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|App's audio flood and flash flood alerts can help save lives
Tampa Bay, Florida, Monday, March 17, 2014 — The American Red Cross announced its new Flood App to help save lives and reduce losses from floods and flash floods.
This free app gives iPhone, iPad and Android smart phone users instant access to local and real-time information, so they know what to do before, during and after a flood. The content is available in English and Spanish based on the user's language settings on their mobile device. The app includes location-based, audible NOAA flood and flash flood watches and warnings – even if the app is closed.
"Floods are the most common natural disaster in the United States, and people can use the Red Cross app to create emergency plans so all household members know what to do if flooding threatens," said Megarie van Sickel, CEO of the Southwest Florida Chapter. "The audible alerts in the app can save lives – even when users are away from a radio or TV."
Other features of the app include:
· One-touch "I'm safe" messaging that allows users to send a message letting family and friends know that they are out of harm's way;
· Preloaded content that gives users instant access to critical action steps, even without mobile connectivity;
· Toolkit with flashlight, strobe light and audible alarm to let others know where you are;
· Locations of open Red Cross shelters;
· Real-time recovery resources for returning home and cleaning up; and
· Badges users can earn through interactive quizzes and share on social networks.
The new Red Cross Flood App is being released during National Flood Safety Awareness Week, which runs from March 16-22.
"National Flood Safety Awareness Week is the perfect time to download the app and to start preparing," added van Sickel.
The app is the latest in the series of Red Cross emergency preparedness apps that put lifesaving information right in the hands of people whenever and wherever they need it. The expert advice in Red Cross apps, which also includes apps for First Aid, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes and other services, has been used to help save lives during disasters and medical emergencies. Red Cross apps have been downloaded on nearly 4 million mobile devices.
The Flood App, along with the others, can be found in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store for Android by searching for American Red Cross or by going to redcross.org/mobileapps. Apps can help prepare people for disasters, but they are not a substitute for training. Red Cross First Aid and CPR/AED training empowers people to know how to respond to emergencies in case advanced medical help is delayed. People can visit redcross.org/takeaclass for course information and to register.
The Red Cross responds to nearly 70,000 disasters each year and helps people get ready to respond to emergencies by providing these preparedness apps for free. The Red Cross needs the help of the public to continue this lifesaving effort. People can make a donation to the Red Cross by going to redcross.org, texting REDCROSS to 90999 or by calling 1-800-REDCROSS.
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abscessed tooth is an infection in or around the tooth. It can be very painful. If the infection isn't treated, it can
spread and you can lose your tooth or have other health problems.
Damage to the tooth, an untreated
cavity (tooth decay), or gum disease can cause an abscessed
If a cavity isn't treated, the inside of the tooth
(called the
pulp) can become infected. Bacteria can spread from
the tooth to the tissue around it, creating an abscess.
disease causes the gums to pull away from the teeth, leaving pockets. If food
builds up in one of these pockets, bacteria can grow, and an abscess can form.
Over time an abscess can cause the bone around the tooth to dissolve.
You may
Over time as the infection spreads, the bone in your jaw
may start to dissolve. When this happens, you may feel less pain, but the
infection will still be there. If you lose too much bone, your tooth will become loose
and may have to be removed.
If you have a severe toothache, swelling of the gums or face, or drainage of pus, call your dentist
right away. You may have an abscessed tooth. If it isn't treated, the
infection could spread and become dangerous.
Your dentist will ask about your symptoms and look for swelling and other signs of infection in your mouth. He or she may tap on the tooth and apply heat or cold to the tooth.
Your dentist may also take dental X-rays.
An abscessed tooth needs treatment right away. Your dentist may:
You and your doctor can decide what's
best for you.
To reduce pain and swelling, you can put an ice pack wrapped in a towel against your cheek.
You can also try
over-the-counter pain medicine, including acetaminophen (such as Tylenol) or ibuprofen (such as Advil or Motrin). Be safe with medicines. Read and follow all instructions on the label. If you smoke or use any kind of tobacco, try not to do so while your tooth is healing.
The best way to prevent an abscessed tooth is to take good care of your teeth and gums:
If you have a
very dry mouth, you may be more at risk for deep cavities and tooth infections. To help prevent these, take frequent sips of water, chew
sugarless gum, or suck on sugarless candy. Talk to your doctor about medicines that can help.
Health Tools help you make wise health decisions or take action to improve your health.
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Other Works ConsultedFlynn TR (2014). Principles of management and prevention of odontogenic infections. In JR Hupp et al., eds., Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 6th ed., pp. 297-315. St. Louis: Mosby.MacLeod DK, Kern DE (2007). Common problems of the teeth and oral cavity. In NH Fiebach et al., eds., Principles of Ambulatory Medicine. 7th ed., pp. 1864-1878. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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Looking Forward to 2012
It's the last week of the year, but 2011 is far from over.
Whether you've followed the political revolutions or the economic reformations, the events of this year will resonate for the rest of this decade, if not longer.
Where technology is concerned, this year has been pivotal. This will forever be the year the world lost Steve Jobs, possibly the greatest innovator of commercial technology since Thomas Edison. However Mr. Jobs did not part this world before we had all realized what he already knew: the future of the personal computer is mobility, agility and simplicity. In years to come 2011 may mark the beginning of the end of a second generation of users, still chained by mouse and keyboard to hulking PCs, still tethered to wall sockets, to draw sustenance of both power and information.
Reimage Tips & Tricks: Giving the boot a Boost!
Remember the days when restarting your system meant that it was time to make a few phone calls or go for a smoke (yes kids, once upon a time people spoke on phones that were tethered to the walls and we were also allowed to smoke indoors).
One of the great bonuses with Windows 7 is the time it takes to boot up. Relative to previous versions of Windows, it was like being upgraded from having to take a 12 hour transatlantic flight to flying in a concord (I remain optimistic that most of you were born before 1990).
Reimage Tips & Tricks: Keyboard shortcuts for Windows
In an effort to make life easier for the average Windows PC user, Microsoft has gone to great lengths to provide keyboard shortcuts. Whether you know them as keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys, they have been around for as long as I have used a PC (and I'm reserving the right to keep that information a secret), and in recent years, more and more apps and programs are providing users not only with keyboard shortcuts to speed up and simplify their workflow, but are enabling users to customize and create their own shortcuts.
Revenge of the Stuxnet: Microsoft isn't ready to face off with Duqu
Yes folks, this time last week it was Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, unfortunately this new patch won't fully solve the latest of troublesome trojans, Duqu (not to be confused an evil Jedi master).
Duqu is a recent meddling malware that many suspect may have been created by the same person, or persons, who created Stuxnet, arguably the most important malware in history. However, where Stuxnet primarily targeted automation and PLC gear, Duqu acts as a recon drone for future attacks, collecting various information from infected systems. I dare say that I am not alone in assuming that a bigger threat might be out there, lying dormant, awaiting this information only to wreak havoc on PCs worldwide.
-App, App, and Away!
There is very little we can do on a PC without applications, or apps. Everything from a monstrous memory munchers like Adobe Illustrator down to the itty-bitty Windows' calculator and notepad; if it isn't part of the basic operating system, it's an app.
Microsoft includes a number of apps in its Windows OS package, and for a while these basic apps were so frequently used you may have considered them paramount. But that was before the Internet, way back before the crazy days that became a prologue to the Dot.Com bubble.
BIOS gets the Boot
The Microsoft BUILD convention is finally behind us, but with the recent announcement of the new Windows 8 boot process, many developers of 3rd party software and hardware have returned worried.
Microsoft seems to be doing away with the BIOS it has relied on since day one. Instead, Windows 8 PCs will rely on an implementation of UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface), claiming that it is more flexible and programmable than soon to be decedent BIOS. The UEFI will liaise between the Windows 8 operating system and the firmware.
Microsoft's "Accidental" Leak is a Buzz-Kill
The biggest buzz in the tech world is that Microsoft "accidentally" exposed the new Windows 8 file Explorer. In the post, that appeared on August 29th on Microsoft's MSDN.COM blog for developers, screen shots of the new Explorer graphic user interface (GUI) and descriptions were revealed to further whet consumers' appetite for the upcoming Windows 8.
Microsoft stress that "Windows 8 is an opportunity to substantially improve the (user) experience for everyone", claiming that "Customers have a lot of suggestions for how they'd like to see Explorer evolve".
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Over the past few weeks we have been receiving comments from technicians and private subscribers who have used Reimage to resolve the Windows Recovery Virus.
This virus has been around for a while but has recently resurfaced. The Windows Recovery Virus is a harmful malware that disguises itself as a certified Microsoft optimization program, initiating a scan of the user's hard-drive, with or without permission. Once this has happened, we must assume that the virus has infiltrated the system, effectively hijacking it by modifying the system settings. It then proceeds to disable any anti-virus and firewall applications. In many cases, the virus prevents any installed programs from running, rendering the PC virtually unusable. To add insult to injury, the virus repeatedly prompts the user to purchase the Windows Recovery registration key, in order to repair the unstable system.
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PCWorld calls Reimage "A Fantastic Repair Utility "
PCWorld, the global computer magazine, recently published a rave review of Reimage, calling it "a miracle software" that actually "delivers on its promise".
The highly respected online version of the monthly magazine, reviewed Reimage in its popular software and utility blog "Download This". With so many software utilities and solutions available online, it's easy to see the need for accurate credible reviews.
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Wed, 23 Jan 2013
Simon Stuart from IUCN's Species Survival Commission together with Günter Mitlacher from WWF Germany, an IUCN Member, Achim Steiner from UNEP and others share their expectations for IPBES at the historic first meeting of this new biodiversity platform in Bonn, Germany.
Dr Simon Stuart, Chair of the IUCN Species Survival Commission, says that "IPBES needs to find that perfect balance between independent scientific credibility on the one hand, and political legitimacy on the other hand."
Watch here the full TV broadcast (in German) filmed on 21 January 2013 at the opening of the First Plenary Meeting of the Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
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Blackadder producer John Lloyd has ruled out a return for the show, saying it would be "difficult to top" the existing episodes.
Lloyd, who is also responsible for shows including Spitting Image and QI, admitted he was initially opposed to setting the final series of the historical sitcom in the trenches of the First World War and said he was backed up by co-writer Ben Elton's uncle - a prominent historian at Cambridge University.
Speaking at the launch of Sky Arts South Bank Show , he said: "I thought it was a horrible idea to set it in the First World War."
Lloyd, who is the subject of the first film in the new series presented by Melvyn Bragg, said: "We should leave it there because it's very difficult to top where it was."
He also rejected claims by Education Secretary Michael Gove that Blackadder peddled left-wing myths about the war.
He said the show was "not a documentary", adding: "I honestly wonder whether the Secretary of State has watched the programme at all."
Referring to the famous final scene of the final series where the cast went over the top on the Western Front, Lloyd said it was a "classically British and patriotic scene where they all go over the top and do their duty and go to what we must assume is their deaths".
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It's International Archaeology Day and it's a pretty big deal! Come celebrate with us at Mesa Grande Cultural Park! Enjoy a fun filled day learning about the amazing Hohokam people who farmed the desert long ago. This event features demonstrations, fun activities, and you can even take a guided tour with real archaeologists!
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As Grand County continues its involvement in regional transportation studies, some officials hope to expand their focus beyond a controversial proposal to create a corridor through the Book Cliffs' Sego Canyon.
Grand County Council chairman Lynn Jackson and council member Jim Nyland met last month with officials from Uintah and Duchesne counties, and they discussed the idea of studying an alternate "enhanced transportation corridor" through Hay Canyon in the Book Cliffs.
"Probably a key thing we decided … is we want them to also look at Hay Canyon," Jackson told the Grand County Council on May 19.
All three counties are moving forward with studies that could determine whether it's feasible to build a new paved road and pipeline between the Uintah Basin and northern Grand County.
According to Jackson, the studies will come at no cost to Grand County or its taxpayers.
"We're not putting anything into this," he said during a May 30 county council workshop.
A three-member county council study committee, which includes Jackson and Nyland, previously came up with recommendations to create a congressionally-designated corridor through Sego Canyon. But those proposals upset conservationists and environmental groups, who warned that they could not support Rep. Rob Bishop's much-broader public lands bill if it includes the Sego Canyon idea.
In response to the public outcry that followed, Jackson said he and Nyland decided to investigate a second potential corridor through the Book Cliffs.
"We're going to ask [about] this broad array of economic data, and we're going to look at both Hay Canyon and Sego," Jackson said.
It's not the first time that the idea for an eastern route through the Book Cliffs has come up. As recently as 2007, the Uintah County Commission sought Grand County's support for a new highway through Hay Canyon.
Right now, a well-maintained class B Grand County road runs through the area north of Interstate 70 and west of the Utah-Colorado state line.
"This road is pretty highly upgraded right now, and heavily used by the oil industry," Jackson said.
Be that as it may, some county residents have said they oppose any new route through the Book Cliffs that could hasten the development of tar sands and oil shale in the largely pristine area. They fear that proposals from U.S. Oil Sands, Red Leaf Resources and other companies would intensify global climate change.
Speaking at an April 23 public meeting on the study committee's ideas, Castle Valley resident Jake Burnett said he fears it would be "game over" for the human race if eastern Utah's tar sands are developed.
The Sego Canyon corridor has come under fire for other reasons, as well.
At the same April 23 meeting, local residents Sarah Fields and Logan Hansen warned that an expanded route through the area could harm ancient petroglyphs and pictographs in the area.
Jackson, however, has repeatedly said that the county council is not even close to making any decisions about new road construction through the Book Cliffs.
According to Jackson, any recommendations that the council might come up with would simply identify the two sites as potential corridors. The hope, he said, is that Congress will approve proposed legislation transferring ownership of the land to Grand County, although there's no guarantee that will happen.
"These corridors are placeholders. That's all they are," Jackson said.
In the meantime, researchers will still have to determine if it makes sense to build a paved road or other infrastructure through either corridor, Jackson said.
"We're nine or 10 months from having those answers. I don't think this legislation is going to happen by then," Jackson said. "I think we can get this study done before they actually put anything in front of Congress."
By proposing the Sego Canyon idea ahead of any work on the transportation feasibility studies, Grand County Council vice chairwoman Elizabeth Tubbs said she believes the council committee "put the cart before the horse."
Speaking at the county council's May 16 workshop, Tubbs called the proposed Sego Canyon corridor a potential stumbling block to Bishop's public lands initiative. Tubbs is also concerned about a second study committee recommendation that would limit a president's Antiquities Act powers to set aside new national monuments in Grand County.
"I think that those are things that are really divisive … and I have a problem with that," Tubbs said. "Those are big enough issues that I would actually – and I know we don't have enough time for it – but we should go to a referendum."
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Here strode Bill Clinton onto the national convention stage once again, the Democratic man for all reasons.
Twelve years out of office but still and always ready to be needed, he took to prime time as master explainer and policy clarifier, party morale booster extraordinaire, voice of experience, historian longing for the old days of political bipartisanship, earnest economics instructor, hoarse whisperer to the middle class, and empathetic testifier for President Obama, who came to the Democratic National Convention arena on Wednesday night to watch as the former president placed his name in nomination.
It was at Obama's request that Clinton gave the nominating speech, and in gratitude, in what was more a surprisingly modest gesture than a grand moment, the two men stood arm in arm onstage when Clinton was done. If they were not exactly basking in the glow of a deep friendship, there was at least the sense that Clinton had done precisely what he was asked to do in a way that only he could do it.
Even as his speech went on and on toward the 48-minute mark, blasting way past his allotted time, Clinton did not seem rambling so much as direct and fast and eager. His voice grew more powerful if scratchy, his signature gesticulations became more frequent — the thumb point, the finger point and finger roll, the open-handed can-you-believe-it lament, the raised eyebrows — as he made the case for Obama and against the Republicans and moved through the issues one after another, from health-care reform to the auto industry bailout to Medicare to tax and budget cuts.
In classic Clinton style, the more he got going, the less inclined he was to follow his printed text, ad-libbing his way through a series of knowing asides such as, "I know; I get it; I've been there." He took his listeners on a kaleidoscopic tour of recent political history and deep into the Clintonian method, a modern-day variation of the Socratic method in which every question is worthy of consideration, and every opposing argument is given its due before being shredded.
He at once rued the roughness of modern politics while implementing his own soft but lacerating style, never more apparent than when he took on the young avatar of the conservative movement, GOP vice-presidential nominee Paul Ryan.
When Ryan "looked into the TV camera and attacked President Obama's 'biggest, coldest power play' in raiding Medicare," Clinton said, "I didn't know whether to laugh or cry." He seemed to be laughing, in fact, as he offered his counter to the Wisconsin congressman's argument. Time after time, he burrowed into the theme of what he considers the polarizing nature of the Republican Party.
Politics, he said, "does not have to be a blood sport." He talked about how he grew up not hating Republicans the way Republicans hate Obama. He mentioned how President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock in 1957 to promote school integration, and how he was honored to work "with both President Bushes" after national disasters, and how they concentrated on "solving problems and seizing opportunities and not fighting all the time." What works "in the real world," he said, "is cooperation." One of the main reasons the nation ought to reelect Obama, Clinton said, is he is still committed to working not only with Republicans, but also with several Clinton allies. "Heck, he even appointed Hillary," he said.
Clinton was the first former president in U.S. history to deliver a nominating speech, and he seized the moment with his physical presence diminished from a vegan diet and past heart trouble but his symbolic presence growing larger and his popularity soaring to all-time highs. Polls show him with a 69 percent approval rating, about 18 percentage points higher than Obama's.
Twenty-four hours earlier, some former aides who thought they would be helping him with the final polishing and prepping of his speech were saying that they had not heard from him or seen a single page of his copy. Nothing new there — that was in keeping with Clinton's habitual work-it-until-the-last-minute style. Nor was it unexpected that the Obama team would be able to go over the address with Clinton and check facts only on the day of the address.
Even at the party's convention in Denver four years ago, when the relationship between Obama and Clinton was at its nadir in the wake of Obama's defeat of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primaries, the former president was essentially given free rein in his prime-time speech; Obama declared beforehand that Clinton could say whatever he wanted. Then, it was a matter of the Obama team realizing that it could not control him even if it wanted to; this time, because Obama sought him out for the assignment, there was more implicit faith that he would come through.
Clinton's mission was singular and not without dangers. He had to bring the full Bill Clinton but not too much of Bill Clinton — a delicate balance for the Big Guy that he for the most part pulled off. He had to lift the rhetoric, clarify the choice in a way that an autoworker in Toledo could connect to — and do it without appearing to elbow into the president's territory, let alone overshadow him.
In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams taped before the speech, Clinton took note of another danger in this new social media world: the fact that any slip-up could go viral and that a partial phrase could be edited into an attack ad. He said his answer was to "try to minimize your vulnerability to that without just turning the talk into mush, just another hot-air, gas-bag, rhetoric-filled talk. So I tried to do that. I tried to be very explanatory, very straightforward with the American people in this speech and still not make it vulnerable to being clipped in a way that could undermine the president I support and the ideas I believe in."
If there were any such moments, they probably were overtaken in the end by moments that Obama's team can use in the future in their own offensives.
This was the ninth consecutive convention speaking role for Clinton, dating to 1980, when the young Arkansas governor, about to face the most devastating loss of his career in Ronald Reagan's landslide over Jimmy Carter, took to the stage in New York to discuss issues affecting the states. Four years later, after he had won back the governorship, he was given a lesser role at the 1984 convention in San Francisco, brought out to extol the virtues of Harry S. Truman.
Clinton's next appearance, at the 1988 convention in Atlanta, is the one that offers the sharpest comparisons and contrasts with his performance on Wednesday. Like this time, his assignment then was to place the party standard-bearer's name into nomination. Then and now, he was asked to do so alone, and in 20 minutes. More commonly, there is a series of shorter nominating speeches. For the 1988 address, as for Wednesday's, word spread beforehand that Clinton was obsessed with his mission, staying up through the night to comb for material and write and rewrite on yellow pads in his left-handed scrawl, sketching out early drafts.
Hillary Clinton told friends at the time that she had never seen him work so hard on a speech, and his secretary was so worn out by his effort that she required medical treatment for exhaustion. All of that work led up to a disaster — the lights in the arena were too bright; the delegates were paying no attention; aides to the nominee, Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts, had larded the speech with last-minute inserts; Clinton, aware that he was bombing, kept going, blood draining from his face; anchorman Tom Brokaw lamented to his NBC audience that "we have to be here, too"; television microphones picked up someone shouting "Get the hook"; and Clinton drew the largest applause of the night by uttering the words, "In closing."
He survived, of course, to become president four years later, and serve two terms, and overcome an impeachment, and continue even through his post-presidency the cycle of loss and recovery, up and down and up again, that now finds him — at age 66 — demonstrably up, with growing public nostalgia for the good-old days of the booming 1990s, and with Democrats, including Obama, turning to him for a bit of magic.
Clinton has made himself so available in other forums — both joint fundraisers with Obama and a series of political ads that have been appearing in key swing states for weeks — that the Obama team thought it had enough cushion to absorb even a less-than-sterling Clinton performance.
But this time, unlike 1988, no one in the arena seemed to mind that Clinton kept talking and talking as he made his case, going on a full 16 minutes longer than he had in Atlanta. No shouts this time of "Get the hook."


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The work of my research group includes investigations into the clinical course, etiopathology and treatment of psychiatric disorders as they occur in women. A major component of this work includes investigations into the occurrence and treatment of illnesses in pregnancy and the postpartum period, and across the menstrual cycle. This area, by its nature, cuts across disciplines and requires psychiatric expertise, as well as knowledge in neuroscience and reproductive biology.
Reciprocally, we assess the effects that psychiatric illnesses and their treatments, have on perinatal outcomes. In a cohort study funded by NICHD, we recruited approximately 2800 women and interviewed them three times during pregnancy. We are assessing whether depression is a risk factor for preterm delivery, independent of antidepressant treatment. This large prospective cohort study includes information on maternal psychiatric illness, antidepressant treatment and other obstetrical risk factors.
An additional endeavor of my lab is determine optimal ways of screening for and treating women who are pregnant or postpartum and struggle with substance use problems. We use psychotherapies and potentially new pharmacological therapies that are tailored for perinatal women.
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Best DoctorsUS News and World Report (2016)
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Best Doctors in US (2014)
Best Doctors In US (2013)
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Yes, it's that time of year again – time for our favorite college basketball teams to compete for top honors in the NCAA tournament. Not so long ago, you would likely have found coworkers gathered around the television watching their local team play during work hours. While this might have had some impact on those workers' productivity for that timeframe, overall, the business probably didn't feel the strain. Now, just about every game is streamed in real time over the Internet, leading to both work productivity slowdowns and, more importantly, network slowdowns that jeopardize the entire business.
TEKsystems, a leading provider of IT staffing solutions, IT talent management expertise and IT services, recently released findings from a survey on the anticipated impact the games will have on corporate networks. The survey results represent the views of more than 350 IT professionals, including help desk support analysts, developers, systems administrators, database administrators, network administrators and others.
"As previous studies indicate, the NCAA basketball tournaments impact worker productivity, but they also have technological side effects, mainly an increased concern for security and bandwidth availability," said TEKsystems Research Manager Jason Hayman. "While the tournaments may be great for company culture, they may be a 'bracket-buster' if IT professionals don't put in place some safeguards for the optimal and uninterrupted performance of their network."
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Yesterday, Matt touched on some of the more infuriating details from a recent interview Snooki did with GQ. The whole thing made him blind with rage, justifiably, so he may have missed one interesting little tidbit: Snooki says Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is broke:
GQ: So what do you spend your money on?
Snooki: I save it. Jersey Shore is going to end soon. I'm not going to spend money like Mike [The Situation]. He's already broke!
Now, look, this could certainly be true. We've seen people go broke on far more money than The Situation has raked in (*coughHammercough*). And The Situation has never struck me as guy who has a rock solid investment scheme and long-term view on his finances. But, as always, it's a good idea to take a step back and look at your source when you see a quote like this. I mean, I'm not saying you should question the accuracy of financial statements made by a woman whose biggest claim to fame is getting dumptrucked on umbrella drinks at trashy boardwalk clubs and accidentally displaying her vagina to strangers, but… …
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Johnathan Franklin's career in Green Bay has officially reached an end. The club announced the release of the injured second-year tailback on Friday.
A fourth-round selection of the Packers in 2013, Franklin played in 11 games as a reserve for Green Bay in 2013. He suffered a neck injury in the Packers' November 24 tie with Minnesota.
On Thursday, Franklin announced he would not be playing in 2014 because of the neck injury, and he indicated he might not play thereafter.
Franklin will be subject to waivers, though it's unlikely he will be claimed. If he has been waived-injured, he could revert to the Packers' injured reserve list, where he presumably could be released with an injury settlement.


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Slash Previews 'You're a Lie' Music Video
Slash Fearturing Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators have posted a minute-long teaser for the upcoming music video for 'You're a Lie,' the lead single from their soon-to-be-released album 'Apocalyptic Love.'
Where most bands of today would've laid down tracks in Pro Tools and called it good, Slash & Co. walked the forgotten path of live recording when laying down the new album 'Apocalyptic Love.' "Most recordings are usually done in stacks and layers. With this it was just — bang! The whole spirit of this thing was all four of us playing together, captured all at once," explains bassist Todd Kearns.
The newly posted teaser for the 'You're a Lie' music video showcases the band performing the song as they recorded it at producer Eric Valentine's Barefoot Recording Studio. 'Apocalyptic Love' is the follow-up to Slash's 2010 self-titled solo debut and will be released on May 22.


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This past fall I was lucky enough to receive buckets and buckets of free apples. With all the apples I made gallons and gallons of pie filling. Since then, my family has been eating apple pies until it has come out their ears. I'm not sure if they are getting tired of them yet, but I sure am.
I decided to put my pie fillings to a different use. I'm using them to make a moist, delicious apple cake instead. This is a recipe that I created myself. This cake reminds me of crisp fall mornings and goes great with coffee, even for breakfast.
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2 (21 ounce) cans of apple pie filling
1 spice cake mix
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Water called for on cake box
1 can of cream cheese icing
Prepare the cake mix as directed on the back of the box, but don't pour it into a pan yet.
Strain about half of the juice out of the pie filling. Fold the remaining filling into the cake batter. Pour the batter into a greased bundt pan or a greased 9x13 inch pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes or until a toothpick when inserted comes out clean.
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In Milne's notes on Class Field Theory (http://www.jmilne.org/math/CourseNotes/CFT.pdf), he initially defines group cohomology in terms of injective resolutions, then he talks about computing cohomology using cochains. I don't see him mention anywhere that the group has to be finite in order for cochains to work, but this seems to be the case?
Later, he discusses profinite groups, in which he says that cohomology of profinite groups can be computed using continuous cochains. What isn't clear is the following: is the cohomology using continuous cochains a modified cohomology theory, different from the one using injective resolutions? In this case, then, do we get the cohomology theory using injective resolutions if we use all cochains, not just continuous ones? Or do the continuous cochains give the same cohomology as injective resolutions, and cochains which are not necessarily continuous only give cohomology in the case of finite groups? I.e., is there only one such cohomology theory? At the very least, using general cochains versus continuous cochains in the case of infinite profinite groups is different, for in one case $H^1$ is $\mathrm{Hom}(G,M)$ when M is trivial, and in the other case $H^1$ is $\mathrm{Hom}_{\mathrm{cts}}(G,M)$.
Assuming that set-theoretic cochains only work for finite groups, why is it the case? It seems that the proof that cochains compute cohomology (i.e. by looking at a projective resolution of $\mathbb{Z}$) fails because the modules used in the case of finite groups, i.e. tensor powers of $\mathbb{Z}[G]$, aren't necessarily projective when $G$ is infinite (in the case when $G$ is finite, they are free). Is this correct?


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I need a logo and CSS based design layout for a sunglasses faq website. There are only two pages to design (homepage and answerpage). The design should be friendly, clear and should also have a relationship to sunglasses.
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Run With Gravity
Janne Korpi takes out the slopestyle final of Evolution 2009 with Finnish finesse
Davos, Switzerland, 9 January 2009. It was a battle that no one could have predicted – a young Belgian rider taking on the might of Finland. However, Janne Korpi, the O'Neill rider from Nummela in Finland had no trouble defying gravity to beat 17 year old Seppe Smits in an epic slopestyle O'Neill Evolution 2009 final.
"I'm so stoked," said Janne who now moves up to second place on the Swatch TTR World Tour rankings. "It's been a long day and my legs are so tired." While the knock-out round format suited the consistency and skill of Janne, it was the intimacy of the competition that he found to be more of a challenge.
"I don't really like going up against and having to battle my friends," he said. "That is hard." However, he didn't have too hard a time in the final. His three runs consisted of a fs1080, a cab1080 and then a massive bs rodeo 900. On all of them, as commentator Gian Simmen pointed out, "he stomped the landing."
His fellow finalist Seppe joined the rest of the crowd in Davos in admiring the talent of the young Finn: "There was nothing I could have done, no trick I could have done could have beaten Janne," he said.
It was quite an achievement for the 17 year old Belgian. His three runs featured a bs900 mute, a huge cab 9, and a bs720.
"It's the best result I have ever got," he said. "It's just so crazy. I am just so stoked, I almost can't believe it."
Despite his youth and his first success at this level, Seppe was calm throughout – as demonstrated by his heart rate monitor, which remained surprisingly constant and low – unlike many of the other riders who were sporting the monitors from the quarter-finals.
Seppe came through the knockout rounds, eliminating the likes of Iouri Podlatchikov, Kim Rune Hansen and the current Swatch TTR World Tour leader, Chas Guldemond.
Chas, who finished fourth, still retains his number one status despite being knocked out by Seppe in the semi finals. "I was so disappointed at first, but then I sat back and enjoyed the final," he said.
Chas had previously stomped two massive 1260s – the first to make it through the round of 16, and then again in the quarterfinals against Peetu Piiroinen. "How was that?!," he said. "I've never stomped them before like that."
This was no ordinary snowboard competition, and this was no ordinary slopestyle course. The face of Jack O'Neill – the founder of O'Neill and inventor of the wetsuit, had been carved into the second kicker for everyone to soar over.
A snow sculpture of the solar system, representing the O'Neill Evolution challenge of 2009 to defy gravity, sat at the bottom of the course congratulating all the riders who flew through it.
And with the slopestyle winner crowned, now it's all about the quarterpipe – and last year's Evolution quarterpipe winner Kim Rune Hansen is exctited, although also a little hesitant to get back onto it: "The quarterpipe is so scary," he said. "I was scared last year as well. I try not to think about it too often, but because I've been injured a lot this season I've been thinking about it a bit more."
This is the first competition back for the Norwegian rider since being injured back in May. "I am still getting used to things again." However if his performance in the slopestyle is anything to go by – reaching the quarterfinals in style, only going out to Seppe Smits – he should be in top form.
Quarterpipe finals start tomorrow (January 10). The round of 32 will start at 3.45pm.
1 Janne Korpi FIN F 183.17
2 Seppe Smits BEL F 164.84
3 Kevin Backstrom SWE SF 156.00
4 Chas Guldemond USA SF 112.33
5 Peetu Piiroinen FIN QF 172.66
6 Elias Elhardt GER QF 167.50
7 Kim Rune Hansen NOR QF 160.00
8 Seb Toutant CAN QF 39.00
9 Gjermund Braaten NOR 16 164.33
10 Stefan Gimpl AUT 16 151.33
11 Jaakko Ruha FIN 16 144.17
12 Tim Humphreys USA 16 143.17
13 Maxime Henault CAN 16 115.00
14 Ulrik Badertscher NOR 16 112.67
15 Ville Uotila FIN 16 102.66
16 Mattias Nyberg SWE 16 99.34
17 Tore Holvik NOR 32 139.00
18 Antti Autti FIN 32 135.00
19 Risto Mattila FIN 32 127.50
20 Jonas Carlson SWE 32 124.84
21 Torgeir Bergrem NOR 32 123.67
22 Markus Malin FIN 32 117.34
23 Dimi De Jong NED 32 115.83
24 Gian Simmen SUI 32 104.34
25 Colin Frei SUI 32 98.17
26 Henning Marthinsen NOR 32 92.00
27 Andreas Gidlund SWE 32 89.17
28 Sindre Iversen NOR 32 82.17
29 Iouri Podladtchikov SUI 32 75.00
30 Arthur Longo FRA 32 61.50
31 Fredrik Evensen NOR 32 60.16
32 Eirik Haugo NOR 32 54.33
33 Patrick Burgener SUI Q 137.33
34 Petja Piiroinen FIN Q 137.00
35 Ethan Morgan GER Q 136.66
36 95 Wanger Mario AUT Q 126.00


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Tom Wolfe's Miami-based novel is packed with noise, art, sex – and capital letters
Back to Blood, by Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Cape, RRP£20, Little, Brown, RRP$30, 720 pages
There was a time when Tom Wolfe was a fine writer, joining forces with Truman Capote and Joan Didion to reinvent American journalism. In his early essay collections, including The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Wolfe brought novelistic life to cultural analysis; in full-length books such as the non-fiction tale of US astronauts The Right Stuff (1979) and his first novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), he drilled through the heart of America's romances with heroism and money.
Wolfe surgically anatomised subcultures by recognising their rules and skewering their hypocrisies in carefully honed prose. But in his increasingly self-indulgent novels, Wolfe expends enormous energy animating clichés, blaming the stereotypes he invented for being so stereotypical; a superman lording it over the straw people he is knocking down. His fourth novel Back to Blood is even more bloated with excess than the society it seeks to lampoon, its plot as unreal as the marionettes jerkily waving their arms around in it, screeching Punch-and-Judy imprecations at each other.
Nestor Camacho is a Cuban-American policeman who becomes a celebrity by pulling off a daring, preposterous rescue: a Cuban refugee is clinging to the top of a sailing boat's mast in Miami's Biscayne Bay, and Nestor climbs down the mast with the struggling refugee clamped between his legs (as one does). Instead of being celebrated for his heroism, Nestor finds himself ostracised by his tight-knit Cuban community for handing over the refugee to the authorities. Next, he unwittingly causes another scandal when his scuffle with a black drug dealer is put on YouTube and he is accused of racism.
Nestor finds an ally in Miami Herald reporter John Smith, who attended prep school and Yale and always wears pressed trousers. That is all we need to know, evidently, because John Smith is not a person, but a Wasp personified. All Wolfe's characters are similarly gestural: a Cuban mayor, an African-American police chief, one cop named Nestor and another named Hector, and a Russian oligarch called Sergei Korolyov, who has donated $70m of masterpieces to the Miami Art Museum that turn out to be forgeries.
Meanwhile Nestor's ex-girlfriend, the impossibly beautiful Magdalena, has become the mistress of a social-climbing, sex-addicted psychiatrist, who provides her with an entrée to the pretentious, pornographic Miami art scene. Wolfe brings his plot strands together by putting Magdalena and Korolyov in bed, at which point Magdalena wakes "in a hypnopompic state" to feel Sergei's hand as "it slid up her mons pubis and her abdomen and began dwelling upon the nipple of her left breast". A few sentences later, Sergei's body "impinged upon hers" – by which point I was in something of a hypnopompic state myself.
If Wolfe's narrator is prone to such Latinate pomposity, his characters suffer from a fatal combination of logorrhea and aphasia: they make an unholy din, but words constantly fail them. No one speaks in this novel: they shout in capital letters, honking and squealing and shrieking. It's Miami as a menagerie, Florida as an italic state. Wrestling with the drug dealer, Nestor says: "Sarge … unhh … tell Hector to get me some uhhh wrist ties … I uhhh … I don't uhh believe uhh this uhhh uhhh uhhh uhhh bastard will keep his word."
The psychiatrist Magdalena works for cannot speak without a hyena-laugh: "AahhhHAHHHHock hock hock you should've heardddahhhock hock hock, MauriceeeegghehehehahhhHAHAaghhhock hock hock … 'I'm so sorRRAHAHAHAhhry!' He's so sorRRAHahahAAAHhhhry! I thought you were gonna shed some tears for himaahhhHAHAHAHAHHock hock hock hock!'"
The novel runs to 700 pages not because Wolfe has anything much to say, but because of these babbling eruptions of sheer noise, and because he can't resist repeating his hilarious jokes. Foreigners speak in comedy accents, helpfully translated: "'That is true,' said Sergei. Zat ees drue," or "We een Mee-ah-mee now!"
Magdalena, an intelligent Cuban-American with a nursing degree, has never heard of Cy Twombly or Chagall. Noted. Then she doesn't "know what cutting-edge meant, either, although she could sort of guess … And what did iconic mean? She hadn't the faintest idea."
I know how she feels: not only does Wolfe not trust us to bear in mind that Magdalena is unversed in high culture (although the idea that she finds "cutting-edge" an abstruse term is ludicrous), he nudges us when Nestor reappears: "Nestor Camacho – remember him? – was evaporating, disintegrating, coming apart…" So is this novel, blown to pieces by the exploding shrapnel of Wolfe's style.
Back to Blood is as fraudulent as the forged paintings at the centre of its plot, falling victim to the social diseases it pretends to diagnose: gigantism, self-indulgence, superficiality masking as profundity, a hyperactive, hyperbolic acquisitiveness and an endless taste for the crudely obvious. If this cult of celebrity is what passes for literature today, the joke is on us. When a character is dumbfounded, Wolfe informs us that this observation was "very much including the word's literal meaning: speechless". All I can say is that Back to Blood also left me dumbfounded, very much including the word's literal meaning.
Sarah Churchwell is professor of American literature at the University of East Anglia


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LOMPOC — Already faced with the daunting task of taking down a No. 1 seed with a 30-game winning streak, consecutive division titles in its back pocket and an overwhelming home field advantage, the St. Francis High football team's chances of an upset of Lompoc on Friday night got inherently worse just 12 seconds into the game when Braves kick returner Taylor Cornejo streaked 90 yards for a score.
But as bad a start as it was to the game for the Golden Knights, it was the second-half onset that truly was the turning point. St. Francis, trailing by 14, could do nothing offensively on the first drive and then allowed a 55-yard scoring run by Lompoc's Nikko Hayes, one of a cavalcade of talented backs who poured it on in the second half, as the Braves ran away with a 42-7 victory in the opening round of the CIF Southern Section Western Division playoffs.
"They kept pressing, it's a great team. You gotta give them credit," said St. Francis Coach Jim Bonds, whose team finished its season at 4-7 after receiving an at-large bid into the playoffs out of the Mission League. "They got horses."
Lompoc (11-0), the Los Padres League champion, rushed for 238 of its 289 total yards with three runners gaining more than 50 yards behind a mammoth offensive line that looked to wear down the undersized Golden Knights.
"They were able to push us around up front with their size," Bonds said.
Averaging 45 points a game coming into Friday's game, the Braves have been an offensive juggernaut, but Bonds was more impressed with the defense, which was big, mean and nasty and had allowed less than seven points per game coming in and never given up more than 14 in a contest.
"I was probably more impressed with their size and skill on defense," said Bonds, whose offense totaled just 179 yards. "It was hard to find holes in that defense."
Cornejo found a hole up the right sideline to open the game with his return for a score. Following the return and a St. Francis punt, Lompoc flexed its muscle on its first offensive drive. Running back Lavon Coleman (17 carries for 83 yards and two touchdowns) capped a methodical eight-play, 56-yard march with a five-yard touchdown for a 14-0 lead with 6:11 to go in the first quarter.
Down, 14-0, St. Francis quarterback Jared Lebowitz connected with tight end John Carroll on a five-yard, play-action scoring pass to cut the lead in half with 1:20 to play in the first.
Lompoc would answer right back, though, as Coleman burst through the left side for a 46-yard touchdown run, breaking through a pair of would-be tacklers before out-sprinting the St. Francis defense to pay dirt.
A missed 50-yard Mark Verso field goal was the closest the Golden Knights would get to scoring again in the first half — and in the game. But the St. Francis defense held for the rest of the opening half.
Needing to seize momentum in a relatively close game at that point, though, the Golden Knights sputtered on the opening second-half drive and punted. Three plays later, Hayes (eight carries for 78 yards and score) slipped up the gut for a 55-yard backbreaking, momentum-taking score.
"We didn't get any points, they go on a short field and score, now it's 28-7," Bonds said. "We couldn't get a rally and score."
And Hayes' score continued what would end up being a 28-point run to end the game for Lompoc and 21 unanswered in a truly dominant second half.
St. Francis had 139 yards on offense in the first half, but just 40 in the second.
Lebowitz finished 15 of 34 for 137 yards for a touchdown and an interception that was returned for a score late in the game — which saw the Braves' starters in for the duration and throwing the ball with a running clock and a 35-point lead. The All-Area senior quarterback was sacked three times and pressured constantly.
"We thought we could throw the ball," Bonds said. "The issue was having time to throw."
Running back Daniel Kawamura had 50 yards in nine carries, while receiver Evan Crawford hauled in six catches for 84 yards.
Having just two players who began last season starting on this year's team, many saw 2012 as a rebuilding year for St. Francis. Bonds was not one of them, though. Now however, he admitted a more experienced team will take the field next year, though the Golden Knights do incur some tough losses, such as defensive end Cole Ramseyer, center Matt Kubly and Lebowitz, to name a few.
"I never said that with this group, that it's a rebuilding," Bonds said. "But, if there is a silver lining, we gained some experience and we got a lot of young guys a chance to play a playoff game. But losing Jared Lebowitz is gonna be tough, cause he's a stud."


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Joe Blanton has another strong start but still ends up with the lost as the Phils lose to the Braves, 4-1.
Despite throwing his second straight strong outing since coming off the disable list, Joe Blanton takes the lost as the Phils' offense is unable to capitalize on several scoring opportunities as the Phils lost to the Braves, 4-1.
The Phils took the lead in the second as, with two men on, and with two men out, Shane Victorino hits an RBI single, knocking in Brian Schneider, who had earlier singled, and then moved up to second on Joe Blanton's single, giving the Phils a 1-0 lead, while sending Blanton, who had earlier singled, up to second base. Blanton then took control, stopping several Braves' rallies, while not giving up a hit, until Braves' starter Kris Medlen got a lead-off single in the fifth, while first Medlen, and then reliever Eric O'Flaherty, kept the Phils from getting any more runs. Then the Braves got back into the game in the sixth as, with runners on the corners, and with one man out, Eric Hinske hits an RBI double, knocking in Chipper Jones, who had earlier singled, moved up to second on Brian McCann's single, then went to third on Troy Glaus' fly out to center, tying the game up at one-all, while sending McCann up to third. One batter later, the Braves took the lead on an RBI single by Melky Cabrera, scoring McCann, giving the Braves a 2-1 lead, while sending Hinske over to third. The Braves then made it 3-1 as Omar Infante hits a sacrifice fly to center, scoring Hinske, while Cabrera moved up to second. The Braves then added an insurance run in the ninth as, with runners on the corners, and with two men out, Glaus hits an RBI single, scoring Nate McLouth, who had earlier singled, went to second on Martin Prado's sacrifice bunt, then moved up to third on Jones' ground out, 4-3, giving the Braves a 4-1 lead, while sending McCann, who had just walked, up to second base. That would be the final score as Billy Wagner put the Phils' down 1-2-3, to records his fourth save of the year.
Joe Blanton took the lose as he pitches six innings, giving up three runs on five hits and two walks, while striking out three. His record is now 0-2 with a 4.97 ERA. J.C. Romero, Chad Durbin and Jose Contreras combine for two scoreless innings, giving up only three walks (Romero (2), Contreras (1)), while striking out two batters (Romero and Chad one batter each). Danys Baez pitches an inning, giving up a run on two hits and a walk. Kris Medlen receives a no-decision as he pitches four and a third innings, giving up a run on nine hits, as he strikes out three. Eric O'Flaherty got the win as he pitches two-thirds of an inning, getting out both men that he would face. His record is now 2-1 with an ERA of 2.19. Craig Kimbrel records his first hold of the season as he goes a third of an inning, giving up two walks. Peter Moylan records his fifth hold of the year as he pitches one and one-third scoreless innings, giving up two walks. Jonny Venters records his first hold of the year as he pitches a third of an inning, getting out the only man he would face. Takashi Saito records his second hold of the season as he pitches a scoreless inning, striking out two batters. Billy Wagner records his fourth save of the year as he throws a 1-2-3 ninth, striking out a batter.
The Phils had nine hits, all singles, in the game, unable to deliever a key hit to take an early commanding lead. Placido Polanco had three hits. Shane Victorino, Ryan Howard, Raul Ibanez, Brian Schneider, Carlos Ruiz and Joe Blanton had the other six hits, with Victorino knocking in the only Phil run.
The Phils (18-12, 1st) will conclude their series and the home stand with an afternoon game against the Braves (13-17, 5th). The game will be played at Citizens Bank Park. The Phils will send to the mound Cole Hamels (2-2, 4.42), who is coming off a no-decision against the Cardinals on May 4, when he went eight plus innings, giving up just one run on eight hits and two walks, as he struck out eight, in the Phils' 2-1 extra-innings walk-off win. He will try to build on his two previous strong starts while trying for his third win of the season. The Braves will counter with Kenshin Kawakami (0-5, 5.47), who is coming off a lost against the Nationals on May 4, as he went only five innings, giving up three runs on seven hits, while he struck out one, in the Braves' 6-3 lost. He will be trying to gain his first win of the season. The Phils will be trying to end their good home stand on a high note before going on the road to face the Rockies in Denver.