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By JIM KUHNHENN
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama pulled in $29.1 million for his re-election campaign and the Democratic Party in January, raising his total for this election cycle to about $250 million.
The sum, announced Friday, shows he's picked up the pace from his $23 million-a-month average of the final three months of last year
Financial reports released Friday show roughly $11.8 million in contributions to Obama's campaign, as well as an additional $13.4 million to the Obama Victory Fund, a joint venture of his campaign and the DNC. The remaining sum of contributions would come from contributions to the DNC and the campaign's Swing State Victory Fund.
That fundraising concluded before the campaign's announcement this month that, in a reversal, Obama would embrace the big big-money fundraising groups he once criticized and let them help in his re-election. Those so-called super PACs, financed with large donations from a small group of individuals, have been prominent in the Republican presidential primary and are also poised to spend millions in the general election contest.
The Obama campaign said 98 percent of January donations were $250 or less. Federal Election Commission filings show Obama's campaign alone pulled in more than $5 million in unitemized contributions, usually less than $200 apiece.
Many of those donors, however, are repeat contributors, meaning that their aggregate donations over the past year would exceed $250. Still, the non-partisan Campaign Finance Institute, which analyzes contributions, found that small donors, those whose aggregate contributions amounted to less than $200, accounted for 48 percent of Obama's campaign income in 2011.
That more than doubles the small donor contributions to his campaign in 2007, as he mounted his first campaign for president. What's more, the institute found that small donors accounted for only 9 percent of 2011 fundraising for Republican Mitt Romney, who is battling for front-runner status in the GOP presidential primary and is the top fundraiser in the Republican contest.
Obama also relies on an extended team of more than 440 supporters who help him raise money, including 61 people who each raised at least half a million dollars. Altogether, those top dollar fundraisers collected at least $75 million last year to help Obama win a second term.
Friday's filings also underscored the national infrastructure that Obama's campaign had in place by the end of key primary elections for his GOP opponents last month, having spent cash nationally for office space, staff salaries and political strategists.
Presidential candidates must submit January fundraising reports to the Federal Election Commission by Monday.
The January numbers were being reported as Obama concluded a three-day swing of California and Washington that included eight fundraisers, most of them high-dollar events. All told, the president was expected to raise more than $8 million during the trip.
Obama repeatedly tells his audiences of donors that this election will be more difficult and encourages them to rekindle the vigor of his supporters in 2008.
"And that's not going to be easy because, first of all, I'm older and I'm grayer," he told about 70 high-dollar contributors in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood Thursday night. "So it's not as new, it's not as trendy to be part of the Obama campaign -- although some of you still have your posters, I'm sure.
"And part of it is we've gone through three tough years and so people want to hope, but they've been worn down by a lot of hardship."
Associated Press writer Jack Gillum in Edinburgh, Scotland, contributed to this report.
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Two years ago the Enough Project initiated engagement with major electronics companies on conflict minerals, writing to 21 consumer electronics industry leaders to call their attention to this issue and inquire about the steps they were taking to ensure their products were conflict-free. Their objective was to have companies at the top of the minerals supply chain use their buying power to influence their suppliers, exerting pressure down the supply chain, which has proven to be successful in diamond sector as well. Since then, we have seen a host of efforts initiated by companies, governments, and NGOs, both in Congo and internationally, to trace supply chains back to their sources, independently audit chains-of-custody, and conceptualize certification schemes similar to the Kimberley Process for conflict diamonds.
Enough presents an initial ranking on the progress made by the 21 electronics companies with whom they have engaged in this survey. The report focuses on the efforts within the industry to address the conflict minerals issue and also assesses the response of other industries that are reliant on the conflict minerals. These rankings are an effort to provide consumers with the information they need to purchase responsibly, as well as a means of encouraging companies to continue to move forward in good faith. Check out the report here.
This report provides a clear analysis of the efficacy of advocacy organizations such as Enough. Although they acknowledge there is still much work to be done to end the wars fueled by conflict minerals in the Congo, this report shows the progress so far in their efforts to reach their goals to eradicate the trade of such minerals.

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Jessica Dijkman (1960) is a postdoc researcher Jessica Dijkman (1960) is a postdoc researcher in economic history. Her research focuses on the medieval and early modern era. Currently she studies the way societies in late medieval and early modern Europe coped with food crises and famines. In earlier research projects she investigated commodity market institutions in medieval Holland and compared the organization of labour, particularly craftsmanship, in the Middle Ages in Europe and the Islamic world.
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Pre-modern Europe was as familiar with food crises as the developing world is today. However, some societies were better at preventing such crises from growing into catastrophic famines than others. The aim of this project is to discover why. Nowadays, famines are seen as distribution problems, rather than the result of aggregate shortages. Therefore, the project focuses on the impact of two sets of institutions: on the one hand market regulations that determined exchange entitlements, such as bread price regulation, export prohibitions or attempts to control speculation, and on the other non-market mechanisms governing the distribution of scarce food supplies, such as charity organizations and informal networks of patronage. The contribution of these two institutional arrangements is contrasted with the impact of international market integration as an important non-institutional factor.
Institutional arrangements are the result of historical processes, shaped by social and political forces in society. That is why the project's methodology concentrates on long-term processes and a comparative perspective. The project studies developments in three regions in the period 1300-1800: Holland, eastern England and north-western France. For each of these regions the project includes a reconstruction of the occurrence of famines, an assessment of the development of international grain market integration, and an analysis of the evolution of mechanisms for market regulation and non-market distribution based on case studies in an urban and a rural context. The main hypothesis to be tested is that success in warding off famine was not achieved until both institutional and non-institutional conditions had been fulfilled: the opportunity to select, from this range, the best strategies increased flexibility and thus the ability to cope with food crises.
The research has reconstructed, analyzed and to a large extent explained the organization and development of markets in Holland. The development of markets was a slow and intermittent process, over many centuries, taking its shape under the interaction of various social groups and organizations, often clashing in pursuit of their own interests. This analysis for the land and capital markets also revealed the strong links that existed between the two. One of the most crucial results of this analysis is the insight gained in the role of authorities in the development of this institutional framework, and in economic development in general. This role can be negative, as often argued for France and many other parts of Europe, but in Holland it turns out to have been mostly positive. This applies particularly to the role of authorities on the local level of the village and the city, the latter often dominated by merchants, but also on a regional or central level.
The explanation for this exceptional situation appears to lie in the balance between different parties involved in political decision-making, both political bodies and organizations, and social groups, precluding dominance by way of power and necessitating these parties to co-operate or at least to arrive at a rational compromise. In its turn, this situation appears to be rooted in the period of occupation of Holland, i.e. the high Middle Ages, as Holland was colonized by free peasants under a territorial lord, creating a situation of exceptional freedom and a near-absence of non-economic force, with the nobility gaining only a weak position, in contrast to most other parts of Western Europe.
This situation evolved at a regional level, and the regional analysis forms one of the innovative aspects of the research. It highlights the regional aspect in social and institutional organization, and thus also in its effects on economic growth, and it analyses the formation of this regional constellation, thus offering a counterweight to the emphasis usually put on national entitities. Innovative is also the interdisciplinary approach, linking insights from fields usually separated by sharp academic boundaries, such as the history of law and religion, antropology, and political, social and economic history.
There is also innovation in the methodology employed, in particular in the empirical tests designed to analyze the link between institutional change, the rise of markets and economic growth in the later Middle Ages, to be further elaborated in the remaining part of the research period. The analysis undertaken up to now show that already in the late Middle Ages Holland possessed a favourable institutional organization of markets, even compared to advanced regions sich as Flanders and England, allowing for a strong rise of markets, low interest rates and a high mobility of land, all stimulating economic growth. Lastly, by linking this organization to the constellation emerging during the occupation of Holland in the high Middle Ages, the research offers an empirical analysis of path-dependency, and a contribution to the theory in this field.


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Mavis the Fox in a Haverhill history video
A Suffolk fox's moment of fame on a puppeteer's video has become a You Tube Haverhill history lesson.
Britain's Got Talent star Laura Bacon had created Mavis the Fox, with her broad Suffolk good ol' girl accent, as a character for a brief appearance on her DVD to send for jobs and auditions.
But when she returned to her home town of Haverhill to film Mavis' piece, it just took off as Laura's curiosity about the town's railway line, which closed in 1969, got the better of her.
"I thought I'd take her up the railway line because it's something to talk about," Laura said.
"I hadn't been up Sturmer Arches, so I thought I'd go and have a look and talk about it.
"You always heard tales about the line – my parents and grand parents talked about it. Everyone still calls it 'the railway line' though it's really become archeology.
"That's how the video developed – I just though it was interesting."
Mavis begins by introducing the town she was born in and saying how curious it is that it no longer has a station.
She shows us where the line went and the view from the top of Sturmer Arches and talks to Laura's great aunt Doris Rowlinson and former Haverhill Echo editor David Hart and his wife Chris about the line.
Mavis, who Laura sees as being in her 80s, echoes the tales her creator heard as a child and talks about trips to London and the seaside on the train. London, where Laura now lives, is described as 'bootiful' but not so much so that Mavis intended to go back.
"Well, you've seen it now," Chris says.
The line was among the 4,000 miles of rail routes closed by British Railways chairman Dr Richard Beeching in the 1960s.
Mavis points out he did it because he said not enough passengers used the line just as the Government started moving people to the town as part of its London Overspill housing project.
The result is an engaging and informative video that makes an aspect of local history accessible while showing off Laura's talent.
It is not the fox puppet's first appearance – it also appeared in a Days Inn Christmas video in 2013, though not as Mavis.
In 2014 Laura's creation Patsy May, made it to the Britain's Got Talent semi-finals


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March 17, 2014
New UDistrict Sound Transit station – take a peek
Stay up-to-date with the progress of the new Sound Transit station with bird-eye photos of the job site, updated every 15 minutes. You can also contact Sound Transit with questions or feedback, and share your favorite images with others.
March 11, 2014
UW historian Margaret O'Mara honored speaker at MOHAI
Modern United States history scholar Margaret O'Mara will explore the importance of place to the process of innovation in her talk, It Takes a City: Seattle and the Alchemy of Innovation at the Museum of History and Industry on Tuesday, March 18 at 7 pm. Tickets may be purchased online.
March 6, 2014
Sign up now for Arboretum summer camps
Summer camp at the Washington Park Arboretum is bounding into its fourth year with more weeks offered and new programs. Environmental Education Summer Day Camp for grades 1-3 and 4-6 is offered every week from June 30 – August 22. Check UW Botanic Gardens for additional information and be sure to register early to guarantee…
March 5, 2014
Polar Science Weekend at Pacific Science Center
This 9th annual event for both adults and children features opportunities to talk with glaciologists, biologists, climate experts and others from the UW Applied Physics Laboratory and its Polar Science Center as well as numerous interactive activities and displays that include local artists, photographers and zookeepers who focus on polar environments.
March 4, 2014
Follow UW Civil Rights Pilgrimage
From March 1 – 7, Department of Communication Chair David Domke is leading a group of students, staff and faculty on a Civil Rights Pilgrimage across the southern United States to landmarks of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and '60s. You can follow their journey on the Department of Communication website, or on…
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I am doing a project for my degree. I am wanting to monitor an engine, so this involves temperatures first and then try to integrate pressure and oxygen. I was also planning do do some strain guaging on the car chassis
I was planning on writing some software in visual basic to display the results in real time. I was looking at the ADC 11/12 to do the job,would this be a good choice. I am planning to get the sensors from a whole saler and calibrate them in my software.
First of all is it possible to do what I want to do ?
Im on a bit of budget so I am trying to keep the costs down. Any hits or tips would be greatly appreciated.
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I finally said it
I finally said to one of the kids that congregates around the computer area... "It's a library, it's a building full of books. Read."
He laughed. I think he realized the truth in what I was saying. He's not a bad kid, he's not necessarily a troublemaker. He just clogs up the reference area by standing over his friend's shoulder, looking at god knows what on the internet. Honestly, if he were sitting and pretending to look at a book while occasionally glancing at his buddy's screen, I wouldn't mind too much. But when you have like eight kids standing around a screen it makes it hard to pass.
I also pulled down a donation computer to see what it could do. It's actually a pretty good computer. I'd like to either a) get the LAN card working and give it to the children's room staff or b) set it up as a word processor terminal, because even a halfway usable donation beats what we've got. It still ain't great. I'd really like to set up a word processor in the young adult room, so that the kids can do their homework some place a little more age appropriate and comfortable for them, but there's that problem of room. And of finding another printer.
I don't know how long this computer will actually last... It is older, and the fans are pretty feeble on it, so I'm thinking it's probably going to just burn out eventually. But even a few months is buying us more time.
Yesterday I got a request for "a book." No more information. Could you narrow that down a little? We have a few of those.
I've never seen a teenager get so excited that we had a copy of The Fountainhead.
Most of today will be spent in Local History and reference. I miss my desk sometimes. I probably wouldn't if there weren't so much to do at it.
One of these days, if I ever find time (maybe today's the day) I'm going to check out The Professor and the Madman... by Simon Winchester. It was recommended by Simmons' beloved Allen Smith (hi Allen!) and I meant to read it, but life has this tendency to get in the way.


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Booneville is a city in and the county seat of Prentiss County, Mississippi. Booneville The population was 8,625 at the 2000 census.
Booneville is home to Northeast Mississippi Community College, which has an annual enrollment in excess of 6,000 students. The community college serves five counties: Prentiss, Tippah, Alcorn, Union, and Tishomingo. Booneville is also the birthplace of former Congressman Travis W. Childers.
Booneville is one of 21 certified Mississippi retirement cities.
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Four or more years; Private not for profit; $21,450 average out-state tuition; $21,450 average in-state tuition
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The silence was broken just before 4 p.m. Sunday.
Al Golden is staying at the University of Miami.
The Miami Hurricanes football coach released this statement Sunday afternoon:
"There has been much speculation concerning my future at the University of Miami. While I am flattered that our progress at The U during an extremely difficult period of time is recognized, I am also appreciative of just what we have here at UM and I am not a candidate for another position. We are eager to welcome our student athletes back to campus next week and visit with prospective student-athletes and their families beginning January 15."
Golden was the subject of intense speculation that he was leaving the Hurricanes for Penn State, his alma mater.
"I'm just happy that he finally came out and said something, but I never thought that it was true," said a person close to an assistant UM coach.
At about the same time Golden's statement was announced on HurricaneSports.com, the official website of UM athletics, assistant coaches were notified by text that they were to gather Monday for a meeting that was previously scheduled.
A postseason news conference with Golden is still set for 12:30 p.m. Monday.
"I look forward to the continued growth of our football program under Al's leadership," UM athletic director Blake James said Sunday night in a text message to the Miami Herald.
Golden, 44, was a Penn State tight end who graduated in 1991. He was reported to be one of three candidates the Nittany Lions were pursuing to replace former coach Bill O'Brien, just hired by the Houston Texans.
The other candidates: Vanderbilt coach James Franklin and Mike Munchak, who was fired by the Tennessee Titans and played at Penn State. ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortenson reported Sunday that Munchak was scheduled to interview with Penn State on Sunday.
Two sources close to the situation confirmed to the Miami Herald that Golden did indeed speak with Penn State about the job on Saturday, but an agreement was never reached.
It is unknown whether Golden was offered the job, though Penn State beat writer Bob Flounders of the Harrisburg Patriot-News tweeted Sunday evening, "I'm told by a PSU source I trust that Al Golden was never offered the Lions' head coaching job. Never."
Golden has been with Miami for three seasons, posting records of 6-6, 7-5 and most recently 9-4 — including a 36-9 loss to Louisville on Dec. 28 in the Russell Athletic Bowl. It was UM's first bowl game after self-imposing NCAA-related postseason bans in 2011 and 2012.
After UM posted Golden's statement, incoming recruit Braxton Berrios wrote on Twitter: "WE ALL STAND WITH THE U!! It's a canes thing, you guys just wouldn't understand."
Cassandra Mitchell, the mother of UM star running back Duke Johnson, said when she "heard the news, I texted Coach Golden and told him, 'Thank you.' It shows stability and a commitment to the team."
Incoming offensive lineman Kc McDermott, a four-star recruit from Palm Beach Central and the younger brother of UM center Shane McDermott, was thrilled Golden is staying, according to his dad, Randy. He reports to Coral Gables to begin his college career on Wednesday.
"Like I said before, we love Al Golden and we love his wife Kelly,'' Randy McDermott said. "Kc is very happy."
Miami Booker T. Washington High defensive end Chad Thomas said he first began hearing rumors about Golden possibly heading to Penn State when he played in the Under Armour All-American game earlier this week.
"I called Coach and asked him what was going on," said Thomas, widely considered UM's top defensive recruit.
"Coach [Jethro] Franklin, [Micheal] Barrow and Golden told me to just concentrate on the things I could handle and things would work out."
Thomas admits he was a little nervous and although he considered himself "a 100 percent commitment to Miami," a potential coaching change would throw a curveball into Miami's future. Thomas said he was relieved when he found out Sunday that Golden was staying.
"I know we have a special class coming in and I didn't know what would happen if Coach Golden left," Thomas said. "I'm glad he isn't going anywhere. I know the rise back to the top is going to happen, and it's going to be special. I want to be a part of it."
Miami Herald sportswriters Manny Navarro and Michelle Kaufman contributed to this report.


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We built our own little baking oven using stones and we baked our bread on this. It was a mixture of pinnebrød (stick bread) and stone-baked bread. Delicious food for walkers, which can easily be made indoors and served with either entrecôte steak or other types of meat.
This recipe is suitable for baking outdoors over an open fire, but it can also be prepared at home in your oven.
Servings: 2
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Before leaving home: dissolve the yeast in the water and add a pinch of salt to the flour. Put the liquid and flour in a small plastic bag, seal the bag and then mix well. (If you are baking indoors you can forget the bag and use an ordinary bowl).
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Light a fire or heat up the oven to 200˚C (390˚F). Wrap the potatoes in aluminium foil and bake them until they are cooked through. Remove the potatoes from the fire and allow them to cool down. Peel and mash the potatoes and place them in the bag with the dough. Mix well. The dough should be fairly loose.
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Put a bit of flour on a hot stone (or on a cooking plate) and pour the dough over it. Turn it over when it has a fine, golden brown crust.
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Pour a bit of olive oil and salt over the entrecôte steak and cook this directly on the stone next to the potato bread (or in the oven). Cut the bread in half, lengthways (like pita bread). It should be moist, but not doughy.
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The Nuclear Treaty Russia Won't Stop Violating
Why has Washington looked the other way as Moscow revived Cold War weaponry?
The Reagan administration's 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty is celebrated as the "cornerstone" of nuclear arms control. But Moscow has openly flouted the spirit and apparently the letter of the INF Treaty at least since 2008, signaling that it is determined to regain some of its Cold War nuclear-strike capacity.
The INF agreement went where no other nuclear-arms treaty had gone before. Instead of simply limiting weapons numbers, it eliminated the entire class of U.S. and Soviet intermediate range—500...


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P1 SuperStock Powerboat Racing: Hull – 30th and 31st July
30-07-2011 - 31-07-2011
Hull Marina will host round 3 of this year's UK SuperStock Championship on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st July, with dramatic, action-packed racing that includes head-to-head competition on the opening day. There will be more high speed thrills when the P1 AquaX freestyle team hits the water with a spectacular Jet Ski display and 'big air' tricks. This Viewing is free and the event will be televised.
P1 SuperStock is a major powerboat racing series staged over five weekends from June to September, with the other venues being Jersey, Plymouth, Cowes and Liverpool. The race courses are tight and close-to-shore, providing a great spectacle and a serious challenge for the race teams.
The Championship offers exciting, cost-effective marketing and promotional opportunities that include sponsorship, supplier deals, brand exposure, hospitality and powerboat experience rides. Powerboat P1's commercial director, James Durbin says: "We are keen to talk to local companies about the wealth of commercial possibilities that exist. We are extremely flexible and happy to discuss tailor-made packages at all levels. Powerboat racing is a high-impact sport that can deliver tangible results for a wide range of businesses of all types and sizes."
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"Trash Fish" Art Exhibit
South Slough Reserve Interpretive Center Presents:
Elizabeth Roberts' Art Opening and Exhibition, Saturday, March 3 from 1-3 pm. Show runs through end of April.
Elizabeth uses her art to highlight the connection between plastic, the food we eat and how our consumer habits are contributing to more than 80 million tons of trash entering our oceans every year. Her work explores how fish mistake plastic for food and how plastic is becoming more prevalent in our food web. The phrase "you are what you eat" has never been more relevant. At current levels of plastic consumption globally, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean by the year 2050.


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Adorable Shiba Inu just wants to play with little kitten
Every animal does its far share of begging, but this cute dog takes asking for something to a whole new level. A new video posted by a Japanese woman shows a Shiba Inu hilariously begging to have fun with the new kitten in the house, Milky. All she wants to do is play!
In the video, Ichigo, the Shiba Inu, first comes up to inspect the adorable kitten, then takes a couple steps back and stands on two legs frantically waving her paws in the air. It's hard to tell exactly what the dog wants. It may be saying, "Hey, come on out and play," or, "Hey, why do you get to have your own apartment?" The way the dog is waving her paws also looks like she could be trying to conduct the cat into a really interesting kitty symphony. Either way, it's hard to watch this video without laughing, it's pretty great!
Milky the cat, just sitting on what looks like a kitty diving board.
Two friends in a stare down.
Ichigo is saying in dog, "Milky, I'm begging you. Can we please go skiing together?"
"Seriously I have so much hot chocolate for everyone."
"Do you like skiing?"


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Dover (PRWEB) January 16, 2014
Medical Engineering Technologies Ltd (MET), medical device test laboratory, has moved into 6,000 square feet of new laboratory space.
Dedicated areas now provide performance and functional testing, chemical analysis, and packaging validation. Accelerated aging chambers are operating at a variety temperatures to provide shelf life studies bespoke to your product.
MET provides excellence in medical device testing and medical device packaging testing. The team consists of medical device engineers with many years experience in development, and forensic scientists. This is the ideal combination to ensure that test programmes are expertly designed and diligently executed.
The laboratory divisions at MET are: device performance testing, material analysis, and packaging validation.
Our new address: Unit 16 Holmestone Road, Dover, CT17 0UF
Telephone: 44 (0) 845 458 8924
Email: solutions(at)met(dot)uk.com
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These four Versace fragrances perfectly encapsulate the characteristics of a Men's Health Cover guy: a man who leads by example, who is master of his strength and his sensuality. A man with charisma and energy, who marries the power of innovation with his appreciation of classic traditional style.
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This fragrance goes well with the self-confident man who is fond of the finer things in life but is also introspective and composed. It is made for the man who is elegantly understated with an alluring charm yet a willingly-contained sensuality. Someone who knows how to savour life moment by moment.


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While it may not seem like your skin would have a relationship with your digestive system, we know now that what goes on in the gut is often reflected in the skin. (1)
A reader of the Body Ecology newsletter recently responded to a Body Ecology article about small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)—her question was about rosacea.
Denise M. asks:
Hello, I was just diagnosed with Rosacea (skin disorder with papules and redness on my nose and cheeks with some broken blood vessels). I am 54. In my research it says not to use any fermented products if you have this condition. Thoughts? I eat 75% raw, some cooked vegetables, little to no meat, no packaged or processed foods, no dairy, nuts and seeds. I am allergic to coconut. What can you recommend?
Those with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth are more likely to have rosacea. Researchers discovered that skin inflammation associated with rosacea has been linked with gut inflammation.
The gastrointestinal tract is surrounded by lymph tissue, where we find roughly 70–80% of the immune system. The latest research on skin disorders, including rosacea, tells us that the skin has its own ecosystem. Like the gut, the skin is populated by microbes that directly interact with the body's immune system. (2)
It may come as no surprise, then, to learn that those with bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine are more likely to have rosacea.
In fact, in 2004 researchers at the University of Warwick found that increasing the gut transit time (or how fast food moves through the digestive tract) of one patient led to a complete remission of symptoms associated with rosacea. (3) This tells us that SIBO—when food stagnates and makes the gut leaky and inflamed—is linked to skin that is inflamed.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, explain that we influence the skin's ecosystem with:
Dysbiosis—or a wounded ecosystem—can lead to skin disorders. When the body is unable to restore balance to this ecosystem, we see chronic issues like rosacea.
The scientific literature on rosacea shows that it is often found in those who have been diagnosed with SIBO. This suggests that rosacea might have something to do with an imbalance in the gut—especially when rosacea clears up as SIBO is addressed. (4)
Fermented foods are packed full of nutrients. But when it comes to SIBO, we want to look at two qualities:
An overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine tells us that food, microbes, or both are not moving through the small intestine. (5)
Once food exits the stomach, the body continues to digest food in the small intestine. But if the small intestine is missing the correct enzymes to break down food, or if it is already overgrown with microbes, we see this activity slow down. The result is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, which can be detected with a breath test.
Some healthcare practitioners may suggest that those with rosacea avoid fermented foods under the misguided notion that fermented foods encourage bacterial overgrowth.
The reality is that all fermented foods contain probiotics, or microbes that are beneficial to our health. These probiotics naturally:
However, fermented foods that are wild ferments may have some pathogenic or opportunistic strains of microbes that are not good for our health. These microbes may make SIBO worse.
For those of us who are healthy, wild ferments pose no risk. Yet for those of us who struggle with a health disorder like SIBO, the body may not be able to handle the burden that wild fermented foods place on the immune system. This is when a starter culture is necessary.
Fermented foods made with a starter culture are therapeutic because they are cultured with specific probiotic strains known to support gut health.
When you use a starter culture to make fermented foods, you get all the benefits of probiotics—without the negative response that may be associated with wild ferments.
The health of your skin is directly related to the health of your gut. If you have been diagnosed with a skin disorder like rosacea, your doctor may have told you to avoid fermented foods to alleviate symptoms of inflammation. This could not be further from the truth.
Researchers have discovered that small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) increases the likelihood of developing rosacea. In short, when the gut is leaky and inflamed, skin is also inflamed. The delicate ecosystem of the skin is influenced by lifestyle, emotions, community, diet, and medication. A wounded inner ecosystem in the gut can further affect the ecosystem of the skin and overall skin health.
If the small intestine is missing essential enzymes to break down food, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth may occur. Fermented foods can be used to restore skin and gut health with probiotics that fight infection, calm leaky gut, and control bacterial overgrowth.
Rosacea sufferers will do best to use a starter culture when fermenting. A starter culture will provide safe, friendly probiotics in fermented food form, compared to a wild ferment that could contain pathogenic microbes to make SIBO (and rosacea) worse.
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Vote now for the K-drama Olympics 2016 Piggyback Ride Event
With intense kisses, long piggyback rides, and running away from villains, sometimes being in a K-drama is like competing in a sport. We think it's about time that the most athletic endeavors were rewarded, so we present to you the first K-drama Olympics! Today's even is the Piggyback Ride Tournament. Which of these recent K-drama couples do you think deserves the gold?
Kim Woo Bin really took one for the team during the awkward piggyback ride he gave Suzy! Does he deserve the gold for his good sportsman-like behavior?
Kim Go Eun manages to have three guys fighting to protect her during this marathon piggyback ride! Does Park Hae Jin deserve the gold for managing to keep her up through all the strife?
Despite the hilarious groping that cuts this piggyback ride short, Sung Hoon comes back for Kim Jae Kyung, throw up and all. Does he get a gold medal for effort?
This may just be the sweetest piggyback ride ever! Kang Min Hyuk gives Hyeri a piggyback ride not because she's drunk, but as a cute way to cheer her up. Does Min Hyuk's heart of gold deserve the gold?
This unique piggy back ride definitely demonstrates excellent athletic ability! Plus, Lee Hyun Woo sacrifices himself to help Seo Ye Ji complete her task. Does the method and motivation deserve the gold in your book?
Kim So Hyun may be a ghost, but apparently that doesn't make the task any easier for Ok Taec Yeon. Does he deserve the gold for this supernatural piggyback ride?
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Traveling in the coming days?
That Washington driver's license in your wallet will get you past security and onto your flight.
But it may not get you into a secure federal facility soon.
New requirements for access take effect starting next week at Hanford and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland.
Travel Leaders, a Tri-City agency with offices in Kennewick, Richland and Yakima, is inundated with frantic inquiries from people worried that they won't be able to board domestic flights after Jan. 10 with only a state-issued driver's license.
That's not the case, said CEO Julie Harrington.
You can still travel domestically with your Washington state driver's license beyond Jan. 10.
Julie Harrington, CEO of Travel Leaders
"You can still travel domestically with your Washington state driver's license beyond Jan. 10," she said.
The confusion arises from 2005's "Real ID" act of Congress. The rules are supposed to take effect Jan. 10, but to date, the Transportation Security Administration has not been authorized to enforce them. The rules will affect admission to federal sites, nuclear power plants and military bases.
The Real ID requirement, whenever it takes effect, promises to bring some chaos to Washington state, where about 5 million standard-issue driver's licenses do not meet the federal requirements. Washington residents can pay $3 per year for an enhanced ID that affirms the holder is a U.S. citizen.
Washington has issued about 500,000 enhanced driver's licenses. It takes seven to 10 days to obtain one.
A U.S. passport is also considered a form of Real ID. It takes an average of four to six weeks to process a passport application. Expedited service is available for a higher fee.
DHS plans to give 120 days notice when air-travel requirements change.
The Department of Homeland Security has said the agency is making plans to change air-travel requirements, but won't do so without a 120-day notice.
Hanford, PNNL access
Starting next week, new requirements are expected to take effect for people visiting parts of the Hanford nuclear reservation that require security badges for access.
It is expected to affect new hires, subcontractors, delivery drivers, vendors, invited tour participants and other visitors.
If a standard Washington driver's license or identification card is used, a second form of identification will be required. Standard driver's licenses from Illinois, Missouri and New Mexico also will not be accepted without a second form of identification.
Acceptable second forms include a Social Security card, voter registration card, original or certified copy of a birth certificate, certificate of U.S. citizenship or naturalization, Native American tribal document or an ID card issued by a federal, state or local government.
Hanford, PNNL access requirements change next week.
An unexpired U.S. passport or U.S. military ID card also may be used for Hanford badging, with no second form of identification required.
Plans are still in flux for public tours of Hanford that start in the spring, with information to be provided before they start about what forms of identification will be required.
At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, which is a Department of Energy national laboratory, a Washington standard driver's license or state ID card will be sufficient for visitors who are escorted at the lab.
However, unescorted visitors, including subcontractors, will need to present alternate or supplemental identification starting next week.
The specifics of requirements at the Columbia Generating Station, the nuclear power plant near Richland, were not immediately available Monday.
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Celebrating The Past - Looking To The Future
October 2017 marks the 40th Queenstown Jazz Festival and the continued evolution of this iconic annual music event. Four days of live entertainment woven into the fabric of downtown Queenstown. Bringing world class musicians from far and wide and showcasing the diversity of the jazz genre.
This year's festival offers a wider than ever programme of events including the Gibbston Valley Winery Wine and Jazz Weekend, QLDC and Queenstown Gardens' 150th Celebrations, plus MindJam, a lineup of mini debates and conversations curated by The Catalyst Trust.
As always, the broad spectrum of music and entertainment offers something for everyone to enjoy over Labour Weekend from traditional jazz, swing, blues, a touch of funk and right on through to modern-day electronica.
20th - 23rd October 2017, JazzFest will be a weekend to relish, paving the way for the next 40 years.
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SIZE Records head honcho and superstar DJ Steve Angello has been teasing fans with hints of what to except at his upcoming #DECADE celebration. Now, HuffPost Entertainment is happy to reveal the line-up and concept trailer for the March 27 event.
#DECADE -- celebrating 10 years of SIZE -- will take place at the abandoned RC Cola Plant in the Wynwood section of Miami, which Angello describes as "the art district of Miami, filled with creativity and new solutions, old warehouses transformed into galleries, streets looking like paintings."
The RC Cola Plant has long been a haven for street artists, but the SIZE party marks the first time a music event has ever been held in the space.
The line-up for the night includes Angello himself, Thomas Gold, Sunnery James and Ryan Marciano, An21 and Max Vangeli, Third Party, Tim Mason and Nari and Milani. Angello, a veteran of Swedish House Mafia, will also headline Saturday night of the Ultra Music Festival in Miami.
Tickets for the 8-hour party are currently on sale for $30 through Want Tickets.


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NEISA Performance Ranking System (PRS) evaluates each team's performance during the fall season and ranks teams for scheduling purposes. Below is an outline of how the system is administered with the official rules being listed on the NEISA website and meeting minutes.
A list of of ranked regattas for the upcoming season along with their ranking level, will be voted on at the annual meeting. The approved list will then be distributed to the conference and marked in the NEISA Schedule of Regattas.
View the list of all scoring values for each level of ranked regatta.
Coed: Top five (5) scores plus the NEISA Fall Championship
Women's: Top five (5) scores
The number of teams for each regatta will be either the number of teams that participated OR the number of teams entered at the drop deadline, whichever is greater. Late drops, even if they are excused by the scheduling coordinator, are included in the number of teams. The following stipulations also apply
- The number of teams will not exceed 20 at any event
- Coed A: number of teams will not be less than 18*
- Coed B: number of teams will not be less than 16
The number of teams for NEISA Men's and Women's singlehanded championship will be the number of unique teams (not competitors) at the event. A team's highest finisher will be scored for the ranking. All other competitors from the same team will be removed for ranking purposes.
The number of teams at sloop and the NEISA match race championship will not be less than 8.
The NEISA Fall Championship will be scored by combining the finishes from the Schell Trophy and NEISA Fall Tournament. The first place finisher at the Tournament will be scored as nineteenth and so on. Teams may not drop their score from the NEISA Fall Championship.
The score for the Atlantic Coast Championship and Atlantic Coast Tournament will be similar to the NEISA Fall Champs except that the first place team at the ACT will be scored one place after the last place NEISA team at the ACC. Teams may also drop their score for the ACC/ACT.
The first ranking will be distributed weekly via email to the NEISA list after the third weekend of competition. Team representatives are encouraged to double check their score to ensure its accuracy.
For as long as Sailing World has been doing college rankings-they go back to at least 1979, when Ken Legler did them on his own-we've been using a select panel of top coaches to do the honors.
There were a number of reasons for using this system, including the general lack of sailing programs with college coaches in the late 1970s and the prohibitive logistics involved with using a larger panel or opening it up to every college coach.
Times have changed, however, and we are proud to unveil a new system for our bi-weekly college sailing rankings, one that gives one vote to every team in the country with a coach. To register to vote in the poll, coaches need only send an email with their name, school, and number of years coaching college sailing to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Using an Internet polling site, every accredited coach can submit his or her list of the top 20 coed and 15 women's team in the country. Each place is worth a certain number of points (20 points for first in the coed rankings, 19 for second, on down to 1 for 20th; 15 points for first in the women's rankings, 14 for second, on down to 1 for 15th). All the points are tallied and the teams are ranked according to their respective point totals. Any team that receives at least two votes is listed as also receiving votes. The number of first-place votes a team receives is in brackets.
If you have any questions or comments, please send them to firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also sign up for Twitter updates which will alert you whenever a new ranking is posted, http://twitter.com/swrankings.
Sail1Design is proud to manage and sponsor the College Sailing Team Race Rankings. These rankings are updated infrequently in the fall, and then twice a month in the spring seasons. Rankings are based on college teams' performance in team race regattas and an average of the polling from our Team Race Ranking staff. If you would like to inquire more about our ranking system, or would be interested in joining the panel, please let us know.
ICSA Team Race Panelists include: Ken Legler (Tufts), Bill Healy (Yale), John Vandemoer (Stanford), Ward Cromwell (Charleston), and Brendan Healy (Navy).


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Our Story
The Starkville– MSU Symphony Association was established March 2, 1969, in the home of David and Barbara Cornell. The premier concert was performed on November 24, 1969. The Symphony Chorus was organized in October 1972, and the first concert was performed February 10, 1973. The first one of our Programs for Children was presented October 2, 1975.
The Symphony Association is now in its 48th season. Starkville has the distinction of being one of the smallest communities in the United States to support a symphony orchestra for 47 years. We are where we are because many citizens of Starkville, Oktibbeha County, and the Golden Triangle region, recognizing the value of the symphony to our community, become members of the Symphony Association and support its programs.
Major contributors include Mississippi State University, the J.Q. Criss Foundation, the Mississippi Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, Renasant Bank, the City of Starkville, the Starkville Convention and Visitors Bureau, G
Starkville-MSU Symphony Association
The Starkville-MSU Symphony Association encourages the development of an understanding of culturally and historically significant music. We make available to Starkville, MSU, and the Golden Triangle region orchestral and choral performances of compositions in a variety of musical styles.
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Steamboat Springs morning roundup for Wednesday, June 5
June 5, 2013
Good morning Steamboat Today readers.
Read the eEdition. View the daily photo gallery with staff and reader photos. You also can follow news and updates throughout the day on Facebook and Twitter.
• The impromptu student grief counselors were among the nine Katy Thiel had been meeting with every Friday throughout the year to help them come to terms with the loss of one of their own parents. Grief counseling is part of hospice services in Routt and Moffat counties
• A day after hundreds of Steamboat Springs residents gathered to say goodbye to 9-year-old Asher Lillig Lesyshen-Kirlan, his mother remained in a Denver hospital's intensive care unit. Routt County murder suspect recovering from gunshot wound to neck area
• An Oak Creek man last week pleaded guilty to a felony related to the death of the 32-year-old woman found dead in a Steamboat Springs hotel room March 15. Oak Creek man takes plea deal in case tied to death of woman in a Steamboat Springs hotel
• The rise of the bark beetle epidemic just as the housing market was beginning to take a turn for the worse was a confluence of bad luck for the timber market and, by extension, Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest. Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest benefits from returning timber market
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• April's modest decline in overall sales tax revenues came in spite of this year's early Easter holiday, which in turn had a significant impact on tourist numbers for the final two weeks of the 2012-13 ski season. City of Steamboat Springs April sales tax collections down slightly
• An overflowing list of activities is set to take place this weekend in an effort to raise money for Steamboat Springs resident Scott Blair, who was diagnosed last month with a brain tumor. Sweat for Scott brings Steamboat fitness industry together for one of its own
• The Town Challenge will give its season-opening race a second try Wednesday. The town's mountain biking series was postponed last week in the face of bad weather, but it will attempt to go again starting at 5:25 p.m. at Howelsen Hill. Town Challenge to try again Wednesday to make up rained-out race
• With Allan Bridgford, who started the final three games of the past season at University of California, Berkeley, announcing his transfer March 13, Steamboat's Austin Hinder finds himself in a three-man competition for the starting job next year with Zach Kline and Jared Goff. Steamboat's Austin Hinder in 3-man competition for starting quarterback job at Cal
• The Steamboat Springs Swim Team had top results in Thornton. Steamboat Springs Swim Team garners top results
Steamboat briefs: Nicole Shue in command of guided-missile destroyer
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Vice Chairperson of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Anita Desoso has warned one of the party's popular serial callers, Frank Appiah aka 'Appiah Stadium', that he'll soon run away from Kumasi for his dear life if his cover is blown.
According to her, Appiah Stadium has done the NDC a lot of wrongs which have worked against the interest of the party, adding that it is nauseating to hear the same person point accusing fingers at some leading members of the NDC.
Her threats come in the wake of allegations made by Appiah Stadium, that she Anita Desoso and Deputy General Secretary of the NDC, Koku Anyidoho have a grand agenda to ruin the political future of ex-President John Mahama.
Appiah Stadium who defected from the NPP to the NDC told Kasapa News that the duo have hatched a plan to make it impossible for Mr Mahama to stage a comeback to lead the NDC in 2020 elections. He said his claim has been reinforced by an interview Koku Anyidoho granted GHOne TV a few days ago during which he made a statement to the fact that "leadership will rotate, "I loved President Mills, but I worked for President Mahama."
Anita also recently accused the various campaign groups that were formed for Mahama of contributing largely to the parties defeat in last year's elections.
Appiah Stadium warned both party executives to stop their moves to make John Mahama unpopular or he'll strip them naked by exposing their evil agenda.
But responding to the allegations by Appiah Stadium, in an interview with Kasapa News, Anita Desoso vowed not to allow the former whom she described as a stranger, to be made a chief in NDC.
"Today you Appiah Stadium, you are the cause of the death and maiming of some NDC supporters in Kumasi just before the 2008 elections, which forced Ambassador Ohene Agyekum and me to invoke curses on our opponents a move that saved our party and brought us to power. Today you think you're better off so you insult me and claim you'll strip me naked…go ahead. I don't blame you, you're now a royal in the NDC and some of us have become slaves. You're a Judas who has turned into a Jesus Christ, today you love John Mahama than I do? Tell your paymasters that I say they should come forward themselves. With the sort of treatment you meted out to the NDC in Ashanti Region before 2008, if the NPP were to do same to you now, you would have been dead.
Anita added: "The NDC is bigger than both of us, you should know that you joined the party from the NPP and I'll not allow you to be a chief in NDC. If Appiah Stadium doesn't take care, he'll soon run away from Kumasi and seek refuge elsewhere when his wrongs against the party are exposed."


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Autism Speaks Trailblazer research supports new theory that blocking cell distress signals can ease autism symptoms
A newly published Autism Speaks Trailblazer study supports a novel theory about the cause and potential treatment of autism. The theory holds that a chronic "cell danger response" can interfere with brain development and function – and that blocking these danger signals might be a way to treat autism.
Using a mouse model of autism, the researchers used a chemical compound to block such cell danger signals and, in doing so, reversed signs and symptoms of autism in the animal's brains and behavior.
The report appears today in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. It was supported by one of the first Autism Speaks Suzanne and Bob Wright Trailblazer Awards, a grant made possible by a generous gift from Amy and Stuart Savitz and Nancy and James Molesworth.
New Theory of Cause and Treatment
The findings support a theory proposed by the study's lead author, mitochondrial medicine specialist Robert Naviaux, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of California, San Diego.
Several years ago, Dr. Naviaux proposed that cell structures called mitochondria play a broad role in the development of autism. Mitochondria are best known for providing cells with energy. Dr. Naviaux looked beyond energy production to study their role in signaling when a cell is damaged or diseased. Under stress, cells release mitochondrial (purinergic) chemicals that normally remain inside the cell. When they leak outside a cell, these chemicals signal danger to surrounding tissues.
"In essence, these signals warn other cells to harden their defenses," Dr. Naviaux explains. "This helps protect against cell-to-cell infection. However, it may also interfere with cell-to-cell communication."
When Danger Signals Don't Stop
Normally, cells stop releasing their danger signals when an infection or other stress resolves. According to Dr. Naviaux's theory, autism can result when a stress during early brain development triggers a chronic danger response. The stress that starts this chain of events can come from an environmental influence, a genetic problem or a combination of both, he proposes. The result is chronic brain inflammation and frayed connections between brain cells.
"When the brain cells stop talking, so do children," he says. In developing his theory, Dr. Naviaux proposed that it might be possible to reverse autism by blocking chronic cell danger signaling.
An Award to Transform Autism Research
In 2010, Autism Speaks created the Suzanne and Bob Wright Trailblazer Award Program to fund highly novel "out of the box" studies that open new avenues into understanding the prevention, causes and treatment of autism. The grant supports "high-risk/high-impact" projects with the potential to transform the field of autism research.
In the same year, Autism Speaks awarded Dr. Naviaux one of its first Trailblazer grants to test this "cell danger response" theory of autism. His team began their research by producing litters of mice that exhibited autism symptoms. They did so by mimicking a viral infection in mice during pregnancy. This "maternal immune activation mouse model" is well-known for producing mouse offspring with symptoms of autism.
The researchers measured social behavior by giving the mice opportunities to spend time with either another mouse or a Lego block in adjacent wire chambers. They also tested motor coordination as the mice walked along a rotating rod. While female pups showed only mild impairments, the male pups showed a 50 percent reduction in socializing and a 28 percent reduction in motor coordination. The researchers then used the male pups for testing response to treatment.
Compound Reverses Autism Behaviors in Mice
When the mice were 6 weeks old (roughly adolescents), 84 received an injection of suramin, a chemical that blocks mitochondrial signals leaking out of cells. For comparison, another 84 mice received a dummy shot of saltwater
The treatment restored normal socializing and motor coordination in the mice that received it. By contrast, the researchers saw no such improvement in the mice injected with saltwater.
Later, the researchers examined the mice's brain tissue. There, they looked for the brain abnormalities associated with autism. These included abnormal cell connections (synapses) and high rates of cell death in an important class of neurons called Purkinje cells. They found elevated levels of all these abnormalities in the untreated mice. But they did not see them in the mice treated with suramin.
Guiding the Search for Safe Treatments
In people, suramin can be used safely only for short periods because it has potentially serious side effects.
"Our hope was to test this compound first in mice, then in a small clinical trial that will use just a single dose to determine whether this class of drugs is a good direction for developing safe and effective treatments," Dr. Naviaux says.
"Breakthroughs in the development of new treatment approaches for autism are going emerge from innovative theories and trailblazing research like that of Naviaux's team," says Autism Speaks Vice President for Translational Research Robert Ring, Ph.D. "Although these findings still need to be expanded and confirmed before they make their way into the clinic, this line of work emphasizes how Autism Speaks will leave no stone unturned in our search for ways to convert science innovation into applications that transform outcomes for individuals with autism."
Autism Speaks Participant's Guide to Autism Drug Research provides important information for families considering entry into a clinical trial of an experimental medicine. It can be downloaded at no charge here.
To read about more Autism Speaks Trailblazer studies, click here. Autism Speaks continues to fund a wealth of research on the causes, prevention and treatment of autism. You can explore all of these studies by topic using this website's Grant Search.


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Parks Associates Sr. Research Analyst Heather Way to present State of the Market at Digital Asset Management Conference
Forty percent of U.S. broadband households now own a tablet, up from 15% in 2011
Feb 26, 2013, 12:19 EST
DALLAS, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Parks Associates' Sr. Research Analyst Heather Way will present the keynote "New Paths to the Connected Consumer: Multiscreen Experiences and User Interaction," Wednesday, February 27, 10:00 a.m. at the Digital Asset Management Conference in Los Angeles, CA.
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Connected consumer electronics (CE) have opened new avenues to consumers in an increasingly fragmented media environment. In this state-of-the-market address, Parks Associates presents primary consumer research that reveals the connections between CE adoption, usage, and content distribution. The international research firm highlights the disruption caused by new media and presents strategies to effectively reach the digitally connected consumer.
New research from Parks Associates:
- More than 39 million tablets were sold in North America in 2012, an increase of 72% year over year.
- Forty percent of U.S. broadband households now own a tablet, up from 15% in 2011, and 66% of U.S. broadband households will have a tablet by the end of 2013.
- Tablet owners are 1.3 times more likely than smartphone owners to purchase a product using a shopping app.
- North America had over 205 million smartphone owners/users in 2012; ownership will top 300 million by year-end 2016.
"In the past decade, technological advancements have proven a disruptive force in media content delivery, distribution, and monetization," Way said. "The growth of connected device adoption paired with demand for content, anytime, anywhere drastically alters how content owners and publishers formulate strategies to reach and engage consumers while maintaining control on when, how, and where content is consumed."
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The 2017 Cup Series trophy was unveiled Thursday, and it looks a lot different than the previous trophy.
With the arrival of series sponsor Monster Energy, NASCAR redesigned the trophy for its premier series. The new trophy weighs over 60 pounds and stands over three feet tall. And has a cup at the top of it. Fitting for the Cup Series.
Here's what the previous trophy looked like.
Every track the Cup Series races is on the side of the cup. There is a minor flaw, however. And it's kind of funny. The Watkins Glen layout depicted on the trophy is not the configuration the Cup Series uses. The track, which is over 3.4 miles long for sports car and IndyCar races, has only seven turns and is approximately 2.4 miles long for the Cup Series. Apparently realism wasn't a major priority for the trophy designers.
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Triple ARIA award winning Australian singer-songwriter Shane Nicholson releases his sixth solo studio album 'Love and Blood,' through Lost Highway Australia /Universal Music Australia!
The new album follows 2015's ARIA Award-winning masterpiece 'Hell Breaks Loose.' The Central Coast-based singer has kept the winning formula from that album for Love and Blood, opting once again to work with his good mate, producer Matt Fell, at his Sydney studio Love Hz and assembling a familiar cast of musicians, including drummer Josh Schuberth and multi-instrumentalist Glen Hannah, as well as recruiting new faces such as horn-player supreme James Greening.
He adds his expertise to several tracks, including the sprightly "God's Own Army," a delicious slab of New Orleans blues with a swagger and a choir made up of singers who just happened to be passing by, such as Josh Pyke, Andrew Swift, Fanny Lumsden and Imogen Clark.
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Lilly extended its partnership with Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler through a program that will provide $1,000 to the American Diabetes Association for every touchdown pass Cutler completes this season. Funds raised through the Touchdowns for Diabetes program will help send children with diabetes to ADA's summer camps. For every completed pass that isn't a touchdown, Lilly will donate $100.
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Qualcomm's Stunning Court Loss
Friday a jury ruled in favor of Broadcom in the first of seven patent lawsuits between the two companies. Even if the H.264-related patent is not core to Qualcomm's assertion of IPR on 3G mobile phones, it's hard to see this as anything but a big negative for the company.
Any loss emboldens the various mobile phone vendors and component makers, none of whom want to pay Qualcomm patent royalties. I would expect more aggressive lawsuits by Qualcomm rivals and less willingness to sign (or renew) Qualcomm patent licenses.
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Prosecutors say she traded in on tragedy by staying in hotel rooms meant for Sandy evacuees for more than 250 days.
Call it a different kind of room service. Investigators from the Attorney General's Office arrested accused Sandy scam artist Catarina Curatola at the latest hotel where she's been staying thanks to taxpayer money.
Over a nine month period, she racked up hotel bills in Brooklyn and Queens totaling more than $83,000, falsely claiming she'd been made homeless by the superstorm.
"She owns two homes that were a mile and a half from the nearest flood zone. She scammed the system in multiple ways for months," New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said.
The Attorney General says in fact, Curatola's home in Fresh Meadows was not made uninhabitable by Sandy.
That hole in the roof was there before the storm. She made a claim for it after Hurricane Irene in 2011. Plus, she owns another family home next door.
Eyewitness News has now learned that Curatola was paid $7,700 for the "Irene" claim.
Neighbors across the street told Eyewitness News Curatola hasn't kept up her home for years. But her alleged scam didn't stop with hotels. The Attorney General says Curatola filed an auto insurance claim for a Jeep she claimed was a total Sandy loss, and there's more.
"She got debit cards to buy food that she used at places to buy dresses and shoes," Schneiderman said.
Neighbors were outraged.
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So, my man won a trip. A trip to Atlantis? Yup. At year 10 he got a pen, and at year 15... a watch. But that year, as a top producer, is when the magic happened. And a group of our friends, plus about 500 other people from his company had the trip of our lives.
And did I tell you that the resort was on the beach? And that there was an aquarium built in, complete with (big) sharks? And that our room had a plasma TV, back when plasma TVs were about the price of a BMW?
When we weren't drinking sugary drinks with little umbrellas, or lying on the beach because we were too bloated to move from drinking those sugary drinks, we ate well. I'm still drooling thinking of those lamb chops.
But one dish stood out the most to me- the mahi mahi (which I hadn't had since a kid in Hawaii!) and a beautiful side dish with fennel and white beans
For the Mahi Mahi
I gave this idea a shot tonight, and it was so simple, and so yummy- we loved it!
Preheat olive oil in a small skillet. Add in 1/4 c. brown sugar sprinkled on the bottom and quickly add in mahi mahi fillets, top down. Salt and pepper and don't flip until cooked about 3/4 of the way and with a nice brown sugar sear. Then flip over fish and squeeze 1/2 of an orange over the fillets. Continue cooking until almost done, remove from pan and let rest to finish cooking.
For the Beans:
1/2 large fennel bulb, chopped
1/2 red onion, chopped
6 oz. haricot verts (use green beans if you can't find), chopped
Dried herbs of choice, (I like Parisien Mix from Penzeys but you can use thyme, rosemary, tarragon)
Crushed red pepper, just a tad depending on taste
2 cans white beans, drained and rinsed well
Juice from 1-1/2 oranges
2 Tblsp. fresh cilantro, chopped
1 Tblsp. champagne vinegar
2 Tblsp olive oil
Salt & Pepper
Saute the fennel, onion and haricot vert in olive oil. Season with salt and pepper and seasonings of choice. When very soft and caramelized add in the orange juice and vinegar and saute for a few minutes. Then add in the beans and cilantro. Cook until just heated through. Salt and pepper as needed.
Caramelized Shallots (optional)
For a lovely topping to the mahi mahi, plus some chopped cilantro
Slice 1-2 shallots and saute in oil until just tender. Salt and pepper.
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One More Doctor Quitting Practice Due to Obamacare
SCOTTSDALE, AZ: Dr. Joseph M. Scherzer has informed his patients that unless Obamacare is repealed he will no longer to be able to treat them. He reports that the stress of the new requirements will force him and many of his colleagues to retire early or simply quit practice.
Scherzer said the bill's emphasis on punitive measures for physicians not following government-prescribed treatment methods under Medicare would increase his anxiety level to the point he would no longer be able to practice medicine. The maximum fine was previously $10,000; under the bill it will now be capped at $50,000. Scherzer said the fine system makes seeing a Medicare patients a difficult and stressful exercise.
"Doctors have actually committed suicide over these things. There's no insurance to cover it," Scherzer said, calling the fine system "tremendously complicated and Frankensteinian." "It's absolutely impossible to be certain you've complied. I feel like when I see a Medicare patient I have the Sword of Damocles hanging over my head."
Dr. Scherzer reported his experience with Medicare to Neil Cavuto on Fox this afternoon. He said that when Medicare become so unmanageable he discontinued taking Medicare. As a result he lost 90% of his Medicare patients. It is his experience that unless a patient has insurance he will not be able to be treated, so going to a cash basis with his practice once Obamacare goes into effect will not be an option.
What will the government do when more and more doctors leave their practices? There are not enough doctors now and throwing 30 million more patients into the system won't make it any better. Is it Obama's plan to force the doctors to practice medicine? Maybe that's why he says he needs a national police force.


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New Research Report From I Love Velvet Unlocks Consumer Attitudes Towards Mobile Point-of-Sale
NEW YORK – (September 16, 2013) – I Love Velvet, the Mobile Point-of-Sale (MPOS) hardware and software innovator for large retailers, airlines, restaurant chains, and leisure and entertainment groups, today released the results of its new "Consumer Mobile Point-of-Sale (MPOS) Attitudes Report." Conducted by OnePoll on behalf of I Love Velvet, the study found that 51 percent of Americans believe the cash register's days are numbered, even saying that it would be "gone soon."
Instead, consumers favored solutions like MPOS which allow for a customer to check-out anywhere on the store floor. Thirty-five percent of respondents stated that they would shop at the store more often. In addition:
- 17 percent would share their experience on social media
- 37 percent would tell a friend and recommend the retailer
- 46 percent would think the retailer was "tech-savvy"
- 56 percent would appreciate that the store made their experience more convenient
"Consumers are essentially telling retailers: 'get with the times'," said Pascale Juan, I Love Velvet COO. "As MPOS has the ability to cut down long lines in-store and get staff out from behind the cash register, it's clear that the businesses that recognize the benefits of MPOS solutions will win not only more of the consumer dollar, but the perception competition as well."
When and where? Consumers adapting to emerging MPOS technologies
Consumers feel most comfortable using MPOS technologies in retail settings (26 percent), paving the way for large retailers to begin offering these in-store solutions. The food/beverage industry came in second, with 14 percent of consumers feeling most comfortable using MPOS, followed by airlines/car rental companies (10 percent).
While MPOS solutions are gaining traction across the board, consumers still feel uneducated about how they work. Even though 1 in 5 consumers polled had allowed a retailer to check them out using a MPOS solution, almost as many (15 percent) still avoid using MPOS. Overall understanding of MPOS technology remains a barrier for consumers, with 1 in 10 consumers saying they would be more likely to use MPOS solutions if they had more information about them.
"The report reveals a major opportunity for savvy retailers to proactively educate their customers on MPOS," said Juan. "Providing customers with a wealth of information via dedicated emails, on the retailer's website as well as at check-out will help raise consumer confidence – ultimately helping retailers more efficiently and cost effectively check out customers."
Lack of trust comes with level of security
It's no surprise that security continues to top the list of consumer concerns when it comes to MPOS. According to I Love Velvet's report:
- 57 percent ranked security as their number one concern when it comes to mobile payments
- 62 percent said it would affect their decision to use services like Square or LevelUp if they did not provide the same levels of security as the traditional cash register
- 88 percent had doubts about a retailer's ability to protect their personal payment information – in fact, just a meager 12 percent of consumers said that they "completely trust" retailers to do so
"As the payments industry moves at lightning speed, it can be a challenge to keep up with the security requirements and standards of mobile payments," said Juan. "True enterprise-grade solutions need to be both PCI-PTS and PCI-PDS compliant. It's something not enough retailers are considering as a real and present threat – especially considering all of the security breaches and hacks we've seen on financial organizations and traditional POS systems in the past year."
Research methodology
I Love Velvet commissioned research firm OnePoll to poll the views of a representative sample of 1000 U.S. adults. Fieldwork was undertaken July 12-17, 2013. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all U.S. adults (aged 18+).
About I Love Velvet
I Love Velvet (www.ilovevelvet.com) is at the forefront of the MPOS industry. I Love Velvet is the industry's only mobile point-of-sale (MPOS) company wholly committed to providing enterprise-grade MPOS solutions to the retail, restaurant and entertainment industries. A comprehensive, end-to-end hardware and software solution that goes beyond simple mobile payments, I Love Velvet's MPOS systems provide customers with the most integration, flexibility, compatibility with business processes and global security certification. With a 360 degree understanding of its customer's business processes, I Love Velvet offers organizations the opportunity to transform the customer POS experience. For more information visit www.ILoveVelvet.com.
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Tobago Sunrise Villa - Summary Description
4-bedroom Holiday Villa. Reader Satisfaction Rating
Tobago Sunrise Villa is a four-bedroom rental house with swimming pool, located just outside the villa of Goodwood on Tobago's Atlantic coast.
IMPORTANT: The owner notified us (April 2016) that this property is for sale and no longer being rented out. However, their social media pages make no mention of this.
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Here on the Atlantic side of the island you can watch every morning a fantastic sunrise or during full moon an exciting natural scenery, or you can relax on the huge terrace between the house and the pool and enjoy the refreshing breeze from the sea.
You find in the villa
- 3 sleeping rooms with king-size bed , 1sleeping room with 2 single beds, all with AC units
- two bathrooms with shower and WC
- separate guest WC at the ground floor
- kitchen with gas stove, dishwasher, refrigerator with freezer, microwave, enough cookware and dishes
- washing machine
- dining and sitting room in ground floor
- lounge with two balconies in first floor
- huge terrace with sea view, partly covered
- pool with outside shower
- and a lot of nature around
- Bed clothes (weekly change), towels for the house are included. Please bring you own towels for the beach and mosquito net
- There is a German 230 volt socket (standard is 110 volt)
Locally you will be attended by Veanne Bonas. She lives within eye shot(60 m) in Vee's Craft Café. She will answer all your questions about the villa, the surroundings, Tobago, Trinidad, tours, ...
On order Vee will also serve you local dishes. And if you wish she can pick you up and drop you at the airport in Crownpoint.


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This Saturday and every Saturday teens and young adults are invited to come, dance, mingle and socialize with their friends and meet new ones.
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All Are Welcome Here, One Love, One Life, One People