of your business scorecard from BSC Designer and share it with others. Let's check the "Reports" menu to learn more.
Scorecard Performance Report is the most popular way to present data from the scorecard project. This report focuses on KPIs, their data, initiatives, and charts.
Also, BSC Designer suggests you to choose a data grouping method: you can have a report with all of the data; or you can choose to present a quarterly or yearly summary for the available data.
Any report has a table with a number of columns. Although the look of these tables might be different, the meaning of the columns is always the same.When you generate the report you select an interval for the report:
BSC Designer also takes into account a time point currently selected in the program's calendar. Column "Current" contains the value for the currently selected date (it can be today's date or any other selected date).
In the "KPI Report" menu you will find several reports that can tell different stories about the Indicators from your project:
Business goals report focuses on the "objectives" part of your business scorecard. For this report you can choose the desired level of the details:
In the Strategy Map Report menu you will find several options:
BSC Designer can create reports with:
On the Dashboard tab in BSC Designer you have different views on the business performance. If you need to share these dashboards with your team you don't need to make a screenshot and save it to a picture file - using Dashboard report you can have a copy of your dashboards in HTML or PDF formats.
In BSC Designer there are two types of initiatives, respectively two types of reports:
Sometimes you might not want to educate all of the members of your team to use BSC Designer; still you want them to have an access to the KPI scorecard. In this case an MS Excel report might be a good option. Actually, it is not a report, but a live copy of your KPI scorecard with all of your data and calculations. One can change some values in the spreadsheet and the performance figures will be updated automatically.
PowerPoint presentation is a classical format to support a strategy discussion. The benefit is that you can support your ideas by some key data from your business scorecard. Here is what a PowerPoint report offers:
There are different ways to customize your reports in BSC Designer. One of the typical cases is that you need to comment on some charts. To do this just add a new comment via Initiatives and use one of the chart tags. Your comment will appear under the selected chart in the reports. Learn more about comments.
Need to customize your reports more?
Excel or PowerPoint reports are created directly in MS Office, so you can easily save and share them with your team. With HTML-based reports you have even more flexibility:
If you need to have a PDF version of the report, then use of one the PDF printers pre-installed in Windows or download and install a free one. In this way you will be able to save any report in PDF format.
Reports in BSC Designer is a great way to share some important information from your Business Scorecard with all stakeholders. Download a trial copy of BSC Designer and try the reports with your own data!


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House Budget Committee Hearing: The Department of Defense and the FY13 Budget
Chairman Paul Ryan Opening Remarks, As Prepared for Delivery
Welcome all to today's hearing to examine the President's budget request for the Department of Defense, and to explore how the federal government can meet its highest priority: providing for the common defense and strengthening our national security.
I want to begin by welcoming Leon Panetta back to the committee. In addition to his demonstrated experience in national security, Secretary Panetta has an extraordinary background in federal budgeting, including service as Chairman of this committee.
Mr. Secretary, there is a portrait of you in our hearing room and we are always under your watchful gaze as we conduct our work here at the Budget Committee.
We also warmly welcome our other two distinguished witnesses joining Secretary Panetta.
General Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In the 38 years since graduating from West Point, Gen. Dempsey has led troops in combat, served as a combatant commander, and most recently served as the Chief of Staff of the Army. Thank you for your service, General.
We also welcome the Defense Department's Comptroller, the Honorable Robert Hale – who is no stranger to this committee from his years of service at the Congressional Budget Office. Welcome Secretary Hale.
Relative to last year's request, the President's budget calls for a $487 billion reduction in base defense spending over the next decade. This comes on top of already planned spending reductions for the Global War of Terrorism.
The United States remains a nation at war, and our troops remain engaged against a fierce enemy overseas.
It is difficult to square this reality with the President's steep reductions in both troop levels and funding levels. The timing of these cuts raises serious concerns that decisions are being driven by budgetary concerns as opposed to strategic priorities.
Mr. Secretary, I think you have a unique perspective on the tension between meeting our national security requirements and getting spending, deficits, and debt under control.
While they've yet to offer a balanced budget, our friends across the aisle often call for a "balanced approach." Of course, budgeting is about setting priorities. Such calls assume that all of government's activities are equally important, and that blind proportionality can substitute for a clear-headed analysis of our priorities and responsibilities as policymakers.
Like all categories of government spending, defense spending should be executed with efficiency and accountability. Yet many fear the arbitrary and deep reductions that the President has proposed in the defense budget will lead to a dramatic reduction in our defense capability.
I commend you for your efforts to fund defense priorities within a rapidly shrinking budget. Your predicament, in my opinion, is due to failures elsewhere in the federal budget.
According to Harvard's Niall Ferguson, a financial historian, the fall of great nations is the result of their excessive debt burdens. In their paths to decline, defense spending is always the first casualty.
The failure by the Administration to deal honestly with the drivers of the debt – specifically when it comes to government spending on health care – is a failure that imperils our economic security and our national security.
With its call for crushing levels of debt and the crowding out of defense by entitlement spending, the President's budget – in my opinion – charts a path to decline.
In addition to examining the steep defense reductions in the President's budget, I hope today's hearing informs us of the consequences to our security that would result from the disproportionate cuts to defense spending under the Budget Control Act's sequester.
Congress has a solemn obligation to ensure our troops fighting overseas have the resources they need to successfully complete their missions, and to adhere to our commitment to their service upon their return.
Every citizen owes a debt of gratitude to the military families that continue to make untold sacrifices for our security and the freedoms we cherish.
With that, before hearing testimony from Secretary Panetta and General Dempsey, I yield to Ranking Member Van Hollen.
Thank you.

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Analysis of message passing environments on large cluster performance
Principal Investigators: D.K. Panda, P. Sadayappan and P. Wyckoff
Funding Source: Sandia National Labs
Duration: 1/8/2001 - 2/28/2002
Description: Analysis of reliability/scalability/performance tradeoffs in Myrinet. Understand and analyze the reliability mechanism in GM, by listing all the different fault scenarios which GM handles, and using that to build state-transition diagrams to show how GM handles the faults. Derive a cost model to the state-transition diagram in terms of how much overhead (instruction count, interactions with host) GM requires to handle recovery for each fault. Analyze the impact of different types of faults and their frequencies on the overall performance. We can develop a small simulation framework to evaluate the performance. This simulation framework needs to be parameterized so that we can evaluate the impact of host speed, NIC speed, and network link speed, in addition to the failure characteristics.


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Heat remaining oil in the sauté pan and cook scallions over moderate heat until tender, about 8 minutes. Add garlic, pepper flakes, and oregano, and sauté for 2 minutes. Add tomato sauce or tomatoes and simmer for a few minutes. Season with salt and pepper and pour the sauce over the shrimp.
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During Hurricane Irene last year, Old Dominion's football team escaped to Raleigh, N.C., for a day to continue preparations for its season-opener against Campbell. With Hurricane Sandy raining on Hampton Roads, the Monarchs had contingency plans for a similar junket this week.
ODU coach Bobby Wilder said Saturday that had university president John Broderick ordered campus evacuated, the Monarchs would have bussed to Chapel Hill, N.C., and practiced at the University of North Carolina.
The Tar Heels are idle this week and don't play again until Nov. 10 against Georgia Tech. ODU plays Saturday at Georgia State.
But since Sandy is not expected to slam directly into our region, Wilder expects the Monarchs to stay put.
"Now we're just going to stay here and slog it out in the rain a little bit," he said after Saturday's soggy 31-26 home victory over Delaware.
Other notes and observations from Saturday:
* After allowing 136 points combined to New Hampshire, Richmond and Villanova, ODU has yielded only 46 the past two weeks against Towson and Delaware.
Wilder attributed the improvement to a young defense maturing.
"I feel like our freshmen are getting a lot better," he said. "I don't know if you guys noticed, but Caleb Taylor was out there playing every snap, and Malique Johnson's a true freshman safety. Andrew Everett's a true freshmen d-end. …
"We're sticking with them. I told our defensive staff, they've got to keep playing because our style of offense puts so much pressure on our defense. We have to play 22 guys. We have to two-platoon. I do think we are getting better. At times it's frustrating because you do get some miscommunication like happened a couple times out there today."
Indeed, Delaware had rushes of 42, 37 and 18 yards, plus completions of 50, 25 and 22. But after scoring 14 points in the first 15:45, the Blue Hens managed just 12 in the final 44:15.
Taylor, a redshirt freshman linebacker from Phoebus High and a transfer from Virginia, led ODU (7-1, 4-1 CAA) with 12 tackles. Senior safety Devon Simmons from Denbigh High intercepted a pass with 57 seconds remaining to secure the victory.
* Nursing a 28-26 lead early in the fourth quarter, the Monarchs were forced to punt from their own 47. Jonathan Plisco's kick rolled dead inside the 1.
"That was a turning point in the football game," Wilder said of the field position. "Jonathan was actually pretty upset about it, because he mishit it, the returner couldn't get it and the ball rolled. Jon's such a perfectionist."
Craig Wilkins' 10-yard sack of Trent Hurley eventually forced Delaware to punt from its 5. ODU took over at the Blue Hens' 44 and milked more than four minutes while moving to a Jarod Brown field goal.
A senior from Woodside High, Plisco was first-team All-CAA last season and second-team Associated Press All-American.
* After his first, and likely final, game at ODU, Delaware coach K.C. Keeler is sorry to see the Monarchs leaving the CAA for the Bowl Subdivision's Conference USA.
"Let me just say, what a great atmosphere," Keeler said. "Very first-class. Very impressed. It's a shame (they're) leaving the league because they really have a great place to play. I already talked to Bobby about coming down and picking (his) brain on the offense. I said, 'Because we're not playing you guys. Unless you're paying us a million dollars, we're not playing a (FBS) game unless it's a big pay day."
* Keeler applauded ODU's spread offense for not forcing passes deep against a Delaware defense determined to prevent long gains.
"You have to give them a lot of credit for being patient," Keeler said. "We were trying to not give them the big play. When you watch them on tape, it's like a track meet. Their wideouts can really run, and I thought they did a great job of being patient, a lot of underneath stuff."
The Blue Hens are the first team this season to hold ODU's Taylor Heinicke without a touchdown pass.
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Here's a link to my Daily Press print columns, including one from Saturday's game on ODU tailback Tyree Lee.


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David Gordon, most recently a principal of Booz Allen Hamilton's health market business, has joined Paragon Technology Group Inc. as vice president of its expanding healthcare IT practice.
Reporting to president and CEO Scott Friedlander, Gordon will be responsible for leading the division in delivering advanced healthcare IT solutions to government clients, according to the company's May 14 announcement.
Gordon's experience in management and technology consulting includes 20 years in various positions at Booz Allen, other things leading the organization's IT support to the National Institutes of Health in systems development and integration, IT operations and software acquisition support for CIOs.
Friedlander, who left a similar post at GTSI in the wake of a Small Business Administration suspension in 2010, acquired a majority stake in the Vienna, Va., government contractor this past January with the backing of the private equity group LLR Partners.
The McLean Group investment bank served as an advisor to Paragon.
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Tempest in a Bourbon Pot: What did Harlen Wheatley Say and When did he Say it?
There was a great to-do in the bourbon-geekdom world last week when a member of the StraightBourbon forum posted a report of statements made by Buffalo Trace Master Distiller Harlen Wheatley at a tasting. Among the most controversial was a comment that Pappy Van Winkle 20 year old is "fully [Buffalo Trace] Juice" and that Pappy Van Winkle 23 may be at least partly Buffalo Trace bourbon. He also stated that the Van Winkle Family Reserve Rye had been entirely made by Buffalo Trace for the past two to three years. Most people had believed that the Pappy Van Winkle 20 and 23 year old bourbons were still made entirely made from whiskey which had been distilled at the now closed Stitzel-Weller distillery. The Van Winkles have a partnership with Buffalo Trace which supplies them with much of their bourbon and bottles their product, and it's long been known that the younger Van Winkle bourbons are distilled by Buffalo Trace.
Like everything having to do with Pappy Van Winkle, the reaction was outsized. Posters expressed anger, felt betrayed and became cynical. Hell hath no fury like a Van Winkle drinker scorned, and plenty acted like they had been spurned by a lover. For my part, I don't really care, and here's why.
First, I've never been a Van Winkle partisan. I like the bourbon well enough, but I've never bought into the crazy hype surrounding each release. I'll taste them and enjoy them if the opportunity comes along, but I generally avoid the Van Winkle line and its high prices.
Second, we don't know the veracity of these claims. I have no reason to distrust the poster, but these were statements made at a bourbon tasting. I'm sure Wheatley was speaking to the best of his knowledge, but these were off the cuff musings, and I have no idea what he knows or how much control he has over the Van Winkle line of products. His statements appear to contradict other statements he made a year ago on the K&L Spirits podcast where he said he thought that Pappy Van Winkle 20 and 23 year old were "probably still all Stitzel-Weller." (The podcast is available here; the statement is made at approximately 24:30) Preston Van Winkle also stated on a K&L podcast last November that "the older two [Van Winkles], the 20 and 23 year are still coming from stocks that were made at Stitzel-Weller." (The podcast is available here; the statement is made at approximately 14:30).
Now, there has been a tendency on the forum to engage in close readings of these statements as if Wheatley was a prophet of some sort. He's not. I'm also guessing that he doesn't care what the composition is of these bourbons. Let's all do our best to stay grounded and remember that the number of people who do care about this issue is microscopic, even among fans of Van Winkle bourbon. This is major inside baseball. Rather than being the result of some conspiracy or misinformation campaign, I'm guessing that some of these contradictions are due to these issues not being very important to Wheatley or the Van Winkles.
Third, it would also behoove us to remember that Van Winkle is not marketed or sold as a Stitzel-Weller bourbon. Unlike Jefferson Presidential Select, the Van Winkle bourbons do not advertise themselves as Stitzel-Weller bourbon. You won't find that claim made anywhere on the bottles or in any press release. To the extent that statements have been made by Wheatley or the Van Winkles as to the provenance of the bourbon, it has usually been in response to questions from bourbon geeks. Now I've always been of the opinion that whiskey bottlers should fully disclose who distills their bourbons, but it's hard to fault the Van Winkles any more than any of the countless other bottlers that do this.
As to the Van Winkle Rye, statements from the Van Winkles had indicated that this rye was initially a blend of ryes from the Medley and Bernheim distilleries, but it was always supposed to transition to Buffalo Trace distillate, so that revelation was not surprising to me.
It's always fun to speculate about things like age and provenance and it's a time honored tradition in the whiskey world (Finlaggan anyone?), but the hard truth is that if it's not on the label, we just don't know for certain. By not listing a distillery on the Pappy label, the Van Winkles have the flexibility to alter the composition without notice. I would urge them to come clean and make a definitive statement, but I'd also urge the rest of us to stop worrying and learn to love the bourbon.
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It matters not to me whether anyone comes clean on this subject. It is their prerogative to keep that information close to the vest considering the passion of the Pappy crowd and what the truth might do to their considered opinions of the current line. That passion was in evidence on the recent Pappy vs. BTAC throwdown hosted on this very blog.
The Van Winkle whiskeys, though sometimes excellent, are, in my opinion, absolutely overpriced and overrated. Why does it matter where it comes from? If you like it and are willing to pay through the nose for it, then you should be a satisfied consumer.
I have been privileged to drink plenty of Stitzel-Weller bourbon through the 70s and 80s that was bottled at the age it was intended to be bottled at when it was initially distilled, and it was fabulous.
Like the overly aged Prohibition bottlings of any given brand in the 20s and 30s, these whiskeys were never intended to be aged for 20+ years, and the fact that some barrels hold up as well as they do is a testament to their quality. The rest are over the hill and are being blended into cheaper brands. Oh, the humanity!
Those S-W stocks are reaching the very limits of their viability, and it shouldn't surprise anyone that Buffalo Trace-distilled whiskeys are being blended into them or replacing them entirely. What else could we have expected?
I visited Mishter's distillery many times when it was producing what some consider to be the finest bourbon ever made...the Hirsch bottlings, but the mystique of any distillery only goes so far, and all good things have to come to an end.
And yes, you can read into the proprietors' statements what you will. When Preston says that they "...are still coming from stocks that were made at Stitzel-Weller," he isn't saying that it's ALL coming from there.
The first head-turning bourbon I had in modern times was a bottle pf Old Rip Van Winkle 10 year old about 15 years ago. Since then, I've tried other Van Winkles and have usually been underwhelmed, most recently with Lot B and this year's version of the Family Reserve Rye. Not bad, but not stellar at what I paid, either. I'll take a Thomas Handy any day.
Wait, maybe they're the same damn whiskey, only the Van Winkle is seven years older. If that's the case, the extra aging brought it down a couple of pegs.
I continue to enjoy select $25-30 bourbons as much or more than Van Winkle whiskeys. That they can command the prices they do is a testament to their marketing abilities and the reverence that a few aficionados have for the brand.
Get over it. Life goes on.
- April 1, 2012 at 5:29 PM
If Harlen's statements are correct, it means the Van Winkles repeatedly lied--explicitly--about their whiskeys in interviews and message board posts. If that's the case, it's a big deal. It's fraud, and they fooled everyone, including you. The fact that it didn't say "Stitzel-Weller" on the label is beside the point.
Perhaps Harlen he was mistaken, though the clarity of his statements doesn't indicate that. How could he be so ill-informed about the company's most famous product?
Hopefully, the Van Winkles or Harlen will clarify. In the meantime, it's disappointing to watch so many esteemed bloggers contort themselves in order to casually shrug off the news as irrelevant.
- April 1, 2012 at 8:13 PM
- April 1, 2012 at 9:07 PM
- sku said...
Anonymous said...
Guilty as charged. I'll try to do better next time.
- April 1, 2012 at 10:41 PM
I talk with Preston about this on Friday when we were drinking. He said that if anyone had something dire to ask him that everyone knows how to get ahold of him. Again, he told me the 20 and 23 Year from this Spring were entirely from Stitzel-Weller.
I know it's still out there as I saw 3 barrels from there sitting in one of Heaven Hill's warehouses yesterday morning while going through some new Elijah Craig 12 Year single barrel that will be coming out soon.
- April 1, 2012 at 11:35 PM
When it comes to getting a response from Preston on a forum: he is so busy that he had to take his whiskey to go and only spent a little over an hour drinking.
- April 1, 2012 at 11:41 PM
The 'boring' wasn't aimed at your write-up, Sku. Just the subject matter. 0.000001% of Earth's population cares about that nonsense... a generous estimate.
- April 2, 2012 at 6:41 AM
- sku said...
Anon, I totally agree, but I played into it by writing about it, so I still say mea culpa.
- April 2, 2012 at 7:29 AM
What a sad sad day.
I fear the time when we will learn that Pappy is not actually distilling himself anymore.
That will be the coup de grace for me.
- April 2, 2012 at 9:47 AM
I was just wondering if anyone has any idea why Buffalo Trace (or should I say Ancient Age) was already making wheated bourbon for SW as early as 1981. Was SW not producing enough whiskey to meet production quotas or did someone see the writing on the wall and started to quietly have another distillery make bourbon to SW's recipe? It just seems odd that SW was contracting another distillery when SW was still healthy and in full production in 1981.
- April 2, 2012 at 3:26 PM
I think the 1981 date may be a typo, as S-W was very active at that time.
- April 2, 2012 at 9:08 PM
The 1981 date appears to be correct. Looking at those comments by Harlan, he seems to state that Ancient Age was already contract distilling for SW a full decade before its closure. In fact, this might explain why PVW 23 has 23 year old Ancient Age wheated bourbon (at least according to Harlan).
Now if this is true, someone had the foresight to have another distillery make bourbon using SW's recipe.
- April 2, 2012 at 9:48 PM
Uhhh... stitzel-weller personnell, distillate, barrels, and equipment were abducted by aliens in 1981. The government forced Ancient Age to help conceal the truth! I hear tell what that galactic stitzel-weller is damn fine juice. Boy howdy what I weren't pay upon Ebay 'fer it!
- April 3, 2012 at 11:21 AM
To NP and the last Anonymous poster: Funniest shit I've ever read on any blog. Thank you!
- April 3, 2012 at 5:48 PM
And Eric...that's amazing information, and goes to show that not only was foresight involved on the part of S-W, but excellent whiskey making capability at Ancient Age, too.
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This revised edition of Peter Senge's bestselling classic, The Fifth Discipline, is based on fifteen years of experience in putting the book's ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization's ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories in the book demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas in The Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published in 1990, have become deeply integrated into people's ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices.
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When I pump, it often takes a really long time (sometimes up to 20 minutes) to start getting a really good flow from my right breast. My left breast usually doesn't have a problem. But it's almost like by the time my left one finishes pumping, my right one starts in earnest. I usually get ample amount of milk when all is said and done, but everything I've read says that when you have a good pump, it should only take 15-20 minutes, while I'm taking 30-35 minutes. Do you have any advice to speed up the faster flow on my right side? I'm going back to work soon and would like to spend less than 40 minute per pumping session.


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My dd (also 8 months and also Claire) gets 9 oz during the 9 hours I work. She takes 3 3oz bottles. She has always been fussy at the end of he bottles but since she was gaining well I never worried. She never fussed after nursing.
I called a LLL Leader and her suggestion to switch to an even slower flowing bottle nipple did the trick. Baby now takes longer at the bottle and is happy after.
Also I pump 4x during my work day for 3 bottles. I get between 2 and 3 oz per session.
Bottom line - your experience sounds very similar to mine and very normal.
Unless a doctor is expressing serious concerns about your baby's weight gain (and even then!!) supplementing is probably more detrimental than beneficial.


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MACON (AP) — Most gardening across Central Illinois won't start until the warm weather arrives in May.
Diana Morrow was one of those who couldn't wait to get started on the Watch Me Grow project that will be taking place for its second summer. She, her 4-year-old grandson Aiden Stoutenborough and other adults with young children visited Golden Oldies Farm near Macon in April for a seed planting party.
Fresh, chemical-free produce is grown at Golden Oldies as part of its community supported agriculture program.
Morrow, who works with the Decatur is Growing Gardeners program, was happy to pass on some of her expertise to Aiden as they planted seeds together and put dirt in handmade newspaper seed holders.
"This shows him you can grow your own food," Morrow said. "You don't have to go to the store. I want him to try new things. That's difficult when you're 4."
The Watch Me Grow program is getting an earlier start than last year, allowing more options of vegetables to grow, said Sierra Brown, who owns and operates Golden Oldies Farm along with her husband, Keith. The Browns will watch for the seeds to start growing and then bring all the seed holders to Garman Park in Decatur, where the group meets throughout the summer.
The Browns were happy to show off their farm to even the youngest of visitors.
"This is another outreach to kids," Sierra Brown said. "We want to give them more exposure to different crops."
The children planted numerous types of seeds, from lettuce, radishes, green beans, summer squash and basil. Instead of just having the usual tomatoes, Sierra Brown was hoping the children would be even more interested in fun plants such as cherry tomatoes.
The group plans to meet at 6 p.m. every Thursday through the warm weather months starting in mid- to late May, organizer Vasudha Pinnamaraju said. Updates about its activities can be found on the Watch Me Grow Facebook page, Pinnamaraju said.
The idea for the project started last summer, but Pinnamaraju said it didn't have all the grants it needed secured until June.
The early April weather was still cool and damp for the seeding party, but the spirits of the children were just as high. Some of the children tried a piece of parsnip Keith Brown had cut up for them, while others seemed to want nothing to do with it.
Pinnamaraju said the group is primarily geared toward children ages 2 to 5 to get them interested in healthy eating habits and having an idea of where their food comes from.
"It's not second nature to most kids," said Peggy Baity, who brought her 4-year-old daughter Grace to the farm after participating with the group last year. "It's a seed I want to plant with her."
Baity likes the community aspect of the project. She found out about it through the Decatur Area Arts Council, which is helping to tie art into the program.
Pinnamaraju said the group worked with Baby TALK, which received a grant from the Arts Council. Pinnamaraju hopes to add a fence with a large canvas by the garden in Garman Park to display participants' artwork and keep it up year after year for them to see as they grow older.
The Decatur Park District allows the group use of the plots in Garman Park for free, Pinnamaraju said. Baby TALK visits the program every other week to share books related to gardening.
Pinnamaraju said it's all intended to start children thinking in a sustainable manner.
"At our age, it's hard to get it in our mind," Pinnamaraju said. "At their age, they soak it all up with good habits."
Other activities for the children include weeding and watering the garden, a visit from a local beekeeper and harvesting potatoes at Golden Oldies Farm. Pinnamaraju hopes to start composting at the Garman Park site this year.


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The Effects of Anabolic Steroids and Protease Inhibitors on People Living With HIV/AIDS
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00202241
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 20, 2005
Last Update Posted : January 13, 2016
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The main aim of the study is to investigate the combined effects of using anabolic steroids and protease inhibitors on fat metabolism and body composition of People Living with HIV/AIDS.
We are seeking to answer the following questions:
1) Are there any significant differences in serum blood lipids, lipodystrophy, in persons with HIV taking antiretroviral therapies and anabolic steroids versus antiretroviral therapies alone?
|Condition or disease
|HIV AIDS Lipodystrophy Hyperlipidemia
|Procedure: testosterone injection
|Not Applicable
Changes in body composition and wasting have been a constant concern for people living with HIV/AIDS. Testosterone and its derivatives, anabolic steroids (AS) are being used by persons with HIV/AIDS (PHA's) to treat AIDs related wasting syndrome and also for bodybuilding purposes. some studies have shown that AS had a positive impact on the weight and well-being of HIV seropositive individuals.
It has been shown that protease inhibitors (PI's) in combination with other antiretroviral HIV therapies are associated with a symmetrical loss of subcutaneous fat from the body surface (lipodystrophy)in some PHAs.
The mechanism for lipodystrophy is not well understood. However, it is associated with hyperlipidemia that contributes to central fat deposition, insulin resistance, and in some, type 2 diabetes. As well, increased visceral abdominal fat and loss of fat inthe arms, legs and face, and increased levels of serum lipids have been reported.The health effects of anabolic steroid therapy coupled with PIs has not been examined before.
This study is an observational study investigating the phenomenon of lipodystrophy in an HIV population already exposed to AS and PIs. A prospective observational design will be employed, with two groups recruited. One group will be taking AS and PI's, the other will be taking PIs only.
The groups will be asked to completed Quality of Life nutrition and physical activity questionnaires. Serum blood lipid characteristics will be compared, and body composition will be determined using MRIs, BIA's and skinfold measurements.
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|30 participants
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|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
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|Official Title:
|The Effects of Anabolic Steroids and Protease Inhibitors on Serum Blood Lipids,Muscle Mass, and Total Body Fat in People Living With HIV/AIDS
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|September 1999
|Study Completion Date :
|June 2001
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- differences in regional and overall body fat level
- impacts on metabolic and cardiovascular health
- quantity of muscle tissue between group comparison
- comparison of 3 determinants of body composition(MRI,skinfold,BIA)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- documented HIV seropositive status
- 18 years of age or older
- combination antiretroviral therapies for at least three months or more
- able to comply with study procedures and protocol
- signed informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- acute opportunistic infections at baseline
- use of serum lipid lowering drugs
- use of serum sugar controlling drugs
- evidence of drug or alcohol use which may interfere with study participation
- a recent illness with associate weight loss of greater than or equal to 10lbs
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00202241
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|Queen's University
|Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
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|Queen's University
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. Wendy Wobeser, Principal Investigator, Queen's University
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|First Posted:
|September 20, 2005 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 13, 2016
|Last Verified:
|January 2016
Keywords provided by Dr. Wendy Wobeser, Queen's University:
anabolic steroid
body composition
skinfold measurements
protease inhibitors
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lipid Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Skin Diseases, Metabolic
Skin Diseases
Testosterone enanthate
Testosterone undecanoate
Testosterone 17 beta-cypionate
Testosterone Congeners
Protease Inhibitors
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
Antineoplastic Agents
Anabolic Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
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Victory Packaging soon will relocate its entire Southaven branch operation to the Southeast Memphis industrial submarket.
The Houston, Texas-based industrial packaging supplier and distributor inked 158,333 square feet in Shelby Air Park Building 1, 4500 Malone Road. The 475,000-square-foot building also houses Terminal Warehouse Inc.
Victory Packaging operates its Memphis-area branch in 75,000 square feet in Hillwood Development Co. LLC's DeSoto Trade Center Building 4, 4320 Executive Drive, in Southaven.
The company will expand and relocate to its new Memphis location in Shelby Air Park by the end of February, said Victory Packaging general manager LeiAnn Gardner. The firm opened its Southaven location in December 2007 and has outgrown its space.
"We've got 64 locations in North America and our facility here in Southaven is known as the Memphis branch, so we want to physically be located in Memphis," Gardner said. "Since we were going to have to move anyway, we are choosing to move over the state line. We service all of those businesses anyway, so it's actually even going to put us closer to our main existing customer base right now."
Jeb Fields, vice president with Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors LLC, along with Todd Mason, principal of Avison Young in Houston, represented the tenant in lease negotiations. Tim Mashburn, senior leasing associate with Colliers International Asset Services, represented the landlord, TA Associates.
A $305,355 building permit was recently filed with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement for Victory Packaging's interior alterations. CRL Construction Co. Inc. is listed as the contractor.
Gardner said there likely will be additional positions added once the move is complete.
"We're reconstructing some things; we have some third-party stuff that we have done right now, we're going to pull all of that in-house," she said.
• In other commercial real estate news, Dallas-based CWCapital Asset Management has purchased two retail properties in Germantown out of foreclosure from substitute trustee Robert F. Tom, associate with Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC.
CWCapital Asset Management is a special servicing subsidiary of CW Financial Services, a Baltimore-based commercial real estate finance and investment management company.
Using the entity 1010-1034 North Germantown Parkway Holdings LLC, CWCapital bought 1010-1034 N. Germantown Parkway at Cordova Station for $1.96 million.
That property's last arm's length sale was for $4.1 million in January 2006.
Also, under the entity 1645 North Germantown Parkway Holdings LLC, CWCapital bought the Dexter Lakes outparcel at 1645 N. Germantown Parkway for $600,000. That property's last arm's length sale was for $2.05 million in January 2006. Built in 1998, the Class A, 6,666-square-foot retail strip center's 2012 appraisal from the Shelby County Assessor of Property was $1.2 million.
Colliers' Andrew Phillips and Ed Thomas are handling leasing and management at both properties.
• Meanwhile, Morris Smith Automotive Group LLC, doing business as Thrifty Car Sales of Memphis, leased 25,350 square feet at 2240 Covington Pike.
The 4.18-acre site is a former car dealership owned by AutoNation.
Hank Martin and Elliot Embry with NAI Saig Co. represented AutoNation in the deal.
• In renewals, Contemporary Media Inc. has renewed its 16,105-square-foot lease at 460 Tennessee St., suite 200, Downtown for five more years.
Brian Califf and Martin with NAI Saig Co. represented the landlord, Telesis Community Credit Union, in the direct deal.
Publications of Memphis-based Contemporary Media include Memphis Magazine, Memphis Flyer, Memphis Business Quarterly and Memphis Parent.
• And in other deals, DEEM LLC signed a new lease on 4,844 square feet at Trinity Ridge Business Center, 7730B Trinity Road, in Cordova.
Bobby Daush, CB Richard Ellis Memphis senior associate, represented the tenant. Bryce Daves, CBRE Memphis associate, represented the landlord, Westmount, Quebec-based Shofar Realty ADA Compliant L.P., an entity of Dalfen America Corp.
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Ruth Seville Parker Hatch, 92, of Blackfoot, passed away Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 at the Bingham Memorial Hospital.
She was born Dec. 10, 1921 in Hibbard, Idaho. Her parents are Lorenzo R. Parker and Alice Seville Long Parker.
She was a devoted member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She held many positions in the church, including Relief Society president, gospel doctrine teacher, Primary worker and Young Women's advisor. She was a shining example to her posterity.
She married Ralph Hatch in the Logan Temple Dec. 19, 1941. They started their life together in Moreland. Then World War II came and Ralph was drafted. Ruth and her girls went to live by her parents in Iona. When he came home they moved back to Moreland. Later they moved to Leslie, Idaho. They then moved to the Pahsimeroi Valley to continue ranching. Mother followed Dad wherever his ranching interests took them.
Ruth excelled in academics and was valedictorian at Moreland High School. Next she went to Ricks College for one year. Later in her life she became a beautician owning her own shop in Mackay. As time went on she moved her shop to her home. Her interests were gardening, reading, and fishing. Ruth was the queen of one-liners.
She is survived by daughters Brenda Lee Kauer, Blackfoot and Katherine (Richard) Snow, Pocatello; sons Parker Hatch, Pahsimeroi and Cody (Kelly) Hatch, Lindon, Utah, brother, Leo H. (Lois) Parker of Utah, 15 grandchildren, 32 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, sisters Mary, Roween and Melba and brother Rao.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15 2014 at the Blackfoot LDS Third Ward Church, 845 Grant Street, under the direction of Hawker Funeral Home, 132 S. Shilling Ave., Blackfoot.
A viewing will be held one prior to the services at the church.
Interment will be in the Moreland Cemetery.
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Q: With impending free agency and increasing salaries, how you do see our running back situation playing out in the offseason?
A: Thats a very good question, especially after the way we saw the Ravens game go.
I know that Pierre Thomas is a team player and says all the right things, but this summers contract non-negotiations and his two-month injury didnt help him much in the eyes of the Saints money men. I think hed like to stay here, but my guess is hell take a stronger look elsewhere first.
Chris Ivory has shown, also, that Pierre Thomas isnt a necessary commodity for the team. Sure, Thomas runs screen passes like no other player on the Saints roster, but Ivorys straight-forward running style is what Thomas is. Ivory certainly sticks around but the way this team finds rookie undrafted free agent running backs, nobody would seem safe.
I can see Julius Jones saying goodbye after this season just as easily I can see him sticking around.
And then theres Reggie Bush. Nice guy, average player. I suspect, though, that Sean Payton loves Reggie and Reggie loves Sean and that means hell stick around here. Hell restructure his contract is my guess and be with the Saints for a bit longer.
Q: How impressed are you by the play of the Atlanta Falcons this year? Are they the team to beat in the NFC?
A: Simply put, yes, theyre the team to beat in the NFC. Theyve been the most consistent team this season in the conference and appear to be just like the Saints a season ago. What needs to go right, has been. You could see this coming before the season; its why they were everyones pick for NFC South division winner and a Super Bowl contender.
Matt Ryan is solid, the running game is stout, Roddy White is hard to stop and the defense is coming up big when it needs to. Im very impressed with their discipline and will to win.
Q: What worries you most the most about the Saints should we make it to the postseason?
A: I think a lot of people would say the Saints inability to stop the run game. But lets be honest, I think Sunday was an aberration more than anything. Theyve been solid against the run for most of the year.
What Id be worried about is two-fold: Special teams coverage and Sean Paytons penchant for going away from the run game for long periods. The coverage units have been mostly pitiful and it crept up against the Ravens.
Meanwhile, 14 runs in an important road game isnt going to cut it. The Saints had every chance to win against Baltimore, but by the end of the game, the Ravens figured out that New Orleans wouldnt run the ball and came after Drew Brees.
Q: Finish this sentence: If the Saints don't win the Superbowl___________
A: the past two years have still been exceptional. At this moment, the Saints are 23-7 during the regular season since the beginning of the 2009 season and 26-7 overall. Even if they were to split the final two and I believe they win the final two thats a spectacular two-year run for a franchise that was hammered by Hurricane Katrina just five years ago.
Strato asks:
Q: With the way Jenkins has been playing...do you see us letting Sharper walk?
A: I think the Saints let Sharper walk and when Sharper realizes that he wont get a great deal on the open market, hell likely return. That is, I think that if Gregg Williams returns as defensive coordinator.
Q: What positions do you think the Saints should Draft? (Lb or DT, DE ETC.)
A: In no particular order, LB, DE, DT, OT
Q: Will we see Kiwi Mitchell anytime soon?
A: We saw him a little bit Sunday, but I would suspect hell begin to work his way into some more sets by this week. Hes athletic, has good size and gives them a legitimate backup or fourth linebacker.
Q: Is Cassillas the answer at OLB next year?
A: I dont know, honestly. We barely got to see him this season before he was injured. He has lots of upside and the coaching staff likes what he gives them. But if they can find good value in the draft, I suspect theyd go after one there.
breesfan27 (AKA Mrs. Drew Brees) asks:
Q: What are the chances we keep Pierre Thomas?
A: As I said earlier, probably not good. With Chris Ivory playing well this season, weve seen that Thomas is somewhat expendable. Thomas is a good player who brings a lot to the table, but dont forget that he was an undrafted rookie free agent when he signed with New Orleans. In other words, another guy like Thomas can be found again.
Q: Do you see Gregg Williams staying after we win the Superbowl?
A: Well, thats quite presumptuous, dont you think? That means you think hell entertain thoughts of leaving! But seriously, itll have to be the right situation. I think he enjoys having Drew Brees on the other side of the ball because that helps him as much as he helps Brees. But if the money is right and the situation is right, I suspect hed leave.
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Q: We love Jim Henderson....How long do you think he will keep performing his game announcing duties for the Saints? We sincerely hope he does not hang them up soon.
A: Youre in luck. Jim enjoys calling games as much as we all enjoy him calling games. I think youll be listening to the smooth styling of James Hondo Henderson for a long time.
Pakowitz asks:
Q: Junior Gallet. Hype or hope?
A: Easy hype.
Q: What's happened to Meachem this season? (Seems as if he just disappears from the offense until we go deep.)
A: I think early on his toe injury (he had offseason surgery on one of his toes) hampered him. Now I think its just a matter of the offense doesnt pick out just one person. At times, weve seen Marques Colston disappear (early this season). Weve seen Devery Henderson disappear. We wondered where Lance Moore was early in the year. Plays for Meachem are called and will continue to be. Hell reappear.
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I don't think it's that he doesn't think much of PT, I think it's the fact we've always been able to find these diamond in the rough players and getting them to play at a high level... making essentially everyone back there replaceable. Unless Reggie restructures and takes that 11 million, making it some sort of guaranteed bonus spread over multiple of years with a lower base salary, I just don't see him coming back. Sexy player on paper, but definitely production wise... an average player.
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Question for BH:
With the Roddy White twittering flames do you think this is reaching the locker room throughout or is this something players deal with regularly and it's all in fun and no one's really affected by this.
BTW Roddy did slam the city the fans and the coach in his twitter flame remarks.. Nothing really hurtful but it's like their team is laughing at the Saints accomplishments and saying it was a feel good gift, and we should just fall back..
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Next question for BH:
With this up-coming game, coming off a loss we were exploited for a lot of weaknesses, many fans already know is Shanle, but Jenkins could also be a liability to us as well with his hot/cold gameday showings..
Who do you think Matt Ryan will target?
Also we already know Falcons are going to run the ball, past couple of games we have been tackling very poorly, how do you think Saints will counter this?
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