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WASHINGTON -- Sorry, clean freaks. No matter how well you scrub your home, it's covered in bacteria from your own body. And if you pack up and move, new research shows, you'll rapidly transfer your unique microbial fingerprint to the doorknobs, countertops and floors in your new house, too.

In fact, researchers who studied seven families in Illinois, Washington and California could easily match up who lived where using their microscopic roommates, almost like CSI for germs.

Thursday's study is part of an effort to understand how the trillions of mostly beneficial bacteria that live in and on our bodies -- what's called the human microbiome -- interact with bugs in the environment to affect our health.

"We have so little information about where the microbes come from that shape our microbiome, whether it's for health or disease," said microbiologist Jack Gilbert of the Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago.

Where do people spend most of their time? "It's the indoor environment. The best place to look at that was the home," said Gilbert, who led the Home Microbiome Project and included his own family.

Right at birth, babies start picking up microbes on the skin, in the nose and in the gut that eventually make up living communities that will share their bodies throughout life. Many of these bugs play critical roles in digestion, the immune system and other health-inducing factors. Others may make it easier to gain weight or influence disease. What shapes the balance of good bugs and bad is a huge scientific question.

Hospital studies make it clear that someone who already is sick can catch a new infection from pathogenic bacteria left behind by a previous patient.

In contrast, the new study examines healthy people, and it marks an important step: beginning to show what's normal in a regular home, said Dr. Lisa Helbling Chadwick of the National Institutes of Health. That's a key question before scientists can explore how to possibly create healthier homes.

"You have to think about the microbiome of your home as part of your home's immune system," said Chadwick of NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, who wasn't involved with Gilbert's project. "Instead of relying on killing bugs to stop the spread of infection, maybe we need to cultivate better bugs."

For the study, Gilbert recruited seven households that included 15 adults, three children, three dogs and a cat. For six weeks, participants collected samples of the microscopic bugs living on and around them by swabbing the hands, feet, noses and paws of everyone in the household, plus doorknobs, light switches, floors and countertops.

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If you've driven through Roseville's downtown, you've likely seen the traffic cones, the construction trucks and the orange signs that mark roadwork that's been going on since spring.

"You can't miss it," said Joseph Lawson, who lives a few blocks from Roseville's civic center.

Watch report:Road construction could kick start projects in Roseville

If city leaders get their way, that roadwork could be just the start of a much broader, continued face-lift of the city's downtown.

"I think we're still at a turning point, I mean the beginning of a renaissance for the downtown," said Chris Robles, Roseville's economic development director.

Robles said that as the city is preparing to mark the one-year anniversary of its new town square with a Sept. 13 concert performed by Sammy Hagar, there's a whole lot more change in the works.

For starters, Robles said that as the economy continues to improve the city is working on plans for a new parking garage next to the civic center. That garage would provide free downtown parking.

On Sept. 9- the city will host an open house to preview designs for three bridge changes or additions to better connect downtown across the river, said Robles.

Robles said there is also demand for more office space and new retail space along Vernon Street.

In the years to come, Robles also said it's possible a higher education component, possibly involving Sierra College or William Jessup University, could be located downtown.

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Pulaski County is currently responsible for as many as 100 inmates a day. The jail has 75 beds.

WAYNESVILLE, MO. -- The Pulaski County Sheriff said Wednesday his department will need a new, larger jail if the county keeps growing.

Sheriff Ron Long told KRCG 13 the county has more inmates than it has beds in its jail despite an addition completed in March. He said the county typically has 15-25 inmates being held in other counties because the Pulaski County Jail doesn't have enough room.

"This jail was built back in 1972," he said. "Population has increased, crime has increased, and when you have 30, 40 years of an outdated facility, naturally, you're not going to have enough room to house all your inmates."

Long said the county courthouse's lot is too small to allow any more additions. He has already converted storage rooms and a garage into jail space. The jail's structure is not designed to support a second story. He said Pulaski County is one of the fastest-growing counties in Missouri, so the only long-term solution is to build a completely new facility elsewhere in the county. Long said he would need at least 130 beds to meet the county's needs. The current facility has 75.

"Where we're at right now, we're completely out of room," Long said. "The possibility does not exist for any more expansion where we are at."

If the county does decide to build a new jail, Long said he would like the funding to come from a sales tax to fund law enforcement needs. Bonding is another option. In the meantime, Long said he is open to having non-violent offenders wear GPS ankle bracelets at home, though he pointed out all of his current inmates are suspected of felony offenses, not misdemeanors.

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Upgrade Your Kitchen Cabinets by Refacing

on April 19 2013

Traditional, or exposed, hinges show on the outside of the cabinet and are used with traditional dcor styles. Types include spring-loaded self-closing barrel hinges and knife hinges, which allow the door to open 180 degrees For framed cabinets, the type of hinge is primarily determined by how the door lays on the face of the frame. Frameless cabinets always have concealed hinges. The specific type of concealed hinge is determined by how far the door overlays the cabinet sides. Handles come in a variety of styles and materials, from plastic and wood to ceramic and crystal. They are like jewelry on your cabinets, accessorizing your kitchen with attractive finishing touches. Most come in matching combinations of knobs and handles for doors and drawers. With hundreds of styles to choose from, keep in mind that the handles and knobs should be easy to grip and comfortable to use.

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Emerson Climate Technologies, a business of Ferguson-based Emerson, hired St. Louis-based Fox Architects to design a $20 million Emerson Climate Technologies Innovation Center at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio.

This research and training facility, for which ground will be broken in October, is the fifth advanced-technology center that Fox Architects has designed for Emerson.

Building built through a partnership between Emerson Climate Technologies and the University of Dayton, the 40,000-square-foot innovation center will help drive the future of the global heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration industry. Construction of the facility is expected to be complete in late 2015.

The innovation center will bring together researchers, Emerson product developers, industry partners, customers and students to participate in research and education.

Robert Kelly covers networking for the business section of the Post-Dispatch.

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August 28, 2014 - Class of Storage emulator runs in RAM and allows storage and datacenter engineers and architects to model applications against different classes of target storage in virtualized manner. Built with such virtual building blocks as SSDs, HDDs, and WAN delays, emulated arrays can simulate performance characteristics of real arrays, hybrid arrays, or cloud storage. Functionality, regarding changes to storage infrastructure, allows What-if decisions to be simulated without requiring real devices. SANBlaze Technology, Inc One Monarch Drive, Suite 204 Littleton, MA, 01460 USA Press release date: August 25, 2014

LITTLETON, Mass. -- SANBlaze Technology, Inc., a pioneer in storage emulation solutions, today announced a Class of Storage emulation solution, which will be demonstrated at VMworld(). (Booth 502)

With over 10 years of experience delivering storage emulation solutions to nearly every storage vendor worldwide, SANBlaze developed an application that allows storage and datacenter engineers and architects to model applications against different classes of target storage in an easy to use, virtualized manner.

Emulated arrays are built with virtual building blocks such as SSD's, HDD's and WAN delays to simulate the performance characteristics of real arrays, hybrid arrays or cloud storage. For example, loading different array profiles with a single mouse click or command can change the target storage environment from an all hard drive array to a flash only array, including related performance attributes. An application can run with the first storage case, and then rerun against the next, providing valuable application modeling insight and informed storage purchasing and deployment decisions.

While many tools in the market can model application loads while running on existing infrastructure, the SANBlaze Class of Storage emulator uniquely provides for emulated changes to the storage infrastructure, allowing for "What if" type architecture decisions to be simulated without the cost and complexity of real devices. Additionally, since the emulator runs in RAM, a near zero latency (NZL) mode removes storage latency from the equation when attempting to determine application and infrastructure bottlenecks, helping to flush out potential issues.

"Our base emulation product has hundreds of storage parameters that can be programmed to provide thousands of different storage environments," said Steve Munroe, President of SANBlaze. "Delivering an application that extracts this technology into common, storage array building blocks is a natural product extension for SANBlaze. It provides enterprise datacenter engineers and storage system architects all the benefits of using emulation for pre-deployment, application modeling and performance test cases."

SANBlaze VirtuaLUN(TM) target emulation systems are available in a number of physical appliance configurations or available as software to run standalone or as a virtual appliance.

About SANBlaze http://www.sanblaze.com

SANBlaze Technology, Inc. is a pioneer in SAN Emulation technologies used worldwide in the development and deployment of complex storage solutions. SANBlaze emulation products provide storage engineers, architects, test and QA teams with scalable, high performance and configurable emulated environments for Fibre Channel, iSCSI, SAS and FCoE targets and initiators.

CONTACT: Jessica Isquith, 1-617-875-4701, jess@sanblaze.com

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