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After reaching the halfway point in full-squad fall workouts, the Louisville baseball team will host a pair of weekend scrimmages at Jim Patterson Stadium on Friday and Saturday.
The Cardinals will begin this week?s open scrimmage schedule on Friday at 2:45 p.m., ET before concluding on Saturday at 2 p.m. Due to the ongoing expansion construction at Jim Patterson Stadium, fans will only be allowed to watch the weekend scrimmages from the left field berm. Access to the left field berm will be available through the left field gate near Second Street. Fans will not have access to the ballpark through the front gates due to construction.
Louisville is scheduled to host weekend scrimmages every week until the conclusion of full-squad workouts in mid-October. Dates and times for remaining future scrimmages as well as the annual Pizza Bowl series will be announced throughout the fall.
About Louisville Baseball Louisville, which won its third BIG EAST regular season title in the last four seasons in 2012, is led by the return of seven of its school record 10 All-BIG EAST performers from last season, including second team outfielders Adam Engel and Cole Sturgeon. Most of the Cardinals? pitching staff returns for 2013, led by BIG EAST Rookie of the Year and Freshman All-American right-hander Jared Ruxer. Overall, Louisville returns 21 letterwinners from the 2012 team, which finished 41-22 and advanced to an NCAA Regional for the fifth time in six seasons.
Head coach Dan McDonnell enters his seventh season leading the Louisville baseball program. In his six previous seasons, McDonnell is 258-122 with three BIG EAST regular-season titles, two BIG EAST Tournament titles, five NCAA Regional berths, two NCAA Super Regional appearances and one College World Series berth.
Fans can follow Louisville baseball on Twitter at twitter.com/uoflbaseball and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ulbaseball. ?
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Ideally, one should not have to expend a great deal of one?s comforts because, ideally, one will have shed one?s corporeality and become one with the stars themselves. But for those among us who have not become so enlightened, a careful budget must be maintained. Where possible, you need to carefully count your coppers, areas and yes, even human teeth, spending them only when the best bargain is in your favor. This is the reason why it?s important to buy carefully and to find out how to get local deals from local enterprises on the internet.
If you are like me, you wake up every morning and avoid the mirror for fear of what skulks behind the glass. You slink through your corridor and downstairs to the fridge, looking for something left over from the black mass the night before. The blood of the black goat is succulent fresh, but it is not something you would like to try after it?s been sitting cold for a few hours. That empty fridge ( zealots always have such a forceful appetite, literally and figuratively ) stares back at you, and you have to, once more, head out to the store for groceries. This is our day, in these tough times. Between utilities, gas for your car and payoffs to shady police officers to pay no attention to the occasional noise complaint or missing virgin, your wallet is getting stretched a bit thin. Rather than despairing and giving into the black voice that drives you to your dark god, boot up the computer and hop online to find some local bargains.
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The verdant, rolling hills of Northeast Missouri look as if they were lifted straight from a George Inness painting. A blend of scattered, open-grown trees and lush prairie grassland -- an idyllic savanna ecosystem -- peppered prettily with ponds, small creeks and wildlife. Country life at its finest.
But instead of finding quaint Grant Wood farmhouses and charming country cottages nestled into the picturesque landscape, you'll find a small village made up of unusual-looking earthen structures. No-frills homes constructed entirely from recycled materials, reclaimed lumber, straw and cob; homes outfitted with solar panels or small wind turbines. Though they don't appear as otherworldly as the Earthships of Taos, N.M., or as jaw-dropping as the treehouses of Southern Costa Rica, these homes are radically green: similarly untethered from mass public utilities and reliant on renewable energy sources, with built-in catchment systems and food grown on-site.
Welcome to the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, a community that has taken the principle of ecological sustainability to the next level. Like the treehouses of Finca Bellavista and the Greater World Earthship subdivision, green principles were used in the construction of each home and later, the wider functioning of the entire community. But, in their quest to be "stewards" of the land and not merely occupants, the residents of Dancing Rabbit also aimed to restore the land to its pre-colonial ecology. Since the Ecovillage's establishment, its residents have planted over 10,000 trees onsite, ensuring a sustainable source of wood for future generations of the community. ("What's the use of a fine house," Thoreau once mused, "if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?")
Tony Sirna, one of the ecovillage's founders, sees Dancing Rabbit as far more than just a village -- as a model for social change and an inspiration for humans to live more harmoniously alongside nature.
"We wanted to demonstrate a positive alternative to our modern American culture's relationship to the environment," Sirna told AOL Real Estate. "We wanted to do more than take small steps towards reducing our impact. We wanted to develop a full-fledged human society with sustainability as its core value."
A 'Values-Driven' Lifestyle
The idea for Dancing Rabbit began in 1993 with a group of ecological activists from Stanford University in California. Fueled by the desire to stop ecological destruction and finding wiser alternatives for modern living (the group was inspired by the self-sufficiency found in "earthships"), they came up with the idea of an "eco-town" of 1,000 people. After further research, discussion and careful planning, they refined the idea to an intentional "ecovillage," comprised of both individuals and small sub-communities. (An intentional community is a planned residential community designed to have a high degree of teamwork and a shared value system).
Crunch time came in 1996, when the six founders moved to Missouri due to its affordable land and a lack of restrictive zoning and building codes. The ambitious group purchased 280 acres of land and began building the ecovillage in 1997. Though there were numerous challenges throughout the journey, 15 years later the population of six grew to 75 people, and the village currently houses over 25 sustainable structures.
"We built all of our houses ourselves by hand, with help from people in the community, using natural and recycled materials," says 13-year resident Kurt Kessner, who lives at Dancing Rabbit with his wife, Alline Anderson. (Both are pictured at left).
Kessner and Anderson, like other Dancing Rabbit residents, live in a home that generates its own energy via solar panels and wind turbines, and boasts its own renewable water supply -- thanks to built-in rainwater catchment cisterns. Wastewater is filtered and re-used throughout the home via graywater systems, and all human waste is recycled through composting. Kessner and Anderson enjoy food grown and harvested from small organic gardens and fruit trees that are integrated throughout the ecovillage. (Most recently, Dancing Rabbit has introduced "food forests" -- gardens which grow layers of plants, trees, herbs and vegetables through a system that resembles the growing patterns and plant species of wild woodland habitats.) Additionally, Kessner and Anderson do not own a motor vehicle, and walk to work -- a strawbale bed-and-breakfast that they built themselves -- each day.
According to Kessner, this kind of radically sustainable living has carved a path for a simpler and more meaningful modern lifestyle not driven by hollow materialism, but instead by values and community.
"How many hours of your life does it cost you to drive that car, to have that formal dining room, to own that boat? If you traded that for time -- time with family and friends -- how much more valuable is that?" said Kessner. "It's a simpler, more fulfilling way to live."
Sirna also argues that, contrary to popular belief, simple does not mean "simplistic" or primitive. In fact, Sirna says that the residents of Dancing Rabbit live just as comfortably as "traditional" home-dwellers, only without excess.
"Living in an ecovillage has meant a drastic reduction in my level of consumption without any degradation in my standard of living or happiness," said Sirna. "I've found that I can easily get my needs met with far less money and less impact." Sirna also explained that, while the average home at Dancing Rabbit was far smaller than the average American "brick-and-mortar" home, any additional space would be largely unnecessary.
Kessner's wife echoed Sirna's sentiments and further added that the environmentally responsible way of life practiced at Dancing Rabbit was not just tolerable but very "rich." The home which Alline Anderson shares with Kessner is completely paid for, all utilities included -- "we use rainwater for bathing, cleaning and cooking, and solar and wind for electricity," she explains -- and she is able to spend less time working and more time with family.
"One of our great joys is demonstrating that sustainability does not have to be about deprivation. Living lightly on the earth can be really satisfying!" Anderson told AOL Real Estate.
'It's Not That Difficult'
If you ask Kessner, Anderson and Sirna (or the Hogans of Finca Bellavista, or earthship creator Michael Reynolds), living in a radically sustainable fashion is a no-brainer. The resources on which modern housing and suburban developments depend are fast depleting, and more and more individuals from all walks of life are becoming aware of this reality. (According to Sirna, the educational and class backgrounds, and chosen occupations, of current Dancing Rabbit residents are incredibly diverse). Off-grid communities like this ecovillage offer individuals an opportunity to take responsibility for lessening their own carbon footprint, without sacrificing their quality of life.
"I wouldn't be here if I didn't think this was a better way of living. I feel very fulfilled in my day-to-day life. My impact on the planet is greatly reduced, and I have wonderful [personal] connections," Sirna told AOL Real Estate.
Even green experts agree that ecovillages such as Dancing Rabbit are viable options for the future of modern housing and development. According to Sheri Koones, author of "Prefabulous + Sustainable: Building and Customizing an Affordable, Energy-Efficient Home," approximately 40 percent of the energy used in the United States is due to heating and cooling homes and buildings. A rise in eco-villages would help curb this.
"I think an eco-village is an excellent idea," said Koones. She suggests, however, that the "optimal situation" would be for ecovillages to still be attached to the grid so that residents are able to send it excess energy produced by their homes. (Just last year, the residents of the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage were offered such an option. Though the majority of residents still remain off-grid and generate their own power, the residents that have opted to connect to the wider electrical grid currently send back three times the electricity consumed.)
Though the benefits of living in a largely off-grid Ecovillage are plentiful for both the environment and the individual, even the residents of Dancing Rabbit admit that it's not necessarily the path for everyone. ("We don't expect everyone to move to the middle of nowhere and build a strawbale house," said Anderson.) However, there are lessons that city and suburb-dwellers can learn from the radically sustainable, community-oriented lifestyle at Dancing Rabbit. Its sharing of resources and resource awareness, its recycling and water conservation, and its move away from materialism can be achieved without moving to the rolling hills of Northeast Missouri.
It doesn't stop Kessner from hoping, though.
"I'm a strange combination of pessimism and optimism -- I don't have much hope for humans, but at the same time, I'm here trying to demonstrate that there are better ways of living," Kessner told AOL Real Estate. "But I'd love if this was the future of Western civilization -- sustainable living. It's not that difficult."
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Referee Gene Steratore, right, and back judge Bob Waggoner, left, look around the field before an NFL football game between the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns in Baltimore, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Referee Gene Steratore, right, and back judge Bob Waggoner, left, look around the field before an NFL football game between the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns in Baltimore, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Referee Gene Steratore, left, talks with Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh before an NFL football game between the Ravens and the Cleveland Browns in Baltimore, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
Referee Gene Steratore looks over the instant replay monitor before an NFL football game between the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns in Baltimore, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Referee Gene Steratore talks to booth officials before an NFL football game between the Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns in Baltimore, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
BALTIMORE (AP) ? No one is complaining that the refs cost the Cleveland Browns the game. That mere fact is a major victory for the NFL and the seven-man crew led by referee Gene Steratore, who brought official harmony back to the nation's most popular league.
Cheered from the moment they walked onto the field, the men in stripes ran a smooth and efficient game Thursday night as the NFL's lockout of officials came to an end with the Baltimore Ravens' 23-16 win over the Browns.
"To just be applauded by 50,000 people prior to anything happening, it was something that kind of chokes you up," Steratore said. "It was a very special feeling."
Sure, there were calls that made both sides unhappy. Browns coach Pat Shurmur drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for arguing an intentional grounding call, and Ravens left tackle Michael Oher could be heard raising all kinds of beef about a holding call.
But, overall, the officials kept the game in control, curtailing the chippy play and choppy pace ? not to mention the inconsistent calls ? that had marred the three weeks of games with replacement officials.
"It was great to have those guys back," Ravens running back Ray Rice said. "It looked like they knew what they were doing."
An agreement to end the lockout was reached late Wednesday after marathon negotiations, two days after a "Monday Night Football" finish brought debate over the use of the replacements to a fevered pitch nationwide.
That game ended when a 24-yard desperation pass on the last play was ruled a touchdown ? even though replays appeared to show it should have been an interception ? giving the Seattle Seahawks a disputed 14-12 victory over the Green Bay Packers.
The stage was set for something eerily similar Thursday. A fourth-down unnecessary roughness penalty on Baltimore's Paul Kruger ? a good call, given the way he shoved Cleveland's Joe Thomas after the whistle ? gave the Browns one final play from the 18-yard line.
But Brandon Weeden's 18-yard pass sailed high as time expired. No controversial ending this time.
"I thought they handled (the game) great," Cleveland coach Pat Shurmur said. "I had all the confidence in the world that this was going to be officiated in the right way."
The newfound love for the refs was evident all evening.
About an hour before kickoff, they made their first appearance on the field and heard cheers from the early arrivals. A few minutes later, Steratore was shaking hands with Shurmur near midfield and getting a hug from Ravens face-of-the-franchise Ray Lewis at the 30-yard line.
Later, when the crew returned, they received a standing ovation and doffed their caps to the crowd. One fan held up a sign that read: "Finally! We get to yell at real refs! Welcome back!"
"It was very chaotic with the replacement refs," said Karen Riley, a 44-year-old fan wearing a Rice jersey. "They couldn't control the players on either side. There were bad calls, constantly, and in some cases refs making different calls at the same time."
When Steratore then turned on his microphone to greet the captains for the pre-game coin toss, the crowd heard him say: "Good evening, men. It's good to be back."
The stadium erupted in a roar.
"You know we always pride ourselves in being a face without a name," Steratore, a 10-year league veteran, told The Associated Press about an hour before kickoff. "This will be a little different, but I don't expect it to last too long. And that's the goal ? is that we can let them get through that portion of this. It's happy to be back, it's happy to be appreciated. But then as soon as the game starts, it's happy to disappear again and let the entertainers entertain."
The deal to end the lockout is only tentative ? it must be ratified by 51 percent of the union's 121 members in a vote scheduled for Friday and Saturday in Dallas ? but both sides nevertheless went forward with the plan to have the regulars back for Thursday's game.
So Steratore hustled to Baltimore, making the 3?-hour drive Thursday morning from his home in the Pittsburgh area. He's usually in place the day before a game, but none of his regular pregame meetings had to be changed because the Browns-Ravens game was at night.
"We've had a few weeks to actually realize that this was the first September that I was home for multiple Saturdays and Sundays for almost 30 years of my life, continuously. ... It just feels completely different," Steratore said. "To be away from something that is involved with this level of professional sport, just to come back and feel that again, it doesn't take long to realize why you were missing it as much as you were missing it."
Steratore, who is a basketball official in the Big East Conference among others, also was fully aware he would be jeered the first time his crew made a questionable call ? just like always.
"Without a question," he said. "I've been yelled at by my own children many times, so this won't be any different."
Sure enough, the same fans that cheered the coin toss let out a full chorus of boos when line judge Jeff Seeman tossed his yellow flag some 20 yards to whistle Baltimore safety Bernard Pollard for a personal foul in the third quarter. Replays showed it was a good call: Pollard led with his helmet to make contact with a defenseless receiver, costing the Ravens 15 yards in a drive that led to a field goal for the Browns.
Steratore's crew nearly made a misstep in the first quarter, incorrectly spotting the ball by 2 yards after a misapplication of the rules following a holding call on the Browns. But two members of the crew caught the mistake and notified the referee before the next snap. A brief huddle ensued, and the ball was moved to its correct spot.
The crew made it clear it wouldn't tolerate the extra shoving and yelling after the whistle that had been frequently permitted by the replacements. Offsetting personal fouls were called on Cleveland's Johnson Bademosi and Baltimore's James Ihedigbo for extracurricular roughness on a punt return in the first quarter.
Then there was Shurmur's unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Replays appeared to validate the grounding call he was trying to contest, and the coach took responsibility for his loss of temper.
"I can't do that," Shurmur said. "It's an emotional game, and I got to make sure I keep my emotions in check."
There were 18 penalties called in the game, mostly the familiar calls for holding and false start. There were two rare ? and indisputable ? whistles for fair catch interference on punt returns, and a hands-to-the-face call on Baltimore's Kelechi Osemele was so obvious that it drew three flags.
The league's new agreement with the officials runs for eight years. Commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged the ending of the Seahawks-Packers game "may have pushed the parties further along" in the talks.
"Obviously when you go through something like this it is painful for everybody," Goodell said. "Most importantly, it is painful for our fans. We are sorry to have to put our fans through that, but it is something that in the short term you sometimes have to do to make sure you get the right kind of deal for the long term and make sure you continue to grow the game."
The dispute even made its way to the campaign trail, with President Barack Obama's spokesman, Jay Carney, calling Thursday "a great day for America."
"The president's very pleased that the two sides have come together," Carney said.
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AP Sports Writer Rachel Cohen and AP Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner in New York, AP Pro Football Writer Howard Fendrich in Washington, and AP Sports Writer David Ginsburg in Baltimore contributed to this report.
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Ancient scraps of fabric found in a grave in Denmark are not made of cultivated flax as once believed, but instead are woven from imported wild nettles, suggesting the grave's inhabitant may have traveled far for burial. ?
This discovery, announced today (Sept. 28) in the journal Scientific Reports, casts a new light on the textile trade in Bronze Age Europe, said study researcher Ulla Mannering, an archaeologist at the University of Copenhagen.
"Since the Stone Age, they had very well-developed agriculture and technology for producing linen textiles," Mannering told LiveScience. "So it's really unusual that a society which has established agriculture would also take in material from things that are not of the normal standardized agricultural production" ? in other words, wild plants.
A luxurious shroud
The soft and shiny fabric dates back to between 940 B.C. and 750 B.C., making it about 2,800 years old. It was discovered in Voldtofte, Denmark, at a rich Bronze Age burial ground called Luseh?j. The Bronze Age ran from about 3200 B.C. to 600 B.C. in Europe.
The fabric was wrapped around a bundle of cremated remains in a bronze urn. It was a luxurious piece of material, Mannering said. [10 Weird Ways We Deal With the Dead]
"The fibers we get from the European nettle are very, very fine and soft and shiny, and we often say this is a sort of prehistoric silk textile," Mannering said. (Silk, made from insect cocoons, is known for its shimmery texture.)
Previous analysis pegged the Danish fabric as woven from flax, a plant widely cultivated in the region. But along with nanophysicist Bodil Holst of the University of Bergen in Norway, Mannering and her colleagues used advanced methods to reanalyze the scraps of cloth. By studying the fiber orientation as well as the presence of certain crystals found in plants, the researchers were able to learn that the fabric is not flax at all, but nettle, a group of plants known for the needlelike stingers that line their stems and leaves.
Nor is the nettle local, Mannering said. Different soil regions contain different variations of elements. The variation of one of these elements, strontium, found in the fabric, was not local to Denmark, suggesting the plants the textile was made from grew elsewhere.
There are a few regions that match the strontium profile, the researchers found, but the most likely candidate is southwest Austria. The bronze burial urn holding the remains is from Austria, Mannering said, and it makes sense that the fabric might be too.
A well-traveled man?
Despite these imported grave goods, the remains appear to be those of a Danish man, Mannering said. The personal objects in the grave, such as two razors, suggest he was a Scandinavian, albeit perhaps a well-traveled one, she said.
"Maybe he died in Austria and was wrapped in this Austrian urn and Austrian textile and was brought back to Denmark in this condition and then put in a big burial mound," Mannering said. "The personal objects that were placed inside the urn together with this textile and the bones indicate that he is a male of Scandinavian origin, but it doesn't mean that he couldn't have died abroad."
Bronze Age Europeans lived an agricultural life and traded many goods with one another, especially the bronze that gave the era its name, Mannering said. The nettle fabric may have been an ancient luxury good for Bronze Age elite, she said.
"It shows that they also knew how to get fibers from wild plants, and they wanted these fibers probably because of their very different and unique appearance," she said.
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DETROIT (AP) ? Surprise! The top-performing stock among automakers in the U.S. this quarter is General Motors.
The company, which endured management upheaval during the quarter and announced that it would lose substantial cash in Europe, saw its shares rise almost 18 percent from July through late September. The gain was the best since the first quarter of this year, when the stock climbed about 23 percent. GM posted strong profits in that period.
GM stock has outperformed all other major automakers in the U.S. including rival Ford Motor Co., which saw its shares rise only 5.5 percent. Only Nissan Motor Co.'s U.S. shares came anywhere close to GM's stock appreciation. They were up almost 11 percent.
General Motors Co.'s gains for the quarter surprised industry watchers, given publicity about management changes and the continued sales slump in Europe that has hit nearly every major automaker.
During the quarter, GM ousted its marketing chief and the head of European operations. It also lost several other key executives including its top electric-car engineer and head designer in Europe.
Investors now realize that most of the departures signal that GM is making necessary changes. That's better than sweeping management problems under the rug like it did in the past, said Bill Selesky, an industry analyst for Argus Research. The changes, he said, have set GM apart from its peers this quarter.
"I think people are now looking at the company and saying they're more proactive," Selesky said. "They're not the same company my father used to know."
For the quarter, GM shares gained $3.48, rising from $19.70 on July 2 to close at $23.18 on Thursday. The stock pulled back a little in morning trading Friday, the last trading day of the quarter, falling 1.6 percent to $22.81.
Shares of Japanese rivals Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. each lost ground during the quarter, with Toyota down slightly and Honda off almost 8 percent.
GM made $2.5 billion through the first half of the year. But it's predicting lower profits in the second half as losses continue in Europe. Car sales are in their fifth-straight year of decline there, and GM has lost money in Europe for a dozen years. GM posted a $361 million pretax loss in the region in the second quarter. During the third quarter, it warned that it may have to reduce the value of its European operations.
But GM has been taking small steps to fix Europe, including an announcement in August that employees at two German plants would work reduced hours during the next few months.
The fact that something is being done to change Europe is encouraging to investors, who see the company as a good short-term investment, Selesky said. "If you're a nimble investor, the potential is there to make some decent money."
GM still has problems to deal with elsewhere, including North America. GM's U.S. sales are lagging behind overall market growth. Through August, U.S. sales grew 3.7 percent over a year earlier, but the whole market grew almost 15 percent. The company hopes to gain sales by revamping 70 percent of its North American product lineup by the end of 2013.
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La Jolla Institute wins $22 million contract renewal for innovative worldwide research toolPublic release date: 27-Sep-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Bonnie Ward bonniejward@cox.net 619-303-3160 La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Renewal to Enable Institute to Take Disease-Fighting Resource to the Next Level
SAN DIEGO (September 27, 2012) The ability to "see the forest for the trees" is a powerful concept in this age of information overload, a factor acutely evident in the research field, where thousands of scientific discoveries are published each year. But thanks to a major federal contract renewal and the inventive minds at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, researchers around the world will soon have an enhanced resource for mining precious information nuggets critical to combating infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, allergies and other immune-mediated diseases.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $22 million, seven-year contract renewal to the La Jolla Institute to continue its role as host and developer of the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB), the world's largest collection of scientific data on how the immune system responds to a wide range of diseases.
"We see this contract renewal as a vote of confidence from the National Institutes of Health for our nine -year stewardship of the IEDB since its inception in 2003," said Alessandro Sette, Ph.D., IEDB co-lead investigator. "Further, we are thrilled that the NIH's decision will allow us to fulfill our vision to take the database's analytical capabilities to the next level. This will enhance our own efforts, and those of researchers around the world, who are working aggressively to combat a broad spectrum of diseases heavily influenced by the immune system."
The database, launched in 2006, was designed and developed by the La Jolla Institute under a multi-million dollar competitive contract from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH. The seven-year renewal, also supported by NIAID, will maintain the La Jolla Institute at the IEDB's helm through 2019.
A resource freely available to researchers worldwide, the database contains information on thousands of epitopes, which are small pieces of a molecule that trigger an immune response. Such information is vitally important to researchers attempting to design new and better vaccines against infectious diseases such as tuberculosis or treatments for allergic diseases, asthma and autoimmune disorders, such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis or multiple sclerosis. The database is located at www.iedb.org
"People might wonder why information on an infectious agent, such as tuberculosis, and a case of asthma, belong in the same database," said Stephen Wilson, Ph.D., the IEDB's deputy principal investigator. "But at the atomic level, the small cellular pieces that the immune system is reacting to, whether it be tuberculosis bacteria, substances such as pollen that cause asthma or allergies or self proteins in autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, are all epitopes."
Indeed, the database is the first in the world to bring together data on a diverse mix of immune-mediated diseases under a single "roof." Initiated in the midst of post-9/11 bioterrorism concerns, the database originally focused on infectious diseases. However, the team began adding epitope data on autoimmune and other immune-mediated diseases over the last few years and the database now contains information on a broad spectrum of disorders, said Bjoern Peters, Ph.D., a bioinformatics expert and the IEDB's co-lead investigator.
Dr. Peters said the data collection and input phase, completed in 2011, was massive and involved years of painstaking work by a team of Ph.D.s reading and culling information from more than 13,000 epitope-related research papers dating back to 1952. The database now classifies nearly 100,000 epitopes and over half a million experimental data points, curated from all published data on the subject to date.
The ability of epitopes to solicit a strong reaction from the immune system makes them extremely useful in therapeutic development, added Dr. Peters. When designing a vaccine, an epitope that solicits a strong immune attack against a virus is a good candidate for building a vaccine. With an autoimmune disease, blocking the epitope that triggers the unwanted immune system attack becomes desirable.
"This vast collection is a clear reminder of the immune system's importance in so many diseases," said Dr. Sette. "On one hand, the immune system protects us from infection, but it can also cause diseases like asthma or autoimmunity. Bringing together all this data in a single resource will allow researchers from different disciplines to draw analogies and pinpoint differences between diseases that, on the surface, are so different, but deep down share the link to immune recognition of miniscule molecules, the epitopes."
With the data compilation complete, Dr. Peters said the next phase is extrapolating the most important information. "Now that we have this huge wealth of knowledge, our mission going forward is creating new ways and tools for aggregating the data in the most useful and meaningful ways possible," he said. "Previous iterations of the database contained analysis tools, but the completed data compilation allows us to look at the big picture dating back to when scientists first began collecting epitope data."
Dr. Wilson said significant insights are already beginning to emerge. "All of these scientists for all these years have been building a data set," he said. "Now that we put all that data together, you can see key information that was there all along, but hidden in mounds of data. It might be that a person's epitope discovery in 1997 is the most important regarding a particular virus, but you don't realize it until you look at the data over time and see it repeated."
Dr. Peters, agreed noting "patterns are turning up that will enable the scientific community to separate out the most meaningful therapeutic or vaccine candidates."
For example, he cited information on the hepatitis C virus. "Through various scientific studies, 3,301 hepatitis C viral epitopes have been identified as triggers of the immune system," he said. "Once all this data was compiled and analyzed, we saw a strong pattern emerge. The same region of the HCV virus comes up again and again. This tells us that epitopes in this area will likely make good candidates for developing a vaccine, because they cause the immune system to launch a strong attack against the virus."
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The IEDB contract renewal to the La Jolla Institute is funded by NIAID under contract HHSN272201200010C.
About La Jolla Institute
Founded in 1988, the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology is a biomedical research nonprofit focused on improving human health through increased understanding of the immune system. Its scientists carry out research seeking new knowledge leading to the prevention of disease through vaccines and the treatment and cure of infectious diseases, cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 (juvenile) diabetes, Crohn's disease and asthma. La Jolla Institute's research staff includes more than 150 Ph.D.s and M.D.s. To learn more about the Institute's work, visit www.liai.org.
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Contact: Bonnie Ward bonniejward@cox.net 619-303-3160 La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Renewal to Enable Institute to Take Disease-Fighting Resource to the Next Level
SAN DIEGO (September 27, 2012) The ability to "see the forest for the trees" is a powerful concept in this age of information overload, a factor acutely evident in the research field, where thousands of scientific discoveries are published each year. But thanks to a major federal contract renewal and the inventive minds at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, researchers around the world will soon have an enhanced resource for mining precious information nuggets critical to combating infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, allergies and other immune-mediated diseases.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $22 million, seven-year contract renewal to the La Jolla Institute to continue its role as host and developer of the Immune Epitope Database (IEDB), the world's largest collection of scientific data on how the immune system responds to a wide range of diseases.
"We see this contract renewal as a vote of confidence from the National Institutes of Health for our nine -year stewardship of the IEDB since its inception in 2003," said Alessandro Sette, Ph.D., IEDB co-lead investigator. "Further, we are thrilled that the NIH's decision will allow us to fulfill our vision to take the database's analytical capabilities to the next level. This will enhance our own efforts, and those of researchers around the world, who are working aggressively to combat a broad spectrum of diseases heavily influenced by the immune system."
The database, launched in 2006, was designed and developed by the La Jolla Institute under a multi-million dollar competitive contract from the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the NIH. The seven-year renewal, also supported by NIAID, will maintain the La Jolla Institute at the IEDB's helm through 2019.
A resource freely available to researchers worldwide, the database contains information on thousands of epitopes, which are small pieces of a molecule that trigger an immune response. Such information is vitally important to researchers attempting to design new and better vaccines against infectious diseases such as tuberculosis or treatments for allergic diseases, asthma and autoimmune disorders, such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis or multiple sclerosis. The database is located at www.iedb.org
"People might wonder why information on an infectious agent, such as tuberculosis, and a case of asthma, belong in the same database," said Stephen Wilson, Ph.D., the IEDB's deputy principal investigator. "But at the atomic level, the small cellular pieces that the immune system is reacting to, whether it be tuberculosis bacteria, substances such as pollen that cause asthma or allergies or self proteins in autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis, are all epitopes."
Indeed, the database is the first in the world to bring together data on a diverse mix of immune-mediated diseases under a single "roof." Initiated in the midst of post-9/11 bioterrorism concerns, the database originally focused on infectious diseases. However, the team began adding epitope data on autoimmune and other immune-mediated diseases over the last few years and the database now contains information on a broad spectrum of disorders, said Bjoern Peters, Ph.D., a bioinformatics expert and the IEDB's co-lead investigator.
Dr. Peters said the data collection and input phase, completed in 2011, was massive and involved years of painstaking work by a team of Ph.D.s reading and culling information from more than 13,000 epitope-related research papers dating back to 1952. The database now classifies nearly 100,000 epitopes and over half a million experimental data points, curated from all published data on the subject to date.
The ability of epitopes to solicit a strong reaction from the immune system makes them extremely useful in therapeutic development, added Dr. Peters. When designing a vaccine, an epitope that solicits a strong immune attack against a virus is a good candidate for building a vaccine. With an autoimmune disease, blocking the epitope that triggers the unwanted immune system attack becomes desirable.
"This vast collection is a clear reminder of the immune system's importance in so many diseases," said Dr. Sette. "On one hand, the immune system protects us from infection, but it can also cause diseases like asthma or autoimmunity. Bringing together all this data in a single resource will allow researchers from different disciplines to draw analogies and pinpoint differences between diseases that, on the surface, are so different, but deep down share the link to immune recognition of miniscule molecules, the epitopes."
With the data compilation complete, Dr. Peters said the next phase is extrapolating the most important information. "Now that we have this huge wealth of knowledge, our mission going forward is creating new ways and tools for aggregating the data in the most useful and meaningful ways possible," he said. "Previous iterations of the database contained analysis tools, but the completed data compilation allows us to look at the big picture dating back to when scientists first began collecting epitope data."
Dr. Wilson said significant insights are already beginning to emerge. "All of these scientists for all these years have been building a data set," he said. "Now that we put all that data together, you can see key information that was there all along, but hidden in mounds of data. It might be that a person's epitope discovery in 1997 is the most important regarding a particular virus, but you don't realize it until you look at the data over time and see it repeated."
Dr. Peters, agreed noting "patterns are turning up that will enable the scientific community to separate out the most meaningful therapeutic or vaccine candidates."
For example, he cited information on the hepatitis C virus. "Through various scientific studies, 3,301 hepatitis C viral epitopes have been identified as triggers of the immune system," he said. "Once all this data was compiled and analyzed, we saw a strong pattern emerge. The same region of the HCV virus comes up again and again. This tells us that epitopes in this area will likely make good candidates for developing a vaccine, because they cause the immune system to launch a strong attack against the virus."
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The IEDB contract renewal to the La Jolla Institute is funded by NIAID under contract HHSN272201200010C.
About La Jolla Institute
Founded in 1988, the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology is a biomedical research nonprofit focused on improving human health through increased understanding of the immune system. Its scientists carry out research seeking new knowledge leading to the prevention of disease through vaccines and the treatment and cure of infectious diseases, cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, type 1 (juvenile) diabetes, Crohn's disease and asthma. La Jolla Institute's research staff includes more than 150 Ph.D.s and M.D.s. To learn more about the Institute's work, visit www.liai.org.
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Google today announced that it is bringing its indoor maps for places like airports, museums, and malls in Google Maps for Android to France. So the next time you stop by Galeries Lafayette in Paris, you will be able to see detailed floor plans for every floor, including information about escalators, ATMs and nearby restrooms. The maps vary in detail, but the floor plans for supermarket chain Carrefour, for example, will even show you what's in the different aisles and give you walking directions.
GENEVA (AP) ? A court in Switzerland found three men guilty Tuesday of helping supply material and know-how to Libya's atomic weapons program almost a decade ago, but approved a plea bargain that cited the defendants' cooperation with the CIA as a mitigating circumstance.
The Swiss Federal Criminal Court sentenced Urs Tinner, 46 and his brother Marco, 43, to prison terms that are shorter than the time they have already spent in investigative custody. Their 74-year-old father, Friedrich, received a suspended sentence. All three had pleaded guilty and were ordered to pay fines and substantial legal costs.
The case shed rare light on the U.S. intelligence agency's successful operation to destroy the nuclear smuggling network of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the architect of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program.
Khan built up an international network selling equipment to countries with nuclear weapons ambitions during the 1990s. Swiss prosecutors alleged all three Tinners were involved in the smuggling ring and supplied key equipment and blueprints for the production of gas centrifuges that are needed to enrich uranium to weapons grade levels.
Urs Tinner claimed in a 2009 interview with Swiss television that he had tipped off the CIA about a delivery of centrifuge parts destined for Libya's nuclear weapons program. The shipment was seized at the Italian port of Taranto in October 2003, forcing Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to admit and eventually renounce his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons technology.
Swiss prosecutors said there was evidence the Tinners had cooperated with U.S. officials since at least June 18, 2003, and that the three engineers had manipulated the centrifuge parts intended for Libya to ensure they wouldn't function properly.
The CIA declined to comment on the verdict Tuesday. But the agency has said in the past that "the disruption of the A.Q. Khan network was a genuine intelligence success, one in which the CIA played a key role."
"It's ironic that the ones who cooperated with the CIA did the most jail time," said David Albright, founder of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security. Most of those involved in the smuggling ring ? including Khan himself ? have escaped serious punishment.
Urs Tinner spent 1,536 days in investigative custody, while his brother Marco was detained for 1,237 days before being released on bail. The long detentions resulted partly from the complexity of the prosecution and partly from the Swiss government's decision in 2007 to destroy evidence in the case ? reportedly after pressure from the United States.
"From a prosecution point of view the case is closed now," Switzerland's attorney general, Michael Lauber, told The Associated Press after the verdict.
Judges at the court in Bellinzona suggested that the Tinners should have received harsher punishments, but approved the plea bargain, saying a successful prosecution would have been unlikely because of the destruction of evidence.
Updated at 4:27 a.m. ET: BEIJING -- China's ruling Communist Party took a big step towards sealing the fate of fallen politician Bo Xilai on Monday, when a court jailed his former police chief for 15 years over charges that indicated Bo tried to derail a murder inquiry.
The court in Chengdu in southwest China handed down the sentence against Wang Lijun after finding him guilty on four charges, including seeking to cover up the November 2011 murder of a British businessman, Neil Heywood, by Bo's wife, Gu Kailai.
The verdict ended the career of one of China's most storied and controversial police officers and moved the party closer to a formal decision on dealing with Bo, whose downfall has shaken a leadership handover due at a party congress as early as next month.
"Wang Lijun exposed clues of major law-breaking and crimes by others," said the court verdict, according to the Xinhua news agency. It did not say who those other people were.
"He rendered a major contribution, and according to the law he can receive a lighter sentence," said the court. Wang could have received life imprisonment, or even a death sentence.
The relatively mild sentence -- following official confirmation that Wang shared incriminating clues and that Bo beat him after Wang confronted him over the murder allegations -- added weight to predictions that the party will move to jail Bo too, said He Weifang, a law professor at Peking University who has closely followed the case.
"The legal net around Bo Xilai has been slowly tightening," said He. "He'll certainly face a criminal trial."
Wife of disgraced Chinese leader gets death sentence with reprieve
In August, Gu was sentenced to a suspended death sentence, which effectively means life in prison.
The wife of a disgraced Chinese politician has been given a suspended death sentence for her role in the death of British businessman, Neil Heywood.? ITV's Angus Walker reports.
'I let you down' Experts have offered divided views over whether the party will put Bo before a criminal court or spare him and the leadership that disgrace by simply meting out lighter disciplinary punishment within the party. Some still see that latter course as more likely.
Before Chinese authorities can launch a criminal investigation, the party leadership must first hear the results of an internal investigation and decide whether to hand Bo over. That could happen at a leadership conclave that must take place before the bigger party congress convenes.
The court said Wang, former police chief of southwestern Chongqing municipality, received the sentence for "bending the law for selfish ends, defection, abuse of power and bribe-taking", according to Xinhua.
Wang would not appeal against the sentence, said his lawyer Wang Yuncai, who is not a relative. The sentence could be cut after he serves half his sentence, added Wang, the lawyer. "He accepted the sentence," she said. "He's doing okay."
Xinhua has portrayed Wang as being contrite. "I acknowledge and confess the guilt accused by the prosecuting body and show my repentance," Wang was quoted as saying in court last week. "For the Party organizations, people and relatives that have cared for me, I want to say here, sincerely: I'm very, very sorry, I've let you down."
Read more China coverage in our Behind the Wall blog
The scandal that felled both men erupted after Gu murdered Heywood in a hilltop hotel villa in Chongqing, the city where Bo was the flamboyant party chief.?Officials have said the murder arose from a business dispute in Chongqing, which Bo and Wang ran as their fiefdom.
Wang had at first helped?Gu evade suspicion of poisoning Heywood, hushing up evidence of the murder, according to the official account of Wang's trial.
Slap that 'changed history' However, in late January, Wang confronted Bo with the allegation that Gu was suspected of killing Heywood. But Wang was "angrily rebuked and had his ears boxed."
"That was a slap around the ears that changed history," said Li Zhuang, a Beijing lawyer who opposed Wang and Bo for mounting a sweeping crackdown on foes in the name of fighting organized crime. "Otherwise, Bo might still be in power and hoping to rise higher."
Days after the confrontation, Bo stripped Wang of his post as Chongqing police chief. The court verdict said several of Wang's subordinates were "illegally investigated."
Wang, fearing for his safety, fled to the U.S. consulate in Chengdu where he hid for more than 24 hours until Chinese officials coaxed him out.
Rebellious China village's experiment with democracy sours
Wang was found guilty by the court of defecting to a U.S. consulate -- along with taking bribes and conducting illegal surveillance -- but only two years of the 15-year sentence were that offense.
It was then that Wang exposed Heywood's murder first to American diplomats and then to Chinese authorities, handing over evidence used to convict Gu last month.
"When mafia members break up with their bosses, they can attempt to seek police protection. But in Chongqing and for the former police boss, there was nowhere to turn," prominent editor Hu Shuli wrote in a commentary posted on the website of her magazine, Caixin. "And this perhaps encapsulates one of the greatest embarrassments of the country's current legal system."
In March, Bo was sacked as Chongqing party boss, and in April he was suspended from the party's Politburo, a powerful decision-making council with two dozen active members.
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So far, Bo has been accused only of breaching internal party discipline, and his defenders have accused foes of exploiting the charges against Gu to topple Bo. He had not been given a chance to defend himself publicly since his fall in March.
Ding Xueliang, a China expert at Hong Kong's University of Science and Technology, said those in the party leadership who wanted Bo out might push to reward Wang for exposing the corrupt and lawless inner workings of Bo's administration.
"Despite the many terrible things that Wang Lijun did before, he, in my view, contributed enormously to the legitimacy of the Communist government," Ding said. "This kind of local emperor style of Bo Xilai, it is a cancer of the system, and Wang Lijun helped the top leadership to deal with the fundamental disease before it's too late."
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Luxury Penthouse condos are for sale at 2608 N Lakeview Avenue located in Lincoln Park. Here?s a review of the building and the penthouse condos for sale (none are my listings) along with photos.
The Marlborough - 2608 N Lakeview - Lincoln Park
THE LOCATION
2608 N Lakeview Ave is located 2 blocks south of Diversey along the park. The building is situated across the street from the North Pond Nature Sanctuary. The building currently has a Walk Score of 88 and a Transit Score of 78. The Red Line Stop at Fullerton is less than a mile away just east of Fullerton & Sheffield. See its interactive Walk Score Map below.
THE BUILDING
2608 N Lakeview is connected to 2600 N Lakeview and 400 W Deming Pl. All 3 connecting buildings are known as The Marlborough. This vintage high rise was built in 1912 and houses 106 spacious condos within its 9 stories. Designed by Robert DeGolyer who designed luxury apartment buildings in the early 1900s all along Chicago?s lakefront from the Gold Coast to the northern boundaries of Lincoln Park.
The Marlborough is an elevator building that is well maintained and service oriented. The monthly assessments include an on-site engineer, trash collection, gas, water, heat, TV cable & internet, coin laundry, storage bike room and a receiving room. There is available valet parking next door for $240 per month. Only cats are allowed in these buildings.
THE PENTHOUSES
There are 3 penthouses located in the A tier of the 2608 building. Each is equiped with 2 fireplaces and 2 private elevators, one being the service elevator. These penthouses are very spacious with 9?6 ft ceilings and 3,750 to 3,848 sq ft floor plans. The penthouses have 4 exposures which include lake, park and city views.
Penthouse Views
8th Floor Penthouse Lake Views
THE CONDOS
The condos of 2608 building have garbage disposals, in-unit washer & dryers and gas ranges. The A, C and D units face the park and the lake. The A, C and D units have 3 exposures with the higher floors having lake views. The are 1, 2, 3, and 4 bedroom units with floor plans starting at 900 to 2,400 sq ft.
There are very few units that come on market in this building and the last unit sold was 1S, a 1 bedroom unit that closed in September 2011 for $162,500. This unit was priced well below market value for this building since it needed work.
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Email Mary Kaye for more information on 2608 N Lakeview Avenue penthouses for sale.
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2608 N Lakeview Ave PH 9A
$1,895,000
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4 1/2
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9A has an elegant custom kitchen with high end appliances. It retains the vintage decor.
2608 N Lakeview Ave PH 8A
$1,550,000
4
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3848
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8A has retained its vintage character. The dining room has been partially opened to living room that includes a large window like opening creating a warm lit ambiance.
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