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Atkins, Atkins diet, Atkins nutritional approach, Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. (ANI), Calories Don't Count, diet, Eco-Atkins diet, fad diet, glycemic index, high-fat diet, high-protein diet, ketogenic diet, low-carb diet, low-carbohydrate diet, low-starch diet, Robert Atkins, South beach diet®, The Drinking Man's Diet, very-low-carbohydrate diet, W. Banting's diet.
Not included in this review
: Other high-fat diets, high-protein diets, low-carbohydrate diets (general), and the ketogenic diet.
: Only clinical trials investigating the effect of the Atkins Diet® itself will be discussed in the evidence section. Although the Atkins Diet® is considered a low-carbohydrate, high-protein, and high-fat diet, clinical trials investigating modification in macronutrients will be used to explain the potential mechanisms of action of the Atkins Diet®.
The Atkins Diet® is an eating style that supports an increased consumption of fats as the primary source of energy, while restricting carbohydrate intake. This is based on the idea that eating carbohydrate-rich foods like bread, cereal, potatoes, or pasta results in increased fat stores.
Experts have found potential long-term health risks associated with the diet, including type 2 diabetes and kidney problems. The safety and long-term effectiveness of the Atkins Diet® is a subject of debate in the medical community.
The role of the Atkins Diet® in reducing long-term obesity and its effects on other medical conditions need further investigation. However, short-term use of the Atkins Diet® does appear to result in weight loss in clinical trials.
The Atkins Diet® is a four-step dietary plan originally described in the 1972 book "Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution." In 1992, a revised edition entitled "Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution" was published. Designed for weight reduction, the Atkins Diet® is a low-carbohydrate diet with unrestricted calorie intake from protein and fat. The diet is supplemented by significant amounts of vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional agents.
There are four stages of the program: induction, ongoing weight loss, premaintenance, and maintenance.
Induction phase
: The diet initially excludes all carbohydrates. During the induction phase, a gradual increase of carbohydrates is permitted to a maximum of 20 grams of carbohydrates daily. The diet consists of nearly unlimited meats, poultry, seafood, eggs, cheeses, oils, butter, margarine, bacon, and sausages. The 20-gram carbohydrate limit comes from trace amounts in sauces, dressings, cheeses, and a few cups of lettuce, greens, or vegetables consumed daily. During the two weeks of the induction phase, participants cannot have milk, fruits, grains, cereals, breads, or "high glycemic index" vegetables such as potatoes, peas, corn, or carrots. Thereafter, depending on the individual and the stage of the diet, an increase to no more than 90 grams of carbohydrates daily is permitted.
Ongoing weight loss phase
: Dieters begin adding about five grams of carbohydrates daily to their diet weekly. This phase continues until the dieter is within 10 pounds of the target weight.
Premaintenance phase
: At this stage, dieters typically want to lose 5-10 more pounds and may increase carbohydrate intake by 10 grams daily for a week at a time.
Maintenance phase
: Generally, dieters consume no more than 90 grams of carbohydrates daily in the maintenance phase.
In general, throughout the diet, unrestricted intakes of protein and fat are permitted, caloric intake is not restricted, and vitamin and mineral supplementation is recommended. Seafood and poultry are recommended. A regular exercise plan is recommended.
Evidence Table
These uses have been tested in humans or animals. Safety and effectiveness have not always been proven. Some of these conditions are potentially serious, and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare provider.
A carbohydrate-restricted diet has been shown to result in weight loss in obese and nonobese people. Shorter time periods may result in more significant effects. Overall, studies suggest that the Atkins Diet® does result in long-term weight loss.
Carbohydrate-restricted diets have been shown to benefit insulin levels in both diabetics and nondiabetics. Preliminary evidence suggests that the Atkins Diet® may improve metabolism in insulin-resistant women. Long-term safety studies are still required in this field before conclusions can be made.
One study reviewed the effectiveness of the Atkins Diet® in treating epilepsy. Preliminary evidence suggests that seizure frequency may be reduced in some people. More studies are required before conclusions can be made.
According to one study, significant differences in blood pressure were lacking when the Atkins Diet® was compared with a high-carbohydrate, low-fat, low-calorie conventional diet in obese or overweight men and women. Additional studies are needed before a conclusion can be made.
One study found that the Atkins Diet® may be linked to greater weight loss and improvements in cholesterol levels compared to other diets. More studies are needed before conclusions can be made.
* Key to grades
: Strong scientific evidence for this use
: Good scientific evidence for this use
: Unclear scientific evidence for this use
: Fair scientific evidence for this use (it may not work)
: Strong scientific evidence against this use (it likley does not work)
Tradition / Theory
The below uses are based on tradition, scientific theories, or limited research. They often have not been thoroughly tested in humans, and safety and effectiveness have not always been proven. Some of these conditions are potentially serious, and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare provider. There may be other proposed uses that are not listed below.
Alzheimer's disease, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, arthritis, asthma, autoimmune diseases, cancer, diarrhea, exercise performance enhancement, food allergies, headache, heart disease, hepatic encephalopathy (confused thinking due to liver disorders), inflammatory skin conditions, irritable bowel syndrome, liver cirrhosis (liver scarring), liver disease, metabolic syndrome (atherogenic dyslipidemia), neurological disorders (brain disorders), overall well being, sleep aid, sleep difficulties, sleep disorders, Sturge Weber syndrome (brain and skin disorder), urolithiasis (urinary tract stones).
Many complementary techniques are practiced by healthcare professionals with formal training, in accordance with the standards of national organizations. However, this is not universally the case, and adverse effects are possible. Due to limited research, in some cases only limited safety information is available.
The Atkins Diet® is considered safe when used for periods no longer than 3-6 months by healthy overweight individuals who are not taking any medications.
: Vitamin supplements are recommended for people who follow the Atkins Diet® due to the potential for malnutrition.
In general, under the Atkins Diet®, it is recommended that dieters stop any unneeded medications. The book warns that diuretic drugs (drugs that promote urination) and antidiabetic medications (including insulin) have the potential to combine with the diet to produce an overdose.
The Atkins diet may lower blood sugar levels. Caution is advised when using medications, herbs, or supplements that may also lower blood sugar. People taking drugs for diabetes by mouth or insulin should be monitored closely by a qualified healthcare professional, including a pharmacist. Medication adjustments may be necessary.
The Atkins diet may cause low blood pressure. Caution is advised in people taking drugs, herbs, or supplements that lower blood pressure.
The Atkins diet may increase the amount of drowsiness caused by some drugs and herbs or supplements. Examples include benzodiazepines such as lorazepam (Ativan®) or diazepam (Valium®), barbiturates such as phenobarbital, narcotics such as codeine, some antidepressants, and alcohol. Caution is advised while driving or operating machinery.
The Atkins diet may interact with agents that prevent seizures, agents that promote urination, agents that treat psychological disorders, agents that treat stomach disorders, anticancer agents, antidiarrheal agents, anti-inflammatory agents, antiobesity agents, central nervous system stimulants, cholesterol-lowering agents, corticosteroids, growth hormones, heart health agents, laxatives, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents (NSAIDs), and steroids.
The Atkins diet may interact with anticancer herbs and supplements, antidiarrheals, anti-inflammatory herbs and supplements, antiobesity agents, antioxidants, central nervous system stimulants, cholesterol-lowering herbs and supplements, ephedra (ma huang), heart health herbs and supplements, herbs and supplements that prevent seizures, herbs and supplements that promote urination, herbs and supplements that treat psychological disorders, herbs and supplements that treat stomach disorders, and laxatives.
Use cautiously over extended periods of time. There is a lack of safety tests over periods greater than one year.
Use cautiously in children, highly active people, and people who have or are taking medications for anemia, celiac disease, epilepsy and seizures, gout, hair loss, heart disease, kidney disease, malnourishment, menstrual disorders, nutrient absorption problems, osteoporosis, pregnancy, psychiatric disorders (including bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia), skin disorders and rash, stomach disorders, type 2 diabetes, and thyroid conditions, due to the potential for worsened symptoms.
Use cautiously in people taking growth hormones, diuretics, and NSAIDs.
Avoid using in pregnant women, due to the potential for negative side effects in the fetus. Avoid using in breastfeeding women, due to a lack of safety data.
The Atkins Diet® may cause other side effects, such as abnormal heart rhythm, anxiety, bad breath, breathing difficulty, changes in arterial blood gases, constipation, decreased appetite, decreased bone density, decreased urinary pH, dehydration, diarrhea, dizziness, fatigue, Fanconi's renal tubular acidosis (kidney disease), gallbladder colic, gout, headache, heart disease, high anion, high lipase A, impaired brain function, increased body hair in women, increased calcium levels, increased cholesterol levels, increased menstrual bleeding, increased nitrogen levels, increased uric acid levels, inflammation, irritability, kidney stones, lipid disorders, low bicarbonate, low blood pH, low blood pressure, muscle cramps, nausea, negative feelings toward exercise, pain in upper stomach, panic, rash, shakiness, shortness of breath, sleep difficulties, stomach problems, tissue damage, and vomiting.
This information is based on a systematic review of scientific literature edited and peer-reviewed by contributors to the Natural Standard Research Collaboration (
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Doerfler B and Keefer L. Considering the necessity of a very low carbohydrate diet on diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome. Clin.Gastroenterol.Hepatol. 2010;8(1):98.
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Foster GD, Wyatt HR, Hill JO, et al. Weight and metabolic outcomes after 2 years on a low-carbohydrate versus low-fat diet: a randomized trial. Ann.Intern.Med. 8-3-2010;153(3):147-157.
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The CA-1802 "ATHOS" GSM car alarm provides car protection, immobilization and alarm reporting via GSM. Controllable via a Jablotron key-fob controller supplied in the package or via an original remote control.
Multiple detectors can be enrolled to the alarm in order to protect the car inside or outside space.
The CA-1802 "ATHOS" GSM car alarm provides car protection, immobilization and alarm reporting via GSM.
The car alarm can be controlled remotely either via the key-fob controller supplied in the package or via an original remote control. You also can operate the alarm remotely from authorized mobile phones via SMS instructions or simply by dialling-in.
The car alarm responds to door opening, turning the ignition key on, boot or bonnet releases or to voltage drops caused by car appliances being switched on. Wireless detectors can be connected to provide protection of both the car interior and exterior (garage, caravan, etc.). The delay mode feature allows you convenient operation when accessing your garage. After an alarm has been triggered, a siren will be activated and SMS reports will be sent to pre-programmed phone numbers. SMS alarm reports contain detailed information about possible intrusion source, type, date and time. You can pre-program report parts according your wishes as in the following example: Mercedes reports: Alarm, boot, intrusion, Time 02:27:50, 10.11.2007.
You can immobilize the car via an SMS instruction, this way preventing the car from being used after your keys have been stolen. It is possible to attach a hands-free set of type HF-03. Using this you are able to call to up to 4 pre-programmed phone numbers via the car alarm, or to receive calls from an arbitrary number, or to remotely listen-in to the car after an alarm has been triggered. You can interrogate about the current car status (locked/unlocked, ignition on/off, ...) via SMS instructions. If a pre-paid SIM card is used, the car alarm is capable of checking the credit balance automatically. By monitoring the voltage supply, the CA-1802 responds to any power supply faults by informing you via SMS and, in particular, by switching to the BB-02 back-up battery as a power supply. Except for the acoustic siren, the BB-02 backs-up all the functions of the car alarm. This also includes voice communication if an HF-03 handsfree set is attached.
The car alarm provides many optional features which can be programmed via SMS instructions or via the GSMLink web site which provides password protected Internet access.
The CA-1802 Athos product range has now been extended by two new kits:
CA-1802 WRC - The kit is designed for cars with an original remote control for central locking (mode 2) or for cars with an installed car alarm where it will work as a GSM pager (mode 3). The RC-82 keyfobs are not supplied with the package. This allows the kit to be provided at a very favourable price.
CA-1802.550 - The kit contains all the parts of the standard CA-1802 Athos package. In addition, a CA-550 digital tilt-detector is supplied providing efficient protection of the car or its wheels from being stolen. Purchasing the kit allows you to pay less than if the products had been bought separately.
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|8A permanently, 12A intermittently
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MIDDLEBURY — Addison Central Supervisory Union (ACSU) Superintendent Gail Conley, who has been serving on an interim basis since last July 1, has agreed to serve another year in order to give a search committee more time to find his replacement.
An ACSU search committee has thus far initiated two ill-fated searches for a new superintendent. Those searches yielded relatively few applications from what is a shrinking pool nationwide of qualified education administrators. In both cases, the search committee did not feel it could advance a finalist for the job.


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Events for the Week of January 10, 2011
A weekend full of cheesy, greasy, spicy football snacks and big beers to pair it with has led me to dedicated sessions of water ingestion and couch laying. But now for your week in beer!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Port Brewing/Lost Abbey Release Party: Decatur, Georgia
5:00PM-9:00PM @ Brick Store Pub
So this event features one of my favorite breweries Lost Abbey/Port Brewing. Tomme Arthur is a genius! Here is what you can expect beer wise tonight:
Port Brewing Wipeout IPA 7.0%
Lost Abbey Cuvee de Tomme Wild ale 10.0%
Port Brewing Hop 15 Imperial IPA 10.0%
Lost Abbey Amazing Grace Belgian dubbel 9.5%
Port Brewing Mongo Imperial IPA 8.5%
Lost Abbey 10 Commandments Strong Dark 9%
Port Brewing old Viscosity Imperial Stout 10.0%
Lost Abbey Inferno Strong Pale 8.5%
Port Brewing Shark Attack Imperial Red ale 9%
Lost Abbey Lost & Found Dubbel 8.0%
Lost Abbey Gift of the Magi Biere De Garde 10%
Lost Abbey Judgment Day Belgian Quad 10.5%
Lost Abbey Devotion Belgian pale ale 6.5%
Lost Abbey Red Barn Saison 6.7%
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Festival of Stouts: Cincinatti, Ohio
6:00PM-10:00PM @ Catskeller
Its cold outside, so warm up with some stouts. This list is amazing and flights are available.
Founders Breakfast Stout
Harviestoun Old Engine Oil
Porterhouse Oyster Stout
Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti Stout
Stone Imperial Stout
Stoudts Fat Dog Imperial Oatmeal Stout
Flying Dog Nitro Gonzo
Dark Horse One Oatmeal Stout
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Cigar City Night: Brandon, Florida
7:00PM – 10:00PM @ Mellow Mushroom
Cigar City– one of the most innovative breweries in the South. Tonight, the Mellow Mushroom will be tapping a cask of Humidor-Aged Improvisacion Oatmeal India Rye. Other beers will also be on tap, but they are a SURPRISE!
Friday, January 14, 2011
Great Alaska Beer and Barleywine Festival: Anchorage, Alaska
5:00PM-10:00PM @ Egan Center
This is one of our nation's most epic beer festivals and here are the deets:
Tix are on sale now!
Fri Jan 14, 5-10p $35+ various Ticketmaster fees
Sat Jan 15, 2-5p connoisseurs session $45+
Sat Jan 15, 6-10p $35+
Go to http://auroraproductions.net/beer-barley.html and click "Purchase Tickets Online". These sessions sell out every year! So get your tix now, for yourself or as a start to your holiday shopping for beer loving friends and family!
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Avery/Lagunitas Brewery Series Night: Mahopac, New York
7:00PM-9:00PM @ Holy Smoke Bbq
Avery and Lagunitas are here with 12 lines each to make sure 2011 start off with a freaking bang!! We will have some nice cask selections that night and the great array only Avery and Lagunitas can offer. We have never hosted Avery, so it's high time we did.
This event is also admirable as all proceeds go to support the Wounded Warrior Project.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Southwest Beer Dinner: Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
6:30PM-8:30PM @ Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats
Join us for one of our fantastic, fabulous and fun off-season monthly beer dinners!
Our January 2011 Beer Dinner is our Southwest dinner featuring wild game from Broken Arrow Ranch in TX.
South Texas Antelope Tamale with Salsa Verde – Served with Theobroma
Ground Wild Boar Stuffed Pablano Pepper with Tomatillo Vinaigrette and Local Greens – Served with Indian Brown Ale
Bandera Quail on Roasted Corn Polenta with Baby Vegetables and Burgundy Reduction – Served with Pain Relieva Porter
Flan with Wild Boar Whipped Cream – Served with 2006 Vintage 120 Minute IPA
Menu subject to change due to general awesomeness and availability.
Seating at 6:30pm
$57 per person (includes gratuity)
Monday, January 17, 2011
Firestone Walker Reserve Cask Night: Rancho Santa Margarita, California
6:00PM-8:00PM @ Selma's Chicago Pizzeria & Tap Room
Firestone Walker made a special cask of their outstanding Walker's Reserve! It's a Robust Porter with a 5.9%ABV; elegant dark ale featuring robust flavors of toffee, caramel and bittersweet chocolate. This brew employs five specialty malts, as well as oat and barley flakes, for added complexity and flavor. It's smooth and oh sooo good!
Come have a taste (or two).
If you go to an event, want me to write about an event please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and Ill make sure we post about it! Cheers!
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HERNDON, Va., July 9 (UPI) -- Only the Hebrew word "chutzpah" appropriately describes it but a recent demand of the Vatican by Egypt's senior Sunni cleric Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb screams for its use.
To better understand why, a brief history of recent Muslim/Catholic relations is necessary.
In 2006, ties between Muslims and Catholics were severed by the former when Pope Benedict XVI innocently recounted an historic observation made centuries ago. In a lecture, the pontiff simply repeated 14th-century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II's statement about Prophet Muhammad.
Manuel had spent much of his 34-year rule defending his empire against Muslim aggression, finally agreeing to pay tribute to the Ottoman Turks the year before he died.
He stated: "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached ... God is not pleased by blood -- and not acting reasonably is contrary to God's nature. Faith is born of the soul, not the body ... To convince a reasonable soul, one does not need a strong arm, or weapons of any kind, or any other means of threatening a person with death ..."
Criticism of Muhammad, even if historical, is unacceptable to Muslims. Benedict's recounting of the 14th-century quote about Islam's inherent violence was met by 21st-century violence from a Muslim world claiming it is peaceful. Not much about Islam has changed in the ensuing seven-century interlude.
In 2011, relations between Muslims and Catholics further deteriorated. A suicide bombing of an Egyptian church, killing 20 and wounding 100, prompted Benedict to call for increased protection for Christian minorities. Unbelievably, the pope's plea triggered further Muslim violence and protest.
Suggesting the Muslim/Catholic split was a product of the retired pope's persona, Tayeb demands the new pope help mend fences. All Pope Francis need do is acknowledge Islam as a religion of peace!
One can only wonder if Tayeb has been sniffing glue!
History is replete with examples of Muslims executing non-Muslims -- from the days of Muhammad through the butchery of the Greek Patriarch and Priests on Easter 1822 in Constantinople to the Rev. Francois Murad in Syria last month. Concerning Murad's death, London's Daily Telegraph reported, "It is very important the world knows that Christians are being murdered for their faith."
Even ignoring the violence detailed repeatedly throughout the Koran toward non-Muslims and ignoring the historical record by which Muslims have endeavored to impose Islam upon them, one cannot ignore Islam's violent history through the 21st century by which Muslims have slain fellow Muslims.
Muslim-on-Muslim violence has reached a frenzy today in the region yet, by making his demand of the pope, Tayeb totally ignores it.
If Muhammad were truly a prophet, why did he make no provision in the Koran for his successor? Failing to do so triggered the great Muslim divide, following Muhammad's death, of dueling Sunni and Shiite sects -- one witnessing 1,400 years now of Muslim-on-Muslim violence.
Muhammad left the door open for this violence by mandating any Muslim leaving the faith (apostate) should suffer death. As Sunnis and Shiites each perceive the other to be apostates, each therefore believes the Koran sanctions violence against the other.
For this reason, although Islam directs hatred and non-tolerance at non-believers, history records more Muslims dying at the hands of fellow Muslims than non-believers.
The trend continues today, evidenced by daily violence occurring in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Lebanon -- all coming to a head in Syria where Sunnis and Shiites struggle to establish regional dominance.
While almost every religion has had violent episodes, Islam is the only one with a continuous history of violence, mandated repeatedly throughout its holy book, in God's name.
Reading through the Koran allows one better to understand Prophet Muhammad was driven, not by a loving God speaking to him through the Angel Gabriel, but by a warrior's mentality aimed at spurring followers on to fight for him to the death.
What better way to get followers to do his violent bidding than with promises of looting in this life and virgins in the next? What better way to get them to build up hatred and intolerance toward non-Muslims than by proclaiming more than 500 times in the Koran Allah's hatred and intolerance for them? (Even Muhammad's dying words allegedly were to place a curse upon Jews and Christians forever.)
Muhammad definitely understood human psychology and how violence ordained by him could be challenged but not violence supposedly ordained by God.
Of note in the days surrounding Tayeb's demand to the Vatican for a declaration of Islam's peaceful nature is the Muslim violence currently taking place including: suicide bombings in Iraq and Afghanistan; Syrian children being tortured, raped and used as human shields; a Muslim mentor in Australia being convicted of whipping a convert; Afghan legislators refusing to support legislation protecting women as being "un-Islamic" (for prohibiting beatings and other abuse); Egyptian Sunnis lynching Iranian Shiites; etc.
No other religion today draws the violent headlines Islam does.
The early Muslim historian Tabari who lived two centuries after Muhammad's death chronicled the Prophet's life. He listed Muhammad's nicknames, including one as "the obliterator." It is most telling about Muhammad's violent nature and the nature of the religion he founded.
For Pope Francis to acknowledge Islam as a peaceful religion is to turn a blind eye to the reality of the intentions of its violent founder.
(A retired Marine, Lt. Col. James Zumwalt served in the Vietnam War, the U.S. invasion of Panama and the first Gulf War. He has written "Bare Feet, Iron Will -- Stories from the Other Side of Vietnam's Battlefields," "Living the Juche Lie: North Korea's Kim Dynasty" and "Doomsday: Iran -- The Clock is Ticking.")
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A relatively snowfree January has allowed workers to pick up some lost ground on the $1.5 million expansion and renovation of the Mills County Courthouse.
Mills County Auditor Carol Robertson said Friday work had fallen about two weeks behind, but the absence of snowfall and unseasonably warm temperatures last week helped get the project back on track.
Two years ago, Angela Campbell was hired as director of the Glenwood Public Library. During her time in Glenwood, the library has seen some significant changes.
"During the interview process, they (the library board) talked about renovating," Campbell said. "Having just seen the two new libraries being built in Davenport, I was really excited for that. I was really happy to see a rather dull, unused space (the lower level) being turned into someplace lively."
The Glenwood Police Department made its move official last Thursday – cutting the ribbon on its new home in the lower level of City Hall at 3 N. Vine St. The two-story building previously housed the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints and was purchased by the city of Glenwood last year for the relocation of City Hall, the police department and Glenwood Municipal Utilities offices.
The physical condition of the Glenwood Public Library was the focus of discussion at last week's regular meeting of the Glenwood City Council.
The deterioration of bricks on the building's exterior and a leaky roof have members of the Glenwood Library Board and Glenwood City Council concerned about patron and employee safety and potential damage that could be caused as a result of a heavy snow accumulation on the roof this winter.
PACIFIC JUNCTION - The City of Pacific Junction hosted a meeting last week to discuss the future of the city's volunteer fire and rescue department with representatives from its four-township coverage area.
Representatives from the St. Mary's, Lyons, Plattville, Oak and Glenwood townships got a tour of the fire department station and a crash course in fire department budgeting from Chief Donnie Kates about the department.
Glenwood Municipal Utilities has announced a change in its treatment of the city's drinking water supply.
A Glenwood bar owner claims his business lost between $600 - $1,000 in sales because police officers refused to allow his establishment to stay open an additional hour when Daylight Saving Time ended at 2 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 4.
As expected, Republican candidates prevailed in last Tuesday's general election in Mills County.
Republicans Lonnie Mayberry and Ron Kohn were elected to occupy two seats on the Mills County Board of Supervisors, garnering 4,351 and 3,381 votes respectively. Jack May, a candidate by petition, finished a distant third with 2,657 votes.
One seat will be up for grabs on the Glenwood City Council in next Tuesday's general election.
Steve Fornoff faces a challenge from Jeremy Wade Rodman for an at-large seat on the council. In August, Fornoff was appointed over Rodman to fill the seat vacated by Clare Bangs in a 3-1 vote of the council. That seat had become open when Bangs moved outside the city limits.
There are no other seats up on the five-member council.
By Monday afternoon, more than 2,400 Mills County residents had already cast their ballot for next Tuesday's general election.
Election officials expect that number to continue to rise as Election Day nears, greatly surpassing the 2,447 Mills County ballots that were cast early in 2008, the last presidential election year.
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I asked myself this question, to which I think the answer is "yes". One reason would be that an invertible matrix has infinitely many options for its determinant (except $0$), whereas a non-invertible must have $0$ as the determinant.
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Almost half of the UK population now owns a smartphone, and Google's OS, Android, is leading the race.
According to research from market watcher Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, smartphone sales are on the rise. App-friendly handsets now make up 69.1 per cent of all mobile phone purchases, it said. And 43.8 per cent of Britons own one.
Google's Android OS can be found under the hood of half those handsets, with RIM's BlackBerry OS taking 22.5 per cent and Apple's iOS 18.5 per cent.
The figures are somewhat skewed, though, as data is based on a period that ended two days prior to Apple's iPhone 4S launch, which has undoubtedly boosted the company's position after it shipped record amounts of the latest iPhone.
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HTC took the lead in Q3, accounting for 45 per cent of Android shipments, with Samsung taking a 38 per cent share.
Other manufacturers are lagging behind. Sony Ericsson dropped to 8.5 per cent over the three months to October, down from 25.2 per cent. Now that Sony has bought-out Ericsson's share of the company, it'll be interesting to see how it plans to tackle the decline.
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MATT LAUER, co-host: The big question's now what happens next, and what does this uprising mean for the future of the Middle East ? Michael Singh is the former senior director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council , Martin Fletcher covers the region for NBC and is our former Tel Aviv bureau chief, and Andrea Mitchell is NBC 's chief foreign affairs correspondent. Good morning to all of you.
ANDREA MITCHELL reporting: Good morning, Matt.
Mr. MICHAEL SINGH (Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy): Good morning.
LAUER: Michael , let me start with you. A guy who's become somewhat the face of this revolt is Mohamed ElBaradei . He spoke yesterday and said this, 'We have restored our rights, we have restored our freedom, and what we have begun can not be reversed.' Is he putting the best possible spin on this? Does Hosni Mubarak have any cards left to play?
Mr. SINGH: Well, it's developed into a bit of a stand-off there in the streets of Cairo . I mean, ElBaradei and the opposition are insisting that Mubarak has to leave. Mubarak doesn't seem to be budging and he's pouring more troops and more police in the streets. And so right now you really have a stand-off between the two.
LAUER: In fact, it seems that Mubarak in some ways is being tone deaf here. Here you have these people in the streets saying they want the end of the old regime, and yet Mubarak appoints his vice president, a key member of that old regime, his right-hand man, his former intelligence chief. This is not going to go over well.
Mr. SINGH: Well, that's right. And you have to remember, this is a proud man. He's been ruling for 29 years. And he really believes, or at least believed at the beginning, that this was an unruly minority that's trying to threaten the security of his country. And so really, the United States has to bring him around to a different view.
LAUER: You talk about a stand-off. The fact of the matter is, there will be some movement in one direction or another. When you look into your crystal ball, which direction is it going?
Mr. SINGH: Well, right now I think one of the things we have to look very carefully at is the economic situation. No containers are being unloaded in the ports, the bread -- bakeries that are run by the state aren't working, ATMs have no money. So how long can people hold out -- hold out there in the streets is the question. Is the military willing to use force if they're given the order? These are the key questions.
LAUER: Over the weekend it did not seem as if they were.
Mr. SINGH: That's right .
LAUER: Do you think that might change?
Mr. SINGH: It may change. Ad I think the return of the police to the streets may be a spark for more violence, more conflict. The people hate the police, whereas the military is respected. So right now I think things are teetering on an edge.
LAUER: Martin , it seems as if this began with some students, largely young people , in many cases using social networking to communicate. It seems other groups have now joined the fray. Is that original message being co-opted for the benefit of other people now?
MARTIN FLETCHER reporting: Well, I think there's -- the original message is being co-opted simply because it's a message that is shared by most Egyptians. The anger at the corruption, of the poverty, the joblessness is not limited to young people . The country's really uniform in that -- united, I think, in that. But the question really becomes the Muslim Brotherhood . They're a group, they were underground. They're be -- they're being seen more in the streets. They're giving out water, they're giving out food to the demonstrators there. We're hearing Muslim Brotherhood slogans.
LAUER: We've seen that tactic in other places in the Middle East as well.
FLETCHER: Absolutely. They come -- they take a real issue and they use it because they support that issue. And they're becoming popular, of course.
LAUER: So what role do you expect them to have in the future of Egypt , and how worried should the United States be about that role?
FLETCHER: Probably a larger role, much larger role, and I think the United States probably should be very worried about it. It doesn't necessarily mean the Muslim Brotherhood is going to be an immediate terrorist force. But at the same time, Muslim fundamentalism -- Muslim fundamentalism is what they are. And other areas in the region will be looking at their success, in particular Hamas , for instance, in Gaza , which is actually just a branch of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood .
LAUER: Andrea , let me bring you in. Mohamad ElBaradei also had this to say over the weekend. He said -- talking about the call from the United States to hold elections in the fall.
MITCHELL: Right.
LAUER: Quote, "The American government cannot ask the Egyptian people to believe that a dictator who's been in power for 30 years will be the one to implement democracy. This is really a farce. People here might be poor, but they are intelligent." How do you think the administration is -- has handled this little tightrope, or this balancing act that they've been asked to perform so far?
MITCHELL: Well, it is a very tough balancing act. I mean, here they have to at the same time, reassure King Abdullah in Saudi Arabia and King Abdullah in Jordan and other Arab leaders that we are not abandoning them, but still signal the revolutionaries, really, the protesters that they are on the side of democracy against an ally who has been critical in making peace with Israel and importantly, in recent decade, the war on terror , the key ally in the war on terror and the key ally against Saddam Hussein in Desert Storm . So you've got a balancing act. They perhaps were a bit slow in moving and in developing a voice in the initial days. You had misspeaking by Joe Biden , off message a bit on Thursday, saying that Mubarak was an ally and not a dictator. But at the same time, by Friday the president had signaled very strongly and himself said to his advisers, 'I need to go out and speak,' and spoke at 6:30 on Friday night our time, spoke to Mubarak . They're obviously not happy that Mubarak is not listening, not getting the message. But they don't want this to move too quickly because right now there's a real vacuum. They don't see that ElBaradei has real roots, but they were very intrigued by what he did say yesterday, which is that there's a possibility of some coalition with the army.
LAUER: Right.
MITCHELL: If you have ElBaradei and the army, you're beginning to broaden an interim situation.
LAUER: And, Michael , I'm going to give you the last word here. It seems as if when you listen to a lot of the coverage and a lot of the concern here in the United States over the weekend, there is an assumption that whatever follows Mubarak will be worse for the United States than what we know in Mubarak . Is that a correct assumption?
Mr. SINGH: It's not necessarily correct. I think, you know, in this type of situation, in a crisis, first you're scrambling to get information and then you're really trying to prevent the worst outcomes. And I think for the White House , the worst outcomes are the violent overthrow of Mubarak or massacres in the streets. And so right now they're trying to buy time so that then we can use our leverage, use our influence in this sort of medium term to bring about that successful outcome, that orderly transition to democracy like Hillary Clinton said.
LAUER: Michael Singh , Martin Fletcher , Andrea Mitchell , thanks to all of you for your perspective on this.
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Explainer: Key players in Egyptian protests
Protesters stormed Cairo streets in a bid to drive Hosni Mubarak from power, even as the longtime president set the stage for a successor by naming his intelligence chief as his first-ever vice president.
The following are key players in the unfolding crisis.
Sources: The Associated Press, Reuters
Name: Hosni Mubarak
Age: 82
Role: Mubarak resigned as president and handed control to the military on Feb. 11, bowing down after a historic 18-day wave of pro-democracy demonstrations by hundreds of thousands. The former air force commander had ruled Egypt for 30 years as leader of the National Democratic Party.
Background: Mubarak was thrust into office when Islamists gunned down his predecessor Anwar Sadat at a military parade in 1981. He has long promoted peace abroad and on the domestic front he has kept a tight lid on political opposition. He has resisted any significant political change even under pressure from the United States. The U.S. has poured billions of dollars of military and other aid into Egypt since it became the first Arab state to make peace with Israel, signing a treaty in 1979.
Controversy: Mubarak won the first multicandidate presidential election in 2005 although the outcome was never in doubt and his main rival came in a distant second. Rights groups and observers said the election was marred by irregularities.
Personal note: There have been questions about his health after surgery in Germany last March.
New VP
Name: Omar Suleiman
Age: 74
Role: The intelligence chief and Mubarak confidant became Egypt's first vice president in three decades on Jan. 29. The move clearly set up a succession that would hand power to Suleiman and keep control of Egypt in the hands of military men.
Military man: He has been the director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Services since 1993, a part in which he has played a prominent public role in diplomacy, including in Egypt's relations with Israel and the United States. In 1992 he headed the General Operations Authority in the Armed Forces and then became the director of the military intelligence unit before taking over EGIS. Suleiman took part in the war in Yemen in 1962 and the 1967 and 1973 wars against Israel.
Intel chief: Suleiman was in charge of the country's most important political security files, and was the mastermind behind the fragmentation of Islamist groups who led the uprising against the state in the 1990s.
New PM
Name: Ahmed Shafiq
Age: 69
Role: President Mubarak appointed Shafiq as prime minister on Jan. 29.
Background: A close associate of Mubarak, Shafiq has been minister of civil aviation since 2002. As minister of civil aviation, Shafiq has won a reputation for efficiency and administrative competence. He has supervised a successful modernization program at the state airline, EgyptAir, and improvements to the country's airports.
Former fighter pilot: Shafiq served as commander of the Egyptian air force between 1996 and 2002, a post Mubarak held before he became vice president of Egypt under former President Anwar Sadat.
Name: Mohamed ElBaradei
Age: 68
Role: The Nobel Peace Prize winner joined demonstrators trying to oust Mubarak. ElBaradei has suggested he might run for president if democratic and constitutional change were implemented.
Atomic watchdog: ElBaradei joined the International Atomic Energy Agency in 1984 and served as its director-general in 1997. He transformed the IAEA into a body bold enough to take a stand on political issues relating to peace and proliferation, despite critics' belief that it was not its place. In 2005, ElBaradei and the IAEA were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He retired in 2009.
Law and diplomacy: He studied law, graduating from the University of Cairo and the New York University School of Law. He began his career in the Egyptian diplomatic service in 1964, working twice in the permanent missions of Egypt to the United Nations in New York and Geneva. He was in charge of political, legal and arms control issues. He was a special assistant to the Egyptian foreign minister and was a member of the team that negotiated the peace settlement with Israel at Camp David in 1978. He joined the United Nations two years later.
On Iraq: ElBaradei was outspoken on the lack of evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, which angered the Bush administration.
On guard
Name: Egyptian Armed Forces
Role: The army remains the most powerful institution in the nation, and whatever it does next will determine the future of the Arab world's most populous country. The military appeared to be going to great lengths to calm the country without appearing opposed to demonstrations.
Background: Egypt's 500,000-man army has long enjoyed the respect of citizens who perceive it as the country's least corrupt and most efficient public institution, particularly compared to a police force notorious for heavy handedness and corruption. It is touted as having defeated Israel in the 1973 Mideast War, and revered for that role.
Stabilizer: The military, for its part, sees itself as the guarantor of national stability and above the political fray, loyal to both the government and what it sees as the interests of the general population. The military has given Egypt all of its four presidents since the monarchy was toppled in 1952.
Provider: Although it has almost completely withdrawn from politics since 1952, the army has added to its strength by venturing into economic activity, playing a growing role in such key service industries as food production and construction. It stepped in in 2008 during an acute shortage of bread, Egypt's main stable, which it provided from its own bakeries. It has since opened outlets for basic food items sold as vastly discounted prices.
The Brotherhood
Name: Muslim Brotherhood
Role: The brotherhood is Egypt's largest and most organized political opposition movement. Banned in 1954 on charges of using violence, members returned to Egypt to show support in protests.
Background: The group said it has since denounced violence and expanded its international presence. It has participated in Egyptian elections as independents despite frequent crackdowns. It surprisingly won about 20 percent of the 454 seats in 2005 parliamentary elections and since then, authorities have jailed around 5,000 of its members. The group believes in Islamic rule.
New audience: The Muslim Brotherhood is the focus of a TV series, "Al-Gamaa," or "The Group," which centers on a 2009 court case in which members were accused of setting up a student militia.
Mubarak's son
Name: Gamal Mubarak
Age: 47
Role: Served as secretary general of his father's National Democratic Party.
Background: The younger Mubarak spent 11 years working at Bank of America in Cairo and London, had gained considerable influence in government after his father appointed him head of the ruling National Democratic Party's (NDP) policy committee in 2002. Many Egyptians felt Mubarak was grooming Gamal as his successor. Before Gamal rose to prominence, speculation was rife in the 1990s that Mubarak wanted Alaa, Gamal's younger brother, to succeed him.
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The Park was founded in 1994 by Brent Hunter and grew to 700,000 registered members in 190 countries before shutting down in April of 2001. The Park was supported by 160 amazing volunteers worldwide and received more than 6 million hits per day -- all while running out of the proverbial garage with no marketing or advertising. The incredible story is now being chronicled in a book titled The Park Odyssey.
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SEC v. Competitive Technologies, Inc., Chauncey D. Steele, John R. Glushko, Thomas C. Kocherhans, Richard A. Kwak, Sheldon A. Strauss, Stephen J. Wilson and Frank R. McPike,Civil Action No. 304 CV 1331 JCH (District of Connecticut)
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil fraud action today in federal court in Hartford alleging that seven individuals engaged in a nationwide scheme to manipulate and fraudulently inflate the price of stock of Competitive Technologies, Inc. (CTT), a small technology company in Fairfield, Connecticut. The defendants include six current or former brokers at four different brokerage firms, and the former CEO of Competitive Technologies, as well as the company itself. Chauncey Steele, of Cohasset, Massachusetts, allegedly orchestrated the scheme while working as a broker at the Hyannis, Massachusetts office of Prudential Securities Inc., acting in concert with Richard Kwak, of Escondido, California, a broker at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, John Glushko of Las Vegas, Nevada, a broker at Finance 500, Stephen Wilson of Pompano Beach, Florida, a broker at Shamrock Partners at the time, and former brokers Thomas Kocherhans of Orem, Utah and Sheldon Strauss of Beachwood, Ohio. Frank McPike of Ridgefield, Connecticut, while acting as CTT's CEO, allegedly made purchases in the company's stock repurchase plan at Steele's direction in order to further the manipulative scheme and CTT is named as a defendant due to his conduct.
According to the Commission's complaint, from at least 1998 through 2001, the defendants artificially raised the price of CTT stock, which is listed on the American Stock Exchange, through several manipulative practices, all designed to maximize the benefit to themselves. On almost every trading day, defendants "painted the tape," that is, made multiple small purchases at arranged times and prices in order to give the misleading appearance of investor interest in the stock Their favored "painting" technique was "marking the close," placing numerous orders at or near the close of the market in order to inflate the reported closing price. Defendants also allegedly made pre-arranged matched trades, so that any impact sales might have on CTT's price would be offset by simultaneous buys at the same price. The complaint alleges that, employing these devices, defendants placed hundreds of purchase orders in both their own and their customers' accounts, making the closing trade in the stock on almost 300 trading days during the period. On more than 90% of those days, they succeeded in raising the reported closing price of the stock. The complaint alleges that defendants' fraudulent scheme resulted in CTT's stock trading at far above its true value. Innocent investors bought the stock at inflated prices of over $20 per share at the stock's high point, which fell to $3 per share after the manipulation ceased.
The specific charges against the defendants in the federal court action are that they violated Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, Sections 9(a) and 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which prohibit fraudulent conduct, and that Steele also violated Section 17(a) and Rule 17a-3 of the Exchange Act by falsifying order tickets to indicate that his customers had initiated orders to buy CTT when in fact he had solicited the purchases. TheCommission is seeking injunctive relief, disgorgement, and civil penalties, and an order permanently barring defendant McPike from serving as an officer or director of a public company.


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Dierks Bentley Jokes That He'll Name His Son After Drinking Buddy Luke Bryan
Dierks Bentley recently shared that he and wife Cassidy are expecting a little boy soon. After having two girls, the singer is excited about adding a little testosterone to the family. Apparently, Luke Bryan is excited too -- and wants the new Bentley boy to be his namesake.
The 'Bourbon in Kentucky' hitmaker revealed that Bryan was the first person to find out the sex of the baby -- he happened to call Bentley right after "it's a boy!" was announced. And, the country star/jokester had two different reactions. The first was a heartfelt, "Man, you're going to have someone to go fishing with and all this stuff."
And the second? It included some ridiculous naming advice. Bentley dishes, "His advice on names is, whatever I name my kid has to sound like someone that you could get totally hammered with," Country Weekly reports.
So, while most parents pick the name based on family history or cuteness, Bryan picks it on if he'd want to drink with the fella. Bentley continues with a laugh, "That's the filter that all the names have to flow through, like, 'Man, I went out last night and got hammered with Bo Bryan.'"
Will the Bentley family take his advice? "So that's his criterion for names. Yeah, so, maybe it'll be Luke Bentley," Bentley concludes. "I've been hammered with Luke many times."
The new baby, who, according to Bentley, was kinda planned, kinda unplanned, has a head start in the naming category -- at least in Uncle Luke's opinion. However, the baby boy may have a better chance on his two older sisters naming him!


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In many countries it is the first day of school today. The ideal moment to talk about motivation, don't you think?
In a post last year, I talked about how high-tech machines greatly improve student motivation. But of course that is not the whole story.
School teacher Bill Ferriter explains that technology alone isn't motivating.
What students are really motivated by are opportunities to be social. It's the opportunity to give students activities built around the big ideas that matter to them, and the opportunity to interact and share with their peers.
They are motivated by issues connected to fairness and justice. They are motivated by finding solutions to the often-troubling changes they see happening in the world around them.
Motivating students should start with conversations about our kids. What are they deeply moved by? What are they most interested in? What would surprise them? Challenge them? Leave them wondering?
You can find some inspiration in my posts called "The Truth about…Youth" and "A Guide to Convince Youth to Pursue Manufacturing Jobs [PART 3]"
The goal of all conversations at school should be maximizing student motivation, self-confidence, personal responsibility, work ethic and communication skills.
Business executives concerned about their future workforce are deeply worried about exactly these job readiness skills.
For that purpose we should improve curriculum, bring the schools up to date technologically, hire and retain the best teachers and ensure that they are using the most effective teaching practices.
But foremost the right skills start with the right mental framework. If students learn how to be committed, determined and how to set brilliant goals, they are ready for great achievements.
An "I will do this" culture of commitment, determination, action and specific goals is the foundation of the job readiness skills business leaders find lacking in students. Help students to be willing to work and ready to learn.
Create a culture of success. They will realize far more of their potential. I take that up in the next post.
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An exhibition of artwork by Hope College alumni is being presented in the gallery of the De Pree Art Center.
The Alumni Art Show will feature alumni from the college's studio art program. Their class years range from 1963 through 2009, and they are from as far away as Cambridge, Mass., and Middleton, Idaho, and as nearby as Holland.
All media, including painting, sculpture, installation and works on paper, are included. All of the work in the show was produced in the last two years.
The artists with work in the exhibition (with each artist's class year in parentheses) are: Erin Beaver ('00) of Seymour, Wis.; Heidi Bender ('04) of Chillicothe, Ohio; Joan Bonnette ('63) of South Haven; Jeffrey Brown ('97) of Chicago, Ill.; Nikolas Burkhart ('09) of Chicago, Ill.; Michelle Calkins ('90) of Holland; David Chapple ('91) of Grand Blanc; Todd Erickson ('81) of Farmington Hills; Mary Piers George ('68) of Holland; Clarissa Gregory ('05) of Baltimore, Md.; Jennifer Hansen Gard ('08) of West Olive; Brent Jackson ('03) of Holland; Jon Kay ('08) of Fishers, Ind.; John Killmaster ('67) of Middleton, Idaho; Dylana Pinter ('08) of Holland; Emilie Puttrich ('09) of Cambridge, Mass.; Laurene Warren-Grunwald ('89) of Nunica; and Audrey Wasielewski ('09) of Fort Collins, Colo. Bender, Jackson and Wasielewski will be participating in the panel discussion.
The exhibition will continue through Sunday, Nov. 18.
The De Pree Art Center is located on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. The gallery is open Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The gallery is handicapped accessible. Additional information about the exhibition or gallery may be obtained by calling the De Pree Art Center at (616) 395-7500.
The college's Homecoming Weekend runs Friday-Sunday, Oct. 12-14. Additional information about the weekend, which includes a variety of lectures, arts events and athletic competitions open to the community, as well as reunion activities for graduates from 1984 through 2012, is available online at hope.edu/homecoming.


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From 1999 to 2001, inside linebacker Ray Lewis and linebackers coach Jack Del Rio worked in tandem, eventually assisting the Ravens to their first and only Super Bowl title in 2000.
On Monday night, the duo will meet again but on opposing sidelines – Lewis playing his 16th season for the Ravens and Del Rio in his ninth year as the head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
"Jack was always just a true man's man, a true professional, and I think it truly comes from his experience of playing in the game himself," Lewis said Wednesday. "That's kind of the way he approached work. He made work truly something that you wanted to come to every day. He's one of those coaches that's really motivating. Jack was always Jack."
Del Rio, who keeps a picture of Lewis, outside linebacker Peter Boulware and inside linebacker Jamie Sharper on his office wall, also spoke fondly of his time with the Ravens during a conference call with Baltimore media Wednesday.
"It was an awesome three years that I spent there in Baltimore," Del Rio said. "It was a good group, guys worked hard, had a lot of passion, and it was a treat to coach a group like that."
Lewis chuckled when informed of the picture on Del Rio's wall.
"We took that picture years ago, and honestly, anytime you win a championship with somebody, you're going to always have those memories," Lewis said. "So that group was special."


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Summer Immersion Course Provides Business Experienceby Brittney Dick • June 29, 2005 Share:
Wabash College has no formal business department, but that didn't stop 12 students from delving into a special summer business course.
The summer students receive neither a grade on their transcript nor credit toward graduation, but instead are evaluated as though they were working at an internship or other type of employment.
So far students have done case studies, listened to presentations from top managers and received critiques from professionals.
For their first major assignment students were divided into groups of three and required to create a comprehensive business plan for a start-up business. Michael Bohling, whose group came up with Lilly Cafe, and Andrew DeYoung, whose trio formed the basis for a student union, hope to make their businesses a reality during the 2005-06 school year.
Lilly Cafe requires $40,000 for start-up and would be located in the campus' Lilly Library. Specialty coffee would be available. Bohing said right now his team's biggest obstacle is convincing administration officials the group would be able to successfully run the cafe. The team will present their ideas at a trustee's meeting this fall.
Meanwhile DeYoung's group sees a student union as a handy alternative to Citgo, which attracts numerous Wabash students with its 73-cent fountain drinks and other convenience items. His group could match the gas station's price and still profit. The store would also sell candy, cigarettes and prepackaged snacks.
The project would cost $130,000 to launch and would include renovation of the old armory building, where it would be located. The student union would serve as a student hangout and would integrate the game room currently in the building's second story.
Unlike the first major assignment, the current project forces students to use what they've learned to aid existing local businesses in marketing. Students paired up and were assigned a local business. Brandon Clifton and his project partner, Ndeto Mwose, are working with business owner Charlie Campbell of Campbell's on Main Street.
"It's not about me helping them," he said. "They're going to help me too."
As part of their research, the duo plans to visit coffee shops in other towns to research methods for success and overcoming obstacles.
Meanwhile, DeYoung and Bohling are working with Sondra Goebel, owner of a new restaurant and catering service called The Filling Station. Goebel opened her doors to the students before customers.
"We're the only group that is a start-up," Bohling said. Whereas Clifton and Mwose will focus on new innovative marketing strategies,
DeYoung and Bohling will work with Goebel to let locals know the business exists.
"The place just needs to get known," Bohling said. "Then it can get established."
Although students are only halfway through the course, they've already deemed it a worthwhile investment of their time and energy. Clifton's biggest inspiration this summer came during the accounting portion of the syllabus. After CPA Susan Richardson spoke to his class, Clifton decided to attend Indiana University Kokomo for a degree in accounting following graduation from Wabash. He has one semester left.
Clifton, who described himself as an organized and detail-oriented person, wouldn't have known about his interest in accounting if it weren't for the course.
Even if he doesn't decide to be an accountant — and opens a business of his own, Clifton wants to know what is going on with that business. Mwose also has benefited from the class. He said the resume skills he gained will be helpful.
Mwose plans to attend dentistry school after graduation and hopes to have his own office — an endeavor in which he could implement the knowledge he gained this summer.
In photos: At top: Students in the Summer Business Immersion Course listen to Wabash alumnus Rod Kenley talk about he started his own business. Lower left: Kenley explains how he got started.


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Jeremiah Owyang woke me up this morning (on Twitter) to a fascinating, instructive tale of a major brand getting drawn in to a major international crisis, against their will and to their detriment, and responding to it in a predictable, though shortsighted way. Somewhere, a PR department is having a very bad Sunday.
Yes, I check Twitter before I get out of bed.
So what happened?
An artist created a T-shirt to raise awareness of the genocide in Durfur, and to vent some frustration at a media culture that gives more face-time to Paris Hilton than the victims of conflicts such as this one.
The T-shirt shows a victim of Darfur holding a Louis Vuitton-style luxury handbag in one arm, and a Paris Hilton-style toy dog in the other. Jeremiah has a great recap of the whole story here.
So what happened next?
On a smaller scale, I woke up thinking who the heck is LV? and now, an hour later, I know exactly who LV is, and I know they're knee-deep in a mess that wrong-foots them on an international issue on which practically everyone agrees, one that sets them up as a litigious Goliath, one that makes them appear anti-artist and anti-free-speech.
The plus side?
I am thinking about Louis Vuitton, and so are lots of other people. I am NEVER thinking about Louis Vuitton.
That's why the company's reaction is so wrong here: sending the artist a Cease-and-Desist letter, and trying to make the issue go away through brute force.
Instead, they should take advantage of this rare opportunity — hundreds and thousands of people who on a daily basis couldn't give a fig about your brand suddenly — briefly — do.
They have a very small window of opportunity to use this momentum to their own benefit, to the benefit of the victims in Darfur, to the benefit of the artist that started it all, and to the benefit of the artists in general.
Louis Vuitton can set an example, can be a brand who gets it right, by realizing that the spotlight is on them right now, whether they like it or not, and that they have the power to turn this into a PR opportunity, not a PR nightmare.
As I said in response to Jeremiah's post:
…it makes me crazy when brands do this sort of thing. Here they have an opportunity: suddenly this Sunday morning hundreds/thousands of people who hadn't given their brand a second thought are talking and typing and wondering how to spell "Vuitton," and all they can say is "Stop talking about us?"
This is exactly the moment when they need to use the momentum to advance their brand, not cause further damage.
They can't cram the genie back into the bottle, but they might still get three wishes, if they try really hard.
Think this has nothing to do with nonprofits?
Don't think that your nonprofit doesn't have a brand, because it certainly does, and don't fool yourself that a PR nightmare like this wouldn't happen to that brand, because it certainly could.
Nonprofits need to think about brand management just like for-profit corporations do. Perhaps even more so, because charities are often held to a higher standard, and ethical blemishes can be even harder for nonprofits to rinse out.
Do you still think Red Cross = Fiscal Mismanagement?
What about Smithsonian = Complete Chaos in Management?
Finally, remember that crises like the LV brandjacking above represents an opportunity for more than just the injured brand to do good — do you know a nonprofit organization that does work in Darfur? Wouldn't this be a good time to reach out to Louis Vuitton and see how you might be able to work together?


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With the human genome complete, one of the more prominent follow-up projects has been the cancer genome, in which researchers attempted to study the complete catalog of mutations that are present in different cancers. So far, the results have been pretty mixed, with mutations in a lot of genes we already knew about, and many indications that cancers from different tissues have distinct collections of mutations. All of these are present against a massive background of DNA base changes that might be significant to the disease, or irrelevant. But two new studies indicate that, for large DNA differences, it might be possible to separate out informative changes.
The challenge with studying cancer-causing mutations is that, as part of the progression of the disease, cells tend to accumulate damage to the proteins that keep them dividing in a healthy and controlled fashion. As a result, the pathways that keep cells with DNA damage from dividing tend to get inactivated, so cancer cells pick up many additional mutations, some relevant to the disease, others not. Determining whether a mutation is a contributor to the disease or a harmless passenger has always been challenging.
If anything, the challenge has gotten more difficult in the era of genome sequencing, as evidenced by some of the first results of the cancer genome project. It has been easy to generate huge lists of mutations from DNA sequencing, but many turned out to be errors, irrelevant, or specific to a single type of cancer.
The two papers, released today by Nature, take a different approach. Instead of performing DNA sequencing, which can identify changes in individual bases, they look for copy number variations, in which larger segments of DNA are either duplicated or deleted. CNVs can include one or more entire genes, and the change in gene dose can alter the amount of RNA and protein produced, with significant biological consequences.
The problem, as with base mutations, is that CNVs also tend to become more common in cancer cells; in fact, one of the studies found that extra or missing copies of entire chromosome arms were among the most common CNVs present. The advantage of the approach is that it's much easier to look for CNVs than it is to sequence an entire genome, meaning that the researchers were able to work through many more samples, and obtain higher degrees of statistical significance.
In one paper, the authors looked at both duplications and deletions in a total of over 3,000 cancer cell lines, representing 26 distinct types of cancer. Those numbers allowed the areas of the genome that are consistently altered in many types of cancer to rise out of the statistical noise caused by the general DNA damage. In the second paper, the authors looked exclusively at deleted regions of DNA using about 750 different cancer cell lines. They were able to perform a statistical analysis that separated areas prone to DNA rearrangements from areas that appeared to undergo selection for changes specifically in cancer cell lines.
The good news is that there seem to be a number of new genes implicated in the progression of cancer by these studies. The latter paper successfully identified rearrangements that deleted a number of known cancer genes, such as SMAD4 and PTEN, but also came up with a series of about a dozen common deletions that don't contain anything obvious.
The larger study, which included both deletions and duplications, did even better. It picked up a total of 158 independent DNA rearrangements. Some of these included expected genes, like MYC and ERB B2, but many didn't have any genes that had been directly implicated in cancer. These tended to contain genes of the sort we would suspect to be involved in cancer, though—regulators of the cell cycle, kinases, etc. Many of the genes were involved with the NF-kappa B signaling pathway, which regulates immune function and inflammation; others regulate apoptosis, a process by which aberrant cells can be induced to die. The authors of the paper validated that two of the new apoptotic regulators are involved in cancer by knocking the genes down using RNA interference.
The good news here is that, in contrast to some sequencing studies, many of the CNVs were implicated in a variety of cancer cell types, rather than being specific for cancers derived from a single tissue: "By studying a large number of cancers of multiple types, we have found that most of the significant [CNVs] within any single cancer type tend to be found in other cancer types as well." The other good news is that these common CNVs appear to be identifying new genes on known pathways implicated in cancer.
The authors of the latter paper have also made their data available to the public at the Broad Institute website.
Nature, 2010. DOI: 10.1038/nature08822
Nature, 2010. DOI: 10.1038/nature08768


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An institutionalist perspective on international managementHull Kristensen, Peer; Morgan, Glenn (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Multinationals are faced with the problem of how to coordinate different actors and stop 'fiefdoms' emerging that inhibits the achievement of transnational cooperation? We identify this as a problem of 'constitutional ordering' in the firm. Drawing on Varieties of Capitalism approaches, we explore how multinationals from different contexts seek to create constitutional orders. We argue that the models which exist appear to be destructive of coordination. We explore the implications for MNCs. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7340
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Varieties of Institutionalism: varieties of capitalismHull Kristensen, Peer; Morgan, Glenn (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The paper argues that the contrast between studies of MNCs which emphasise isomorphism and those which emphasise social embeddedness is unhelpful. Following recent institutionalist discussions which have emphasised the dynamic nature of firms, and institutions, it is argued that the transnational social space of the multinational encompasses a variety of different forms of actors which are engaged in processes that partially produce isomorphism and partially reproduce institutional difference. This perspective is proposed not as a middle way between the two institutionalisms but as a way to capture the ongoing dynamics of MNCs. The paper illustrates this approach through considering four ideal-typical 'games' which occur inside MNCs. These games are analysed in terms of the actors, the institutional resources brought into the game, the emerging rules of the game, the outcomes of the game and how these processes relate to institutional theory. These games reveal the complex interaction of processes of isomorphism and social differentiation and suggest an agenda for further research on MNCs that will focus on examining how these games interact and with what effect in different sorts of multinationals. Keywords: Multinationals; institutionalism; varieties of capitalism; isomorphism; embeddedness. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7355
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Abstract: This article discusses how institutional competitiveness and multinationals are mutually enriching concepts. Seen from the perspective of Multinationals, institutional competitiveness becomes expressed at two levels. At the level of corporate HQs institutional competitiveness proves itself by forming firms capable of expanding internationally. At the level of subsidiaries as providing institutional back up for these firms' abilities to fight for survival and growth within the frame of rivalling subsidiaries of the MNC. The article discusses at these two levels the comparative institutional competitiveness of Liberal Market Economies and Coordinated Markets Economies under the current competitive regime. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7325
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