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Autumn 2010
In Vienna, Austria, on July 16 and 17, 2010, immediately prior to the XVIII International AIDS Conference, the International AIDS Society (IAS) held a workshop titled "Towards a Cure: HIV Reservoirs and Strategies to Control Them." Cosponsors included the French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Viral Hepatitis, the German Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Sidaction and Treatment Action Group (TAG). Chaired by IAS president elect and Nobel laureate Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, the workshop was a high-profile illustration of the reinvigoration of the research effort toward curing HIV infection.
Over the two days, attendees -- including basic and clinical researchers, policy makers, community advocates, and journalists -- heard presentations covering a range of relevant topics including viral sanctuary sites and cellular reservoirs, mechanisms of HIV latency, novel therapeutic approaches, and drug development issues. There is a fairly broad consensus among scientists that antiretroviral therapy (ART) is capable of completely suppressing HIV replication in most individuals; as mentioned by both Steve Deeks and Frank Maldarelli at the workshop, the evidence supporting this conclusion includes the lack of HIV evolution in people on long-term suppressive ART; the homogenous nature of the very low levels of virus that are detectable despite ART (suggesting this virus emerges from cells that were infected prior to ART initiation as opposed to reflecting ongoing replication); and the absence of a reduction in residual viral load levels in most studies that have attempted to "intensify" ART by adding additional drugs.
Writing Toward a Cure
The growing interest in cure-related research has spurred a slew of informative articles in the community, medical and popular press.
Positively Aware, September/October 2010
POZ Magazine, October/November 2010
Topics in HIV Medicine, Aug/Sept 2010
Los Angeles Times, August 21, 2010
Nature, July 15, 2010
Researchers presented a variety of potential therapeutic approaches. Sandrina Da Fonseca showed that a cellular marker named PD-1 is preferentially expressed on memory CD4 T cells harboring HIV, and inhibiting PD-1 may awaken the silent viral genomes in these cells. PD-1 inhibitors are currently in human trials for the treatment of cancer, and Da Fonseca suggested they deserve evaluation as a potential reservoir depleting strategy in HIV. Much discussion centered around drugs called HDAC inhibitors, which have been shown to activate latent HIV in vitro. Daria Hazuda from Merck described a study in monkeys in which an HDAC inhibitor and another drug called a protein kinase C activator were added to ART; the approach reduced virus levels in tissues but did not prevent a rebound in viral replication when ART was interrupted.
The researcher David Margolis is currently planning a human trial of an HDAC inhibitor named SAHA. Brigitte Autran outlined the design of two trials (named Eramune 01 and 02) that will evaluate the effect of adding immune-based therapies to ART. Eramune 01 will explore ART intensification plus modulation of the immune system with IL-7, a cytokine that may be able to deplete latent HIV from memory CD4 T cells. Eramune 02 involves the addition of a therapeutic vaccine to intensified ART, with the goal of bolstering the ability of the immune system to specifically recognize and eliminate HIV-infected cells. Details of both trials are available in the clinical trials database at www.clinicaltrials.gov.
At the close of the workshop, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi stressed that IAS is committed to making cure-related research an ongoing priority. Full presentations and rapporteur summaries of each session are available on the IAS website at www.iasociety.org/Default.aspx?pageId=349. A meeting report will be published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society before the end of 2010. In addition to the IAS workshop, a number of other recent developments have helped push the search for a cure back to the top of the research agenda:
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Annual to tree
Leaves generally compound, alternate, stipuled; leaflets generally entire
Inflorescence: generally raceme, spike, umbel or head; flowers sometime 12 in axils
Flowers generally bisexual, generally bilateral; hypanthium generally flat or cup-like; sepals generally 5, fused; petals generally 5, free, or the 2 lower ± fused; stamens 1many, often 10 with 9 filaments at least partly fused, 1 (uppermost) free; pistil 1, ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, ovules 1many, style, stigma 1
Fruit: legume, sometimes including a stalk-like base above receptacle, dehiscent, or indehiscent and breaking into 1-seeded segments, or indehiscent, 1-seeded, and achene-like
Seeds 1several, often ± reniform, generally hard, smooth
Genera in family: ± 650 genera, 18,000 species: worldwide; with grasses, requisite in agriculture and most natural ecosystems. Many cultivated, most importantly Arachis , peanut; Glycine , soybean; Phaseolus , beans; Medicago ; Trifolium ; and many orns
Reference: [Polhill & Raven (eds) 1981 Advances in legume systematics; Allen & Allen 1981 Leguminosae]
Family description and key to genera by Duane Isely.
Annual or perennial herb, unarmed
Leaves generally palmately compound; stipules conspicuous, partly fused to petiole; leaflets generally 3, sometimes 59, ± serrate or dentate
Inflorescence: raceme (often umbel-like), head, or spike, axillary or terminal, generally many-flowered, often involucred, generally peduncled; flowers bracted or not
Flower generally spreading to erect, often becoming reflexed; corolla generally purple to pale lavender, sometimes yellow, persistent after flower; 9 filaments fused, 1 free
Fruit generally indehiscent, but often breaking, short, plump, generally included in corolla; base often stalk-like
Seeds 16
Etymology: (Latin: 3 leaves)
Reference: [Gillett 1980 Can J Bot 58:14251558; Zohary & Heller 1984 Genus Trifolium]
Annual, often very small, glabrous
Stem decumbent to erect
Leaves cauline; lower stipules oblong; upper stipules bristle-tipped; leaflets 0.52 cm, narrowly oblong to obovate, entire or toothed, sometimes lobed, tip often truncate
Inflorescence head-like, 0.51.5 cm wide, 3many-flowered; involucre present or vestigial
Flower: calyx 2.55 mm, glabrous; corolla 49 mm, pink-purple, white-tipped, banner inflated in fruit
Fruit: stalk-like base short to 0; style generally persistent
Seeds 15
Chromosomes: 2n=16
Ecology: Common. Salt marshes, grasslands, coastal woodlands, openings, wet meadows, ditches, roadsides, other disturbed places, open alkaline or spring-moist, heavy soils
Elevation: < 900 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range Foothills, Sierra Nevada Foothills, n&c High Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi Mountain Area, Great Central Valley, Central Western California, South Coast, Channel Islands, Peninsular Ranges
Distribution outside California: w N.America, S.America
Varieties depauperatum, truncatum predominant.
Leaf: leaflet tip often truncate, toothed
Inflorescence: involucre bracts ± separate, 22.5 mm, margins ± membranous
Flower: calyx 2.53 mm; corolla 4.57.5 mm
Fruit ± = style; stalk-like base 0.51 mm
Seeds 12
Ecology: Grassy flats, disturbed slopes, openings in woodland
Elevation: < 800 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range Foothills, Sierra Nevada Foothills, Tehachapi Mountain Area, Great Central Valley, Central Western California, South Coast, Channel Islands, Peninsular Ranges
Synonyms: T. amplectens Torr. & A. Gray var. truncatum (Greene) Jeps

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Volume 78 / Number 6 - July 9 - 15, 2008
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Lenelle Moïse and Karla Mosley in "Expatriate," now in previews at the Culture Club
In the wake of Josephine Baker
By JERRY TALLMER
Claudie and Alphine, black and beautiful, rock stars in the makingClaudie is also a poethave been best friends all their lives, all but bedded lovers, though very different in temperament. To Claudie, the high-flying, dissolute Alphine is "a rock star slut." To Alphine, the ascetic, earnest, germ-phobic Claudie is "a rock star nun."
Now Claudie, with her mother dead of drugs, her twin brother (one of Alphine's sweethearts) dead of drugs, so many others dead of drugs, has an announcement to make: "Alphine, I'm leaving."
ALPHINE: What do you mean by leaving?
CLAUDIE: Nana says I got family over there.
ALPHINE: Over where?
CLAUDIE: Over in Paris.
ALPHINE: The Paris in France? The France across the Atlantic Ocean?
CLAUDIE: Nana [her grandmother] says my father…
ALPHINE: The father you've never met?… The father who abandoned your mother when she was pregnant with twins? The one who left her without a dime or a forwarding address?
Claudie goes anyway. And in Paris she findsnot her fatherbut her spirit, her métier, her self. She also finds her sexualthat is to say, lesbianself.
A year later, there is a knock on Claudie's door in Paris. Standing there is Alphine. The deaths and the life back homepolitical and otherwisehave proved too much for her too. How long does she plan to stay? "As long as you say, I'll stay," she declares. Actually this newest expatriate, there in the doorway, is aching for a fix. Yet not too many months from now, Alphine with her fiery voice and go-to-hell manner will have become the rage of tout Paris, sometimes in a duo with Claudie, more often as a solo shooting star. Until that star burns itself out.
And Claudie, solo, sings: "What good is a rebel / If the rebel turns up dead? followed by all the other stinging lines of what is, in truth, a play that's a powerhouse poem.
Lenelle Moïse, tall, slim, brown, and beautiful, is not only the playwright and songwriter of "Expatriate," opening July 16 at the Culture Project, but appears in it as Claudie opposite Karla Mosley as Alphine. Between them, they also portray three men, the first a dead brother, then a cool black Parisian taxi driver, and the third a condescending, antagonistic horse's ass radio talk-show host.
"This is my first play with music," says its creator. "So I'm a new singer, but a happy one. There's a lot of sorrow and mourning and groaning in it, but at rehearsals we try to find the joy and the laughs. It makes the grieving that much stronger."
All those deaths from drugs = personal experience? People you've known?
"I have not personally known any people who died yet of drugs. I've certainly known people who have struggled with drugs. Artistic people who are now in recovery. The great artists like Billie Holiday, Miles DavisI certainly wanted to explore that. And to explore what makes all these people like Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, Nina Simone, and Richard Wright [one of the first of the pre-war black expatriates] go to Paris; what was the driving force?"
Well, then Ms. Moïse, and have you yourself been to Paris?
"I haven't," she responds, somewhere between girlish and straightforward. "It's all a bit of a fantasy, not personal experience. Yet," she said, as before. "I'm actually allergic to marijuana," she throws in. "Very, very allergic. Makes me sneeze."
Aha, the rock star nun.
What has lately pleased her very much is the woman who came up to her after a performance in upstate New York and said: "You told my sister's story." The sister had been Carole Frederick, a singer who made it big as an expat in Paris, but then lost it all to too early death.
Lenelle Moïse (pronounced Moy-ease) was born 28 years ago in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but her hometown is Cambridge, Massachusetts, to which her parentsbus driver father, medical assistant motherexpatriated when she was tiny.
"So I grew up a working-class girl in this non-working-class town. In my high-school gym there were 70 flags for the 70 countries from which all of us came." That was the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, but way before that, back when she was 5, she had already begun writing.
"One day my godfather, an out-of-work poet himself, was baby-sitting me. I said: 'I'm bored.' He threw a piece of paper at me and said: 'Go write a poem.'"
That was the start. Where is that poem today? "My grandmother has it."
With a BA from Ithaca College, she went on for an MFA from Smith College, an MFA thesis being a play called "The Many Faces of Nia," in which a Jewish mother, apprised by her son that his girlfriend Nia is black, tries to imagine what Nia can be like"anywhere from a Haitian boat woman to a hip-hop boast rapper." And of course, when the son finally shows up with Nia"means 'perfect' in Swahili"she's like none of mom's fantasies at all.
Another Moïse drama is "Matermorphosis," in which a mother another mother
Turns into a giant bug?
"That's it. When she hits menopause."
That will be some considerable time from now for beautiful, bodacious Lenelle Moïse, who lives half in Northampton, Massachusetts, and half on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, with her partner, a photographer and artist.
"Expatriate" is her sixth and most recent play. It enters previews July 7 under Tamilla Woodard's directionand choreography by Nicco Annanatat the Culture Project, 55 Mercer Street, just above Canal.
By the way, Ms. Moïse, there's been a whopping political contest lately between a black person and a female person, which you are and you are.
"Nobody's ever asked me about that," she cuts in with a half-smile. "Well, I really didn't have a preference. I'm not interested in voting just for somebody who's black or somebody who's female. But I'm excited."
Exciting is as exciting does. You might want to grab some of Lenelle Moïse's excitement before she makes it, takes it, to Paris. The Paris in France. The France across the Atlantic Ocean.
EXPATRIATE. By Lenelle Moïse. Directed by Tamilla Woodard, choreographed by Nicco Annan. With Lenelle Moïse and Kara Mosely. A Culture Project presentation at 55 Mercer Street, just above Canal, (212) 352-3101.
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Here's our top 10 hockey shootouts
It's not hard to find a shootout hater.
Since the shooting contest was introduced as a way to break tie games in the NHL in 2005-06, the format has been criticized by many.
And when it's used to decide sudden-death international games (and that's been going on far longer), people tend to get even more upset.
But even if it is a bit of a gimmick, shootouts tend to be quite dramatic.
The latest example of the excitement came Saturday at the Sochi Olympics as T.J. Oshie was the hero, scoring four shootout goals in a wild American win over Russia.
Here are 10 shootouts that captured the attention of hockey fans for different reasons:
Feb. 18, 1992
Olympic men's quarterfinals
Canada vs. Germany, Meribel, France
This was the first shootout in Olympic history after a rule change — and it provided a serious scare for the heavily favoured Canadians. Eric Lindros scored on Germany goalie Helmet De Raef in the sixth round of the shootout and Canadian netminder Sean Burke made a save on Peter Draisaitl to win it. "The Canadians have to go to church and thank God in heaven for this," Germany forward Ernst Keopf said. The Dave King-coached team rode the momentum to a 4-2 semifinal win over Czechoslovakia and then lost to the Russians in the final.
Feb. 27, 1994
Olympic men's final
Canada vs. Sweden, Lillehammer, Norway
Canada was oh so close to capturing its first Olympic hockey gold since 1952. But Peter Forsberg played a huge role in ending that dream with what is considered one of the best shootout goals in hockey history. On the 13th chance of the shooting contest, he deked left, put on the brakes, drew the puck to the right and backhanded the winner underneath Canadian goaltender Corey Hirsch. Swedish goalie Tommy Salo then shut the door on Paul Kariya to win it. "It was so close, what can I say?" said Canada forward Chris Kontos. "On the one hand, we showed the world what we can do, what Canada's all about, what our spirit is all about. But on the other hand, it's tough to get so close and come so far and fall that one millimetre away."
Feb. 20, 1998
Olympic men's semifinal
Canada vs. Czech Republic, Nagano, Japan
In the first appearance by NHLers at the Winter Games, this semifinal turned into a heavyweight goalie duel between Patrick Roy and Dominik Hasek. The score was tied at 1-1 after regulation and overtime before the Czechs won 1-0 in the five-round shootout on a goal by Robert Reichel. Years later, the part of this that's remembered most is the fact Wayne Gretzky didn't get the call to shoot for Canada. "It's tough to swallow," Gretzky said of the loss in the immediate aftermath. "We didn't lose any games here. We lost in a shootout."
Nov. 26, 2005
Washington Capitals at New York Rangers
It seemed nobody wanted to win this one as the shootout lasted 15 rounds, the longest such contest in NHL history. Finally, light-scoring Rangers defenceman Marek Malik ended it with a highlight-reel move, shooting with his stick between his skates for a goal on Olaf Kolzig. "I was watching everything before me," said Malik. "Olie was unbelievable. He stopped everything from shots, moves. I just thought to myself, 'Maybe I'll surprise him.' I tried the move and it worked."
Jan. 3, 2007
World junior championship semifinal
Canada vs. U.S., Leiksand, Sweden
With International Ice Hockey Federation rules allowing the same player to take shots in the sudden-death portion of shootouts, Canadian coach Craig Hartsburg kept turning to Jonathan Towes. The current Chicago Blackhawks star scored in the three-aside regulation part of the shootout and then scored twice more in a sudden death, giving Canada the victory. "It was a heck of a game and it is an unbelievable feeling right now," Toews said. "It's unreal. We have a shootout at (the University of North Dakota, where he played) every week and I rarely win the thing." Canada took gold two days later, beating Russia.
Jan. 1, 2008
Pittsburgh Penguins at Buffalo Sabres
Winter Classic, Orchard Park, N.Y.
The NHL's first New Year's Day outdoor game featured the game's biggest star in Sidney Crosby — and he didn't disappoint. Snow fell, 71,217 people jammed into the home of the Buffalo Bills and the Crosby scored the winner, beating Ryan Miller, to cap a tremendous afternoon. "The atmosphere and the environment, I think it's something to look back on and say we had a lot of great memories being part of it," Crosby said. "It was a great feeling and a great experience."
Jan. 3, 2009
World junior championship semifinal
Canada vs. Russia at Ottawa
With Canada's hopes of a fifth straight gold medal hanging by a thread, Jordan Eberle scored with 5.4 seconds left in regulation to send this one to overtime. After 10 minutes of scoreless hockey, Eberle opened the scoring in the shootout, beating Russian goalie Vadim Zhelobnuk with a deke. John Tavares added another goal, sending Canada off to the final, where it easily beat Sweden. "We worked on the shootout a lot in practice and I've worked a lot in Regina on my moves," Eberle said. "We did some research on this goalie and knew we had to go to the backhand. "That's what Johnny (Tavares) did, too."
March 11, 2013
Boston Bruins at Ottawa Senators
Little-known Kaspars Daugavins of the Senators made headlines around the hockey world for his unique attempt. The Latvian put the puck on the tip of his stick, turned it upside down and tried to do a spin-o-rama on Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask. It didn't work and the Senators lost. "Some people don't like it," Daugavins said. "I understand people are going to say I shouldn't try it because I'm a young guy battling for a spot on the team. It's always going to be like that. If I don't score, people are going to say that. For me, I've tried that move eight times and it's worked every time. I thought it might work in a game."
Dec. 28, 2013
Canada vs. Czech Republic
World junior championship preliminary round, Malmo, Sweden
Canada entered this game with a 12-0-2 record against the Czechs in world junior history, outscoring the European country 66-20. But Canada played from behind almost the entire contest and then undrafted and unheralded Czech goalie Dominik Simon stopped Canada's Jake Paterson in the shootout. "First time beating Canada, and we are all so happy," Simon said. "It was a great game for us. On the bench we were shouting. It's going to help us a lot. Now, we are much more confident. All of the team worked so great."
Dec.2, 2012
Mississauga Steelheads at London Knights
It took 38 shooters to decide this OHL contest — all 18 skaters on each team plus one. London star Seth Griffith scored on both his shootout attempts to give the Knights their 15th win in a row. The refs kept checking to make sure no teams were repeating shooters. "We went eight or nine (rounds in Erie earlier in the season) and that seemed like a lot," Knights coach Dale Hunter said. "It got to where it was, 'Holy Moley,' both goalies were playing well. No one could get one in."


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Joomla 3.0 is finally out! As usual, I'm testing it on our servers making sure that it works flawlessly for all SiteGround folks that use this great piece of open source software.
I started installing Joomla 3.0 and writing this post simultaneously. I've just written an intro paragraph on how easy and painless the installation process is, when a nasty Internal Server Error screen appeared - right after I unpacked the official installation package. That kind of reminded me how right was the saying that one should never assume...
However, now few hours later I can still say this: the installation of Joomla 3.0 on a SiteGround account is painless, but only if you use our single-click installer Softaculous. It takes literally two clicks, has zero problems and will save you precious time that you can spend on building your actual site. I was also amazed by the speed with which our partners from Softaculous have prepared the special installation package so that it is already available for you to use!
As to the others, who were as impatient as me to install the new version before it was available in Softaculous, or simply prefer the manual installation, here are my two cents on it. Until now, all Joomla installation packages came with correct permissions of their files and folders. Joomla 3.0 package, however, has all its content writable by the "others" group. Because it is considered as a security issue this triggers an Internal Server Error message when you try to start the installation. I am saving you the quick visit to the Error Log where you should generally look for reasons why this error appears - it's all about the permissions. You can use FileZilla or other FTP client software and simply remove the writing permissions for the "others" group with it. Remove them for all files and folders, FileZilla and other good FTP clients support recursive change that is really useful in this case.
Once the permissions problem was fixed a new and, I must say, great-looking installation screen appeared. Unfortunately, with another issue - this time the Joomla 3.0 developers have decided that the obsolete PHP variable Magic Quotes GPC must be turned off and that's a required setting for the installation to proceed. Thankfully, there is a great tool in our cPanel that allows you to quickly disable it named PHP Variables Manager. Just add magic_quotes_gpc as variable, set it to Disabled and apply the changes to all sub-directories (there is a check-box for that).
After these initial glitches the manual installation finishes smoothly. I can't hide the fact that the new system and installation pages look much better than the previous oneс, but more on the looks to follow...
The Back End
Did I already say that the Bootstrap-powered new admin page looks fantastic? Well, it looks fantastic and what is even better it looks fantastic on all devices! The first noticeable thing is the new Quick Icons panel with links to the most commonly used tools. On the left of it there are blocks showing the most popular articles on your site, most recently added ones and information about the logged users. I must say that I like the new style a lot more than the old one with the huge square buttons!
The Article Manager has received a major overhaul too! Drag-and-drop arrangement of the articles, quick buttons to Publish, Unpublish, Trash and more actions that you can apply to your articles with just a click are just few of the great features of the new design. I am unable to understand why, however, they have included MooTools in the backend since the entire Bootstrap library is based on jQuery.
The WYSIWYG editor is the same, but the rest of the article editing screen is significantly improved. All the options you don't need to see all the time are hidden in tabs and the ones you really need when you add new articles are brought to the front and easily accessible. Just a personal opinion here, the three default lines of formatting buttons could be easily converted into one line to save some more space.
And most importantly, the entire admin area works great on mobile devices. The design is responsive and adjusts itself depending on the screen size you are viewing the page on. After certain width, the menus are reorganized in a completely different fashion, and not just compressed. This is one of the great advantages of using Bootstrap. I can now easily edit my sites on my iPhone without having to pinch in and out all the time just to do a simple task.
The Front End
Joomla 3.0 comes with a new default template named Protostar. I have played around with it a little by adding sample data and I find the template to be quite elegant and simple, producing a really nice output for a startup website. It does include, however, both MooTools and the Bootstrap libraries. Hopefully, we will soon see a jQuery-powered default template (maybe for Joomla 3.5 ).
The scary question: should you upgrade now?
- NO, if you are currently using Joomla 2.5
- YES, but to Joomla 2.5 if you are currently using 1.5.
With the release of Joomla 3.0, the official support of Joomla 1.5 will be discontinued. This means that you are strongly advised to move to the higher version, which is 2.5. However, upgrading a 2.5 Joomla to 3.0 is not recommended. It will be best to wait for the 3.5 version to be released before you start upgrading. For more information on release cycles please refer to the official Joomla blog.


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Adopt your next pet in Yadkin County
Yadkin County Adoptions
Adopt your next pet in Yadkin County
Here is a list of pet shelters and organizations in Yadkin County.
If you do not see your organization listed, please send us an e-mail send us an e-mail along with your county and your web address, and we will be glad to add it to the list.
Link: Furry Friends of the Foothills
Link: Yadkin County Animal Shelter
Link: Yadkin County Humane Society
A lot of local shelters are in need of volunteers and foster homes, so if this is something you are interested in, please contact one of the shelters.


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Jaguar's full-size XJ sedan has long been big on comfort, but it isn't exactly the first thing that comes to mind when someone says "sport sedan," even in Supercharged form.
Jaguar is looking to correct that with the launch of its 2014 XJR, which promises to serve up equal parts comfort and performance. As we explained in our preview of the newest big cat, the XJR accents the Supercharged model's 550-horsepower forced-induction V-8 with firmer suspension tuning, aero enhancements and stickier rubber.
Jaguar's also included sophisticated electronics to ensure that a driver's enthusiasm doesn't outweigh his talent. The XJR's corner recognition system prevents errant mid-corner downshifts, while the adaptive transmission senses when the driver is going about things with more enthusiasm.
Inside, Jaguar's sport seats blend the expected comfort with some serious lateral support, ensuring that the XJR's pilot can handle track days as well as he handles a night at the opera. Assuming, that is, that any buyers opt to track a six-figure sedan.
If you're the type that prefers to be driven to work, and you've hired, say, Rubens Barichello to shuttle you to and from work, you'll be happy to know the the XJR comes in a long-wheelbase version, too. Pricing starts at $116,000 for the standard model, jumping to $119,000 when you opt for the extra legroom of the long-wheelbase version.
This article originally appeared at Motor Authority.


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The foundation of a thriving, successful university is a team committed to the success of its students and its community through visionary leadership and strategic planning.
At Lipscomb, we boldly and courageously move the university forward in ways that help our students prepare for their next in life. Leading the charge with vision and innovation are a president, senior leadership team and board of trustees, comprising the best and brightest experts in higher education and accomplished professionals from around the country.


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When it comes to treating end stage renal disease (ESRD), one size does not fit all. With your physician's guidance, you can choose from several types of treatment options to find the one that best suits your health and lifestyle needs.
As you begin the conversation with your care team about which treatment option is right for you, remember that you're not stuck with this option for life. The treatment that's right for you right now may not be tomorrow, and you can always speak with your doctor about changing. Here are a few considerations to help inform your decision.
Take a brief look at the different treatment options:
Kidney transplant
The wait for a kidney transplant varies greatly. Learn more about kidney transplants.
Peritoneal dialysis (PD)
Peritoneal dialysis is often done at night in your home for 8-10 hours, using an automated cycler machine while you sleep. Or you may use a manual PD method, which usually means doing four to five 30-minute fluid exchanges a day to clean your blood fully.
Home hemodialysis (HHD)
People on home hemodialysis have the option to dialyze more frequently to achieve improved health benefits. Short, daily treatments are generally performed five or six times a week for two to three hours per session.
In-Center Hemodialysis
The usual schedule for in-center hemodialysis is three times a week, for about three to four hours each treatment, plus travel time to and from the center. Or you may consider in-center nocturnal dialysis (available at some centers).
Find the treatment option that may be the best for you by taking a short quiz with the Treatment Evaluator tool today.
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The City of Newport, Rhode Island's Zoning Board of Review has recently given unanimous approval to a special use permit for the owners of the Audrain Building, 220-230 Bellevue Avenue to establish an antique car museum on the first floor of the building. The building is currently sheathed in white plastic and is undergoing major restoration and renovation. The museum is expected to open sometime in 2014. The new owners of the building have about 100 antique cars that they plan to rotate in and out of the museum.
The building itself is historical in nature and is being restored to its former glory by its owners. The building on Bellevue Avenue was designed by New York architect Bruce Price whose most famous building is the huge Chateau Frontenac Hotel that dominates the Quebec City skyline. Will post more as information becomes available. stay tuned this should be a very exciting location to visit.


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Texas tech interim head coach Chris Walker was mulling over what could have happened against No. 13 Kansas State.
"I thought we had a chance to play well against them," Walker said after the 75-55 loss Monday night. "If we made a couple layups . we make a couple free throws, I think we go up five in the first half, and it may be a different game."
And yet, it was not.
The Red Raiders stayed close in the first half but ended up on the wrong end of their ninth straight loss.
Mistakes — including 14 turnovers — kept Texas Tech from threatening an upset.
"That's just been our Achilles heel all year long," Walker said.
With three games remaining in the regular season, Kansas State continued to close in on an elusive conference title.
The Wildcats last won a regular season league title in 1977, but thanks to unprecedented success under first-year coach Bruce Weber and an uncharacteristic three-game losing streak by rival Kansas, Kansas State is tied with the sixth-ranked Jayhawks for first place in the Big 12.
Monday night's victory kept the Wildcats' hopes alive.
Now Kansas State has to keep its foot on the gas pedal.
"March is here," Weber said. "Next game is in March, and you want to be playing your best basketball. I hope they stay humble and they stay hungry. We've got to keep improving because in a couple weeks from now, you lose, it's over."
Thomas Gipson scored 20 points, Angel Rodriguez added 16, and the Wildcats (23-5, 12-3 Big 12) got their 12th conference win for the first time in 40 years.
Dusty Hannahs scored 14 points for the Red Raiders (9-17, 2-13) and Jaye Crockett added 13.
Walker compared this Kansas State basketball team to the school's football team, which won 11 games and earned a BCS bowl bid in 2012.
"It's not like Kansas State is going to out-talent people to death," Walker said. "They do a lot of great things that have nothing to do with flash and dash, and they're really just lunch pail guys, and they really make great plays when they need to, and they defend."
The Wildcats did not take control until the second half, when reserve Nino Williams jump-started the offense with 11 straight points.
"That's been one of our keys to our team," Weber said. "Every day, it seems like it's somebody else that steps up. It's hard to stop every guy that we have.
"I've said since the beginning, we have eight starters, and all of them can be very, very productive."
Hannahs said Williams is aggressive and athletic.
"Anyone that you let get loose like that is capable at this level," Hannahs said. "He's a good player just like everyone on their team."
With Texas Tech leading 44-42, Williams got the lead with a three-point play. He scored again after the Wildcats forced a shot-clock violation. He cashed in under the basket after a turnover. The Red Raiders tried to cool off Williams by using a 30-second timeout, but he promptly drained a jumper, giving Kansas State a 51-44 lead — the Wildcats' largest of the half to that point — with 11:50 to play.
Moments later, he snagged an offensive rebound, scored again, and then grabbed a defensive rebound.
Williams' scoring burst started the rest of his team, which continued the one-sidedness with a scalding 24-6 run. Kansas State led 66-50 with less than 4 minutes to play.
"Sometimes you miss shots, sometimes you make them, and I just looked to crash the boards," Williams said.
Kansas State opened the game with a 12-4 run that was capped by consecutive dunks by Rodney McGruder.
After that solid start, the Wildcats got sloppy, and the Red Raiders took advantage.
"I thought we had a chance to play well against them," Texas Tech interim coach Chris Walker said. "If we made a couple layups . we make a couple free throws, I think we go up five in the first half, and it may be a different game."
The Red Raiders climbed within 15-12 as four Kansas State players committed a turnover each in a 4-minute spurt.
"One of the worst things that happened, we went up 12-4, and then we were a little giddy, we lost a little bit of focus, and to their credit they came right at us," Weber said.
A 3-pointer by Ty Nurse gave the Red Raiders their first lead of the game with 1:53 to play in the half but a buzzer-beater from the baseline by McGruder gave the Wildcats a 31-30 lead.
"They started knocking down shots, some contested shots and obviously some shots where confusion came up," Hannahs said. "They got hot in the second half, with a mixture of us missing a couple assignments.
"Basketball's obviously a game of runs, but once you let a team that good get on a run, it's hard to get back in the flow."
Kansas State forward Jordan Henriquez, usually a starter, did not attend the game because he was traveling to New York for his grandmother's funeral. Gipson started in his place.
"We needed somebody to step up since JO's not here, and I just made the effort to step up and play harder than I normally play, just made an effort to do it on offense and defense," Gipson said.


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CUTMR / Public Space / Jennifer Rong Designs
Jennifer Rong Designs specializes in one-of-a-kind, handmade, upcycled pieces made primarily from reclaimed wood, vintage items and found objects. Emphasis is on aesthetics, function and sustainable production. Drawing on the practice of 'nose to tail' eating, everything is used, nothing is wasted.
Bark is an exploration of tree bark as a medium for producing both functional and sculptural pieces. With an emphasis on aesthetics and sustainable production, these pieces incorporate found/repurposed material to realize the bark's full potential. Bark comes in various forms, some very durable when found in the right conditions while others can be fragile. Bark has been incorporated into these pieces to showcase both its fragility and strength, serving as wall décor, seating and lighting. Everything is made with bark.
Come Up To My Room (CUTMR) Toronto's largest alternative design show enters a new decade with new initiatives and a diverse lineup of local and national talent: 25 installations, 60 artists, and 4000 visitors, all in under 4 days. Gladstone Managing Director of Art, Britt Welter-Nolan is joined by three new curatorial forces: Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Elise Hodson.
CUTMR11: Thurs Jan 23 – Sun 26, 2014
- Opening Reception: Sat Jan 25, 2014 | 7-11pm
- Hours: Thurs 6-8pm, Fri 11am-8pm, Sat 11am-10pm, Sun 11am-5pm
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And Yahoo! apps face cull (yes, Yahoo! has apps)
Yahoo! chief exec Marissa Mayer has complained that cosying up to Microsoft to use its Bing search engine hasn't given her company the market share or money she was hoping for.
Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco - her first investor gathering appearance since she took over at Yahoo! in July - Mayer said again that she was still focussed on her web biz's online services.
"I'm not confused. Our biggest business problem right now is impressions. Basically can we grow impressions, can we get growth happening here," Reuters, the Financial Times and others reported her as saying.
In 2010 Microsoft and Yahoo! signed on the dotted line for a ten-year collaboration to provide a web search system and chisel some market share from Google's vice-like grip. The combined power of the partnership was supposed to help Yahoo!'s cash-flow by bagging it more users and thus allowing it to shift more ads for more money.
"One of the points of the alliance is that we collectively want to grow share, rather than just trading share with each other," she said. "We need to see monetisation working better because we know that it can and we've seen other competitors in the space illustrate how well it can work. We've seen some gains [in monetisation] but we need to see more."
Mayer also said that she wanted Yahoo! to do better with mobile apps and slash its portfolio of 75 apps today to between 12 and 15 more focussed ones.
"Each user will hopefully have the two to four apps that matter most to them," she said. "We want to make sure we have enough applications to fulfil that single-purpose need. We don't want to overload people by making them download too many apps."
She also said that she wasn't keen on selling off the firm's stake in Yahoo! Japan - a joint venture with Softbank; it's one of the assets that was frequently said to be up for grabs before Mayer came onboard, when the company's revenue and share price were suffering.
Since Mayer took over, Yahoo! stock has gained more than 30 per cent, partially driven by the company's own share buying using some of the $7.6bn it netted when it sold half of its stake in Chinese internet firm Alibaba. Investors also seem calmer under Mayer's chieftaincy than any of the quick procession of her predecessors. For the full year 2012, the company banked a net income of $3.9bn, up on the previous year's $1bn [PDF]. ®


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Concord Grape and Lemon Soda
- Merrill
It's a sure sign that fall has arrived when the grape guys appear at my local greenmarket. They have giant tubs of different grape varieties -- all of which they let you sample -- in a wide spectrum of hues, from green to golden to deepest purple. The darkest of all are the Concord grapes, those round fat beauties with dusky skins that look as if they've just been frosted, and whose intense, not-at-all-sweet flavor has inspired legions of "grape" flavored candies, jellies and gum.
Recently, I decided that I like the flavor of Concord grapes most in drink form. Several years ago, I tested and loved this recipe from the New York Times Magazine, involving a heavily spiced grape purée to which you add vodka, lemon juice and soda water. Over the past few months, as a non-drinking mother-to-be (yes, the cat's officially out of the bag, people!), I've been on the hunt for new and interesting -- and alcohol-free -- ways to imbibe. So I decided to make a Concord grape soda, inspired by the Times recipe. I cut back on the spices, opting for a just a little cinnamon because I wanted a purer grape flavor, and I upped the lemon juice, forgoing the vodka (but you don't have to!). This drink is refreshing, intensely grapey, and a sure herald of fall.
Concord Grape and Lemon Soda
Makes 6 drinks
- 2 lemons
- 1 pound Concord grapes, rinsed and stems removed
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cinnamon stick, broken in half
- Pinch salt
- Soda water
See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
Like this post? See Merrill's post from last week: Lobster Diavolo
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Galaxy Leggings
Embrace Nebulous Fashion Sense
- Show off your geeky gams.
- 90% nylon / 10% spandex.
- A ThinkGeek exclusive!
When we saw what was happening with photo-realistic leggings, we knew we had to pick some up. But you know how sometimes a little something is lost in translation? We told our factory that we wanted our own custom ThinkGeek leggings with space printed on them. They sent us a sample that had beautiful constellations on the front. Only it had two large moons printed where you would expect the verb "moon" to happen. No joke. Needless to say, we opted not to go with those.
This set of tights features an all-over print of a false-color image of space. (Read about how NASA colorizes the black and white images it gets back from its space-faring telescopes. Warning: Click on the link only if you have time to fall into the rabbithole that is NASA's awesomeness.) The location of the print will vary depending on what piece of fabric your tights were cut from, but we promise there will be no moons on the butt.
90% nylon / 10% spandex. Opaque. One size fits many bipeds. Machine wash cold. Do not bleach or iron. Hang dry. You can get leggings with space on them a handful of other places (especially if you're traveling to Asia), but this particular version is a ThinkGeek exclusive.
Galaxy Leggings
- One size fits many bipeds.
- 24" waist unstretched. (We tested it to 38" diameter, so it's very stretchy.)
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The Aquarium of Niagara debuts a new summer family event, "Splash into Summer," from 3 to 7 p.m. today in its Whirlpool Street parking lot.
There will be games, face painting and other outdoor activities for the entire family. Food will be available for purchase by Roaming Buffalo Food Truck, Chilly Billys, Frankies Pizza and CLS Vending. Mr. No Balloon Guy, Avon, Plum Creek, Scentsy and LBS Creations will provide shopping tables. Also, stop by the Buffalo Humane booth to see cute kittens and cats that are available for adoption.
Admission to the Aquarium is not included in the outdoor activities. For additional information, call 716-285-3575, ext. 206.


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- A group is any party consisting of 10 people or more.
- You do not have to be a member of any organisation to stay at Safestay, however we do require that you provide some form of valid photo identification upon check in, preferably a valid passport, national identity card or driving license. Student cards are not accepted as ID.
- Check-in. Rooms are available at 14:00 at Safestay Lisbon. However you are welcome to drop off any luggage in the morning. Please contact us in advance if you will have a large quantity of luggage to store.
- Check-out. Departing groups must remove all their belongings from their room, and check out, before 11:00. After this time groups may make use of the luggage storage facilities but all possessions must be removed from the room and the room key card handed back to reception. Late check-outs will incur a charge of an additional night.
- All Groups must have a minimum of one group leader who is responsible for the entire group. Leaders will be the contact person for our staff, and will be expected to act on all complaints.
- Age restriction. Customers under the age of 16 are only permitted to stay in private rooms or shared rooms that are booked for the sole use of one family or a group of persons booked together and must be accompanied by an adult over the age of 18. Any person between the age of 16 and 18 years must be accompanied by an adult (over 18) staying in the same room or dormitory.
- A €250.00 (€500 for Stag and Hen Parties) security deposit is required at check-in, to be returned on the day of your departure if no damage is detected according to the conditions laid out in section 4 of this document. You can leave the deposit by cash or debit/credit card. Cards will be pre-authorized on check-in for the full amount. If your deposit is being secured with a third party credit card we will require written authorisation to be provided by the card-holder.
- Upon check-in each guest will receive a room key card for access to their room. These key cards are activated for the period of stay only and must be handed back to reception on check out. Failure to return the key card will result in a charge of £5.00 per card being deducted from your security deposit.
- Safestay Lisbon operate a 14 day maximum stay policy, bookings will not be accepted for longer than 14 days at a time.
- Payment for all group bookings must be made in advance. All payment must be sorted prior to arrival or you may be hindered from checking in to the property.
- A 10% non-refundable deposit will be required to confirm your booking if it is for an arrival date more than 1 month in advance. If you booking is for an arrival date less than one month in advance you will be required to pay the full cost of the reservation at the time of booking.
- The full balance of your booking must be paid no less than 28 days prior to the arrival date. This includes payment for all ancillaries, extras and any additional fees that you may have incurred.
- Where the booking is for a date more than 3 months in advance it can be held provisionally for 3 weeks only. After this period, if no deposit has been received, the booking can be removed without notification to the group leader.
- Where the booking is for a date within 3 months, but greater than a month, it can be held provisionally for 2 weeks only. After this period, if no deposit has been received, the booking can be removed without notification to the group leader.
- Payments must be made in Euro and can be made either by Visa, MasterCard, Switch, or American Express, or in some cases by cheque, bank transfer or cash. If your booking is being paid for with a third party credit card we will require written authorisation to be provided by the card-holder. Please inform us of your intended method of payment on confirmation of your booking.
- Bank transfers must be accompanied by the bank's proof of payment.
- Please note that we do not accept Laser Card.
- All fees incurred by the payee due to the method of payment, (i.e. bank transfer fees issued by the sending or receiving bank), are to be paid by the group. Safestay is not responsible for these fees.
- If any payment under these terms and conditions is overdue, then without prejudice to our other rights and remedies we may cancel your booking(s) and/or we may suspend the supply and/or deliveries of any other services being provided to you by Safestay. We will however inform you in writing prior to any such action.
- Ancillary charges will be agreed between Safestay and the client at the time of booking.
- All ancillary charges must be paid in full at least 28 days before arrival of the group. If the ancillary services and/or products are booked within 28 days prior to arrival full payment will be required at the time of booking.
- Subject to availability, you may make changes to a Group Booking up to 41 days prior to your arrival date without charge. Safestay will endeavour to accommodate all requested changes to a group booking whether this be in the numbers of participants or the room allocation.
- Within 41 days of your arrival date cancellations and changes above 10% will be subject to the following charges based on group size and notice given and as previously stated, deposits paid at time of booking will be non-refundable.
Cancellation fee (%) Days prior to arrival Groups of 50 + Groups of 49 – 42 + 0 0 28 – 41 50 30 15 – 27 90 60 0 – 14 100 100
- Early departures are not eligible for refund under any circumstances.Cancellations must be in writing, either in the form of a letter, fax or email. We do not accept cancellations over the telephone.
- Changes to a confirmed reservation, (e.g. changes to dates or number of guests), are subject to the availability of a suitable alternative and may be subject to cancellation charges or change fees, if applicable.
- We will inform you of any additional cost in writing prior to the change. No change will be made without agreement.
- Amendments made less than 6 weeks prior to the arrival date can result in full payment being taken for the unallocated beds.
- If Ancillary Services are cancelled within 72 hours of the time they are due to commence or be provided, the Client will be charged 100% of the Ancillary Charges, Safestay will provide the Client with a full refund of any Ancillary Charges for Ancillary Services cancelled more than 72 hours prior to commencement of the relevant Ancillary Service.
- By giving us your credit card details you are authorising us to use this as security for your reservation and your accommodation. Any unpaid cancellation charges will be charged to your debit/credit card. Any Agents will be invoiced for the full booking amount and must be paid within 14 days of invoice. If any payment under these terms and conditions is overdue, then without prejudice to our other rights and remedies we may cancel your booking(s) and/or we may suspend the supply and/or deliveries of any other services being provided to you by Safestay.
- Safestay may be required to cancel Bookings if: (i) there is a reasonable operational reason to do so; or (ii) the Booking is prejudicial to the reputation of Safestay. Safestay may, in certain circumstances use reasonable endeavours to relocate any cancelled Bookings to an alternative nearby location of a similar standard to that of the Booking. Safestay shall provide a full refund for any cancellations made under such conditions.
- At Check-in, groups are required to leave a security deposit of €250 (€500 for Stag and Hen Parties) to cover any damages caused during the stay at the hostel. The deposit will be returned on departure subject to no damages being reported or detected. The deposit is payable via cash, debit or credit card.
- The comfort of all of our guests is of paramount importance. Any guests who in the opinion of our staff compromise the comfort, safety, or security of other guests, staff or local residents will be requested to leave the hostel premises and will not be issued a refund.
- On arrival, at least one leader will be required to sign a statement of intention to uphold the rules set in place for groups upon arrival. The group leaders must ensure that all members of their group behave in an acceptable manor.
- The group leader will be responsible for any willful damage that is caused to the rooms, furnishings or hostel, for any theft of hostel property by any member of the group or in the case of guest complaints due to the behaviour of the group. Damages will be deducted from the security deposit paid and remaining costs will be required to be paid, or a payment agreement reached prior to departure.
- Should damage come to light after the group has departed, we reserve the right to make a charge to the group's credit / debit card, or send an invoice for the amount to the registered address. We will however make every effort to rectify any damage internally prior to contracting specialists to make the repairs, and therefore will make every effort to keep any costs that the guest would incur to a minimum.
- Smoking is strictly forbidden anywhere on Safestay premises. Any group member found smoking within the building will be charged a fee of €250.00 in order to cover the extensive cost of restoring the room to a smoke-free condition. Further failure to comply will result in the group being asked to leave the premises immediately and will not be offered a refund. If you wish to smoke please ask reception staff about designated smoking areas on arrival.
- Guests are asked to use the secure lockers provided in each room, the safety deposit boxes at reception or the luggage store.
- It is the guest's responsibility to ensure that their personal belongings are secure at all times. Safestay accepts no liability for the loss, theft or damage to property however sustained or caused.
- Lost property will only be kept for one month, if it is not collected within a month it will be given to a local charity.
- Safestay shall only store and use information you supply to us or which is supplied to us for the purposes of carrying out our contract with you and to inform you of other services and offers which we make available from time to time. If you do not wish to receive such information please let us know by emailing us at: firstname.lastname@example.com or by writing to us at Safestay, John Smith House, London, SE17 1JL.
- Any oversights or errors in sales literature, on www.safestay.com, third party web pages, order forms, quotations, price lists, order acknowledgements, despatch notes, invoices or other documents issued by us may be corrected by us without liability. We will advise you of any changes at the time of booking or as soon as is reasonably possible thereafter.
- All bookings are subject to availability and Safestay reserves the right to decline any booking at its discretion.
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# Electrically Conductive Polymers # Mechanistic Organic and Polymer Chemistry # Materials Science of Conjugated Polymers # Corrosion # Organic Superconductors
"Corrosion Protection of Metals Using Electrically Conductive Polymers," Wei-Kang Lu, Sanjay Basak and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, in Handbook of Conductive Polymers, T. A. Skotheim, J. Reynolds, and R. L. Elsenbaumer, eds., Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY, 1997, pp 881-920.
"Synthesis, Characterization, and Electrical Properties of Poly (1-alkyl-2,5- pyrrylene vinylenes): New Low Band Gap Conducting Polymers," In Tae Kim and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Macromolecules 2000, 33, 6407-6411.
"Poly(alkyl thiophene-3-carboxylates). Synthesis, Properties and Electroluminescence Studies of Polythiophenes Containing a Carbonyl Group Directly Attached to the Ring," Martin Pomerantz, Yang Cheng, Ramesh K. Kasim, and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Journal of Materials Chemistry 1999, 9, 2155.
"The Tuning of Heterocyclic Isomerization: Additional Routes to Extended Donors," Ronald L. Meline and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Synthetic Metals 1999, 102, 1658-1661.
"Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(2,6-Quinoline Vinylene)," Ramesh K. Kasim, Sripadma Satyanarayana and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Synthetic Metals 1999, 102, 1059.
"Novel Heterocyclic Coordination Polymers: Synthesis and Characterization," Sripadma Satyanarayana and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Synthetic Metals 1999, 102, 1470-1471.
"Poly(3-Alkylthiophenes): Optimizing Conductivity as a Function of Regioregularity, Dopant, and Casting Solvent," Ronald L. Meline, Ramesh K. Kasim, Wei-Kang Lu, and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Synthetic Metals 1999, 101, 446.
"N-Methylated Poly(nonylbithiazole): A New n-Dopable Conjugated Polymer," M. David Curtis, Haitao Cheng, Jo Anna Johnson, John I. Nanos, Ramesh Kasim, Ronald Elsenbaumer, Lebzylisbeth Gonzalez and David C. Martin, Chem. Mater. 1998, 10, 13.
"An Expedient, Cost Effective Large Scale Synthesis of Tetrathiafulvalene," Ronald L. Meline and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, J. Chem. Soc, Perkin Trans. I 1998, 2467.
"Synthesis, Characterization and Properties of Conjugated Poly(1-Alkyl-2,5-Pyrrlene Vinylene)," In Tae Kim and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Mat. Res. Soc. 1998, 488, 665-670.
"Convenient Syntheses of 1-Alkyl-2,5-bis(thiophenylmethylene)pyrroles Using the Mannich Reaction," In Tae Kim and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Tetrahedron Letts. 1998, 39, 1087.
"Simple Method for Fabricating Polymer Light Emitting Diodes," Ramesh K. Kasim, Martin Pomerantz and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Chemistry of Materials 1998, 10, 235.
"Solution Processible Poly(1-Alkyl-2,5-pyrrylene vinylenes): New Low Band Gap Conductive Polymers," In Tae Kim and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, J.C.S. Chem. Commun. 1998, 327.
"High Yield Conversion of Tetrathiafulvalene Into Bis(ethylenedithio)tetrathiafulvalene and Derivatives of TTF," Ronald L. Meline and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. I 1997, 3575.
"Direct Syntheses of Tetrathiafulvalene and Bis(ethylenedithio)-tetrathiafulvalene By a Non-coupling Route From 1,4,5,8-Tetrathianaphthalene," Ronald L. Meline and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Synthesis 1997, 617.
"Electron Rich Thienylene-Vinylene Low Band Gap Polymers" Yueping Fu and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Chemistry of Materials 1997, 9, 1720.
"Investigation of Device Failure in Polymer Light Emitting Diodes," Ramesh K, Kasim, Yang Cheng, Martin Pomerantz, and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Synthetic Metals 1997, 85, 1213.
"Forward/Reverse dc bias or ac Electroluminescence in Poly(p-phenylene vinylene) Prepared via Sulfonium-salt and Xanthate Routes," Ramesh K. Kasim and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Synthetic Metals 1997, 85, 1291.
"A Convenient Non-Coupling Synthesis of Bis(ethylenedithio)- tetrathiafulvalene," Ronald L. Meline and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Synthetic Metals 1997, 86, 1845.
"Isolation, Characterization and Polymerization of Monosubstituted p-Quinodimethanes Made from Thiophene Derivatives," Haitao Cheng and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, Polym. Mat.: Sci. Engr. 1996, 75, 293.
"New Precursors and Polymerization Route for the Preparation of High Molecular Weight Poly(3,4-Dialkoxy-2,5-Thienylenevinylenes): Low Band Gap Conductive Polymers," H. Cheng and R. L. Elsenbaumer, J.C.S. Chem. Commun. 1995, 1451.
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Kelly Layman
Executive Director of Communications & Development
Statement from State University System Chancellor Frank Brogan regarding annual release of national trends for student costs and financial aid from The College Board
We are grateful to The College Board for its extensive look once again at all public and private higher education pricing and correlating financial aid trends for college students nationwide. Florida remains the 48th-lowest in state university tuition, as last year. As student and families grapple with the very real challenges we know they face, Florida's standing also is buoyed by several issues first and foremost, the confirmation in these two reports of an issue we and the Florida Legislature knew that the average net prices students pay after considering grant aid and tax benefits have increased more slowly than the Consumer Price Index over the past five years. Secondly, in the State University System of Florida with 11 public institutions and more than 300,000 students what amounts to the student-State of Florida split' for the cost of education clearly speaks to the Legislature's historical commitment of a considerable state investment in each student enrolled. The most recent data set complete with closed-out expenses data from the universities shows student cost per-credit-hour for educational instruction at 38 percent of the split, and the State's contribution, or investment, picking up the other 62 percent of the cost per-credit-hour. Both the Florida Board of Governors and the universities' respective Boards of Trustees will continue to do all that we can collaboratively to advocate for our students as they pursue and finish their degrees.'
The 'Trends in Student Aid 2010' and 'Trends in College Pricing 2010' reports, from the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center, note that despite rising published prices, the average net prices students pay after considering grant aid and tax benefits have increased more slowly than the Consumer Price Index over the past five years. U.S. students and families faced an average 7.9 percent jump in in-state tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities in 2010-11, but their financial burden is being eased somewhat by record increases in federal grant aid. In 2009-10, there also was the largest increase ever in Pell grants history.
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The College Board's Trends in College Pricing data is the source that Florida's own Financial Aid Estimating Conference has officially adopted as a measure of where the State University System is relative to the national average. This year's trends shows the State University System of Florida at 48th-lowest among the states for tuition expense at $4,886, with Wyoming and Louisiana the only two with lower public, four-year tuition and fees. The national average for four-year public institutions in 2010-11 is $7,605 (for a difference of $2,719 the difference between Florida's standing and the national average).
Regarding federal Pell grants, the System overall has seen a consistent trend of about 20-22 percent of undergraduates receiving Pell grants, translating to about 60,000 of more than 300,000 students System-wide. Staff are seeing a slightly uptick so far in this fiscal year as well in Pell grant recipients.
Hyperlink to the reports released today: http://trends.collegeboard.org
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NEW YORK (AP) — Selected transcripts and audio of Richard Nixon's Oval Office conversations will be published in book form next August, the 40th anniversary of Nixon's resignation from the presidency.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Tuesday that "The Nixon Tapes" will feature the first transcriptions of Nixon and his aides discussing subjects ranging from Vietnam to Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign.
The country first learned that the tapes existed during Senate hearings in 1973 that looked into the growing Watergate scandal, which eventually led to Nixon's departure. The last of some 4,000 hours of conversations was finally made public this year.
"The Nixon Tapes" will be edited and annotated by historian Douglas Brinkley, who helped compile a book of Ronald Reagan's diaries, and Luke Nichter, whose website www.nixontapes.org features digital recordings of Nixon's conversations.


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Lally Gets His Chance On Ovals
Acknowledging that his working relationship with former NASCAR champion Bobby Labonte had "run its course," team-owner Kevin Buckler has recruited road-racing ally Andy Lally to drive for The Racer's Group at New Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend.
Lally aims to make his Sprint Cup Series oval debut in the No. 71 TRG Motorsports Chevrolet Impala during Sunday's Lenox Industrial Tools 301 at Loudon, N.H. Labonte announced Wednesday he was leaving Buckler's second-year Cup team after racking up generally lackluster results in the first 16 races of the 2010 season.
Buckler turned to Lally, who made his Cup debut for TRG on the road-course at Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International last August with a 27th-place finish.
A native of Northport, N.Y., Lally is a sports car specialist who launched his NASCAR career in the Camping World Truck Series with TRG in 2007. Lally has won the Grand-Am Road Racing Association's prestigious Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona twice (2001 and 2009) and is a three-time series champion (2001, 2004 and 2006). Lally currently is third in Rolex Series GT points on the strength of victories at Virginia International Raceway and Watkins Glen.
"Andy Lally is an important part of our company's growth and has proven his value with us over the last five years," Buckler said in a statement from the team's NASCAR headquarters in Mooresville, N.C. "We've won all of the big ones together, including the Rolex 24 Hour and multiple sports car championships."
Founded in 1993, TRG's Porsche sports car program is run out of the company's headquarters in Petaluma, Calif. The team has posted the most wins of any in the Grand-Am Rolex Series with 28, including the 2005 and 2006 Rolex Series GT championships; three wins in the Rolex 24 at Daytona and a single victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France.
"We've had the thought of putting Andy into the Sprint Cup Series on ovals since last year; well, here is that chance," Buckler said. "I really believe in him and his talent. He's been very loyal to TRG on the sports car side and I am proud to give him a shot at that next level in his racing career. We will give him all of the support we have this weekend and keep our expectations in-check."
Labonte, the 2000 Cup champion with Joe Gibbs Racing, exited TRG after a 23rd-place finish in Sunday's first road-race of the season, the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif. His best finish for TRG has been 21st at Daytona International Speedway in the season-opener in February and at Bristol Motor Speedway in March. Labonte has only led a single lap, at Pocono Raceway earlier this month, and stands 31st in driver points. He is working on a 232-race winless streak dating to the season-ender at Homestead-Miami Speedway in November 2003.
"After Infineon we went through some soul-searching regarding the direction and goals of our team as we have yet to achieve what we have set out to do this year," Buckler said. "Bobby is a NASCAR champion and a good guy. We figured out after Infineon, though, that our relationship had run its course and we both needed to mix-it-up a little.
"We may still have Bobby in our car for a few more races this season, but for now we are going in different directions. We're a young team in this sport and are trying very hard to attract a sponsor partner as we have a lot to offer on all of our programs. We're exploring our options for the Daytona weekend as we plan to race hard at the Coke Zero 400 (at DIS on July 3)."
Labonte, the winner of 21 Cup races during his career, is scheduled to drive the No. 7 Monster Energy Toyota Camry in place of owner/driver Robby Gordon this weekend. Additionally, Phoenix Racing and team-owner James Finch have hired Labonte to drive the No. 09 Miccousukee Resorts Chevrolet in a two-race deal beginning with the Coke Zero 400. He also is slated to drive the LifeLock.com 400 at Chicagoland Speedway on July 10.
Lally, meanwhile, is anxious to perform on an oval in NASCAR's premier series. Pole qualifying on the relatively flat, 1.058-mile layout will be televised on Speed at 3 p.m., EDT.
"I'm going at this weekend with the most positive outlook that I can," Lally said. "I'm getting a pretty neat opportunity to get some laps in on an oval in a Sprint Cup car on a track that I have never driven. This will be my first time on an oval in a Sprint Cup car. Having just one, 90-minute practice session before we qualify to acclimate myself with how this car feels and drives with an oval setup on it, and 44 other guys on the track at the same time, will be pretty tricky. It will be a monumental challenge to be productive.
"I'm going to take it one lap at a time, respect every other driver's space out there and do the best that I can. There are 45 drivers trying to make this race. The guy that would be ranked 44th in experience probably still has 100-times more oval laps than I do. It means that I'm on a pretty steep learning curve, to say the least."
Lally realizes he will need to take an entirely different approach on the New Hampshire oval than he did at The Glen.
"Before The Glen I had an entire test day in the car and was going to run a track that I was very familiar with and had won at several times before," Lally said. "It was also a road-course situation, where my experience, I felt, gave me the edge on some of the competitors in the field.
"This weekend I'm going to learn. I will leave my ego in my sports car driver suit pocket and keep my head down, work with Dan (Stillman, crew chief) and the guys and try to get through the weekend logging maximum miles. I want to leave a good impression, so I can get invited back to do more in the future."
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