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iYouTube is a Mac OS X Web service that allows you to run YouTube as an application without opening a browser. It supports all YouTube features and has some extra features as well.
What's New in iYouTube
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- [NEW] Fullscreen support is now available.
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Richard Tuttle (American, b. 1941)
Three-light chandelier, 1991-98; Milk glass, iron, aluminum disc, electrical cord and parts; Number 16 from an edition of 50; Cylinders: 12" x 4" diameter; Fabricators: S+P Machine (1-8), then Stephen Schermeyer (aluminum plate), James Garvey (1-5) then Tovery Halleck (iron); Deborah Czeresko (glass), Wick O'Brien (electrical); Exhibition: Art Curial, Paris, 2004; Richard Tuttle: A lamp, a chair, a chandelier, A/D Gallery, New York, date unknown; Richard Tuttle, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, February 20 – April 11, 1998; Chandeliers: Richard Tuttle, A/D Gallery, New York, May 28 – July 31, 1998; Soft White, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMass Amherst, April 8 – May 19, 2000; Provenance: A/D, New York; Note: This was an intended edition of 50 examples (each in either 2, 3, 5, or 7 cylinders), plus 8 APs, of which 25 plus 4 APs were realized.
Sale Price: $3,375
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Condition Report
No issues noted.
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A/D ("Artist Designer") was a strong and unique voice in the 80s and 90s, for it was the only publisher of editions with the unique distinction to commission projects only from visual artists, and only for functional objects that were meant to be lived with and used.
The idea was that visual artists would bring different solutions to design problems, and would challenge material limits in ways that designers and architects normally would not. The success of the gallery and all that they published was a result of this challenge, and of the standards that they were willing to commit to projects. The roster of artists published by A/D is impressive, from Sol LeWitt and Chuck Close, to Jennifer Bartlett and Arlene Shechet; and the fabricators used were always the best possible, willing to work closely with the artists to solve special challenges; it is unlikely that any wallpaper before or after Joan Nelson's Vines was ever made using 28 screens.
The works that follow are all examples that the gallery retained for their own archives, and include published editions; unique prototype copies that were fabricated on the way to making a final edition, often in different materials; and also unique works that were made in only one example, like the Tom Sachs Telephone Lamp, and the painted cement standing screen, a unique collaboration between artists Georgia Marsh and Win Knowlton. Also included is the iconic door to the gallery space by 1100 Architect (David Piscuskas and Juergen Riehm), itself a unique design solution for a public entry from the bend in a hallway into an exhibition space, a fitting collaboration by a then-young firm that went on to design the MoMA Design Store, the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation offices, and many artists' residences and studios.
The several objects here from Richard Tuttle—lamps, chandeliers, chairs, a rug—are a particularly important range of work coming from one of the most important artists of our time. With his first exhibition in 1965, Tuttle helped to invent the vocabulary of Minimal Art, and in the more than 50 years since has shown through constant invention what can be done with modest materials. The objects made for A/D show a range of exploration of how traditional forms can be meaningfully tweaked, often with an historical understanding that came from his own impressive collection of decorative arts.
While many of the A/D editions were successful in their time, a number of the editions were never completed. The McDermott & McGough Sundial was announced as an edition of 20, but the example offered here is likely one of only 3 ever made. The Gary Stephan Ribbon Chaise took such an elaborately difficult tour de force of woodworking skill and was so expensive to produce that of the 9 planned, only 3 were ever made. The fact that published editions would not be fully made was not unique to A/D: the 1967-68 Ellsworth Kelly Primary Tapestry rug that was published by Charles Slatkin (Modern Master Tapestries) was announced as an edition of 20; but according to the records of the Ellsworth Kelly Studio, only 4 were ever produced. And certain objects were made purposefully in unusually small editions: the cast sterling silver Arman Candelabrum is one from an edition of only 8, Arman's own choice in order to comply with the French law definition of an "original" object; more than 8 examples would become an "edition." And while the silver edition offered here is already rare, the two prototype examples in silver plate are unique, as this experiment in testing this process was then abandoned in favor of making the edition in solid silver.
Since A/D closed some 20 years ago, no other publisher has pursued this path in the same way. A/D remains a very special marker of its decade, and their editions represent an important impulse that is still influential. Many of the objects offered here now appear only rarely in the market, but with this dispersal of the retained archives of A/D, certainly there will never again be the opportunity of such a range of the important A/D editions.


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Thrift Store Score
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Get outta here. I found one of these at a garage sale this summer for $4 and made pasta for the first time Sunday. Used my homemade sauce.ReplyDelete
Love, love a bargain. Congrats on yours.
love it!! Can I borrow it?ReplyDelete
Oh my, that is such a score indeed!ReplyDelete
I've got one of those buried in my garage somewhere. I need to bust it out and start using it for our project. Got any good noodle recipes?ReplyDelete
@ Cheryl - what a steal! i paid $8.95 for mine.ReplyDelete
@ Lisa - sure! just make sure you return it quickly because I have loads of noodles to make. It's a great way to use up eggs.
@ Rachel - i've got a great recipe. i'm including it in a little cookbook that I will have for sale after my chicken presentation on Saturday at the Eat Real festival.
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2010 at 10:18 AM
Is that an Atlas? They rock.ReplyDelete
Did you happen to get that at the Savers on Geneva?ReplyDelete


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Parking at the Terminal
The Grand Forks International Airport offers three parking options: Lot A – across from the terminal; Lot B – east of Lot A; and Lot C – further east across Airport Drive. All lots may be used for short or long term parking, are well lit and patrolled 24/7. Rates are listed below.
When entering the lots, you must pull a ticket before the entrance gate will rise. Please be sure to keep the ticket until you return and use that to pay and exit. A lost ticket will result in maximum parking rates.
We do not have electric outlets in our parking lots. Should you need assistance starting your car in the cold weather, the Republic Parking cashier at the exit booth has a battery booster pack they will lend you, and can also give you a phone number to a service company that is oftentimes already at the airport.
We do not take parking reservations. Should all of our lots fill up, please see the parking cashier for further direction.
If you have further questions, please contact Republic Parking at (701)772-0090.
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Parking Lot Directions
As you are driving in front of our airline terminal, you are on a one-way loop that surrounds Lots A & B. You will see the entrance gates on your left. Lot C is located east of Airport Drive.
The curbside area in front of the terminal is for loading and unloading only. Please do not park and leave your car in this area for any length of time or you may be ticketed.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More U.S. senators on Friday raised concerns about a Chinese company's plan to buy U.S. pork company Smithfield Foods Inc SFD.N, particularly in light of restrictions that China continues to place on imports of U.S. meat.
"This review must be thorough and take into account the full range of national security interests," the top Democrat and Republican on the Senate Finance Committee said in a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman.
"In particular, we urge that due consideration be given to the impact of the transaction on food safety in the United States," added Senators Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat and the committee's chairman, and Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican.
That echoed a demand made on Thursday by 15 of the 20 members of the Senate Agriculture Committee.
Chinese meat company Shuanghui International hopes to buy Smithfield, the world's largest pork producer and processor, for $4.7 billion in what would be the biggest takeover of a U.S. company by a Chinese firm.
The companies, out of what lawyers said was "an abundance of caution," filed the proposed deal with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) which reviews foreign investment for any potential threat to national security.
Many CFIUS experts believe it is unlikely the Obama administration will decide that Chinese investment in the U.S. food sector is a national security threat.
"I think the Chinese will bring home the bacon," said Timothy Keeler, a former U.S. Treasury and trade official who now advises companies with deals that go before CFIUS.
In a statement on Thursday, Smithfield said it welcomed a full review of the deal and would continue to cooperate with the administration and Congress in that effort.
"We believe the proposed combination does not present any national security concerns, is good for U.S. farmers and agriculture and will advance U.S.-China relations," a spokeswoman for Smithfield said.
Baucus and Hatch said the proposed sale threw a spotlight on longtime Chinese restrictions on U.S. meat, and urged the Obama administration to aggressively push back on those measures.
"The purchase of Smithfield - the largest pork producer in the world - is difficult to square with China's restrictive policies that effectively ban U.S. pork," the senators said.
China currently bans imports of pork containing any residue of ractopamine, a feed additive used widely in the United States with backing from the Codex Alimentarius, the international food safety standards body.
It also blocks imports of almost all U.S. beef because of mad cow disease concerns, despite a finding by the World Animal Health Organization that U.S. beef is safe.
"As a result, while Chinese meat producers are free to bid on U.S. companies accounting for a significant share of U.S. pork production, our producers remain shut out of the important Chinese market," the senators said.
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My First Boot of Ubuntu 9.04
I was so excited this morning as I will now have the new version of Ubuntu 9.04 on my system. I had used the beta and rc and was happy with the way it worked. So I was anxious to see what the final version was really like. Now, just a little background, I switched to Debian 5 previously because I was tired of bugs an problems with Ubuntu. So now my base system is Debian 5 but I am testing the waters with Ubuntu, again.
So I was one of the first to complete the download. I put the Ubuntu 9.04 into the test laptop and booted up to the CD and began the install. I wiped out the old version and started the install by choosing to use the whole disk. Once I started the process….CRASH!!!!
I never was able to boot…the system crashed with a problem with the XWindow. Great…I check the MD5 sum for the CD and it was downloaded an burned correctly. So off to troubleshooting the problem……
2nd Install Attempt
Rebooting and reinstalled the system using the same CD. This time the install went all the way without crashing ..until the end…then it froze and crashed right at completion…..not this again.
3rd Install Attempt
What troubles me is this installed fine on the rc but not with the real deal. So I tried again….SUCCESS!!!!!!!! I booted and found everything in place. I clicked the network icon selected my wireless network which was detected and off I go….I am glad that it worked. The only thing I can see is a possible problem with the rc install that was there before.
Still, this version of Ubuntu will need to earn my respect as I was not happy with issues in the last version. So I will keep posting back my impressions today as I spend the day pushing to see what it really is like.
Booting Speed a Dramatic Improvement!
Now you can boot and see huge improvements…finally. Now I have booted a couple times just to wonder at the boot speed…excellent.
UFW Firewall works out of the gate!
If you do:
sudo ufw enable
The firewall will work immediately with no problems so far….again a big improvement.
Updates Already!
I installed Ubuntu 9.04 and within minutes I have updates to do…well I guess that is OK…I just do not want to be fixing this version of Ubuntu for the next 3 months, that is what I felt happened last time. Putting releases on time schedules may not be the best way to build an operating systems. On the other hand, I want to apply security fixes and that I will always appreciate…
Wireless Support
The first time I clicked on my wireless network…worked fine. Rebooted and now it automatically detects every time and the firewall works perfect….just what I was looking for.
OpenOffice 3.01
To Ubuntu's credit they waited until 3.01 came out as my experience with 3.9 was not real positive. But OpenOffice 3.01 is an excellent option and seems rock solid.
I had Ubuntu 9.04 detect and install my network printer with ease which is a HP 4300 LaserJest. I just put in the IP Address in the printer administration for network printers and it detected correctly and install the right drivers.
Flash Install in the Browser
I installed the Adobe flash player as it seems to work better. Install is easy just select the "install additional plugins" when asked and then choose what you want to install. Another positive addition.
Turned Off Some Apps at Startup
Hey…I don't use these apps so why let me resources go down the tube. So I easily removed these. Highlight what you do not want and delete.
I removed Remote Desktop, Bluetooth, Evolution, Visual Assistance and the irritating Gnome Login Sound.
Go to Systems/Preferences/Startup Applications
Home Folders
I am very sensitive to distros telling me what to do with my system, one reason I did not like Windows, but Ubuntu places all of these folders in the /home directory(Music, Documents, Videos, whatever…) for each user. I really do not like those as I set it up much different. So if you are like me and want something that works for you or for your organization, go to /etc/skel and make modifications. As root you can remove examples.desktop so that you do not have all of those folders when you create a new user. In fact, you can created the folders you want in /etc/skel and that will be rolled out to everyone.
Network Tools
I checked out the updated network tools and scanned a machine for open ports…looks like a mail server. I am just trying out all of the settings just to give the whole OS a good workout.
Edit the Menu
Editing the menu is a breeze so that you can make the menu fit your needs. For example, I don't plan games so I always remove that from the menu and then make other editions. Just select System/Preferences/Main Menu unselect what you do not want and add what you to.
Visual effects
Though the visual effects are clever and add some interest to the desktop, they really only take away the resources I want to use for other things on my laptop so I disable the visual effects. Right click the desktop choose "Change Desktop Background" and then choose "Visual Effects", here you can turn them on and off for whatever you like.
Disk Usage
The default install takes about 2.3 GB of space for the / directory. You will want to increase space for sure as there will be updates and programs you want to add.
Memory Use
Here is the output of the command free.
This is not a good site at all. Total RAM is 767MB but almost all is already used with a browser open and Gimp…. It is using SWAP already….no speed here.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 767728 750712 17016 0 34952 373512
-/+ buffers/cache: 342248 425480
Swap: 2249060 832 2248228
I checked top and it looks like the biggest problem is the Firefox update. It is using almost 19% of total memory…that is not right!
5774 mike 20 0 285m 142m 27m S 0 18.9 6:56.63 firefox
More Updates All day Long…stay tuned.
April 23, 2009 at 5:54 pm
The download of Ubuntu 9.0.4 is about to finish and I can't wait to install it. I wonder how much space do I really need for Ubuntu? I just hope everything works fine here, we'll see.
Very nice post mate!
April 24, 2009 at 5:06 am
a full installation needs about 3gb. i have already some programs installed and have 3123mb used on /.
i think the memory is full because of the way linux handles memory, afaik the memory is freed up when it is needed, but not sooner. meaning linux keeps files in the memory until it is needed for something better.
i installed jaunty yesterday, and the most awesome thing was my dvb-t stick working OUT OF THE BOX! in hardy i had to find a driver, compile it and so on, took me about an hour until i had it working. now i installed kaffeine, plugged in the stick, fired up kaffeine and had tv! thanks to saving my home partition even my channel list was there! awesome. try that with windows 😉
April 26, 2009 at 9:18 am
Great guide, thanks
@Kendon> which DVB-T stick you got working so easily? I am considering one myself…
April 26, 2009 at 10:55 am
Thank you for writing about your experience. I am sorry to say, but between your previous experiences with installation and the installer crashing on this one, you COULD have some kind of hardware issue.
These things include:
1) running on a buggy BIOS
2) trying to run more than one device on the primary data cable
3) jumper settings on the device
4) BIOS settings that is causing too many devices trying to use the same IRQ due to poor design on the part of the motherboard manufacturer
5) a dying hard drive (check out spinrite)
6) old hard drive firmware – yes, hard drives sometimes ship with older firmware
7) the cd or dvd device is sharing a data ribbon with a problem device.
For a good rule of thumb in the future, updating everything, then stripping down your system to the optical device, one hard drive and a standard keyboard mouse would greatly reduce the variable of problems.
Until you actually confirm hardware compatibility issues, and check out the motherboard or OEM's website for the most current firmware updates, you cannot dismiss these factors from your installation problems.
I have to say that Knoppix is able to recognize almost everything. If you want to figure out a problem, you can load either LiveCD knoppix or puppy and open a terminal and run lsmod and pcimod and gather the results to find out how those distros run your hardware and then bring it back to your preferred distro.
Again, I would run this only after you have updated the machine to the latest firmware.
Note: You can never second guess the change logs or release notes of a firmware update.
May 8, 2009 at 11:58 am
I found that you can load Ubuntu 904 in a Compaq tower, and transfer the hd to those troublesome towers, like Dells and Asus's… It takes a couple minutes for the tower to acclimatize to the new hd, but it worked for me with a Dell and an Asus, without any glitches…
I've read that running Janitor screws-up 904.. but I thinks that's only because someone ran Janitor before doing all the updates and the final reboot…
I found that if you install any peripheral packages before doing the updates, it can wreck the install…
I avoid Wine.. it only adds holes to the OS, which hack AH's can exploit.. and I've got all the greats big time angry at me, with the occasional death-threat too.. so they are desperate to destroy my PC's OS, but even microsoft AH's can't touch Ubuntu… They sure want to after I published that I believe microsoft will be filling for bankruptcy in 14.3 years because Ubuntu put Windows out of business yesterday… They're sure squirming now… They're trying to figure out what "love" means, but they don't have a bludy clue… The human race won't forget how much they bullied us, and how they sucked-up the money that was our "quality of life", which the money world is now dismantling, and selling back to us in little pieces…
When I was running Windows, near the end of my using Windows OS's it got that the AH's were destroying my PC's OS biweekly.. It even got hit by Storm, the the big bad billy slammed my PC a few times.. each time totally destroying the OS.. so I was forced to switch to Ubuntu about three months ago… Now I can leave the thing on and Net-connected all night, and the monkeys haven't got in… I equate Windows to the evil/demon extinction side of humanity.. and Ubuntu to the good/honest life side of humanity… Seems good side is slowly beginning to win out over the great evil side, which has been sucking the essence of life out of everything on this planet for a couple thousand years, in selling out Life for more and more money…
Me thinks the most important thing to do before installing Ubuntu is to run an old utility disk, or Windows 98 install CD, to fdisk format the hd, to clear out all trace crap off the hd, then pull the battery for ten minutes, only then install Ubuntu… I find this process kills all the problems in advance…
Priority-one should be to check the CPU's fan and cooling fins for dust…
Priority Two should be to separate the AC wires from crossing data wires… Put the AC wires on one side of the desk, and the data wires at the other side.. Tidy-up that Mess…
Get yourself an xmas-tree lites remote unit, and a lightning arrester plug-in adapter…
With the remote you can switch-oof your desk at the touch of a button…
If you're at the PC for several hours per day, and you occasionally suffer from "computer-bum, get yourself the best car bucket-seat you can find at the auto-wreckers, and soak it down with water, and mig-weld it to the swivel-base of an office chair.. (if you didn't wet it, and you welded it, you burned a big hole in it)…
May 11, 2009 at 1:23 am
I updated from 8,10 to 9,04. There were surprises.
Evolution Mail stopped sending and receiving. Never did resolve that one.
Wireless connects at 1 mb/s. Right now I have to manually set it after every reboot.
After system goes into standby mode, it will not return! I have to reboot each time.
In general the look and feel is nice. I could have don without the surprises which are taking far too much time to resolve. Seems like they went forward in some ways, but slid back in others.
July 3, 2009 at 12:49 am
I use linux regularly at the office. And have ubuntu on a couple of my servers.
November 28, 2009 at 1:36 am
nice posting
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March 02, 2009
LOS ANGELES -- An innovative program that proves a "dose" of hands-on health care training can transform parents' abilities to care for common childhood ailments at home -- saving Medicaid millions of dollars annually -- has been awarded a $1.1 million "Innovation and Improvement" grant by the U.S. Office of Head Start (OHS) to train thousands more families nationwide.
Head Start awarded the grant to the Central Missouri Community Action Head Start (CMCA), which will partner with the UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Institute and UCLA Anderson's Price Center to further expand nationally the Health Care Institute's successful model of providing low-literacy healthcare training for Head Start parents. Since 2001, the Health Care Institute has reached nearly 27,000 Head start families nationwide, cooperating with nearly 120 Head Start agencies."
The announcement was made by Professor Al Osborne, Senior Associate Dean and faculty director of the Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, which created the program with Johnson & Johnson as an outgrowth of the partners' successful Head Start Fellows Program that has provided MBA training to more than 1100 Head Start Directors.
"UCLA Anderson's commitment to social entrepreneurship has allowed our partnership with Johnson & Johnson and OHS to produce important benefits for underserved communities through our association with Head Start directors, many of whom have been trained by the Fellows Program," said Osborne. "The Health Care Institute is the national model for how best to provide low-literacy health education to Head Start parents."
Called I Can Help My Child Stay Healthy: Innovations in Head Start Literacy Training, this program will extend the Health Care Institute training to an additional 8,000 families over three years.
"Our mission is to enable child/family-focused organizations to effectively increase the health literacy of parents through a comprehensive training and support program that gives them the knowledge, confidence and resources to care for common childhood illnesses at home," said Ariella Herman, Ph.D., research director of the Health Care Institute in the Price Center.
Health Care Training Yields Big Impact -- On Families and Costs
In a groundbreaking pilot study published in 2004, HCI researchers demonstrated the impact of educating and empowering Head Start parents to treat everyday childhood ailments such as fevers, colds and earaches at home. Visits to the ER or to doctors/clinics were reduced by 58 and 41 percent, respectively, while missed school and workdays dropped by 29 and 42 percent -- results that held steady as the pilot program expanded.
The researchers estimated that potential savings to Medicaid could reach $554 per family in direct costs -- about $5.1 billion annually -- if health literacy training were provided for the nearly one million families served by Head Start, many of whom depend on government assistance.
Pat Brown, acting director of the Office of Head Start, called the CMCA and Health Care Institute at UCLA partnership a "dynamic and successful new model that helps Head Start families gain fundamental health care training in a hands-on setting that also fosters confidence building and empowerment among parents."
"Improving the health literacy of Head Start families and, therefore, the health of children we serve, is of vital importance to the Office of Head Start," said Brown. "This type of partnership is essential to Head Start's ability to pursue its mission to give young children a jumpstart in learning."
A Three-Year Plan
The national rollout will span 10 Head Start regions, beginning with the CMCA training approximately 1,500 families in Missouri in 2009. Another 2,500 families in the east coast regions will follow in 2010, and the final 2,500 families in the west will be trained in 2011. Head Start regions covering migrant and seasonal/Native American families can apply to participate in either of the second or third years of the grant.
According to Darin Pries, executive director of CMCA, when families are healthy, parents are more likely to be able to focus on long-term goals and make decisions that lead them out of poverty. "I Can Help My Child Stay Healthy fits perfectly into our strategic plan to address health care issues and help families take control of their own success and achieve self-reliance," he added.
States Adopting Training Model
The success of the Health Care Institute program has attracted the attention of state governments interested in supporting families with low literacy health training and containing ER/clinic costs. The State of New Mexico adopted the Health Care Institute's training program, with support from Pfizer, Inc., to train 5,000 Head Start families. The Institute is also currently working with the State of Washington -- with the support of the State Legislature -- on a state-wide training program that will conclude in 2010.
"We hope the I Can collaboration will inspire other states and organizations to support similar programs, expanding the benefits of health care literacy training to countless families across the country," said Dr. Herman.
About the UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Institute
The UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Institute was inspired by Head Start Directors who were graduates of the Head Start-Johnson & Johnson Management Fellows Program, an annual training program held at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Founded in 1991, it is the only executive management program of its kind. In 2000, a survey of Head Start-Johnson & Johnson Fellows from around the U.S. revealed a shared concern: parents simply lacked the time and basic health care knowledge to become better informed about their children's health. From a pilot program in 2001, the Health Care Institute has reached nearly 27,000 Head Start families nationwide, cooperating with nearly 120 Head Start agencies.
About the Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
The Harold and Pauline Price Center oversees teaching, research, extracurricular, and community activities related to entrepreneurship at UCLA Anderson School of Management. The Price Center provides a set of academic and extracurricular experiences designed to prepare MBA students for the challenge of business management in entrepreneurial environments. Course offerings are aimed at developing skills and methodologies useful to managers responsible for marshaling resources for new wealth creation, rather than simply the administration of existing wealth. I Can Help My Child Stay Healthy is rooted in the Price Center's decades-long commitment to Head Start agencies and the children and families they serve.
About Head Start
Head Start is a national program that promotes school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families. Under the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Head Start resides under the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), which is a federal agency funding state, territory, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the leading business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty members are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,700 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 36,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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Borrelioosia sairastavilta löydetään usein erilaisia herpes-viruksia esim HHV6, EBV, herpes simplex ja/tai sytomegalovirus. Herpes virusten epäillään aiheuttavan osan, joissakin tapauksissa jopa merkittävän osan, Borrelioosia sairastavien oireista. Esim. Helsingissä jotkut lääkärit kirjoittavat antibioottien lisäksi lääkitystä viruksia vastaan esim. asikloviiria tai valsikloviiria. Borrelia-bakteerin tavoin herpes-virukset ovat yleisiä ja niillä on kyky piiloutua immuunipuolustukselta pitkiksi ajoiksi ja aktivoitua aika ajoin uudelleen. Virusten kasvua voi yrittää estää myös luonnonmukaisemmin aminohappo lysiinillä (L-Lysiini).
Alla artikkeli HHV 6:sta ja kroonisesta väsymysoireyhtymästä:
HHV-6 and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS): An Overview by Cort Johnson (8/08)
The Herpes Viruses: Hesperviridae)
The herpesviruses or herpes virus family come first in this series of papers on the pathogens in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) for a good reason; no other family of viruses has come close to receiving the kind of attention that this group of viruses has. The tale of the herpesviruses in ME/CFS with their rises and falls, their identity questions, and now their seeming re-emergence from the ?dead files?, have all the complexity of a Greek play.
Most herpesvirus activity is benign and goes unnoticed but herpes virus activation can be associated with a wide variety of disturbing conditions including encephalitis/meningitis (HSVI and II, HHV6-B), shingles, chicken pox (varicella zoster virus), hearing loss, mononucleosis (Epstein Barr virus, post-viral fatigue (EBV)), Karposi?s sarcoma (HHV8), and atherosclerosis, hearing loss, mental retardation, retinitis (human cytomegalovirus ? (HMCV)), chronic fatigue syndrome (HHV-6) and multiple sclerosis (HHV-6, EBV). (De Bolle et. al. 2005).
Except for HHV2 and HHV8 all the herpesviruses are commonly found in the human population and all share an important characteristic; the ability to hide out from the immune system in a latent state in the body for long periods and then re-emerge during times of immunosuppression.
Human herpesvirus 6 or HHV-6 was serendipitously discovered when enlarged balloon-like cells were discovered in AIDS patients with cancer. A ubiquitous virus, HHV-6 is established in virtually everyone past the age of two. HHV-6 infection during childhood is usually benign and goes unnoticed but fever and rash sometimes occur. In extreme cases seizures, gait problems and learning difficulty may result. HHV-6 is now the focus of research involving immune suppression (organ transplantation), multiple sclerosis, cardiomyopathy, hepatitis, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, optic neuropathy, etc.
HHV-6A and HHV-6B - HHV-6?s two variants, HHV-6A and HHV-6B, were uncovered in 1991 by Daram Ablashi and colleagues (Ablashi et al. 1991). Although genetically almost a match (88% similarity) they differ significantly in important areas including means of transmission, prevalence, the types of cells they infect and the types of illness they may cause. Most researchers still do not differentiate between the two.
HHV-6A has generated the most interest in multiple sclerosis and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) but it is still unclear which variant plays the greatest role. HHV-6A is more prevalent in the cerebral spinal fluid of ME/CFS patients but HHV-6B could more prevalent in the difficult to reach brain tissues. HHV-6B is associated primarily with early childhood infections ? and, in rare cases, meningitis, encephalitis and epilepsy.
Tests discriminating between the two invariably find that HHV-6B is the predominant strain in healthy people (Caserta et al. 2003). While HHV-6B is almost ubiquitous in children past two, HHV-6A is rarely detected in them. Its incidence in the general population is lower but unknown.
One reason for HHV-6B?s greater prevalence may be its means of transmission; while HHV-6B is easily transmitted via the saliva, HHV-6A has only intermittently been found in the saliva and its means of transmission is unclear (Ward 2000).
HHV-6 and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)
The Early Years: Flawed Methodology ? HHV-6 was discovered not long after the Incline Village ME/CFS outbreak in the early 1980s and researchers leapt to assess its incidence in the ?new disease?. In the last 20 years over twenty-five studies have examined HHV-6 prevalence in chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Research was sparked in the early 1990s by several studies showing increased antibody titers in CFS patients (Buchwald et al. 1992). Research into HHV-6 peaked in the early to mid 1990s with 18 studies examining the subject between 1989 and 1995.HHV-6
The primitive technology at the time, however, confounded researchers? efforts. Ablashi, a co-discoverer of HHV-6A, noted that most of the early studies used ?extremely insensitive assays for HHV-6 antibodies?. Because many of the early studies were done on whole blood, a technique that picks up latent (i.e. benign) viruses, he characterized their results as ?muddled?. Wallace and Reeves extended their critique to later studies as well asserting they either relied on serological studies, were too small, lacked adequately matched controls or may have mischaracterized HHV-7 as HHV-6 (Wallace et al. 1999, Reeves et al. 2000).
Research declined since 1995 with eight studies in last 13 years. Three papers published around 2000 by established researchers with well characterized study groups that did not find increased HHV-6 prevalence in ME/CFS patients appeared to have dealt a body blow to the HHV-6/chronic fatigue syndrome scenario (Wallace et al. 1999, Reeves et al. 2000, Koelle et al. 2002). Only one study on HHV-6 prevalence has appeared in the last four years.
Flawed Methodology Redux? ? Yet HHV-6 may be heading back to the top of the research agenda. The Wallace, Reeves and Koelle studies were criticized for searching for the virus in the wrong types of cells (PBMCs) and recent successful antiviral trials suggest the virus does play a prominent role in some ME/CFS patients? illnesses.
The HHV-6 Foundation asserts that the presence of latent viruses in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) makes them an inappropriate medium to search for evidence of an active infection. They propose that the following commercial tests can be used, ?albeit imperfectly,? to characterize active infections: PCR DNA tests on serum or plasma, IgM early antigen, IgG or IgM antibodies, primary cell culture and lymphocyte response.
Dig Deeper: HHV-6 ? The Difficulties of Diagnosis
The Foundation produced a chart indicating that when these tests are used they almost uniformly find significantly higher rates of active infection in ME/CFS patients vs. healthy controls. Their chart indicates that 47% of ME/CFS patients (360/760) harbor an active infection compared to 8% of healthy controls (44/530). When the most sensitive early antigen tests are used the percentage of ME/CFS patients with active HHV-6 infection rose still higher (54% 57%, 77%) but remained low in healthy controls (8%, 12%, 16%).
Recent Research - Several reports have bolstered HHV-6's case in ME/CFS. Ablashi et al. found that more CFS patients carried antibodies for an early IgM antigen (p41/38) in their serum than controls (57-16%). Culture studies found HHV-6 infection was present in about half of CFS patients (n=22) and that most of the HHV-6 found was variant A (70%) (Ablashi et al. 2000). No statistical analyses, however, were done.
Dr. Peterson reported he found active HHV-6A in the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) of aHHV-6 subset of CFS patients (20%) who had central nervous system abnormalities (abnormal MRI, severe cognitive problems, headaches, paresthesias [burning, pricking, tickling, tingling sensations]). Peterson also reported laboratory findings suggesting some chronic fatigue syndrome patients with active HHV-6 infections are at risk from lymphoma. In another recent study PCR evidence of active HHV-6 infection was found in 30% of CFS patients vs. 9% of controls (Nicholson et al. 2003).
A report from the 2006 HHV-6 Conference in Barcelona indicated that 22-25% of ME/CFS patients (n=75) tested positive for HHV-6 infection using rapid culture, antigenemia and nested PCR. Another report indicated found 40% of patients (n=17) had active HHV-6 and HHV-7 infections compared with 0% of the controls (n=30). Chapenko, however, did not find increased HHV-6 infection in ME/CFS patients (Chapenko 2006).
A successful antiviral trial focused on ME/CFS patients with high antibody levels to HHV-6 and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), suggested HHV-6 and/or EBV reactivation can play a profound role in some ME/CFS patients? illness (Kogelnik et al. 2005).
The Future. The Montoya and Lerner studies revived interest in this HHV-6 in ME/CFS. The Whittemore-Peterson Neuro-Immune Institute is reportedly focusing on it and after years of ignoring the pathogen question Dr. Hanna of the NIH recently stated a new interest in the subject. Enough interest has been aroused to get a special Satellite conference on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome added on to the 2008 International HHV-6 Conference.
At least four possibilities exist with regard to HHV-6 and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS):
HHV-6 reactivation could cause at least some cases of ME/CFS
HHV-6 could be an opportunistic pathogen which exacerbates ME/CFS
HHV-6 reactivation could be present but not exacerbate ME/CFS
HHV-6 reactivation may not occur in some ME/CFS patients
The most critical problem facing HHV-6 researchers now is devising a commercially available tests that accurately measures HHV-6A activity. Kristin Loomis, the executive director of the HHV-6 Foundation recently stated that their
?primary objective is to get a test on the market that will be a sensitive indicator of active infection.?
HHV-6 in ME/CFS appeared for a time to be dead subject. Will it emerge Lazarus-like to tell us something vital about this disease? Or will it raise its head only to sputter once again under the weight of contrary evidence? Only time will tell.
Two Struggling Fields. A successful clinical trial would have dramatic effects on both HHV-6A and ME/CFS research. Both fields are struggling for legitimacy and funding. Dr. Gallo?s comment on HHV-6?s plight extends to ME/CFS as well: ?Statistics indicate that ME/CFS is an important disease to everyone except the research community.? A successful Montoya study has the potential to kill two birds with one stone; by documenting the first successful treatment for ME/CFS it would enhance the disease?s legitimacy considerably and thus link HHV-6A with an emerging ?important? disease; i.e. chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). This is one reason both HHV-6 and ME/CFS researchers, advocates and patients await the trial?s results with such anticipation.
Part II: CFS and HHV-6 -The Difficulties of Diagnosis / Part III: HHV-6 and Disease


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Dr. Moses Lee, who is dean for the natural and applied sciences and a professor of chemistry at Hope College, is receiving a national award for his role as a mentor to undergraduate students involved in his research program.
He is receiving the 2009 "American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution," which honors a chemistry faculty member whose research in an undergraduate setting has achieved wide recognition and contributed significantly to chemistry and to the professional development of undergraduate students. The award consists of $5,000 and a certificate as well as a $5,000 grant by Research Corporation, the award's sponsor, to Hope in support of Lee's research.
ACS is presenting awards in more than 50 categories to scientists around the world who are engaged in education and industry. The recipients will be honored during a ceremony that will take place on Tuesday, March 24, in conjunction with the 237th ACS national meeting, being held in Salt Lake City, Utah.
As dean for the natural and applied sciences at Hope, Lee leads a program which emphasizes involving undergraduate students in faculty-directed research projects. The ACS award, however, recognizes his work as a mentor in involving students in his cancer-research program specifically.
Hope's provost, Dr. James Boelkins, called the honor well-deserved. "Moses Lee is a prime example of what it means to be successful in research at an undergraduate institution," Boelkins said. "He is a tireless advocate for the benefits of undergraduate research as a key to learning science by doing science. Both at FurmanUniversity and now at Hope, Dr. Lee has maintained a strong research program focused on cutting-edge problems and his research efforts have been continually funded by external grants. He has mentored 10 to 15 students in his lab each year and has published the results of his research in major journals, most of the papers including student co-authors. Dr. Lee is a most deserving recipient of this distinguished award from the American Chemical Society and we are proud of his accomplishment."
Lee's research focuses on the genetic functioning of compounds that inhibit and destroy cancer cells as well as the development of anti-cancer drugs based on such compounds. His research program includes multiple Hope students who work part-time in his laboratory during the school year, and students from Hope and other colleges and universities who conduct research with him full-time for 10 weeks each summer. The team also includes two full-time, post-doctoral research associates, Dr. Sameer Chavda and Dr. Hilary Mackay.
Lee joined the Hope faculty as dean and professor of chemistry in 2005. He was previously the Rose J. Forgione Professor of Chemistry at FurmanUniversity in Greenville, S.C.
External recognition of his teaching and scholarship has included both a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Scholar-Fellow Award and a Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. Funding for his research program has come from federal agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH); private foundations including Research Corporation, Petroleum Research Fund, Dreyfus Foundation, Beckman Foundation and the Council on Undergraduate Research; and corporations including Glaxosmithkline, Pfizer, Milliken, Spirogen Ltd., Taiho Pharmaceutical Co. and Enzacta. Recent major funding has included a three year, $399,000 research award from the NSF that he received this summer.
Lee has published more than 140 scientific papers and two books, and received four patents, in various fields including anticancer drug design, biochemistry, molecular pharmacology of anticancer and anti-infective drugs, as well as chemical education. His research group has given more than a hundred presentations at regional and national professional meetings, and he has been invited to speak at universities, symposia and professional workshops more than 50 times. He has supervised 10 post-doctoral research fellows, 32 M.S. students and 225 undergraduates, and has also co-supervised five Ph.D. students.
He served on the advisory committee of Research Corporation from 1996 to 2000 and as an expert consultant at the NSF-Chemistry Division from 2002 to 2003, and he has just completed a six-year term as a member on the advisory board of ACS Petroleum Research Fund. Lee currently serves on a panel at the Murdock Charitable Trust, and he represents Research Corporation on the advisory team for the Chemistry Department of Western Washington University and James Madison University. He has also served on a number of NSF proposal review panels and was a member of the NSF-REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) leadership group, which is charged to improve the quality and culture of undergraduate research in the United States. Lee serves as a consultant for Milliken Chemical Company (South Carolina), Taiho Pharmaceutical Company (Japan), and Spirogen Ltd. (UK).
After receiving his B.S. in biochemistry in 1983 and a Ph.D. in organic synthesis in 1986 from the University of Guelph, Canada, Lee spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow in Professor J. W. Lown's laboratory at the University of Alberta, where he began his studies on small molecule-DNA interactions. From there, he moved to SynPhar Laboratories, Inc. (a subsidiary of Taiho Pharmaceutical Company of Japan), where he worked as a medicinal chemist on projects aimed at developing anti-HIV, anti-cancer, and anti-ulcer compounds before joining the Furman faculty in 1989.
The American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. The society's membership includes more than 160,000 professionals in the chemical sciences worldwide. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
In addition to being honored during the national meeting in March, the recipients were listed in the Monday, Sept. 8, edition of "Chemical and Engineering News," and will be featured more extensively in the magazine early in 2009.


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Darren McFadden's career with the Oakland Raiders will continue.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday that McFadden has signed a one-year, $4 million contract to remain in Oakland, according to a person informed of the deal.
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The move is somewhat surprising after weeks of speculation that McFadden would garner outside interest in free agency. His deal with the Raiders indicates there wasn't much of a market.
Retaining McFadden became more important after running back Rashad Jennings signed a deal with the New York Giants. Given McFadden's injury history, general manager Reggie McKenzie likely will be on the lookout for another back in free agency or the draft.
McFadden is still just 26, but he continues to get paid on promise rather than actual production. He's coming off another injury-plagued season and has averaged 3.3 yards per carry in each of the past two seasons. Jennings outplayed McFadden in 2013, but it's McFadden who remains.
We assume this is McFadden's last chance to prove he can be the guy in Oakland. Then again, we thought that after last season, too.
In the latest edition of the "Around The League Podcast," the guys study the free agency picture with the help of NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport.


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NEW YORK (AP) If it seems as though nearly every NFL game this season has come down to the final seconds, that's not your imagination.
Through nine weeks, there have been 31 matchups with the winning score made in the last two minutes of regulation or overtime - nearly one quarter of all games. That's the most since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970.
In each of the last four seasons, no more than 24 games had been decided that late through Week 9.
And many of these teams have been celebrating their wins very, very late this year. Of the 31 such games, 21 had the decisive points scored in OT or the final 10 seconds of regulation.
The Carolina Panthers have lost twice on last-second field goals in a season when all but one of their games were decided by a touchdown or less.
``If this doesn't show how close the margin is, it's sickening,'' coach Ron Rivera said.
As with many NFL trends, parity is a popular explanation. Teams are certainly bunched up in the standings: Nineteen had a record between 3-5 and 5-3 through nine weeks, up from 15 a year ago.
A knack for pulling out victories in the final seconds would seem to separate the winners from the losers, but that hasn't been the case in 2012. The Philadelphia Eagles have played a league-high five such games, and they're 3-2 in them. That accounts for all their victories, though - and at 3-5, coach Andy Reid's job is in jeopardy.
Similarly, among teams taking part in four such games, the Lions and Titans have each gone 3-1; Detroit is 4-4 overall and Tennessee 3-6. Only the Colts, led by rookie quarterback Andrew Luck, can say they've gotten a big boost from these heart-stopping endings. They're also 3-1 in those games and now are 6-3 after a lopsided Thursday night win in Week 10.
Only six teams have not had a game with a winning score in the last two minutes of regulation or overtime, and they're all over the standings: the Texans, 49ers, Broncos, Chargers, Bengals and Cowboys. That list may be a bit surprising considering Peyton Manning's comeback ability in Denver and Dallas' penchant for close losses.
The last-second victories also likely reflect a league full of high-flying passing offenses, where the no-huddle is the norm for many teams. In a one-possession game, which is more likely to succeed: the defense protecting the lead or the offense comfortable throwing the ball on every down?
Week 9 was the first this season that didn't feature a game with the winning score in the final two minutes or overtime; there were at least two every previous week.
``When it comes down to it, nobody really knows what's going to happen,'' Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey said, ``and everybody looks dumb one week and smart the next.''
AP Pro Football Writer Arnie Stapleton contributed to this story.
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If there is fire where there is smoke, Chase Headley could burst into flames any day now.
At least seven teams have expressed interest in acquiring the Padres third baseman before the July 31 trading deadline.
"I've heard between six and 10 teams," admitted Headley, who talked with his agent Wednesday about his future.
"Your guess is as good as mine," Headley said Thursday afternoon. "All I hear is the Padres are asking a lot for me."
Headley takes that and the fact that teams are seeking his services as a component to a late-season title push as compliments.
Among the teams pushing hardest for Headley are the Pittsburgh Pirates (Headley has a .333 batting average at PNC Park in Pittsburgh) and the Baltimore Orioles. But the list of candidates ranges from the Dodgers and Diamondbacks from the National League West to the rebuilding Seattle Mariners.
The Padres are in position to ask a lot for Headley. Third base is a down position around the major leagues and most contenders would like to improve at the spot. Headley is hitting .268 with 10 homers and 46 RBI. He is hitting .279 with eight homers and 26 RBI in 46 games away from Petco Park.
Over the course of his career, Headley is hitting .299 on the road compared to .234 at Petco Park. Sixty-three percent of his career homers and 57 percent of his career RBI have come on the road.
The 28-year-old Headley is also a solid defender.
Third base also happens to be one of the deeper positions in the Padres system. Logan Forsythe, 25, is a natural third baseman. And 23-year-old Jedd Gyorko is hitting.351 with 15 homers and 54 RBI in 54 games with Triple-A Tucson while splitting time between third and second.
If the Padres trade Headley now, they could expect to get at least two top prospects in return. If they wait to trade him until after the season, they likely would receive a major league player plus a prospect. No contending team trading at the deadline is going to give up a proven major league player.
"I understand what is going on," said Headley. "I love playing here. But I understand everything that has to be considered."
While Headley has drawn the most interest from other teams, closer Huston Street and outfielder Chris Denoria are also being pursued more than left fielder Carlos Quentin.
But the Padres might not be making wholesale deals at the deadline. Padres general manager Josh Byrnes last week said: "We want to build. We're not going to blow this up. I think we're closer than people think. The injuries have really crippled some things we expected to see this season."
The Padres have a mutual option on Street for $9 million next season and have said they are interested in discussing an extension with San Diego product Carlos Quentin.
Padres notes
--Left-handed Eric Stults allowed one run on four hits and two walks in his second rehab start for Triple-A Tucson Wednesday night. "The report from (Tucson manager) Terry Kennedy is that he threw much better this time," said Padres manager Bud Black. Stults, who has been on the disabled list since June 4 with a strained left latissimus dorsi muscle, will make at least one more start at Tucson before returning to the Padres rotation.
--The Padres are shutting down right-handed starter Donn Roach, who is 11-2 with a 1.88 ERA between the Single-A California League and Double-A San Antonio. The Padres ay he has reached his innings pitched limit (105 1/3).
--First baseman Yonder Alonso has set a Padres franchise record for rookies for having the combination of two hits and three RBI in back-to-back games. Alonso has 12 RBI in his last 13 games after having 18 in the Padres first 81 games.
--Center fielder Cameron Maybin missed a second straight start Thursday with a sore wrist. The wrist has bothered Maybin sporadically this season. "I was doing well for a while and it just got worse the last four or five days," said Maybin.
--Right fielder Jeremy Hermida was activated from the 60-day disabled list Thursday and optioned to Tucson. Hermida has been out since April 27 and has surgery May 13 for a sport hernia. Right-handed pitcher Mark Hamburger was designated for assignment to clear a spot on the 40-man roster for Hermida.
--Catcher Nick Hundley went on the disabled list at Tucson with a hamstring strain.


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Dolphin manufactures or has manufactured the following equipment (click to expand models list):Cables
General information
Dolphin web site (January 20, 2010): Dolphin Music is a part of Dolphin Enterprises Europe Ltd, a registered company in England.
Dolphin web site (January 20, 2010): Rob Williams and Jason Tavaria launched Dolphin Music whilst still at university, and with a lot of hard work they have created and established a very successful business. They are one of the leading providers of musical equipment on the internet and have built up a chain of 3 shops in Liverpool, Gateshead & Huddersfield.
What gave you the idea for Dolphin?
Most of our friends were DJs; we were not, but we enjoyed the music. We discovered a computer program called Rave Ejay which allowed you to create a dance song on your computer very easily, so easy even we could do it!
We knew that all our friends who DJ'd would love this and so we started the business focusing on computer music.
Our idea was to create an online shop selling such equipment, but to also be more than just a retail service and offer customers the chance to learn about making music by providing tools such as our sound card selector to help them decide.
We knew we could get people to the site by working with search engines such as Google and Yahoo. We believed we had a good idea and had nothing to lose by giving it a go.
What were you doing at the time you had the idea?
When we set up we were both studying at university. When Rob left university he was working full time and then he would come home and work on the website for the company.
What was the first thing you did to try and make the idea happen?
After the first year we had designed the e-commerce site, managed to get the bank to agree to give us a credit card terminal and had even had a few orders. Working from a student house, boxes of equipment would arrive and we would ship them out again via the Post Office and then via our couriers.
After university we moved to a bigger house with some friends and carried on working. Within a year we had around £100,000 stock just in the house and turned over £1 million in the year.
We then moved to our first business premises, a derelict office in an industrial part of Liverpool. We started recruiting staff and got a sales manager, some sales staff and a full time Logistics Manager. Our product ranges online grew from just Music Technology products, to PA and DJ products.
Our last move happened in November 2005 when we moved to a 14,000 sq ft office / warehouse complex. We currently employ 56 people and we are pursuing our newest venture which is a chain of music shops that we plan to grow across the country.
With the growth of the company we have created a relaxed working atmosphere with empowered employees who take pride in their professionalism and we encourage creativity and innovation in our staff.
Who helped you, and how?
We used credit cards and read books and websites. As for advice and help, we really didn't get any. We would have liked some but at the time there was nothing that we could see that was available to us.
What obstacles did you encounter along the way?
The main barrier was entry into a market were there was already large established companies and relationships that existed between them and suppliers. It was hard to break into the circle but we did it.
When did the idea start looking viable?
When we moved to our first official business premises and we started employing staff.
Today Dolphin Music sells products from 300 different suppliers such as Yamaha and Shure to home users, professionals and the education sector. In the last year Dolphin Music has built up a chain of 3 music shops in Liverpool, Gateshead & Huddersfield.


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Tracking Changes in the Server Database
Many applications require that changes be tracked in the server database so that these changes can be delivered to clients during a subsequent synchronization session. In some cases, a snapshot of data is sufficient, but frequently a client requires only the data that has changed since the previous synchronization session. Sync Services does not specifically define how a server database must support change tracking and conflict detection. The only requirement is that SQL queries or stored procedures can be written to identify the rows that should be synchronized or that might be in conflict.
Many of the examples in this documentation track changes by using a set of columns and triggers that are added to base tables, and additional tables to track deletes. The examples use this kind of change tracking so that they are not limited to a specific database. However, be aware that custom change tracking introduces complexity and can affect server database performance. For more information, see How to: Use a Custom Change Tracking System. If you are using SQL Server 2008, we recommend that you use the SQL Server change tracking feature. For more information, see How to: Use SQL Server Change Tracking.


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CENTER VALLEY, Pa. -- Two Penn State Lehigh Valley students were selected to present their undergraduate research at the fifth Smith Undergraduate Science Research Symposium held Nov. 10 at Penn State York.
Richard George and Vinod Jeyaretnam joined students and faculty from eight Penn State campuses to present discipline-based science undergraduate research projects. George, under the supervision of Tai-Yin Huang, associate professor of physics, presented "Gravity Wave Effects on Atmospheric Airglow in the MLT Region." Jeyaretnam, under the supervision of Jacqueline McLaughlin, associate professor of biology, presented "Chronotropic Effects of Select Cardiovascular Drugs on the Developing Vertebrate Heart."
A symposium featuring undergraduate science research was the brainchild of Haiduke Sarafian, John T. and Paige S. Smith Professor of Science and professor of physics at Penn State York. The idea of the symposium was proposed in 2002 and supported by the campus. Symposiums are held every other year.
For more information about the symposium, visit http://www2.yk.psu.edu/smithsym/.


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Susan Needham
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New Zealand Post segments consumers down to a sub-meshblock level
Over the last few years New Zealand Post has grown its one to one marketing capabilities, by introducing a specialist team and a range of direct, digital and data-based marketing solutions for its customers. Part of its expertise is in providing market segment intelligence to businesses engaging in mass marketing campaigns –such as retailers, banks, insurance companies and other financial industry institutions, telemarketing bureau; and charities; the service is also used by government departments.
Using SAS, we are able to segment the data to offer our customers the ability to more accurately pinpoint new prospects or merchandising catchment areas; to better help [marketing] uncover and pursue potential cross-selling and up-selling opportunities; and to design more effective tailored campaigns.
Susan Needham
Using SAS's leading business analytics software, New Zealand Post has recently enhanced these services with the creation of Genius™, a highly sophisticated, purpose-built marketing tool.
While conventional population demographic databases typically segment consumers into geographical units called meshblocks, Genius drills down to either the sub meshblock or individual household level. Where other databases may cluster households within a specified geographic boundary, using high level factors such as family size, ages and income, Genius uses more than 1,300 variables to profile consumers at a granular level.
Publicly available national Census information provides the core data, but the richness of Genius comes from New Zealand Post's annual Lifestyle Survey, which drew more than 200,000 individual consumer responses in 2009, its inaugural year. The database is continuously updated with feeds from a range of commercially available sources such as BNZ MarketView and PropertyIQ, as well as New Zealand Post's own proprietary data.
New Zealand Post engaged SAS solutions and expertise to maximise the application and value of all this data.
Genius offers marketing organisations a very high level of intelligence says New Zealand Post Analytics Manager, Susan Needham. "Using SAS, we are able to segment the data to offer our customers the ability to more accurately pinpoint new prospects or merchandising catchment areas, to better help them uncover and pursue potential cross-selling and up-selling opportunities and to design more effective tailored campaigns."
Using SAS, New Zealand Post separates 1.4 million households into nine profile clusters and 36 different segments, each with a distinct personality, which Susan says gives Genius users a very accurate picture of where and how they can best target a proposition.
"Whereas other market services can display the location of a target segment of, say, 40 or 50 households within a general geographic area, SAS-based Genius can filter to sub-meshblock level and in some instances, down through city, suburb and street to precisely target a single household."
Genius has been extremely well received by both existing and new users of New Zealand Post's services, and extensions are already being developed.
Increasing the revenue from supplying consumer profile segmentation services to New Zealand Post's mass marketing customers.
Able to segment the data to help customers:
- More accurately pinpoint new prospects or merchandising catchment areas.
- Help marketing uncover and pursue potential cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.
- Design more effective tailored campaigns.


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Thank you. I was hoping that someone would post that would give nihilism due treatment or at least acknowledge it as potentially valid, instead of casual dismissing it.
Also glad you made the distinction that it simply denies meaning in the objective, as opposed to the perpetuated stigma of it being the lament of the hopeless.
I recently deduced that I am a nihilist of sorts. It has felt a bit overwhelming, but your words really helped me. Part of me felt this way, but I needed to know that others are in the same boat. I'm an instantiation of the human species. The things that seem to matter to me come from both my physical composition and the experiences I have had and how they were reinforced for me (the nature/nurture stuff). I have been an atheist for many years but have been "in the attic" (my term for being "in the closet" as an atheist). I am evaluating still what it means to be a nihilist. Reading the thoughts of others is helping. Thanks.
Kafka, Dostojevskij and Tolstoj come highly recommended. And when you are ready to take a plunge into full blown absurdism then Camus is great.
The character "The Comedian" in Watchmen is also pretty well written nihilist, as well as "Tyler Durden" in Fightclub.


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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
* Preschool At Home: Newspaper Delivery Toss Game
So I recently made some classroom goodies for my daughter's
preschool teacher (table games, manipulatives)
and asked her to please let me know if there were any thematic units or
specific games she would like me to make for the classroom.
She took me up on the offer, and shared this great idea with me.
It was so cute (and easy to make) that I had to share it with you too!
She had clipped the idea from a teacher newsletter once upon a time and asked if I could make one.
So here you have it, a Newspaper Toss, Newspaper Delivery Game.
Great practice for that hand-eye coordination.
I painted a simple house (with acrylic craft paint) on a piece of foam core
that we just lean against the wall. (easy to clean up and store out of the way!)
Then, wrapped some gift wrap around a box from our recycling stash
(about the size of a shoe box)
Set it up on the floor in front of the front door.
Then I bundled up some mini newspapers with rubber bands
(each paper was about 9" long)
Step back and toss them to the house, try to get them in the box!
You probably have everything you need to make your own
at home (or in your classroom) right now.
Happy Newspaper Delivery!
pink and green mama
Labels: Paint, Preschool, Recycle Crafts
Monday, November 29, 2010
* Countdown to Christmas: Homemade Family Advent Calendar
Last year, my daughters and I
to countdown to Christmas.
Each envelope contains a daily family activity
to help us slow down and enjoy
the month of December.
We can't wait to set it up again this year.
In case you want to make your own,
I wanted to post again this week so you would
have time to make one before December 1st!
Here is our Harris Family Advent List
1. Candlelit bath for the girls!
2. Make Paper Snowflakes and Decorate the Windows
3. Make a CD of Christmas Music for the playroom/mom's minivan.
4. Rootbeer Floats!
5. Bake something yummy with Mama
6. Make Christmas Cards for Friends/Family
7. Have hot chocolate with marshmallows.
8. Make a pipe cleaner candy cane or wreath.
9. Make a Paper Chain.
10. Use puppets to tell a Bedtime Story.
11. Have an indoor picnic.
12. Family Game Night (Wii, board games, puzzles?)
13. Make and Decorate a Gingerbread House.
14. Dance and Sing to Christmas Music.
15. Set up the Mouse Nativity.
16. Make a Christmas Craft.
17. Make a Christmas Ornament.
18. Dress Fancy for Dinner tonight.
19. Fashion Show with Clothes made out of gift wrap!
(Recycled from opening presents with grandparents)
20. Make and Hang Edible Gifts/ornaments for the Birds and Squirrels.
21. Surprise a neighbor with an act of kindness.
22. At Home Pedicures!
23. Watch a Christmas movie with popcorn.
24. Pick your Favorite Christmas book for mom (or dad) to read aloud.
25. Open Presents!
Happy Countdown!
pink and green mama, MaryLea
Saturday, November 27, 2010
* Nature's (Free!) Art Supplies
During the crisp Fall Season,
while the squirrels and birds are busy
gathering seeds, berries, and nuts for the long Winter ahead,
my girls and I can be found collecting our own
supplies around our neighborhood.
We are busy collecting and gathering free art supplies!
(pressed and dried in phone books)
Acorns (Mostly Acorn Caps)
Pine Cones,
and Dry Pine Needles.
With visions of projects like:
Pom-Pom Acorns
(Click Here for a link to the post)
Pine Cone Elves
(Click Here for a link to the post)
Leaf Lanterns
Happy Nature Crafting!
pink and green mama
Labels: Fall, Favorite Art Supplies, Leaves, Nature Crafts
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
* Thanksgiving Traditions: Turkey Bowl, Handprint Tablecloth, and Family Fun.
Today, I thought I would share a few of our favorite
Thanksgiving Day Traditions.
One of our favorite activities is our annual Turkey Bowl,
a flag football played on the street in front of our house.
It's a multi-generational event.
My husband's family always hosted one on the street they grew up on...
we've continued the tradition with our own daughters.
Friends, Family, and Neighbors gather for the big game!
I mark the end zones (and the 50 yard line) with white flour.
Fresh cider, doughnuts, and hot coffee are served on our front yard.
After hot showers/baths, we head over to Grandma and Grandpa's house
for the yummiest dinner ever (cooked by my dad the chef)
He's a jack of all trades -- he MADE that cute, little,
glowing pumpkin village on their sideboard.
Then, we all take turns signing the cotton table cloth at my mom's house.
(we use sharpies and put a magazine underneath so we don't ruin the table!)
It has notes and drawings from each person present at Thanksgiving Dinner every year.
First hand prints, Hand Turkeys, Poems, Gratitude Lists...They're all on there.
Signing the table cloth, Thanksgiving 2009.
Big sister, "E" adding an elaborate drawing!
Tracing my niece's hand for her very FIRST Turkey Day last year.
That table cloth has first thanksgiving hand prints from all three little cousins, "E", "C", and "A"
That tablecloth is priceless.
What are your favorite Thanksgiving traditions?
Gobble, Gobble.
pink and green mama
Labels: Play Dough, Thanksgiving
Saturday, November 20, 2010
* Giveaway: Creativity For Kids Kits
Another "I'm Thankful For My Readers"
review and giveaway...
I'm giving away 2 Creativity for Kids kitsto 2 of my readers!
I was recently contacted to do a review and giveaway
of these two fun Creativity for Kids Craft Kits,
Diva Puppies and Create Your Own Enchanted Storybook Activity Kits.
Spend some quality time with my girls
making fun little girly crafts? Umm...okay!
Here's what we got...
DIVA PUPPIES: Everything you need to paint & style
a trio of adorable bobble-head puppies.
Just add imagination…
Pamper 3 pooches with paint, sequins, flowers, ribbons,
heart charm collars, fur, boas and tutus.
Time for a nap? Each puppy has a soft furry bed to curl up on.
Each bobble-head pup measures 5" x 2 1/2" x 2 1/2",
all packaged in an adorable doghouse style box.
Everything is included!
3 bobble head puppies, 3 fluffy puppy beds,
acrylic paint, glitter glue, craft glue, leopard print fabric,
sequin flower bow, sequin flower, paint brush, sequin trim,
2 tulle flowers , feather boa, tulle skirt,
3 heart stickers, 3 heart charms
Age Range : 6 and up
"C" (age 3) concentrating while painting her puppy.
She used my acrylic craft paint
because we had "better colors."
(pink, lime green, and lavender -- naturally occurring Diva-dog colors!)
The bobble head doggies come apart
which makes it easier to decorate them.
"E" used a small paintbrush and black craft paint
(but my sharpie was laying nearby!)
"E" carefully painting "Dotty's" Spots.
My decapitated puppy...
I used Sharpies to decorate mine.
"E" said it looked like the owner of a tattoo shop's dog!
"E"s puppy,"Dotty"
"C"s Diva Puppy, "Lilly"
My finished "Diva Puppy"...
I call it "Perro de los Muertos"!
E also made her own storybook
about a Tooth Fairy who looses a tooth.
Everything you need to
Everything you need to
create and decorate your own fairy tale
with Create Your Own Enchanted Storybook! Just add imagination…
Adorable castle-shaped, hard-cover book comes ready to decorate
with markers, glitter stickers, color-in stickers and rhinestones.
Create your story on the lined pages
then use the blank pages for your illustrations
Open the drawbridge door and
personalize the story with your name –
add your picture to the tower window, too!
Everything is included!
10-Page Hardcover Blank Book: 10.75 in x 8 in
Self-Adhesive Rhinestones ,
3 Sticker Sheets: Glitter, Color-In & Full Color ,
9 Mini Markers , Instructions and Ideas
Age Range: 5 and up
Age Range: 5 and up
"E" loved decorating the cover with the vine stickers
and the stick-on gems.
I really liked the way the instructions
walked her through the elements of a story
(who, what, when, where, why, how)
and how to outline, brainstorm
her plot before writing it all down in the book.
Two winners from my site will receive:
Diva Puppies and
Diva Puppies and
Create Your Own Enchanted Storybook
Activity Kits!
I will contact winners via email.
Giveaway is open to people living in the United States only.
Comments are now closed.
pink and green mama, MaryLea
Labels: Giveaway, Product Review, Sponsors
* Giveaway: Ecosystem Notebooks
As we approach Thanksgiving, I wanted to let all of you lovely readers
know how truly thankful I am for each and every one of you.
When I started writing this blog on "E"s first day of Kindergarten in 2008,
I didn't think ANYONE would actually ever read it
(other than my mom and a few patient friends.)
As my readership has grown, I've been lucky enough to be given the opportunity
to do some product reviews and giveaways.
This week,
to thank you for reading my blog,
I'm giving you an opportunity to win some goodies too!
First up, I was contacted by Ecosystem Notebooks and given the opportunity to review
two great blank journals in Pink and Green!
(ummm...yes, I already love it - wish I could get some shoes and a purse in that green too!)
The books are made from
100% Post-Consumer Recycled Paper and 100% Made in the USA.
Yeah for local jobs and being planet friendly!
I used our smaller green book to start a family journal.
(It's the Artist style, Flexi Cover, journal in Kiwi Green, Size Small
in case you want one too!)
The Large, Watermelon Pink, flexi cover, artist journal is momma's new sketch book/idea book.
At dinner, we write down highlights from the day.
I've also been gluing in little drawings "C" has been making in tiny notebooks.
For "C" (age 3) I'll ask her to color what kind of
day she had or to draw something.
Above you'll see that she drew a cat,
(her favorite animal)
and that she had a "Pink and Green" day.
I've also been jotting down funny things my kid's say
and letting "E" practice her handwriting by letting her write her own entries.
Want to start a family journal, or momma's memory book, or sketch book of your own?
We're giving away 3 Notebooks
to 3 Winners!
Official giveaway rules :
- Pink and Green Mama is the official host of the giveaway and is sponsoring the giveaway,
- Pink and Green Mama is the official host of the giveaway and is sponsoring the giveaway,
ecosystemlife is just providing the prizes to the eligible winners.
- Winners will be chosen via random generator and then checked
on ecosystem's facebook fan page for eligibility.
Only those who both comment & became a fan via ecosystem's facebook fan page are eligible to win.
- Only those whom are in the domestic United States are eligible to win.
- Contest ends Friday November 26, 2010 at 10pm EST
If you don't win,
you can always purchase an ecosystem online
Thanks and good luck!
Comments for this giveaway are closed.
pink and green mama,
Labels: Giveaway, Product Review, Sponsors, Thanksgiving
* Preschool At Home: Clothespin Turkey Fine Motor Practice
Remember our button practice turkey? He needed a friend.
I saw a clever activity like this on a preschool blog (Montessori Beginnings) with a
paper plate turkey and feather clothespins.
I loved the feathered clothespin idea so of course, I had to whip out my glue gun
the other night and make some of our own.
This happened while I was cooking dinner -- we seem to do a lot of last minute crafts this way!
I also drew a turkey for "C" on a piece of stiff brown felt
with Sharpie markers.
Great fine motor, pinching, practice for my favorite 3-year-old!
You can see my favorite 7-year-old in the background sitting at the piano
(she was playing "Over The River and Through The Woods" for us!)
Warning: Blurry Turkey Action Shot!
We made two turkeys; one to keep at home and one for my daughter's preschool class.
Gobble! Gobble!
pink and green mama
Labels: Fun With Felt, Permanent Marker, Preschool
Friday, November 19, 2010
* Indian Corn Bubble Wrap Printmaking
The girls and I made these bubble wrap corn cards last year
to send to family and friends that wouldn't be with us to celebrate Thanksgiving.
I thought I'd re-post this craft
in case you want to recreate it with your own children or in your classroom this year.
Start with some scraps of plastic bubble wrap.
Paint with layers of orange, yellow, and red washable tempera or acrylic craft paint.
Press your painted bubble wrap
onto sheets of brown, orange, yellow construction paper.
(Brown paper grocery bags would be cool too!)
Keep some baby wipes or a wet rag handy to clean up painty fingers and hands as you work!
After the paint has dried, trace your child's feet to make the corn cobs
and let them cut them out.
Happy Bubble Wrap Printing!
pink and green mama, MaryLea
Labels: Create, Fall, Holidays, Paint, Paper Crafts, Preschool, Printmaking, School Age, Thanksgiving
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NEW YORK (AP) — If the holidays still seem a long way off, you clearly haven't done much television channel surfing lately.The Hallmark channel has already begun two months of wall-to-wall holiday programming. Lifetime has ramped up its seasonal selections with 10 new made-for-TV movies, the first one airing last weekend.
ABC Family's annual "25 Days of Christmas" programming isn't enough, so they do a "Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas," starting Sunday.
This is in addition to all the old favourites, from Charlie Brown to Frosty the Snowman, that will fill broadcast network schedules during the next month. An already popular television genre is growing in power, judging by the 22 new movies Hallmark and Lifetime are rolling out between them, and a new Disney holiday musical.
"This is a strategy that developed naturally from demand," said Rob Sharenow, executive vice president of programming at the Lifetime networks. "It's really giving people what they want."
A sneak preview of the movie "Christmas Song" on Hallmark Nov. 3 was a hit that left the network second behind ESPN in cable viewership at that time, the Nielsen company said. Hallmark's 2006 movie, "The Christmas Card," is still the network's most-watched original movie and will be repeated again this season.
"Others try and emulate and replicate and copy what we do, but because of our brand, no one can do it like we do," said Bill Abbott, president and CEO of the Hallmark Channels.
Lifetime's aggressive investment makes it the relative newcomer in this area. The longtime maker of TV movies that appeal to women is coming off its biggest success in years, October's "Steel Magnolia" remake with Queen Latifah, which surprised even network executives with its potency.
Its movies feature Mira Sorvino, Shelley Long, George Wendt and Lea Thompson. Wendt and Long play Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus as they're about to meet their future daughter-in-law, Ralph Macchio is a former dance champion who comes back to win a Christmas Eve dance contest, and Thompson is featured in "Love at the Christmas Table."
Happy endings abound. Don't expect any holiday shootouts.
Beyond the new originals, Lifetime is airing more than 50 seasonal films, the biggest commitment in its history.
"In the times we're in, people want to feel good," Sharenow said. "People are definitely gravitating toward feel-good escapism and having fun and that's what these movies do. They're like little Christmas gifts."
Hallmark, part of a company that also sells Christmas cards, is a natural for holiday programming. This is the fourth year that the network essentially shuts down its regular programming for two full months to devote itself to the genre. The holiday focus began on Nov. 9 and ends Jan. 2.
There's a risk both in overkill and having fans get out of the habit of watching the network's regular shows, Abbott said, "but we have found over the years that our viewers really look forward to it and really want it."
Hallmark's original movies are premiering every Saturday and Sunday night heading into Christmas.
With titles like "Hitched for the Holidays," "A Bride for Christmas," "Matchmaker Santa," "Come Dance With Me" and "Love at the Thanksgiving Day Parade," the focus is pretty clear.
While confident of the programming strategy's ultimate success, Abbott said it is clear that Hallmark has more competition. "We sleep with one eye open," he said.
ABC Family's holiday focus is primarily on movies that started in theatres, like "Home Alone" and "Elf." Its own production is "The Mistle-Tones," about a woman who creates her own Christmas singing group after being turned down for a spot in a well-known group.
The network's "countdown" programming includes the premiere of the movie "Home Alone: The Holiday Heist" on the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
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New film out next month on one of the true greats, Toshiro Mifune, who needs no introduction here, I hope. I met him very briefly once at the Japan Society in NYC, about the time I got one of the rare U.S. interviews in that era (1970s-1980s) with my hero, Akira Kurosawa. Here is the trailer:
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