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Low Key Setting Chosen For High-Profile Summit
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif.—A sprawling California desert estate built by billionaire philanthropists Walter and Leonore Annenberg is a place where political powerbrokers once discussed critical issues of the day and where royalty—real and Hollywood—soaked up the sun and golfed on a private, nine-hole course.
Four years after Leonore Annenberg's death, the aptly named Sunnylands is beginning a new foray into international diplomacy by hosting two days of talks between President Barack Obama and Xi Jinping, the newly minted chairman of the People's Republic of China. The high-profile meeting in the low-key setting dovetails with the Annenbergs' vision of their winter home as a future "Camp David of the West" for leaders from the Pacific Rim.
The estate's vast collection of Chinese art, including a cloisonné collection dating from the Ming and Qing dynasties; a Chinese-themed pavilion; and President Richard Nixon's own fondness for the property should all appeal to the delegation from China, where Nixon is considered a hero for opening the country to the West.
The single-story home, designed by renowned architect A. Quincy Jones, took three years to build and is considered a gem of mid-century modernist architecture, with stone walls of Mexican lava, marble tile and floor-to-ceiling windows that flood the space with natural light. Framed vistas showcase the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa mountains in the distance, and the roof's unique pink hue evokes the soft pastels of a desert sunset.
"It's a 20th century oasis. It's green and lush and it really makes anyone who goes there feel as if they've left the regular world and entered into something serene and amazingly beautiful," said Janice Lyle, director of Sunnylands Center & Gardens. "There is an element that allows people to relax, to be direct and to connect in very human ways."
The fact that the first presidential meeting since a major makeover at Sunnylands is between the leader of China and the leader of the United States is almost a completion of the things the Annenbergs believed in, said Geoffrey Cowan, president of the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands. "I think this is their dream come true."
The decision to hold the summit in California, while unusual, was likely intended to allow both leaders to hash out critical national security and trade-related issues far from the political fishbowl of a world capitol or a multi-national summit such as the G20, said Stanley Rosen, a political science professor at the University of Southern California who specializes in Chinese politics.
The meeting is especially interesting given recent tensions between the United States and China over accusations of cyber-hacking, disputes over intellectual property and mounting regional tensions over North Korea and the South China Sea, he said.
The small, informal nature is something the Chinese call "shirt sleeves diplomacy," experts said.
"You do want it outside the glare of Washington where you can actually get down to brass tacks a lot better," Rosen said. "In Washington, you've got every congressional leader who wants an appointment to see him, everyone wants to be invited to the state dinner and there are press conferences all the time. There's a lot of hoopla."
At least one China-watcher, however, said the "soft" setting sends the wrong message when the United States has a number of serious concerns about currency manipulation, human rights, cyber hacking, and intellectual property.
"Sunnylands is like a non sequitur," said Peter Navarro, a business professor at the University of California, Irvine and a China critic who directed a film called "Death by China."
"I buy the symbolism, but the symbolism is just wrong," he said. "It's a soft, come-let-us-reason-together symbolism at a time when what we really need to do is crack down."
Walter Annenberg, who died in 2002, expanded his father's newspaper business into a vast media empire that also included TV stations, magazines and TV Guide, one of his biggest moneymakers. During the years, the Annenbergs donated hundreds of millions of dollars to charitable foundations, universities, museums and public education.
In the 1960s, the couple built Sunnylands as their winter home and conceived of it as an oasis in the desert east of Los Angeles, with 200 acres of verdure carved out of an arid expanse that roadrunners and rattlesnakes once called home.
The centerpiece is a 25,000-square-foot house with 22 bedrooms, two guest wings and three guest cottages. It's surrounded by the golf course, 11 lakes and sprawling gardens.
Over the decades, that luxurious setting attracted a parade of celebrity guests, including seven former and sitting U.S. presidents, U.S. Supreme Court justices, Queen Elizabeth II, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Hollywood's biggest stars, including Fred Astaire, Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart. Frank Sinatra married his fourth wife, Barbara, at Sunnylands, and President Ronald Reagan celebrated New Year's Eve 18 times at the mansion near Palm Springs.
Nixon, a frequent guest and close Annenberg friend, fled to the secluded estate to lick his wounds after resigning in 1974 and wrote in the guest book: "When you're down, you find out who your real friends are."
Sunnylands was placed in trust in 2009 after Leonore Annenberg's death then opened to the public last year for the first time after a multi-million dollar renovation intended to transform it from a private Shangri La to the international diplomatic retreat the couple so desired.
The talks between Obama and Xi will be the first presidential visit to Sunnylands in its reincarnation and the first meeting between the two world leaders since Xi was installed in March. The retreat has also hosted a meeting of top leaders from the U.S. and Mexico since it opened to the public in February 2012.
For many China scholars, the summit at Sunnylands brings to mind a visit in communist China between another U.S. president and another Chinese leader more than four decades ago — a visit that is now seen as pivotal in the arc of U.S.-China relations.
In 1972, Nixon spent a week with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and other top leaders during what was the first U.S. presidential visit to that country. Nixon called the visit "the week that changed the world."
Those preparing for this weekend's summit hope that Nixon's large footprint at the former Annenberg home will remind the Chinese delegation of that shared history and make the talks productive.


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When most people think of Crystal Dynamics, they probably think about Tomb Raider. Others may remember a series called the Legacy of Kain, which featured an offshoot featuring a soul-sucking vampire named Raziel.
Ben Reeves, Andrew Reiner, Jeff Cork, and I revisit this forgotten gem in this week's episode of Replay. Enjoy Ben's trademark madness as we impale, immolate, drown, and generally mess up some undead enemies. Also, stick around for a Roulette that survived the test of time surprisingly well.
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NEW YORK (AP) Jets tight end Dustin Keller, wide receiver Stephen Hill, nose tackle Sione Po'uha and fullback John Conner are all doubtful for New York's game Monday night against the Houston Texans.
None of the four practiced all week - Keller, Hill and Conner because of injured hamstrings, and Po'uha with a sore lower back. Keller hasn't played since the season opener, and Hill missed last Sunday's game against San Francisco. The receiving corps is already thin, especially after top receiver Santonio Holmes was lost for the season with a foot injury against the 49ers.
Linebacker Bryan Thomas didn't practice Saturday because of a hamstring issue and is questionable, as are running back Joe McKnight (illness), safety Eric Smith (hip, knee), cornerback Aaron Berry (ribs) and linebacker Bart Scott (toe).


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Botox now FDA-approved for treating crow's feet
Botox has been officially approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat crow's feet, or wrinkles around the corners of the eyes.
Botox (onabotulinumtoxinA) is made from the botulinum neurotoxin, a toxin that can cause a serious disease that leads to muscle paralysis called botulism.
However when injected directly into a muscle in approved doses, Botox prevents muscles from tightening by temporarily paralyzing them, which in turn makes wrinkles less visible.
Botox was first approved as a cosmetic by the FDA in 2002 for temporary improvement of frown lines -- wrinkles between the eyebrows, also known as glabellar lines.
Crow's feet, known scientifically as lateral canthal lines, are thought to be caused by repeated muscle contractions over a lifetime, WebMD reports. Facial expressions like frowning, smiling and squinting may leave a mark over time, is the theory.
Botox had been used for decades by opthalmologists to treat eyelid twitching, or blepharospasm, Dr. Jennifer Walden, a Texas-based aesthetic plastic surgeon, told CBSNews.com in an email. That's in part how it was discovered to smooth the skin.
While this new FDA approval for Botox only came Wednesday, Walden pointed out, "doctors have been using it off-label for years to smoothen the crow's feet."
Off-label use means a treatment is prescribed for conditions not approved by the FDA.
The new FDA approval came following a study of 833 adults conducted by the drug's manufacturer, Allergan Inc. of Irvine, Calif. where participants were randomly assigned to receive Botox or a placebo injection. People treated with Botox had greater reductions in crow's feet.
Anti-wrinkle effects from Botox typically last about four to six months.
The most common side effect seen was eyelid edema, which causes the eyelids to become swollen due to fluid buildup.
Botox labels also contain the strongest warning the FDA offers -- a boxed warning -- that says the effects of the toxin may spread from the area of injection to other areas of the body, causing symptoms similar to those of botulism. The FDA notes though there's never been a confirmed serious case of this happening when Botox is used at recommended doses.
Aesthetic, or cosmetic, medicine physicians have felt comfortable about the drug's safety, which is why Botox has been frequently used for crow's feet and other unapproved areas of the face like the side of the nose, explained Dr. Marco Harmaty, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
The FDA's new approval "does give you an added benefit and safety of saying that I'm not doing anything illegal or potentially harmful," he said to CBSNews.com.
Competitors to Botox include Medicis' Dysport and Merz Aesthetics, Inc's Xeomin. These other drugs are approved by the FDA for frown lines, but have not yet been approved by the agency for crow's feet, which may if anything give Botox a marketing edge, Harmaty speculated.
Botox for cosmetic purposes still likely won't be covered by insurers, given it is used for cosmetic purposes. Insurers often cover people who have approved medical conditions treated by Botox, including chronic migraines, severe underarm sweating, blepharospasm and strabismus, when both eyes are misaligned.
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My son Sean plays a 1932 Lady Conn Tenor Sax in a Jazz/Funk band. While I don't think the sax is 'simple' he makes it sound simple. I will post my odd shots over at Anarchy but for now this is the best I could get from my new camera. I wanted this to be so much better but couldn't. When he plays it really is pure and simple joy. Anyway, the idea is.....
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This week's theme has invited a wide array of interpretations. Both of mine are tenuous at best, the lock better than the shiny exhaust pipes.
Someone commented a few weeks ago about how an assignment and a deadline pushes us creatively, forces us to work toward a deadline, to be spontaneous, and to meet the challenge. I can't help but think that's a good thing, at least for those who are looking for some photographic calisthenics.
I also think (perhaps optimistically) that each of us is harder on her- or himself than others are.
Nonetheless, another batch of good, fun, and interesting photos.
This shot was made with the leaf on top of the fuel tank of my R90/6 using a Canon point and shoot camera set to macro and "Wide Screen." The Wide Screen setting crops the top and bottom of the image in the camera, similar to the 16:9 format of HD TV.
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Cowboys Stadium site of 2015 national championship game
Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas will be the site of the first national championship football game of the FBS playoff era, ESPN.com first reported late Wednesday night. Sporting News confirmed the report.
Also, the rotation for the semifinal games has been set, with the Fiesta Bowl, Chick-fil-A Bowl and Cotton Bowl claiming the final three spots. The Rose, Sugar and Orange bowls were already a part of the six-bowl semifinal rotation. The Holiday Bowl also put in a bid to be a semifinal host.
On Tuesday, the BCS commissioners announced that the four-team semifinals would be called the College Football Playoff—simple and a good distance from the current BCS name.
As for the Jan. 12, 2015 national championship game, Arlington's only competition came from Tampa, Fla. It has long been speculated that Cowboys Stadium would win the bid, but sources told ESPN.com that Tampa presented an impressive package that made the decision difficult.
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There will be an official vote today at the BCS spring meetings in Pasadena, Calif.
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Wooot! I can't help but be proud and happy to know how much sales my partner got today. I was amazed as to how he manage to do that? I knew he has been very hardworking since then and i can attest how he would always go home late just because he wants to make sure the business is great. Today i manage to visit his online site and proud to know he has a lot of orders today..Wooot!!
We just talked awhile ago and no matter how busy he is he would always escape the chaos and gave me a ring. When i go online and just give a sneak peak to his online portal, i couldn't help but be proud. He had been so humble yet i knew from myself how the man is extra generous not just to me but to people who needs his help the most.
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Thomas Gregg necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 75 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
We are setting up a company which will focus on consulting students from Central America willing to study in Europe. This will be a unique concept. We already have agreements with magazines and TV stations in Honduras who will report about us. These articles and shows will also use the logo. Therefore we need a clean, simple, eye-catching and memorable logo which includes a tag line.
FORMACON - education matters
FORMACON is the short form for Formación Consulting and will offer personalized consulting to people seeking advice on their education path. FORMACON guides its clients during the process of choosing and applying to a university for any degree, program and for any specialization in Europe. The main market will be Central American students willing to study in Europe.
Our mission will be to enable students to make the right decision when selecting a university as well as an educational degree. Our goal will be to provide knowledge and guidance through the important process of choosing the best education path.
We already did some attempts for a logo which can be found at http://www.formacon.de We would like to stick to the colors in that logo and like the style of this one very much (because of the head and the hat):
The way FORMACON is written is all upper case. Our strapline is: 'education matters' all in lower case. That should not change.
We would like to see designs that show use of:
- the name FORMACON and the strapline only- an emblem itself, no wording- the word FORMACON plus an emblem and the strapline
We will attempt to provide feedback on every design submitted
As our main target group is young people graduating from High School or University the logo shall be something fresh and young as well. Maybe also a bit Web 2.0 stylish.
- Memorable- Striking- Clean- Scalable (SVG)- Colour, B & W and Monochrome versions- Easily understood and translates visually globally- Will work on light/dark backgrounds- The hat (see link above)- Web 2.0 style
- No bling - shine/reflection etc. use in moderation- No clutter- No photos
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David Vilanova necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 29 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
VMax Engineering
VMax Engineering is an automotive engineering company coupled with an online store that deals with high end exotic vehicles as well as main stream high performance sport compact cars. We are a company that does not deal with anything but the highest quality parts that have a proven track record. The name of the company stands for terminal velocity, a term illustrating our goal of achieving top speed and peak performance.
Exotic vehicle owners and enthusiasts, individuals that would have significant knowledge of automotive parts and basic engineering.
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For VMAX the MAX should be subscript.
Font style should be something that looks sophisticated but can relate to motorsports loosely while still looking professional.
You can try to incorporate engine components; pistons, connecting rods, crankshafts, valvetrains, so on and so forth.
If you decide not to go with that route you can implement any type of design style to illustrate the effect of going top speed.
Note: The logo will need to have the ability to be divided up into two individual layouts, one that is strictly horizontal as one line (for decals), and one that will have VMAX on top and engineering below it.
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Will need to have the logo with a transparent background. The file will also need to be vector based so that it can be used to brand photography, be used on the website, modified for the online store, used for movies, et cetera.
For additional ideas I've also uploaded a few pictures of components that we've taken that can possibly give you ideas on designs.
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- By the time the [Simkins v. Cone] case arose in 1962, why do you think you and the other plaintiffs chose that route to try to open access for blacks to better health care. Were there other options that you thought about at the time, or was a lawsuit agreed on as the best way to go about it?
- We first wrote letters to Moses Cone and Wesley Long Hospitals, asking them to admit black physicians and dentists on their staff. We just got the run-around on that. We wrote several letters, and they just denied us. After so many denials, it started like this. A patient came in my office, I think his name was Donald Lines, he was a student at A & T. He had a temperature of 103, and his jaw was swollen. I knew right then that this boy needed to be in the hospital, where he could get some attention. I called the black hospital, which was L. Richardson, and they told me they could not admit him because they had a waiting period of two and three weeks, and that they just didn't have any beds available. You would go over there, and there would be beds in the hallways. You'd have to walk down a narrow path through the hallways without running into the beds, because it was so crowded. Later that same day, I called up Cone and Wesley Long hospitals, and they had beds available, but they would not accept him because of his race.
- So they didn't even have separate wards, they were both completely white hospitals?
- Wesley Long wouldn't accept you at all. Cone had a policy where if it was something that L. Richardson did not have, they would accept the patient, but he would lose his doctorߞhe would have to get a white doctor who was on the staff there to work on him. This case was nothing that L. Richardson couldn't handle, if they had room. The boy needed to be on antibiotics and hospitalized, but Cone would not accept him. So at that point, I called Jack Greenberg, who was the head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund out of New York. I told Jack, "We really need to do something about these hospitals. They will not accept any black patient, and if Cone accepts them, they lose their doctor." He said, "George, if you can organize the black physicians, I will see what I can do." At this point, I knew that some of the younger fellows wanted to open up these hospitals, and some of the older fellows didn't. One of the reasons some of the older fellows didn't want to was because everybody was operating at L. Richardson. Whether you were qualified or not, you could operate over there. These fellows didn't want to lose their income from operating, and they knew if they had been admitting to Cone and Wesley Long, they would have to be board certified to do any operations, so they weren't too much for it. They also figured that if you opened up Cone and Wesley Long, it would hurt L. Richardson. Patients would stop going to L. Richardson. I went around with a petition, and got guys that I knew who would sign upߞI put their names on there first. Then I would approach the older fellows, and those that were reluctant, when they saw all the younger fellows down there, some of them signed, and some of them wouldn't sign. So I got about 11 plaintiffs in all, some patients, the majority of dentists. Then Jack asked me to see if either of these hospitals had been built with federal Hill-Burton funds, because that was the way we had to go in court. If they had not been built with Hill-Burton funds, there was nothing we could do to open them up, because they were strictly private hospitals. I was elated to find that both hospitals had been built with Hill-Burton funds, and we preceded to attack them at that point, on the grounds that they had been built with Hill-Burton funds. I went around and got 50 dollars from each [plaintiff], so they could pay for the expense of the suit. I sent that to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and we hired a local lawyer. He never would file suit after we had done all the work, so I called Jack, and said, "Jack, I think we've got a scared lawyer on our hands. We need to get this thing filed." Because it was months and months, and it never was filed. He understood, and said he'd take care of it. So he called Conrad Pearson, who was an NAACP attorney in Durham, and Conrad came over the next day and filed the case. So that's how we got started. Of course, we lost it in Middle District Court, Judge Stanley ruled that the hospitals were private, and they had a right to discriminate if they wanted to. Then we appealed it to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and we won a 3-2 decision. Then the hospitals appealed it to the United States Supreme Court, and they were denied. Bobby Kennedy was the Attorney General at the time, and he wrote a brief on our behalf to the Court to try to get the Court to open up these hospitals to everybody. That was about it.


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Vietnam's government likes to deliver development through top-down national plans such as Program 661, the five million hectare reforestation program (that ended in 2010 and ended up replanting 2.5 million hectares over 12 years). The government's fondness for national programs stems from a history of central planning, which involved central government issuing a huge number of targets for ministries to fulfill. The doi moi reforms of the mid-1980s officially moved Viet Nam to a market economy but the central planning mentality lingers.
Much can be said for national plans and standards in, for example, the area of infrastructure development, which requires coordinated logistics and investment across the entire country. After all, a cubic meter of concrete has the some properties and costs the same in the north as in the south. But the workshop on March 16, 2012 organized by GIZ and MARD that I attended on restoring mangrove forests in Viet Nam brought into focus the limits of national plans in the area of natural resources management.
Three basic problems emerged. The first is that after a decade of decisions, mater plans, guidelines, circulars, and regulations, mangroves are still being lost. A high resolution satellite-based study that IUCN and the Space Technology Institute completed in Ngoc Hien District, Ca Mau Province (which includes Mui Ca Mau National Park) showed a 30% decline in mangrove cover between 2004 and 2009. A study in Kien Giang Province by GIZ and the University of Queensland showed the same trend. Clearly, the current approach is not leading to the recovery of mangrove forests in these two provinces.
The second problem is that Viet Nam has a long, diverse, and dynamic coastline and the cost of restoring mangroves varies greatly from place to place. A study presented at the workshop showed that cost norms for planting mangroves ranged from $700/hectare (in muddy, easy to work soils) to over $4,000/hectare (in sandy, hard to work soils or where coastal erosion requires the construction of wave-breaks before mangroves can be planted). Under the 661 Program, the cost norms for planting and post-planting protection were $500/hectare and $5/hectare/year respectively, well below the real costs. In Can Gio, by contrast, households receive $35/hectare/year to protect mangroves.
Site specific and appropriate solutions are needed. However, when it was suggested to MARD that it was impractical to prepare guidelines for such a wide range of conditions, the answer was: "We need to provide more detailed guidelines." This is reminiscent of the government's response to the collapse in rice production in the pre-doi moi period, which was to issue more targets and send in more inspectors.
The third problem was stated by a government official from Thanh Hoa who said that it doesn't matter how many master plans and guidelines are issued because they don't address the conflicts of interest that encourage provincial governments to prioritize shrimp farming (or some other commercial use) over mangrove conservation. In other words, the incentives driving land use decisions at the local level conflict with MARD policy and until these interests are aligned (which is a political not a technical challenge), more paperwork won't help.
A great deal is now known about how best to restore mangroves in Viet Nam. GIZ has produced handbooks that provide detailed guidance in the provinces where they work. It is therefore possible to envision a different strategy that would, first, raise awareness and reach agreement on broad objectives in terms of restoring a diverse and resilient mangrove forest at all levels; second, encourage experimentation and risk taking at the local level in terms of nursery design, species selection, community participation, and benefit sharing; third, monitor mangrove recovery to ensure transparency, accountability, and learning; and fourth, enforce the law against illegal mangrove clearing and conversion.
Jake Brunner - Mekong Programme Coordinator (Myanmar, Cambodia & Viet Nam)


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Motivation Behind Marketing: What's Your Motivation?
"It's important in life to know what our motivation is." –DeVon Franklin
It's also important in marketing and advertising to know what our motivation is. And that's what I'm going to focus on here today.
What is your motivation?
Be honest. If your motivation is to sell products, you might see some success, but you will not continue to be successful.
A Greater Motivation
Let's look at Apple. What would you say their motivation is?
You could probably argue that selling products at least factors into their motivation, but it is secondary. Bob Borchers, a former iPhone product marketing engineer, said (I'm quoting from the article "Former Apple employee recounts how Jobs motivated iPhone team"):
Steve Jobs didn't have a specific device in mind, but instead gave the team a mission: create a phone that people would love so much that they'd never leave the house without it.
Does that sound like a man or a company whose primary motivation is to sell?
No. That's what once made Apple unique and what other companies, especially Samsung, are now catching up with. Your motivation has to be to make great products people will love. The bonus with that is that those products then kind of market themselves.
Motivated by Money
We all know people who are motivated by money. We can see it a mile away. Their sales pitch is disconnected from customers, it's truly all about them. And you get a sense that they will tell you anything just so they get what they want. Is that who you want to be?
I admit, there are exceptions. Some people, some companies who are motivated purely or mostly by money can be successful. But they are often successful at the cost of something greater—humanity, the environment, other people's economies.
Look at the finance industry and all the wrongdoing that caused the U.S economic collapse. Those bankers, Wall Street traders, etc.—the ones who caused this mess—were all motivated by money. Greed.
Look at the oil industry. Sure, their advertising makes it seem like they're interested in the environment or the earth's future, but we all know they're interested (at least for now) in one thing above all else—profits. And they do quite well in that category.
Eventually, I hope, that will change as consumers become more aware and demand more change. For now, it's up to you to be the change. Ask yourself who you want to be. Which type of motivation sounds better to you?
What about You?
For me, I like Apple's motivation—to make great products people will love. I find it authentic and more fulfilling. Imagine what would happen if every company were motivated by that—what a wonderful world we'd live in.
So, if you're not getting the response you want on social media or in sales, maybe it's time to rethink your motivation.
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3' end of a PCR primer
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Massachusetts Attorney General Coakley, Treasurer Grossman back Markey
Rep. Stephen Lynch also weighing run for Senate
Congressman Edward Markey has won the backing of Attorney General Martha Coakley and State Treasurer Steve Grossman in his bid to fill John Kerry's U.S. Senate seat if Kerry is confirmed as secretary of state.
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Markey is the only declared candidate.
Coakley called Markey a leader on toughening telecommunications laws, easing dependence on foreign oil and protecting women's reproductive rights.
Grossman echoed Coakley and also pointed to what he called Markey's "unshakable commitment to a strong U.S.-Israel relationship."
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My favorite interview so far of the "festivities," which, by the way, are being broadcast as "The Spectrum's Final Show?" So far that one is a runaway, won by none other than Dr. Erving:
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- 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine: A Review of Its Use in Infants, Children, and Adolescents
This article, published in Pediatric Drugs, reviews the use of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) in infants, children, and adolescents. The author states the safety and reactogenicity of PCV13 to be generally similar to that of …
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- 23-valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine - WHO Position Paper
This report, published in the Weekly Epidemiological Record, provides essential background information on pneumococcal disease and gives the current World Health Organization position concerning the use of the 23-valent pneumococcal …
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- Adult Vaccination Resources Library
This online library gathers resources specifically related to adult immunization, providing healthcare providers and the general public with access to relevant resources that can be used in a clinic setting or for individual education. It includes …
Author: Immunization Action Coalition
- The Advance Market Commitment Pilot for Pneumococcal Vaccines: Outcomes and Impact Evaluation
This report assesses the extent to which the Advanced Market Commitment (AMC) pilot program has achieved its stated objectives and overarching goal of reducing morbidity and mortality from pneumococcal disease by accelerating the development, …
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Publication date: 2015
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This supplement of Vaccine contains 16 articles that cover a broad spectrum of important issues in vaccine science, including vaccine safety, efficacy, and implementation. The overarching theme revolves around identifying barriers to vaccination and …
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- Antibody-Independent, Interleukin-17A-Mediated, Cross-serotype Immunity to Pneumococci in Mice Immunized Intranasally with the Cell Wall Polysaccharide
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Published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, this article provides an overview of the diagnostic challenges of bacterial pneumonia and highlight the need for refining the current diagnostic approach to ensure adequate epidemiological surveillance of …
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This conference report, published in Vaccine, describes an active discussion in the public health community on how to assess and incorporate, in addition to safety and measures of protective efficacy, the full public health value of preventive …
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- The Burden of Pneumococcal Disease Among Latin American and Caribbean Children: Review of the Evidence
This article, published in the Pan American Journal of Public Health, estimates the annual burden of pneumonia, meningitis, and acute otitis media caused by pneumococcus in children less than five years of age in Latin America and the Caribbean …
Author: Valenzuela MT, O'Loughlin R, De La Hoz F, et al.
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- The Burden of Pneumococcal Disease and Cost-Effectiveness of a Pneumococcal Vaccine in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Review of the Evidence and a Preliminary Economic Analysis
This report estimates the burden and costs of pneumococcal disease in Latin America and the Caribbean in order to inform national health authorities about disease burden and the economic value of implementing a pneumococcal …
Author: Sabin Vaccine Institute
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- Burden of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae Type B Disease in Children in the Era of Conjugate Vaccines: Global, Regional, and National Estimates for 2000-15
This article, published in The Lancet Global Health, provides global, regional, and national disease burden estimates for Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) in children from 2000 to 2015. Using World Health …
Author: Wahl B, O'Brien KL, Greenbaum A, et al.
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- Can Successful Vaccines Teach Us How to Induce Efficient Protective Immune Responses?
This article, published in Nature Medicine, reviews current successful vaccines and identifies their mechanisms of protection in the hopes of tackling the challenges posed by those infectious targets that have thus far escaped successful …
Author: Lambert PH, Liu M, Siegrist CA
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- Causes of Severe Pneumonia Requiring Hospital Admission in Children Without HIV Infection From Africa and Asia: The PERCH Multi-Country Case-Control Study
This article, published in The Lancet, reports the results of a study to estimate the causes of pneumonia in young African and Asian children. Results indicate that in low- and low-middle-income settings with widespread uptake of Haemophilus …
Author: The Pneumonia Etiology Research for Child Health (PERCH) Study Group
Publication date: 2019
- Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access
This web page provides information about the work of PATH's Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access, which brings together expertise across every stage of vaccine research, development, and introduction to make lifesaving vaccines globally …
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- Child Health in Tanzania: Identifying Policy Pathways to Help Prevent Child Deaths From Pneumonia and Diarrhea
This report provides policy recommendations to help Tanzania reduce the impacts of pneumonia and diarrhea, including the use of available vaccines, to ensure all children have the chance to lead healthy lives.
Author: PATH
Publication date: 2014
- Colonisation Endpoints in Streptococcus pneumoniae Vaccine Trials
This article, published in Vaccine, reviews recent developments in the area of using colonization as an endpoint for evaluating vaccine efficacy against Streptococcus pneumoniae. The authors also provide practical guidelines for estimation methods …
Author: Auranen K, Rinta-Kokko H, Goldblatt D, et al.
Publication date: 2013
- Conjugate Vaccine Introduction in the African Meningitis Belt: Meeting Surveillance Objectives
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text: Dear Friends, It may be appreciated that all the CSR activities carried out by MECL has been completed within the prescribed time frame for the financial year 2014- 15. Team MECL, has been able to meet all the parameters as per the MoU Signed with the Ministry of Mines and this was possible under the leadership of our CMD, Dr. Gopal Dhawan. Our Head of Departments, Zonal Managers Project Managers and CSR team have taken lot of efforts to complete these activities within stipulated time frame and to maintain the quality of work without reducing the productivity in their core job. These activities contributed towards the economic development of the society at large and towards improving the quality of life of internal as well as external stakeholders. It is pleasure to share with all of you that this year we are winner of "Silver Award" for outstanding Achievement in Corporate Social Responsibility by Greentech Foundation under "The 4th Annual Greentech CSR Award-2015". This prestigious award has been received by MECL on 29th January, 2015. MECL has bagged this award for conducting CSR activities like constructing bore well for drinking water, conducting health check camps, constructing toilets for students in govt. schools, providing educational and vocational training to the weaker sections of the society, providing sewing machine & vocational training for women in villages. These activities were conducted in and around the MECL projects in the states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Rajasthan. One more feather in MECL's cap is we have accomplished target of Construction of Toilets under Prime Minister's pet project Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. The provision of toilets for boys and girls has mitigated the sanitation issues and ameliorate the living conditions of the students specially girls in the primary and secondary schools. 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The travelblogeteria ™ has gone a little bananas about the US Airways offer where you can basically buy miles at 1.1 cents each (by transferring to another account holder). I've gotten a couple of questions from people about whether they should take advantage of this. Here are some thoughts:
– If you were planning on purchasing a ticket, especially in business class to North Asia, where US Airways only charges 90,000 miles for a roundtrip, then this is certainly a good option – you're basically buying a business class ticket for $1,000. Great.
– Think about what trip you are using these miles for – for people accustomed to using US Airways miles easily on Star Alliance carriers, that ship has sailed a bit. Take a look at availability on Oneworld airlines for trips you think you may want to take. It differs greatly from what you were used to with Star (starting with the insane fuel surcharges on British Airways, which makes getting to Europe much more difficult, and Africa basically impossible without surcharges).
– As many others have pointed out far more times than I have, US Airways allows a stop in Europe on your way to Asia for free. Maybe this benefits you, maybe it doesn't. I think this used to be a more valuable perk when they were with Star Alliance because there were lots of non-fuel-surcharge partners to get you to Europe, and then onward to Asia. This is less the case now with Oneworld, though keep in mind that some Star (and non-star) partners are still bookable with US Airways miles (Aegean, Air China, Avianca, Jet Airways, Shenzhen Airlines, South African Airways, TAP Portugal, and Turkish; Air New Zealand can be booked until June 29; Avianca can be booked until May 31st, Eva Air until May 14, and Singapore until July 31). That does reduce the number of options to Europe and onward to Asia (without fuel surcharges), but you do have some choices there.
– I never buy miles speculatively. I know that lots of people do. I'm very happy for them. But I have a lot of miles sitting around, and the idea of spending $1,000 to get a bunch more to throw on the pile seems a little nutty to me. Plus, I can get 100,000 AA miles pretty easily with the AA Citi Exec card (where you're basically buying 100,000 miles for $250), or 40,000 US Airways miles for $89 with their credit card.
– This can be a great option if you do need to top off an award and you don't have Starwood miles to transfer to US Airways.
Don't get caught up in the excitement – this deal does make sense for some people, but I really don't recommend grabbing these miles just because everyone else is.


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Good to know. I'm very interested in checking out AEZ.AntiM wrote:This virgin mentoring and instruction is one of the HV goals we discussed on the playa. Tours of our non-combustion camps would be offered, just as AEZ does instruction of alternative energy.VultureChow wrote:some seeing eye wrote:Hushville could:
Become the older peeps disabled camp, needing to be close in to Mobility Camp
Mount major open playa highly interactive installations
Host lectures on a theme like Entheon
Sell itself as a sound buffer to adjacent camps and be placed at F.
Personally, I think BM should create a non-amplified sound placed camp zone which would satisfy the last. And it's hard to argue that Hushville, as is, needs prime placement inner and central. But hey, it's your camp!
A virgin camp btw is a bad idea. Negative placement points.
I think a Burning Boot Camp, or Burning University would be a good concept for virgins. Say a dozen or so vets taking on two or three dozen virgins to teach them the ropes. It would definitely go towards addressing the issue that some seem to have with a changing or deteriorating culture at BM. I know lots of camps take on a few birgins, but going with the theme, you could have public classes on lnt, evap ponds, etc.
Hushville is already placed back along D to F, splitting a village block with another village of the same size... but Husville always has at least twice as many individual camps, we're always elbows to assholes in there. Not like we're getting any better placement than any other village. The three street sides are always open camping. We don't shush people, but we do try to negotiate, just as the Survival Guide suggests neighbors do ... hey, can you turn the speakers inward to your camp? Nothing more or less than other participants do.
We have at least one member camp which does do large interactive open playa art. Our town round hosts parties Such as the Librarian Cocktails, and the Silent Rave.
We're trying to do more, but there are so many assumptions out there.
I wasn't trying to suggest you don't do enough.
I'm still debating between camping by myself and trying to find a camp to join. I'll be attending solo, so I think I'd feel a little more comfortable being in a camp. Not from a safety stand point, I camp solo all the time, but from a social standpoint. I tend to be shy and have a difficult time making the first step. I feel like I would enjoy myself more if there is a group of people who I have to interact with by default. I know I'm not guaranteed to get along with everyone, I just think I'd find it easier to reach out if I have a reason to.
Anyhoo, I'll definitely keep an eye on what's going on in Hushville. You all sound cool.


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Thank you very much, was very helpful. Esp the pics, had trouble finding any.
Thank you very much, was very helpful. Esp the pics, had trouble finding any.
SCI--Can I use your photos for an educational handout at my Home Health agency?
Has anyone used this mattress? I know several VA's have? I would like more info on use in rehab and use in acute care.
All of the threads that I've read referring to butt implants weredated between 2004 and 2009 which has me wondering if there's been any type material makeup that wouldn't cause as many issues as dated buttocks implants from years ago? The reason I ask is, in 2002 a surgeon who was debreeding a rather small pressure ulcer on my right buttocks made a rather drastic mistake, slicing into an artery that had me lose between six and eight units of blood and nearly bleeding to death had it not been for a very quick thinking physical therapist who was in the room as the surgeon turned and walked away, out of the room but that is done and over with and life goes on.
Afterwards, I became anemic which caused me to gain four other nasty pressure ulcers on both of my buttocks even though I wasn't sitting up in my chair at the time. I then had a number of surgeries, including a number of flaps which failed along with other surgeries in order to hold Humpty Dumpty back together again. Without any type of muscle tissue under my left buttocks to where it's just skin to bone contact with my wheelchair cushion which is extremely painful and has me sitting up for between two and six hours at a time before it's necessary for me to get out of my chair. With that said, I'm willing to go to whatever means necessary to get any type of cushioning back between my butt bone and the outer layer of skin but I don't know what, if anything can be done to replace the muscle mass which is no longer in that area and that brings up my question:
Has any type of technology evolved enough to where some sort of cushioning (butt implants per se) could be surgically inserted where my muscle mass once padded my buttocks or is everything still pretty much the same that I've read and posts three and four years old? I've never allowed anything to get me down (depressed) but the nicer the weather gets outdoors, the more I want to be outside as cabin fever is beginning to kick in, again!
If you like to see some extremely gross pictures, I can upload some images that'll have you either being more careful when it comes to your butt and/or checking the background history of a potential surgeon prior to allowing him or her to cut on you. Being hindsight is 2020, life goes on and I now check any type of doctor or physician backgrounds prior to seeing them.
Thank you very much your time and I'm open to any and all suggestions you might have. Like I said, I'm willing to go to whatever means necessary in order to get some sort of padding back where it counts, relieve some of the pain and extend my quality of life which is more important than anything else mention. I'm not complaining about my quality of life, it's just that I would like to extend it beyond six hours of sitting up because so much can be done to change one's life one hour at a time!
Windstar, if the sores have been on your ischial tuberosities (butt bones), you might try a Ride cushion. They offload the weight onto your thighs and lower back, and your ischials get no pressure. That's how it works for me anyway.
Good luck, I don't believe there is any substance that is pumped into the buttocks for padding.
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I decided to try Manuka Honey for a Stage 4 Pressure Ulcer. I had a hard time deciding which honey to try and finally settled on one stating that it was "organic, raw and unheated," thinking that would make it better for healing. I've been on bed rest for 2 years and decided enough, so scheduled wound flap surgery. I got this honey 2 weeks prior - have been using it one week and my surgery is one week away, The sides of the sore are filling in, but not the deepest part at the bone (the biggest problem), I tasted the honey and thought it tasted like regular honey - it certainly didn't have a "flowery" taste. Did I get the wrong stuff? This is my last ditch effort before the surgery. I have a feeling I might not make it through this one, but can't live my life from bed anymore either.
I have been nursing a self inflicted stage II pressure sore for a few weeks. After researching and taking advice from others I ended up cleaning the wound with 9% sodium chloride with a cotton ball, then spraying Vetericyn wound & skin care (from tractor supply) on it, then lightly taping gauze over it with Johnson & Johnson comfort cloth tape. Changing it out twice a day and most importantly staying off it. After 3 weeks it is pretty much healed and now I am putting Lantiseptic daily skin care on it to keep the skin healthy. Will probably use these Johnson & Johnson hydrocoiled tough pads as cushion for a while just to be safe.
Life's perceived journey in this PMR is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "holy **** what a VR ride!"
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Thanks KLD My sore was only stage 2, all is good.


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