text:
Editor's Comment: This study used the CDC "Fukuda" criteria to establish the two CFS cohorts. Although the Fukuda criteria do not require post-exertional malaise, the researchers found a positive correlation between shortness of breath (dyspnea), and "Exertional Exhaustion." There was also a high occurrence of fibromyalgia (42% and 47%) in the two CFS groups. In the full study the authors suggest that the sensations of dyspnea, including lightheadedness and chest pain, may be due to central nervous system dysregulation, specifically, dysautonomia.
Dyspnea in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS): Comparison of Two Prospective Cross-sectional Studies
~Source: Global Journal of Health Science; Vol. 5, No. 2; 2013
By Murugan Ravindran et al.
Background: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) subjects have many systemic complaints including shortness of breath. Dyspnea was compared in two CFS and control cohorts to characterize potential pathophysiological mechanisms.
Methods: Cohort 1 of 257 CFS and 456 control subjects were compared using the Medical Research Council chronic Dyspnea Scale (MRC Score; range 0–5). Cohort 2 of 106 CFS and 90 controls answered a Dyspnea Severity Score (range 0–20) adapted from the MRC Score. Subsets of both cohorts completed CFS Severity Scores, fatigue, quality of life, and systemic complaints questionnaires. Cohort 2 also responded to other Dyspnea, affective and anxiety instruments. A subset had pulmonary function and total lung capacity (TLC) measurements.
Results: MRC Scores were equivalent for females and males in Cohort 1 CFS (1.92 [1.72-2.16]; mean [95% confidence interval]) and controls (0.31 [0.23-0.39]; P < 0.0001 by 2-tailed, unpaired Student's t tests with Bonferroni corrections). Receiver-operator curves identified 2 as the threshold for positive MRC Scores in Cohort 1. This indicated 54% of CFS, but only 3% of controls, had significant Dyspnea. In Cohort 2, the threshold Dyspnea Severity Score of 4 indicated shortness of breath in 67% of CFS and 23% of these controls. Cohort 2 Dyspnea Scores were higher for CFS (7.80 [6.60-9.00]) than controls (2.40 [1.60-3.20]; P < 0.0001). CFS had significantly worse fatigue, other CFS defining criteria and quality of life compared to controls. Although CFS had worse depressive affect and anxiety scores, only the controls showed correlations with Dyspnea Score. Pulmonary function was normal in CFS, but Borg scores and sensations of chest pain and dizziness were significantly greater during testing than controls. TLC was normal except for 2 of 16 CFS who had hyperinflation. A general linear model of Cohort 2 CFS responses linked Dyspnea Scores with rapid heart rate, chest pain and dizziness.
Conclusions: Sensory hypersensitivity without airflow limitation contributed to Dyspnea in CFS. Correlates of Dyspnea in controls were distinct from CFS suggesting different mechanisms.
Source: Global Journal of Health Science; Vol. 5, No. 2; 2013. Murugan Ravindran, Oluwatoyin Adewuyi, Yin Zheng, Uyenphuong Le, Christian Timbol, Samantha Merck, Rania Esteitie, Michelle Cooney, Charles Read, James Baraniuk. Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA
The full article can be accessed HERE.


text:
University Art Tuition in Dumfries and Galloway (including Stranraer, Annan, Lockerbie)
The cost-effective way to find University Art Tutors in Dumfries and Galloway.
Unlike a private tuition agency, tutors advertise with us, meaning you can contact them for free. It's never been easier to learn University Art in Dumfries and Galloway!
- No agency fees
- Deal directly with the tutor
- Good Schools Guide recommends
Articles by University Art Tutors
Search for UK Private Tuition
Looking for online tuition?
Filter By:
Price Range:
Tutors also teaching:
- Architecture
- History of Art
- University Computer Science
- University Design
- University English
- University Philosophy
- 11+ exam
- A-level Art
- A-level English
- A-level History of Art
- A-level Home Economics
- Animation
- Art and Design
- Art and Design (Digital)
- Autism
- AutoCAD
- CV Writing
- Cambridge Pre-U
- Computer Aided Design (CAD)
- Computer Programming (general)
- Computing and IT skills
- Creativity Coaching
- Dissertation/ Proofreading
- Dyspraxia
- Early Years Education
- Essay Writing
- Fashion and Textiles
- Fine Art
- French (general)
- GCSE Art
- GCSE Design and Technology
- GCSE English
- Gifted and Talented
- Higher Art and Design
- Job Applications
- Key Stage 1 Art
- Key Stage 2 Art
- Key Stage 2 English
- Key Stage 2 Maths
- Key Stage 3 Art
- Key Stage 3 Design and Technology
- Key Stage 3 English
- Life Coaching
- Meditation
- National 4/5 Art and Design
- Personal Statement
- Photography
- Photoshop/ Illustrator
- Presentation/ Interview Skills
- Public Speaking
- Special Educational Needs (SEN)
- Study Skills
- University Entrance
- Web Design
- Well-Being
Nearby Areas:
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Carlisle
- East Ayrshire
- Scottish Borders
- South Ayrshire
- South Lanarkshire
Related Subjects
Latest Reviews
We have no tutors in Dumfries and Galloway or nearby, but your closest tutors are shown below.
You may also like to consider online University Art Tuition, or post a Tutors Wanted request.
Zangmo Alexander Rickinghall, IP22 Gold Member
Debbie Collis Brondesbury Park, NW6 Silver Member
Lisa O'Donnell CSM Stoke Newington, N16
James Bowen Ravenscourt Park, W12
Rachel Labovitch Twickenham, TW1
A*Rigby: Royal College of Art* Gloucester Road, W8 Gold Member
Josephine Breese Shoreditch, E1
Emma K L Taylor RCA SuperTutor Sloane Square, SW3 Gold Member
Esmée Fashion/Textiles/Art CSM Chelsea, SW10 Gold Member
Julia Jane Heckles Wandsworth Town, SW18 Gold Member
Sitwat Clapham North, SW8 Gold Member
Graham James Art Wandsworth Common, SW18 Gold Member
Rebecca H Peckham Rye, SE23
Sonny Williams East Grinstead, RH19 Gold Member

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Brookfield Residential Properties Inc., the second-best performing home-building stock in the Americas over the past year, said the recovery in U.S. housing is only just starting to add to earnings.
"We're just at the beginning" of the recovery, Brookfield Chief Executive Officer Alan Norris said in a telephone interview from Calgary, where the company is based. "If you take a look at our numbers, all of our profit is from Canada. We're only just starting to get to the point where the U.S. is going to be contributing."
Shares of Brookfield, which is considering Phoenix and Las Vegas for expansion, surged 113% in the 12 months through Feb. 15, the second-best performance on the Bloomberg Americas Home Builders Index. The advance stands only behind Pultegroup Inc., which posted a 125% gain. Brookfield Residential rose 0.4% to $21.69 in Toronto at 9:39 a.m. Tuesday.
Homebuilding stocks have soared as low interest rates and an improving job market drive a housing recovery after a property collapse sent the index down 84% from 2005 to 2008. U.S. home prices rose 8.3% in December from a year earlier, the biggest jump since May 2006, Irvine, California- based CoreLogic Inc. said on Feb. 5. Existing home sales fell 1% to a 4.94 million annual rate in December as tight supply put a lid on deals, according to the National Association of Realtors, based in Chicago.
'No Supply'
"You have a classic situation of demand building up from new entrants into the housing market, the banks starting to lend again, interest rates are very low, making houses available, and there's no supply," David Baskin, president of Baskin Financial Services Inc. in Toronto, which manages about $440-million, said in a telephone interview on Feb. 14. "So no surprise, new homes are being built again and prices are recovering in some of the depressed markets."
Brookfield Residential invested in U.S. land during the housing downturn and now has almost 50,000 building lots in the U.S., making it the fifth-largest property developer in Canada and the U.S. The firm, which develops land and builds homes in 10 North American markets, including California and Edmonton, Alberta, is about 69% owned by Brookfield Asset Management Inc., the Toronto based asset manager with a market value of $23.3-billion.
When land is moving and market cycle is good, it's a very, very profitable business,
While holding land through downturns requires "patient capital," the company is now beginning to see the rewards, Norris said in the Feb. 14 interview.
"When land is moving and market cycle is good, it's a very, very profitable business," he said. "We kept telling people land is going to become a big issue as the recovery takes hold in the U.S. Now that has transpired and it's exactly as we laid it out."
Lots Rise
Phoenix and Las Vegas are possible areas to expand the business because markets in those two cities "over-corrected," Norris said.
The real estate developer on Feb. 13 said fourth-quarter net income more than doubled to $56-million, helped by gains in both land and housing development, while revenue rose to $715-million from $365-million. The company does not break out Canadian and U.S. profit figures.
Brookfield said the average price of a single family lot sold in the fourth quarter rose 14% to $159,000 from a year ago, helping revenue from its land business more than triple to $407-million in the period. The company benefited from both higher prices and a greater number of transactions at its housing division.
Further Upside
Craig Sterling, managing director and head of global equity research with EVA Dimensions in New York, said Brookfield's shares still have room to grow as profitability returns to the industry.
"If they execute properly, there's probably another 50% in that stock," he said in a phone interview on Feb. 15. "They seemed to have taken a bigger hit coming out of 2011 than most companies. They are starting to recover."
The Canadian market will remain stable this year, said Norris. The challenge in the Canadian market is associated with high-rise development in Vancouver and Toronto, a segment the company doesn't participate in, he said.
After years of rising sales and prices, Canada's housing market has cooled. Home starts plunged 19% in January to the lowest level since the end of 2009, led by a slump in condominium construction.
Replenish Supply
"Our story is very much a play on Canada where we have a very strong and stable franchise and huge optionality in a U.S. recovery where we have half our assets," Norris said. Brookfield Residential says one in five Calgary residents live in a Brookfield community.
Rising household formations, historically low interest rates, the favorable conditions of owning versus renting and low existing home inventories will all help boost U.S. demand for new home construction this year, Drew Reading, a Princeton, New Jersey-based Bloomberg Industries analyst who covers homebuilders, said by telephone on Feb. 15
"As a result of increased demand, homebuilders are aggressively increasing land spend, so they can replenish their lot supply amid faster community absorption rates," he said.
Still, one of the main concerns about the durability of the housing recovery is the possibility of U.S. legislation that would increase the size of a required down payment on house purchases, Reading, said. Unemployment remains high and is impacting the speed of the recovery, he said.
"We haven't seen first-time buyers get back into the market," Reading said.
City Shift
Brookfield is gradually shifting its mix of development to include more redevelopment within cities as municipalities in Canada in the U.S. focus on increasing density and slowing suburban growth, Norris said.
Brookfield in 1995 began developing MacKenzie Towne, a southeast Calgary "New Urbanist" community. Since then, the company has applied similar approaches to development in other cities in Canada and the U.S., said Norris.
While the company is well funded, Brookfield is "open" to working with sovereign wealth funds, Norris said. The company has no plans to expand beyond North America.
"We're just at the start of a multi-year recovery in the U.S. housing market," said Paul Diggle, a property economist at Capital Economics Ltd. in London, in an interview. "The U.S. market has fallen so far it looks cheap."
The big opportunity is buying up large portfolios of cheap single family housing, Diggle said. "The inventory is starting to run down and we're starting to see a slow recovery for land developers and builders," he said.


text:
Det här är en gammal arkiverad spelning
Emil Jensen + Iiris Viljanen (FI)
Källa: tickster.com
Emil Jensen
Textinformationen kommer från last.fms wiki
Emil Jensen is a Swedish singer-songwriter/poet. He sings in a broad southern accent of Swedish (skånska), accompanied by mostly accoustic instruments such as guitar and piano on his two earlier records, and a greater variety of electronic tunes on his latest record ("Orka då", 2006).
His characteristic live shows consists of equal parts stand up comedy, poetry slam - Emil has won the Swedish poetry slam championship twice, and reached the fourth place in the world championship in Rotterdam - and music. The songs are usually simplified versions, allowing Emil to perform them alone, accompanying himself on the piano. On the studio albums, however, he is assisted by Marcus Cato from his former band "Mållgan". Read more on Last....
Iiris Viljanen (FI)
Textinformationen kommer från last.fms wiki
Former front-figure of Vasas Flora och Fauna. Read more on Last.fm . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.


text:
Featured News - Current News - Archived News - News Categories
The Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University has announced its schedule for fall 2012:
Current Exhibitions
•Through Dec. 2: Folk arts exhibition: "(Re-)Making Irish Lace"
•Through Jan. 27, 2013: "Western New York Collects: Arnold Mesches"
•Through Feb. 17, 2013: "TopSpin 10: The 10 Year TopSpin Retrospective"
•Through Feb. 24, 2013: "The Picturesque and War: Visual and Literary Aspects of 19th Century Niagara Tourism"
Continuing Exhibitions
•"Four Decades of Abstraction," through Sept. 28, 2014
•"Freedom Crossing: The Underground Railroad in Greater Niagara," ongoing
Special Events
•Castellani Art Museum 10th annual gala: Saturday, Oct. 13; cocktails at 6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7:30 p.m. A special evening is in store for guests at the Castellani Art Museum's annual fundraiser. Tickets are $135 per person or $160 per patron. Reservations must be received by Oct. 5. Proceeds benefit education and exhibition-related programs at the museum. Call 716-286-8201 for reservations.
•Museum Mixer: CAM's sixth annual "Holiday Bash": Friday, Dec. 14, from 5 to 8 p.m. Celebrate the holidays at the Castellani Art Museum with live music by Penelope, dancing, refreshments, a cash bar, basket raffle and door prize. Admission is free to museum members, and $10 for others.
Lectures, Workshops and Community Programs
The following programs are held in conjunction with the exhibition "The Picturesque and War: Visual and Literary Aspects of 19th Century Niagara Tourism":
•Oct. 21: Reading and Interpretation of the poem, "The Foresters" by Alexander Wilson, which describes a journey by foot from the lower Niagara River to the falls in the autumn of 1804. The guest speaker is Dr. Robert Giannetti, author and antiquarian bookseller, Niagara University adjunct professor and guest curator of "The Picturesque and War: Visual and Literary Aspects of 19th Century Tourism."
•Nov. 4: "Memories of War: Visiting Battle Grounds in the Early American Republic," a lecture and book signing with Dr. Chambers.
•Nov. 18: Reading and interpretation of the 19th century comic masterpiece: "The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque" by Giannetti.
Docent-led Public Tours
Thirty-minute tour includes overview of the museum's current exhibitions. Meet your docent at 2 p.m. at the reception desk. Reservations are not necessary. Admission is free, but donations welcome. Free docent-led tours are scheduled for 2 p.m. on the following dates:
Sunday, Nov. 11, and Sunday, Dec. 9
Art Express Family Workshops
Hop aboard the Art Express. The CAM's theme-based journey begins with a tour of artworks in the gallery and a story, and concludes with hands-on art activities in the classroom. All workshops begin at 2 p.m. The cost is $2 per person for museum members or $3 for non-members. To register, call 716-286-8367.
Save the dates for the following Saturdays: Oct. 6, 20, 27, and Nov. 3, 10 and 17.
The Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University is open Tuesday through Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sundays from 1 until 5 p.m. Admission is free.
For more information on all museum programs, visit www.castellaniartmuseum.org.


text:
Worth the wait: Ribbon cut at Punxsy's ATA Center
The ribbon was cut Friday morning for the ATA Transit Center on North Findley Street in Punxsutawney.
Pictured (front, from left) are Anthony Viglione, Clearfield County ATA Board member; Richard Stover and Dave Gordon, Jefferson County ATA Board members; Ernest Carns, ATA Board of Directors; Jeff Pisarcik, Jefferson County commissioner; Kristen Vida, ATA Board for Clearfield County; Deborah Pontzer, representing Cong. Glenn "GT" Thompson; Ken Wingo, chairman of the ATA Board of Directors; Bob Hallstrom, KTH Architects; Gabe Uljon, ATA resident engineer; Carl Gotwald, Jefferson County sheriff; John Griffiths, Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle member with Punxsutawney Phil; and Rep. Sam Smith, speaker of the State House of Representatives; (back) Rhett Kennedy, ATA Board member from McKean County; Mark Adams, representing State Sen. Joe Scarnati, president pro-tempore of the State Senate; Doug Chambers, Punxsutawney District Magistrate; Chad Weaver, administrator for Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge John Foradora; and Larry Chenoga, Punxsutawney Borough Council president.
Read more in Saturday's issue of The Spirit.


text:
Decatur, IL
Asking: $270,000
Decatur, IL
Asking: $425,000
Decatur, IL
Asking: $360,000
Franchise Opportunity
Capital Required:$146,725
Decatur, IL
Asking: $270,000
Decatur, IL
Asking: $425,000
Decatur, IL
Asking: $360,000
Franchise Opportunity
Capital Required: $64,150
22 Listings:
VR Business Brokers, Mergers & Acquisitions offers professional business
brokerage and certified M&A intermediary services to the South Florida
area. Since 1979, we have been representing business buyers and sellers
around the United States and overseas. We also offer corporate valuations,
business consulting, financial planning, business
David Friedman
VR Blue Ocean Business Brokers
954 543 1962
Thank you for signing up for the BizBuySell bulletin.
Sign up for the BizBuySell Bulletin and get advice on:
You can opt out of the BizBuySell Bulletin at any time.
Business listed by:
Unknown Broker
Unknown Broker Company
Full name is required.
Get free alerts via email when new businesses are listed matching your Macon County Businesses search criteria.
Reveal hidden alerts and unlock advanced features on search results and detail pages to help you find the perfect business.
Premium Members also get valuable insight into the buying process via our
video series, access to our advanced
business search agent, and more!


text:
Preparedness Fair around the corner
Event organizer Sue Shick and others are preparing for the Third Annual Preparedness Fair, scheduled for Saturday, March 19 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 1159 Shelvey Summit Rd.The opening speaker this year is Oak Norton, who served in the U.S. Army and Air Force for 24 years as an intelligence officer."[Norton] briefly served in Germany with the Army when we suspected that the Russians seemed to be engaged in suspect activities on the border," Shick said. "He then returned to the states, where he was asked to enter the Air Force because of his specialty."He later returned to Germany for another tour and spent time in Vietnam."When Vietnam occurred, he had a short tour there for consulting purposes," Shick said. "Later he attended the Vietnamese language school for a year and was then returned to Vietnam for a second time for a full tour."Between the two tours in Vietnam, he spent several months in Thailand, where they were engaged with the enemy in Laos. He also served a year in Korea, two years in the Philippines, and a two-year tour in England, with several short tours in other countries."Norton retired in 1973 and set up a private investigative company involved in insurance fraud and security.


text:
Third Party Insurance
Third Party Insurance
Cycling UK members are automatically covered up to £10 million by this policy, including using cycles for business use. But note that you are NOT covered if you are specifically employed as a cyclist, for example as a bike messenger. It is not possible to buy this policy separately from Cycling UK membership, although members of affiliated clubs can take it out at reduced rates.
Members of bodies that affiliate to Cycling UK can obtain our Third Party insurance at a discounted rate, which covers them against any damage or injury they cause whilst riding their bikes, whether with the affiliated body or not. It does cover individuals who cycle in time trials and sportives but not in any other kind of competitive cycling.
If you think you have been involved in an incident that may lead to a claim against you under Cycling UK's Third Party insurance, please contact our Accident Claims Line on 0844 736 8452 as soon as possible.
Please note that Cycling UK is not FCA regulated and cannot assess individual needs for insurance. You will not receive advice or recommendations from Cycling UK about them. Read the fact sheet and FAQs below carefully to decide which policy suits your requirements. If you are still unsure, ring our brokers directly on 0151 494 4400.


text:
Whether or not you should have vaccinations during pregnancy depends on the type of vaccination. If you're pregnant, any vaccinations you need will probably be delayed until after your baby is born.
It depends on the type of vaccination. Some vaccines, such as the seasonal flu vaccine and the whooping cough vaccine, are recommended during pregnancy. And some, such as the tetanus vaccine, are perfectly safe to have during pregnancy if necessary.
If the vaccine involves the use of a "live" version of the virus, such as the MMR vaccine, it will normally be given after your baby is born because these vaccines could cause your unborn baby to become infected. There is no evidence that any live vaccine causes birth defects.
In some cases, a live vaccine may be used during pregnancy if the risk of infection outweighs the risk of the vaccination.
Your GP or midwife can give you more advice about vaccinations during pregnancy.
All pregnant women are offered seasonal flu vaccination, as they are at increased risk of severe illness if they get flu.
GP practices will update patient registers throughout the flu season – which runs from the beginning of October until around January or February – and pay particular attention to women who become pregnant during this time.
The seasonal flu vaccine can be given safely during any stage of pregnancy.
Pregnant women can help protect their babies by getting vaccinated against whooping cough (pertussis). Having the vaccination helps protect your baby from catching whooping cough in the first few weeks after they're born, as they will get some of the immunity from you.
The best time to have the whooping cough vaccine is between 20 weeks (after your scan) and 32 weeks. But if for any reason you miss having the vaccine, you can still have it up until you go into labour.
Read FAQs about whooping cough vaccination in pregnancy.
If you are at a high risk of getting hepatitis B and are pregnant or thinking of having a baby, you will be advised to have the hepatitis B vaccine.
The hepatitis B vaccine is not a live vaccine and there is no evidence of any risk to you or your baby.
Read more about hepatitis B vaccination.
For information about travel vaccines, see Can I have travel vaccinations during pregnancy?


text:
Jimmy Westlake: Tale of 2 clusters
November 20, 2012
Stars are born in clusters — families of dozens to hundreds of stars that share the same age and chemical makeup — but they don't remain in clusters their whole lives. Like fledgling birds, stars eventually leave the nest in which they were born to roam the galaxy alone.
There are hundreds of star clusters that populate our Milky Way galaxy, many of which are visible from Earth to unaided human eyes. Most appear as faint, fuzzy smudges in the night sky because of their great distance from us, but there are two clusters close enough to allow us to see their brightest members as individual suns.
On cold, crisp November evenings, you can spot these two magnificent star clusters in our constellation of Taurus the Bull. They are the Hyades (high-a-deez) and the Pleiades (plee-a-deez) star clusters. The Hyades cluster forms the familiar V-shaped face of Taurus, with the bright orange star Aldebaran as one of his glaring red eyes. Aldebaran itself is not a member of the Hyades but is superimposed on the cluster as a foreground star, only half as far away. At a distance of 153 light years, the Hyades cluster is the closest star cluster to our solar system.
Leading the Hyades westward across the sky is Taurus' second star cluster, the Pleiades, marking the Bull's shoulder. Also known as the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades star cluster lies nearly twice as far from us as the Hyades cluster, so it appears much smaller in size, but its importance to the sky-watchers of the past cannot be overstated. The star Aldebaran received its name from the Arabic words that mean "The Follower" because it rises just behind the Pleiades and obediently follows them across the heavens.
The Hyades and Pleiades star clusters are steeped in ancient legend and have been pondered and ogled by curious eyes since antiquity. Here's a sample of the star lore surrounding these two clusters.
Hyas was the son of a Titan named Atlas. His seven half-sisters by a different mother were the Hyades, a name that means "the rainy ones." Hyas grew into a renowned archer and hunter but one day wound up being killed by his prey — a wild boar. His sisters were so overcome with grief that they wept themselves to death. Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, immortalized the sisters by placing them among the stars as the Hyades star cluster. During the rainy season of April and May, the Hyades are not seen because they are too close to the sun in our daytime sky. The Greeks considered the springtime rains as the never-ending tears of the Hyades, grieving for their fallen brother.
Recommended Stories For You
The Pleiades were the seven half-sisters of the Hyades by yet a different mother. After Atlas and the Titans were defeated by Zeus and the Olympians in the great war for control of the universe, Atlas' punishment was to toil for eternity, holding up the sky. Unable to look after his daughters, Atlas had to watch helplessly as the brute Orion relentlessly pursued the seven beautiful Pleiades. Zeus took pity on them and first changed them into doves so that they might escape Orion's advances before finally changing them into the seven twinkling stars of the Pleiades star cluster, just out of Orion's reach. He placed them in the heavens beside their grieving half-sisters, the Hyades.
Look for the Hyades and Pleiades star clusters high in the eastern sky at about 9 p.m. in late November. The three stars of Orion's Belt point upward to them like an arrow. The dazzling planet Jupiter shines nearby both clusters this fall and winter. Aim your binoculars at the clusters to see dozens of fainter stars.
Professor Jimmy Westlake teaches astronomy and physics at Colorado Mountain College's Alpine Campus. Check out Westlake's astrophotography website at http://www.jwestlake.com.


text:
How Much Change?
Kids solve real-world math problems in this set of money worksheets.Download All (5)
Download All is only available to Education.com Pro members. Learn More
Click on a worksheet in the set below to see more info or download the PDF.
Calculate the ChangeDownload Worksheet More info
You've got a $5 bill and a hunger for some delicious candy corn. Can you calculate how much change you'll receive from the cashier?
Calculate the Change 2Download Worksheet More info
Have you ever bought a scarecrow? Imagine you're going to the store to buy one of these festive fall items. Calculate the change you would get back.
Calculate the Change 3Download Worksheet More info
Hey, coin expert! Take a look at this math problem and try to figure out the change you would get back after buying a mask. Are you up for this money challenge?
Calculate the Change 4Download Worksheet More info
It's time to stock up on spooky jack-o'-lanters, but who's going to figure out all the money math involved? Are you up for the challenge?
Calculate the Change 5Download Worksheet More info
Practice money math with this Halloween-themed worksheet! Imagine you're buying a glowing skeleton at the store with a $10 bill. How much change will you get?
Want to download this whole set as a single PDF?Download All (5)
Download All is only available to Education.com Pro members. Learn More


text:
Carol JoAnn Samuelson, 76
JoAnn Samuelson, 76, of Blackfoot passed away Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010, at her home.
She was born Sept. 6, 1934, in Idaho Falls to Leora Scouten. She graduated from Idaho Falls High School in 1952.
JoAnn married Merlin Floyd Samuelson in Blackfoot in August of 1953. They were later divorced.
JoAnn was a secretary for the Blackfoot School District and worked for Nonpareil and King B.
She enjoyed playing pool, crocheting, sewing, quilting and crossword puzzles.
She is survived by her children Rodney (Lissa) of Twin Falls and Bonnie (Gary) Daley of Alpine, Wyo.; mother, Leora Scouten of Salmon; sisters, Leona Wray of Blackfoot, Sharon Dutton of Salmon and Judy (Bill) Fayle of Shelley; six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
According to her wishes cremation services will take place under the direction of Hawker Funeral Home and no further services will take place.
Condolences may be sent to the family at firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Glass Jumped at Chance to Play in Pittsburghby Michelle Crechiolo / Pittsburgh Penguins
Tanner Glass went all the way to the Stanley Cup Final with Vancouver in 2011, where the Canucks fell in seven games to Boston – a run he said "was probably the best month of my hockey career."
That summer, Glass signed a one-year deal with the Winnipeg Jets – who made a valiant effort to make the postseason, but ultimately fell short.
"It was just so much fun to be in that race," he said of the 2011 postseason. "You really realize how special it is when the next season, you don't make the playoffs. You just think back on that and you just really want to get back there. For me, that's important."
And that is why Glass signed a two-year deal with constant Cup contender Pittsburgh on Sunday. The deal, which runs through the 2013-14 campaign, has an average annual value of $1.1 million.
"I think any chance you can get to be on a team as good as the Penguins, you've got to jump at it," he said.
"It's awesome. It's a really good feeling," he continued of getting a deal done with Pittsburgh. "It's a really good organization to be joining."
Glass, 28, is a physical, feisty forward who had a big season individually with Winnipeg in 2011-12. He led the Jets and ranked 10th in the NHL with a career-high 246 hits, while his 51 blocked shots ranked second among Winnipeg forwards and his average of 1:46 shorthanded minutes per game placed fourth.
Glass also saw his average time on ice shoot from 7:28 minutes per game to 13:25 minutes per game. Overall, it was a much bigger role than the one he occupied the previous season for the Canucks – and he's pleased with how the year went.
"I was really fortunate in Winnipeg to play in some big situations," he said. "The penalty kill and other major responsibilities for me. I played against some of the top lines in the league on a nightly basis. I think those are great minutes, and you learn a lot in those minutes. It was just a privilege to have that much ice time last year, and I had a really good year."
Glass said he's spoken with Penguins head coach Dan Bylsma about what his role will be here in Pittsburgh. Glass is confident that his style of play will allow him to build off last year's performance with the aggressive, offensive-minded system that's in place.
"I like to forecheck. I like to put pressure on the opposition," he said. "I just try to be tough to play against. I bring an up-tempo, fast brand of hockey. Games tend to be fun for me.
"I think I can contribute to this team. I really like the kind of hockey that they play in Pittsburgh. I'm just really excited to join the team out there."
Glass, a native of Regina, Saskatchewan, will have at least one familiar face in the locker room when he travels east to Pittsburgh, as he was college teammates with Penguins defenseman Ben Lovejoy for three seasons at Dartmouth.
"I talked to Ben about Pittsburgh," Glass said. "We're good friends, so over the past few years he's always shared his stories and our wives exchanged phone calls this morning, too. It's good to have a friend in the organization, that's for sure."
And it's good to have Glass here.


text:
The purpose of this study is to examine retinal structure in individuals with color blindness.
Color blindness is a name given to the condition where individuals have problems discriminating different colors. True color blindness is quite rare and is actually called achromatopsia. What is generally referred to when someone says they are color blind is that they have a color vision defect. This does not mean they do not see color, just that they cannot differentiate certain pairs of colors. This is usually an inherited condition, and males are more often affected than females. Two general forms of color vision defects are red-green and blue-yellow, with the red-green form being much more common.
This non-invasive imaging study may include one or more visits to the Eye Institute. Research volunteers will be asked to complete an ocular health questionnaire and a series of vision tests, and may be asked to give a blood sample to test for the mutations that cause color blindness. In addition, we will use various imaging devices to take pictures of the eye - including optical coherence tomography (OCT), fundus photography, and adaptive optics retinal imaging. At least one eye will be dilated during the visit. There is no direct health benefit to research volunteers. Each visit typically takes about 3 hours.
Research volunteers will receive $15 per hour for their time.
For additional information about what is involved during an AOIP imaging study click here.
IRB Approval: PRO00017439, 1/9/2018
Advanced Ocular Imaging Program
Medical College of Wisconsin Eye Institute
925 North 87th Street
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Phone: 414-955-AOIP (2647)
Fax: 414-955-6690


text:
I uploaded an image and I clicked to the "Who Downloaded This File" link and got an error although under my image it says that two people have downloaded the file?
i had this error a few times now ...but i didnt think it was that important to report ... i'll PM jupman if you didnt already and ask him whats up ...
btw: jaguar291 you are using a too large image size in your signature...if you could please remove the image ....this bug about the image size has been reported in this thread ...so if you would not use the bug to insert a too big image it would be appriciated ...also the pages load a lot slower since it takes time to load your image ....tx in advance
Knock yourself out MemorY.. I didn't PM him.. I didn't think it was big but its worth mentioning...
Look at this thread http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=247574
It says 73 people dowloaded this file but it says no one downloaded it when you click on who download it.
Still doesn't show up for me, maybe it's for the same reason they have disabled the "view members list" link?
Forum Rules


text:
|East Greenwich, R.I.
|High School:
|East Greenwich
|Computational Biology
2013-14: Patriot League Academic Honor Roll … started the year as the coxswain for the A8 crew at the Dartmouth Green Monster (11/2) and the Foot of the Charles (11/16) … in the spring was the starter in the in the A4 boat and started all nine races … helped the crew to wins over St. Joseph's (4/11) and Georgetown (4/12) … part of a crew that finished third at the Patriot League Championships (5/16), helping MIT to a fourth-place overall finish.
Off The Water at MIT: Majoring in computational biology.
High School: A 2013 graduate of East Greenwich High School … two varsity letters in rowing as a coxswain … team captain … National Honor Society … Leadership Trainer at Student Leadership Training Program … Asst. Stage Manager of Drama Club … National Merit Finalist.
Club: Rowed with the Narragansett Boat Club.


text:
Featured: Canine Conduct
What to do With an Aggressive Dog
It's important to deal with your dog's aggressive behavior the moment you notice. Here are some smart steps to take to nip this bad behavior in the bud.read more
Featured: Dog Blog
The Best Way to Clip Your Dog's Nails
As much as your dog might not like it, as an owner it's your responsibility to keep her nails at a healthy length. Here's how to do that.read more
Featured: Total Health
The Main Causes of Doggy Depression, and What to Do About It
Believe it or not, sometimes dogs get depressed. Here's what to do if that ever happens to your own pooch.read more
Featured: Dog Blog
Introducing a New Dog to the Neighborhood
Taking your dog on a first welcome home walk around the neighborhood is a great way to acclimate him to his new home. Find out how to prep him for that first stroll.read more
Featured: Total Health
How to tell if your dog is healthy
Dogs have a sneaky way of hiding their health issues. Here are a few ways to tell if your pooch is feeling under the weather.read more


text:
Having only been a Spotify premium user for around three months now and being way behind the curve for it as per usual I'm keen to find out what music any of you who use the service are listening to.
The premium upgrade that gives you the higher quality audio that comes with it as I primarily listen to everything on a wireless headset. Shame the service doesn't provide 7.1 audio though!


text:
3 vie to lead Oregon Republicans back to power
By JONATHAN J. COOPER
Of the Associated Press
SALEM — It's a tough time to be a Republican in Oregon.
Relegated to the margins of power, the Oregon Republican Party will get a new leader next weekend to take a fresh stab at putting the party on a path back to relevance.
The GOP hasn't won a statewide race in a decade, controls just one of five congressional seats and is now in the minority in the House and Senate. The party didn't recruit candidates willing to run for treasurer or attorney general last year.
Five candidates are running for chairman of the state GOP, and attention has focused largely on three of them: A former two-time congressional candidate from southern Oregon, a two-time legislative candidate from Portland and the Clackamas County GOP chairman.
They all agree that something has to change, that Republicans have to do a better job communicating their ideas to the voters. But their ideas for how to do that are different.
"You can't win with just Republican votes," said John Lee, chairman of the Clackamas County Republican Central Committee who is seeking the statewide chairman's job. "The people are with us on the issues. Now we have to get them to be with us when there's an 'R' behind the name."
Lee is running on the strength of the party's success in Clackamas County, which has been a rare bright spot for conservative ideas at the ballot box. Republicans now have a majority of seats on the county commission, and voters have sided with the conservative position in several local ballot measures regarding light rail and a new tax to pay for a bridge replacement.
The party needs to do a much better job defining Republicans on their own terms, rather than the Democrats', he said. But it also needs to get much better at the nuts-and-bolts of campaigning. County operations need good training and coordination so they're being effective and not duplicating their efforts, he said. And the vast array of organizations that believe in Republican values — the party, legislators and conservative political groups — need to coordinate their message and speak from the same page.
He's said he'd try to raise enough money to be paid a salary so he could focus on the GOP effort full-time — a position his rivals have criticized.
Just under a third of Oregon's 2.2 million registered voters are Republicans, and they're outnumbered by Democrats by 190,000.
Making up for that disparity will require an army of volunteers, said Suzanne Gallagher, a former legislative candidate now running for GOP leader. The state GOP needs to find creative ways to reach new volunteers and motivate them to reach out to friends and neighbors.
She says the party needs to rally around an economic question: "Who's money is it?"
Gallagher ran for the state House in 2004 and Senate in 2012 from districts that heavily favored Democrats.
"Did I win the race? No. But I did win a lot of people to our way of thinking," Gallagher said. "That's what we have to do as an organization. We have to get more bodies. I'm a body hunter, that's who I am."
The next chairman will be selected Feb. 2 by 118 members of the state GOP Central Committee when they meet in Salem.
The winner will serve a two-year term through the 2014 election, which will be headlined by races for governor and U.S. Senate. Republicans tend to do better in Oregon in elections that don't feature a presidential contest and the higher voter turnout that comes with it.
Republicans have a more-difficult message to communicate than Democrats because the GOP asks voters to take a long-term view, said Art Robinson, who has twice unsuccessfully challenged U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio and is now running for GOP chairman.
"The whole country has drifted toward an era of big government and overspending, and difficulties that I think come about by not limiting our government to the jobs that it really does well," Robinson said. "The people of Oregon have been a part of that."
The Republican soul-searching isn't limited to Oregon after President Barack Obama's re-election victory in November and a failed effort to retake control of the U.S. Senate.
Still, the GOP has had some especially frustrating defeats here. In 2010, when an anti-incumbent wave propelled Republican candidates into office, it stopped short of Oregon, where Democrats retained all four U.S. House seats they controlled and Republican Chris Dudley was narrowly defeated for governor. The GOP picked up enough seats to tie Democrats in the state House, only to lose four of them in 2012.


text:
OLD HICKORY Custom Pro R58 (P72) Adult Maple Baseball Bat IN STOCK
Product Code: OHR58
Availability: In Stock
Availability: In Stock
Price: $125.00
The R58 is based on the Louisville conversion P72. It has a small knob and a long thin handle and neck with a medium sized barrel. There is not a lot of mass to this model but it tends to a bit end loaded by design. Derek Jeter has championed this model since 1995. We recommend this model for more seasoned wood bat users because of its end loaded feel.
|This bat is in stock and ready to ship in most cases, should we run out of a size please allow about 2 weeks.
|Standard Knob
|7/8" Bottom Hand
|7/8" Top Hand
|2.5" Barrel
|Comes with a Clear Barrel and a Chocolate Handle with a Silver Logo
|Approximate weight is -3 ounces from length
|Bat is cupped
|Pro Ink Dot Certified Maple
Write a reviewYour Name:
Your Review: Note: HTML is not translated!
Rating: Bad Good
Enter the code in the box below:


text:
Marcus: Privileged, but still a woman
Sheryl Sandberg has burst into tears in the office, more than once. She has failed at such crucial Mommy Tasks as remembering to dress her son in a green shirt for St. Patrick's Day — inwardly seething at the officious super-mommy who chided her sartorial shortcomings and worrying, I'm a bad mom Sandberg spent her college years — her Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard college years — constantly feeling "like I was about to get caught for not really knowing anything."
In short, the chief operating officer of Facebook is human in a — watch me get into trouble here — distinctively female way: emotional, guilt-ridden and plagued by a chronic, if low-grade, case of impostor syndrome. She is also fabulously smart, successful and wealthy.
Which is why Sandberg's candid new book, "Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead," marks a valuable contribution to the endless debate over gender, motherhood and work, and why her risky disclosures are so important. The takeaway, especially for younger women, is: If Sheryl Sandberg can feel this way and still be Sheryl Sandberg, maybe I can, too.
It is also why some of the snarky early reaction to Sandberg's book has been so surprising, reminiscent of a junior high school clique whose Queen Bee has passed a note, Let's all be mean to Sheryl today
Yes, when Sandberg finds lice in her children's hair, the family is on board the eBay corporate jet. She writes, as she concedes, from an especially privileged perch. Most pregnant women lumbering to work from a distant parking spot don't have the clout to tell the company's founders that they must add premium spaces for expectant mothers, stat
But this is precisely the point. Sandberg could have chosen not to make feminism her signature issue. Indeed, when Sandberg gave a widely viewed talk on the dearth of women leaders, friends and colleagues warned she would "harm my career by instantly typecasting me as a female COO and not a real business executive."
The contrast with Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Sandberg's former Google colleague, is striking. "I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist," Mayer told PBS for its "Makers" documentary. "I proudly call myself a feminist," Sandberg writes.
Mayer proclaims that her new baby has "been way easier than everyone made it out to be." Sandberg reveals that "I still struggle with the trade-offs between work and home on a daily basis." Mayer decreed that Yahoo employees could not work from home. Sandberg dismisses "judging employees by face time rather than results."
Early on, to leave by 5:30 to have dinner with her children, Sandberg sneaked to her car when no one was looking. Now, she has gone public with her heretical (by Silicon Valley standards) schedule.
Sandberg's book is laced with caveats: Yes, many women don't have the luxury of choosing between work and family. Yes, many women with that luxury choose home over work, and that's fine too. Yes, the modern workplace remains suffused with sexism, albeit not as overt or conscious as when then-House Speaker Tip O'Neill asked congressional page Sandberg if she were a "pompom girl."
Sandberg prods women to consider how their own attitudes and behavior unwittingly exacerbate the problem.
"We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small," she writes. "We lower our expectations of what we can achieve."
Her advice is obvious yet hard to execute. Sit at the table: Believe — or act like you believe — you have something valuable to say. Don't leave before you leave, tailoring your ambitions (and constraining future choices) because you fear, down the road, that you will be unable or unwilling to juggle the load.
This is not blaming the victim. It is empowering her.
At the same time, women must learn to navigate the paradox of success and likability: Men viewed as competent and successful are admired for it; women with the same attributes are liked less. Sandberg's husband had to push her to negotiate with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on compensation.
Sandberg's book was conceived before Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic piece, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All." But it serves as a useful rebuttal to Slaughter's depressing, and potentially self-fulfilling, message.
"The world has not evolved nearly as much as I believed it would," Sandberg writes, noting the number of women in her Harvard Business School class who have dropped out of the workforce.
Evolution, by definition, is painfully slow. "Lean In" offers a roadmap for accelerating it.
Ruth Marcus' email address is email@example.com.


text:
Off the Rails
Why do conservatives hate trains so much?
In the movie version of Atlas Shrugged, there is a scene in which Ayn Rand's libertarian heroes defy all odds, deploy some untold amount of private funding, and launch the fastest high-speed train in history over rails of experimental metal. "The run of the John Galt Line is thrilling,"wrote the libertarian federal judge Alex Kozinski. "When it crossed the bridge made of Rearden Metal, I wanted to stand up and cheer."
That's in the fantasy world. In the real world, libertarians aren't cheering for high speed rail but rather trying to stop it from being built. They are succeeding. In Ohio, Gov. John Kasich campaigned against a high-speed rail line funded by the stimulus, got elected, and turned down the funding. In Wisconsin, Gov. Scott Walker did the same thing, only more so—his anti-train campaign even had its own Web site. In Florida, the state Supreme Court has just approved Gov. Rick Scott's decision to reject $2.4 billion of federal funds to build a Tampa-Orlando rail line; the state was being asked to contribute only $280 million to finish it off. The funding was originally agreed to by Charlie Crist, one of the Tea Party's archenemies, so Scott's victory could hardly be any sweeter.
But it could hardly make less sense to liberals. What, exactly, do Republicans, conservatives, and libertarians have against trains? Seriously, what? Why did President George W. Bush try to zero out Amtrak funding in 2005? Why is the conservative Republican Study Committee suggesting that we do so now? Why does George Will think "the real reason for progressives' passion for trains is their goal of diminishing Americans' individualism in order to make them more amenable to collectivism"?
"You need to distinguish between Republicans and conservatives and libertarians when you look at this," says William Lind, the director of the American Conservative Center for Public Transportation. "It's the libertarians who push this crap."
Libertarians, of course, have no problem with trains (see, e.g., Atlas Shrugged). They do have a problem with federal spending on transportation, as do many Republicans. Atlas Shrugged was published in 1957; Amtrak took over the rails in 1971. Since then, conservatives will sing the praises of private rail projects but criticize federally funded projects that don't meet the ideal. Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., for example, pushed a high-speed rail initiative through Congress in 2008. By 2010, he was denouncing "the Soviet-style Amtrak operation" that had "trumped true high-speed service" in Florida. In 2011, as the chairman of the House Transportation Committee, he is interested in saving the Orlando-Tampa project by building 21 miles between the airport and Disney World. This is about 21 miles farther than local Republicans want to go.
For more than a decade, Lind and a conservative movement icon, Paul Weyrich, collaborated on papers about why conservatives should support rail. Their 2001 paper, "Twelve Anti-Transit Myths: A Conservative Critique," actually tackled 34 "myths" about rail, including "rail transit is a federal conspiracy" and "trains are noisy." It ended with Lind and Weyrich declaring of their foes: "THESE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT!" Weyrich died in 2008, effectively cutting the number of conservative rail prophets in half.
"Conservatives used to be in favor of a civilized way of doing things," says Lind. "Board a train and you don't have the TSA groping you. If you think our greatest vulnerability is a dependence on foreign oil, here's a way to get around that can run on coal or electrified rails."
But conservatives hear that spiel every day. They have a response that's part economics and part culture. The economics are simple: Trains cost too much. Randal O'Toole, a Cato Institute fellow who studies transportation and is constantly cited by rail skeptics, likes to compare the total federal subsidies-per-passenger of rail to subsidies-per-passenger on highways. Amtrak got $2.2 billion in pure subsidies in 2010 and carried 28.7 million people, for around 13 cents per passenger, although some researchers estimate the annual cost at closer to 30 cents. Highways got $42 billion in funds in fiscal year 2010, but far more people use them; the estimate puts cost at between 1 cent and 4 cents per driver.
But there is another way to look at the numbers: Amtrak passengers pay more of the cost of their transportation than do drivers on the interstate. About 62 percent of Amtrak's operating expenses, according to the Department of Transportation, comes from fares. According to the Federal Highway Administration, the percentage of highway spending paid for by users—in the form of gas taxes and tolls—is headed below 50 percent.
But that's only part of the conservative gripe about building new rail lines. They have two fiscal problems. One: The new lines will run over budget, because they always run over budget. Two: Not enough people will ever, ever ride them to make the numbers work.
In Florida, Scott killed the Tampa-Orlando line in part because of the findings of a Reason Foundation analysis, conducted by transportation consultant Wendell Cox. Based on the results of a study tracking transportation spending over 70 years, he estimated that Florida's line would go "between $0.54 billion and $2.7 billion" over budget, with taxpayers eating the costs. On Tuesday, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the GOP's whip in the House, unloaded on the plans for high-speed rail in California, accusing planners of making up dreamy projections for ridership.
"Where they are building this? In the central valley. And they are saying 14 million people will ride?" said McCarthy. "In the central valley less than 750,000 people take a plane or train. They don't have enough money to build it now. They are trying to get the federal government to put so much in, but that doesn't finish the job. So we're going to have a train to nowhere."
The train advocate will say that the optimistic numbers are realistic. Amtrak ridership increases every year. Light rail and urban transportation projects, the ones most often derided as boondoggles, can overrun cost estimates, but they build ridership anyway—Seattle and Los Angeles are examples of that. And then there's the threat of increasing gas prices, which train boosters point to for proof that we're going to want these lines eventually.
The people who crunch the data—the people who are cited by everyone from Will to Walker—don't buy it.
"I've heard someone say, 'Well, Tampa-Orlando might not make sense today, but what about when gas goes to $8?'" says Wendell Cox. "If everyone wanted to go on it, there wouldn't be enough room! If gas goes to $8, it's still going to be more expensive to take the train than to drive. If gas prices double, I bet you'll see huge increases in fuel efficiency within two years."
Leaving aside the apparent contradiction—first rail doesn't make sense because no one would ride it, then it doesn't make sense because too many people would want to ride it—Cox's point is the conservatives' second play in their anti-rail argument: the cultural case against rail. Rail can't work because people don't want to ride it. Liberals want to fund rail because they want to change behavior.
"A lot of this has to do with Euro-envy," says Cox. "People like to talk about how much better Europe is. I don't see that their quality of life is better in Europe. The fact is that we live in a dispersed society, and there's no set of circumstances where people are going to leave cars and take rail transportation."
O'Toole also cited Euro-envy as a big motivation for train boosters. It was not a coincidence that the first sizable high-speed rail projects were set to connect Disneyland and Las Vegas, and to connect Tampa and Orlando: Disney is popular with European and American tourists.
"The plan, again and again, seems to be: Get a cheap proposal, get people to buy in, then get to the point where you can't stop spending," says O'Toole. "The goal in Florida, for example, was to build high-speed rail really fast. People will ride it. People will say, 'Woohoo! I want this in my state!' And since the federal government will fund most of the cost we'll have demand for it in Texas, demand for it in Iowa, and so on. Nobody will think about cost until it's too late."
He's certainly right that rail advocates want rail to take off. If or when it does, the rail lines will be able to run more on fares than on subsidies. And conservatives are certainly right that if the rail advocates get their way, they're going to change personal behavior. But that's what most government policy aims to do. Taxes are cut or raised, subsidies offered or canceled, laws passed or repealed, in the hopes that it will change behavior.
And this brings us to the last time conservatives took a look at upping rail funding. Before and after 9/11, George Will was talking up rail as a way to take more people off planes and make America less vulnerable to terrorists. That argument has more or less vanished. Why? "It helped that somebody bombed a train in Spain," says O'Toole. "If you concentrate people in one vehicle, then the vehicle is vulnerable. You concentrate society, and it's vulnerable. So maybe it's not a good thing to concentrate people."


text:
These custom 2" stickers are ready to personalize your day. Use them on favor boxes, envelopes, favor tags, you name it. Choose any colors from our swatches for type and background. Available in multiples of 12. Colors of flowers can be slightly adjusted.
We are a tiny team of two, but a power-house of beauty. Based in Brooklyn, NY and a cabin upstate you can call us Metropolitan-Woodsy. We offer whimsical and elegant stationery printed on lovely textured cardstock, or you can set your own budget by choosing our diy-printable option! Because everyone deserves beauty.
Subscribe and always be the first to hear about tips & how-to's, sales, and free printables!
all designs and content © printable press 2015


text:
You could always tell whether someone was a "Rodger insider" by the way they spelled his first name. Anyone who forgot the "d" was clearly a wannabee. In the days of spellchek, you had to be extra careful – deletion of the "d" was a fate worse than anonymity for a Rodger fan.
I first met him in 1985, at a benefit for AIDS Resource Center (now Bailey House). His lanky 6'5" frame and those big ears towered above everyone else. I would soon learn that Rodger filled the room in more ways than one.
I don't know why we clicked – he certainly had many other adoring fans from earlier days of the AIDS epidemic, his role in GMHC and his relationship with ACT-Up founder Larry Kramer, but it was love at first sight. From the initial "darling" in that sweet southern Rodger drawl to the hugs that required him to stoop over, even to my 5"7" frame, he was my friend and confident until he died. He had others in his life – many others – but Rodger was always there for me with his smartass surgical take on whatever was going on. And like the warrior he was, he never pulled punches!
A few years ago I called Rodger in Denver, where he was head of the Gill Foundation, to seek his counsel on funding issues. When I explained that most government contracts barely covered 1/3 of our modest overhead he shouted, "Close it down. We can't continue to do this work without the money we need." and ended by encouraging me to consider organizational hari kari as a political act. Board and senior staff members were shocked but I laughed knowing that Rodger had just delivered one of his loving but unsentimental asskickings. He always knew how to make others dig deep and muster their fight.
Last year I received a call from a colleagues of Rodger's who informed me that he had committed suicide. When she said it was in Truth of Consequences, New Mexico, I couldn't help notice the irony. This beloved man, legendary in his own right — an AIDS warrior who had conquered mountains, life on a nuclear submarine, thousands of gay men dying on his watch and countless stunning victories and devastating defeats, had gone to a remote desert town, settled in and taken his own life now riddled by chronic pain. In the end Rodger was the samurai who died by his own hand. For me life will never be quite as colorful without him. I miss you Rodger, and yes, you were right!
3 Comments
This is sad, I think I remember hearing from Gina about this months ago. You always wish you could have done something, recognized, convinced, or otherwise intervened but death has a kind of finality about it. I hope you will be able to find friend made and gain strength in your work among the living.
I am sad to hear he passed.what a human being
[…] dedicate this opening to Rodger McFarlane, a legendary HIV/AIDS activist and one of the first board members of Bailey House. Four years ago, […]


text:
UPDATE! Congratulations to "sigridjakob" and "lrm" who won each their copy of "The BurdaStyle Sewing Handbook"!! We will be back soon with another fun giveaway. Thank you all for your participation!
Are you a fan of the 1970s bell bottom pants, the elegance and decadence of the 1920s or are you more of a Audrey Hepburn kind of gal? Tell us what your favorite decade of style is and why for a chance to win a copy of our very own sewing handbook, "The BurdaStyle Sewing Handbook"!
Comment on the blog for your chance to win a copy of "The BurdaStyle Sewing Handbook."
"The BurdaStyle Sewing Handbook" is a comprehensive guide to DIY sewing, from novice to beginner, and is sure to be a wonderful addition to your sewing library.
To read more about the BurdaStyle Sewing handbook and find out where to buy a copy, go here
To win this fun and creative book, please answer the following question, in the comments below: What is your favorite decade of style and why?
*NOTE: In the comment, also please state your full name!
We are loving all the comments on your favorite decade of style so we have decided to throw another copy of the book in and extend the deadline with another day!
The deadline for submissions now is Saturday, April 7th at 10 p.m. (EST).
Good Luck!


text:
Rule X. Applications To Take Examination
All applications for leave to take the examination shall be filed with the Executive Secretary on or before November 15 of the year which precedes the February examination and April 1 which precedes the July examination. Applicants who fail the February Arkansas examination shall have until the following May 15 to file an application for the immediately subsequent July examination. If such date falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the application deadline shall be on the next day which is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.
(Per Curiam January 18, 1965; amended by Per Curiam January 15, 1979; amended by Per Curiam May 18, 1992; amended by Per Curiam June 2, 1997; amended by Per Curiam November 11, 1999.)
Associated Court Rules:
Rules Governing Admission to the Bar


text:
Green Plant Comes To Celina
CELINA — The city of Celina and SolarVision, LLC, broke ground on the Celina Renewable Energy Center Thursday, marking the beginning of construction on the sixth and largest solar power installation for SolarVision in Ohio.
SolarVision President Greg Kuss said the center is a unique project.
"This is the only installation like this in the world that I'm aware of," Kuss said. "This is a historic day. This doesn't happen every day"
The center, which is set to be built on 60 acres of land at the corner of Ohio 29 and Meyer Road will include a solar field, biogas plant, lake sediment ponds and man-made wetlands. The 5-megawatt project is expected to provide up to 8 percent of the city of Celina's annual energy.
"It'll be enough to power about 500 to 600 homes," Kuss said. "I looked it up on Google last night, and (Celina) has around 4,000 homes in town. This will be a major impact."
The Celina Renewable Energy Center Solar Project began in October when Kent Bryan, planning and community development director for the city of Celina, got a call from Mike Dickman, vice president of construction for SolarVision, who asked if Bryan was interested in solar power. In December, the city of Celina signed a solar power purchase agreement with SolarVision, in which the city will purchase all the electric output from the plant. The agreement required no money from Celina and allowed SolarVision to own, operate, insure and maintain the solar plant.
"The only expense for the city of Celina was the attorney fees for the communications between (the city) and (SolarVision)," Kuss said. "The rest of the out-of-pocket money came from what we were able to put together to make this happen."
Government programs and tax credits also helped fund the project.
"The federal government will be taking care of 30 percent of this under the ITC, the Investment Tax Credit," Kuss said. "This year it's in the form of a check, which is amazing. The government is also helping under the new market tax credit."
Bryan said the center has little risk to the city.
"All of this is owned, operated and financed through the private company," Bryan said. "We have a long-term contract at a pretty good rate. It's ended up being something that has limited risk to the city and our customer base."
Kuss noted that while solar power is still expensive, the price is dropping.
"In the last two years, the prices have come down 50 percent," Kuss said. "By this fall they're going to drop another 10 percent."
The project is comprised of two phases. Phase I is a 3-megawatt solar system that will include around 12,000 solar panels on 20 of the 60 acres of land. Phase II includes the construction of an additional 2 megawatts of solar power, including around 8,000 panels on 10 acres.
Another 10 acres of the site will be used for new sediment ponds, created so the city can dredge sediment from Grand Lake St. Marys and recycle it into soil fertilizer. Five acres of the site will be used to build an anaerobic digester. The digester plant will enable the city to process algae and manure from Grand Lake St. Marys into a biogas product that can be used for electric power generation.
"We're proud to be a part of what this center is going to be with holding ponds and to be able to help with the lake," Kuss said.
While Bryan noted that the solar panels will not directly be cleaning up Grand Lake St. Marys, they are providing the city with revenue needed to clean the lake.
"This provided funds so that we could acquire the grounds and get the solar in place," Bryan said. "Then we'll turn to the other programs, like biogas to process manure and algae from the lake and to have sediment ponds where we can dredge the silt from the bottom of the lake and have revenue sources that would perpetuate those programs for years to come."
The center is bringing $1.3 million into the local economy. Kuss expects the Celina Renewable Energy Center to help the local economy even further.
"The local industries are already involved and we want to get them more involved as much as possible," Kuss said. "There will be more people in the Celina area that we will be employing because we want to get as many locals involved as possible."
SolarVision Executive Vice President Don Saul said the plant could produce approximately 300 jobs for the area.
"This will be the largest privately funded facility in the state of Ohio," Saul said.
Brain Tschanen, division manager of Vaughn Industries, agreed that the center will bring more than an electrical benefit to Celina.
"What you're going to see here is not just the construction, you're going to see the development of a lot of things," Tschanen said. "At times you could see 50 to 60 people on this site in your community and some of them from the community. It's going to bring other resources to the city, which is really great and exciting to see."
Bryan said the benefits extend to education.
"All of the day-to-day power will be recorded and it'll go onto the Internet website," Bryan said. "We plan to work with them to have the schools come out here and teaching the school kids about it. And they'll be able to go on the website and view how much energy is coming out of it at any time during any point of the year."
SolarVision has more than 12 projects in various stages in Ohio that are planned to be completed in 2011, including a 3-megawatt contract with the city of Wapakoneta and a 0.5-megawatt contract with Vantage Career Center in Van Wert.
Bryan said the community has been receptive of the center.
"There's been a very positive reaction by the community," Bryan said. "Most people have said that they like the idea of the solar."


text:
FEDERAL WAY., WASHINGTON -- As a consumer from your state, I felt it was my responsibility to bring to your attention the following incident. On 6/15/06 I took my car to Maaco auto repair on Pacific Hwy after my car was hit in our driveway (yes this is true) while my husband and I were on vacation. It has turned out to be a nightmare. The car was hit on the passenger's side by a moped and the moped was drag down the whole side of my car. It obtained major damage. The man who hit me was not insured to drive the vehicle, for it belonged to his fiancee's family and his insurance did not cover him for the accident repairs.
This is the reason I took it to Maaco to begin with. He had not wanted to get the other people involved. I knew Maaco was less expensive and the man told me he would pay for this out of pocket. To make a long story short I had to get my insurance involved and he is being sued for the repayment of the damages to my insurance and for my deductible. The car panels look very wavy. Not smooth at all. The first look I had at the repairs were horrible. I told the estimator of the Federal Way Maaco that it looked really bad. He said they would do more work.
I have contacted the main Maaco corporate headquarters and I am awaiting more help from them to let them know I picked up my car after the SECOND go around of repairs with not much difference. I don't know what can be done about these people. They call themselves professionals and all they are doing is ripping off insurance companies and people in general.
I had mentioned to ** (the estimator at Maaco) that I was still not seeing much improvement. He said that this was all he could do and I should take this up with my insurance claims adjuster from Farmers Insurance. He said it was her fault for not letting them do more work. But, I told him the 'wavy' look of the repairs on the panels of the car had nothing to do with her. It was bad workmanship. I am at standstill. What can I do? As a resolution, I would like the following: Having Maaco do the right thing and fix the car properly. Please contact me if you need more details regarding this incident.
EVERETT, WASHINGTON -- As a consumer from your state, I felt it was my responsibility to bring to your attention the following incident. My son received a call at 7:15 this morning from someone named '**' claiming to be from Verizon. My son explained that I was not home and took the man's name and phone number. At 7:20 this morning I received a call at my place of business from some named **, who claimed he represented Verizon and was trying to collect a debt. I was very busy at that time and told him I would have to call him back. I got home from work about 2 hours later and called this person back. He answered with his first name ** - did not identify his company.
He stated that he was trying to collect a debt for Verizon. I said okay that was fine and what kind of arrangements could I make. I did not dispute the validity of the debt with him, I had already disputed it with the originator of the debt. What I did say was that I didn't appreciate being called at work and at home so early in the morning and said that under both the Washington Collection Agency Act and the Federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Acts, he were prohibited from calling me so early. The man began to scream insults and threats not letting me get a word in edgewise. He was screaming so loudly that another person in the room heard him.
At this point I was so frustrated I asked him to stop screaming and tell me what I could do to take care of this debt. He said and I quote 'There's nothing you can do... you don't know a ** thing about the law. I'll have you served with papers for court before the week is over... you'll be sued and your paychecks will be garnished and we will get our money anyway. You obviously don't want to work this out or pay your bill, so I'm hanging up now.'
I placated him enough for him not hang up and to tell me how I could pay this. I do intend to pay the debt, had I ever received something from the Collection agency prior to this phone call I would have known I was out of options with the original company. As a resolution, I would like the following:
I would like a formal complaint filed against NCO Financial and it's representative ** who's direct phone line number is 1-800-795-**** (I will be more than happy to provide you with the last 4 numbers if they are needed). I would like NCO Financial to be held accountable for their employees' collection tactics as they claim to train their employees. I want them to be made to follow both the State and Federal laws in regard to collection practices. Please contact me if you need more details regarding this incident.
TACOMA, WASHINGTON -- As an honest consumer from your state, I felt it was my responsibility to bring to your attention the following incident. In October of 2000, my husband and I refinance our home with Beneficial. Before signing the documents, I notice that they had a 5 year pre-payment penalty. I informed the Loan Officer that I would not sign the documents, because I did not want to be locked into a loan for five years. The Loan Officer stated that he would talk to his Branch Manager and see if he could get this reduced to a 2 year pre-payment penalty.
The Loan Officer came to our home a few days later, stating that he had got the pre-payment penalty reduced to two year. He then produced a letter on Beneficial Finance letterhead. "This letter is to confirm that your first mortgage consolidation loan which is scheduled to close on October 31, 2000, will have a reduction from our standard pre-payment penalty term of 5 years to a 2 year pre-payment term. The pre-payment penalty clause will become null and void after October 31, 2002. Please keep this document for your records. Should you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me direct at 253-476-1710."
In May of this year, we started looking to refinance our home loan because of the high interest rate. When I contacted Beneficial regarding our 2 year pre-payment penalty, they stated that the company has a standard 5 year pre-payment penalty and the letter that I have is not valid. They stated that since it is not recorded that they would not honor the letter.
At Beneficial Finance, I spoke with the Assistant Manager, **, who was reluctant to give me information regarding Beneficial Corporate Office, and phone numbers. I also spoke with another Assistant Manager, **. (Whose name is on the letter I have.) I asked Mr. **, who he reported to and that I would like to speak to that person. Mr. ** placed me hold for five (5) minutes. When he returned to the call, he stated I could speak with **, District Manager, who works out of the same office as Mr. **. Why it took Mr. ** five minutes, to tell me his supervisor's name, was very strange to me.
As a resolution, I would like the following: I want Beneficial Finance to honor the two year pre-payment penalty stated in the letter I received signed by Beneficial Finance, Branch Manager **. I feel that Beneficial Finance deliberately produced the letter just to get me and my husband to sign the papers, and had no intentions of honoring the agreement set forth in the letter. Please feel free to contact me if you would like more details regarding this matter.
BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON -- As a consumer from your state, I felt it was my responsibility to bring to your attention the following incident. Emirates lost our bags on flight EK623 and EK001 on 12/25/07 (LHEDXB and DXBLHR). I filed a report (# **) at Heathrow airport. Since then I've been trying to get in touch with Emirates but no one has returned my calls or replied to my emails. Some details…..
Left 20-30 messages to Emirates UK at 020-8897-3063 during my Stay in London. No one returned my calls. Talked to Heathrow Emirates Staff (**) in person on 12/30. They promised to get back but no one did. Called and left messages for Emirates USA at 212-758-3944. No response. Called Emirates Dubai at 001-971-4-213-32333 and was told to file another report - provide more details about contents of the luggage. Report emailed UK, USA and Dubai on 01/02. Emirates confirmed email reception and advised that someone from customer service will be contacting me but that has not happened yet
In short, I have been calling and emailing Emirates UK, USA and Dubai for past two weeks to trace my lost bags. There is no live help available in UK and USA. Emirates call center in Dubai rarely picks up phone but has not done anything to resolve this issue. I have run out of options and would really appreciate any help from you in this matter. Please contact me if you need more details regarding this incident.
INTERNET -- As a honest consumer from your state, I felt it was my responsibility to bring to your attention the following incident. I believe a company on the internet is running a contest that is impossible to win. They state that you must win a game twice in a row within 90 seconds, but the wording makes it sound like you have 90 seconds for each game. Also because of the way it is set up, I think it would be impossible to win 2 games in a row in 90 seconds.
As a resolution, I would like the following: I believe they should have to give everyone who 'won', the promised prize. I won the gumball machine twice and wrote to them because nothing came up asking for my information, and they never responded. I finally just spoke to someone there who told me "you must win both games in 90 seconds total." I believe it would be fraud to offer a prize for a game no one can win. Please feel free to contact me if you would like more details regarding this incident.


text:
Welcome to Royal Palace Hotel Group
The Royal Palace Hotel Group is Luxurious Hotels located in the heart of Hanoi`s historic Old Quarter. The Royal Palace Hotel group is boutique 3 star hotels that offers elegant rooms, including views of the city and large balconies. We pride ourselves on offering the best service to our customers.
Royal Palace Hotel Group is a great choice for all discerning tourists & business travelers. When you come to our hotel you will be very satisfied with our outstanding service and the hospitality provided by our team of professional, friendly staff and management.
We are not the first hotel in Hanoi, but we are the number one hotel for great value and service in Hanoi.
Our Hotels


text:
A nearly 27-acre urban farm that will provide produce for Detroit public school students' meals is planned at a former high school as part of the district's efforts to reuse empty buildings instead of tearing them down.
The Kettering Urban Agricultural Campus will include hoop houses for an extended growing season, land redevelopment for planting and a food processing facility, Detroit Public Schools spokeswoman Jennifer Mrozowski told The Associated Press ahead of an official announcement.
Kettering High School is among dozens of Detroit schools closed in recent years as the district sank into debt and parents sought better education options. The district has gotten praise for its efforts to reuse those buildings.
"We began developing the urban farm project at the former Kettering site when I saw all the positive things being planned for the future of the city of Detroit," said Betti Wiggins, executive director of the district's Office of School Nutrition. "We looked at the footprint of the area and tried to conceive of a plan to re-purpose one of our own buildings in a way that would benefit the city and neighborhood while serving our children by expanding access to fresh, healthy food."
Wiggins' office is spearheading the four-phase project. The two initial phases are expected to be completed during this year's growing season and include securing the site for eight hoop houses and redeveloping land for planting. Produce farmed on the land will be included in meals for students throughout the district.
The final phases include developing a food processing facility.
City officials plan to soon embark on a massive program to demolish tens of thousands of vacant houses and buildings across Detroit's 139 square miles. Vacancies skyrocketed as Detroit's population dropped by more than a quarter of a million people between 2000 and 2010. Somewhere around 700,000 people now live in a city that held 1.8 million in the 1950s.
The number of students in Detroit schools also has plummeted. By 2008, public school enrollment had slipped below 100,000 students. It's projected to fall to 40,000 by 2016.
Officials padlocked 35 schools about seven years ago, followed by 29 more in 2009. Of 172 schools that were open in 2010, about 100 remain open.
The Detroit district has made more than $16 million by selling or leasing closed school buildings and vacant land. About 40 schools have been sold and another 45 leased, the district said last summer. More than 80 schools and about 40 parcels of land currently are listed for sale on the district's real estate page.
"No longer are we simply trying to sell our properties to the highest bidder," said Jack Martin, the district's state-appointed emergency manager. "We are now looking for buyers who, wherever possible, will creatively re-use the land to benefit the neighborhood, or at least demolish the existing structure if it is not viable for rehabilitation."


text:
After playing this game before and started playing it again about 2 months ago. I just missed the game so much. I just can't under stand why I can't play all the maps in Warzone 2100.
Some of them I start playing and not even into 20 minutes of the game. I have rockets and Missiles coming down on top of me, And I check my research and Long Range Canons and Missiles don't even show up in my research. Into an hour of game play I still don't have these weapons I my base gets blown up.
So how can I play the other maps and play fair. I only been able to play the 1st 5 maps in the list. Only 2 player and 3 player. The last map of 3 player I can't play all so. I have long Range weapons coming down on my head not after 20 minutes of game play. So ? any ideas.


text:
Graduate Programs
Rocky Mountain College offers four post-graduate programs that fulfill specific needs not available at other regional universities and that provide occupational advantages to our students.
The Rocky Mountain College Occupational Doctorate Program is one of the first Montana-based occupational therapy doctorate programs in the state of Montana. As a post-baccalaureate, entry-level professional doctoral degree, applicants must complete all the requirements for a bachelor's degree prior to matriculation into the program.
A master's degree in physician assistant studies (MPAS) better prepares physician assistant students who enter primary-care careers in underserved settings. Nurtured through their educational training with the medical community, along with their improved understanding of clinical research, underserved patient populations, and clinic management, RMC's graduates will be more adept at functioning on an interdisciplinary health care team under the supervision of a physician.
A master's of accountancy is unique for a college of our size. RMC is the only college to offer this type of degree in eastern Montana. Students may enter this program as an RMC undergraduate or as a student who already holds a baccalaureate degree from another institution. The Master of Accountancy Program offers students an opportunity to leverage their position in the world of work, where, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic Job Outlook, an estimated 1,570,000 jobs in accounting are expected to be created by 2013.
RMC offers a third master's program, educational leadership, which is designed to help fill the increasing vacancies in school administrations across the state and nationwide. This is another degree not offered anywhere else in eastern Montana except at RMC. The RMC Master of Educational Leadership Program provides an accelerated 11-month program of study with online, face-to-face, and interactive television instruction. The program is modeled on the Effective Schools Research, which was developed by Dr. Larry Lazotte. The program covers theory to practice. Beyond courses offered at a distance, program participants will have mentors at their school location. The program covers K-12 administration, so successful graduates will be qualified to fill a wide range of positions in elementary and high schools. After program completion, students will be able to apply for licensure as a principal or superintendent.


text:
Artikel erschienen unter "UDK" | Ganzen Artikel lesen
In der März-Version des UDKs kommen verhältnismäßige kleine Features hinzu:
- Unreal Editor
- Actors will show regardless of layer visibility when in G mode
- Before using "autoexpandcategories," the property window will first check to see if layout info has been saved
- New "Create Sub-Archetype" feature added to Unreal Content Browser. *Right-click on Archetype assets to create sub-archetypes
- Sound Actors can now be found inside Content Browser
- Material Editor
- Added a "WorldPosOffset" category to the Material Editor's context menu
- Changed the material editor to only update the previews when the viewport's real-time flag is toggled, or mouse over while the expression's preview real-time radio box is toggled
- Converting a Constant 1 Vector into a Parameter now behaves correctly
- Added functionality for updating a physical material when assigning a new material interface
- Material instance parameter groups no longer show up when none of the nodes in the group are connected
- Post-process editor improvements
- Node color now represents the linked status (green = linked, red = unlinked)
- Ignores node connections of different types (has to be 1 Input and 1 Output), and reorders them accordingly
- Only marks the package as dirty when the effects order has been modified
- Mesh Paint: marking an actor's "bHidden" flag will no longer prevent it from being painted on
- Texture paint workflow automation will now allow you to duplicate textures and hook them up to a new material instance with a single button click
- Refreshing the list in Unreal Frontend so it no longer looks just for additional devices, but all devices attached. This prevents devices used previously showing, even though they may no longer be connected
- You can now use the ?Screen Capture? option in Unreal Console to take a screenshot
Außerdem gibt es jetzt eine Demo der Epic Citadel per Flash:
Full Changelog


text:
Port St Lucie FL Advertising is for those who are looking to buy, provide a service, have items to sell, a business to promote or something to announce 'in or to' Port St Lucie Florida.
List your full page advertisement with up to 3 photos, a link to your website, full editing capabilities and more! Buy, sell, advertise or promote with Port St Lucie FL Advertising today.


text:
SOURCE: Cytomedix, Inc.
October 23, 2012 08:30 ET
GAITHERSBURG, MD--(Marketwire - Oct 23, 2012) - Cytomedix, Inc. (OTCQX: CMXI) (the "Company"), a leading developer of biologically active regenerative therapies, today announced that it will present at the First Annual Houston Stem Cell Summit on October 26th and at the 2012 Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa Conference, October 29th - 30th. The presentations will be given by Edward L. Field, Chief Operating Officer of Cytomedix.
Houston Stem Cell Summit
Houston, TX, Oct 26 - 27
Presentation Time: 9:50 AM, Friday, October 26th, 2012
Location: The Houstonian Hotel, 111 North Post Oak Lane, Houston, TX
The Houston Stem Cell Summit will bring together, for the first time; the many and varied stem cell research and commercialization activities in Texas with the leading global researchers and entrepreneurs. The latest therapeutic research regarding the use of adult stem and progenitor cell therapies will be featured. The Summit will also provide a forum for entrepreneurs to discuss their latest efforts to commercialize stem cell therapies, and to debate and discuss FDA and other legal and regulatory issues impacting stem cell research and commercialization. Participating Texas institutions include: Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Heart Institute, Texas A&M, Rice University, and MD Anderson. The organizers expect more than 35 speakers, 300 attendees, and participation from a dozen of the leading commercial stem cell companies.
2012 Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa Investor and Partnering Forum
La Jolla, CA, Oct 29 - 30
Presentation Time: 1:30 PM, Monday October 29th, 2012
Location: Sanford Consortium, 2880 Torrey Pines Scenic Drive, La Jolla, CA
Edward Field will also be a panelist in a discussion "Getting to Market: Keys to Regulatory Success" on October 30th at 2:00pm. This session will examine the regulatory challenges facing regenerative medicine companies and the strategies they employ to reach the market.
The 2012 Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa is aimed at bringing together senior members of the business development and scientific research communities in regenerative medicine to advance stem cell science into cures for debilitating diseases and injuries. The meeting features a nationally recognized Scientific Symposium attended by more than 600 leading scientists and researchers alongside the regenerative medicine industry's premier annual Investor and Partnering Forum designed to facilitate a bridge between academia and industry through one-on-one meetings and further the translation of clinical research.
About Cytomedix, Inc.
Cytomedix, Inc. is a fully integrated regenerative medicine company commercializing and developing innovative platelet and adult stem cell separation products that enhance the body's natural healing processes. The Company's advanced autologous technologies offer clinicians a new treatment paradigm for wound and tissue repair. The Company's patient-derived PRP systems are marketed by Cytomedix in the U.S. and distributed internationally. Our commercial products include the AutoloGel™ System, cleared by the FDA for wound care and the Angel® Whole Blood Separation System. The Company is developing novel regenerative therapies using our proprietary ALDH Bright Cell ("ALDHbr") technology to isolate a unique, biologically active population of a patient's own stem cells. A Phase 2 trial evaluating the use of ALDHbr for the treatment of ischemic stroke is underway. For additional information please visit www.cytomedix.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
Statements contained in this press release not relating to historical facts are forward-looking statements that are intended to fall within the safe harbor rule for such statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The information contained in the forward-looking statements is inherently uncertain, and Cytomedix' actual results may differ materially due to a number of factors, many of which are beyond Cytomedix' ability to predict or control, including among many others, risks and uncertainties related to the Company's ability to successfully integrate the Aldagen acquisition, to successfully manage contemplated clinical trials, to manage and address the capital needs, human resource, management, compliance and other challenges of a larger, more complex and integrated business enterprise, viability and effectiveness of the Company's sales approach and overall marketing strategies, commercial success or acceptance by the medical community, competitive responses, the Company's ability to raise additional capital and to continue as a going concern, and Cytomedix's ability to execute on its strategy to market the AutoloGel™ System as contemplated. To the extent that any statements made here are not historical, these statements are essentially forward-looking. The Company uses words and phrases such as "believes", "forecasted," "projects," "is expected," "remain confident," "will" and/or similar expressions to identify forward-looking statements in this press release. Undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking information. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events to differ from the forward-looking statements. More information about some of these risks and uncertainties may be found in the reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Cytomedix, Inc. Cytomedix operates in a highly competitive and rapidly changing business and regulatory environment, thus new or unforeseen risks may arise. Accordingly, investors should not place any reliance on forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results. Except as is expressly required by the federal securities laws, Cytomedix undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, changed circumstances or future events or for any other reason. Additional risks that could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings, including our Annual Report for the year ended December 31, 2011 and other subsequent filings. These filings are available at www.sec.gov.
Cytomedix, Inc.
Martin Rosendale
Chief Executive Officer
Andrew Maslan
Chief Financial Officer
David Jorden
Executive Chairman
(240) 499-2680
Media Inquiries
Michelle Linn
Linnden email@example.com
(508) 362-3087
Cytomedix, Inc.
Martin Rosendale
Chief Executive Officer
Andrew Maslan
Chief Financial Officer
David Jorden
Executive Chairman
(240) 499-2680
Media Inquiries
Michelle Linn
Linnden firstname.lastname@example.com
(508) 362-3087
See all RSS Newsfeeds


text:
Daniel Norgren
Textinformationen kommer från last.fms wiki
Daniel Norgren is a swedish singer-songwriter from Borås. His music noted for its originality, which is rough and soulful with ways in the expressions that could be traced back to the pre-war blues and gospel, early garagerock and jazz.
As a live artist he often performs all on his own, with his one man band on electric guitar, drums, kazoo and harmonica, but he also performs with a full band.
In reviews he has been compared with artists like RL Burnside, Tom Waits, White Stripes and Son House etc with one thing underlined: He's a quite unique artist with an untouched feeling in his music and expression.
So far Norgren has released three studio albums: Kerosene dreams (Superpuma Records, 2007), Outskirt (Sup...