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Gardens grow as latest green home amenity
As local food gains popularity, more home builders are adding vegetable gardens as an amenity, reports USA TODAY's Wendy Koch. Wendy Koch, USA TODAY
Aiming to lure eco-minded consumers, more residential developers are offering vegetable gardens as an amenity. These gardens are sprouting in new and older complexes, both luxury and affordable.
Richard Rocheleau has a refrigerator drawer full of green peppers that he grew at home. But he doesn't have a house or a backyard. He lives in a condo.
His bounty, including root veggies such as beets and herbs such as rosemary, sage and parsley, yields from a community garden that's part of his new green-certified, 52-unit building in Playa Vista, Calif.
"Growing up, my mom had a garden, but I never had my own until now," says Rocheleau, an administrator at Loyola Marymount University who moved into his three-bedroom condo in March. "There's something to be said about eating what you've grown. ... It's a sense of accomplishment."
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As the local food movement grows, herb and vegetable gardens are sprouting as one of the latest amenities offered by eco-oriented developers — putting the garden into some "garden" apartments.
"It's in the air right now — the idea of urban agriculture," says Tim Clemmons, an architect at Mesh Architecture who has designed a 96-unit affordable housing project for seniors in St. Petersburg, Fla., that will contain a community garden once it's complete in December 2013.
"The concept was to create a garden club," he says, noting that Campbell Gardens will offer indoor amenities such as a fitness center and library but the garden will serve as the only outdoor activity. In the future, he expects more developments will shift from focusing on golf courses to local food.
Such gardens are popping up not only in new single-family and luxury condo developments, where they aim to lure green buyers, but also in new and decades-old affordable housing projects, which aim to get residents outdoors.
"This is really about connecting the community," says Nate Kredich of the U.S. Green Building Council, a private group that certifies eco-friendly buildings. He has seen several new residential developments include gardens, a trend that he welcomes.
"I attribute part of the increase to (first lady) Michelle Obama putting a garden in at the White House," says Bobby Wilson, president of the American Community Gardening Association. He says some people are now gardening to supplement their food supply while developers are tapping community revitalization funds to incorporate gardens as part of landscaping.
"The gardens were one of the most popular things we did," says Steve Ruffner, president of KB Home Southern California, who developed Rocheleau's Primera Terra building, which earned the top or platinum rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.
"They added to the appeal," he says, noting the complex also offers low utility bills, recycled materials, a living wall, a room to store bikes and electric vehicle charging stations in the garage. He says the units sold out quickly, in less than a year.
Other developments offering gardens for residents to tend include the TELACU Residential Management's 75-unit senior housing project in Rialto, Calif., slated to open Dec. 3 , and the luxury condo building of 144 N. Eighth in Brooklyn, N.Y., which opened last year. More than a dozen apartment buildings by Atlanta-based Post Properties offer garden spaces as an amenity, partly to attract seniors, downsizing from homes, who still want to till the soil.
"People who live in our community are very environmentally aware," says Margaret GanderVo, manager of Pringle Creek Community in Salem, Ore., which has two refurbished greenhouses, a community garden and orchards. She says the 32 acres of redeveloped land, home so far to 11 green-certified single-family homes, will eventually have dozens more as well as duplexes, townhouses and apartments.
"It's not free, but it's something to differentiate ourselves," says Bruce Percelay, founder of The Mount Vernon Co., of the $20,000 rooftop garden he's building atop the 100-unit, energy-efficient Element apartment building in Boston. The building, opened in July, requires tenants to sign a "green" lease promising to recycle, compost and minimize energy use.
"It builds community. People have a common activity," says Percelay, adding that it also utilizes spaces — in this case, the roof — that hadn't been used before.
In Washington, D.C., Langston Terrace Dwellings, an affordable housing development that opened in 1938, added a vegetable garden for residents in 2008. "It's also a teaching garden," says Joe Harris, executive director of the Anacostia Community Outreach Center, which runs youth programs and a food pantry for area residents. He says many of the kids didn't realize they could grow their own food, recalling how one pulled out an eggplant and declared — in astonishment — "this is what I saw in Safeway!"
Kenny Butler, a resident who helps teach kids and seniors how to tend the garden, says the fall crops are coming in: kale, mustard greens, turnips, beets and rutabaga. "I've been gardening for almost 35 years. It's in my blood," says Butler, a retired government worker. "My favorite is okra, tomatoes and peppers — hot and sweet. I can live off those."


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NHS 111 phone number sparks concern
Doctors are questioning the safety of a new non-emergency NHS telephone advice line launching in England.
The 111 service, replacing NHS Direct, is being piloted in many regions but has proved problematic, with some callers left on hold for hours.
Dr Laurence Buckman, the British Medical Association's GP committee chair, says wider rollout should be stalled.
The Department of Health says it is giving some areas extra time.
It has already sanctioned an extension of up to six months of the original 1 April 2013 deadline for regions struggling to set up the new service.
The NHS Direct 0845 4647 service will continue to be available to callers in areas where the NHS 111 service is not yet available, Health Minister Lord Howe insists.
These include: North of Tyne and Tees, North Essex, Bedfordshire and Luton, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Leicestershire and Rutland, Berkshire, Cornwall and Devon.
But the British Medical Association is concerned that many of the places that are already offering the new service or that are due to launch soon are ill-prepared, putting patients' lives at risk.
The BMA says it has been receiving widespread reports of NHS 111 failures
Some of the pilot regions have been unable to cope with call volumes or have suffered catastrophic IT failures.
In Greater Manchester the entire system crashed, meaning calls went unanswered.
One elderly patient had to wait 90 minutes for a call back from NHS 111.
Problems led to a surge in ambulance callouts and casualty visits as callers have resorted to other measures to get seen by a healthcare professional.
'Reconsider rollout'
Dr Buckman said: "The BMA is seriously concerned that these failures are not only having impact on other, already overstretched NHS services, but potentially putting patient safety at risk. Patients need to have their calls answered immediately and correctly and not be faced with any form of delay.
"The Department of Health needs to reconsider immediately its launch of NHS 111 which clearly is not functioning properly. They must ensure that the system is safe for patients before it is rolled out any further."
Lord Howe said: "NHS 111 will help patients access the whole of the NHS through just one simple number.
"Over the coming months this new service will replace the existing NHS Direct telephone advice line. To ensure that patients get the best care and treatment, we are giving some areas more time to go live with NHS 111 while we carry out thorough testing to ensure that those services are reliable."

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Hi All,
We need your help. All applications and desktops which use opengles and opengles2 have wrong colors. (pink or blue color)
Luigi has created a bug report on freedesktop.org. Please run the the following demo in your Firefox web browser and if you have the same problem, please report it.
Link to the demo: https://playcanv.as/p/SA7hVBLt/
Link to the bug report: Bug 99638
I have the same problem. I added my system to Luigi's bug report today.
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Jodie Gates — a former principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet who has since become one of Southern California's most prominent dance leaders — will become the director of the new USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. Gates is a professor of dance at the University of California, Irvine.
USC announced the appointment Thursday, saying that the school will admit its first students in fall 2015.
"Jodie Gates is the perfect person for the job," Kaufman said in a statement. "She is keenly aware of the unique needs of a dancer and the importance of a first-rate curriculum."
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In 2012, it was announced that Kaufman was donating an undisclosed sum of money to USC for the creation of the dance school. The philanthropist is the widow of Donald Kaufman, a founder of the home-building company KB Home with Eli Broad.
USC said Gates will begin her new job in August. Her official title will be vice dean and director of the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance. She will also hold the academic title of professor at the university.
Gates founded the Laguna Dance Festival in 2005. The event brings international dance companies to Orange County. She is also a choreographer and has worked with dance companies around the world.
The school will be housed in the Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center, which is in the design phase and is expected to be completed in time for the school's first students, according to USC.
[Updated: a previous version this post described Gates as the dean of the new school. She will be the "director" of the school.]
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With InterNations, you never stand alone. Whether you move to another city or go on a business trip somewhere — our communities are there to make you feel at home wherever you are in the world. Feel free to also check out our other vibrant InterNations Communities like the ones in Dubai or Amsterdam.
Attend our monthly events and activities for Bogotá expatriates to get to know like-minded expatriates in real life.
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Bogota may not have the reputation of some of its South American rivals, such as Rio de Janeiro or Buenos Aires, but few visitors to the Colombian capital would fail to be impressed or say that it doesn't rank alongside them. A bustling, lively city filled with art, culture, cuisine, and music awaits any potential expatriate, so it's no wonder that so many choose to make their homes here in fields such as energy, communications, and technology. Bogota is often relatively safe for expatriates, but high levels of crime in the city and Colombia generally means that expats should take extra precautions and get some local knowledge before heading out. Checking out the guide articles and forum here on InterNations would be a great start.
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The members of our InterNations Community in Bogota are a diverse group of people, and all have been approved by us, allowing you to be sure that your interactions with the group will be friendly and helpful. The collective experience of our members is considerable, so you should feel free to ask any question you might have, no matter how obscure. Once you've interacted with the group, you might want to take things offline, too — our members organize a wide range of groups with activities all around Bogota, whether your interests are cinema, music, or fine dining, you'll find one perfectly suited for you. Our wider social events are also a great opportunity for networking and are not to be missed!


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Barndiva has a motto: "Wherever you are, eat the view." Like a Zen kōan, it seems at first inscrutable. But the more you taste and think about what you're eating, the clearer the message becomes.
"This is fantastic cooking based on the finest ingredients. The people who work here are wonderful too ~ this was the most entertaining restaurant I'd found in some time."
"Barndiva epitomizes the future of Healdsburg hospitality."
"The menu is designed to appeal to a diners mood...the perfect place to wile away a lazy summer evening with food loving friends."
"Not to be missed."
"If there is a cocktail revolution going on, Barndiva in Healdsburg might just be revolutionary headquarters."
"Celebrates sustainable local farming in a modern barn setting."
"Wonderful things really do happen in barns."
Owner Jil Hales puts the art of local cuisine on the plate at Barndiva, where the gorgeous dishes, and her blog Eat the View, pay homage to the farmers who grow and raise their provisions.


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Microsoft – it's only marketing
So that's all right then
An interesting set of responses have already come in to the article here about Microsoft charging for Office beta downloads.
The comments already attached to it I will let stand for themselves, but a couple of emails I have received are of interest: one because it appeals to the naturally occurring improbable-conspiracy-theorist in me, and the other because it may contain a genuine, and slightly underhand, marketing reason for the move to start charging.
Firstly, the conspiracy theory. I am grateful to Jez for the suggestion that "Bill Gates is actually the world's biggest Linux advocate, but due to the potential for a political nightmare if he just said this, he is being sneaky and trying his best to make windows so un-workable that people are forced to switch to the superior OS."
I suppose it could be true.
The second email, however, may contain more to ponder. Roger Thomas works in the finance industry, and brought to my attention what might just be the real, marketing-driven reason behind the move.
By making people pay, Microsoft will garner a great deal of valuable information about them – names, addresses, valid email addresses etc – all types of information that marketing departments move heaven and earth to acquire.
But as companies like Microsoft move towards the subscription model for revenue generation, rather than the cash-up-front comfort of the outright purchase of licences, identifying customers with ownership of a valid and functional credit card – presumably to which some form of "regular payments" order can be attached – is important information.
Couple this with a proven penchant for being an "early adopter" – and actually shelling out money for a beta copy of Office would be just such a sign – and suddenly Microsoft has, Roger Thomas speculates, information that is "worth its weight in gold".
Perhaps we all ought to start singing that old Hollies hit, "King Midas in Reverse" as a protective incantation. ®
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Square Enix confirms data lifted in website raids
Hackers grab 350 jobseeker resumes, 25k email addresses
Japanese video game developer Square Enix has confirmed that email address and resumes of job seekers have been exposed following a website hack.
Miscreants made off with the information after cracking into the website of subsidiary Eidos and a site dedicated to the game Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Square Enix pulled both sites offline after discovering the hack, as explained on a statement (pdf) on its website:
Square Enix can confirm a group of hackers gained access to parts of our Eidosmontreal.com website as well as two of our product sites. We immediately took the sites offline to assess how this had happened and what had been accessed, then took further measures to increase the security of these and all of our websites, before allowing the sites to go live again.
Eidosmontreal.com does not hold any credit card information or code data, however there are resumes which are submitted to the website by people interested in jobs at the studio. Regrettably up to 350 of these resumes may have been accessed, and we are in the process of writing to each of the individuals who may have been affected to offer our sincere apologies for this situation. In addition, we have also discovered that up to 25,000 email addresses were obtained as a result of this breach. These email addresses are not linked to any additional personal information. They were site registration email addresses provided to us for users to receive product information updates.
The breach creates the possibility that CV information might fall into the hands of identity thieves, possibly after being sold through underground cybercrime forums. There's also a risk that spammers or phishers might get their hands on the email database before subjecting victims to scams of one type or another.
The hack attack against Square Enix follows shortly after the much higher profile and serious hack on Sony illustrating, if nothing else, that computer security problems in the computer games industry affect more firms than just Sony. ®
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SAN DIEGO – The convention floor opened on Wednesday at 6 p.m., but for one of Comic-Con's most fascinating tribes of fans, the celebration started in earnest a few hours later, outside in the warm night, on a stretch of sidewalk a half mile north in San Diego's Gaslamp District. There, slowly, the Guild of Extras began to assemble – at first just five, clustered in a knot around a lamppost, and then three or four more, and then 10 more from inside the building until the sidewalk was thick with their talk and embraces. There were men and women in roughly equal numbers, predominantly in their twenties and thirties, but a few were much older. Some of them wore the group's official jacket: a sharply cut zip-up number with a whimsical crest of a googly-eyed squid, embroidered on the left breast.
Who were these people? The first thing you need to understand about the Guild of Extras is that they're friends–very close friends, by any fair definition of that phrase. There are 182 of them by the most recent count, and they stay in touch mostly through a private Facebook group. But they meet up in person whenever they can, and Comic-Con is a special time when a large portion of them can reconnect: "It's like the rest of the year is just a waiting period," one of them tells me.
The second thing to know about the Guild of Extras is that (per their name) they are extras, in the Hollywood sense of the word. But almost none of them are trying to make it as actors or actresses. They're scientists, students, healthcare workers, and so on, who appear as background characters on web series, for free. They do it to support creators whose work they admire, but also for another chance to hang out together once again.
It's only third, after pondering those other two points, that you should think of them as fans – though fans they most certainly are. The Guild of Extras all met while serving as extras on The Guild, a web comedy about World of Warcraft-style gamers that ran six "seasons" online and helped launch its creator and star, Felicia Day, into the middle echelon of nerd celebrities. Over the remainder of Comic-Con, the self-named "Guildies" used Day-affiliated events–her meet-and-greets and signings, the panel parties hosted by her YouTube channel, Geek & Sundry–as gathering points for their own get-togethers.
If you ask the Extras what defines their group, some might order these three facts differently. That is, they might say "fans" first, if only because that's how they began; it's an easier story to tell. But the chronology doesn't do justice to what this group has become. Over the past 20 years, we've seen how the web has made it easier to become a minor star and attract fans of their own. Over the past decade, we've also how social media can elevate fans, giving them a bigger megaphone to influence creators. The Guild of Extras represents the uncanny thing that can happen as those two trends meet in the middle, when striving microstars and seriously empowered fans create an ecosystem together.
That night at Comic-Con, the Guildies had gathered to attend an improv comedy show featuring two of Day's Guild co-stars, Sandeep Parikh and Jeff Lewis. Outside the theatre, Parikh – who played the hyperactively overbearing Zaboo on The Guild – told me about how these Guildies have supported his other work. For his Save the Supers webseries about a dysfunctional team of superheroes, he put out the call to the Guild of Extras, and they volunteered in droves. He has a new show under production and they've done the same again. Still, he's not mobbed by fans on the sidewalk; if anything, he's off by himself while the rest of the crowd is paying attention to each other. No one seems to notice him slip away, and soon the Guildies head out together in search of more fun.
The Guild of Extras began with a problem. For the web series' fifth season, set to shoot in May 2011, Day wanted to have the characters all travel together to a gaming convention, the aptly named "Mega-gamaromicon." But to make this con believable, she would need extras–lots of extras, on a scale far beyond what the show had ever required. They found a location to shoot the convention scenes: The Long Beach Comic Expo agreed to let them shoot in its space during the early morning hours, before it was in session. But they needed bodies to fill the space, ideally people who looked like real gamers, with some of them in costume. Worse, the expo told them that all the extras they brought in would need to buy badges to attend.
Brian Kameoka, then *The Guild'*s assistant director, put out a call to fans on Facebook and Twitter. He tried to be forthright about the downsides. The show needed 100 to 200 people who could come spend long days as extras, on a web series, for no money–negative money, really, when you counted the cost of that expo badge. But there was one definite upside: Thanks to the crowded convention setting, Kameoka could guarantee that anyone who showed up would get to be on the show.
The response blew Kameoka away. Fans didn't just show up from the L.A. area, or even from other parts of California. A sister and brother flew in from Ohio. A devoted Canuck journeyed down from Edmonton. Some out-of-towners needed places to stay, and locals agreed to put them up. Once on set, the fan extras suffered the long hours and stultifying downtime with no complaints. (This amazed the show's crew, who were accustomed to dealing with pushy L.A. extras and their constant grumbling for screen time. Kameoka jokes that The Guild had the only extras in history who needed to be asked to do more in front of the camera.)
These fans had all found out about the show in different ways. As one might expect, the MMORPG-themed series has been extremely popular among online gamers, who find its character types (the lewd high-schooler, the uptight middle-aged hyperplanner, the neglectful mother of young kids, etc.) particularly resonant. If you play World of Warcraft, "you know every one of those people," says Rachelle Trial, one of the extras. Christopher Setts, a 27-year-old Air Force staff sergeant, actually happened across his first Guild episode while searching for some WoW help on Google – "'how to raid,' or something like that," he recalls with a laugh.
Other extras found their way to Day's series because of her earlier work, particularly Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, a Joss Whedon musical miniseries that has become a sort of Rocky Horror for its fans, who stage raucous screenings where the whole audience sings (and even speaks) along with the film. Anne Lamsa, a reserved, leonine microbiology researcher at UC San Diego, found out about The Guild after driving up to L.A. to attend just such a screening. So did fellow Whedon fan Olivia Youngers, a 25-year-old Oaklandite and who works on clinical trials for a pharmaceutical company and attended her first Firefly convention at the age of 12.
They all found the show separately–but on set, they found one another. On a typical day, "we would sit in a holding room for hours and hours and hours," says Trial. And while they sat there, they played games. They talked about other shows they liked, and watched some of them together on laptops or phones. As requested, some of the extras had arrived in costume, so at times they even acted out mock battles. By the end of shooting, the show had blown through its budget and didn't have enough food for the extras, so the extras went potluck; Lamsa made hundreds of cookies. The show's cast started coming in to eat with the extras because their food was better.
When it was time to go, Lamsa set up a private Facebook group for everyone to chat. "None of us thought that it would last past a month," she says. In large part, her motivation was to create a venue where the extras could spoil plot points on the show without violating their NDAs. Almost immediately, though, people started posting about stuff that was only tangentially related to the show: new shows they liked, events they were going to, suggestions for places and times to meet up. Almost without realizing it, they'd all become good friends. That same July, Jen Ramirez found herself rooming at San Diego Comic-Con with Lamsa and Trial. She'd only known them for two months, but it "already felt like years," Ramirez says.
Meanwhile, as individual members of *The Guild'*s cast and crew hatched more projects, they realized that the Guild of Extras was an enormous resource. Teal Sherer, a paraplegic actress who plays a rival guild member on the show, started a series called My Gimpy Life and populated it heavily with Guildies. Another recurring player on the show went on to start a web production group called Team Unicorn, which has also leaned on the Guild of Extras to fill out the productions. Felicia Day's Geek & Sundry channel has used them as extras in a couple of its shows, including LearningTown, which stars the musical comedy duo Paul and Storm (whose George R.R. Martin-themed song "Write Like the Wind" was so hilariously interrupted during Comic-Con).
"It's gotten to be distracting to watch these web shows," says Lamsa. "I just keep pausing them, because I know everyone!"
It's an interesting case of life imitating art: The original premise of The Guild was to plumb the comic possibilities of what might happen when a group of gamers, people who have a deep connection online, suddenly meet up in the physical world. In the show's very first episode, Day's character is "dumped" by her psychotherapist, who rebukes her for not giving up on the game. "You can't grow," growls the therapist, "if you're immersed in an imaginary social environment."
Similarly, these Guild fans were an online tribe, but when they heard the call for extras, they took the seemingly radical step of coming out in real life, some of them traveling long distances for the privilege. And many of them have grown quite a lot from the trip, both in their professional and personal lives.
At the time she came out to be an extra, Jes Reaves was working a marketing job at a Bay Area tech startup, but her real love was costume-making; after her experience with the Guild of Extras, she quit her job and moved to L.A. She's been pursuing a new career as a professional costumer ever since. (She's also picked up work as a production assistant on various projects, and has shot her own web series, "Dear Cersei," based on the premise that the inebriated Lannister queen has a video advice column.)
Since moving to Los Angeles, Reaves has begun rooming with another Guildie, Dallas Bloom. Bloom's father died a few months before the call came out for extras, and as a Guild fan and gamer, he feels a sort of "kismet" about the way he connected to the group, since the shooting location was just a few blocks from his house. Over the past two years, his and Reaves' house has emerged as a sort of Guild of Extras headquarters, hosting tabletop role-playing games and weekend-long movie marathons.
The Guild of Extras isn't a total substitute for a real-world social milieu–for one thing, it's not much of a dating scene, at least not yet. ("We had one couple, but it didn't work out," says Bloom. "They're still friends, though.") But as a hybrid online/meetspace community, built at the crossroads between ambition and appreciation, it serves as an interesting model for how creative people might find and hold onto each other in the internet era.
These are people whose interests aligned online, but they met offline; since then, they've stayed connected online, but they spend a lot of their time wishing for when they can meet up offline again. It's the way a lot of us live these days. If physical distance forces the Extras to be slightly less than best friends, their real-world gatherings allows them to become far more than fans–or, perhaps better put, to become fans with something extra.


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NEW ORLEANS - Home Automation, Inc. (HAI), a manufacturer of integrated automation and security products, recently received two awards from the Security Industry Association. The Security Industry's Finest and the Judges Choice Award for Residential Products were presented to HAI President Jay McLellan on August 29th at the International Security Conference and Expo held in New York.
This internationally recognized conference, which highlights the newest and most innovative security products, broke all previous records with 54 entrants. The top 20 were then eligible to advance to the second round of judging, of which the highest honors were the two Judges Choice Awards in the Commercial and Residential Product categories. "It's a great honor to receive this recognition from the Security Industry," noted McLellan. "We've had nothing but positive feedback from dealers and installers since we released the OmniLT in June, so the awards are really the icing on the cake." The award-winning OmniLT is the result of 15 years of automation design and engineering. HAI says it's the first integrated security and automation system designed specifically to meet the needs and budgets of residents who live in smaller homes, condos, townhouses, and apartments. It combines features for intuitive automation at a cost significantly less than what home automation systems have cost in the past, according to HAI.
Security, lighting, energy management, scene capability, fire protection, and appliance control are standard features. In addition, the OmniLT supports two- and four-wire smoke detectors, has contact ID features, and has a built-in Omni-Link serial interface for connection to the Internet via HAI's Web-Link software, as well as personal computers, and Connectivity Partner options like touchscreens, voice recognition, and home theater controls.
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During the hot summer months, it can be hard to psych yourself up to "get out and sweat." But according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), intense cardio isn't the only way to boost heart health.
Gentle poses can tone this life-giving muscle, too, by stretching and compressing the torso and rib cage, which house and protect the heart, and by activating the meridian (energy path) that carries the heart's energy.
"When you hold a pose and relax into it, you stimulate the connective tissues that the deeper meridians run through, improving their ability to function," says Sarah Powers, author of "Insight Yoga."
Powers developed this sequence of poses to address the major body parts through which the heart meridian flows. "The idea is to relax, release stress, and let your body rest," she says, "so it can balance and heal itself."
For optimal heart health, alternate between a day of quiet practice and a day of more active exercise like Vinyasa yoga or traditional cardio. Balancing physically demanding exercise with a gentler routine works your heart in new ways, while nourishing your whole being.
Find a cool spot to spread out your mat, and use whatever props (pillows, blankets) you need to make each pose comfortable. Breathe naturally when performing this routine -- don't strive or push -- and let your muscles soften. Start by spending 1 to 3 minutes in each pose, and then gradually work up to 3 to 5 minutes.
What it does: Compresses the front of the torso, nourishing the heart meridian. Also opens the hips and lower back, and decompresses the spine.
How to do it: Sit on the floor with knees bent and soles of the feet touching. Move your feet away from your hips so that your legs form a diamond shape. Lift your spine tall and bring your hands to your ankles, palms together. Fold forward at the hips; at the same time, extend your arms as far in front of you as you can, keeping your palms together. Let your head fall forward or rest it on a firm pillow (or stack of pillows, depending on your flexibility) placed on your feet or lower legs (again, depending on flexibility). Hold for 1 to 3 minutes.
What it does: Lifts and broadens the chest, which stimulates the heart meridian. Temporarily puts pressure on the lower back, releasing tension and stimulating the kidneys, which promotes vitality.
How to do it: Lie on your belly on the floor with your legs, buttocks, and feet relaxed and arms folded (palms down) by your sides. Prop yourself up on your forearms, with your elbows shoulder-width apart and 1 inch ahead of your shoulders. Bring your palms together. The buttocks, legs, and feet remain relaxed. Gaze straight ahead, keeping your chest lifted and shoulders back. Hold for 1 to 3 minutes.
What it does: Opens the chest and heart meridian and relieves lower-back tension. Also stimulates the kidneys.
How to do it: Lie on your stomach with your legs relaxed and arms extended in front of you. Using your back muscles, lift your torso up into a backbend and rest your hands on the floor about 4 inches in front of your shoulders, keeping them slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Turn your hands out to a 45-degree angle; don't lock your elbows. Look directly ahead. Hold for 1 to 3 minutes. (If you feel any pain, follow suggestions from Sphinx pose.) To come out, bend your arms and lower your torso to the floor. Spend a minute on your stomach, and then push your hips back and sit on your heels, with head down and arms stretched in front of you. Stay for a few minutes to rest the lower back.
What it does: Applies gentle pressure to the shoulders and upper arms, stimulating the heart meridian as it travels to the fingertips. Also relieves tension in the neck and upper back.
How to do it: Start on all fours with your knees directly under your hips and palms below your shoulders. Drop your left forearm to the floor; it should be horizontal in relation to your body, with the upper arm perpendicular to the forearm. Reach your right arm straight out with fingers spread and extended. Stretch your spine until it is as long as possible, keeping your hips directly above your knees (adjust your arms to accommodate the length of your spine), and rest your head on your left forearm. Relax for 1 to 3 minutes. Come back to all fours, reverse the placement of your arms, and repeat the move.
What it does: Energizes the chest and side of the body, nourishing the heart and lung meridians. Also stimulates the meridians of the lower body, improving the flow of qi (energy) throughout your body.
How to do it: Sit on a mat with your legs in a wide straddle and your weight shifted slightly forward. Lift your spine tall, and then lean your torso to the left and bring your left elbow to the floor in front of your left knee. Reach the right arm overhead and let it rest on your head. Relax for 1 to 3 minutes, then return to the starting position for 5 breaths. Repeat on the right.
What it does: Stretches the spine, abdomen, and chest, stimulating the heart meridian. Also improves digestion. "This pose is particularly helpful to anyone with diseases of the breast, heart, or lungs," says Powers, "because it gently opens the chest, encouraging the flow of qi and activating the body's natural healing response."
How to do it: Lie on your back with your knees bent, soles of the feet on the floor, and arms extended in a "T." Drop both knees to the floor on your left, keeping your right leg stacked directly on top of your left leg and your knees at hip height. Keep your right shoulder weighted toward the floor. Extend your right arm straight above your head. Turn your head to the left and stay for 1 to 3 minutes. Use your abs to bring your knees back to center. Rest here for 5 breaths, then switch sides and repeat. When done, hug your knees into your chest for 5 breaths to allow your spine to unwind.


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I like having the variety of bottles. I can have 5 or 6 kinds of beer in my beer fridge to choose from and I don't feel bad if I don't drink on a particular beer for a week. But with my kegerator, which is 2 taps, I feel like I have to drink those more regularly and I'm not always in the mood for the same beer night after night.
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With $85 billion in automatic cuts due to take effect on Friday, millions of fans across the country will likely miss out on the precision flying team's thrilling shows this year.
Blue Angels shows scheduled in more than two dozen cities between April and September are expected to be canceled as part of the cuts, said the team's spokeswoman, Lieutenant Katie Kelly. Some shows featuring the Blue Angels already have been called off in the face of budget uncertainties.
The grounding would be a sentimental loss for fans but not as serious as other reductions to defense spending, which President Barack Obama said could threaten Navy readiness. The Defense Department said the cuts would slash ship and aircraft maintenance, curtail training and result in 22 days' unpaid leave for most of the Pentagon's 800,000 civilian employees.
Programs such as the Blue Angels would take a back seat to "making sure ships are seaworthy and planes are airworthy for the war fighters who are operating overseas," said Lieutenant John Supple, spokesman for the Chief of Naval Air Training in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The news has saddened longtime fans, disappointed city leaders and sparked an online petition to the White House to save the Blue Angels' season. About 1,200 people had signed as of Thursday.
"They're an American icon, and they really resonate in a military town," said Ashton Hayward, mayor of Pensacola, Florida, home to the naval air station where the Blue Angels are based.
Pensacola's Blue Angels beach show each July pumps an additional $2.5 million into the local economy, according to a 2012 study.
"People plan their annual family trips around the shows and the impact on business is phenomenal," Hayward said. "If the Blue Angels end, it's going to be a sad, sad day for not just us, but for millions of people all over the country."
Air shows scheduled for May at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina, and for June in Indianapolis, already have been canceled, organizers and U.S. Air Force officials announced in recent weeks.
The Air Force said its Thunderbirds exhibition flying team also is expected to be grounded if the so-called sequestration cuts happen.
The budget cuts will affect cities from Seattle to North Kingstown, Rhode Island, where the Rhode Island National Guard Air Show draws thousands of visitors to the small town each year.
The city's Quonset Air Base closed in the 1970s, but a sense of military pride still runs deep. Losing the Blue Angels would deal a huge blow for the show in late June, said Elizabeth Dolan, North Kingstown's town council president.
"Everybody looks forward to when they come," she said. "They fly right up over my house, and it's amazing and emotional to watch."
The Blue Angels program began in 1946 and costs about $40 million a year. Cancelling the bulk of the performing season would save about $28 million, according to Navy officials.
Because of the timing of the cuts, the Angels will still perform in March at the El Centro Air Show in southern California and the Southernmost Air Spectacular show in Key West, Florida.
The 130-person team, which includes seven pilots, consists of members who have served in high-level tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Should the budget cuts go into effect, the team would be reassigned until there is enough money for them to take to the skies again, Supple said.
Tickle, a 32-year-old from Birmingham, Alabama, said he was inspired to become an expert naval pilot after watching Blue Angels performances during family vacations to Pensacola when he was a child. He is now a lieutenant commander in the Navy and the Blue Angels' lead solo pilot.
"I remember looking up at these shining blue and gold precision aircraft and thinking, 'I want to do that.' It gave me a feeling of amazement and pride," he said.
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SEATTLE — Allstar Fitness, which operates fitness clubs in Washington and Oregon, violated federal law when its manager sexually harassed a female employee on multiple occasions, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.
The EEOC's suit charged that the sexual harassment occurred at two different Allstar Fitness facilities in Seattle. According to the federal agency's investigation, the immediate supervisor of a Latina worker employed in housekeeping deliberately isolated her and forced her to have sex with him repeatedly. The supervisor warned the employee to stay quiet if she wanted to keep her job, the EEOC said. After months of abuse on a regular basis, when she told him "No more," and threatened to report the attacks, she was fired.
"Keeping my job meant more than anything to me," said the employee. "It meant being able to provide for my children and my mother. I didn't want to risk losing my job, and my supervisor took advantage of this; he used it against me."
Sexual harassment and termination as retaliation for speaking out about sexual harassment violate Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle ((EEOC V. Allstar Fitness, LLC., CV-10-1082) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC seeks monetary damages on behalf of the worker, training on anti-discrimination laws, posting of notices at the work site, and other injunctive relief.
"No one should be forced to choose between personal dignity and the paycheck that feeds your family," said EEOC Seattle Field Office Director Luis Lucero. "By law, employers must protect their workers and take responsibility for the actions of their supervisors, but Allstar had no employee training, no written workplace policies, and no complaint procedure."
EEOC Regional Attorney William R. Tamayo said, "Here, the supervisor abused his power and assumed that this woman's desperation and vulnerability would keep her silent. It is the EEOC's duty to champion her right – and the rights of all workers – to speak out, and to a workplace free from sexual harassment."
Noting that "the EEOC has seen an alarming rise in harassment cases involving egregious sexual assaults being committed against female workers, particularly those from immigrant communities," Tamayo cited recent examples. Last year in October 2009, EEOC filed a lawsuit against La Pianta L.C.C., which does business as Frenchman Hills Vineyard in Othello, Wash., alleging that a supervisor sexually assaulted a Latina worker. Also in June 2009, EEOC filed a lawsuit against Willamette Tree Wholesale, Inc. located in Molalla, Ore., alleging that Latina workers there were sexually harassed, threatened, and in one case, repeatedly raped. In 2008, in another case involving the rape of a female worker by her supervisor, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the judgment on a jury verdict of more than $1,000,000 in favor of the EEOC and farm worker Olivia Tamayo (no relation to William Tamayo) in a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Coalinga, Calif.-based Harris Farms.
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To answer your question, yes, we did watch the Oscars last night, and since we think Crash is aggressively awful, we weren't going to bring it up today.
Until we got this email: If anyone TIVO'd the Oscars, go to :05 into the show and a close-up of George Clooney cheering the intro of John Stewart. Right behind Clooney in the frame (2 rows behind) is none other than Don Nelson......Nellie in the A-list seats at the Oscars!!!!! No longer coaching the Mavs..........but hanging out with the stars!!!! If you get the freeze-frame, it will be obvious.
And then we remembered: Hey, we did see former Mavericks coach Don Nelson in the audience. But had we imagined that? What the hell was Don Nelson doing there?
Turns out: He really was there, as a guest of actor (and Butterscotch Stallion) Owen Wilson.
We can't tell you what a relief it was to learn Nellie was actually there. We really were starting to think we were insane. Anybody have it recorded? We'd love to see screenshots.
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The video above shows the scene earlier this afternoon outside Upper Darby High School in suburban Philly. The footage was sent to us by a reader, and it looks and sounds like it was filmed by a student inside a classroom at the school. As the scene unfolds, the students watching from inside the school had no clue what was going on; they only knew what they could see: Police mysteriously dragging several naked people out of a van parked just outside.
Let's let the Delaware County Times take it from here:
According to the top cop, police learned the family arrived at Upper Darby High School approximately 10 a.m. to have her [sic] biological child released from school.
"Because she has no parental rights school officials would not release the child and said she couldn't take the child out of school," Chitwood said. "They started singing religious songs and lay prone on the sidewalk at the entrance to the building."
School district security ordered the family off the property and they returned approximately 1 p.m. and took off all their clothes.
"They disrobed between parked cars and were running around chanting prayers to Jesus," Chitwood said. "When police got there they locked their arms in defiant protest. When we get them back to the police station we gave them their clothes and the mom refuses to put her clothes on. She's the leader of the pack."
Arrested were Sara Butler, 43; her children Joanne, 23, and Bessie, 22; and a 14-year-old boy.
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SANFORD, Fla. - A man accidentally shot his friend in his leg on Thursday night while he was trying to kill a snake, according to Seminole County deputies.
Deputies said three men were riding down Sylvan Lake Drive at 11 p.m. Thursday night and stopped so one of them could use the bathroom when they spotted a large snake in the roadway.
Christopher Rape then exited the vehicle in an attempt to scare it back toward the roadway when Jared Hemphill got a Remington Speedmaster semi-automatic rifle from the truck and fire a shot at the snake, according to the incident report.
Instead, Hemphill accidentally shot Rape in the leg and threw his gun down, deputies said. The trio called authorities, who investigated the shooting, deemed it accidental and took Rape to the hospital.
No criminal charges have been filed.
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., April 15 (UPI) -- Jessica Simpson showed off her drastic weight loss once again while attending the John Varvatos Stuart House Benefit in West Hollywood on Sunday.
The 33-year-old singer turned fashion designer wore a form fitting canary yellow dress and white high heels to the event.
Love u! RT @johnvarvatos: The gorgeous @JessicaSimpson gracing the red carpet at the 11th annual #StuartHouse benefit pic.twitter.com/kb9iiKdozW— Jessica Simpson (@JessicaSimpson) April 14, 2014
Simpson signed a Weight Watchers endorsement deal when she was still pregnant with her first child, a daughter named Maxwell, back in 2012. Simpson later became pregnant with her second child, a boy named Ace, who was born in the summer of 2013. Since then, Simpson has been working with the company to lose her pregnancy weight.
In a February Weight Watchers ad, Simpson showcased her 70-pound weight loss in a fitted black dress, joking that she was "too proud to sit down." In her following advertisement, revealed in March, the mother of two said she had a "newfound determination that I'm really proud of."
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YouTube's Methods Channel Unrest
INTERNET: Content producers question promotion, revenue split.
Online news and politics network Young Turks is a hit.
The YouTube channel has more than 1 million subscribers and recently crossed the 1 billion mark for video views. Monthly advertising revenue reportedly is in the six figures, and that and other revenue streams have allowed the Culver City company to build up a staff of 30.
But Steve Oh, its chief operating officer, thinks the network should be even bigger. And so should many other YouTube stars, for that matter.
The blame for why they aren't, he said, lies partially with the video website.
"YouTube's promotion is entirely based on algorithms and search," Oh said. "They don't give a crap about your star potential"
To be fair, Oh maintains that he's a big fan of YouTube. The Google Inc.-owned site invested in TYT Network, Young Turks' parent company, as one of the recipients of its partner program, which was set up last year to fund original content.
"We trust them inherently," Oh said.
Yet criticisms of the site – something that was nearly unheard in the earliest days of the push for original content – are cropping up. While overall feelings between channels and YouTube remain positive, there is a growing sense from some fledgling networks that policies might need to evolve to better benefit creators.
Some, like Oh, said YouTube has to flex its promotional muscle – start being less a metrics-obsessed tech company and more a hype-fueled Hollywood studio. Others have complained about the share YouTube takes for ad revenue. The amount varies from deal to deal, but the most commonly discussed split is 55-45 in favor of the networks.
Jason Calacanis, founder of Culver City YouTube network Inside, has been particularly noisy on the latter topic. Last month he posted a note on his personal blog announcing that he had turned down Google's latest funding offer in the partner program, finding the terms of their relationship to be onerous. YouTube's share of ad revenue was too big, its sales team too weak and the company too withholding with subscriber information, he wrote.
"If YouTube met us halfway on two or three of those issues, I would have kept working with them, but YouTube has a 'take it or leave it' approach to partnerships," Calacanis later wrote in an email to the Business Journal.
While Calacanis' post put a point on an issue that had caused grumblings for some time, YouTube defended its promotion and revenue-generation efforts in a statement to the Business Journal.
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The Boston Red Sox and Oakland A's landed in Japan yesterday — their series starts Tuesday at 6 a.m. ET — after an 18-hour flight. We've never taken an 18-hour flight, but if we did, the last thing we'd want as soon as we got off the plane would be a bunch of photographers ready to take our picture.
The Red Sox didn't handle it well; Kevin Youkilis, in particularly, looks like, as UmpBump puts it, "you can actually see every minute of that 18-hour flight on his face." Yipes.
By the way, we had never noticed how much Jack Cust looks like The Daily Show's Rob Riggle. We suppose that makes sense.
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Vanilla boysenberry ripple. Karen Martini ICE CREAM recipes for Epicure and Good Food. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Styling by Caroline Velik. PLEASE DO NOT CROP OUT FOREGROUND OF DISH OR IMAGE. The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald.Not everyone has the time, or the inclination, to spend hours making dessert. Churning your own ice-cream is admirable, but doesn't always fit into a busy schedule. But this doesn't mean you can't impress at the end of a meal.
Vanilla and blackberry caramel ripple ice-cream
This is simple to make and dresses up store-bought ice-cream in a really fresh and flavoursome way. It's ideal for a casual barbecue or party. Serve it in paper cups or frozen tall glasses with fresh berries and long spoons.
300g frozen blackberries (you can use mixed berries)
1L high-quality vanilla ice-cream
200g castor sugar
2 tbsp water
Juice of 1/2 lemon
Fresh berries to serve (optional)
Icing sugar (optional)
1. Take the berries from the freezer and empty into a food processor. Remove the ice-cream from the freezer to soften.
2. Put castor sugar in a small saucepan, add the water and stir. Place over high heat and cook to a medium-coloured caramel without stirring. Watch carefully, as it can burn quickly.
3. Start to blend the berries while slowly pouring the caramel through the feed tube of the food processor. Blitz until smooth. Add the lemon juice and pulse. Strain through a fine sieve, pressing with the back of a spoon to get all the liquid.
4. Empty ice-cream into a shallow container. Make random holes in the ice-cream to take the berry mixture – you will need enough holes to take about 300 millilitres of liquid. Pour berry mixture into the holes. Flatten out the top and place in the freezer, uncovered, until solid.
5. Scoop across the tray to get the ripple effect and serve with fresh berries dusted with icing sugar.
Serves 8-10
Drink Young Rutherglen muscat, chilled
Tip Fresh berries and icing sugar are a great final touch to this simple spin on an old favourite.
Banana and coconut 'ice-cream' sandwich with chocolate and toasted coconut
This is more creamy ice than ice-cream; it doesn't have the silky texture of a classic churned custard, but the bananas add real richness and texture. Get the kids involved in the sandwiching and dunking. And remember: chocolate-covered fingers are the easiest to clean.
About 600g very ripe banana flesh (5-7 bananas, skin turning black)
500ml coconut cream
Juice of 1/2 a lemon
150g soft brown sugar
400g dark chocolate callets (buttons)
20 rectangular ice-cream wafers
30g toasted coconut chips (shaved)
1. In a food processor add bananas, coconut cream, lemon juice and sugar and blend until smooth.
2. Pour mixture into a rectangular container, about 10 centimetres by 30 centimetres, lined with cling film. Choose a container that best matches the shape of your wafers. Freeze for six hours or overnight.
3. Before assembling, melt chocolate in a small bowl over simmering water. Remove from heat when fully melted.
4. Cut set ice-cream into 10 slices and sandwich together between wafers.
5. Dip one end of the sandwich into the melted chocolate, then into toasted coconut and lie sandwich on a lined tray. Put back in the freezer for five minutes to set the chocolate. Serve.
Serves 10
Coconut and lime icy pole with spiced syrup and pineapple
This is an adult dessert caught up in a childhood memory. The spice syrup has fairly sophisticated flavours and the super-fine pineapple dice with slivers of lime leaf adds refined freshness, but there's no avoiding that it's on a stick. It works best with a flat-sided icy-pole mould; a wooden stick ups the nostalgia.
300g castor sugar
120ml water
500ml coconut cream
Juice of 3-4 large limes (100ml)
Spice syrup
8cm piece of young ginger, sliced
1 lemongrass stalk, chopped
10 allspice berries
6 cloves
300g Dulce sugar (you can also use soft brown sugar)
100ml water
6 lime leaves
1 small pineapple
1. For the ice, add the sugar and water to a small saucepan, bring to a simmer then take off the heat and leave to cool.
2. In a mixing jug, combine the coconut cream, lime juice and the cooled sugar syrup and pour into icy-pole moulds. Freeze for six hours or overnight.
3. Syrup: crush the ginger, lemongrass, allspice and cloves in a mortar and pestle.
4. Tip crushed spices into a small saucepan, along with the sugar and water, stir and slowly bring to a simmer. Bring to the boil then immediately turn off the heat and allow to cool for a few minutes.
5. Strain through a fine sieve, pressing with a ladle or the back of a spoon to extract as much syrup as possible. Cool.
6. To serve: shred lime leaves as finely as possible. Peel and finely dice pineapple. Mix together. Unmould icy poles onto plates and spoon lime leaf and pineapple over and drizzle with spice syrup.
Serves About 8
Drink Champagne; Passiona (more nostalgia)
Tip Cling wrap filled icy-pole moulds and push sticks through wrap to help hold in place.
Styling by Caroline Velik. Plates from Mud, spoon from Ex Libris.
All photos by Marina Oliphant.
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The road to becoming a green building professional has been a winding journey fashioned by surprises, luck, and good old-fashioned hard work. It was a pathway I knew I wanted to embark on a decade after my initial peek into the expansive and often intimidating built environment. The forces of constant exposure and interactions with various fields and members of the building industry consumed my passion. I realized sustainability was my calling within architecture. How could I contribute?
Post-graduation, I discovered USGBC and my mind's gears shifted in a full revolution! I quickly understood that if I wanted to become well versed in sustainability, I should grasp the concepts of LEED, and so I set my eyes upon the LEED Green Associate. Within a few months, I enrolled in education courses, studied, and passed the exam.
I couldn't have predicted that the same year, I'd also be attending the most captivating of conferences. Each year, architects, engineers, policymakers, manufacturers, vendors, fabricators, contractors, and many more, convene at Greenbuild to discuss all types of technical and social issues. In 2013, I received the Greenbuild Scholarship, and in Philadelphia I felt like I found my second home. Like-minded individuals, who wanted to raise awareness, create a unified voice for all the sub-sectors of our industry, and lead by example, flooded the halls of the exposition by the thousands.
I returned from Greenbuild much inspired and determined, and set my sights on achieving a LEED AP BD+C credential. While the exam itself was not an easy feat, I gained knowledge of worldwide industry standards, an acute comprehension of construction 'green' phase scheduling, building occupant roles, and other crucial facets I had not observed as evidently.
What would I say to others who have been called to sustainability? Join USGBC. Become a part of the dialogue. Become a LEED AP and gain the knowledge to mentor others on a standard that has guided thousands of experts and rated thousands of buildings all around the world.
As an emerging professional, I have a ton of ground to cover. But I'm excited that I will be part of a passionate network of professionals who will cheer me on each and every step of the way. USGBC has led, and has taught me to lead. I invite you to become a part of this movement, too.


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Young Life East Manatee will host a Spike for Haiti Volleyball Tournament from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Sept. 7 at Christ Presbyterian Church, 515 Upper Manatee River Road.
The volleyball tournament, which is open to anyone wishing to participate, will consist of four-person teams squaring off against one another.
Donuts, hotdogs, hamburgers and drinks will be sold during the tournament. All winners of the tournament will be awarded various prizes, including Panera, Applebee's and Chipotle gift certificates. In addition, all participants will be entered into a drawing for a pair of Tampa Bay Rays tickets behind the dugout.
Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the children of Haiti. For more information contact Kirstin Shontere at 720-4184 or [email protected] or Kelly Pleasant at [email protected].


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Low Tide Putters: Custom putters that tell a story -- your story
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Published: Friday, January 03, 2014 | 10:15 a.m.
In case you didn't know, your options for high-quality/high-end putters isn't limited to what you find in your local golf shop.
There are quite a few boutique putter makers out there who not only build incredible putters that can double up as pieces of art, but they can also customize your flat-stick however you desire.
One of those boutique putter makers relatively new to the business are Josh Bumgarner and Zack Potts, owners of Charlotte, N.C.-based, "Low Tide Custom Putters."
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Like most great stories in these circles, Low Tide's started on the golf course.
In the spring of 2012, Bumgarner and Potts where playing a round of golf when they came up with the idea to design their own custom putters. They strived to come up with something that couldn't be purchased off the rack -- something that was more personal and could be passed down through generations for families.
Between the two, 10 years of design experience and another 12 years of machining and CAD experience, Bumgarner (Low Tide owner, putter designer, putter maker, CNC programmer and machinist) and Potts (Low Tide owner, putter designer, graphic designer and marketing specialist) were able to make their vision become a reality.
We recently caught up with Bumgarner and Potts for a Q&A about the new company.
PGA.com: Tell me a little about yourself. What is it that got you involved in making putters?
Potts: Josh and I met on the golf course. We knew that there were many putters available to the public, but we wanted to create something that was unique and personal. Having over 10 years of design experience and a dozen years of machining and CAD experience under our belts, we knew that we had the know-how to make it happen. We each have been playing the game for nearly 30 years, so we knew what we wanted. We came up with a couple of designs that we liked and started working on them.
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PGA.com: Was this a hobby that turned into a business?
Bumgarner: It was completely a hobby, until we made our first putter... The night that we made the original FIN, we looked at each other and knew that we had started something special. After we shared our story online, we immediately received positive feedback. Within the first 30 minutes of our story being posted, we already had nearly a dozen inquiries of people asking how and where they could purchase one of our putters. We didn't expect that at all.
PGA.com: Boutique putter makers -- such as yourself -- seem to be popping up all over the place lately. Why do you think that is? Do you all just envision a need or want that you can't seem to find elsewhere?
Potts: There are many great putter makers out there but we live in a day and age where people want something different, something personal. Using the foundation for the designs of our putters, we allow the customer to have say in how their putter is made. We want it to fit their eye perfectly. Many off the rack companies don't make that accessible for the majority of golfers.
PGA.com: What separates Low Tide putters from others?
Bumgarner: We allow the customer to customize in more ways than one. Many manufacturers are mass producing their clubs and because of this, they limit the number of adjustments that can be made to their product. We're different. If someone calls us and wants a putter with 8 degrees of loft, 63 degree lie angle, and a length of 38.25 inches, we'll make it happen. We also like to keep our customers updated as much as possible during the process. We usually send pictures of the putters in progress so that they can see where their putter is during different stages.
PGA.com: Tell me about your current offerings. It looks like you've got three different models with seemingly endless customization options.
Potts: We set out to make putters that are different, not similar. We keep it simple. We use minimal lines with easy alignment. When we designed the first putter, the FIN, we wanted to make a wide body blade style putter that squared up to the target easily. The Whale Tail followed shortly after. We knew that Mallets were hot in the marketplace and that they were growing in popularity .
PGA.com: What has been the highlight of Low Tide so far? Any customer feedback that truly sticks out?
Bumgarner: We think that the customers deserve all of the credit. We have a lot of passion for what we do but to receive the kind of feedback that we do on a regular basis is incredible. We love getting emails or phone calls saying how they were completely blown away by their experience and how well the putter feels.
PGA.com: Can you tell us about the process involved in making a putter?
Potts: Each one of our putters is milled from a solid billet. Nothing is cast and every piece that we do, is done by us in Charlotte, N.C. Because each piece is milled on the CNC, the tolerances are extremely tight and we are able to produce a high quality and precise product for our customers.
PGA.com: How did you come up with the name, "Low Tide?"
Bumgarner: After brainstorming about 200 different names, we each picked our favorites. Low Tide was the one that we both picked as our first choice. We live in Charlotte and love the beach. We feel that the words alone can evoke a feeling or memory in people. We wanted something casual, laid back, and fun.
PGA.com: Along with the beautiful putters, you also offer something called, "the Putting Puck." Tell our readers about it. It looks like a fantastic tool to keep in the bag for those times when you want to warm up on a practice green only to find there are no holes cut out on the green -- or great even for putting practice at home.
Potts: We wanted to create something for our first 20 customers as a commemorative token, but we wanted it be useful. The putting puck was designed to be the exact diameter of a golf hole. You never want to show up at the course on a Saturday morning and try to compete for one of the five holes on the practice green. The putting puck is a great tool (and conversation piece) to have in your golf bag or at home. Because it's mobile, you can place it anywhere on the putting surface to practice the type of putts that you need to.
PGA.com: If someone was trying to decide between a Low Tide putter and one from a big-time manufacturer in a box store, why would you encourage them to lean toward Low Tide?
Bumgarner: During our research, we've discovered that most people are not using a putter that fits their stroke. Our goal is to not only make you a stellar flat stick, but also make sure it's set up for you. For years it seems the industrial standard has been 71-degree lie angle. We have found most golfers have a flatter lie angle. The average seems to be around 68 degrees. We believe that the optimal position for the putter head is for the sole to lay flat on the ground. The putter should be parallel with the ground at impact. All putters have loft and when the toe or heel is pointed toward the sky a compound angle is created causing the face angle to open or close.
PGA.com: I read on your site where you want your putters to be something that people can pass down in the family -- almost like a family keepsake. How satisfying is it when you complete a putter for a customer that tells a story? Is there any one in particular you can share with us?
Potts: When someone places a custom order we really want the experience to be personal. There have been some amazing stories that our customers have shared with us on why they have chosen the custom engravings that they want to include. From children and loved ones, to meaningful nicknames and lucky numbers, it is a piece of their story and we are happy to apply it to something that they will be proud to use out on the course. Golf is a social sport and we want our customers to be proud to share their personal story when someone asks about their putter during a round.
To learn more about Low Tide Custom Putters, visit www.lowtideputters.com. You can also find Low Tide on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, @LowTidePutters.
Pricing for Low Tide Custom Putters start at $275 and go up depending on finish and level of personalization.
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CASCADE, Idaho -- Authorities continued to process the crime scene in a remote wilderness area here after an FBI agent fatally shot the man suspected of kidnapping 16-year-old Hannah Anderson.
Anderson was unharmed but taken to a hospital for observation.
Law enforcement officials offered few other details on the shooting, and would not divulge whether there was a firefight. They did say that no law enforcement officials were hurt during the incident.
Officials said late Saturday that it could take "some time" to fully process the crime scene. A large group of local and federal investigators were on the scene.
James Lee DiMaggio, 40, was killed after he was found by an FBI search team near Morehead Lake, about 70 miles north of Boise, and just a few miles from where the two were spotted by a horseback rider Wednesday, officials said. The agent had been alerted to DiMaggio and the kidnapped teen by searchers scouring the area by plane.
"Hannah's safe, and that's the best outcome we were hoping for," Andrea Dearden, a spokeswoman for the Ada County Sheriff's Department, said during a Sunday news briefing.
"I am nervous, excited and saddened for my wife and son and worried what my daughter has been through," said Brett Anderson, Hannah's father, in a text sent to CNN. "It's now healing time. Keep us in your prayers."
After the shooting, Hannah was helicoptered to a hospital for evaluation. San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said at a news conference that she appeared to be in "pretty good shape" but gave no further details.
The killing ended a tense, multi-state manhunt that began Aug. 4, when firefighters found the bodies of Hannah's mother and younger brother at DiMaggio's burning home, east of San Diego. Ever since, police have been focused on Hannah, who authorities believed was abducted.
The case prompted officials in several Western states to send missing children Amber Alert text messages to the public.
"Obviously, we would have liked Mr. DiMaggio to surrender and face justice in a court of law, but that's not going to be the case," Gore said.
Search crews poured into this mountainous wilderness region late in the week after a pair of major breaks. First, a man riding horseback Wednesday spotted hikers believed to be the missing pair.
The witness said the man and teenage girl had a tent and backpacks, but looked out of place in the rugged terrain. The rider said nothing else seemed particularly unusual, so he continued on. "They exchanged pleasantries and he left the area thinking they were hiking and camping," Dearden said.
Once the rider got home he found out about the Amber Alert, prompting him to contact the Idaho State Police, she said.
Then, on Friday morning, DiMaggio's blue Nissan Versa, featured prominently in the alerts, was found at the edge of a remote trailhead. It was "the last place you can go before you hit the wilderness and stop driving," Dearden said. The car's license plates had been removed but authorities confirmed it was DiMaggio's car by a check of its vehicle identification number. For a time, authorities worried that DiMaggio may have planted explosives in the car, but none were found.
The hunt focused on a roughly 300-square-mile swath of rugged terrain. A haven for wolves, bears and mountain lions, the area is so remote that some searchers had to be flown in while others rode horses.
By Saturday afternoon, roughly 200 local and federal law enforcement officers were combing the federally protected hillsides. Eventually, with air crews circling the skies, a pair of U.S. marshals in a surveillance plane spotted the campsite, DiMaggio and the teen.
DiMaggio was said to be an experienced outdoorsman who had joined the Anderson family on camping trips. Authorities say he recently purchased backpacking equipment -- a sign, they noted, that the abduction may have been planned.
The broader search began last Sunday, when firefighters battled a house fire at DiMaggio's home east of San Diego and eventually found the charred bodies of Hannah's mother, 44-year-old Christiana, and the teen's 8-year old brother, Ethan. Christiana Anderson died of blunt force trauma and may have been hit with a crowbar, a source close to the investigation told The Times.
Once the bodies were found and officials figured out that Hannah was missing, state officials began seeking the public's help -- using for the first time in California an Amber Alert system sent through cell phones. The search quickly broadened beyond U.S. borders, to Mexico and Canada, as well as to Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Idaho.
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Neighborhood: Blue Ash
Location: Former Brewery right off Pfeiffer
Price: $$
Atmosphere: Hands down - Aspara wins. It's a beautiful restaurant with a huge waterfall along one wall and used to be a brewery. Mekong is a small narrow strip mall joint.
Service: Eh - Mekong by a sliver. The service at Aspara was more professional because it's fancier. The waitress didn't bring spoons for the entrees. Then the waitress threw out my dinner companions food instead of boxing it up. They did recook a half-portion for him to take home. It just seemed very generic and textbook. Mekong on the other hand had extremely friendly service but was slow slow slow. But in the end, I'll take the happy & quirky Mekong staffer - she was so friendly and next time I'll order a spring roll to start.
Price: Mekong - as you'll see - it was cheaper across the board. No ambiance - I guess that's where the money goes!
Food: MEKONG BY A MILE!
Aspara Dish #1: Seafood Clay Pot - $19 - sounds good, looks good, tastes eh. Cooked imitation crab and squid kinda yuck. Mussels, shrimp & scallops were fine...quite a few veges. They served it over rice. They don't have brown rice (???). I ordered a 5 on a scale of 1-10 and it was more like what I'd imagine a 7. I just couldn't get over the imitation crab! Plus - the flavor wasn't really much FLAVOR - it was just spicy.
Aspara #2 - Basil Thai Stir Fry with beef ($16) - this I didn't taste but it was beef, peppers and onions. Pretty boring...most thai places have more veges in this dish than just peppers and onions. Good portion size.
Mekong #1 - Spaghetti Thai Spicy ($9) with beef - stir fried spaghetti noodles with thai basil, broccoli, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, carrots, tomatoes and eggs. I ordered it a 1.5 on a 1-3 scale and it was just right. There were a lot of veggies - good variety. The best thing about this dish was the flavor! Many times Thai just has a watery brown sauce that doesn't have much flavor - this was sooo different! It was a little thicker and just had a really wonderful flavor! I couldn't get enough! I could only finish 1/2 and can't wait to chow down the leftovers tomorrow for lunch!
Mekong #2 - Pad See-Eew which is wide rice noodles, stir fried with broccoli, cabbage and eggs in a smokey sauce ($10). This was also amazing. There weren't as many veges but the taste was so good! My friend is normally the type to only eat half - not tonight - he barely had any left to take home - he kept munching away! The beef was cooked so well - almost crispy on the edges. This was the waitress' recommendation and she did NOT steer us wrong!
I do have to say - Mekong is a more "oily" than some of the other big Thai mainstays (RuThai's, Green Papaya, etc...) but the taste is so amazing! The dishes all had great flavor and that's what matters.
But - in this Thai showdown - Mekong wins!


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text: We've been doing this for several years now and every time it's a great example of teamwork and symbolic of a strong community. This season will be no exception hopefully, so let the ID'ing begin! Previous List Threads: Ready-to-Wear S/S 08 Haute Couture S/S 08, Ready-to-Wear F/W 07.08, Cruise 09 Haute Couture F/W 08.09, Ready-to-Wear S/S 09, Pre-Fall 2009 Haute Couture S/S 09, Ready-to-Wear F/W 09.10, Cruise 10 Haute Couture F/W 09.10, Ready-to-Wear S/S 10, Pre-Fall 2010 Haute Couture S/S 10, Ready-to-Wear F/W 10.11, Cruise 11 Haute Couture F/W 10, Ready-to-Wear S/S 11, Pre-Fall 2011 Haute Couture S/S 2011, Ready-to-Wear F/W 2011, Resort 2012 Haute Couture F/W 2011, Ready-to-Wear S/S 2012, Pre-Fall 2012 Haute Couture S/S 2012, Ready-to-Wear F/W 2012, Resort 2013 Haute Couture F/W 2012, Ready-to-Wear S/S 2013, Pre-Fall 2013 Haute Couture S/S 2013, Ready-to-Wear F/W 2013, Resort 2014 Haute Couture F/W 2013, Ready-to-Wear S/S 2014, Pre-Fall 2014 Haute Couture S/S 2014, Ready-to-Wear F/W 2014, Resort 2015 Haute Couture F/W 2014, Ready-to-Wear S/S 2015, Pre-Fall 2015 Haute Couture S/S 2015, Ready-to-Wear F/W 2015, Resort 2016 Haute Couture F/W 2015, Ready-to-Wear S/S 2016, Pre-Fall 2016 Haute Couture S/S 2016, Ready-to-Wear F/W 2016, Resort 2017 Haute Couture F/W 2016, Ready-to-Wear S/S 2017, Pre-Fall 2017 Haute Couture S/S 2017, Ready-to-Wear F/W 2017, Resort 2018 Haute Couture F/W 2017, Ready-to-Wear S/S 2018, Pre-Fall 2018 Haute Couture S/S 2018, Ready-to-Wear F/W 2018, Resort 2019 For a sample list, please refer to this post before creating your own: http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums...0&postcount=74 (Please note the usage of alphabetical order by first name, show, season, city, and the "Opened"/"Closed" or (O) (C) mentions) And here are a couple of simple ground rules to keep the thread as organized as possible: 1. This thread will only focus on fashion weeks in the four major cities. In other words, please post all model showlists from NYC, London, Milan, or Paris. For the showlists of all other worldwide fashion weeks please visit that thread. Please note that this separation is primarily done for organization purposes. 2. No need to hurry! It is preferred that you do not create a showlist until all the images from the show become available. But if you compile a list of around 12 names from the already published pictures (Or if you were present at the show), then it is still okay to submit your list to the thread for further editing later on - however, please put "Incomplete" at the end of the showlist if you know it is not finished. Remember: Even if you cannot edit your own post any longer, the moderators will be able to help out whenever and wherever necessary. If there is an omission, please post the correction, and the original list post will be modified accordingly. 3. Don't forget the ones you didn't recognize! Most likely, there will be faces unidentifiable to you in the entire show. In those cases, please post/link to/upload the images of the unknowns alongside your list so others may help you by posting replies with the missing names. Refer to this post as an example: http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums...&postcount=467 4. Please refrain from discussions about casting. This thread will be dedicated to actual showlists, and opinions/views on casting should be directed to this season's Casting Thread, which will be created in due time in this subforum. If there are any other guidelines you feel should be included here, please let us know Thanks in advance to everyone who participates/assists: let the fun begin and enjoy the coming months!


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The first book to focus on comprehensive systems biology as applied to drug discovery and development
Drawing on real-life examples, Systems Biology in Drug Discovery and Development presents practical applications of systems biology to the multiple phases of drug discovery and development. This book explains how the integration of knowledge from multiple sources, and the models that best represent that integration, inform the drug research processes that are most relevant to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
The first book to focus on comprehensive systems biology and its applications in drug discovery and development, it offers comprehensive and multidisciplinary coverage of all phases of discovery and design, including target identification and validation, lead identification and optimization, and clinical trial design and execution, as well as the complementary systems approaches that make these processes more efficient. It also provides models for applying systems biology to pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and candidate biomarker identification.
Introducing and explaining key methods and technical approaches to the use of comprehensive systems biology on drug development, the book addresses the challenges currently facing the pharmaceutical industry. As a result, it is essential reading for pharmaceutical and biotech scientists, pharmacologists, computational modelers, bioinformaticians, and graduate students in systems biology, pharmaceutical science, and other related fields.
Daniel L. Young, PhD the Director of Computational Biosciences at Theranos Inc., where he leads the development of systems biology approaches to advance and enhance drug discovery and development and the optimal delivery of healthcare. He has written over twenty publications in the field of systems biology.
Seth Michelson, PhD, is the Director of Nonclinical Biostatistics at Genomic Health, Inc. inventor or co-inventor for fourteen patent applications and one issued patent; and has contributed to over seventy publications.
Chapter 1. Introduction to systems biology in drug discovery and development.
1.1 Introduction.
Chapter 2. Methods for In Silico Biology: Model Construction and Analysis.
2.1 Introduction.
2.2 Model building.
2.3 Parameter estimation.
2.4. Model analysis.
2.5 Conclusions.
Chapter 3. Methods in In Silico Biology: Modeling Feedback Dynamics in Pathways.
3.1 Introduction.
3.2 Statistical modeling.
3.3 Mathematical modeling.
3.4 Feedback and feedforward.
3.5 Conclusions.
Chapter 4. Simulation of Population Variability in Pharmacokinetics.
4.1 Introduction.
4.2 PBPK modeling.
4.3 Simulation of pharmacokinetic variability.
4.4 Conclusions and future directions.
Part II: Applications to Drug Discovery.
Chapter 5. Applications of Systems Biology Approaches to Target Identification and Validation in Drug Discovery.
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Typical drug discovery paradigm.
5.3 Integrated drug discovery.
5.4 Drivers of the disease phenotype: clinical endpoints and hypotheses.
5.5 Extracellular disease drivers: mechanistic biotherapeutic models.
5.6 Relevant cell models for clinical endpoints.
5.7 Intracellular disease drivers: signaling pathway quantification.
5.8 Target selection: dynamic pathway modeling.
5.9 Conclusions.
Chapter 6. Lead Identification and Optimization.
6.1 Introduction.
6.2 The systems biology toolkit.
6.3 Conclusions.
Chapter 7. The role of core biological motifs in dose-response modeling: an example with switch-like circuits.
7.1 Introduction: systems perspective in drug discovery.
7.2 Systems biology and toxicology.
7.3 Mechanistic/computational concepts in a molecular/cellular context.
7.4 Response motifs in cell signaling and their role in dose response.
7.5 Discussion and conclusions.
Chapter 8. Mechanism Based Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Modeling During Discovery and Early Development.
8.1 Introduction.
8.2 Challenges in drug discovery and development: the need to bring together PK and PD.
8.3 Methodological aspects and concepts.
8.4 Application during lead optimization.
8.5 Application during clinical candidate selection.
8.6 Entry into human (EIH) preparation and translational PK/PD modeling.
8.7 PK/PD for toxicology study design and evaluation.
8.8 Justification of starting dose, calculation of safety margins, and support of phase I design.
8.9 Phase I and beyond.
8.10 Support of early formulation development.
8.11 Outlook and conclusions.
Part III: Applications to Drug Development.
Chapter 9. Developing Oncology Drugs Using Virtual Patients of Vascular Tumor Diseases.
9.1 Introduction.
9.2 Modeling angiogenesis.
9.3 Use of rigorous mathematical analysis for gaining insight on drug development.
9.4 Use of angiogenesis models in theranostics.
9.5 Use of angiogenesis models in drug salvage: the virtual patient technology.
9.6 Summary and conclusions.
Chapter 10. Systems Modeling Applied to Candidate Biomarker Identification.
10.1 Introduction.
10.2 Biomarker discovery approaches.
10.3 Examples of systems modeling approaches for identification of candidate biomarkers.
10.4 Conclusions.
Chapter 11. Simulating Clinical Trials.
11.1 Introduction.
11.2 Types of models used in clinical trial design.
11.3 Sources of prior information for designing clinical trials.
11.4 Aspects of a trial to be designed and optimized.
11.5 Trial simulation.
11.6 Optimizing designs.
11.7 Real world examples.
11.8 Conclusions.
Part IV: Synergies with other technologies.
Chapter 12. Pathway Analysis in Drug Discovery.
12.1 Introduction: pathway analysis, dynamic modeling, and network analysis.
12.2 Software systems for pathway analysis.
12.3 Pathway analysis in modern drug development pipeline.
12.4 Conclusions.
Chapter 13. Functional mapping for predicting drug response and enabling personalized medicine.
13.1 Introduction.
13.2 Functional mapping.
13.3 Predictive modeling.
13.4 Future directions.
Chapter 14. Future Outlook of Systems Biology.
14.1 Introduction.
14.2 Systems complexity in biological systems.
14.3 Models for quantitative integration of data.
14.4 Changing requirements for systems approaches during drug discovery and development.
14.5 Better models for better decisions.
14.6 Advancing personalized medicine.
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text: Thursday, April 05, 2012 Evidence Supports Using More Chest Compressions for Nonshockable Cardiac Arrest People who have a cardiac arrest that can't be helped by a defibrillator shock are more likely to survive if given cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) based on updated guidelines that emphasize chest compressions, according to the American Heart Association (AHA). AHA changed its CPR guidelines in 2005 to recommend more chest compressions with fewer interruptions. The emphasis on chest compressions continued in the 2010 guidelines update. After the 2005 guidelines, several studies showed improved survival from shockable cardiac arrest. However, new evidence shows that most cardiac arrests—nearly 75%— are due to conditions that don't respond to shocks. Researchers identified 3,960 patients in King County, Washington, who had a type of cardiac arrest that doesn't respond to shock from a defibrillator, or nonshockable cardiac arrest. They compared survival rates among patients who had nonshockable cardiac arrests from 2000-2004—before the 2005 guidelines changes—to those who had nonshockable arrests from 2005-2010 and found: The likelihood of survival to discharge from the hospital improved from 4.6% before to 6.8% after the new guideline changes. The proportion of patients who survived with good brain function increased from 3.4% to 5.1% between study periods. One-year survival almost doubled from 2.7% to 4.9%. Free full text of the study is available online in Circulation.