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CRNAs: A short history of nurse anesthesia and the future of anesthesia care.What's old is new again. I have always had a keen interest in anesthesia history and as a resident in anesthesia, presented some articles and papers for the International Anesthesia History Association on Chauncey Leake and the development of divinyl ether and at the Anesthesia History Association here in the US on Sir William Macewen and early attempts at intubating patients under general anesthesia. I am a firm believer, as a scientist, clinician and physician leader, that one must truly know history and have a thorough understanding of the present in order to help predict, but more importantly, prepare for and shape the future.
It's human nature to constantly make attempts to build a better mousetrap. It's also human nature to adapt to our environment. Professional nursing developed in the 1850's and is largely credited to Florence Nightingale's efforts during the Crimean War. Nurses began to administer anesthetics during this time period as well using open drop techniques. Nurses and nurse anesthetists were absolutely vital providing care to wounded soldiers during the American Civil War. 150 years ago, administering anesthesia was, at best, a crude exercise with no monitoring save a finger on the pulse and a conscientious effort to observe breathing patterns and the color of the patient's skin.
Alice Magaw remains the most famous nurse anesthetist of the 19th Century. Born in Coshocton, Ohio in 1860, she attended nursing school in Chicago and ultimately became the anesthetist for both of the Mayo brothers in Rochester, Minnesota. In 1899, she became the first nurse anesthetist to publish a scientific article for the Northwestern Lancet. Five more articles would follow. She was well known as a master of open drop ether and Charles Mayo dubbed her the "Mother of Anesthesia." She administered no fewer than 14,000 anesthetics with no deaths recorded. This is a remarkable track record given the lack of monitoring and advanced techniques, medicines and technology to help rescue a patient from imminent tragedy.
Alice Magaw, nurse anesthetistBecause she was not an MD, MD anesthesiologists remain unaware of Alice Magaw's contributions. Formal, academic, MD anesthesia training developed after nurse anesthesia. Dr. Ralph Waters created the first medical academic anesthesia department in Madison, Wisconsin in 1927. He established the first residency program for anesthesia in the US, and his trainees spread throughout the US and were commonly referred to as The Water Babies. Ralph Waters wanted to bring anesthesia back into the fold of medical practice, not what it had mainly been up to that point--a nursing practice.
Before Waters' program was created, Agnes McGee, nurse anesthetist, founded the first educational program on anesthetics at St. Vincent's Hospital in Portland, Oregon in 1909. It was a 6 month course on relevant anatomy, physiology and pharmacology of anesthetics. Between 1912 and 1920, 19 nurse led anesthesia schools were opened. It's plainly obvious the nurses were blazing the trail toward formal education in anesthesia long before the MDs. We physicians were a little late to the table.
Ralph Waters, MD
Ralph Waters, MD
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, anesthesia had already advanced in an academic setting in Scotland. Sir William Macewen, a surgeon working in Glasgow, pioneered efforts in aseptic technique, neurosurgery and orthopedic surgery. Rarely mentioned, but equally important, he was the first individual to make an attempt to intubate patients while under general anesthesia. His attempts resulted in complications and one death, so he no longer pursued intubation for his patients undergoing general anesthesia.
Agnes McGee receiving an award for her contributions to nurse anesthesia, 1953.
Agnes McGee receiving an award for her contributions to nurse anesthesia, 1953.
Dr. Macewen did, however, recognize the need to formally train physicians on the use of anesthesia, and one of the first known certificates given to MDs for completing training in anesthesia was given to a student of surgery named Broughton Head in 1903. It's hanging on the wall behind me as I write this, and I am it's humble owner until it can find a more satisfactory home back in Scotland where it belongs for all of the Scottish citizens to enjoy as a part of their own noble history for their countryman's contribution to the advancement of anesthesia.
Though I digressed a bit, in 1930, at the biennial convention of the American Nurses Association, Agatha Hodgins presented a paper suggesting the organization of nurse anesthetists into a "coherent and acting body." The following year, in 1931, the National Association of Nurse Anesthetists (NANA) was founded on June 17, in Cleveland, Ohio (It later became the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists or AANA.)
Broughton Head's Certificate in Anesthesia, 1903.
Broughton Head's Certificate in Anesthesia, 1903.
The history of the current American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) began in 1909. Known originally as the New York Society of Anesthesiologists, the organization became the American Society of Anesthesiologists in 1936. Within five years, both nurses and MDs recognized the need to create a formal society. It's not a coincidence.
What I find fascinating now is the continued conflict between CRNAs and MDs with regard to scope of practice, independence, education and organization. Nurse anesthetists, before we used the word "certified," administered thousands of anesthetics without complication. They continue to do so in mixed practice settings, independent settings and for the US military. CRNAs are providing professional, excellent care for patients everyday throughout the US. This issue always rears its head every time CRNAs attempt to alter state laws with regard to scope of practice and/or independence.
Here in Arizona, there was an effort to allow CRNAs to independently practice. I supported their efforts. The arguments from the MDs were simple: they are not physicians. It's a turf war, and MDs feel threatened. We shouldn't. At my Alma Mater, UCSF, I studied under the leadership and guidance of Dr. Ronald Miller and Dr. Mark Rosen. We had approximately 5 to 6 CRNAs working alongside us at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), and yes, they helped with Level 1 Trauma. The stakes don't get any higher.
In 2017 there are currently 47 CRNAs at UCSF. Times certainly have changed in the last decade since I left. Obviously, if a program of UCSF's caliber has embraced CRNAs, then their care is certainly being respected and valued as members of a larger care team model. I myself learned a tremendous amount from the CRNAs with whom I worked with at SFGH in the early 2000's.
Not once did I ever view any of them as somehow inferior to us with regard to ability or capability. We relieved them, they relieved us, and we definitely had each other's back when, on Friday night, the gunshot and stabbing victims rolled into our ER. We bonded with them as part of the team, and the adage that old age and treachery will overcome youth and inexperience was a mantra I believed. The CRNAs taught us a tremendous amount, and I am an MD.
Unfortunately, the tradition of not recognizing nurse anesthetists as equals has been at the forefront of debate for one hundred years. In 1916, The Lakeside Hospital School of Anesthesia closed after a conflict with the Ohio State Medical Board over the legality of nurses administering anesthesia. It reopened in 1917. Also, in 1917, in Frank v South, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that nurse anesthetist Margaret Hatfield was not engaged in the practice of medicine when she administered anesthesia for surgeon Louis Franks cases.
Flash forward one hundred years to what has recently happened in Arizona. Here's the current law:
A certified registered nurse anesthetist may administer anesthetics under the direction of and in the presence of a physician or surgeon in connection with the preoperative, intraoperative or postoperative care of a patient or as part of a procedure performed by a physician or surgeon.
This means the 'physician' can be a dermatologist, etc. There is no mention of what type of physician in this current law. Most of the time, the 'physician' does happen to be a surgeon.
Let's examine this situation through the lens by which it must be examined. Somehow it's acceptable for an MD, not trained formally in anesthesia, to supervise a nurse who has been trained in anesthesia? Isn't this a blind man leading someone with 20/20 vision through a jungle? I have been practicing anesthesia for 12 years in a private setting in community hospitals here in southern Arizona, and I have not seen one surgeon manage an airway, administer propofol, muscle relaxants or flip the switch on a ventilator. And somehow these MDs are capable of telling a CRNA what to do during an anesthetic emergency? I rest my case.
Let's be clear, the US healthcare system is facing both fiscal issues and provider shortage. First, the cost of healthcare is too high. Second, there is increasing need for anesthesia services as baby boomers age. Third, there are not enough MD anesthesiologists being trained to replace those who are retiring while we face increased demand for service.
The take away from this is clear. CRNAs will most likely fill the gaps in care either independently or under a medically supervised model. Yet the battle cry from the MDs and the ASA is simple: CRNAs didn't go to medical school, attend a four year intensive post-graduate medical education in residency or take the written and oral Board exams. It's simply not fair that CRNAs can be viewed as our equals and peers. And so the battle continues, and I don't think it's necessary or constructive.
Call me a heretic, but what if both the AANA and ASA created a joint anesthesia conference to discuss the future of anesthesia and current concerns? The ASA has its annual conference in October in Boston this year; one month prior, in Seattle, the AANA has its meeting. Not only are the two meetings literally at different times but on different coasts.
My perspective on providing excellent care for our patients is my unrelenting focus on the team model. No one practices medicine or nursing in a vacuum unless they are literally a solo practitioner in an office based setting without a nurse. This, of course, doesn't take place in our operating rooms or outside areas where we perform anesthesia, such as the cath lab, MRI suite or ambulatory settings.
Can't we call a truce, stop the madness and toss an olive branch out in the ring? I am asking my fellow MDs and DOs this question, not the CRNAs. We have a difficult time as it is earning respect from the other medical professions without circling our wagons and pointing the guns inward.
We should be jointly meeting to discuss salient issues regarding anesthesia care, care team models, efforts to create surgical care homes, pre-operative clinics, post-op care team models, in house acute pain management models, etc. We could accomplish much more if, instead of battling each other in the state legislatures, we recognized we are all on the same team working toward a common purpose. We should set our egos aside, as MDs, and fully embrace the future and recognize the contributions of our nurse colleagues. We could learn a lot from them.
CRNA programs recognize the increased complexity for providing anesthesia care, and the education of nurse anesthetists has been a priority since the founding of the AANA. Although not implemented until 1952, accreditation of nurse anesthesia educational programs was discussed as early as 1934. The AANAs certification exam was first administered in 1945, a voluntary continuing education program was approved in 1969, and mandatory continuing education became effective in 1978. In 1986, a bachelors degree in nursing or a related degree was required for admission to nurse anesthesia programs, and by 1998 all programs were required to be at the graduate level, awarding at least a masters degree. In 2007, the AANA adopted a position statement supporting doctoral education for entry into practice by 2025. The AANA is supported and led by talented, well educated, forward thinking nurses. I am listening and observing.
The American Board of Anesthesia has also changed certification requirements, and new diplomates, such as myself, must participate in the Maintenance of Certification of Anesthesia program, also known as MOCA. Our parent organizations, both the ASA, the AANA and the ABA realize the need for all of us to adapt and maintain up-to-date education and training. We need to take the next step after decades and decades of unnecessary conflict to come together.
I have no doubt it will happen. Both the leaders in the AANA and a few members of the ASA, such as much myself, who are leading departments composed primarily of CRNAs, will provide the support necessary going forward. To all my nurse and physician colleagues who practice anesthesia: we are in this together.
--Matthew Mazurek, MD


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Earlier this week I received an email from a prospective candidate asking for my advice. His concerns are so ubiquitous, it prompted this blog post response. This candidate, a recent graduate of a respected law school, with good grades, law review, moot court, and a clerkship on his resume, is unemployed. In addition to the multitude of applications he submitted directly, he has also sent his resume to several recruiters, but never heard back. He told me that these recruiters advertised job openings that matched his background and credentials, and yet they were not interested in speaking with him. He wanted to understand why.
We (recruiters) hear this question a lot lately; understandably so. Job seekers are very frustrated in the current market, and feel slighted by recruiters that don't want to work with them. The reasons are pretty simple, and for the most part, have nothing to do with whether the recruiter is a good person or a greedy opportunist.
At the outset, for those attorneys who are recent graduates or coming out of clerkships, it is important that you understand that recruiters who place full time associates do not typically work with entry level attorneys. (These recruiters are not to be confused with legal staffing agencies that work with contract attorneys and do, in fact, place entry level candidates). Because firms invest so much time and money in their own recruiting programs, they won't accept new graduate resumes from recruiters. Employers expect the candidates we submit to have at least one full year of post-graduate, post-clerkship experience. There are some exceptions, but that's the general rule. It could be that you're not hearing back from recruiters because your level of experience is outside the scope of what we can do, no matter how stellar your record.
For those candidates that have at least one year of experience and still aren't hearing back from recruiters – you're not going to like what I have to say next.
It's not news that the legal market is flooded with competent, talented attorneys looking for work. Firms and companies, aware of their advantage, are being very particular about the candidates they'll consider. If they have an open position, they'll hold out until they find the perfect candidate with stellar credentials and the exact skill set they're seeking. They are not interested in hiring attorneys that need to be retrained. It's important to remember that although the lines are often blurred, recruiters are "employed by" these law firms/companies, not by candidates. These days, that means that firms expect the candidates we submit to be the best of the best. We try to work with, advise, help and coach the candidates we work with (hopefully, spreading some good karma along the way), but our allegiance, naturally, is to our clients and their needs.
For the most part, since recruiters work on contingency, we only get paid if and when we make a placement. That harsh reality means recruiters only spend time talking to (and submitting) candidates that are likely to get interviewed and hired. Apologies for being callous—but that's just the nature of what we do.
All is not lost however. Just because a recruiter doesn't have a fitting position for you today, doesn't mean he won't tomorrow. Submit your resume, keep it updated, and let the recruiter know what you're looking for (with specifics like geography, salary, firm type and size, and practice area). We don't discard resumes—we do really keep them on file—and one day we might, in fact, call you with your dream job.
Angela Kopolovich is the Managing Director of Alegna International, a boutique attorney recruiting firm. A former practicing litigator with a large global law firm, Angela now specializes in placing attorneys with law firms and corporate legal departments, around the country and abroad. She can be reached at email@example.com or via Twitter @Recruiter_Law.
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Starting today, there are three new artifacts on view in the exhibit space here in the Artifact Lab. Those of you who have been keeping up with this blog will recognize these pieces, including:
Our falcon mummy:
Tanwa, one of our child mummies:
and Nefrina's cartonnage mummy mask:
All of these artifacts are displayed with labels explaining their conservation "story".
In addition, we have a binder available in the exhibit space that includes the conservation treatment reports and images for each of these artifacts. These reports contain detailed descriptions of the materials and the condition of these artifacts, and of the techniques and materials used to conserve them.
Of course, we also have information about these pieces here on our blog, and later this week we will post more information about the process of conserving Nefrina's mummy mask.


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An internal BlackBerry 10 marketing video showing off BlackBerry 10 touch devices with QWERTY keyboards has been released to the public. CrackBerry apparently found the video and released it. The video was promptly removed, but it has been reuploaded for the world to see. I have to say, these BlackBerry devices look great!
Earlier in the week we saw the BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha B phones. Clearly, RIM is trying to stay relevant with the iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy Note releases happening this fall. BlackBerry 10 will not debut until next year, but RIM doesn't want us to forget them.
The predictive keyboard looks interesting. I'm not sure that it will really improve typing speeds though. My experience has been that once you stop focusing on the keyboard and instead focus on the text while trusting your fingers to find the right keys (with help from error correction), my typing is faster and more accurate. It seems that with RIM's keyboard I'll have to focus on the keys more than the text. I'll wait to play with it until I make a judgement, but that's my first impression.


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Digital marketing firm HubSpot raises $35 million in latest funding round
Will add to its 400 Cambridge employees, open office in Dublin
The Cambridge marketing firm HubSpot, which helps small and mid-size businesses reach prospective customers using social media, is announcing Monday that it has raised an additional $35 million.
The investors include Altimeter Capital, Cross Creek Capital, and, according to two people with knowledge of the deal, the Boston mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments. The new commitments will bring HubSpot's total fund-raising to about $100 million since it was founded in 2006 by two alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management.
Chief executive Brian Halligan said HubSpot will be adding employees in Cambridge, where it already has 400 people, and will open a new office in Dublin in January and hire about 50 people there in 2013.
The new funds will also help with HubSpot's other growth plans: acquiring small marketing companies. HubSpot previously bought two Cambridge start-ups, Performable and Oneforty, primarily for their engineering talent.
Those acquisitions, Halligan said, "really worked out great. We retained the key people on those teams, and they were people it'd be really difficult to hire on the open market.''
HubSpot makes software used by small and medium-size businesses to manage online marketing and social media on sites such as Facebook and Twitter and on popular blogs. The company has dubbed its approach "inbound marketing,'' because it attracts customers who are already searching for a given company's products or services.
In August, it released a new version of its marketing platform, HubSpot 3, which lets companies deliver more personalized messages to current and prospective customers and is intended to appeal to larger clients with longer, more complex sales cycles.
The company makes money from annual software subscriptions priced at $2,400 and up and says it has 8,000 customers in 56 countries. Halligan said revenue is running at an annualized rate of $60 million; in 2011 it reported revenue of $29 million.
HubSpot is also adding board members and executives with public company experience, including chief operating officer J.D. Sherman, who for six years was chief financial officer of Akamai Technologies in Cambridge.
HubSpot and Halligan declined to identify Fidelity as a new investor, and Fidelity declined to comment. But two sources with knowledge of the investment said Fidelity is one of the funders. The Boston financial giant has previously invested in promising private companies before they went public, most notably Facebook and Google.
Halligan said HubSpot has at least $8 million from its last fund-raising round, in March 2011, but decided to target another large round of funding because "we want to press on the gas a little harder and grow a little faster.''


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Recently, I heard a movie critic on the radio giving his opinion of the latest Sylvester Stallone movie, Rambo. He hated the movie and said it was ridiculous watching a 61-year-old man all juiced up on steroids running around in a jungle war. Amazingly to me, as I thought about it, this was one of the first times that I've heard someone in the media come out and casually say the truth about a well known individual's steroid use while doing their report.
I have to say it was very refreshing.
Before I go further let me say that I used steroids back in the 1980s as a bodybuilder and later as I started wrestling. In bodybuilding circles in that era, steroid use was just accepted as a necessity to compete, but still, nobody openly talked about it. I never really understood that because it was just something that you had to do to be competitive, or at least that was the mind set. Even though you had to buy them in back rooms of legitimate businesses or in the locker rooms at the gym, it was not illegal to possess steroids, which one can assume also means taking them.
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990 placed anabolic steroids into schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) as of February 27, 1991. This legislation made it clear that the possession or use of anabolic steroids without a valid prescription is illegal. Trafficking of steroids has been illegal since 1988.
After many untimely deaths, and especially the Chris Benoit tragedy, the WWE has once again taken certain wrestlers to task and required them to get off steroids. It's not hard to identify who is on their way off the juice, just watch their appearance gradually change. Necks will get thinner, muscles will shrink and definition will disappear. In the past few years, other sports started dealing more with the steroid issue also, but it basically was always swept under the rug by owners of sports teams, sports promoters and organizers of major sports organizations. The subject was rarely talked about by the mainstream media and the sportscasters never talked about it, as if they had a gag order not to. I personally believe they did, and still do, have a gag order.
And then, of course, possibly the most ridiculous display of ignoring the issue came in 1998 as baseball turned a blind eye to the fact that Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were heavily juiced when they had their home run battle in which McGwire hit 70 home runs. It wasn't just the home run totals but it was their appearance for crying out loud. Even the untrained eye should have been able to see the changes in their appearance over the preceding years. It seemed as though almost everyone in sports -- and even the fans -- were blind in both eyes not to have made this a huge issue. The Major League Baseball world let it go on to give the sport a boost. The WWE and Major League Baseball are just two examples in a long list of sports organizations which include the International Olympic Committee and the organizers of the Tour De France who have allowed the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs to become an epidemic in sports.
I, for one, do not know how long steroids have been used in sports but when I look at photos of strongman/bodybuilding/wrestling athletes of the late 1800s and the early- to mid-1900s such as Eugen Sandow, George Hackenschmidt, and Stanislaus Zbyszko and many others, I can't help but wonder if steroids played a part in the development of their famous physiques and success in their careers. My trained eye says "yes," but that is only my opinion.
Regardless if steroid use started 150 years ago, or many centuries ago, it was in the past.
This is the present.
If the Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990 and the placement of steroids into schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act is a law, enforce it, starting now, in the present, and forget about the past.
Or, take it off of the books and leave the steroid issue and the athletes alone. Although with the latter, steroid related untimely deaths will continue.
Just think, all of this, and we haven't even talked about American Gladiators.
Todd "Oly" Olsen wrestled professionally for 15 years. He runs the website www.blackbootwrestling.com.


text: Hi guys, I have just begun looking into a checkpoint / restart capability for clusters, but looking into the archives here and doing a search has shown few viable solutions. Some, like CKPOX (1), appear to be only written for the 2.4 series kernels, and I recall seeing one product that seemed to indicate it had full support for these operations, but it was a commercial product. What solutions have people on this list used for this functionality? Amy I restricted to going back to the 2.4 series? (I'd prefer to run 2.6 on the AMD64 hardware I've got.) Additionally, though this is a much wider question (and one tackled before!), what are people's pros and cons of the various queuing systems? I've played with OpenPBS before, and 'seen' SGE, but once again, I thought it'd be nice to hear what some of the heavy hitters on this list prefer. Background: The reason we're looking for a checkpoint/restart option has more to do with preempting a running job (of a lower priority) by checkpointing it than it does with saving the state in case of a crash. While functionally these may be pretty close or the same, if that gives rise to another solution, I'd like to hear it. In essence, we have some Monte Carlo sims which are highly parallel, and could run 24-7 for many months, but we want to be able to submit a high priority CFD code that will take over, run for a few days or so, and then have the system automagically restart the MC sim. Any advice would be great! Thanks very much for your time, - Brian Brian Dobbins Yale Mechanical Engineering -- Brian Dobbins <brian.dobbins at yale.edu>


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Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change
Research Highlights
April 2014
Agriculture's Growing Effects on Rain
Research shows the impact of land-use change on African monsoon precipitation
A herd of cattle at a dusty watering hole in the Sahel. The photo indicates the region's delicate balance of natural resources and water requirements. Photo courtesy of Manfred Schweda. Enlarge Image.
Results: Increased agricultural activity is a rain taker, not a rain maker, according to researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and their collaborators at the University of California Los Angeles and the University of Texas. They fed observed land-use change data in a climate model and found the expansion of agriculture in the African Sahel region decreases summer rainfall through its impact on monsoon rains. The simulated decrease in summer rainfall reaches 10 percent over the Sahel, a region that is already stressed by water needs for human and ecological use. Their study offers new insight on how land-use change may affect regional rainfall.
Why It Matters: A fast-growing world population needs to fill dinner plates, heat homes and clear land for housing. To feed this demand, forests fall and land is turned to pasture showing a clear human impact on land use around the world. The extent and type of land-use change also has measurable effects on the climate. Africa's Sahel region heavily depends on monsoon rainfall (see sidebar: Monsoon) to sustain crops, provide fresh water and keep the land stable. Growth like that seen in the Sahel, where the population is doubling every 20 years, can provide valuable information on how land use and climate interconnect. This modeling study is designed to show the land use, precipitation and climate connections, offering insight for global land and water management and future climate change.
The Sahel region spans the African continent, from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Red Sea in the east. This narrow swath of semi-arid land supports mostly grassland and forest/grassland mixture, and lies as an ecosystem transition zone between the Sahara Desert to the north, and more tropical grasslands to the south. The low annual precipitation indicates the region is strongly reliant on the monsoon for water supply.
Methods: Researchers at PNNL and their collaborators examined the range of model simulation responses of the African Monsoon system and Sahel precipitation due to land-use and land-cover change. Using satellite measurements of land cover and estimates of land-cover change based on historical data, the researchers designed their experiments to use the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) and run 16 simulations with different combinations of land surface and cloud models, representing key processes linking land use/land cover to regional climate. They further explored the relationship between the model responses to land-use/land-cover change and the monsoon conditions resulting from rainfall and surface moisture in the control simulations.
The findings show a detrimental impact on the amount of summer rainfall via the effects on the African monsoon circulation. However, the results were sensitive to the land surface model used. Simulations that had a dry and wet bias in surface moisture showed a relatively weak response, due to moisture and energy limits respectively. On the other hand, simulations with realistic climatology compared to observations showed up to a 10 percent decrease in summer rainfall over the region. The study highlights the need for more extensive measurements of surface energy fluxes to evaluate models and provide accurate projections of the effects of land-use and land changes on rainfall.
What's Next? The researchers will extend their study to investigate how climate change, besides land-use change, may influence precipitation and water cycle extremes such as floods and droughts.
Sponsors: The research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Biological and Environmental Research as part of the Regional and Global Climate Modeling program and Earth System Modeling programs. Computing resources for the simulations are provided by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF).
Research Team: Samson Hagos, L. Ruby Leung, Maoyi Huang and Jin-Ho Yoon, PNNL; Yongkang Xue, Aaron Boone and Fernando de Sales, UCLA; and Naresh Neupane, UT Austin
Research Area: Climate & Earth Systems Science
Reference: Hagos S, LR Leung, Y Xue, A Boone, F de Sales, N Neupane, M Huang, JH Yoon. 2014. "Assessment of Uncertainties in the Response of the African Monsoon Precipitation to Land Use Change in Regional Model Simulations." Climate Dynamics. DOI 10.1007/s00382-014-2092-x


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The consistency is quite creamy and light...
What I like: It's great that it's light and creamy and has an SPF of 30, I found it easy to blend and apply and noticed an even skin tone after application.
What I dislike: The scent, it actually smells like 'copydex' glue, it's very fishy and I just can't stand it. I thought I had a dodgy bottle, but did some research, and no.. that's the scent. The fishy scent does disappear after about 10 minutes, either that or I get used to the smell. This product has no coverage, it should not be marketed as a foundation, it's more like a tinted moisturiser with no coverage, it just adds a sheer tint of colour and evens out your skin tone. The shade is perfect for me, but I can see it being too dark or too light for some people, so I don't see how this shade would suit all. I also think it's way too expensive for 30ml.
Will I use it? Yes, I hate wasting things so, I will try to use it in the summer when I want to wear no make up and protect my face, whilst evening out my skin tone despite the smell. I will not repurchase!
Would I recommend it? No, unless you have perfect skin and love the scent of fish.
Price: £41 - 30ml/1 fl oz
Disclaimer: I was sent this for review purposes, I did not get paid for this post and I am not affiliated with the brand. This is my honest opinion as always.


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Brussels, 26 July 2012
EU rules to ease cross-border successions are now law
New European Union rules to reduce legal headaches when a family member with property in another EU country passes away will be published in the Official Journal tomorrow. This means that they are becoming EU law. The new regulation on cross-border successions, proposed by the European Commission, and formally adopted by EU Member States last month (IP/12/576), will make it easier for European citizens to handle the legal side of an international will or succession. The rules will bring legal certainty to the estimated 450,000 European families dealing with an international succession each year. With over 12.3 million EU citizens resident in another EU country, the rules are likely to be of interest to many more. Member States now have three years to align their national laws so that the new EU rules become effective.
"After making life easier for couples involved in a cross-border divorce, we have now done the same for families dealing with the legal fallout after the loss of a loved one," said EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding, the Commission's Vice-President. "Separate rules on successions in each EU country used to lead to a legal maze. With this law we are simplifying processes and bringing legal security to citizens. With this EU regulation in place we are making it easier to identify which law will apply in each case. This is just one example of how the European Union is working to resolve everyday legal problems and save money for Europeans."
The new law makes it considerably simpler to settle international successions by providing a single criterion for determining both the jurisdiction and the law applicable in cross-border cases: the deceased's habitual place of residence. It also permits citizens to plan their succession in advance in full legal certainty. The law also provides for a European Certificate of Succession, which will allow people to prove that they are heirs or administrators of a succession without further formalities throughout the EU. This will represent a considerable improvement from the current situation in which citizens have great difficulty exercising their rights. The result will be faster and cheaper procedures, saving people time and money in legal fees.
On 14 October 2009, the Commission proposed a regulation to simplify the settlement of international successions (see IP/09/1508). Under the regulation, there will be a single criterion for determining both the jurisdiction of the authorities and the law applicable to a cross-border succession: the deceased's habitual place of residence. People living abroad will, however, be able to opt to have the law of their country of nationality apply to the entirety of their succession. So a German pensioner living in Portugal could for example choose to apply German law when planning his or her succession.
The European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee and the European Parliament plenary voted on a report on the draft legislation in March 2012 (see IP/12/209). The EU's Member State governments, represented in the Council of the EU, then finally adopted the new law on 7 June 2012 (IP/12/576).
Tomorrow's publication of the regulation in the Official Journal of the European Union forms part of the European Commission's continuous effort to improve the rights of EU citizens. Since 9 May, the Commission has launched a public consultation on citizens' rights to identify possible obstacles citizens still face when travelling in Europe or when shopping online for example (IP/12/461). The consultation will be open until 9 September and the input received will feed directly into the 2013 EU Citizenship Report to be presented next May.
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A fast and lightweight QT4 BitTorrent client, loosely based on the GTK+ client.
This is the only Transmission client that can act as its own self-contained
session (as the GTK+ and Mac clients do), and can also connect to a remote
session (as the web client and transmission-remote terminal client do).
Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet
powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed
to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to
use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality
without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.
WWW: http://www.transmissionbt.com/
There is no configure plist information for this port.
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The package name of this deleted port was: transmission25-qt4
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Thanks to the latest GTK 3 update, transmission-gtk
(moved from transmission-gtk2) now builds. All can upgrade safely!
Remove the created by me and update those header at the same time. I never
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you instead of me.
Create transmission25 ports and UPDATING entry to explain.
Sadly, Transmission has stopped supporting GTK 2.0 (it had to happen some day).
They now require GTK 3.2.0 [1], which we currently lack, so for those who
wish to use the GTK frontend need to stay on version 2.5
When our GTK is upgraded I'll make MOVED entries to make the transition back to
2.6 as seamless as possible.
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My VSi60 exploded too, twice now. Once at home, then once back at the shop AFTER they had replaced the tubes and protective resistor. I also saw the floor sample VSi60 have an explosion before I bought mine. That makes four explosions, including Stereophile's review sample.
The amp sounds great, but I'll be considering solid state next time.
Audio Research VSi60 integrated amplifier
I'd heard good things about the VSi60 from those who'd heard it at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, and its tube complement suggested that it might share some technology trickled down from my beloved reference power amplifier, ARC's own Reference 110, which I reviewed in August 2007. Finally, the VSi60's price of $3995 plugged the wide gap between the several fine solid-state integrateds available for $2000$3000 and the combos of tubed preamps and power amp(s) that begin at about $10,000.
In the VSi60, a passive line stage is combined with a JFET input stage driving two 6H30 driver tubes, one per channel. The output stage for each channel uses a matched pair of Svetlana 6550C push-pull output tubes with a combination of pentode operation and ARC's "partially cathode-coupled topology." The VSi60's circuitry is essentially identical to that of ARC's VS60 power amp ($3495), but with a higher input sensitivity so as to be able to be directly driven by line-level sources. The controls on the faceplate (available in silver or black) are very similar to those on ARC's SP17 preamp. There are six soft-touch buttons (duplicated on the slim, elegant remote control), for Power, Mute, Stereo/Mono, Input selection, and Volume Up/Down.
On the rear panel are five pairs of single-ended inputs labeled CD, Tuner, Video, SE1, and SE2, as well as a full-range mono subwoofer output. Output taps at 4 and 8 ohms are supplied, as well as four pairs of voltmeter test points for setting output tube bias. (ARC claims that biasing the VSi60 is not very tweaky; it should drift only rarely from its factory settings.)
The VSi60 is convenient to use. To warm up the tubes, it automatically mutes itself for the first 30 seconds following turn-on, and a microprocessor remembers the last input and Stereo/Mono settings selected when the unit was powered down. To avoid any accidents, you then have to manually unMute the VSi60 after turn-on before you can do any listening.
A black tube cage is available (add $500). I requested oneamps here live at the curiosity level of my two dogs, and I was concerned that one or both of them might develop Seared Sheltie Snoutbut ended up not using it. My dogs were uninterested in the VSi60 (they must be solid-state fans), and installing the cage requires removing the VSi60's sexy-looking, silver-anodized top plate with its recessed Audio Research logo (to provide adequate ventilation). I also thought the cage was butt-ugly. I liked the look of the naked VSi60, in a retro, early-1970s, Audio Research SP3 kind of way.
Warren Gehl, ARC's materials engineer, quality-control technician, and chief "listener," admitted to me that the VSi60 and Reference 110 have many similarities. Each has a JFET input stage and uses the same tube types (although the 110 has twice as many of each). The Reference 110 is, however, a fully balanced design (the VSi60 is single-ended) with much larger power transformers, as well as more exotic and expensive coupling capacitors. Gehl also admitted that, apart from the cost issue, using the Ref 110's larger coupling capacitors in the VSi60 would have resulted in the integrated's physical footprint being larger than ARC wanted.
About that 50Wpc power rating: ARC claims that the VSi60 is designed to drive power-hungry, low-impedance speakers. In fact, Gehl told me, the amp was designed using Wilson Audio Specialties' MAXX IIs, and claims that it can drive them to satisfyingly loud levels in ARC's 32' by 28' listening room. I hooked up the VSi60 to my Alón Circe floorstanders, a very benign 8 ohm load. In fact, in the past I've driven the Circes to satisfyingly loud volumes using single-ended-triode tube amps rated to deliver watts in the single digits.
The rich, glorious, uncolored, holographic midrange of the VSi60 made it a natural match for well-recorded voices. My favorite John Lennon vocal is in the Beatles' cover of Arthur Alexander's "Anna," from the impeccably remastered The Beatles in Mono (CD, Apple 5 099969945120), and the ARC reproduced it with a delicate yet forcefully dynamic grit, clearly delineating every touch of studio reverb in a bath of guttural glory. In the soprano range, Aretha Franklin's rendering of "Mary Don't You Weep," from her Amazing Grace (CD, Atlantic 2-906-2), was reproduced with her voice blooming within the sort of subtle, linear, powerful dynamic envelope I've heard only from much more expensive tube electronics.
My VSi60 exploded too, twice now. Once at home, then once back at the shop AFTER they had replaced the tubes and protective resistor. I also saw the floor sample VSi60 have an explosion before I bought mine. That makes four explosions, including Stereophile's review sample.
"The amplifier exceeds that specification from the 8 ohm tap into 8 ohms, with 53Wpc available (17.25dBW) at 1% THD, though only 44W (13.4dBW) were available from the 4 ohm tap into 4 ohms at 1% THD."
13.4dBW is 22 Watts not 44W.
This amp sounds great, what a shame it is prone to self destruction :-)
only 44W (13.4dBW) were available from the 4 ohm tap into 4 ohms at 1% THD.
13.4dBW is 22 Watts not 44W.
My dBW ratings follow the convention established by Martin Colloms and the late Peter W. Mitchell in the 1980s: they are referred to 2.83V (1W into 8 ohms). Thus 44W into 8 ohms is is 16.4dBW, 44W into 4 ohms is 13.4dBW. An amplifier that behaves as a perfect voltage source (the ideal) thus offers the same dBW rating into all loads, an easy paradigm to grasp.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
Does Your measurements mean that the amplifier will not work well with my "unusual" Supra cables (Sword), and must use 8 ohm to my KEF LS50 speakers? I suppose the Supra Sword between the ARC and my NAD M51 will not be affected with any problems in technical matters?
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State of Decay Lifeline DLC Details
The newest piece of downloadable content for this open-world zombie apocalypse game brings in the military.
State of Decay: Lifeline seeks to explore the military aspect of a world run by the undead. Undead Labs acknowledges that in zombie fiction (particularly in George Romero's Dead series and during parts of 'The Walking Dead'), the military is often used as the main badguy.
Fortunately, Undead Labs also acknowledges that the military is comprised of many brave and just people who legitimately would be the optimal survival group in a zombie apocalypse. This will prove to be an interesting twist on the State of Decay experience since you will be in an organized group but will experience the breakdown of military order. At first you'll be a part of a small unit trying to rescue scientists pertinent to curing the undead outbreak.
An interesting thing is that you have a base which you are going to need to regularly defend against zombies. At first, you have to secure a landing zone where your helicopter backup can drop supplies and extract rescued civilians. But the landing zone area will ultimately become your fortified base where you and your other soldiers must continuously keep safe for the sake of others and yourselves. Unfortunately, there is still no word as to the official release date of State of Decay's Lifeline DLC and whether or not it will have a simultaneous release for the PC and Xbox 360 formats.


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Cahill issues title challenge
Gary Cahill has urged Chelsea to embrace the "challenge" of chasing down Manchester United and Manchester City in the race for the Barclays Premier League title.
The Blues go into 2013 four points behind champions City and a further seven adrift of leaders United with a game in hand after a rollercoaster start to the season.
Defender Cahill said: "We need to keep looking forward and have that challenge in the back of our head. We would rather have the points in the bag, but that's another challenge we have got to face. There are plenty of games coming up."
Chelsea threw away a four-point lead at the end of October in an alarming slump that cost Roberto Di Matteo his job as manager, but they are arguably in their best form of the campaign under interim boss Rafael Benitez, winning seven of their last eight games in all competitions and raising hopes of a dramatic fightback in the title stakes.
Cahill added: "I think we have good momentum. We have changed the team around slightly, the lads are playing well. We just need to keep winning games. That's the way we look at it."
Chelsea appear to be back to their bloody-minded best with Benitez in charge, with Cahill embodying that resilience.
He was still sporting a black eye on Sunday, sustained in the Boxing Day win at Norwich and he said: "We are not just all about flair and things like that - we can dig in. Defensively, we have looked really solid in recent weeks."
Indeed, it appears they have finally learnt how to cope without John Terry, while they played the whole of the second half of Sunday's win at Everton without injured goalkeeper Petr Cech.
They would not have won at all but for Terry and Cech's fellow veteran Frank Lampard, whose two goals gave Chelsea further food for thought on their decision not to offer him a new contract.
Cahill said: "You don't come across many players like Frank, somebody who scores 20 plus goals a season - consistently - over many years. Ultimately, he has got us the three points. He was in the right place at the right time - he always seems to be."


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Good Lord, that is one of the most astonishing quotes I've ever read! The color of your skin determines where you live, where you go to work, and whom you work with?? Since when? And this woman is President of the University of Michigan. Sometimes I think that academics have collectively taken leave of their senses. How you can be a president of a major university, while exhibiting such a stunning level of ignorance, is beyond me.
Here is one possible explanation for Ms. Coleman's disconnection from reality: perhaps she imagines that the outside world mirrors the world of the university. Within many universities, it is likely true that the color of one's skin can determine where one lives (e.g., a dormitory set aside for blacks) and the people with whom one associates (e.g., black tables in cafeterias). This is due to the regrettable self-segregation that black university students often engage in. But if Ms. Coleman thinks that the rest of the country is as race-obsessed as its universities, she needs to get out more.
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Staying on top of your business requires great organization and utilization of powerful business tools. While often overlooked, business intelligence applications are fundamental to improvement, and are a necessary tool for success. These tools are necessary as they allow you, through integration with your preexisting business structures, to analyze data, spot issues and resolve problems efficiently.
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Do yeast manufacturers post actual attenuation or apparent attenuation figures for yeast strains on their websites? Neither the Wyeast FAQ's page nor quick searches on Google and the AHA forum gave me the answer.
I should've been more clear. I was referring to whether these figures were actual or apparent. So it looks like neither. Are the manufacturer provided attenuations even useful for comparison with my apparent attenuation?
Agreed with the other posters here. The number is apparent attenuation, but it's more if a relative measurement. You could likely get close to that if you mash at 150°F, pitch 10 million cells per ml into a 10°P wort and ferment at 20°C, but chances are that's not the beer you are going for. Recently I did a matrix of 40 fermentations with wort gravities from 3°P to 15°P and inoculations rates from 30 million per ml to 120 million per ml and was quite surprised by the variation in attenuation.Data will be on my blog soon.


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Globally match and replace text or string with MySQL queryPosted: October 21, 2007 Filed under: code/files, mysql | Tags: mysql sql howto Leave a comment
In doing some research looking into possible ways to batch replace MSU Library URL strings in our various MySQL databases, I was able to construct this little nugget that will do the trick:
UPDATE table_name SET column_name = REPLACE(column_name, 'old_string/text', 'new_string/text');
A quick explanation:
table_name is the database table you need to edit.
column_name is the database table column name to edit.
old_string/text is the original string or text to match and replace.
new_string/text is the new string or text you want to add.
It's short, sweet, and delightfully efficient. The longevity and active development around MySQL and SQL always surprise me. If you have a business problem, chances are there is a function or built procedure already in the code ready to answer the problem.
Tips and tricks just like this can be found pretty regularly by trolling the MySQL manual and forums. Another method for keeping up and learning is "tagwatching" on del.icio.us. Some possibilities for watching the tag "mysql":
HTML page: http://del.icio.us/tag/mysql
RSS feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/mysql
That's right. With that last RSS URL, you can subscribe to a tag and watch as the latest posts come into your feedreader of choice. (del.icio.us has a feed for all of its tags.) Good stuff for keeping the learning going.


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- Aims of the Catalyst Core Team
- Charter for the Catalyst Core Team
Catalyst::Manual::DevelopmentProcess - Administrative structure of the Catalyst Development Process
Aims of the Catalyst Core Team
The main current goals of the Catalyst core development team continue to be stability, performance, and a more paced addition of features, with a focus on extensibility. Extensive improvements to the documentation are also expected in the short term.
The Catalyst Roadmap at http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/roadmap will remain as is, and continues to reflect the specific priorities and schedule for future releases.
Charter for the Catalyst Core Team
The intention of the Catalyst Core Team is to maintain and support the Catalyst framework, in order for it to be a viable and stable framework for developing web-based MVC applications. This includes both technical decisions about the Catalyst core distribution, and public relations relating to the Catalyst framework as a whole.
The main priority for development is stability for the users of the framework, while improving usability and extensibility, as well as improving documentation and ease of deployment.
The Catalyst Core Team consists of the developers that have full commit privileges to the entire Catalyst source tree.
In addition, the core team may accept members that have non-technical roles such as marketing, legal, or economic responsibilities.
Currently, the Core Team consists of the following people:
- Brian Cassidy
- Andy Grundman
- Christian Hansen
- Yuval Kogman
- Marcus Ramberg
- Jonathan Rockway
- Jesse Sheidlower
- Matt S. Trout
New members of the Core Team must be accepted by a 2/3 majority by the current members.
Technical Decisions.
Any change to the Catalyst core which can not be conceived as a correction of an error in the current feature set will need to be accepted by at least 3 members of the Core Team before it can be commited to the trunk (which is the basis for CPAN releases). Anyone with access is at any time free to make a branch to develop a proof of concept for a feature to be committed to trunk.
Organizational and Philosophical Decisions.
Any such decision should be decided by majority vote. Thus it should be a goal of the organization that its membership number should at any time be an odd number, to render it effective with regards to decision making. The exceptions to this rule are changes to this charter and additions to the membership of the Core Team, which require a 2/3 majority.
CPAN Releases
Planned releases to CPAN should be performed by the release manager, at the time of writing Marcus Ramberg, or the deputy release manager, at the time of writing Andy Grundman. In the case of critical error correction, any member of the Core Team can perform a rescue release.
Public statements from the Core Team
The Core Team should strive to appear publicly as a group when answering questions or other correspondence. In cases where this is not possible, the same order as for CPAN Releases applies.


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DRESDEN, Germany (June 28, 2011) – Lauren Cheney and Rachel Buehler scored second-half goals in their FIFA Women's World Cup debuts as the U.S. Women's National Team defeated Korea DPR 2-0 to open Group C play on a hot evening in eastern Germany.
After a scoreless first half that saw a number of shots on goal from both sides, the U.S. got on the board in the 54th minute when Cheney headed home an Abby Wambach service from the left side, sending it back across the goal and into the lower left corner. The U.S. controlled the majority of the second half and Buehler clinched the game when she finished an opportunistic chance that skipped through traffic in the penalty area before finding the back of the net in the 76th minute. After all was said and done, the USA out-shot North Korea 19-13 and put 12 of those shots on goal.
After one set of first round games, the U.S. sits in first place in Group C after Sweden defeated Colombia in the other group match by a 1-0 score. Group C action resumes with the U.S. facing Colombia at what could be a sold-out Rhein-Neckar Arena in Sinsheim on Saturday, July 2, at 11:30 a.m. ET live on ESPN, ESPN3.com and Galavision. North Korea and Sweden will square off at 7:45 a.m. ET live on ESPN2 from Augsburg.
"It feels great to have been playing the first 45 minutes, make some changes at halftime and come out even stronger than the first half against a very strong team in North Korea,†U.S. head coach Pia Sundhage said. "I'm very happy with the way we scored the goals but not only that, the way we played, being so sharp defending. It's a good start to the World Cup."
Sundhage inserted Cheney as a starter on the left side of midfield for the first time in 16 career starts and even before the goal the move paid off with the 24-year-old getting several dangerous opportunities. The first scoring chance of the game came in the 11th minute when the ball found Cheney in a space similar to where she scored during the USA's send-off match against Mexico. This time her right-footed rocket went right into the gloves of North Korea goalkeeper Hong Myong Hui, as did her next three shots on goal.
Cheney's chances, along with a 36th-minute effort from Carli Lloyd, were the best for the U.S. during the first half, while the North Koreans also proved to be dangerous, particularly when attacking the right wing using 18-year-old Kim Su Gyong to trouble the left side of the U.S. defense where Amy LePeilbet proved to be extremely tough to beat.
U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo, who made seven saves overall, had her two most difficult stops come during a 10-minute span in the first half. The first came in the 34th minute when Kim turned the corner around LePeibet and sent in a hard, low cross. Shannon Boxx tracked a runner into the penalty area and stuck a foot out to stop the cross, but it sat nicely for Kim to shoot hard at the near post where Solo dove left to push it around the post.
Nine minutes later, Kim made a similar move to get to the end line where she sent a hard cross that deflected off the inside of LePeilbet's right leg and connected with Jo Yun Mi at the top of the six-yard box. The North Korean playmaker flicked a shot with the outside of her foot that Solo came out to knock down with her body. Â
The U.S. came out in the second half with a renewed focus and troubled North Korea's defense with some excellent possession soccer that often found the width and then proceeded to bombard Hong's goal. A pair of shots from Cheney along with an over-cooked volley by Boxx and another shot over the crossbar from Wambach all stated the U.S. intentions in the first six minutes of the second half. On the defensive side, with the jitters of their first half of Women's World Cup play out of the way for the three defenders making their tournament debut, the U.S. virtually shut down North Korea.
The U.S. got on the board with Cheney's first Women's World Cup goal and the 15th of her career nine minutes into the half. Lloyd set things up, finding Wambach with a perfect long ball down the left wing that bounced twice before Wambach took a touch forward into the left corner. Known for her goal scoring, Wambach turned provider when she cut the ball back to her right foot before crossing toward the far post. Cheney faded slightly away from the goal as she sent the header back across the goal past the wrong-footed Hong's right arm and into lower left corner. The assist was the 52nd for Wambach.
Immediately North Korea looked to respond with a pair of attacks, the second against the run of play when Ri Ye Gyong hit a hard 25-yard shot that nicked the top of the cross bar to Solo's left. From then on, the U.S. wore down the Koreans mentally and physically with Wambach forcing Hong to make a reaction save on a header that bounced off the crossbar in the 64th minute. Nine minutes later Amy Rodriguez forced another save before giving way to Alex Morgan who made her Women's World Cup debut as a substitute in the 75th minute.
The second U.S. goal came one minute later and sealed the victory. Cheney, assigned to take the U.S. corners as part of her starting role, played in a corner from the left side that sailed high over Shannon Boxx at the back post, but right back Ali Kreiger alertly came forward to collect the loose ball and used her speed to get free toward the end line to play in a hard cross.
Her effort was a little too strong, but perfectly so, as it skimmed off the front of the cross bar and bounced in the area. Buehler got her head on the loose ball and played it in the direction of Lloyd, who held up against pressure from a defender before tapping the ball backward to Buehler who had dropped off to the top of the penalty area. Buehler, who scored her first career goal during the Women's World Cup qualifying tournament last November, netted her second with a low, lunging shot that saw its way past three defenders and the goalkeeper before crossing the line just inside the left post.
Sundhage made her second and final change in the 79th minute as Heather O'Reilly made way for Megan Rapinoe who joined Buehler, Cheney, Kreiger, Morgan, LePeilbet and Rodriguez in making their Women's World Cup debuts.
With six games in the books, the U.S. is the first team to win by a multiple goal margin as the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup is now underway in nine venues across Germany. A full schedule and standings are available on the FIFA Women's World Cup page at ussoccer.com.
- U.S. Women's National Team Match Report -
Match: U.S. Women's National Team vs. Korea DPR
Date: June 28, 2011
Competition: 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup – Group C
Venue: Rudolf-Harbig Stadium; Dresden, Germany
Kickoff: 6:15 p.m. local / 12:15 p.m. ET
Attendance: 21,859Â Â
Weather: Warm, 79 degrees
Scoring Summary: Â Â 1Â Â Â 2Â Â Â F
USA – Lauren Cheney (Abby Wambach) 54th minute
USA – Rachel Buehler (Carli Lloyd)  76
USA: 1-Hope Solo; 11-Ali Krieger, 19-Rachel Buehler, 3-Christie Rampone (capt.), 6-Amy LePeilbet; 9-Heather O'Reilly (15-Megan Rapinoe, 79), 7-Shannon Boxx, 10-Carli Lloyd, 12-Lauren Cheney; 8-Amy Rodriguez (13-Alex Morgan, 75), 20-Abby Wambach
Subs not used: 2-Heather Mitts, 4-Becky Sauerbrunn, 5-Kelley O'Hara, , 14-Stephanie Cox, , 16-Lori Lindsey, 17-Tobin Heath 18-Nicole Barnhart, 21-Jill Loyden
Head coach: Pia Sundhage
PRK: 1-Hong Myong Hui; 3-Ho Un Byol (20-Kwon Song Hwa, 81), 5-Song Jong Sun, 16-Jong Pok Sim, 17-Ri Un Hyang; 8-Kim Su Gyong, 10-Jo Yun Mi, 11-Ri Ye Gyong, 12-Jon Myong Hwa (13-Kim Un Ju, 68); 7-Yun Hyon Hi (6-Paek Sol Hui, 48), 9-Ra Un Sim
Subs not used: 2-Jon Hong Yon, 4-Kim Myong Gum, 14-Kim Chung Sim, 15-Yu Jong Hui, 18-Ri Jin Sim, 19-Choe Mi Gyong, 21-Kim Chol Ok
Head coach: Kim Kwang Min
Statistical Summary: USA / PRK
Shots: 19 / 13
Shots on Goal: 12 / 7
Saves: 7 / 10
Corner Kicks: 8 / 4
Fouls: 9 / 11
Offside: 0 / 1
Misconduct Summary:
Referee: Bibiana Steinhaus (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Marina Wozniak (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Katrin Rafalski (GER)
Fourth Offical: Gyoengyi Gaal (HUN)
Bud Light Woman of the Match: Abby Wambach


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The Pittsburgh Steelers might have found their replacement for Larry Foote.
ProFootballTalk reported Monday that the Steelers and inside linebacker Arthur Moats have agreed to terms on a one-year deal, according to a league source. The Steelers later made the signing official.
Moats spent the last four seasons with the Buffalo Bills after being selected in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He started 12 games as Buffalo's weakside linebacker in 2013, finishing with 54 tackles. Primarily known as an early-down run-stuffer, the 26-year-old Moats becomes a logical companion with Lawrence Timmons in the Steelers' starting lineup.
Vince Williams and Sean Spence will also be in the mix for playing time at the position. The Steelers released Foote earlier this month, ending the veteran's long relationship with the team.
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Hello everyone 🙂 It's me, Melissa from Happy Quilting. I am so excited to be here with a fun Summer Kids' Camp Tutorial!! My kids love all things crafty. However, I don't always love the mess. The crayon and marker boxes don't last long and craft supplies rarely get put away as they are always "Just about to play with that." So this year, we made up some craft containers that are cute enough to be left out and make cleaning up easy!
Oh, and one last note before we start, These cute containers also make excellent teacher gifts!! I love when the kids can actually make their teacher's gifts! (The apple one above was for my son's teacher, she loved it! 🙂
So let's get started. And if you are like me, you will have most of this already at home!! Yippee Skippee 🙂
You will need:
A container – Metal, glass, plastic, as long as it has smooth sides it will work. (Check out your local $1 store, they always have great stuff like this for a buck 🙂
Mod Podge – This stuff is the duck tape of the craft world
A foam brush
Ribbon for decorating
And finally, your Moda Scrap Pile!!! Don't you just love projects that use up scraps 🙂
Basically, you will be helping your children make applique designs to attach to their container. But you don't have to bother with fusible webbing or anything like that.
The easiest way to create your applique is to just fussy cut some of your scraps. My daughter loves butterflies so she used my pinking shears to fussy cut around these butterflies.
Another option for those with some artistic talent is for you or you child to draw an applique design on a piece of paper. Have your child cut out the design and then use that design template to trace the design on the wrong side of their chosen fabric scrap. Then cut out your applique from the fabric. (If you are a really confident artist you can skip the template and just draw your design directly on the back of the fabric scrap)
Another option, for the less artistically talented like me, is to print off a desired image from your computer. Then you can use it as a template. Either trace it onto the wrong side of your fabric, or if it is an easy enough design, just help your child hold it in place on the fabric scrap and cut around the template. (You can also pin it in place to make it a little easier 🙂
(Oh, and one final option for cutting your applique, which I didn't picture, if you have any applique cutting machine, a Slice, Go Cutter, Sizzix, ect. it really speeds up the process 🙂
So, once you have all of your applique cut you are ready to adhere it to the container. My kids love this part as it is a bit messy. Start by letting your child use the foam brush to apply a thin layer of Mod Podge onto the wrong side of their applique.
Then have them stick the applique to their container. The Mod Podge doesn't dry instantly so you can play with the placement a bit. It is okay if there is excess glue sticking out, it will all dry clear. Continue sticking on the applique as desired.
Once the applique is all in place, go ahead and brush a thin layer of Mod Podge over the entire container. Including over the applique. This will seal everything. Mom's you might want to help out a bit here to make sure you get a nice even layer trying to keep your brush strokes long and even. It dries clear but if there are big blobs somewhere it will show up 🙂 Now go ahead and set it aside to dry.
Once it is dry, have your child choose some ribbon to decorate their container with. Help them add cute bows or knots to their creation.
Now just fill it up with their crayons, markers, scissors, scrap papers, ect. The sky is the limit 🙂 Enjoy your adorable Kids Craft Container that looks totally cute, makes your child happy because they made it, and makes mom happy because they (hopefully) clean up with it!
Super cute Craft Containers perfect for keeping your kids craft messes to a minimum. Tall jars are great for pencils or markers!
And initials on the container help to personalize the container to your child 🙂
And yes, They also make adorable Teacher Gifts!! This was for my daughter's 1st grade Teacher. It has a school house, scissors, and crayons on the sides and back. She loved it and my daughter loved making it for her 🙂
I hope you and your children have fun making your own Kids Craft Containers!! I would love to see your creations. Just add them to my Inspired by Happy Quilting Flickr page 🙂
Here's wishing you a marvelous summer holiday with the ones you love!!!
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The Pittsburgh Steelers are preparing for life -- or at least a few games -- without Ben Roethlisberger.
NFL.com and NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday the organization is bracing itself for a serious injury to the quarterback's right shoulder, according to someone briefed on the situation. The team is awaiting Tuesday's MRI results.
The original word on Roethlisberger's injury was that it was a sprain. NFL.com and NFL Network's Albert Breer reported Tuesday that doctors still lack clarity on the extent of the injury, according to a club source and a second source briefed on the situation. Roethlisberger remains in a considerable amount of pain.
Coaches haven't been informed about Big Ben's status for Sunday night's game against the Baltimore Ravens, but the expectation is that backup Byron Leftwich will possibly start Sunday night and could be in line to play multiple games, Rapoport reported.
A team source told Breer coaches were told it "might be tough this week" for Roethlisberger to play, but even that is "not for sure." Until doctors give the word, even Roethlisberger is unclear about his status for Baltimore.
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Roethlisberger was injured during the third quarter of Monday night's 16-13 overtime victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. He was taken to a local hospital after landing on his throwing shoulder on a sack by Chiefs defenders Justin Houston and Tamba Hali.
The 6-3 Steelers sit one game behind the 7-2 Ravens in the AFC North. Monday night's injury to Roethlisberger could shake up that race considerably. Without their elite quarterback under center, this isn't remotely the same offense in Pittsburgh.
UPDATE: Steelers coach Mike Tomlin confirmed Tuesday that Roethlisberger has a sprained shoulder, more specifically a Sternoclavicular joint injury. Tomlin said Roethlisberger currently is questionable for Sunday's game.
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MMORPG EverQuest, which launched in 1999, is plagued with cheaters. Sony Online Entertainment is fed up. So you better watch out, cheaters!
"Cheating has become a serious concern to our EQ player base this past year," wrote EverQuest Community Manager Piestro on the game's official forums. "Exploits and hacks strike at the very heart of a game, creating deep resentment in the community as selfish players gain benefit at the expense of their honest fellows."
Players have apparently been complaining. Sony Online Entertainment, the game's developer and publisher, is taking action.
Sony Online Entertainment warns cheaters to "stop now".
"This isn't an idle warning," Piestro continued. "We have quietly invested significant behind the scenes effort into detecting cheaters quickly and accurately."
Continuing, Piestro added, "You know who you are, we know who you are, and you now have your warning. We strongly advise you to take heed and reform your ways immediately. There will be no second chances."
You have been warned.
Cheaters and Exploiters in EverQuest Put on Notice: Stop Now. [Sony via VG247]


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A winner was selected from 199 designs submitted by 66 freelance designers.
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We are a hair salon based in Dublin called Dylan Bradshaw.We are sonomious with being a premium brand and only selling premium products. our logo is attached also our website is http://email@example.com. We are just about to lanch our new makeup range as we are only known for hair , its an area we have just tapped into.We want to call it "db face" this is in keeping with the original logo. As we already have db dylan bradshaw, dbtv, db academy, and now db face. So I would like to keep it somewhat simular as the brand is very well know and has a very good reputation so I would like to capitalize on that by trying to keep it recognisable as the same company but a different product.
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Tomorrow's Tape: Jobless Claims, ECB Policy Statement
8:30 a.m. ET: Weekly jobless claims: seen: 360,000; last: 368,000
8:30: Fourth-quarter productivity (1st read): seen: -1.6%; last: +2.9%
8:30: Fourth-quarter unit labor costs (1st read): seen: +3.2%; last: -1.9%
10:30: EIA weekly natural gas storage report
3:00 p.m.: December consumer credit: seen: +$13.0 billion; last: +$16.05 billion
Speeches: St. Louis Fed's James Bullard at St. Louis Fed symposium; President Obama and IMF's Lagarde in D.C., Chicago Fed's Evans on CNBC (8:00 a.m. ET).
Overseas: ECB rate-setting announcement (7:45 a.m. ET), U.K. industrial production (4:30 a.m.), German industrial production (6:00 a.m.), Chinese consumer and producer prices (8:30 p.m. ET).
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Starting late this summer, consumers can skip checking their mailboxes for any letters, bills or cards on Saturdays.
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The debt-laden United States Post Office announced Wednesday it will end Saturday delivery of first-class mail in an attempt to cut costs. The business will retain delivery of packages, express and Priority Mail.
"Package deliver will continue Monday through Saturday," said Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe Wednesday. "There will be no changes in terms of Post Office hours. If we're open Saturday, we'll be open Saturday. We'll continue to deliver mail to Post Office boxes on Saturday which is very important for a number of businesses."
The Postal Service posted a $16 billion loss in 2012, defaulted on its $11.1 billion retiree health benefit prefunding payments and tapped out its $15 billion lifeline with Treasury. The agency claims eliminating Saturday delivery starting Aug. 1 will save $2 billion annually.
"To give some perspective of our liquidity situation, a typical large organization would have either cash on hand or quick borrowing ability," Donahoe said. "In October, at one point this year, the Postal Service had less than four days of cash on hand. That's a very scary situation and it's no situation that a business should be in."
This move is the most substantial in a litany of steps the USPS has taken to reduce its massive deficit and cut costs. It has already eliminated 35% of its workforce, shuttered rural offices and slashed hours at others.
The USPS needs Congressional approval to shift to a five-day delivery week, but experts say they expect lawmakers to approve the idea. Since 1984, Congress has mandated that the agency deliver mail six days a week.
"At some point Congress isn't going to have a choice; we heading toward the possibility of a taxpayer bailout," said Tad DeHaven, budget analysis at the Cato Institute. "I would anticipate Band-Aid after Band-Aid being applied as we proceed here into the future."
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, (R-CA), and Tom Coburn (R-OK), sent a letter to leaders of both chambers of Congress supporting the delivery cut. The pair wrote, "In his recent inaugural address, President Obama spoke about the need to find real solutions to our nation's problems. Supporting the US Postal Service's plan to move forward with 5-day mail delivery is one such solution worthy of bipartisan support."
The delivery reduction is a step in the right direction, but experts say the business can't simply rely on cost cutting measures in order to survive.
"It's a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem, it's as if we are in the age of horse and buggy in the dawn of automobiles," says Rick Geddes, associate professor, department of policy analysis and management at Cornell University
Geddes advocates that the Postal Services unhinges itself from Congress and undergoes corporatization and commercialization. "It's a large company and we have solid corporate laws that create a structure for a large business that allows it to thrive." He says taking this step would allow the agency to better compensate employees and bring in outside experts to re-evaluate how to better use current assets.
"I would also commercialize the office as well, free up the decision-making on what products and services it offers and how frequently, make room for innovation. We've been under a one-size-fits-all approach for way too long, it's time to become more innovative with our mail delivery."
The financial structure of the USPS is a result, in part, of its existence in an in-between world; it isn't considered a government agency, nor an independent business -- yet it still receives exemptions from certain taxes and antitrust laws.
DeHaven agrees that Congress needs to split ties with the USPS, but says too much special interest keeps that from happening.
"The average member of Congress only cares about the service to the extent they can send campaign stuff to people," he said. "Postal issues are complex, and Congress members are getting mail about privatizing the Post Office, but they will hear from unions, mailers and rural areas supporting the office. This isn't a sexy issue -- lawmakers aren't going to stick their neck out and say the office needs to be privatized."
National Association of Letter Carriers President Fredric Rolando said the reduction will be "disastrous."
"It would be particularly harmful to small businesses, rural communities, the elderly, the disabled and others who depend on Saturday delivery for commerce and communication," he said in a statement.


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