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July 23, 2012 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: Breast Pump Order
SUBJECT 2: Press Releases and WIC in the News Video Clips - Examples
SUBJECT 3: National Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course Seminar - Save the Date
SUBJECT 4: Program Integrity
SUBJECT 5: Signature Pad Help Checklist
SUBJECT 6: Fourth Quarter Holiday Clinic Hours
SUBJECT 7: Microcuvettes and Analyzers-Response Requested
- Breast Pump Order: The state WIC office has limited funding to place an order for double pumping kits, Lactina Select multi-user electric breast pumps, Harmony manual breast pumps and Personal Double Electric single-user breast pumps. Single-user means that this pump is not meant to be shared with other women, so we will be giving this pump to mothers who meet the following criteria:
- Mother must be separated from her infant at least 32 hours per week.
- Mother must be planning to offer breast milk exclusively to her infant and committed to continued long-term exclusive breastfeeding.
- Infant must be receiving no formula from WIC or any other source.
- Pump cannot be provided to the mother before 4 weeks post partum. If a mother needs a pump before then, she may be loaned a multi-user electric breast pump.
For each participant that is provided this pump, the Single User Personal Electric Breast Pump Agreement/Questionnaire (attached) must be completed and scanned into MOWINS. It is important that you promote this pump to prenatal women and use as an additional incentive to promote exclusive breastfeeding.
If you would like to request any of these items for your agency, please complete the attached order form and email to email@example.com or fax to 573-526-1470 by COB on Friday, August 17, 2012. Please keep in mind that funding is limited, so please only order what you need. If you have any questions please contact Kathy Mertzlufft at 573-526-4792 or at the above email address. (TWO ATTACHMENTS)
Press Releases and WIC in the News Video Clips-Examples: WICNS is looking for examples of press releases that the local WIC providers have used in the past and provide any links to your WIC clinic being covered in the local media. These may be used during the 2012 WIC Conference that is scheduled for October 22, 23 and 24 in Jefferson City. The DHSS Office of Public Information (OPI) will be providing a speaker during a breakout session at the conference and would like to incorporate examples of WIC in the media. If you have examples of a press release that you have used before or a media link, please send it electronically to Phyllis Fuller at the following: firstname.lastname@example.com. Thank you for your assistance with this. If you have any questions, please contact Phyllis Fuller.
National Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course Seminar-Save the Date: Nutrition Educational Opportunity: WIC Registered Dietitians, Nutritionists, and Public Health Nurses that serve pre-conceptual, pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women will want to take advantage of this full two-day National Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course Seminar. The seminar will be shown in Jefferson City on September 26-27, 2012 and again on October 2-3, 2012 in order to accommodate more attendees. This year's continuing education program focuses on: appropriate nutrition services that can improve pregnancy outcomes; effects of maternal eating behaviors on birth outcomes, infant health status and development; characteristics of model programs; and counseling approaches for maternal and infant nutritional health. This training is presented by the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health and will be shown by the WICNS Nutrition Training Institute. The registration form and additional details will be available via the WIC Weekly Updates in the next couple of weeks. If you have any questions, please contact Michele Bailey at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Program Integrity:The WIC State Office is concerned about notices appearing on social media sites, such as Craigslist, Facebook and Twitter, which advertise the sale of infant formula. In some cases the notice states that the formula was received from WIC. Selling or giving away formula, food or food instruments constitutes fraud and prevents WIC dollars from reaching eligible families. We are currently developing a poster for LWP offices to display as a reminder of what constitutes fraud in WIC. You should receive these in the coming months. As we continue our efforts to ensure Program Integrity in the WIC program, we encourage you to remind participants of the proper use of Food Instruments, Food Packages and Infant Formula. Any unused infant formula should be returned to the LWP. Returned exempt formula and medical foods will be added to the extra formula data base for use by other participants within the Missouri WIC program. Please see the Food &Formula Reference Guide FFRG for further guidance. Please refer to WOM 1.06200 for the policy regarding participant violations and contact your district TA team if you suspect WIC participant fraud or have any questions.
Signature Pad Help Checklist: We have created a Signature Pad Help Checklist to be used when damage or other problems occur in the functioning of the signature pads provided for MOWINS. Steps in the checklist should be completed prior to contacting the State WIC Office for replacement. The checklist will help ensure a more accurate diagnosis of signature pad damage or malfunction. The Signature Pad Help Checklist is attached.
If you have questions, please contact Mark Davis at firstname.lastname@example.com or 573-526-5323 or 800-392-8209. (ONE ATTACHMENT)
Fourth Quarter Holiday Clinic Hours: We are asking agencies to complete a brief survey (http://webapp03.dhss.mo.gov/snapwebhost/surveylogin.asp?k=134135007100) to determine WIC Help Desk Coverage for the following upcoming holidays: Columbus Day (October 8), Veterans Day (November 12), the day after Thanksgiving (November 23), and Christmas Eve (December 24). The survey will be open from August 1 through August 31 for completion.
Questions may be directed to Flo Minor at firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling 800-392-8209 or 573-522-3639.
Microcuvettes and Analyzers-Response Requested: It is time to order microcuvettes by completing the survey. Please follow the instructions below to assure your agency receives your supply of microcuvettes and/or analyzer.
- Microcuvette Survey: Please complete and return the attached survey via e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com by Monday, August 6, 2012. This will assure no interruption in the supply of microcuvettes.
- Microcuvette Order: The information from the survey will be used to identify the current supply on hand at each agency and to estimate the needs of each agency for the next six months. The microcuvette order will be shipped directly to your agency.
- Analyzers: Analyzers are also available to agencies by completing the request and justification. Tell us why you need the analyzer: replace current analyzer; expand services in another room/satellite site; more efficient work flow; other: explain.
Local WIC Provider Confirmation: When you receive the order please do the following:
- Verify the number of microcuvettes received with the number listed on the packing slip.
- If the number of microcuvettes in the package is the same as the packing slip, sign and date the packing slip.
- Fax the packing slip to the State WIC Office within one (1) week of receiving the shipment. The fax number is (573) 526-1470. Confirmation on the packing slip is required in order for the State WIC Office to pay for the microcuvettes.
- If the number of microcuvettes received is different from the packing slip, please call Lori Baysinger at 800-392-8209. Thank you for your cooperation. (ONE ATTACHMENT)
Microcuvettesurvey Aug 2012.doc
Personal Double Pump Questionnaire Agreement
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LONDON (Reuters) - A former Barclays executive said he ordered staff to manipulate interest rates in line with instructions from his then boss, Bob Diamond, providing an account of the scandal apparently at odds with that given by the British bank's former chief executive.
Jerry del Missier, who resigned as chief operating officer two weeks ago shortly after Diamond quit, came under intense cross-examination on Monday from a parliamentary committee over whether he knew artificially lowering Barclays' rates was illegal.
Barclays was fined a record $450 million last month by U.S. and UK authorities for manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor, the interest rate that underpins transactions worth trillions of dollars worldwide, between 2005 and 2009.
Del Missier said he told staff to act to drive down their submissions to the daily Libor calculation following a conversation Diamond had in 2008 with the Bank of England.
Del Missier's interpretation of events appeared to differ from what Diamond told the same parliamentary committee nearly two weeks ago, when he said he had given no such instruction.
Del Missier's testimony adds to evidence of mismanagement and poor compliance at Barclays, as well as leaving in doubt who was ultimately responsible for the order to lower the bank's Libor submission. This could be significant in the law suits that Barclays and other banks now face over alleged Libor manipulation. Britain's Serious Fraud Office has also launched its own investigation into the allegations.
Diamond's former right-hand man also said that Barclays' compliance department had been informed of Diamond's order to change rates, but that no action had been taken as a result.
Barclays declined to comment on the role played by the head of compliance at the time, Stephen Morse, who left in October 2011 after eight years at the bank, or that of Mark Dearlove, who del Missier said had received the order to lower rates. Morse could not immediately be reached for comment.
Del Missier said that someone on the money markets desk had alerted the bank's compliance department to the instruction to lower rates, but he was not aware of any follow-up.
Barclays, which also declined comment on the testimony, had said earlier that del Missier's order to understate submissions made towards calculating the daily Libor rate was the result of a misunderstanding.
The deputy governor of the Bank of England, Paul Tucker, in testimony to the committee last week, said he had been concerned that Barclays was submitting rates that were high, but he had not intended that as an order to submit artificially low rates.
Del Missier said he did not see anything wrong with what he was doing.
"I passed the instruction on to the head of the money market desk. I relayed the content of the conversation I had with Mr. Diamond and fully expected the Bank of England views would be fully incorporated in the Libor submission. I expected that they would take those views into account," del Missier said.
"At the time it did not seem an inappropriate action given that this was coming from the Bank of England," he told the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee.
"I only know what I clearly recall from my conversations with Mr. Diamond. I acted on the basis of the phone conversation that I had," del Missier told the committee.
The London interbank offered rate, or Libor, which is compiled from estimates by big banks of how much they believe they have to pay to borrow from each other is used for $550 trillion of interest rate derivatives contracts and influences rates on mortgages, student loans and credit cards.
An understated estimate could allow a bank to present a better picture of its financial health.
Del Missier, who had not previously commented said his order to the head of Barclays' money markets desk in October 2008 followed a conversation with Diamond.
Diamond had told him that the Bank of England and the British government were concerned about the relatively higher rates that Barclays was submitting and wanted the bank to reduce the rate it was submitting, del Missier said.
A spokesman for Diamond declined to comment.
Adair Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA), in a later session, said he was "shocked" by the revelations of Libor fixing in the Barclays investigation and had asked for an internal report to find out why the watchdog did not follow up on several press reports in 2007 which raised concerns over how Libor was being set.
"Within the FSA it does not seem to have been picked up as an issue which people responded to," Turner said, adding that because Libor submission was not a formally regulated process the watchdog had overlooked it.
"There was simply a mindset that if there were problems here it was for the BBA (the British Bankers' Association) to solve. That was the assumption people were making at that time," he told the committee.
Tracey McDermott, acting director of enforcement at the FSA, said the regulator was investigating seven banks as part of its Libor probe, not all of them British.
The Bank of England confirmed on Friday it had received U.S. recommendations to overhaul Libor, and had passed them on to the BBA, the banking trade group responsible for the rate.
It also emerged that Barclays alerted U.S. regulators as far back as 2007 to concerns that banks were rigging benchmark interest rates, and policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic did not appear to take decisive action.
Turner said he and BoE Governor Mervyn King effectively forced Diamond to quit on July 3 because they did not believe he was the right person to change Barclays. The FSA chief sent it a scathing letter in April telling the bank that its "aggressive" culture needed to improve.
Barclays is the only bank so far to admit to giving false information as part of the process of setting Libor.
The conversation in October 2008 between Diamond and Tucker is central to the question of whether Barclays was told by the central bank it could submit lower Libor rates.
In an internal memo written after that conversation, Diamond said Tucker told him "it did not always need to be the case that we appeared as high as we have recently".
Diamond has since said he did not take that as an instruction to submit lower rates, but said del Missier mistakenly understood the memo as a green light to do so.
When Tucker appeared before the committee he said the memo misrepresented the conversation. The purpose of the call was to share his concerns about Barclays' funding costs rather than discuss interest rates, Tucker said.
More than a dozen banks are eventually expected to be drawn into the Libor scandal, which is being probed by authorities in North America, Europe and Japan.
Libor rates submitted by banks are compiled by Thomson Reuters, parent company of Reuters, on behalf of the British Bankers' Association.
Additional reporting by Chris Vellacott, Steve Slater, Kate Holton, Douwe Miedema and Venetia Rainey; writing by Alexander Smith; Editing by Giles Elgood


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – With a challenging non-conference slate that includes road matchups at defending national champion Kentucky, Memphis and Ole Miss as well as a pair of contests against Belmont, Scott Sanderson's youthful Lipscomb men's basketball team's schedule is set for the 2012-13 campaign.
"Our schedule is definitely going to be challenging," said Sanderson. "This is probably one of the most challenging schedules we've had. With Memphis, Kentucky and Ole Miss, who I think is going to be a really good SEC team, along with Murray State and Austin Peay, we've got some very good non-conference games that should prepare us for league play in January."
Following a tune-up exhibition against longtime foe Freed Hardeman on Nov. 1, the Bisons lift the lid on the schedule on Nov. 9 in style hosting Belmont in the 131st installment of the "Battle of the Boulevard".
"Those games are important to us. Having a couple of marquee games at home like Belmont and Murray State, who will be the first top-25 team to ever come in here and play, is huge."
LU then hosts Maryville, one of six in-state foes that will come to Allen Arena, on Nov. 12
The first road trip of the season then awaits on Nov. 14 as Lipscomb heads to former A-Sun foe Gardner Webb before a Thanksgiving weekend trek to Oxford, Miss. to battle Southeastern Conference up-and-comer Ole Miss.
"Ole Miss has a lot of kids back and they're big, strong and athletic. They'll obviously be a big challenge for us. "
Following the tilt with the Rebels, the Bisons return home on Nov. 26 to host 2012 Cinderella, Murray State, who finished 31-2 a year ago earning a No. 6 seed in the NCAA tournament. LU continues home action on Nov. 30 hosting Tennessee Tech in a contest that will feature a "Jingle in your Jammies" promotion benefitting the Juvenile Arthritis Foundation.
A return trip down the "Boulevard" opens play in December as the Bisons make the trek to the Curb Event Center for the second of two games against Belmont. The final home game of the 2012 calendar year is set for Dec. 8 as UT Martin comes to Nashville before the team hits the road for five straight road games.
The extended road trip gets started on Dec. 15 as Lipscomb visits Kentucky at Rupp Arena for a contest against the SEC power.
"Of all the places we've played at from North Carolina on down, Kentucky is the best atmosphere there is. There are none any better than that. Those are passionate fans and to me, a passionate fan base is one like Kentucky when they sell out every game. It's not about who they're playing; they're coming to watch the Wildcats. It doesn't matter, who they play and that to me is when you know they're passionate about their home team."
A Dec. 18 tilt at Austin Peay then gets sandwiched in between the battle with the Wildcats and a Dec. 20 throwdown at Memphis before the Christmas break.
"Memphis has been like Kentucky for a long time and has great fan support. They're an extremely athletic team and we've played them the last several years and recruit down in the area a lot. That makes it a good benefit to us to play down there."
A New Year's Eve affair greets the Bisons after the break as A-Sun play opens on the road at North Florida followed by a Jan. 2 contest to open 2013 at Jacksonville.
Sanderson's club returns home after a 28 days on Jan. 5 to host in-state foe ETSU in the conference home opener ahead of a Jan. 7 meeting against USC Upstate, who advanced to the postseason a year ago in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT).
"The A-Sun should be very good again this year," said Sanderson. "The league has been ranked around the top 15 in RPI for the last five or six years and that's unbelievable. I don't think it will be any different this year. There are a lot of good teams in the league and it's really balanced. The bottom line is, if you don't come ready to play home or away, you're going to get beat."
Lipscomb continues A-Sun action on Jan. 11 with the first visit in school history to the Bank of Kentucky Center to take on league newcomer Northern Kentucky. Road play continues for LU on Jan. 17 against Florida Gulf Coast and Jan. 19 against Stetson in a return trip to the "Sunshine State".
The Bisons return home to host Kennesaw State on Jan. 24 before CIT champion Mercer comes to the "Music City" on Jan. 26. LU wraps up the month of January with a return trip to take on Upstate before catching ETSU on Feb. 2 on the way back home.
Feb. 8 is the date for the Northern Kentucky Norse to make their first appearance at Allen Arena before a Valentine's night special against Stetson. FGCU then comes to town to wrap up the three-game homestand on Feb. 16 before LU makes return trips to Mercer and Kennesaw State on Feb. 21 and 23, respectively.
Lipscomb closes out the 2012-13 season at home on Feb. 28 hosting the Jacksonville Dolphins before wrapping up the regular season as "March Madness" begins on March 2 against North Florida.
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Rihanna To Remake 'The Bodyguard'
Rihanna was in NYC over the weekend to discuss various film projects, according to the NYDN's Gatecrasher.
The first is the remake of 1992′s The Bodyguard. The 21-year-old is rumored to take Whitney Houston's role while GI Joe hunk Channing Tatum would replace Kevin Costner.
"Before the situation with Chris [Brown], Ri was getting a lot of scripts. She's been wanting to do movies for a while now," our insider reveals.
Rihanna is also said to be considering the Charlie's Angels sequel, as well as possibly starring alongside Justin Timberlake, with whom she released her hit single "Rehab."
Both projects don't sound very plausible. Do you think Rihanna should star in either movie?
UPDATE: Rihanna's rep denies these movie reports.


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The first four-door sedan Corolla – 1989 model year – rolls through final inspection at the New United Motors Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI) plant in September 1988.
In 1996, San Francisco Region General Manager Jim Lentz (left) shakes hands with NUMMI President and CEO Iwao Itoh over the 1 millionth Corolla to come off production lines at the plant. Lentz is now Toyota's chief executive officer of North America Region.
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Simran Singh Gleason works in several media. He is self-taught in photography and poetics, and is studying Chinese painting under Chinese artist Hau Pei-Jen. He is currently working with the many levels of landscape, from geology to mythology.
Art Awards
- Finalist, Cups Cafe photography contest, San Francisco, CA. June 1992.
- 2nd place, photography, Saratoga Contemporary Artists juried show, 1990
- Honorable mention, collage, graffiti, & masks show, Pacific Art League, Feb 1990
- 1st place and 2 honorable mentions, Shoreline photography contest, color landscape. May 1988
Individual shows
- "Some Landscapes and some Figure Paintings," Jumpin' Java Cafe, Mountain View, CA, April, MAy 1996
- "Cathartiae, Ecstasies, and Trance Formations," Coastal Arts League Museum, Half Moon Bay, CA, June, July 1995
- "Enfolding Perspectives and other little Internet Art Shows," The World Wide Web (http://www.art.net/~simran), April 1994 - present
- "Enfolding Perspectives," Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant, Palo Alto, CA. May, June 1994
- "Enfolding Perspectives," Coastal Arts League Museum, Half Moon Bay, CA. March 1993
- Photocollage, Downtown Library, Palo Alto, CA. June, July 1992
- Photocollage, Mountain View Public Library. Mountain View, CA. October, 1991
- "The Perspectives of Being There," Oak Creek Club, Palo Alto, CA. June, July, 1991
- "Featured Artist," Moontown Pottery Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA. Oct, Nov 1990
- "Local Color," Mountain Home Restaurant, La Honda CA. Sept 1989 - May 1990
- "Images of Trees" Body Therapy Center, Palo Alto CA. 1989
Group Shows
- University Art Center juried competition, Palo Alto, CA. September, 1993
- Coastal Arts League juried competition, Half Moon Bay, CA. May, 1993
- Saratoga Contemporary Artists juried show, Saratoga, CA. May, 1991
- Students of Hau Pei-Jen -- Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. September 1990
- Saratoga Contemporary Artists juried show, Saratoga, CA. May, 1990
- Photography, Drawing, & Sculpture -- Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. 1990
- Collage, Graffiti, & Masks -- Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. 1990
- Photography, Drawing, & Sculpture -- Pacific Art League, 1989
Exhibitions & Crafts Fairs
- King's Mountain Art Fair, Woodside, Ca.September 1990, 91, 92, 93.
- La Honda Street Fair, La Honda, CA. July, 1992.
- Grand opening, Lotus and Inkstone artist studios, La Honda, CA. August, 1991.
- Greenpeace Festival, San Gregorio, Ca, August, 1990
- Pillar Point Harbor festival, Half Moon Bay, Ca, September, 1989
- La Honda Music and Crafts festival, La Honda, Ca, September, 1989
Poetry Awards
- First place, "First rec.arts.poems international electronic poetry competition, :-)" Feb, 1991.
- Four poems included in "Fresh Oil, Loose Gravel,," an anthology of internet poets, November, 1993, Rochester, NY.
- "Chinese Painting Poems," in The Reading Edge, (Volume II, Issue 9?), July-August, 1992, Woodridge, Illinois.
- "Movement through time," "Tassajara, guest at the monastery," "Once again the fires are burning in the branches," La Honda Poets, Volume 6, La Honda, CA. 1991
- "Two Autumn Haiku," and "On Writing Haiku," in The Reading Edge, Volume II, Issue 6, November-December, 1991, Woodridge, Illinois.
- "Tassajara, Guest at the Monastery," in Views from the South Coast, June, 1991, La Honda, CA.
- Masters of Science, Computer Science, specializing in Symbolic and Heuristic Computation and Computational Linguistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. June, 1987.
- Bachelor of Science, Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. June, 1987.
- Chinese painting classes under Paul Pei-Jen Hau. Pacific Art League, Palo Alto, CA. 1989 - present.
Affiliations / Galleries
- Internet Curator, Coastal Arts League Museum, Half Moon Bay, CA.
- Juried member, Gallery 92 West, Half Moon Bay, CA
- South Coast Artists Association, Pescadero, La Honda, CA
- Juried member, Pacific Art League of Palo Alto, CA.
- Coastal Arts League, Half Moon Bay, CA
- Saratoga Contemporary Artists, Saratoga, CA.
- Lotus and Inkstone, La Honda, CA.
- La Honda Poets, La Honda, CA.
- La Honda Creations Craft Gallery, La Honda, CA.
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- Software engineer, SunPRO, a Sun Microsystems company. January, 1988 - present.
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Little Anne QCPR training demonstration
Now with QCPR feedback technology, to help instructors improve CPR training quality, efficiency, and learner engagement.
Research shows that quality bystander CPR is directly associated with positive cardiac arrest outcomes.1,2 Training helps prepare a bystander to deliver CPR, but it is a challenge for instructors to provide accurate and objective feedback on their performance.
Little Junior is now available with feedback technology, which has been shown to improve CPR skill acquisition and performance.3
The following options can be used with Little Anne QCPR to obtain real-time and summary feedback of CPR performance. The feedback interface is consistent with other Laerdal QCPR solutions, and has been proven to be intuitive and effective for performing and improving quality CPR.
Real-time objective feedback for six learners
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List of all saved results
Real-time objective feedback for the learner
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The QCPR Instructor app and QCPR Learner app cannot both be connected to the manikin at the same time.
Little Anne QCPR works with:
*While it is possible to update iPad 2 and iPod Touch 5th Generation to iOS 9, they do not work with Bluetooth Low Energy - so they will not work with the Little Anne QCPR apps.
Small and portable, SkillGuide provides a tethered "plug and play" feedback option that can be used for standalone training, or as a supplement to the apps. While the Instructor gets feedback from the Instructor app, SkillGuide provides the learner with feedback (the Learner app cannot be connected to the manikin when the Instructor app is connected).
All existing Little Junior manikins can be upgraded quickly and easily with the Little Junior QCPR Upgrade Kit.
Learn more about how QCPR measurement and feedback technology can help you improve CPR quality, training efficiency and learner engagement.
1. Link MS, Atkins DL, Passman RS, Halperin HR, Samson RA, White RD, Cudnik MT, Berg MD, Kudenchuk PJ, Kerber RE. Part 6: electrical therapies: automated external defibrillators, defibrillation, cardioversion, and pacing: 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. Circulation. 2010;122(suppl 3):S706 –S719.
2. Dine CJ, Gersh RE, Leary M, Riegel BJ, Bellini LM, Abella BS. Improving cardiopulmonary resuscitation quality and resuscitation training by combining audiovisual feedback and debriefing. Crit Care Med. 2008
3. Smart et al. Does real-time objective feedback and competition improve performance and quality in manikin CPR training – a prospective observational study from several European EMS. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine. 2015


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Last time, we talked about the benefits of building a minimum viable audience as an initial basis of a startup business.
That means:
- You're receiving enough feedback from comments, emails, social networks, and social media news sites in order to adapt and evolve your content to better serve the audience.
- You're growing your audience organically thanks to social media sharing by existing audience members and earned media; and
- You're gaining enough insight into what the audience needs to solve their problems or satisfy their desires beyond the free education you're providing.
One thing that might not have been clear is that an MVA is not a stopping point. It's actually the point that your audience starts to grow faster, while also providing valuable insight into potential product development.
If the audience gets big enough, you can make baseline revenue from online advertising. But this is only the beginning of the profit potential that an engaged audience brings.
Case Study: Digital Photography School
People in the blogging and online marketing world know Darren Rowse from Problogger. Many, however, don't realize that Problogger is an industry sideline where Darren shares what he learns from his primary business, which is the multimillion dollar web venture Digital Photography School.
DPS has 500,000 subscribers, and 5,000,000 monthly site visitors. But Darren started many years ago at the same place we all do — zero (Problogger, which is still a much smaller site, came after, not before).
As a concrete introduction to the agile content marketing process that is at the foundation of the Entreproducer approach, we're starting with an audio case study of DPS. Making his Entreproducer debut, Copyblogger's Robert Bruce interviews Darren about the start, evolution, and future of this amazing content-based business that started with a simple passion for photography.
In this concise 26:49 minute case study, you'll discover:
- How Darren built a massive, responsive audience from scratch
- How to start producing content when you don't have all the answers
- A short lesson on the value of great headlines
- Why creating content acts as a powerful product development lab
- How he adapted his content plan to grow his audience even more
- How Darren's early revenue model looked
- How his revenue model has evolved into a product model
- Why traditional book deals are a distraction to his business goals
- How to build and sell your first product online
Click here to subscribe in iTunes.
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Click here for the interview transcript.
Brian Clark is Editor-in-Chief of Entreproducer, a multimedia email publication exploring the business of independent digital media. Get more related content on Twitter.


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Upon arriving at Lexington City Schools in 2009, Rick Kriesky identified two areas as the highest priorities: the fifth-grade reading level and the graduation rate.
Upon arriving at Lexington City Schools as the new superintendent in the summer of 2009, Rick Kriesky identified two areas as the highest priorities that needed to be improved as quickly as possible — the fifth-grade reading level and the graduation rate.
As he enters his fifth school year as the leader of the district, both of those concerns have been a priority as a result of changes, some collaborative thinking and community support.
"The staff and students in Lexington City Schools have achieved amazing growth in academic and related areas over the past four years," Kriesky said. "Evidence of this growth is supported with data and documentation that attests to the significant progress. While demographic indicators (of the system's makeup) suggest less than ideal circumstances for these unprecedented gains, efforts by the teaching and administrative staffs have allowed students to build stronger relationships with adults, connect classroom instruction to real world applications and move toward increasing rigor in academics.
"The positive student growth has not been accomplished in an academic vacuum. Connected to the increase in student success is overwhelming support from community, business and governmental entities and individuals. Those who step forward from the community offer mentorship, guidance and positive reinforcement for students. The trajectory of Lexington City Schools is upward and powerful and is a result of a collective effort."
Kriesky noted that the two most important pieces are the community's input and support. He talked about the newly formed Jacket Academic Booster Club, which he says is leading the way in bringing academic accomplishments to the same level of prestige as athletic feats. Mentorship and support from Project Potential, Communities In Schools of Lexington/Davidson County, the Males Only club, Kiwanis, Rotary and Civitan clubs, churches, the Davidson County Board of Commissioners, Lexington City Council, United Way of Davidson County, along with individual businesses and supporters, contribute to the increase in student success, Kriesky said.
"These efforts add to the much-needed relationship piece that keeps students connected with their school and feeling positive about academic excellence," he said. "That's the key … what is being provided by the community groups — support and encouragement. The community is actually allowing students to grow and experience educational opportunities. Students are getting positive reinforcement.
"There's no other system that gets support as a public school system as much as ours. It is truly an amazing thing. A lot of community members are seeing that their participation can make a true difference. We are so grateful."
Reading scores improve
At the end of the 2008-09 school year, 55.4 percent of the system's fifth-graders were reading on grade level (that amount was below the state average of 68.5 percent). In the fall of 2012, the system was able to report to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction that 72.7 percent of the fifth-graders were reading on grade level (the state level at that time was 72.3 percent). Statistics for the past school year have not been released.
Kriesky noted the reading gain took place in a school district that has students who speak 18 different languages and where 32 percent of the students live in homes that do not speak English.
"This literacy explosion took place because elementary teachers throughout the school system began to speak a common instructional language and utilize a systemwide strategy for instruction, assessments and remediation," Kriesky said. "Led by system instructional personnel, building principals, school literacy specialists and teachers, literacy proficiency became the driving force for all things in the elementary schools."
To address moving in an upward direction, several changes took place during the past couple of years. Several administrators within the central office and inside the schools switched positions. In 2009, the school board approved a literacy map that emphasized the system's reading initiative.
As part of that plan a realignment of school grades took place in the 2011-12 school year. The whole district was reconfigured when South Lexington School was designated as a pre-kindergarten and kindergarten center while three other schools — Pickett, Southwest and Charles England elementary — became first through fifth grades. Initially the system had always been kindergarten through third grade at three schools while Charles England housed fourth and fifth grades.
Kriesky said data and research prompted the changes to the structure and organization of the schools. He said grade configurations, technology-based instruction, staff-driven professional development, a seamless pre-kindergarten through 12 systemwide vision and efforts to be as parent friendly as possible have allowed the school system to advance.
"Moving toward a collaborative learning culture is allowing Lexington City Schools to create a platform to focus on crucial improvements," he said. "This evolving culture is producing a higher level of accountability and a clear focus on student performance rather than on teacher-centered instruction. Adapting to a changing world is a significant part of becoming and remaining a viable public school system."
Graduation rates also improve
Before Kriesky arrived, initiatives and programs such as a graduation task force had been put in place to address the rate of students graduating from the high school. In the 2005-06 school year, the system reported 43.7 percent of its students were graduating, which was the lowest in the state.
At the end of the 2008-2009 year, the district graduation rate was 70 percent followed by 71.5 percent in 2010. The rate continued to rise to 73.8 percent in 2011 and then 78.5 percent last year.
Although the rate had not been released yet for the 2012-13 school year, Kriesky said administrators anticipate it will be 85 percent. He noted that of the 2013 graduates, 81 percent have been accepted into a two- or four-year institution while another 9 percent have chosen to go into the military.
"One of the biggest factors in the meteoric rise in the graduation rate is the relationship building that is taking place in the school system and at the high school in particular," Kriesky said. "The staff at the high school is very intentional in building genuine relationships and understanding that students sometimes make poor choices, and logical consequences must be enforced. But by allowing students to grapple with life's challenges in a nonjudgmental way, students are given respect and encouraged to mature and evolve in their personal life as well as their academic life."
To help with raising the rates, administrative changes took place, and in the fall of 2009 a freshman academy was developed at LSHS. Kriesky noted a cultural shift at the high school is evidenced by the reduction in suspensions and expulsions of 73 percent compared to 2009.
Demographic indicators pose challenges
Kriesky emphasized that the systemic changes have taken place in a school system that seems to have been a victim of the community's economic downturn prior to the recession. With more than 85 percent of the school system's students identified by the federal government as economically disadvantaged, LCS' students are defying the odds and proving that all students regardless of federal labels can achieve and succeed academically, he said.
"There are challenges that educators are connected to teaching and learning. Our students truly define those assumptions and labels that are placed on them," Kriesky said. "It's a very great deal of pride that we can say our students and teachers are not held back by some belief or label placed on them. Our teachers are doing a lot of good things. I'm very proud to be able to work alongside of a group of professionals dedicated to making a difference with our students and dedicated to changing the public's perception of what Lexington City Schools is all about."
Kriesky said the community is providing an enormous amount of support and encouragement for students through various organizations. Due to the diversity — culturally and economically — teachers in the system have to bring a unique skill set into the classroom, Kriesky said.
"It is true. You have to love education and you have to love children to be a successful teacher here in Lexington. Because of different cultures our teachers have to understand that we teach individuals," he said. "That's why there's been so much growth. All the growth and achievement is due entirely to the tireless efforts of teachers, principals and curriculum directors. Add the community support that fuels those students … it's a winning combination."
Kriesky makes quick impact
Lexington Board of Education vice chairman Tom Danze said the board was charged by the community to find a person who would fit many of their desired traits, someone who was not from here, a person who had experience and an individual who would commit to the community. He was part of the board that hired Kriesky.
"Hands down he was the leading choice," Danze said. "I'm glad he came. Our school system needed fresh ideas and a new way to do things. He chose our system because of the challenges it proposed. I think we got very lucky he decided to come here."
Danze said evidence of Kriesky's success can be measured by the academic results.
"What he put into place is moving in the right direction," he said. "He's an excellent educator. He has held to his task and endured a little bit of push back. His numbers are proving his direction is correct. It has been a challenge. Our kids are winning."
Betty Pope, another school board member and former vice chairwoman, joined the board in 2010. She said the most helpful thing Kriesky has done is reorganize the elementary grades to keep the students in one school longer. As a retired teacher of the system, Pope saw the effects of students not being in a school long enough to establish consistency. She said now the teachers have no choice but to work together because they have the students for five years. She also noted that the curriculum directors he placed in the system will help continue his vision.
"He laid the framework. He had a vision when he came in and knew where he wanted to go. That was something we needed," she said. "As a school board we haven't voted on everything he wanted. With the major things, the board has supported him. We're going to see better things happen.
"The scores are going up because of his leadership and because we have the hardest-working teachers. We have a unique population. You have to want to work with this population to meet that challenge. Seeing test scores go up and scores rise gives confidence that the teachers can do it."
Looking ahead
As the system moves forward, Kriesky said, it will continue to see the evolution of instructional technology. He noted the 1 to 1 laptop initiative that begin two years ago will evolve into a "bring your own device" program for those who can afford it with the system continuing to provide devices for those who cannot. Kriesky also said technology will open more lines of communication between parents and schools on student work, discipline and attendance for example.
He also touched on teachers understanding limitations with initiatives such as the laptop effort. With the system developing an "Innovative 100" program, teachers will be awarded financially for successful lessons that are verified through student data and connect those lessons with a mini professional development session for peer teachers.
"The school system will continue to develop and implement a coherent systemwide strategy to support teaching and learning in all classrooms," Kriesky said. "Large-scale instructional improvement will continue to evolve as collaborative learning cultures are emphasized. Respectful and positive relationships with students will continue to be embedded within the system's culture. Rigorous curriculum maps and pacing guides will continue to be produced by local teacher leaders. The school system will move forward in encouraging teachers to 'think out of the box' in creating lessons that will make classroom learning relevant for students. Finally, quality instructional coaching and authentic accountability for student learning will continue to be ramped up to meet the ever-changing needs of the Lexington students."
A major campaign kicked off in the fall of 2011 where the system set a goal for 2016 known as 90-90-0. Under that plan the district plans to have a 90 percent graduation rate, with 90 percent of those students being accepted into a two- or four-year college/university, and then have 0 percent of them having to take remedial courses at the post-secondary schools.
Kriesky said the campaign is doable, and he wants to graduate as many students as possible. The only limits the students have are those the system places on them, he said. He admitted like all school systems, the district does make mistakes and is not perfect, however it is on the way to reaching its goal.
"The overarching philosophy that has contributed to the amazing growth and accomplishments of the students is one of high expectations for all, staff and students alike," he said. "It is not acceptable to be satisfied with consistent low performance. All students can learn. It is up to the adults to provide the platform for student success. It is sad to hear naysayers and those who speak about things they do not know unwittingly criticize Lexington City Schools and student successes. But ignorant negativity based on personal biases will not tarnish the accomplishments of the students and the staff."
He said the hardest thing, like any other public school system, is having traditions and a culture within itself.
"To change the way we do business and the way we teach changes the culture," he said. "It takes time. It's so amazing to me there's been a positive tremendous change during everything. Public schools across North Carolina and the country are criticized tremendously. If someone wants to come see how public schools can work and how students can make magnificent growth … they need to come sit in some classes at Lexington City Schools. We have areas we will continue to work on. We are far from where we need to be. Our growth and student achievement has far exceeded what most people would have expected."
Deneesha Edwards can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 213, or at email@example.com.


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Have I told you about the time I shook Harrison Ford's hand?
I didn't get into the business of professional geekery to meet my childhood idols. I do this because I love to be moved by great stories, great performances and great direction. And when I met Ford on the set of Ender's Game, I got to combine the two-- wandering through the set was one big geeky dream come true even before Ford, who plays the military leader Colonel Graff, came over to say hello. As a child of the 80s and a geek who's never been particularly cool by conventional or unconventional standards, Harrison Ford is about as iconic as it gets, and I spent the encounter trying to remember to breathe and act professional.
Ford wasn't up for speaking on the record to the members of the press who were on set that day, but he was very polite and extremely soft-spoken, So much so that you could have heard a pin drop in the room during our brief chat. My interactions with the man consisted mainly of a hand-shake, whatever attempt at eye contact I was able to make, and a very calm, all-too-brief discussion about the movie, before he had to return to set. And then I exhaled.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's go back to where we left off in Part 1, visiting the Battle School led by Ford's character Graff, who's tasked with looking after the gifted children who've been selected to attend a space-set Battle School to train for the anticipated second war against an alien race called the Formics. Graff forms a bond with the story's protagonist, Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), an especially gifted and compassionate child Graff believes could be the one to lead humanity to victory.
We didn't exactly get to enroll in Battle School, but it felt like it when it came time for lunch, sitting down at our long cafeteria table just as all the kids from the film were sitting down at theirs. All of them were dressed in their costumes - blue cotton-looking jumpsuits, I believe - and wearing smocks to keep them from getting dirty while they ate. One of the kids forgot his smock and when someone came over to get him into one, he quickly apologized for starting to eat without it, noting that he forgot he was wearing it because the costume's so comfortable. From what the kids had to say about the costumes, this probably wouldn't have happened if they were wearing the flash suits, as it sounds like those were pretty uncomfortable to wear.
The flash suits are the outfits the kids wear when they're in the Zero Gravity Battle Room. In the book the Battle Room is where the various armies face off by shooting each other with harmless flash guns that freeze their suits, rendering them paralyzed within the game, leaving them to float around in zero gravity. Butterfield was polite in describing the uncomfortable suits, saying, "They're not really comfortable, actually. And the flash suits... they look incredible, but really they're quite, well, they're comfortable to a limit. For the first 15 minutes you're wearing them, they're cool, but then they get hot."


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Okay, so your are implying that with MS's departure, there are no more s/ls for SC?
It's more like, I wouldn't spit on her if she were on fire. She's ditzier than Paris Hilton on speed. Without Phyllis, she's useless!
And yet, you are in this thread. I love it.
Duh, of course I am "in this thread." It has Phyllis name in the subtitle. Why wouldn't I NOT be in it?
Oh, i thought it was a Sharon Thread.
~) Seriously!?! That's it! Welp, that's wonderful! I'm glad you had a thought. You should get a blue ribbon for that. Anyway...
Phyllis' fabulously long-legged, Jessica Rabbit self is going to give one hell of a final curtain call, come Monday, and I cannot wait to see her kick that ditzy-twit to the curb. Go Phyllis! I'm gonna miss her! Oh well!
Hey, i'm in this thread to honour a great pairing, sorry if i have offended you.


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Quiet Loner is in fact the hugely talented Matt Hill who has released a series of excellent albums the latest of which, The Greedy Magicians is a passionate, politically charged suite of songs that has already got many incredible reviews.
Here is his list of other Quiet Loners
"He was a quiet loner who kept himself to himself". So goes the media news reports as they explain the latest serial killer or lone gunman rampage, almost as if a withdrawal from society was reason enough to explain the murder and violence.
As a species we're sociable creatures, so what about the ones amongst us who go their own way and won't join in the party games? As the news reports show us, loners are feared, we are suspicious of them and we expect the worst from them. As a society we seem to find it hard to accept that someone might not want to belong.
In the last 30 years as we increase our knowledge of Autistic spectrum disorders like Aspergers Syndrome we offer up a medical model for some of the character traits and social awkwardness we often associate with loners. As if we fear it so much it is now something that needs to be "cured".
Yet we also admire our loners. Author Tom Robbins thought them brave, he said "Courage is required to reject the secure blessings of society, in order to woo the unpredictable ecstasies of the solitary soul". Loners say what the rest of us dare not to say. Their outsider status allows them to think the unthinkable and say the unsayable. Or it would do if they would only come out of their bedsits and talk to us.
Here are my top ten loners
Shamen (historical)
In cultures across the world from the frozen wastes of the Arctic circle, to the deserts of central Australia, to the lush rainforests of the Amazon, Shamen were the original outsiders. Their journeys to otherworlds, through the use of psychoactive plants, and their contact and dialogue with the ancestral dead, placed them apart yet also at the heart of those societies. They were relied on for advice, counsel and for healing the sick. These early loners were essential: Respected, feared and revered.
Bill Hicks (1961-1994)
American comedian Bill Hicks was one of the 20th century's greatest artists. As a jobbing stand-up Hicks travelled relentlessly playing in small clubs to audiences that mostly failed to understand him. Increasingly Hicks came to see himself as an old Wild West gunslinger riding into town tackling fear and injustice and blowing away the bad guys. Hicks the loner railed against mainstream culture for it's superficiality, mediocrity and banality, seeing these traits as oppressive tools of the ruling class designed to keep people stupid and apathetic.
Mark David Chapman (b 1955)
Having just fatally shot John Lennon and seemingly unaware of what he'd done Mark David Chapman calmly sat down on the pavement and staring reading his copy of Catcher in the Rye, patiently waiting for the police to arrive. And so Chapman became the archetypal "quiet loner" of the media. He didn't fit in, we shunned him so he got bitter and killed our hero to spite us. The truth of what really happened to Chapman is a little more complex and remains elusive.
Greta Garbo (1905-1990)
According to a very knowledgeable friend of mine, patriarchy demands that women cannot be loners. The lone woman is feared as a witch or condemned as sexually predatory. No surprise then that the classic loner type is usually male. Yet occasionally there is a woman who bucks that trend. Swedish actress Greta Garbo was one. She is remembered for her famous line "I want to be alone" – so unusual and beguiling it became as famous as she was. Almost as soon after her career took off, Garbo became known as a recluse. And that mystery only made her more desirable. Throughout her lifetime she refused to do press interviews, she never signed autographs, she didn't go to social functions and she never answered fan mail. The beautiful loner intrigues us.
James Bond (fictional)
Ian Fleming's creation is a man who works alone. He has very little human contact outside of his work. He shuns company, seeks women purely for sex and is generally contemptuous of human beings. This makes him a great killer, and that's what James Bond is – a hired killer. Yet despite his loner status we see rare glimpses of his humanity – his friendship with Felix Leiter, his admiration for M, and briefly his love for Tracy his wife. When Tracy is killed he becomes the loner again. Detached, cold and driven by his desire to avenge his wife's death.
Brian Wilson (b 1942)
Brian Wilson is the classic artistic loner genius. At the height of the Beach Boys' fame in the sixties he refused to go on tour and had to be replaced by Glen Campbell. Increasingly paranoid and frightened by the world, Brian retreated to the studio where he wrote and recorded his masterpiece "Pet Sounds". By the next album "Smile" in 1967 he had retreated even further – to a sandpit under his piano. He didn't come out until the 1990s.
Travis Bickle (fictional)
Travis Bickle is Robert De Niro's lead character in Martin Scorcese's 1976 film Taxi Driver. One of cinema's most iconic characters, Bickle is a loner. A former Marine who served in Vietnam, Bickle has problems fitting back in to society. He is socially inept, and doesn't have any friends. He takes a job as a night time taxi driver in dangerous neighborhoods where his customers are pimps, drug addicts, and thieves. He is disgusted by them, and begins fantasising about "cleansing" such "filth" from the streets. It can only end in tears.
Nick Drake (1948-1974)
Singer Nick Drake died tragically young after battling with depression for years. He didn't tour much, he recorded very little and towards the end of his life retreated to his childhood bedroom at his parents home. And so Drake is often portrayed as a loner. His music has a wistful sad and indeed lonely quality to it. Yet friends speak of a gregarious and outgoing young man who was popular and sociable at school. Behind every loner cliché is a more complicated story.
Scott Walker (b.1943)
After a critical peak in the late sixties by the mid-seventies Scott Walker was back in caberet playing Working Men's Clubs in the North of England. Then after 1978's Nite Flights album he began a slow retreat into a period that saw him release only three albums over the next thirty years and earn himself a reputation as a Garbo-esque reclusive loner. More recently we have seen that this wasn't quite what it seemed and that Walker is actually quite a sociable and funny man driven by his art but dismissive of mainstream pop culture.
Veronia Sawyer (fictional)
Portrayed by Winona Ryder in the 1989 film Heathers, Veronica Sawyer is your classic misunderstood teenager. She doesn't fit in at a school where a powerful clique called "the Heathers" top the social pile. When she meets Christian Slater's character J.D. she unwittingly gets embroiled in a spate of killings that spirals out of control and that only she can stop. Her loner status is assured when having witnessed Slater blow himself up with a suicide bomber belt, she walks to his smouldering remains and lights her cigarette on the flames and walks away alone.
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Foxwoods race book manager has galloping good luck with Kentucky Derby bet
As the long-time manager of Foxwoods Resort Casino's race book, Nancy Zirofsky knows a thing or two about the horses.
In fact, Saturday's 139th Kentucky Derby "played out as I envisioned," Zirofsky said Monday, having won $28,542 on a bet she placed in advance of the race at Mohegan Sun's race book. (Casino employees are prohibited from gambling where they work.)
Zirofsky, of North Franklin, won a superfecta, in which she picked the race's first four finishers. She "boxed" a number of possible outcomes, investing $32 on the bet. She picked Orb, the favorite, to win; covered all possible second-place finishers; and picked Revolutionary and Normandy Invasion to finish third and fourth, which they did. She would have won if they'd finished in reverse order, too.
In a straight superfecta, a bettor must pick the exact order of the first four finishers.
"I handicapped the race last Wednesday night," Zirofsky said. "I loved Orb ever since he won the Fountain of Youth Stakes (in February). After seeing Normandy Invasion in the Wood Memorial I knew he figured to like the distance at Churchill Downs. Revolutionary drew my attention, too, especially when they picked up (jockey) Calvin Borel. He's a three-time Derby winner."
Hoping for a long shot to finish second, Zirofsky got her wish when Golden Soul, whose odds were 34-1, placed.
Zirofsky said she never played a superfecta before, preferring trifectas instead. She played a few of those on Derby Day, too.
The betting's fun, she said, but it's the sport of horse racing she loves.
"It's a great game, a great sport," she said. "The equine and human athletes are both amazing. The sheer beauty of the sport is what attracts most players."
Zirofsky started playing the horses before she met her husband, Mark, and they've enjoyed the pastime together during their 34-year marriage.
"I've seen a considerable increase in the number of women in the sport in my 18 years at Foxwoods," she said. "As jockeys, owners, trainers, race book managers. ... And players, too."


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20.109(F12) Pre-Proposal: Engineering Viral Magnetic Nanoparticles for Magnetic Hyperthermic Cancer Therapy
Coyin Oh & Joanna Yeh
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Title of Proposed Project
20.109(F12) Pre-Proposal: Engineering viral magnetic nanoparticles for magnetic hyperthermic cancer therapy
Project Summary
Magnetic hyperthermia is an attractive cancer therapy due to its specificity and low toxicity to surrounding healthy tissue. Currently, this treatment struggles with low heat generation due to low local concentration of magnetic nanoparticles around the tumor site. The proposed study would investigate complexes composed of various phages and magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) to increase the local concentration and hence the efficacy of magnetic hyperthermia.
The field of magnetic hyperthermia has attracted a lot of attention in the past thirty years as an alternative cancer therapy method. Magnetic hyperthermia proposes the placement of magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) in tumor cells under an alternating magnetic field. Nanoparticles often have unique physical and chemical properties that can be varied based on size and shape. MNPs are no different; these nanoparticles are superparamagnetic, gaining magnetic properties in the presence of a magnetic field. As the direction of the magnetic field alternates, MNPs undergo magnetic hysteresis losses that are dissipated to local surroundings as thermal energy. Targeted sites usually are heated to temperatures between 42 and 45 C to cause cell damage or death. A main challenge to this method is the localization of MNPs to targeted tumor cells. It is possible for MNPs to circulate through the bloodstream and not reach the intended targeted sites. In addition, they at times are internalized and absorbed by the endoplasmic reticulum system of the cells. This low efficiency of MNP transport calls for a higher applied dosage of MNPs. How can we concentrate MNPs within tumor cells to produce sufficient heat for complete cell apoptosis?
- A.J. Giustini, A.A. Petryk, S.M. Cassim, J.A. Tate, I. Baker, P.J. Hoopes. Magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia in cancer treatment. Nano LIFE 2010; 01: 17.
- D. Ghosh, Y. Lee, S. Thomas, A. G. Kohli, D. S. Yun, A. M. Belcher, K. A. Kelly. M13-templated magnetic nanoparticles for targeted in vivo imaging of prostate cancer. Nat. Nanotechnol. 2012; 7 (10): 677–82.
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Your idea
Our proposed project aims to use viral magnetic nanoparticles to increase the efficacy of magnetic hyperthermia. Viral MNP complexes consist of MNPs attached to viruses that have minimal harmful effects to humans. While the medical applications of viral MNPs has been studied for over a decade now, their functions have been mostly limited to in vivo MRI imaging and targeted gene delivery. Using viral MNPs, we are essentially providing a scaffold for the binding of MNP, and using our virus as a vehicle to transport concentrated MNPs to target sites. This way, we are reducing the number of MNPs that are "wasted" from getting internalized or circulated in the bloodstream without arriving at the appropriate target sites. Our approach can potentially increase the concentration of MNPs in targeted tumor cells, thereby achieving the level of heat necessary for effective cell apoptosis yet at the same time, lowering the minimum MNP dosage required for the treatment.
The hypothesis is our engineered viral MNPs can increase the current efficacy of magnetic hypothermia. This will be measured in terms of tumor cell death per mass of MNPs used. Our general preliminary approach involves five stages:
Stage 1: Virus Hunt
- We need to investigate how our selected virus (which is most likely one of the following: TMV, M13, CCMV, CPMV, BMV or TPMV) interacts with mammalian cells in vivo.
Stage 2: Screening for MNP binding site on virus
- We will start by using Fe3O4 as our MNP of interest. With this, we need to do a protein coat screen of the selected virus for a protein coat that can bind with our MNP.
Stage 3: Screening for tumor-specific sequence binding site on virus
- We need to do a protein coat or RNA screen of the virus for a region that can bind with a tumor-specific peptide sequence. If necessary, we might need to screen tumors for unique short sequences on their cell surfaces.
Stage 4: Virus engineering
- We can now engineer wild-type viruses using specific protein coats or RNA regions isolated in Stage 2 and 3 to produce the viral MNP of interest.
Stage 5: in vivo testing
- Do an in vivo experiment by injecting our carefully engineered viral MNPs into the circulatory system of mice that developed tumors. By subjecting these mice to an alternating magnetic field under standard hyperthermia conditions, and measure the change in tumor size afterwards, we can quantify the efficacy of using viral MNPs in magnetic hypothermia.


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Jefferson County Commissioners issued a proclamation naming Monday, March 17, Kicks Butts Day in Jefferson County to raise awareness and acknowledge activism by local youth to stand up and speak out against tobacco use.
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Grizzlies promote Dave Joerger to replace Hollins
Jun. 27, 2013
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Dave Joerger's road through professional basketball's minor leagues has finally landed him in an NBA head coaching seat.
His first job is at a familiar spot, with a team he has been a part of for six seasons.
Joerger (YAY-gehr) was introduced as coach of the Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday after a season in which they won a franchise-best 56 games but split with coach Lionel Hollins.
"I am ready for this opportunity," Joerger said. "I have won in the past. I know how to win. We're going to win."
Joerger, 39, was a successful head coach in the minor leagues and was the lead assistant under Hollins the last two seasons. He has been with the team six seasons.
The Grizzlies are coming off a Western Conference finals appearance, but there was a disconnect between Hollins and the new ownership group led by Robert Pera. Hollins' contract wasn't renewed despite a 196-155 record since becoming coach of the Grizzlies in January 2009.
"Lionel Hollins did some great things for this organization. ... Now we turn the page to the Dave Joerger era," said Jason Levien, the Grizzlies chief executive officer and managing partner.
Terms of Joerger's contract weren't released, but The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis has reported Joerger signed a four-year deal with a starting salary of about $1.5 million.
"This is a blue-collar town, and I'm a blue-collar guy," Joerger said. "I came up the hard way. I came up through the minor leagues."
Joerger's name had been mentioned as the heir apparent to Hollins even as ownership and the former Grizzlies coach were trying to patch things up. On June 10, team leaders decided they had reached an impasse with Hollins and announced they wouldn't keep him.
"This is something I've been dreaming about for a long time," Joerger said. "This is something I've been preparing for for a long time. This is Lionel's job. When it wasn't Lionel's job, then I'm interested in coaching this team and leading this team. When that happened, then we started talking and going forward. The last couple of days, it went really fast."
The Grizzlies also interviewed George Karl, the NBA coach of the year before being fired by Denver, Chicago Bulls assistant Ed Pinckney and former Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry.
Through it all, Joerger's name remained the one most mentioned. Levien said he was "positively inclined" toward Joerger as the coaching search began, but they had never talked about specific direction or style.
"I thought it gave us an opportunity to spend real serious time in evaluating who the other options were," Levien said. "There aren't too many times you get a first-time NBA head coach who has won professional basketball championships as much as Dave has."
Joerger won an International Basketball Association title and two Continental Basketball Association crowns with the Dakota Wizards. A third CBA championship came as coach of the Sioux Falls Skyforce in 2005. He won a fifth minor league championship in 2007 with the Wizards after they had moved to the NBA Development League.
Joerger was the Grizzlies' lead assistant coach this season and helped coordinate a defense that allowed a league-low 89.3 points per game. His experience with the team also could help the Grizzlies have a smooth transition from the Hollins era.
The dismissal of Hollins wasn't popular in many segments of the Grizzlies fan base. While Hollins had his detractors, his success made the departure tough to accept in the community, which has no other professional franchise.
"I think coming off the success we had at the end of the season here in May and the excitement around the team was palpable," Levien said. "Certainly making changes, making adjustments is never easy. I think there is going to be an important time now for people to get to know Dave, to get to know our vision for the team as an organization, where we want to take this team and its role in the community. ... That said, I think also we're going to soothe a lot of people when we start winning basketball games. We can't do that until Oct. 31 or so."
Joerger said his style will be a faster pace than in the past, but not at the expense of the Grizzlies' defensive reputation. He said the Grizzlies will maintain a grit-grind attitude and remain one of the most physical team in the league. Joerger said the faster pace wouldn't mean "vomit basketball" in which shots are taken in the first 5 seconds of the shot clock.
"I think that would be silly regarding the fact we have two All-Stars playing the power forward and center position," Joerger said referring to Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol. "But by opening up the floor, moving the basketball, by spreading the floor a little bit, they are going to have more room to work.
"Other teams aren't going to have nine dudes in the paint when Zach's trying to back down and go to work. ... I like 3-pointers, but I love layups and I love free throws."


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King County Sheriff's detectives say they believe 26-year-old Michael (Chad) Boysen may be seeking to obtain firearms because he has been searching for gun shows on the Internet.
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HAGART wrote:I'm off on a tangent but I wanted to get my facts straight. Plus it's fun to push a few of nesgirl's buttons to get a reaction.
You're Evil.... LOL
HAGART wrote:I'm off on a tangent but I wanted to get my facts straight. Plus it's fun to push a few of nesgirl's buttons to get a reaction.
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Let me give you a few facts: females are NOT squeaky toys. Nor are we teddy bears. So don't treat us like that. We deserve to be treated as humans. We desire to be treated as equals. We may be of a different shape than you, but we are still every bit as human as you are. And enough of this romance BS nonsense, I think it is about time for females to live in society as platonic equals, and for personal space to be realized.
Oh and I usually tell others I establish anti-romance in my dreams and I sometimes have the characters get themselves fixed in my Lucid Dreams. My aromantic sister supports me and actually listens, saying that platonic friends are always better, whereas most other people insult me for that.
nesgirl wrote:Look it isn't just him being inconsiderate (and I am sure he has had Lucid Dreams about treating ME like a doll), females are treated as inferior or as toys a lot by the opposite gender, and it really needs to stop.
nesgirl wrote:Well just so any guy knows this, females are getting a lot smarter and many are taking self defense classes or are learning how to fight somehow. So invading their space would come at a very serious cost if you tried to do so.
HAGART wrote:I admit I did a Jedi Mind Trick. I treat nesgirl like a cousin or a sister I never had and sometimes it's fun to poke you with a stick to get a reaction. I'm evil. I know it.
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Al-Manure is in Canada
Yes, the Hezbollah TV station, Al-Manure, is in Canada. Over here, it's called CBC. Last night, I saw two features on Hezbollah that made me want to throw out my television. The first interviewed a Lebanese about the futility of the Israelis fighting Hezbollah. Of course, no one from the Israeli side was interviewed. The second feature was on the charitable works of Hezbollah....gee, it made me want to cry.
I don't doubt they do some good work - afterall Hitler ran charities too.
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Business Broadband News: Global broadband use is on the rise
The Rise of Global Broadband
It's no secret that the use of the internet is increasing on a daily basis, you would have to be living under a rock, in a very deep cave, on the dark side of the moon not to notice.
Companies are using superfast Business Broadband in a bid to compete for their piece of the global market, and help improve their overall efficiency. Not to mention the amount of residential users now logging on to social media and other online services. A platform which has grown exponentially in recent times, and with that the need for increased broadband usage, speed and demand.
ABI Research has released a study that shows that several types of broadband internet connection were on the rise in 2011, with subscription numbers and service revenue both having grown significantly in the 12 month period.
The Broadband Research Analyst Khin Sandi Lynn at ABI, stated; "Fibre broadband adoption has grown rapidly over the past years. Consumers are becoming increasingly reliant on a number of data-intensive services such as high-definition online video services, internet protocol television and online gaming."
Certainly, business users are able to use services VoIP and conference calls much more effectively with these less restricting access speeds available to their business. One can also imagine that such increases in speed will increase any online workforce's productivity. Reducing the waiting time for updates and critical file transfers, from clients, co workers and business partners.
It has been said that the constantly growing demand has convinced a large majority of of large broadband providers to release radical upgrades to their services. In the UK this is certainly very clear to see, where British Telecom, (BT) announced it would be upgrading certain parts of the country with connection speeds of up to 300 Megabits per second (Mbps), and Virgin Media have made 100 Mbps available to 10 million potential users.
ABI added that the increase in broadband speed is set to continue, and have a positive impact on the industry over the years to come. Certainly it seems obvious when it is predicted the fixed broadband sector will generate revenue of $191 billion (£121 billion) in 2012 and this is expected to increase to $217 billion by 2016.


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Alchip Technologies, Inc. advances its SoC ASIC services with ARM926EJ-S processor
CAMBRIDGE, UK – Apr. 8, 2008 – Alchip Technologies, Inc. and ARM [(LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)] today announced that Alchip has licensed the ARM926EJ-S™ processor, Fabric IP and ARM® Physical IP to advance system-on-chip (SoC) design solutions to its customers worldwide.
Alchip is a leading open foundry ASIC provider dedicated to offering total solutions ranging from SoC design services to high-volume mass production. The licensing agreement will enhance Alchip's total ASIC solutions to its customers by providing feature-rich functionality in the smallest footprint and fast time-to-market silicon turnkey solutions to serve high-end consumer electronics such as mobile handsets, portable gaming, and consumer devices.
"Customers trust Alchip to provide them with the most competitive ASIC solution and smallest die size. We have heard and responded to our customers' need for a more power and area efficient ARM926EJ-S processor," said Jim Bailey, COO of Alchip. "With a perfect record of first-silicon success, our customers rely on us for their ASIC needs. Through ARM's leading-edge technology, and our fast time-to-market advantages, Alchip enables customers to provide world-leading solutions for feature-rich applications."
"By taking advantage of ARM Processor IP, Fabric IP and Physical IP, Alchip customers will not only enjoy the widely-supported ARM ecosystem, but also be able to maximize the efficiency of their low-power SoC designs," said Allen Wu, VP Sales, ARM China. "Alchip is empowering its customers with time-to-market advantages to bring innovative ARM Powered® products to market."
President and CEO of Alchip, Kinying Kwan, also expressed, "Utilizing the most advanced technologies, ARM solutions lessen difficulties when confronting complex SoC nanometer designs. As a trusted silicon Partner, it is Alchip's continued commitment to support our customers in realizing their innovations and achieving success. This technical integration extends our fundamental values to provide our customers with the best in class silicon solutions."
"Our Partners have just shipped the 10 billionth ARM processor. Since its inception in 1990, ARM has grown from a CPU company to a solution provider. Our offering includes processors, graphics processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals, software and development tools, as well as analog functions and high-speed connectivity products," said Tudor Brown, COO, ARM. "Our partnership with Alchip will enable us to serve those customers who will help to accelerate the shipment of the next 10 billion processors."
About Alchip Technologies Inc.
Alchip Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is a provider of silicon design and manufacturing services for companies developing complex and high-volume system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Founded in 2002 by semiconductor veterans from Silicon Valley and Japan, Alchip provides services intended to enable customers to cost-effectively address increasing technological complexity of silicon design and the need to reduce time to market. Alchip targets customers that address rapidly growing and high-volume end markets, such as entertainment devices, mobile phones, HDTV, communications equipment, computers and other consumer electronic products. Alchip has provided design services on numerous complex SoC devices at 130nm, 90nm and 65nm advanced process technologies. Alchip has branch offices in the U.S. (Santa Clara, CA), Japan (Shin-Yokohama), China (Shanghai), and Taiwan (Hsinchu). Additional information about Alchip is available at http://www.alchip.com.
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ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's comprehensive product offering includes 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, graphics processors, digital libraries, embedded memories, peripherals, software and development tools, as well as analog functions and high-speed connectivity products. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support and maintenance, and the company's broad Partner community, they provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
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DUBOIS—Northeast Dubois scored a run in the bottom of the seventh inning to beat Perry Central 7-6 in the first round of the Northeast Dubois baseball classic Saturday.
Perry Central scored three runs in the top of the seventh to tie the game 6-6.
But in the bottom of the seventh the Jeeps got a leadoff single. An error on a sacrifice bunt and an intentional walk to Cameron Riecker, who had hit two home runs in the game, loaded the bases.
The next batter singled home the winning run.
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Bagels may contain metal bits, baker says
Publix issues bagel recall
Bagels may contain metal bits, baker says
ORLANDO, Fla. —
If a bagel is part of your morning routine, Publix Supermarkets representatives say you should check the packaging.
Bimbo Bakeries is recalling several brand names because of possible metal bits that may have affected several batches of bagels.
Bimbo bakes Thomas, Publix, Weight Watchers and Sara Lee bagels. Several varieties from each brand are included in the recall.
Publix issued a detailed list of all the products that are part of the recall. For the full list, visit Publix.com.
Customers who have purchased these bagels can bring them back to any Publix store for a full refund. Anyone with questions can call 1-800-984-0989.
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