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"The Adventures of Tintin" possesses all the technical mastery for which Steven Spielberg is known, but it shockingly lacks the one crucial hallmark of the director's oevre: Heart.
Spielberg started out making arty horror, dabbled in comedy, re-invented to the action-adventure film, and made brilliant sci-fi, before becoming a populist auteur. And through it all, one of the primary ingredients in his work has always been heart, often in suffocating amounts. So how does an adaptation of a comic he has loved for 30 years come out so cold?
What makes this doubly frustrating is that the film represents a massive leap forward in filmmaking, standing as the first motion-capture feature film that doesn't give you the willies.
Our adventure starts with Tintin coming upon a model ship being sold at a flea market. In quick succession he is approached by two men, each so desperate to own the ship that they tell him to name his price. Stubborn, and possessed of a journalist's curiosity, Tintin sets out to learn what al the fuss is about, an inquiry that puts him on the trail of sunken treasure that went down in the late 1600s.
Thanks to the magic of co-director Peter Jackson and his friends at WETA, "Tintin" looks amazing. The faces are fully articulated, without having that "Polar Express" creepiness about them that has until now made mo-cap so unpleasant. And the colors and lines are beautifully evocative of the original artwork by Tintin's creator, the Belgian artist Herge.
And the film certainly has Herge's pedal-to-the-floor sense of adventure, the kind of which Spielberg created so gloriously in "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Spielberg turns the streets of Morocco into a massive game of Mousetrap, a white-knuckle race with more twists and turns than a telenovela, that amazingly is done in a one continuous "shot." Yes, this is more easily done in the world of animation, but it is nonetheless a staggering bit of imagine and expertise.
And yet… It all feels rather cold. Tintin doesn't seem to actually care about why the model ship is so valuable, or what it leads to, and his side in the fight is chosen for him when the other guys come at him guns –a-blazing. It feels as though Tintin's chasing down the story just to satisfy his own intellectual curiosity. And because the film tells the story of Tintin's first meeting with Capt. Haddock, the duo lacks the rapport that made them so engaging in the comics. This is a common complaint about so-called "origin stories" that launch movie franchises, but at what point to we stop excepting this as an excuse? People manage to make great one-off films all the time that capture the inter-personal dynamics of folks we've never before met—why do we give special dispensation to tent-poles?
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I did not have a close, long-standing relationship with Dr. Skilton, and therefore even hesitate to write these words. No doubt others could much better express our collective praise and thanksgiving to God for Dr. Skilton's work and his love for God, man, and ministry. But I cannot resist the opportunity to pass on what has been for me a lasting memory.
I first met Dr. Skilton during my freshman year at Westminster Seminary in 1979. He had come out of "retirement" yet again, to teach New Testament introduction. The first of many things that struck me about the man were the prayers with which he opened every class. I confess that, due to the animation of his praise, I even peeked once and discovered that he prayed "full body" as well.
As I continued through four years at Westminster, I would, of course, come across Dr. Skilton from time to time. But I learned most about him through all the lore regarding the beginnings of the OPC and the history of the seminary. I came to know and appreciate and revere this man like many, many othersmore from a distance than face-to-face.
Many years later, I was living in Amsterdam, New York. (I have been the pastor of Covenant OPC there since 1985.) Our presbytery was holding a singles retreat and had chosen Amsterdam as a central gathering place. But Covenant Church had yet to obtain its own building, and so I arranged for the ladies to be housed in a home that I knew to have a large, comfortable basement, and for the men to "rough it" in our unfinished basementcement floor, bare lights, you get the picture.
Well, the numbers of singles that actually showed up for the retreat were way out of proportion to what we had expected. Only four ladies showed up that Friday evening to share a spacious and comfortable facility. But we, on the other hand, were inundated with guys! They quickly filled up our basement and then spilled over up the stairs and into whatever space we could offer them. They filled up our living room, one of the two children's bedrooms, and the hallway. We felt like we were living in Grand Central Station. Now, don't get me wrong. The fellows were all gentlemanly. They offered food and assistance, and were quite pleasantwhich made the overwhelming (and amusing) situation at least survivable.
At one point, I went out to get some needed supplies. When I got home, my wife, Janet, met me at the door with a perplexed look on her face. "We have another single man for the weekend," she said. That hardly seemed newsworthy at the time, and I shrugged my shoulders. Then she said, "It's Dr. Skilton." I commended her for being able to keep her sense of humor during this bizarre period.
Then I went into the kitchen, where I stopped short and stared. There, sitting at the kitchen table, talking with a handful of other "single guys" and not feeling the least out of place, was Dr. Skilton. He wasn't even the center of attention for many of the men. If Janet had not spoken to me, it might have been hours before I discovered him!
For some reason, this just seemed incredibleprobably all the more so because, as I said, I really did not know this man other than at a distance and as a legend: the last of the old greats, a man who had rubbed shoulders with "Das Machen." And yet, here he was in my home. He didn't know he was in my home. He didn't know where in the world he was, and he couldn't care less. He had just tagged along for a singles retreat. He wasn't the speaker or anythingjust another "tramp" figuring to camp out on my floor!
I scrambled to work out adequate accommodations for him. Before he came, I had put all of our children into one room because of the overflow, but now I woke them up and relocated them on the floor in our own bedroom so that this one manwho didn't want to be a bothercould have a room to himself.
Then I began to get greedy. I not only felt obligated, of course, but was eager, to have Dr. Skilton preach to my congregation the next Lord's day. What an opportunity this would be! What an amazing blessing! I would have to explain to my congregation "after the fact" who this man was, but at least they would get to hear him preach. And they would get to hear him pray.
But before I got the opportunity to make my request to Dr. Skilton the following Saturday morning, it was taken out of my hands. He informed me that he and his companion would have to leave that night to drive to another church, where he had already been asked to preach. And so, that evening after the singles retreat, Dr. Skilton climbed into the passenger side of an old, beat-up, overloaded car that leaned dangerously to the right, and allowed himself to be taken down the road several hours to his destination for the following morning.
Somewhere else, Dr. Skilton would make another late-night appearance. But there he would be expected and received with gracious hospitality. He would be the center of attention and have a place of honornone of which would matter to him in the least. And his visit would indeed be a blessing. As I watched them drive down the road, my prayer was just that the car would make it there. I felt helplessly responsible. Furthermore, it struck me that if our arrangements had been reversedif we had housed the girls and sent the guys over to the other homeDr. Skilton probably would have come and gone without my ever being aware of it.
"No one will ever believe this," I said to my wife as we watched the car disappear. She laughed and gave me a hug. "Everyone will believe this."
Reprinted from New Horizons, October 1998.
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VANCOUVER — Fired Vancouver Canucks assistant coach Newell Brown was far from the unhappiest person on the planet Thursday, a day after the axe fell upon him, fellow assistant Rick Bowness and head man Alain Vigneault.
Brown, 51, has been through it before, most recently in 2010 when the Anaheim Ducks bid him farewell.
"People act like it's the end of the world or something," said Brown, who spent three seasons with the Canucks organization. "Of course, as coaches, we'd like to continue on and complete the mission but when you miss the playoffs, or have high expectations and you don't measure up, something is going to happen. From a coaching standpoint, it's kind of a norm in the business, unfortunately.
"So when these things come up, we get excited about new opportunities. We love coaching hockey and we just want to get back in and start coaching again somewhere else as soon as possible."
Brown, whose primary responsibility was the power play, enjoyed great success his first season with the team in 2010-11. The power play was No. 1 in the NHL and so were the Canucks, who won the first of two straight Presidents' Trophies. In 2011-12, the power play slipped to fourth and then plummeted to 22nd this past season. At one point, it went 11 straight games without producing a single goal.
Brown knew things weren't right when he had too many left shots.
"You have to look at the pieces of the puzzle that are necessary and we had great chemistry that first year," he explained. "Everything gelled. This year, we were forced through injury and whatnot and changes in personnel to try and build a new group.
"When you're trying to run a power play with five left shots, which we were forced to do a lot this year, you're really swimming upstream. Seventy-seven per cent of the power-play goals are scored with at least two right shots, so that tells you a lot right there. Not to say there are exceptions to the rule, but when you have five left shots, or even four, your chances of scoring are diminished.
"Teams are so fast to get into the shot lanes these days," Brown continued, "that if you can't take one-timers, if you aren't in position to take one-touch passes and move the puck quickly to shooters and shoot off the pass, you're at a big disadvantage. That was something we were dealing with this year."
During the 2010-11 campaign, Brown had righties Sami Salo, Mikael Samuelsson and a healthy Ryan Kesler plus heavy-shooting lefty Christian Ehrhoff. Salo, Samuelsson and Ehrhoff were not around this season and Kesler was hurt for most of it.
"You know, it's funny," Brown said. "When Ryan Kesler was in the lineup, our power play was at 22 per cent. I'm sure if we would have stayed healthy, we would have finished in the top 10. That's what makes these types of seasons a real challenge. So there are lots of things we can look at but the bottom line, and you hear it repeatedly, is it's a results-oriented business. That's why we're in the situation we're in right now."
Brown insisted he'll take nothing but good memories with him as he moves to his next stop on the coaching carousel. At the NHL level, he's already worked for Chicago, Columbus and Anaheim.
"I just feel really fortunate to have had the opportunity to coach in a fantastic city like Vancouver with great hockey fans and to have worked with the people I got to know," he concluded. "It's a great business because everywhere you go, you have a chance to meet quality people. We've made a lot of friendships here and learned a tremendous amount that we can bring to the next opportunity."
Bowness, meanwhile, was busy Thursday fielding calls from Halifax, his off-season home, and probably making a few, too. He has every intention of seeking a position in the league next season.
"I still love coaching," said the 58-year-old. "I still love the day-to-day grind and I still love dealing with the players. So absolutely I want to coach again. I'll be making some calls. You don't sit back in this business. There are a lot of good hockey people out of work who are looking for work. So I'll be pro-active."
Bowness cited 2010-11 as the obvious highlight of his seven seasons in Vancouver — "oh, yeah, for sure" — but was quick to note that off-ice friendships made were equally important to him.
"We met a lot of great people and it was a great organization to work in," he said. "I just loved the passionate following of the city and the province for the team. Those things were just as important as the on-ice success. The scrutiny? That's a healthy pressure on everyone. I've been in Phoenix where you're dying for someone to notice your team and the success, or non-success, that you're having. So I'd much prefer what we had in Vancouver, for sure.
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Alec Baldwin is no stranger to ranting on Twitter, and this week's victim just so happened to be the also-very-opinionated Hank Williams Jr.
After defending Barack Obama's legislation over the past four years, Baldwin turned to giving his very frank thoughts on Williams, who made some not-so-nice remarks about our president during a concert at the Iowa State Fair recently.
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Hank told the crowd, "We've got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the U.S. and we hate him."
That, in turn, caused Baldwin to tweet, "If Hank Williams Jr wasn't such a pathetic, wheezing fossil, I'd have a talk with him." He added, "I think we need to call Hank Williams Jr what he is.... A broken-down, senile, racist coot."
(Is anyone else hoping these two take the podium for a legit debate?)
Last October, Williams was forced to apologize after comparing Obama to Adolf Hitler during an interview with Fox News, when he equated President Obama playing golf with Republican House Speaker John Boehner to "Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu." That comment also resulted in ESPN permanently pulling the entertainer's classic opening theme song from Monday Night Football.
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CARSON, Calif. -- Hungry after a disappointing showing during the USSDA Development Academy Playoffs, the LA Galaxy youth academy is hoping for a strong showing in the upcoming Generation Adidas Cup.
The tournament takes place from August 3rd to August 9th in Seattle, Washington with games taking place at Valley Ridge Park Soccer Fields and Starfire Sports Complex. The U17s enter as reigning GA Cup champions and find themselves in Group B alongside USSDA Champions FC Dallas, D.C. United and Toronto FC. Meanwhile the Galaxy U15s are in Group B with the Chicago Fire, Colorado Rapids and Philadelphia Union.
The U15s began their schedule on Friday morning against the Union and continue with matches against the Colorado Rapids on Saturday at 2pm and the Fire on Monday at 11am. The U17s start their tournament on Friday afternoon at 3pm against Toronto FC. The reigning GA Cup champions then take on D.C. United on Saturday at 8pm before closing the tournament against FC Dallas at 4pm. The match against FCD promises to be a tantizling one as the two teams faced off for the championship last year with the Galaxy defeating Dallas, 2-0.
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The California High Speed Rail Commission had a tumultuous week as the two individuals most responsible for building a $100 billion bullet train in California quit their posts.
CEO Roelof van Ark stepped down claiming he wanted to spend more time with his family, and Chairman Thomas Umberg said he no longer wants his position.
The new year will be busy for the state's high speed rail authority, which is moving to the Department of Transportation, about to complete its business plan and are anticipating to start construction by the end of 2012.
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"All of those things really require a full-time chair," Umberg said. "I thought it bet that it have full-time leadership. I can't provide that full-time leadership."
Dan Richard will take over the reins from Umberg who said the project is headed in the right direction, citing state and federal support of the bullet train, and $6 billion to begin construction.
But Umberg's opinion of the project differs greatly from that of a peer review commission, which advised the state legislature not to issue bonds for the first segment of project to be built in the San Joaquin Valley.
The commission criticized the $100 billion project as financially unfeasible.
"We have $12 billion, or at least the capacity to generate $12 billion, so it's not quite as large a figure as they calculated," Umberg said.
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A recently published study in the American Journal of Psychiatry took a look at the relationship between fatigue and depression in teenagers. Though fatigue is often thought to be a symptom of depression, the study showed that may not always be the case.
However, one of the authors of the study, Dr. Kathleen Merikangas, notes that fatigue — especially prolonged fatigue — can be a sign of other unhealthy behavior. We spoke to Merikangas, chief of the genetic epidemiology branch at the National Institute of Mental Health. Here is an edited version of our interview:
Q: What causes fatigue?
A: Fatigue can be multifactorial. Fatigue can be caused by acute illness such as a viral illness. People with cancer can get fatigued. The most common reason in adolescents is they don't get enough sleep.
Q: In the group you studied, what was the average amount of sleep?
A; We didn't present that in this paper. We're looking at that more carefully now. We're very interested in school start times and kids' activities to get a sense of sleep patterns.
Data from other sources shows that adolescents in America get an average of 1½ hours less of sleep (than is recommended in) guidelines from the National Sleep Foundation. For (each year of) high school it goes down at least half an hour (a night) on average. Americans in general do not get the recommended amount of sleep, and that goes across the age span.
Q: Are our children more fatigued than in the past? If so, why?
A: That we don't know. But there's an impression that children now are getting less sleep than they used to because of school activities. A lot of the school activities require the children to be at school earlier.
Q: Besides being tired, how did fatigue affect children in your study?
A: We were interested in kids who reported fatigue that was prolonged. We considered fatigue if they reported being tired for three months or more. (Study subjects reported) extreme tiredness or weakness. One of the criteria is that they become tired even after minor physical effort with muscular aches and pains, headaches and inability to relax. Any of us who miss sleep will, of course, feel tired the next day but oftentimes (fatigue also leads to) irritability, dizziness and so forth.
A lot of researchers and pediatricians believe that fatigue is a manifestation of depression or anxiety. We were interested in seeing what was the nature of the relationship.
Q: What were your findings as it relates to fatigue and depression?
A: We found a substantial number of youths who had both. But we also found an equal number of people who had fatigue only. Fatigue alone is not always a manifestation of some other psychological or emotional problem. Therefore, fatigue is not always associated with depression or anxiety.
Q: So which comes first — fatigue or depression?
A: Even though there are a substantial number of youths who have fatigue alone, there is a strong association between fatigue with depression and anxiety disorders. Among those adolescents who have both fatigue and depression, follow-up studies show that there is no specific pattern of onset of the two conditions. The onset of depression can occur after that of fatigue or fatigue can occur after the onset of depression.
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A: We wanted to extend our national study of adults, and we have studied people over 18. (But there is) no data for children on a national level.
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A: What we found in these studies is that these mental disorders — particularly anxiety — are very common in adolescents. We found that all of these (mental) disorders, when you look at the aggregate, are more common than the physical such as asthma, etc. We were able to share that mental disorders are fairly prevalent in adolescents. Most of (these mental disorders) begin to emerge in adolescence, and there are a number of children who don't get treatment.
Q: What's the solution?
A: Fatigue can be a very important symptom of some other illness because it impairs (youths') ability to perform in school and their relationships. Kids who are fatigued may smoke more. Other studies have found that there is more obesity in children who have fatigue. (It) can lead to a number of poor health behaviors that can have a lifelong impact. Obesity was particularly pronounced in kids with fatigue alone, and they also had a lot of physical pains.
Our important message is that physicians, parents and teachers who recognize children who do have fatigue (should recommend they) see a specialist. (Fatigue) can be treated by getting more sleep. Helping them change the structure of their day or schedule (also) might help. It is worthwhile to examine fatigue or sleepiness because it (can) be a marker of a more severe problem.


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"[Joe Dunthorne is] probably destined to be compared with Mark Haddon and Roddy Doyle."—The Miami Herald
"This absolutely winning debut novel isn't so much a coming-of-age tale as it is a reflection on what it means to be a certain age and of an uncertain mind."—Los Angeles Times
"A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent."—The Times (London)
"[Dunthorne's] precocious talent and cheerful fondness for the teenage male are showcased in Submarine. . . . Oliver's voice is funny and dead-on."—The New York Times Book Review
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Amidst an Olympic team snubbing and disinterest in Opening Ceremony involvement L.A. Galaxy star David Beckham's taken his fair share for, most recently, buffoonery and mascot abuse.
Becks turned the focus back to soccer last night, as his role in a madcap 5-3 win at Portland proved vital with his two goals being the margin—and a gorgeous margin that was. It's hard to come up with a keeper who would have been able to stop his first golazo, a contender for MLS' goal of the season, and his second on a set piece was solidly and confidently executed. We're disappointed British Olympic soccer coach Stuart Pearce left Becks off the squad, but we're happy to enjoy the reaction. [NBCSN]


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Raltegravir Switch Study to Reduce Liver Fibrosis Progression in HIV-Hepatitis C Co-infection
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HIV infection exerts a negative impact on the course of HCV infection. Co-infected individuals progress more rapidly to liver fibrosis, cirrhosis and ESLD compared to those infected with HCV alone. Some of the this accelerated fibrosis may be related to longterm chronic toxicity from protease inhibitor based ART.
Hypothesis: Switching from ritonavir boosted-PI based ART regimen to a Raltegravir-based regimen will reduce the rate of hepatic fibrosis progression in HIV-HCV co-infected patients as measured by transient elastography (Fibroscan®) and the AST-to-platelet ratio index (APRI).
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|HIV Hepatitis C Liver Fibrosis
|Drug: Raltegravir Drug: Ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor
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Primary Objective-To assess if switching from ritonavir boosted-PI based ART regimen to a Raltegravir-based regimen will reduce the rate of hepatic fibrosis progression in HIV-HCV co-infected patients as measured by transient elastography (Fibroscan®) and the AST-to-platelet ratio index (APRI) after 48 weeks of treatment.
Secondary Objectives:
(i) To assess the safety and tolerability of switching from a ritonavir boosted-PI ART regimen to a raltegravir-based regimen for 48 weeks.
(ii) To evaluate hepatic function (liver enzymes) at weeks 0, 2, 4, 8, 12, 24, 36, 48 and 72 post switch.
(iii) To evaluate the effect of switching treatment on control of HIV infection (as measured by HIV viral load and CD4) at weeks 0, 4, 8, 12, 24, 36, 48, and 72 post switch.
(iv) To evaluate metabolic profiles (e.g, fasting lipid profiles, glucose and insulin) at weeks 0, 24, 48 and 72 post switch.
(v) To evaluate inflammatory markers associated with liver fibrosis at weeks 0, 2, 4, 8, 12, 24, 36, 48 and 72 post switch.
Population: Patients will be selected from CTN222; a Canadian National multisite prospective cohort of HCV-HIV infected persons (N=978) or from other eligible patients followed at participating sites. All patients recruited into the cohort are adults aged over 16 years old with documented HIV infection (ELISA with western blot confirmation) and with chronic HCV infection or evidence of HCV exposure (e.g. HCV-seropositive by ELISA with RIBA II or EIA confirmation, or if serologically false negative, HCV RNA+).
Study Design: A Randomized Prospective Open label study
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N = 40 This is a Phase II study designed to evaluate the safety and feasibility of a switch to raltegravir in HIV-HCV co-infected patients. As neither the duration of time required to improve fibrosis nor the potential impact of such a switch currently is known, this trial will provide important pilot data with which to estimate the true effect size and calculate the sample size required to conduct a larger definitive study on this question. It is hypothesized that switching therapy will lead to significant reduction in fibrosis as measured by APRI and FibroScan®. In other studies, for example, of successful HCV treatment using FibroScan®, a 34% reduction in fibrosis score was observed in those obtaining a sustained virologic response at 48 weeks (e.g., from mean baseline score of 10.3 kPa to 6.6 kPa at 48 weeks; s.d.= 5 kPa 1). We propose a sample size of 20 patients in each group, which would provide approximately 80% power to detect at least a difference of 5 kPa in fibrosis score change between the two groups assuming a similar standard deviation.
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|A Randomized Prospective Open Label Study of Switching to Raltegravir Based ART Compared to Maintaining Ritonavir Boosted PI-based ART on Liver Fibrosis Progression in HIV-HCV Coinfected Patients
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|December 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|March 2016
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|September 2016
|Active Comparator: ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor
Drug: Raltegravir
Subjects will maintain their nucleoside backbone and switch ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor to Raltegravir 400 mg po BID for 48 weeks.
Other Names:
Drug: Ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor
Subjects will maintain their nucleoside backbone and remain on a ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor at standard doses for for 48 weeks
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|Experimental: Raltegravir
Drug: Raltegravir
Subjects will maintain their nucleoside backbone and switch ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor to Raltegravir 400 mg po BID for 48 weeks.
Other Names:
Drug: Ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor
Subjects will maintain their nucleoside backbone and remain on a ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor at standard doses for for 48 weeks
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- To evaluate the effect of switch on change in liver fibrosis score [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
Change in fibrosis will be assessed by:
- Change in Fibroscan® score (kPa) at 48 weeks from baseline
- Change in log transformed AST-to-platelt ratio (APRI) score at 48 weeks from baseline
- To evaluate inflammatory markers associated with liver fibrosis [ Time Frame: 72 weeks ]As a switch from protease inhibitors based regimen to a raltegravir based regimen may impact the liver through various potential mechanisms, we will explore the impact of treatment switching on inflammatory biomarkers.
- To evaluate effect of switch on hepatic function [ Time Frame: 72 weeks ]Liver enzymes, albumin, direct bilirubin and INR will be measured at week 0,2,4,8,12,24,36,40 and 72.
- To evaluate effect of switch on metabolic parameters [ Time Frame: 72 weeks ]Metabolic parameters, such as fasting glucose, lipid and insulin profiles will be measured at week 0,24 and 48 post switch
- Immunologic and virologic safety [ Time Frame: 72 weeks ]To ensure safety, with respect to control of HIV infection following a switch to raltegravir, HIV viral load and CD4 cell counts will be measured at weeks 0,4,8 12, 24, 36, 48 and 72 post switch.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- 18 years or older
- Chronic HIV-HCV co-infection (HCV RNA + for at least 6 months and could have had previous HCV treatment).
- Receiving ritonavir boosted PI-based ART for at least 6 months.
- APRI score ≥ 1.5 (equivalent to liver biopsy score of ≥ F2) AND/OR Fibroscan > 6.9KPa
- HIV viral suppression (<50 copies/mL) for at least 6 months.
- No prior evidence of resistance to raltegravir or co-administered nucleoside backbone.
- No prior history of virologic failure.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Clinical evidence of decompensated liver disease (e.g., ascites, esophageal varices, or hepatic encephalopathy hepatoma or hepatocellular carcinoma).
- Chronic Hepatitis B infection (defined as positive HBsAg or Hepatitis B viral load greater than 10,000 copies/mL).
- AFP greater than or equal to 200 ng/mL at screening.
- Known or suspected Wilson's disease, alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency, celiac disease or other cause of chronic liver disease.
- Chronic renal insufficiency (eGFR < 20 mL/min) at screening.
- Pregnancy and planned pregnancy (WOCBP not using adequate contraception).
- Women who are breastfeeding.
- Active opportunistic infection (except oral thrush) or neoplasm (except Kaposi's sarcoma, skin cancer, or cancer of the cervix or anus, unless known or suspected liver metastasis).
- Patients intending to start HCV therapy within the treatment phase (within the year following the baseline visit).
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01231685
|Canada, British Columbia
|Providence Health Care- St. Paul's Hospital
|Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6Z 1Y6
|Canada, Ontario
|University Health Network - Toronto General Hospital Division
|Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G2N2
|Canada, Quebec
|Montreal Chest Institute
|Montreal, Quebec, Canada
|Principal Investigator:
|Marina B Klein, MD. M.Sc.
|McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
|Responsible Party:
|Marina Klein, MD, McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|November 1, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|September 21, 2016
|Last Verified:
|September 2016
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Hepatitis C Virus
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis C
Liver Cirrhosis
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Virus Diseases
Enterovirus Infections
Picornaviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Pathologic Processes
Flaviviridae Infections
Atazanavir Sulfate
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Raltegravir Potassium
Protease Inhibitors
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Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
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Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
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Friends of the Library
The purpose of the Friends is to maintain an association of persons interested in books and libraries to focus public attention on library services, facilities, and needs; to advocate for public support for library issues; to stimulate gifts and acquisitions; and to raise funds to be used for the improvement of the North Kingstown Free Library, the upkeep of such improvements and the furtherance of the Library's activities beyond those that are supported by the Town. The purposes of the organization shall be limited to charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code. The organization has over 500 members and is very active in our library. Volunteers maintain an ongoing book sale in the library throughout the year. Other volunteers help with book processing and shelf reading. The Friends pay for most of our adult and children's programming. They also pay for our monthly newsletter, "Among Friends" that is sent to each member of the Friends group that lists all the library's activities. Dues start at $25. You can print out the the membership form below and mail the completed form and a check to the Friends of the North Kingstown Free Library, 100 Boone St., North Kingstown, RI 02852. Forms are also available at the circulation desk in the library. The Friends of the North Kingstown Free Library is a non-profit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code. The current members of the Executive Board are as follows:
- President - Nancy Harrington
- Vice President - Linda Rendine
- Past President - Elaine Cardente
- Treasurer - Peggy Sagnella
- Recording Secretary - Gaye Mitchell
- Corresponding Secretary - Kathy Barrette
- Members at Large
- Mimi Dyer
- Mark Callahan
- Jocelyne Metivier
- Sandy Quinn
- Kathy McGregor
- Cynthia Corbridge
- Sandie Blankenship
- Ex Officio - Cyndi Desrochers, Library Director


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Les Amis Reunis
St Etienne 1-1 Bordeaux (22:02:09)
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Hands up who - outside of France - knew that St Etienne and Bordeaux fans were the best of friends? I certainly didn't until the week before this match. This sort of stuff doesn't occur in England but apparently can be fairly commonplace abroad. This stems from a bonding of two of the ultra groups; The Magic Fans of St Etienne and the Ultramarines of Bordeaux both of whom favour their politics to the left.
Politics and football go hand in hand in France and Italy unlike in England. I can't imagine myself down at the Withdean Stadium, Brighton quoting from the Tony Benn diaries and receiving a standing ovation. More likely, I'd be on the end of a bout of short shrift, blank faces, much shoulder shrugging and classed as a mentalist.
On the morning of this match we awoke in Grenoble after watching GF38 v PSG the previous night. Such was the quality of the beer - taken seriously abroad and lacking in chemicals - that we didn't have hangovers. We still had to blow away the cobwebs though so it was decided that we'd walk up to the top of La Bastille, a fortress atop a small mountain (475m) overlooking the City. I say walk, actually we let the famous 'bubbles' (cable cars) do the work.
After that we strolled through the French food markets before jumping in the car and driving to St Etienne for the big match, naturally with the best of St Etienne pumping on the stereo. We collected our tickets and headed over to the Casino Cafeteria next to the ground for some welcome beers. The casino retail stores built in St Etienne in the 19th Century were the first of their kind in France. The man behind these was Geoffroy-Guichard. I mention this only because a) it makes me look as though I've done some research and b) This is the chap who the stadium is named after.
I've wanted to go and see St Etienne for years. For someone of my age (36) they are one of the great names of European Football. During the 70's they were regularly there or thereabouts in the European Cup in the days when the European Cup was good and not obsessed by money. In the 1976 final at Hampden Park, Glasgow they outplayed but eventually lost to Bayern Munich. That night they hit the post twice. In those days Hampden Park famously had 'square' goal posts. If they'd have been the standard round ones, St Etienne would have won. As such, the 'square goalposts of Glasgow' are still talked about to this day. St Etienne are underachievers/ underdogs and that's why I like them.
The Geoffroy-Guichard Stadium is known as The Green Cauldron. I now know why. There was a cacophony of noise from start to finish. At one end of the ground you have the 'Magic Fans' and at the other you have the 'Green Angels 1992'. We were on the half way line in with our friends from another ultra group the BB42. Also surrounding us were lots of Bordeaux fans. They were in the home end as well as their own section but nobody gave two hoots. I've only seen the noise, singing and general fan behaviour bettered once on my travels and that was at Besiktas.
The Green Angels 1992
The Magic Fans
BB42's newest member. My good self.
A BB42 flag keeps an eye on proceedings
A bit of action
Some of the Bordeaux fans
Bordeaux fans on fire
Friends reunited
Danny Last of European Football Weekends
The Magic Fans
BB42's newest member. My good self.
A BB42 flag keeps an eye on proceedings
A bit of action
Some of the Bordeaux fans
Bordeaux fans on fire
Friends reunited
Danny Last of European Football Weekends
There is nothing worse on these trips than brilliant goalkeepers. We want to see goals and plenty of them. So with respect to the ASSE stopper Jermaine Janot and FCGB keeper Matthieu Valverde, you two chaps nearly ruined my EFW. Both made outlandish one handed saves and by and large performed heroics all day. It was going to take something pretty special to break the deadlock. Luckily, help was at hand in the form of Blaise Matuidi who - in the 54th minute - opened the scoring with a 15 yard effort using the outside of his boot which screamed into the top left hand corner. This prompted two enormous surges down each terrace at either end of the stadium (fantastic) and a silly dance from the players (not fantastic).
During any article on Bordeaux these days, one is contractually obliged to wax lyrical about midfielder Yoann Gourcuff. He is attracting more clubs than a baby puppy seal and is definitely the new Zizou. That's probably been said a trillion times in France before but this time it's for real. This wasn't his day though. He injected a little quality into the game at times but overall he was strangely out of sorts and was eventually substituted by Bordeaux boss Laurent Blanc midway through the second half.
Laurent Blanc wore jeans (jeans!) during the match. Previously, I've written letters to UEFA demanding teams be deducted points if their manager wears jeans. Blanc however is a World Cup winner. Rumour has it that so excited was he at scoring France's golden goal winner v Paraguay in the 1998 World Cup, he wet himself. So on reflection, I've decided to let him off. Fans of Bordeaux can breathe a sigh of relief. No points deduction for you. Lucky chaps.
Late on in the match, Bordeaux keeper Valverde got smacked in the nose by a swift knee resulting in an outpouring of blood onto the pitch. I couldn't help thinking this was justice and that karma had intervened. How dare he have his best game of the season in the presence of the EFW team. Only joking mate - get well soon.
Bordeaux ended up rescuing a point in the last minute when following a corner, Marouane Chamakh flicked on to Cavenaghi who headed in from close range. The away fans around us lept to their feet, the home fans stopped singing for the first time in 90 minutes and that was that 1-1.
After the match, Nick the wheels drove us back to Lyon where a bizarre hotel incident ensued. We'd booked a hotel there as we had to fly back from Lyon Airport early on Monday morning. On arriving at our hotel, Basil Fawlty let it be known that his hotel was full and we'd not booked anything with him. The Lonely Planet book had printed the wrong phone number but correct hotel description in their book. The owner said that this happened to him all the time. He told us he wasn't too sure where our hotel was. Three minutes after walking out of there confused we were unpacking our bags in the Hotel Paris opposite. Our hotel was actually 20 seconds across the road. Fawlty could have told us that but claimed he didn't know.
With it being late on a Sunday we broke one of our own EFW golden rules and did a pub crawl of English and Irish bars in Lyon. There was nothing else open in the vicinity and so places such as the Wallace Bar and the Albion had the pleasure of our company. A word of warning if you are thinking of going to Lyon. It's a lovely place but it costs over £5 a pint. Still, we drank like men until closing time and agreed that the great EFW meeting in Tilburg in October will be named the 'EFW Oktoberfest'. Fans from all over Europe are set to attend. So if you have ever wanted to join us on one of these trips then this is your chance. What are you waiting for!? Get in touch.


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Data products
The complex waveform datastream from CryoSat's altimeter requires a sophisticated processing scheme, in particular for exploiting the synthetic aperture and interferometry techniques over ocean and ice surfaces.
The main data product is the 'Level-2' product, sometimes called the Geophysical Data Record. This contains the surface elevation along the ground track together with all auxiliary data needed to fully exploit these measurements.
Other data products are also available for specialised users (such as radar scientists) which contain the radar echoes at various levels of processing.


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Note, I adore each of these books equally and for different reasons.
Follow the River by James Alexander Thom
Inés of My Soul by Isabel Allende
Kirstin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
My Jim by Nancy Rawles
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles
To Read List: Claude and Camile by Stephanie Cowell; Leaving Van Gogh by Carol Wallace; A Vision of Light and The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley; Beacon at Alexandria and The Beekeeper's Daughter by Gillian Bradshaw; The Humingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea; The Coffee Trader by David Liss; and The Lost Painting by Jonathan Harr.
See my Goodreads page: http://www.goodreads.com/stephrenee


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(Pocket-lint) - Logitech has announced the Ultimate Ears 900, a set of in-ear headphones that want to take your listening to another level.
Logitech might not be the first company that pops into your brain when thinking about headphones. That's probably a different story where the professionals are concerned, as the company's Ultimate Ears brand make custom in-ear monitors that are used by on-stage musicians the world over.
It's this legacy that Ultimate Ears's latest UE 900 noise-isolating in-ear headphones aspire to bring to a (slightly) more affordable consumer level, though the £329 price tag makes it clear that these aren't 'phones for the casual listener.
Logitech's personal in-ear reference monitors are great for performers, but aren't renowned for being the most comfortable. That's where the UE 900 in-ears plug the biggest gap: although they're based around the same technology as the monitors, which includes four-armature speakers and a three-way crossover in a universal fit, they're designed to be more comfortable and natural sounding for comfy, long-term listening.
The Logitech Ultimate Ears 900 in-ear headphones come in their own case with five silicon caps and three Comply Foam tips for a more personalised, snug fit, and also include an anti-coil cable and ear loops. Swish stuff.


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Assembly went smoothly, as expected. I also expected it to work on the first try, like the other two VFD devices I built previously, the Ice Tube Clock and the akafugu VFD clock. I guess I ran out of luck :)
But, as my kid would say, "losing is learning". This became an opportunity for me to actually go one step further than just soldering the components mindlessly (because the instructions are too easy :)
This is how I learned what fascinating little devices VFDs are. They function similar to cathode ray tubes (CRT), used in the previous generation of TVs: the filament gets heated (by about 1V, believe it or not(*)) and frees electrons; a thin grid, supplied with higher voltage, attracts these electrons and speeds them towards the anodes, which are conductors that become fluorescent when hit by these electrons.
VFDs are also similar in functionality to triodes, and probably can even be used as amplifiers (in a MacGyver-kind situation :).
IV-3 tubes used in the Axiris shield require about 30V for the anodes and 0.85V for the filament. The power source to generate these two voltages is original (when compared to those in other successful VFD devices). The documentation gives a great explanation on how it works.
In any case, it only "half-worked" for me: I got the high voltage around 32V, but the tubes were still dark.
There were 2 possible causes for this:
- either defective tubes (with burned filament) or
- missing low voltage
Needless to say that the design of this power source is out of my league. The filament voltage is high-frequency AC, impossible to measure with a regular multimeter (**). But a VFD's filament, like a light bulb's filament, works with DC as well. So I tried lighting them up with 3 AAA batteries in series (since the 4 filaments are connected in series). I was able to see them glowing (until that moment I didn't even know where the tube's filament was). That did the trick and proved that the VFDs were not defective.
As an alternate (working) solution, I chose to replace the low voltage AC from the oscillator's power supply (which did not work for me) with the PWM voltage from the available D11. I cut the trace to VFIL1 (see schematics below) and re-wired to the anode of diode D1. I took out C2 and C3 (right hand side in the photo above) and connected a wire between VFIL2 and Arduino's D11.
With analogWrite(D11, 200), the 4 in-series filaments are now powered with a measurable 3.2V (3.9V from D11 minus 0.7V voltage drop on diode D1). This is not an outrageous solution when you think of switching power sources driven by pulses from uC used in some Nixie clocks.
With the hack in place, I was then able to successfully run Axiris' demo sketch (shown in action in the photo).
As they say, "all is good when it ends well".
What I would change or improve in this kit:
- add the ability to adjust the high voltage with a trim-pot; for two reasons:
- eliminates the restriction to use only a 12V power adapter to generate the required 30V;
- the tubes' luminescence diminishes over time (I read); a higher anode voltage can bring the brightness back;
- power the filaments independently (in parallel);
- if the filament of one tube burns out for some reason, all tubes will go dark; finding which one is defective is not obvious, and will require a multimeter;
- replace the 8-pin "power" header with a 6-pin header, to be able to plug the shield in the original Arduino 2009 as well; the left-most 2 pins are not used, yet Arduino's capacitors are touching one of them;
- add a troubleshooting section;
- include measuring the resistance between VFIL1 and VFIL2 being about 32 ohms; that proves that the filaments are intact;
- include testing of the filaments with a battery for the common folks that lack an oscilloscope (for those who have one, include some info on the AC voltage);
In conclusion, I find this kit as a great introduction to VFDs. I think it is easier to understand how it works than the Ice Tube clock, since it's all discrete components (no IC driver). It is also a lot more software-hackable, being controlled by an Arduino sketch. It is more hardware-hackable through the use of Arduino shields, which may include an RTC, Bluetooth, buzzer etc.
(*) One can also start a fire with a AA (1.5V) battery.
(**) Nick, I am just one step away from using the oscilloscope you sent me. I promise to write a review on it soon.


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Winfield United Methodist Church
Thursday, August 13, 2020
To make disciples for Christ dedicated to making a difference in the world.
Sunday School
Date: Sunday, December 29, 2019
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Location: WUMC
Please join us as we learn about the word of God.
We have classes for all ages and a nursery available.
See the ministries tab for more information.
Sunday School begins at 10:00 but those
who wish to meet in the Sanctuary for prayers
and fellowship at 9:45 before going to their classes.
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Friday, October 5, 2018
How to make pancakes from scratch?
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How to make pancakes from scratch?
Easy Fluffy Pancakes Recipe from Scratch
How to make fluffy pancakes at home, with ease. This easy recipe makes pancakes that are light and fluffy and only requires a few simple ingredients you probably have in your kitchen right now. Jump to the full Fluffy Pancakes Recipe or watch our quick recipe video showing you how we make them.
We love simple, no-fail recipes. Recipes that you know are easy to adapt or add to with ease. This recipe is just that. It's quick to make and we're willing to bet you've got everything you need to make them right now. In the past, we called on boxed mixes. Not anymore. Boxed mixes are great, but everything needed to make delicious pancakes already sits in our kitchen. We said goodbye to the mix and haven't looked back since.
How to Make Fluffy Pancakes
This recipe is easy! The pancakes aren't too sweet and are lightly scented with vanilla. They are delicious.
Here's how we make them:
The Dry Ingredients
- Flour: Use all-purpose flour or whole wheat. A combination of the both is nice, too.
- Sugar: We use granulated sugar, but you could experiment with brown sugar. Brown sugar will make the pancakes a little more moist.
- Baking Powder: Baking powder makes the pancakes so light and fluffy.
- Salt: We like to use 3/4 teaspoon of coarse salt. It balances the sugar nicely and brings out lots of flavor in the pancakes.
The Wet Ingredients
- Milk: We usually stick to reduced fat milk, since that's what we have in the fridge, but whole milk or non-dairy milk (like almond or coconut milk) will work, too.
- Melted Butter: You can't beat the taste of butter for this, but we've found that melted coconut oil is really tasty.
- One Egg: The egg adds structure and helps with how light and fluffy the pancakes become.
- Vanilla Extract: Vanilla adds sweetness and depth of flavor. You could try other extracts, too. Almond extract would be pretty delicious.
Do you see how fluffy they are, look at all those air pockets. If you want pancakes that are light and fluffy, make sure you read our tips below.
For Fluffy Pancakes, Don't Over-mix
Over-mixing pancake batter is a common mistake — it makes them heavy and flat, not fluffy. To prevent this, mix dry and wet ingredients separately at first then combine just before cooking. By the way, these tips apply to waffles and muffins, too. We use this same strategy when making our favorite blueberry muffins.
Once you're ready to cook, combine the two mixes — we use a fork. Stir until you no longer see dry clumps of flour. There can be some small lumps, though.
Now, Adapt It Based on What You Love
This is our basic recipe. We use it often as is, but have used it as a base for other recipes. Add what you love. Here are a few suggestions:
- Sprinkle a handful of berries, nuts or chocolate chips into the batter. (We love adding fresh blueberries for blueberry pancakes or mashed and sliced banana for banana pancakes)
- Layer a few thin slices of strawberry or banana onto the wet batter once added to the skillet. Then, flip. (We added banana to these spiced, buttermilk and banana pancakes)
- Add lemon zest or spices, such as cinnamon, nutmeg or allspice (see our cinnamon-spiced fluffy pancakes recipe with a cinnamon roll glaze)
- Try replacing some of the all-purpose flour with whole wheat flour (see our easy, fluffy whole wheat pancakes recipe here).
- Add a few spoonfuls of flax seeds, oats, or reduce the sugar.
There's lots of things you can do to make these your own. So go experiment and add what you love. Then, if you'd like, come back and share what worked for you. We'd love to read about it.
Easy Fluffy Pancakes Recipe from Scratch
These pancakes are light and fluffy and made completely from scratch. They're not too sweet and are scented with vanilla, making them extra delicious. These are easy to adapt — try adding a handful of berries, nuts or chocolate to the batter.
Makes 4 servings, 2 pancakes each
1 1/2 cups (195 grams) all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt (or 1/2 teaspoon of fine sea or table salt)
1 1/4 cups (295 ml) milk, dairy and non-dairy both will work
1 large egg
4 tablespoons butter, melted, plus more for skillet
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder and the salt in a medium bowl.
Warm milk in microwave or on top of stove until lukewarm, not hot (you should be able to keep your finger submerged for 10 seconds). Whisk milk, egg, melted butter and the vanilla extract until combined. (By warming the milk slightly, the melted butter mixes into the milk instead of turning into small lumps).
Heat a large skillet (or use griddle) over medium heat. The pan is ready if when you splatter a little water onto the pan surface, the water dances around the pan and eventually evaporates.
Make a well in the center of the flour mixture, pour milk mixture into the well and use a fork to stir until you no longer see clumps of flour. It is okay if the batter has small lumps, in fact you want that – it is important not to over-mix the batter.
Lightly brush skillet with melted butter. Use a 1/4-cup measuring cup to spoon batter onto skillet. Gently spread the batter into a 4-inch circle.
Lightly brush skillet with melted butter. Use a 1/4-cup measuring cup to spoon batter onto skillet. Gently spread the batter into a 4-inch circle.
When edges look dry and bubbles start to appear and pop on the top surfaces of the pancake, turn over. This takes about 2 minutes. Once flipped, cook another 1 to 2 minutes or until lightly browned and cooked in the middle. Serve immediately with warm syrup, butter and/or berries.
- We use kosher salt. If you don't have it on hand, keep this in mind: 1 teaspoon fine sea or table salt = about 1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt.
- Nutrition facts: The nutrition facts provided below are estimates. We have used the USDA Supertracker recipe calculator to calculate approximate values.
NUTRITION PER SERVING: Serving Size 2 pancakes / Calories 353 / Protein 9 g / Carbohydrate 46 g /Dietary Fiber 1 g / Total Sugars 10 g / Total Fat 15 g / Saturated Fat 9 g / Cholesterol 83 mg
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Fan Texting
Guests who would like to discreetly notify our game-day staff of guest services issues (e.g. security needed, spilled drink, medical issue, etc.) may do so by texting "PHILLIES" [space] followed by the issue and location to 69050.
For example: PHILLIES drink spilled in section 123, row 15.
Text messages are received and responded to by Phillies personnel during all home games.


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We've seen Selena Gomez's gorgeous chocolate locks styled in virtually every trend-setting hairdo. Whether she's sporting a sleek, straight style or hitting the movie set with bouncy barrel waves, this teen queen's tresses are always bountiful!
Try it: To achieve this look, try adding Simplicity extensions, says Celebrity Stylist Mohammad Rahebi, Identity Salon in Encino, California. "Simplicity Hair Extensions will change flat, thinning hair to show-stopping waves. Combining Simplicity's wavy textured human hair in two different lengths will give your client added layers and volume."
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"After setting the extensions in a layered cut is necessary preferably with a razor. It's important that you take out any bulk from the front. Start from the longest piece and use that as a guideline on where to start. Curling the hair in big sections and away from the face gives fullness. Tuck real hair behind extensions and set with hair spray. Adding volume at the roots is optional, but you must always style the bangs."
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drive on
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drive on
1. To continue driving. How much longer should we drive on before stopping for the night?
2. To motivate one to persist in some task or goal. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "drive" and "on." The desire to set a good example for my kids drove me on to finally complete my college degree. What drives on this character to survive?
drive someone on (to something)
to make someone move onward toward some kind of success. She said her parents drove her on to finish law school. They drove on their daughter to great things. The thought of earning a large salary drove him on.
drive on
to continue driving; to continue with one's journey. We drove on for a little while. The traffic jam is breaking up, so we can drive on.


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It's true. Ubisoft's Just Dance 4, out this October for Wii, Xbox Kinect, and PlayStation Move, will feature Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe.
I know. I know. I can't stop squealing either.
Here's part of the 40-track song list, announced by Ubisoft today:
• Call Me Maybe – Carly Rae Jepsen
• Disturbia – Rihanna
• Good Feeling – Flo Rida
• Maneater – Nelly Furtado
• Moves Like Jagger – Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera
• Never Gonna Give You Up – Rick Astley
• Rock Lobster– The B-52's
• So What – P!nk
• Super Bass – Nicki Minaj
• You're The First, The Last, My Everything – Barry White
• What Makes You Beautiful – One Direction
• Wild Wild West – Will Smith


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SF marks Earth Day in do-it-yourself style
Sheila Clardy and her husband just wanted to take a walk on a delightfully sunny Saturday morning when they stumbled into the hemp shirts and kale juices of San Francisco's aggressively sustainable Earth Day festival.
By noon, Clardy, 44, had a bag full of freebies, mostly herb and seed samples. And she was waiting in line outside a booth in Civic Center Plaza - she wanted a tongue analysis and maybe some free acupuncture on her ear.
"I really want to know how healthy my tongue is," Clardy said, sticking out her tongue and laughing.
In a place that proudly proclaims itself the country's greenest city, Earth Day really can seem like just another day in San Francisco. Technically Earth Day is April 22 - Monday - but crowds of people seemed happy to enjoy the warm spring weather a couple of days early as they strolled among the booths of recycled jewelry and organic T-shirts, plus countless organic and vegan food options.
"This festival is a lifestyle that San Francisco residents live every day," said Minji Wong of San Francisco, who along with her husband and 1-year-old son had stopped to watch an artist constructing a fountain in the center of the plaza.
"I'm a vegan, and we're already very health-conscious and environmentally conscious," said Wong, 33. "I live as if Earth Day is not just one day, but every day."
On the south lawn was what was announced as a yoga mob, where a couple of dozen yogis were stretching in the grass. Next door was a man from Living Earth Structures, talking about backyard wood-fired ovens and adobe saunas.
The emphasis of this festival was on do-it-yourself projects and teaching people how to bring sustainable practices into their homes, or at least give more thought to living a little greener.
At the booth for the nonprofit Healthy Planet, visitors tasted a pesto sauce that was made with just five natural ingredients - basil leaves, pine nuts, olive oil, salt and cheese - with a mortar and pestle. One woman who doesn't eat cheese was invited to make her own dairy-free version.
"The more people cook, the more they're learning about where their food comes from," said Bryan Jersky, chief executive of Healthy Planet. "They can start making better choices."
Among the vendors at Saturday's festival, some of the connections to Earth Day seemed a little thin, but visitors and dealers alike said the unifying theme was of living simply and healthfully.
The tongue analysis, for example, might not seem immediately Earth Day-appropriate. But the practitioners there from Berkeley's Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine College said an awareness of the body and its connection to the Earth is a key part of their work.
Plus, said Erin Olinick, the college's director of marketing, "this is a fairly green medicine."
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President Obama on Thursday called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to resign due to his continued brutality against his own restive population.
Mr. Assad's call for dialogue rings hollow at a time when he is unleashing tanks and attack helicopters against peaceful protesters in Hama, Deir al Zour, and other Syrian cities, said Mr. Obama.
"We have consistently said that President Assad must lead a democratic transition or get out of the way. He has not led. For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside," said Obama in a statement.
The move was the toughest action yet taken by the administration against the increasingly embattled Assad regime. It was accompanied by new sanctions that freeze all Syrian government assets within the United States and prohibit US firms from dealing in any way in Syrian oil.
In addition, it was part of a coordinated verbal and legal multinational assault, as the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, and the European Union issued similar statements that Assad must go now.
But Obama's Thursday action was also a long time coming. Assad's apparent intent to hold on to power at any cost has been on display for weeks, as Syrian security forces have increased the violence of their crackdown.
The Obama administration called for the resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak fairly soon after protests arose in Egypt. Why did it take relatively longer in the case of Syria?
For one thing, the US wanted to make sure it was acting in coordination with allies, said a senior administration official. A call to Assad to resign delivered by many capitals at once has far more effect than one emanating from a single nation, even if that nation is the US.
"We wanted to make sure we weren't just issuing statements [on our own], but were doing so in an internationally coordinated way," said the official, speaking on background in a conference call with reporters.
In addition, the US slapped sanctions on Syria at the very beginning of its crackdown, said the official. In that sense the US has been tougher on Assad than it ever was on Mr. Mubarak, a longtime American ally.
"In Syria, unlike in Egypt, we pursued punitive measures from the beginning," said the US official.
When the Syrian regime redoubled its efforts to suppress demonstrations with force at the beginning of Ramadan, it was clear that the time to take the final step and call for his resignation was getting close, said the official. At that point the administration realized that there was no chance of Assad recovering enough legitimacy to lead a Syria at peace.
"Increasingly we felt the need to coordinate a stronger response given the continued violence against the Syrian people," said a second senior administration official.
Will Assad now actually resign as a result of international pressure? That seems unlikely. The example of Mubarak, who left voluntarily but now faces prosecution in Egypt, cannot be comforting to Assad.
At this point, Assad is in a "dictator's dilemma," according to Andrew Tabler, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy. He has unleashed so much violence that it would be extremely difficult for him to back down.
That said, concerted multilateral pressure on Syria has worked in the past, notes Mr. Tabler in an online interview posted on the Council on Foreign Relations website. That is what drove Syria out of Lebanon in April 2005, after the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
"The second thing that is effective with the Syrians are sanctions, which have affected their economy greatly," said Tabler.
Writing Thursday in his popular Foreign Policy magazine blog, Daniel Drezner, professor of international relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, questioned whether today's US moves will accomplish much of substance.
That does not mean that publicly calling on Assad to resign is a bad thing, said Mr. Drezner. Such rhetoric may serve as the policymaker's equivalent of blowing off steam, releasing pressure that otherwise might drive the US toward more risky policy options.
"When the rest of the policy quiver has been exhausted, sure, why not call for Assad to leave? As a general rule, all else equal, I see no reason why the US government should not express its actual preferences rather than hide behind diplomatese," said Drezner.


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Far too long, the American people had too few choices when it came to the direction of our country, the right, the left, or a moderate path. Far too long the American people had only two parties to choose from. Each of the two major parties and each respective political philosophy had a fraction of the answers of our nation's problems. Far too long, our government has neglected to fix our tax structure, fix our health care system, fix our financial system, fix our criminal justice system, rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, fix our educational system, and unify the people.
The left is correct in that we need a government that is engaged in the effort to rebuild and expand our economy as well as ensuring all Americans to education, healthcare, well paying jobs, affordable housing and the basic necessities of life. The left is correct in the need for protect the environment, be engaged in the effort to move our nation to a mixed energy economy, and to invest in the things that are essential to this country that the private sector can not or will not invest in.
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However, in 2003, a few patriots saw the need to combine the policies of the right and the left to rebuild America's economy, rebuild America's moral foundation, rebuild the American family, defend the homeland, reform America's institutions, and defend as well as advance American interests abroad. These patriots crafted an agenda, not a watered down "moderate" movement but a new "radical center" ideology, and a new party that will take America neither to the left nor right, but up. Hence the Falconist Party was born.
Can you imagine a society were our government doesn't have a $16 trillion debt that keeps rising? Can you imagine a society that criminal justice system that punishes and rehabilitates our criminals while keeping our streets safe? Can you imagine a society that has a well-maintained infrastructure that supports an economy with a new and expanded manufacturing engine that employs millions of people? Can you imagine our small towns and urban centers revitalized? Can you imagine a society where the institutions of faith, family and homeland are restored? Can you imagine a nation that doesn't rely on oil imported from unstable parts of the world but produces its own energy from both clean renewable resources as well as from the clean production and use of domestic fossil fuels? Can you imagine a society a society were the people of the city and country, the red state and blue state, the young and old, the single and married, the parents and the childless, as well as people of all colors, creeds, faiths, are working and serving together to build a better America and a better world? We can imagine that and this party will fight for that dream for every man, woman, and child! We will fight to take America and the world not right, not left, but up.
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Facebook came out with a search engine yesterday.
So far, the verdict of people who have tried it – like Owen Thomas – is that it is neat, but too incomplete to be useful.
That sounds familiar.
Facebook has a bad habit of making a big deal about launching products that come out half-baked, and never really take over the world.
- Facebook PR invited lots of press to launch of Facebook Places a couple years ago. VP of product Chris Cox gave a very emotional speech. The product was basically a stripped down version of Foursquare, but without the game-mechanics, badges, or restaurant recommendations. Do you ever use Facebook Places to check-in to a restaurant?
- Facebook Offers was a Facebook's Groupon-killer – sort of. Despite a big announcement, Facebook never really rolled it out across the country, and eventually shut the whole project down.
- Facebook Email. Facebook hosted a big event to roll out its email killer. But the product lacked standard Web email features users can get with Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and lots of other places. When's the last time you sent someone with an @facebook.com address an email? Have you ever?
Another common thread to all these launches is that Facebook executives will tell the gathered press that their new product is in beta, and that it isn't supposed to be a replacement or "killer" of any known products in the category.
After a while, those caveats start to sound like excuses.
How about launching only launching things that are as polished as an iPhone and as destructive to competitors?


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I am a new registered member of this forum and I wanted to thank so many of you for helping me decide (finally!) to buy my beautiful 2002 Topaz/Crema Z8. I have been following this board for over two years as I've learned more about what I believe (as many of you do) is the most beautiful and timeless car to come out in many years from any manufacturer. Your thoughtful insights and individual and group research has been invaluable to me and I hope to be able to contribute in the future. Thank you all and thanks especially to Andrew/Macfly for all you do to support this outstanding forum!
My Z8 is due to arrive here in Northern California in about a week and will join my black GT2 as one of my four-wheeled passions. The two will battle it out for the preferential garage placement.
While it is in transit, I am pulling together a list of things that I'd like to have when it arrives and one of them is a new set of floor mats. Does anyone have any ideas on where I can get them? I'd like the originals and, of course, a color match. Yowza!


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Sebastian Buescher: The Alchemist
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