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Universal Music Group Shows Exactly Why We Need to Kill SOPA
SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) is a bill up for vote that if passed would be among the most heavy handed and unreasonable anti-piracy laws on the planet – and that from a country that is supposed to be among the most free.
AWOLNATION – "Sail"
Awesome song by Red Bull Records' AWOLNATION, the video for it plays out like a spooky late 80s/early 90s horror movie (also: sort of reminiscent of this one epic Celine Dion video.)
JESS3′s Favorite Beatles Songs
It was 31 years ago today that one of music's greatest innovators was taken too early. JESS3 remembers John Lennon by sharing our favorite song or lyric by The Beatles as a tribute to his memory and to those that share his vision.
tUnE-yArDs – "Bizness"
Though it's nearly 8 months old, this early Spring release from Merrill Garbus' project tUnE-yArDs, with its joyous beat and colorful, eccentric video is still one of our favorites from this year.
Chiddy Bang – "Ray Charles"
Earlier this year we witnessed Chiddy Bang's MC (real name Chidera) break the Guinness World Record for longest freestyle at the first ever MTV O Music Awards, and now it looks like the group is finally gearing up to release a full length album, "Breakfast", due out January 2012.
Childish Gambino – "Heartbeat"
NYC radio station Hot 97 premiered the newest track off of Childish Gambino's new record Camp last week. If you haven't heard of Childsh Gambino, you may have heard of the artist by his real name: Donald Glover, a comedian most well known for his role of Troy on NBC's Community.
Beyoncé – "Party"
Though some aren't too crazy about the song, it's hard not to love the fun summertime vibe in this newest Beyoncé video. Look closely and you'll spot some cute cameos from Kelly Rowland, Solange, Theophilus London and the awesome Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange), whose "Sutphin Boulevard" is one of the best songs of 2011.
Nate Dogg – "Sweet Pack of Lies"
An unfinished track from the late hook-master that will be appearing on Dr Dre's upcoming record "Detox". RIP Nate Dogg! Nate Dogg – "Sweet Pack of Lies" [Audio clip: view full post to listen] And here are some classic Nate Dogg tracks from his later years:
Yelawolf + Slaughterhouse + Shady – "Shady 2.0 Cypher"
Epic freestyle by some of the game's greatests. "Hi Rihanna." More Cyphers on BET's site.


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Farinata: very easy to make; you can store it for 2-3 days; useful in case of diet (only made of garbanzo bean flour and water).The ratio is 1:3, that is 200 g of garbanzo bean flour for 600 g of warm water. Add salt! You must season the dough before cooking, otherwise it … [Read more...]
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Category Archives: the championship
fan t-shirts
From now on, you can buy t-shirts with our world cup logo on the frontside. If you order them until 20th of July via email to firstname.lastname@example.com, you can get our special prize of 8 euro per piece – you have to pay at the world championship and will get them then handed out. In our regular selling at the world chmapionships, you will get them for 10 €.
match schedule
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Our busy forge has been the site of our passionate blacksmith's service for more than 34 years. In that time, we've supplied countless clients across East & West Sussex in locations including East Grinstead, Brighton, Hove and Hastings.
We are proud of the dependable, creative service we provide – you can read more about what we do below, or head straight to our contact page if you have a project already in mind!
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As a well-established Sussex blacksmith, we have the benefit of two forms of our craft to draw from – traditional and contemporary.
We add modern skills to techniques that have been used by professional smiths for hundreds of years, to create unique, stylish and beautifully designed products for our clients. Most of the work we do is for bespoke projects, which can draw the eye, define a room or transform a space.
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If you have a design idea for metal piece or just a need for something special – you can trust that your product will be created to the highest blacksmithing standards. Our Sussex blacksmith – Rhys Harlin AWCB – has competed at events and competitions the length and breadth of the country. Most recently, he was reserve Live Champion (live forging) in 2016 and winner of the 2016 National Champion Blacksmith event.
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Some come to us with a clear idea of what they would like, which we make a reality. Others look to Rhys to produce designs that will 'wow' them or perfectly suit a given project. Either way, we are enthusiastic about taking on design-and-build projects for private and public clients in Sussex alike.
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After careful consideration E.ON has made the decision not to progress with the proposed Isles Wind Farm project near Newton Aycliffe.
During a detailed review of the project a number of long standing environmental and technical issues have been re-assessed. These include the long-standing objection from the Ministry of Defence, the high level of bird activity on the site, investor uncertainty and changes to Planning Law. The combination of these issues has resulted in E.ON's decision to withdraw from the project.
While onshore wind remains one of the cheapest low carbon technologies available, the Isles Wind Farm project, located approximately 1.5 km east of Newton Aycliffe and 12km north of Darlington in County Durham, has been affected by a number of objections, since it was submitted to Durham County Council in April 2013 and is no longer technically or economically viable.
E.ON continues to invest in onshore wind and believes it has an important role to play in meeting the UK's 2020 renewable targets. The company has a portfolio of 14 onshore wind projects in various stages of development in Scotland, as well as 16 fully operational sites in the UK.
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The post-translational modification (PTM) of histones regulates many biological processes, including gene transcription, DNA replication, and chromosome segregation. Histone PTMs function, in part, by modulating chromatin structure to render associated genes more or less accessible to nucleoproteins that mediate these biological processes. Histone PTMs also target the association of nuclear factors to specific regions of chromatin via interactions with diverse protein domains. One essential aspect of DNA metabolism in which the function of histone PTMs remains a mystery is the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs). Prior studies have shown that the histone variant H2AX is phosphorylated exclusively in chromatin flanking DSBs, generating a form called 3-H2AX. In yeast, more general changes in histone PTMs are induced at chromatin flanking DSBs, producing patterns that are reminiscent of those found at accessible, transcribed genes. However, in mammalian cells almost nothing is known about DSB-induced changes in histone PTMs due to the lack of experimental approaches for efficiently introducing these lesions at defined locations in the genome. For this purpose, we have innovated cell culture-based approaches that take advantage of primary and transformed lymphocytes in which the V(D)J recombinase (RAG) targets persistent DSBs at precise locations in the genome, allowing us to monitor the cellular response to DNA breaks. Using this novel cell system, we have shows that 3-H2AX is generated over extended distances (>100 kb) in chromatin flanking these RAG- DSBs. We now propose to define the constellation of histone PTMs that respond to RAG-DSBs in neighboring chromatin with the goal of elucidating their function in coordinating DSB repair. To achieve this goal, we will initially screen RAG-DSB chromatin for changes in a broad panel of histone PTMs using chromatin immunoprecipitation. Guided by the initial screens, we will generate high-resolution maps of DSB-induced changes to histone PTMs spanning several Mb using a custom microarray that contains all lymphocyte antigen receptor loci. These studies will define both time- and distant-dependent changes to the epigenetic landscape surrounding physiologic DSBs (Aim 1). The epigenetic maps generated in Aim 1 will be incorporated into strategies to (i) elucidate DNA damage response pathways that are critical for the revision of specific histone PTMs, (ii) determine which histone modifying enzymes are responsible for stamping/erasing DSB-induced changes in chromatin, and (iii) determine whether DSBs mediate a permanent change in regional chromatin. These pioneering studies will provide a foundational set of epigenetic data to reveal mechanisms of crosstalk between histone PTMs and DNA repair pathways that cooperate to maintain genomic integrity. Such mechanisms are particularly important in lymphocytes, where efficient repair must be directed to programmed DSBs in antigen receptor loci to avoid chromosomal translocations that promote cancer.
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are generated upon exposure to genotoxic agents, such as ionizing radiation, and are intermediates during several important physiologic processes, including lymphocyte antigen receptor gene assembly. It is critical that DSBs are appropriately repaired rather than accessing alternative pathways that potentially result in oncogenic chromosomal translocations. We now propose to identify histone modifications that function as intermediates to coordinate the normal repair of DNA-DSBs in mammalian cells.
|Sikes, Michael L; Oltz, Eugene M (2012) Genetic and epigenetic regulation of Tcrb gene assembly. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 356:91-116
|Helmink, Beth A; Tubbs, Anthony T; Dorsett, Yair et al. (2011) H2AX prevents CtIP-mediated DNA end resection and aberrant repair in G1-phase lymphocytes. Nature 469:245-9


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Residents along the Fox River in the East Dundee area say that they can get flooding any time of the year. On Monday the water got so high many needed help getting out of their homes.
The water and ice surrounded several homes, looking beautiful and serene but in fact it is very dangerous for residents like 92-year-old Harvey Linder who saw the water rising on Saturday and evacuated on his own, before it was too late.
"I could see it coming Saturday. I could see the river was coming out. I was watching it there," said Linder.
On Monday morning the water was several feet deep, enclosing many of the homes and making the road treacherous if not impassable for many vehicles. Fire department crews helped some of the residents get out.
"By Saturday afternoon we were trapped. And yesterday I got my wife and daughter out. They could still walk out. My other son could walk out. But my other son and I were trapped," said Greg Slovacek, evacuee.
The reason for the floodwater, according to some long time residents, is the Stratton Dam, north of East Dundee, controlling water levels in this chain of lakes. Occasionally when the dam releases water it leads to flooding. In this case, officials say it is because of a huge block of ice that backed the water up down river in Elgin and into East Dundee yards.
"What they do is hold the water up when the lake starts to freeze. There's going to be damage on the docks and things like that. They open up the dam and let it go. And by that time we have ice in the river. The water can't go through and we flood," said Peter Rosendale, resident.
Rosendale's property is on a higher ground. He hasn't had to evacuate.
Evacuation is voluntary. There is no mandate involved.
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Nexxus, Locks of Love team up to educate women on charitable hair donations
NEW YORK Nexxus Salon Hair Care has partnered with Locks of Love, a group that provides children suffering from long-term medical hair loss with hairpieces and wigs, to educate women and men on how to properly donate their hair to the charity.
Through the partnership, Nexxus Salon Hair Care and Locks of Love has created a video tutorial to educate interested donors and their stylists on the proper steps to donate. The video can be found at www.Nexxus.com. The main steps are:
- Hair must be at least 10 inches from tip to tip
- Hair must be secured in a ponytail or braid before it is cut; and the cut must be made above the hair elastic
- Hair must be clean and completely dry before it is mailed
- Ponytail should be placed in a plastic bag and then into an envelope
- Include the hair donation form you find at www.LocksofLove.org so they can acknowledge the donation.
In addition to producing the video, Nexxus made a donation of $10,000 to the organization to help defray operating costs and to help fund research in finding a cure for alopecia areata, which is an autoimmune disease that causes a person's hair to fall out. Over the past two years, Locks of Love has expanded their efforts in the search for a cure by awarding research grants to the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.
To date, the non-profit organization has provided more than 2,000 children in all 50 states and Canada with hairpieces. Most of the children who receive hairpieces suffer from the medical condition alopecia areata.
Frida Kahlo skin care line now available from Natural Skin Care
NEW YORK Natural Skin Care has launched the Frida Kahlo skin care line and opened its first retail space in Staten Island, N.Y., to showcase the new line of 100 percent natural skin care products.
The store, called Frida Store, is to be followed with a second location in Miami's Bay Harbor Islands. The second location is slated to open in February.
The Frida Kahlo skin care line and retail store are the brainchild of Venezuelan-born aromatherapist, holistic cosmetologist and Naturals Skin Care chief executive officer Antonio Sciortino. Last year, Sciortino and partners met with the Kahlo family in Mexico to acquire the rights to the name and likeness of the painter and activist for their skin care line.
"Reading her letters was a life-changing experience for me. She was very much into aromatherapy herself, mixing and creating her own makeup and lotions," stated Sciortino.
Using such natural essentials as rosemary, bergamot and aphrodesia oils, Sciortino created a line of more than 30 products, including the signature Omega-3 Collection, which consists of hand and body lotions, shower gels and anti-aging and anti-wrinkle face creams.
Colorlab cosmetics debuts at Macy's
CHICAGO The Macy's store here at State Street has become the first department store in the country to sell Colorlab Custom Cosmetics, which enables makeup artists to create custom blended makeup for beauty shoppers, according to local news reports.
The Rockford, Ill.-based company, founded In 1996 by makeup artist and cosmetic industry veteran Mary Swaab, previously sold its custom blended makeup at Selfridges in London, Galleries Lafayette in Paris and a department store in Mexico City.
The Macy's opening is the first of a three-year deal with the department store chain. A second location is expected to be a Colorlab boutique that will open in December in the Lincoln Park area. The agreement with Macy's is expected to spread the Colorlab name nationwide within Macy's stores in such places as Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Francisco, according to published reports.


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Finally, we're almost all better!! I'm the one dragging the line, but after a day in bed yesterday my cough has eased. My ribs feel broken but I'm so much better and SO glad to say that! Thanks for the well-wishes.
While Jasmine was away, Elijah was content and happy to do his own thing. He was a different kid ... actually he was like the one year old we had just before Jasmine was born. Happy to play with lego for hours, sit around and read or watch movies. On Friday he was more restless and wanted me to do things with him a lot, but also kindly helped me with tidying up.
And on Friday night we picked up Jasi, HOORAY!! She had a great time, and enjoyed telling us all about it. The Butterfly house and maze, Big Banana, movies, cafes, beach ... and she loved giving us little things she'd lovingly chosen and brought home for us, like some plastic butterflies she painted colourfully, one for each of us.
Since Jasmine came home it's been one big play-a-thon for the two kids. They're SO happy to be back together. They're industrious, boisterous, messy, as noisy as baby elephants and practically oblivious to us grown-ups except when it suits them ... in other words we're back to normal life! And LOVING it!


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Atlanta, Georgia (PRWEB) March 10, 2016
Iyanla Vanzant, best-selling author, inspirational speaker and and host of the hit reality show "Iyanla: Fix My Life," and Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. surgeon general, will be the keynote speakers at the Seventh Biennial Cultural Competency Conference at Georgia State University, April 7-8.
The theme of the conference, to be held in Georgia State's Student Center East, is "Cultivating a Culture of Health: Clinical and Community Innovations." Speakers will focus on building skills in culturally competent mental and physical healthcare and creating opportunities for health equity and optimal wellbeing in diverse populations.
"Georgia State University has a long and proud history of training change-makers," said Dr. Jill Lee-Barber, director of psychological and health services at Georgia State. "I am thrilled to welcome keynote speakers to the 2016 Cultural Competency Conference, Dr. David Satcher and Iyanla Vanzant, who will offer innovative and engaging perspectives on how we, students, clinicians and educators can make change in the area of mental and physical health equity."
Vanzant, the author of five New York Times bestselling books, appears regularly on stage, radio and television, delivering a message of self-empowerment. Vanzant is a regular guest expert on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and Vanzant's show "Iyanla: Fix My Life" is the number one reality program on the OWN Network, produced by Winfrey's Harpo Studios.
As the 16th surgeon general of the United States from 1998 to 2002, Satcher focused his attention on healthy lifestyles and the elimination of health disparities as national public health issues. He is the founding director and senior adviser of The Satcher Health Leadership Institute, which was established at the Morehouse School of Medicine in 2006. The Institute seeks to develop a diverse group of public health leaders, foster and support leadership strategies, and influence policies toward the reduction and elimination of disparities in health.
The conference welcomes mental and physical health providers who seek greater skill in providing cultural competency services. Participants can obtain continuing education credits for Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Clinical Social Workers and psychologists.
Registration is $300 for professionals and $100 for students. For a list of speakers or to register, visit counselingcenter.gsu.edu/cc/. Group rates are available.


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Man gets prison for trafficking identities of US citizens
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts document broker is headed to prison for trafficking the identities of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens and selling them to people living in the country illegally.
The U.S. attorney's office said Tuesday that Sandro Tavera Mora, also known as Jose Laureano Ayala, was sentenced in Springfield federal court to more than two years behind bars. The Dominican national faces deportation after his sentence is completed.
The 46-year-old man pleaded guilty in May to false personation of U.S. citizenship, fraud and misuse of visas and other offenses.
In Springfield, prosecutors say Tavera Mora bought and sold personal information contained in legitimate government documents belonging to Puerto Rico residents.
Tavera Mora admitted that the people who purchased these documents intended to use the information to assume the identity of U.S. citizens.


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Through a multifaceted partnership with David's Bridal, we're celebrating the beauty and strength of young women. In 2016, David's Bridal kicked off a company wide initiative to educate every employee on their breast and ovarian health through 4 Bright Pink educational videos. We're also keeping the conversation going online. For every #WithAKiss shared on social media, David's Bridal will donate $1 to Bright Pink. Together, we will reach millions of women across the country as they plan for their wedding, other milestones, and their future, and empower them to be proactive with their health.
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The Diocesan Pastoral Council is a recommending body that assists the bishop in setting the direction and vision for the diocese for pastoral ministry. The Diocesan Pastoral Advisory Council engages in a planning process that includes assessment, development of strategies and evaluation. As it prays and works to carry out its mission, the council promotes and models collaboration, collegiality, cooperation and community.
|Most Rev. Dr. Neethinathan A
|Vice President
|Rev. Fr. Backiya Regis G (Vicar General)
|Rev. Fr. Sebastian George (Director, Pastoral Centre)
|Mr. Jebamalai
|Joint Secretary
|Mrs. Margaret Mary
|College of Consultors, Senate Members, Vicar Foranes, One Priest representative from each Vicariate, Commission Secretaries, Two Lay people from each Parish (One Male and Female).
|Ex-officio Members
|01. Rev. Fr. Roch Ignatius K
|02. Rev. Fr. John Kurian M
|Financial Administrator
|03. Rev. Fr. Shylock Stephen S
|Manager of Properties
|04. Rev. Fr. Louis Rayar N
|Judicial Vicar
|05. Rev. Fr. Yesu Antony I
|Rector, Junior Seminary
|06. Rev. Fr. Benjamin Nesamani M
|Director, CRDS
|07. Rev. Fr. Ambrose P
|Superintendent of RC Schools
|08. Rev. Fr. Gnanamani S
|Secretary, SC/ST Commission
|09. Rev. Fr. Susaimani A
|Episcopal Vicar for Religious
|And other Elected and Nominated Members


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António Pedro Brites de Andrade de Melo Alvim || aalvim at andrew dot cmu dot edu
António Pedro Brites de Andrade de Melo Alvim is a Master of Software Engineering student with the Carnegie Mellon-Portugal program. Originally from Pombal, a city 40 km from Coimbra, António received his undergraduate degree in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra in 2004. From September 2004 till now, António worked as a consultant for Novabase. He was working in the CRM, mainly in the financial and incentive Compensation areas. António's research interests lie mainly in project management and the Software Engineering process. He chose the Master of Software Engineering program because, "I believe that while practical experience has given me valuable knowledge, I felt the need to improve my work methodologies, and this particular course corresponds to what I am currently looking for." Aside from being an enthusiastic movie and video game fan, António also enjoys cooking and outdoor recreation activities. Upon completing his M.S. from the Carnegie Mellon-Portugal program, António intends to establish himself as a successful and reputable Software Engineer by participating in several diverse projects in the coming years. António will be attending the University of Coimbra, followed by Carnegie Mellon University for the M.S. in Software Engineering program.
Carlos Alexandre Monteiro Simões || csimoes at andrew dot cmu dot edu
Carlos Simões is a student in the Master of Software Engineering program, studying at the University of Coimbra and Carnegie Mellon. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Since completing his undergraduate degree, he has worked in different environments, including a European research project, developing infrastructures to support industrial virtual enterprises; a major assurance company in a business intelligence project; a Project Manager developing online travel agencies websites; and for the past few years he has been a consultant with with Novabase. His research interests include programming languages, software development, and project management. Originally from Lisbon, Simões is enjoys traveling, reading, snowboarding, and listening to modern music.
Higino Marinho De Silva || hmarinho at andrew dot cmu dot edu
Higino Silva is a software project manager, currently working in TMN billing department. Previously worked in the American Management Systems consultancy firm as programmer analyst in product development division. He holds a B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Aveiro, and a post-graduation in Information Systems from Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. With a total of 8 years of working experience his main focus is on Service Oriented Architectures, real-time programming and application integration. In his free time, he likes to play football, and travel as much as possible.
Ignacio Luis Cavero || icavero at andrew dot cmu dot edu
Ignacio Luis Cavero, an MSE masters student, received his undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering from the Metropolitan University in Caracas, Venezuela. His previous work experience includes software development, mostly for the web. His main research interest focuses on special tools used for aiding the software development cycle. Cavero states why he chose the MSE program: "I feel passionate not only about the software development itself, but also about the processes and approaches that the developers follow in order to get things done." Originally from Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, Cavero enjoys playing sports, listening to music, and watching classic cinema.
Filipe Martins || filipem at andrew dot cmu dot edu
Filipe Martins is a project manager at Novabase, where he has worked since 1999. At Novabase he has started as a programmer and since then assumed different roles, namely Technical Analyst and Architect, Business Analyst in financial area, where he has some experience, among others.
João Brito || jbrito at cmu dot edu
João Brito received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. Brito has worked for Critical Software for the last seven years, initially in the High Performance Computing area developing MPI middleware. Later he developed a helicopter simulator and moved to the embedded and real-time systems area, developing on-board satellite software. His research interests include high performance computing as well as embedded and real-time systems. Brito chose the Carnegie Mellon-Portugal program because of his desire to improve his professional skills as a software engineer so that he may become a technical leader for future projects. Besides the time he spends with his family, Brito also enjoys traveling and reading.
João Carlos Rodrigues Leite de Almeida || jalmeida at andrew dot cmu dot edu
João Carlos Almeida, an MSE masters student, received his undergraduate degree from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He worked for Novabase in Portugal as a software consultant where he was responsible for developing, maintaining and supporting web-based applications designed for managing public projects at a regional level, specializing in Visual Studio platforms. Almeida also worked as a software consultant with Accenture in Brazil; in this position he specified architectures and development rules to deploy a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with Brazil's top telecommunication corporation. After completing his MSE with the Carnegie Mellon-Portugal program, Almeida plans to utilize the best practices within the voice recognition field in order to be a part of the few who steer and influence the industry. Along with playing guitar, he also enjoy traveling and playing football.
João Viegas Silva || jviegas at cmu dot edu
João Silva graduated in Coimbra, Portugal. For a brief period, during his studies, he was a school teacher, having later joined Critical Software. While at Critical, for whom he still works, his career has been quite successful. He has worked on different kinds of projects, ranging from helicopter simulators to navy frigates and telecommunications systems. He has lived in a number of places, being currently very happy at the sunny Lagos. Sci-fi and C++ are two of his main interests, although he is also very fond of traveling and board games.
Luis Miguel Oliveira de Sousa || lsousa at cmu dot edu
"Mike" Sousa is enrolled in the Master of Software Engineering program, studying at the University of Coimbra and at Carnegie Mellon. He holds a degree in Industrial Computer Systems and Programming from the University of Porto's Faculdade de Engenharia. With several years' work experience in computers and programming, he is most recently the CIO of the Universidade Aberta and of DeskBit - I.S., Lda. His research interests, also focused on technologies and computers, are in the areas of developing software systems, especially with those that interact with machines and equipments or that control and manage data. de Sousa came to the MSE program to complement his programming skills and to take his career to the next level. Originally from Santa Maria de Lamas, he enjoys reading, traveling, movies, sports and computers.
Miguel Oliveira || moliveir at andrew dot cmu dot edu
Miguel is a BI Consultant at Novabase where he works on Data Warehouse design for telecommunications. In 2005 he graduated in Informatics and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico. Miguel has acquired a taste for backpacking since graduation having visited almost 10 different countries in the last year and a half, a taste which (un)fortunately will have to be kept on hold in the next year and a half. Besides travelling, Miguel enjoys practicing all kinds of sports. Lately he has been practicing regularly Futsal, Surf and Squash.
Paulo Alexandre Gonçalves de Salazar Casanova || pcasanov at andrew dot cmu dot com
Paulo Casanova, a Master of Software Engineering candidate studying in Lisbon and in Pittsburgh, received his undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico. Since 2001, he has worked as a Software Engineer and IT Consultant, first for Link Consulting and then for Novabase. He hopes to become involved in software development methodologies research, saying of this Masters program, "It fits perfectly the area I've been dedicating myself to." In addition to computers, Casanova enjoys the piano.
Pedro José Santos Castelo Saraiva || psaraiva at andrew dot cmu dot edu
Saraiva graduated from the Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal) with a B.Sc. in Informatics and Computer Engineering. He worked at Accenture as an IT consultant where his main responsibilities were with the design, implementation and tests of several technology systems (especially within the Portuguese Ministry of Justice). In his free time, he enjoys traveling, squash, soccer, and the beach.
Pedro Mota || pmota at andrew dot cmu dot edu
Pedro Mota is a Consultant at Novabase Bussiness Inteligence, where he has been working for the last eight years. He has worked with Data Warehouses, Databases and Support Decision Reporting tools. He holds a B.Sc. in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra.
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Research Notes
Does preconception stress affect neurodevelopment?
The effects of stress on childhood development during gestation are well studied, but a team of researchers now will examine the effects of preconception stress with a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of about $14 million over seven years. The grant is part of NIH's $157 million just-announced Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program.
Said Alison E. Hipwell, study co-principal investigator and faculty member in psychiatry in the School of Medicine and psychology in the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences: "Our goal is to test the hypothesis that preconception environmental-stress exposure will predict deficits in offspring neurodevelopment through alterations in the mother's capacity to regulate stress during pregnancy. However, we also expect that the mother's nutrition status prior to pregnancy will buffer these negative effects on offspring outcomes."
The study will build on the Pittsburgh Girls Study, a longitudinal study of 2,450 urban-living young women for whom the timing and chronicity of multiple stress exposures such as family difficulties and exposure to violence have been robustly measured for the past 16 years spanning childhood through early adulthood.
Hipwell has been involved in the scientific direction and day-to-day operations of the Pittsburgh Girls Study for the past 15 years, first as a co-investigator and more recently as co-principal investigator.
Biomarkers of preconception stress exposure and nutrition will be assessed in early adulthood. Study participants who become pregnant over the period of award will complete three psychophysiological assessments of stress regulation during pregnancy, and placental function will be assessed. The children's neurodevelopment then will be assessed across the first three years of life.
"The findings from this study will advance knowledge on important periods of vulnerability to optimize prenatal health and child growth and development, especially among those living in stressful environments," said Hipwell.
Hipwell and a co-principal investigator from the University of Chicago will be joined by Pitt faculty Susan Perlman, Stephanie Stepp, Theodore Huppert, Hyagriv Simhan and Robert Krafty.
Activity trackers not reliable tools for weight loss
Wearable devices that monitor physical activity are not reliable tools for weight loss, says a new study from the School of Education's Department of Health and Physical Activity. The study specifically investigated whether regular use of commercially available activity trackers is effective for producing and sustaining weight loss.
At the conclusion of a 24-month trial, researchers observed that usage of a wearable device in combination with a behavioral weight loss program resulted in less weight loss when compared to those receiving only the behavioral weight loss program. In fact, participants without physical activity trackers showed nearly twice the weight loss at the end of the 24 months. Participants who used wearable devices reported an average weight loss of 7.7 pounds, while those who took part only in health counseling reported an average loss of 13 pounds.
The researchers concluded that devices that monitor and provide feedback on physical activity do not offer an advantage over standard weight loss approaches that include behavioral counseling on physical activity and diet. Thus, while these devices allow for ease of tracking of physical activity along with feedback and encouragement, they may not enhance adherence to the tenets of a healthy lifestyle, which is the most important aspect of any weight loss regimen.
Said John Jakicic, the study's lead researcher and chair of the health and physical activity department: "While usage of wearable devices is currently a popular method to track physical activity — steps taken per day or calories burned during a workout — our findings show that adding them to behavioral counseling for weight loss that includes physical activity and reduced calorie intake does not improve weight loss or physical activity engagement. Therefore, within this context, these devices should not be relied upon as tools for weight management in place of effective behavioral counseling for physical activity and diet."
The study appears in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. It followed 470 individuals 18-35 with a body mass index of 25-39 at the start of the trial. Approximately 77 percent of participants were women and 29 percent were from minority communities.
All participants were placed on low-calorie diets, prescribed increases in physical activity and received group-counseling sessions on health and nutrition. They participated in weekly health-counseling sessions for the initial six months and less frequent counseling for the last 18 months. Weight was assessed at six-month intervals throughout the 24-month trial.
At the first six-month mark, participants were divided into two subgroups: Both continued health-counseling sessions but members of one group also received a wearable device to monitor diet and physical activity. The multisensor device used within the study was to be worn on the upper arm and provided feedback on energy expenditure and physical activity. A website was designed to monitor results.
Over the subsequent 18 months, both groups showed significant improvements in body composition, fitness, physical activity and diet, with no significant difference between groups. However, those who received health counseling throughout the study lost nearly twice as much weight as those who used wearable devices for three-quarters of it.
"The findings of our study are important because effective long-term treatments are needed to address America's obesity epidemic," said Jakicic. "We've found that questions remain regarding the effectiveness of wearable devices and how to best use them to modify physical activity and diet behaviors in adults seeking weight loss."
Other Pitt faculty researchers participating in the study were Kelliann K. Davis, Renee J. Rogers, Wendy C. King, Abdus S. Wahed and Steven H. Belle. Colleagues from Bastyr University and Slippery Rock University also contributed.
How do liquids interact in solids?
The collapse of Washington State's Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940 is a textbook example of how harmonic resonance can cause structural failure. Likewise, in principle, similar phenomena could occur in the delicate vessels and arteries in the human body. Researchers at the Swanson School of Engineering are using a $121,027 National Science Foundation (NSF) award to study the interaction of a viscous liquid within a solid body and investigate which mathematical models best describe the phenomena.
Principal investigator of the three-year study is Giovanni P. Galdi, Leighton E. and Mary N. Orr Professor of Mechanical Engineering and faculty member in mathematics.
Said Galdi: "The study of the motion of a viscous liquid in the presence of rigid or deformable bodies has become one of the main focuses of applied research. However, there is a lack of a rigorous explanation of the phenomena [to] identify the good versus bad mathematical models. Our first goal is to study the blood flow model, and then to examine when a liquid is impinging on an elastic framework."
In the context of modeling of arterial blood flow, it is important to determine whether, for a given model, the pulsatile action of the heart pumping blood would produce an unrealistic high-amplitude oscillation of the arterial wall. While under normal circumstances such a condition would not occur, better understanding the models would give researchers more insight into how the circulatory system operates.
The second goal will be to examine the vortex-induced oscillations of a structure in the uniform stream of a viscous liquid.
"Just like blood flowing through an artery, wind acts like a fluid when it impacts a solid structure," Galdi said. "For example, you can see it in action when a flag waves in a strong wind. We utilize mathematical models to determine the quantitative relation between magnitude of upstream velocity and frequency of oscillation, which are critical when designing larger structures like bridges and office towers.
"Fluid mechanics plays such an important role in everything from the human body to construction to even the potential for nano-sized robots, so this research can help to identify the most appropriate models to use," he said.
Sleep habits of adolescents linked to drug, alcohol use
A study led by researchers from the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine and the Department of Psychology in the Dietrich school has identified a possible link between adolescent sleep habits and early substance abuse. The study, published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, found that both sleep duration and sleep quality during late childhood predict alcohol and cannabis use later in adolescence.
Said Brant P. Hasler, faculty member in psychiatry and psychology and lead author of the study: "Treating problems with drugs and alcohol once they exist and preventing them can be challenging, and we are always looking for modifiable risk factors. Doing what we can to ensure sufficient sleep duration and improve sleep quality during late childhood may have benefits in terms of reducing the use of these substances later in life."
Researchers analyzed 186 boys from western Pennsylvania whose mothers completed the child sleep questionnaire as part of a larger longitudinal study of low-income boys examining factors associated with vulnerability and resilience. Based on questionnaire results from when the boys were 11 years old, their sleep time and sleep quality were calculated. At ages 20 and 22, the young men were interviewed about lifetime cannabis and alcohol use.
After accounting for race, socioeconomic problems, neighborhood danger, self-regulation and internalizing and externalizing problems, both sleep duration and sleep quality at age 11 were associated with early substance use throughout adolescence.
The study participants who slept the least, compared to the participants who slept the most, were more likely to report earlier use, intoxication and repeated use of both alcohol and cannabis. Every hour less of sleep at age 11 was associated with a 20 percent acceleration to the first use of alcohol and/or cannabis, Hasler added.
Worse sleep quality was associated with earlier alcohol use, intoxication and repeated use. Worse sleep quality also was associated with earlier cannabis intoxication and repeated use, but not first use.
"After considering other possible influences, we were able to determine that sleep problems are preceding the substance use problems," Hasler added. "Addressing sleep may now be something we can add into the package of our substance abuse prevention and treatment efforts."
The research was funded by NIH.
Bamboo's building properties studied
Although bamboo has been used as a building material for millennia, only recently have public and private organizations studied the plant's mechanical properties and worked toward developing construction standards. To further that research, engineering faculty at the Swanson school and the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez received a $300,000 NSF award to develop materials- and mechanics-based models for the behavior of full-culm (hollow tube) bamboo as a functionally graded, fiber-reinforced material.
Principal investigator of the grant is Kent Harries, faculty member in civil and environmental engineering.
The research is part of the recently formed Nonconventional Engineering Materials Initiative at Pitt.
Said Harries: "In its natural full-culm state, bamboo has evolved to efficiently resist a variety of environmental loads, which is why it makes a superb building material. However, only in the past few decades have we begun to apply engineering principles to its use so that we can expand its application as a sustainable construction material. This award will enable us to apply materials and mechanical engineering principles to modeling, field tests and design equations, thereby placing bamboo on the same engineering footing as more conventional materials such as wood."
Harries noted that, in developing regions, standardization of non-conventional building materials serves technical, ecological and social goals that let rural communities directly participate in construction of safe and reliable housing as well as sustainably develop local economies. In particular, this project will leverage local resources in Puerto Rico and Haiti to sponsor a variety of training and educational activities deployed in four languages — English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole.
Harries said, "Full-culm bamboo provides the potential of utilizing a sustainable, durable and affordable resource for housing, emergency shelters and other traditional building applications."
Newer radiation technique has fewer side effects for recurrent head & neck cancer
When a patient's cancer comes back, he or she is often left with limited treatment options and higher odds of debilitating side effects. But a University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) study presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology 2016 annual meeting had positive news for people with recurrent head and neck cancer.
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), a technique for delivering pinpoint radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors, resulted in only half as many patients with recurrent head and neck cancer suffering severe, long-term side effects as compared to previously reported studies using more traditional treatment techniques.
This discovery by UPCI scientists was made in the largest and longest follow-up analysis to date of patients with recurrent head and neck cancer treated with SBRT. The findings make SBRT a more attractive possibility for patients with few options left.
Said researcher Diane Ling, a resident in UPCI's radiation oncology residency program: "We're hoping that data like this will help physicians and patients understand and weigh their individual risks and benefits when deciding whether to pursue SBRT."
Ling and her colleagues reviewed the outcomes of 291 patients treated by UPMC CancerCenter who had recurrent, previously irradiated head and neck cancer between April 2002 and March 2013.
In particular, they were looking for acute toxicity, such as severe difficulty swallowing or painful irritation of the mucosal lining while undergoing SBRT, or late toxicity, such as long-term difficulty swallowing or deterioration of the jawbone that begins anywhere from three months to more than five years after radiation.
Overall, 11.3 percent of patients experienced acute toxicity and 18.9 percent experienced late toxicity. Previous studies using older treatment techniques put those rates at closer to 40 percent.
The analysis also revealed that the location of the cancer recurrence was an important factor in the severity of the patient's side effects. When it is on the larynx (voice box) or hypopharynx (beside and behind the voice box), the rate of long-term, severe side effects is typically worse by about 50 percent.
"Toxicity, particularly late toxicity, can significantly affect the quality of life in patients who survive cancer," said Ling. "We can treat somebody's cancer and possibly cure them, but if they are left with severely debilitating quality-of-life issues, what did we accomplish? It's very encouraging to know that we can offer a treatment option with a relatively low rate of severe toxicity for most patients."
Additional authors from both cancer centers were John Vargo, Robert L. Ferris, James Ohr, David A. Clump, Wai-ying Wendy Yau, Umamaheswar Duvvuri, Seungwon Kim, Jonas T. Johnson, Julie E. Bauman, Barton Branstetter and Dwight E. Heron.
—Compiled by Marty Levine
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This post is a two-parter, sorry, as the daily prompt We Can Be Taught…
In part one I explained New Zealand's education changes
They Can Be Taught – If … If What?
Since those changes I described happened, I have watched teaching decline in my posts at three of the last four schools at which I taught until I cried to my own needs "Enough with this s**t! Get out now before the stress kills you."
I'd begun my teaching career in the days of the annual standardised Progressive Achievement Tests, held in the fifth week of every new school year in February (so, testing took place in about the first week of March most years. The four untested weeks were an opportunity for pupils to regather what they could retain from previous years after a six to eight week summer and Christmas break.
All PATests were multi-choice – one right answer, three misleaders, tick the box.
In Year Three/Standard Two pupils were tested in Listening Comprehension. This gave teachers an indication of what the child might be able to achieve (given good teaching). The next test the child would be introduced to was Reading Vocabulary, in the following year (Year Four/Standard Two).
A high listening comprehension score with a low vocabulary score told the teacher "this one can be taught to read, given work on building the number of words he/she can read (recognise – no "sounding out" or phonics here, thank you very much). A low listening score with a high reading vocab hinted to the teacher the child's hearing might have needed testing.
The next English-based PATest was Reading Comprehension, in Year Five/Standard Three.
A teacher who was carrying out the PAT methodology correctly should have been using the provided rubrics to turn Class Percentiles and Age Percentiles to Levels. Sadly, many teachers only looked at the percentile scores, and thus were ever ignorant of exactly where their pupils were along the path of progress.
Level One was "matched" to Standard One, and as such up to Level Six matching Standard Six (Form Two/Year Eight). The PATests continued to Year Ten/Form Four.
Mathematics PATests came at Year Six (Standard Four) and were not matched to a class level. But with a deal of time and effort, the teacher who cared would be able to analyse the child's answers, and discover at what level of understanding the pupil was learning: in order – Recall, Application, Understanding, and Problem Solving.
In Year Seven /Form One pupils were introduced to the Social Studies PATest. Teachers who cared enough could analyse the child's answers and discover which social science was the child's forté or which was their downfall.
However, none of the Secondary school teachers with whom I worked bothered looking at anything except the Age Percentile and the Class Percentiles.
None of them even knew about the conversion to Levels of the English-based tests, and didn't want to learn or know.
Throughout my career, at all levels, lazy or carefree or ignorant teachers ignored the English levels, the Mathematics skills, the Social Studies sciences skills. I would, each year, spend hours each evening analyzing and converting percentiles to levels to discover what each pupil needed to be taught.
I began visiting the classes of my previous year's pupils after marking was done, and check on their Levels, Skills and Soc Sci Skills. My major focus was on their Level in the English tests, and the understanding breakdown in Mathematics. All the teachers I would call on could show me only the English tests' Levels (a compulsory value for records). None would have analysed the Math or Social Studies results.
Could those pupils be taught? Not if they were in those classes.
But I know for a fact that pupils taught in my classes would, in a year, advance more than the one expected level. Lagging readers would always advance to at least the level expected for the Year they were finishing. How did I do it?
By firstly learning for myself about the pupils' abilities and needs, by ignoring the record cards passed up from their previous year's teachers, and by focussing my lesson plans and activities to work with each pupils' needs and interests, and sheer hard work and dedication.
Was it easy? Yes, at first. Then came the changes I described in Part One, and interference in my class programme.
I used to be able to, for example, in a class History unit covering How People Cope With Disaster by studying the Ballantyne's Store Fire, allow a child to discover the same understanding by instead following his interest in ships by studying the wreck of the Wahine, and all on a decision made in the instant.
After the changes I had to create individual learning plans for each pupil, defining for each topic of study exactly how my programme would meet the individual learning goals of each pupil.
Now, if I wanted to modify the topic to suit the one kid who was fascinated only by, say, big earth-movers and savage wild cats, I would have to submit a request for permission to deviate from the class plan – three copies, in advance time enough for the Chairman of the BOT and my Senior Teacher and the Principal to consider, seek parental approval, and allow or not.
By the time this process was complete, our class programme would have in most cases moved on to the next pre-scheduled topic, and the individual pupil had given up and lost interest – again.
As a Principal Teacher of a small country school, in my first three months there it received its first ever review visit from the Education Review Office. The team overlooked my planning, my records, my management strategies and policies, and gave them all the big "thumbs up", and the advice to not get caught in the trap of over-assessing pupils.
After an illness which caused the little red-neck community to be swayed by one parent that I was not fit to be in their classroom, they constructed a dismissal. I then moved on to teach as HOD of the Intermediate department of a private girls' boarding school of christian character. That's when the creeping ooze of unreal demands on my time began.
So stressful was that school, so poisonous was the staffroom ('You're only a Primary Teacher.") that my body responded by drawing on body mass to keep me going. I would begin each school year at 50 kg – but finish it at 40 kg.
I was always tired, but I continued to ensure that each pupil I taught – even the senior students – got my very best in terms of meeting their needs and following their interests. I continued to recalculate Percentiles to Levels, to analyse test papers to learn each pupil's skills (the only teacher doing it).
So – They Can Be Taught – If they have a teacher who treats each learner as a unique individual with specific levels of English ability, specific needs and abilities in Mathematics and core curriculum areas; — If they have a teacher who is observant – who can read a pupil's expression, recognize bewilderment and instantly give a different style of explanation; — If their teacher can socialise with the pupils in out-of-class time, chatting about the lessons — If the teacher can teach the pupil How To Learn for themselves, How To Study by themselves; — If the teacher makes "homework" (not compulsory in New Zealand) relevant to the topic of study and not a meaningless work-sheet of meaningless busy work.
(And that's a topic of itself, is study.)


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- Item Type: Beads
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- Brand Name: pandulaso
- Item Shape: Radiant Shape
- Item Height: 10.1*24.5mm
- Model Number: 19LW255
- Certificate Type: NGTC
- Metals Type: Silver
- Item Weight: 3.06g
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Wild yam is a vine which is native to North America but is also found in Mexico and Asia. It is a perennial plant and grows in poor to average soil. The root of wild yam has several medical applications. Wild yam is believed to help the endocrine system and the liver. It is also useful for treatment of morning sickness, menopause and infertility.
Wild yam is believed to play a role in breast enlargement.
It is also thought to be helpful in providing relief during menopause.
Wild yam increases libido and energy and is also a useful agent for natural birth control.
It is useful in treating and even preventing some conditions such as osteoporosis, gallbladder problems, painful menstrual periods, diverticulitis, rheumatoid arthritis and premenstrual syndrome (PMS).
From the benefits of taking wild yam listed above, it becomes obvious that women will benefit the most from wild yam. There may be a few conditions common to men and women for which wild yam can be used but by and large, most of the conditions listed are specific to adult women, which is the main group of people who can benefit from taking wild yam.
Wild yam has not had an evaluation by the FDA so side effects of wild yam are not documented in a proper way and there may be a few side effects which may not be known or recorded.
The milder side effects of wild reported are headache, diarrhea, vomiting and nausea.
Some severe side effects reported were severe allergic reactions manifested in the form of difficulty in breathing, itching, rash, hives, and swelling in the face and tightness in the chest.
If any of the above mentioned side effects are observed after taking or using wild yam, a qualified medical practitioner should be contacted.
For best results, the following doses are recommended:
The average recommended dosage is 2 grams to 4 grams or the equivalent liquid dosage. If it is used as a food supplement, 25 mg daily should be sufficient.
Doses higher that this should be prescribed by a medical practitioner only.
Higher doses carry the risk of irreversible changes in the voice of women and development of excessive body hair (hirsutism).
Disclaimer: While there are thought to be many benefits from taking wild yam, the conclusions from this article are not final and are subject to more evidence, as research still continues on the subject of wild yam.


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Athleisure for all.
Experience heightened levels of comfort and style with our new Men's Track Pants. Constructed using our famous cotton/elastane blend, we've created this casual take on the jogger to be every bit as functional and capable as any of our athletic bottoms before it. With a cuffless design at the ankles — a first for Alphalete — we've infused a little extra casual flair.
- Streamlined, tapered fit
- Stretchy and flexible
- Ultra-soft materials
- Stretch-fitted waistband with drawstrings for custom fit
- Reinforced zippered pockets
- Open back pockets for further storage
- Embroidered Alphalete Script Logo on left leg
Materials & Washing Directions:
- Cotton, elastane
- Machine wash cold
- Hang dry
- We recommend drying this product inside out.
Model is wearing size medium and is 6'0", 185 pounds.