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Hey Nobel Prize in Medicine! You've got competition. This morning, a bevy of techoscenti billionaires including Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin announced the first recipients of their Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, a $3 million award "recognizing excellence in research aimed at curing intractable diseases and extending human life." This year, there are 11 recipients, meaning a total $33 million payout, but in the future five annual awards will be planned, totalling $15 million.
The award is the brainchild of billionaire Yuri Milner, an early Facebook investor, who gives a similar prize in physics. Aside from Brin and Zuckerberg, he is joined by: Anne Wojcicki, Brin's wife and the chief executive of 23andMe, the consumer genetics startup; Priscilla Chan, Zuckerberg's wife and a physician who is in residency; and Art Levinson, the chairman of the board at Apple who previously, as chief executive of Genentech, was the most respected leader in the pharmaceutical industry. The awards are being announced formally later today at conference led by Susan Desmond-Hellmann, once Levinson's right-hand woman and now chancellor of UCSF.
"I believe this new prize will shine a light on the extraordinary achievements of the outstanding minds in the field of life sciences, enhance medical innovation, and ultimately become a platform for recognizing future discoveries," Levinson said in a prepared statement. Added Brin: "Curing a disease should be worth more than a touchdown."
So what brain trust did this brain trust decide to present checks to? Interestingly, though not surprisingly, it's a list that focuses on those who have actually changed medicine and biotechnology, even inventing new drugs. One is even one of Levinson's old employees. The winners:
Cornelia I. Bargmann of Rockefeller University studies a primitive worm, C. elegans, which has only 302 neurons in its brain. The idea is that by studying this tiny brain, we can learn how brains work, and Bargmann's opinions are sought out by neuroscientists and psychiatrists.
David Botstein of Princeton University developed, in 1980, a method for discovering disease genes that was used to find the BRCA breast cancer gene, a test for which is the main product of Myriad Genetics, and the genetic mutation that causes Huntington's. Eighteen years later he led a team that figured out new ways to analyze data from the tiny "DNA chips" that were revolutionizing genetics. He's now studying how yeast consume food and create energy, an effort that could lead to a new understanding of lots of biological problems, including how cancer cells eat.
Lewis C. Cantley of Weill Cornell Medical College, who discovered an enzyme called PI3 kinase that is a key drug target for new medicines against cancer. He is a co-founder of Agios Pharmaceuticals and a pioneer in the field of Systems Biology, which tries to put the pieces looked at by geneticists and molecular biologists into a more coherent whole.
Dr. Hans Clevers, director of the Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research in the Netherlands, who has been one of the leading figures in the discovery that stem cells play a role in the development of cancer.
Dr. Napoleone Ferrara of the University of California, San Diego, at Genentech did work that led the creation of Avastin, for colon and other cancers, and Lucentis, for age-related macular degeneration. Both drugs work by stopping a process called angiogenesis, which in feeds tumors and, in eye disease, results in too much blood entering the eye and causing damage.
Titia de Lange of Rockefeller University studies telomeres, the protective ends of the chromosomes that contain human DNA. When these degrade, they can lead to some types of cancer.
Eric S. Lander of the Broad Institute of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lander is most famous for his leadership role in the Human Genome Project and for his work running the Broad Institute, which has become one of the hot spots for genetic research. But he's also responsible for helping to develop a molecular taxonomy of cancer and for mentoring many of the top researchers in the field.
Dr. Charles L. Sawyers It's not just that Sawyers, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, looks into the molecular signals that drive a cell to cancer, it's that he's twice played a key role in getting drugs that affect those signals to patients. The first time was with Gleevec, from Novartis, which started off the race for DNA-targeted cancer drugs. The second, more recently, was Medivation's Xtandi, for prostate cancer patients, which was recently approved.
Dr. Bert Vogelstein of Johns Hopkins University, devised a model for the progression of colon cancer that is widely used in colonoscopy. More recently he is one of the very top minds looking at how genetic alterations lead to cancer.
Robert A. Weinberg of M.I.T., discovered the first human gene that, when mutated, causes cancer, setting up science to understand cancer as a series of genetic mutations.
Dr. Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, figured out how to make what are known as induced pluripotent stem cells. These resemble embryonic stem cells, which can in theory turn into any part of the body, but they are far more useful for studying what goes wrong to make disease happen. In a few years they have already revolutionized biology.
Next year, this year's winners will help pick the next batch of luminaries.
Is this a good way for Zuckerberg et. al to spend their cash? There's no way to argue with that list: those are great people to be giving an award and they all deserve it. I'm mostly thrilled at the idea that Vogelstein and Bargmann and Yamanaka are all going to be flush.
But I have trouble believing that this award is going to make any of them much more famous. Most people reading this will probably remember Milner and Brin more than Sawyers and Napo Ferrera. And, as Forbes contributor David Shaywitz noted on Twitter, among biologists these folks are already idolized. What they all need are funds to keep them in the field, not new people to look up to. Brin is speaking my language when he says that curing disease should be worth more than a touchdown. Even with prizes that big, I'm not sure it is.
Still, the awards are a good step. Let's hope that as years pass, they draw more and more attention to the amazing things happening in science and medicine.
Update: I interviewed Art Levinson about the prize.
Thanks to Dennis Overbye at the New York Times, whose collection of links to the web pages of the winners I used in creating this story. This post has been updated from its original version.


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Newark Mayor-elect Corey Booker has political coat-tails so long they could be a Christo art installation.
Booker won in a landslide earlier this spring on a platform of clean government and school choice, and now the slate of municipal council members he has endorsed have won a clean sweep in yesterday's runoff elections.
Booker and his fellow revolutionaries will face stiff opposition from the teachers' unions and state legislators in their efforts to give Newark residents unfettered school choice, but they unquestionably have the city's people behind them.


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Regardless of sexual orientation, anyone can have health problems. lesbians (including bisexual women), however, are more prone to some health problems than the population at large.
Breast cancer
Although any woman can develop breast cancer (especially as she gets older), for several reasons lesbians are at an increased risk. Breast cancer risks for women include not having children (or having them late in life), not breast-feeding, smoking and being overweight. Lesbians are less likely to have children and thus most lesbians do not breast-feed; if they do have children, they are more likely to have them later in life. In addition, smoking and alcohol use tends to be higher among lesbians than in the population as a whole (see below), further increasing the risk of breast cancer. According to studies, lesbians are also more likely to have greater body mass and less likely to have regular screening exams like mammograms, both of which can further increase the risk of breast cancer.
Ovarian and endometrial cancer
Lesbians are also at an increased risk for ovarian and endometrial cancers. Risk factors for these cancers include not taking oral contraceptives and not having children. In addition the higher rate of smoking among lesbians may increase the risk for ovarian cancer.
Colon cancer
Lesbians may also have a higher risk for colon cancer. Risk factors for colon cancer common among lesbians include a higher rate of smoking, having fewer screening exams and the greater likelihood of having a greater body mass.
Smoking-related illnesses
Lesbians have been reported to smoke at higher rates than the general population. Because of this, it is expected that illnesses linked to smoking (lung cancer, emphysema, heart disease, etc.) would be found at a higher rate among lesbians.
It has been suggested that alcohol use may be higher among lesbians. Alcoholism is itself a health-care problem. Alcohol abuse can also lead to liver disease. In addition, alcohol use (and abuse) can also increase the risk for HIV and other STDs. While under the influence of alcohol, people tend to have sex more often, have sex with people they do not know, are less likely to use dental dams or are less likely to use dental dams correctly. In addition, while under the influence of alcohol, people are more likely to engage in high-risk sexual activities (for example sharing sex toys).
Gay bashing and lesbian domestic violence
Although these are often not viewed as health concerns, they should be. Physical violence can lead to bodily harm, trauma, hospitalization, etc. Many gay/lesbian "hate crimes" never get reported, due to victims fear of further discrimination, shame, intimidation by police or similar concerns. lesbian domestic violence can also lead to significant bodily harm, and is very rarely reported, due to the victims' fears of discrimination, intimidation by police, etc. Due to the lack of reporting, the rates of gay bashing and lesbian domestic violence are likely much higher than statistics indicate.
Mental-health issues
Mental-health issues cannot be ignored. lesbians live in a world where they are often told they are "bad." Some lesbians are abandoned by their families. Discrimination against lesbians is all too common. The way that society often treats lesbians can lower their self-esteem and lead to depression. Suicide rates, for example, are higher among lesbian youth than among heterosexual youth. When a person has low self-esteem, they tend to value their life (and their health) less seriously.
Let's now review some solutions to the health problems discussed above.
Reducing the rate of cancer among lesbians
The most significant ways to reduce the risk of cancer among lesbians are:
Increase cancer screening programs among lesbians. This includes increasing the rate of Pap smears, breast self-exams and mammography.
A strong effort needs to be made to reduce the incidence of smoking in the lesbian community. A reduction in smoking rates can lead to a reduction in lung cancer, heart disease, emphysema and other smoking-related illnesses.
In women who are overweight, programs may be implemented to reduce the rate of obesity.
Reducing the rate of alcoholism among lesbians
This can be best accomplished by teaching lesbians how to control drinking habits before they become alcoholics. This means teaching lesbians to stop drinking before they become drunk. In addition, local lesbian communities may want to establish programs for lesbians to meet one another outside of a bar setting. Another solution is to get women with drinking problems into alcohol-treatment programs. Doing this will not only solve drinking problems, but it will also reduce the risks of problems associated with alcoholism (liver disease, increased STD risk, relationship problems, etc.).
Reducing the rate of violence against lesbians
This is difficult to solve, since this would involve changes in how our society views lesbians. Reduction of lesbian domestic violence is another problematic issue. However, we can teach lesbians how to avoid situations where violence against them would likely occur. And when a domestic-violence situation does occur, we need to teach lesbians how to get themselves out of that situation. This would also involve teaching local domestic-violence hotlines and law-enforcement agencies about lesbian domestic-violence and hate crimes, and how to handle those types of situations.
Reducing the rate of mental-health problems among lesbians
This is another complex problem. A strong effort needs to be made to increase self-esteem in the lesbian community, especially among young lesbians. Perhaps programs using lesbian role models can be developed to teach young lesbians that they can have successful and fulfilling futures. In lesbians who suffer from depression, low self-esteem and similar issues, an effort must be made to get them into mental-health counseling with counselors who are comfortable in dealing with lesbian issues.
In summary
The lesbian community cannot depend on the straight community to solve its problems -- lesbian problems are best solved by lesbian solutions. If the incidence of various health problems is to be reduced in the lesbian community, then it is up to the lesbian community itself to take action.
If you are a lesbian, think about what you personally can do to make your community healthier. Work to keep yourself healthy. Examine your breasts frequently. Make sure you regularly have a mammogram and a Pap smear. Reduce your use of alcohol and other drugs.
If you are a lesbian, spend some time helping to keep your community healthy. Teach lesbian youth the value of their health. Encourage them to do breast self-exams. Encourage them to get regular Pap smears. Teach them to drink responsibly. Be a lesbian role model. Take pride in your community. The health of the lesbian community depends on you.
Finally, a good review of health concerns in the gay and lesbian community can be found in the following report which can be ordered from the online PubMed/Medline database: "Primary Care of Lesbian and Gay Patients: Educating Ourselves and Our Students," by A. Harrison, from Family Medicine, Vol. 28, pages 10-23 (January 1996).
Do you want more information on AIDS, STDs or safer sex? Contact the U.S. Centers for Disease Control AIDS hotline, open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at 1-800-CDC-INFO. Or visit The Body's Safe Sex and Prevention Forum.
Until next time . . . Work hard, play hard, play safe, stay sober!


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Kirk Cousins accidentally got a buzz cut
When someone shows up with an unannounced buzz cut, there are three possible explanations: head lice, enlistment or paparazzi frustration. Since Kirk Cousins isn't in elementary school, won't be joining the Army any time soon and isn't even the most famousrookie quarterback on his team, there had to be a good explanation when he showed up to Redskins Park on Wednesday with the curious new hairstyle.
Was there ever.
The Redskins rookie, who has won two games in relief of fellow rookie Robert Griffin III, told reporters he went into a locally-owned barbershop for a routine haircut and somehow ended up with a Mohawk. He explains:
"The lady who cut my hair wasn't speaking English all that clearly, there was a communication breakdown, and she basically gave me a Mohawk. I had my glasses on. She took them off to cut my hair. I couldn't stop her, obviously because I couldn't see. She wheels me back around, I look in the mirror -- realize I have a Mohawk -- and I tell her, 'Just shave it off.' I don't know what to tell you. So she just buzzed it off and I gotta live with this for the next couple of weeks until it grows back, but I do want to apologize to my family and friends back home. I try to represent them well, but this haircut isn't doing it."
Aside from ruining family Christmas photos, there was another downside to Cousins' new 'do.
"The tough thing was, until that moment, I didn't realize I have a receding hairline," he said. "My dad is more or less completely bald and I was hoping I wasn't going to get his genes."
This caused immediate worry among the more high-strung Redskins fans, who feared Cousins could react to the news by going into a depressive spiral like Elaine's boyfriend from the Little Jerry episode of Seinfeld and show up to Sunday's game wearing a jersey with a day-old meatball stain.
Rest assured, Cousins seemed to be taking the haircut, and the sign of premature aging, in stride.
In case you were wondering how disappointed you should be in Cousins for his new haircut, here's how he looked during Sunday's win over the Cleveland Browns.


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The US stock market edged higher overnight despite continued focus from investors on the likelihood of a US-led attack on Syria.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 68 points, or 0.5 percent, to 14,844 in early afternoon trading. The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained nine points, or 0.5 percent, to 1,639. The Nasdaq composite rose 26 points, or 0.7 percent, to 3,605.
The escalating tensions between the US and Syria hit the stock market hard on Tuesday, sending the Dow down 170 points. Traders pushed gold to a three-month high and crude oil rose to its highest level in a year and a half.
The quick rise in the price of oil has worried investors. Costlier oil almost always translates into higher fuel expenses for businesses and consumers, weighing on consumer spending and the economy. While Syria produces little oil, a regional conflict in the Middle East could lead to supply disruptions in an area where half the world's proven oil reserves lie.
"When you add it all up - the problems in Libya, Egypt, Syria - you're looking at 3 million barrels a day in potential production outages," said Nick Koutsoftas, a commodities-focused portfolio manager at Cohen & Steers.
Oil rose $US1.03, or 0.9 percent, to $110.03 a barrel. It went as high as $112 a barrel overnight.
Energy companies were among the biggest gainers in the S&P 500. Shares of oil producer EOG Resources rose $4.39, or 3 percent, $160.66. Dow component Chevron climbed $3.04, or 2.6 percent, to $121.80.
While the selling in stocks appears to have abated for now, the overall trend for the market has been down over the last couple of weeks. The S&P 500 has lost 4.6 percent since reaching an all-time high on August 2, while the Dow is down 5.6 percent.
Fund managers said investors will have little reason to enter the market until next week's employment report or until the Federal Reserve holds its mid-September policy meeting.
"You may be watching stock prices, but you're not placing any orders in this market," said Chris Hyzy, chief investment officer at US Trust.
Before Syria grabbed the headlines, the focus had been on the Federal Reserve and whether the central bank was going to pull back on its massive bond-buying program, which has kept interest rates extremely low.
If oil prices remain at these elevated levels, the Fed may have to delay easing back on its bond purchases, said Quincy Krosby, market strategist with Prudential Financial.
"The Fed would see higher oil prices, particularly if they linger at these higher levels, as a definite hindrance to employment and consumer spending," Krosby said.
Hyzy said oil would have to rise above $125 a barrel before it has a noticeable impact on consumer spending. Cohen & Steers' Koutsoftas said he believes the US consumer has gotten used to higher fuel costs, and oil would have to go to $150 a barrel before it might impact consumer behavior.
The Syria standoff comes during what is typically a quiet week for stocks. There is little economic data being released and only a handful of corporate earnings. It's also the week before Labor Day, when many on Wall Street are on vacation. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday was the lowest of any full day of trading this year.
The next big day for the market will come next week, when investors get the August jobs report on September 6, Hyzy and Krosby said.


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HIGH POINT, N.C. – The VCU Men's Soccer team allowed two late goals in a 3-2 loss to host High Point University on Friday night in the NSCAA College Game of the Week presented by Fox Soccer Channel.
The Rams drop to 9-8 overall on the season, while High Point improves to 6-9-2 on the season.
"Sometimes soccer can be cruel," said VCU Head Coach Dave Giffard. "Each day in training we are improving in areas that have been costing us all year, unfortunately we continue to pay for our shortcomings. Building a championship team doesn't happen overnight and it isn't easy. When we as a team learn what it takes and give of ourselves in every moment each day, we will arrive and will be rewarded with the results that we want. Until then, we are going to continue to have nights like tonight where we come up short and find ourselves wondering why."
High Point took a 1-0 lead in the 20th minute of play off a shot from Shawn Sloan from 25 yards out. The Panthers Leon Carby passed the ball off to Sloan on the right side of the pitch, before Sloan fired a curling shot into the top left corner of the VCU goal.
The Rams nearly fell behind 2-0 in the 24th minute of play off a corner kick, but freshman defender Juan Monge Solano manned the right goal post and stopped a shot on the goal line. VCU was able to freely clear ball following a foul called on High Point.
The Black & Gold knotted things up at 1-1 off a corner kick from the left side in the 30th minute. Senior defender Nick Rich directed a cross to the back post, which junior forward Yoram Mwila was able to connect with on a header attempt and put on frame. High Point goalkeeper Michael Chesler made a diving save to keep the ball from going in, but left a long rebound. Sophomore forward Jason Johnson collected the loose ball and fired into the net for his team leading ninth goal of the season.
The Rams took a 2-1 lead following an impressive goal by Johnson in the 37th minute of play. A played ball to freshman forward Kharlton Belmar towards the left corner started the play; Belmar outran his defender and played the ball towards the six-yard box for Johnson. Johnson, with a defender on his hip, turned his back to the defender to post him up. The Saint Anne, Jamaica, native popped the ball up to himself, before bicycling the attempt into the top portion of the goal for a 2-1 VCU lead, a lead VCU would take into the locker room.
At the half VCU held a 9-7 edge in shots and earned three corner kicks compared to just one for High Point.
The Panthers had a dangerous chance just out of the half, as Sloan played a ball from the midfield line inside the 18-yard box. High Point's Mamadee Nyepon caught up with the pass and took one touch to set up for a shot on his right foot, but VCU goalkeeper Josh Pantazelos sprung from his line and knocked the ball away from the attacking player. Monge Solano moved to loose ball and cleared the ball out of VCU's defensive end.
The Rams best chance of the second half came off the foot of Johnson. Johnson accepted the ball inside the right side of the 18-yard box, before pushing back down the field to evade a defender. Johnson turned quickly and directed a hard shot towards the near post, but Chesler pushed the shot wide for a corner kick. VCU was unable to create a chance on the ensuing corner kick.
High Point would score the game-tying and eventual game-winning goals in the 79th minute of play. The game-tying goal came with 79:15 showing on the clock, as Fejiro Okiomah headed home a pass off a corner kick.
The Panthers followed that up with the game-winning goal coming at 79:50, as a blocked shot by High Point's Alex Martinez deflected off a VCU defender and towards Shane Malcolm. Malcolm gained control of the ball and neatly placed his shot into the VCU goal for the 3-2 advantage.
The Black & Gold continue to press and move the ball throughout the pitch, but were unable to come away with a third goal to force overtime.
High Point edged VCU in shots 19-17, while VCU held a 9-2 corner kick advantage.
Pantazelos notched three saves for the Rams in 90 minutes of action, while Chesler staved off seven shots for the Panthers.
VCU will have to regroup quickly, as the Rams host a pivotal CAA contest against Towson on Sunday night at 6 p.m.
"Now we have a huge test of our character and resolve as we turn around to face a talent Towson team in a key CAA match," added Giffard.


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2013 NCAA(R) Division I Men's Basketball Championship is Most-Watched and Highest-Rated Tournament-to-Date Since 2005
Turner Sports and CBS Sports' coverage of the 2013 NCAA(R) Division I Men's Basketball Final Four(R) on CBS on Saturday, April 6 earned an average fast national household rating/share of 9.4/18, up 4% from last year's 9.0/17, which is the highest-rated Final Four in eight years (10.5/19; 2005), based on Nielsen Fast Nationals.
The 2013 Final Four averaged 15.702 million viewers, up 3% from last year's 15.256 million, which is the highest viewer average for the two Final Four games since 2005 (16.647 million; Illinois-Louisville and North Carolina-Michigan State).
The first game, Louisville beating Wichita State, earned an average household rating/share of 8.7/18 and 14,468,000 total viewers, both up 4% from last year's 8.4/17 and 13,908,000 total viewers.
The second game featuring Michigan's victory over Syracuse delivered a 10.2/18, up 6% from last year's 9.6/17. The corresponding 17,104,000 total viewers are up 3% compared with last year's 16,603,000 total viewers.
CBS Sports and Turner Sports' coverage of the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship is averaging 10.174 million total viewers-to-date, up 10% from last year's 9.213 million, and is the highest viewer average for the NCAA Tournament through the Final Four in eight years (10.183 million; 2005).
The 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship has delivered the best overall tournament-to-date ratings since 2005. The overall tournament average-to-date rating/share is a 6.4/13, up 8% from last year's 5.9/12. The 6.4/13 is the highest average rating for the NCAA Tournament through the Final Four in eight years (6.6/14; 2005).
Source: Nielsen Media Research, based on Fast National data, Live +SD data stream. 3/19/13 to 04/06/13 vs. 03/13/12 to 03/31/12. 2013, 2012 and 2011 averages based on weighted average of four telecast gross across CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV. Historical audiences, CBS 1991 through 2005 based on Live data. 2006 through 2012 based on Live + SD. 2003 based on CBS / ESPN average of First Round.


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"I thought the first Jonathan Ransom thriller was as good as it could get. I was wrong. This one blows it away. This series is taking off like a rocket." —Lee Child
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David Seabrook was born in 1960 and spent most of his life in Kent, where he studied Proust at the University of Canterbury. A marked outsider, he drew inspiration from artists who operated outside prevailing literary fashion, those who persisted when nobody was listening. His writings ranged from tributes to unheralded authors to studies of tabloid crimes, were all committed to longhand, seldom found any publishing outlet, and are now considered lost. At the turn of the century, the longhand pages of All the Devils Are Here came to Granta's attention and the book was published in 2002. In 2009, Seabrook's body was discovered in his Canterbury flat. He had published only one further work, the novel Jack of Jumps.


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The origin is almost certainly Norwegian, Danish doesn't use "våg" as far as I can recall, and the word has a different meaning in Swedish. If it came from Swedish, the spelling of the third part of the word would not be "nes".I'd make a guess for north-western Norway (with a high probability for some island off the coast of Møre- og Romsdal*).The meaning is, literally, "mire/moor (bog) + small bay + headland", and would probably translate better as "headland in the little mire-bay"."Å" isn't difficult with Ikonboard at all, you just need the proper keyboard setup. * Wimping out and checking with the Norwegian online cartographic service for roads, I find a place called "Myrvågneset" on Gurskøya (an island off the coast of Møre- og Romsdal); this may be entirely coincidental. There are, BTW, exactly four people in Norway with your spelling of that last name, and 51 with "å" instead of "aa".
I surmise it is a derivation of the lost (8th) dwarf from the brothers Grimm -- and henced correctly pronouced "Winky" ,
And when you've all voted on Jonathan, you might want to try a poll on my last name: "Myrvaagnes". Try to guess (1) origin, (2) what it means, and (3) pronunciation.
Sure. Actually, the name dates from before the A with the little circle over it (which is pretty hard to spell on Ikonboard anyway.)
You win the prize (a free subscription to the LL forum .)
My father came from Ålesund on the West coast of Norway. A cousin of mine has traced the family genealogy back to a Jakob Olafsson who leased a section of the Myrvaagnes farm on Gurskøya, near Myrvågneset. At about the same time, some other guy, who may or may not have been related, leased another section of the same farm. My speculation is that after a few generations (Olaf Jakobsson, Jakob Olafsson, etc.), one of the Olafs or Jakobs moved to the big town of Ålesund, where some other Jakob or Olaf had the same father's name. So their friends started calling him by the name of the farm he came from. Of course, back then it was spelled with two a's; the "Å" came later.
And if you ever get out to Gurskøya, take a look at the well-preserved Myrvaagnes farmhouse, which is preserved as a national historic house. I'll post a photo of it some day, after I've scanned it (taken with film, in 1996).
P.S. Without the right keyboard, I could get your "å" and "ø" by cutting and pasting
They call it unagi in Japanese by the way.
Fascinating... how about "languillier"?Hint, that won't help much non French speaking contenders, it has to do with some fishy business... Cheers,Bernard


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Inside Track: From a humble beginning, Curt Mulder has found success
A construction job in Lansing in 2002 set the stage for continued work in the housing development arena.
It's fair to say that Curt Mulder swept his way into his executive position at one of the region's top builders.
Mulder has been a vice president at Wolverine Building Group for nearly three years, heading the multi-family housing construction division. But when he started at the firm in 1998 when he was a full-time student at Calvin College, he became familiar with a somewhat uncommon, though useful, construction tool.
"I can tell you that I pushed a lot of brooms in my beginning stages of working for Wolverine," he said with a smile. "I really wanted to get into the construction industry and I was in Calvin's engineering program. If you're in an engineering program, you don't have a tremendous amount of interaction with how construction happens.
"I knew if I wanted to get into construction, I needed to get in soon. So after my sophomore year, I was lucky enough to land a job at Wolverine and pushed a broom for the next couple of years," he said.
"It was a really valuable experience for me because when I went back to class, I'd be designing the size of beam and steel connections. Then later in the day, back when I was out pushing a broom, I could look at a steel structure and kind of put two and two together," he said.
After he earned his civil engineering degree and his on-the-job education was finished, the firm made him a project manager in June 2001. Four years later, Wolverine promoted him to senior project manager, a post he held for five years, until April 2010, when he became a company vice president.
Mulder said his biggest career break came in 2002 when he'd worked as a project manager for about a year. He worked with a Lansing-area housing developer on a project that didn't start out as a big job. In fact, when he got involved, the work to build 80 apartments and a clubhouse was already under way. Then, surprisingly, the project became a major development of 340 rental units.
"The relationship with that developer led to so many other relationships that I've built over the years that turned into lots of work in the Lansing and East Lansing areas and to some work coming back here to the Grand Rapids area," he said. "It also led to work that we've done on the east side of the state."
That Lansing job was the first one he ran on his own. "It just kind of set the stage for the work that I now do in the housing development arena," he added. "I can say that I can track most of my current clients back to that one particular client. It was definitely the start of my multi-family (housing) career."
Mulder, a Grand Rapids native, and his wife, Kate, live on 40 acres in Grattan Township with their three young children. Daughter Rylie is 6, Gideon will be 3 in March and Abby just turned 1 last month. With so young a crew, Christmas was an exciting time in the Mulder household.
"The oldest one, Rylie, kind of understands what Christmas is all about. Gideon really didn't know what Christmas was all about last year, but he sure did this year," said Mulder.
The couple met while Kate was living in Ramona, Calif., just northeast of San Diego. He went to visit a friend who lived in the area and they decided to do some volunteer work at Young Life, a nationwide nondenominational Christian ministry that reaches out to adolescents.
"Kate was basically the person that told us what to do when we showed up there, and ended up working along with us for that weekend — and, I guess, the rest is history," he said with a laugh. They recently celebrated their eighth anniversary, after dating for two years.
The Mulders have livestock on their Grattan acreage. Curt became interested in farming as a youngster when his parents took him to a friends' farm on Whitneyville Road. Kate got to know farming as a child, too, while growing up in Texas.
After they moved from the city and settled into their new rural location, they adopted about 30 chickens from Camp Roger, a Christian summer camp in Rockford. "We had no idea what we were doing then," he said. "I think that weekend I ended up building a quick, make-shift chicken coop. Then my wife said it might be fun to raise a cow."
So they bought two longhorns when they visited her parents in Texas in 2008, and suddenly the Mulders found themselves in the agriculture business.
"Now we have anywhere from 20 to 30 head of cattle, which includes calves, some mother cows and some older-brood cows. What's nice about the longhorns is, in the summertime they pretty much take care of themselves," he said. "The kids love to go out and feed the cows. It's a fun thing for the whole family."
With work, the farm and the kids, Mulder doesn't have a lot of spare time on his hands, but when he does, he likes to hunt deer and ducks and can do so on his property. In addition, Mulder spends as much time with the kids as he possibly can. He plans to continue teaching Kylie how to swim this summer.
"The other thing I love to do is I love to fix things. So I've got some old trucks that I like to tinker around with," he said.
Despite his tight schedule, Mulder stays active in the community by being involved with the Economic Club, Young Life, Urban Young Life, Blythfield Baptist Church and Camp Roger. At the professional level, he belongs to the Michigan Housing Council, which advocates for affordable housing, and the U.S. Green Building Council.
Mulder is starting his 15th year at Wolverine and his favorite project over those years is the Bunker Interpretive Center at Calvin College, which he worked on in 2004. He said it was a fun project, one that Wolverine designed and one of the first done to LEED guidelines. His role in the project was to select the systems that met those green standards.
"It's a really, really unique building and, at the time, I believe it was the first gold-rated building in the Grand Rapids area. So that was certainly something I was proud of. The folks over at Calvin like to do things right, and we spent a lot of time designing that project, and it was a great learning experience for me," he said.
This year looks to be a good one for Mulder and Wolverine. He said 2013 has a good chance to turn out to be the best year he and his firm has had so far in the multi-family housing market. "In fact, from a volume standpoint, we'll double our best year ever in terms of doing housing work," he said.
"Overall, as a construction company, we still continue to maintain a similar volume. Whether it's health care work, manufacturing or retail, the overall pie is still roughly the same, but the housing is becoming a very large piece of that pie and that continues to take us all over the state and the Midwest. I guess the future is bright in that, and we continue to be leaders in that arena."


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The http module allows to expose Elasticsearch APIs over HTTP.
The http mechanism is completely asynchronous in nature, meaning that there is no blocking thread waiting for a response. The benefit of using asynchronous communication for HTTP is solving the C10k problem.
When possible, consider using HTTP keep alive when connecting for better performance and try to get your favorite client not to do HTTP chunking.
The settings in the table below can be configured for HTTP. Note that none of them are dynamically updatable so for them to take effect they should be set in the Elasticsearch configuration file.
A bind port range. Defaults to
The port that HTTP clients should use when
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Which origins to allow. Defaults to no origins
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What Is Chiropractic Treatment?
Chiropractic is a medical system founded in 1895 by Canadian Daniel David Palmer. It is based on the theory that many illnesses originate in the spine, and for this reason it focuses on spinal manipulation. Chiropractic physicians may also use physical therapy techniques and methods drawn from other branches of alternative medicine such as herbs and supplements.
Most visits to chiropractor physicians are for back pain, but it is also commonly used to treat:
- Headaches
- Neck pain
- Pain in other areas, such as the shoulders, knees, and jaw
- Colic
How It Works
Chiropractic theory has based itself on "subluxations," or shifts in position of vertebrae in the spine. These subluxations are said to affect nerve outflow and cause disease in various organs. A chiropractic treatment is done to "put back in" these "popped out" vertebrae. For this reason, it is called an "adjustment."
However, no real evidence has ever been presented showing that a given chiropractic treatment alters the position of any vertebrae. In addition, there is no real evidence that impairment of nerve outflow is a major contributor to common illnesses, or that spinal manipulation changes nerve outflow in such a way as to affect organ function.
Other theories suggest that chiropractic manipulation may relieve pain by "loosening" vertebrae that have become immobile rather than by changing their position. In addition, it is believed that sudden movements of manipulation may alter the response patterns of nerves in the spine, again relieving pain.
What Do Studies Show About Chiropractic Treatment?
Does It Work?
While many people seek chiropractic treatment for back and neck pain, the current research suggests that chiropractic may offer just a modest benefit. As with most other alternative therapies, more high-quality studies are needed before researchers can come to any definitive conclusions about the effectiveness of chiropractic treatment. The strongest evidence so far seems to be in the treatment of migraine headaches—with chiropractic treatment offering long- and short term results in the form of fewer and less severe migraines.
Chiropractic has also been studied as a treatment for numerous other conditions, like asthma and menstrual pain. Thus far, the results of studies have been inconclusive.
Is It Safe?
Chiropractic manipulation appears to be generally safe, rarely causing significant side effects. The most common reaction is local discomfort following therapy, which generally disappears within hours of treatment. Other side effects include temporary headache, tiredness, and discomfort radiating from the site of the adjustment.
Stroke is reported as a rare side effect of chiropractic treatment on the neck. Other rare side effects include:
- Worsening of disc herniation
- Increased sensation of nerve pinching
Because of these rare risks, talk to your doctor before you undergo chiropractic manipulation of your neck.
If You Decide to Visit A Chiropractor
A chiropractor must have a 4-year Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) degree and also must have a state license. To find a doctor in your area, websites like the American Chiropractic Association offer searchable databases. You can also ask your doctor for a recommendation.
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When Jerry Marshall, 50, of Mauriceville made an agreement with his three sons that he would join the Vidor Taekwondo academy if all three boys earned their black belts, his sons never thought he would actually go through with it.
"I thought he was just talking," Nathan Marshall said.
Nathan, Justin and Luke Marshall started Taekwondo training in 2006 and were black belts within two years.
"I told them after their first belt testing that if they all made it to black belt, then I would sign up," Jerry said. He kept his promise to his sons — twins Nathan and Justin, 16, and Luke, 13 — joining Vidor Taekwondo at the age of 47, but admitted that the physical demands have been challenging.
"There are a lot of (kicks) that I can't do," he said. "I'm 250 pounds and 50 years old; I can't do some of these (moves). But all the instructors ask is that you give your 100 percent and put forth the effort."
Despite the aches and pains, he earned his own black belt within two years and has had perfect attendance since joining.
"Mr. Marshall has not missed a class in over three years," said Glenda Carroll, senior instructor and senior fifth-degree black belt at Vidor Taekwondo. "This is something that I have never seen before in my career. Whenever he takes on something, whether it is a hobby or physical fitness — whatever it is — he gives 100 percent. I think he does this not only for himself, but also to motivate and set an example for his sons."
Carroll said that Jerry's influence is reflected in the boys' dedication and success.
"They have always had very good attitudes and have been willing to learn," she said. "That has set the stage for them to excel."
Jerry said that Taekwondo has brought him and his family closer together and has made him feel young again.
"It's been a lot of fun for me," he said. "It's like I am a teenager again."
The three boys are proud of their father's accomplishments and the fact that he kept his promise.
"It shows that he is true to his word," Justin said. "He's a good dad, and he wants to spend time with his kids."
"One of my proudest moments was when I was a red belt at testing," Jerry said. "I went out there, did my form, and I came back to sit down. I sat down (next to my sons) and all three of them congratulated me. Justin and Luke gave me thumbs up, and Nathan leaned over and said, 'Daddy, you nailed it.' That made me so proud — more proud than any of these belts I've earned."
Although Jerry said he is used to setting an example for his sons in every aspect of their lives, it is his sons' standards that he must live up to in Taekwondo. Nathan, Justin and Luke are third-degree black belts and Jerry is a first-degree black belt.
"They have been black belts for four years, and I've been a black belt for one," Jerry said. "It puts me behind them, so I have to live up to them — instead of them having to live up to me."
This presents a unique situation, in which the child becomes the leader instead of the parent, Carroll said.
"My Taekwondo students have realized that you can learn from anyone, whether they be older than you or younger than you," she said. "When you show them respect and allow them to teach, it allows them to really show their personality and to grow. This gives the child an opportunity to share something with their parent that they really enjoy, and it gives them an opportunity to see what it feels like to be a leader."
David Howells, owner of Beaumont Taekwondo, Vidor Taekwondo and Orange Taekwondo and sixth-degree master black belt, said that while most families are divided by their day-to-day activities and might shut themselves off from each other, families that find a common interest, such as Taekwondo, can build healthier relationships with each other.
"You've got age differences and generation gaps," he said. "Everybody has their own activities that they do. Dads don't tend to work out with their daughters. But if you have something that you do together — something that can connect you (as a family), it is very powerful."
Howells said it is the routine and the environment that bring family members closer together.
"You're doing the same workout, same routine, same mat training and the same target training," Howells said. "My daughter (Sasha) started in Taekwondo when she was 4 (she is now 19). What did I have in common with a 4-year-old girl? But when we do Taekwondo together, we have an understanding because we are going through the same process. That's a powerful statement to your kid."
R.J. Mendez, a second-degree black belt, instructor at Beaumont Taekwondo and father of two, said the martial art made a powerful statement in his life, as well, and might have just saved it.
"I had gotten sick, and I went to the doctor," he said. "I was over 300 pounds, and I was getting worried (about my health) because my family has a history of diabetes. I wasn't even able to play with my boys because I'd run 15 feet, and I would be out of breath. I put them in Taekwondo and joined myself. Now I'm 194 pounds and have lost over 100 pounds. I did it for my boys so I can make sure I can live a long, happy life. It's a healthy activity that we do together."
Mendez said Taekwondo has also brought him and his sons, Ricardo Mendez Jr., 7, and Isaiah Escamilla, 10, closer together as well.
"I used to work at a pipeline company, so I was away from (my sons) a lot. They grew up pretty fast. But I joined Taekwondo and became an instructor; I'm here with my boys all the time now," he said. "As soon as they get out of school, they come (to the academy) and help me teach class. We're a lot closer now."
The Mendez and Marshall families are not the only ones in Howells' Taekwondo academies.
"There are probably over 100 families enrolled in my academies in the Golden Triangle," he said. "Parents enroll their kids first, but they're really interested in doing it as well."
Jerry Marshall said he hopes more families will consider taking Taekwondo together because they will benefit physically and emotionally.
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There are 150 private schools receiving money above the school resourcing standard which sets out how much taxpayer funding schools are entitled to and includes additional amounts for disadvantage, Fairfax reports.
Education Minister Simon Birmingham earlier this week copped flack after suggesting some private schools are being over-funded.
The department figures show that nearly one in five private schools is getting more government money than the student resource standard, The Australian reports.
They also show three-quarters of public schools and all Catholic schools are getting less than 95 per cent of the resource standard.
Former business council head Tony Shepherd, who chaired the Abbott government's commission of audit, said it would be "morally reprehensible and morally irresponsible" of the federal government not to rethink funding arrangements.
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What if the mandate is struck down?
The Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with a question that looks increasingly significant after conservative justices battered the individual mandate: Should the rest of President Barack Obama's health care law stand if the requirement to purchase insurance falls?
Most of the justices appeared opposed to throwing out the entire law, but their views on how much to keep in place were murky, and the divisions between conservatives and liberals were not always as clear cut as they were Tuesday.
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The questions showed that the justices are wrestling with a real dilemma: Striking the entire health law would be a radical step and could throw the country into an uproar. But they're not health care experts, and they were clearly worried about the consequences if they pull out pieces of the law and that throws the rest of the health care system into chaos.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued that the most legally conservative position, if some of the law is deemed unconstitutional, would be to leave the rest of the law in place and leave it up to Congress to make any changes it deemed fit.
If the justices have to choose between "a wrecking operation and a salvage job, a more conservative approach would be a salvage job," she said.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is viewed as a key swing vote, appeared to align himself with those inclined to throw out the law if the mandate goes.
If the justices leave part of the law in place, "by reason of the court, we would have a new regime that Congress did not provide for, did not consider," Kennedy said.
He said it would be a "more extreme exercise of judicial power" to do surgery on the legislation — a position endorsed by Justice Antonin Scalia, who said it is "totally unrealistic" to comb through a 2,700-page law.
"My approach would say if you take the heart out of the statute, the statute is gone," Scalia said.
Paul Clement, a lawyer for 26 states seeking to strike down the entire law, said many of the law's provisions are tied together. Striking those parts would leave "a hollowed-out shell" not worth saving, Clement argued.
"But [Congress] would have passed part of that hollowed-out shell," Chief Justice John Roberts replied, citing some uncontroversial provisions in the law.
The issue up for debate Wednesday morning becomes relevant only if the court decides the mandate is unconstitutional, forcing the justices to consider what other elements of the law might need to go as well.
But after the court's conservative justices defied expectations by attacking the mandate, the focus of Wednesday's arguments no longer felt like an academic exercise. The harsh reception Tuesday prompted court watchers to revise their earlier predictions that the mandate was certain to survive, saying it appears to be in more trouble than many had expected.
The court concluded three days of arguments Wednesday on what was billed as the most politically consequential case since Bush v. Gore in 2000.
In the afternoon, the court devoted the sixth and final hour to whether forcing states to expand Medicaid health care coverage to more poor people is constitutional.


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Hawaiian-born singer/songwriter Jack Johnson will release his fifth studio release, To the Sea, on June 1.
Co-produced by Johnson, the album was recorded at two solar-powered studios: The Mango Tree, in Hawaii, and the Solar Powered Plastic Plant, in Los Angeles.
Johnson, who broke out of San Diego radio and venues, has sold more than 18 million records worldwide, and more than 9 million in the United States. In support of the new record, he will embark on a world tour that includes a stop at Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre on Oct. 9.
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Mark Udall, United States Senator for Colorado, Visits Gevo, Advocates Alternative Energy Solutions
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. - January 17, 2013 - Unites States Senator Mark Udall of Colorado toured and met with Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) yesterday to discuss the importance of alternative energy technologies for Colorado and the U.S. economy.
Senator Udall met with Chief Executive Officer Patrick Gruber, Ph.D. to discuss renewable energy options and see first-hand the innovative research and development Gevo has done that will enable it to be a leading provider of renewable chemicals and biofuels.
The Colorado-based company's commercialization efforts are focused primarily on isobutanol, a four carbon alcohol, and its derivatives. Isobutanol is an important platform chemical with broad applications in large chemicals and fuels markets and a "drop-in" product that should allow customers to replace petroleum-derived raw materials with renewable isobutanol-derived raw materials without modification to their equipment or production processes. Isobutanol can drop into existing infrastructure, providing for straightforward integration into existing refining and petrochemical production processes.
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"Some of the best clean energy thinking in the country, and in fact, the world, is coming out of Colorado," said Gruber. "Gevo is a prime example of how Colorado is a hotbed for development of technologies that solve tomorrow's renewable energy challenges today. We are very pleased that Senator Udall is such a staunch advocate for the renewable energy industry and that he was able to see some of the process technology that makes Gevo a leading renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels company."
Senator Udall remarked that it was a treat to visit Gevo. "I see every day the cost of being so dependent on foreign sources of oil," he said. "What I love about what Gevo is doing is they're helping create a future where we won't be so dependent, where the U.S. can maintain our superiority and, in the process, enhance our national security, keep innovating, and create jobs. Gevo is brewing new formulas, materials, and chemicals for the fuels of the future."
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CHICAGO -- Count White Sox manager Robin Ventura as one of the very few who could relate to the pain felt by Louisville's Kevin Ware when the sophomore guard gruesomely fractured his right leg during Sunday's Elite Eight victory against Duke in the NCAA Tournament.
Ventura broke and dislocated his right ankle during Spring Training in 1997, although Ventura quickly recovered and returned by July 24 of that same season.
"You feel for him," Ventura said. "Few people can sit and see an injury or have something happen like that. I know what's going through his head. I think the recovery's the hard part, being able to get your mind around making your way back.
"He's pretty young, so I think that is in his favor. Again, your heart goes out to him for what he's going through."
Ventura passed on an opportunity to offer any analysis in regard to Derrick Rose's seemingly cautious return from a torn ACL in his left knee suffered during last year's playoffs with the Chicago Bulls.
"We're talking about a different type of player, too," Ventura said. "Mine, they were, 'Just get out there as quick as you can.' With someone like Derrick, it's a personal thing, and he's the one that has to live with it. The team does, too, but in the end, it's his career and it's his choice."


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Team USA head coach Dan Bylsma is used to having two of the greatest hockey players in the world on his side.
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His first chance comes Saturday when the U.S. faces off against Malkin and Team Russia in a rink full of rabid Russian fans. The game can be seen live at 7:30 a.m. ET/4:30 a.m. PT on the NBC Sports Network.
Bylsma knows from experience that shutting down Malkin is no easy task.
"I've seen him do things that I don't know what he's going to do next and how he does it offensively with the puck," Bylsma said. "So to have a game plan or to tell someone what to expect, you may have to expect the unexpected against a player of that ilk and how talented he is."
Oh, and one other thing...
"There's more people on that line than just Malkin," Bylsma said.
So true. There's also some guy named Ovechkin, who is no slouch on a hockey rink, either.
Russia has paired Malkin and Alex Ovechkin together on a line with Ovechkin's former Washington Capitals teammate Alexander Semin. That line is scary good.
Putin's Pregame Visit
Vlaidmir Putin made a perhaps well-timed visit to USA House in the Olympic Village Friday ahead of the big U.S.-Russia hockey game.
The visit seemed to catch many off-guard, but that didn't stop them from posting their encounters on Twitter, like so:
Just hanging out at the USA house in #Sochi with Putin! No big deal! #sochiselfie @NBCOlympics pic.twitter.com/mXAegXtlza — Preston Griffall (@prestongriffall) February 14, 2014
Meanwhile, Putin also stopped by Canada House, where he posed for pictures with athletes and fans, who of course then tweeted out their #SochiSelfies, as well.
Canadian women's hockey star Hayley Wickenheiser also said Putin had a message for all of Canada:
Very nice words from Mr. Putin just now at Canada House 'good luck to canada except in hockey'...haha #sochi2014 pic.twitter.com/3mEMWVdq8T — Hayley Wickenheiser (@wick_22) February 14, 2014
Yeah, hockey's a big deal in Sochi right now.
The Weather Isn't Frightful
Wickenheiser seemed to have an eventful day in Sochi. Not only was she tweeting about Putin's appearance, but she fired off this pic, as well:
Happy Valentines day everyone! #sochitup pic.twitter.com/oTfnmrIcBy — Hayley Wickenheiser (@wick_22) February 14, 2014
The Canadians appear to be feeling right at home in Sochi. They're at least a lot more relaxed after beating Team USA on Wednesday.


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