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For years, scientists have been trying to create artificial viruses that are as proficient as natural ones in delivering materials to cells. Successful, artificial viruses could carry therapeutic agents into human cells to treat a variety of diseases. Unfortunately, synthesizing an artificial virus with the ideal shape and size for maximum delivery efficiency is extremely difficult. A common method for their generation involves polyion coupling, which often leads to aggregates with uncontrollable dimensions.
The Lee research group at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea found an alternate strategy, one that used pre-organized supramolecular nanostructures to construct, for the first time, a filament-shaped artificial virus. Filamentous shaped nanostructures last longer in vivo, and many natural viruses are filamentous. The process started with the creation of Glu-KW, a β-sheet peptide based supramolecule. Glu-KW's self-assembeled β-sheet contains two linkers: a nucleic acid-binding segment and a carbohydrate ligand. The β-sheet consists of alternating hydrophobic and charged amino acids, assisting the self-assembly. Glu-KW is coated with glucose to shield the charges on the surface of the β ribbon, which increases the chance of cell binding.
Lee's group proposed that the self-assembled virus can bind to therapeutic agents and deliver it into the cell. They tested their idea using small interfering RNA (siRNA), a double stranded RNA that induces specific post-transcriptional gene-silencing. Based on evidence from circular dichroism and transmission electron microscopy, their artificial virus can make a complex with the negatively charged siRNA. To examine the virus' ability as an intracellular siRNA delivery carrier, the chemists compared Glu-KW with Lipofectamine 2000, a commercial compound with high siRNA transfection efficiencies, using a human cervical cancer cell line. In gene knockdown experiments, Glu-KW performed just as well as Lipofectamine 2000.
In addition to delivering nucleic acids like siRNA, the artificial virus can also carry a hydrophobic guest molecule because the β ribbon bilayer forms a hydrophobic space useful for encapsulation. The chemists tested Glu-KW's potential for delivering nile red, a hydrophobic stain, while the virus was complexed with siRNA. Nile red was delivered to the cytoplasm and nucleus of the cells and gene knockdown still occurred, although with less efficiency.
The β ribbon templates are capable of assembling artificial viruses with favorable sizes and shapes. The virus' simultaneous ability to deliver genetic materials and hydrophobic therapeutic reagents are particularly useful, and the researchers' approach is flexible and allows for a variety of structural changes to the virus. Until we study the toxicology of these artificial viruses, however, we cannot judge their full potential for treating diseases.
Angewandte, 2008. DOI: 10.1002/anie.200800266


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Long time series – monitoring networks and moorings
The BSH's marine monitoring network in the North and Baltic Sea
To obtain long time series at fixed positions BSH uses two methods. Firstly, BSH operates its marine environmental monitoring network MARNET in the Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of the North and Baltic Sea with fixed measuring positions mounted on buoys, bottom mounted platforms and unmanned light vessels. Under these 'carrier units' cables equipped with measuring instruments at different water depths are hanging in the water column reaching down just above the seabed. The instruments record temperature, salinity and other parameters which are transmitted to the BSH hourly. These data enable the BSH to assess permanently the current state of the German waters in the North and Baltic Sea. Detailed information can be found in the chapter Messnetz-MARNET.
Another way to obtain long time series is to equip a mooring cable which is anchored to the seabed with recording instruments for current, salinity, temperature and other parameters at different depths. The duration of such deployments varies between a few days and weeks up to long-term deployments of up to two years. There are two different designs for such moorings: shallow water moorings for water depths of up to about 100 m and deep-sea moorings for depths of up to several 1000 m. At the end of the measurement campaign, the moorings are recovered and the measurement data can be read from the internal memories of the instruments.

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Known for innovation, attention to detail, and exquisite tailoring, Helmut Lang redefines the concept of modern luxury.
Acquiring the trademark in March 2006 from the Prada Group, Link Theory Holdings Co. launched Helmut Lang for the intelligent, design minded, modern customer. The concept of both the Men's and Women's collections is to set the standard for minimalist design in the Contemporary Market.
Helmut Lang launched in New York City with Spring 2007 Men's and Women's Ready to Wear Collections.
Michael and Nicole Colovos, former recipients of the prestigious CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund award, joined Helmut Lang in March 2006 at the design helm. Their emphasis on construction and strong but subtle detail is perfectly suited to their new post.
Born in Madrid, Spain, designer Michael Colovos moved to the United States at the age of five. He was raised in Seattle, Washington and later went on to graduate from Seattle Pacific University. In 1994, he moved to New York City to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology. In 1995, Michael relocated to Florence, Italy to continue his studies in design at Polimoda. He then went on to Paris and worked in the design studio of Guy Laroche. Michael returned to New York in mid-1996 to work as a freelance designer and illustrator before launching Colovos in the fall of 1998. Colovos, a collection of women's clothing, was sold at Barneys New York, Linda Dresner and Fred Segal.
It was in 2001 that Michael Colovos met Nicole Garrett, who at the time was the Senior Market Editor for U.S. Harper's Bazaar. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, Nicole had studied photography, art, and art history at Selwyn College. In 1987, she moved to Sydney, Australia, enrolling in the Film Makeup Technology School. In 1991, she commenced full-time as Fashion Editor for Australian Elle. Working at Elle for five years, she then moved to New York in 1997 to pursue freelance styling. That year, Nicole began freelancing for U.S. Harper's Bazaar as Associate Fashion Editor, later becoming a Senior Market Editor. For the Fall/Winter 2002 season, Michael and Nicole launched their own collection to much critical acclaim. The business was closed just before they assumed the creative lead at Helmut Lang, for the Spring 2007 season. They are now married, and collaborate on all elements of the design and aesthetic of the Helmut Lang brand.
Today, Helmut Lang is a global phenomenon, sold in 28 countries around the world. The collections are available at 171 stores, including Barney's New York, Bergdorf Goodman, Harrods, Selfridge's, Harvey Nichols Istanbul, Lane Crawford Beijing, Lane Crawford Hong Kong, Printemps, Holt Renfrew, and Isetan. The collection is also available at 3 retail stores, located in New York City, Los Angeles and Tokyo.
Utilitarian. Raw. Edge. It is the meeting of supreme design integrity with the energy and excitement of the contemporary market.
For Spring 2011, walk into a textural lightness and a clean, pure color palette of whites, creams and nudes, mixing buttery leather and tape yarn sweaters to contrast delicate chiffons, wispy silks and sheer jersey. Irregular stripes inspired by artist Wade Guyton play against two dimensions of short and long; washed twills, silks and linens have a lived-in feel that creates a tension of sharp shoulders with a soft body.


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New Red Sox-MGH program for Veterans
Today, we announced the new initiative described below, aimed at helping veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Thought you all might find it interesting. The program will also be celebrated tonight in a pre-game ceremony.
All the best!
"The Voice of the Nation"
For immediate release
Sept. 17, 2009
Red Sox Foundation, Mass General Team Up to Help Veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq Wars
New Program to Target Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury
BOSTON – The Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital today will announce a multifaceted initiative aimed at helping veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq who are affected by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). Called the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program, this new partnership, working in cooperation with the Department of Veterans Affairs, will:
· provide diagnosis and clinical care for veterans with PTSD and TBI;
· offer outreach and support services to families of affected veterans;
· conduct innovative research to deepen the understanding of the disorders and develop better treatments for them; and
· educate veterans, families and health care providers about diagnosis and treatment of these disorders.
Thousands of soldiers who have returned from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan struggle – often silently – with PTSD and TBI, referred to as "the invisible wounds of war." According to a 2008 RAND Corporation study, one in five service members from these combat theaters suffers from depression or stress disorders, including PTSD. In addition, nearly 20 percent of veterans of these modern wars have experienced concussions or other traumatic brain injuries during their tours of duty. In total, one-fourth of returning servicemen and servicewomen will have considerable difficulty adjusting to civilian life.
These deployment-related disorders too often go undiagnosed and untreated because of the unfortunate stigma associated with the emotional and psychological scars of the combat experience. The Home Base Program seeks to reach out to veterans who have – or may have – PTSD and TBI to encourage them to get the vital care and services they need to begin the healing process.
"It takes tremendous courage for a veteran to step forward and ask for help," says John A. Parrish, MD, director of Home Base, who served as a medical officer in the Marines Corps during the Vietnam War. "In New England alone, thousands of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who may be in rough shape psychologically avoid treatment because of this stigma. You see the devastating effects of PTSD and TBI in the growing rates of unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness and suicide among veterans. Home Base is committed to rebuilding lives, restoring families and finding better ways to treat these disorders."
The idea for Home Base grew out of visits the Red Sox made to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington following the team's World Series victories in 2004 and 2007. During these visits, players, coaches and team officials met with servicemen and servicewomen afflicted with combat-related injuries, both physical and psychological. The connections between ballplayers and soldiers were powerful and poignant.
"Like many Americans, I found myself frustrated with the reality that so many of our recently returning veterans and their families are facing the additional challenge of PTSD and TBI as they're transitioning to civilian life," says Red Sox Chairman Tom Werner. "The Red Sox Foundation determined that we must find some way to use our unique position in New England to encourage those veterans to find meaningful help. We want every returning soldier, sailor or Marine who may be facing PTSD or TBI to know that Red Sox Nation respects them, cares about them and is offering a 'Home Base' where they and their families may find solutions that make their homecomings less challenging."
The Red Sox Foundation enlisted the assistance and advice of physicians from the MGH to help develop, plan and implement a program that would address some of the unmet mental health and family support needs of veterans. The late Sen. Edward Kennedy became a champion of the program and convened key officials from the Red Sox Foundation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense to discuss ways to coordinate with one another to serve the needs of more veterans and their families. Sen. Kennedy had been helping to shape and build Home Base for the past two years and was involved in the discussions right up until his death in late August 2009.
"From the start, Senator Kennedy saw the potential of these organizations working together to make a significant impact on the lives of so many veterans and their families in New England," says Peter L. Slavin, MD, president of the MGH. "The tremendous outreach of the Red Sox Foundation may prompt a reluctant veteran to take that all-important first step toward treatment. And when that happens, we will be ready to offer the clinical and scientific expertise of Mass. General and valuable support services to family members. These veterans, who risked their lives for our country, deserve so much more than just our profound gratitude. They deserve the very best care we can deliver and the most hope we can offer."
Slated to open early in 2010, the Home Base Clinic for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan will provide diagnostic, treatment and referral services at Mass. General and through various community resources in cooperation with a wide array of programs provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The clinical program will offer a multidisciplinary approach to care and provide opportunities for veterans to participate in cutting-edge research protocols aimed at increasing understanding of PTSD, TBI and related disorders. Mark Pollack, MD, director of the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders at MGH, serves as program leader of the Home Base Clinic.
The Home Base Family Support Program, which also will begin serving families in early 2010, will focus on helping children and spouses of military service members and veterans better cope with a parent or loved one who is experiencing serious problems adjusting and integrating into home life after deployment because of PTSD or TBI or other combat-related issues. Paula Rauch, MD, director of the Marjorie E. Korff PACT (Parenting At a Challenging Time) Program and chief of the Child Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service at the MGH, serves as leader of the Home Base Family Support Program.
The Home Base Research Program is already under way, with a wide variety of ongoing PTSD and TBI studies at the MGH moving under the Home Base banner. The research component will draw upon the collaborative model used in the Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), a consortium of hospitals, universities and other organizations in which scientists from a range of disciplines
share ideas, expertise and perspectives to find solutions to specific clinical problems. CIMIT consortium members include founding members MGH, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Draper Laboratories and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, along with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Boston University, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Newton-Wellesley Hospital and VA Boston Healthcare System. Roger Pitman, MD, director of the MGH Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Psychophysiology Laboratory, is leader of the Home Base Research Program and heads up PTSD research, while Ross Zafonte, DO, chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at MGH and vice president for Medical Affairs at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, leads the TBI research effort. The Home Base Research Program will augment ongoing research collaborations among the MGH, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the VA Boston Healthcare System.
The Home Base Education Program will offer information and training through web-based learning and on-site seminars that will broaden the network of community providers trained to care for veterans with PTSD and TBI and their families. The program will use the educational resources available through the structure of the MGH Psychiatry Academy and the MGH Academy to reach health care professionals. The educational program will also provide interactive information, materials and resources for veterans and families. The curriculum is being designed in conjunction with experts from the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Bob Birnbaum, MD, PhD, MGH psychiatrist and executive director of Postgraduate Medical Education, serves as Home Base Education Program leader.
The Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program will be formally announced during the pre-game ceremonies of the Sept. 17 Boston Red Sox-Los Angeles Angels game. The on-field ceremony will include leadership of the Red Sox Foundation, the MGH and the Home Base Program; US Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki; and ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff, who was injured in an explosion while on assignment in Iraq; and several veterans who have publicly shared their personal experiences with PTSD and TBI.
"The coordination of the Department of Veterans Affairs' programs with those of other departments and agencies, philanthropic and volunteer organizations, and with world-class foundations and volunteer groups, is critically important," says Shinseki. "When those efforts include distinguished institutions such as the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital, veterans win."
PTSD is a debilitating condition that often follows terrifying physical or emotional experiences, causing persistent, frightening thoughts and memories, or flashbacks, of the ordeal. Common symptoms of PTSD are sleep problems, nightmares, irritability, violent outbursts, difficulty working or socializing, depression, lack of interest in activities and difficulty showing affection. TBI occurs when the brain is physically injured, which can occur in combat from the shock waves of a blast or explosion or from a sudden force that causes the brain to jolt backward and forward, hitting the skull and damaging the internal lining, tissues and blood vessels. Symptoms can include diminished motor function; impaired thinking abilities; reduced sensation; and impeded language and communication abilities.
For more information about the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program, visit www.homebaseprogram.org.
About the Red Sox Foundation
The philanthropic arm of the Boston Red Sox team, the Red Sox Foundation is committed to using the power of Red Sox Nation to create new and strengthened community partnerships that will improve the lives of children, adults and families across New England. The Foundation's efforts are primarily focused on improving health, educational and recreational opportunities, as well as social service programs in urban neighborhoods. A 501(c)3 nonprofit, the Red Sox Foundation raises most of its funds through special events, donations from supporters and other fundraising activities. Founded and initially funded by the Red Sox and their partners, the Red Sox Foundation has won numerous awards for its innovative programs and impact in the community.
About Massachusetts General Hospital
Founded in 1811, Massachusetts General Hospital is the third oldest general hospital in the United States and the oldest and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. Each year, the 907-bed academic medical center admits nearly 50,000 patients, performs more than 37,000 surgical procedures, delivers more than 3,600 babies and takes care of nearly 1.5 million patients in its extensive outpatient programs and Emergency Department on its main campus as well as in suburban ambulatory care centers and neighborhood health centers. The MGH conducts the largest hospital-based research program in the United States, with an annual research budget of $550 million. In 1994, the MGH, along with Brigham and Women's Hospital, founded Partners HealthCare, an integrated health care delivery system that includes the two founding academic medical centers, community hospitals, primary care and specialty physicians, specialty hospitals, community health centers, nonacute services and other health-related entities. Mass General consistently ranks among the top few hospitals in the nation in the U.S. News & World Report best hospital survey, and the MGH was the first hospital in the state to be designated a Magnet hospital, the highest honor for nursing excellence.
About the VA Boston Healthcare System
VA Boston Healthcare System (VABHS) provides comprehensive health care to more than 65,000 veterans and is the principal medical, surgical and mental health referral center for veterans from throughout New England. Care is provided at three major campuses, in Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury and Brockton, and six community outpatient clinics. The VABHS's comprehensive mental health services for veterans include highly specialized care for PTSD and TBI. The VABHS is home to two divisions of the National Center on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and a VA Center of Excellence on Traumatic Brain Injury and PTSD; VABHS investigators have developed two of the most widely used evidence-based treatments for PTSD. The VABHS is strongly affiliated with Harvard Medical School and the Boston University School of Medicine and provides training and research opportunities to more than 2,500 medical and nursing students, residents, fellows and allied health professionals. VABHS is home to one of the largest research programs in the national VA system.


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Northborough priest accused of stealing $230,000 from church
Rev. Stephen Gemme placed on leave
A Roman Catholic church pastor has resigned as the diocese investigates allegations he stole more than $230,000 from the parish and its school, Worcester Bishop Robert McManus said in a letter to parishioners Sunday.
The Rev. Stephen Gemme of St. Bernadette Parish in Northborough was granted a medical leave of absence and placed in residential treatment after the alleged thefts were uncovered, McManus wrote, according to The Telegram & Gazette.
Gemme admitted to a gambling problem and offered his resignation, which was accepted, according to the letter.
Gemme remains in treatment and could not be reached. It was not clear if he had hired a lawyer.
"As a result of the magnitude of the misuse of funds," the Worcester district attorney's office has been informed, the bishop wrote.
The bishop said he was informed by a member of the parish school's advisory board about questionable expenditures from a school account in mid-July.
It appeared that Gemme used more than $110,000 in school funds and more than $120,000 of parish funds "for personal expenditures unrelated to the parish or school" over the last four years, McManus wrote.
McManus said despite the seriousness of the allegations, parishioners should remember all the good Gemme has done.


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Web-sites.com offers web-site design, development, hosting, and network support to customers in New England and Western North Carolina.
Web-sites.com has been in business since 1996. We help our customers plan, design, and build sites that only excellence and experience can create.
Web-sites.com has been in business since 1996. We help our customers plan, design, and build sites that only excellence and experience can create. Web-sites.com is not a guy working from his basement office. We're bigger, and better. And we're planning on sticking around for awhile, too - if you have a long-term goal for your business, we'll be there to help you achieve it.
Why Choose Web-sites.com?
|Customer service - We're not too technical for our own good. In fact, we actually like meeting new people, finding out about their businesses, and helping them to succeed. So you can expect first-rate customer service and the assurance that we'll do our absolute best to make you happy and your web-site profitable.
|All under one roof - The Web-sites.com team includes developers, designers, network specialists, and marketing experts. We don't outsource any services. Commitments are easier to keep that way.
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The services provided by Web-sites.com cover all stages of a web-site's development, from initial conceptualization and e-business strategy through design, programming, hosting and maintenance.
The following is a general list of our services:
Take art one step further and add some movement. Animation can entertain, entice the user to click a link, or demonstrate how a product works.
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Web-sites.com has also created online calendars that allow visitors to register for calendar events. When a visitor signs up for an event, an e-mail notification of the new registration is automatically sent to a designated address, and the information is stored in a database. In some instances, Web-sites.com also accepts registration payment information for the client.
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Since menu systems within popular programs like Microsoft Word and Microsoft Internet Explorer use cascading menus, most people are familiar and comfortable with how they work. And because they're hidden until you mouse over them, cascading menus are a great way to display a lot of links without using up a lot of web page "real estate."
Content Management/Databases
Building and using databases is the key to an interactive site that responds to your customers' needs. Organizing information in a database gives your site tremendous flexibility, allowing information to be searched and sorted on the fly.
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Fun Downloads
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If your company is concerned about network protection, we have the expertise to review your current system and implement a systems and procedures to reduce both internal and external threats of proprietary information theft.
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Product Configurators
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Product configurators shorten a company's product development time and the design-to-order process. They also benefit the customer by offering them products that will best meet their needs.
Profiled E-mail
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Profiled e-mail allows business to gather in-depth statistics on your customers and the effectiveness of e-mail campaigns. Sending HTML e-mail messages (which can include graphics and animations) to your customers can further drive revenue and bring customers back to your site.
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Anyone living on these damp little islands and anyone who visits them knows that Britain is a nation of a thousand and one accents and dialects. Homespun and imported lingo twists and turns through town and county. We may live in a global village and in a mass media world where 'Globalish' (the cut-down version of English-light) dominates, but that hasn't stopped many regional accents kicking against the tide. In many cases, they are thriving. English in all its variants is constantly evolving and because the language is such a magpie, words are being dropped and added, borrowed and adapted, created and extended all the time. Our cousins across the Pond might be forgiven for thinking that there are only two English accents: posh and Cockney. But even those stereotypes are changing. These days, only the Queen speaks like the Queen and the word on the street, the inner city London street, is a marvellous infusion of words, phrases and pronunciations from right across the world. Quite different from an Eastenders episode.
Unfortunately, many English dialects are truly indecipherable to an untrained ear. Pity the poor foreigner, jumping into a cab at East Midlands International Airport to be greeted by:
"Ayup me duck."
The thick Norfolk accent, aptly named "Broad Norfolk" is no less difficult to fathom and notoriously difficult to imitate. Norwich may only be 115 miles from central London but that's far enough away for Broad Norfolk to survive the onslaught of the insipid Estuary English, the dominant accent of southeast England (and the one Liam and I speak). There's even an organisation, the Friends of Norfolk Dialect (FOND) which is…
…dedicated to conserving and recording Norfolk's priceless linguistic and cultural heritage, thus keeping 'Broad Norfolk' alive.
Broad Naarfuk is rich in local words and phrases, some of them variants on standard English, others completely unique. A year in and Liam and I are only just beginning to look a little less baffled. Here's a few to give you a titty-totty taste:
Want to know how all of this sounds? Take a look at this. I'll be testing you later.


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In a recent interview, Farzad Mostashari, director of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, emphasized the need for new healthcare delivery models, which in his estimation should include PHM.
So exactly what is PHM? Experts define it in various ways. According to Mathematica, a policy research group, PHM aims to ''improve population health by attacking 'the upstream causes of so much of our ill health,' including poor nutrition, physical inactivity, and substance abuse. One medical dictionary defines it as, "The coordination of care delivery across a population to improve clinical and financial outcomes, through disease, case, and demand management."
Those are noble aims but identifying the upstream causes of poor health and improving care coordination are tall orders for our fragmented healthcare system. What's needed are sophisticated IT tools and a willingness on the part of clinicians to embrace them to turn patient population management into a long-term tactic.
[ Is it time to re-engineer your clinical decision support system? See 10 Innovative Clinical Decision Support Programs. ]
On the IT front, a recent report from the Institute for Health Technology Transformation sees several roadblocks to fully realized PHM. The report cites a variety of technology tools needed to keep populations healthy and minimize the need for expensive interventions such as emergency department visits and hospitalizations.
Those tools include electronic health records, telehealth platforms, electronic registries, data management software, and analytics systems. Providers can use EHRs and automation tools in particular to identify and stratify patients who need special attention or care; identify care gaps; measure outcomes; and encourage patients to assume more responsibility for their health, the report says.
However the tools healthcare providers currently use don't have the ability to store, manage, and distribute comprehensive, timely, and relevant information to the degree needed for PHM, the report concludes.
EHRs, for example, often don't contain the data about the care that patients have received outside an organization, and they aren't designed for interoperability. Likewise, many EHRs don't generate the real-time alerts for preventive and chronic care, and don't generate quality and population reporting.
Similarly, many clinical analytics tools currently in use are quite primitive, reporting a few basic facts and figures about a patient panel. The next generation of BI tools will have to be predictive and prescriptive to make PHM a reality.
On the clinician side, there are other thorny issues to contend with. Physicians have been trained to provide individual care, not population care, and while PHM proponents might counter that population care is simply individual care multiplied by X, it's more complicated than that.
Many of the interventions needed to improve the health of a large population fall more into the realm of education and public safety than they do into medical practice. Getting diabetics to exercise more or eat a heart-healthy diet, for instance, isn't what doctors do best. That's traditionally been handled by nurse educators and public health agencies, often with the help of public service campaigns or classroom instruction.
Similarly, many doctors object to having clinical practice guidelines imposed upon them, even when those guidelines have been proven to improve the health of large patient populations. Physicians argue that what works on a population as a whole doesn't always work on individual patients. And from a statistical point of view, that makes sense.
A clinical trial that shows a drug lowers serum cholesterol in 1,000 patients doesn't prove that it will be effective--or safe--when administered to an individual patient who didn't share the lifestyle, gender, eating habits, and genetic predisposition of the 1,000 patients in the clinical trial.
The bottom line: Unless our IT systems get a major upgrade and clinician concerns are addressed, patient health management may become another one of those fanciful "solutions" that fade into the sunset.
In this InformationWeek Healthcare virtual event, EHRs: Beyond The Basics, experts will discuss how to improve electronic health record systems. It happens July 31.


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AT THE MAY 2002 MEETING of the Board of Trustees, we adopted a new mission statement for Seattle Pacific University. This is the final step of a six-year process where we have sought to define and articulate our vision for this great institution. Here is the new statement that will guide and focus our work into the future:
Seattle Pacific University seeks to be a premier Christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.
This is an enormously satisfying moment for me, a culmination of many years of work. Six years ago, I asked the SPU community to engage with me in a grand conversation about who we are and what we want to become. We worked hard on that process, talking together, reading and reflecting, writing and speaking. That grand conversation produced what I believe is a compelling, urgent and clear vision about our purpose and our future. Now it is time to align our mission statement with our vision, the last step of a vigorous and meaningful process.
Our vision says that we make some core commitments — competence, character, wisdom and community — and these are the tools with which to make a real difference in the world. Our vision says we do not do our work for ourselves; our focus is outward. We are called to serve. We ground everything we do on the transforming power of Jesus Christ, and then, as an outstanding Christian university, we engage the culture around us, stepping up to the table as change-agents for good. This is who we are. This is what we seek to become. And now our mission statement clearly reflects our vision.
I believe passionately in what we are trying to articulate here. I believe the task is urgent and that our call is very clear. I say often that we will seek to be faithful and obedient to God's call for this place and this time, and this vision is our sincere effort to do just that. "This place and this time" — we must always remember that a calling has a context. We seek to understand this place and this time very well, so that we may shine the light of the gospel more effectively.
I have been reflecting on a wonderful passage from Isaiah 54:2 that I think expresses so powerfully and beautifully what our vision for Seattle Pacific is all about: "Enlarge the site of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; / Do not hold back; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. / For you will spread out to the right and to the left, / And your descendants will possess the nations /And will settle the desolate towns."
Most certainly we must strengthen our stakes, sink them deep, make them steady and strong. Our stakes ground us, center us, anchor us to our Christian roots, our history and our faith.
But we are called as well to be radically open to the world around us. This is a text of exuberant openness, and I like that a lot. "Do not hold back" — be bold and aggressive. Throw the curtains wide open, lengthen the cords and enlarge the tent. Don't think too small, because the prospects are breathtaking.
And then comes the promise: If this is your posture — anchored by deep rootedness and yet boldly engaging — your influence will spread out, the results will be concrete, and you will make a difference for generations to come.
Something like this has been the vision for this institution from the very beginning. We have said it differently at various points in our 111-year history. But basically we were founded to shine the light in this community and around the world. And that remains our calling today.
This exciting new format for Response is yet another way in which SPU is "throwing the curtains wide open" and bringing the gospel to bear on the issues of the day. We will not hold back. This is our vision for the future. And now our new mission statement says it clearly.
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Alumni, friends and members of the SPU community are invited to purchase and inscribe a brick from the former Tiffany Hall. Funds will directly benefit student scholarships.
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The Falcon women's varsity pair crew shell rowed to its first national championship gold medal in the Dad Vail Regatta.
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Kanji Swami
Kanji Swami Panth
The most successful twentieth century Jain movement has been the Kanji Swami Panth. Gurudev Kanji Swami was born in Umrala, Gujarat in V.S. 1946 (1889 AD). Kanji Swami was instrumental in starting a new revolution in the percept and practice of Jainism, thereby putting thousands of souls on the true path of salvation. The philosophy and truth have always been there since time immemorable but their true exponents were not in this modern age. It was already ordained in the Agams, as propounded by the Tirthankaras, especially Mahavir Bhagwan.
However, the knowledge was clouded and in the absence of it's true interpretations, Jains were led to believe and practice certain principles, which were not in accordance with what Mahavir Bhagwan had said. It was all a case of clinging to the form rather than the substance, and Mithyatva, false belief was reigning supreme.
Gurudev Kanji Swami shed a new light on what the Lord had preached and showed us the true eternal path. Gurudev gave the most correct interpretation of the Agams , and explained the various principles. Pujya Kanji Swami had self realisation of the soul and he opened the correct path for mumukshus, that is those souls who want to achieve salvation- Moksh. He showed, how the soul was completely detached from each worldly surroundings and the true darshan, gnan and charitrya were the basis of true religion. Nobody can understand true religion, unless he follows the three fold basis in it's entirety.
Gurudev was a great believer in purushath- personal effort for achieving salvation. Nothing else could help. He firmly believed and used to say " For those who are engaged in personal effort to secure salvation, there are not many lives to live". The Kevali Bhagwan, in his supreme knowledge, has never seen many lives for such persons who are simply engrossed in personal endeavours. To such persons, waiting for future turns of life are never as obstruction. They continually strive for salvation. Their efforts always reign supreme.
As a Jain saint, Gurudev studied the swetamber shastras with exemplary devotion. However during all such studies, his sole attention was on seeking the truth which was still evasive and his enquiry into truth, was simply in exhaustible. While engrossed in such a way, it once happened that a great Jain volume, Samaysar ('Essence of the Doctrine') which was written by Shrimand Bhagwat Kundkundacharya came into his hands. On studying the volume, his joy knew no bounds as he had found what he was searching for.
He now gave unprecedented new interpretations to Mahavir Bhagwan's teachings. He said "Even getting attached to tirthankar karma needs to be left out because the soul does not touch it. There is no misery to the soul at all, even when the body suffers intensely and in its various parts.". The path of salvation is not achieved by merely keeping balance of mind with an understanding that one should not mourn unhappiness since this will bring new karmas. Even the five vratas penances bring punya but not the salvation.
The teachings in Samaysar paved the way for self- realisation. He was able to bring out the basic principles of life as depicted in the Agams. He taught the correct method of interpretations of Agams. Soul must always be given prominence. Keeping soul in central axis , one can consider its relation to karmas, body and surroundings. He laid great emphasis on independence of all dravyas or matter-substance. The inborn nature of soul is pure. He should behave in a pure form. However since time immemorable soul is misbehaving by having faulty notions. By knowing the facts about soul and other dravays he should rectify the wrong notions and then only he can proceed on the right path of salvation. This was a turning point in his life and is known as Samyag Darshan (self-realisation).
In each of his discourses, he was laying out a great emphasis on Samyag Darshan- a state of mind which is the initial stage for nirvana-salvation, when the soul gets completely detached from worldly traits. Gurudev also said "This soul has for many lives, practised that charitrya- a mode of behaviour when it did not get angry with those who had torn skin from the body and then thrown saltish and saline things thereupon and yet, it has not achieved samyagdarshan." The sins occurring through mithyadarshan- false way of feeling and seeing life are innumerable times higher than those of one following killing of living beings.
SAMKIT or SAMYAG DARSHAN is not easy, it has been achieved by one in millions. Such a soul, makes his own decisions- he has completely eschewed all the sentiments and emotions prevailing in the entire universe. SAMKIT or SAMYAG DARSHAN is something unique and also has all the formalities of the religion, without true SAMYAG DARSHAN is like a building without foundation. The value of SAMKIT is boundless. If one achieves it, he gets immense benefit thereof. SAMYAG DARSHAN is something supreme, and if one understands its such value, then he will always have the urge and keenness to understand it. He used to start his discourse with a verse which meant "Oh worldly souls you fully understand and get immersed in SAMYAG DARSHAN: Please understand it fully and minutely and follow it steadfastly. Without it, all other understandings are futile".
One should know the nature of his mistakes. Thereafter he must change the false notions. Then only he can think and act in the proper manner. Having once achieved Samyag Darshan he can then proceed on the path of salvation, that is implement it in the right manner- chartira. Gurudev being on the right path of salvation (Moksha-marg) guided others on that line.
From a very early age, Gurudev followed a completely conscientious, deliberative, distinctive, intelligent, purposeful and a devoted life. He used to live a highly saintly life with perfect celibacy. What is the best remedy for being without future lives? Despite achieving GRAIVAYAK (highest heaven), the soul has come back to this world. So what remains to be done now? Such was the subject of his deep meditation and study and he felt that the true path was something different. Formal ceremonies are not the path of salvation; the real path lies in self-experience of the soul itself and achieving Samyag Darshan. The real shravak (Jain householder) path is complete absorption in experiencing and enjoying realisation of the soul. This is the real muni marg, the path of a real saint. Without this, the external penances and the various forms thereof are mere manifestations of its incompleteness- its immaturity. Gurudev felt that from within that the real path of salvation has gone much astray from its genuine direction.
Gurudev was very seriously thinking about vastuswabhava, the true nature of things and also the manner of getting free from Karmas. He fully believed in philosophy as earmarked in Samaysar, as very genuine and true. He was experiencing distress in his mind about his own self and his own behaviour as a sthanakwasi saint. Gurudev, after having read Samaysar, went onto read the writings of other Digambaras such as Todarmal and Shrimand Rajchandra, as a result of which he became convinced that the Digambara Jainism was the true, eternal path which was not dependent on transmission through pupillary descent and which, unlike Shvetambara Jainism, gave access to the real nature of inner being. He decided to make a big change and leave the sthanakwasi sect.
Gurudev used to say, at that time, that Jainism does not belong to any sect. It is the religion of the soul. It has no unanimity with any other sect or religion. In reality Digambar Jain religion is the true religion and no jiva or soul can achieve saintly life and ultimately salvation, without the external as well as internal traits of a Digambar Jain.
Even when he was in the sthanakwasi sect, Gurudev believed that, each particle, each living being, had its own separate and independent existence. The soul is a separate entity- a separate being and no karma can influence a pure, true soul. The soul gets tarnished with karma but they cannot influence a true soul- who is merely a GNAYAK- who knows that it is tarnished. Gurudev's main emphasis in his preachings was on ones own understanding and knowledge. He used to emphasise frequently in his preachings "Please understand. Everything is useless without understanding. No soul with or without knowledge, has the slightest prowess to move even a particle. In such circumstances, how can it do anything to human body or for that purpose, to any other thing?
There is a big difference in one who knows and one who does not know - like light and darkness. The difference lies in the fact that the one who does not know -who has no gnan- becomes the doer of good and evil things and even good and evil feelings and hence good and bad karmas. Whereas one who knows, and understands that he should not have punyas and pap, if he wants salvation and, therefore, does not become a doer in such cases. He wants to do shuddha- pure things. Every soul has to be absolutely active in doing away with such a sense of doing. This cannot happen without true knowledge. Hence follow the pursuit of knowledge, and thereby, achieve Samyag Darshan- proper understanding.
Gurudev used to say Bhagwan Kundkundacaryadev , had specially gone to the Samosaran of Simandhar Swami Bhagwan in Mahavidehkshetra and had stayed there for one full week. Gurudev had no doubt of his stay there. To go there, with a human body is simply stupendous and unprecedented. In AD 1937 at the consecration of the Digambara Svadhyaya Mandir at Songadh (Saurashtra), he announced that he had in a previous existence been living in the region of Mahavideha and had been present when KundaKundacharya had visited there to hear the fordmaker Simandhar Swami preaching.
On Chaitra Vad 8th day of V.S. 1993 (1936 AD), Bhagwatimata Bahenshree Champaben, who had already experienced oneness with her soul attained Samyag Darshan and who was thereafter , on a regular march of spiritual progress, in the direction of deliverance from life, had Jatismarangnan, a realisation of ones own past lives. She eventually informed Kanji Swami that she had been present with him in Mahavideha during his then birth as a prince and that they had both listened to Simandhar Swami expounding the true doctrine to KundKundacharya during his stay of eight days, as a result of which the latter returned and composed the 'Essence of the Doctrine'. In token of the veracity of this, she gave a full account of Simandhar Swami's Samosaran, an elaborate reconstruction of which based on this description can be seen at Songadh. Bahenshree Champaben made an even more startling claim, after the death of Gurudev in 1980, when she stated that he would be reborn as a fordmaker called Suryakirti in the continent of Dhatakikhanda.
Gurudev, never had an intrinsic interest in outside activities. His life was prone only to his own soul. His daily routine of life, basically, was in his own studies, his own knowledge, meditation, and the deep introspection of the scriptures. He always desisted from things other than salutations to the Lord, giving sermons on scriptures, devotion to Jinendra and discussion on the philosophy of Jain darshan. His entire way of living was dedicated to his own soul and freedom from worldly affairs. His entire life was soul orientated. He was absolutely indifferent to the whole world and its affairs. Truly, Gurudev was not the doer of all such activities. He was only the knower from within. His life and vision were only towards his soul.
Gurudev's main obligation to us- and for which we shall remain ever grateful to him, was his self-experienced knowledge of the soul, being absolutely distinct from worldly affairs and his direction, through his preachings to see the great path of souls' upliftment. He often said "In this life, our main mission and activity can only be to accomplish one's own soul, to know it thoroughly and thereby achieve Samyag Darshan. The greatness of Samyag Darshan is really infinite." Indeed, all efforts towards religious understandings or any action in that direction are useless unless there is Samyag Darshan.
Gurudev echoed Bhagwan Atma all through his saintly life. "I am only the knower- the soul. This supreme body actually knows and sees everything. This is the real object, call it by the name of prowess, energy, knower, and a steadfast object or even a most ecstasical feeling- these are all one and the same thing" Gurudev used to explain. "Oh! Living beings, shubh (good) and ashubh (bad) feelings or doings are all the roots of bondage, not of salvation. Then, how can we secure salvation? Pure feelings, unattached feelings, feelings without good or bad motives- the shuddha - pure feelings this is the basis of salvation." But if we lessen the KASHAY, the worldly traits of karma, krodh- moha, maya- mithyatva does it not mean good feelings? Gurudev used to reply, "These are apparent good feelings, not unattached pure feelings. To know one's own soul, unaffected absolutely by any other thing, is the real shuddhabhava".
"When one experiences the soul, one feels the experience of Paramatma, the supreme being as if swimming over the whole universe as a lofty pleasant object. Without this experience, the soul cannot be seen in Samyak condition and that is why, no religion can be rightly started without the experience of Samyag Darshan". The question then arises 'What should a being-jiva do in order to secure such self-experience?' Gurudev emphasised the need of determination of the true knowledge orientated soul with itself-experience.
Gurudev by his preachings and sermons and with view to determine the soul with pure knowledge, always propagated the realisation of helpful elements such as the independent 'sat' effect of dravyas. The dravyas- its merits and its actual position, nine elements and their true form, absolute difference in the various acts of the body and the soul, the distinguishing traits of punya and true religion. And the two faces of many objects such as the absolute (Nischaya) and the temporary -relative (vyavhar). Many such traits as said by the Tirthankaras were brought to light by Gurudev. But the greatness of Gurudev lies in laying bare the topmost philosophy of param parinamic bhav which conveys that the dravya of the pure soul which has the phenomenon characteristic of knowing everything, is the foundation of one's own experience, is the shelter of Samyag Darshan is the support of the path of salvation, and is the Lord of suddha bhava.
As Gurudev Param Pujya Kanji Swami preached the path of salvation, his life inspires us also for the same purpose. His life prompts us to always be active in this direction. Gurudev's sole purpose in life was to find remedy for the end of all future lives, in this life only. Gurudev remained completely engrossed in his endeavours of not having any more re-birth for himself. This was the path and the objective, he set for his followers. If Gurudev had not explained to us the true principles, we could have, possibly, never understood the Dhruva Tatva (the steadfast soul). He was like a light, to save us from a false path and in this way, we are under a deep debt of gratitude to our reveared Gurudev for leading us, by practice and percept and by his holy life, to the path of salvation.
On V.S. 2037 Kartak Vad 7 (28.11.1980), Gurudev made a great departure to the heaven, in a state of samadhi, as would accure to a knower of the self, leaving his devotees and creating a void which will never be filled for a long time.
Our Great Gurudev Param Pujya Kanjiswami,
Brief Glimpse of His Life and Message,
Shree Digambar Jain Swadhyay, Songadh.
The Jains,
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The fourth-annual mobile app development contest, which kicked off this week, features more than 350 new data sets made available to developers by New York City agencies, commissions and business improvement districts. Companies in the private sector that are providing data include Bit.ly, CareerBuilder, eBay, Etsy, Foursquare and Yelp, among others. That brings the total to approximately 1,000 data sets, including those from previous years.
In addition to being able to incorporate federal, state and private sector data and APIs into their apps, developers will have the opportunity to create their own data sets. Apps that generate new data sets relevant to New York City will be considered for BigApps 2013, thus allowing the city to "benefit from technology's crowdsourcing," according to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
"Every day we build on the data available through NYC OpenData, and inspiring data-driven innovation is vital as we continue to implement the city's landmark open data law. NYC BigApps helps to ensure this data impacts communities across New York City," chief information and innovation officer Rahul N. Merchant said in a statement.
[ Public-private partnerships help solve local government challenges. See Boston, IBM Plot Smarter City. ]
Those that qualify -- individual developers, or companies and nonprofits with fewer than 25 employees -- will be presented with the task of solving specific New York City challenges, known as BigIssues. The four focus areas for BigApps 2013 are jobs and workforce mobility, healthy living, lifelong learning, and "cleanweb," which includes energy, environment and resilience issues.
Eight cash prizes totaling $150,000 will be awarded at a ceremony in June. Another $35,000 grand prize will go to one of the top winners from the four BigIssue categories. In addition to the cash prizes, two winners will get demo slots to present at the NY Tech Meetup. Free office space is also among the prizes, as well as a chance to join the Founders' Network, which will provide support to winners wishing to launch companies around their apps.
Bloomberg launched NYC BigApps in 2009. The grand prize that year was awarded to WayFinder NYC, an app that locates the nearest subway, bus or New Jersey PATH transit station.
The top app in last year's competition was NYCFacets, which simplifies access to the OpenData portal for users and developers. The second-place winner, Work+, is an app that suggests places where home office workers can work outside of home.


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Students and job seekers frequently ask me about the skills that they need to succeed at Foossa, the community-centered design and strategy consultancy that I cofounded, or in a related career path. I came up with this list as a starting point for anyone interested in using design as a tool for social innovation.
1. Write Well
Being a strong writer goes a long way. Clear writing signals that you can think clearly and communicate effectively.
Craft compelling stories. Appeal to the heart and to the head. Be persuasive. Be concise. Be memorable.Â
2. PrototypeÂ
Prototyping could mean making something out of popsicle sticks and pipe cleaners to coding the minimum viable version of an app. You don't necessary need high tech prototyping skills, but you do have a bias toward action.
You learn by doing. You learn by making. You prototype to learn. You can think visually and sketch out maps, diagrams, and charts to help inform your thinking. Your sketches could be doodles on Post-Its rather than museum-worthy masterpieces, although strong drawing skills are certainly a plus.
3. Code Switch
You speak the language of business. You speak the language of your clients and of your customers. You speak the language of social innovation. You understand how to define a theory of change.
You know how to reinterpret a creative brief to get down to the essence of what the needs really are.
You can get by in the language of designers and technologists enough to be able to collaborate with them effectively and to manage multi-disciplinary teams. You understand the basics of visual language, from hierarchy to typography. Bonus points if you can code in a programming language.
4. Make Stuff Happen
You know how to manage projects from inspiration to implementation. You break down difficult and complex tasks into manageable steps. You find the courage to put stuff out in the world to see what happens. You iterate until you get it right. Then you iterate some more.
You make community happen. Bring people together and get them involved in collaboration and co-creation. This could mean hosting an event, facilitating  a meeting/workshop, or community-managing an online discussion forum.Â
5. Give and Receive Feedback
You know how to conduct a design critique. Help your teammates improve by giving critical insights and new perspectives into their work. You can give and get feedback without making it personal.
You make it about the creative brief and shared goals rather than just your personal opinions and preferences.
You learn how to filter the feedback that you get into "advice to implement" and "advice to take with a grain of salt."
6. Document, Document, Document
My professors really drove this point home in my masters program. Make sure you document your work, whether it is through blogging, journaling, photos, videos, or a combination of the above. You will need it one day in the future, whether it is for a portfolio or for another project. Pictures, or it didn't really happen.
This list is a work in progress. What skills would you add? Let me know in the comments.
P.S. If you are considering grad school to help you acquire some of theses skills, check out the MFA Design for Social Innovation program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I teach there.Â


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A Chicago woman has been accused of abducting and abandoning a baby girl in a fake pregnancy scheme designed to help her boyfriend in court, police said.
T'Keyah Williams, 19, of the 7300 block of South Yates Boulevard, was charged with one count of aggravated kidnapping and one misdemeanor count of endangering the life and health of a child, police said.
Police said Williams had designed a scheme to fake a pregnancy to help make the court sympathetic to a boyfriend who was facing drug charges, including using social media to tell friends about having a baby a downtown hospital. Police said that Williams had called a friend and said her parents had thrown her out of her home, and asked for a place to stay. Williams then went to her parents and told them she was attending a funeral, police said.
Williams attended services following the funeral Monday and then went to the residence of her friend, who is related to the mother of the abducted baby and lives in the same home, police said.
When the baby grew restless and began to cry, Williams offered help to the mother so the mother could sleep, said Melissa Stratton, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Police Department.
While the mother slept, Williams took off with the baby and all of the baby's belongings, Stratton said. At some point, she apparently communicated via social media and text messages to people she knew that she had had a baby at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Stratton said.
Police were called about 7 a.m. to the 1600 block of East 74thStreet in the Grand Crossing neighborhood where the infant's mother, an African national, reported her baby girl missing. The family told police that Williams was the last person seen with the child.
Officers issued a flash message over the police scanner with a description of Williams and the baby girl. Several officers canvassed the area, including Officer Naomi Gibson.
Gibson said at first, Williams was in contact with one of the detectives by cell phone.
"She refused to acknowledge she knew anything about the missing baby," Gibson said. "I eventually spoke with her personally and she was adamant she didn't know where the baby was, and she was very convincing."
Williams' father eventually drove his daughter to meet with police where she continued to mislead officers about the infant's whereabouts, police said.
Williams, who was carrying a purse and a pink backpack with baby clothes inside, told officers she must have forgotten to give the items back to the mother, Gibson said.
"She had a sincere face. The kind you would see on TV," Gibson said.
But parts of Williams' story didn't add up, Gibson said. She had told officers she was with her boyfriend the night before, but didn't realize he had been arrested the same night.
The police, meanwhile, were searching for the baby, knocking door-to-door, asking neighbors for help. One woman told police she had given Williams a white plastic garbage bag to hold baby clothes she was carrying, Gibson said.
Police followed that lead to the area of the 6800 block of South Ridgeland Avenue, about a mile from the infant's home. Gibson said at this point officers were emotionally drained with the thought that the baby was in a garbage can and possibly harmed.
"We all stood in a circle and were quiet," Gibson said. "We were about to break. We couldn't wrap our minds around looking in garbage for a baby. It must have been God because no one said anything and then we heard a muffled cry."
Officers found the baby behind a white garbage bag in a car seat with a blanket over her, Gibson said. The temperatures Tuesday at Midway Airport were as low as 26 degrees at 7:13 a.m. before rising to a high of 41 for the day. Stratton said the child was found about 10:40 a.m., and police believe the baby had been outside for about an hour.
"I hollered 'Jesus,' " Gibson said of finding the infant.
When officers announced the discovery over police scanner radio, cheers erupted, Gibson said.
Gibson and her partner rushed the baby to Comer Children's Hospital. "All I could say is we got you now," she said, adding that, without help from the community, the baby would have continued to be in danger.
Williams was charged Thursday, on her 19th birthday, and was ordered held in lieu of $50,000 bail, according to court records. She also was given a special condition of wearing an electronic monitor if she makes bond, records said.
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Working from home is a wonderful experience. My wife and I are both lucky enough to be able to work from home almost exclusively. It is nice as we get to spend our lunches together, a small bit of quiet time without our wonderful, energetic little ones. This week has been a little different. School has ended, but summer childcare does not begin until Wednesday. This means instead of our nice quiet house during the day we have all three weasels here all day long. Following the theory that productivity decreases by 166% per child at home, we are collectively 1000% less productive. The work I do does require some bit of calm to accomplish anything and trying to focus when there are rambunctious twin one-year-olds gnawing on my legs only introduces bugs and takes twice the time to repair later. So instead of fighting through distractions I tried to get done what I could and enjoy seeing the children during their semi-normal daily routine, which mostly involves laughing, stealing toys from each other, trying to get through open child gates, inventing games that your two younger siblings will never understand, crying to be held by mommy and the occasional nap.
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Goals from Daniel Lema, Jorge Intima, Denziel Boadu, Kean Bryan, Brandon Barker and Thierry Ambrose secured the victory for Jason Wilcox's youngsters, who outclassed and outplayed the hosts to the point where the Magpies were often chasing shadows.
Last time out, the Sky Blues netted six past Bristol City but that was only a friendly – this one was serious business. Without a win in their previous four league games, City knew that they had to come away from Newcastle with at least a point and they got off to a flyer with a goal after just eight minutes.
Bryan found space in the centre, before feeding Barker – fresh from international duty with England's under-18s – down the left. The winger burst forward before squaring for Lema, who poked the ball home from close range.
Seven minutes later, City should have doubled their lead when Boadu sent Lema through on goal. With only the goalkeeper to beat, there looked to be only one result but Jonathan Mitchell somehow deflected the ball wide.
City's exquisite through-balls caused the home side problems all afternoon, and the Sky Blues carved open the Newcastle defence once more on the half-hour mark. Lema fed Intima who raced through but he couldn't apply the finish as his effort hit the post before it was eventually cleared.
City did finally net the second goal just before the break. Intima again found himself one-on-one with the goalkeeper and this time he made no mistake, to give the Sky Blues a two-goal cushion.
After the restart, City continued where they left off and suddenly they were rampant, scoring three goals in the opening five minutes.
Boadu and Bryan added the third and fourth respectively with a rebound each, before Barker – at the heart of most attacks throughout the game – skipped through the Newcastle defence and unleashed a shot into the bottom corner.
It was an unbelievable start to the second half which had many spectators wondering whether or not the Sky Blues would go on to reach double figures. As it were, City eased off slightly from then on and were content to play 'keep-ball' for long periods.
They did add to their tally though on 77 minutes as substitute Ambrose completed the scoring, finishing well into the bottom corner to round off a perfect day for Wilcox's men.
Next up, the young Sky Blues face Arsenal at Platt Lane on 26 October.


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By PAUL McLEARY
WASHINGTON — The US Army wants to delay the start of one of its most prized vehicle modernization programs by one year and raise its development costs by several hundred million dollars in its quest to replace thousands of Vietnam-era M113 infantry carriers by the early 2020s.
On Tuesday, the Army released a new draft request for proposals for the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) program, following a previous draft request issued in March.
The Army wants to buy 2,097 AMPVs over 13 years costing roughly $1.8 million apiece. The latest document does not include an average unit manufacturing cost, unlike the March draft.
The new document says the Army plans to award a five-year engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract in May 2014 to one contractor, which will manufacture 29 vehicles for government testing, followed by a three-year low-rate initial production (LRIP) contract starting in 2020.
In the March draft document, the Army estimated that the EMD phase would run four years, from fiscal years 2014 to 2017, and cost $388 million. But the latest document has it running for five years, from fiscal 2015 to 2019 at a cost of $458 million to build the 29 prototypes.
Likewise, the previous estimate for an LRIP order of 289 vehicles between 2018 and 2020 was estimated at $1.08 billion, but the Oct. 1 draft includes a chart that lists three options for the LRIP years pegged at $244 million, $479 million, and $505 million respectively, which comes to $1.2 billion, giving the program a $1.68 billion budget before full-rate production begins.
That's about $200 million more than the overall $1.46 billion cost that the March request for proposals estimated. The Army requested $116 million in its fiscal 2014 budget for development activities for the AMPV, which Congress approved.
Two main competitors have lined up for the competition. BAE Systems is offering a variant of its turretless Bradley, while General Dynamics is offering either its wheeled double V-hull Stryker, or a newer tracked version of the Stryker.
The price increases and schedule slippages outlined in the latest document might all be water under the bridge if the Army decides to put its Ground Combat Vehicle program on ice and replace it with the AMPV however, as some recent reports have suggested.
While the AMPV would cost more than $5 billion to procure, the Government Accountability Office has estimated the GCV's overall cost at about $37 billion. What's more, a highly critical April report from the Congressional Budget Officesaid the AMPV might actually be a better buy than the GCV for the Army.
The GCV "would replace only a fraction of the Army's combat equipment. And some analysts assert that the vehicles slated for replacement are not those that should be first in line. Specifically, according to the Army's current plan, the GCVs will replace the 61 Bradley vehicles that are configured as [infantry fighting vehicles] in each of the Army's armored combat brigades. Those vehicles represent only a small portion — 18 percent — of the 346 armored combat vehicles in each armored combat brigade," the government report said.
A Sept. 24 Congressional Research Service report suggested that, given the coming budgetary constraints facing the Army, "the GCV might be unrealistic," and that "one potential discussion could focus on a decision by the Army to replace the GCV with the AMPV as the Army's number one ground combat vehicle acquisition priority."
Whatever road the Army chooses, it will have a major effect on the ground vehicle industrial base for whichever contractor wins the award, as well as their critical supply chain.
via US Army Looks To Delay, Increase Cost of AMPV Program | Defense News | defensenews.com.


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Jake Tapper recently moved from the White House briefing room to CNN, but that doesn't mean that one of the toughest reporters on that beat has given up his watch on the Obama administration. Yesterday evening, Tapper featured a recent trend among newly-retired regulators and their new lucrative gigs, which raises questions about how enthusiastic they were about performing their previous jobs:
So few of the individuals responsible for the financial crisis have been punished in any way. One reason for the lack of penalties may stem from the fact that those in charge of regulation and enforcement, did not do their jobs with the necessary vigor and aggressiveness.
Today CNN learned the former head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Mary Schapiro is joining a consulting firm which advises financial firms.
The mission of the S.E.C. is "to protect investors and maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets." Schapiro took the helm at the embattled S.E.C. in June 2009. And while many praise her for restoring the reputation of the agency at that time, she has also been criticized for never fully holding Wall Street accountable for the worst misdeeds that caused the financial crisis.
Schapiro's announcement comes days after Lanny Breuer, the assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division of the Justice Department, announced he would be leaving the department to rejoin the big bank law firm Covington & Burling as vice chairman, representing a big list of bank clients tied to the financial crisis.
Tapper wasn't the only one to notice the, er, coincidences. National Journal's Michael Hirsh calls this the "ultimate dog-bites-man story" today:
As head of the Securities and Exchange Commission for the past four years, Mary Schapiro failed to win a major civil action against any Wall Street executive connected to what may be the worst financial fraud in history, the subprime-mortgage scam that led to the 2008 crash. As head of the Justice Department's criminal division for the past four years, Lanny Breuer failed to accomplish the same with criminal action. And now both are headed back over to the other side: deep-pocketed firms that earn their keep largely from Wall Street. In Schapiro's case, that's Promontory Financial Group, which advises financial firms on regulation; in Breuer's, it's Covington & Burling, a major law firm that defends financial clients.
If this sounds like a dog-bites-man story, it is. Actually it's more like, Wall Street bites everybody. But that too is pretty predictable these days. "It used to be called 'selling out,' 'cashing in,' or 'influence peddling.' Now it's referred to politely as the 'revolving door,' " said Dennis Kelleher, president of Better Markets, a Washington nonprofit that advocates for better regulation of financial markets. "But whatever it's called, nothing is more corrosive to the American people's trust in government than when former senior public officials turn their so-called public service into multimillion-dollar riches unimaginable to almost all Americans."
In part, I suspect that's because any real investigation of the 2008 bubble would ultimately point the finger back at policymakers in both parties who deliberately fueled the bubble by pushing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a buying spree of subprime and other bad loans, as well as threats of enforcement of the Community Reinvestment Act on the lending community. That kind of outcome would make it impossible for Barack Obama and his allies to use the FHA to pressure banks into making those kinds of loans again. That would cut off a critical outlet for the kind of social engineering that remains popular with politicians looking for cheap headlines at great cost to the financial stability of the nation.


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Green, Rams down Tigers
Lexington, KY – Dorian Green scored 26 points and eighth-seeded Colorado State is moving on to third round play of the NCAA Tournament after ousting ninth-seeded Missouri, 84-72, on Thursday.
Green canned three 3-pointers and finished 11-of-12 from the free throw line for Colorado State (26-8), which received 12 points apiece from Greg Smith and Jon Octeus and will next face top-seeded Louisville on Saturday.
"We really set out to do this when we were freshmen," Smith said of making a run in the NCAA Tournament. "Now that we're starting to do it, it's great to see all of our hard work paying off."
Colton Iverson tallied a game-best 13 rebounds in the victory.
For the third straight season, Missouri (23-11) has not gotten past its first postseason game. Phil Pressey scored a team-high 20 points on 7-for-19 shooting and Alex Oriakhi came through with 16 points.
"They were way more aggressive in searching out loose balls," Missouri coach Frank Haith said of Colorado State. "I wish we would have been more passionate about rebounding because that's what it is...it's about desire."
Jabari Brown had 14 points and Earnest Ross scored 11 in defeat.
Colorado State was in control most of the contest, but it wasn't until the early moments of the second half that it began to pull away.
Missouri had battled back from a 13-point deficit to pull within 49-45 three minutes into the second half, but Colorado State's ensuing 15-2 run doomed the Tigers.
Inside scores from Pierce Hornung and Smith moved the Rams' advantage to double-digits before Daniel Bejarano's 3-pointer created a 64-47 margin with just over 12 minutes to play.
The Tigers struggled for baskets over the next 6 1/2 minutes, but got a lift after Wes Eikmeier fouled Brown from 3-point range with 5:42 to play.
He hit all three free throws, and after Eikmeier turned the ball over on the ensuing Rams possession, Pressey drilled a 3-pointer to cut the difference to 72-65, but they never came any closer over the final five minutes.
Hornung sank a pair from the line before a penetrating Green found him for an uncontested layup and a 76-65 lead. Ross was called for a travel on Missouri's next possession and Octeus's driving score with 2:51 left all but sealed the victory.
Green had Colorado State's fifth 3-pointer of the contest just over seven minutes through to create a 20-9 edge for the Rams.
Missouri had trouble all half reducing the double-digit margin, finally getting within six on a 3-pointer from Pressey before Eikmeier's three-point play with 40 seconds left staked Colorado State to a 47-38 edge at halftime.
Game Notes
Colorado State improved to 4-10 record all-time in the NCAA Tournament ... Eikmeier scored 11 for the Rams ... Colorado State shot 49 percent (25-for-51) for the game ... Missouri was 7-for-23 from 3-point range.