Cost becomes bigger question in treating heart disease

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Breaking Up With Coach K

Duke Blue Devils head coach Mike Krzyzewski argues with an official during the game against the Ohio State Buckeyes at Value City Arena on Nov. 29, 2011 in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State beat Duke 85-63.

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During last year?s NCAA basketball tournament, fans around the country were treated to something almost as sweet as seeing their own teams win the national championship: watching Duke lose. In its opening game. To Lehigh. My schadenfreude was slightly different from everyone else?s, but it was schadenfreude, and this was new. I?d never been one of those Duke haters. In fact, I?d been a Duke fan for more than two decades, since my first years as a graduate student in Durham, when, despite my many aversions to life in the Gothic Wonderland (e.g., people calling it the Gothic Wonderland), I began to treat the school?s basketball triumphs as my own. But I can?t root for the Blue Devils anymore. When they play John Calipari?s Kentucky Wildcats on Tuesday, I?ll be rooting for Kentucky, sort of, but I?ll really be rooting against the NCAA. Kentucky is the ugly truth the NCAA wants to hide, and Duke is the hysterical lie they hide it with.

As a Ph.D. student, I did the usual TA stints in giant lecture classes. I graded athletes? essays, and I knew the unfortunate work I was reading signaled admissions standards bent for the sake of ACC and NCAA championships. My broader suspicions, though, were neutralized by the heroic profile of Coach K. I?d both played and coached high-school basketball, and, for me, the living myth of Mike Krzyzewski was irresistible. A bonus, at a relatively small school like Duke, was the regular chance to run in pickup games with Coach K?s players, who were usually gracious and even generous with the ball, though you could often feel a certain condescension when they passed it to you.

It wasn?t just ex-jocks like me, apprenticing with former students of Allan Bloom in the stodgy political science department. Coach K?s aura filled the most radical graduate lounges. Young Lacanians and Derrideans, honing their hermeneutic chops under Fredric Jameson and Stanley Fish, could be found cheering alongside preppy, heteronormative undergrads at local bars. Coach K made this possible. College basketball was notoriously corrupt, and college sports in general were a problem on several levels, and sharing Final Four ecstasies with those undergrads could make you feel a little funny, if you thought too much about it. But, on Coach K?s authority, we let ourselves join in on the self-celebration. He was a different sort of college coach. The exception. The ideal.

But in so desperately seizing onto Coach K as this ideal, we were conceding the indictment against his profession. Our admiration was actually an untenable form of relief. Finally, we thought, here?s someone whose comportment and reputation do not obviously mock us for losing ourselves in his sport, for treating it as a purer form of competition: ?The College Game.? He?s an exception. There has to be someone, the ideal coach who embodies the true spirit of amateur sports, who allows us to go on imbibing their incredible drama. The theoretical possibility of this ideal coach redeems our exultation and dejection on those autumn Saturdays, and during ?Championship Week? and ?March Madness.? It eases the yearly nausea of ?Bowl Season.?

But what is this ideal coach an exception to? Famous scofflaws, presumably, like Jim Tressel and Barry Switzer, and whoever was most recently fired at the University of Miami, and the other less notorious but still kind of sketchy heads of major ?programs? in college football and basketball. The ideal is an exception to the familiar run of characters who make up the coaching ranks of big-time college sports, people whose jobs depend on a wide array of legal scams and sanctioned loopholes: the slippery promises of recruiting, degraded standards in admissions and academics, eligibility schemes that shunt players into gut classes but leave them far from any degree when their scholarships run out. And, for many coaches, there are the seven-figure contracts and rich sponsorship deals they take for themselves as they bask in the legal and sentimental light of amateurism, and also in the cultural authority of the universities whose standards they corrupt.

Of course, the ideal coach can?t really be an exception, not if he wants to?as they say?compete.?That?s his job description, too. Somehow, people considered Joe Paterno, living by his own laws inside the private reality of his luxurious football complex, an exception. But he merely lacked certain outward traits we?ve come to expect in the men who lead our major ?programs??that familiar combination of big-boss imperiousness and con-man dodginess. We needed Joe Pa to be someone who doesn?t exist, and he did sort of look like that person, and that was good enough for us.

So maybe we should idealize the typical coaching persona instead, hold it up as the awful truth it represents, challenge ourselves to face this truth, and license ourselves to enjoy ?The College Game? only when we?ve proven brave enough to dwell in its hideousness. It might be unpleasant at first, but it would save us a lot of cognitive dissonance in the long run.

Perhaps, then, our new coaching ideal should be Calipari, a man hired to lead one of college basketball?s greatest programs despite an almost comically sordid coaching history. It turns out that vacated championships and forfeited seasons are not too shameful a legacy for the University of Kentucky, storied home of Adolph Rupp. (But then, why would they be?) We?d find it edifying to treat Calipari as our model, to fetishize his example. He is, after all, exemplary. Even during those years when he?s observing the rules as written, his daily job involves ethical shortcuts and competitive stratagems that are more or less exactly as sketchy as the vibe he gives off during chats with Tony and Mike on Pardon the Interruption: the nervous good humor of someone who?s just been released on a technicality. Imbibe that spirit, if you can.

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Report: HTC Paying Apple up to $8 per Phone

HTC could be shilling out between $6 and $8 to Apple per phone the company sells as part of the companies recent licensing settlement, according to Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu.

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Hints And Helpers For Your Home Improvement Project | Sacred ...

Home improvement is a great way to improve the comfort of your home and increase the value. It?s vital that you learn how to handle projects prior to starting them so that you can lessen the risk of mistakes. This way, you can ensure your satisfaction and money?s worth from your home improvement efforts, with the great advice in this article!

TIP! If a contractor will be performing your project, keep records. Avoid thinking the contractor will do that for you.

Think about using stain instead of paint on your baseboards for your next home improvement. Warm, natural wood brings classic style to any decor. Less maintenance is involved in the upkeep of stained baseboards and touch-ups are less noticeable. There are a wide variety of stain colors that you can explore until you find one that is a right fit for you.

Check to see that the caulking in your home is still in good shape. Take the time to inspect the caulk around your tub, sink and/or toilet. When moisture gets into walls, it can cause damage and encourage the formation of unhealthy mold and mildew. Failing caulking is an easy way for water to get inside walls. When water gets through cracks or holes in your caulking, it can head straight for the floor, causing rot. When applying the new caulk, ensure all of the old material has been removed and dry thoroughly. This will cause the newly placed caulking to adhere the right way, forming a good waterproof seal.

TIP! Don?t overlook landscaping when looking to home improvements projects. Believe it or not, when people see your home, initially they notice the front lawn.

Whatever your home improvement project, you need a designated space for all waste and debris that piles up as a result of your projects. Removing construction debris can be costly if you do not plan properly, and you can avoid project delays by planning ahead.

Thoroughly dust your home at least one time every week. Dust will build up and you may have allergies that make you sick. Cleaning your accessories not only guarantees that you are rid of the dust and dirt, it also helps check for uninvited guests such as spiders, ants or fleas.

TIP! Think about the amount your home?s value will increase before doing a home improvement project. The best course of action is to concentrate your efforts on projects that provide the maximum possible benefit for the time and money you spend on them.

Small rooms can look dark and dull, but this can be changed. You can invite the light inside. Do some window cleaning so they sparkle, then open your drapes. Natural lighting can add so much to a room; even seeming to increase the size. Keep your room clutter free and paint the walls with pale colors. Your tiny room won?t seem all that tiny anymore.

If your home has a wooden deck or patio, it helps to know the signs that indicate the need for repairs and upgrades. Search for uneven surfaces or imperfections in the wood, as well as faulty nails or loose screws.

TIP! Beware of contractors who wants to be paid in cash: they might be working illegally. You aren?t going to have a paper trail if you pay with cash; you are not going to be able to do anything if he doesn?t complete the work and takes your money.

There are two main ways that you can make your ceiling look like it is higher than it actually is. Either use a floor lamp that is tall or paint stripes. This can be a good way to enhance the look of your room. This makes the ceiling seem really high.

TIP! Basements generally don?t get much in the way of natural lighting. To ensure your basement is more livable, plan your artificial lighting layout carefully.

A home improvement project, correctly done, can make your living space more enjoyable and increase your home?s value. By contrast, a poorly done project can prove quite the hassle. Hopefully, you?ve found the tips written here to be helpful and you will surely be a success when it comes to any home improvement project that you plan to start.

Peter Barret is a home improvement expert and enjoys sharing his knowledge about the property industry.

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'Little Miss Sunshine' writer to pen new 'Star Wars' film

All we need now is a director and some actors.

(Credit: Lucasfilm)

It looks like the next "Star Wars" movie might get completed faster than it took to construct the second Death Star.

Disney and Lucasfilm have chosen Michael Arndt to write the screenplay for "Star Wars: Episode VII," the long-awaited follow-up to the 1983 epic "Return of the Jedi."

For those unfamiliar with Arndt, he won an Academy Award for penning "Little Miss Sunshine" and then earned a nomination for "Toy Story 3." In the years that followed, Arndt picked up screenwriting duties for the upcoming films "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire," "Oblivion," and an untitled Pixar movie.

Coincidentally (or maybe not so much), it appears Arndt often used the story arc of the original "Star Wars" movie as an inspirational teaching tool when speaking to aspiring writers. According to Vulture, several years ago Arndt spoke publicly about how G... [Read more]

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Understanding antibiotic resistance using crystallography and computation

ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2012) ? Scientists at the University of Bristol, together with collaborators at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, have solved the structure of an enzyme that breaks down carbapenems , antibiotics 'of last resort' which, until recently, were kept in reserve for serious infections that failed to respond to other treatments.

Increasingly, bacteria such as E. coli are resisting the action of carbapenems by producing enzymes (carbapenemases) that break a specific chemical bond in the antibiotic, destroying its antimicrobial activity.

Carbapenemases are members of the group of enzymes called beta-lactamases that break down penicillins and related antibiotics, but it has not been clear why carbapenemases can destroy carbapenems while other beta-lactamases cannot.

Using molecular dynamics simulations, Professor Adrian Mulholland in the School of Chemistry and Dr Jim Spencer in the School of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, showed how a particular type of carbapenemase enzyme reorients bound antibiotic to promote its breakdown and render it ineffective.

Professor Mulholland said: "The class of antibiotics called carbapenems, drugs related to penicillin, are increasingly important in healthcare as treatments for bacterial infections. Until recently, carbapenems were 'antibiotics of last resort' but the growing problem of resistance to other drugs in organisms like E. coli (the leading cause of bloodstream infections in the UK) means that carbapenems are now becoming first-choice antibiotics for these infections. This is a worry because there are very few other treatment options for these organisms. Few new antibiotics effective against these pathogens are reaching the clinic.

"The recent appearance and spread of bacteria that resist carbapenems is a serious and growing problem: potentially, we could be left with no effective antibiotic treatments for these infections. The emergence of bacteria that resist carbapenems is therefore very worrying."

In a study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), the scientists combined laboratory experiments with computer simulations to investigate how one particular type of carbapenemase recognises and breaks down antibiotics.

Using X-ray crystallography, they obtained two 'snapshots' of the carbapenemase in the act of breaking down a carbapenem antibiotic. This static structural information was used as a starting point for simulations that modelled the motions of the enzyme and the bound antibiotic.

The simulations showed how the carbapenemase reorients the drug to promote its breakdown. In beta-lactamases that cannot break down carbapenems, this rearrangement cannot happen, and so the enzyme cannot break down the antibiotic. Knowing this should help in designing new drugs that can resist being broken down.

Dr Spencer said: "Combining laboratory and computational techniques in this way gave us a full picture of the origins of antibiotic resistance. Our crystallographic results provided structures which were the essential starting point for the simulations and the simulations were key to understanding the dynamic behaviour of the enzyme-bound drug.

"Identifying the molecular interactions that make an enzyme able to break down the drug, as we have done here, is an important first step towards modifying the drug to overcome bacterial antibiotic resistance."

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1. F?tima Fonseca, Ewa I. Chudyk, Marc W. van der Kamp, Ant?nio Correia, Adrian J. Mulholland, James Spencer. The Basis for Carbapenem Hydrolysis by Class A ?-Lactamases: A Combined Investigation using Crystallography and Simulations. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012; 134 (44): 18275 DOI: 10.1021/ja304460j

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Choosing to Cherish: The Ministry of Motherhood - Part 2

You can read the Part 1 here

Before we had kids, Chris and I are involved in various ministries {teaching Sunday School, leading small groups, helping with facility team, leading worship, greeting/ care ministry, and serving as deacon} at church. Almost every week we have to come to church early. When Max was born, I stopped volunteering for a little while then slowly got back to the regular ministries.

'Till one day: I?was teaching Children Choir and Chris has to help cleaning the church after service and no one was available to watch Max who was then only 6 months old. That night Chris and I had a long talk and we agreed on two "Guardrails" {We didn't call it Guardrails at that time. I came up with that word after listening to Andy Stanley podcast?}:
1. Either one of us has to be available to take care of the kid(s)
2. We have to ask each other before accepting any new appointment, commitment or responsibilities, which involve our family.
Looking back, those two agreements have helped us in making decision in many situations and strengthen our trust, respect, and appreciation of each other.

At this season of life with two young kids
a. We no longer volunteer at the homeless shelter?because Chris work on Saturday. So what we do instead is when we bake something, we bake extra and share with our next door neighbors, homeless on the street, and so on.
b. I no longer lead worship service or coordinate children choir but I lead worship every morning at home.
c. We no longer serve as greeters at church but we sometimes invite new comers or any family for dinner at our home.
d. At this season, we may not be able to go out for mission trips but we can support others who go or sponsor children in need.?Max's teachers set a great example for us when she share that ever?since her three kids are old enough, they start to go on summer mission trip together as family.
e. We may not be able to join the church's prayer meeting but we still can pray together as family after all Jesus told us it only takes 2-3 people.
What we learned is having small kids does not mean we stop serving but we serve differently.

A little while ago I listened to one of Francis Chan's messages on youtube. I forgot which one but there he shared that his wife, Lisa is a very gifted woman. Earlier on their marriage, when Francis was called to plant a church, his wife was offered a recording contract. She turned it down, however, because she knew that if she pursued it then she won't be able to support Francis with what God called him to do.

Although that's all that Francis' shared, the story didn't just end there. A few weeks ago Fonda wrote a?blog post?about their daughter: Rachel?who became singer/ song writer. Fonda wrote:?"Despite being young, all the lyrics reflect a sense of security in her identity in Christ. The songs also talk about friendship, boys, uncertain future, peer pressure in an honest way - all in light of who she is in Christ."

Lisa didn't end up being a recording artist but instead she become her husband biggest supporter and mother of their 5 children. As Francis Chan said, he won't be able to do what he does and there won't be Cornerstone Church if it wasn't because of her.

I want to close this post with this quote:
"A mother impact is irreplaceable and necessary to the spiritual formation of children who will be the future adults of the next generation. Fun, comfort, humor, graciousness, spiritual passion, compassion for the lost, hospitality, chores, meals, training, life-giving words, hours and hours of listening and playing and praying and reading?all are parts of the mosaic which go into the process of soul development.

Moms, God is calling us to a work that is quite important?He will give us the strength and supply us with wisdom one day at a time. He will listen to our prayers. But most of all, we have to be willing to bend over backwards to meet needs and to encourage and to figure out a new game plan, because we are His guard in a fallen, tempting world; we are His hands and words of comfort and wisdom; and we are His voice to tell our children that we love them and believe in them, even in the midst of their immaturity. May He give grace to each of you today!" Sally Clarkson

He must become greater; I must become less." John 3:30

Source: http://www.chriskiki.com/2012/11/the-ministry-of-motherhood-part-2.html

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The Chosen Few

Jewish Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz, Albert Einstein, and Elie Wiesel

Photos by Raimond Spekking, Wikimedia Commons, and Erling Mandelmann.

Every year, after the announcement of the latest round of Nobel Prize winners, the inboxes of many journalists are inundated with emails suggesting a crucial matter in need of investigation: why the Jews, only the tiniest fraction of the world's population and only around 1 percent of the total population of the United States and Europe, have received more than 20 percent of Nobel Prizes. While the question can seem silly, it actually speaks to larger issues of educational and economic equality: how Jews have achieved success in the past and whether they'll survive as a people in the future.

Jews, as a whole, have done very well for themselves in the West since World War II: Besides the aforementioned Nobel prizes, American Jews, according to one of the largest studies, are nearly twice as likely to have a college degree as the average American and more than four times as likely to have a graduate degree. This translates into a serious economic advantage: American Jews are roughly 33 percent more likely to be employed in a high-status job category, and Jewish households here report around 25 percent higher income than the average American household.

While examining such a phenomenon would have been unthinkable a few decades ago?when Jews generally tended to be more frightened of raising the kinds of topics anti-Semites like to talk about?the past decade or so has seen a wellspring of effort devoted to tackling what's variously described as Jewish "literacy," "superiority," or any number of other things, including "chosenness."

The core theory usually derives from a mix of two themes that stand out in Jewish history: an emphasis on education and a tendency to be persecuted. For the former, the rabbis of the Talmud and thereafter were fierce advocates of universal primary education, with the best-known example being a Jewish boy indicating his achievement of Jewish adulthood by reading publicly from the Torah at a bar mitzvah. (Universal primary education was boys-only until at least the late 19^th century.) In regard to persecution, a common notion is that Jews weren't allowed to own land throughout much of their history in exile and thus were forced to invest in a form of personal capital that could be of value across geographies. There are other theories, too, some even including a notion of simple genetic superiority, by way of an idea that Jewish communities modified natural selection through upholding scholars as examples of the proper way to be, providing them the choicest wives and expecting them to have many children.

The problem with so many of the theories thus far expounded is that they have gaping holes in logic or evidence so large that let's just say they'd never make it into the Talmud. By far the largest fault with them is the reality that many of these arguments rely on an idea of the Jewish past that we don't have any good reason to think is true; just because the rabbis desired it doesn't mean it was necessarily so. And our overall received notions of a Jewish community that was fiercely observant and often Orthodox also have little evidence to back them up. (And, as Alana Newhouse revealed a couple of years ago, even the images we have of a fiercely pious Jewish shtetl have been largely manipulated.)

Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein started jawing over the issue of the Jews' economic history in the Boston University cafeteria 12 years ago, and the resulting research, conferences, and communication since has produced the first of a two-volume work, The Chosen Few, that tackles these issues in a way no one has before, taking an interdisciplinary approach to this basic question.

By combining a very thorough look at the historical record with new economic and demographic analyses, the authors summarily dismiss a great many of the underlying assumptions that have produced theories around Jewish literacy in the past. Where many tied the Jewish move into professional trades to the European era when Jews were persecuted, Botticini and Eckstein bring forward evidence that the move away from the unlettered world of premodern agriculture actually happened a thousand years earlier, when Jews were largely free to pursue the profession of their choice. And where so many have simply taken as a given universal literacy among Jews, the economists find that a majority of Jews actually weren't willing to invest in Jewish education, with the shocking result that more than two-thirds of the Jewish community disappeared toward the end of the first millennium.

Botticini and Eckstein pore over the Talmud and notice the simple fact that it's overwhelmingly concerned with agriculture, which, in conjunction with archaeological evidence from the first and second century, paints a picture of a Jewish past where literacy was the privilege of an elite few. But these rabbis were also touting a vision of a future Judaism quite different from that which had been at least symbolically dominant for much of Jewish history to that point. Where a focus on the Temple in Jerusalem, with ritual sacrifices and the agricultural economy they required being the standard to that point, these rabbis?broadly speaking, the Pharisees?sought to emphasize Torah reading, prayer, and synagogue. When the sect of Judaism that emphasized the Temple?broadly, the Sadducees?was essentially wiped out by the Romans shortly after the time of Jesus, the Pharisaic leaders, in the form of the sages of the Talmud, were given a mostly free hand to reshape Judaism in their own image. Over the next several hundred years, they and their ideological descendants codified the Talmud and declared a need for universal Jewish education as they did so.

All of this history is widely known and understood, but what Botticini and Eckstein do differently is trace this development alongside the size of the Jewish population and their occupational distribution. The Jewish global population shrunk from at least 5 million to as little as 1 million between the year 70 and 650. It's not surprising that a conquered people, stifled rebellions, and loss of home would lead to population shrinkage, but Botticini and Eckstein argue that "War-related massacres and the general decline in the population accounted for about half of this loss." Where did the remaining 2 million out of 3 million surviving Jews go? According to them, over multiple generations they simply stopped being Jewish: With the notion of Jewish identity now tied directly to literacy by the surviving Pharisaic rabbis of the Talmud, raising one's children as Jews required a substantial investment in Jewish education. To be able to justify that investment, one had to be either or both an especially devoted Jew or someone hoping to find a profession for his children where literacy was an advantage, like trade, crafts, and money lending. For those not especially devoted and having little hope of seeing their children derive economic benefit from a Jewish education, the option to simply leave the Jewish community, the economists argue, was more enticing than the option to remain as its unlettered masses. Two-thirds of the surviving Jewish population, they assert, took that route.

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=33c7a994eb7bcbd20dbdfcf4c8d2146a

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Tonight's the night: Top PR agencies contest ... - Bath Business News

The region?s top PR agencies and practitioners go head to head this evening at the 2012 West of England CIPR PRide Awards.

The winners will be announced at a glittering ceremony and dinner at the Grand Hotel, Bristol. Bristol Business News will carry full details of all the winners and runners-up this weekend.

Among those shortlisted is Bath-based Geometry PR for its Axe the Pasty Tax campaign in the Best Use of Media Relations category.?

The full 2012 West of England CIPR PRide Awards shortlist is:

Corporate and Business Communications

• Barefoot Media
  A storm brewing: launching the Harbour Brewing Co.
• Geometry PR
  Up Close & Personal
• Grayling/Offshore Marine Management (OMM)
  Marine PR that was made to measure
• Leapfrog PR
  PKL ? Olympic Catering Equipment Shortage Warning
• Zurich and AIFA
  Zurich fights for advisers

Not-for-Profit

• Communications Team, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust
  Say No to Norovirus
• Golley Slater PR
  The Big Lunch 2012
• Grayling/Wessex Reserve Forces & Cadets Association
  Supporting the Region's Reservists
• The Honest Truth Partnership
  The Honest Truth

Best Campaign ?10,000 and Under

• Barefoot Media
  A storm brewing: launching the Harbour Brewing Co.
• First Great Western
  It's a wrap
• Renegade Media
  GCHQ ?Can you crack it??
• Spirit PR for Icon Films
  River Monsters
• The Honest Truth Partnership
  The Honest Truth
• Wild Card
  The Spirit of Cornwall: The First Cornish Whiskey

Best Sporting Campaign (new category)

• Media Safari/Ottobock
  Passion for Paralympics

Healthcare (new category)

• Media Safari/Ottobock
  Getting back to where you once were
• Media Safari/Siemens Hearing Instruments
  Live out loud ? Challenging the stigma of hearing loss

Consumer Relations

• 10 Yetis PR Agency/ Wish.co.uk
  Zombies, zombies, read all about them!
• Barefoot Media
  Lambing Live at The Olde House

Best use of Media Relations

• First Great Western
  Great Western Capacity Improvements
• Geometry PR
  Axe the Pasty Tax
• Inside Media
  Going the extra mile for Continental Tyres
• Media Safari/Ottobock
  One small step for man, one giant leap for the future of prosthetics
• PamLloyd PR
  Sweet Eve Strawberries ? British Born and Bred
• Spirit PR for Icon Films
  River Monsters ? the one that didn't get away

Integrated Communications

• Renegade Media
  Ellenborough Park
• The Vine
  Ignite 2012

Best Use of Social Media

• Media Safari/Ottobock
  Engaging disability communities through social media dialogue
• PamLloyd PR
  Pink Lady Apples ? Join the Club

External Publication

• Communications Team, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust
  'Insight' the magazine for the RUH
• Marilyn Smith/Wessex Water
  Wessex Water's customer magazine
• NHS Bristol
  The Bright Ones book
• PamLloyd PR
  Pollybell ? The Organic Farming Experts
• The Honest Truth Partnership
  The Honest Truth Resource Booklet
• Triodos Bank
  The Colour of Money

Best Event

• Grayling/St David's
  Ladies' night at St David's
• Leapfrog PR
  Hotelympia 10K

Outstanding Young Communicator

• Ben Veal MCIPR
  Plum Communications & PR
• Ellie Lean MCIPR
  PamLloyd PR

Outstanding Small Consultancy

• Inside Media
• Leapfrog PR
• Plum Communications & PR

Outstanding Public Relations Consultancy

• Grayling
  A different kind of PR consultancy
• Inside Media
  Small But Mighty
• PamLloyd PR
  Pamlloyd Fresh Produce Marketing & PR

Crisis Communications

• Geometry PR
  Axe the Pasty Tax

Best Use of Photography or Design

• Haslimann Taylor
  Heritage Bathrooms: New Victoria
• Media Safari/Ottobock
  One small step for man, one giant leap for the future of prosthetics
• PamLloyd PR
  British Asparagus ? Best of British
• The Honest Truth Partnership
  The Honest Truth

Regional Campaign of the Year

• Grayling/English Heritage
  Days out worth talking about
• NHS Bristol
  Bristol Van Man

Flashback to last year's CIPR PRide winners:

Source: http://www.bath-business.net/tonights-the-night-top-pr-agencies-contest-prestigious-cipr-pride-awards/

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Tatsunoko VS Capcom to disappear from the shelves | Video Game ...

By Francesco De MeoPublished: 08 November 2012 2:27 AM UTC

Posted in: News, Nintendo News

Tags: batsu, capcom, casshan, crossover, expired rights, ken the eagle, ryu, tatsunoko, Wii

If you have waited up until now to grab a copy of Tatsunoko Vs Capcom: Ultimate All Stars, the Capcom Wii fighting game starring Tatsunoko Productions characters like Ken the Eagle, Cashan, Hurrican Polimar and Capcom?s favorites like Ryu, Megaman and many more, you better?hurry up: Capcom won?t send new shipments to stores.

Tatsunoko VS Capcom can be considered as a spin-off of the Vs series since it was the only game not featuring Marvel characters like the other entries at that time, not counting the Capcom Vs Snk games. The game was released on December 2008 and it marked the resurgence of the VS series which seemed to be dead after Capcom lost the Marvel characters rights: the choice on Tatsunoko Production was made for its popularity in both Japan and in West, even though a release overseas seeemed unlikely at the time of the japanese release due to the rights of the Tatsunoko characters.
Gameplay wise it?s the standard VS gameplay style: players choose 2 characters each that can be freely swapped during the fight, can perform assist attacks when inactive and unleash powerful combination attacks. The Capcom lineup in the game was also very diverse: except for Ryu and Chun-Li, all the other characters never appeared in a crossover fighting game before.

It happened in the past and it?s happening again: the reason why Capcom won?t send new shipments is because the deal with Tatsunoko Production expired so Capcom don?t have the rights of half the playable cast. The game was already quite hard to find new so if you find a copy in a store, grab it as soon as you can!

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Article from Gamersyndrome.com

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Source: http://gamersyndrome.com/2012/news/tatsunoko-vs-capcom-disappear-from-the-shelves/

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Obama victory infuriates Pakistani drone victims

Mohammad Hussain / AP

Supporters of cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan's party raise their hands during a peace march protesting U.S. drone strikes on the outskirts of Tank, Pakistan, on Oct. 7.

By Reuters

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The roars celebrating the re-election of U.S. President Barack Obama on television give Mohammad Rehman Khan a searing headache, as years of grief and anger come rushing back.

The 28-year-old Pakistani accuses the president of robbing him of his father, three brothers and a nephew, all killed in a U.S. drone aircraft attack a month after Obama first took office.

"The same person who attacked my home has gotten re-elected," he told Reuters in the capital, Islamabad, where he fled after the attack on his village in South Waziristan, one of several ethnic Pashtun tribal areas on the Afghan border.

"Since yesterday, the pressure on my brain has increased. I remember all of the pain again."

The whole world was watching as America chose its president, and the general sentiment appeared to be a sigh of relief. NBC's Richard Engel reports.

World leaders welcome Obama's 2nd term - but many challenges loom

In his re-election campaign, Obama gave no indication he would halt or alter the drone program, which he embraced in his first term to kill al-Qaida and Taliban militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan without risking American lives.

Drone strikes are highly unpopular among many Pakistanis, who consider them a violation of sovereignty that cause unacceptable civilian casualties.

"Whenever he has a chance, Obama will bite Muslims like a snake. Look at how many people he has killed with drone attacks," said Haji Abdul Jabar, whose 23-year-old son was killed in such a bombing.

Analysts say anger over the unmanned aircraft may have helped the Taliban gain recruits, complicating efforts to stabilize the unruly border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. That could also hinder Obama's plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan in 2014.

A group of 32 American anti-drone activists will join a march to Pakistan's tribal areas, where U.S. strikes have killed thousands of people over the last eight years. NBC News Amna Nawaz spoke to some of them.

Americans ignore 'great risks,' travel to Pakistan to protest US drone strikes

Obama authorized nearly 300 drone strikes in Pakistan during his first four years in office, more than six times the number during the administration of George W. Bush, according to the New America Foundation policy institute.

Since 2004, a total of 337 U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan have killed between 1,908 and 3,225 people.

The institute estimates about 15 percent of those killed were non-militants, although that percentage has declined sharply to about 1-2 percent this year. Washington says drone strikes are very accurate and cause minimal civilian deaths.

The Pakistani government says tens of thousands of Pakistanis have been killed in the fight against militants. Many were civilians caught in suicide bombings. Others were killed by the Pakistani army.

In Pakistan's largest city, 'Old Glory' is flammable and profitable

Getting accurate data on casualties and the effects of drones is extremely difficult in the dangerous, remote and often inaccessible tribal areas. The Taliban often seal off the sites of strikes.

Muhammed Muheisen / AP

Images of daily life, political pursuits, religious rites and deadly violence.

While the aerial campaign has weakened al-Qaida, its ally, the Pakistani Taliban, remains a potent force despite a series of Pakistan army offensives against their strongholds in the northwest.

Seen as the biggest security threat to the U.S.-backed Pakistani government, that faction of the Taliban is blamed for many of the suicide bombings across Pakistan, and a number of high-profile attacks on military and police facilities.

For many Pakistanis, 'USA' means drones

"We are amazed that Obama has been re-elected. But for us there is no difference between Obama and Romney; both are enemies. And we will keep up our jihad and fight alongside our Afghan brothers to get the Americans out of Afghanistan," Pakistan Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said.

On Thursday, a suicide bomber rammed the gates of a military base in Pakistan's biggest city, Karachi, killing at least one soldier and wounding more than a dozen people.

Pakistan's 'Generation Y' battles to shape country's future

Pakistanis were largely indifferent in the run-up to Tuesday's election, expecting little change to the drone attacks regardless of whether Obama or Republican challenger Mitt Romney won.

"Any American, whether Obama or Mitt Romney, is cruel," Warshameen Jaan Haji, whose neighborhood was struck by a drone last week, told Reuters on the eve of the election. "I lost my wife in the drone attack and my children are injured. Whatever happens, it will be bad for Muslims."

Pakistani politician Imran Khan, a vocal critic of U.S. drone strikes, said he believed Obama stepped up the attacks in his first term so he wouldn't look weak on national security.

Despite security concerns, presidential candidate Imran khan leads an anti-drone rally, including 30 Americans, into Pakistan's badlands. Amna Nawaz reports.

"I think Obama essentially has an anti-war instinct," he told Reuters. "Without the worry of being re-elected, he will de-escalate the war, including the use of drones. This is positive."

Can social media propel 'rock star' politician Imran Khan to power?

But for Mohammad Khan, who is not related to the former cricketer, the damage is already done.

The February 2009 drone attack that destroyed his home left him as the main provider for 13 family members, forcing him to move to Islamabad and work with a real estate company.

"When the Sandy hurricane came, I thought that Allah would wipe away America," he said. "America just wants to take over the world."

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Home made baby gifts from The Southern Institute.

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My step-sister is having her first baby, a baby boy! ?Last weekend she had a baby shower, and although I swore I would never shop off of the registry for baby showers, I had to make something handmade for my little nephew to be. ?Baby gifts can be so much fun to make because there are so many things that are needed, plus all of those cute little things that aren?t that you just can?t resist. ?I?ve been wanting to try the Lucy?s Kimono pattern from Heather Ross?s Weekend Sewing book for quite some time now, so I went for it. ?Who says it has to be for girls just because it?s called Lucy?s Kimono, right?

The pattern was easy enough, the instructions left a little to be desired, and I had to tweak a bit, but I think this turned out to be just darling. ?The fabric is from the?Boys Will Be Boys?line by David Walker and Free Spirit. ?I chose it because it was boyish, but not too babyish, and not too cutesy. ?I?m not a fan of cutesy baby boy things at all. ?With homemade off-white binding (I added the binding on the bottom hem) I think it looks very elegant. ?It?s the details that make it special?

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I had some fabric left over and wanted to do something more. ?Knowing what the color scheme is in the baby?s room, blue and brown, I thought I could incorporate the leftover fabric somehow, so I started scouring the internet for some ideas. ?I found a cute little framed picture that said ?Owl Love You For Always?, but for the life f me I cannot find it now or I would link to it! ?Anyway, it was my inspiration for this freezer-paper-stencil-turned-art for the nursery.

I used my Silhouette to cut the text directly onto freezer paper. ?I found the owls image online and traced it, then filled in the rest of the tree myself! ?It was a lot of fun.

Mom-to-be LOVED the baby gifts! ?The art is waiting for the baby?s arrival, and so are we. ?We?re anxiously awaiting meeting this sweet new member of our family! ?We are so excited!

What are your go-to baby gifts when you have a shower to attend?

What was the most meaningful baby shower gift you ever got?

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United says Sandy cut Oct. revenue by $90 million

NEW YORK (AP) ? United Airlines said Superstorm Sandy cut its October revenue by about $90 million as it was forced to cancel almost 5,300 flights.

That's nearly an entire day's worth of United's schedule lost. It runs about 5,500 flights a day throughout the world, including those operated by its regional partners. United's scrapped flights accounted for about a quarter of total the industry's Sandy-related cancellations.

United, the world's largest airline, said late Wednesday that the storm that came aground in the New York area 10 days ago shaved about $35 million off its profit in October. Delays and cancellations in the New York region tend to ripple throughout the world because it's a major international connection point and is one of the busiest airspaces in the country.

United's traffic in October fell 3.3 percent.

But the hurricane-winter storm hybrid boosted its per-passenger revenue by about 1 percent. That's because some stranded travelers were stuffed onto other flights, allowing the airline to improve efficiency.

Delta Air Lines Inc. said last week that Sandy cut its October revenue by $45 million and profit by $20 million.

Both airlines are likely to report the impact of Sandy for the month of November. They are expected to release November figures early next month. Added to that, the winter storm that blanketed the New York area on Wednesday, little more than a week after Sandy, will also hurt profit and revenue.

United Airlines suspended operations at New York's three main airports Wednesday afternoon.

The impact of cancellations, though, might not end up being as damaging as one might think. Besides the improved efficiency of putting more customers on other flights, most passengers eventually reschedule, so the airline still collects the fare. And the airline doesn't have to pay the crew or the cost of burning fuel on the flights it cancelled.

United parent United Continental Holdings Inc. is based in Chicago.

Its shares slipped 14 cents to $20.39 in morning trading Thursday. Its shares have traded in a 52-week range of $15.51 to $25.84.

Associated Press

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Genes Reunited releases military records - British GENES

From Genes Reunited (www.genesreunited.com) - note my comments below on the Kilmainham Pension records:

NEW MILITARY RECORDS RELEASED ON GENES REUNITED

To coincide with Remembrance Day, UK family history site, Genes Reunited has released a variety of military records taking its collection to 8.5 million.

The British Army Service Records are just one of the latest records added to the site and they include the Chelsea Pensioners British Army Service records from 1760-1913. These records are an important resource for family historians as they provide rich information on the soldier?s name, place of birth, regiment and the dates of service within the British Army.

Another fantastic record for family historians are the recently added Prison Hulk Registers from 1811-1843. These records detail the conditions on the prison ships and give an insight into the characters of the prisoners onboard. We?ve found a 14 year old boy, James Smith, who was described by officials as ?An unfortunate depraved boy almost past reformation.? The records also detail the crimes committed and we?ve uncovered a 16 year old convicted for 7 years on the Prison ships for stealing cheese.

New WW1 and WW11 Prisoner of War records have also been added to Genes Reunited. These records hold vital information; the Prisoner of War 1939 ? 1945 records detail the prisoner?s name, rank, regiment, camp number, camp type and camp location.

Rhoda Breakell, Head of Genes Reunited, comments: ?From the Harold Gillies Archive to the Military Nurses 1856 ? 1940 we?ve released a huge variety of records. These new records will be an invaluable resource for people wanting an insight into the lives of their ancestors. ?

From today people interested in tracking down their ancestors can visit www.genesreunited.co.uk and search the latest records listed below:

? WWII Escapers and Evaders
? Military Nurses 1856 - 1940
? Army Reserve of England and Wales 1803
? 1st Foot Guards attestations 1775-1817
? Regimental Indexes 1806
? Manchester Roll of Honour 1914-1916
? Manchester City Battalions 1914-1916
? Royal Artillery Military Medals 1916-1991
? Royal Artillery Honours & Awards 1939-1946
? Harold Gillies Archive
? Royal Red Cross Register
? British Officers taken Prisoner of War between August 1914 and November 1918
? Prisoners of War - Naval & Air Forces of Great Britain & Empire - 1939-1945
? Prisoners of War - Armies and land Forces of the British Empire 1939-1945
? Oldham Pals 1914-1916
? Oldham Roll of Honour 1914-1916
? Prison Hulk Registers 1811-1843
? Ted Beard - RAF Nominal Roll 1918
? British Army Service Records 1760-1915 [WO 96 and WO 97]

WO 96 - Militia
WO 97 - Pensions 1760-1913

WO 119 - Kilmainham Pensions (listed in error - see below)
WO 121 - CHEPS discharges ?(listed in error - see below)
WO 122 - CHEPS discharges (foreign regiments)?(listed in error - see below)
WO 128 - Imperial Yeomanry?(listed in error - see below)
WO 131 - CHEPS deferred pensions 1838-1896?(listed in error - see below)

The newly added military records can be viewed on a pay-per-view basis or Platinum members can choose to add on the record set to their package for a low cost. The military records have been added to the existing military additional features package.

COMMENT: The release mentions that the Kilmainham records from WO118 are included, these being pension admission book records for British soldiers discharged to pension in Dublin, which have hitherto not been made available online. I can't find these however in the drop down list on the site. I don't have a subscription, so cannot tell, for example, if they have been lumped in with the Chelsea Pension Records. I did try a search for a Robert Henderson on GR which shows 95 returns, but only 65 on FindmyPast, so it may be possible. I have asked GR to clarify.

UPDATE 2.55pm and 3.35pm: Genes Reunited has confirmed that the records for Kilmainham are NOT yet online - this was included in error, as were all those listed above now in italics - just in case you've spent ages looking for them!

Chris

Scotland 1750-1850 - 5 weeks online Pharos course, ?45.99, taught by Chris Paton from 2 NOV 2012 - see www.pharostutors.com
New book: It's Perthshire 1866 - there's been a murder... www.thehistorypress.co.uk/products/The-Mount-Stewart-Murder.aspx?(from June 12th 2012)

Source: http://britishgenes.blogspot.com/2012/11/genes-reunited-releases-military-records.html

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A Coon's Tale ? 5 Tips for Humanely Wildlife Proofing Your Garbage ...

All curled up and extremely frightened, this healthy little raccoon was trapped by a District resident.Because he showed no signs of injury, rabies or other contagious viruses, Animal Care & Control Officer Woolverton released him safely back to the wild. He scampered off, happy to be free.?

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Longer use of hormonal contraception during midlife predicts better cognitive function later

Public release date: 7-Nov-2012
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Contact: Vicki Cohn
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914-740-2100
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

New Rochelle, NY, November 7, 2012Premenopausal use of hormonal contraceptives may improve the cognitive abilities of women in midlife and for years afterward. This finding may have implications for prevention of declining cognitive function that occurs with advancing age and in diseases such as Alzheimer's. The beneficial effects of hormones increase the longer a woman uses them, as described in a study published in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Journal of Women's Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jwh.

Kelly Egan, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and Carey Gleason, PhD, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI, present the results of cognitive performance tests administered to women enrolled in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention in the article "Longer Duration of Hormonal Contraceptive Use Predicts Better Cognitive Outcomes Later in Life."

"This study provides preliminary evidence that hormonal contraceptives may have a protective cognitive effect, even years after use is discontinued," says Editor-in-Chief Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Women's Health, Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health, Richmond, VA, and President of the Academy of Women's Health.

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About the Journal

Journal of Women's Health, published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or are more prevalent among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women. The Journal covers the latest advances and clinical applications of new diagnostic procedures and therapeutic protocols for the prevention and management of women's healthcare issues. Tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the Journal of Women's Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jwh. Journal of Women's Health is the Official Journal of the Academy of Women's Health and the Society for Women's Health Research.

About the Academy

Academy of Women's Health (http://www.academyofwomenshealth.org) is an interdisciplinary, international association of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who work across the broad field of women's health, providing its members with up-to-date advances and options in clinical care that will enable the best outcomes for their women patients. The Academy's focus includes the dissemination of translational research and evidence-based practices for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of women across the lifespan.

About the Publisher

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers (http://www.liebertpub.com) is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Population Health Management, Thyroid, Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders, and Breastfeeding Medicine. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 70 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available on the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers website at http://www.liebertpub.com.

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
140 Huguenot St., New Rochelle, NY 10801-5215
http://www.liebertpub.com
Phone: (914) 740-2100
(800) M-LIEBERT
Fax: (914) 740-2101

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Public release date: 7-Nov-2012
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Contact: Vicki Cohn
vcohn@liebertpub.com
914-740-2100
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

New Rochelle, NY, November 7, 2012Premenopausal use of hormonal contraceptives may improve the cognitive abilities of women in midlife and for years afterward. This finding may have implications for prevention of declining cognitive function that occurs with advancing age and in diseases such as Alzheimer's. The beneficial effects of hormones increase the longer a woman uses them, as described in a study published in Journal of Women's Health, a peer-reviewed publication from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Journal of Women's Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jwh.

Kelly Egan, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, and Carey Gleason, PhD, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI, present the results of cognitive performance tests administered to women enrolled in the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention in the article "Longer Duration of Hormonal Contraceptive Use Predicts Better Cognitive Outcomes Later in Life."

"This study provides preliminary evidence that hormonal contraceptives may have a protective cognitive effect, even years after use is discontinued," says Editor-in-Chief Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Women's Health, Executive Director of the Virginia Commonwealth University Institute for Women's Health, Richmond, VA, and President of the Academy of Women's Health.

###

About the Journal

Journal of Women's Health, published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or are more prevalent among women, as well as diseases that present differently in women. The Journal covers the latest advances and clinical applications of new diagnostic procedures and therapeutic protocols for the prevention and management of women's healthcare issues. Tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the Journal of Women's Health website at http://www.liebertpub.com/jwh. Journal of Women's Health is the Official Journal of the Academy of Women's Health and the Society for Women's Health Research.

About the Academy

Academy of Women's Health (http://www.academyofwomenshealth.org) is an interdisciplinary, international association of physicians, nurses, and other health professionals who work across the broad field of women's health, providing its members with up-to-date advances and options in clinical care that will enable the best outcomes for their women patients. The Academy's focus includes the dissemination of translational research and evidence-based practices for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of women across the lifespan.

About the Publisher

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers (http://www.liebertpub.com) is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Population Health Management, Thyroid, Metabolic Syndrome and Related Disorders, and Breastfeeding Medicine. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 70 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available on the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers website at http://www.liebertpub.com.

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
140 Huguenot St., New Rochelle, NY 10801-5215
http://www.liebertpub.com
Phone: (914) 740-2100
(800) M-LIEBERT
Fax: (914) 740-2101

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-11/mali-luo110712.php

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