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JAG Model Programs capture critical data and information using a unique tracking system - Electronic National Data Management System - referred to as e-NDMS 2.0. JAG State Organizations and local programs contribute to the national database to collect, report and analyze data. JAG is committed to tracking and documenting three categories of critical information:
- Students served
- Services delivered
- Outcomes achieved
The importance of a complete, accurate and timely database cannot be overstated. The national database (e-NDMS 2.0) provides valuable benefits in operating a state organization or a local program:
Access to participant and school, state and national summary data that documents students served, services delivered and outcomes achieved.
Identification of individual and state successes and areas where improvement is needed to achieve JAG's process and performance goals.
Improvement in the understanding of how best to work with youth with multiple barriers.
Demonstration of the cost-effectiveness of intervening with at-risk students in high school or out-of-school.
Documentation of the network's ability to:
- Decrease the dropout rate by targeting students in the 9th grade and staying with them through graduation
- Increase the graduation rate by keeping students in school through graduation
- Reduce youth unemployment after graduation
Increase the rate of employment among youth at greatest risk of staying unemployed
Documentation for funding sources, elected officials and public decision-makers.
- An ability to "helicopter above" to evaluate the program's success in achieving the targeted outcomes. Ground level views make it difficult to see the big picture.
e-NDMS Summary Reports aggregates and provides information about the total program. The Summary Reports are identical to Participant Reports except they aggregate data and information for the entire program cohort or targeted groups. Managers and Specialists are able to generate Summary Reports easily using e-NDMS. Summary Reports are valuable because they provide data and information about the entire program cohort. Supervisors and managers are able to analyze the progress in implementing the JAG Model and the likelihood of achieving the high performance outcomes that JAG programs have historically achieved. More importantly, the Summary Reports provide JAG programs with the capability to document the students served, services delivered and outcomes achieved.
In-School Phase Summary Reports
- Program Roster
- Participant Profile Summary Report
- Barrier Report
- Contact Hour Summary Report
- Competency Report
- Progress Report
- Student Retention Report
- Special Group Reports.
Follow-up Phase Summary Reports
- Job Placement and Follow-up Report
- School Placement Report
- Placement Summary Report
Participant Profile. This tool provides baseline information about program participants who benefit from JAG Model services. The purpose of the Participant Profile is to capture vital information about each participant, then, to aggregate the information to determine how best to serve the cohort selected for JAG Model services. The information in the individual files provides Specialists with high-level diagnostic information and data to be more responsive to the needs of individuals and the cohort in general. The first step in delivering quality services is to become familiar with the students served and the barriers that must be overcome to achieve the high performance results expected of JAG Model programs by funding sources and stakeholders.
Participant Contact. Fundingis provided JAG Model programs because the services delivered achieve extraordinary results. It takes regular and consistent contact to achieve a significant difference." The contact information is considerably more accurate and instructive when daily entries are made using e-NDMS. Specialists are able to use e-NDMS to assign contact time to participants who received the services and for what purpose.
The following eight (8) categories are used to report contact hours for each participant:
- Employability skills (classroom)
- JAG Career Association Chapter
- Community service
- Guidance
- Field trips and guest speakers
- Academic remediation
- Work-based learning
- Other
Barrier Tracking. Specialists track participant barriers using information provided in the Participant Profile. As participants overcome each barrier with which they entered the JAG program, Specialists enter the date the barrier was overcome. There are some barriers that cannot be overcome, however, participants are helped to cope with the barrier. An Individualized Development Plan (IDP) is customized for each participant to overcome as many barriers as possible during the In-School Phase of the JAG program.
Competency Attainment. The JAG Model prescribes the delivery of a competency-based curriculum for each of the program applications implemented. On a daily basis, Specialists should be tracking the competencies attained in the classroom, Career Association Chapter, community service projects, field trips, remediation or other types of contact. The Competency Attainment Report lists the JAG competencies and the level of mastery of assigned competencies. JAG Pre– and Post-Tests are used to document attainment and verify knowledge gains by competency category.
Participant Progress. Key in-school performance is tracked for participants upon entry into the program. The primary purpose is to determine if satisfactory progress is being made toward keeping the participant in school through graduation. This information is particularly valuable in documenting the value of the services delivered during the In-School Phase. The performances tracked include:
- grades
- absences
- suspensions
- expulsions
Return to School Status is entered at the end of the school year and in September of the following year for participants in the 9th, 10th, and 11th grades who did not graduate during the prior year. The Return to School Status indicates if the participant is enrolled in the same high school, a different high school in the same district, or a different district. Specialists also track those that did not return to high school, whether they are attending a GED program, or if their status is unknown.
Follow-up Report. During the 12-month Follow-up, Specialists track contact with graduates, non-graduates, employers and educational institutions. Graduates and non-graduates are contacted at least monthly to determine their status and what additional services would be helpful for job placement, postsecondary enrollment or military service. Performance outcomes are tracked and recorded using e-NDMS during the follow-up.
The Management Report is an effective monitoring tool for Specialists and Managers who want a snapshot of their overall program. The following data and information is reported: school; roster; roster size; number of participant profiles; average barriers; most recent model services; number of pre– and post-tests; number of progress reports; average contact time; average wage; and average hours per week.
e-NDMS Training Plan
JAG offers a variety of training opportunities for Managers and Specialists.
e-NDMS Tutorial. Each staff member's e-NDMS account is configured to require users to complete the Tutorial prior to working on live data. While working in the Tutorial, data is stored in an offline database so it will not damage or delete data within e-NDMS. Do not enter real data when working through the Tutorial since the data is not transferred to e-NDMS. When the Tutorial is completed, the data will be deleted. The focus of the Tutorial is to make the user comfortable entering data and navigating the system.
New Staff Training. A JAG National Trainer (or a state trainer) will conduct on-site New Staff Training which is divided into two vitally important categories:
- JAG Model, Program Applications, and Best Practices
The Basics - Electronic National Data Management System
Online Webinar Training. Online training will be offered where there is a small number of users to be trained or an emergency exists that requires a training solution.
Pre-NTS Professional Development Workshops. Prior to the annual National Training Seminar in July, JAG offers a series of intensive, three-day workshops for those that would benefit from hands-on workshops with considerable interaction.
National Training Seminar. In July, the largest professional development event is attended by approximately 300 delegates from the JAG State Organizations and local programs. Workshops containing e-NDMS training include:
- JAG 101: New Specialist Training I—for Specialists with one year or less of experience or need a refresher
- JAG 102: Advanced Specialist Training—High School Program Improvement
- JAG 200: Management Development Institute I—for Managers/Supervisors with one year or less of experience or who need a refresher
- JAG 201: Management Development Institute II—for Managers/Supervisors with more than one year of experience interested in exploring and sharing advanced management practices and strategies to overcoming challenges facing JAG Model programs including the use of e-NDMS as a data management system.


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Brothers and Sisters
The Moore Family of Madison County, Indiana
Seated, l-r: Lethia Moore Warner, Julia Moore Wright,
Jane Moore DeHority, Mat Moore.
Standing, l-r: Joseph Moore, Will Moore, Tom Moore
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Wordless Wednesday (Almost)
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I just love these old photos. Was that taken right around 1900?ReplyDelete
Regards, Jim
Photo Genealogy at Hidden Genealogy Nuggets
1900 would be about right as the folks here were born between 1828 (Julia) and 1850-ish (Mat).ReplyDelete
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text: OEM is pleased to announce the results of Phase Two of the What If New York City. . . Design Competition for Post-Disaster Provisional Housing. After a review from a technical advisory committee, the ten winners revised and further developed their proposals and delivered them in June, 2008. The winners? revised submissions are presented below, along with the original versions of the winning proposals, ten honorable mentions, and all other valid submissions. Access the jury's full report online, and visit the What If NYC...Website for details on the competition.


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It was in this lab that Edison's team of workers tested hundreds of chemicals for use in such inventions as the storage battery and the improved phonograph record.
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Holiday Cards on Scrapbook Layouts
Holiday cards become treasures because they make you laugh, trigger a tear, or captivate you with their beauty. But after the holidays, what do you do with them? We'll show you how to use your much loved holiday cards to make scrapbook layouts you'll cherish for years to come.
Never a Dull Moment by Cindy Tobey, as seen in the November/December 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
Use a holiday card to create a window or mat for photos.
Display your holiday photo on your scrapbook layout in a fun new way using a die-cut section of a holiday card as a window overlay for family photos, as Cindy Tobey did here.
Original card.
More Holiday Card Tips
To learn more ways to use the sentiments, messages, and designs of holiday cards on your scrapbook layouts, read "A New Tradition for Holiday Cards" in the November/December 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
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Rick7 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 154 diseños de 46 diseñadores freelance.
Lumos Pharma
I am a serial entrepreneur in the life science sector. I have just licensed a new technology from a university setting from a group of pediatric neurologists. They have discovered the origin of a new form of mental retardation in children. This genetic defect causes a defect in the metabolism of creatine to the brain which is essential for brain growth and maturation. Without this fuel for neurons to grow, these patients become severely retarded, usually institutionalized for the majority of their lives. Lumos Pharma was formed to commercialize a genetic test that diagnoses the disease (called CTD or Creatine Transporter Defect) and a therapeutic to treat the disease. This drug treatment has been given to mice with the same disorder and their cognitive function has dramatically improved. There is every reason to believe that the same results can be achieved in humans.
The company will have a genetic test to identify the patients and a treatment to help brain cells develop normally.
The name Lumos is derived from the word lumen or a measure of light. we hope that the the "light" will go on in the brains of these children who are severely mentally handicapped after receiving this drug treatment. .
We are very hopeful that these patients will live normal lives if they can be diagnosed early enough and get Lumos Pharmas' therapeutic soon after diagnosis.
The company logo should identify with potential business partners: the major pharmaceutical and biotech companies of the world. We also must identify with the patients' families, the pediatric neurology community, the genetic counselors and other doctors and nurses in the field.
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You should look at MRI and other brain scan photos or neurons with light illuminating them.
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wonder how much more quickly things could have happened if we had had an anointed ministry to show us the
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As president, Barack Obama has never visited North Dakota. Does that matter? Yes, if he now acts to effectively shut down hundreds of coal-burning power plants, a regulatory move that officials say is only days away.
In 2010, North Dakota generated 82 percent of its electricity from coal. Many other states, from Wyoming to Kentucky, rely heavily on coal for either energy or jobs. In 15 states, at least half of the power comes from coal. To be sure, they are among the worst contributors to global warming.
Yet people in these states would be forced to make the largest personal sacrifice in Mr. Obama's plan to dethrone "king coal" and help the United States be a leader in curbing climate change.
The president should now visit those places heavily dependent on coal and try better persuasion. This would be smart politics to avoid the blocking tactics of both Democratic and Republican leaders from those states. But it would also address on a personal level the fact that Americans in general remain resistant to the sacrifices needed for drastic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions.
Five years ago, for example, 48 percent of Americans said their personal actions on energy use would significantly reduce their contribution to global warming; that figure has since dropped to 31 percent, according to the latest survey by Yale and George Mason universities.
Such trends show Obama has work to do. And those states most dependent on fossil fuels are most in need of being convinced of their common bond to the rest of humanity and to future generations. Environmental action relies more on individuals than government to see themselves in a wider, even global community and accept the discipline and sacrifice needed to protect the planet.
That may sound a bit corny, but the main tactic of climate-change activists – stoking fear – hasn't worked very well over the past quarter century. And appeals that rely on scientific predictions of temperature increases and to economic self-interest have also shown their limits.
Obama blames Congress for not requiring the existing coal plants to end carbon emissions into the atmosphere – a requirement that is unfeasible with current commercial technology. He has long threatened to take executive action. Indeed White House officials said this week the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will soon issue regulations on existing plants.
Such tough emission rules will probably face a long battle in the courts with suits filed by coal-dependent states – whether their governors are Democratic or Republican. Kansas, Montana, and West Virginia have already advised the Supreme Court that the EPA is abusing its authority under the Clean Air Act.
Heather Zichal, the White House coordinator for energy and climate change, says Obama has made action on climate change a "legacy issue" for his second term. If so, he needs to do more than give speeches on global warming in Washington or, as he did this week, in Berlin.
"Peace with justice means refusing to condemn our children to a harsher, less hospitable planet," he told the Germans. Now he needs to look North Dakotans in the eye and convince them of the need for heart-felt responsibility – and sacrifice – for the rest of the world.


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England v Austraila, Twickenham, November 17
England look to heap woe on Wallabies
ESPN Staff
November 15, 2012
Will England heap woe on under-fire Australia boss Robbie Deans this weekend? © Getty Images
England and Australia will renew one of rugby's most mouth-watering rivalries when they go head-to-head at Twickenham on Saturday.
The two giants of the game have contested two World Cup finals and countless other thrilling clashes with their latest Cook Cup showdown set to provide another enthralling spectacle. England will be chasing their third straight victory over the Wallabies - a feat they have only achieved once before under former coach Sir Clive Woodward on a run that eventually ran to five victories.
Fresh from hammering Fiji, England will be full of confidence and favourites to heap woe on Australia and their under-fire coach Robbie Deans whose side slumped to a heavy defeat to France last weekend.
In addition to bragging rights and the sizeable Cook Cup trophy, there is also a fascinating IRB Rankings/World Cup pool draw subplot. England are looking to lay claim to a top four seeding that will be rewarded with a favourable pool draw next month while Australia are desperately trying to preserve their status among the sides that will be kept apart in the early stages of World Cup 2015.
England - Player to Watch: Alex Goode delivered a Man of the Match performance against Fiji last weekend and was a real threat throughout - can he build on that display and cement his understanding with fly-half Toby Flood?
England - Team News: Winger Chris Ashton returns from suspension in the only change to the side that swept Fiji aside 54-12 last weekend. As a result Gloucester's Charlie Sharples switches to the left wing with Quins' Ugo Monye making way.
Australia - Player to Watch: Australia's Adam Ashley-Cooper has scored on two of this three previous visits to Twickenham so clearly has a liking for the place but he has failed to cross the whitewash in his previous 14 Tests - can he add to that tally on Saturday?
Australia - Team News: Australia have made four changes with fullback Berrick Barnes and winger Digby Ioane returning to the backline, in the places of Mike Harris and Pat McCabe, while second rower Sitaleki Timani and tight-head prop Ben Alexander also get the nod, taking over from Kane Douglas and Sekope Kepu respectively. After starting last weekend's heavy defeat against France, Harris and Kepu have been named among the replacements. Injury has once again played a hand in the selection, with McCabe (neck), Douglas (knee) and flanker David Pocock (calf strain) all ruled out of the equation due to fitness concerns.
Key Battle: Whenever these two sides meet the debate inevitably centres on the scrum battle and the set-piece will once again be centre of attention at HQ. Australia's Tatafu Polota-Nau has expressed his side's desire to 'dominate' their hosts while England's Dan Cole insists his pack will be looking to pulverise the Wallabies - let battle commence.
Trivia: Robbie Deans became the most-capped Wallabies coach last weekend when he sent his side into battle against France but the 33-6 hammering his side suffered at the hands of Les Bleus only served to underline his status as their most unsuccessful coach with The Australian reporting that his winning percentage has dropped to 57.4%.
Stats: England could climb to 3rd place in the IRB Rankings if they secure a big win over Australia and France lose to Argentina later in the day. The currently 3rd-placed Wallabies could slip out of the all-important top four if England and France were both to secure victories.
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"Is he talking about Charlie Sharples with his bean head or Chris Ashton with his see-through skin? I can see what he means about Ugo Monye, to be fair. He is an attractive man."
"I just want him to go. He's the worst thing that has ever happened to Australian rugby."
Prediction: Expect a significant improvement from the Wallabies but England to hold them at bay and notch a narrow victory.
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The Portrait of a Fly (part 2): Fly on the wall
Drosophila: the model model organism; the humble fruit fly with a noble (not to mention Nobel) place in the history of science. Having learned about its importance in genetics and developmental biology, I wanted to see Drosophila in action.
At a lab in Manchester, I did just that and discovered that the relevance of such research to human health can be unexpectedly direct.
"What do you want to see?"
No idea. "What do you have?"
"I could show you first instar dissection, third instar dissection, electric shock…."
Dr Richard Marley is a research technician in the Baines lab at the University of Manchester's Faculty of Life Sciences. In the face of my obvious ignorance, he takes a Drosophila larva (a pale, segmented, maggoty creature about one millimetre long), jiggles it in mounting fluid to wash off the leftovers from its feed – "They're fantastic eating machines," he says – and then, in two deft movements under the microscope, pulls off the larva's body and head, leaving only its intact nervous system. Watching on a digital camera linked up to the microscope, BBC Radio 2 playing inoffensively in the background, the operation reminds me of nothing so much as shelling a prawn.
"This is the tricky bit," he says. "You want to get it down first time." He stops talking to put a small tube in his mouth. It is a pipette that he uses to put glue on the isolated nervous system, which he has laid prone on a slide, ready for the next part of the demonstration.
The slide is placed under a different microscope and I am encouraged to have a look through the eyepiece. At 60x magnification, I can clearly see the larva's neurons – the most important cells in the nervous system. The neurons have been labelled with a green fluorescent marker, and I can see thin green processes coming off each cell body: these are axons, the long extensions that neurons send out to communicate with other cells.
I look up from the microscope to find the whole lab – some half a dozen scientists – watching me as intently as I was observing the neurons.
I have come to Manchester to visit research groups that use Drosophila to explore how neurons grow and develop. Drosophila has been a staple of biological research for more than a hundred years – their rapid reproductive cycle and relatively simple genetic make-up made them the go-to organism for genetic studies in particular. More recently, techniques in cell and molecular biology developed in other animals have been adapted for use in Drosophila, adding another dimension to its scientific usefulness.
In the Baines lab, they use electrophysiology – measuring the electrical currents flowing in and out of cells – to understand how Drosophila's neurons function. Although a human being is more complex than a fruit fly, the biological mechanisms that underpin neuronal development are remarkably well conserved across species, so findings in Drosophila are usually significant to human physiology as well.
For example, Dr Wei-Hsiang Lin, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab, is using Drosophila to study epilepsy. I wouldn't have thought that fruit flies would be particularly prone to epilepsy, but a bit of genetic engineering makes them respond to an electrical stimulus with a spasm that is a good model for the human disorder.
Shocking experiments
Neurons use a combination of electrical signals and chemical neurotransmitters to communicate with each other and with other types of cell. This system is dependent on the movement of electrically charged ions across the cell membrane. They move through ion channels: carefully controlled gates in the membrane that are usually specific to one type of ion, such as sodium or potassium, barring passage to all others.
As with all of the proteins in our cells, the instructions for making ion channels are held in our genetic code. Rogue mutations in genes that code for ion channels can lead to epilepsy, although in most cases the precise cause is never identified. There are several types of ion channel – even several types of sodium channel – so a fault in one gene could potentially be compensated for by related ion channel genes adapting their activity. Most epilepsy is probably caused by a small, hard-to-detect irregularity in the ion channels which, in certain circumstances, sets off a cascade of electrical signalling events that amplify the irregularity until it causes a seizure.
Drosophila only has one gene for sodium ion channels but its instructions can be interpreted in different ways, resulting in different 'isoforms'. The balance of two particular isoforms of sodium ion channel present in a cell's membrane determines how that cell behaves in response to electrical stimulation. Increasing the proportion of one isoform relative to the other in Drosophila neurons makes the insect susceptible to prolonged seizures.
To investigate epilepsy, therefore, Lin uses larvae with genetic mutations that tip the balance of sodium ion channel isoforms towards prolonged seizures. A live wire placed on a larva induces an extended period of seizure-associated paralysis. Normal Drosophila recover in about 30 seconds; the genetic mutants take much longer. Feeding the mutant larvae with phenytoin – a human antiepileptic drug – rescues them from this response, however, and they behave more like normal Drosophila again.
A gene called pasilla controls the balance of these isoforms in Drosophila neurons. The human equivalent of pasilla is Nova1, which has been implicated in epilepsy. That confirms that this model of epilepsy is relevant and potentially very useful.
In a different experiment, Lin feeds adult flies phenytoin and studies the behaviour of their offspring. These larvae, which have also inherited the mutations that make them prone to seizures, respond to the electrical stimulus as normal larvae would. The phenytoin from their parents' diet must be helping them, even though the amount in their bodies is far less than would be required to rescue them by putting the drug in their own food. This suggests that their exposure to trace amounts of phenytoin was in exactly the right place at the right developmental time to overcome the effects of the mutations.
Lin is doing sophisticated genetic experiments to hone in on the crucial time and place where the mutations cause the problem. Through this work, he is pinpointing possible mechanisms for the development of vulnerable neuronal networks in the larvae. Comparing the developmental timeline of Drosophila and people may then indicate the crucial time and place at which epilepsy can develop in the human brain. Eventually, this understanding of the development of epilepsy could help in the design of treatments to prevent it.
A more immediate application is being sought by Kei Hattori, an undergraduate student at Nagoya University, Japan, here in the Baines lab on a placement. She is using Drosophila as a screen to identify effective antiepileptics. Hattori has 26 candidate drugs – some already in use for epilepsy, some in use for other conditions such as cancer, and some experimental compounds. She uses a chemical called picrotoxin to induce epilepsy-like behaviour in Drosophila larvae. She then treats them with different concentrations and combinations of drugs to see which are successful in reducing the severity of the response.
Some of the candidate drugs on the list are already known to be effective but are too toxic to be used clinically. Using more than one drug at a time makes it possible to use a lower dose of each drug, which often reduces their combined toxicity while retaining overall effectiveness. The Drosophila screen quickly picks this up: "You couldn't test all combinations of all 26 drugs in mice," Hattori tells me, "but you can do it in the fly."
Concrete connections
The focal point for neuroscientists at Manchester University is the newly built AV Hill Building, located towards one end of the main campus. Bridges connect some of the buildings here to protect researchers from the North-west's infamously damp climate. Coming in to the AV Hill Building from a campus that despite bright sunshine is covered in large, cliché-confirming puddles, the first thing I encounter is the geekily named Synapse Café. Waiting for my coffee, I look up through the light, airy central atrium and see the open plan offices that fill one side of the floors above, with most of the labs on the other side.
The Baines lab, however, is in the basement. I'm assured the location is no reflection on the sociability of electrophysiologists but more to do with the need to minimise vibration and electrical interference. The lab is split into two distinct halves, as Dr Verena Wolfram, a postdoctoral researcher, explains: "We have loads of equipment – we do some molecular biology, but that's the same as any other biology lab. Mostly we do electrophysiology. We have imaging microscopes to look at the neurons and, on the other side, we have our rigs."
Everyone in the lab has their own 'rig' – a workstation with a microscope and all the kit for conducting electrophysiology experiments. "We each do recordings every day, pretty much the whole day," says Wolfram. The recordings are of the electrical currents that flow across neuronal cell membranes.
As a neuron responds to incoming signals, it opens and closes ion channels in its membrane. The resulting flow of ions creates electrical currents. Ordinarily, this would change the voltage across the membrane, but in a type of experiment called voltage clamping, an electrode is put on to the neuron where it provides the current necessary to maintain a fixed voltage. The current from the electrode is easily measured and can be used to determine the current that the cell's actions would have produced in real life but which cannot be directly measured.
Back on the imaging side of the lab, Wolfram shows me some Drosophila larvae that have been labelled with the green fluorescent marker. The marker is used to identify which ones have inherited the genetic profile a scientist wants to study. "Perhaps the mother has a mutation on one chromosome and the father another on a different chromosome. You want the offspring with both, but not all of them will inherit both mutations. We can label the 'healthy' chromosomes green and so we know it is only the larvae without any green that have both mutations. Or you can do it so the ones you want are green. Either way, you can then just pick out the ones you want."
In the past, researchers only knew which mutations had been passed on when the insects reached their mature stage, the fly. "They had to add in additional, linked mutations that caused obvious physical changes that identified the flies of interest," Wolfram explains. "For example, a mutation that produced short hairs, curled or scissored wings, dark bodies or different eye colours. But of course you can't see these effects in the larvae and they're what we need for our recordings."
Looking down one of the imaging microscopes, I see two wriggly larvae, mouth parts chomping away as they feed on a recipe of cornflour, glucose, yeast and agar. Wolfram guides me through their anatomy. Each has two long sacs running backwards from its head – these are the salivary glands. Between them, about halfway down the larva's back, is the nervous system, which in these larvae is covered in fluorescent green dots – the neuron cell bodies.
Within Drosophila's simple nervous system, it is possible to identify specific neurons from their position in the body – the spatial organisation of neurons is remarkably consistent between each insect and each neuron has a name, much like the bones in the human skeleton. Even so, Wolfram admits that sometimes she is not quite sure which neuron is which, especially as the larvae get older, so she often labels them with fluorescence too.
Not all research in the Baines lab is on epilepsy – at one rig, Francesca Cash is working towards her PhD with a project to uncover the mechanism by which a potential new insecticide works (a rare example of Drosophila being studied not as a model organism but as an insect in its own right); at another, a scientist visiting from France is learning some of the lab's dissection techniques so he can apply them to studying Drosophila's rudimentary heart. However, everything here is founded on using electrophysiology to understand the fundamental principles of electrical signalling across all species, including people.
Chemical cocktails
Back upstairs in his office, Professor Richard Baines explains his approach: "There are billions of neurons in the human brain but very few share specific sets of characteristics. Neuronal behaviour is all about frequencies and patterns of action potentials, the electrical signals that neurons send along their axons in order to communicate with other cells. But 12 action potentials close together produce a different response to 12 action potentials firing less rapidly, so clearly different neurons have different requirements.
"Ion channels play a part in determining what subtype a neuron is, but there are over a million subtypes and the entire human genome is only a few tens of thousands of genes. How is this diversity generated?
"Fundamentally, just a few types of ion channel can give rise to the huge diversity we see among neurons, the same way that four drinks in a bar can make numerous cocktails, depending on how you mix them."
All neurons have the same types of ion channel available but they can have different combinations, locations and numbers of each. With relatively few genes needed to produce the ion channels, another small set of genes could determine how those ion channels are distributed in each cell. This level of regulation usually comes from transcription factors – genes that control many other genes – which are already known to be vitally important in determining properties of neurons such as which neurotransmitters they deploy, how they grow and what other neurons they connect with. Transcription factors could be the bartenders in Baines's ion channel cocktail lounge.
However, once a neuron makes connections with other neurons, its place and role in the neural circuitry influences how it responds to the signals it receives. This capacity for change is called Hebbian plasticity, often summed up in the phrase 'Cells that fire together, wire together'. Early in development, neurons compete to form signalling connections with each other. If a connection is made but never used, the axon will retract and try to form a more useful connection with a different cell. Similarly, a neuron firing action potentials at maximum capacity is no use because it cannot ever increase its firing rate, so it will change its properties to damp down its response.
Because neurons can adapt when part of a 'live' circuit, it has been unclear whether the cocktail of ion channels in a particular neuron is determined mainly by transcription factors or by its subsequent activity.
A recent study on which Wolfram and Baines were lead and senior author, respectively, suggested that the same transcription factors that control other neuronal properties do establish the initial mix of ion channels. They had found that a single transcription factor determined whether a neuron produced an electrical current associated with the movement of potassium ions. This was true even when they had blocked signalling activity throughout the nervous system. It means that this transcription factor controls the expression of a certain type of potassium ion channel.
While a lot of neuronal diversity could be predetermined by transcription factors, Baines is not sure that this would be enough to establish functioning circuits in the nervous system. His theory is that it gives the system a 'head-start', speeding up initial development that can later be fine-tuned in response to activity at the connections each neuron makes. The story might be slightly different in people, though.
"Normally, what we find in flies, we find in people – although it may have been built upon and adapted," he says. "Drosophila may need more predetermination than humans because flies have such a short gestation period: embryogenesis is only about 21 hours in the fly."
Complex questions
Intriguingly, transcription factors remain active in neurons after they have matured and no one is quite sure what they are doing. And, of course, there is the question of what is regulating the regulators: what determines how the transcription factors will configure each neuron? The complexity is daunting, but Baines is optimistic.
"One of the beauties of invertebrates is the small number and consistency of neurons," he says. "Having the same layout of cells in each animal means we can compare them directly. We know they have different combinations of transcription factors and we are starting to interpret what that means for ion channels. Other groups are looking at how those same transcription factors determine a neuron's choice of neurotransmitter or the way it connects with other cells.
"My contribution is functional electrophysiology. We had to take electrophysiology techniques, which were developed in very large cells, and combine them with genetics in Drosophila's very small cells. I was the first to start doing that about 15 years ago. Now we're getting a good understanding of how you get from neural stem cells to neurons to diversity in neurons."
As I prepare to go, Baines leaves me with a parting shot: "There are brain surgeons operating on people with epilepsy," he says, "who have little or no idea that what we're studying in flies might one day help their future patients."
It is a plea for greater appreciation of Drosophila as a model organism in science. Of course, while the fly continues to prove itself an elegant and valuable research tool, the credit really belongs to the scientists who do the experiments and interpret the results.
I was keen to see how fruit flies are actually used in scientific experiments; I'm grateful to everyone in the Baines lab for letting me come and be reminded that the power of any research model lies in the ways it is applied by smart, inquisitive and dedicated people.
Lin WH, Günay C, Marley R, Prinz AA, & Baines RA (2012). Activity-dependent alternative splicing increases persistent sodium current and promotes seizure. The Journal of neuroscience, 32 (21), 7267-77 PMID: 22623672
Wolfram V, Southall TD, Brand AH, & Baines RA (2012). The LIM-homeodomain protein islet dictates motor neuron electrical properties by regulating K(+) channel expression. Neuron, 75 (4), 663-74 PMID: 22920257


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Bonobos Raises $18.5 Million to Sell Better-Fitting Pants
Bonobos got its start three years ago promising men "better-fitting pants" sold over the internet.
Now it has raised $18.5 million in venture capital to tell more people about it.
The funds raised today will give the New York-based company the cash to add a sales and marketing team. The goal is to increase its relatively small customer base of 32,000 customers to 100,000 in 2011.
Bonobos, which is named for a kind of chimpanzee, was started by Andy Dunn while he was at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Dunn himself professes to like clothes, but not shopping.
Despite its tiny footprint, Bonobos is on pace to have $15 million in annualized revenues, and in the past six months alone has tripled its business. It has a 50 percent return rate based on selling well-fitting, comfortable clothes and offering great customer service.
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Senate deal averts nuclear option
Senators cemented a deal to avert the "nuclear option" on filibuster rules on Tuesday.
Under the proposal, President Barack Obama would pull two nominees to the National Labor Relations Board — Sharon Block and Richard Griffin — and replace them on Tuesday afternoon with Nancy Schiffer and Kent Hirozawa, according to three sources.
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Schiffer is the associate general counsel at the AFL-CIO; Hirozawa is the chief counsel to NLRB Chairman Mark Gaston Pearce and would be nominated to the seat on the board that expires in 2014.
The nominations are expected to move swiftly since without the two new members, the board would cease to function in August.
Under the deal to avoid the nuclear option, votes on the other five nominees would be allowed to go forward – including Cabinet nominations such as Gina McCarthy as EPA administrator and Thomas Perez as Labor secretary. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said those five nominees will get confirmation votes in the next two weeks.
( PHOTOS: Longest filibusters in history)
"We have a new start for this body. And I feel very comfortable about it. I don't know how I could be happier," Reid said after the agreement was reached with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
"It's a step in the right direction that the majority has chosen not to exercise the nuclear option. We feel good about that, I think they feel good about it, so I think that crisis has been averted," McConnell said.
Each side got a piece of what they wanted: Democrats will get seven of Obama's nominees in place and Republicans were able to scuttle the recess-appointed Block and Griffin from the NLRB. And in the end Republicans will still be able to force procedural votes on executive nominees at a 60-vote threshold and Democrats retain the right to change the rules.
( Also on POLITICO: Senate heads toward 'nuclear option')
"They're not sacrificing their right to filibuster and we damn sure aren't giving up our right to change the rules if necessary," Reid said.
Just before noon, the Senate voted to move forward with the nomination of Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Board with 71 votes — well over the 60 votes needed to break a filibuster — a breakthrough that allowed senators to back away from the brink of the historic rules changes.
In the Senate Democratic caucus after the Cordrary vote, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) told Democrats not to do a touchdown dance at forcing Republicans to allow votes on the president's nominees, telling fellow members: "No gloating, maximum dignity."
( WATCH: POLITICO's Jake Sherman previews this week in Congress)
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said those nominations would have to go through the committee process but must be in place by the end of August, when the NLRB will cease to function without Senate action.
According to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — who was central in crafting the deal — and Democratic sources, Republicans have agreed to not filibuster the two NLRB nominees.
Reid's office hadbeen in touch with GOP senators led by John McCain overnight and early Tuesday. McCain also held holding talks with Schumer. The two spoke repeatedly on Monday past 11 p.m., as they did throughout the weekend.
( Also on POLITICO: Michael Steele: 'Let the nuclear option rain')
Schumer said the agreement was sparked by McCain's doggedness — and Sen. Roger Wicker's (R-Miss.) request to get all senators in one room together on Monday. Once they all were in the Old Senate Chamber it was clear an agreement could be reached, Schumer said.
"Everybody saw we were so close — it would be a shame to have an armageddon, if you will, when we were so close," said the No. 3 Democrat. "This morning is when the deal was crystallized. When we woke up this morning, we weren't sure we had it."


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Etihad Airways welcomes latest class of graduate managers, cadet pilots, and contact centre agents
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has welcomed another group of Emirati graduates.
A total of 237 graduates were recognised in a ceremony at the Al Raha Beach Hotel in Abu Dhabi on Monday, March 18, 2013. The graduates comprised 15 UAE national cadet pilots and 29 cadet pilots of other nationalities; 24 graduate managers, five of whom completed the Finance Development Program; and 169 contact centre staff, including 35 Omani nationals.
Etihad Airways is renowned as one of the UAE's leading Emirati employers and has been widely praised for its Emiratisation recruitment program. The airline works closely with the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Abu Dhabi Tawteen Council, HCT, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi University, and other organisations to further enhance its ability to recruit nationals.
UAE nationals currently represent 22.4% of the Etihad Airways core workforce.
James Hogan, Etihad Airways' President and Chief Executive Officer, said: "The most valuable asset of any organisation is its people and this is why staff development is such a significant focus for us. Through our innovative Emiratisation program, we work hard to develop our UAE national staff, and to that end, we continue to invest in state-of-the-art educational facilities."
Since Etihad Airways began its Emiratisation program in 2007, 229 cadet pilots, 127 graduate managers, and 206 contact centre agents have passed through the Etihad Training Academy and are now deployed in posts across the airline.
The graduating cadet pilots completed an 18-month training course and have now joined the airline as second officers. During their training, cadets must complete 900 hours of classroom tuition and 201 hours of flight training in single and multi-engine aircrafts. Cadets must also pass the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority's technical and flying exams to receive a UAE Airline Transport Pilot Licence (ATPL).
Upon receipt of their ATPL, cadet pilots join Etihad Airways as second officers and undergo specific training on their allocated aircraft using the airline's cutting-edge flight simulators. After approximately six months, the second officers will qualify as first officers.
Fahad Abdelkarim Fahad Mohamed Al Jesmi, one of the graduating cadet pilots, said of his experience: "I have always had a passion for flying and traveling to new places that I have never been. But dreams always remain dreams unless one works hard to achieve them, and that was what I did by joining Etihad Airways' Cadet Pilot Program."
The graduation ceremony also included 19 graduate managers who completed a 21-month Graduate Managers Development Program (GMDP). Their instruction included a nine-month orientation through key Etihad departments, followed by a six-month placement in head office or a four-month placement in an outstation, depending on the position.
The graduates will be assigned to various positions across the Etihad Airways' network, such as duty manager in Sydney and Geneva, and manager of sales development in Washington, D.C. and Paris. The five graduates of the Finance Development Program will assume positions such as leasing officer, procurement controller and finance officer. As part of their instruction, the graduates completed a 12-month workplace rotation through all areas of Finance.
Mohamed Yahia Madour, who will be stationed at Etihad headquarters as a manager of product development, said: "The GMDP program gave us a chance to explore multiple disciplines of the aviation world. I am grateful for this unique experience and I don't think I would have been able to receive this kind of exposure anywhere else."
In 2009, Etihad Airways announced the creation of an all female UAE national contact centre in Al Ain. Training for these employees included a comprehensive 10-week course, designed and delivered in partnership with Abu Dhabi University in Al Ain.
Mouza Khalfan Al Raisi, who chose to join the Al Ain contact centre, said: "I found myself fitting in well at Etihad Airways. Leading the social committee at the Al Ain contact centre has helped to develop my leadership and organisation skills. We work together as one family with the goal of strengthening our national identity."
Etihad's Emiratisation program was awarded "Best Nationalisation Friendly Initiative" in 2011 at the GCC HR Excellence Awards. In 2012, the airline received the Middle East HR Excellence Awards for "Recruitment Program of the Year" and "HR Initiative of the Year."
"We are not only hiring Emiratis to work in Etihad Airways, but we are also helping them build their career paths in the aviation industry," said Mr. Hogan. "This reflects our commitment to attract, develop, and more importantly, retain our highly qualified UAE nationals."
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Iran agreed Wednesday to give Japan preferential negotiating rights to develop part of one of the largest oil fields in the Middle East, officials said. Japan also agreed to extend Iran a trade credit line worth three billion dollars over the next three years, according to a joint statement.
The oil agreement was reached here between Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh, who is accompanying visiting President Mohammad Khatami, and Japanese trade minister Takeo Hiranuma.
"It was ... agreed that National Iranian Oil Company of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Japanese oil companies shall commence negotiations for the appraisal and development of a specific area of the Azadegan oil field," the statement said.
The preferential deal allows a Japanese consortium to negotiate exclusively with Iran to acquire the developing and operating rights for the field in southwestern Iran, one of the biggest in the Middle East.
The field is said to have oil reserves of more than 26 billion barrels. It will be Japan's biggest oil development project.
The trade credit of one billion dollars for each of the next three years will be given by the state-run Japan Bank for International Cooperation to Iran's Naftiran Intertrade Co. Ltd., the statement said.—AFP.
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Sure, you know to limit the number of Karlie Kloss Kookies you snarf down and to only hit the Mexicue truck on Fridays, but despite your best efforts, you may be sabotaging your diet — and your overall health— by eating certain foods that you only think are healthy.
It's not your fault if you're confused. From high-calorie fruit smoothies labeled "no sugar added" to snack bars with "organic" printed all over the wrapper, it's hard to know what is — and isn't — actually good for you, even if you're not a nutrition virgin.
"Over the past 50 years, certain foods, including wheat and soy, have been genetically modified, so foods that were once considered healthy aren't as good for us any more," says Jeffery Morrison, M.D., a nutrition specialist in New York. "Add to that creative marketing, and it's natural that people are getting confused."
Here, we sleuthed out the biggest health offenders in your fridge and kitchen cabinets. Read on to find out what to avoid to improve your weight, energy, and health.
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Big Tobacco's E-Cigarette Push Gets a Reality Check
Vape Shops Pose Threat Amid Sales Shift Away From Convenience Stores
Big Tobacco is finally making its big push into electronic cigarettes. Altria Group Inc. and Reynolds American Inc. together have captured about a quarter of convenience-store sales just weeks into national rollouts of the battery-powered devices.
In a surprising development, though, e-cigarette sales are falling at these traditional retail outlets, reversing three years of rapid-fire growth. That raises questions whether Altria and Reynolds, which already dominate the U.S. tobacco market with a combined 75% market share,...


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From Barbara Walters' interview with the President and First Lady, which will air tomorrow night.
In it Obama says that the GOP will fight anything he puts forward simply because he is the one putting it forward regardless if it contains ideas they have supported in the past.
He also says he's not a fan of politicians having their personal lives "poked and prodded" and that the country merely wants a president who will get the job done.
Mr. and Mrs. Obama also answered 10 personal questions about themselves. A sampling:
What's the trait you most deplore in yourself, and the trait you most deplore in others?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Laziness. Nothing frustrates me more than when people aren't doing their jobs. The thing actually that I most dislike is cruelty. I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else, just to make themselves feel important it really gets me mad. But, with myself, since I tend not to be a mean person, you know, if I get lazy, then I get mad at myself.
MICHELLE OBAMA: When people are unwilling to compromise. I just think that particularly in a society with big views, big differences, that, you know, the truth is often somewhere right in the middle. And, a lot of times, we don't want to give up anything. And I don't like it when I see that in myself.


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Brandeis Magazine: The Winter issue is here
Featuring a Q&A with education expert Arthur Levine '70, who studies how digital-era undergrads find their footing at analog universities.You can't call the digital age young anymore — it already has kids in college.
Today's undergraduates are the first generation of digital "natives," born after the introduction of the Internet, Microsoft and the smartphone. But is academia ready for students with learning styles shaped by computer technology?
Not really, says education expert Arthur Levine '70, author of the book "Generation on a Tightrope" and Q&A respondent in the cover story of the just-published Winter 2014 issue of Brandeis Magazine.
Levine has studied the generational traits of college students since the late 1970s. In the Brandeis Magazine piece, titled "Digital Natives, Analog Universities," he says red-brick universities still have a lot to learn from click-happy students, and vice versa. Inherent tensions — including the extent to which digital learners "want to determine what and how they study" — are keeping the two camps from fully understanding each other, he says.
Elsewhere in the Winter issue you'll find an excerpt from "The Pope and Mussolini" (Random House, 2014), an explosive new history that takes readers inside the Vatican in the years leading up to and during World War II. In a special introduction written for Brandeis Magazine, the book's author, David I. Kertzer, PhD'74, details what it was like to plumb newly opened files that proved once and for all how closely Pius XI and Mussolini cooperated with each other, with fatal consequences for Italy's Jews.
In present-day Vietnam, a 31-year-old lawyer is delving into another kind of darkness, fighting to save women and children from slavery. "A Necessary Hero" profiles Van Ta, Heller MA/SID'12, who uses old-fashioned detective work and modern technology to rescue human-trafficking victims sold into prostitution and sweatshop labor, and bring their abusers to justice.
Finally, in the magazine's Brandeis Questionnaire, Haile Menkerios '70, a U.N. undersecretary-general nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for his work in Sudan and South Sudan, opens up about his passionate pursuit of peace.
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HBO's "Game of Thrones" ended its third season Sunday night with a bang, drawing 5.4 million total viewers — a 28 percent increase over the Season 2 finale.
The episode was also the second-most watched episode of the series, behind only the May 5 episode of this year, which drew 5.5 million total viewers.
Also read: Ratings: As 'Game of Thrones' Death Toll Surges, Audience Rises Modestly
Last Sunday's episode drew 5.22 million total viewers.
With an encore airing factored in, the "Game of Thrones" finale accumulated 6.3 million total viewers.
Also read: 'Game of Thrones' Palace Malice: Handicapping a Bloody Horse Race
All told, the third season of "Game of Thrones" averaged a gross audience of 13.6 million total viewers, when linear plays, HBO on Demand, HBO Go and DVR viewings are taken into account. That's an increase of 2 million over last season's average, making "Game of Thrones" HBO's second most popular series in the channel's history, behind only "The Sopranos."


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GOP's problems exposed in Senate
In 2010, when Republicans stumbled on what had been a clear path to winning control of the Senate, GOP operatives comforted themselves with a defiant vow: Just wait 'til next time.
Now, next time is here — and the GOP is in danger of blowing its shot at a majority for the second cycle in a row.
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Republicans fell short of power in 2010 largely because three out-of-the-mainstream candidates — in Nevada, Delaware and Colorado — lost states that clearly were winnable if more electable politicians had been on the ballot.
( See also: POLITICO's swing-state map)
In 2012, the early exuberance about GOP prospects was based largely on simple math: Democrats were defending 23 seats, some of which looked clearly vulnerable, while Republicans were defending only 10 seats.
But less than three weeks before voting, few people in Republican circles are feeling exuberant. Insiders in both parties put the chances of a GOP Senate takeover at less than 50-50. Assuming the current leader in polls in every Senate race hold — and a couple key races are literally tied — Democrats would still retain a very slim majority.
( See also: POLITICO's polling center)
The slide in Republican expectations — from optimism at the start to public second-guessing and private recriminations at the finish line — are due to more than bad luck and a couple of underperforming candidates, although both of those played an important role.
The GOP's Senate challenges more broadly are a reflection of a party that simply cannot be controlled from Washington down — but also can't reliably produce good candidates and winning strategies from the grass roots up.
The Senate takeover struggle of 2012 has revealed a central leadership that is unwilling, and perhaps unable, to control its base — enfeebled by fear of tea party activists, conservative talk show hosts and big-money outsiders who can swing primary races.
Make no mistake — there will be a batch of conservative senators crowned on Nov. 6, and some GOP candidates struggling in red states against strong Democrats might well pull through. But there are also likely to be several more missed opportunities.
"We ought to be in better shape," conceded Scott Bensing, who served as executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee in 2006 under former Sen. John Ensign.
( Also on POLITICO: McMahon and Murphy spar over abortion)
Yes, party leaders suffered a pair of bad breaks that no one saw coming — Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe's abrupt retirement in late February and Missouri Rep. Todd Akin's explosive remark on "legitimate rape."
But in several of the races — like Arizona, Wisconsin and Missouri — the party's hands-off approach to primaries produced battered, weakened candidates who are struggling to pull away in races many Republicans thought were sure bets.
( Also on POLITICO: DSCC poll: McCaskill up 12 in Missouri)
What follows is a POLITICO report, based on more than a dozen interviews with senators, candidates and operatives on the main reasons Republicans are struggling in the battle for Senate control:
There's a legion of reasons why Republican fortunes are darker than most objective analysts projected, but the overarching explanation is that its leaders can't control their base.
No person or group in the Republican Party has the power to prop up or push out candidates. So primary winners often enter the general election battered and cash-poor. That kind of internecine warfare is rare on the Democratic side.


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Two men wanted by for trying to get money from another person's bank account in Newburgh are behind bars after one ended up in the hospital Monday following a chase with Westchester County Police.
The hunt for one of the men began when Jeremy Sanders, 29, and Andre Kelly, 43, both of the Bronx, attempted to get money out of a flagged account at the Chase Bank branch on Route 9W in Newburgh, around 10 a.m. said Town of Newburgh Police Lt. James Nenni.
Officers arrived while the men were still in the parking lot and Kelly cooperated with police and was taken into custody, Nenni said.
Sanders refused to cooperate and ran from the officer, taking off across the parking lot, running circles around his car and finally, getting behind the wheel and taking off onto 9W, and then onto I-84 East, Nenni said.
Police lost sight of Sanders after that and backed off pursuing him, he added.
A call was put out across the area for officers to be on the lookout for Sanders, Nenni said.
At around 11:05 a.m., a Westchester County Police officer observed a vehicle traveling southbound on the Sprain Brook Parkway near the Eastview exit that was wanted by the Newburgh Police Department in connection with an incident that occurred there earlier in the day, said Westchester County Police spokesman Kieran O'Leary.
The officer radioed headquarters and began to follow Sanders vehicle. The officer did not activate lights and sirens as he was awaiting backup from other officers, O'Leary said.
The suspect vehicle eventually noticed that it was being followed and increased its speed. The officer then activated his lights and siren, but Sanders refused to pull over and continued to the Tuckahoe Road exit, where he ran off the road and crashed attempting to exit the parkway, O'Leary added.
Sanders and a passenger then fled from the car.
Westchester County and Yonkers police officers, including a Yonkers PD canine, were able to locate both suspects and take them into custody.
Sanders was taken to Westchester Medical Center to be treated for minor injuries where he was turned over to Town of Newburgh Police, O'Leary said.
He will be facing charges in Westchester in connection with refusing to stop and fleeing from officers. The passenger was not charged.
Sanders and Kelly were charged with felony criminal possession of a forged instrument and petty larceny, Nenni said.
Sanders was also charged with attempted second-degree assault, a felony; and reckless endangerment and obstructing governmental administration for fleeing from police in the bank parking lot.
Sanders is being held at the Orange County Jail on $10,000 bail. Kelly is being held without bail.
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Maria Creech necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 38 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Media Vision Integration
Media Vision is a high end audio visual integration and design company based out of California. We specialize in broadcasting, post production, and high definition corporate AV. We are looking for a face lift on our website that will make it easy to navigate, appealing to look at, and represent our advanced high tech image.
Media Vision Integration works in several different markets. We have clients in healthcare, government, film, broadcasting, professional sports, ministry, corporate, ect. Our design needs to be appealing in virtually any arena and represent our quality, professional high end services.
I have attached our new company logo. Please refer to it when choosing a color pallet.
I have attached an outline we will be using for the new website.
Here is a link to one of our competitors sites:
We like the AVISPL dashboard and navigation layout. We are looking for something even more appealing and updated but this gives you an idea of what you would typically see in our market.
We require to see designs for two screens:
1. The home screen - On the home screen I would like to see a navigation bar, a flash header, a featured project, and a featured product.
2. An appealing way to present our dashboards/sub-screens
Our goal is to give our application a clean, web 2.0 style design, which in turn will make the functionality more inviting and provide for a superior user experience.


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Pashto Language Training
Every ALTA Language Training Program begins with a proposal defining the details of the Program including location, content, materials, methods, schedule, fees and results. We guarantee that 75% of the participants in Individual or Group Programs will reach the target performance level in the specified time.
We test each participant at the beginning, during and at the end of the Pashto language training program using our language testing technology. If 75% of the participants have not met the agreed upon performance level, we provide additional training at our cost until the performance level is achieved. You know the deliverables before you start learning Pashto language through our program.
Program Materials
Customized materials are designed prior to the program as part of our Program Development Process. Materials usually consist of a training manual for each student with possible supplemental support materials such as online lessons, daily email lessons, customized terminology, audio tapes or CDs and visual aids.


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There is a super awesome looking character that is now part of the Justice League. This lesson is going to show you "how to draw Blue Beetle", step by step. Even though the image of this character looks like an alien, Blue Beetle is actually a human. His real name is Jaime Reyes, and he is a teenaged Hispanic boy that looks rather normal when he is not in his full getup as the Beetle. What is cool about the Blue Beetle is his ability to control the beetle like wings on his back as well as the ability to transform his legs and arms into a weapon of his choice. Jaime's personality is described as being relaxed, patient, and sometimes quite when he's not talking to himself. When he is caught talking to himself, it's actually the Blue Beetle Scarab that talks to Jaime. The character design is cool which means you will enjoy drawing Blue Beetle too. I will be back with one last lesson for you all so try to stay tuned in to see what I will upload next. Peace out people!
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Mary Benton is an award-winning journalist who knows Texas and politics like the back of her hand.
This Texas native was born and raised in Harlingen, in the Rio Grande Valley. Mary received her bachelor of journalism from The University of Texas at Austin. While at the university, she took a special interest in her government and political science classes and student government organizations on campus. She also kept a watchful eye on the political arena unfolding just down the street from the UT campus at the Texas State Capitol.
Soon after graduation, Mary landed her first job as a reporter at KCEN-TV in Central Texas covering the Killeen/Fort Hood area.
The lure of politics would soon bring Mary back to Austin. She accepted a job with KTBC-TV and took on the tough assignment of education reporter. During this time, the school finance issue -- or how Texas would evenly distribute its educational funds - was at the forefront of the political debate.
In 1990, the Texas State Teachers Association honored Mary with the prestigious "School Bell Award" for her outstanding reporting on educational issues.
Mary's experience in the Texas Capitol also helped her to become one of the top political reporters in Austin. She's covered many elections, including the races for governor.
In November 1994, Mary joined the Local 2 family. She says her favorite part of the job is covering political candidates, meeting people from different walks of life and traveling to different story assignments. Mary is proudest of her work when it gets results for victims or gets the attention of viewers.
Mary's work gets noticed in the industry as well. In 1997, the Houston Association of Black Journalists honored her as "Favorite Television Reporter."
Mary's family is also very involved in politics. Her brother is State District Judge Levi Benton in Harris County.
One of Mary's most embarrassing television moments happened while she was on the air live, interviewing a trail rider during her first Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. The man's mule suddenly moved and startled Mary, prompting many viewers to phone in to make sure she was OK.
In her spare time, Mary enjoys shopping, swimming, volleyball, snow skiing and surfing the Web. Her favorite Web site is The Political Insider. She also enjoys watching a good movie. Among her favorites: "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" and "To Sir, with Love."
She has two dogs both adopted from animal shelters: A cocker spaniel named Chewbacca (after the "Star Wars" character) and Fuzzball a mixed breed.
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I'd like to write an application whose data model needs to be flexible and unstructured (similar to, say, XML). The model itself can contain fields and the field values can also be an array of the same structure (forming a hierarchy). Ideally, I'd like to be able to have a dictionary of field identifiers which are coupled to their field types. In that sense, it would be similar to web services but targeted at intra-application (within the application) method calls.
That would be the main functionality requirement. Nice to haves would be a way to dump the structure to a String, create a structure from a formatted String, identify whether a structure contains a certain field type, etc. and be easy and natural to code to.
Does a library or programming API like that exist and is open and freely available?


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dbredmond necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 217 diseños de 68 diseñadores freelance.
We seek a fun and slightly funky logo to go with our concept (fun, slight funky and gourmet food) and our name - "DillWeed's". Logo will be on the storefront, menus, t-shirts, etc. Must look good in color and black and white. Would like the name and a simple icon as our logo.
DillWeed's (tagline "Gourmet Kitchen & Cafe")
Brand new six day cafe serving breakfast, lunch, lite dinner, with gourmet to go foods and great catering. In the heart of a small urban town with a University within walking distance. Customers are daytime office workers, college students, people in town shopping. Food is very gourmet and upscale, medium priced and very creative. Think California gourmet on the East Coast.
- A "linear" logo (longer left to right rather than tall or square"
- Slightly fun font, but not overboard, it still has to say "gourmet" as well as fun and slightly funky
- A tag line below the name that states"gourmet kitchen & cafe
- The Name "DillWeed's" as the primary emphasis. Note the two words combined with a capital "W" to separate. Whatever you want to use to keep the words together but visually separate is fine, however.
- An icon or visual included with the cafe name that can be used as a separate logo without the name copy. What should this be? Maybe a fun or funky person or character or whatever you want. Just don't make it to detailed. And remember, the logo should be wider than it is tall.
- A mixture of two, three or four "earthy" colors. No brights, no neon's, no primary. But not "Starbucks" dark, either.
- This logo must have a corporate feel, we are up against big players and we must come across as almost a franchise and not a "mom and pop"
- No clipart
- No pictures
- Nothing frilly or too busy
- No overt references to the food industry, i.e. chefs, chef hats, utensils, plates, coffee cups, coffee, etc.
- No leaves, vine or trees.
- the mark cannot be abstract, it must re recognizable as "something"
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Difficult Conversations (Perth)
Event outline
Presented by: Violet Dhu
Difficult conversations are a normal part of everyday life whether in your workplace or in your personal life. It might be saying no to an annual leave request at work; it could be dealing with inappropriate behaviour at work; it could be completing a performance plan; it could be ending a relationship; it could be giving negative feedback or it may be needing to apologise. Regardless of what the difficult conversation is about, most people prefer to walk away from it, delay it, do the work themselves or avoid the conversation completely. This workshop will give you the tools and the awareness to be more comfortable, effective and successful in your difficult conversations.
Course Content
You will learn how to:
- Identify what the problem is by untangling intent from impact
- Move away from blame game - I am right you are wrong
- Identify some of the assumptions that get in the way
- Maintain safety in the conversation for yourself and the other party
- Use empathy and listening when dealing with difficult conversations
- Be more aware of your nonverbal communication
- Identify the purpose of the conversation
- Put it altogether in a successful conversation.
- Develop your own difficult conversation template
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this workshop you will have the following skills:
- Knowledge of how to prepare for and plan for a difficult conversation
- Ability to communicate effectively during a difficult conversation
- Awareness of the importance of active listening skills
- Ability to ask the right questions
- Development of greater self-awareness and emotional management
- Strategies and tools to hold successful conversations
- Know how to explore the barriers to holding a difficult conversation
- Strategies and tools to hold successful conversations
- A model to give effective feedback in difficult situations
- Awareness of body language and its impact on difficult conversations
After this workshop you will no longer fear or avoid difficult conversations. You will be more confident and aware of your role in a difficult conversation and you will be better equipped with the tools needed to deal effectively with a wide range of difficult conversations.
Dates & registration
Fri 29 Nov 2019 Perth (Metro)
Violet Dhu
0408 930 993


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Toyota Paseo Wheel Cylinder - RH
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Toyota Reviews
Toyota Avensis Hatchback 03-08 Car Review
The new avensis hatchback offers something different. Toyota may have borrowed some of the classy elements from its Lexus chain of models, making the car sleek and comfortable. The interior of the car is classy and it is a very nice car to drive. The Avensis scores well for its comfort and if Toyota are anything to go by the vehicle should not let you down in reliability Full Toyota Avensis Review
Toyota Corolla Hatchback 02 to 07 Car Review
This is (believe it or not) the ninth generation Toyota Corolla (E120 series). It was first introduced into Japan in 2000, then later released into the European market in 2002 and finally the American market in 2003. The body styles range from a 3-door hatchback to a 5-door van, with engines varying from a 1.4l to a 1.8l Sport (from the Celica), turbo diesel versions are also available. Full Toyota Corolla Review
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Toyota Company - Wales to receive ┬Ż88 million cash injection
Toyota announced that it will invest ┬Ż88 million into a North Wales plant to produce a small petrol engine - securing jobs for 700 workers. The Japanese car company will expect to get a new 1.3litre engine out of the deal - which is going into the Deeside plant. Full Toyota Story


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Student or Learner
The night was dark,though sometimes the moving clouds allowed a star or two to be seen in the sky.The poor men held on to any bit of wood they could find.They called to the Marie for help but she was far beyond the reach of the human voice. At one o'clock in the morning suddenly some light were seen in the distance:another ship! The shouts of the
swimmers were heard on board,and willing hands pulled them out of the water.The name of the ship that had so fortunately arrived at the scene in time to save their lives was the Ellen.What had brought
her to the exact spot through the darkness and the pathless sea? Her captain had known nothing of the wreck and had,therefore,attempted to sail away from it. But let him speak for us .
"just as I was forced by the wind to change course,a small bird flew across the ship once or twice and then flew at my face.I took no notice of this until exactly the same thing happened a second time,which caused me to think it rather unusual.While I wasstudying this,the same bird,for the third time,made its appearance and flew about in the same way as before.
My question is whether "swimmers", "fortunately" "studying" are used correctly here.
Should I use "victims" "....""considering" instead?
As for "fortunately", I just suspect that we could say somebody arrives so fortunately.
But I am not sure about its replacement here.
So can you help me?
Sorry, I can't get your reply clearly.
1. Are "swimmers" and "studying" wrongly used?
2. Is "fortunately" correctly/naturally used here? If not, can you recommend some other word?


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A Reporter's Least Favorite Story
When I worked as a newspaper reporter, there was one type of story my fellow writers and I always dreaded.
Weather stories. I'm not talking about covering a major event like a tornado threatening the region or about investigating the impact of a drought on the local agriculture industry. Those are compelling stories and we were glad to do them.
When I say weather stories, I mean those innocuous articles about how a run-of-the-mill rainstorm passed through town or about how temperatures had warmed up and prompted some folks to visit a local park. I dreaded these stories because they're predictable – if you've read one, you've read them all – and pointless. There's nothing newsworthy about yesterday's minor weather.
"Why are we wasting time and ink telling people something they can learn from looking out the window?" I would ask my editor.
This usually caused said editor to start shuffling paperwork on his desk, searching for an even more thankless task for me. I would quickly come up with something to do outside of the newsroom – and his view – for the next few hours.
One of my less direct co-workers hated writing weather stories so much he would submit the most generic, uninspired copy possible in hopes the task would be assigned to someone else next time. I'm not sure whose approach was most effective – my complaints or his shoddy writing. We both seemed to draw the assignment an equal number of times.
This brings me, believe it or not, to this week's Data Center Deconstructed topic – the potential for using wind energy to power a Data Center.
Because I'm a look-out-the-window-and-figure-it-out sort of person, I like the idea of harvesting the wind. Set up a wind turbine and watch it spin – you'll always know at a glance if the thing is producing energy. Solar panels and fuel cells are great, but you can't see them at work the way you can a windmill's blades.
Check out this week's video for a discussion of wind power and Data Centers. (And feel free to peek out the window for the latest update on minor weather conditions.)
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Garrus - Eye for an Eye part 1
Walkthrough - Garrus - Eye for an Eye part 1
First things first -- to undertake this optional quest, you're going to want to find Garrus on board the Normandy. He can be found in his usual location, on the third floor, near the main batteries. When you arrive, he'll explain to Shepard that he has something on his mind. Notably, that "something" is actually a "someone" named Sidonis. Sidonis and Garrus used to work together, post-Normandy, when they were commando-ing around the galaxy together. However, Sidonis is an untrustworthy rat, and people perished because of what he did (and didn't do). He used someone called Fade to hide himself away following his operations with Garrus, but Garrus hasn't forgotten. As he explains to Shepard, he wants to find Sidonis and seek retribution on him, Hammurabi style.
To find Fade, and to begin to track down Sidonis himself, you're going to have to head to, of all places, the Citadel. If you're following this walkthrough to a tee, and we hope that you are, then you would have already went to the Citadel. This is good, since we thoroughly explored it. So, all that's left to do once we arrive there is to get on with our quest, without ancillary distractions all around us. But of course, we have to get there first. To do so, head to the Serpent Nebula via the galaxy map. You'll be brought to an area called Widow, where the Citadel can be found. Drive the Normandy to the Citadel, and land her on the giant, ancient space station to continue on with our quest.
As we mentioned earlier, you should have been to the Citadel already, so there will no distractions here. We're here to do nothing else but help Garrus. To do so, however, you'll have to think back to when we first came to the Citadel, very early on in the game, to visit with our old friend Anderson. When we arrived, we explored. And when we explored, we found a location on the far western edge of the map called Warehouse. This was an interesting, sketchy location, and we told you to keep it in the back of your mind for later. While we couldn't find anyone to speak with there earlier, that's where things are going to go down here. So, once on the Citadel, work your way to the far western edge of the map, and enter the now-active Warehouse to proceed.
When you arrive at the Warehouse, you're going to find a couple of Krogan mercenaries, along with a Volus. It's the Volus who you want to speak with here, though this will all happen automatically once you arrive, via a cutscene. You assume this Volus is Fade, but in fact, he's not. He just works for Fade... as an agent... kind of. While he can make people disappear, making them reappear is far more complicated. But when guns are drawn, and the Volus' hired Krogan guards mutiny, there's little left for him to do. He turns you on to a man named Harkin, who is hiding out nearby, in another area of the Citadel. Harkin is, indeed, the Fade. The defenseless (and humorously sarcastic) Volus implores you to use a nearby cab stand, to reach the location where he is. So, leave the Warehouse once you regain control, use the transit location to the north of the Warehouse, and head on out.
When you arrive, you'll run into the Blue Suns, a mercenary group that the Volus told you was working with Harkin (you've now seen these guys countless times during your adventure). You'll also see Harkin himself, though he quickly bails through a door, and successfully flees for the time being. Now, it's time to fight. The two Blue Suns Troopers that initially assault you should be easy enough to fell with very little difficulty. Indeed, the battle shouldn't take longer than a few seconds. Once they're killed, you can then press through the door that Harkin just escaped through. However, once you go through the next door, you won't find him. Instead, you'll find a seemingly-abandoned office area. You can search a trash pile next to the door for some misplaced credits, as well as a medical kit behind the desk, if you're in need of some Medi-Gel. However, as you're doing all of this, expect to be attacked from the left by a few LOKI Mechs. Seek cover nearby and return the favor on these synthetic enemies, eliminating them quickly.
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