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Despite a rumor that Seattle Seahawks defensive coordinator Gus Bradley has accepted a head-coaching job with the Philadelphia Eagles, that process still has a ways to go.
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Citing a source who spoke with the Eagles, NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reports no decision has been made.
NFL.com's Albert Breer reported the Eagles will have Bradley in for a second interview Tuesday afternoon in Philadelphia, but no deal is imminent, according to a source involved with the process.
Bradley first interviewed with the Eagles on Saturday in Atlanta, Breer reported. That conversation was squeezed in between Seattle's walkthroughs and meetings in preparation for Sunday's playoff game against the Atlanta Falcons. The interview lasted a couple hours, and the Eagles still have more to work through with Bradley.
The Eagles, like the Chicago Bears, have spread a wide net in search of their next coach. The Eagles met with former Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt and Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator Jay Gruden on Monday, but neither of those meetings led to offers.
Other names that have appeared in the candidate pool include Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly, former Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith, Indianapolis Colts offensive coordinator Bruce Arians, Falcons special teams coach Keith Armstrong, Atlanta defensive coordinator Mike Nolan -- and former Baltimore Ravens coach Brian Billick, who told Around the League on Monday he'd "never say never" to the right job.
UPDATE: The Eagles wrapped up their second interview with Bradley on Tuesday night.
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NBA players weren't the only athletes in America on Monday who publicly supported Jason Collins' decision to announce he is gay. Plenty of NFL players took to Twitter to support Collins as well.
Below are some of the tweets we have compiled:
By @jasoncollins34 opening doors & doing it his way on his time he has helped shape a more accepting America. May many more follow #courageâ Brendon Ayanbadejo (@brendon310) April 29, 2013
Bravo Jason Collins. Beautifully written piece for @sinow. "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay." -- bit.ly/12J9el5â Scott Fujita (@sfujita55) April 29, 2013
Good for Jason Collins, read this article: m.si.com/2854664/an-nbaâ¦â Connor Barwin (@ConnorBarwin98) April 29, 2013
Big kudos to @jasoncollins34. Living proof that your sexuality has nothing to do with your athletic ability. sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/news/⦠#saluteâ Chris Kluwe (@ChrisWarcraft) April 29, 2013
So proud of @jasoncollins34 for having the courage to stand up and out for who he is. I support, respect and salute you!!â Michael Strahan (@michaelstrahan) April 29, 2013
Much respect for @jasoncollins34 who has chose to stand tall in a world filled with ignorance and hateâ Kevin Boss (@KevinBossman) April 29, 2013
That takes Courage. â@trendingreport: NBA Veteran Jason Collins Comes out as Gaythetrendingreport.com/nba-veteran-jaâ¦ââ Jerry Azumah (@JerryAzumah) April 29, 2013
Jason Collins freed himself from the prison of secrecy and can finally to live his life as he chooses. Good for him.â Gerald Alexander (@GAlexander21) April 29, 2013
Respect Jason Collins for stepping out. Live your life man! Hope people will respect him as a teammate & as a pro athlete.â Matt Overton (@MattOverton_LS) April 29, 2013

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Seeking a very professional, classy corporate identity, for a new wine events business. The business is called Company of Wine. We run high-quality wine events (tastings, food and wine pairings etc) for between five and a thousand people. Our market is larger companies wanting to have a special wine-based event for their staff or customers. Our events are classy and sophisticated, and huge fun and entertaining too.
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The Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus), or Hyacinthine Macaw, is a parrot native to central and eastern South America. With a length (from the top of its head to the tip of its long pointed tail) of about 100 cm (3.3 ft) it is longer than any other species of parrot. It is the largest macaw and the largest flying parrot species, though the flightless Kakapo of New Zealand can outweigh it at up to 3.5 kg. While generally easily recognized, it can be confused with the far rarer and smaller Lear's Macaw. Habitat loss and trapping wild birds for the pet trade has taken a heavy toll on their population in the wild, and as a result the species is classified as Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List, and it is protected by its listing on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
English ornithologist John Latham discovered the Hyacinth Macaw in 1790. It is one of three extant species of the South American macaw genus Anodorhynchus.
The largest parrot by length in the world, the Hyacinth Macaw is long from the tip of its tail to the top of its head and weighs . Each wing is long. The tail is long and pointed. Its feathers are entirely blue, lighter above and darker on its wings. It has a large black curved beak. It has a lappet of bright-yellow bare skin on the left and right of its face adjacent to the base of its lower beak and an eyering of yellow bare skin encircle each eye. J Male and female are identical in external appearance, and juveniles resemble adults except they have shorter tails and the yellow on their faces is paler.
The majority of the hyacinth macaw diet is nuts from native palms, such as acuri and bocaiuva palms. They have a very strong beak for eating the kernels of hard nuts and seeds. Their strong beaks are even able to crack coconuts, the large brazil nut pods and macadamia nuts.The acuri nut is so hard that the parrots cannot feed on it until it has passed through the digestive system of cattle. In addition, they eat fruits and other vegetable matter. Pine nuts are also one of the most popular foods. In the Pantanal, Hyacinth Macaws feed almost exclusively on the nuts of Acrocomia aculeata and Attalea phalerata palm trees.
Nesting takes place between July and December, nests are constructed in tree cavities or cliff faces depending on the habitat. In the Pantanal region, 90% of nests are constructed in the manduvi tree (Sterculia apetala). Hollows of sufficient size are only found in trees of around 60 years of age or older, and competition is fierce. Existing holes are enlarged and then partially filled with wood chips. The clutch size is one or two eggs, although usually only one fledgling survives as the second egg hatches several days after the first, and the smaller fledgling cannot compete with the first born for food. The incubation period lasts about a month, and the male will tend to his mate whilst she incubates the eggs. The chicks leave the nest, or fledge, at around 110 days of age, and remain dependent on their parents until six months of age. They are mature and begin breeding at seven years of age. Eggs are regularly predated by corvids, possums, coatis and (most prolifically) toucans. Adults have no known natural predators. The young are parasitized by larvae of flies of the genus Philornis.
The Hyacinth Macaw survives today in three main populations in South America: In the Pantanal region of Brazil, and adjacent eastern Bolivia and northeastern Paraguay, in the Cerrado region of the eastern interior of Brazil (Maranho, Piau, Bahia, Tocantins, Gois, Mato Grosso and Minas Gerais), and in the relatively open areas associated with the Tocantins River, Xingu River, Tapajs River, and the Maraj island in the eastern Amazon Basin of Brazil. It is possible that smaller, fragmented populations occur in other areas. It prefers palm swamps, woodlands, and other semi-open wooded habitats. It usually avoids dense humid forest, and in regions dominated by such habitats, it is generally restricted to the edge or relatively open sections (e.g. along major rivers). In different areas of their range these parrots are found in savannah grasslands, in dry thorn forest known as 'caatinga', and in palm stands, particularly the Moriche Palm (Mauritia flexuosa).
The Hyacinth Macaw is an endangered species due to overcollection for the cage bird trade and habitat loss. In the 1980s, it is estimated that at least 10,000 birds were taken from the wild. Throughout the macaws range, habitat is being lost or altered due to the introduction of cattle ranching and mechanised agriculture, and the development of hydroelectric schemes. Annual grass fires set by farmers can destroy nest trees, and regions previously inhabited by this macaw are now unsuitable also due to agriculture and plantations. Locally, it has been hunted for food, and the Kayapo Indians of Gorotire in south-central Brazil use its feathers to make headdresses and other baubles. While overall greatly reduced in numbers, it remains locally common in the Brazilian Pantanal, where many ranch-owners now protect the macaws on their land. The Hyacinth Macaw is protected by law in Brazil and Bolivia, and commercial export is banned by its listing on Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). There are a number of long-term studies and conservation initiatives in place; the Hyacinth Macaw Project in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso do Sul, has carried out important research by ringing individual birds and has created a number of artificial nests to compensate for the small percentage of sites available in the region. The Minnesota Zoo with BioBrasil and the World Wildlife Fund are involved in Hyacinth Macaw conservation.
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Email: Chapter 5, Article 16C, Section 2
§5-16C-2. Definitions.
As used in this article:
(1) "Audit" means a systematic examination and collection of sufficient, competent evidential matter needed for an Auditor to attest to the fairness of management's assertions in the financial statements and to evaluate whether management has sufficiently and effectively carried out its responsibilities and complied with applicable laws and regulations, conducted by an independent certified public accountant in accordance with the applicable statement on standards: Provided, That the report shall include an incurred-but-not-reported calculation, where available.
(2) "Director" means the director of the Public Employees Insurance Agency created under article sixteen of this chapter.
(3) "Finance board" means the Public Employees Insurance Agency finance board created in section four, article sixteen of this chapter.
(4) "Pharmacy benefit manager" means an entity that procures prescription drugs at a negotiated rate under a contract and which may serve as a third party prescription drug benefit administrator.
(5) "Prescription drug purchasing agreement" means a written agreement to pool all parties' prescription drug buying power in order to negotiate the best possible prices and which delegates authority to negotiate on behalf of the parties to the director.
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Real Estate Tycoon Sees Titanic Moment for China's Housing Market
China's once buoyant property market is facing some rough sailing. In fact, according to one tycoon – Soho China's chief Pan Shiyi -- the real estate market is looking more like the Titanic headed in the direction of an iceberg.
Mr. Pan, the co-founder and chairman of Soho China Ltd., is taking a very bearish view on the housing market, which has struggled this year. In the first four months of the year, home sales were down 9.9% from the same period a year ago in value terms, official data shows. New construction starts -- as calculated by area -- were down almost 25% year over year in the same period.
As if that's not bad enough, demand is also weakening in an expanding number of cities as banks tighten mortgage lending and sales are dampened by widespread expectations of price cuts.
"I think China's property market is like the Titanic and it will soon hit an iceberg in front of it," Mr. Pan told a financial forum on Friday, according to the China Business News.
"After hitting the iceberg, the risks will not only be in the real estate sector. The bigger risk will be in the financial sector," he added.
He said serious problems lie with financial products like trust and wealth management products, as well as entrusted loans that charge higher interest rates than banks and are key financing vehicles for the property sector.
"When housing prices fall 20% to 30%, these problems will be all exposed," he was quoted as saying.
Soho China declined to comment about Mr. Pan's remarks. But in a post on his verified Weibo account Monday, Mr. Pan said that during the forum's question and answer session, he had first asked whether there were any journalists present before replying to a question about the housing market. Only upon being told there were no reporters present, he said, did he proceed to answer.
"I didn't expect there are countless reporters hiding [in the audience]," he said.
Soho has been putting at least some of its money where Mr. Pan's mouth is – that is, by taking it out of the local property market.
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In February, Soho China, run by Mr. Pan and his wife Zhang Xin, announced plans to sell all of their interest in Soho Hailun Plaza and Soho Jing'an Plaza in Shanghai for about 5.23 billion yuan ($853 million) to Financial Street Holdings, a Shenzhen-listed property developer.
It isn't all bad news though for China's property market, and help may be on the way.
The central bank has instructed commercial banks to make mortgage lending a priority. Likewise, some local governments have taken steps to ease their curbs on home purchases, which were put in place when prices seemed to be soaring out of reach for most of China's 1.3 billion people. They've also eased restrictions on residency requirements and in some cases have rolled back curbs on buying a second or third home.
But these measures have been relatively modest so far and Beijing has not given the market a clear signal it can go back to its old speculative ways.
Though Mr. Pan didn't comment on the government's moves to soften property curbs, he did say he believes many forces -- including plans for a nationwide property registry, an expanded use of the property tax and more land for development as a result of rural land reform – will help drive the market lower.
"I am not optimistic about China's property prices," he said.
If a property specialist like Mr. Pan thinks the market is close to a Titantic moment, perhaps it's a good idea for buyers to stay close to the life boats.
--Grace Zhu. Follow her on Twitter at @GraceWSJ.
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What Does a Yellowstone Grizzly Eat?
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Federal research indicates grizzly bears in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem have a varied diet and are minimally affected by a decrease in the number of whitebark pine trees.
The findings were presented Thursday at a meeting of the Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee. The subcommittee voted 10-4 to accept the research findings and recommend that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service remove federal protections for the bears, currently listed as "threatened."
The USFWS delisted the bears in 2007, but a federal judge returned the protection two years later, saying the decline in whitebark pine trees weren't given adequate consideration. Whitebark pine nuts are a key food source for grizzlies as they prepare for hibernation. The studies found grizzlies in the Yellowstone ecosystem are eating more elk and bison meat.


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Apple has showed a sneak peek into the future of the pro desktop with a first look at the next-generation Mac Pro. Designed around a unified thermal core, the Mac Pro introduces a completely new pro desktop architecture and design that is optimized for performance. The new 9.9-inch tall Mac Pro features next-generation Xeon processors, dual workstation-class GPUs, Thunderbolt 2, PCI Express-based flash storage, and ECC memory,.
The next-generation Mac Pro is architected around a unified thermal core that allows the desktop to efficiently share its entire thermal capacity across all the processors. Next generation Intel Xeon E5 processors with up to 12 core configurations deliver double the floating point performance. With two AMD FirePro workstation-class GPUs, the all-new Mac Pro is up to 2.5 times faster than the current Mac Pro and delivers up to seven teraflops of compute power, said Apple. The new Mac Pro also features PCIe-based flash storage that is up to 10 times faster than conventional desktop hard drives and includes four-channel ECC DDR3 memory running at 1866MHz to deliver up to 60GBps of memory bandwidth.
With six Thunderbolt 2 ports that can deliver up to 20Gbps of bandwidth to each external device, Mac Pro is able to connect to external storage, multiple PCI expansion chassis, audio and video breakout boxes, and the latest external displays, including Ultra HD desktop displays. Each of the six Thunderbolt 2 ports supports up to six daisy-chained devices, giving users the ability to connect up to 36 peripherals. Thunderbolt 2 is completely backwards compatible with existing Thunderbolt peripherals.
The next-generation Mac Pro will be available later in 2013.
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What a great time for the Wall Street Journal to bring up this topic. After all, the Republican candidates in the nomination battle have focused their arguments on actual competition-based reform and results, right? Oh, wait … we've been too busy discussing 1997, 2003, and the finer points of class-warfare attacks on private enterprise and consulting. That may be the reason for the WSJ's attention:
Louisiana is already one of 12 states (including Washington, D.C.) that offer school vouchers, but its program benefits fewer than 2,000 students in New Orleans. Governor Jindal would extend eligibility to any low-income student whose school gets a C, D or F grade from state administrators. That's almost 400,000 students—a bit more than half the statewide population—who could escape failing schools for private or virtual schools, career-based programs or institutions of higher education.
Funding for these vouchers ("scholarships" is the poll-tested term) would come not from a new fund, as in New Orleans, but from what the state already spends on public education per capita. So every student leaving a failing school would take about $8,500 (on average) with him, hitting the bureaucracy where it hurts. This is called competition, that crucial quality missing where monopolies reign.
Post-Katrina New Orleans is already the nation's leading charter-school zone, with 80% of city students enrolled, academic performance improving dramatically, and plans to go all-charter by 2013. To spread the model statewide, the Governor would create new regional boards for authorizing charters and offer fast-track authorization to high-performing operators such as KIPP. He'd also give charters the same access to public facilities as traditional public schools.
As for tenure, Mr. Jindal would grant it only to teachers who are rated "highly effective" five years in a row, meaning the top 10% of performers. And tenure wouldn't equal lifetime protection: A tenured teacher who rates in the bottom 10% ("ineffective") in any year would return to probationary status. Ineffective teachers would receive no pay raise. Louisiana would also ban the "last in, first out" practice under which younger teachers are dismissed first, regardless of performance.
Wouldn't this be a great topic for Republicans to discuss during the campaign? Conservatives have tried pushing competition as a way to reform the public-school system for two decades. No Child Left Behind originally included that as a key component, but George Bush retreated on it in the face of entrenched opposition in Congress. A candidate who might be looking to burnish conservative credentials might think carefully about working in ways to support Jindal's reforms as part of their own platform.
Of course, that might not be the only hint the WSJ has chosen to drop:
Louisiana used to be one of America's most ill-governed states, but Mr. Jindal pushed major economic and ethics reforms in his first term and is now starting his second with his education moon shot. It would be one giant leap for Louisiana students.
Regardless of who wins the nomination, that makes a pretty good resume for a running mate, does it not? An outside-the-Beltway reformer with a successful track record of reform, who is also a Southern governor, a staunch pro-lifer, and a young star in the party already on his second term? I'd call this a not-so-subtle hint on several levels from the WSJ.


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Anatomy of a Schism is unlike any other book about a church split. Most narratives of a split revolve around a theological or moral interpretation that becomes so difficult to walk together in that the only logical conclusion is to walk apart. What's often lost in these narratives is the individual stories of people who experienced and dialoged about the schism as it was happening. In many instances, we can watch a news segment about a church split which may give an overview of what happened and inform the viewer that the once unified congregation will now be meeting in part atRead More
And the Spirit Moved Them was written to demonstrate that the true origin of the modern American women's rights movement was not the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention of 1848, but the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in New York City in 1837. Author Helen LaKelly Hunt gives a fascinating historical account of these early abolitionist suffragists, whose power as reformers and social justice advocates arose through the convergence of various key personalities and events, a common Christian faith and commitment to social justice, and the willingness to join withRead More
Band of Angels is a well-researched narrative history of the women around Jesus and within the rapidly growing Christian community in its first five centuries.
An extremely well-written account of the author's experience of living with an abusive husband who appeared to others as the epitome of a fine Christian gentleman . . . This heartfelt account is practical yet not clinical and without a trace of bitterness. How Marjorie recovered from this ordeal of many years will be of great encouragement to those who need courage while recognizing what is happening to them and taking steps towards full spiritual and emotional health.
Becoming His Story: Inspiring Women to Lead, is a good resource for readers who may be new to the topic of women's leadership within the church. Mary-Elsie Wolfe approaches the topic with conviction and in a manner which is readily grasped. She addresses the tension that can exist between Jesus's example and the reality of today's church, and she provides the reader with practical application and tools to help make this ideal a tangible reality.
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:27 pm
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In a recent puzzle posted by ravel (
view the original thread here
) I made a mistake (instead of removing 5 from r4c4 and r4c6, I only removed it from r4c4) and came to this position, which is - if not impossible, then very hard to solve:
| 1 68 2 | 68 3 7 | 4 9 5 |
| 7 3 469 | 459 469 456 | 8 1 2 |
| 5 489 489 | 2 489 1 | 7 3 6 |
| 49 15 7 | 149 469 456 | 2 8 3 |
| 8 269 69 | 39 7 23 | 5 4 1 |
| 24 15 3 | 145 248 458 | 6 7 9 |
| 6 24 45 | 7 1 9 | 3 25 8 |
| 29 89 589 | 34 246 346 | 1 56 7 |
| 3 7 1 | 68 5 268 | 9 26 4 |
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Looking at boxes 4 and 5, we might see that there is an "almost UR": If r4c4 had a "5" in it, we could remove 5 from r4c4 and r6c4.
Would it be correct, then, in those cases where there is no rectangle but only 3 cells like this
. * * |
. . . |
. . . |
. ? * |
to simply add the missing candidate to the fourth cell and see if a UR elimination can be made ... ????
Maybe this is just a ridiculous idea but I'd be very interested to hear your opinions on it, especially why it should not work ...
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:24 pm
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AFAIK, if a
does not prevent you from adding the candidate then UR patterns are valid. I do do this, in fact did it today in a puzzle I was solving. A more obvious "proof" is the advice people give that you should look at every possibility before you do UR eliminations as there may be overlapping cells. Putting them back in for the second is the same as "saving up" the eliminations until you have gotten the ones from the other UR(s).
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:53 pm
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thx, wapati, my thinking exactly.
Still, there is that nagging doubt: in a sense, all candidates but the correct ones are "prevented by a given".
But if there were a real danger, one could never use any uniqueness argument before the puzzle is solved... Experience tells us that it does not matter when we use uniqueness arguments - there has never been a case where a UR elimination found at the very beginning of a solution turned out wrong in the end.
Even when I sometimes fail to remove a candidate from a cell (when it is a given in the same row, for example) that has never led to wrong solutions, only to a slowdown in the solving process.
Which could be formulated as
"nataraj's conjecture": it is always possible (and will not lead to contradictions) to add arbitrary candidates to any cell.
In other words,
"cell a is X or Y" is never wrong, provided we have established "cell a is X".
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Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:17 pm
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"Adding a candidate back in" is an acceptable way to go about it if you like. However, it might help to keep in mind that it is the non-unique
that is the deadly pattern, and not the configuration of candidates that contain such a possible solution.
In this case, if r6c4 were <5>, then we would have <5>s in r4c2 and r6c4 and <1>s in r4c4 and r6c2 (due to the various links present). This result is not unique because the <1>s and <5>s can be xx without any impact on the rest of the grid. So, r6c4 cannot be <5>.
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great to have confirmation for the "add-in" conjecture. Thanks! And at the same time you proved it was unnecessary
The elimination of 5 in r6c4 is actually what I was after...
I was trying to do it by re-introducing the "missing" 5, but you showed how the elimination can be done without the 5 in r4c4. That's good to know.
So instead of trying to complete the UR with missing candidates in some corners, I'll go try and make the eliminations without those "ghosts"...
Still thinking about this: maybe it is easier for the brain to recognize a pattern with the added candidate than to do a (perfectly valid) elimination in a situation that is so obviously no UR ...
Guess archeologists would have an advantage here: they are supposed to be looking at ruins and to imagine how the building looked when it was still in use
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Thomas Hardy, (born June 2, 1840, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England
Died January 11, 1928, Dorchester, Dorset), English novelist and poet who set much of his
work in Wessex, his name for the counties of southwestern England.
Early Life And Works
Hardy was the eldest of the four children of Thomas Hardy, a stonemason and jobbing builder,
and his wife, Jemima (née Hand). He grew up in an isolated cottage on the edge of open
heathland. Though he was often ill as a child, his early experience of rural life, with its
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Though architecture brought Hardy both social and economic advancement, it was only in the mid-1860s that lack of funds and declining religious faith forced him to abandon his early ambitions of a university education and eventual ordination as an Anglican priest. His habits of intensive private study were then redirected toward the reading of poetry and the systematic development of his own poetic skills. The verses he wrote in the 1860s would emerge in revised form in later volumes (e.g., "Neutral Tones," "Retty's Phases"), but when none of them achieved immediate publication, Hardy reluctantly turned to prose.
In 1867–68 he wrote the class-conscious novel The Poor Man and the Lady, which was sympathetically considered by three London publishers but never published. George Meredith, as a publisher's reader, advised Hardy to write a more shapely and less opinionated novel. The result was the densely plotted Desperate Remedies (1871), which was influenced by the contemporary "sensation" fiction of Wilkie Collins. In his next novel, however, the brief and affectionately humorous idyll Under the Greenwood Tree (1872), Hardy found a voice much more distinctively his own. In this book he evoked, within the simplest of marriage plots, an episode of social change (the displacement of a group of church musicians) that was a direct reflection of events involving his own father shortly before Hardy's own birth.
In March 1870 Hardy had been sent to make an architectural assessment of the lonely and dilapidated Church of St. Juliot in Cornwall. There—in romantic circumstances later poignantly recalled in prose and verse—he first met the rector's vivacious sister-in-law, Emma Lavinia Gifford, who became his wife four years later. She actively encouraged and assisted him in his literary endeavours, and his next novel, A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873), drew heavily upon the circumstances of their courtship for its wild Cornish setting and its melodramatic story of a young woman (somewhat resembling Emma Gifford) and the two men, friends become rivals, who successively pursue, misunderstand, and fail her.
Hardy's break with architecture occurred in the summer of 1872, when he undertook to supply Tinsley's Magazine with the 11 monthly installments of A Pair of Blue Eyes—an initially risky commitment to a literary career that was soon validated by an invitation to contribute a serial to the far more prestigious Cornhill Magazine. The resulting novel, Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), introduced Wessex for the first time and made Hardy famous by its agricultural settings and its distinctive blend of humorous, melodramatic, pastoral, and tragic elements. The book is a vigorous portrayal of the beautiful and impulsive Bathsheba Everdene and her marital choices among Sergeant Troy, the dashing but irresponsible soldier; William Boldwood, the deeply obsessive farmer; and Gabriel Oak, her loyal and resourceful shepherd.
Middle Period
Hardy and Emma Gifford were married, against the wishes of both their families, in September 1874. At first they moved rather restlessly about, living sometimes in London, sometimes in Dorset. His record as a novelist during this period was somewhat mixed. The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), an artificial social comedy turning on versions and inversions of the British class system, was poorly received and has never been widely popular. The Return of the Native (1878), on the other hand, was increasingly admired for its powerfully evoked setting of Egdon Heath, which was based on the sombre countryside Hardy had known as a child. The novel depicts the disastrous marriage between Eustacia Vye, who yearns romantically for passionate experiences beyond the hated heath, and Clym Yeobright, the returning native, who is blinded to his wife's needs by a naively idealistic zeal for the moral improvement of Egdon's impervious inhabitants. Hardy's next works were The Trumpet-Major (1880), set in the Napoleonic period, and two more novels generally considered "minor"—A Laodicean (1881) and Two on a Tower (1882). The serious illness which hampered completion of A Laodicean decided the Hardys to move to Wimborne in 1881 and to Dorchester in 1883.
It was not easy for Hardy to establish himself as a member of the professional middle class in a town where his humbler background was well known. He signaled his determination to stay by accepting an appointment as a local magistrate and by designing and building Max Gate, the house just outside Dorchester in which he lived until his death. Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) incorporates recognizable details of Dorchester's history and topography. The busy market-town of Casterbridge becomes the setting for a tragic struggle, at once economic and deeply personal, between the powerful but unstable Michael Henchard, who has risen from workman to mayor by sheer natural energy, and the more shrewdly calculating Donald Farfrae, who starts out in Casterbridge as Henchard's protégé but ultimately dispossesses him of everything that he had once owned and loved. In Hardy's next novel, The Woodlanders (1887), socioeconomic issues again become central as the permutations of sexual advance and retreat are played out among the very trees from which the characters make their living, and Giles Winterborne's loss of livelihood is integrally bound up with his loss of Grace Melbury and, finally, of life itself.
Wessex Tales (1888) was the first collection of the short stories that Hardy had long been publishing in magazines. His subsequent short-story collections are A Group of Noble Dames (1891), Life's Little Ironies (1894), and A Changed Man (1913). Hardy's short novel The Well-Beloved (serialized 1892, revised for volume publication 1897) displays a hostility to marriage that was related to increasing frictions within his own marriage.
Late Novels
The closing phase of Hardy's career in fiction was marked by the publication of Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) and Jude the Obscure (1895), which are generally considered his finest novels. Though Tess is the most richly "poetic" of Hardy's novels, and Jude the most bleakly written, both books offer deeply sympathetic representations of working-class figures: Tess Durbeyfield, the erring milkmaid, and Jude Fawley, the studious stonemason. In powerful, implicitly moralized narratives, Hardy traces these characters' initially hopeful, momentarily ecstatic, but persistently troubled journeys toward eventual deprivation and death.
Though technically belonging to the 19th century, these novels anticipate the 20th century in regard to the nature and treatment of their subject matter. Tess profoundly questions society's sexual mores by its compassionate portrayal and even advocacy of a heroine who is seduced, and perhaps raped, by the son of her employer. She has an illegitimate child, suffers rejection by the man she loves and marries, and is finally hanged for murdering her original seducer. In Jude the Obscure the class-ridden educational system of the day is challenged by the defeat of Jude's earnest aspirations to knowledge, while conventional morality is affronted by the way in which the sympathetically presented Jude and Sue change partners, live together, and have children with little regard for the institution of marriage. Both books encountered some brutally hostile reviews, and Hardy's sensitivity to such attacks partly precipitated his long-contemplated transition from fiction to poetry.
Hardy seems always to have rated poetry above fiction, and Wessex Poems (1898), his first significant public appearance as a poet, included verse written during his years as a novelist as well as revised versions of poems dating from the 1860s. As a collection it was often perceived as miscellaneous and uneven—an impression reinforced by the author's own idiosyncratic illustrations—and acceptance of Hardy's verse was slowed, then and later, by the persistence of his reputation as a novelist. Poems of the Past and the Present (1901) contained nearly twice as many poems as its predecessor, most of them newly written. Some of the poems are explicitly or implicitly grouped by subject or theme. There are, for example, 11 "War Poems" prompted by the South African War (e.g., "Drummer Hodge," "The Souls of the Slain") and a sequence of disenchantedly "philosophical" poems (e.g., "The Mother Mourns," "The Subalterns," "To an Unborn Pauper Child"). In Time's Laughingstocks (1909), the poems are again arranged under headings, but on principles that often remain elusive. Indeed, there is no clear line of development in Hardy's poetry from immaturity to maturity; his style undergoes no significant change over time. His best poems can be found mixed together with inferior verse in any particular volume, and new poems are often juxtaposed to reworkings of poems written or drafted years before. The range of poems within any particular volume is also extremely broad—from lyric to meditation to ballad to satirical vignette to dramatic monologue or dialogue—and Hardy persistently experiments with different, often invented, stanza forms and metres.
In 1903, 1905, and 1908 Hardy successively published the three volumes of The Dynasts, a huge poetic drama that is written mostly in blank verse and subtitled "an epic-drama of the War with Napoleon"—though it was not intended for actual performance. The sequence of major historical events—Trafalgar, Austerlitz, Waterloo, and so on—is diversified by prose episodes involving ordinary soldiers and civilians and by an ongoing cosmic commentary from such personified "Intelligences" as the "Spirit of the Years" and the "Spirit of the Pities." Hardy, who once described his poems as a "series of seemings" rather than expressions of a single consistent viewpoint, found in the contrasted moral and philosophical positions of the various Intelligences a means of articulating his own intellectual ambiguities. The Dynasts as a whole served to project his central vision of a universe governed by the purposeless movements of a blind, unconscious force that he called the Immanent Will. Though subsequent criticism has tended to find its structures cumbersome and its verse inert, The Dynasts remains an impressive—and highly readable—achievement, and its publication certainly reinforced both Hardy's "national" image (he was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1910) and his enormous fame worldwide.
The sudden death of Emma Hardy in 1912 brought to an end some 20 years of domestic estrangement. It also stirred Hardy to profundities of regret and remorse and to the composition of "After a Journey," "The Voice," and the other "Poems of 1912–13," which are by general consent regarded as the peak of his poetic achievement. In 1914 Hardy married Florence Emily Dugdale, who was 38 years his junior. While his second wife sometimes found her situation difficult—as when the inclusion of "Poems of 1912–13" in the collection Satires of Circumstance (1914) publicly proclaimed her husband's continuing devotion to her predecessor—her attention to Hardy's health, comfort, and privacy made a crucial contribution to his remarkable productivity in old age. Late in his eighth decade he published a fifth volume of verse, Moments of Vision (1917), and wrote in secret an official "life" of himself for posthumous publication under the name of his widow. In his ninth decade Hardy published two more poetry collections, Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922) and Human Shows (1925), and put together the posthumously published Winter Words (1928). Following his death, on January 11, 1928, his cremated remains were interred with national pomp in Westminster Abbey, while his separated heart was buried in the churchyard of his native parish.
The continuing popularity of Hardy's novels owes much to their richly varied yet always accessible style and their combination of romantic plots with convincingly presented characters. Equally important—particularly in terms of their suitability to film and television adaptation—is their nostalgic evocation of a vanished rural world through the creation of highly particularized regional settings. Hardy's verse has been slower to win full acceptance, but his unique status as a major 20th-century poet as well as a major 19th-century novelist is now universally recognized.
Contributor:Michael Millgate
Article Title:Thomas Hardy
Website Name:Encyclopædia Britannica
Publisher:Encyclopædia Britannica, inc.
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Studies out of the University of South Carolina and Northwestern University both cited accountability as a key reason why social media and apps can further weight loss.
Still, it's hard to say how many people are actually using the millions of health and fitness apps that have been downloaded. About half of the people who track their health and fitness told Pew they do so informally in their heads. One-third said they use pen and paper.
But Dr. Peter Eckman, a cardiologist at the University of Minnesota, said these apps can sometimes offer people the help they need.
One of Eckman's heart transplant patients has been walking enthusiastically during his recovery because he found a social "walk to the moon" challenge online. The patient tracks his steps with a pedometer app on his smartphone and enters them online toward the collective goal of more than 477 million steps.
"The social part of this, for him, has really been critical," Eckman said. "It's another arrow in the quiver of ways to motivate people and help people maintain motivation themselves."


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I was hoping it'd be hotter today to get in some more running in the heat, but perhaps today was a good warm-up of sorts for the 90+ temps we're supposed to get again tomorrow. Today, just the lower-mid 80s depending on which thermometer you want to believe. Humid also. Not soupy, but the air was still far from dry.
Run went well. Hit the railroad beds near the school, which provide gradual hills and wide, relatively smooth trails. I felt really sluggish the first mile, but after that, a complete turn around and I felt great for the rest of the run.
Ran 7.1 miles @ 8:38/mile pace.
AHR/MHR - N/A (didn't feel like wearing strap)
Moderately hilly.
Lower-mid 80s, sunny, humid.
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When gasser style cars started appearing at drag strips in the late 50s, they were like nothing anyone had ever seen. They were stripped down hot rods with big engines, wild paint jobs and a weird stance—thanks to the straight front axles that were installed up front to improve traction off the line.
Although this 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air, which is currently listed on Ebay, was built fairly recently the car certainly looks like it would have fit right in during the Gasser heyday in the 1960s. From the velocity stacks sticking out of the flat black hood to the diamond pattern interior, this car screams 60s.
Quite a bit of change was necessary to turn this Tri-Five Chevy into a period correct Gasser. After modifying the suspension to fit a straight front axle and 9 inch rear end from a 1963 Ford F100, a mild 396 Chevy Big Block and a 4 speed manual transmission were installed to give this beast enough power to hang at the drag strip. Everywhere you
look on this car the modifications are well executed, and perhaps more importantly period correct.
The result is one of the cooler gassers we've seen in a long time. Just looking at the car as it sits is enough to send us into a deep case of car lust. We'd imagine spending some time in the front bucket seat rowing gears and listening to the glorious racket of the straight headers would only make our desire to own this car even stronger.
Although it comes as no surprise, it appears we aren't the only ones eager to own this flat black beast. Bidding is currently at $16,550 with a little less than two days left on the auction. While that sum is too high to allow our ownership dreams to become a reality, it is certainly a pretty reasonable price for an awesome 1955 Chevy gasser.


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Ex-BP engineer cuffed 'for deleting Deepwater spill texts'
Allegedly destroyed evidence during oil disaster cleanup
A former BP engineer has been arrested and accused of covering up how badly the Deepwater Horizon oil spill clean-up was going by deleting text messages.
Kurt Mix was cuffed in the US on the charge of obstruction of justice, for which he could face up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $500,000 (£309,617).
"The Department [of Justice] has filed initial charges in its investigation into the Deepwater Horizon disaster against an individual for allegedly deleting records relating to the amount of oil flowing from the Macondo well after the explosion that led to the devastating tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico," said US Attorney General Eric Holder.
"The Deepwater Horizon Task Force is continuing its investigation into the explosion and will hold accountable those who violated the law in connection with the largest environmental disaster in US history," he added.
The DoJ alleges that Mix, a drilling and completions project engineer at BP, deleted loads of texts from his mobile when he knew that the authorities were coming to collect it.
Mix worked on a number of the efforts by BP to sort out the oil leak, including "Top Kill", a failed attempt to pump heavy mud into the blown-out wellhead to try to stop the oil flow.
Before the attempt was made, Mix and his colleagues had calculated that Top Kill wouldn't work if the flow rate was more than 15,000 barrels per day. At the time they started the effort, BP's public estimate of the flow rate was 5,000 barrels per day.
But Mix's texts, which the DoJ said it had recovered forensically, allegedly included a message to a BP supervisor at the end of the first day saying that Top Kill wasn't going to work.
"Too much flow rate – over 15,000," the DoJ quoted one alleged text (out of 200 in a thread) as saying.
The department claimed that the texts had been deleted in October 2010, when Mix had discovered that his electronic files were going to be collected by BP's lawyers.
The DoJ also alleges that Mix again deleted a text thread in August 2011, when he learned that his iPhone was going to be imaged by BP's outside counsel. Those messages, to a BP contractor, again dealt with issues around how much oil was flowing from the well.
The Justice department set up a special task force to investigate the explosion on the Deepwater oil rig, which killed 11 people.
In response to Mix's arrest, BP said last night that it was cooperating with all aspects of the DoJ's investigation.
"BP had clear policies requiring preservation of evidence in this case and has undertaken substantial and ongoing efforts to preserve evidence," the oil firm said in a canned statement. ®
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B.S. Lemoyne College, Physics, M.S. Clarkson University, Physics, Ph.D. Georgetown University, Physics, Postdoc, Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Quantum Crystallography (QCr) refers to the combination of structural crystallographic information with quantum-mechanical theory. The objective is to facilitate computational chemistry calculations and thereby enhance the information that may be derived from a crystallographic experiment. This concept has a long history and in recent years has been finding increased attention because of the advances in both theory and computers. Our method for obtaining quantum mechanical molecular energy involves the use of parts of a whole molecule, which in our formalism are called kernels. The individual calculations based on kernels are relatively small, compared to that which would be required to treat an entire molecule all at once. Subsequently, we sum kernel contributions to obtain the energy for a whole molecule. In so doing we simplify the formidable task of obtaining a true quantum energy calculation for very large molecules. The saving of computational time is significant. The theoretical background for our approach to quantum crystallography may be found in References and additional references therein.
Selected Publications
Proposed New Materials: Boron Fullerenes, Nanotubes, and Nanotori, V. Dadashev, A.Gindulyte, W.N. Lipscomb, L. Massa, and R. Squire, Structures and Mechanisms: From Ashes to Enzymes, Gareth R. Eaton, Don C. Wiley, and Oleg Jardetzky, eds., ACS Symposium Series Volume 827, Oxford University Press, 2002.
Form Factors For Core Electrons Useful In The Quantum Crystallography (QCr) Of Organic Molecules, Lulu Huang, Lou Massa, and Jerome Karle, Acta Cryst , (2002) A58, 410-411.
Quantal Density Functional Theory of Excited States: The State Arbitrariness of the Model Noninteracting System, M. Slamet, R. Singh, L. Massa, and V. Sahni, Phys. Rev. A 66, , 042504 (2003).
Determination of a wave function functional, X.-Y. Pan, V. Sahni, and L. Massa Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 130401 (2004).


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Spring is well underway here in the Sunshine State, and many Florida families have already marked the occasion by planting flowers and tilling up garden patches. These days, growing fruits and vegetables is as much a form of entertainment as a supplement to the family diet, since modern refrigeration and shipping make it possible for us to get almost any food we desire from the local grocery.
That was certainly not the case for most Florida families during the 19th century. In those days, most Floridians relied heavily on their own farms and garden patches for food, especially vegetables and fruits. Grocers could be found in town, but their products were often both limited and expensive.
The problem, of course, is that even sunny Florida experiences cooler weather for a few months out of the year, and many fruits and vegetables simply don't grow as well during that time. Without the ability to refrigerate or freeze their spring and summer crops for winter use, 19th century Florida families favored pickling as a way to preserve these precious foods. One bit of evidence supporting this is the large number of pickle recipes we often find in the cookbooks and correspondence of Floridians who lived before the age of modern refrigeration. Since gardens across the state are starting to bear lots of tasty food items ripe for the picking, we've decided to share a few of our favorite historic pickling recipes:
Our first recipe comes from a book of handwritten recipes and religious poetry belonging to the Simpson family of Jefferson County. Here are the instructions for making their version of "cucumber pickles":
Get very small cucumbers, wipe them clean, lay them into stone jars. Allow one quart of coarse salt to a pail of water. Boil the salt & water until the salt is dissolved; turn it boiling hot on the cucumbers; cover them up tight, and let them stand twenty four hours. Turn them into a basket to drain. Boil as much of the best cider vinegar as will cover the cucumbers. Wash out the jars, put the cucumbers into them, turn on the vinegar boiling hot, cover them with cabbage leaves & cover the jars tight. In forty eight hours they will be fit for use.
Any kind of pickles is good made in the same way.
The Simpsons were also apparently adventurous enough to try pickling other garden items, even watermelon rind! Here's a recipe for "watermelon pickles" acquired from a "Mrs. Porter" and included in the Simpson family cookbook:
Here's the transcript. Be careful with this one – we're still not sure about one of the units of measurement used in this recipe!
10 [pounds?] of rind
Take the green off the rind, boil in pure water until tender, drain the water off and make a syrup of 2 [pounds?] of sugar, 1 qt of vinegar, 1/2 ounce of cloves, 1 ounce of cinnamon. The syrup to be boiled and poured over the rind three mornings in succession, boiling hot.
Now we're sure you've heard of fried green tomatoes, but have you ever had them pickled? Mary Archer, who lived in Tallahassee for seven decades of the 19th century, included a recipe for green tomato pickles in her small leather-bound handwritten cookbook, now held by the State Library & Archives of Florida. Mary was the daughter of Thomas Brown, Florida's second state governor. Brown operated one of the few hotels in Tallahassee during the antebellum era, and Mary herself managed the hotel for a few years during Reconstruction. Mary's cookbook, which includes entries dating from 1852 to sometime after 1869, provides a unique snapshot of North Florida cuisine, especially the preserves and baked delicacies popular at that time. Here are Mary Archer's instructions for green tomato pickles:
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One peck of green tomatoes, cut into thin slices. Sprinkle them with salt for one day. 12 onions cut in the same way. One bottle of mustard, a quarter of a pound of mustard seed, alspice, cloves, ground pepper, ground ginger, each one ounce.
Mix the spices together and put in a kettle a layer of tomatoes and a layer of spices alternately. Cover them with vinegar, and let them simmer until the tomatoes look quite clear, then they are fit for use.
Mary also had a few other pickling recipes in her cookbook, including this one for what was commonly called "yellow pickles" or "Virginia pickles" in those days:
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Cut white head cabbage in four parts and lay them one night in strong [salt] and water. Scald them three successive days in salt and water adding [more] salt each day. Cover the bottom and sides of your kettle with the outside green leaves of the cabbage. Put in the cabbage, then cover them with vinegar, then cover all with cabbage leaves. Boil them until you can put a straw in the stalk of the cabbage. Drain the vinegar and put them in a jar. Have ready Turmeric, mustard and celery seed, spice, cloves, pepper and mace. Put them in the top after well mixing them. Fill the jar with cold vinegar. Onion cut fine should be put with the seasoning. This pickle is ready for use immediately tho age improves it.
These are just a few of the many pickling recipes found in the collections of the State Library & Archives. They're more than just a tasty way to enjoy spring and summer vegetables all year long – they're also a link between the culinary traditions of today , when food preservation methods liking salting, smoking, and pickling were a necessity for all Florida families.
What kinds of pickles do you enjoy best? Do you make your own? Share with us by leaving a comment below, or by posting this blog on Facebook or Twitter.


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Project funded for four years"LOS CAMINOS: DEVELOPING CULTURALLY-SENSITIVE PATHS TO DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT"The focus of this study is identifying barriers for prevention and early treatment of diabetic eye complications in the Hispanic population and to elucidate strategies that can be effective for a range of other self-management behaviors. Important themes identified in this study are: a) Lack of understanding about effective disease management, b) Inconsistent social support, c) Concerns about changes in sexual functioning since diagnosis, d) High incidence of depression, e) Lack of knowledge about diabetes, f) Lack of resources. The second phase of the research project uses the survey findings based on the review of the focus group data. Information is also being collected and analyzed from focus groups and now interviewing a larger multi-ethnic cohort of an earlier sample from the Vision is Precious (VIP) study.
Arlene Caban, PhDPrincipal Investigator
Elizabeth Walker, DNSc, RN, CDECo-Investigator
Pilot Study # 1 funded for two yearsIMPACT OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE (CHD) RISK PERCEPTION ON HEALTH BEHAVIORSAssesses the effect of risk perception of coronary heart disease on health-promoting behaviors among a socio-economically and ethnically diverse population, such as African Americans and Hispanics in the Bronx by testing a recently developed risk perception instrument for potential wide-spread clinical application. Overall knowledge of coronary risk factors was found to be sub-optimal with a low-to-moderate perception of personal risk of Coronary Heart Disease. Paradoxically, persons at highest risk of coronary disease were aware of their risk, yet engaged in more unhealthy behaviors.
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Pilot Project #2 funded for two yearsCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER-BASED SCREENING PROGRAM FOR DIABETES MELLITUSThe prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes in patients attending a community health center is not known, nor has the feasibility of diabetes diagnosing screening methods been tested. The researchers obtained random capillary blood glucose that were done "on the spot" to screen for diabetes. The study found a median glucose of 96 mg/dl with 38% having a value 100 mg/dl. The prevalence of undiagnosed diabetes was very low (0.74%), and confirmatory testing among positive screenees was high. On the other hand acceptance of diabetes screening in this population was low with many individuals declining and often giving as a reason, "If I have diabetes, I don't want to know about it."
Pilot Project #3 funded for two yearsA FAMILY-ORIENTED MODEL OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH TO REDUCE DISPARITIES IN CARDIOVASCULAR & DIABETES MORBIDITY & MORTALITY IN THE SOUTH BRONXThe long-term aim of this project was to conduct a randomized clinical trial of the use of peer educators to provide family group education and support for people with high risk profiles for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. The "Peer Educators," or Promotores de la Salud, were adults, predominantly African-Americans and Latinos recruited from the South Bronx and given an extensive course in cardiovascular and diabetes related risk reduction. Family discussion groups led by peer educators were found to be feasible psycho-educational techniques to improve multiple risk factor reduction behavioral change, and improve knowledge among both patients and family members, reducing weight, depression and improvement in glucose levels among a majority of participants.
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Alvin H. Strelnick, MDCo-Investigator
Pilot Project #4 funded for two yearsCARDIOVASCULAR MA RKERS IN OBESE MINORITY YOUTHThe relationships among obesity, blood pressure regulation and various biomarkers are not well defined in children. The hypothesis that adipocytokines (biomarkers of cardiovascular disease), in obese minority adolescents are associated with hypertension or early elimination of the normal nocturnal dip in BP, and alterations in glucose metabolism, and microalbuminuria will be studied by measuring levels of fat-derived peptides and cytokines (adiponectin, leptin, CRP, and PAI-1) in obese pubertal minority subjects and lean controls, speculating that those with abnormalities in blood pressure and/or glucose intolerance will have abnormalities in cardiovascular biomarkers.. Findings will be helpful in the development of pediatric criteria for the metabolic syndrome and will permit assessment of efficacy of therapeutic interventions. The study is targeted to involve 80 pubertal minority youth 10-18 years old predominantly female, African-American and or Hispanic.
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Joseph Flynn, MDCo-Investigator
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Pilot project #5 funded for one yearRACIAL AND ECONOMIC DISPARITIES IN ACCESS TO NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY IN NEW YORK CITY PHARMACIESRace, ethnicity and socioeconomic status are predictors of tobacco use; a possible determinant of the different rates of smoking among minority groups is access to smoking cessation aids such as nicotine replacement therapy. Pharmacies in nonwhite neighborhoods are less likely to sell over-the-counter nicotine replacement products and may have more tobacco products displayed. The investigators will examine a random sample of New York City pharmacies including pharmacies located in supermarkets or affiliated with health care settings in order to assess the accessibility of nicotine replacement products in undeserved populations. The data will be used to improve future community-based interventions for lowering tobacco use.
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Pilot project # 6 funded for one yearTHE IMPACT OF PHARMACEUTICAL SAMPLING OF MEDICATIONS FOR HYPERTENSION, DIABETES, AND HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA ON RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE TREATMENT OF THESE CONDITIONSLong-term adherence to medications is important in the management of chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and hypercholesterolemia. Distribution of medication samples by pharmaceutical representatives (drug detailing) may ease the economic barriers to treatment adherence, can improve relationships between physicians and patients, but can also lead to reliance on newer and more expensive medications. The investigators will examine the impact of distributing medication samples in primary care clinics and their impact on racial differences and adherence. They will survey clinic policies related to medication samples, obtain information of the number of medications provided, and assess physician and staff attitude towards the ability to accept and distribute samples. A secondary aim will be to study the impact of the availability of samples by assessing the number of brand vs. generic prescription generated, as well as the impact that samples have on chronic adherence.
Nancy Sohler, PhD, MPHPrincipal Investigator
Diane McKee, MDCo-Investigator
Pilot project # 7 funded for data analysisGAY, LESBIAN, AND BISEXUAL YOUTH SPEAK OUT TO PROVIDERS: UNDERSTANDING YOUTH PERSPECTIVES ON HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS AND HEALTH CARE SETTINGS IN ORDER TO IMPROVE QUALITY AND ACCESSThis is a project to elicit perspectives and experiences of health care provided to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals. The study obtains information about health care providers' attitudes, the settings in which they receive health care, and health concerns and issues. Funding is being used to complete an analysis of previously obtained surveys. The data will be used in the future to prepare a training curriculum for primary care providers in order to improve health care and health care access for this sub-population of youth.
Neal Hoffman, MDPrincipal Investigator
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"Improving Health Literacy to Reduce Obesity in a Very Poor Urban Setting"Examines the effects of a health literacy intervention on reducing childhood and adult obesity among very poor inner-city residents. This project is funded by the Pfizer Health Literacy Program.
Iman Sharif, MD, MPHAssociate Professor of Pediatrics
"Understanding Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women"Examines whether different patterns of urinary incontinence seen in Black and White women are associated with alterations in urethral smooth muscle tonicity and/or proteins. Dr. Guess was recently awarded a minority supplement from Robert Wood Johnson to expand this area of research.
Marsha Guess, MDAssistant of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women's Health
Childhodd AsthmaThis study uses a novel multi-dimensional CARAT scale (Children's Asthma Risk Assessment Tool) that she developed to determine risk factors associated with asthma morbidity in a national sample of inner-city children with persistent asthma.
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Domestic Violence StudyPerforms analysis of the Mother-Infant Rapid intervention at Delivery (MIRIAD) database to determine factors associated with domestic violence in HIV positive women and women at high risk for HIV.
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Is There Another Storm?
Many kids and adults took advantage of Sunday's milder weather and played in the snow at Great Bear.
The very mild weather conditions across the region on Sunday will become a thing of the past next week. Arctic air will pour into the Northern Plains behind a cold front moving through the area on Monday.
In addition, a significant winter storm appears to be taking aim on the Plains beginning Wednesday night and continuing on Thursday.
A Wind Advisory is in effect for much of South Dakota, southwest Minnesota and northwest Iowa on Monday.


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rushy necessitava di un nuovo design di logo e ha lanciato un contest su 99designs.
È stato scelto un vincitore tra 23 design presentati da 10 designer.
I need an original, unique template for an ecommerce site that we'll be launching soon. The site will sell gaming-related peripherals for both pc and console so a strong emphasis on the 'gaming culture' and urban style/look would be advantageous. Perhaps even a 'cartoony' style would look pretty cool as seen in this site: http://www.urbanstylecomics.com/
Desired Style:
Urban style/comics/pop art but urban feel is preferred as shown in this site: http://www.urbanstylecomics.com/index.html
Accepted File Formats:
vector, .psd, .jpg and illustrator if you plan to do a logo
The ecommerce template needs a main page with all the usual cart features visible. I really like the urban style of this site: http://www.urbanstylecomics.com/ and want the ecommerce site to take on this feel. If you could bring together the world of ecommerce and urban style cartoony feel successfully I'd be forever in your debt :-) Any men/women/characters you can draw to help you reach this feel will receive extra payment also.
As a guideline the colour scheme you choose needs to feel comicy/urban and be made up of easy to remember colours (luminous green/black, bright orange/black etc etc) that will prevent great opportunities for branding and stick to the urban/comic style and feel. You can also think of the matrix cartoons, manga cartoons, comic strips and pop art among your sources of inspiration and the direction this site needs to take. I think a good way to think of it is if you were drawing the front page of an ecommerce site in the middle of a matrix comic :-) Really like the urban comic theme though - have i stressed that enough lol
The ecommerce site will be based on a digishop variant along these lines: http://digishop.sumeffect.com/shopp…e/cart.php?
I'll need a homepage template and a product page template.
There is an additional prize of an extra $100 for a good logo design.
The shop will be called gear 4 gamers. The successful winner will most likely get continued work from the store to maintain the style of the artwork throughout banner ads and other advertising campaigns so its an excellent opportunity for regular paid work.
Feel free to ask anything to help you get a good design together as I am very keen to pay someone a lot of money for a cool design!
Good luck guys, please help me :-)
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
- Logo Design
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