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A $10 cellphone may be in the works. UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) is reportedly reaching out to Taiwan contract manufacturers to see if it can be done.
If so, the phone may be ready in about two years, according to a report from Digitimes. Details are sketchy, but apparently CITRIS is in touch with a few of Taiwan's contract manufacturing heavyweights, including Hon Hai Precision Industry, Compal Communications and Quanta Computer.
Quanta is the lead manufacturer for the One Laptop Per Child initiative, driven by Nicholas Negroponte at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (See related story: Quanta Computer to build $100 laptop)
There are already a handful of pretty low-cost handsets in the market. The GSM Association sponsored an initiative for ultralow cost handsets, which resulted in products targeted for Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Some second- and third-tier handset brands in China have taken the single-chip devices that came out of this effort and designed them into handsets that sell for about $50-$75. Motorola launched its Motofone in India recently, but reports indicate it has not done well.
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US home sales jump to highest level in three years
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. sales of previously occupied homes jumped to their highest level in three years last month, bolstered by steady job gains and record-low mortgage rates.
The National Association of Realtors says sales rose 5.9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.04 million in November. That's up from 4.76 million in October.
Previously occupied home sales are on track for their best year in five years. November's sales were the highest since November 2009, when a federal tax credit that was scheduled to expire spurred sales. Excluding that month, last month's sales were the highest since July 2007.
Sales are up 14.5 percent from a year ago, though they remain below the roughly 5.5 million that are consistent with a healthy market.

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This year Leiden Observatory invites applications for a number of PhD positions as part of a general call, which has a deadline of December 1. The call covers PhD positions in a large number of fields in both theoretical and observational astronomy. Follow this link to the application site, which also contains example projects.
The "Leiden de Sitter Cosmology Programme" is a joint effort with the Leiden Lorentz Institute for theoretical physics. This interdisciplinary programme focuses on the interplay between observational cosmology and the physics of the early universe. PhD students in the de Sitter programme will be supervised jointly by members of the physics and astronomy departments, and are invited to (help) propose their own research programme. This year, we aim at appointing one students in this challenging programme. For more details, go to www.leidendesitter.nl. The application procedure and deadline are the same as for the general PhD call, but please indicate in the cover letter your interest to be considered for the de Sitter fellowship.
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We are in desperate need a new logo to give us a simple, clean, professional look and feel. We know you can help!
The PCD Foundation is a voluntary not-for-profit health organization dedicated to raising awareness of Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD), improving the quality of life of affected individuals and families, and working toward improved therapies and ultimately a cure for PCD.
Though the PCDF is very small with very little resources, we need to think and act big! It's the only way we are going to grow and help more people with this terrible disease.
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- While we put forward A 'lung' symbol idea, we've gotten a lot of lung-focused submissions & would like to see another approach
- Acronym symbol: http://www.cff.org/
- Not related, but another idea: http://www.feedingamerica.org
- For 'geeks', incorporating a visual of 'cilia' without making a 'hairy logo' - not for the faint of heart. : )
- If you go w/ plain 'text' approach: http://www.nephcure.org/
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4. That can stand on its own in black & white, and on dark or light backgrounds without any effects.
What we DON'T want:
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2. Stock images or clip art
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Yahoo's Move Shows Tension Between Workers' Desire for Flexibility and the Need for Visibility
Jobs may get done when employees work from home, but careers are made in the office.
The outcry surrounding a decision by Yahoo Inc. —led by new Chief Executive Marissa Mayer—to end work-from-home arrangements has shown just how strongly many companies and employees have embraced remote work, but it also underscores tensions between workers' need for flexibility and their need for visibility. Companies tout working from home as a benefit that helps recruit and retain talent over the long term, but workers may be missing out on the personal contacts that get them promoted.
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Clichés about the water-cooler aside, many managers say having workers in the office makes sense, given greater emphasis on collaboration and group projects. And despite studies showing that home-based workers may be more productive than their cubicle-bound peers, remote workers must also combat the perceptions among managers and colleagues that they're not spending the day goofing off.
At S&T Bank, based in Indiana, Pa., managers are experimenting with work-from-home arrangements for some employees, though it hasn't been easy, said Becky Stapleton, S&T's director of human resources.
Sometimes when people are working remotely, "you wonder if employees are being as productive as they could," said Ms. Stapleton. "Or, are they being more productive? As a manager, you have to be actively engaged in their work."
Some firms use monitoring programs to track what home-based workers are doing online, so that managers can gauge how much time is spent on each task.
At Salesforce.com Inc., a large share of the company's roughly 10,000 workers can sign on from home, said Monika Fahlbusch, a senior vice president.
The software company has developed Chatter, similar to Facebook for the workplace, to coordinate projects. Managers can keep real-time tabs on whether staffers have updated budget reports, answered questions about a new client or whether they've been idle. "It's very obvious when someone is not engaged," Ms. Fahlbusch said.
At technology-consulting firm Acumen Solutions Inc., certain consultants work from home, but only after "they have a proven track record," said Shally Stanley, a managing director in its McLean, Va., office.
At prior employers, Ms. Stanley observed some home workers "lose focus," either missing deadlines because they didn't check in enough or failing to grasp a delay's impact on colleagues.
Face to face contact is particularly important for new employees, or for teams whose members are unfamiliar to one another, said Michael Boyer O'Leary, an assistant management professor at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. He added, though, that remote employees can be just as productive as co-located teams, depending on how well they are managed and the job functions involved.
Brett Caine, a senior vice president at technology company Citrix, said that there are challenges to managing remote employees, especially for inexperienced managers who may not have built trust among their teams. "Nothing in life and work replaces face to face," he said. But he noted that about 86% of the company's 9,000 employees work remotely at some point during the week, working wherever they considered was most suited for the task. Some employees, for example, will telecommute for deep-concentration tasks, but go into the office for collaborative work, such as brainstorms.
Some managers say the office just holds more opportunities for the accidental encounters that can lead to new products or relationships.
"Unplanned interaction is so valuable," said Naveen Jain, CEO of Inome, a Bellevue, Wash.-information technology company with roughly 400 employees, some of whom work from home on occasion. "I don't care what technology does—there is something about being right next to a person."
Having employees in the office can also lead to faster decisions and communication, because workers can more easily reach out to their colleagues, said Dan Yates, CEO of Arlington, Va.-headquartered energy-technology company Opower. Almost all of his firm's 320 employees work out of the company's four global offices, which are equipped with videoconferencing technology allowing workers in different offices to simulate face-to-face contact.
Noting that some of the best insights arise in the hall or cafeteria, Yahoo's human resources chief said in a company memo that "speed and quality are often sacrificed when we work from home. We need to be one Yahoo, and that starts with physically being together."
A Yahoo spokeswoman declined to discuss internal matters. "This is about what is right for Yahoo, right now," she said.
During the nine years Stephen Piper worked from his home in Providence, R.I., he made efforts to foster connection with his far-flung co-workers, even organizing "virtual beers" with his team on Friday afternoons.
Mr. Piper, 38 years old, a director of sales operations at a major information technology firm, would grab a beer from the fridge, set up a conference call, kick back and wait for his colleagues to join in and talk about work or raise problems, he said.
"We didn't have Christmas parties," Mr. Piper said, "so there were customs we had to invent to be powerful managers in a virtual environment."
The biggest challenge for many home workers is that they labor to combat perceptions that they have cushy roles, or that they're not getting as much done—a reason why remote workers have reported longer hours in some research.
Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, a 290-person note-taking app company based in Redwood City, Calif., said he prefers his employees come into work though staffers can also work from home. Those who do sign in from home, though, are expected to do as much, if not more, than those in the office.
"To an employee, I would say that [if they're working at home] understand you're signing up to work harder," he said.
Studies suggest that those who work from home are happier in their jobs than the average cubicle drone, but it comes at a cost. While productive, home workers are 50% less likely to get a promotion than those who come into the office, according to a study published last week by Stanford University.
The researchers, who spent nine months monitoring a work-from-home program at a 16,000-employee Chinese travel agency, concluded that the lack of face time with bosses caused careers to stall.
"Home workers can become forgotten workers," especially when it comes to bonding with senior management, said Nicholas Bloom, a professor of economics at Stanford and a co-author of the study. Being an engaging presence in meetings and dealing with work conflicts are key skills for getting ahead, he added.
Three years ago, Mr. Piper decided to spend more time at the office, traveling to headquarters at least once a month and coming into a branch office several times a week—partly because he had three noisy children at home, and partly because virtual beers only go so far.
"When the time comes for promotions you need to be on somebody's radar," he said, "and it's important to show yourself across the company so people know who they're talking to."
—Joann S. Lublin, Lauren Weber, Melissa Korn, Pui-Wing Tam and Leslie Kwoh contributed to this article.
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We specialize in a fresh, contemporary aesthetic that is inspiring with lots of color. This online shop offers wonderful accents for the home including hand-printed pillows, storage items, and totes as well as creative projects and finds.
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Hard to stay on top in Power Rankings
It's only April, but Atlanta's Julio Teheran is already making a strong pitch to be included among the game's best starters.
His numbers speak for themselves.
It's only April, but Atlanta's Julio Teheran is already making a strong pitch to be included among the game's best starters.
His numbers speak for themselves.
Teheran has allowed just one run in his past 24 innings and has posted a 2.58 ERA in the 32 starts he's made over the past calendar year. Only Clayton Kershaw and Jose Fernandez have posted a better ERA during that span.
Overall, Atlanta's starting rotation leads the big leagues in several categories this season, and that could help explain why only the Brewers have a better record in baseball.
But are the Braves the best team in the National League? Fans in Milwaukee, St. Louis and Washington might disagree.
How do the Braves compare to their counterparts in the American League?
It's time to hear your voice.
For the fourth consecutive season, MLB.com has set up a panel of experts to vote on the top 15 teams each week. The group includes MLB.com vice president and executive editor Carlton Thompson, executive editor Matthew Leach, columnists Mike Bauman, Hal Bodley, Anthony Castrovince, Richard Justice, Tracy Ringolsby, Phil Rogers and Lyle Spencer along with reporters Alyson Footer and Jesse Sanchez.
What do you think? Agree, disagree? Have your opinion counted by submitting your Power Rankings.
1. Braves: Things are heating up in Hotlanta. Freddie Freeman, Justin Upton and Evan Gattis have combined for 19 home runs and 46 RBIs to pace the offense. Andrelton Simmons continues to play Gold Glove-caliber defense and is also pitching in at the plate. But as the saying goes, "good pitching beats good hitting," and the Braves sure can pitch. The rotation is among the Major League leaders in several categories, and Craig Kimbrel has eight saves in nine chances.
2. Brewers: Milwaukee has the best record in baseball and lead the NL Central by 4 1/2 games, but the Crew will play short-handed this week. Outfielder Ryan Braun is nursing a right rib cage strain. Shortstop Jean Segura is also on the mend after being struck in the face on Saturday by Braun's bat.
3. Giants: The NL West-leading Giants are riding a four-game winning streak, and once again, the pitching has been stellar. Giants relievers rode a 19-inning scoreless streak until it was snapped Sunday and it appears Ryan Vogelsong is back on track. The No. 5 starter has struggled with consistency but allowed just two hits in seven shutout innings on Sunday.
4. Athletics: It's been quite a turnaround for Jed Lowrie. The shortstop is 18-for-52 (.346) with seven doubles, a home run and nine runs scored in his last 12 games, after going 2-for-18 (.111) in his previous seven contests. The A's have lost two in row but remain tied with the Rangers for the top spot in the AL West.
5. Rangers: It's been an eventful month in Texas. The Rangers swept the A's in three games but then dropped two of three to the Mariners. The good news for Texas? Matt Harrison, pitching for the first time in more than a year because of injuries, allowed two runs on just three hits in six innings Sunday.
6. Yankees: Masahiro Tanaka has made a seamless transition from Japan to Major League Baseball and is quickly emerging as one of the top pitchers in the game -- and a must-see mound presence. He's 3-0 with a 2.27 ERA with 46 strikeouts in 35 2/3 innings. The Yankees have won two in a row and lead the second-place Orioles in the AL East by 2 1/2 games.
7. Tigers: Detroit's starting pitching and Miguel Cabrera understandably get most of the attention, but it has been a team effort for the AL Central leaders this year. Third baseman Nick Castellanos has a .412 (7-for-17) batting average with runners in scoring position. Two of those hits were home runs, and since April 9, he's driven in 11. Also, Rajai Davis has hit safely in eight of his last nine games, batting .400 (14-for-35) with six runs scored, two doubles, one home run and five RBIs.
8. Nationals: It's been an injury-plagued month for the Nats, and that's part of the reason they sit in the middle of the pack in the NL East standings. On Sunday, Bryce Harper joined Wilson Ramos, Ryan Zimmerman and Scott Hairston on the disabled list with a sprained left thumb.
9. Cardinals: The St. Louis offense could be coming alive. After scoring fewer than four runs in seven consecutive games, St. Louis broke out for seven on Sunday to spark a series win over the Pirates. Only the Braves have a better starting rotation ERA (2.24) and batting average against (.210) than the Cardinals.
10. Mets: The Amazin's are in sole-possession of second place in the NL East, and their pitching is a big reason why. New York's rotation has 17 quality starts, and the starters have yielded fewer than four runs in 12 of the past 13 games. Over his last three starts, Dillon Gee went 2-1 with a 0.86 ERA.
11. Rockies: Colorado won two of three from the Dodgers over the weekend and now boasts a 5-5 record against the NL West heading into a matchup with Arizona. What's more, the Rockies are 8-4 at home this season, and Jorge De La Rosa is once again pitching like a staff ace.
12. Dodgers: Los Angeles has seen better days. The Dodgers have lost six of 10 and are now tied with the Rockies for second place in the NL West. But things are looking up. Ace Clayton Kershaw is scheduled to throw a bullpen session on Monday and should be rejoining the rotation soon enough.
13. Twins: Minnesota is fourth in the Major Leagues in runs scored per game, likely buoyed by also leading the Majors in walks. It also helps that catcher Kurt Suzuki is off to a hot start offensively, leading all big league backstops with 19 RBIs.
14. Angels: Albert Pujols joined the 500 home run club last week and is hitting .366 with five long balls and 12 RBIs in his last 10 games. He's also racked up 15 hits over that span. Overall, the Halos finished their nine-game, three-city road trip with a 4-5 record.
15. Phillies: Successive series wins -- two of three against the D-backs after taking three of four against the Dodgers earlier in week -- has Philly on a bit of a roll. Cliff Lee continues to show pinpoint control on the mound and A.J. Burnett is finding his groove, throwing three quality starts since being diagnosed with a hernia earlier this month.


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DE PERE - St. Norbert College salvaged a weekend split for the third consecutive week as the Green Knights tamed UW-Superior 4-1 in a Northern Collegiate Hockey Association game at the Cornerstone Community Center.
The Green Knights (17-5-1, 11-4-1 NCHA), who have dropped their last three Friday games only to return the next day and win, jumped ahead of Superior (11-11-1, 6-9-1) with a 2-0 lead in the first period and were never seriously threatened the rest of the way.
Cody Keefer snapped a six-game scoreless streak by scoring the two first period goals. The first marker came on the power play at the 3:18 mark of the first period. He followed that with his 12th goal of the season by scoring at 18:12 of the period.
The Green Knights jumped ahead 3-0 late in the second period when Brandon Hoogenboom sneaked the puck past Superior goaltender Drew Strandberg at the 17:18 mark.
St. Norbert iced the game on the first shift of the third period when Kyle Stroh poked home a loose puck just 20 seconds into the frame. The Yellowjackets scored their only goal of the game on a power-play goal by Pat Dalbec at 3:20 of the third period.
Keefer added an assist for a three-point game, while Stroh had an assist for a two-point game. Carl Ekstrom tallied two assists.
Superior outshot St. Norbert 28-19, but goaltender David Jacobson turned away 27 shots in a solid outing. Strandberg made 15 saves for the Yellowjackets. Both teams were 1-for-4 on the power play.


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LOS ANGELES — Although Sarah Michelle Gellar has been married to actor Freddie Prinze Jr. for 11 years, the premiere of her new series, "The Crazy Ones," had Gellar feeling like a bride-to-be.
"It's like a wedding day. I wasso excited and so nervous about it at the same time," the 36-year-old actress said.
Gellar played the title character in the cult TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" from 1997 to 2003. She also starred in the series "Ringer."
Her new CBS comedy from producer David E. Kelley ("Ally McBeal"), which premiered Thursday, is about an advertising firm run by Gellar and her brilliant-yet-eccentric father, played by Robin Williams.
"He shines," says Geller of Williams. "This is 'Mrs. Doubtfire' Robin."
While making the rounds to discuss her partnership with the Sounds of Pertussis Campaign, promoting vaccinations for whooping cough, Geller also talked about being a working mom; sheltering her children, Charlotte, 4, and Rocky, 1, from the media spotlight; and whether she'll ever revisit her beloved Buffy.
Are you nervous about ratings or what critics will say after Thursday's premiere of "The Crazy Ones
I make television for fans, so that's what's important to me. It's the person at Starbucks who says to me, 'Oh my god, I'm so excited to see your show!' Or says, 'Oh my god. I laughed so hard last night!' That's what it means to me. I mean obviously we would like good numbers so we can stay on for 10 years. I mean that would be the ideal situation because I can't imagine ever having a situation this good and exciting.
How was it going back to work right after giving birth to your son?
I went back to work with my first child, I waited almost two years. And my little one was like 4 months old (when she started 'The Crazy Ones'). ... If you watch the different sizes of my shirt during the pilot from (breast)feeding my son, it's actually kind of amusing. ... You want to have a work life and the home life and they inevitably cross over and it's about finding what that balance is.
Do your children understand what you do for a living?
They don't. I think my daughter thinks I get my hair and makeup done for a living. ... Ideally I'd like to keep it away from her as long as I can, but it's hard. People take her picture, they say things to her and I know the conversation is coming.
Does she understand the word paparazzi?
She calls them 'privacy.' It's actually really sad. She says, 'Mommy, I don't want the privacy taking my picture,' and it's just sad. ... Then it gets hard to get her to take a picture at school with her friends because she doesn't want her picture taken. So she understands the bad side of it and unfortunately doesn't understand the good side Will you ever make a 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' film?
Vampires with. ... The thing for me and Joss (Whedon) — and we've talked about this — is you know 'Buffy' was a movie and we almost spent the first season of our show apologizing for the movie that we had nothing to do with because it didn't really work as a movie. ... If there was a story to be told then maybe we would all revisit it, but we're not sure it really works in the box of one story. And to be honest, I don't know if I could lift my leg over my knee anymore. It literally would be like 'Buffy the Golden Girls.' It would be like Willow and Buffy in caftans sitting in Florida somewhere.


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"The use of polyurea-based coatings to waterproof and line swimming pools has increased significantly in Turkey during the last few years" exclaimed the Turkish-based polyurea producer Duayen's General Manager, Mr. Umit Yildirim. "These projects are always at short notice and with short deadlines." Duayen proposes Graco's Reactor H-XP2 to complete these types of projects.
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Finally, it's the weekend. Pull the top off your Jeep, and pile in your camping gear, ice chest, an extra case of beverage, and all the last-minute stuff you probably won't need, but hey, two days in the mountains-you never know. You arrive at the coffee shop, where everyone is supposed to meet a little early, so there's time to enjoy the breakfast special. Parking is not in view of where you will be sitting, and that's a problem, 'cuz you really don't want to leave all your gear and food wide open to anyone or thing that might have quick fingers.
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Berezniki: A Russian court has turned down the attempt by an imprisoned member of the Pussy Riot feminist punk band to defer serving her sentence until her preschool son becomes a teenager.
Maria Alekhina today asked the court to let her serve the rest of her two-year sentence after her 5-year-old son turns 14, arguing that separation from her child now will do irreparable psychological damage.
She was convicted last year along with two other band members of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Russia`s main cathedral. One of the women had her sentence suspended on appeal.
Judge Galina Yefremova rejected the petition, saying the court that sentenced Alekhina had already taken the child`s existence into account.


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Keeping Disneyland SafeBy Larry Barrett | Posted 2005-05-04 Print
The cornerstone of Orange County's disaster preparedness is a new software system from EDS.
It took 200 "first responders" from the Anaheim police and fire departments, the California National Guard, the FBI and Disneyland's in-house security staff less than three hours to transform the "happiest place on Earth" into every parent's worst nightmare.
More than two dozen casualties lay motionless just a short distance from the Mad Hatter's Tea Cups and the Sleeping Beauty Castle. More than 50 people merely injured by stray bullets or shrapnel from some type of explosive device were running scared. Others just slumped to the ground, unable to move or breathe.
In the chaos, policemen, firefighters, paramedics and security personnel, who had no idea what they were up against, scrambled to evacuate guests and employees, care for the injured and track down and kill the perpetrators.
The drill culminated with policemen killing two of the three suspected terrorists. The third suspect, finally cornered by SWAT team members near an auditorium where Mickey Mouse and his sidekick Goofy usually entertain hundreds of kids, eventually took his own life to conclude the mock attack.
Just past midnight and working on adrenaline, Sgt. Rick Martinez of the Anaheim Police Department gathered with his colleagues in a warehouse on the resort to assess responders' performance. His goal: reduce casualties if an event such as this were actually to take place one day inside a venue that is not only Orange County's most important economic resource, but also its de facto identity to the rest of the world.
"Mostly we realized that we have to improve the way we communicate among ourselves as the circumstances change,'' Martinez says. "There's no room for second-guessing yourself in the middle of something like this."
The drill, conducted on a brisk February evening, represents a small piece of a countywide effort by law enforcers and Orange County businesses to not only prepare for disasters—man-made or otherwise—but find new ways to use information systems to save lives and the economy of a county that generates more than $142 billion in entertainment, merchandise retailing, professional services and manufactured goods a year.
The impact actually would be much wider. "If some type of terrorist attack were to take place at Disneyland, the impact on the theme park industry and tourism in the U.S. in general would be enormous," says John LaRosa, research director at Tampa, Fla.-based Marketdata Enterprises. "You'd see an immediate plunge in attendance at all theme parks and, just like the airlines after Sept. 11, it probably would be at least two years before people would return to these venues. It would be devastating."
Though the economy of Orange County is diverse with extensive real estate, banking, manufacturing and technology interests, tourism is the lifeblood of the region and Disneyland is its heart. Visitors to Disneyland dump more than $3.6 billion into the county's economy each year. It provides more than 65,000 jobs to local residents, and guests contribute more than $325 million a year in taxes to the county coffers.
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For the month of July, P&W–supported poet and director of literary events, Randall Horton, blogs about his work with various organizations and events throughout the northeast. Horton is the recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award, the Bea Gonzalez Poetry Award, and the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Literature. A Cave Canem Fellow and member of Affrilachian Poets, Horton's lastest poetry collection Pitch Dark Anarchy will be published by Northwestern University Press in Spring 2013.
In April 2011, during National Poetry Month, Poets & Writers funded Aquarius Press/ Willow Books to sponsor a workshop in Detroit, Michigan, at the Virgil Carr Cultural Center. The workshop participants included poets Victor Billione, Nadia Ibrashi, and Felecia Studstill, and began as an organic conversation on craft. We read from a wide range of poets, from Rachel Eliza Griffiths to Stephen Jonas to Evie Shockley. We looked at parallelisms in poems (cosmic nature versus the material world), the idea of "the definition" as a form poem, and the art of the line break, which we all concluded to be critical when fine-tuning the lyric qualities in the poem, and the poem as political mouthpiece.
I wanted to tailor each poet's experience to suite his or her aesthetic intentions. For example:
Victor's exercise asked: In what ways do you feel oppressed? Choose an object you own that seems to embody that oppression and/or privilege, and write a poem about it.
Nadia's exercise asked: What communities of people do you identify with and feel you belong to? Write a poem from the voice of this collective "we," talking about your troubles, your failings, celebrating your strengths…
…and Felecia's exercise asked: Imagine someone who lives in another part of the world under very different economic and political circumstance. Have that person talk to you about your life in America from his or her perspective. You can also do this exercise by imagining someone else in America, but of a different class, race, and so forth.
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Felecia: "Your anger is fear/you know. You know./You are as worthy of my life/As I am of yours."
The idea of the workshop was to take writing samples from the participants and tailor each participant's experience based on writing tendencies, likes, dislikes, and aesthetic intentions. This helped to create a multi-voiced workshop that paid close attention to the writer and ultimately asked the writer to expand beyond his or her imagination.
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A few months ago I read an article in the Harvard Business Review entitled "Dismantling the Sales Machine" that I thought provided some vital insights into the ways in which the selling paradigm has shifted over the past 20 years. The proposition was that B2B sales leadership has always been fixated upon building a repeatable, sustainable process as the keys to success. These processes were accompanied by a myriad of KPIs and scorecards, qualifying criteria and activity metrics, all designed to paint a picture of sales productivity, process and results. Focus and discipline in this view of the world were the keys to success. B.A.N.T. was a required viewpoint.
If you could create one of these built-to-outlast-the-competition machines, if you could train the players, build a set of world-class tools (CRM, Marketing Automation, et al.) to support it, and create an environment in which the expectations were clear and the formal processes focused, you could win out.
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When we at ETI work with our clients to develop new business in their target market, engage consultatively with the key stakeholders and, ultimately, uncover qualified sales opportunities, we view a major part of our role as one of profile building on behalf of the sales rep. We're the ones who are asking "how are you accomplishing these tasks now" and "what made you choose that path." We follow up with questions like "to what degree are you satisfied with your current solution" and "if you could imagine making a change to improve your current solution, what changes would you envision." It is probing at that level that gives the sales reps the foundation they need to craft relevant insights to engage prospects constructively.
The sales rep's ability to deliver just the right insight at the right juncture in the process, and demonstrate how their solution can both meet the existing needs and achieve an improved solution, gives them the ability to compete in the new B2B sales environment. The challenge to sales leaders in this new environment is to move from thinking about sales as a linear process in which prospects move from stage to stage or in a direction down a funnel (or some variation of those sequences) into raising and leading a generation of sales reps who can think about business more creatively and bring more value and insight to prospect relationships than ever before.
Their success is now driven by their creativity and flexibility, not by their adherence to established process-oriented behavior. The rules and formal lines of authority in the new order shift dramatically and the incentives move from competition, contests and campaigns to creativity, collaboration and cooperation. Teamwork replaces individual achievement. And more sales are closed.


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journaling the growth of a (mite) treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Squarepeg, in some cases I do mean that, depending on the chemical. Not every item of course, but my case is for total non-treatment. The bees can handle (should handle) disease by themselves. The reason many can't is because the process of selection has not been allowed to take its natural course. Beekeepers are keeping weak bees unable to deal with disease because they have made them that way out of fear that the bees would die.
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I have given two examples..with no comments. We can certainly add antibiotic resistance of foulbrood to the treadmill...and even show how its use can effect the biodiversity of the gut flora of the honeybees...and that this reduced diversity is heritable.Now if there is a case for developing chemical dependency or functional alteration upon the part of the bee I can buy into that
We found that 50 years of using antibiotics in beekeeping in the United States has resulted in extensive tetracycline resistance in the gut microbiota. These bacteria, which form a distinctive community present in healthy honeybees worldwide, may function in protecting bees from disease and in providing nutrition. In countries that do not use antibiotics in beekeeping, bee gut bacteria contained far fewer resistance genes. The tetracycline resistance that we observed in American samples reflects the capture of mobile resistance genes closely related to those known from human pathogens and agricultural sites. Thus, long-term treatment to control a specific pathogen resulted in the accumulation of a stockpile of resistance capabilities in the microbiota of a healthy gut. This stockpile can, in turn, provide a source of resistance genes for pathogens themselves. The use of novel antibiotics in beekeeping may disrupt bee health, adding to the threats faced by these pollinators.
I didn't provide a link to the post on the other bee forum because I don't believe the site owner here allows it.
The variation in tetracycline resistance determinants observed among American honeybee colonies may reflect different recent histories of oxytetracycline treatment for individual colonies. Most of our samples had unknown histories of antibiotic treatment, largely due to their origin from mixing other colonies or from commercial bee packages. To determine whether resistance loci decline when antibiotic exposure is terminated, we obtained samples from four managed colonies in southern Arizona that were unusual in having not been treated directly or mixed with outside bees for over 25 years and samples from long-established feral colonies in Utah, also expected to have no recent exposure. These samples showed markedly lower copy numbers of resistance loci compared to other American samples (Fig. 2). The FL, MD, and AZ (USDA) colonies, which had no antibiotic treatment for at least 2 years prior to sampling, showed intermediate levels of resistance loci. The highest frequencies were observed for colonies in CT and WA established from package bees purchased from commercial bee suppliers 0 to 12 months before sampling.
What is frowned on is simply a link to another site/content. The goal, as much as possible, is to include the content within your post along with a link so members don't have to go looking for it.
Regards, Barry
Usually no treatment beekeeping is associated with "natural" (Dee Lusby, Michael Bush) beekeeping which involves regression to small cell. Natural beekeepers will say their bees do not need treatment because they are naturally smaller (like the smaller apis cerana and africanized bee which similarly cope with varroa). Dee says it's the smaller segments between the body parts. I think it may also have to do with them being survivor stock (hygienic) which implies some colonies will die. Philosophically I agree with the "naturalists" but the pragmatist in me needs visible proof and the lack of comprehensive, scientific studies verifying no treatment, small cell beekeeping leaves me wondering why there is not more. So for now letting colonies die and passing pests and viruses on to other colonies is not an option. At this point I am I think classified "organic" (organic treatment). Breeding hygienic, survivor stock is a good start.
good post, thanks.
journaling the growth of a (mite) treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
I think it's a combination of things. Beeks got bees to where they wanted them in terms of production, brood build up, calmness etc... Now in order to keep these strains they need to be treated for the most part to keep mites in check. Introgressing VSH/survivor genes into the lines is easy, but probably with some linkage drag in terms of traits and level of production people have come to expect. Not to say it's always true, but a lot of members have posted their survivor stock lacking in terms of production, not always the case but enough to make note of it and it's totally not unexpected. Working in ag, many resistance traits are out there but many also come with linkage drag and are un-usable.
Good point but speaking from the perspective of a non-commercial, backyard beekeeper I gladly accept reduced production (linkage drag) in favour of bees demonstrating hygienic, survivor stock traits.
As a new beekeeper this year, I have been seriously taken aback by the quarreling and mean spirited exchanges that seem very common in beekeeping club meetings and online discussions. We are all in the same pickle with our bees, but a house divided cannot stand. And will not attract the next generation of beekeepers.
As a new beekeeper, and my Beekeeping 101 teacher taught us to use chemicals preventively, I have already decided that:
1. Honeybees are at serious risk of extinction, thanks to mites and nosema.
2. Treating with anything drives resistance to that thing.
3. Going treatment free cold turkey with non-resistant strains of bees is a good way to lose all your bees.
4. I am going to have to balance off treatment as needed vs. restocking my apiary with resistant strains of bees and using a suite of IPM techniques while I get on my feet. And I am just a hobby beekeeper!!
5. Getting treatment free is going to be a process, one requiring patience and thought.
6. During that process, I will be open to gathering information from all kinds of sources, and will evaluate as I go and learn.
7. The most important beekeeping skill of all may be communication.
Finally, I would really like to see less defensive, knee jerk behaviour from beekeepers, less division, and more collegial, civil, and open minded exchanges of ideas. It strikes me that all the pain beekeepers of all stripes have experienced through the last decade or two are starting to yield fruit. It would be a shame to fracture the beekeeping world just as it finds some solid ground.
I'm in absolute agreement. The only way to solve a problem is through open exchange of ideas, information and viewpoints. I believe the sign of a truly intelligent person is someone cognisant of their own imperfection and always open to the possibility of learning. Often I have encountered intolerant "natural" beekeepers who akin to religious fundamentalists preach beekeeping dogma based on unyielding faith rather than facts. In my experience angry intolerance accomplishes nothing.
People wanna stick with their methods, I have no issue with that. I just try to to get people to think outisde their methods or see it from a different perspective. Treatment, treatment free, organic, I think our goals are all the same in the end. People just need to educate themselves and not be so opinionated. Kind of like the Bayer or GMO stuff that gets thrown around all too often, if you don't understand the science, laws, or have any real facts on the issue than better to keep your mouth closed and not regurgitate some idealized rant from either of the exteme ends of the arugment which are typically based off nothing but pure rhetoric.
Good post Western! A lot of times the back and forth causes me to simply skim the post to see if it is long winded or aggressive. It is easy to skip to the next post. I do have to say that when I got bees from a commercial operator he told me right up front that "you don't treat these bees I am selling you they are going to die". I found that to be true. I also found that I went to buy some treatment and the cost knocked me down! I let them bees slide about as hard as I could before I opened up my wallet and salvaged those two hives. I will squeeze two nickels until it turns into a quarter and don't add anything that does not show a real need. I make my own frame, that is a cheap SOB.
Why do we fall, sir? So that we might learn to pick ourselves up Alfred Pennyworth Batman Begins (2005)
western, that sounds like perfect balance to me.
journaling the growth of a (mite) treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives


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Friday, August 19, 2011
Back Issues Now Available
We've cracked open the One More Robot archives and dug out every back issue from our third edition onwards. For a limited time you can pick them up on eBay for just €3.50 ex. P&P. Click the links below for more information on how to buy each issue.
Issue 7 (The Pop Issue)
Issue 6 (The Vinyl Issue)
Issue 5 (Dublin's Sonic Boom)
Issue 4 (The Generation X Issue)
Issue 3 (Interviews with Anton Newcome of The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Velvet Underground's John Cale)
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The Five Coolest Movies Being Made Right Now
Matthew Jaffrey previews five up movies currently in the Hollywood pipeline.
World War Z
Perhaps only Brad Pitt's involvement as producer and star could have gotten a zombie holocaust movie green-lit to the tune of a $125 million budget, so we must give are thanks that Pitt has an eye for good material and the balls to take risks. World War Z is an adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Max Brooks. Pitt plays a fictional version of the Brooks, who, in the novel, is a journalist compiling interviews and first person accounts of various individuals' struggles during the zombie epidemic which ended 10 years previously. It all sounds very exciting, the only drawback is that in order to secure the huge budget, Pitt and director Marc Foster conceded to a tame PG-13 rating.
Django Unchained
Tarantino's new film is shaping up nicely. The story follows Jamie Foxx's slave Django as he escapes imprisonment from sadistic ranch owner Calvin Candy, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Candy runs an underground club in which slaves are raped and forced to kill each other, so it's no surprise that when Django escapes, he wants revenge. The big name casting doesn't stop there. Kevin Costner is confirmed to play Candy's right hand man who revels in the sadistic orders he's given, while Samuel L. Jackson is signed on to play Stephen, a house slave loyal to Candy. Christoph Waltz, who won an academy award playing Colonel Landa in Basterds plays a German bounty hunter, who is reportedly the real star of the piece. All-in-all it's pretty familiar territory for Tarantino but it seems Django is turned up to 11 and you can't deny that it's one hell of an impressive cast.
Cloud Atlas
Based on the existential, labyrinthine novel by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas stars Tom Hanks, James McAvoy, Halle Berry and Hugo Weaving. The novel follows six narratives from different points of history, ranging from 1850, to a dystopian near-future and even a post-apocalyptic distant future. Director Tom Tykwer and producers The Wachowski Brothers of Matrix fame are collaborating on the adaptation. Here's hoping Hanks returns to form after the disappointing Larry Crowne and forgettable Robert Langdon movies.
Originally intended as Ridley Scott's return to the deflated Alien franchise, then as a spin-off to it, and finally, a basically-nothing-got-to-do-with–it type deal, Prometheus remains something to be excited about and probably benefits from a lack of bad-blockbuster baggage. The plot has been kept a close secret but is rumoured to be about a team sent to the home world of the alien species that engineered the human race. Anything else is speculation, although I think it's safe to assume the mission doesn't go as smoothly as the main characters would have hoped. The cast is an international affair with Irishman Michael Fassbender and Sweed Naomi Repace providing indie cred along with cool-as-a-cucumber Brit Idris Elba. Charlize Theron rounds out the players as a sly corporate suit type alá Paul Reiser in Aliens, although hopefully she'll be, y'know, less Paul Reiser-ee.
The Dark Knight Rises
While undoubtedly the most anticipated movie of next year, The Dark Knight Rises faces a tough battle to equal or surpass its predecessor. If Heath Ledger faced an uphill battle in topping Jack Nicholson's Joker then Anne Hathaway seems as though she has a mountain to climb in order to be thought of as the definitive Catwoman. The star of Bride Wars, Get Smart and The Princess Diaries will have a lot to contend with if she's to dethrone Michelle Pfeiffer's classic incarnation. Hathaway won't be armed with a ridiculously impractical figure-hugging cat-suit to help her case either.
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
One More Robot's Rock-Off Redemption
This August 18th we're staging our first ever Rock-Off Redemption, a battle-of-the-bands-type event for local Dublin bands who think they're hard enough for a proper throw down. Hosted by Q102 DJ Dave Harrington and with judges that include prominent Dublin music journalists, the winner will be featured on a two-page spread in our Autumn issue.
The Pint of Eden Quay is the venue and cost is €10 at the door with selected pints at €3.50.
We're currently looking for entries so if you think you've got enough metal (or even enough country & western) please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Donor Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Young Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Leukemia, Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome, or Severe Immunodeficiency Disease
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00295971
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : February 24, 2006
Last Update Posted : November 12, 2012
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RATIONALE: Giving chemotherapy and total body irradiation before a donor bone marrow transplant or peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It also helps stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. When the healthy stem cells from a donor are infused into the patient they may help the patient's bone marrow make stem cells, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving antithymocyte globulin and removing the T cells from the donor cells before transplant may stop this from happening.
PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of donor T cells and antithymocyte globulin when given together with chemotherapy and total-body irradiation in treating young patients who are undergoing T-cell depleted donor stem cell transplant for myelodysplastic syndrome, leukemia, bone marrow failure syndrome, or severe immunodeficiency disease.
|Condition or disease
|Congenital Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia Leukemia Myelodysplastic Syndromes Severe Congenital Neutropenia
|Biological: anti-thymocyte globulin Biological: therapeutic allogeneic lymphocytes Drug: fludarabine phosphate Drug: thiotepa Procedure: allogeneic bone marrow transplantation Procedure: allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation Procedure: in vitro-treated peripheral blood stem cell transplantation Radiation: total-body irradiation
|Phase 1
- Determine the efficacy and toxicity of stem cell-enriched, T-cell-depleted, haplocompatible allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in children with high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, high-risk leukemia, severe acquired or congenital cytopenias, or primary immunodeficiency diseases.
- Determine the toxicity of a fludarabine and thiotepa-containing regimen in combination with lower doses of antithymocyte globulin in these patients.
- Determine the engraftment rate in patients treated with this regimen.
- Define T-cell reconstitution in these patients.
- Determine the toxicity and effects of administering stem cell and T-cell boosts after transplantation on hematopoiesis and immune reconstitution in these patients.
OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of donor CD3+ cells and antithymocyte globulin (ATG).
- Cytoreductive regimen: Patients undergo total body irradiation twice daily on days -9 to -7. Patients also receive fludarabine IV on days -6 to -2, thiotepa IV every 12 hours on day -6, and ATG IV on days -5 to -2.
- Transplantation: Patients undergo CD34-enriched, T-cell-depleted, haplocompatible allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell or bone marrow transplantation on day 0.
- Donor T-cell infusion:Patients with no active graft-vs-host disease and evidence of engraftment but low absolute CD34+ lymphocyte count at 12 weeks post transplant may receive donor CD3+ cells at 4-week intervals.
- Donor stem cell boost: Patients with engraftment but either cytokine or transfusion dependent at 12 weeks post transplant may receive a boost of donor CD34+ cells.
Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of donor CD3+ cells and ATG until the optimum is determined. The optimum dose is defined as the dose at which both engraftment and T-cell recovery occur, without dose-limiting toxicity, in ≥ 5 of 6 patients.
After the completion of study treatment, patients are followed periodically for 5 years and then every 5 years thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 21 patients will be accrued for this study.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|21 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Stem Cell Enriched, T Cell Depleted Haplocompatible Peripheral Blood Transplantation for Children With Myelodysplastic Disease, Leukemia, Marrow Failure Syndromes, or Severe Immunodeficiency Diseases
|Study Start Date :
|April 2005
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2011
Experimental: Single arm of transplant
Receiving haplocompatible T cell depleted peripheral blood stem cell transplant
Biological: anti-thymocyte globulin
Biological: therapeutic allogeneic lymphocytes
Drug: fludarabine phosphate
Drug: thiotepa
Procedure: allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
Procedure: allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Procedure: in vitro-treated peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
Radiation: total-body irradiation
- Engraftment at 4 weeks post bone marrow transplantation through 100 days [ Time Frame: 100 days ]
- Survival assessed monthly for 6 months, every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 1 year, and then yearly for 5 years post transplantation [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- Disease-free survival and infection assessed monthly for 6 months, every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 1 year, and then yearly for 5 years post transplantation [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
- Graft-versus-host disease assessed monthly for 6 months, every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 1 year, and then yearly for 5 years post transplantation [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- CD4 count in blood < 100/mm³ at 12 weeks [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|1 Year to 17 Years (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Diagnosis of one of the following:
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in ≥ 2nd remission or delayed remission induction
High-risk myelodysplastic syndromes
- Refractory anemia with excess blasts (RAEB)
- RAEB in transformation
Chronic myelogenous leukemia in second chronic phase
- No accelerated phase (> 5% blasts in marrow)
- Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
- Acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia in > 1st remission or induction failure and < 30% blasts in marrow
Severe aplastic anemia, defined as absolute neutrophil count < 500/mm^3 and platelet and/or red blood cell transfusion dependent
- Unresponsive to immunosuppressive therapy
- No Fanconi's anemia
- Congenital marrow aplasias unresponsive to cytokines and transfusion dependent
Inherited immunodeficiency disease involving neutrophils or lymphocytes, including any of the following:
- Chediak-Higashi disease
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
- Combined immunodeficiency disease (Nezelof's)
- Hyper IgM syndrome
- No relapsed disease
Haplocompatible related donor, including parent, cousin, aunt, uncle, grandparent, half-sibling, or sibling (≥ 12 years of age), available
- 2 or 3 HLA antigen mismatch
- At least a 3 HLA antigen genotypic match
- No closely matched related or unrelated donor available in sufficient time to do the transplant
- No active hepatitis or cytomegalovirus infection
- Cardiac ejection fraction ≥ 30%
- Creatinine clearance ≥ 70 mL/min
- DLCO ≥ 70% of predicted
- No active infection
- No HIV positivity
- See Disease Characteristics
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00295971
|United States, California
|UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94115
|United States, North Carolina
|Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
|Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599-7295
|Study Chair:
|Morton J. Cowan, MD
|University of California, San Francisco
|Responsible Party:
|Morton Cowan, Professor, University of California, San Francisco
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00295971 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|February 24, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|November 12, 2012
|Last Verified:
|November 2012
severe congenital neutropenia
childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission
childhood acute myeloid leukemia in remission
de novo myelodysplastic syndromes
previously treated myelodysplastic syndromes
secondary myelodysplastic syndromes
secondary acute myeloid leukemia
juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia
refractory anemia with excess blasts in transformation
refractory anemia with excess blasts
congenital amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia
childhood chronic myelogenous leukemia
childhood myelodysplastic syndromes
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Pathologic Processes
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Bone Marrow Diseases
Hematologic Diseases
Precancerous Conditions
Immune System Diseases
Blood Platelet Disorders
Leukocyte Disorders
Fludarabine phosphate
Antilymphocyte Serum
Antineoplastic Agents
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
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Seattle Seahawks
Starters return, team backs star: Seahawks' enjoy "Too Good Tuesday"
In Pete Carroll's world, Seahawks practice days have themes. There's "Tell the Truth Monday." And "Competition Wednesday" plus "Turnover Thursday."
This, then, was "Too Good Tuesday."
Or, at a minimum, "Far Better Than Last Tuesday."
Before practice — and the morning — was finished the team was already emboldened. Emboldened enough to refute as "bogus" Monday's allegations linking star running back Marshawn Lynch to an assault early Sunday in Bellevue. The Seattle suburb's police department is investigating the allegation.
Minutes later Kam Chancellor, Seattle's Pro Bowl safety from 2012, the hard-hitting enforcer of what is considered to be the NFL's most aggressive and perhaps best secondary, did his first full, team scrimmaging since his hip surgery in April. Team owner Paul Allen was on the sidelines watching that.
"Yeah, back out there. And it felt good," Chancellor said, smiling.
Asked if he now was back to normal, the fifth-year safety who signed a $29.3 million, five-year contract last year said, "It's getting there. We've still got a little more time, but everything's starting to look good. I feel good."
Across the line of scrimmage, the offense welcomed starting left tackle Russell Okung into his first full-go team work since he had surgery this spring on his toe and left foot. Left guard James Carpenter (calf) and center Max Unger (groin injury since last Tuesday) were with Okung on the first-team offense for all of practice. Tuesday was the first time since the Super Bowl in February that Seattle's starting offensive line was intact.
That includes right guard J.R. Sweezy and rookie second-round draft choice Justin Britt. Britt continues to stay ahead of recently acquired veteran Eric Winston as the starting right tackle.
So it's back to full practice participation for the starting offensive line, the unit that in makeshift form got ransacked by rampaging Broncos early in last week's exhibition debut. It looked Tuesday like the top five blockers may start Friday against San Diego; if not then, very likely next week in the third exhibition game at home against Chicago.
Even Tuesday's lone, ominous event in Seahawks Land had a happy ending: Percy Harvin, the wide receiver who played in only one regular-season game of his 2013 Seattle debut season because of injury, got tangled with a defensive back going for a pass in the middle of the damp field. He limped off into the locker room with a trainer next to him, and for a moment one of the Seahawks' fears for 2014 was flashing towards reality.
But 20 minutes later, Harvin jogged back onto the field. He then sprinted freely down the right sideline on the final play of practice. Carroll said Harvin merely got stepped on and "scraped up pretty good" on the back of his heel.
A few minutes after he said that, the coach was standing under an orange beverage bucket and accepting the social-media phenomenon that is the "Ice Bucket Challenge" to promote awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Former Washington Huskies coach Steve Sarkisian, now the coach at USC where he was once Carroll's offensive coordinator, issued the challenge to his mentor via Twitter Monday.
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson and tight end Zach Miller stood poised to do the dumping.
"Let me have it, boys," Carroll said.
His players obliged.
"I extend my challenge. I want to keep it in close, to the NFC West's coaches," the drenched, chilled Carroll said, after taking a minute to shiver and exhale. "To Bruce Arians (of Arizona), Jeff Fisher (at St. Louis) and Jim Harbaugh (who doesn't need any more challenges from Carroll to motivate him in San Francisco), I challenge you to go through the Ice Bucket Challenge yourself."
Lynch again looked relatively effortless running the ball and going downfield to catch passes. These last two practices have been his most extensive work since he reported late to camp on July 31 following a contract holdout. Carroll said as he did Sunday, that Lynch looks "very good."
The team thought the same thing of Lynch's off-the-field situation.
The Seahawks statement on the assault allegation, in its entirety: "While we maintain the utmost respect for the investigative process, after speaking with Marshawn, we are comfortable these accusations are bogus."
The term "bogus" was unusual for being unequivocal; professional teams usually temper or outright neuter their language and defer entirely to police investigations of players. This statement connotes the team has what it sees as irrefutable evidence that Lynch did not commit the alleged assault in a Bellevue apartment at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, as the Bellevue Police Department detailed in its statement Monday of the allegation.
The Seahawks are one of many NFL teams that have its training camps at their in-season headquarters and during camp, house their players in nearby team hotels. The Seahawks are still in the training-camp portion of their preseason through this week. That means all players, Lynch included, were required Saturday night into Sunday morning to be in their rooms of the team hotel by an appointed curfew/bed-check time each night.
And to stay there. NFL teams post security personnel to sit at the ends of the floors of their hotels after bed checks. So if anyone would leave or enter those floors during those overnight hours a team would — or at least should — know about it.
Only a team that feels certain a player was in its hotel during the time of an alleged crime would issue a statement such as the Seahawks'.
That's likely why Carroll had nothing to say about the allegation against Lynch following practice, other than this: "I'm just going along with the statement that we made for right now."
Asked what he's told his team about the investigation, Carroll said abruptly: "It's not a topic for us. We're not talking about it."
Besides, there was much else to get to on his "Too Good Tuesday."