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OSO — The sounds of the countryside were everywhere.
Birds tweeted in the trees, a breeze blew through the leaves and brush. A rooster crowed. The North Fork Stillaguamish River softly rushed through the valley.
The landscape, however, consisted of a square mile of upended terrain left by the March 22 mudslide that wiped out the Steelhead Haven community, killing 41 people and leaving two missing and presumed buried under tons of earth and debris.
On a small hill on the south edge of the slide area sat a survey station. Dale Topham, the supervisor of Snohomish County's geotechnical engineering group, and surveyor party chief Carl Hagaman last week were taking measurements of several "targets," two-foot-square markers, each with a bright red "X," that were placed on the edges of the new ridge line and down below on piles of debris.
"Looks like Seven is moving around a lot," Hagaman said. "Every time I look at it there's a new branch in front of it."
Target seven was on a tree about halfway up the northeastern edge of the slide. The handheld device that communicates with the survey gun mounted on a tripod showed that the target had moved 5.3 feet to the south and 3.1 feet to the west.
On the other hand, targets at the very top of the slope, three-quarters of a mile away and barely visible, had only moved a couple thousandths of a foot since the last measurements were taken a few days earlier.
Dark, vertical striations in the exposed slide showed where soil still sloughs down. Occasionally, Topham said, a larger chunk of earth calves off the scarp and tumbles down.
"You can hear it from here," Hagaman said.
Work at the mudslide has entered a new phase. With the active search for victims finished, scientists now are working to find out what happened that Saturday morning when the mountain came down.
It will take time for researchers to fully understand what triggered the slide above Steelhead Haven, which sent a deadly torrent of slurry across the valley and up the slopes on the far side.
In coming months, teams of geologists, hydrologists, geomorphologists, engineers and other researchers will visit the site and observe, measure, record and analyze.
Then they'll come back and do it again and again.
The challenge then becomes making that abstract data accessible and understandable to the public, some of whom are wondering why they weren't warned, to government planners reconsidering land-use policies, and to politicians who are being asked to account for decisions made over decades.
Surprising magnitude
Geologists have known for years that the hillside that came down March 22 was unstable. A 1999 draft report prepared for the Army Corps of Engineers points out that in the past century, there have been periods of alternating heavy slide activity and dormancy on the hillside.
Slides at Hazel partially blocked the North Fork Stillaguamish River in 1951, 1967, and 2006, and there have been several smaller events over the years.
"This kind of landslide is a tough one to categorize," said Daniel Miller, the geologist who wrote the 1999 draft report.
"No one was able to anticipate the kind of runout that it would have," Miller said.
His report suggested that the slope had the "potential for a large catastrophic failure," which could involve runout of 880 feet, similar to what happened in the 1967 slide.
But that was based on assumptions such as an estimate that a slide would consist of 7,095 cubic yards of soil. The March 22 slide was estimated to have displaced 10 million cubic yards.
Miller's draft report made clear that more study was needed to make accurate predictions of the slide's behavior.
"I currently have no basis for estimating the probable rate or timing of future landslide activity," Miller wrote.
The fact debris ran out a mile across the floor of the valley was a major surprise even to scientists who specialize in debris-flow analysis.
Richard Iverson, a senior research hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash., has been building mathematical models of debris flows for 20 years.
The data that have gone into that modeling have come from other landslides around the state, especially those triggered by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, which Iverson said showed some similar behaviors to the Oso slide in that it ran fast and far.
"It's no surprise to any geologist that that slope failed. The surprise was what it did when it did fail," he said.
The big question Iverson hopes to answer concerns the mobility of landslides, and he suspects the answer lies partly in understanding the role played by the geological process known as liquefaction, in which soil loses its solid consistency and behaves like a liquid.
Liquefaction is most commonly associated with earthquakes and is caused by seismic waves causing the soil to vibrate and collapse under its own weight.
In landslides, soil saturation during extreme weather plays a role in creating conditions ripe for a slide, but it's gravity that pulls down the hill and gives the slide its energy.
Identifying those conditions and pinpointing the threshold at which liquefaction occurs will require studying the amount of water that was already in the soil, the depth at which the liquefaction occurred at Oso and the characteristics of the surrounding terrain and the river that influenced the debris flow once it started moving.
Some of this data can be obtained from surface measurements, but getting the full picture will require gathering as much information as possible, including digging in the dirt, what Iverson called "good old-fashioned field geology."
Immediate payoff
The USGS's technical understanding of slide behavior has already had real-world effect in Oso.
The agency has spent years not just building complex mathematical models but testing how different material flows at a facility in central Oregon where it operates a 300-foot-long slide flume.
Repeated tests on different materials, and watching how they behave and mix during a slide, provided knowledge that ultimately led rescuers to search for victims of the slide near the edges of the zone and not where their homes used to be, Iverson said.
When Iverson visited the slide zone during the first week after the event, he saw affirmation that lab work and modeling could yield real-world results.
Remote-sensing imagery of the terrain before and after the slide enabled the USGS to add new data to the mathematical model.
"Within a couple days, the model results were also being used in the search efforts," Iverson said.
Down on the floor of the valley, Dale Topham pointed out thick, gray blocks of claylike soil.
They are lacustrine deposits, he said, the material that formed the bed of an ancient lake that filled the Stillaguamish Valley during the last glacial period.
On the slope of the slide, horizontal striation shows where those clay layers were buried. Now they're tossed around with the tumbled hillocks of sandier glacial till in a seemingly random pattern on the valley floor, mixed in with broken trees and pieces of cars, houses and personal items.
Up the slopes and on top of the bluff, the USGS and the transportation department have installed remote monitoring equipment that can track minute movements in the earth.
Around the edges of the slide zone, standing trees show the level where liquid gray mud washed up before settling back to the floor.
"Where you see how high it's splashed in some areas, it's very impressive. It witnesses the fluidity of the flow," Topham said.
Researchers will be looking at all of those things this summer. Some of it, such as the mud splashes on the tree trunks, will need to be documented before it washes away. Grass, and later trees, will start growing in the new terrain, obscuring other details of the slide.
One team of researchers from the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) Association, will soon start to document that evidence before it gets washed away or covered by vegetation.
GEER sends in a rapid-response team that doesn't design studies of its own. It gathers data to share with other scientists.
"The mission is to collect data and give it away," said David Montgomery, a professor of earth and space sciences at the University of Washington who was asked to join the team investigating the Oso slide.
Another team of scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is expected to arrive later this month. That group studies manmade and natural disasters with a goal of producing data that can be used in public policy.
One question that team would like to answer is whether the size of the Oso slide could have been predicted at all.
"If we could have predicted the size and extent, what would have been needed beforehand to predict the size and extent of the slide?" said Timothy Stark, the Illinois team's lead researcher.
An ultimate analysis
In the end, "we would like to have a comprehensive analysis of the slide," said Steve Thomsen, public works director for Snohomish County.
Doing the field work to produce that report might cost $2 million to $3 million, he said, noting that a source of money hasn't been identified yet.
"Land-use decisions wouldn't be a part of the report, but it could inform policy decisions down the road," Thomsen said.
At the same time, a team of researchers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and another from the state Department of Transportation, have been working to assess the danger of flooding to people still living and working in the area and to the highway.
Miller, the geologist who studied the slide area earlier, hopes research in Oso will help create a new understanding of landslide risks throughout Washington.
Thomsen pointed out that while hydrologists have developed models for 25-year and 100-year floods, there is no similar rating system for landslides.
Doing scientific work in the debris field will be challenging, not just because of the dynamic nature of the slide zone and the river but because of reminders — of lives lost, the persistent threat of flooding, even further disintegration of the slope.
"It's the old analogy of trying to repair the car while driving down the road," Thomsen said.
It's complicated, there are many moving parts, but for scientists, the slide is also an opportunity to advance knowledge in their fields.
"The scientists are really hungry for data points," he said.
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Community Insights: Helping Community Leaders Enhance the Value of Enterprise Online Communities
Tara Matthews | 25 Sep 2013 | 343 Visits
We present Community Insights, a new tool to help community leaders foster healthy communities that provide value to members and the organization. Community Insights was co-developed with community leaders to ensure it provides them with metrics that are useful, actionable, and easy to interpret.
Background: Online Communities offer Business Value
Online communities are becoming increasingly prevalent in enterprises, with easy-setup social software and increased awareness of benefits to businesses and employees. These benefits include breaking down organizational and distance barriers to knowledge sharing and collaboration [3,11]; improved skills and ability to execute and retain staff [11]; improved sales [2]; improved speed of execution, increased quality, reduced costs [3,12]; and enhanced innovation processes [7]. However, attaining these benefits is no simple matter and an effective community leader is a critical success factor [1,4,11].
Because of their essential role in fostering community success, online community leaders are a growing population in enterprises. Some activities they perform within communities are to encourage contributions and discussion, contribute and read content, organize and curate content, answer questions, moderate, create a positive environment, advertise the community externally, and maintain infrastructure. Prior work documents effective leader strategies for enacting these activities [4,5,6,9,10,11,12].
However, there is a critical gap between these guidelines and the actual practice of facilitating valuable communities. Leaders' unique role involves assessing community progress on goals and intervening to guide the group towards achieving those goals. Static guidelines cannot help with such assessments; rather dynamic community analysis tools are needed. However, there is very little research on tools for community leaders. This background motivated the design and development of Community Insights.
Community Insights: Designed to Help Community Leaders Run Effective Communities
Community Insights was designed to support community leaders' two major needs: (1) assessing community health and value and (2) determining actions they could take to improve community health. To do so, Community Insights provides metrics describing a community's participation, people, and content.
Participation: What activities are going on in my community?
The Participation page provides an overall assessment of your community's health, as shown in the screenshot above. Views (top-left), posts (top-right), and contributors (bottom-left) are important indicators of how active (and thus, how healthy) your community is.
- Views by application: In particular, our research involving enterprise communities shows that the views metric is a good predictor of member-rated value of the community to their job, i.e., the more views your community's content gets, the higher your members would likely rate your community's value.
- Posts by application is also an important indicator of how much activity is happening in each of your community's tools over time.
- Contributors shows how many unique people are posting in your community over time and provides a measure of how equally distributed participation is across the community's membership.
There are several other useful features on the Participation page:
- Use the "Date Filter" at the top of the page to change the dates and/or granularity of all of the charts on the page. To quickly switch between charts showing the last year, four quarters, 12 weeks, or last week, use the links under the custom date range boxes.
- Hover over any bar in the charts to see an exact value of the bar.
- Click on any of the blue tool names in the Activity by application table to see a list of every post in that tool and detailed stats about them.
People: Who are the members of my community?
The People page shows demographic information about all your members (geographic locations, business divisions, manager vs. non-manager), how many members are in your community, and a list of top contributors (not shown in the picture above). (Note that these charts are configurable, since different companies have different demographic information.) These charts are aimed to help you identify several useful actions you might take to foster participation and awareness among your members. In particular, you can click on any circle, pie slice, or data point you see in these charts to bring up a list of all the people who fit in the selected sub-group. For example, in the picture above, the user clicked on the "United States" circle in the map and a list of all the members from the United States appeared on the right side. At the top of that list, the user can click to email them or download a spreadsheet listing their names and contact information. Here are a few ideas on actions you might take based on these charts:
- Welcome new members to your community and help them find information: Click on the right-most green dot in the membership chart to get a list of recent new members. Click "email them" to send them a note with community orientation information.
- Ask managers to emulate community participation for their teams: Click on the "manager" pie slice in the manager vs. non-manager chart to get an email list of managers in your community.
- Send role-specific newsletters: Click on different business divisions in the members' business division chart to get an email list.
Content: What content and topics do members find valuable?
Next is the Content page, which analyzes the content posted in your community and provides several useful metrics: popular topics, value of posts, and most valuable posts. For example, the popular topics metric is shown here:
Popular topics analyzes all of the text posted in your community and, using keyword, date and author similarity analytics, clusters them into topics. On the far left, the top keywords for each topic are listed along with a bar showing the number of posts in that topic. When you click on a topic keyword list, more details about that topic load on the right, including the top contributors to that topic and a list of the most valuable posts on that topic. For example, in the screenshot above, we are looking at the "vpn, connectivity, cisco" topic, which has several well-visited blog and wiki posts that might be the first place to look for more information about this topic.
An important part of Community Insights are the help and tips. In the screenshot above, you can see a link to help and tips at the top-right of the metric, and can also scroll through the tips ("suggested interpretation & use") below the metric. All metrics in Community Insights provide these. Use help and tips to understand how the metric is calculated and how you can use it to help you manage the community.
Proven Business Value in 3 Organizations
Community Insights has been deployed in three different companies and evaluated with 1300+ communities and over 3000+ users [8]. Leader response to Community Insights was overwhelmingly positive. For example, community leader users have said:
"This tool is exactly what I wanted. It's like finding gold."
"Thank you for your work with Community Insights. These metrics have been invaluable as we work to improve [our community] in Connections."
"Very cool... This helps me understand if the content I'm putting out there (digital reputation, primarily) is providing value to the community – I can see that it is!
"Very interesting to see the nationality, work functions, etc. of members, and extremely useful to discover what kind of posts they are interested in reading."
"Thank you for your work with Community Insights. These metrics have been invaluable as we work to improve [our community] in Connections."
"Very cool... This helps me understand if the content I'm putting out there (digital reputation, primarily) is providing value to the community – I can see that it is!
"Very interesting to see the nationality, work functions, etc. of members, and extremely useful to discover what kind of posts they are interested in reading."
Community leaders found it particular useful that Community Insights provided actionable analytics, i.e., information that guided them toward taking remedial actions to improve the community. There are four types of actionable analytics in Community Insights:
(1) Identifying particular sub-groups or members for active engagement. Leaders wanted to intervene most often to engage with specific subgroups or members, e.g. asking topic experts to contribute new content, soliciting feedback from people who had left the community, tailoring content to sub-groups. They found this information in the people data, as described by one user:
"You need to know who the people are visiting your community. I need to do something to get more sales people visiting. I need to send communications to them, specifically."
Leaders were particularly enthusiastic about the top contributors metric, using this list to engage with the most popular contributing members to take on informal leadership roles, elicit their feedback, acknowledge stellar contributions, and evaluate their contributions to a team. As one user described:
"I've been particularly interested in the 'people' area and 'top contributors.' We're trying to create a council of [volunteers] to make sure content is updated."
(2) Identifying community health problems that require facilitation. Leaders actively used Community Insights to diagnose and address current or potential community health problems. Using Community Insights, leaders had access to long-term trend data to spot declines in activity.
"I look at the metrics and facilitate discussions with community managers based on the metrics. For example, if there's lots of passive file downloading, I will recommend that they start weekly community discussions to facilitate active participation."
(3) Identifying successful examples to emulate (e.g., popular posts or topics). Community Insights users were constantly looking for successful precedents to emulate to improve their own community and leadership skills, which they found in several of the tool's metrics. For example, one user described:
"The 'posts' by application chart… tells me that in certain months, it was a forum reply that really caught on. So then I can go back into my community… and look at it and when I compare it with those forums that I created this month, it reveals whether it was the language of the forum, or if it was the aesthetic beauty of the forum that really made the difference, or was it the positioning of the forum that made the difference. So that comparative study that I could do is really important."
(4) Evaluating effects of particular actions/events in the community to aid future planning. Leaders examined Community Insights to evaluate the effects of particular actions or events to help with future planning. Most leaders organized regular events involving phone conferences or presentations that members could attend. Leaders logged how many people attended, downloaded event materials, discussed the meeting, and so on. Leaders used this information to select popular topics for future events or modify the format or timing of meetings so more people could attend.
"If we run a call and most of the people who are attending are downloads instead of live attendees, maybe we have a bad meeting time for that particular call."
Similarly, leaders often wanted to evaluate their own actions, e.g., sending out a newsletter or creating new content, using uptake data to make improvements. Community Insights enabled them to do so, as one user described:
"We are thinking about writing more blogs. We want to see if writing blogs has an impact in the community. So we want to be able to select a particular day/time when a blog was posted and see what the metrics look like before and after."
Community Insights is Available for Customer Use
Please contact your IBM Software Services for Collaboration representative for more information.
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Plenty of Time
19 comments:
- Julie (O-kami) said...
Pretty Teddy! Pretty curtain! Looks like fun.
- May 17, 2011 at 4:38 PM
- Diana Trout {email@example.com} said...
I love my Teddy! It is nice to do this kind of handwork. More like artwork and very tactile.
- May 17, 2011 at 5:05 PM
Be sure to keep us posted on your progress on it. It looks like a wonderful piece to have in one's hands. And you have a cat's approval? No more need be said.
- May 17, 2011 at 5:09 PM
- Diana Trout {email@example.com} said...
Yes Patti, it has Teddy's approval. It is very nice to feel it. The linen is quite old and a bit threadbare. So the layers of cloth will extend it's life. I wonder how many Sunday dinner's it has seen?
- May 17, 2011 at 6:35 PM
- Cheryl Razmus said...
I like that you say there is enough time. Being in the present is always the best way to be in focus and happy with what you've got. When you have a wonderful project to work on, what more could you need?
- May 17, 2011 at 6:41 PM
- printkat said...
Hi Diana,
I have been following your nudges and posts on the Sketchbook site and enjoy everything you share. Your sense of humour and ability to see joy in most all situations is something contagious.
- May 17, 2011 at 8:21 PM
- SpinningDownUnder said...
Cats always have the good taste to know when something is worthwhile. Isn't it wonderful to have something old and give it new life! Hand-stitching seems such a timeless occupation, very meditative, and so creative, so enjoy your time out with this project and let us see the final product!
- May 17, 2011 at 8:45 PM
- Diana Trout {email@example.com} said...
Thank you for comment Printkat. Spread the joy! It is nice to hear from you.
- May 17, 2011 at 11:12 PM
- Diana Trout {firstname.lastname@example.com} said...
Yes, Cheryl. I do look forward to this bit of sewing everyday. Embracing the concept of "enough time" is something I really trying to give some thought to. It's a source of inbalance in my life ... wish me luck.
- May 17, 2011 at 11:14 PM
- Diana Trout {email@example.com} said...
When I finish this curtain, whenever that might be, I promise to show it hanging from the window. It is my "I have plenty of time" project.
- May 17, 2011 at 11:15 PM
- Caatje said...
Beautiful fabrics for the curtain, I compliment you on your patience and your idea that there is plenty of time (send some of that patience my way, please). And your cat is cute. They always do like to sit on the prettiest things, don't they?
- May 18, 2011 at 4:47 AM
- iHanna said...
Cats + quilts + craft goes well together, and are SO pretty!
- May 18, 2011 at 6:58 AM
- Jenny Petricek said...
I find your work to be so inspiring! I know I've said before I want to start adding fabric and stitching to my mixed media collages, art journals, and memory books, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I think I need to set a serious goal for the summer months to learn some of the basics!:-)
- May 18, 2011 at 12:01 PM
- Hazel said...
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Some strange things are going up on the grounds at Haverford College. As part of the construction of the Kim and Tritton Dorms, storm water measures are being taken to slow down the flow of water onto the construction site. Originally, contractors had wanted to trench through the orchard to catch runoff before it hit the site. Luckily for us we caught it in time and Plan B was put into the place. The "sock", conveniently in Haverford Colors (we're not sure if it was intentional or not), was filled with mulch and staked into place. In the drab winter landscape it certainly is eyecatching.
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Hagel preaches 'professionalism'
As the military endures a rocky season of scandal and embarrassment, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has a new mantra: "professionalism."
Critics are outraged at the light punishment given to an Army general charged with sexual assault and adultery. Investigators are wrapping up two examinations of cheating in the Air Force and the Navy, reports that could become public soon. But Hagel and other Defense Department leaders aren't waiting for briefings — or leaks — to redouble their emphasis on integrity.
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On Monday, Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Martin Dempsey met with senior Pentagon leaders to discuss "professionalism," then issued a message to troops stressing the importance of ethics and character.
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On Tuesday, Hagel announced he had appointed Rear Adm. Margaret Klein to serve as a new ethics adviser, with a mandate that will involve many in the Pentagon:
"Rear Admiral Klein will coordinate the actions of the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands, and each of the military services — working directly with the service secretaries and the service chiefs — on DOD's focus on ethics, character and competence in all activities at every level of command with an uncompromising culture of accountability," Hagel said. "This will continue to be a top priority for DOD's senior leadership."
And on Wednesday, the Pentagon's internal TV network carried an interview with Hagel and Dempsey in which they again stressed the importance of "professionalism."
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"We are proud to represent and support the most respected institution in American life, the United States military," Hagel said. "The respect our military has earned is built on the character of our people, military and civilian alike. It must never be taken for granted."
That reputation took a serious hit last week after Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair received what critics called a slap on the wrist in a court-martial over charges of adultery and sexual assault. And Army Secretary John McHugh and other defense officials on Capitol Hill this week fielded pointed questions about the military's ability to crack down on sexual assault.
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) called Sinclair's sentence a "mockery of military justice." The Pentagon obviously cannot police itself, she argued.
"This is a sexual predator," she said. "For a sexual predator to gain the rank that he has gained, go through a court-martial process and be given a slap on the wrist suggests to everyone watching this case that it does not work. The system does not work."
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Retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. Dakota Wood, now a national security scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said he sees Klein's appointment as an important message inside the military about Hagel and Dempsey's seriousness on ethics and morals. But he disagreed that the Pentagon has a major or unusual problem.
"You can look at any sector, any slice of American society — Congress itself has its own problems, there are investigations into members and staffers — as well as the intelligence community, the sports industry, the entertainment industry, business, banking, commerce, religious establishments … you name it," Wood said. "To expect perfect behavior from the military in particular is an unrealistic expectation, and yet it is also not proper to just accept moral failures, ethical lapses. You can't tolerate that, either. You always have to be combating it, holding people accountable."


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Andrew Wolfe, age 43, has been a carpenter for 20 years. He's worked on roofs, foundations and everything in between. "With my construction skills, I could build anything," he says.
Given his profession, Wolfe is no stranger to aches and pains. For years, he had a persistent pain in his lower right abdomen. He assumed it was caused by the heavy lifting he did every day at work. Sometimes he worried that it might be an ulcer. Then in 2011, he felt a brand new pain that he couldn't ignore.
"Right before Christmas, I woke up and my left eye had a stabbing pain whenever I looked anywhere but straight ahead," he recalls.
He went to his primary care doctor, who sent him to an ophthalmologist. At first, Wolfe's ophthalmologist thought he might have an optic nerve tumor, but suspected the combination of eye pain and recurring abdominal pain might point to another condition. He scheduled Wolfe for for an MRI.
"The doctor called me and said, 'Well, good news: You don't have a tumor. But when they read the MRI of your head, it looks like you might have MS.'"
MS, or multiple sclerosis, is a chronic disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. It interferes with the signals the central nervous system sends along the nerve fibers to the rest of the body. Eye problems, poor coordination, weakness, fatigue, numbness, odd sensations and unexplained pain can all be symptoms.
"MS is an autoimmune disease, which means the person's immune system goes into overdrive. Instead of just attacking invading bacteria and viruses, it attacks the person's own body. In the case of MS, it attacks the brain and spinal cord," explains Annette Wundes, M.D., co-director of the UW Medicine Multiple Sclerosis Center at Northwest Hospital & Medical Center.
Established as one of the country's first dedicated MS centers in 1977, it relocated from UW Medical Center to a new comprehensive, state-of-the-art facility on the Northwest Hospital campus in July 2012. The center has been engaged in numerous research projects over the years, including management of depression, exercise, function, pain and disease progression in patients, as well as employment options for MS patients.
Wolfe was diagnosed with MS in February 2012. "In July, I heard about the official opening of the MS Center. So I went there and talked to Dr. Wundes. Immediately I said, 'OK, I want to be seen here,'" he says.
"With a multi-disciplinary team of neurologists, rehabilitation medicine physicians, psychologists and MS-trained nurses, we can address every MS patient's individual needs," says Dr. Wundes.
In addition to physicians and nurses who specialize in treating MS, the UW Medicine Multiple Sclerosis Center gives patients access to advanced imaging technology to help in diagnosis and monitoring the disease; intravenous infusion of the latest MS medications; physical, occupational and speech therapy; and providers with expertise in helping patients cope with issues such as pain, and who offer screening and treatment for cognitive or emotional problems. The center even offers vocational counseling and driver re-training.
Before coming to the UW Medicine Multiple Sclerosis Center, Wolfe had been prescribed a drug that he administered via self-injection every Friday. "An hour and a half, two hours after the injection, it was like I had the ultimate, worst flu," he says.
"One of the first things Dr. Wundes asked me during my first appointment was about my current treatment. I said, 'I'm miserable once a week. Friday is not fun anymore.' Dr. Wundes said, 'This is not OK, there are other options,'" Wolfe recalls.
"I consider the activity of each patient's disease and any persistent side effects," says Dr. Wundes. "I strive to find treatments that make the least possible impact on someone's well-being and that give us optimal control of the disease. I aim for the least disease progression and the greatest control of symptoms."
Dr. Wundes discussed alternate treatment options with Wolfe and ultimately switched him to a different drug that is administered once a month in the center's infusion unit. To date, Wolfe has experienced no unpleasant side-effects and no new damage to his brain or spinal cord. Though he's noticed some MS-related changes in his memory and often feels tired, his symptoms are becoming well controlled.
Today, Wolfe still does carpentry work part-time and is taking advantage of just about every service the UW Medicine Multiple Sclerosis Center has to offer. "From neurology to rehabilitation to physical therapy to job therapy — everything. I've run the gamut," he says. He maintains a positive attitude and is hopeful about the future.
"People have this negative view of the disease as incurable. But MS is something that, when well controlled, doesn't have to interfere with your work or personal life," says Dr. Wundes.
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Investors are finding out that oil and stocks don't mix.
As the price of oil has soared – oil hit a new record of $142.99 per barrel last Friday – markets have slumped.
With the price of petroleum up 50 percent since the new year, the Standard & Poor's 500 index is down 12.6 percent. In the past month, the S&P has dropped 8.7 percent, the largest June decline since 1930, when the Great Depression was just starting. At the same time, the price of oil is up $13 a barrel, or 10.2 percent, for the month.
"Basically, Wall Street does not like uncertainty," says Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at S&P. "This is the first time it doesn't know something – how high the price of oil will go."
The turmoil on Wall Street and rising price of oil is coming at a time when there are renewed concerns about another sector of the economy: banking, which continues to see large write-offs from the subprime mortgage crisis. That could be helping to drive some investors from stocks into commodities, including oil, market analysts say. This, in turn, keeps the price of oil moving higher even as supply-and-demand fundamentals deteriorate.
Normally, a slide in stocks does not necessarily translate into problems on Main Street. Indeed, the economy is currently receiving some strength from consumer spending as a result of the US government's fiscal stimulus package. On Friday, the Commerce Department reported that consumer spending in May rose 0.8 percent on a nominal basis.
But newspapers are now reporting that the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a narrower measure of the stock market, is in an official bear market (a market on a downward trajectory). The Dow is down 20 percent from its peak of last October.
The prospect of a bear market could weigh on consumer and business psychology. Economists are concerned this could move the economy from a slowdown into a serious recession.
"We could be looking at a longer, deeper recession," says Fred Dickson, chief market strategist at D.A. Davidson in Lake Oswego, Ore. "Normally, the Federal Reserve would be able to step in, but after they met last Wednesday, a lot of people on Wall Street said, 'They are really hamstrung. There is not much they can do.' "
Last Wednesday, the Federal Reserve left short-term interest rates unchanged. The Fed toughened its language on inflation but did not send a clear sign it would be raising interest rates anytime soon. The Fed would normally raise interest rates to try to curtail inflation.
"What is missing now is the Fed rushing in," Mr. Dickson says. "Now, possibly the only thing that could do something about the rising price of oil is an emergency Fed meeting where they raise rates by half of a percentage point."
A rate increase by the Fed might be enough to shock the oil market, says Phil Flynn, vice president of Alaron Trading in Chicago. "I would like to see them do a surprise quarter-of-a-point rate increase," he says. "It would show they have inflation-fighting capability.... You have to break the inflation psychology now or later."
An interest-rate increase might also help stabilize the dollar, which sank further after the European Central Bank signaled last Thursday it was likely to raise interest rates to counter inflation. "Europe is not helping out. It's going its own way," Mr. Flynn says.
Last Thursday, the day after the Fed meeting, Chakib Khelil, president of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, told viewers on France 24 that the price of oil might go between $150 to $170 per barrel this summer. This gave oil prices another boost. "He might be prophetic," Flynn says.
Despite Mr. Khelil's forecasts, however, there were few new developments in the oil markets to suggest that oil prices would go higher. The US Department of Energy reported that inventories of crude oil and distillates were larger than analysts had expected. Fuel consumption fell 2.3 percent in the past four weeks compared with a year earlier.
"Demand is looking pretty weak," says Rick Mueller, director of petroleum markets for Energy Security Analysis Inc. (ESAI) in Wakefield, Mass. "That's why it's so hard to predict prices. It wouldn't be surprising to see the price of crude drop $5 a barrel on Monday."
In fact, energy analysts have been predicting lower prices for some time. In a Bloomberg news survey, energy analysts have called for falling prices in 23 of the past 24 weeks. In the latest survey, almost half of the 24 analysts surveyed predicted lower prices this week.
While the price of oil has been rising, financial stocks such as Citigroup and Lehman Brothers on Wall Street have been falling. "There is the realization we have another round of bank credit write-offs," says Dickson, who notes that a recent downgrade of some banks by Goldman Sachs's analysts "reawakened Wall Street that more write-offs are coming."
Last Friday, the prospect of more bad news prompted Moody's Investors Service to say it is reviewing Morgan Stanley, an investment banking and brokerage firm, for a possible ratings downgrade.
• Wire services were used for this report.


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Bigger than the Grand Canyon
The solar system's largest canyon system slices through the face of Mars' northern hemisphere near the equator. On 2 May 2004, the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the ESA Mars Express spacecraft obtained images from the central area of the Mars canyon called Valles Marineris.
|Overhead view of the solar system's largest canyon system Credit: ESA
The canyon system of Valles Marineris is the largest and deepest known in solar system; extending more than 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) and has 5 to 10 kilometers (3 to 6 miles) relief from floors to tops of surrounding plateaus
The images were taken at a resolution of approximately 16 meters per pixel, or about the size of a school bus. The displayed region is located at the southern rim of the Melas Chasma at Mars latitude 12°S and Mars longitude 285°E. The images were taken on orbit 360 of Mars Express.
Mars Express has a primary mission to understand the atmosphere and volcanic effects using a combination of high resolution color imagery and spectrographic instruments.
This region shows several clues to the morphological and geological development of the Valles Marineris. The images show many traces of volcanic activity and possibly water-related acitivity. However, a lot of the surface has been altered by subsequent geological processes, such as wind erosion and quakes.
As Agustin Chicarro, Mars Express Project Scientist said, these "investigations will provide clues as to why the north of the planet is so smooth and the south so rugged…."
Although many questions about the geological development of the Valles Marineris canyon have remained unanswered until now, the detailed HRSC image data may help to find some answers. Using HRSC data, scientists can focus on morphology – the evolution of rocks and land forms. They can also analyze the light reflected by the canyon to understand which type of rocks it is made out of.
|Valles Marineris
Credit: Olivier de Goursac and Adrian Lark in cooperation with the MOLA Science Team
During the recent NASA-sponsored debates on Mars terraforming, geoscientist James Kasting of Penn State commented about the stunning canyon system: "We'll learn something by robotic missions, we're learning lots right now from the current missions, but we won't understand Mars like we understand the Earth until we get teams of geologists up there with rock hammers, clambering down Valis Marineris and looking at the whole stratigraphic sequence that is very difficult to get to robotically."
Such oblique views, resembling how a person looking out a window might view across the broad Martian horizon, have a special appeal, according to Dr. Bill Hartmann, a member of the imaging team that works with the Mars Global Surveyor." There are a number of regions I'd like to see photographed in that 'human' oblique view angle, the way we are used to seeing the land from our airplane windows. I think that they inspire a broader, more holistic view that lets us see Mars in the context of our terrestrial experience (not as an alien "target"), and that in turn inspires new thinking, a new sense of relationships, and new questions."
"I'd love to see obliques looking down Valles Marineris, across some of the big frosty craters, across some of the lava flows, down big riverbed channels like Ares Vallis and Ma'adim Vallis, and so on", concluded Hartmann.
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BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kinerase, a sub-brand of Valeant Pharmaceuticals North America, is pleased to announce their partnership with the American Breast Cancer Foundation for the month of October. The brand will be donating 20 percent of the proceeds from their two new anti-aging products, Advanced Cream and Advanced Lotion, when purchased at Ulta, the premium beauty retailer, between October 1 and October 31, 2012.
New to the line, Kinerase Advanced Lotion and Cream both moisturize skin while supporting its natural production of hyaluronic acid. Along with visible improvement in the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, skin is smoother and more hydrated, with a more even tone.
"We are so proud to partner with the American Breast Cancer Foundation," said Alissa Lynch, VP & General Manager Valeant Pharmaceuticals. "By donating a portion of the sales from our in-demand new products, Kinerase Advanced Cream and Lotion, we hope to not only increase brand awareness but make a difference in the fight against breast cancer."
The American Breast Cancer Foundation (ABCF) provides screenings, diagnostic testing and treatment services to individuals and medical clinics either at a reduced fee or free of charge nationwide. Over 50 percent of those who receive assistance from the foundation are already diagnosed with breast cancer. Partnering with the ABCF provides the opportunity for both Kinerase and customer to advance the foundation's mission of financial assistance to these patients.
To participate in the donation program, purchase Kinerase® Advanced Lotion and Advanced Cream at Ulta from October 1 – 31, 2012.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (NYSE/TSX:VRX) is a multinational specialty pharmaceutical company that develops and markets a broad range of pharmaceutical products primarily in the areas of neurology, dermatology and branded generics. Valeant has over 20 years of experience in dermatological science. More information about Valeant can be found at www.valeant.com.
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Maple Landmark produces toy limousine for Obama inauguration
MIDDLEBURY — A little piece of Vermont will be rolling through President Barak Obama's second inauguration this week.
A limited-edition wooden toy limousine produced by Middlebury's Maple Landmark is being sold by the official inauguration committee to defray the costs of the week's activities in Washington, D.C.
The six-inch-long wooden car with wheels that turn is painted black, gray and gold and features the inscription "57th Presidential Inauguration, January 21, 2013." It also has a small American flag on the fender.
"It's pretty cool to be part of it," said Maple Landmark owner Mike Rainville.
This is not the first time the company has had a hand in a presidential inauguration. Maple Landmark produced a limited-edition toy train engine commemorating the first Obama inauguration.
Rainville said the whole inauguration is a little bit smaller this time around, but he appreciated the business, nevertheless.
"For January we'll take anything we can get," he said.
Someone in the group planning the inauguration — the same woman with whom Maple Landmark worked in 2009 — called Rainville this past Dec. 28 asking if Maple Landmark could produce a wooden toy for this year's festivities. It had to be a limousine, it had to be unique and it had to be in their hands quickly. So Rainville and his team kicked into high gear and performed design, toy testing and production at a lightning pace.
"We had to turn it around really fast," Rainville said. "The first ones arrived in D.C. two weeks after that initial phone call."
The Obama limousine toy is going for $20 on the presidential inauguration website — $2 less than the limited edition Obama trains that were made for the 2009 inauguration. Rainville said the retail price difference didn't affect him; Maple Landmark got the same wholesale price for both orders.
"And they got the lion's share of the retail price," he said.
Like a lot of Maple Landmark's toys, the Obama limousine was made for the client and sold as a limited-edition collectible only by the inauguration committee, not by Maple Landmark.
"It was strictly what they were able to sell at their storefront, online and wherever else they sell things," Rainville said.
2012 was a good year for Maple Landmark, Rainville said, with sales being helped by, among other things, orders from the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for a wooden chess set crafted in a very contemporary style. As such, he was able to keep all his workers employed and "pretty busy" this month even though work usually slows down after the Christmas shopping season. Not only is the crew cranking out the Obama inauguration limousine and refilling depleted stocks of their traditionally popular wooden toys, but organizers of the NCAA Alpine and Nordic Skiing national championships, which will be held in Hancock and Ripton this winter, have asked Maple Landmark to produce an order of wooden starting markers that will be used in the cross-country races.
"We're the local woodshop so they came to us," Rainville said.


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Muralidaran teaching Lyon new tricks
It's no doosra, but spin great Muttiah Muralidaran has revealed his newest pupil Nathan Lyon will be ready to unleash the "carrom ball" delivery on Pakistan in the UAE.
Muralidaran will be sending down doosra after doosra to the Australian batsmen in the nets as part of his new role as a coaching consultant for the tour in October.
But he maintains the mystery delivery that made him the No.1 Test wicket-taker of all time is too difficult to teach Lyon.
Instead, the pair are in Sri Lanka working hard on the finger-spinning carrom ball - and Muralidaran believes Lyon will be able to use it as a weapon against Pakistan.
Few players have copped as much abuse from Australian cricket fans over the years as Muralidaran - due to his controversial bowling action.
Even (then) prime minister John Howard labelled Muralidaran a "chucker".
But the Sri Lankan legend says there's no hard feelings and he's not surprised Darren Lehmann has approached him to help the No.1 Test team get even better.
Having opened his bag of tricks to Lyon, Muralidaran says the 26-year-old is the long-term answer for Australia.
"For a country like Australia, you don't need many spinners. You need to get the right one. I think Nathan Lyon is the answer - for any format," he said.
"He spins the ball and he's confident and he has taken more than 100 wickets in Test cricket. He's proved himself.
"The doosra is very difficult to teach because he's a finger spinner and I'm a wrist spinner.
"We're trying something else - the carrom ball.
"I think he'd be ready and bowl that in the UAE, but he'll master it in years to come."
Australia's struggles in sub-continent conditions prompted Lehmann and Michael Clarke to make contact with Muralidaran through his friend and Australian team physio Alex Kountouris.
The 42-year-old will assist Australia's batsmen by bowling to them in the nets - preparing them for Pakistan's doosra master Saeed Ajmal.
Muralidaran says he never had an issue with Australia as a country, and sees his short-term role as just another chance to put back into the game.
"I don't have any hard feelings because of what has happened," he said.
"That ... (was) all about individuals only that shouted at me - that is a different case.
"The Australian public was always kind to me - maybe five per cent were against me.
"I didn't have any hatred on anybody."
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Rescue Me star makes revelation during book signing but disagrees with 9/11 truth advocates
Paul Joseph Watson
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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
The hit TV series Rescue Me, a drama about New York City firefighters, is set to feature a 9/11 conspiracy plot in the first ten episodes of the new series, according to the show's main star Denis Leary.
Leary revealed the details during a book signing in Los Angeles, where he also offered his forthright personal opinion on the collapse of WTC Building 7, a 47-story skyscraper that collapsed into its own footprint on the late afternoon of 9/11 despite not being hit by a plane.
"When asked by a hesitant fan as to whether or not the actor thought there should be a reinvestigation into the events leading up to and surrounding the 9/11 tragedy, Leary's eyes lit up as he revealed that conspiracy and reinvestigation into 9/11 are, in fact, major plot lines in the first 10 episodes of Rescue Me season 5, set to premiere in April 2009 for a 22-episode run on FX," reports L.A. Weekly.
But Leary deflected questions about the collapse of Building 7, stating, "You guys don't want to get into that with me," adding that he "knew several of the guys who had been there working to hold that building up."
Perhaps Leary also knows some of the people who are on tape on 9/11 saying that the building is "about to blow up" too? Perhaps Leary can help explain how a massive skyscraper which had been structurally reinforced can implode within 7 seconds after suffering limited fires across no more than ten floors and in doing so completely defy the laws of physics?
Perhaps Leary's friends can tell us why the Windsor Building in Madrid burned like a raging inferno for 24 hours yet retained its structural integrity?
The L.A. Weekly failed to report what happened at the end of the conversation. After the question about Building 7, security thugs stepped in, blocked the camera and proceeded to kick the protagonists out of the bookstore. There was no hostility or impoliteness on the part of the 9/11 truthers, but apparently Leary's security thinks it necessary to physically eject anyone who expresses an opinion different to his.
Watch the clip below.
The real hero in all of this is obviously Daniel Sunjata, who co-stars in Rescue Me. Sunjata has been a vocal advocate for the 9/11 truth movement in questioning 9/11 and he likely had a massive influence on the decision of the script writers to dramatize the issue.
The prevalence of 9/11 truth in a plethora of different mediums is exactly what is required to spread the truth and wake up people who would not necessarily come into contact with this information through the usual channels.
We applaud the staff of Rescue Me for having the fortitude to tackle this vital issue.
Rescue Me star Daniel Sunjata.
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With the recent discussion about reverse engineering Damage Incorporated's code, I wanted to write down my experiences with the obscure games that used the Marathon 2 engine, and see what other people thought about them. I figured the Chat section would be the best place to do so.
ZPC: To be honest, I never managed to beat this game. I found a Wineskin version of ZPC about a year or so ago and played it a bit, but never got past half an hour or so of gameplay. To be honest, it's a pretty mediocre game at best. The art style is sorta interesting but looks ugly and eye straining in practice. As far as gameplay its basically Marathon 2 on acid; honestly I'd rather just play through M2 or MInf again than ZPC. I found the fact that 95% of the weapons in game are actually one gun that has a myriad of functions to be pretty cool, however.
Prime Target: This one appears to be the most obscure of the three Marathon-based retail games. Unlike ZPC or Damage Incorporated, Prime Target was only released for Mac and as of such I can't get it to work with my PC or Mac OS X computers. Like ZPC I never had this game as a kid so this is the only one I haven't played yet. Can anyone hook me up with a Wineskin version? I've found a copy on Macintosh Garden but emulators don't seem to work too well on my Mac, I'll have to give it another try sometime.
From what I remember from playing the demo version a long time ago it was very much like a cross between Marathon and Duke Nukem 3D. The graphics were colorful and cartoonish but looked great (as did the map design), and the weaponry were some of the most inventive I've seen in a FPS game. Apparently the game is semi-non-linear and supports backtracking. Its definitely one I want to try out sometime.
Damage Incorporated: This one appears to be the most well known of the three and its the one I've had the most experience with, having played it as a kid around the time when it came out. I got into playing the game again when reading an interview with the game designers of the now-cancelled Rainbow Six: Patriots about two years ago and seeing the familiar name "Richard Rouse III." Intrigued, as I didn't quite recognize *where* I had seen that name, I did a quick internet search on Richard Rouse III and discovered that he was the project lead on Damage Incorporated, a game I last played over a decade ago. It quickly dawned on me that Rainbow Six: Patriots appeared to be a near remake of Damage Incorporated, or what Richard Rouse had originally wanted to do with Damage Incorporated but couldn't given the constraints of the time. So, I found a copy of DI, downloaded it, and played through it again.
Damage Incorporated incorporated (pun intended) major changes to the Marathon 2 engine. Though the graphics are grainy and unclear compared to Marathon 2, especially at distance, the weapon in hand animations are much smoother and more detailed than anything else seen in the Marathon engine. If memory serves me the vanilla Marathon 2 engine has problems handling more than two-frame animations in the Weapons In Hand collection; I recall most DI weapons had something like eight-frame animations for firing and reloading. Another thing I want to note; DI has the best incarnation of a shotgun in a Marathon engine game in my view, bar none. Whereas the WSTEM-5 depicted the shotgun's rechambering after firing inaccurately as a reloading animation (thus implying that the shotgun had an implausibly long magazine tube), the DI shotgun had the rechambering animation played after each time the player fired the shotgun and had a separate reloading sequence whenever the tube magazine ran dry. This was an interesting detail that should be used as a model for any Marathon mod attempting to depict a pump-action shotgun or any other repeating firearm. The ability to switch ammo types was another interesting idea, as was the inclusion of a usable Stinger missile launcher that finally allowed the player access to guided weaponry in a Marathon game.
But the biggest and most crucial difference between DI and Marathon is the ability to command a fire-team. As far as I recall this was the first FPS to have fully controllable teammates, and likely one of the first FPS games to have a realistic setting rather than a fantastic sci-fi one. The fire-team really was a feature that put DI over the top for me, especially when I replayed the game with a firmer grasp of tactics than I had as a 10 year old. Some people have complained that your trigger-happy teammates would shoot you more often than not, but on my second playthrough I had much less of a problem; perhaps the PC port had improved AI compared to the earlier Mac version that I played as a kid, or it was due to the fact that my tactics had improved beyond "play the game as if it was Doom or Marathon and have my fire-team follow me everywhere." This time around I was sure to set ambushes using my fire-team and had a much easier time of it.
I have to say that DI was remarkably successful with the team-based gameplay; the AI was surprisingly intelligent for its time and you could make most firefights a one-sided slaughter in your favor with proper application of squad-level tactics. In addition, the developers really put in the time to distinguish your team members' personalities, recording dozens of lines of dialogue for each squad member. They even would say different things depending on the events of the mission, and would vocally react to events occurring during gameplay.
The map design for Damage Incorporated was pretty impressive, easily up there with Marathon Infinity. You got the impression that the places visited in game were fully functional spaces, and mastery of terrain features was key for success. Damage Incorporated, in my view, is a sadly unappreciated gem of its day. I remember there were a few third-party maps made for the game but DI never had the fanbase and modding community Marathon did (and I felt DI deserved). Its a shame it came out in 1997; I'm sure plenty of potential buyers were turned off by the primitive and ugly 2D sprites at a time when if a FPS didn't have polygon-based graphics it was immediately disregarded (see the fate of the original Shadow Warrior). Today, you can download it for Mac OS 9 and PC, as the game appears to be abandonware. I highly recommend giving it a try.
PS. I remember playing through a third-party mod for Damage Incorporated titled "Year of the Tiger" many, many years ago but I can't find any information on it today. I remember the creators somehow managed to mod the game to add new textures to the campaign, and wouldn't mind giving it another try today, if anyone manages to have a copy or know where I can find one. Sadly, given how obscure Damage Incorporated is today and the fact that it's been nearly 20 years since that mod was released, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that Year of the Tiger has been permanently lost.


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When boxer Floyd Mayweather first topped this list in 2011, it was a surprise. By now, it's expected. This is his third year in the No. 1 spot, and he does it all without any endorsements. Also worth noting: Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson were only ninth and 10th among all golfers for PGA Tour winnings in the period we measured, but off-the-course endorsements keep them high on this list; thanks to fat signing bonuses on new contracts, four quarterbacks are in the top 10, compared to just two last year; and two athletes who aren't even playing this season (but have not retired), Gilbert Arenas and Vernon Wells, made the list due to deferred money. Among those who have dropped off the list: Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter.
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Candidates for the Fortunate 50 must be U.S. citizens or play in a U.S.-based league. Endorsements reflect current deals, while salaries are based on the current or the most recently completed season; for instance, for NFL players the season that ended in February was used. (Thus new deals for this coming season, like Jay Cutler's $126 million extension, aren't reflected.) For auto racing and tennis, prize money comes from the 2013 calendar year. Golf tournament winnings are from May 5, 2013 (the Wells Fargo Championship) through April 20, 2014 (the RBC Heritage). Boxing purses are for the 2014 calendar year (and include projected money from bouts that will happen later this year).
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