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At Carousel Designs, we offer more than 300 fabrics by for sale by the yard. Because we allow our customers the option of using any of our fabrics to customize their baby bedding, the fabrics by the yard can also be used in your custom bedding.
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Some fabrics we could suggest are Anna's Zoo, Juliet Damask, and Windy Day. These are all so playful, and they are all available in our designed collections. But these only scratch the surface of the variety of patterns and colors we offer.
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My mother absolutely loved the Windy Day fabric, so she ordered the fabric by the yard to use as a tablecloth. It looks really cute! I've had my eye on the Sightseeing Toile which has light-hearted drawings of famous places to see from all around the world. I thought this would be fun to use to recover the seat on the desk chair in my home office.
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Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. was one of the biggest losers on the S&P 500 Tuesday following reports China is investigating it and several of its competitors in the baby formula market for possible price-fixing violations.
Mead Johnson shares dropped 5% to $75.41 in recent action, the hardest hit of any of the companies named in the probe.
Others were Abbott Laboratories , Nestle SA , Danone SA and Dutch cooperative Royal FrieslandCampina NV.
Abbott was up marginally while Nestle was off slightly and Danone lost 1.5% to $56.59.
Abbott, Nestle and Mead Johnson said they were cooperating with Chinese authorities on the matter. Danone officials could not be reached for comment.
"The company is fully cooperating with the recently reported Chinese government antitrust review of resale prices in the infant formula market and will provide information in response to inquiries received from government officials," Mead Johnson said in a press release. "This year marks the 20th anniversary of Mead Johnson's manufacturing presence in China, and the company values its longstanding relationships with local suppliers, distributors and other business partners."
Chinese officials are investigating the formula makers for possible anti-competitive activity as they try to build up a domestic formula industry to compete with imported products. The nation was rocked by a scandal in recent years by formula tainted with melamine that killed six babies and sickened thousands.
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Charges filed in Normandy Park homicide against Shane Chamberlain, 22
Murder and assault charges were filed Tuesday afternoon (Jan. 28) against Shane Ryan Chamberlain, 22, who is accused of the fatal shooting of a 96-year-old man in his home on Saturday in Normandy Park.
The defendant is also accused of a crowbar attack on the man's granddaughter.
Chamberlain is charged with 'Murder in the First Degree with a firearm enhancement' and 'Assault in the First Degree with a deadly weapon' for the murder of Philip Hamlin.
The suspect was the estranged spouse of Hamlin's caregiver, and remains in jail with bail set at $2 million.
Arraignment is scheduled for Feb. 10 at 9 a.m. at the Maleng Regional Justice Center.


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Mr. Jefferson commissioned this engraving of the University of Virginia to record its plan as it evolved during the 9 years of construction. John Neilson was the draughtsman and Peter Maverick the engraver.
Questions for Drawing 3
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2. How many Pavilions are on this plan? Explain the significance of this number.
3. How do Drawings 2 and 3 help you understand the design you have been reading about? How do the written accounts help you make sense of the visual evidence? Why is it important to have both written accounts and visual evidence?
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COLUMBIA, Mo., Oct. 18 (UPI) -- The combination of disordered eating and heavy alcohol consumption known as drunkorexia is common among U.S. college students, researchers say.
Victoria Osborne, assistant professor of social work and public health at the University of Missouri, examined the relationship between alcohol misuse and disordered eating, including calorie restriction and purging.
The study found 16 percent of those surveyed reported restricting calories to "save them" for drinking, and of the respondents, about three times as many women as men reported engaging in the behavior.
Motivations for drunkorexia include preventing weight gain, getting intoxicated faster and saving money that would be spent on food to buy alcohol, the study found.
Drunkorexia could have dangerous cognitive, behavioral and physical consequences, as well as put people at risk for developing more serious eating disorders or addiction problems, Osborne said.
"Apart from each other, depriving the brain of adequate nutrition and consuming large amounts of alcohol can be dangerous," Osborne said in a statement. "Together, they can cause short- and long-term cognitive problems including difficulty concentrating, studying and making decisions."
People who participate in disordered eating combined with binge drinking are at an elevated risk for violence, risky sexual behavior, alcohol poisoning, substance abuse and chronic diseases later in life, Osborne said.
The findings were presented at the American Psychopathological Association and the Research Society on Alcoholism.


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SOCORRO, N.M., Sept. 17, 2003 -- New Mexico Tech is kicking off its latest North Central Association (NCA) re-accreditation process next week with a less-than-formal event that promises to be great fun for everyone involved.
The kick-off event, the"Tech Smart 2004 Quadrathlon," which will be held on Tuesday through Thursday, September 23-25, will combine the seriousness of filling out evaluation surveys about New Mexico Tech with the lightheartedness of a Tech trivia contest, all put together in a block-party atmosphere.
"Tech Smart 2004 Quadrathlon is designed to allow everyone — everyone from the local community to Tech faculty, staff, and students — to get actively involved and become part of the self-study process leading up to next year's NCA re-accreditation review," says Carole Yee, assistant vice president for academic affairs and dean of students at New Mexico Tech.
The NCA's Higher Learning Commission has scheduled an institutional review and evaluation of New Mexico Tech for October 2004, part of a formal re-accreditation process that takes place at accredited institutions every ten years.
"In preparation for next year's NCA campus visit, we're beginning with this initial survey as part of an intensive, yearlong self-study which will cover all aspects of the university, including academics, research, economic development, and educational and community outreach," Yee relates.
"Our number one objective in this whole self-study process is to have engagement by all of our constituencies, particularly in the way of awareness, feedback, and support," she adds.
As part of Tech Smart 2004 Quadrathlon, participants will be able to compete in a series of New Mexico Tech trivia contests, with prizes for top finishers, and refreshments and door prizes for all in attendance.
The Tech Smart 2004 Quadrathlon events schedule for next week is as follows:
- Tuesday, September 23, 4:30 p.m. at the quadrangle between Wells and Brown halls;
- Tuesday, September 23, 6:15 p.m. at La Raj patio area, just south of the Tech Gym;
- Wednesday, September 24, noon at the M Mountain Grille, next to the Tech Golf Shop; and
- Thursday, September 25, 11 a.m. at the historic Socorro Plaza.
For more information about the Tech Smart 2004 Quadrathlon, the ongoing
Tech Smart 2004 self-study, or the upcoming NCA re-accreditation process, contact Carole Yee at 835-5172.


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you muppet are you really going to spend more money buggering up the Tube more?
Stations I can see voice coverage fine but apart from that don't bother.
London's tube network will become mobile-friendly by next year, according to Mobile Magazine, which reckons a contract is only weeks away. London taxes will be subsidising this contract. That contract is said to be worth £150m, which will be spent by the network operators to provide both 2G and 3G coverage to the entire …
The solution here will be to put a mini-BTS on the train itself.
It poses a set of major architectural challenges though. Most BSCs (and 3G RNCs) are not design with the adjacencies between the different cells and handovers being so fluid. They are rigid and pre-configured).
Whoever does it can after that can pretty much monopolise the "Cell on the train service worldwide". It also can be reused in femto space and so on. So in fact there is a lot of money in here if someone is willing to put the up front investment. It is just not where you expect it to be.
£150m would probably only provide coverage on 1 line (there are 9), planning and installation for the similarly sized Connect project took almost 10 years so forget any coverage for the Olympics. It cannot piggy-back the existing infrastructure which only supports RF up to 500MHz.
Can't wait! Voice calls will be impossible with the sustained 100dB background noise that comes standard with a London commute. However, at least I will be able to text work that I will be half an hour late again because we've been stuck between Knightsbridge and Hyde Park Corner for the last 20 minutes and do some email in the mean time...
Please do Central and Piccadilly first.
"So how do you connect your femto cell to the rest of the network? you're in a train in a cast iron tunnel, you still need 100's km of radiating cable."
...it's called, errr, the tracks. They're electric, you know?
And afaik most of the tunnels are lined with concrete and brick, not cast iron. Not that this matters when you're under several metres of terra firma.
Not quite that straightforward. Much of the track on a couple of lines is above ground (so gets signals currently), whilst much of the rest is shared between lines. The Met line, f'rinstance, is open-air from Finchley Road out to Amersham, Watford & Uxbridge, shares with the Jubilee line from Finchley Road to Baker St, then shares with the Circle round to Aldgate.
So that's one of the nine lines covered with no specific kit straight away.
"There's also the question of what return operators can expect from their investment."
You what?? surely operators can figure this out every time they put up a mast can't they? There are more than 55,000 base stations in the UK so don't tell me someone hasn't tried to figure out the maths.
If they put 2G/3G cells in each station and WiFi on the trains, you have data access everywhere much more easily than moving cells in the trains and much more cheaply than fixed cells along the lines.
No-one in their right minds will make voice calls on the tube anyway, so the only facility you don't offer that way is texting - and people could use data-to-text if they had to anyway.
Don't care about phone calls (hell, ban them on the trains for all I care) but it would be handy to do SMS and / or data on the tube, and a lot less troublesome - no real-time requirement there, it can literally wait until it hits the next cell before it sends/receives the data from the train and signal loss / conversion isn't a big deal so long as there's a cell somewhere on the train that can queue things up properly until signal returns.
Hell, they do it on the First Great Eastern trains already - there's no reason you can't extend this to the tube and I bet a lot of people would be willing to pay an expensive tariff in order to do it. Just one caveat - DO NOT text me when I join that network to tell me prices / offers / etc. If you do, I may have to find your cell equipment on the train and join it to the middle rail with a nice iron crowbar.
Mobile voice calls have been working on the Paris Metro for years. What do they use? Tunnels definitely aren't as deep (most are cut and shut), but the tunnels aren't huge.
I can't believe the tax payer will foot the bill. Don't the mobile networks look after the network, and we pay them???
Providing coverage on platforms shouldn't be too difficult, and relatively easy to support (in comparison to the tunnels). And the intermittent signal you'd get if you were on a tube would be fine for text's and email syncing.
Voice calls on train would be difficult and down-right annoying for fellow passengers. Plus I enjoy the fact that the missus/work/etc can't call me while I'm on the tube...
Anyway, there is no way they'd get coverage set-up in time for the Olympics, they'd be lucky to have finished the planning and profit-escalation phase.
I am wondering, usually a mobile cell is a couple of kilometres wide in a circle around the base station. Can't they use a 'leaky feeder' to essentially create one single cell along the entire tunnel section of a line?
Basically a cell not wider than a few metres but ten kilometres long.
The current 'Connect Radio' is a digital two-way radio system on the Tube and uses exactly the same method, just on a different frequency and only open to London Underground staff and emergency services. If you look closely from the train at the tunnel wall you can see two shiny kilometres long wires along the entire tunnel acting as an antenna.
They mostly aren't really 'tunnels' - the metro ones are at least 2 and mostly 3-4 tracks wide, they are square, straight and concrete. All you have to do is mount a directional antenna in the top corner and point it down the tunnel.
When there is nowhere to mount an antenna without it being wiped out by the next tube train, the tunnels are bendy and most of the early ones have iron liners it becomes a bit of an advanced exercise in RF design
You sure people won't just shout?
Very glad I'll be gone before then.
And you are kidding about subsidised, right? Stick wifi on the trains and charge for it. Job done.
Then there should be a red cast iron telephone box mounted in a separate carriage.
Users will form an orderly queue and follow the instructions provided to talk to the operator. Once they are 'put through' in the modern parlance, and so long as the operator is satisfied that the recipient is not working class, the user will deposit their shilling pieces in the slot and press the A button.
Calls will last no longer than two minutes and must always be terminated with a cheery 'goodbye'.
Failure to obey these common sense rules will result in the automatic release of the box's resident alcoholic.
If I'm in a tube that's jam wedged with passengers and someone starts shouting like that right by my ear, I'm very worried that it might distract me so much that in trying to cover my ears I'd lose my grip on the handhold and my 16 stone will go crashing into him as the train lurches..
The max journey time I bet most people do on the tube is 45 mins. Any longer than that then you're probably starting from an overground station anyway.
Also only in stations? Generally (apart from in disruption) you only have to wait 3-5 mins for a train.
I like the fact that I can't be contacted for half an hour or so.
There's more important things I want my money spent on, air conditioning perhaps. Or a new hospital, school or something.
Why is it that other countries actually SELL the rights to cell companies to place their signals in subways yet London is going to PAY someone to do it.
Something is wrong. Or the thinking is wrong.
The technology is simple: lengths of 'leaky co-ax' antenna fed from technology cubicles at each station. Stations and those 'American Wear Wolf in London' passages and stairs can be covered by access point antennae or yet more leaky co-ax.
The corporate infrastructure is more tricky. Often a holding company, owned by the railway operator, owns the infrastructure and simply rents access to it by anyone wanting to place signals in the tunnels.
Why it has to be tied to the Olympics is beyond me, no one seemed to be too unhappy before cells took over our lives.
There is absolutely NO reason for the taxpayer to be paying ANYTHING!
As much as techno geek I am, even I don't care that for 30 Minutes, I can't surf the web take phone calls, send texts, read the internet.
What I would like is my tube fares to go down, to not feel like a sardine every morning, except somebody forgets the oil.
To0 not need to think about haveing spare shirts at work to change into because I have travelled on the tube in summer [air conditiong that's on would be good]
Having enough Tubes so that when you do finally start the Olympics, that I can get on one. After all it's Londers and the commuters who are paying for the big party, so at least look after them,
Rather than the worrying about wireless for the olympics why not give every commuter on the tube travel while the olympics are on free travel.
I'm in favour of mobile reception on the underground but my fear is that it might enable more terrorism co-ordination, of planted mobile-phone triggered devices and violence. You're welcome to dispel my fears.
Other world cities don't appear to have such concerns, as those who live in those postings here illustrate, Hong Kong being another example. But perhaps our foreign policy and recent tragic events on the underground continue to place London under threat compared to those other cities.
As how to deploy a system - delivering the connectivity via the tube's powerlines being one mentioned here. These could be connected to a Vodafone-like (don't work for them BTW) suresignal femto/picocell on the tube carriages themselves.
CBS Outdoor plasma screens and tube tunnel projectors displaying video advertising, might be the other delivery system of the mobile data - a data feed is already in place to serve streaming video for these so perhaps this service has spare capacity, and again, be fitted with a Pico femto/picocell for GSM/3G reception, fitted to the projection and screens themselved.
Funding may also be possible via this CBS Outdoor route, as they sell advertising.
Another funding route might be with bluetooth proximity message whereby commuters receive targetted advertising via bluetooth messages on their phones.
Also 2D barcodes on in-tube advertisments linking to special offers such as Groupon.
'Wonder it theregister.co.uk sees any such opportunities here to grow its publishing business?
Interesting social network mashups with proximity/NFC Oyster style touchless built into new phones also another option.
Spend it on stopping pavement cyclists, spend it on cycle lanes, spend it on something useful to Londoners, not useful to the thirty idiots who find it impossible not to spend 5 minutes without their phone.....hell at Highbury (which you know well and I seen you) the moan about mputting more trains on, when it's a 30 second gap between them. Get priorities right or we'll have "spend it on my mates" Ken back again


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GENEVA - Swiss banking giant UBS, which last week was slapped with $1.5 billion in fines for manipulating global interest rates, also tampered with Swiss franc interest rates for more than a decade, a Swiss newspaper reported Sunday.
"The bank did not only contribute to manipulating global interest rates on the dollar, the British pound and the yen, but... also systematically played with interest rates on the Swiss franc," Le Matin reported.
Quoting findings in a US justice department probe, the paper said there was evidence that UBS traders had manipulated the rates from 2001.
UBS was hit with the second-largest banking fine ever last week by US, British and Swiss authorities after they revealed evidence of massive misconduct in the setting of the Libor rate, a global reference that affects products from student loans to mortgages.
The United States also filed federal charges of felony fraud against UBS Securities Japan, where it estimated that the bank raked in hundreds of millions of dollars over three years with slight rate adjustments.
"The principle was the same in Switzerland, where the division in charge of the UBS treasury each day gave indications of what the ideal rates would be" for the bank's business, Le Matin said, adding such rates not only impact UBS's bottom line but also the entire Swiss economy.
The paper criticised Switzerland's financial regulator Finma for not looking further back than 2007 when it calculated UBS's misdeeds in Switzerland, and also lambasted the Swiss national bank for not releasing numbers on how much the bank had cost the Swiss economy.
The Swiss portion of the bank's massive fine amounted to just 59 million Swiss francs ($64 million).


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Since forming in 2007 in Paris, they have created grin-inducing, infectious music, winning them friends and fans all over the world.
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! signed a worldwide deal with Fearless Records in 2011, releasing a remastered version of their album Something for Nothing. The band toured UK and mainland Europe in fall 2011 with Miss May I, Chelsea Grin and Abandon All Ships, before their slot on The Fearless Friends Tour in the U.S. this November and December. They kicked off 2012 supporting Attack Attack! and Chelsea Grin in preparation for their slot on this years Vans Warped Tour.
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The Bengals and right tackle Andre Smith haven't been able to reach agreement on a deal that will keep Smith in Cincinnati, but the team has been able to land a different free agent offensive lineman.
Tony Pauline of DraftInsider.net reports that the Bengals have signed guard/center Mike Pollak to a contract for the 2013 season. Pollak played just one game with the Panthers in 2012 because of a shoulder injury, but he was a regular starter during his first four years in the NFL.
Pollak played for the Colts in all of those years and started 41 games at guard after the team made him a second-round pick in 2008. Pollak is likely ticketed to a reserve role thanks to his injury and the Bengals' holdovers at both guard and center, but his experience makes him a nice insurance policy for Cincinnati to have all the same.
The Bengals have spent most of the offseason signing their own free agents, leaving Pollak to join quarterback Josh Johnson and linebacker Aaron Maybin as the rare veteran addition to the roster.


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An oriental theatrical experience with true spiritual and mystical flavors.
A dynamic journey through the colors, scents, and savors of India with 70 performers, 800 costumes, giant video projections, authentic scenery, dance, music, martial arts, acrobatics, tears and laughter.
Bharati, your soul belongs to where your heart takes you ...
Brace yourself to be overwhelmed by graceful, beautiful, and energetic dancers offering the sensuality and sincerity of Indian traditional and classical choreography, combined with the tempo and force of contemporary dance movements. Be ready to get carried away the beats of exotic and exquisite rhythms, played live by master instrumentalists as you listen to the voices kept for the ears of the Indian gods.
'Bharati' a music and dance spectacle that portrays a genuine mosaic of traditional and modern India is perhaps the most ambitious, innovative, and spectacular effort to date, to take Indian popular culture to the world. It bursts out India with exuberance, richness of content, colors, dimensions and depth never seen before, offering the audience the splendor and breathtaking diversity of this enchanting country.
But 'Bharati' is not just about India; it is also about every human being who is forced by circumstances to go away from his roots. You can tear a man away from his roots, but you will not be able to rip his heart away. No matter where a man physically lives, his heart belongs to his ancestry to his motherland. And for every Indian, the motherland is Mother India – Bharat.
The musical score of Bharati features a flow of original background music, and some of the greatest song hits of Indian cinema. These songs choreographed for Bharati in different styles by 7 of the film industry's leading choreographers, serve as an anchor for the show. All songs are played and sung live on the stage.
Each musical scene represents an Indian regional tradition through the choice of rhythms, typical instruments, vocal arrangements, melodic features, choreography style, costumes, and video images, and creates a unique cultural portrait.
Furthermore, Bharati takes ingredients of the Indian popular culture and uses them as both inspiration and link to Indian traditions and heritage. It is at once a celebration of the vitality of these traditions and an invitation to sample and participate in their unique energy.
At first sight a simple homecoming love story, Bharati is likely to strike an emotional chord in all cultures. However, underneath the surface, Bharati is a depiction of a society that simmers under a flame of chaos and confusion, caught in a conflict between tradition and modernity, trying to reconcile the old ways and the winds of change.
Siddhartha, a young engineer born in India but brought up in America gets an assignment to come to Varanasi, to work on the cleaning project of the river Ganges. Though cynical and contemptuous of all things Indian, a westerner in every inch, he realizes while being in India that something is missing in his life, but what is this thing, even Siddhartha cannot figure out yet.
In Varanasi, Siddhartha meets a mysterious, dusky Indian girl an orphan who was found abandoned on the steps of Varansi by Domraja, the king of the cremation grounds. Domraja raised Bharati as a Brahmin girl, respecting her origins and tradition. Like a typical, possessive father, he distrusts all young men and considers them all rogues out to take his sweet, innocent Bharati for a ride. Bharati, proves to be as elusive as she appears to be attainable, she keeps revealing herself to Siddhartha in different characters, disappearing; enticing him, inviting him and yet, never letting him get close enough to know her fully. She is Bharati, she is India.
Siddhartha also meets the Sutradhar, a colorful character who is not only his guide, but becomes his friend, philosopher and confidante. The Sutradhar a character, based on the traditional Indian oral story teller, is the only speaking part in the show. He articulates the expressions and feeling of the other characters and communicates their emotions to the audience while the characters themselves use dance or pantomime. The Sutradhar not only participates in the story, but narrates folk tales and interacts with the audience by seeking their participation in his amusing tricks.
Bharati wears down Siddhartha's skepticism and cynicism while he helplessly falls in love with her, and through her, with all the facets of India - old and new, traditional and modern, an India where all the centuries coexist together all the time, an India changing constantly without breaking its continuity with its past, an India enthusiastically embracing the latest the world has to offer but without losing its cherished ancient values, an India that exists in chaos and celebrates organized disorder.
Siddharth who had come to clean the Ganges of its pollution, ends up getting his own doubts and confusion about love and life cleared when Bharati introduces him to the wonder that India was, is, and will ever be.
Very often we begin to understand ourselves only after we have examined another culture in detail. Only after seeing how others live in other societies, can we examine our own culture with fresh eyes. Therefore, a journey into Indian culture is in fact a journey into ourselves.


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Jaleel White became a pop icon of sorts in the 90s with his role as the über-nerd Steve Urkel on Family Matters. This week the actor appeared on a Detroit radio interview and got "more than he bargained for" when they questioned him about gay rumors and a rumored relationship with former NBA player Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway.
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When Foolish said that he heard Jaleel and Penny were "roomates" Jaleel emphatically said, "Naaaah man, I wasn't ever no damn roomates with Penny Hardaway." Everyone on the show almost lost their minds when Mr. Chase said "we heard you guys were buTT-ddies!" And then Foolish asked him about [a] picture that appears to be Jaleel in some Applebottom [jeans]... Jaleel said that it's not him... *sigh of relief* He said that Penny was like a "big brother" figure, comparing their relationship to that between LeBron James and rapper Drake. He said, "If you see Drake and LeBron do you think they're gay? That's crazy." He went on to say that the gay rumors don't really bother him because "your not successful unless somebody thinks your gay."
In comparison, White says the 2006 internet rumors that claimed he had committed suicide were "hurtful" to him and his family.
The gay rumors about Jaleel White's supposed relationship coincide with Family Matters first-ever DVD release. Never heard them before, but that's one way to start some buzz.


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The financial disclosure forms filled out by about 1,900 city employees will be entered into an online searchable database, the city's new Chief Information Officer told the city's ethics board Tuesday.
"It's a really easy project," said Chris Tonjes, who heads the Mayor's Information Technology Office.
Tonjes told board members he planned to appoint a project manager, who will create an online filing system likely for the next round of ethics forms. The deadline for elected officials and many city employees to fill out the form is April 30.
At the ethics board's monthly meeting Wednesday, Tonjes asked Avery Aisenstark, the executive director of the ethics board, how many employees are required to fill out the forms.
"We don't know," Aisenstark said. He added that some city agencies require too many employees to do so. A review found 1,900 forms had been filed last year.
Tonjes asked the board to come up with a precise number and get back to him.
City Councilman Carl Stokes has proposed an ordinance that would put the forms online, but Tonjes said he wouldn't need a change in the law.
"This is a straightforward project, an extremely straightforward project," he said.
After the meeting, Tonjes said he also believed lists of registered lobbyists and people who do business with city agencies could be placed online with relative ease.
Baltimore County and the state of Maryland have recently moved to put their ethics forms online.
In February, The Baltimore Sun reported that the city's forms are rarely checked, and a comprehensive review of the forms had not been done in years.
Members of the ethics board later arranged for a city intern to review the forms. The review found that more than half were filled out incorrectly or not at all.


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Washington, Pa., Oct. 10. - Alexander Rankin, to whom fell the honor of announcing by bugle call the surrender of General Lee at Appomatox in 1865, and for 35 years a member of the local police force, died in his bed early this morning after performing his duties as desk sergeant yesterday and retiring in good health. He was 83 years old. He went out with the first company of Washington soldiers in the Civil war, serving as bugler with the First West Virginia Cavalry. He was with Union armies at Appomatox and was designed by General Grant as the bugler to blow the surrender announcement.
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Last month, the United States filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) to challenge India's domestic content requirements (DCR) for projects under the country's Solar Mission – a national program aimed at reaching 20,000 megawatts (MW) of grid-connected solar power capacity in India by 2022, enough to power almost 30 million Indian homes at current average levels of consumption. According to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, the DCR provisions in the Solar Mission that require projects to use solar panels produced within the country, as well as subsidies to solar power producers using domestically manufactured equipment, violate WTO rules prohibiting discrimination in favor of domestic goods.
Phase I of India's Solar Mission, which draws to a close at the end of this month, requires crystalline silicon (cSi) solar photovoltaic (PV) projects to use Indian-manufactured modules and concentrating solar power (CSP) projects to use at least 30 percent Indian-manufactured equipment. During Phase I, thin film solar PV panels were exempted from the DCR due to the lack of thin film manufacturing within India.
India's domestic content requirements for solar projects has prompted the United States to file a complaint with the WTO.(Image Source: Wiki Commons)
While the United States has long stated its opposition to India's Solar Mission DCR provisions, the recent timing of the WTO challenge is likely due to the expectation that India will expand the DCR to cover thin film PV modules in Phase II, which starts next month. While there is significant competition in the global cSi PV manufacturing market, the United States is a dominant player in thin film manufacturing. First Solar, an American company, is by far the world's largest thin film manufacturer. First Solar thin film systems currently make up more than 20 percent of India's solar PV market. Conversely, solar projects in India accounted for eight percent of the thin film modules manufactured by First Solar in 2011, and the company continues to seek opportunities in the country. A DCR provision for thin film solar projects in India could deal a significant blow to U.S. solar manufacturers, in particular First Solar.
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I work at the Melbourne Zoo and yesterday this guy with his family came in with a Melbourne School of Theology student card so I was obliged to give him a discount because of that.
I'm not happy giving students of theology discount just because they're a student. If everyone received concessions just because they studied the philosophy of imaginary beings, someone can genuinely believe in anything and get a discount for it. But I can't say that on Facebook can I! So I have to go with all these gentler terms and phrases to get point across, which still ends up creating a shitstorm of all the Christians rushing to defend theology and those not wishing to offend saying it's just studying philosophy so what's the difference. If only you knew..........
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I believe there are a couple of issues worth clarifying:
1) Whether the discount is given to all students, regardless of subject of study
2) Whether the discount is given only to students of theology
If the former is true, it would seem to be a legitimate discount. If, however, the latter is true, you may have a valid, actionable complaint.
The discount is given to all students regardless what they study and it is a legal and legitimate discount. My problem is with these schools of religion and just because you choose to study the philosophy and an imaginary god, you receive discount. There are Jedi schools and enough people on the census have put down Jedi as their religion for it to be legally counted as a religion however if someone presented a student card from such an institution, it'd be some kind of joke.
If someone went to a school of astrology or reiki or some homeopathic college, we'd also be obliged to give them discount, when what they're learning is absolute nonsense. Theology has been around for millenia but it doesn't make it any more legitimate than any of the examples I gave above. It bothers me that people can claim concession based on a subjective personal belief and area of study which is questionable in validity.
I can see how I'm coming across as arse though by picking out theology students only.
Personally, I think anything other than a science or mathematics is not worth paying a college tuition- so I do understand your perspective (and my kids understand I will not be paying tuition for anything other than science or mathematics).


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I had to take a boob sonogram. I'm still waiting for the results. Can someone please play the Jeopardy theme song please.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Still Waiting
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Monday, August 24, 2009
A Tumor or Not A Tumor That Is The Question
So so far 40 just sucks. Sucks bad.
Not to spill it all out all over the place. But as soon as I turned 40 my doc sent me for a mammogram.
My Aunt died of breast cancer and it was a terrible experience. Of course I was scared to death of a mammogram. I went in to the imagining center and dressed in one of those spa robes not fooling myself I would end up with sparkly toe nails at the end of it. I told the lady who would be squishing my breast and dragging it across the room about my Aunt and asked her if she could show the film to the doctor right away. She said he was out but she was nice and made me feel really comfortable as she compressed my boob till it looked like a pancake.
I got dressed while freaking out when she came and told me the radiologist was there he would look at the film and I should wait. I did sweating and praying and working myself up into a tizzy. An hour later she came back and brought me back into the room. Apparently something was off she needed to do more squishing. I went numb but not so numb that I didn't feel the next round of squishing and pulling and pulling. When she was done she said she'd go show the doc. I waited and thought about chemo and dying and putting my family through what my aunt went through. It was terrifying. 20 min later she returned. Its fine your in good health well see you again in a year.
I was so happy I walked home on air with a spring in my step I had escaped death.
The next day my doctor called. Don't freak out he said but we found a tumor in your breast. It's probably benign
I explained that it was clear the radiologist had told me so.
Well not according to this report he explained. He said You have a tumor and we should do a sonogram.
Please call the radiologist. I begged and find out what happened between its OK and and its a tumor please
The doctor was astounded I don't know why your freaking out about this. He went on Its Friday we wont hear from him until Monday at the earliest.
So I've spent the weekend pretty damn confused. I am fine but I have a tumor. I'm healthy and can go but I'm not.
This is too much for my 40 year old brain. I seem to be confusing the doctor. He doesn't understand why a tumor may upset me. No one is calling me back and I am freaking out.
I hate 40! Hate it hate it hate it!
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
The Truth About Ryan Seacrest and Dick Clark
Since I have reached the age of 40 I have been hiding under a rock trying to make it go away. Although hiding under the rock didn't make 40 go away I did have the opportunity to hear some good under the rock gossip (or make some up). This gossip involves someone who is ((gasp)) older than me Mr. Dick Clark.
I heard that Dick (although he is at least 102) suddenly started to age. He had been holding off aging for the last 50 years by drinking the blood of small children and animals. But when that no longer worked he invested his fortune in finding a cure to aging. His team of evil doctors came up with a plan. All he needed was a young good looking down and out guy. He found Ryan Seacrest.
Ryan was living under a bridge and was desperate for cash. Dick gave him an out. He could have Dicks amazing fortune if he agreed to give Dick his body and he took Dick's. He told Ryan that as long as he kept up a good blood supply he could live for a long, long time. He would even have a young wife a mansion, a tremendous fortune and a swimming pool. Ryan said OK. The switch was made and Ryan is now in actuality Dick Clark.
Dick (in Ryan's body)went on to a mass his own fortune and now lives once again in the lap of luxury and has at least another 100 years to go in his body before its time for another change.
Hey I'm 40 I'm allowed to be crazy if I want.
Maybe that should be my tag line.
(By the way not that I didn't love your suggestions but I'm leaving the tag line contest open for another week or so. Hey I'm 40 I can do whatever I want!)
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Here It Comes
So I am turning 40 on Sunday. I must say I thought it would be a lot more graceful than this. I feel like I am heading into the future whining and crying and being pulled along by my feet by father time. When I imagined this day I imagined myself shoulder straight head up walking proudly into 40. But keep in mind I also imagined flying cars and weekend vacation to the moon (sort of a non cartoon Jetsons). But here I am 39.99999 and moving on. I am depressed sore and generally filled with anxiety.
I keep doing a mental recap of life so far and I think Hey Suzie buck up things are pretty good you've accomplished a lot. I wont go into my list of accomplishments as my mother would say its a kenahurah and will call the fates down to destroy any happiness I may have. But I think I have a pretty good list. But I still feel terrible as the big 40 descends.
I think I may be having a mid life crisis. And perhaps I should just embrace it. I mean I've already gotten the tattoo maybe I should get a bright red sports car and some arm candy Perhaps I should run away and join the circus or start a religious cult. But I think I may be too tired for all of that.
So instead I will go to bed at 9pm all this week wake up and drink decaf and try not too eat too many birthday cupcakes my son will make with love and probably some snot. Ain't aging grand.
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A Longtime HIV Survivor Shares Concerns From Quebec
As a real senior (I was infected with HIV in February 1980 and diagnosed in 1985), I have been through a lot of despair, at one point stopping all medication. On the other hand, I was also one of the few lucky ones who were recognized as disabled in 1995, and will live on a disability pension from an insurance company for three more years, until I reach 65.
For the first time, 10 years ago, my viral load became undetectable and has been consistently since then. I have had two relationships with negative men, which lasted 10 years and 12 years. Like many long-term survivors from the early period, I also had a stroke in 2009, followed by permanent arrhythmia, which we managed to resolve at least temporarily, a few months ago.
My main concern is the same as it was on Oct. 28, 1985, when I was diagnosed -- namely that I will finish my days alone. I am not too keen on starting a relationship with a negative man as I feel that this has been a contributing factor in the interruption of my last relationship; on the other hand, finding an HIV-positive man when you are 62 years old appears to be very difficult. Negative gay men now mostly reject poz men readily. In earlier days, gay men were ready to start a relationship knowing that they could protect themselves. Ironically, now that we know more about prevention, the population in general knows less. So my hope of finding somebody is diminishing with each passing year. Yes I do have good friends and am close to my family, but a good friend is not a partner.
I go on gay cruising websites; my description does say that I am poz but I always ask whether the other person has seen this; I often get the reply from guys 30 or 40 years old, that they do not know what it means. When I explain, very often, there is not even a response; when there is a response, it ranges from "no interest" to a polite conversation where the person finds a reason to stop chatting. Also I discuss with friends and acquaintances who are also poz, some in their 20s: they do confirm a real stigma toward people that are HIV poz. So I am trying to get used to the unwelcomed idea that I will finish my days alone; of course I am open, but rather than lament over the situation, I try to see the good side of being single ... but it remains my main concern.
I do not have money concerns; and living in Quebec I know that medical services will be available, free and of high quality. I also know that my meds will remain available ... so no concern there.
My other concerns are for the new generation that does not protect themselves systematically; the frame of mind has changed from "I must protect myself" to "It is the responsibility of the HIV-positive man to make sure he does not infect others." Of course this is very dangerous for all the reasons that we know (many HIV poz ignore their status, others would not disclose ...). I fear for these younger persons as I believe that they will find it much harder to live with the stigma of being poz, and of course with the guilt of having seroconverted when we all know how to prevent transmission.
Another concern is with regards to the complacency in the public opinion that HIV infection is a manageable disease -- complacency with regards to protecting oneself as I already mentioned, but also complacency in research. The undiscerning journalists reporting on the overly optimistic researchers create a sense that a cure is at our door, and hence increase the complacency. I have seen so many news about a miracle cure over the years and I understand that researchers need to present an overly optimistic picture in order to get funds to continue their research; but I fear that the government support for research for a cure will become less of a priority in the future, before we finally have a cure.
Pierre has been living with HIV for more than 30 years. He lives in Quebec, Canada, and is a first-time contributor to TheBody.com.


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With the third pick in the NFL draft, the Jacksonville Jaguars selected Chad Henne's backup. At the earliest, Blake Bortles shouldn't see a regular-season game until 2015 ... plus, my takeaways on the other 31 teams
Welcome to the Blake Bortles conundrum, Jacksonville Jaguars.
Now, go lock him in the film room and only let him out to hit the practice field, and don't even think about putting him into a game until the 2015 regular season—at the earliest.
As I wrote two months ago after studying Bortles' game film from Central Florida, he's a unique player who presents a unique situation for an NFL team. All his immense physical skills and intangibles scream that he'll be a franchise quarterback. But he's not yet close to being ready. His mechanics, from his footwork to his arm, are too often a mess to be trusted against NFL competition. Bortles needs good, intense coaching, and he needs a lot of it.
That's why it was a bit of a surprise to see the Jaguars take Bortles with the third overall pick, rather than draft the more game-ready Johnny Manziel or Teddy Bridgewater—especially considering that Jacksonville's current starter is Chad Henne. It's not like Bortles will be sitting behind Brett Favre as Aaron Rodgers did for three years, learning to change from a rigid passer with the ball always by his ear to the athletic playmaker you see today. No, Bortles will have to watch Henne, who is decent but is destined to have spells when the Jaguars faithful will pine for their new quarterback.
That's the issue. You can, in theory, take a future franchise quarterback with the third overall pick if you have the conviction to do what's required and not play him right away. But will the Jaguars do what's required? The good news is that general manager Dave Caldwell is currently saying the right things.
"[Manziel] is always going to be electric," Jaguars GM Dave Caldwell says. "But for our system and what we want to do offensively, we felt Blake was the best fit."
"This is not a quick journey and a race to the end. This is something we want to build for a long term," Caldwell said. "Johnny [Manziel] is a heck of a player, but I felt like Johnny's game wasn't going to change a lot from year one to year two. We felt like Blake has some development from year one to year two, and this first year is going to be critical for him to develop. With Johnny, he is always going to be Johnny. He's always going to be electric, he's going to be dynamic and he's a great player. But for our system and what we want to do offensively, we felt Blake was the best fit.
"We have a plan going forward. We talked at length with our coaching staff. Not only during the season but out of the season and how he's going to take some extra reps after practice, get extra coaching, extra seven-on-seven and team reps and stuff like that to really have him develop. …We're all on the same page. Our owner, Shad Khan, our president, Mark Lamping, myself, Gus Bradley, the coaching staff, this is the plan we set in place. It's not something we're just springing on our coaches now, and then the Thursday before the opening game I'm not going to say he's got to play. That's not going to happen. We are all on the same page from ownership all the way down."
So much attention is lavished on the draft that it feeds unreal expectations of fans, who want to see an immediate return on any investment. Sometimes that works, but most often it doesn't. The dirty secret of the NFL draft is that it doesn't really matter how talented a player like Bortles is when he enters the league. What's most important is how he develops once he's on a team. Play a player too quickly or out of position, and he could be gone in an instant. Formulate and execute a specific plan of success for each player, and you could have a perennial Pro Bowler.
The Jaguars drafted a player third overall whom they know needs a lot of work. They bought into the Bortles conundrum. Now it's on them to make it work.
Around the League's War Rooms
Houston Texans: General manager Rick Smith had to do it. Jadeveon Clowney is such an athletic freak that taking him with the first overall pick supersedes any doubts about his desire to be great. Plus, with linebackers coach Mike Vrabel and new teammates J.J. Watt and Brian Cushing around to dictate the terms of being a professional in that locker room, it's a good situation. Here's the big thing with this pick: All the pressure is now on defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel. A lot has been said, both by the Texans and by analysts, about Crennel's creativity, and while he has employed different versions of his previous defenses, Crennel's scheme is very vanilla and doesn't always use the strengths of all its players. Just look at how Tamba Hali, Justin Houston and Dontari Poe all took off this past season with the Chiefs once Bob Sutton, who is creative, entered after Crennel and his staff were fired. Clowney's strength, especially as a rookie, will solely be in moving forward. Crennel's scheme calls for the outside linebackers to read and react. Something's going to have to give for Clowney to have a big-time impact as a rookie.
St. Louis Rams: When I talked with Rams general manager Les Snead last month, we had an interesting dialogue about trading picks or needing to get impactful players entering Year 3 of the Snead-Jeff Fisher regime. After staying put at No. 2 and getting a potential franchise tackle in Greg Robinson, plus a Geno Atkins three-technique clone in Aaron Donald at No. 13, it was very clear the Rams are playing for the present in a very tough division. Two great picks by St. Louis.
Cleveland Browns: Not sure Ray Farmer's draft is going to match that of Ozzie Newsome's first one with the Ravens in 1996 (Jonathan Ogden, Ray Lewis)—like Newsome's, Farmer's started with the No. 4 and No. 26 picks—but Farmer now has a top corner (Justin Gilbert) to pair with Joe Haden, an underrated quarterback (Johnny Manziel) and an extra first-round pick next year, and he still has the third pick in the second round of this year's draft. Cover corners are so important to Mike Pettine's scheme. The sun seems to be shining in Cleveland for the first time in a while. But seems is the operative word.
Buffalo Bills: I'm excited about the Sammy Watkins pick because it will answer, one way or the other, what I asked in my analysis of Watkins: Is he a No. 1, elite receiver as his draft slot suggests, or is he really just a good receiver who lacks elite size and jumping ability? Will Watkins break the mold of franchise WR? Buffalo doesn't have another receiver this good, so Watkins is the guy. Peter King has the full story on general manager Doug Whaley trading up to get Watkins.
Oakland Raiders: Love the game of Khalil Mack, who gives the Raiders a much-needed playmaker at strong-side linebacker. (It's a bit of a strange scheme match; I thought Mack's best spot would be a 3-4 OLB, but he has scheme versatility). But it will all come down to QB Matt Schaub. If he struggles, GM Reggie McKenzie and coach Dennis Allen won't be around to see anyone's future.
Atlanta Falcons: It must have been a struggle for GM Thomas Dimitroff to keep from jumping up a few spots to get his guy—it probably helped to have good friend Scott Pioli around for counsel—but it still likely played out exactly how Dimitroff wanted at No. 6, knowing either Khalil Mack or Jake Matthews would be available. Atlanta ended up with the latter, an excellent addition to the offensive line protecting Matt Ryan.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Not a huge fan of pairing two similar receivers, Vincent Jackson and now seventh overall pick Mike Evans, but we should keep something in mind. Jackson's contract is pay-as-you-go, just like Darrelle Revis's was. If the Bucs don't like it the first season, they can move on from Jackson. Maybe it works and they keep both.
Minnesota Vikings: Tale of two picks. I'm not a fan of the pick at No. 9, UCLA linebacker Anthony Barr, because I don't think he fits Mike Zimmer's scheme well. Barr would be better as a 3-4 outside linebacker. It felt as if GM Rick Spielman panicked after Jadeveon Clowney and Khalil Mack were gone, and he grabbed the last athletic pass rusher. But I loved the trading up to get quarterback Teddy Bridgewater with the last pick in the first round, although I wouldn't have chosen the NFC North (weather) as his preferred destination. Spielman has whiffed twice on quarterback moves before (A.J. Feeley in Miami; Christian Ponder with the Vikings three years ago), so the third time has to be the charm, right?
Detroit Lions: Are the Lions aware that pass defense, especially in the NFC North, is still played in the NFL—and that it's kind of important? Another weapon for Matthew Stafford—North Carolina tight end Eric Ebron—instead of secondary help? Didn't like it.
Tennessee Titans: LT Michael Roos isn't going to play at a high level forever, but between the signing of LG Andy Levitre last off season, picking Chance Warmack and Brian Schwenke in '13, signing Michael Oher this year and now drafting OT Taylor Lewan 10th overall, well, that's a lot of resources in an offensive line. It'd just be great if Tennessee had one of those, what do you call them? Oh yeah. Quarterbacks.
New York Giants: Fans will be comparing the career of LSU wide receiver Odell Beckham to other possible picks—DT Aaron Donald, OT Zack Martin and ILB C.J. Mosley—for years to come.
Chicago Bears: They had a big Help Wanted sign for anywhere in the secondary. The versatile Kyle Fuller (CB, Virginia Tech) can't hurt the situation.
Pittsburgh Steelers: LB Ryan Shazier's terrific speed will certainly be used by coordinator Dick LeBeau, but this was a luxury pick when Pittsburgh needs help in other areas (corner, receiver, both lines).
Dallas Cowboys: I love Jerry Jones' taking Notre Dame's Zack Martin, who can play anywhere and brings needed help on the offensive line. (No, I wasn't hacked.)
Baltimore Ravens: Perfect Raven at a perfect spot (No. 17). They better hope Alabama linebacker C.J. Mosley isn't a long-term health risk.
New York Jets: Antonio Allen, the 2012 seventh-round pick, came on at the end of the season, and now they have a terrific physical safety to pair with him in Calvin Pryor. Rex Ryan has two young safeties to mold and key his scheme. He can probably kiss GM John Idzik right now.
Miami Dolphins: The nearly complete overhaul of the Dolphins' offensive line, with the drafting of RT Ja'Waun James, is now finished. James isn't a big name, but he's got a lot of experience and is a sure-fire upgrade over Miami's mess at right tackle last season.
New Orleans Saints: They just upgraded in age, speed and explosiveness by getting Brandin Cooks to play the Swiss Army knife position that was held by Darren Sproles. Big win for GM Mickey Loomis. Sean Payton is going to have a lot of fun finding ways to get Cooks the ball.
Green Bay Packers: For the first time since Nick Collins suffered an unfortunate neck injury early in the 2011 season, the Packers have a legitimate safety. Can't overemphasize how important that position is to Dom Capers' scheme, and it had been patched together—badly, as if with actual duct tape—since then.
Kansas City Chiefs: I don't understand the pick of OLB Dee Ford. Their cornerbacks got a bit exposed during the second half of last season, and there were still receivers on the board to fulfill another need. Yet the Chiefs took an edge pass rusher despite having Tamba Hali and Justin Houston, who are both terrific players? Don't get it.
Cincinnati Bengals: I've already praised Jerry Jones, and now I love Mike Brown's selection of corner Darqueze Dennard. (This can't be a good sign.)
San Diego Chargers: Their cornerbacks are Shareece Wright, Richard Marshall and Steve Williams. Yes, I'd say drafting TCU cornerback Jason Verrett, a terrific competitor at slot with the potential for more, was a smart move. Jason, go lock yourself in a room with Wes Welker tape.
Philadelphia Eagles: A bit early for Louisville OLB Marcus Smith, at No. 26, but he's a good player. Looks like the end is near for Trent Cole. That's too bad. He's a terrific football player.
Arizona Cardinals: The drafting of SS Deone Bucannon should give the Cardinals even more freedom to use DB Tyrann Mathieu all over the field, which is never a bad thing. Bucannon is basically, two years later, the replacement for Adrian Wilson. Same type of leader and physical player.
Carolina Panthers: Cam Newton was flashing that million-dollar smile when FSU WR Kelvin Benjamin was picked. A 6-5 redzone target after Steve Smith, Ted Ginn and Brandon LaFell all left in free agency? Yes, please.
New England Patriots: Previous Gators selected by Bill Belichick before taking DT Dominique Easley with the 29th pick? Jermaine Cunningham, Brandon Spikes, Aaron Hernandez, Chad Jackson and Guss Scott. Not exactly a sterling group. And even though Easley is a little undersized for the scheme and has a bad injury history, he can beat the man in front of him and rush the passer. Patriots can use all those kind of guys they can find.
San Francisco 49ers: Despite six picks in the top 100 to manipulate the draft, GM Trent Baalke stayed put and took safety Jimmie Ward, after picking Eric Reid in the first round last year and signing Antoine Bethea this offseason. Curious move, but Bethea turns 30 in June and isn't a spring chicken.
Denver Broncos: CB Chris Harris is coming back from a serious knee injury, so Bradley Roby was a smart depth pick.
Seattle Seahawks: The champs don't have any glaring needs, so the trade for a second- and fourth-round pick (which allowed the Vikings to get Teddy Bridgewater) was a smart one. With the eighth pick in the second round, they could get UCLA OG Xavier Su'a-Filo, Nevada OT Joel Bitonio or Notre Dame DE Stephon Tuitt to help the competition on both lines.
Washington: GM Bruce Allen needs a lot of help on the offensive line and in the secondary, so he can take his time figuring out which direction to go with the second pick in the second round. A trade down might not be a bad thing.
Indianapolis Colts: Thanks to the Trent Richardson trade, the Colts have to wait until the 27th pick of the second round to get on the draft board this year. They could use some help in the secondary, but this draft will be slim pickings in that category by then. Don't be surprised if they go with a young receiver to groom behind Reggie Wayne and Hakeem Nicks.


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"Shy" Study Suggests New Treatment Mechanism
A careful study of 54 asymptomatic, HIV-positive gay men, published December 15, 2003, in the journal Biological Psychiatry found that "socially inhibited" individuals had a viral load setpoint eight times higher than others -- and a much worse response to antiretroviral treatment as well, with only about one eighth of the viral load reduction of the other volunteers (all treated volunteers were starting HAART for the first time).1 The study also showed that elevated activity of the autonomic nervous system explained most of this difference -- showing "the first clinical evidence that differential neuronal activity mediates relationships between psychological risk factors and infectious disease pathogenesis" (quotation from the abstract). Apparently socially inhibited persons have a higher baseline stress level, and control excess stress by limiting social interaction.
The authors note other studies showing that norepinephrine, which is released in response to stress, changes the function of cells in several ways that result in faster HIV replication. They note that naturally occurring differences in autonomic nervous system activity can be associated with up to a 100-fold difference in HIV viral load -- and suggest testing drugs that might become powerful adjunctive therapies, slowing HIV progression and greatly improving antiretroviral treatment in many patients.
A recent article in The Washington Post discussed this work, and related work of other scientists.2 For example, a link between depression and HIV progression may be mediated by different biochemical pathways -- opening doors to different treatments for depressed patients than for those with a high stress level.
Comment: Designing Clinical Trials
There are already approved drugs, widely used for other purposes, that can reduce some of the mechanisms that may be responsible for poor control of HIV and poor response to antiretrovirals in certain patients. But until recently, nobody had any reason to imagine using them as part of a strategy for reducing HIV viral load. (For example, beta-blockers are used to lower effects of norepinephrine. But the link with depression might lead to entirely different drug candidates, for to different patients.)
Once plausible drugs are identified, they could be tested relatively easily, because viral load is a continuous measurement that reaches a new setpoint fairly rapidly. For example, one might select patients who are poorly controlling HIV (so that they have a large scope for improvement), who meet other criteria such as social inhibition suggesting that the drug being tested might work particularly well (so that success is easy to see), and who also have a fairly stable viral load, either on treatment or off (so that changes can more easily be attributed to the drug being tested). These patients would be randomized to either take the drug immediately or wait a few weeks; in either case their viral load would be carefully monitored for several weeks or months. If the drug worked as hoped, there would be a large decrease in viral load without any other change in treatment. If this happened, the volunteers would be followed indefinitely to see if the treatment could be continued successfully. These trials would only require a few patients each. They could be designed, recruited, and conducted in months, not years.
It is likely that drug candidates can be found that are already widely available and well known in human use. Some of them may be inexpensive. Often manufacturers of non-HIV drugs do not want an HIV use discovered (because they fear that patients, or their family members or friends, will wrongly suspect that someone is secretly being treated for AIDS -- threatening a large market for a much smaller one). But if a drug is already in widespread use, the manufacturer's cooperation in researching it, while helpful, would not be necessary. The community will need to pay attention, however, and take initiative to make things happen. The system cannot be trusted to work by itself.
At a time when progress in conventional antiretroviral treatment has slowed, here is a wide-open area that, if it works, could rapidly lead to major treatment advances.
Cole SW, Kemeny ME, Fahey JL, Zack JA, and Naliboff BD. Psychological risk factors for HIV pathogenesis: Mediation by the autonomic nervous system. Biological Psychiatry. December 15, 2003; volume 54, pages 1444-1456.
"Stress Found to Weaken Resistance to Illness" by Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post, December 22, 2003, page A12.
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Ok, here's a bit of reasoning that I don't recall seeing discussed, ever...
Why exactly are the Dodge and Reflex potions available as preps?
Ok, I can see the point of making them available so people can get familiar with them and all that, but... They're really strong. As in, really, really, really gamebreakingly strong. Either one of them can be used as a better slayer wand, they're the most common Tri-Sword fuel, they spell a couple of effortless levelups in most circumstances, or 2 free hits on any boss, one of which can also be a Whoopaz hit.
Heck, on big damage guys like the Rogue, Warlord or Berserker they can kill the boss or half a boss on their own. I can't even imagine what the late midgame or the endgame even looks like without them, but they just stick around in the inventory of just about any character you make and reduce the factual number of hits you need to make on the boss to kill him. This can go as low as allowing you to kill a boss you would otherwise not be able to land any hits on, which can be obvious to anyone who scumms up Aequitas for a faithles lvl1 Rogue kill with just a few preps.
I don't know what to think about it, honestly. I scares me a little to think how many of our opinions about the difficulty or viability of this or that is influenced by those two being available as preps, not to mention whoopaz.


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Tech Receives Information Security Accolades
SOCORRO, N.M. July 23, 2009 – New Mexico Tech has earned the highest accolades from the Department of Defense for excellence in industrial security.
The agency's Defense Security Service named 14 winners of the Cogswell Award through a rigorous process of security evaluations. The award recognizes federal contractors that have consistently exceptional information assurance systems and procedures.
"We are very pleased in learning that EMRTC has again won the Cogswell Award," university president Dr. Daniel H. Lopez said. "Winning the award once is quite an accomplishment, but winning it twice is really extraordinary."
Lopez said the award is an indication that EMRTC director Dr. John Meason and his staff are among the best in the nation and that they are extremely diligent in protecting confidential information.
The university's Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center, or EMRTC, works with the Department of Defense, industrial contractors and other federal agencies on a wide range of projects related to national security and defense.
Security director at EMRTC Dennis Hunter said the award truly is a feather in the cap for the university and for EMRTC. He and security manager Marcie Gallegos attended a ceremony in Anaheim, Calif., in June to receive the award.
"We have top level security clearance at New Mexico Tech and we have to protect our documents and provide security for our operations," Hunter said. He said the award is an indication that Tech's security team does an exceptional job of ensuring that stringent federal rules are followed at all times.
When receiving the award, the DSS representatives said the Cogswell Award is a once-in-a-lifetime achievement – but Tech has now won the award twice.
"If you get one of these awards, you're lucky," Hunter said. "Now, New Mexico Tech has received two. That's an absolute superior achievement."
Hunter gave the bulk of the credit for the award to Marcie Gallegos, who is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of EMRTC's security program.
New Mexico Tech previously won the award in 2002. Other award winners in 2009 include Raytheon, Motorola, Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen Hamilton. New Mexico Tech is the only university to receive the award this year.
The award is named after Air Force Col. James S. Cogswell, who was the first chief of industrial security within the Department of Defense. He was responsible for developing the basic principles of the Industrial Security Program, which include an emphasis on the partnership between industry and government to protect classified information. This partnership ultimately ensures the greatest protection for the U.S. war fighter and our nation's classified information. The Cogswell Award has recognized industrial security excellence since 1966.
This year, DSS presents the James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award to 14 of over 12,500 defense contractors that are subject to annual inspection. Factors include establishing and maintaining a security program that far exceeds the basic National Industrial Security Program requirements; and providing leadership to other cleared facilities in establishing best practices while maintaining the highest standards for security.
The Cogswell Award selection process is rigorous. An Industrial Security Representative of the agency must nominate a facility that has had at least two consecutive superior review ratings and has shown a sustained degree of excellence and innovation in their overall security program management, implementation and oversight. The Cogswell Award is given for outstanding achievement in matters related exclusively to a facility's security program.
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"With R.U.S.E., Ubisoft is once again shaking up a genre, offering an RTS with a twist that will thrill gamers," said John Parkes, EMEA marketing director at Ubisoft. "Ubisoft is known for innovation and R.U.S.E. continues that tradition, offering the most immense and detailed maps ever seen in an RTS. Players can explore the maps using IRISZOOM Engine, which provides an aerial, smooth interaction unlike anything ever seen before."
We're already intrigued by the visual style.
Bryn says: Will and the GameSpy team are attacking GDC in San Francisco all this week, and R.U.S.E. is one of the games that they've already seen. Check back on today at 9 a.m. PST for the first impressions. [Update: Here!] Also, what the heck does R.U.S.E. stand for? Really Unbelievably Sick Entertainment? The first comment to top my outstanding comedic effort wins, uh, a response from me in the thread!


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The Intelligencer of Doylestown reports 31-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Pasquale Troisi died of his injuries Monday.
Family members say Troisi was living in Santee, Calif., and had returned to the Warminster area to visit family and friends after a tour of duty in Afghanistan. He was at a backyard party in Upper Moreland on Feb. 22 when someone poured gasoline on logs in a chiminea to try to get them to burn.
The fumes ignited, engulfing Troisi in flames.
The family says he suffered burns over more than 75 percent of his body and had been in a medically induced coma for the past three weeks at Temple University Hospital.


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The Flint River Farms Resettlement Project was part of a New Deal program that offered the opportunity for black farmers to become independent landowners. Flint River Farms was initiated in 1937 when the federal government purchased several large plantations and subdivided them into 107 farm units, averaging 93 acres per unit. Each unit consisted of a house, a barn, two mules, an outhouse, a chicken coop, and a smoke house. All featured electricity, bored wells, sanitary privies and fencing. Today, many of the descendants of the original participants still own the original farmland.
The granddaughter of participant Fred Mathis is filmmaker Charlene Gilbert, who immortalized the experience of these families in the PBS documentary, "Homecoming." Flint River Farms Preservation Society has established a park on the site, located at Highway 26 East and Flint River School Road in Montezuma.
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OTTAWA - It's unclear whether Stephen Harper made any European friends during his visit this week. It's a safe bet, however, that his Conservative MPs in Ottawa made none.
As the prime minister jetted out of France on Thursday after breakfasting with the newly-minted president, Conservatives in the House tore a strip off of Europe — particularly the socialist kind represented by Francois Hollande.
It all started with a question Wednesday from NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, who castigated Harper for lecturing Europeans about their festering financial crisis while not participating with G20 nations on possible solutions.
The following day, Tory MPs stood up one after another in the House of Commons to deliver member statements denouncing the NDP leader — and to especially tell Europe that if they are looking for help from Canada, the answer is "non."
The language got especially colourful when it was Pierre Poilievre's turn.
"They have taxed to the max, borrowed to the brink and are seeking a bailout to continue spending what they do not have," said the Ottawa-area MP, known for his hyper-partisanship.
"This prime minister will not force hard-working Canadian taxpayers to bailout sumptuous Euro welfare-state countries and the wealthy bankers that lend to them."
In case the message wasn't clear, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty later met with reporters to again reject a proposal, supported by the majority of the G20, that nations contribute to an emergency fund to prevent a European financial collapse.
Canada is under pressure — even more so than the United States, where presidential politics and congressional gridlock render the question moot — to add its weight to the International Monetary Fund initiative, but Flaherty has so far refused.
"What we do know is that Mr. Mulcair criticizes our government for not participating with Canadian taxpayers' money in bailing out European banks," Flaherty said.
"Quite frankly, these are among the wealthiest countries in the world and they can manage their own issue before looking to other countries to bail them out."
Flaherty said the IMF is there to help out poor countries, not rich ones.
Still, both Harper and Flaherty have warned that if the Europeans don't fix their mess, countries like Canada will be hit by aftershocks similar to those that occurred when the U.S. financial system collapsed in 2008.
In France, Harper called the 17-country eurozone a "half-done project" that lacks the tools to contain Europe's spiralling debt crisis.
"The problem here is we have a monetary union, but the European Union and the eurozone lack the strong institutional structures that normally go with a monetary union," he said.
Analysts agree with the view that there are sufficient funds to backstop sovereign and bank debt in the zone, but they say creating a sufficiently large safety net, as Canada has urged, is politically difficult because most of the money would need to come from Germany.
That has led to the kind of temporary measures that have kept indebted nations and undercapitalized banks in southern Europe from collapsing, but have also failed in Flaherty's words to "overwhelm the problem" once and for all.
The criticism comes at a time when the federal government is actively seeking to forge a free-trade deal with the European Union.
Mulcair did not meet with reporters Thursday, but in response to claims he wants Canadian taxpayers to pony up money for Europe, he told the House: "That is the type of pure fabulation one resorts to when one does not have any arguments."
NDP finance critic Peggy Nash said her party is focused on what plans the prime minister has to help Canadians in the case of a second recession.
"I don't know why the prime minister needs to attack what's happening in Europe," Nash said. "The prime minister should be focused on the Canadian economy and let the Europeans sort out their own economy."
Harper said in a CBC interview this week that the government has contingency plans in case of a new global crisis, but did not offer specific details.
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