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Welcome to depression post three! Previously I covered the symptoms and etiology of depression, and some of the most common antidepressant medications and how they work. Now I'd like to go into some of the research behind it. After all, it's not like we just grab a depressed person and say "here, take this and call me in the morning". Every new drug that comes out on the market has to go through rigorous clinical testing to determine whether or not it works, and just as important, whether or not it is safe. And even then, drug companies and the FDA make mistakes.
This post (to save me writing another 2,000 words at a time) is going to focus on the way we study depression (along with other psychiatric disorders) using animal behavioral models, particularly rodent models. But of course, you can't put a mouse on a couch and ask it how it feels about its mother. What researchers have found is that there are ways of studying the efficacy of traditional antidepressants. So rodent tests for depression are not so much tests for depression so much as they are screening for possible antidepressant therapies.
Tests of Antidepressant Efficacy
1) Forced Swim Test: Take a mouse (or rat), put it in a bucket of water where it has to swim. Wait, and ponder how there is noting quite so cute as a mouse swimming. Pretty soon the mouse will give up when it realizes it can't get out, and start floating in the water. The time it takes to give up is estimated as the time it takes for the mouse to despair. Researchers have found that antidepressants like Prozac or Celexa increase the amount of time that the mice spend swimming and trying to get out of the bucket. So you can screen for an antidepressant and whether or not it will work by giving to a mouse in the forced swim test.
2) Tail Suspension Test: This time, string the mouse up by its tail. Wait for the mouse to stop wriggling around. It will give up pretty soon (though it's best to use fat mice for this, skinny mice can climb their own tails and so are no good). This is just like the Forced Swim Test, and works pretty much the same way.
3) Sucrose Drinking: This test measures anhedonia, or whether or not animals are sensitive to pleasurable stimuli. And the mice love it! Take a mouse and give it a choice between water, and a sweet solution like sugar water, Kool Aid, or Tang (you would be AMAZED at the number of scientific studies that use things like Tang). Obviously the mice like the sweet stuff better, and how much MORE they like it (how much they drink) is a measure of anhedonia. So you can take mouse models of depression and see if they drink sugar water, then give them antidepressants and see if they drink more.
So how do you get depressed mice in the first place? First of all, some strains of mice or rats are more sensitive to depression than others, or more sensitive to antidepressants. So once you've picked your strain, you then have several options:
1) Parental Separation: taking a mouse (or a rat, or a monkey) away from its mother for a while (either raising it on a cloth surrogate or for rodents, just taking it away for an hour a day), can produce mice that are more sensitive to stress and give up swimming more easily.
2) Social Defeat: Put a mouse in a cage with a bigger mouse. The small mouse (or the non-resident mouse, mice are very territorial) will lose the fight. If you have a mouse lose a fight several times, they start to get depressed. In monkeys, if you put monkeys in groups, there is a hierarchy that is soon established. The monkeys at the bottom of the heap show signs of depression and are sensitive to antidepressants.
3) Chronic Stress: Put a mouse in a cage, and put that cage in a rat cage. In the wild, rats eat mice, so even just the smell of them can stress out a mouse. A lot of times you can just put a piece of bedding that's been in a rat cage in a mouse case, or something that smells like cats, etc. If you keep it in there for several days, you get a chronic model of stress, and the mice that have been stressed have very different reactions in the depression tests.
Those are some of the most well known models of depression and behavioral tests for antidepressant efficacy. Of course there are also genetic models (with different versions of the serotonin transporter), and there are ways to look at animals with depressed phenotypes using PET imaging and MRI. Next up, the serotonin hypothesis of depression, and why it's probably a lot more complicated than that.


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As the U.S. moves closer to the so-called "Fiscal Cliff",big ticket government spending areas like defense and entitlement programs are likely to be at the center of the debate. If the White House and Congress can't agree on a compromise, the Federal Government is threatened with automatic across-the-board cutsthat will come into effect in January 2013.
According to Department of Defense documents,since 2001 contracts for services have increased 137%, compared to a 1% increase for payrolls of active duty military personel over the same time period (in 2011 dollars), and is labeled as "increasingly unaffordable." However, among the largest government contractors are some of the largest companies in the country, some that employ more than 100,000 workers and draw a majority of their revenue from government sources.
To understand the spending involved, CNBC.com analyzed data from USASpending.gov,which was established in 2006 by the U.S. Office of Budget Management to make federal awards publicly available. According to the site, in FY2011 there were $536.8 billion in government contracts awarded to approximately 170,000 contractors. The data presented here are based solely on U.S. government contracts and do not include assistance, insurance, grants, loans or other forms of payment.
So, who are the biggest U.S. government contractors? Click ahead to find out.
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Updated 13 June 2012
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Childhood revisited: toy museums in Spain
Tin toy. Costume Museum
This is the plan: revisit your childhood and share it with your children. How? Visiting the different toy museums in Spain. It will be a journey full of illusion and surprises that all the family will enjoy and with which, moreover, you will discover Spain's important tradition in toys.
Did you know that Spain is one of the principal manufacturers of toys in Europe? Table football machines and the Mariquita Pérez doll have given many hours of fun to young and old in different countries throughout the years. Toy cars, miniature trains, building games, dolls, toy horses, tin soldiers... Children's favourite toys remain the same despite the passing of time. You can confirm this in the many toy museums found all over Spain. A charming experience that will bring back childhood dreams and that can be enjoyed by all the family.
A toy, a world.
As well as stimulating the imagination, toys are a reflection of the society of each period. At the Museum of Traditional Games, in the town of Campo (Huesca), which contains pieces from almost 200 games and old photographs of them being played, your children will discover how children used to have fun in the countryside.
In the Toy Museum of Catalonia in Figueres (Girona) you can discover objects that famous people, such as Salvador Dalí, Federico García Lorca and Joan Miró, entertained themselves with. Nearby, 75 km away, is the collection of the Toy Museum of Sant Feliú de Guíxols, containing over 3,500 toys from between 1875 and 1975. You will also smile when you see the pieces contained in other museums like those in Albarracín (Teruel) and Ibi (Alicante) and the Children's Museum in Albacete.
Where dolls live
Venerated by collectors, desirable gifts and, of course, a treat for all children. In Spain you will see some very valuable collections, such as that of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco Museum in Salamanca, where more than 300 porcelain dolls constitute the largest public display of this type in the world. There are also curious and important exhibitions in the Museum of Antique Dolls in Palma on the island of Majorca, the Dolls Museum in Castell d'Aro (Girona) and the Romantic Museum in Sitges (Barcelona). If dolls' houses also interest you, do not miss a visit to the Miniatures Museum in Ourense and the Dolls' House Museum in Málaga, where you can admire pieces like a reproduction of a typical Majorca house from 1850 and an Andalusian collection from the 19th century.
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If you are planning a trip to Madrid, we recommend you visit the Costume Museum – this centre often organises themed exhibitions, and on this occasion you can see a selection from its major collection of toys, comprising almost 17,000 items. Get ready to have a great time revisiting your childhood in the company of your children in Spain.
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In winter, the cross country skiing and snowshoeing is absolutely glorious. Our trail system of easy and rolling terrain allows skiers of all abilities to find the right level of activity, challenge, and fun. The trails are groomed with both double tracks and a skating lane and run through the forests at the base of Mt. Washington. A yurt with a wood stove and a heated log cabin are great places to stop, rest, and take in the fabulous views.
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Glide on skis along gentle or challenging forest trails. Explore aboard the SnowCoach or slide on a snow tube. Snowshoe to a cozy cabin or discover the wilderness. Your adventure is up to you. At the Great Glen Trails Outdoor Center in Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire, we offer adventures in all shapes and sizes.
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Our staff is dedicated to making Great Glen a fun place to learn and improve your cross country skiing skills. We will work with you on any level of coaching.
Ski Racing ProgramsThis year, the Nordic Meister Series is in its twelfth season as the largest weekly cross country citizen race series in the United States. For eight weeks, skiers of all abilities challenge themselves on a 5km course with prizes awarded in age categories and through a raffle. With an adjustment system, all ages can compete on a level playing field.
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Nitek > Nitek PVX44 - 4 Channel Power and Data Inserter Unit
4 port passive video, power and data distribution unit. Systems operate with other Nitek UTP video equipment including video hubs, standard video balun transceivers, active transmitters or any twisted pair equipped camera.
The PVX44 utilizes standard 4-pair Category UTP cabling as a means of distributing video, power and data up to 4 cameras. Any third party Class 2 power supplies can be used with the PVX44. VB43ATF video, power, and data transceivers are required at the camera end. The PVX44 transmits 4 video signals from the cameras into one 4-pair Category cable. Nitek M series hubs can be used for quick and secure installations.
The systems can also adapt to existing communication and computer network spare pairs or new cable installations. These units provide superior immunity from noise and interference, even when run in common raceways with AC.
Twisted Sender is recommended for use with unshielded twisted pair (UTP) wiring. The systems will operate over wire gauges from 26 AWG through 12 AWG but are optimized for 24 AWG. Category cabling may be used. Individually shielded pairs should be avoided as they drastically reduce the operating range of the systems. Multipair cable with an overall shield is acceptable. Video can be operated in the same communication cable coexistent with telephone, computer, control signals, power voltages and other video signals. While video may be routed through telephone punchdown block terminals, any bridge-taps, also called T-taps and any resistive, capacitive or inductive devices MUST BE removed from the pair.
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CHIPLEY � It was a team effort Thursday night for the Baker School football team as the Gators took on Chipley in their spring football game. Four different Baker players scored a touchdown and Malcolm Griffith kicked a 33-yard field goal in a 32-22 win.
CHIPLEY � It was a team effort Thursday night for the Baker School football team as the Gators took on Chipley in their spring football game.
Four different Baker players scored a touchdown and Malcolm Griffith kicked a 33-yard field goal in a 32-22 win.
�I felt like up front we won the battle in the trenches,� Baker coach Matt Brunson said. �And like I�ve said all along, I think they�ve bought into the system.
�They�ve gotten strong enough where I felt like our offensive line knocked some big holes in there.�
Griffith�s field goal with 7:36 left in the first quarter gave Baker a 3-0 lead.
The Gators trailed 6-3 late in the second quarter, but a 9-yard touchdown run by Dillon Nixon and a 2-point conversion by Austin Davis put the Gators in front 11-6.
Baker led the rest of the way as D.J Thomas, Kodi Nixon and Richard Stroheker scored second-half touchdowns and respective starting squads took over in the second half.
The Gator offense was at its physical best in the second half.
Baker scored on drives of 13 plays covering 60 yards, 12 plays covering 70 yards and seven plays for 70 yards.
Thomas put the Gator starters on the board first with a 3-yard reception from Jon Beck to cap the 13-play, 60-yard drive. Griffith added the extra point and as Baker extended the lead to 18-6.
While the Gators were grinding it out with a ball-control offense the Tigers used tailback Kobe McCrary for a fast-break attack.
McCrary responded to the Baker touchdown with the first of his two 70-yard touchdown runs.
A 6-yard touchdown pass from Beck to Kodi Nixon finished off Baker�s drive that covered 70 yards on 12 plays.
Once again McCrary took it to the house for the Tigers in response to the Baker score.
Stroheker scored the game�s final touchdown on a 16-yard run with 7:37 left in the fourth quarter. A 37-yard pass from Beck to Josh Long set up the Stroheker score.
Thomas led the Gator rushers with 77 yards on 14 carries. Stroheker had 37 yards on seven carries. Beck was 5-of-9 passing for 75 yards.
Thomas was quick to praise the guys up front for the success of the Baker running game.
�We�ve got so many weapons everywhere on the field and that�s what happens when you have a beautiful A1 line like we do,� he said. �If you have a good line you can throw anybody back there and know they are going to get three yards a carry.�
About the only complaint Brunson had before having a chance to look at the game film was the trouble the Gators had tackling McCrary. But even Brunson had to admit that big back, who will probably be one of the more heavily recruited prospects in Northwest Florida, will make a lot of people look bad.
Brunson said the win was a nice way to end a good spring.
�Any time you compete you want to win if they are keeping score,� he said. �Overall our guys have worked hard and they reaped the rewards tonight of the hard work they�ve put in by playing well. And I do feel like our guys played well.�
Thomas said the win will make the upcoming off season program a little more enjoyable.
�Last year we lost to them (in the spring game) and everybody was kind of down about it,� he said.�But this year we are going to have our confidence and everybody is going to be, �OK, we battled with Chipley and we beat them this time and it feels good.�
�But we can�t get too cocky because we�ve got a long way to go conditioning wise. We�ve got a lot of people stepping up so it�s going to be a good thing.�
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at email@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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maverickblogger necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 232 diseños de 74 diseñadores freelance.
Maverick is an online educational brand teaching Internet Marketing - we need an original and creative logo/branding for our company
We need a creative and professional logo and icon that represents our company in positive and memorable way. We're looking for something original and stylistic that is subtle yet has character and visual impact.
Designers - do not feel limited by having the "M" in your icon - we are open to all options - so if you have a cool icon design which would fit with our cutting edge/cut/innovate style then please show us some options!
Maverick is a new internet marketing and online educational brand. We will be producing content in the form of ebooks, videos, dvds and other formats to teach various online marketing and internet marketing practices.
We need a logo which is original and creative but also sutble - it must have visual impact and also emphasise our cutting edge style.
The logo will be used across various formats including video (as a watermark) on digital product packaging as well as dvd packaging. It will also be used on a range of websites. This means the logo must be versatile enough to work across different formats.
We would like the logo to include a separate "M" type branding icon, or another icon which signifies the brand and could be used without the full logo in some places but still relate to the brand. So for example in situations where the full logo could not be used we would just use the icon from the logo.
(Note: The icon does not have to be the letter "m" but can be something related to marketing/the internet/or simply an appealing logo/mark which fits with the brand - we are open to your ideas on this and will provide appropriate feedback).
If you have other colour ideas please feel free to explore these and we will provide feedback quickly on all concepts
We will also be looking to work with the winning designer to potentially create more branding materials for the company and for other parts of the company (separate websites etc)
We are open to colour options
Text in logo can be capitalised, lower case, or capital first letter - we are open to options on this
- Cutting edge logo design which includes text "maverick" and an icon/logo alongside the text.
- Originality (no clip art)
- Needs to work in various sizes on all types of marketing materials in print and online
- We are open to color options
- Originality and creativity will be rewarded
- Text in logo can be capitalised, lower case, or capital first letter - we are open to options on this
- Ideally the final logo files will include vector format (not essential but preferred)
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"The Perception of Black Bodies in 'Post-racial' America"
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"The Politics of Physique Magazines: Gay Consumer Culture Before Stonewall"
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"Lincoln on the Verge: An Odyssey, By Rail"
Dr. Pranav Jani
The Ohio State University
Salman Rushdie and the Politics of Storytelling
Anna Ornstein, Holocaust survivor - April 22, 2013
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
"Pools, Trolls, Products, and Power: Intellectual Property and the Public Good"
Anna Ornstein
Psychoanalyst, Emerita professor of child psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati and member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (BPSI)
"Holocaust Memoir & Post-Holocaust Art"
Department of Philosophy & Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
"Doing Right by Henrietta Lacks: Exploitation and the Aims of Medical Research"
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"Some Aspects of the Complexities of Modernity and Modernization"
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"Seducing the Enemy: the Savvy, Scandalous, Satirical Early Supporters of Gender Equality"
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Lauren Petersen Oh, Mighty Isis! The Places of an Egyptian Goddess in Ancient Roman Religion
Labor, Nature, and Violence: The Colorado Coalfield Wars
Locative Narrative: Figuring Urban Space in the Network Society
Ideology Written in Lightning: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Frank Miller's '300'
Two Accidents: on Mythology and the Uses of Chance in Art
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Most NJ Residents Think Quality Of Life Is Improving, Survey Says [POLL]
A new survey finds most Jersey residents are pretty satisfied with life in the great Garden state.
Patrick Murray, Director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute says "we created an index for the Garden state, and have been keeping pretty close tabs on it for the past year and a half – and we found that the quality of life is ticking upwards… currently, 2-in-3 residents rate the state of New Jersey as either an excellent (15%) or good (47%) place to live. This 62% positive rating is down slightly from October… the scale ranges from minus 100 to plus 100 and it's now at plus 25 – so it isn't in the stratosphere yet, but it certainly keeps ticking up and up – it was at plus 21 back in December of 2010."
He says "the quality of life ratings given by Garden state residents depends on a lot of things – and the key here for it going upwards recently has been some of the local ratings built into this index, "particularly ratings of residents' own town – 33 percent excellent and 41 percent good- that's a high number…rating of local schools has also gone up to 26 percent excellent and 42 percent good – and this is a positive all-time high since 1978 on that number."
Murray adds "we also find there is a gender gap building here – we're finding that women are much more positive than men – women give New Jersey a plus 30 on our index, whereas men score a plus twenty – women are looking at some particular things that are happening in service areas, such as schools and education, things that affect kids, and seeing some positive changes there, and men are looking at other areas which may have to do with crime, the economy and saying well the state hasn't quite rebounded yet."


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Article "Inside Amazon's Artificial Intelligence flywheel"
How deep learning came to power Alexa, Amazon Web Services, and nearly every other division of the company.
by Steven Levy
February 1, 2018
Article "Inside the Alexa Prize"
Amazon is in a pitched battle with its rivals to bring truly conversational AI into our homes. So the company is staging a contest—a mad dash toward an outlandish goal: Cook up a bot capable of small talk.
by James Vlahos
February 27, 2018
Amazon's Alexa has a really creepy laugh
Published on Mar 10, 2018
Alexa has a really creepy laugh. Kim breaks it down. Give us your thoughts in the comments below!
"Between the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies, we have more than enough cinematic evidence to argue that bringing back dinosaurs is a very bad idea. But luckily an upcoming mobile game will allow us to have our dinosaurs without all of the carnage that comes with them.
Universal and Ludia have teamed up to create Jurassic World Alive, an augmented reality game that allows you to collect DNA to unlock dinosaurs and create hybrid dinosaurs. You can walk around to find dinosaurs, but you also have the ability to collect DNA at home."
What Alexa's laughing gaffe tells us about voice recognition
Published on Mar 12, 2018
A few laughing Amazon Echo and Dot speakers give us insight into a bigger story: voice recognition is still very much in its nascency. We still have a ways to go before it can breach the point of understanding tone and context.
9 questions you had about Alexa
Published on Mar 15, 2018
In this week's episode of Quick Question, Jeff sits down with Amazon Alexa expert Ben Fox Rubin. They answer your questions about whether Alexa will ever have a face, how she says "Mario" and if she will ever be integrated with sex toys.
How Amazon's Alexa is turning into HAL-9000
Published on Mar 16, 2018
HAL-9000 is coming to your house! Brett and Tim break it down. Give us your thoughts in the comments below!
"HAL-9000, the malevolent supercomputer at the heart of Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, is an icon of science fiction cinema. So much so, that if you ask any one of the virtual assistants to "Open the pod bay doors," they'll dutifully parrot HAL's lines from the movie back at you. Now, Master Replicas Group wants to take that step a bit further, turning HAL into a virtual assistant that can control your home.
The company name might be familiar to prop and costume fans: the original Master Replicas produced a range of high-quality props from franchises like Star Wars and Star Trek before going out of business a decade ago. If you've seen someone swinging around a lightsaber, there's a good chance it's one of Master Replicas' props, or based off of their models. The new company is made up of several former employees, who are getting back into the prop replica business with a new range of products, including an interactive replica of HAL."
"This replica of HAL-9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey comes with Amazon's Alexa built in"Master Replicas Group 2001 Interactive HAL Computer
Published on Mar 1, 2018
2001 Interactive HAL Computer
For the first time in 50 years, you can own an absolutely authentic, fully-operational HAL 9000 computer interface. The Master Replicas Group Interactive HAL Computer uses Amazon Echo technology to control your home!
Available for preorder this spring. Shipping in second quarter 2018!
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Maybe don't hook up your garage door to it
by Andrew Liptak
March 10, 2018
Amazon Alexa on Windows PCs is just disappointing
Published on Jun 18, 2018
Amazon's Alexa app for PC is severely limited by region (just U.S.), lacks basic features, requires special firmware, and is only for "select" PCs. Still, there is some hope for it


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I hope you don't mind if I take a couple days off. I kinda wore myself out on the last few posts. Looking in detail at some of that Clampett punctuation really got me thinking about some new theories and ideas. I wanna let 'em gestate while I study some more stuff.
In the meantime, I'd like to thank some of the latest contributors to the site.
Hector Martinez
Patrick Sevc ***! a modern Medici!
Lisa Riggins
Leo Brodie
Allan Turner
Chris Baranowski
Jeff LaMarche
Laura Olsen
Amir Avni (Who's gonna clobber everyone, because he does the lessons and applies them to his work)
Daniel Chambers
Maybe you guys can let me know which posts you found most useful. And if you've done any lessons, post a link in the comments.
Did I miss anyone?
Curley Howard's custom visual language and punctuation inventions
The marvelous color stylings of a Cal Arts grad
Jack Benny's brilliant ads
More Ken Duncan
Tex Avery's clarity
Can cartoons ever be as funny as live action?
By the way, you don't have to wait for me to make new lessons to further your own progress. Just take some old cartoons and still frame them and apply what you are learning while copying the poses in the cartoons. The more you do this, the more you will understand how the principles work and the more you will build up a variety of poses, acting and other skills.
All these cartoons use the same basic fundamentals. If you don't have a good freeze frame on your dvd player, or don't have many old cartoons, this blog (and others) are full of great poses for you to copy.
Start with the line of action.
Build the basic forms around the LOA. (Check the negative shapes and don't eat 'em up!)
Break the basic forms into the next smaller level of forms.
Add the details and make them flow around the forms.
Check your copy against the original.
Critique it and find mistakes.
Redraw it and correct the mistakes.
Apply what you learn to your own drawings.
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Obviously, this doesn't count as a catch, what with the ball bouncing off a wall at Wrigley Field, but it's a damn impressive effort by Yasiel Puig.
After the play was initially ruled a catch, probably out of awe more than anything, the umpires conferred and correctly ruled it a foul ball. We still have this GIF, though.
Also, while Eric Karros has a point about Puig maybe needing to rein it in a little so as to avoid an injury, BOO THAT IS NOT FUN.


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First things first. I'm a longtime fan of Maui, Hawaii, and for whatever reason, this fact seems to annoy some people.
"Why Maui? Why Hawaii at all?" they ask. "Aren't there more interesting places to travel in the world? Isn't it boring — returning to the same place over and over again?"
Lucky for me, I live in Calgary, so there's always a handful of people whose eyes meet mine. We smile at one another and nod with understanding. Maui, after all and for so many reasons, is our happy place — or at least it's up there on our happy-place list.
Why are we so attached to Hawaii's second-largest land mass — named for a Polynesian demi-God believed to have raised the fleet of islands from the sea?
Often, visiting the island is a family tradition. I've been seeking respite on Maui since I was a kid. Put simply, I've built a lifetime of memories on the island. The weather, consistently warm and sunny, certainly doesn't hurt. Just stepping off the plane into that welcome wall of healing warmth and humidity sends a rush of good feelings from your head to your toes.
To assume people loyal to Maui aren't also adventurous globetrotters is simply wrong. Many of us equally embrace what might be considered more "challenging" travel. But we'll still argue in favour of travelling to a familiar place, a place that feels a bit like home.
Our children, for example, love to revisit the very cool Maui Ocean Centre — home to exotic seafaring creatures like the bizarrely human-like and big-nosed unicorn fish and fast-swimming hammerhead sharks.
Another favourite pastime of ours, especially at sunset, is to visit Dragon's Teeth — a small outcropping of land located just off the coast of Kapalua, where dramatic, windswept rocks pose jagged against the horizon.
And I never leave the island without at least one date with The Fairmont Kea Lani's Caffe Ciao for a morning coffee and a Sunday New York Times — a tradition I started years ago with my mom.
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A Study of Aleglitazar in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Who Have Not Previously Received Anti-Hyperglycemic Therapy
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01691755
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 25, 2012
Last Update Posted : August 11, 2016
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|Condition or disease
|Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
|Drug: Placebo Drug: aleglitazar
|Phase 3
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|196 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Double (Participant, Investigator)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Phase III Study to Assess the Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability of Aleglitazar Monotherapy Compared With Placebo in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2D) Who Are Drug-Naïve to Anti-Hyperglycemic Therapy
|Study Start Date :
|November 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|September 2013
|Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Drug: Placebo
oral doses once a day for 26 weeks
|Experimental: aleglitazar
Drug: aleglitazar
150 mcg orally once a day for 26 weeks
- Change from baseline in hemoglobin HbA1c [ Time Frame: From baseline to week 26 ]
- Change in lipid profile [ Time Frame: From baseline to week 26 ]
- Change from baseline in fasting plasma glucose [ Time Frame: From baseline to week 26 ]
- Responder rate as defined of hemoglobin A1c (HbAc1) <7.0% (<6.5%) [ Time Frame: From baseline to week 26 ]
- Change from baseline in homeostatic index of insulin sensitivity (HOMA-IS) [ Time Frame: From baseline to week 26 ]
- Change from baseline in homeostatic index of beta cell function (HOMA-BCF) [ Time Frame: From baseline to week 26 ]
- Safety: incidence of adverse events [ Time Frame: 30 weeks (26 weeks treatment and 4 weeks follow-up) ]
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- Adult patients, >/=18 years of age
- Diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, type 2 within 12 months prior to screening
- Patients who have not received a anti-hyperglycemic medication for at least 12 weeks prior to screening and for not longer than 3 consecutive months in the past
- HbA1c >/=7% and </=9.5% at screening or within 4 weeks prior to screening and at pre-randomization visit
- Fasting plasma glucose </=240 mg/dL at pre-randomization visit
- Agreement to maintain diet and exercise habits during the study
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus, secondary diabetes, diabetes resulting from pancreatic injury, or acute metabolic diabetic complications within the past 6 months
- Any previous treatment with thiazolidinedione or a dual peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR) agonist
- Any body weight lowering or lipoprotein-modifying therapy within 12 weeks prior to screening (except stable dose of statin)
- Symptomatic congestive heart failure classified as New York Heart Association class II-IV at screening
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|United States, California
|Chino, California, United States, 91710
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90057
|Santa Ana, California, United States, 92701
|Thousand Oaks, California, United States, 91360
|Upland, California, United States, 91786
|West Hills, California, United States, 91307
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|Boynton Beach, Florida, United States, 33472
|Cooper City, Florida, United States, 33024
|Coral Gables, Florida, United States, 33134
|Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32216
|Kissimmee, Florida, United States, 34741
|United States, Georgia
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30338
|United States, Illinois
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60607
|United States, Indiana
|Avon, Indiana, United States, 46123
|United States, Missouri
|St Peters, Missouri, United States, 63376
|United States, North Carolina
|Greensboro, North Carolina, United States, 27408
|United States, Oregon
|Portland, Oregon, United States, 97239
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States, 16602
|Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, 18510
|Tipton, Pennsylvania, United States, 16684
|United States, South Carolina
|Greer, South Carolina, United States, 29651
|United States, Tennessee
|Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, 37919
|United States, Washington
|Spokane, Washington, United States, 99202
|Aguascaliente, Mexico, 20230
|Cuernavaca, Mexico, 62250
|Culiacan, Mexico, 80020
|Durango, Mexico, 34000
|Durango, Mexico, 34080
|Guadalajara, Mexico, 44600
|Mexico City, Mexico, 11650
|Monterrey, Mexico, 64460
|Pachuca, Mexico, 42090
|Queretaro, Mexico, 76000
|Tampico, Mexico, 89000
|Study Director:
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|Hoffmann-La Roche
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|First Posted:
|September 25, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|August 11, 2016
|Last Verified:
|August 2016
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Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Hypoglycemic Agents
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In the 18th Century, some Black people in the Eighteenth Century were considerably more privileged than most. One such Woman was Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay.
Dido was the daughter of Captain John Lindsay of the Royal Navy. She was born in England to an African mother who was captured from a Spanish ship.
Dido lived in Kenwood with her Great uncle William Murray until she was at least thirty. Although she was not a servant, it seems that she had a status slightly lower than that of a full family member. Among her tasks were tending to Cattle and Poultry.
Murray and his Wife were childless and seemed happy to raise Dido and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Lindsay, whose mother had died while she was still an infant. Authors Speculate that Dido's role in the family might have been that of 'Playmate or attendant to her cousin.
The Portrait by Zoffany proves that Dido grew up to be an elegant and beautiful young woman. Her high status afforded her presents at Christmas and Birthdays that were more than normal servants would get, yet certainly less than her cousin Lady Elizabeth.
When her cousin left Kenwood to marry in 1785 Dido stayed on to look after the Murrays. While she stayed there records show that she lived in some comfort. Her bed was hung with glazed Chintz, she had asses milk when she was ill and a mahogany table made for her.
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After her fathers' death, she received One thousand pounds. In her fathers' obituary, which appeared in the London Chronicle she was referred to as having an amiable disposition and accomplishments which have gained her the highest respect.
(London Times, June 9th 1788,555)
When her Great Uncle died he left her a further 500 pounds and 100 pounds per year for life. He also made certain that she was a free woman. Little is known of Dido after the death of her uncle except that we can assume that she married, in 1779 her name changes to Davinier and she left Kenwood.


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6 December 2008
Long-time class veterans Marty Kullman and Mike Carroll (Clearwater, Fla.) on USA-131 New Wave have gladly taken the overall lead at the Gold Cup Regatta. Seated next to Kullman is none other than Scott Nixon calling tactics with co-owner Carroll, Steve Liebel, Alex Shafer, Judah Rubin, Ron Hyatt and Jay Kubel forming the winning crew. Trailing by one point in the overnight standings is Jeff Ecklund (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) on USA-32 STAR in second place, and tied with equal points in third is Carlo Alberini (Pesaro, Italy) on ITA-186 Calvi Network.
The Melges 32 fleet experienced yet another astounding day on the water at the 2008 Gold Cup Regatta. Not only did the three races and optimum conditions exceed everyone's expectations, but the level of competition was to the max. Making the day even more monumental was the Take A Junior Sailing Day aspect of the event. The Lauderdale Yacht Club (LYC) is known for its high-caliber league of youth sailors, America's best are home grown right here in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The International Melges 32 Class delivered today what no other class of boats has before. Exclusively, these young guns had the opportunity to sail against and with the greatest yachtsman and women in the world. Each Melges 32 carried a junior sailor aboard for the ride of a lifetime — an experience we are sure they'll never forget. This was the equivalent of playing a round of hoops with Michael Jordan; taking a few laps around the track with Dale Earnhardt, Jr. or throwing a few passes with Tom Brady. They arrived at the docks this morning and outfitted immediately with the essential team gear — hats and shirts, etc. Instantly they were official members of the crew. Some were even provided the chance to helm the boat going out to the course and others in to the docks after racing. "It was really cool, and a lot of fun," said Alex Fox who was onboard with Alberini. "I didn't understand a word they said the entire time." says Fox of the Italian all-star team." Christopher Williford was teamed with Stuart Simpson (London, UK) on GBR-84845 Team Barbarians, "It was a lot of fun. Going into the mark roundings was cool, my favorite moment was putting up the chute," said an ecstatic Willford following racing.
Gorgeous, bikini-type weather prevailed for day two with breeze out of the south at 5-8 mph and calm seas. The first race kicked-off on time. With a clean start, the fleet was tight and the pressure on the course was really quite nice. Overnight regatta leader, Jim Swartz (Edgartown, N.Y.) on USA-007 Q assumed the lead immediately, with Kullman/Carroll in second followed by Edward Tillinghast (New York, N.Y) on USA-151 Dark n'Stormy in third followed by Alberini, then John Kilroy (San Francisco, Calif.) USA-13131 Samba Pa Ti. Swartz continued his winning crusade downwind, through the top mark and back for the finish to take the win. The Kullman/Carroll team launched an all out assault on Swartz, but the effort was not enough to better a result than second place. Tillinghast took third.
Race two commenced exactly one hour later with again Swartz loving the pin end of the starting line, while Kullman looked for an advantage near the committee boat. The first start resulted in a general recall. With as much as a 20 degree wind shift the pin and windward mark was reset for the second start. The second start was clean still with some crowding at the committee boat. The right side paid big upwind. Swartz was shut out on the right with Stephen Pugh (Sausalito, Calif.) on USA-158 Taboo taking the lead with Ecklund charging down the spreader leg, then blasting past Pugh on the left. Ecklund had speed. The breeze was improving with each passing minute and continued to build as the beginning fringes of an overnight front began to move through. At the gate Ecklund took over the lead. Pugh challenged as did Alberini, who gradually took over second. Ecklund took the win. Pugh regained second place, then Alberini finished in third. Kip Meadows (Rocky Mount, N.C.) on USA-77 Roxanne had a great race taking fourth, in fifth was Savino Formentini (Italy) on MON-1999 Bitipi.
The third race of the day, race six in a scheduled series of eight, the wind built to 10-12 mph and the start was wild with Pieter Taselaar (New York, N.Y) on USA-169 Bliksem coming across the starting line on port narrowly missing a couple of boats. Taselaar gave an immediate penalty turn, also making out like a bandit on the right with some nice speed. Coming into the top mark, intensity was the game with LYC's own John Taylor (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) on USA-1315 Ninkasi rounding first, then Meadows and Ecklund in third. Ecklund was fully launched for the first downwind leg. The power and experience behind Ecklund's team was evident as once he passed Meadows, he then took the lead from Taylor and refused to relinquish the lead for another incredible win. Taylor took second and Meadows took third.
Sunday is the last day of racing and for the twenty teams competing the points are so very close. Only four points are spread between first and fifth place, and eighteen points separate the top ten teams. Two more races are on tap for the fleet. The breeze is expected to be 10-15 mph so, the best is yet to come!
TOP TEN RESULTS (Preliminary Results after six races)
- Marty Kullman/Mike Carroll, New Wave; 3-13-1-2-[17]-4 = 23
- Jeff Ecklund, STAR; [14]-1-10-11-1-1 = 24
- Carlo Alberini, CALVI Network; 10-3-2-6-3-[14] = 24
- Jim Swartz, Q; 1-6-7-1-[11]-10 = 25
- John Kilroy, Samba Pa Ti; 9-2-3-5-[10]-8 = 27
- Kip Meadows, roXanne; 2-[14]-11-8-4-3 = 28
- Edward Tillinghast, Dark n'Stormy = 4-4-19-3-[16]-9 = 36
- John Taylor, Ninkasi = 11-12-5-[19]-7-2 = 37
- Joe Woods, Red; 16-7-4-7-6-[13] = 37
- Alex Jackson, Leenabarca; 13-5-9-[13]-8-6 = 41
PHOTO GALLERIES. There is a wealth of photo galleries now online for the 2008 Melges 32 Gold Cup, in particular Sharon Green, Lauderdale Yacht Club photographer John Payne and class photographer Joy Dunigan. Also, Sail22's Ed Fury has delivered the goods as well. A very special thanks to Protector Boats that has made the Gold Cup Photo Galleries possible.
VIDEO. Chris Love with Sailgroove.com has now uploaded plenty of video from today's Gold Cup races.
IM32CA BLOG. On the water reporting was conducted today. Racing highlights, photos and videos are all online. Catch-up on all things Melges 32 at the Official Blog of the International Melges 32 Class Association. Special thanks to onsite Melges 32 Class European Correspondent Justin Chisholm with Offshore Rules. Visit Offshore Rules for Justin's full reports.
ON THE WATER ANARCHY. Sailing Anarchy's famous On-The-Water Anarchy provided coverage on Friday with guest commentator Andy Burdick, president of Melges Performance Sailboats. Photos, video and more are also available online at sailinganarchy.com


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Every summer, many interns are literally on the move.
You are coming or going, heading out from seminary to your internship site, or back again to campus. It's a hassle, but it's worth it.
I'm always a little bit sympathetic to the logistical demands of these moves, remembering similar ones of my own. I remember when Nancy and I, newly married, left St. Paul for internship in Kalispell, Montana. That was the first of many moves in response to the call to ministry. When we moved back to St. Paul, we had acquired a cat. My first call was in Minneapolis, so it was a short move. Future moves—to Fargo, ND, to Seattle, WA, to Moorhead, MN—were more complex, as we added children and pets to the family. My call to serve as bishop didn't entail a geographical move, and by the time I accepted this call at Luther in 2008 and Nancy and I moved back to St. Paul, all five children were grown and we were down to one small pet.
I agreed to serve at least three years when I began in Contextual Learning in the summer of 2008. Nancy and I have been renting one of the houses on campus, and one of our daughters has been occupying much of our house in Moorhead, as we lived into decisions about the years ahead.
That changed recently. I've agreed to continue in this position. We saw a "For Sale" sign near the local library as we were returning books, and one thing led to another. We are buying a house near Luther, and will move in later this summer. We sold our house in Moorhead. We emptied it—it's amazing what can accumulate in a large house over 25 years—and watched with satisfaction as a family with three small children, full of excitement and dreams, began to fill it up again.
All of this is to say that I have a bit more sympathy with you who are enduring the hassle of moving. This summer, I am one of you.
Blessings as you move about, following this Jesus who calls us to serve in ways we can scarcely imagine. It may be a hassle, but it's worth it.
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The Albion College football team had their fair share of special teams miscues and a sluggish first half on both sides of the ball, however none of that mattered after fifth-year senior quarterback Spencer Krauss threw a touchdown pass in the final two minutes to secure a 22-21 upset victory over nationally ranked Wheaton College.
"Our team grew up a lot," Albion Head Coach Craig Rundle said. "You need games like this if you are going to be a playoff-caliber team. Wheaton provided a good measuring stick and we rose to the occasion."
The Britons started the scoring with a 23-yard field goal by senior kicker Jimmy Neiman, which capped a seven play, 54-yard drive that ran 3:52 off the clock.
The Albion defense forced a punt on Wheaton?s next offensive possession and got the ball back at their 39 yard line.
Senior running backs Clinton Orr and Darrin Williams helped the Britons find the end zone after taking over on offense. The dynamic duo combined for 62 yards during the drive late in the first quarter.
Orr capped the nine play, 73-yard offensive possession with a six-yard touchdown run to put the Britons up 9-0. The extra point attempt was blocked to keep the Albion lead at nine points with 29 seconds remaining in the first quarter of play.
Things took a turn for the worse after Orr's touchdown as the Britons saw their lead vanish after three straight Wheaton touchdown drives, in addition to being helped by Krauss tossing his first interception of the 2012 season.
Wheaton took a 21-9 lead into the break, but they were unable to match Albion?s effort in the second half.
The Britons had the first possession of the second half and gave the Wheaton defense a heavy dose of Orr that allowed Albion to march down the field on a 19 play, 89-yard drive ate up 10:32 of the third quarter.
Orr finished the drive off with a one-yard rush and carried the ball 29 times for 133 yards on the day.
"We ran the ball real well in the first quarter and got behind in field position in the second," Rundle said. "We knew we could dominate the line of scrimmage and we made a point of that on the first drive of the second half. That was a great drive and the offensive line took over the game at that point."
Albion's defense answered the call once again late in the game. With 4:58 remaining in the game, senior defensive back Wes Dolen picked off a pass at the Wheaton 48 yard line and returned it 11 yards to set the Britons up with a chance to win the game.
Krauss and the Britons drove the ball to the Wheaton 21 yard line before facing a fourth down and nine situation, which would be their last chance to upset the Thunder.
After an Albion timeout, Krauss saw his opportunity to burn the Wheaton defense and capitalized with a perfectly thrown spiral to the end zone right at junior wide receiver Zach Brewer, who hauled in the 21-yard touchdown pass to tie the game at 21-21.
Krauss finished the game 12-of-20 for 104 yards, one touchdown and one interception.
Freshman kicker Keegan Haggarty put the extra point right through the uprights to put Albion up 22-21 and put the game into the hands of the Briton defense with only 1:26 left in the fourth quarter.
Senior defensive linemen Tom Strautz and C.J. Carroll both came up with critical sacks on Wheaton?s final possession to ice the game and help the Britons earn the upset victory.
Albion will take its 2-0 record to Benedictine (Ill.) University for another non-conference match-up next Saturday.


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Thursday 6th February 2014
Whilst the rest of us here in the UK battled floods and torrential rain everyone's favourite dancehall star, Stylo G, slipped off to Jamaica to shoot the video for this latest smash single " Move Back".
The final edit of the video is yet to land, in the meantime here's some behind-the-scenes flavour to whet your appetite.
This is Stylo on set in the recording booth at the legendary Randy's Record shop – which is now owned by VP Records, Jamaica's reggae powerhouse:
The ever-stylish Stylo G takes a break on set – love the colourful threads popping all around him:
Stylo and dancers on set at Coronation Market in downtown Kingston – the beating heart of trade and commerce in the Jamaican capital:
Toddla T was in Jamaica too, recording 1Xtra's reggae special with David Rodigan which featured Stylo. Toddla returned the favour by putting in a special appearance in the "Move Back" video:
"Move Back" is set for release March 2nd but you can pre-order it on iTunes now!
Remixes come courtesy of Grant Nelson, DJ Friction and Diztortion. You can hear them all on our SoundCloud .
(All photos courtesy Shaurav D'Silva, 3 Beat Urban A&R consultant)


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Ryan Phillippe & Leven Rambin: 'Isolated' Premiere!
Ryan Phillippe arrives at the premiere of his new documentary Isolated held at the Equinox Sports Club West LA on Thursday (April 18) in Los Angeles.
The 38-year-old actor was joined at the event by Leven Rambin and her boyfriend Geoff Clark, who executive produced the film with Ryan, and Chris Galya.
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The documentary filmed five world class surfers who traveled to New Guinea in search of undiscovered waves, but ended up discovering so much more.
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We've been sending out sneak peek teasers about our newest educational adventure all week but the time has come to fully unveil it. The Engineering in Nature Challenge is now live on ARKive Education complete with a Starter Kit and the 5 different engineering challenges that students can complete during this 3 week event, all inspired by nature!
Challenges include building a beak, exploring seed dispersal, learning about light reflection in trees, designing a gliding bird, and engineer an octopus suction pad.
All of the Engineering in Nature challenges are inspired by wildlife in the ARKive collection!
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For this challenge, ARKive has partnered with Iridescent, a science education nonprofit that links science professionals with under privileged youth through its innovative learning platform, the Curiosity Machine. Every student registered for the challenge will be paired with a real world scientist who will work with them to create their Nature in Engineering Challenge inventions and these aren't just any scientists! The mentors for the Engineering in Nature Challenge are practicing science at distinguished institutions such as Harvard, Stanford and more!
Signing up for the challenge also includes an invitation to our weekly Google Hangout events where Iridescent and ARKive team members will be there to support you throughout the three week challenge period in any way we can.
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So, are you ready to bring engineering to the classroom in a WILD way? Then, sign up today and have a look at the challenge materials on ARKive!
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Today I returned from a great mini-vacation (long weekend). My parents and I visited my sister, in-law, niece, and nephew in Bavaria. We don't see each other very often, it's always great for me to see my niece and nephew grow, and play with them.
The highlight of the vacation was on Sunday, when my father, my in-law, and me went to Insbruck, Austria, on a 5-hour fixed-rope route climbing tour. It was my first outside climbing experience (I only did some indoor bouldering so far), and so I was looking forward to this new experience.
It was a "difficulty medium" trail, and indeed it was quite challenging at times. At some spots I couldn't really climb any more, but had to cheat and resort to clinging to the rope. But it was fun anyway!
The Alps are such a wonderful place for enjoying fresh air, sun, and the nature!


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Lone Star College CyFair News
Published on: July 01, 2013
Take a tour, learn about campus programs, meet with an advisor, choose a schedule and register for fall classes at Lone Star College-CyFair.
Morning and afternoon New Student Orientations, which are required for first time in college students, are available Tuesdays and Thursdays through August.
All sessions are free, but space is limited and students must pre-register online at LoneStar.edu/cyfair-orientation to receive a confirmation with room location and other program information.
Most orientation sessions will be held at the Barker Cypress campus at 9191 Barker Cypress Road at West Road; however, there are also three sessions held at the LSC-Fairbanks Center at 14955 Northwest Freeway.
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Migration Tools
These tools are probably largely obsolete though we occasionally receive calls from users who find a need to restore very old media.
The Migrate_IT package enables users to transfer data from Prime 50-series systems to Open Systems. Although most Prime users have long since moved to Unix based systems, there are a few Prime systems still in use and a vast volume of archived legacy data that must be able to be restored for legal reasons.
The programs in this package are:
Migrate_IT is the only magnetic tape restore and conversion package written by staff from the original teams that developed the 50-series MAGSAV software and PI/open with the full co-operation of VMark and access to all internal tape and disk format specifications.
The tools have been used world-wide by some of Prime's largest accounts."We would have had to close down our California membership business system for 10 days if we would have utilised the SAVE/RESTORE.ACCOUNT process. Using Migrate_IT we were able to migrate our entire 11Gb database within 30 hours"
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Three Tallahassee Residents Convicted of Food Stamp Fraud
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced today thatthreemen have been convicted of conspiring todefraud the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), as well as other charges. SNAP is also known as the food stamp program. Rodrigue Bissainthe, 26, pled guilty to conspiracy and to two mail fraud charges on November 27, 2013. Darius Jemmott, 21, was convicted of conspiracy, three charges of fraud involving interstate wire communications, and aggravated identity theft at a trial that concluded December 3, 2013. Dwayne Phanor, 24, pled guilty to conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and seven aggravated identity theft charges on December 4, 2013, after a jury had been sworn to try his case.
SNAP provides economic assistance to qualified low-income people, to help them obtain adequate food. This assistance is provided on Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards, which function as pre-loaded debit cards. The United States Department of Agriculture funds the SNAP program. In Florida, SNAP is administered by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCF). When these crimes occurred, between January and April 2013, DCF had contracted with JP Morgan Chase (JPMC) to service aspects of the program. The Department of Financial Services (DFS) investigates public assistance fraud arising from DCF programs.
According to matters presented in Court, DCF realized in March 2013 that numerous SNAP applications had been received for a single Tallahassee address, on Magnolia Court. Controlled deliveries of EBT cards to that address led to the arrest of Bissainthe by the Tallahassee Police Department on April 16, 2013. Bissainthe admitted that he was receiving these cards for Phanor and that Phanor had given him an EBT card for his own use.
DFS was able to track the use of another EBT card at local merchants, leading to the identification and arrest of Jemmott on April 18, 2013. Jemmott had that card on his person when arrested and eventually admitted buying it from Phanor.
Phanor was arrested in an adjacent Tallahassee apartment, also on April 18, 2013. Phanor's backpack held voluminous notations relating to fraudulent EBT applications and change of address requests. Phanor advised that his telephone number was the same as the number that had been used to make calls to a JPMC EBT call center. Phanor admitted filing numerous SNAP applications using other people's names, Social Security numbers, and dates of birth. Phanor indicated that he gained access to an Ocala Road delivery address through Jemmott. Another address on West Georgia Street was also used.
Some of Phanor's fraudulent applications were denied, because those people were already receiving SNAP benefits. Phanor admitted calling the JPMC call center, pretending to be the genuine beneficiaries (both men and women), and asking that the benefits be re-directed to the addresses he controlled. His aggravated identity theft convictions were based upon seven of these calls.
A DCF representative presented documents showing that at least 72 fraudulent applications were filed, involving a potential loss of $101,258.82 and an actual loss of $7,291.88. The defendants will be sentenced by United States District Judge Mark Walker. Bissainthe will be sentenced on February 7, 2014, and Jemmott and Phanor on March 14, 2014. The conspiracy, wire fraud, and mail fraud convictions each carry a maximum possible term of twenty years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and a three-year term of supervised release. The penalty for aggravated identity theft is a mandatory two years in prison, a maximum $250,000 fine, and a one-year term of supervised release. Sentence on aggravated identity theft charges must be consecutive to sentences for any other conviction, but may be concurrent with other aggravated identity theft sentences.
U.S. Attorney Marsh praised the joint efforts of the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Financial Services, the Tallahassee Police Department, the United States Postal Inspectors, and the United States Secret Service for their hard work, dedication, and expertise in the investigation that led to the prosecution of this case.This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael T. Simpson.


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Welcome to VDOT
Virginia's transportation system is a vital element in the state's economy, providing the safe and efficient movement of people and products throughout the Old Dominion. The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is responsible for building, maintaining and operating the state's roads, bridges and tunnels. And, through the Commonwealth Transportation Board, it also provides funding for airports, seaports, rail and public transportation.
Virginia has the third largest state-maintained highway system in the country, just behind North Carolina and Texas.
Virginia's Highway System
The 56,504-mile state-maintained system is divided into the following categories:
- Interstate - 1,118 miles of four-to-ten lane highways that connect states and major cities.
- Primary - 8,111 miles of two-to-six-lane roads that connect cities and towns with each other and with interstates.
- Secondary - 48,305 miles of local connector or county roads. These generally are numbered 600 and above. Arlington and Henrico counties maintain their own county roads.
- Frontage - 333 miles of frontage roads. A separate system includes 10,561 miles of urban streets, maintained by cities and towns with the help of state funds. Virginia's cities are independent of its counties. Henrico County (1,279 miles) and Arlington County (359 miles) maintain their own roads with VDOT funds. There is an additional 39 miles of toll roads maintained by others.
VDOT Organization
VDOT is one of the three largest state agencies in Virginia.
For highway purposes, Virginia is divided into nine districts: Bristol, Culpeper, Fredericksburg, Hampton Roads, Lynchburg, Northern Virginia, Richmond, Salem, and Staunton.
The districts are divided into 42 residencies and two district satellite offices, responsible for one to four counties each. Each of Virginia's counties has at least one area maintenance headquarters strategically located in it. The VDOT central office in Richmond is headquarters for approximately 30 operational and administrative units.
The Commonwealth Transportation Board guides the department's work, much like a board of directors. The transportation secretary serves as chairman and the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner as vice-chairman.
The 17 Board members are appointed by the governor and approved by the General Assembly. The director of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation also serves as a non-voting member of the board. Board meetings are held monthly and are open to the public.
The Infrastructure depicted in this section represents assets which VDOT will capitalize. For assets which VDOT will not capitalize (refer to section titled Methodologies for additional explanation) are shown in the sections titled Municipality Infrastructure and Arlington and Henrico Infrastructure .


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Late Single Leads Rockies Over Brewers 4-3
Michael Cuddyer was out of the lineup last night with an injured toe, but it wasn't enough to keep him from delivering a pinch-hit single in the ninth to drive in the winning run and lift the Colorado Rockies (7-6) over the Milwaukee Brewers (6-8) 4-3 at Miller Field. The two teams will go at it again this evening at 5:10 in Milwaukee (TV: Root Sports).
Pinch-hitting for Dexter Fowler with a runner on third and one out, Cuddyer drove a 1-1 curveball from Brewers closer John Axford back through the middle to put Colorado in front for a 4-3 victory at Miller Park.
Though he walked with a noticeable limp in the visitor's clubhouse and during batting practice, Cuddyer's bruised left big toe did not matter once he entered the game.
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"It doesn't feel good, but at the same time, it's not going to prevent me from doing much," Cuddyer said. "I didn't feel it when I was running to first base."
Cuddyer picked up his team-leading 18th hit of the season and his ninth RBI, tying him for the most on the team. In his first year with the club, Cuddyer has quickly become a key contributor for the Rockies.
Tickets are available for the Rockies next home game at Coors Field on April 27th vs. the NY Mets, and can be purchased by calling (800) 388-ROCK, or click here.


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February's advice article
Do Your Homework
One of our most frequently asked questions is, "How do I get a patent, where do I start?" Our reply is always the same. "Do your homework."
Here are a few things to think about as you start this journey.
Is your invention useful?
Does it solve a problem?
Is it cost effective?
Does the public need it?
Is it better than the competition's?
Is it practical?
If your answer is "yes" to most of those questions, then you may have a product you want to move forward with. In that case, you should visit the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) website, uspto.gov, for information on how to protect your intellectual property. Our Web site should be your first resource for intellectual property protection information. The inventor resource page is designed specifically for inventors with useful information such as transcripts for our recent online chats and frequently asked questions (FAQs). You can find the answers to many of those burning questions you might have in the transcripts or the FAQs.
If you can't get an answer to your question online, you can call the Inventors Assistance Program at 800-786-9199. The center is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST. The USPTO contact center can provide free literature on patent and trademark topics, send you forms, and answer basic questions. If you have a question they cannot answer, they will connect you with the Inventors Assistance Program (IAP). The IAP can answer general questions regarding patent examining policy, direct your call to appropriate USPTO personnel, assist you with filling out forms, and provide you with general information concerning rules, procedures and fees.
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Feb 21, 2011
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Looking to rebound off of a tough loss to Austin Peay, the Tennessee Tech women's basketball team will take on SIU Edwardsville Tuesday in its final regular season road game.
This will be the second meeting between the Golden Eagles and the Cougars, with TTU winning their first encounter last season 68-60 in Cookeville.
Four Golden Eagles scored at least 12 points in their game against SIUE last season with sophomore center Tiara Hopper leading the way with 14. Junior guards Rachel Glidden and Tacarra Hayes, along with sophomore guard Kylie Cook, each added 12 points.
Tech (20-6, 14-3 OVC) currently owns a 1.5 game lead over UT Martin and Morehead State and has posted its 26th 20-win season. The last time the Golden Eagles reached the 20-win plateau was in the 2005-06 season when Tech finished with a 23-9 record.
SIU Edwardsville is 8-14 on the season and won its last game against IPWF. Along with their game against Tech on Tuesday, the Cougars will also host Southeast Missouri Monday. Their original game day was set on Feb. 1, but bad weather forced the game to be rescheduled.
Opening tip between the Golden Eagles and the Cougars is set for 5:30 p.m.
Fan who cannot attend the game can view the livestats at the link here or listen to the game on the Golden Eagle Sports Network and via free Teamline on the Internet or by telephone.


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The US military has blamed a little-known Shiite cell leader for the worst bombing attack to hit the Iraqi capital since March. Tuesday evening's attack struck a marketplace in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood leaving at least 63 dead and wounding more than 70.
The truck bombing in Hurriyah shatters a relative calm in Baghdad that has seen the number of attacks against Iraqi civilians as of mid-June drop by 86 percent compared with a year ago, according to US military figures.
Based on intelligence "corroborated through multiple sources," the US said the Hurriyah attack was masterminded by Haidar Mehdi Kadhim al-Fawadi, a wanted leader in the so-called Special Groups (SGs). A military spokesman said the bombing was intended to reignite Sunni-Shiite violence in a section of the city that saw some of the worst episodes of sectarian-motivated murders, bombings, and mass evictions of Sunni Arabs from 2005 to 2007.
"His intent was to disrupt Sunni resettlement in Hurriyah in order to maintain extortion of real estate rental income to support his nefarious activities," said Lt. Col. Steve Stover, a US military spokesman in Baghdad, in an e-mail sent to reporters.
America has long charged that the SGs were rogue elements of the Mahdi Army militia of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr being trained, equipped, and sheltered by neighboring Iran and responsible for sophisticated and lethal roadside bombings using armor-piercing explosives that have killed many US soldiers.
It has rarely blamed these groups, let alone specific members, for the type of mass casualty bombings that became a trademark of Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI). Colonel Stover said that nearly 200 to 300 pounds of "an unknown bulk explosive" were used in the attack but that "the type of vehicle and material leads us to ascertain this was not AQI."
The US military has stepped up its media and public relations campaign against SGs. It now calls them outlaws and fringe elements that have no connection to the Mahdi Army following a government negotiated truce with Mr. Sadr last month. That cease-fire ended weeks of fighting with his militia that left more than 1,000 dead in his Baghdad bastion of Sadr City.
The latest US accusations are also significant because the Mahdi Army is generally regarded by many Shiites as being the protector of the community and faith against Sunni extremists.
At the scene of the bombing Wednesday, Iraqi civil defense crews were still frantically trying to remove the dead from under the debris of concrete and twisted metal at a multilevel building in the market that bore the brunt of the explosion.
US soldiers stood nearby inspecting the devastation. A group of women veiled in black descended on the scene and began to sob and slap their faces in mourning after learning that the body of a relative may be beneath the rubble.
Most of the dead owned simple market stalls across from the building where the explosive-laden vehicle had been parked, according to witnesses.
Some of the residents interviewed had mixed views as to who may be responsible for the bombing.
Bassim Mahmoud, who lost his home and had his arm broken in the attack, said Iraqi forces stationed in the area were to blame for their "laxity and incompetence" in protecting the market. "This country is a free-for-all. People have become bad inside."
Nizar al-Sharie, owner of a calligraphy and painting studio nearby who was busy drafting the black funeral banners bearing the names of the dead, says the attack may have been aimed at the US soldiers attending a neighborhood council meeting less than 500 feet from the site of the attack but that the explosion may have gone off prematurely.
He says everyone knew that US soldiers came to this meeting every Tuesday at almost the same time.
Colonel Stover described this as "speculative."
Mr. Sharie spoke highly of the Mahdi Army and the help they had provided residents of Hurriyah in the past in securing fuel, protecting the market, and mediating disputes.
He says he has never heard of Mr. Fawadi, the militia leader accused of Tuesday's bombing.
In a strategy that has been implemented all over Baghdad and dubbed "safe neighborhoods," the US military is nearly finished building a high wall around Hurriyah. The idea is that this – combined with the US and Iraqi troop presence at outposts inside the walls – will keep militants away, while allowing the US military and the Iraqi government to provide basic services and jobs for residents and steer them away from militant influences.
This has been a central theme to the US surge in troops that helped reduce violence in Baghdad. But Tuesday's attack is a stark reminder of the fragility of the situation in Iraq's capital and the limitations of the strategy in the absence of a fundamental resolution on the issues that continue to divide Iraqis.
[Editor's note: The original article misstated the identity of an Iraqi man who appeared on a US military wanted poster.]


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Market Beat: A history of fraud on Wall Street
August 17, 2012
TRUCKEE, Calif. andamp;#8212; You mean thereandamp;#8217;s been fraud on Wall Street? Say it isnandamp;#8217;t so. CNN Money recently published an article about Wall Streetandamp;#8217;s role in the mortgage crisis. There are plenty of people who want to see someone held accountable and get some prosecutions, but CNN has pointed out that the statute of limitations will soon run out and prosecutors are running out of time. Last week, the justice department announced that it would not bring charges against Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs for its part in marketing mortgage investments.Anyone who studies the history of Wall Street will find that its past is one that is full of greed and fraud often to the detriment of the small investor. In 1938, the president of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, was sent to Sing Sing Prison for embezzlement. Thousands of spectators lined up at Grand Central Station in New York to see him sent away.There was the junk bond scandal of the 1980s, the mutual fund late trading scandal in 2003 and the list goes on and on. In 2009, Bernie Madoff, the former president of NASDAQ, was sentenced to 150 years in prison for running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. In a Ponzi scheme, the fraudster will use new deposits to pay out distributions, until they eventually run out of funds or get caught. The frightening thing about the Madoff scandal was the size, $50 billion. The Ponzi scheme is named after Charles Ponzi, who ran a postage scam in the early 1900s.Almost every year there are insider trading cases, where the scammer uses information that is not available to the public to profit on corporate events. In 2011 Rajat Gupta, a former board member of Goldman Sachs and a board member of Procter and Gamble was charged with insider trading in what may be one of the biggest insider trading cases ever. He ran a hedge fund that profited from trading on insider knowledge.Many times if a big Wall Street bank is charged theyandamp;#8217;ll pay a steep fine without admitting or denying guilt. In the 2003 mutual fund late trading scandal, the fines totaled more than $1 billion and were paid by many different mutual fund companies.In spite of the tarnished history of Wall Street investing in common stocks can still be one of the best places for investors to get a good return. The best way to protect yourself is through education.Kenneth Roberts is a Truckee based Registered Investment Advisor. Information on his money management service can be found at http://www.fusiontargetretirement.com or by calling 775-657-8065. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Consult your financial adviser before purchasing any security.


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Liberty News
New Chick-fil-A location opens at Tilley Student Center
Many on the campus of Liberty University are thrilled with the opportunity to "eat more chicken," as the latest addition to the Tilley Student Center, a new Chick-fil-A Express restaurant, officially opened for business on Thursday.
"Everyone loves Chick-fil-A," sophomore Josh Imbriano said. "Having a location on campus is convenient, it provides a little bit more variety."
Junior Roger Bryan added that he not only enjoys the food at Chick-fil-A, but appreciates their Christian values as well.
"If I am going to eat at a fast-food restaurant, that is where I (would) go first," he said. "I go there and I support it. And I love the fries."
Liberty has strong ties to the popular fast-food chain, whose company values mirror those of the university in many ways.
Chick-fil-A has been a dining option at Liberty for five years and local chains have had sponsor relationships with Liberty University Athletics for more than a decade. They are the lone sponsor for the Flames Kids Club.
The relationship has brought top executives of the company to Liberty's campus on multiple occasions. Most recently, Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy received an honorary doctorate degree from Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. at Commencement in May.
When presenting the degree, Falwell cited Cathy's "commitment to faith and excellence in business, and for modeling the vision of Liberty University to the world" — that, and Cathy's knack for making a delicious chicken sandwich, which even presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, the Commencement speaker, admitted to having a healthy appetite for.
In September 2007 Cathy participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Liberty's first Chick-fil-A in a newly renovated food court in Green Hall. The food court closed in September 2011 and the restaurant was temporarily moved to the Vines Center.
Cathy founded Chick-fil-A in 1946, which now operates more than 1,600 locations nationwide.
With a major campus transformation under way, Liberty may very well become the first university to have two Chick-fil-A sites as a second location is being planned on campus. The site is yet to be determined, according to Lee Beaumont, vice president of Auxiliary Services.
"We welcome Chick-fil-A and the values they stand for," he said.


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A favorite Xtracycle add-on is the bike blender and the Juice Peddler demonstrates why in a video blog post. No better way to beat the late summer heat, then ride to a shady tree and blend yourself up a smoothie with your bike!
We're waiting for all the project sport utility bike parts to get in, most are here, and checking the creative uses Xtracycle owners are finding for their FreeRadicals, including a bike towing a bike.