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Happy Friday, everyone! It's a relaxing day for me. There is a gentle rain falling and I have lots of work to do in my studio. I am categorizing crystals and finishing a new design.
Earlier this morning, I just couldn't resist grabbing my camera to document some of the serenity in my sleepy and very thirsty garden. Here in the drought-stricken South Carolina Upstate, our lakes have been way below normal. Our rainfall level has been 20 inches below normal for months. An unnamed storm made landfall on the Carolina coast last evening and pushed north-westward, bringing gusty winds to my neighborhood that took down some branches, nothing major. An absolutely glowing line of yellow marigolds that frame my tomato and herb garden met my eyes as I stepped outside. It is so lovely to finally have some rain to speak of. Folks around here have taken to calling this part of the country The Desert Southeast. I do hope the birds and critters are loving this as much as I am. If I were Diana Krall, I'd sing The Gentle Rain. Oh, what the heck, I'm gonna do it anyway. Have a great day and a wonderful weekend!


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Tripwire VIA Event Integration Framework and VIA HyperLogging Solution Delivers Actionable Security Information to Protect Critical Data
Tripwire VIA Event Integration Framework and VIA HyperLogging Solution Delivers Actionable Security Information to Protect Critical Data
PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwire - Jun 22, 2011) - Tripwire, the global leader of IT security and compliance automation solutions, today announced the first two technology releases as part of its controls-based data protection strategy. These releases support Tripwire's mission to integrate critical controls focused on business relevance, risk and threat intelligence.
Cyber attacks are increasing. Breaches, if discovered, go undetected for months as evidenced by the Verizon Business Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR). Exploits are increasingly focused at where the actual data resides -- at the file, database and web application servers -- not at the perimeter where organizations have historically focused their security investment. As organizations are exposed to increasingly complex threats, IT security controls become critical to protecting and monitoring their assets. The difficulty lies in ensuring that these controls provide continuous protection, unifying the data to provide risk intelligence for decision making, and then deriving security benefits from them in a cost-effective way. The Tripwire VIA™ strategy is to unify and automate security controls to ensure data protection is continuous in order to provide the best possible defense against today's threats.
Security organizations tend to focus on investments on the perimeter with the intent of creating a hard, impenetrable shell around the network. Tripwire advocates organizations take a multi-layered approach with an emphasis on where the sensitive data actually resides, and on protecting this valuable data first. Tripwire offers several critical controls today including security configuration management, file integrity monitoring, and log management -- three of the top 20 SANS Critical Controls for effective cyber defense.
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SIEM solutions typically detect anomalies in the network but have no context of strong or weak system states. Security professionals then spend hours sifting through reams of insignificant events in the hopes of finding truly malicious activity. The Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report details a surprising fact. While 80% of breaches were captured within the logs, none of them were detected by the SIEM -- a result not of the effectiveness of the tool, but the truly manual nature of sifting through millions of correlated events with no context of good or bad state. Furthermore, 86% of breaches in the Verizon DBIR were detected by 3rd parties, not by the organizations being breached. The Tripwire VIA Event Integration Framework dramatically improves the correlation processes of Tripwire Log Center® as well as other SIEM solutions, by supplying the critical context needed to identify malicious activity -- Tripwire Enterprise's best-of-breed configuration state and file change information. While standalone logging tools are blind to both change details and configuration compliance, the VIA Event Integration Framework can provide this critical security intelligence to SIEM's in an accessible, consumable way that can be rapidly implemented without the need for costly customization.
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On April 20, one of the most popular and called-for Russian showbiz actresses, Vera Brezhneva, will perform on the Fesco Hall stage.
Having started her career in the well-known band 'VIA Gra,' Vera managed to achieve recognition and popularity as a solo singer. Now, she has one solo album and many singles to her name. Her songs are on the top of CIS musical charts.
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von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a naturally collapsed protein that participates in primary haemostasis and coagulation events. The clotting process is triggered by the adsorption and conformational changes of the plasma VWFs localized to the collagen fibres found near the site of injury. We develop coarse-grained models to simulate the adsorption dynamics of VWF flowing near the adhesive collagen fibres at different shear rates and investigate the effect of factors such as interaction and cooperativity of VWFs on the success of adsorption events. The adsorption probability of a flowing VWF confined to the receptor field is enhanced when it encounters an adhered VWF in proximity to the collagen receptors. This enhancement is observed within a wide range of shear rates and is mostly controlled by the attractive van der Waals interactions rather than the hydrodynamic interactions among VWF monomers. The cooperativity between the VWFs acts as an effective mechanism for enhancing VWF adsorption to the collagen fibres. Additionally, this implies that the adsorption of such molecules is nonlinearly dependent on the density of flowing VWFs. These findings are important for studies of primary haemostasis as well as general adsorption dynamics processes in polymer physics.
1. Introduction
von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a large multimeric glycoprotein that plays a vital role in coagulation and haemostasis [1,2]. Upon rupture of vascular walls, the plasma VWFs, whose monomers contain the modular domains of D′-D3-A1-A2-A3-D4-B1-B2-B3-C1-C2-CK [2], adhere to the subendothelial collagen fibres I and II via their A3 binding domains. The molecular structure of VWF is then stretched out, consequently leading to exposure of their A1 binding sites to the platelets' GPIbα receptors as shown in figure 1 [1–6]. The coagulation process further involves a direct attachment of platelet receptors to collagen fibres. However, it has been observed that such platelet–collagen interactions cannot withstand the hydrodynamic stresses found in shear rates above 1500 s−1 [1]. Hence, the success of thrombosis relies on the presence of VWF such that, on the one hand, its A3 binding sites interact with the collagen fibres and, on the other hand, its A1 domains interact with the platelets' GPIbα receptors (figure 1). This relies on adsorption of VWF through interactions of VWF's A3 binding sites to the collagen fibres and afterward, the integrin–RGD interactions between the VWF's A1 domains and the platelet's GPIbα receptors [1]. In the proximity of the vessel wall surface, VWF experiences a hydrodynamic lift force that keeps it away from the receptor field [7]. However, this wall-repulsive force could be overcome by hydrodynamic and attractive interactions between VWF molecules such that the adsorbed VWF assists the flowing VWF to approach the receptor field. The interplay between the hydrodynamic lift force and the attractive intermolecular forces plays an important role in the adsorption process of such biopolymers and the subsequent coagulation process.
The dynamics of VWF and self-associated polymers in the flow has received great attention in recent years [8–14]. It has been observed that the stretching length of a single molecule of VWF, which naturally has a globular conformation, increases drastically when exposed to shear rates greater than 5000 s−1 [15]. Such a transition in the structure of VWF from the globular to the stretched conformations enables the exposure of more binding sites for the collagen receptors, increasing VWF adsorption likelihood under a high shear rate [15,16]. Beside this complex behaviour at the single-molecule level, VWFs exhibit interesting cooperative effects through formation of reversible structures in colloidal suspensions when the shear rate varies [8,17]. Furthermore, such a cooperation, which is originated from the interactions as well as the self-association capabilities of the VWF monomers, has been observed in the concentrated system of VWFs under high shear rates by the creation of a web-like network on collagen-coated substrates [9,15].
Adhesion dynamics of a single VWF molecule on a collagen surface have been recently studied using computational models that simulated the interaction of the A3-domains of VWF with collagen receptors [16]. In this study, we develop models of VWF incorporating specific interactions among monomers of VWF and the collagen receptors, investigating the adsorption dynamics of a flowing VWF in proximity to an adhered VWF molecule. The cooperation between VWFs is shown to increase the adsorption probability.
Our results are significant because we show unprecedentedly that during the early stages of primary homeostasis, the adsorbed VWF molecule cooperates with the marginated flowing VWF to improve its adsorption probability. This cooperation is observed in a wide range of shear rates. Interestingly, in high shear rate regimes, in contrast to the hydrodynamic lift force keeping the flowing VWF away from the adsorbed VWF molecules, the stretched conformations of both molecules, i.e. the VWF adsorbed to the surface and the one flowing, increases the attractive intermolecular interactions and accordingly augments the cooperativity among the VWF molecules to enhance the adsorption process.
2. Material and methods
A coarse-grained model is developed for the VWF using a multi-particle collision dynamics (MPCD) approach with fluid modelled as a system of particles. The dynamics of particles is evolved locally and synchronously with continuous velocities at discrete time steps [18]. This particle-based method takes the thermal fluctuations as well as the hydrodynamic interactions into account for polymer systems [19–21]. The MPCD consists of Ns particles with mass ms each, which are confined in a simulation box edge dimensions as , where a denotes the size of the cubic MPCD lattices. The position and velocity of the MPCD particles are evolved in two sequential steps: streaming and collision [18].
In the streaming step, the positions of the solvent particles are integrated according to where is the particle velocity and is the time interval between two successive collisions. In the collision step, the particles are sorted into lattices of size a and the particle velocities that share a lattice are updated as where the velocity of the lattice centre of mass, is calculated by averaging the velocity of particles that are included in that lattice. The rotational operator rotates vector x by angle π/2 about a randomly chosen axis in each lattice.
An average lattice density of and a MPCD time-step were used corresponding to a solvent viscosity of [20]. To preserve the Galilean invariance, the random shift method is applied before each collision step [22]. Our simulations were carried out using NVT ensembles with a velocity-scaling thermostat used to enforce isothermal processes. The boundary conditions along the x- and y-directions of the simulation box were periodic and the shear flow was applied along the x-direction. The wall at z = 0 was fixed while a constant velocity boundary condition was applied at the wall at z = Lz corresponding to the assigned shear rates. To implement the zero velocity at z = 0, the virtual-particles method as well as bounce-back boundary condition are adopted [21].
The VWF is modelled as a coarse-grained polymer using monomers of radius with potentials (see below for a detailed description), defining the interaction among monomers [16]. The harmonic potential, which preserves the connectivity among monomers, is given by The relative distance of the neighbouring monomers is denoted by while is the spring stiffness [16,23]. The pairs of the monomers also interact through the Lennard–Jones potential where corresponds to the depth of the potential well and rij is the distance between monomers i and j. It has been shown that for the case of the polymer forms a self-associated globular structure similar to the relaxed globular conformation of the VWF [16,23]. In this model, Nr beads, resembling the subendothelial collagen receptors, are uniformly distributed on the surface located at z = a/2 resembling a receptor density of ϕ. The specific interactions between collagen beads and A3 domains of the VWF monomers are simulated by the Bell mechanism [8,16,24]. According to this mechanism, when a monomer of VWF is located within the reaction distance of the collagen bead a bond between the monomer and its corresponding collagen bead is formed with probability of where UB is the binding energy and it is assumed that the VWF monomers can solely form one bond with each collagen bead. This bond is modelled by a harmonic spring with potential energy of [11,16]. The position of the ith VWF monomer and the jth collagen receptor are denoted by ri,p and rj,r, respectively. While attached, VWF could be dissociated with the probability of , where UUB is the unbinding energy [16]. The difference between binding and unbinding energies is named as bonding energy and denoted by To allow an unbound ligand to have sufficient time to diffuse away from a receptor, the binding and unbinding attempts are carried out every MPC steps. To confine VWFs within a specific height with respect to the receptor field, a repulsive wall with the potential of Uw is included such that it is analogous to the repulsive part of Ulj. The elevation of this repulsive wall is such that it does not affect the initial height of the globule centre of mass () with respect to the receptive field. The receptor field and repulsive wall are illustrated in figure 2 with grey beads and a purple dashed line, respectively. The position and velocity of the monomers are integrated using the velocity-Verlet algorithm with time steps The monomers interact with solvent particles by participating in collision steps [19]. The characteristic timescale, defined by the monomer diffusion time, is calculated by In the first step, the VWF is embedded in the bulk flow where neither the receptor field nor the repulsive wall is present. The first 5000 MPC steps are allocated for the relaxation and the shear flow is induced afterward. The extension length of VWF along the x-axis is denoted by Rs and its rescaled averaged value against normalized shear rates is shown with the filled diamonds in figure 3. By calculating the variance of the squared VWF extension (the results are not shown), the transitional shear rate becomes which matches well with the formerly reported data [23].
The VWF is initially kept in the proximity of the receptor field, where Nr = 4800 receptors are placed with the density of After 5000 MPC steps of relaxation, the shear flow is introduced. The fraction of time in which the number of adhered monomers becomes larger than 10 is denoted by [16]. This is shown in figure 3 for different values of shear rates as well as different values of ΔE0. In this figure, the unbinding energy is kept constant so that the unbinding time, which is determined by , matches well for all cases. In the case of the transitional behaviour of VWF adhesion dynamics (figure 3, triangle symbols) coincides well with that of the stretching dynamics (diamond symbols) of VWF. This bonding energy also falls within the previously reported energy range, which explains the VWF's adhesion behaviour [16]. Thus, we consider as the bonding energy and as the receptor density.
3. Results and discussions
We used our coarse-grained model of the VWF polymers together with the MPCD approach for the fluid in order to examine whether and how pairwise interactions among the monomers of VWFs affect the adsorption mechanism of a flowing VWF. The monomers of the first VWF were initially located within the reaction radius of the receptors such that the VWF associates with the collagen receptors. The distance of the second (flowing) VWF centre of mass with respect to the receptor surface is (figure 2). Additionally, the initial y components of both VWFs are set to Ly/2. A repulsive wall was also placed at (where ΔZ is calculated by the summation over the radius of the globule and the cut-off radius of the repulsive wall). The implementation of such repulsive wall determines the density of VWF molecules near the collagen fibres. By changing the cut-off radius of the repulsive wall, we ensured that this parameter does not affect the VWF conformation and dynamics results (data not presented). Both VWF molecules were relaxed before the shear flow is introduced for T = 100τ. Once the shear was applied, the VWF located near the receptors adhered to the surface and then stretched out while the other VWF molecules moved along the x-axis. After passing over the adhered VWF several times, the flowing VWF reduced its height and finally its monomers fell into the reaction radius of the receptors before it was adsorbed. The snapshot series of the adsorption procedure when the initial height of the flowing VWF centre of mass is and the shear rate is is shown in figure 3. Another simulation was implemented with an identical set-up except with only one flowing VWF in the absence of an adhered VWF. The simulations were repeated for six sets of five trials and in each set, the adsorption probability was calculated as the fraction of times in which the flowing VWF was adsorbed relative to the total number of trials. The adsorption probability is presented in figure 4a,b for different initial heights of the flowing VWF as well as different shear rates when there was only one flowing VWF (nVWF = 1) or with one adhered VWF and another flowing VWF (nVWF = 2). The simulations of the system in which the shear rate is are shown in the electronic supplementary material, movie. Adhered and flowing VWFs had roughly globular structures for shear rates smaller than and their structures became stretched when they experienced a higher shear rate. The flowing VWF completely adhered to the surface when and nVWF = 2, however, this probability decreased for higher shear rates with only one flowing VWF (nVWF = 1). For the case of and nVWF = 2, the adsorption probability of the flowing VWF was remarkably higher than that in the nVWF = 1 scenario and this behaviour was observed within a wide range of shear rates. The same adsorption trend was also observed when however, the adsorption probability for both cases with nVWF = 1 and nVWF = 2 decreased as the distance between the flowing and adhered VWFs increased. The hydrodynamic as well as van der Waals interactions are two possible causes behind the enhancement of the adsorption probability. To isolate the effects of each interaction and differentiate their impact on the adsorption behaviour of the flowing VWF, the attraction part of the Lennard–Jones potential between the monomers of VWFs was switched off, leaving only the repulsive potential. Hence, interactions among the VWF monomers were only hydrodynamic and steric. The hydrodynamic interaction between the flowing VWF and the adhered one is important because the adhered VWF is not totally fixed at the collagen surface and it may change the flow velocity field through its conformational changes caused by the dynamics of attachment and detachment of its beads near the collagen receptors. The adsorption probability of the flowing VWF for the case of is shown in figure 4b where only the hydrodynamic interactions among the VWF monomers are present. The absence of attracting interactions among the VWF monomers approximately resulted in similar trends found in the case without adhered VWFs. These simulations suggest that hydrodynamic interactions are not sufficient to enhance the adsorption mechanism, but they do not reject their necessity in the adsorption events. Nevertheless, the attractive interaction plays a major role in adsorbing flowing VWFs such that the presence of an adhered VWF perturbs the spatial distribution of the flowing VWF monomers along the z-direction, and forces them to approach the receptor field and, ultimately, increases the probability of falling within the reaction region of the receptors. The probability distribution function (PDF) of positions of flowing VWF monomers along the z-direction for two initial heights (square symbols) and (triangle symbols) are shown in figure 4c. In these simulations, the adhesion ability of the flowing VWF monomers was switched off such that they could not form bonds with the receptors. The presence of an adhered VWF caused the maxima of the PDFs to shift towards the lower heights and this is remarkable for the case in which the initial height of the flowing VWF is
It should be noted that the adsorption probabilities in figure 4a,b are calculated over the cases wherein the flowing VWF approaches the surface and at least one of its monomers attaches to the collagen receptors. To analyse the adhesion dynamics of the flowing VWF to the collagen receptors after it is adsorbed on the surface, we calculate the adhesion rate and the height of the centre of mass of the flowing VWF for the cases in which the flowing VWF approaches the collagen receptors and are adsorbed on the surface. As shown in figure 5, the adsorbed flowing VWF is extended and while approaching the collagen surface as the shear rate increases. Concurrently, the adhesion rates of adsorbed flowing VWF increases and the trend is analogous to the cases where the VWF is initially adsorbed on the surface (figure 3) and earlier experimental reports [15,16].
4. Conclusion
The adsorption dynamics of VWF multimeric glycoproteins, which are the triggering cause of primary haemostasis, were studied here using coarse-grained models. Our results suggest that when a VWF molecule is flowing in proximity to a collagen receptor field, its monomers, which includes the A3 domains, may fall within the reaction region of the collagen receptors and form bonds. This behaviour is caused by the conformational changes and instabilities exhibited in the VWF molecule under the influence of hydrodynamic shear forces as well as thermal fluctuations. However, when a flowing VWF glycoprotein is passing over another VWF that is adhered to the collagen receptor field, it approaches the surface and its adsorption is enhanced due primarily to attractive interactions rather than hydrodynamic interactions among the VWF monomers. Given as the viscosity of water and ap = 70 nm as the radius of the VWF monomer [23,25], such enhancement in the adsorptions occurs within the wide range of shear rate in which the flowing VWF has either a roughly globular or extended conformation [15]. The hydrodynamic lift force exerted on the monomers has an increasing functionality with respect to the shear rate and the extended length of the polymer (L), [16]. Hence, the cooperation within VWFs should increase in high shear rate regimes to overcome the hydrodynamic lift force, as observed in our simulations, likely because in a high shear rate both the flowing and adhered VWFs have extended conformations, increasing their attractive interaction. Additionally, our results reveal that in addition to the shear stress that triggers the adsorption of VWF [16], the immobilized adsorbed VWF boosts the adsorption of flowing VWFs nearby. The adsorption dependency of flowing VWFs on the presence of another adsorbed VWF implies the nonlinear dependency of adsorbed VWFs on the density of flowing VWFs. Accordingly, the adsorption success rate increases drastically as the number of adsorbed VWFs on the collagen surface increases. For a height of 400 nm or less, the cooperativity between VWFs leads to adsorption of all flowing VWFs. Hence, the adsorption process is definitely accomplished if there exists a corresponding biological mechanism that forces VWFs to be marginated within this range. It has recently been shown that the colloidal suspension, which can correspond to the other blood components such as red blood cells, could affect the spatial distributions of the globule polymers [11]. The observed cooperation within VWF molecules adhered on the collagen surface could also be investigated in a system where a larger number of VWF molecules are included. Recent research and experiments have elaborated on the collective motion as well as self-assembly of globular polymers and VWFs when they are either located in the bulk flow or adsorbed on an adhesive surface [4–6,8,9,11,17,26]. Our results could potentially be important for studies of adsorption dynamics of polymer physics as well as the current mathematical and coarse-grained models [3] used to analyse primary haemostasis and coagulation processes.
Data accessibility
The article's supporting data can be accessed via our laboratory's website (http://biomechanics.berkeley.edu). The supplementary movie can be found at http://biomechanics.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/VWF_Movie1.avi.
Authors' contributions
M.H., M.R.E. and M.R.K.M. conceived and designed the experiments. M.H. performed the experiments. M.H., M.M., M.R.E. and M.R.K.M. analysed the data. M.R.E. and M.R.K.M. contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. M.H., M.M., M.R.E. and M.R.K.M. wrote the paper.
Competing interests
The authors have no competing interests.
Financial support through a National Science Foundation CAREER award CBET-0955291 (M.R.K.M.) is gratefully acknowledged.
M.H. thanks Math. Computing Center of Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) where a part of the computation was carried out.
- Received April 15, 2015.
- Accepted June 23, 2015.
- © 2015 The Author(s)
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Sainted, for sure: I want people to know about a man whose name is Dr. Emilio Galarraga. He is a dentist in West St. Paul, at 1200 Robert.
I had some bad luck and knocked out my three front teeth, and I went to his office, and my insurance provider did not cover what I needed to fix them. He told me that, and then looked me in my eyes, and then told his staff they had a long job ahead. I sat in the chair from 3:10 p.m. until 7:50 p.m. They closed at 6 p.m., and still worked on me.
When I was in the chair, he told me his father said to him: "Son, either you want to be rich or help people." I guess this answers that question.
He is a true Saint to me.
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Expect Bears to be slow out of free agency gates
The 2009 NFL free agency period kicks off at 11:01 p.m. Thursday night — which is Friday morning Eastern time — and it's highly unlikely the Bears will be making immediate headlines like they did in 2005 when they signed free agent wide receiver Muhsin Muhammad in the wee hours of the morning.
In fact, I don't think you'll see or hear the Bears' name in the media as seriously pursuing any free agent for the first week or two. Basically, that means you can forget about names like Kurt Warner, Albert Haynesworth, T.J. Houshmandzadeh, and Marvin Harrison.
I liken the Bears' free agency approach to that of a tiger in the weeds. They'll lie low while all the commotion goes on, but that doesn't mean they won't be stalking their prey. When the timing is right — which, typically, is when the big-named players are off the board and things begin to cool down — they'll pounce on a player or two at bargain prices.
I can't imagine the Bears enter the draft with just Chris Williams and Cody Balogh as their two tackles under contract. John Tait is said to be considering retirement and John St. Clair hits the open market. The Bears need to either re-sign St. Clair or get another veteran offensive tackle in free agency before drafting one or two.
Another position I think they need to address in free agency is safety. They'll be losing Mike Brown this year and they need to replace his veteran leadership with another veteran. If they think they can fix the problems at safety through the draft alone, they're sorely mistaken. And if they feel they're set at the position with the players they have, they're delusional.
Jerry Angelo recently said he felt it was not a particularly strong draft for free safeties. But he refused to address the position as an area of need.
"We have [Craig] Steltz, so to say [free safety] is a need is premature," Angelo said. "We do have somebody. We like Craig. I thought he did a nice job when he did play last year. He did a very good job on special teams. Why do I bring special teams up? Because players that usually show on special teams, when their number is called, usually play well, too."
I seem to recall Steltz getting run over for a touchdown in a game last year and also missing several tackles sporadically throughout the season when given the chance to play. If Angelo thinks the Bears will be fine with Steltz and Kevin Payne as their starting safeties, he's got another thing coming. The Bears will regress defensively even more than they have the past two years.
Finally, a third position of need that they must address in free agency is the quarterback. We all know Chicagoans hate Rex Grossman — fairly or not is up for debate. However, a recent poll on ChicagoTribune.com asks if Grossman was treated fairly and I was surprised — shocked, really — to see that the majority of fans who voted — 62% to 38% — said that no, he was not given a fair shake from the fans or media in his six years with the team.
I will be dismayed and dumbfounded if the Bears do not sign a veteran quarterback to replace Grossman on the roster. If Angelo's "veteran" acquisition was Brett Basanez, then the Bears will really be in trouble if Kyle Orton suffers a more serious injury than he did last year.
Plus, the quarterback crop in this year's draft is weak, so, finding a legitimate, long-term piece seems like a long shot.
As it stands right now, the quarterback position is in worse shape than it was with Grossman on the roster. So, how ironic would it be if the Bears did not add a veteran signal-caller to the mix after Angelo stressed multiple times this off-season that stabilizing the position was a high priority?
With less than 24 hours to go until free agency kicks off, we have not been given any signs that would indicate the Bears feel they have holes to fill. In fact, Angelo has spent more time addressing the coaching staff — also a need, but not the only one — and preaching that they have the pieces in place to win than he has identifying areas of need.
Hopefully, for our sake and theirs, he was just throwing up a giant smoke screen. Because if he's not, and if they don't at least address the offensive line, safety, and quarterback through free agency, the Bears will be closer to mediocrity than the Super Bowl, despite what Lovie Smith might have said and thought.


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The latest edition of Guitar Hero, "World Tour," is not more of the same, Mike Musgrove at the Washington Post reports. In it, you can go into "studio" mode, lay down your own tracks, then "click a button and 'publish' the song online so that any other player with a Web-connected game console can download and play your song, just as they would play any other song in the game. If other players like your creation, they can vote for it and you can get the satisfaction of watching your song climb the online charts at the game's online service, called 'GH Tunes'." Even more cool than this, though, is that it's part of a trend. "Many of the hottest new titles appearing this holiday season include software tools that allow users to express themselves and share their work with an online audience." Examples: create your own characters in Spore, design and share your own games in Xbox Live's "community games" (coming soon); write and share your own adventure story in LittleBigPlanet on PlayStation 3; and compose tracks based on your movements with Wii Music.


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No matter how well a team is organized, no one person can manage everything. Between strength coaches, nutrition coaches, position coaches, and more, a head coach has to put a great deal of trust into other coaches in order to have a winning team.
But even with a great coaching staff, there are internal factors that coaches simply can't account for. For instance, maybe a key player hasn't been getting enough sleep at night. Or maybe some of the players have been pushing themselves too hard on practices that are built for recovery, leaving them tired on game day.


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Chinese Hot and Sour Soup
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"This spicy soup is great when served just before a stir-fried dish or lo-mein noodles."
READY IN:42mins
YIELD:1 1/2 cup
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- 1 1⁄4 cups water
- 3⁄4 cup canned bamboo shoot, drained
- 4 large dried shiitake mushrooms
- 2 teaspoons dark sesame oil
- 8 ounces boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 2 in thin strips
- 2 cups fresh mushrooms, sliced
- 1⁄3 cup green onion, including tops, sliced
- 2 1⁄2 cups chicken stock
- 2 -3 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 8 ounces firm tofu, cut into 2 in thin strips
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar or 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
- 1⁄4 teaspoon hot red pepper sauce (to taste)
- In a small saucepan, bring 1 cup of the water to a boil. Place the bamboo shoots in a small heatproof bowl and pour 1/2 cup of the boiling water over them; let soak for 5 minutes then drain. Add the dried mushrooms to the water to the water remaining in the saucepan and let soak for 15 minutes. Drain the mushrooms through a sieve, reserving the soaking liquid. Slice the mushrooms, discarding the stems.
- In a large saucepan, heat the oil over moderate heat. Add the chicken and sauté for 4 minutes or until no longer pink on the outside. Add the soaked mushrooms, fresh mushrooms, green onions, stock, soy sauce, honey, and mushroom soaking liquid. Bring the sauce pan mixture to a simmer.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix the cornstarch with the remaining 1/4 cup water. Stir the cornstarch mixture into the simmering soup and cook for 5 minutes. Stir in the tofu, vinegar, and red pepper sauce. Cook until the tofu is heated through.
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Metro franchise communications head Huw Beynon has intimated that THQ is takingits responsibilities for Metro: Last Light a little more seriously than perhaps it did for the first game, stressing that it's about time people stopped calling the original game a "cult hit" and realised that it was a "bonafide" success.
Beynon suggested that THQ had perhaps realised a little too late just what they had on their hands with Metro 2033, and that by the time they realised, it was a little too late.
"I think we said last time around, on Metro 2033, that THQ came to realise a little too late, that it had this unpolished gem on its hands," said Beynon, chatting to Ausgamers.
"And for whatever reason, that meant that the first game didn't quite get the production support from THQ that could have raised the polish and quality level a little bit. It obviously didn't get the lasting support at the same time, but despite that, it went on to become a significant success – it's referred to as a cult-hit still. But we sailed past a million sales on PC alone, so I think we can stop calling it that, and actually call it a bonafide hit."
Beynon was rather certain, however, that the publisher will not be making that same mistake again.
"This time around, they were aware of what the potential could be, so we've seen that extra support, both in terms of focus from them in assisting production – generously giving the studio a little more time to get the quality that we needed," he went on.
"Given THQ's situation, that was obviously a big decision, but I think one that's going to pay off."
Beynon was full of praise for the publisher's marketing work too, describing it as "hugely important" and said that it had "catapulted the game back into the public consciousness".
Neil said this in his Metro 2033 review:
Metro 2033 is not then a game for everyone. If you prefer your heroics to come with, well, heroics, look elsewhere on the shelf and detractors will no doubt write it off as a Fallout / Bioshock / Half-Life 2 hybrid. If though you like your games genuinely disturbing, thoughtful and intensely creepy, this is brilliant stuff. And hell, if you're going to make a medley of three games you could do a lot worse than those, right?
Metro: Last Light lands early next year on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360.


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Contract magazine spotlights how personalized spaces are transforming healthcare delivery and the patient experience at the new Stamford Hospital.
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Child-friendly design engages the imagination to foster calm and inspire confidence.Healthcare Design Research Well-Being
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It is not enough to be efficient in delivering services to your city's constituents—you need to be effective.
Over the years, rigid departments and roll-forward budgets have created a static alignment of services thought of as effectively meeting citizens' needs. However, as broader socio-economic cycles have shown, service delivery capabilities don't always match demand. Your city has a tremendous opportunity to implement a more flexible service-delivery structure that leverages innovative organizational structures and reporting models that better meet the demands of a discerning citizenry.
Here is what it may look like:
Traditional service silos have given way to a broader team-based service delivery model. Breaking down the department-centric service structure, your city has embraced the concept of the "holistic citizen experience" in delivering services. Programs collaborate with each other where value is added, and citizens no longer see a plethora of departments each serving their individual functions. Rather, citizens interact with service teams that are most able to provide a single municipal experience.
"In it together" management and teamwork are in place. The old ways of running your city have given way to a new team-based approach. There is less bureaucracy when the organization is flatter. It is more responsive to the requirements of the job. City leadership still sets direction and manages change, but team-based city units get the job done. As a result, more rigor, discipline and teamwork results and is closest to where the work is actually done.
Your city has right-sized services to improve the citizen experience. Realizing that service delivery and demand tend to get out of balance over time, your city has implemented innovative ways of delivering services. Regionalization, shared services and privatization are just some of the groundbreaking models used. As a result, the service delivery model is far more scalable than before and is better positioned to meet future demand.
- Use of online tools and emerging technologies has enabled your city to enhance service delivery through automated processes and citizen engagement. A suite of online service and information access has decreased manual paperwork and processing, and, as a result, your city has begun to work smarter, thereby making constituents more contented.
Outlined here are just some of the ideas that make up improved service delivery in the "City of the Future". BlumShapiro Consulting will work in partnership with you to help your city embrace change and create a more innovative, flexible government, one that can effectively adapt to any and all situations. We will help your city realize its vision of innovative service delivery by working with you to build a reimagined work structure and organizational designs.
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Okay, first here is my bouquet. I gave it to my mom for Mother's Day but it was a week late because it took me longer than I thought it would because I kept adding more to it. I will do a separate video on each type of flower. I do have a video of the finished bouquet too.
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March 24, 2011
The HSUS and Arizona Law Enforcement Rescue More Than 250 Animals from Alleged Cruelty
The HSUS assisted the Apache County Sheriff's Department in the rescue of approximately 200 dogs, 50 cats and several chickens, ducks and pigs who were found living in deplorable conditions in Witch Wells, Arizona.
March 21, 2011
Humane Society International Aids Japan Animal Rescue and Relief Operations
Humane Society International is responding to animal-related needs in Japan in the wake of the March 11 Tohoku earthquake. HSI will provide an initial relief package of $170,000 that includes direct grants, purchase and shipment of emergency supplies, and planning and implementation of temporary sheltering facilities in the disaster zone.
March 3, 2011
A Conversation with Wayne: HSUS President Discusses His New Book, "The Bond"
Wayne Pacelle discusses our kinship with animals in his new book, "The Bond."
March 2, 2011
Field Notes: Ala. Hoarding Rescue
HSUS director of animal cruelty Adam Parascandola describes arriving at the scene of a recent hoarding rescue in Alabama. The team rescued more than 200 cats and dogs from the squalid property.
February 28, 2011
The HSUS' Inaugural Humane Civil Servant Award Recipients Recognized
The HSUS proudly announces the recipients of the inaugural Humane Civil Servant Award. This annual award recognizes public employees and their departments whose actions rose above the day to day expectations of their jobs to rescue an animal in critical need.
February 3, 2011
Shivering Dogs Rescued from Tennessee Puppy Mill
The HSUS' Maddie's Puppy Mill Task Force rescued almost 100 dogs of all sizes from a miserable puppy mill in Tennessee.
January 20, 2011
Puppy Mill Task Force Rescues 75 Small Dogs
The HSUS' Maddie's Fund Puppy Mill Force helped a Missouri shelter with the care, transport, and placement of more than 75 small-breed dogs.
January 3, 2011
Prison Pals: Second Chances for Dogs and Inmates
Rescued pets get second chances and bring joy to inmates.
January 3, 2011
She's Come Full Circle: Laura Maloney Returns to the Front Lines
December 15, 2010
A Pledge for Peace in the World of Animal Care
Violence and threats have no place in the animal care and welfare community. Sign and share The HSUS's Pledge for Humane Discourse and Conduct within Animal Welfare.
December 1, 2010
Better Lives for 122 Dogs Rescued from Indiana Puppy Mill
More than 100 dogs saved from a Bloomfield, Ind. puppy mill are now on their way to better lives thanks to the efforts of local authorities, area humane organizations and The HSUS, which acted as the lead animal welfare organization in this rescue mission.
October 25, 2010
Law Enforcement Officials Honored
The HSUS honored law enforcement officials from across the country at the 2010 Humane Law Enforcement Awards ceremony, which took place in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 22.
October 21, 2010
Humane Society International to Launch Spay/Neuter Training for Haitian Veterinarians
Humane Society International is launching an intensive spay/neuter training program for Haitian veterinarians beginning Monday at the Haiti Animal Care and Welfare Center in Croix-des-Bouquets.
September 1, 2010
The HSUS Helps Rescue Nearly 100 Dogs from Montana Hoarder
The HSUS is helping the Wibaux County Sheriff's Department remove nearly 100 dogs from an overrun property in Wibaux, Mont., after neighbors raised concerns that the dogs were living in unsanitary and substandard conditions.
July 27, 2010
The HSUS Assists Monroe County Humane Association with Rescue
The HSUS, the Monroe County Humane Association, Indiana State Police and the Greene County Health Department are working together to rescue more than 70 dogs in Greene County.
July 21, 2010
More Than 100 Dogs Rescued from Mississippi Puppy Mill
The HSUS, at the request of the Pearl River County Sheriff's Department, led a rescue of more than 100 dogs from a puppy mill operation in Carriere, Miss.
July 21, 2010
Seeing the Suffering of Puppy Mills Firsthand
After working at The HSUS for several years, I had seen plenty of images of the squalid conditions at puppy mills across the country. Still, none of this made it easy to see the consequences of a puppy mill firsthand.
July 14, 2010
Animal Planet's "Confessions: Animal Hoarding" Gets to the Heart of an Out-of-Control Problem
Animal Planet's "Confessions: Animal Hoarding" is a six-part series starting on July 21 and takes an unflinchingly honest look at animal hoarding.
July 13, 2010
Nearly Blind Chihuahua and Almost 200 Other Animals Now Safe
The HSUS and Kern County Animal Control rescued about 150 dogs, 18 cats, 10 chickens, and several rabbits from an overcrowded property in Tehachapi, Calif.
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The HSUS Helps Rescue about 200 Animals in Calif.
The HSUS and Kern County Animal Control rescued about 150 dogs, 18 cats, 10 chickens, and several rabbits from an overcrowded property in Tehachapi, Calif.


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England's pace-spin duo of Matthew Hoggard and Monty Panesar combined to dismiss Sri Lanka for just 188 on the opening day of the first cricket Test here on Saturday.
England replied with 49-1 by stumps after losing opener Alastair Cook to the third ball of the innings when he was trapped leg-before by 100-Test veteran Chaminda Vaas.
Captain Michael Vaughan was unbeaten on 13 and Ian Bell was on 36 as England attempt to put up a big score on a barren wicket that is later expected to assist the spin of Muttiah Muralitharan.
The off-spinner, who needs five wickets to overtake retired Australian Shane Warne's world record Test tally of 708, came on in the 12th over and conceded two runs in three overs.
Hoggard grabbed four wickets in a deadly opening burst while Panesar cleaned up the Sri Lankan tail after a defiant sixth-wicket stand of 104 between Kumar Sangakkara and wicket-keeper Prasanna Jayawardene.
Left-handed Sangakkara made 92 and Jayawardene chipped in with 51 to rescue the hosts, who were tottering at 42-5 after electing to bat at the Asgiriya stadium.
Hoggard, Panesar destroy Sri Lanka in first Test
England's pace-spin duo of Matthew Hoggard and Monty Panesar combined to dismiss Sri Lanka for just 188 on the opening day of the first cricket Test here on Saturday.
Sangakkara continued the same form that saw him compile 192 in the second Test against Australia in Hobart last month.
He hit 13 boundaries before being denied a 16th Test century by Paul Collingwood, who picked up a brilliant one-handed catch at backward point as the batsman cut a short ball from James Anderson.
Panesar claimed three of the last five wickets that fell for 40 runs to help England regain their pre-lunch advantage.
About 3,000 English supporters, who almost outnumbered local fans, saw 30-year-old Hoggard slice through the batting in the morning session, with three of his victims falling to catches by wicket-keeper Matthew Prior.
"We said the night before that it would be a good toss to lose," said Hoggard.
"History shows the first innings here is the lower-scoring of the two, so we were not too bothered.
"They got a good partnership going but I thought our bowlers stuck to the task magnificently well.
"If you had said at the beginning that we would lose the toss and be 150 behind with one wicket down we would have taken it.
"We have got a good start and it's now up to us to make sure we follow it through and get a big first-innings total."
Sangakkara praised Hoggard's efforts, but hoped Sri Lanka would also bowl England out cheaply on the second day.
"I thought the wicket was very good," said the Sri Lankan vice-captain.
"Hoggard bowled well at the start and put the ball in the right areas and got the ball moving just enough to take the edges.
"We've just got to learn from this, move on quickly, and bowl England out for as few as possible."
Left-handed Sanath Jayasuriya, who is reportedly considering retiring from Test cricket before the series is over, hit two superb cover drives in the first two overs, but did not last long.
The 38-year-old perished in the third over when he drove Ryan Sidebottom uppishly to the cover region, where Kevin Pietersen lunged to his right to take a good catch with both hands.
Michael Vandort fell in the 10th over when he mistimed a flick off Hoggard on the slow pitch and offered Vaughan an easy catch at mid-on.
England struck immediately after the first drinks interval when Hoggard forced Sri Lankan skipper Mahela Jayawardene (one) to edge an outswinger to Prior.
The Yorkshire paceman, who fashioned England's win in a first-class match in Colombo earlier this week with a five-wicket haul, then removed Chamara Silva and Jehan Mubarak in similar fashion in his next over.


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At the top of the world, a great wheel is spinning. Circling the Arctic Ocean, a current called the Beaufort Gyre drives pack ice clockwise around the pole. It pulls warm Pacific currents through the Bering Strait north and west above Siberia, pushes into the East Siberian Sea and the Transpolar Drift, then rolls away from Russia and whips south against Greenland and the archipelagic frontier forming the rocky distant rim of the Canadian Shield. As winter descends and the seas freeze, the gyre drives newly formed ice against the landfast floe edging those northmost coasts, thickening the ice in ridges and layers, and bit by bit forces drift ice into the straits that form the Northwest Passage. As winter thaws to summer, the pack ice breaks up into the Chukchi Sea, where warm Pacific waters join the gyre as it turns again in its grinding cycle.
The pack ice that the gyre drives around the top of the world breathes with the seasons, expanding in winter, contracting in summer. Over the past 30 years, though, the total amount has shrunk: Minimum summer sea-ice area has decreased by more than half, as has estimated summer sea-ice thickness. Even more alarming, total summer sea-ice volume is less than a quarter of what it was a generation ago. Think of how an ice cube melts in three dimensions. Scientists at the Polar Science Center and the National Snow and Ice Data Center expect summer sea ice to disappear entirely as early as 2030. Some people are calling this dramatic decline the "Arctic death spiral." It will mean the end of the Arctic as we know it.
The Beaufort Gyre is just one wheel in a vast convolution of interconnected wheels that make up the global climate system: the El Niño Southern Oscillation, the Gulf Stream, the carbon cycle, and many, many more. As one wheel speeds up, slows down, warms, disappears, it affects all the others, feeding back into the system. The Arctic death spiral will work like that: As white ice melts into dark water, it will diminish the Earth's ability to reflect light and heat back into space, thus increasing overall warming. Carbon and methane frozen in Arctic permafrost will thaw and flow into the atmosphere, intensifying greenhouse-gas effects and increasing overall warming. Deep-ocean circulation, which depends on differences in temperature and salinity to move water around the world, will slow and shut down, radically changing regional climates, contributing to sea-level rise, and increasing overall warming.
To see the Arctic death spiral firsthand, and to see the Arctic before it melted, I took a 17-day "adventure cruise" with the outdoor expedition company Adventure Canada: "Into the Northwest Passage 2015."
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"On my first trip, when I was 14, we were cruising in a little fjord just south of Kangerlussuaq. We came right up to the foot of a glacier, and we were Zodiacking there and it was amazing and everything was wonderful. Then I went back to that exact same glacier in 2007, and there was nothing but rocks."
—Cedar Swan, Adventure Canada CEO
Our journey began in the alpine room of the Sheraton Gateway Hotel Toronto. Enthusiastic Adventure Canada staff in migraine-blue shirts with polar-bear logos went over the basic outlines of our cruise. A total of 191 fellow "adventurers" listened politely, a crowd of mostly white, mostly silver-haired retired couples in various stages of physical decline, with a few singletons and only a smattering of younger blood—I counted a half-dozen under 50, including myself. The plan was to sail north up the west coast of Greenland, go west into Canada through Lancaster Sound, then sail north around Victoria Island and down through the Prince of Wales Strait to Kugluktuk. Along the way, we'd clamber into black-hulled Zodiac boats for a series of landings and excursions. It was hammered home to us that this wasn't just a cruise but an "expedition," and that we had to be ready for anything: Our final route would depend on the sea ice.


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Trent Bridge is one of the oldest cricket grounds in England. It is, in fact, the second oldest in the country, after Lord's Cricket Ground, and third oldest in the world. The oldest, as they say, is Kolkata's Eden Garden. The ground was established in 1835 and is known to provide a lot of swing and seam movement. The first first class match was between Nottinghamshire and Sussex. It has hosted 57 Tests but India has played only four tests with the first being in 1959. India had lost that Test badly but returned from this city with honours even in their next two visits in 1996 and 2002. India won in 2007. After a poor showing in the first Test, MS Dhoni & Co can draw some inspiration from that Test.
Famous miner from Nottingham
Nottingham used to be known for coal mines. There used to be 30 mines in this county and most of the coal was supplied from this part of England. All the mines, barring one, here now are closed as the cost of mining has increased manifold. England is importing coal from other European countries. There are many stories about the mines here. One of the most famous miners was Harold Larwood, the protagonist of the infamous Bodyline series. In fact, the new ball partner of Larwood, Bill Voce was also a miner and both used to be friends on and off the field. Neither, of course, is alive but stories about them are aplenty.
Want to lose weight, stop eating mom's curry
A famous cricketer from the county is Samit Patel. The young all-rounder, plays for England in the ODIs, is known for being overweight. It is felt that he would be in England Test team if he was thinner. The cricketer of Indian origin has famously said that he would give up eating his mother's curry in the hope of losing weight. Patel is a left-arm spinner and a hard-hitting batsman and is considered a future prospect for the England Test team. He is one of the leading wicket-takers in county cricket.
Snippets from Trent Bridge
Happy memories for India


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Real Madrid could have signed Santos star Neymar for an amazing 60,000, it has been revealed!
El Confidencial says Neymar spent time at Real during president Florentino Perez's previous reign, training at the club's HQ and holding talks about a move to Madrid.
In 2006, Neymar spent two weeks at Real and Santos were willing to sell for just 60,000.
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Great space, used well.. The elegant Wentworth floor plan is big and beautifully laid out for optimum livability. If you would rather not climb stairs, this one-story has everything conveniently on a single level, plus a bonus room upstairs.
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Bedrooms 2 and 3 include walk-in closets of their own. They share a full two-sink bathroom.
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