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So the snow got one final shot in, and made it impossible for me to get o Val D'Isere to play my last show before Christmas, which was a kick in the gut because I had planned to spend a long weekend out there as some holiday time as well. The good news, though, is that it looks now like if I'd made it to the Alps I wouldn't ever have got back to the UK again. Small mercies.
These little trying times aside, it's been a fantastic year, and I'm settling down to be in one place for a while now. I'm working hard at writing, finishing off material for the new album and preparing for studio time, which starts in the new year. I hope everyone has a great Christmas and new year.
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This article is about the Rainbow Islands in the Lyrical World.
The national languages are English, German and French. However, about 50% of the citizens are able to speak Arabian, while about 25% are able to speak Italian, Spanish and Hindu. Most of the people are Atheists, but also many Christians live there.
The National Anthem is "Over The Rainbow".
The people on the Rainbow Islands are very tolerant. Less than 20 people on all islands are racist or homophobic. At the same time, there are 3 big ethnic groups, while 6% are from the rest of the world. Most of the citizens support gay people.
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Watch it, Apple: Facebook poaching iPad, iPhone engineers to build own phone
Christian Zibreg on May 27, 2012
An interesting scoop over at the New York Times, citing "people close to the company" as saying that Facebook is looking to launch its own smartphone by next year, apparently tapping the collective talent of Apple's former hardware and software engineers.
The social networking giant has already poached a bunch of engineers who worked on the iPhone and iPad projects. It's Facebook's third attempt at making a phone, one that'll undoubtedly add to bad blood that's been brewing between Facebook and Apple for quite some time now.
That said, a Facebook phone makes sense to us. The company pretty much sucks in mobile. Up until recently, they've been releasing and updating native applications for smartphones at a snail's pace. If a phone is what they need to gain more credibility in mobile, so be it – though Tim Cook won't like this.
This not-so-secret plan might also explain why a system-wide Facebook integration was a no-go in iOS 5, though code hooks are still in place. Let's also not forget that Facebook pulled integration from Apple's Ping social network for iTunes music.
Yup, looks like Apple can safely put Facebook on its growing list of powerful rivals, right below Google and of course Samsung…
The social networking giant had been whispered to build its own phone in the past, but it's different this time around. Nick Bilton, writing for the New York Times' Bits blog, explains:
Employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there, as well as people briefed on Facebook's plans, say the company hopes to release its own smartphone by next year. These people spoke only on condition of anonymity for fear of jeopardizing their employment or relationships with Facebook.
This is not to be confused with another project code-named "Buffy" involving Facebook and HTC which failed to produce tangible results, if you exclude last year's Salsa and Status smartphones that sport deep Facebook integration.
This effort is something completely different.
Think of it as Zuckerberg's latest take on mobile, albeit on a grand scale.
Apparently, Facebook has expanded the Buffy team, "creating a team of seasoned hardware engineers who have built the devices before" and tasking them with "exploring other smartphone".
Facebook is going to great lengths to keep the phone project a secret, specifically not posting job listings on the company's job Web site, but instead going door-to-door to find the right talent for the project.
Specifically, Facebook is understood to have already poached several Apple engineers.
The company has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad, the employees and those briefed on the plans said.
Furthermore, sources claim Zuck personally took it upon himself to convince these experienced folks to come work on his new pet project.
One engineer who formerly worked at Apple and worked on the iPhone said he met with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, who then peppered him with questions about the inner workings of smartphones. It did not sound like idle intellectual curiosity, the engineer said;
Mr. Zuckerberg asked about intricate details, including the types of chips used, he said. Another former Apple hardware engineer was recruited by a Facebook executive and was told about the company's hardware explorations.
The idea has legs, if you ask me.
Facebook is the most popular social network there is.
Fresh from their initial-public offering and that $1 billion Instagram acquisition, Facebook three days ago released a sleek photo sharing app called Facebook Camera, seen in a clip below.
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We also heard whispers that Zuckerberg is eyeing several major video sharing sites, perhaps looking for an Instagram-like deal for video.
Another clue: the company recently announced App Center, a cross-platform app store coded entirely in HTML5 and coming soon to Android, iOS and the web.
Here's what it might look like.
They also released a brand new Pages Manager app, updated the Messenger for iPhone app with read receipts and location support and are working on Messenger for iPad with Skype video calling.
Finally, shareholders certainly want Facebook to produce revenue streams other than personalized advertising shown to people who access the web interface on their desktop.
With mobile devices being all the rage these days and the Facebook brand getting stronger with each passing day, selling phones should do the trick, the company hopes.
Of course, Apple hasn't been too happy with where things were heading with Facebook.
"I've always thought the two companies could do more together", CEO Tim Cook said at a recent shareholder meeting.
Summing up, it does feel like Facebook is finally coming to a realization that its business model is at risk unless their platform takes over mobile space.
Plus, nearly one billion people can't be wrong.
So, if you're planning to sell this people on your own smartphone, that's a powerful user base to boot from.
Well over half of them access the site on mobile devices.
According to comScore, users spend 7.5 hours on mobile Facebook versus 6.5 hours spent in Facebook's web interface on desktop.
And if you need even more proof that Facebook is poised to launch a phone, look no further than their SEC form that lists as a potential threat "growth in use of Facebook through our mobile products, where we do not currently display ads, as a substitute for use on personal computers may negatively affect our revenue and financial results".
With Google now officially a handset maker, Facebook cannot really afford to stand still.
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THE New York Times has a slogan that goes like this: all the news that's fit to print. I like to add another: all the writers that are so good to read. Among my favorites are the cast of food writers, especially Melissa Clark. Then there are the columnists: Frank Bruni, Roger Cohen, and Joe Nocera. Here are world-class writers I turn to constantly to nourish my mind, to plant new seeds of inquiry, and to learn the wickedly difficult craft of writing. Reading them, you marvel at their erudition, their skill at sentence-making, their insight—all tempered with just the right touch of humor and music, the kind that only poetry can produce.
If you asked me who, among this pantheon of thinkers, has the greatest influence on my life at the present time, I'd say it's Frank Bruni. I read and re-read him, and clip his pieces more than any of his other colleagues. There are so many things to like about him, his vast experience for one.
He's covered such a wide range of topics for the Times in his first nine years there—politics, religion, crime, immigration, movies, books, even the Miss America pageant—before becoming the Rome bureau chief in mid-2002, "keeping one eye on a sinking Venice, the other on a flagging Pope." From 2004 to 2009, he was the chief restaurant critic, and in 2011, he became an Op-Ed columnist, writing about politics, social issues, education, and culture.
He has also written three books, each on startlingly different subject matters: Ambling Along: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush (2002), Born Round: A Story of Family, Food, and a Ferocious Appetite (2010), and Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania (2015).
In his memoir Born Round, you find, within the first two pages, all the hallmarks of classic Bruni—that wonderful gift of showing, the clever wordplay, the wry humor, the ready self-deprecation. In the opening scene, we see him on the phone in his Rome office with the editor of the Home, Style, and Dining pages. She's offering him the restaurant critic's job. He laughs.
Now, we don't just hear him laugh at the absurdity of her suggestion, we feel the silliness of it: I knew more about papal encyclicals than about Peking Duck and had little more reason to think I'd get this restaurant critic job than to believe I'd be anointed the next Pope. He goes on to heighten his inadequacy for the part by making a hilarious comparison between himself and the editor: I assessed prime ministers; she, prime beef.
This is just the kind of sentences that populate his prose. They call up pictures, they evoke poetry, and then they make you wonder if all his words just fall in place by coincidence. But surely, craft is all planned, and any coincidence is a sheer result of confidence and mastery, even courage. He never panders to his readers, he never dumbs down his writing.
As the Times Op-Ed columnist, its first openly gay one, he writes from the heart, sharing his anguish, his side of the story, his call for equality. His education and political pieces are filled with the same kind of voice, an urgency that cries for action, and at the very least, a recognition of our flaws and follies.
Do I even have half the courage or clarity of mind to write like that? That's why I read Bruni furiously and faithfully.
Which person has the greatest influence on your life at the present time, and why?


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If your water bill increased and you start noticing your flooring damp (carpet) or warped (hardwood) this is another telltale sign of a slab leak. Slab foundations don't afford any type of buffer between your ground floors and foundation so as water comes through the foundation it will also affect your ground floors.
Mold appearing where it hasn't before could also be a sign of a leak. Mold and mildew should be handled with caution and by a certified mold remediation company. In the case of a slab leak mold or mildew may be growing underneath carpets or hardwood and may not even be visible but the smell will still permeate throughout your home.
Because slab leaks can strike both hot and cold-water lines and as such can cause a few different problems related to hot water. One such problem is a random patch of the ground that's hotter than the rest. The other is a water heater that is constantly running, as you can guess if a hot water line is leaking then the reservoir on your water heater constantly must be heated.
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New York Casualty at Antietam Finally Returns Home (1)
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David M. Dziewulski
and Raymond W. LeMay, 111, PCC
The New York National Guard, National Park Service, and Veterans Administration worked over the past eleven months to return the remains of a New York Civil War Soldier found at Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland
to his home state of New York..
The soldier's remains - - bone fragments, a belt buckle, pieces of leather and metal buttons (2) were discovered in a familiar area of the Battlefield called "The Cornfield" by a hiker in October 2008. The design of the button, particular to New York State volunteer regiments, helped identify the remains as those of a New Yorker. Over sixty New York infantry regiments participated in the battle and NY regiments were heavily involved in the action, along with other units, at David Miller's cornfield. Because this soldier was wearing a coat with buttons issued to a New York regiment early in the Civil War, it is likely that this soldier volunteered shortly after the war started in April, 1861. As the war went on, "Federal" uniforms replaced state-specific items of wear.
This soldier, most likely a teenager, was in the middle of the action when the battle began early in the morning of September 17, 1862, as both armies struggled for control of Mr. Miller's cornfield. He was buried where he fell on the battlefield, said John Howard, Superintendent of the Antietam National Battlefield and Antietam National Cemetery. But when other Soldiers were moved into the National Cemetery near the battlefield, he was overlooked and forgotten for 146 years. His grave was never found because it was very near a rocky outcropping, which prevented plowing in the area. It wasn't until a ground hog began to excavate a tunnel leading to its burrow that the remains were disturbed and brought to the surface. (3)
(Patriot Guard Riders (including Veterans) standing guard outside of the New York State Military Museum in Saratoga Springs, NY
(September 16, 2009) during the public wake for the NY Civil War Unknown Soldier found on the Antietam Battlefield.)
The young soldier's remains were brought to the New York State Military Museum on Wednesday, September 16, 2009. That day Commander LeMay arrived with Bros. Capstraw (Acting Camp Color Bearer) and Charles "Chuck" Greenfield, PCC. Our group acted as the 1st Receiving Color Guard for the receipt of the casket. It was only a three-man line, but we were grateful to have representation from the SUVCW for this solemn event. Brothers from Willard Camp #154 were also the Second Guard, after the Army, to salute the casket upon arriving at the NYS Military Museum for the wake.
Reenactor (left) and New York State Honor Guard (right) standing guard next to the flag-draped coffin of the New York State Soldier returned home from Antietam to be interred on the 147th anniversary of the battle that claimed his young life.
The 34-star flag-draped casket containing the remains was in repose for viewing by the public and was guarded by New York Forces Honor Guard and Civil War re-enactors from the 125th NY Infantry until 8 p.m. That evening our camp members conducted the SUVCW Burial-Memorial Service for the NY Volunteer. Participating in the Ceremony that evening were the following Brothers: Camp Council Paul W. Grady, Camp Secretary/Treasurer Thomas J. Capstraw, Camp Sr. Vice Commander Robert Hensel, Camp Patriotic Instructor and Guard Peter Bond, Richard Touchette, Robert Fickies, David Dziewulski, and Camp Commander Raymond LeMay, 111.
Brothers of G.L. Willard Camp #154 and the 125th NY Volunteer Infantry re-enactors, led by Commander LeMay,
about to enter the NY Military Museum for the short SUVCW Burial-Memorial Service during the Wake of the Unknown Civil War Soldier.
During the period of repose, interest of the public was impressive with a steady stream of people making their way past 10 or more Patriot Guard Riders, each bearing the American Flag, who kept watch along the approach to the museum. Even if only out of curiosity alone, the overall response from the public was positive, respectful and properly subdued. Many stated to Cmdr. LeMay that they were truly moved and some wept. Both inside and outside the museum there were many questions and conversations related to the battle and the amazing chain of events that brought the fallen soldier back home.
Brothers of Willard Camp Standing for a Group Shot
The soldier was finally buried at the Gerald B. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery with full military honors on Thursday, September 17, the 147th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam. This burial marked the first time that an unknown Soldier has been buried in this National Cemetery that was established in 1999 (4).
Gerald B.H. Solomon National Cemetery, Saratoga, NY
On the 17th, Willard Camp members arrived along with Bro. Charlie Slater from the Tanner Camp #134. The Camp Guard consisted of Brothers Greenfield, Thomas Capstraw, Robert Fickies, and Department Representatives. Brothers representing the Department of NY included Dept. Jr. Vice Commander Douglas E. Deuel, Dept. Patriotic Instructor Lyman Baker and Thomas Crounse, Commander of the David Ireland Camp #137 of Binghamton, NY
In unity, all fell in with our Camp Guard. Cmdr. LeMay left Bro. Greenfield in command of the Color Guard who proceeded to the grave site and stood guard.
Commander LeMay and Patriot Riders participate in the Funeral Procession, September 17, 2009.
Cmdr. LeMay was asked to take part in the funeral procession along with Maj. General Joseph Taluto, Army National Guard Adjutant General for the State of NY,and a Ulysses S. Grant reenactor, Mr. Larry Clowers of Gettysburg, PA. The procession stopped at Shelter 2 on the cemetery ground for a brief ceremony and then proceeded to the gravesite where Cmdr. LeMay place the Camp wreath and the funeral service was then performed; Willard Camp's wreath was the only wreath to be placed on the grave. The sentiments of Cmdr. LeMay summed up the feelings of all the SUVCW Camp participants: "I was truly blessed and honored when we paid our respects to such a veteran, known only to our Lord, to call myself a member of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
and to honor him as a Son - - I felt a true kinship".
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1- News facts were compiled from information on the New York Military Museum website, press releases from the Division of Military and Naval Affaris of New York State http://www.dmna.state.ny.us/pressroom/presindx.php? id=1253040053) and from the National Guard http://www.ng.mil/news/archives/2009/09/091809-Honors.aspx,
2- A team of National Park Service archeologists, with forensic analysis provided by the Smithsonian Institution helped determine the nature of the young man's remains. "(We) recovered 401 fragments from 24 different bones out of a total of 206 in the adult human skeleton," said Dr. Stephen R. Potter, regional archeologist for the National Park Service, who led the analysis team, "most of them coming from the skull and both legs and feet."
3- Washington Post, December 28, 2008, accessed on line 09/29/09 at
http://civilwarlibrarian.blogspot.com/008/12/news-antietam.html
4- http://www.cem.va.gov/CEMs/nchp/geraldbhsolomonsaratoga.asp


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Chandler House, located at 125 Powder House Boulevard, is named for Miss Martha H. Chandler, long-time administrator and teacher in the Eliot-Pearson School. It was originally a private residence, and was acquired by Tufts to serve as a dormitory for Eliot-Pearson students, for which purpose it was used until 1966. For a number of years it was unofficially called Perkins House, after an assistant to the Dean of Students in charge of residential arrangements.
In 1963 it was renamed "Boulevard House" by the Trustees and used as a college dormitory. In 1966 at the suggestion of Myra Herrick, Dean of Jackson College, when the house became a Jackson dormitory, it was renamed Chandler House. President Wessell facetiously suggested that, inasmuch as it was to be used as a Jackson dorm, it be called "The Powder House."
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London, UK (October 24, 2014) - Six new medicines have been recommended for approval at the October meeting of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP), two of which are for orphan conditions. The European Medicines Agency has recommended granting a marketing authorisation under exceptional circumstances for Scenesse (afamelanotide) for the treatment of erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP), a rare genetic disease which causes intolerance to light. Scenesse is the first medicine for patients with this condition. This type of authorisation is granted to medicines where comprehensive data on the medicine cannot be collected, for example, because the condition is too rare, or because the collection of full information is not possible or is unethical.
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Hamilton, ON, Canada (October 7, 2014) – Hospital visitors and staff are greeted with hand sanitizer dispensers in the lobby, by the elevators and outside rooms as reminders to wash their hands to stop infections, but just how clean are patients' hands?
Oxycodone May Be More Dangerous than Other Addictive Pain Medication<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Hoboken, NJ, USA (October 6, 2014) - While all prescription opioids can be abused, oxycodone may be more potent in its ability to promote changes in the brain relevant to addiction. A new study in the European Journal of Neuroscience revealed greater increases of dopamine in the brain following the delivery of oxycodone compared with morphine. The release of dopamine, a chemical messenger between neurons, is consistently tied with reward and motivation.
Meeting highlights from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use, 22-25 September 2014
Fifteen new medicines and three extensions of indication recommended for approval<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
London, UK (September 26, 2014) - The Committee recommended a marketing authorisation for Harvoni (sofosbuvir / ledipasvir) for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in adults. Harvoni belongs to a new generation of antiviral products for chronic HCV infection that have high cure rates and have recently reshaped the treatment landscape for this disease. Please see the press release for more information.
GIOTRIF® (afatinib)* approved in Europe for patients with EGFR mutation positive lung cancer <?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Patients with EGFR mutation positive lung cancer in the European Union can now benefit from a new targeted treatment option, GIOTRIF®, the first irreversible ErbB Family Blocker
Afatinib has been shown to delay tumour progression and improve disease related symptoms versus standard chemotherapy1
Afatinib approval marks the first registration of a targeted treatment from Boehringer Ingelheim's oncology portfolio in the EU
Ingelheim, Germany, (September 25, 2013) – Boehringer Ingelheim announced today that the European Commission has granted marketing authorisation for afatinib monotherapy, for the treatment of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) TKI-naïve adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with activating EGFR mutation(s). Afatinib will be marketed in Europe under the brand name GIOTRIF®.
Innovative, integrated technologies and a proven algorithm support better therapy outcomes
Personalized Diabetes Management 2.0 – Interactively connected for an optimized therapy<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Vienna (September 15, 2014) - Today, healthcare systems around the globe face significant challenges that are creating concerns about the sustainability of the services and care provided and covered by the national health plans. In this context in particular the combination of increased prevalence of diabetes and an ageing population is exacerbating the burden on healthcare delivery and costs worldwide. To meet the increasing demand, governments and payers together with industry partners and healthcare professionals are looking at ways to make healthcare systems more sustainable and improve their citizens' health via mobile health (mHealth) solutions. Experts reckon mobile healthcare as the biggest technology break-through of our time to address national challenges. Notably in daily management of diabetes such technological solutions seem to be a natural fit as mHealth delivers the virtual connection between different devices but also of people with diabetes and their caregivers.
Research finds no association between wearing a bra and breast cancer<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Philadelphia, PA, USA (September 5, 2014) — A population-based case-control study found no association between bra wearing and increased breast cancer risk among postmenopausal women, according to research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Liver injury caused by herbals, dietary supplements rises in study population<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Supplements more likely than medications to lead to death or liver transplantation
Philadelphia, PA (September 4, 2014) - New research shows that liver injury caused by herbals and dietary supplements increased from 7% to 20% in a U.S. study group over a ten-year period. According to the study published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, liver injury caused by non-bodybuilding supplements is most severe, occurring more often in middle-aged women and more frequently resulting in death or the need for transplantation than liver injury from bodybuilding supplements or conventional medications."
Research from University of Leicester sniffs out smell of disease in feces
Scientists develop 'electronic nose' for rapid detection of C. diff infection<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Leicester, UK (August 31, 2014) - A fast-sensitive "electronic-nose" for sniffing the highly infectious bacteria C. diff, that causes diarrhoea, temperature and stomach cramps, has been developed by a team at the University of Leicester. Using a mass spectrometer, the research team has demonstrated that it is possible to identify the unique 'smell' of C. diff which would lead to rapid diagnosis of the condition.
Drinking tea reduces non-CV mortality by 24 percent<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Barcelona, Spain (August 31, 2014) - Drinking tea reduces non-cardiovascular mortality by 24%, reveals a study in 131 000 people presented at ESC Congress today by Professor Nicolas Danchin from France. Professor Danchin said: "If you have to choose between tea or coffee it's probably better to drink tea. Coffee and tea are important components of our way of life. Their effects on cardiovascular (CV) health have been investigated in the past with sometimes divergent results. We investigated the effects of coffee and tea on CV mortality and non-CV mortality in a large French population at low risk of cardiovascular diseases."
Meeting highlights from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) 21-24 July 2014 <?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
London (July 25, 2014) - This page provides an overview of the opinions adopted at the July 2014 meeting of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) and other important outcomes.
Meeting highlights from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) 23-26 June 2014<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
London (June 27, 2014) - This page provides an overview of the opinions adopted at the June 2014 meeting of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) and other important outcomes.
Bacterial differences found in urine of healthy women and women with overactive bladder<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Study debunks common myth that urine is sterile
Maywood, IL, USA (May 18, 2014) - Bacteria live in the bladders of healthy women, discrediting the common belief that normal urine is sterile. This finding was presented today by researchers from Loyola University Chicago at the 114th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston.
Urine test could help clinicians spot blood clots in at-risk patients<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
San Diego, Cal., USA (May 18, 2014) - A new study by researchers from California and Canada indicates a simple urine test can indicate the presence of venous thromboembolism, a blood clot that has broken free from its point of origin and which travels through the bloodstream, eventually lodging in a vein. The test evaluates the levels of fibrinopeptide B (FPB), a small peptide that's released when a thrombosis forms and which is removed from the body through urine.
Prioritized strategies to reduce prevalence of C. difficile in healthcare settings<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
New expert guidelines aim to focus hospitals' infectious diarrhea prevention efforts
Chicago, ILL, USA (May 6, 2014) – With rates of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) now rivaling drug-resistant Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as the most common bacteria to cause healthcare-associated infections, new expert guidance encourages healthcare institutions to implement and prioritize prevention efforts for this infectious diarrhea. The guidelines are published in the June issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Atypical form of Alzheimer's disease may be present in a more widespread number of patients<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Jacksonville, Fla., USA (May 1, 2014) — Neuroscientists at Mayo Clinic in Florida have defined a subtype of Alzheimer's disease (AD) that they say is neither well recognized nor treated appropriately. The variant, called hippocampal sparing AD, made up 11 percent of the 1,821 AD-confirmed brains examined by Mayo Clinic researchers — suggesting this subtype is relatively widespread in the general population. The Alzheimer's Association estimates that 5.2 million Americans are living with AD. And with nearly half of hippocampal sparing AD patients being misdiagnosed, this could mean that well over 600,000 Americans make up this AD variant, researchers say.
Increasing daily coffee consumption may reduce type 2 diabetes risk<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Boston, MA, USA (April 24, 2014) — People who increased the amount of coffee they drank each day by more than one cup over a four-year period had a 11% lower risk for type 2 diabetes than those who made no changes to their coffee consumption, according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers. In addition, the study found that those who decreased their coffee consumption by more than a cup per day increased their type 2 diabetes risk by 17%.
EU national authorities and EMA cooperating in response to criminal activities<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
European Medicines Agency update on stolen vials of Herceptin
London, UK (April 17, 2014) - This is an update from the European Medicines Agency on the latest information relating to the stolen vials of Herceptin (trastuzumab) in Italy. The vials, some of which were tampered with, were later re-introduced illegally into the supply chain in some countries.
Researchers have identified the point at which hospitals begin to fail, resulting in deaths of critically ill patients<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Researchers identify the safety 'tipping point' at which hospitals fail
Cambridge, UK (March, 17 2014) - The Safety Tipping Point for hospitals occurs when they reach occupancy levels far below 100% according to a new study to be released shortly in US journal Management Science. The three academics involved investigated bed occupancy levels and death tolls in 256 clinical departments of 83 German hospitals during 2004/05 and identified a severe mortality tipping point at 92.5% occupancy.
Guidelines on Hyponatraemia have been published <?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Weimar, Germany (March 4, 2014) - Guidelines for diagnosing and treating hyponatraemia, a salt imbalance occurring in up to 30% of hospitalised patients, have recently been published simultaneously in three journals: the full guidelines are available online without charge from "Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation", the official Journal of the European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA), from the "European Journal of Endocrinology", the official journal of the European Society of Endocrinology (ESE), and also from "Intensive Care Medicine", the official journal of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM). "This underlines the importance and impact of the guideline, which was developed in collaboration between these three societies", explains Prof. Dr. Raymond Vanholder (Ghent, Belgium), president of the ERA-EDTA. The joint guideline group has conducted a strict systematic literature review with the assistance of the Methodological Support Team of European Renal Best Practice (ERBP), the guidance body of ERA-EDTA, to collect the best available evidence on the diagnosis and management of hypotonic hyponatraemia. The new guidelines were developed on this robust basis of evidence.
Meeting highlights from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) 17-20 February 2014<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Ten new medicines recommended for approval
London, UK (February 21, 2014) - The CHMP has recommended granting a paediatric-use marketing authorisation (PUMA) for Hemangiol (propranolol) for the treatment of proliferating infantile haemangioma. This is the second time that the Committee has granted a positive opinion for a PUMA since the introduction of this type of marketing authorisation by the Paediatric Regulation, which came into force in 2007. Please see press release on the website for more information.
Popular disinfectants do not kill HPV<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Penn State, PA USA (February 12, 2014) - Commonly used disinfectants do not kill human papillomavirus (HPV) that makes possible non-sexual transmission of the virus, thus creating a need for hospital policy changes, according to researchers from Penn State College of Medicine and Brigham Young University.
"Because it is difficult to produce infectious HPV particles for research, little has been known about HPV susceptibility to disinfection," said Craig Meyers, Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Penn State College of Medicine.
Mindfulness reduces pain and opioid misuse<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Mind Over Matter: Beating Pain and Painkillers
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (Feb. 4, 2014) – With nearly one-third of Americans suffering from chronic pain, prescription opioid painkillers have become the leading form of treatment for this debilitating condition. Unfortunately, misuse of prescription opioids can lead to serious side effects—including death by overdose. A new treatment developed by University of Utah researcher Eric Garland has shown to not only lower pain but also decrease prescription opioid misuse among chronic pain patients.
Telemedicine Can Reduce Hospitalizations For Nursing Home Residents<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Lebanon, NH, USA (February 4, 2014) – Telemedicine used at nursing homes during hours when doctors are not typically present is a viable way to reduce avoidable hospitalizations, according to research published in February's issue of Health Affairs.
Hospitalizations of nursing home residents are occurring more frequently, and result in complications, morbidity and expensive Medicare costs. When a medical issue arises on nights and weekends that cannot be addressed by the on-call physician not present at the facility, the doctor can either travel to the nursing home or recommend that the resident be sent to the hospital emergency room. Very often, the physician recommends the hospital emergency room.
Researchers find blue light exposure may be a countermeasure for fatigue, during the day and night<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Blue light may fight fatigue around the clock
Boston, MA, USA (February 3, 2014) - Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have found that exposure to short wavelength, or blue light, during the biological day directly and immediately improves alertness and performance. These findings are published in the February issue of Sleep. "Our previous research has shown that blue light is able to improve alertness during the night, but our new data demonstrates that these effects also extend to daytime light exposure," said Shadab Rahman, PhD, a researcher in BWH's Division of Sleep Medicine and lead author of this study. "These findings demonstrate that prolonged blue light exposure during the day has an an alerting effect."
FDA approves Hetlioz: first treatment for non-24 hour sleep-wake disorder in blind individuals <?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Silver Spring, MD, USA (January 31, 2014) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Hetlioz (tasimelteon), a melatonin receptor agonist, to treat non-24- hour sleep-wake disorder ("non-24") in totally blind individuals. Non-24 is a chronic circadian rhythm (body clock) disorder in the blind that causes problems with the timing of sleep. This is the first FDA approval of a treatment for the disorder.
Columbia University School of Nursing study first to link pay to patient outcomes<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
China's reliance on lower-paid contract nurses may compromise patient care
New York, NY, USA (January 29, 2014) – Economic and health system reforms in China in recent decades have dramatically reduced the number of traditional hospital nursing jobs, known as "bianzhi" or "iron rice bowl" positions, which are guaranteed for life. Instead, more than half of nursing posts in many Chinese hospitals are now filled with contract-based nurses who do the same work as "bianzhi" for lower pay, fewer benefits and limited job security. A new study from Columbia University School of Nursing, published in the journal Human Resources for Health, found significantly higher levels of compensation-related dissatisfaction among contract nurses than their "bianzhi" peers. Hospitals with a disproportionate number of contract nurses also had significantly higher levels of patient dissatisfaction, which prior research has linked to lower quality care and worse outcomes.
Caffeine is the most widely used drug, but little is known about helping those who depend on it<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Caffeine use disorder: A widespread health problem that needs more attention
Washington, D.C., USA (January 28, 2014) - "I'm a zombie without my morning coffee." "My blood type is Diet Coke." "Caffeine isn't a drug, it's a vitamin." Most people make jokes like these about needing a daily boost from their favorite caffeinated beverage—whether first thing in the morning or to prevent the after-lunch slump.
But a recent study coauthored by American University psychology professor Laura Juliano indicates that more people are dependent on caffeine to the point that they suffer withdrawal symptoms and are unable to reduce caffeine consumption even if they have another condition that may be impacted by caffeine—such as a pregnancy, a heart condition, or a bleeding disorder.
Sleepy immune system tips balance toward tumors<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Fragmented sleep accelerates cancer growth
Chicago, ILL., USA (January 27, 2014) - Poor-quality sleep marked by frequent awakenings can speed cancer growth, increase tumor aggressiveness and dampen the immune system's ability to control or eradicate early cancers, according to a new study published online January 21, 2014, in the journal Cancer Research. The study is the first to demonstrate, in an animal model, the direct effects of fragmented sleep on tumor growth and invasiveness, and it points to a biological mechanism that could serve as a potential target for therapy.
Meeting highlights from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) 20-23 January 2014 <?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
London, UK (January 24, 2014) - This page provides an overview of the opinions adopted at the January 2014 meeting of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) and other important outcomes.
Six new medicines recommended for approval
The CHMP recommended granting a marketing authorisation for Eperzan (albiglutide), for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The Committee gave a positive recommendation for Adempas (riociguat) for the treatment of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary arterial hypertension. Adempas has an orphan designation. The Committee recommended the granting of a marketing authorisation for Latuda (lurasidone) for the treatment of schizophrenia. The Committee gave a positive recommendation for Bemfola (follitropin alfa), a new biosimilar medicine for the treatment of infertility. Two generic medicines were also recommended for approval by the CHMP: Rivastigmine 3M Health Care Ltd for the treatment of Alzheimer's dementia and Zoledronic acid Teva Generics for the treatment of osteoporosis and Paget's disease of the bone.
Anti-Swine Flu Vaccination Linked to Increased Risk of Narcolepsy in Young Adults<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Stockholm, Sweden (January 21, 2014) - Pandemrix is an influenza vaccination, created in 2009 to combat H1N1, known as Swine Flu. Now, a team of Swedish clinicians testing the vaccine for links to immune-related or neurological diseases have linked Pandemrix to an increased risk of narcolepsy in young adults.
PRAC recommends suspending use of Protelos/Osseor<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Recommendation by PRAC to be considered by CHMP for final opinion
London, UK (January 10, 2014) - The European Medicines Agency's Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) has recommended that Protelos/Osseor should no longer be used to treat osteoporosis. In April 2013 the Agency had recommended restricting the use of Protelos/Osseor to reduce the risk of heart problems. These recommendations were the result of a routine benefit-risk assessment and it was also decided at the time that there was a need for a further in-depth review.
Prescription opioid abusers prefer to get high on oxycodone and hydrocodone<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Researchers investigate factors that influence the choice of abused drugs, reports PAIN®
Philadelphia (December 2, 2013) – Prescription opioid abuse has reached epidemic levels in the past 15 years. Scientists investigating why people favor one drug over another have found that oxycodone and hydrocodone are the drugs of choice for 75% of opioid-dependent individuals. Their results, published in the current issue of PAIN®, show that oxycodone was the most popular drug overall because of the quality of the high for those who sought such effects. Nonetheless, hydrocodone remains one of the most popular primary drugs, even though it has lower euphoric qualities. In addition, users say they are concerned about acetaminophen poisoning since, until recently, all hydrocodone products contained non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
Vitamin D Decreases Pain in Women with Type 2 Diabetes and Depression<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Loyola Health Sciences research demonstrates additional benefits of supplement
Mayood, Ill., USA (December 2, 2013) – Vitamin D decreases pain in women with type 2 diabetes and depression, according to a study conducted at Loyola University Chicago. These findings were presented at an Oct. 24, 2013 research conference at Loyola's Health Sciences Campus.
Meeting highlights from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) 18-21 November 2013<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
London, UK (November 22, 2013) - This press release provides an overview of the opinions adopted at the November 2013 meeting of the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) and other important outcomes.
Seven medicines recommended for approval
The CHMP recommended granting a marketing authorisation for Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) in combination with other medicines for the treatment of chronic (long-term) hepatitis C in adults. Please see press release for more information.
NICE opens consultation on a new device for managing acute or chronic wounds<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
London, UK (November 14, 2013) - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) today (14 November), starts consulting on its draft medical technology guidance on a device that aims to help improve the treatment of wounds. The draft medical technology guidance supports the case for adopting the Debrisoft monofilament debridement pad as part of the management of acute or chronic wounds in community settings.
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FDA approves medical device to treat epilepsy <?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Silver Spring, MD, USA (November 14, 2013) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a device to help reduce the frequency of seizures in epilepsy patients who have not responded well to medications. The RNS Stimulator consists of a small neurostimulator implanted within the skull under the scalp. The neurostimulator is connected to one or two wires (called electrodes) that are placed where the seizures are suspected to originate within the brain or on the surface of the brain.
Touch May Alleviate Existential Fears for People With Low Self-Esteem<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Washington, DC, USA (November 6, 2013) - As human beings, we all know that we are going to die some day. Most of us deal with this knowledge by trying to live meaningful lives, but people with low self-esteem tend not to see their lives as particularly meaningful. Now, research suggests that touch may help people with low self-esteem in confronting their own mortality.


Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA) sponsors National Walking Day on the first Wednesday of April to build awareness about the healthy benefits of going for a stroll. On April 3, participants are encouraged to get up and move, and document their walking activities through social media using the hashtag #NationalWalkingDay.
Established in 2007, National Walking Day is a great opportunity to commit to taking 30 minutes to simply walk.
The AHA recommends participants wear comfortable clothes and shoes, make sure to stretch prior to walking, and drink plenty of water. Don't care to walk alone? Take a friend!
Locally, the Centers of Wellness for Urban Women, Inc., is sponsoring an organized walk from 6 to 7 p.m., April 3, at Riverside Park, in Indianapolis. There will also be a virtual run event presented by Moon Joggers from April 3 to 30. Participants may complete a one-mile, 5K or 10K virtual walk at their own pace throughout April and earn a medal at the end.
Cost to participate starts at $20 per person with 15 percent of each entry fee benefiting the American Heart Association. Location: Riverside Park, 2420 East Riverside Dr. For more information, visit CWUWOnline.org. For more information about the virtual walk, visit EventBrite.com/e/2019-walking-day-1-mile-5k-10k-indianaoplistickets-54395944735.
Referring to the upgrade as Indy Holistic Hub 2.0, founding director Jennifer Seffrin says she hopes the changes help to grow the blossoming online holistic health community.
Indianapolis-area residents who are interested in plant-based hemp CBD wellness and education are invited to attend Happy Hemp CBD Health and Education – Indy, a free, monthly, meet-up in Fishers.
The Playful Soul held a soft open house gathering on January 10 to celebrate its new space at 1001 East East 86th Street in Indianapolis.
An eight-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) class, designed to help decrease stress and improve health and well-being taught by Scott Sweet, LCSW, LCAC, kicks off this month in Indianapolis. Classes will begin January 30 and 31 with two class options of 8:30 to 11 a.m. Wednesdays and 3:30 to 6 p.m. Thursdays.
Nearly 5 million people have received in- and outpatient care at the Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital and Eskenazi Health Campus, and our area has benefited from their many uniquely sustainable elements and holistically minded programs.


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Jeff Withey Drafted 39th Overall By Portland
Former Kansas Jayhawk Jeff Withey was drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers 39th overall
By fetch13 Jun 27, 2013, 10:24pm CDT
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Kansas has been a big man factory as of late, from Cole Aldrich to the Morris twins, to Thomas Robinson. But their most impressive output may be Jeff Withey. When he transferred to Kansas from Arizona, Withey was buried on the depth chart, looked lost on the floor, and looked like a guy who might not ever be anything other than a promising recruit.
But in Bill (and Andrea Hudy and Danny Manning) we trust. Withey transformed his body and his game and became the best interior defender in college basketball for two years in a row. He also improved his offensive game this year and while he won't ever be counted on for his scoring he showed a go to post move and the ability to hit a jumper. He also hit over 80% of his free throws as a Junior and if that's anywhere near his percentage as a pro he will have the added bonus of not having to be on the bench at the end of games due to free throw concerns.
Withey's long term future is probably as a back up center, but while he will never be a star he should have a decade or so long career as an interior defender, and with the way the league seems to be trending back towards big guys that should help Withey out.
If Portland keeps Withey, he will go to a team where he is probably the best 5 man on the team, with them having taken Meyers Leonard last year. LaMarcus Aldridge reportedly wants out so who knows what will happen with that, but as is I think Withey not only will make the roster but has a chance to sneak into the starting 5, and for sure play a lot of minutes.


Super Typhoon Haiyan, also called Typhoon Haiyan or Typhoon Yolanda, massive and highly destructive storm in the North Pacific Ocean that affected Palau, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China during early November 2013. The tropical cyclone produced high winds, coastal storm surges, heavy rains, and flooding in the land areas over which it passed. By far the worst-hit region was the central Philippines, where the storm produced widespread devastation and killed thousands of people. Many considered it to be the country's worst natural disaster. With maximum sustained winds at landfall there that measured 195 miles (314 km) per hour, Haiyan was among the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded, if not the most powerful, to strike land.
The typhoon began as an area of convection located in the equatorial Pacific Ocean some 230 nautical miles (425 km) east-southeast of Pohnpei on November 2. Later that day, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, reclassified the disturbance as a tropical depression, naming the storm Tropical Depression 31W. The system traveled westward across the tropical Pacific Ocean over the next few days, growing in size and strength. The Japan Meteorological Agency reclassified the phenomenon as a tropical storm at midnight Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on November 4 and assigned the name Haiyan, after its winds had reached a measured speed of 40 miles (64 km) per hour. With winds increasing to 75 miles (120 km) per hour sometime during the early afternoon on November 5, Haiyan had become a typhoon.
Super Typhoon Haiyan mapMap of the path of Super Typhoon Haiyan. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The storm continued to increase in intensity, and the JTWC upgraded Haiyan to a super typhoon (equivalent to a strong category 4 or category 5 hurricane, with maximum sustained one-minute surface winds of at least 150 miles [241 km] per hour) at 2:45 pm GMT (10:45 pm local time) on November 6. At that moment Haiyan was located some 113 nautical miles (209 km) east-northeast of Palau and was moving westward at about 21 miles (about 34 km) per hour. Later in the day, the storm swelled to more than 500 miles (about 800 km) in diameter with a 9-mile- (14.5-km-) wide eye. Early in the morning of November 7, the storm's eye wall passed over Palau's Kayangel Islands with winds that, according to some reports, approached 155 miles (250 km) per hour. Haiyan's winds continued to increase through the day, rising to 195 miles (314 km) per hour with gusts measured at 235 miles (378 km) per hour.
Haiyan made landfall in the Philippines at the city of Guiuan on the island of Samar at 4:40 am local time on November 8. The storm's atmospheric pressure at that point was measured at 895 millibars (its lowest reading), and Haiyan had maximum sustained winds of 195 miles (314 km) per hour, the highest wind speed ever recorded at landfall. By 8:00 am local time, Haiyan had reached the city of Tacloban on the island of Leyte, with winds in excess of 185 miles (298 km) per hour.
The storm then moved across northern Leyte. After crossing the northern tip of Cebu and then Bantayan Island, its eye was centred over northern Panay by the early afternoon of November 8, and its maximum sustained winds had diminished slightly to 165 miles (265 km) per hour. By late evening the eye had moved west into the South China Sea, where its winds had fallen below 145 miles (233 km) per hour, and it was again reclassified as a typhoon.
Haiyan struck land once again near Ha Long Bay in Vietnam's Quang Ninh province at 5:00 am on November 10. By then the storm's winds had weakened to less than 85 miles (138 km) per hour at landfall. It turned northward into China's Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi by November 11, where it further weakened and was downgraded to a tropical storm.
Haiyan caused significant property damage in Palau, but no people were reported to have been killed there. Its passage through the Philippines, however, was catastrophic, beginning with its landfall at Guiuan. There the violent winds combined with a storm surge, causing widespread damage and hundreds of deaths. The storm's ferocity became even more pronounced as it slammed into Tacloban, and there were reports of 20-foot (6-metre) storm surges that hurled boats inland, collapsed buildings, and swept debris and people out to sea. The city was left largely in ruins, with thousands of people feared dead.
Haiyan continued its destructive path as it moved westward over the central Philippines. Cities reporting widespread devastation included Ormoc on the island of Leyte and Roxas on Panay. The storm also produced heavy and sustained downpours that dropped as much as 11 inches (280 mm) of rain and caused flooding and mudslides.
As Haiyan made its way across the South China Sea, Vietnamese officials ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate areas in the storm's expected path. In its more-diminished state, Haiyan caused wind damage and again brought heavy rains after it came ashore in northeastern Vietnam. The total number of deaths in both Vietnam and China, however, was some two dozen and included people who had died before the storm made landfall.
Rescue and relief efforts got under way almost immediately in the Philippines, but the extent of the destruction severely hampered access by aid workers, especially in the worst-hit and remoter areas. Even major cities like Tacloban were initially almost unreachable. The delay in providing relief supplies precipitated widespread looting in Tacloban and other cities in the first several days after the storm's passing. Relief personnel and supplies slowly began reaching affected areas as roads were cleared and airports made usable again. The Philippine government was aided by United Nations agencies, international relief organizations, and a large number of foreign countries. Included in the latter was a contingent of U.S. Marines brought into the Philippines from Japan to help with relief efforts. In addition, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier arrived in the area about a week after the storm had passed, and its fleet of helicopters was used to deliver supplies to stricken areas. Among other countries providing aid or personnel in the aftermath of the disaster were Australia, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, China, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
Overall casualty figures for the Philippines were sketchy in the early days after the disaster, especially because so many of the worst-affected areas were remote and had been rendered inaccessible by the storm. The official death toll quickly mounted from the hundreds to the thousands, surpassing 5,000 within two weeks of the storm. The number of people killed or missing continued to climb as relief workers expanded their searches and reached more isolated areas. Although early estimates for the final casualty count ranged up to 10,000 or more, by two months after the disaster the official toll for those dead or missing was about 8,000. By the end of the first week after the storm, the Philippine government was reporting that more than 800,000 people had been displaced and that some 8.7 million people were in some way affected by the storm. As relief work continued, however, the official numbers quickly rose to approximately 4 million displaced and in excess of 16 million overall affected. In addition, more than a million homes were reported to have been damaged, of which about half were completely destroyed.


to the selection list of your choice (Asset, User, Navigation or Style).
A second gotcha is that during upgrade, this file will probably be overwritten, so you should actually make a new file with the changes and refer to this in the Rich edit files or change it every upgrade.
bartjol: "Reading this again, I see that this will break every upgrade, since it is nowhere to be found in a conf file that won't be overridden during upgrade."


The White Fluted Platter fits perfectly in the modern home.
The White Fluted Platter fits perfectly in the modern home. A daily service for those who want it "little extra" without compromising on the quality or design. The plate is very elegant but retains the simplicity that gives you the benefit of mixing with other patterns and colors.


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Evolution myths: The bacterial flagellum is irreducibly complex
Life 16 April 2008
By Michael Le Page
Actually, flagella vary widely from one species to another, and some of the components can perform useful functions by themselves. They are anything but irreducibly complex
It is a highly complex molecular machine. Protruding from many bacteria are long spiral propellers attached to motors that drive their rotation. The only way the flagellum could have arisen, some claim, is by design.
Each flagellum is made of around 40 different protein components. The proponents of an offshoot of creationism known as intelligent design argue that a flagellum is useless without every single one of these components, so such a structure could not have emerged gradually via mutation and selection. It must have been created instead.
In reality, the term "the bacterial flagellum" is misleading. While much remains to be discovered, we now know there are thousands of different flagella in bacteria, which vary considerably in form and even function.
The best studied flagellum, of the E. coli bacterium, contains around 40 different kinds of proteins. Only 23 of these proteins, however, are common to all the other bacterial flagella studied so far. Either a "designer" created thousands of variants on the flagellum or, contrary to creationist claims, it is possible to make considerable changes to the machinery without mucking it up.
What's more, of these 23 proteins, it turns out that just two are unique to flagella. The others all closely resemble proteins that carry out other functions in the cell. This means that the vast majority of the components needed to make a flagellum might already have been present in bacteria before this structure appeared.
It has also been shown that some of the components that make up a typical flagellum – the motor, the machinery for extruding the "propeller" and a primitive directional control system – can perform other useful functions in the cell, such as exporting proteins.
Changing zooms
It has been proposed that the flagellum originated from a protein export system. Over time, this system might have been adapted to attach a bacterium to a surface by extruding an adhesive filament. An ion-powered pump for expelling substances from the cell might then have mutated to form the basis of a rotary motor. Rotating any asymmetrical filament would propel a cell and give it a huge advantage over non-motile bacteria even before more spiral filaments evolved.
Finally, in some bacteria flagella became linked to an existing system for directing movement in response to the environment. In E. coli, it works by changing flagella rotation from anticlockwise to clockwise and back again, causing a cell to tumble and then head off in a new direction.
Without a time machine it may never be possible to prove that this is how the flagellum evolved. However, what has been discovered so far – that flagella vary greatly and that at least some of the components and proteins of which they are made can carry out other useful functions in the cells – show that they are not "irreducibly complex".
More generally, the fact that today's biologists cannot provide a definitive account of how every single structure or organism evolved proves nothing about design versus evolution. Biology is still in its infancy, and even when our understanding of life and its history is far more complete, our ability to reconstruct what happened billions of years ago will still be limited.
Think of a stone archway: hundreds of years after the event, how do you prove how it was built? It might not be possible to prove that the builders used wooden scaffolding to support the arch when it was built, but this does not mean they levitated the stone blocks into place. In such cases Orgel's Second Rule should be kept in mind: "Evolution is cleverer than you are."
Read all the myths in our Evolution Special


If you are attending any of the YHEC training courses, this page should answer some of your questions about booking accommodation and travel to the event.
Training courses run at the University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD. Specific rooms will vary, but details will be provided in the delegate welcome email one week before the course.
Which accomodation is closest to the venue?
The University of York has conference accommodation which can be booked in advance. There are also many hotels and B&B's in the surrounding areas (YO10 for University, YO1 for City Centre).
Leeds Bradford Airport is the closest airport to York. From Leeds Bradford Airport you can take the bus to Leeds train station, then the train to York. More details can be found here . Alternatively, you could get a taxi from the Airport to York Centre which takes around 60 minutes.
Manchester Airport is also well connected and there is a train directly from the airport to York station which takes around 90 minutes.
There are frequent buses (66 or 44) from the train station and city centre to the University of York which take around 20 minutes. They cost £1.50 or £2 return and you buy the ticket on board. A taxi from the city centre or train station will cost around £6-8. The taxi service we normally use is Fleetways (01904 645 333) or if you are arriving by train, Station Taxis (01904 623 332).
Is there parking at the University?
We strongly recommend not bringing one's own car to campus, as parking is very limited, but there are some pay and display parking options on campus. We advise arriving early to secure a space.
Payment can be made securely by card using the link provided on the booking form, alternatively you can choose to receive an invoice. York Health Economics Consortium is unable to grant extended credit and therefore must request that full payment be made within 21 days from the date of invoice. Should payment not be received within 21 days from the date of invoice, York Health Economics Consortium will apply an administration charge of £40+VAT. All payments must be received before attending the training course.
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Feel the mild breeze on board and enjoy the lake from its most beautiful side. We take you to the most beautiful places around Lake Constance. From March to October we sail daily from all BSB landing stages.


Um…have you looked at the test gear used? The force is applied centrally, and braced at the ends, and then spreads across the WHOLE DEVICE, increasing until bad things happen. If there were such a proverbial glass jaw it would have broken there, and earlier than actually found. Remember: Apple tested the dog poo out of these things, then allowed third parties into their labs to see for themselves, then the tests were independently verified. Consumer Reports has historically been no friend of Apple, and would not have hesitated to raise that as an issue if it existed. I'm still waiting for answer to the question: have any of these anecdotal bending reports ever been independently substantiated as to what actually happened?
Would you please put those goalposts back? Thinking people might need them.


Tsui C-jung, Wang P, Fleischmann KR, Oard D, Sayeed AB. 2010. Exploring the Relationships among ICTs: A Scalable Computational Approach Using KL Divergence and Hierarchical Clustering. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. :1-10.
Cheng A-S, Fleischmann KR, Wang P, Ishita E, Oard D. 2010. Values of Stakeholders in the Net Neutrality Debate: Applying Content Analysis to Telecommunications Policy. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. :1-10.
Oard D, Baron JR, Hedin B, Lewis DD, Tomlinson S. 2010. Evaluation of information retrieval for E-discovery. Artificial Intelligence and Law. 18:347-386.
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Elsayed T, Jimmy Lin, Oard D. 2009. Pairwise Document Similarity in Large Collections with MapReduce. Relation. 10(1.91):8372-8372.
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Fleischmann KR, Oard D, Cheng AS, Wang P, Ishita E. 2009. Automatic classification of human values: Applying computational thinking to information ethics. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 46(1):1-4.
Tsui C-jung, Wang P, Fleischmann K, Oard D, Sayeed A. 2009. Understanding IT Innovations Through Computational Analysis of Discourse. ICIS 2009 Proceedings.
Zhao FC, Oard D, Baron JR. 2009. Improving search effectiveness in the legal e-discovery process using relevance feedback. Proceedings of the global E-Discovery/E-Disclosure workshop on electronically stored information in discovery at the 12th international conference on artificial intelligence and law (ICAIL09 DESI Workshop). DESI Press, Barcelona.
Wang L, Oard D. 2009. Context-based message expansion for disentanglement of interleaved text conversations. Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. :200-208.
Oard D, He D, Wang J. 2008. User-assisted query translation for interactive cross-language information retrieval. Information Processing & Management. 44(1):181-211.
Elsayed T, Oard D, Namata G. 2008. Resolving personal names in email using context expansion. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Oard D. 2008. Unlocking the Potential of the Spoken Word. Science. 321(5897):1787-1788.
Jong F D, Oard D, Heeren W, Ordelman R. 2008. Access to recorded interviews. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage. 1:1-27.
Cheng AS, Fleischmann KR, Wang P, Oard D. 2008. Advancing social science research by applying computational linguistics. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 45(1):1-12.
Zhang P, Soergel D, Klavans JL, Oard D. 2008. Extending sense-making models with ideas from cognition and learning theories. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 45(1):23-23.
Olsson JS, Oard D. 2008. Combining Speech Retrieval Results with Generalized Additive Models. ACL'08: Proceedings of the 2008 Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
Zhang P, Plettenberg L, Klavans JL, Oard D, Soergel D. 2007. Task-based interaction with an integrated multilingual, multimedia information system: a formative evaluation. Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries. :117-126.
Wang J, Oard D. 2007. CLEF-2006 CL-SR at Maryland: English and Czech. Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval. :786-793.
Jong F D, Oard D, Ordelman R, Raaijmakers S. 2007. Searching spontaneous conversational speech. ACM SIGIR Forum. 41:104-104.
Olsson SJ, Oard D. 2007. Improving text classification for oral history archives with temporal domain knowledge. Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. :623-630.
Elsayed T, Oard D. 2006. Modeling identity in archival collections of email: A preliminary study. Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS 06). :95-103.
Peters C, Clough P, Gey F, Karlgren J, Magnini B, Oard D, De Rijke M, Stempfhuber M. 2006. Evaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval-Seventh Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 19-21, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Seventh Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006.
Wang J, Oard D. 2006. Clef-2005 cl-sr at maryland: Document and query expansion using side collections and thesauri. Accessing Multilingual Information Repositories. :800-809.
Wang J, Oard D. 2006. Combining bidirectional translation and synonymy for cross-language information retrieval. Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. :202-209.
Levow GA, Oard D, Resnik P. 2005. Dictionary-based cross-language retrieval. Information Processing and Management. 41:523-547.
Levow G-A, Oard D, Resnik P. 2005. Dictionary-based techniques for cross-language information retrieval. Information Processing & Management. 41(3):523-547.
Oard D, Gonzalo J, Sanderson M, López-Ostenero F, Wang J. 2004. Interactive cross-language document selection. information retrieval. 7(1):205-228.
Dorr BJ, He D, Luo J, Oard D, Schwartz R, Wang J, Zajic D. 2004. iCLEF 2003 at Maryland: Translation selection and document selection. Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems. :231-265.
He D, Wang J, Luo J, Oard D. 2004. iCLEF 2004 at Maryland: Summarization design for interactive cross-language question answering. Proceeding of Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF2004).
Oard D. 2004. Transforming access to the spoken word. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Large-scale Knowledge Resources. :57-59.
Oard D, Soergel D, Doermann D, Huang X, Murray CG, Wang J, Ramabhadran B, Franz M, Gustman S, Mayfield J et al.. 2004. Building an information retrieval test collection for spontaneous conversational speech. Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. :41-48.
Dorr BJ, Monz C, Oard D, President S, Zajic D, Schwartz R. 2004. Extrinsic Evaluation of Automatic Metrics for Summarization.
Dorr BJ, He D, Luo J, Oard D, Schwartz R, Wang J, Zajic D. 2004. iCLEF 2003 at Maryland: Translation Selection and Document Selection. Comparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access SystemsComparative Evaluation of Multilingual Information Access Systems. 3237:231-265.
Oard D, Och FJ. 2003. Rapid-response machine translation for unexpected languages. Proceedings of the MT Summit IX.
Ma H, Karagol-Ayan B, Doermann D, Oard D, Wang J. 2003. Parsing and Tagging of Bilingual Dictionaries. TALTraitement Automatique Des Langues. 44(2):125-150.
He D, Wang J, Oard D, Nossal M. 2003. Comparing user-assisted and automatic query translation. Advances in cross-language information retrieval. :400-415.
Darwish K, Oard D. 2003. Probabilistic structured query methods. Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval. :338-344.
Kim J, Oard D, Soergel D. 2003. Searching large collections of recorded speech: A preliminary study. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 40(1):330-339.
Demner-Fushman D, Oard D. 2003. The effect of bilingual term list size on dictionary-based cross-language information retrieval. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2003.
Oard D. 2003. The surprise language exercises. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing. 2:79-84.
Oard D, Leuski A. 2003. Searching recorded speech based on the temporal extent of topic labels. AAAI Spring Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia Knowledge Management.
He D, Oard D, Wang J, Luo J, Demner-Fushman D, Darwish K, Resnik P, Khudanpur S, Nossal M, Subotin M et al.. 2003. Making miracles: Interactive translingual search for cebuano and hindi. ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP). 2(3):219-244.
Doermann D, Ma H, Karagol-Ayan B, Oard D. 2002. Lexicon Acquisition from Bilingual Dictionaries. SPIEPhotonic West Electronic Imaging Conference. :37-48.
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Darwish K, Oard D. 2002. Term selection for searching printed Arabic. Proceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval. :261-268.
Oard D, Demner-Fushman D, Hajic J, Ramabhadran B, Gustman S, Byrne WJ, Soergel D, Dorr BJ, Resnik P, Picheny M. 2002. Automatic transcription of Czech language oral history in the MALACH project: resources and initial experiments. Proceedings of the The 5th International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue. :57-64.
Oard D, Gey FC, Dorr BJ. 2002. Evaluating Arabic Retrieval from English or French Queries: The TREC-2001 Cross-Language Information Retrieval Track. Proceedings of the Post Workshop of LREC.
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On Sunday, August 29th, Japantown hosted the Lantern Festival which celebrated the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Japanese ship the Kanrin Maru to San Francisco Bay.
This event may have been a substitute for the neighborhood's annual Fall Festival where the Peace Plaza was used to for Obon line dancing and programs, however in previous years, the annual event was held in October.
I was excited to visit the place I call "home" to meet all my friends, but I was very disappointed with the event when I arrived to watch the last few hours.
Lack of advertising of event.
Lack of planning and preparation for event.
Master of ceremonies was a terrible public speaker. Did not give clear instructions to the Obon dancers.
Lantern parade was an embarrassment to our honored guests from Japan.
Huge gaps in the Obon line dancing. People did not spread-out evenly and refused to follow the chalk lines to make it look orderly.
If the Japantown community wants to host another similar festival like this, keep it at the Peace Plaza. It's more intimate in a smaller venue than literally using an entire city block.


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TROUBLES DON'T DETER OZOMATLI
RANDY LEWIS THE LOS ANGELES TIMESDaily Press
Band thrives despite run-ins with the law, label
There aren't a lot of bands that can say that leaving a major record label is the least of their concerns.
But then, there aren't a lot of bands like Ozomatli.
A 10-man bilingual rainbow coalition that forges salsa, hip-hop, funk, calypso, rock, mariachi, jazz, reggae and Afro-pop into a scintillating fusion, the L.A. collective is too busy just now to spend time fretting about leaving Interscope Records after one album.
Far from having its hopes of a mainstream breakthrough dashed, everything -- with one significant exception -- is looking up for the band. A new album for a new label is due in June, they're on a tour that includes a couple of hometown shows in the next week, and the group generated considerable excitement with its recent appearance at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
One review from South by Southwest, however, is the big exception to the rosy picture. That's the Austin Police Department's report on the band's performance at the Exodus club, which ended with the arrests of two members and the group's manager.
They'd brush the whole affair off with a smile if they could. In fact, bassist Willy "Wil-Dog" Abers, singer-guitarist Raul Pacheco and singer-woodwind player Ulises Bella did exhibit a sense of humor about the Austin trip during an interview before a benefit show Ozomatli played recently at East Los Angeles College.
They chuckled over a reference to the band's "weapons of mass syncopation" in one newspaper story about police response to the band's traditional concert-ending conga line, which spilled into the street around 2:30 a.m. They've even printed up new T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Free the Ozo 3."
Band members dismissed speculation in the music community that the incident had anything to do with the liberal views often expressed in Ozomatli's songs and the fact that the problem occurred in President Bush's home state.
"In one sense I wish that were the case, but it wasn't," Abers said. "Before we went, we really felt we were going to get our name out there and tear the town up. There was no idea it was going to end up this way, with these hideous accusations."
What's preventing them from letting go with a full-fledged laugh is a third-degree felony assault charge looming over percussionist Jiro Yamaguchi. He's accused of striking a police officer with the tom-tom that provides the beat for the conga line.
Police said that by leaving the club and performing in the street, Ozomatli violated Austin's noise ordinance. Authorities also say the band was slow to respond to instructions to go back inside.
The band's position, supported by the account of an Austin Chronicle reporter who witnessed the performance and its aftermath, is that Yamaguchi was simply holding the drum over his head while complying with officers' orders and that he dropped it only after being hit by a dose of pepper spray.
"We're going to fight it all the way," said manager Amy Sue Blackman-Romero, who was charged with interfering with police procedure, a misdemeanor (as is the charge facing Abers for violating a noise ordinance). The three spent less than 24 hours in jail before being released.
While hoping their lawyer will succeed in having the charges dropped, the band members are moving ahead with plans to capitalize on their new deal with the jazz-based Concord Records label, which is branching out by signing Ozomatli and releasing the new "Street Signs" album, due June 22.
"Interscope is really good with about three styles of music: pop-rock, pop-alternative and hip-hop," Abers says. "We didn't fit any of them. We owed them one more album, but we asked to get out of that commitment, and they let us, so it worked out well in the end."
Beyond the uphill battle facing any band that doesn't fall comfortably into any one genre, Ozomatli also faced the challenge of promoting an album, "Embrace the Chaos," released on the worst day imaginable: Sept. 11, 2001. It sold just 75,000 copies. "We survive regardless," Pacheco says. "Even with all that, we had three labels interested in signing us. So obviously someone still thinks we're worth something."
While continuing to work on the new album, the band whipped up "Coming Together," a six-song EP available at www.ozomatli.com. Its more integrated blend of the myriad musical strains each member brings to the mix provides a clue into what awaits fans in "Street Signs."
One of the most intriguing cuts from the EP, which Ozomatli played near the end of the East L.A. College show, is the title track. It leads off with spacey electronic effects, shifts into a gentle South American percussion workout over which Bella plays a Middle Eastern-like melody on clarinet, and segues into muscular Latin funk. It's an evocation of the song's "one world" plea for peace, and it had several hundred fans up from their seats, dancing and thinking simultaneously.
"That's more of what we want to do," Pacheco says. "Everyone tends to bring their own flavors. When we're working on a song, somebody will say, 'That rhythm can work here if we try it this way.' "
Bands usually survive longer as benign dictatorships, yet Ozomatli remains a democracy -- "as much as it can be," Pacheco adds.
"Sometimes coming to a decision is a long, drawn-out process," he says, making it sound much like democracy in the real world. "It's never perfect."
South by Southwest


I just bought issue 272 and it comes with in my mind its 1st ever free gift a car air freshner.I have been buying viz since the 80's and this is 1st time i have seen it come with a free gift so i'm suspecting sales could be down as they have never to my knowledge needed a free gift before,i'm not counting those pull out calenders every christmas as they are not free gifts in my mind.
Issue 1 came with a free ice cream. I've still got mine.
Better than that- a picture of a nice cream stapled in !
There's been a few free gifts over the years. A mini profanasaurus stapled to the outer cover comes to mind.
Issue 268 had some stickers as a free gift.
i completely forgot about those but i hope i'm wrong viz is in trouble if it has to resort to free gifts.
Sales have fallen (just over 48,000 per issue in 2016, the 2017 figures not in yet) but no sign of it being in trouble yet.
Did you see that an original two page Roger Mellie from Viz 36 sold on eBay last weekend for £968? A nice gift but not a free one.
No, didn't see that. That's an excellent price! My Viz pages tended to go for around £100 to £160 although I haven't sold any for a year or two.