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Michael Makofsky, 37
Principal, McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Co.
Think of Michael Makofsky as a kind of marriage counselor. The principal at Cleveland law firm McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Co. LPA specializes in loan transactions and merger and acquisition activity. And by representing either lenders or borrowers of bank loans and buyers or sellers in M&A deals, he's positioned to advise clients calmly in an area where relations haven't exactly been smooth in recent years.
"That experience on both sides of deals helps me on the next one," said Mr. Makofsky, 37.
A New York native, Mr. Makofsky earned his bachelor's degree in political science at the University of Connecticut and his law degree at Case Western Reserve University after his parents moved to the Cleveland area. He moved to McCarthy Lebit in 2009 after eight years at McDonald Hopkins. Mr. Makofsky said the move to the smaller firm offered him an opportunity to become more involved and grow his financial services practice.
And he's been busier lately, despite stricter loan regulations and terms brought on by the country's financial mess. Prior to the recession's most intense days, Mr. Makofsky said lenders and M&A dealmakers were aggressive, though the market tightened during the worst of the storm. Now, activity has picked up,
"People seem to have short memories," he said. "You like to see the activity, but you hope it's being done right."
He also is working to revive a mostly dormant corporate and business law section of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, a task he took on officially in July but unofficially last January. He's called on colleagues at other firms and asked for participation.
The challenge: His one-year term expires next summer, and he's trying to squeeze in as much as he can. That includes attracting back as many lawyers of what he says should be a membership of 250, and identifying potential future leaders.
"We're trying to bring it back to life," he said.
Kenneth Liffman, the firm's managing principal, said Mr. Makofsky took on the bar association role on his own, without any prodding, and that initiative is reflected in the younger attorney's other work.
"Bankers love him, and it's because he has that attention to detail," Mr. Liffman said.


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|This article is about Brad. You may be looking for Brad Falchuk or Brad Ellis.
Brad is the omnipresent and skilled pianist for the New Directions. He was seen during almost every number in the background, playing the piano or mini keyboard. Notably, he was occasionally seen sitting by the piano during songs with absolutely no piano part in their accompaniment. He seemed to follow the New Directions members around just in case of an impromptu performance, to the point that in Theatricality, he appears when Rachel calls him. Shelby is surprised, but Rachel dismisses his presence by commenting, "He's always around." It is also notable that Brad does not speak until Swan Song, in which he vents to Sue how much he hates the kids.
He is portrayed by Brad Ellis.
Brad plays Respect, Mr. Cellophane, I Kissed a Girl, and On My Own, during Mercedes, Kurt, Tina, and Rachel's auditions. Later, he plays the piano during the rehearsal of Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat and You're the One That I Want.
He plays during the rehearsal of Le Freak, and later plays Gold Digger with an electric keyboard.
He plays during the choreography lesson.
He plays Tonight in the auditorium as Tina sings.
He plays Maybe This Time. Brad is also shown in cowboy attire for Last Name.
He plays Halo/Walking on Sunshine.
He plays No Air and Hate on Me.
He plays Bust a Move.
He plays Defying Gravity. He is also seen in a wheelchair when the New Directions members are practicing using them.
We find out his name is Brad right before he plays Endless Love.
He plays at the "Hairography" lesson.
He plays Smile.
He plays And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going for Mercedes. Later on, he plays My Life Would Suck Without You.
He plays Hello, I Love You.
He plays Borderline/Open Your Heart.
He plays in A House Is Not a Home.
At the end, plays Total Eclipse of the Heart.
He plays The Climb.
He is present when Tina announces her partner.
He appears when Rachel calls for him and plays Poker Face.
He watches Quinn perform It's a Man's Man's Man's World.
He plays all the songs in the New Directions' Regionals set-list.
He plays Listen.
Brad plays Sing! for Mike and Tina during duets week.
Brad plays Ohio for Sue and Doris Sylvester. He is then shown in the choir room to help Kurt give dance lessons to Burt. He's later shown to be in the audience at the wedding ceremony of Burt and Carole, and at the reception, he is shown performing Just the Way You Are.
Brad plays Need You Now for Rachel and Puck.
When Santana performs a love song for Brittany, she tells her to disregard Brad, and calls him furniture, before adding "no offense." Brad shrugs in a blasé manner, becoming one of the first few people who know that Santana is a lesbian, but keeping it a secret.
Brad was a chaperone at prom. He wore a black suit with a white vest and bow tie.
Brad plays Big Spender on a purple piano for Sugar Motta, who tells him to "hit it hottie" and pats him on the head. Later, he plays on another purple piano for the glee club's performance of You Can't Stop the Beat.Finn and Rachel kiss in the choir room, he is seen with an expression of dislike on his face.
Brad is accompanying the Booty Camp full of inattentive members. When Sue takes Mercedes' phone after Mercedes states that she's "Donating to the Obama campaign" and proceeds to smash it because she was texting, Brad excitedly pumps his fist in the air with a smile on his face.
Santana is extolling her confidence that she is going to be famous, and adds that she's also "100% sure that our man-child piano player keeps a petite Eurasian locked in a trunk under his bed." Brad silently tilts his head in confusion or irritation.
Brad's expression is shown when Jake is overwhelmed by the looks of the New Directions. He later plays Everytime for Marley as she sings it.
The Role You Were Born to Play
Brad plays Born to Hand Jive during the final Grease call backs.
He plays Holding Out for a Hero for Marley and Kitty.
He's at the wedding and plays the organ when Sue comes out.
Ryder enters with Marissa, giving Brad a handshake, suggesting they have a good relationship with each other. He plays Your Song for him to try to impress Marissa whom he thought it was Katie the whole time. Later on Jake suggests that he might be the one catfishing Ryder.
He can be seen playing the piano during You Have More Friends Than You Know.
Brad is first seen in the choir room when Will gives the New Directions and alumni a chance to bid farewell to Finn. He is seen briefly taking a suggestion from Mercedes, after which he plays I'll Stand by You for her. Brad also plays during Rachel's Make You Feel My Love performance.
Brad is seen playing during the Wide Awake performance.
Brad is seen playing during Unique's performance of If I Were a Boy.
Blaine is startled as he enters the Choir Room and Brad starts talking to him. Blaine admits that he has a bad week and Brad tells him that he can talk about it. They have a short conversation about all their problems. Brad reveals that he owes people thousands of dollars thanks to his online blackjack addiction. As a result, his house is getting foreclosed on.
Brad is seen playing the beginning of I Love LA.
Brad is seen playing the piano during.
Brad is seen playing during.
Brad appears in this episode, and it is revealed that he keeps photos of women's feet.
The Rise and Fall of Sue Sylvester
Brad is ordered by Sue to play the piano in the auditorium while singing The Final Countdown with Will.
Brad is only seen playing the piano while Jesse and Rachel sing Listen to Your Heart.
As this episode is set in the past, Brad is seen as the glee club's official piano player.
Brad plays the piano while Sue and Will sing The Winner Takes It All. After the song, when Sue walks off stage, she kicks the stool on which Brad is sitting on and goes out. Will goes to see if Brad is okay.
- He is credited with the musicians rather than the actual cast.
- He always seems to be present when a song needs to be played.
- He is known for wearing black clothes.
- He has only spoken twice, the first time was in Swan Song, and the second in Puppet Master.
- He hates the Glee Club, as mentioned in Swan Song. However, his hatred of them is first hinted at in Big Brother when he silently cheers after Sue throws Mercedes' cellphone and breaks it.
- It appears that his feelings changed as of Shooting Star when Ryder greeted him friendly with a handshake which Brad happily accepts.
Brad! (sees Shelby's shocked face) He's always just... around.
He's just furniture. Sorry, no offense.
Hit it, hottie.
I'm 1000% sure that our man-child piano player keeps a petite Eurasian locked in a trunk under his bed.
Sue Sylvester? I cannot thank you enough. I can't tell you how much I hate those kids. Do you know how demeaning it is when they just turn to you and yell "hit it," and you're just supposed to know what song they're gonna sing? I'm free. I'm free!
Brad: You're early.
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Cheat Sheet
Google SketchUp 7 For Dummies Cheat Sheet
You can increase your productivity and work easily in Google SketchUp 7 when you remember these handy reminders for the best way to carry out tasks and apply some keyboard shortcuts.
Common Tasks in Google SketchUp 7
Certain tasks in Google SketchUp 7 can be performed in a variety of ways, but if you're looking for the simplest or quickest way to do things in SketchUp 7, then take a look at this chart:
|To Do This Task
|Here's the Best Way
|Orbit with your mouse
|Hold down scroll wheel
|Zoom with your mouse
|Roll scroll wheel
|Pan with your mouse
|Hold down Shift and the scroll wheel
|Draw an edge a certain length with the Line tool
|Type a length and press Enter
|Snip off an edge at the last place you clicked
|Press the Esc key
|Lock your current direction with the Line tool
|Hold down the Shift key while drawing with the tool
|Change the number of sides in a circle, arc or polygon
|Type a number, then type s, and press Enter
|Draw a circle or an arc of a certain radius
|Type a radius and press Enter after you draw a circle
|Select with the Select tool
|Add or subtract from what you've selected
|Hold down Shift
|Select everything that isn't hidden
|Press Ctrl+A (Command+A on the Mac)
|Select everything inside a selection box
|Click and drag from left to right
|Select everything touched by a selection box
|Click and drag from right to left
|Select all faces with the same material
|Right-click and choose Select→All with Same Material
|Move with the Move tool
|Move a certain distance
|Type a distance and press Enter after you move
|Force Auto-Fold (tell SketchUp it's okay to fold)
|Press Alt (Command on the Mac)
|Lock yourself in the blue (up and down) direction
|Press ↑ or ↓ key
|Copy with the Move and Rotate tools
|Make a copy with the Move or Rotate tools
|Press Ctrl (Option on the Mac)
|Make multiple copies in a row
|Make a copy, type a distance, type x, and press
|Make multiple copies between
|Make a copy, type a number, type /, and press Enter
|Hide and Smooth with the Eraser tool
|Hide something
|Hold down Shift and click with the Eraser
|Smooth something
|Ctrl+click with the Eraser (Option+click on the Mac)
|Unsmooth something
|Hold down Shift+Ctrl and click with the Eraser (Shift+Option on
the Mac)
|Push/Pull and Offset
|Make a copy of the face you're push/pulling
|Press Ctrl (Option on the Mac) and use the Push/Pull tool
|Repeat the last distance you push/pulled
|Double-click a face with the Push/Pull tool
|Repeat the last distance you Offset
|Double-click a face with the Offset tool
|Scale with the Scale tool
|Scale about the center
|Hold down Ctrl (Option on the Mac) while scaling
|Scale uniformly (don't distort)
|Hold down Shift while scaling
|Scale by a certain factor
|Type a number and press Enter
|Make something a certain size
|Type the size and the units and then press Enter
|Apply materials with the Paint Bucket tool
|Sample a material from a face
|Hold down Alt (Command on the Mac) and click the face with the
|Paint all faces that match the one you click
|Hold down Shift while you click
|Create guides
|Tell the Tape Measure or Protractor tool to create a guide
|Press Ctrl (Option on the Mac) and click with the tool
|Walk around your model with the Walk tool
|Walk through things
|Hold down Alt (Command on the Mac)
|Run instead of walk
|Hold down Ctrl (Option on the Mac)
|Get taller or shorter instead of walking
|Hold down Shift
|Change your eye height
|Select the Look Around tool, type a height, and press
|Change your field of view
|Select the Zoom tool, type a number, type deg, and press
How to Boost Productivity in Google SketchUp 7
Follow these steps for some of the functions in Google SketchUp 7 to improve your work rate, finish your tasks quickly, and move onto your next project.
To divide an edge into a number of shorter edges:
Right-click an edge with the Select tool.
Choose Divide from the context menu that pops up.
Type the number of segments you'd like and press Enter.
To resize your whole model based on one known measurement:
Select the Tape Measure tool.
Press Ctrl (Option on a Mac) until you don't see a + next to your cursor.
Measure a distance; click once to start measuring, and again to stop.
Type a dimension for the distance you just measured and press Enter.
Click Yes in the dialog box that pops up.
To set up your own keyboard shortcuts:
Choose Window→Preferences (File→ Preferences on the Mac).
Click the Shortcuts panel.
Google SketchUp 7 Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts will make working in Google SketchUp 7 quick and easy. The following table shows you some of SketchUp's most common commands and the keystroke(s) that will get you there sooner:
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Example 1—Single gpfdist instance on single-NIC machine
A newer version of this documentation is available. Click here to view the most up-to-date release of the Greenplum 5.x documentation.
Example 1—Single gpfdist instance on single-NIC machine
Creates a readable external table, ext_expenses, using the gpfdist protocol. The files are formatted with a pipe (|) as the column delimiter.
=# CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE ext_expenses ( name text, date date, amount float4, category text, desc1 text ) LOCATION ('gpfdist://etlhost-1:8081/*') FORMAT 'TEXT' (DELIMITER '|');


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Dock worker injured in Port Arthur
A team from the Port Arthur Fire Department rescued a dock worker on Thursday, Sept. 19, after the man fell 25-30 feet into a ship at Oxbow Docks on Coke Dock Road in Port Arthur.
According to a release from the PAFD, units responded at approximately 8:37 a.m. to a call regarding a man who had fallen into the cargo hold of a ship docked at Oxbow. The victim had reportedly fallen into the hold while attempting to secure a boom for an onboard crane. The PAFD Rescue Team and members of the Hunstman Rescue Team located the victim and extracted him from the hold. Rescuers described the victim as "alert and oriented" when found. He was transported to St. Elizabeth's Emergency Department by Air Rescue and treated for what were reported as "non-life threatening" injuries.


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The NDIC distributes publications about diabetes, provided free of copyright, in varying reading levels. Publications include easy-to-read booklets, fact sheets, Spanish-language materials, and a quarterly newsletter, Diabetes Dateline. Patients, health care professionals, and the general public can order publications through an online publications catalog. The NDIC also sends publications to health fairs and community events. All publications produced by the NDIC are carefully reviewed by both NIDDK scientists and outside experts.
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The kids got Dale Sveum. The Cubs' young players believed to be the core of the future didn't develop the last two years -- in fact, they got worse -- and that sounded like the big reason Theo Epstein whacked his manager.
Epstein also cited the need for love before tough love when it came to developing the young talent the Cubs have storming through their suddenly considerable system.
And so, it seems as if Epstein has enabled the likes of Anthony Rizzo and Starlin Castro.
The new manager, whether it's Joe Girardi, A.J, Hinch, Brad Ausmus or someone else, will be charged with teaching kids how to be good enough major leaguers to win a World Series. That always has been the idea.
But the fact that Sveum and his staff didn't talk nice or present a unified message feels like it bulletproofs Rizzo and Castro to some degree.
Or it would if Castro could pay attention long enough.
It can't all be the manager's fault. The players have to bear a lot of responsibility. It's their career, after all. Everybody had something to do with it, and if Epstein wanted to make that point, then he'd look at trading Castro for pitching. You have to think a young shortstop would bring a lot of pitching, or at least one pitcher better than what Jeff Samardzija was supposed to be.
Javier Baez is coming. A lot of position players are coming. Pitchers, however, aren't.
If the Cubs like Baez at shortstop, they might as well let him get started on those 30 or 40 errors that rookie shortstops usually make in the first season and do it in a year when contending isn't expected.
Castro hasn't hit .300 the last two seasons and hasn't figured out how to work a count.
His .283/.322/.404 slash line this season was the worst of his career. He struck out more than ever and had a minus-0.6 WAR.
Castro hasn't learned how to learn at the major-league level. That's what it comes down to. His raw talent when he came into the league was just that – raw talent. He was asked to work on shortcomings. He was asked to be a better hitter. He failed. He continues to fail at a dizzying pace.
Castro has heard a lot of different things from a lot of different people without much sticking the last two seasons, and now he will get his fourth manager in five seasons. I wouldn't blame Castro for being confused.
But I also don't believe he'll figure it out.
At best, the new Cubs staff will have to spend a lot of time working to break some bad habits.
The Cubs might be better off letting some other team try it -- Castro has a friendly contract -- while acquiring needed pitching and letting their new manager teach a new shortstop major-league habits.
Something else Epstein mentioned at the news conference after Sveum's firing: the need for accountability. That includes failing players, not just a failing manager. Trading Castro would seem to send exactly that message.


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Red Bull, Aspen building first-ever double halfpipe for snowboard contest
What's better than a 22-foot halfpipe?
Two halfpipes. Side by side. With rails, gaps and features atop the walls.
Red Bull, Aspen Skiing and Snow Park Technologies are teaming up to build an Olympic-caliber halfpipe alongside the X Games halfpipe for a first-ever double-pipe contest that will feature snowboarders spinning between both pipes.
"A 'Double Pipe'? Are you kidding me? Two side-by-side halfpipes with transfers and options all over?? This is the kind of thing that our team at SPT has been dreaming about, and only a company like Red Bull can bring something like this to life," said Chris Gunnarson, the founder of Snow Park Technologies, the renowned outfit that builds the world's top snowparks and pipes. "It's one thing to design this concept on a computer, but the build plan for something this immense already has our heads spinning. It's so rad to see a project like Red Bull Double Pipe break the mold with such a super progressive event on this scale."
The invitation-only event – scheduled for March 19-23 – will host top riders in what will be the largest halfpipe feature ever built. Judges will rank the riders on style, creativity and use of the course, just like any halfpipe contest. A list of riders is expected soon at www.redbull.com/doublepipe.


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Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny arrived in New York on Wednesday evening for a whirlwind trip to the city that will last just over 24 hours, with the highlight coming on Thursday evening when he addresses the annual dinner hosted by the American Ireland Fund at Lincoln Center.
Kenny, seeking to broaden Ireland's relationship with its diaspora as the country continues to battle a crippling recession, will conduct a series of business meetings and high-profile U.S. media interviews during his brief stay that will stress one of his signature messages since assuming office – Ireland is open for business.
Upon arriving in New York on Wednesday evening – Kenny will depart Dublin in the afternoon after conducting government business – the taoiseach will travel to the Reuters building in Times Square for an interview before heading to the Irish Consulate for a reception for local Irish American community leaders. He is also due to be interviewed by the Fox Business Network.
Kenny is due to arrive at the New York Stock Exchange early on Thursday morning for a round of meetings before heading to the Council on Foreign Relations, where Richard Haass, the body's president and a former U.S. envoy to Northern Ireland under President George W. Bush, will moderate a conversation between Kenny and up to 100 invited guests.
After that event Kenny, making his first visit to New York since becoming taoiseach in March, will return to the Irish Consulate for a series of meetings with companies supported by the Irish trade agency Enterprise Ireland.
He'll then head to Lincoln Center for the American Ireland Fund dinner and his address to more than 1,000 influential attendees, among them titans of Wall Street and other U.S. businesses. This year's guests of honor are boxing legend Muhammad Ali and Irial Finan, the Co. Roscommon-born executive vice president of the Coca-Cola Company.
After his address at the dinner, Kenny is due to immediately depart for Dublin.
During a trip to London last month to meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron, Kenny said that he would soon unveil "a range of initiatives, some of them very exciting," aimed at the global Irish diaspora.
On Tuesday, the Irish government announced that it will host its second Global Irish Economic Forum in Dublin on October 7 and 8 of this year.
The previous Irish government led by Brian Cowen hosted the first such forum in 2009 at Farmleigh, convening a number of leaders from the worlds of business, arts and philanthropy from around the world.
In making the announcement of the new forum, Tanaiste (Deputy Irish Leader) and Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore said, "The government recognizes the valuable role the global Irish can play in Ireland's economic recovery. This forum will provide an opportunity for us to meet with key members of the Diaspora and to discuss our priorities for economic renewal, job creation and the restoration of Ireland's reputation abroad."
The invite list for the event will include the more than 300 members of the Global Irish Network, created after the Farmleigh conference and comprising influential "Irish and Irish-connected individuals abroad, all of whom have demonstrated a strong affiliation with Ireland and have a record of high achievement in international business or in assisting in the promotion of Ireland," according to a government press release.
The release also added that a small number of senior Irish-based individuals from the business and cultural worlds will also be invited to participate in the forum.
"This forum will be the first time the entire network has come together, and the taoiseach and I are looking forward to welcoming them all to Dublin for a frank and intensive exchange of ideas," said Gilmore.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – UMBC women's lacrosse junior Alyssa Semones (Westminster, Md./Westminster/Penn State) was nominated for the 2014 America East Women's Lacrosse Fans' Choice Player of the Year, as announced by the league office on Wednesday.
Voting will go until 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29 and can be done on the America East Facebook Page. The winner will be announced that evening via release at AmericaEast.com.
Semones leads the Retrievers with 25 goals on the season, in addition to piloting the squad in ground balls, draw controls and caused turnovers. The Westminster, Md., native has nine multiple-goal games, including four hat tricks, and has 29 points on the season. Semones leads the squad in draw controls for the second straight season, pulling in 31 draws and her 2.40 ground balls per game (36 total) places her third in the league.


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On Friday of last week, a number of Italian media outlets published this op-ed by Angelo Gaja, including the national daily La Stampa and Numeri del Vino (an Italian wine industry observer blog that I follow regularly).
I always find his insights interesting, informative, and polemical. My translation of his "open letter" follows.
After years of low grape production due to the reoccurrence of unfavorable climatic conditions, excess heat, and summer drought, there is a shortage of wine in Italy.
What could happen to Italian wine in 2013?
It's possible that there will be no wine left by June and that wineries that sell at less than Euro 2 per liter (a price floor for more than eighty percent of Italian wineries) will no longer have any wine to offer.
Prudent, far-sighted bottlers might also contribute to the shortage because they'll begin stocking up in order to avoid being left high and dry in the months that follow.
It's a "we've never seen anything like it" scenario. There could be panic in the grape market when the 2013 harvest arrives because buyers will be fearful of rising prices.
Someone might become curious and start comparing grape production and wine production reports for the 2012 harvest. They might discover that between independent producers and the cooperative wineries some have reported a drop of up to thirty percent and some have reported no drop at all — the very same sky and in identical geographic areas.
It's possible that in 2013 Italy could lose its record in hectoliters exported, with Spain taking the lead. It's another "we've never seen anything like it" scenario. And there will surely be those who merely crunch the numbers and blame the Italian wine industry for drops in production and competitiveness. They don't recognize that wine is a natural product and that the sky is the vineyard's ceiling. If the weather causes growers to produce fewer grapes, then it's impossible to sell more wine.
It's possible that cooperative wineries in Italy (who control more than fifty percent of national grape production) and large winery groups will soften their refusal of the European Union liberalization of planting regulations. It's also possible that they will agree on a shared strategy intended to introduce a mixed system by 2015: a continuation of planting rights for DOCs and DOCGs and liberalization of IGTs and table wines.
It's possible that springtime budget analysis for large Italian wineries will reveal that 2012 profits were often penalized by the drop in gross revenue in the Italian market and that the recovery of foreign markets was the industry's saving grace. This could give greater urgency to investment in those markets, even if that means sacrificing some of the resources earmarked for the growth of the domestic market.
Dire times for the Italian wine media, who survive thanks to advertising, just as in other countries. Tough times as well for the more than two hundred journalistic prizes instituted by wineries and public relations firms, a common phenomenon here in Italy and unheard of abroad. They will became hungry for recognition by Italian writers and more generous in their regard to the foreign media.
Brussels has contributed to this sprint toward foreign markets by financing promotional projects for wine in markets beyond Europe's borders. Italian national pride has found new lifeblood in these initiatives as winemakers — small and large, in groups or on their own — have embraced an open-order quest to conquer Asia.
And in the meantime, we continue to learn how to explore the world that will come to be.
—Angelo Gaja
January 2013
Above: I took this photo of Angelo in June of last year in New York.


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Justin Rose drew on memories of last month's Ryder Cup singles defeat of Phil Mickelson to also defeat fellow England golfer Lee Westwood by a stroke and capture the World Golf Final yesterday.
The World No. 5 ranked Rose shot a round of a five-under par 66 to defeat Westwood who birdied the last hole in a score of 67 on the Sultan Course at the Antalya Club.
Rose was never behind in his match starting with a first hole birdie and then to be three under through nine holes and one ahead of Westwood.
Rose then went two ahead with a birdie at 10 and while Westwood then birdied the 16th to get back to one behind Rose, the World No. 5 holed a 20-foot putt for birdie at the 17th, and a near similar length putt he holed at the same hole in the singles at Medinah to turn around his match against US rival Mickelson.
A day earlier, Rose had chipped in at the 17th to deny Tiger Woods a place in the final of the US$ 5.2million event
"The 17th green has been really good to me this week as I holed my second shot there yesterday and, of course, the 17th at Medinah turned around my match against Phil," Rose said. "But you have to be pleased to go through this whole week after winning all my five matches. So to not get beaten at all in the group stage and then to win the two finals is a great feeling and it's been a great week."
"My golf is just so consistent at the moment and the main thing is that I just don't have any skeletons in the closet, and I don't have that loose shot that is plaguing me all the time," Rose added. "So all aspects of my game can pull through for me at different times and I feel as though I've got something every day to lean on."
The prize check is Rose's highest-ever in his 14-year pro career and US$560,000 more than his prize in capturing last year's BMW Championship.
Westwood, who was 22-under for his five rounds and one less than Rose, earned a check for $1m for his efforts over the three days.
"We both played well with just the slight difference on the greens," Westwood said. "Justin rolled some 20 footers, another crucial one at 17, while the longest putt I made was eight or nine feet on 16. So I left a lot of chances out there, but that is the way it goes."
"I knew before today the he was rolling it well on the greens. He showed that against Phil Mickelson at the Ryder Cup," Westwood said.
"I played him earlier in the week and he shot 66 so I figured I would need somewhere around there. I hit a good shot into the last and put some pressure on, so not too bad," he added.


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Wake crowd protests Michael Brown shooting
Marvin Hicks isn't a regular when it comes to participating in protest rallies, but he felt compelled to turn out Sunday afternoon to protest the recent fatal shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo.
"There have been too many murders where people have been killed by the police," said Hicks, 69, a retiree who lives in downtown Raleigh. "They have overstepped their bounds. And there seems to be something aimed at people of color."
Hicks was one of about 75 people, mostly African-American, who ignored the 90-degree heat to express their distress and their outrage over Brown's death by attending a rally in downtown Raleigh on Sunday afternoon.
The shooting has become a cause celebre and has sparked a week of protests, sometimes violent, in Ferguson, a St. Louis suburb, where police initially responded by donning military-style riot gear and wielding automatic assault rifles.
But the grass-roots protest in Raleigh was peaceful. It started on the steps of the Wake County Courthouse on Fayetteville Street and ended a few blocks away in front of the building that houses the N.C. Supreme Court on Morgan Street.
As the protesters marched, they chanted, "Hands up. Don't shoot." Eyewitnesses to the Brown shooting have told reporters that the 18-year-old had his hands raised in compliance when he was shot.
Among the signs carried by the protesters: "Blacks Are People Too." "Who Needs the KKK When You Have Racist Police?" "What Ever Happened to Protect and Serve?"
Prior to the march, speakers addressed the crowd for about 45 minutes, railing about police brutality, longtime oppression, white supremacism and white-dominated media.
They also cited incidents closer to home, such as the death of Durham teenager Jesus Huerta after he was arrested last year. Police concluded the Riverside High School student shot himself while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car.
"It's not just about race. It's about humans," said Dequan Bradley, 22, of Durham, one of the organizers. "We're in a country where our human rights should be protected."
"I would say that Michael Brown was shot down like a dog ... but, you know what? America treats dogs better," said the Rev. Curtis Gatewood of the NAACP.
Xarivera Burton, 37, a Raleigh truck driver, attended the protest with his wife and two children.
Burton said he was at distressed this week when his 10-year-old son, Gavin, asked whether Brown was killed just because he was black.
"I have no answer to that," Burton said. "I want to tell him the truth. But I want to shelter and shield him from some of this racism stuff in the world."


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Enemkpali leads Texas past No. 14 St. John's 70-60
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Nneka Enemkpali scored a career-high 25 points and Chassidy Fussell scored 23 to lead Texas over No. 14 St. John's 70-60 Friday in the teams' season opener.
Briana Brown of Norwalk scored 17 points with 10 rebounds and Eugeneia McPherson had 14 points for the Red Storm, which led 36-33 at the half. St. John's went 24-10 last season and reached the NCAA Sweet 16.
The Red Storm were missing seniors Shenneika Smith and Jennifer Blanding, who were suspended for a game by the NCAA for participating in a non-sanctioned game during the summer.
Enemkpali, a sophomore forward, also had 12 rebounds for her first career double-double. The Longhorns, who were 18-14 last season and lost in the first round of the NCAA tournament, outrebounded the Red Storm 47-26 in the WBI Tip Off Invitational game.
Fussell, who was second in the nation in free-throw shooting last year (90.5 percent) extended her streak of free throws made to 30 before missing her seventh attempt. Five of Fussell's free throws came in the final 5:31 when Texas closed with a 12-2 run.


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The 2013 Kohl's Cares Scholarship Program will award $425,000 in scholarships and prizes to more than 2,300 young volunteers across the country. The Kohl's Cares Scholarship Program aims to honor youth who have made a positive impact in their communities. To nominate volunteers ages 6 to 18 for a Kohl's Cares scholarship, visit kohlskids.com. Nominations will be accepted through March 15, and those wishing to nominate a youth volunteer must be 21 years or older.


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The treatment for Thrombocytopenia includes avoiding activities with a high risk of bleeding, reducing the alcohol consumption, stopping the medications that affect platelets which includes aspirin and ibuprofen and if it is severe the treatment includes blood or platelet transfusions, changing medications that are causing low platelet count, steroids, using of immune-suppressant drugs and the surgical removal of the spleen.
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Have you ever wondered what your favorite Threadless design looked like before it graced the coveted fabric of a Threadless tee? Well, wonder no more because here are 76 Threadless classics from sketch to print.
I'd love to hear which one of these are your favorites and whether or not you own any of these tees! Leave a comment below in the comments section and let me know!
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1. Battle of the Giants by Alex Solis
2. Space Chase by Alex Solis
3. Fast Food by Alex Solis
4. War Games by Ersin Ertuck
5. Burgervetica by David Schwen
6. Irate Primate by David Schwen
7. Springfield Still Life by Alvaro Arteaga Sabaini
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10. No Sweets by Julia Sonmi Heglund
11. Mozart Didn't Like Practice Either by Philip Tseng
12. A Geek Legend by Donald Lim
13. The Robot's Renaissance by Donald Lim and Evan Ferstenfeld
14. Sugar High by Justin White
15. Space and Time by Justin White
16. Two Dinosaurs Caught in a Chinese Finger Trap by Justin White
17. Believe It by Julia Sonmi Heglund
18. Prevailing Dragon Winds by Terry Fan
19. Autumn Chameleons by Terry Fan and Eric Fan
20. The Cloud Menagerie by Terry Fan
21. The Beginner's Guide to Tree Hugging by Esther Aarts
22. Fasten Your Seat Belts by Alvaro Arteaga Sabaini
23. Barf Trip by Justin White
24. Consumption by Julia Sonmi Heglund
25. Victor Terrintop by Nicholas Tassone
26. Void by Nicholas Tassone
27. A Coat of Techni-Color by Nicholas Tassone
28. The Ultimate Combo by David Soames
29. In Real Life by Marika Mattila and Benjamin Berg
30. Triskaidekaphilia by James Murphy
31. Self Portrait by Brian Cook and Piper Kirkby
32. How To Celebrate Your First Touchdown by David Soames
33. Storm by Lim Heng Swee
34. Never-ending Challenge by Lim Heng Swee
35. …Well I'm Just As Confused As You Are by Jonah Block
36. The Stepping Stone by Brian Cook
37. The Eraser by Brian Cook
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46. So Long, Old World by Tang Yau Hoong
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48. Hide And Sheep by Steven E. Hughes
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Anarchists to attack conventions?
Anarchists could be plotting violent actions at the Republican and Democratic national conventions, an intelligence bulletin prepared by the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security warns.
The bulletin, obtained by CNN, suggests that anarchists might try to employ improvised explosive devises, and that as of March the FBI had intelligence indicating that individuals from New York hoped to go to Tampa Bay to attempt to close area bridges during the Republican National Convention.
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In 2008, anarchists plotted blocking bridges and other transportation infrastructure.
"FBI and DHS assess with high confidence anarchist extremists will target similar infrastructure in Tampa and Charlotte, with potentially significant impacts on public safety and transportation," according to the law enforcement alert, reports CNN.
The intelligence document suggested that anarchists might be "engaging in potentially destructive criminal activities against critical infrastructure outside the security perimeter throughout the Tampa Bay region because they expected access to the main RNC venue to be tightly controlled."
While the FBI and DHS believe that most protesters will remain peaceful, they point out that anarchists are the most likely exceptions to this, according to CNN.
The bulletin further reminds law enforcement agencies that they should be on the lookout for anarchists trying to obtain weapons training, materials that could be used to make explosives, and preparing for violence with groups they typically oppose, such as white supremacists.


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Mercedes no longer a team - Webber
Ex-F1 driver Mark Webber says Mercedes is no longer functioning as a team following the contact between its drivers at the Belgian Grand Prix.
Nico Rosberg collided with Lewis Hamilton on the second lap of the race, ruining his team-mate's grand prix and ultimately limiting Mercedes to 18 points at a track where it had expected to score the maximum 43.
Webber was involved in a similar rivalry with Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull in 2010, which led to four years of animosity within the team. He believes the Mercedes drivers are no longer listening to their immediate bosses Toto Wolff and Niki Lauda and may not be able to stay at the team together long-term.
"Now we have a very difficult situation at Mercedes where the drivers are not enjoying a good relationship," Webber told the Herald Sun. "It's going to be interesting, not just for the rest of this year but can they drive together in the future? Is it okay for 2015 for the team to have the two guys together?
"The thing is, who is now going to try to put this back together? Is it the people who pay Niki's and Toto's wages? Because at the end of the day, if the drivers are not listening to these guys, do they have to say, 'Lewis and Nico, you go chat to the big guys at Mercedes, because they're paying you guys to get the job done in a team environment.'
"At the moment it's not a team, it looks like the drivers are doing their own thing."
Webber believes it will be tough for both drivers to remain focused at the Italian Grand Prix next week, where Mercedes is expected to be dominant again.
"The thing is for the drivers to stay focused on driving the cars now, because for them it's going to be a nightmare. The Thursday, the Friday, all the stuff out of the car, the media ... and this will just keep going up.
"Let me tell you, when they get to the track, they'll only be thinking about each other. There's no-one else really in the race. They are really only focused on beating each other, and that's what happens when you have a car that is so dominant.
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An off-duty Chicago Police officer subdued a man who was attempting to rob a gas station with a BB gun Friday night in the West Loop.
Donald K. Davis, 23, of the 7600 block of South Morgan Street, was charged with attempting to disarm a peace officer and attempted armed robbery, both felonies, police News Affairs Officer Robert Perez said.
Davis, wearing a skull cap and a facial covering, entered a gas station in the 1100 block of West Van Buren Street at 9 p.m. and announced a robbery, Perez said.
He was holding a handgun when he ordered the 19-year-old male gas attendant to put money in a bag, Perez said.
An off-duty police officer that happened to be inside the gas station, told Davis he was an officer and attempted to arrest him, Perez said. Davis tried to escape and attempted to disarm the officer. With the help of the gas attendant, the officer maintained control of his gun and subdued Davis until arresting officers arrived.
Davis' weapon, which turned out to be a BB gun, was recovered at the scene.
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United States of America - IYA2009 Update
8 December 2009
Cultural Astronomy & Storytelling - Continuing IYA Programs
- Hubble's Diverse Universe Film: Public screenings and DVD distribution beginning in 2010.
- The Cultural Astronomy Summer School will continue at the Summer AAS meetings.
- The UNESCO Astronomy & World Heritage Initiative will continue into the foreseeable future. The goal is to include cultural and scientific astronomy properties onto the World Heritage Site List (http://whc.unesco.org/en/astronomy)
- The Skies Alive! Film Competition is working on a professional website but the announcement is at ursa.as.arizona.edu/~iya2009cast/SkiesAlive.htm The new submission date is Jun 15.
Puerto Rico - Continuing IYA Programs
- continue to offer the 14 images from FETTU with the theme of stellar evolution for schools: "Vida de las Estrellas" - prepare and publish the talks of the discussion panel on Apollo 11 in a book format - prepare and publish an astronomy theme insert in the University of Puerto Rico newspaper - continue to offer the teacher workshop "Kepler's Law's" - continue to distribute the lithograph with FETTU image and math problem called Galileo's Challenge (Reto de Galileo)
365 Days of Astronomy Podcast - Continuing IYA Programs
The award-winning 365 Days of Astronomy podcast is proud to announce that the project will continue for another 365 days and is now accepting sign-ups for participants for 2010. This is a legacy project of IYA and is being managed by Astrosphere New Media Association.
BLAST! educational DVD now for sale BLAST!, a spectacular and suspenseful story of space exploration and IYA2009 Special project, is now available on DVD in a double disc set, specially designed for the educational and institutional markets. Five-time Emmy winner Paul Devlin follows his brother Mark Devlin, PhD to five continents, from the Arctic to the Antarctic to launch a revolutionary new telescope on a NASA high altitude balloon to reveal a hidden Universe. From catastrophic failure to transcendent triumph, their adventure reveals the real life of scientists. To buy the DVD, please visit: http://www.blastthemovie.com/buy.html
News from Donald Lubowich of Hofstra University
- The NYC Columbus Day Parade was successful. The float had IYA banners and logos on two sides and the back and was seen by ~750,000 people along the parade and millions on TV. We were only on camera for about 60 seconds. There was someone dressed up as Galileo with a replica telescope. I held up a Galileoscope, there was someone dressed up as an astronaut who shook hands with Galileo and someone dressed up as Galileo's daughter. The President of the Galileo lodge of the Sons of Italy of American was also on the float. We are in the last minute of this you tube (6:56 - 7:07) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr9S_xctVcA
- The final Music and Astronomy Under the Stars event for 2009 was very successful.
- Halloween Stars -Spooky Walk at Clark Botanical Garden approximately 8500 kids (many in costume) and their parents came over four days (Oct. 29 - Nov. 1) to walk through a dark garden with vampires, ghosts, ghouls coming out from behind the bushes. Everyone saw the IYA banner, my Music and Astronomy Under the Stars banner, and the Visions of the Universe posters. There were long lines of people waiting to look through the telescopes on two nights (Oct. 29 and 30) attended by 5000 people. About 1000 people came to look at Jupiter or the Moon on Oct. 29 while 500 people came to look through a telescope to see a distant object or see the astronomy video on the cloudy night of Oct. 30.
400 Years of the Telescope: educational video clips Enjoy the insightful and educational video clips drawn from over 70 hours of interviews with the world's leading figures in astronomy, shot during the filming of 400 Years of the Telescope. http://www.400years.org/en/video/video.php
Welcome Brian Kruse, the new Lead Formal Educator at the ASP Brian has been a middle school teacher in both Oregon and California and was a coordinator for NASA's Explorer Schools program for several years. He will be serving as both the Bay Area ASTRO coordinator and the National Network coordinator. email@example.com
U.S. winners of Cassini Scientist for a Day announced The U.S. winners of the Cassini Scientist for a Day essay contest are now online. This international essay contest is an IYA2009 Special project. Students chose one of three images the Cassini spacecraft would take on a given date and time set aside for education, and they each wrote a 500-word essay explaining why their choice would yield the best science results. Winners and their classes are invited to participate in teleconferences with Cassini scientists. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/632/
NASA Images: an invaluable resource for sharing incredible pictures NASA Images is a searchable database, useful for science communicators, educators, and general astronomy fans. Created under a Space Act Agreement between NASA and Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library, it offers unprecedented access to the largest collection of NASA media from a single, searchable site. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA, as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers. http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/624/
Dark Skies book made into a Spanish video for IYA2009 Copies of Bob Crelin's book "There Once was a Sky Full of Stars" were given to Chilean teachers and students as part of a kit from the Dark Skies Awareness Cornerstone project. Taking the initiative, these recipients then translated it into Spanish, and created a video. This has been put online, and is available for all to see and enjoy. See the video in Spanish (with English subtitles) here: http://concurso.educarchile.cl/index.php/videoteca?task=videodirectlink&id=189
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VAL-D'OR, Wednesday, November 7, 2012 – Florida Panthers prospect Jonathan Huberdeau, along with top 2013 NHL Entry Draft prospects Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin of the Halifax Mooseheads combined for 11 points to lead the Team QMJHL offence to a 5-2 win in front of 2,492 fans at the Centre Air Creebec in Game 2 of the SUBWAY Super Series.
The win ends a five-game losing streak for Team QMJHL against Team Russia, and ties the 2012 SUBWAY Super Series at 1-1 (3-3 in points).
It took Team QMJHL all of 59 seconds to open the scoring in the second instalment of the SUBWAY Super Series. Francis Beauvillier (RIM) took control of the puck before cutting to the slot and blasting a wrist shot past Andrei Vasilevski.
Team Russia tied the score at one when Andrei Sigarev was the last player to touch a puck that took two awkward bounces before finding the back of the net. Both teams retreated to their dressing rooms tied at one after 20 minutes of play.
Jonathan Huberdeau (SNB) and Nathan MacKinnon (HAL) were the stories in the second period. Both players broke away on the Russian goaltender at 3:51 displaying slick back and forth passing with Huberdeau burying his first of the series.
The Sea Dogs' forward registered his second goal off another MacKinnon feed before the end of the second frame to put Team QMJHL up 3-1.
In the third period, MacKinnon continued his stellar play by pouncing on his own rebound to push the Team QMJHL lead to three at 5:56. Jonathan Drouin (HAL) picked up his third assist of the game on the marker.
It took all of 30 seconds for Team Russia to cut into the lead. Vladimir Tkachev broke away and wristed a perfect shot behind goaltender François Brassard (QUE).
Drouin recorded his first goal and fourth point of the night with just over four minutes left in the game. Not surprisingly, Huberdeau and MacKinnon notched the assists on the goal.
MacKinnon was named the player of the game for Team QMJHL after registering four points while Andrei Sigarev was rewarded for Team Russia.
Zachary Fucale (HAL) made nine saves, while Brassard stopped 14 shots. Tampa Bay Lightning first round pick Andrei Vasilevski made 27 saves in the loss.
Game 3 of the 2012 SUBWAY Super Series continues Thursday in Guelph when Team OHL hosts Team Russia.
The game will be broadcast live on Sportsnet One starting at 7 pm (ET), and can also be seen on the NHL Network U.S, online through NeuLion or listen live with Sportsnet Radio FAN 590.


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In the United States, various views of creationism typically have been promoted by small groups of politically active religious fundamentalists who believe that only a supernatural entity could account for the physical changes in the universe and for the biological diversity of life on Earth. But even these creationists hold very different views. Some, known as "young Earth" creationists, believe the biblical account that the universe and the Earth were created just a few thousand years ago. Proponents of this form of creationism also believe that all living things, including humans, were created in a very short period of time in essentially the forms in which they exist today. Other creationists, known as "old Earth" creationists, accept that the Earth may be very old but reject other scientific findings regarding the evolution of living things.
No scientific evidence supports these viewpoints. On the contrary, as discussed earlier, several independent lines of evidence indicate that the Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and that the universe is about 14 billion years old. Rejecting the evidence for these age estimates would mean rejecting not just biological evolution but also fundamental discoveries of modern physics, chemistry, astrophysics, and geology.
Some creationists believe that Earth's present form and the distribution of fossils can be explained by a worldwide flood. But this claim also is at odds with observations and evidence understood scientifically. The belief that Earth's sediments, with their fossils, were deposited in a short period does not accord either with the known processes of sedimentation or with the estimated volume of water needed to deposit sediments on the top of some of Earth's highest mountains.
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Creationists sometimes argue that the idea of evolution must remain hypothetical because "no one has ever seen evolution occur." This kind of statement also reveals that some creationists misunderstand an important characteristic of scientific reasoning. Scientific conclusions are not limited to direct observation but often depend on inferences that are made by applying reason to observations. Even with the launch of Earth-orbiting spacecraft, scientists could not directly see the Earth going around the Sun. But they inferred from a wealth of independent measurements that the Sun is at the center of the solar system. Until the recent development of extremely powerful microscopes, scientists could not observe atoms, but the behavior of physical objects left no doubt about the atomic nature of matter. Scientists hypothesized the existence of viruses for many years before microscopes became powerful enough to see them.
Thus, for many areas of science, scientists have not directly observed the objects (such as genes and atoms) or the phenomena (such as the Earth going around the Sun) that are now well-established facts. Instead, they have confirmed them indirectly by observational and experimental evidence. Evolution is no different. Indeed, for the reasons described in this booklet, evolutionary science provides one of the best examples of a deep understanding based on scientific reasoning.
This contention that nobody has seen evolution occurring further ignores the overwhelming evidence that evolution has taken place and is continuing to occur. The annual changes in influenza viruses and the emergence of bacteria resistant to antibiotics are both products of evolutionary forces. Another example of ongoing evolution is the appearance of mosquitoes resistant to various insecticides, which has contributed to a resurgence of malaria in Africa and elsewhere. The transitional fossils that have been found in abundance since Darwin's time reveal how species continually give rise to successor species that, over time, produce radically changed body forms and functions. It also is possible to directly observe many of the specific processes by which evolution occurs. Scientists regularly do experiments using microbes and other model systems that directly test evolutionary hypotheses.
Creationists reject such scientific facts in part because they do not accept evidence drawn from natural processes that they consider to be at odds with the Bible. But science cannot test supernatural possibilities. To young Earth creationists, no amount of empirical evidence that the Earth is billions of years old is likely to refute their claim that the world is actually young but that God simply made it appear to be old. Because such appeals to the supernatural are not testable using the rules and processes of scientific inquiry, they cannot be a part of science.
From Science, Evolution, and Creationism, National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine. © 2008 National Academy of Sciences


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Recognizing the Dangers of Sleep Deprivation
If you regularly get less sleep than your brain requires, then you are, by definition, sleep deprived. Every year, thousands of sleep-deprived people are involved in automobile and industrial accidents, and their sleepiness is frequently cited as a contributing factor in the accidents. The National Sleep Foundation believes the problem is so pervasive that it has established a national Drowsy Driver education program to inform people about the dangers of driving while sleep deprived. But an increased risk for accidents is just one part of the consequences you may suffer if you continue to deprive your brain and body of the sleep they require to keep you healthy.
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U.S. roadways and highways are littered with the corpses of drunk and sleepy drivers and their victims. The National Highway Transportation Safety Association reports that sleepy drivers are involved in as many crashes as drunk drivers. And sleepy driving accidents tend to be more violent than drunk-driving accidents because even the drunkest driver has some sort of ability to react and respond to an emergency situation, even if that ability is impaired. A driver who is asleep doesn't react to the emergency situation at all because he or she is completely unaware.
Public awareness of drunk driving is high, but sleepy driving is barely on the radar. Sleepy drivers cause more than 100,000 traffic accidents every year, accidents that could all be prevented if everyone made sure they had enough sleep before operating a motor vehicle. According to the National Sleep Foundation, drowsy-driving accidents cause 1,550 unnecessary deaths, 71,000 injuries, and $12.5 billion in property losses and lost productivity every year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports 1 million accidents are caused annually by driver inattention. Two of the highest risk factors for inattentiveness behind the wheel are sleep deprivation and fatigue. Sleepy drivers aren't just putting themselves at risk by getting behind the wheel; they're putting their passengers as well as other drivers and their passengers at risk. They are also a threat to pedestrians.
People who drive for a living have an even higher risk of being in an accident while driving. Approximately 47 percent of all truck drivers report that they've fallen asleep at the wheel at least once during their driving careers.
Sleepiness and industrial accidents
The list of industrial accidents caused, at least in part, by sleepy workers in key positions reads like a "Who's Who" of disaster headlines over the past several decades.
Pilot fatigue and the resulting diminished judgment were given part of the blame for the 1999 American Airlines crash in Little Rock, Arkansas. Sleep deprivation was also involved in the accident with the Staten Island Ferry that crashed into the dock at full speed in October 2003. The assistant captain piloting the ferry made no attempt to slow the boat down because he was sound asleep at the controls. Many other disasters were caused by key personnel who made bad decisions because they were operating on too little sleep.
Many industries are finally waking up to the fact that allowing their employees to work with too little sleep is dangerous. However, just as many employers ignore the fact that humans require adequate sleep to function well. So for every intern program that now allows its young doctors to sleep six hours every night, you still have a program that pushes its doctors to perform on one or two hours sleep (or no sleep), and that lack of sleep can lead to serious medical mistakes. Even worse, these programs may require house staff to work back-to-back shifts with no break in between. Increasing pressure has come to bear on work schedules during medical training in the wake of several high-profile wrongful death cases.


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Calories: 260 calories, Carbohydrates: 33 g, Protein: 13 g, Fat: 9 g, Saturated Fat: 1.5 g, Cholesterol: 50 mg, Sodium: 270 mg, Fiber: 5 g
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