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Phillips closing in on Morgan's Reds records
MIAMI -- Joe Morgan is widely regarded as one of the game's greatest second basemen, but Brandon Phillips is gaining on the Hall of Famer in the Reds' record books.
Phillips entered Thursday night's series finale with the Marlins one double shy of Morgan's record of 220 for Cincinnati second basemen. The 32-year-old never could have imagined being statistically in the same class as the legendary Morgan.
"I never thought about something like that. It's an honor or I've been over here too long. It's one of the two," Phillips joked.
A two-time All-Star, Phillips has a long way to go to catch the Hall of Famer Morgan in trips to the Midsummer Classic. But Phillips has already surpassed Morgan in hits, 1,205 to 1,155.
After belting a homer and driving in two runs in Thursday's 5-3 win over the Marlins, Phillips trails Morgan by three homers and 13 RBIs. Barring something unforeseen, the current Reds second baseman will own most of Morgan's Reds records by the end of this season.
"I always try to be the best player I can be," Phillips said. "I try to be better than Joe Morgan. He's always told me, 'Try to be better than me.' That's hard to do, because he's the best second baseman to ever play this game. I respect him dearly, but I'm going to go out there and play the game and try to break his records."
Phillips has been a force for the Reds this season. The veteran leads the National League with 36 RBIs. Phillips enjoys hitting cleanup for the Reds, and he hopes to continue his run production in the middle of their order.
"When a guy gets in scoring position, I try to focus a little bit more," Phillips said. "I wish I could focus more when no one is on base, but I really try to get those guys in once they get into scoring position. My goal is to get 100 RBIs, and that came up once they put me in the four spot. My job is to drive people in. I don't worry about my on-base percentage or my batting average. I just want to drive guys in, and I've been successful so far. Hopefully I can keep it up."


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AP Source: Tribe, Reynolds agree to deal
CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Cleveland Indians entered the offseason searching for a right-handed power hitter to bolster their lineup. After striking out at last week's winter meetings, they may have finally connected.
A person familiar with the negotiations said Sunday night the Indians have agreed to a one-year contract with free-agent slugger Mark Reynolds. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal is pending a physical.
Reynolds would likely take over at first base for Cleveland, but he also could be used as the designated hitter.
Reynolds, who hit 23 homers last season for Baltimore, would definitely bring immediate pop to the Indians. Last season, Carlos Santana led the club with 18 homers. The Indians have needed a righty batter to balance out their heavily lefty lineup.
Indians general manager Chris Antonetti spoke with Reynolds' agent at the winter meetings last week in Nashville, Tenn. The club also showed interest in Kevin Youkilis, who is weighing an offer from the New York Yankees. The Indians reportedly wooed Youkilis with a two-year package, and new manager Terry Francona personally reached out to one of his former players, hoping to bring him to Cleveland.
The Indians also have pursued free-agent outfielder Nick Swisher, who has drawn interest from several teams.
Cleveland made a four-year offer to Shane Victorino last week, but he signed a three-year deal with Boston.
Youkilis may still be in play for the Indians, but they at least have a backup plan in place with Reynolds, who made 105 starts at first last season. He began the season at third, but was moved across the infield after 15 shaky starts.
The 28-year-old Reynolds batted .221 with 69 RBIs in 135 games for the Orioles. Although he strikes out too much -- he fanned 159 times in 457 at-bats last season -- he has 181 career homers in six seasons in the majors. Reynolds played four seasons with Arizona before he was traded to Baltimore in 2010.
Reynolds has struck out more than 200 times in three different seasons.

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Before we start, we first list what hardware requirements you need to successfully install Gentoo on your box.
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All Installation CDs allow you to boot, set up networking, initialize your partitions and start installing Gentoo from the Internet.
The Minimal Installation CD is called
A stage3 tarball is an archive containing a minimal Gentoo environment, suitable
to continue the Gentoo installation using the instructions in this manual.
Previously, the Gentoo Handbook described the installation using one of three
stage tarballs. While Gentoo still offers stage1 and stage2 tarballs, the
official installation method uses the stage3 tarball. If you are interested in
performing a Gentoo installation using a stage1 or stage2 tarball, please read
the Gentoo FAQ on
Stage3 tarballs can be downloaded from
You have chosen to use a Gentoo Installation CD. We'll first start by downloading and burning the chosen Installation CD. We previously discussed the several available Installation CDs, but where can you find them?
You can download any of the Installation CDs from one of our
Inside that directory you'll find ISO files. Those are full CD images which you can write on a CD-R.
In case you wonder if your downloaded file is corrupted or not, you can check
its SHA-2 checksum and compare it with the SHA-2 checksum we provide (such as
$ sha512sum -c <downloaded iso.DIGESTS>
Another way to check the validity of the downloaded file is to use GnuPG to
verify the cryptographic signature that we provide (the file ending with
(... Substitute the key ids with those mentioned on the release engineering site ...)$ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 96D8BF6D 2D182910 17072058
Now verify the signature:
$ gpg --verify <downloaded iso.DIGESTS.asc> $ sha512sum -c <downloaded iso.DIGESTS.asc>
To burn the downloaded ISO(s), you have to select raw-burning. How you
do this is highly program-dependent. We will discuss
When your Alpha is powered on, the first thing that gets started is the
firmware. It is loosely synonymous with the BIOS software on PC systems. There
are two types of firmware on Alpha systems: SRM (
SRM is based on the Alpha Console Subsystem specification, which provides an
operating environment for OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, and Linux operating systems. ARC
is based on the Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) specification, which provides
an operating environment for Windows NT. You can find a
If your Alpha system supports both SRM and ARCs (ARC, AlphaBIOS, ARCSBIOS) you
should follow
Now to boot an Alpha Installation CD, put the CD-ROM in the tray and reboot the
system. You can use SRM to boot the Installation CD. If you cannot do that, you
will have to use
(List available hardware drives)>>> show device dkb0.0.1.4.0 DKB0 TOSHIBA CDROM (...) (Substitute dkb0 with your CD-ROM drive device)>>> boot dkb0 -flags 0 (This flag will use serial port ttyS0 as the default console)>>> boot dkb0 -flags 2
(Substitute sdb with your CD-ROM drive device)MILO> boot sdb:/boot/gentoo initrd=/boot/gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot (Using serial port ttyS0 as the default console)MILO> boot sdb:/boot/gentoo initrd=/boot/gentoo.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs console=ttyS0 cdroot
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6 Democrats, 2 City Council Seats
The Democratic Nominating Convention meets on Saturday, February 23, to elect two candidates to run for City Council in May. Who are the men and women who have thrown their hats into the ring, and what exactly do they stand for?
We dared each to spend a few minutes in the blazing heat of the Hot Seat, and in the process gleaned little known facts about each of them. Can you guess which candidate turns to stinky French cheese when the going gets tough; who says the best hang out in town is their office; and who claims their confidence grates on people's nerves?
If you don't know the answers, you better start reading: after all, May's not too far away!
Blake Caravati
Occupation: Owner, Vector Construction, a general contracting business.
Age: Can I lie? 39. (He's lying.)
How'd you end up in Charlottesville? I moved here by choice. I'm from Richmond and lived in D.C. for nine-and-a-half years. I spent six months traveling around Virginia and Charlottesville stuck out like a sore thumb. I bought a house in July 1977, and moved here in '78.
Best thing about living here? The diversity of the citizens, the wonderful cultural life, the intellectual environment, and the citizens who really care.
What's the worst? Route 29 North.
Favorite hangout? Mudhouse.
Why you? My Lord. I believe I can make a productive and creative contribution to the City because of my vision and experience. I really love being accessible to individual citizens and groups and that translates into a better elected official.
Past political experience? Hubert Humphrey's campaign in 1968.
George Bush called himself the education candidate. What candidate are you? I'm three candidates. I'm going to be the education candidate, and I'm going to do something about it. And I'm looking at appropriate economic development and establishing true regional cooperation.
What makes you rant? Why Americans don't care more about our weakest citizens.
Favorite Constitutional Amendment? The 15th Amendment, Section 1. It guarantees the right to vote to everyone.
Political hero? Winston Churchill.
The most overrated virtue? Consumerism.
Now reading? The Hollow Years by Eugen Weber. It's about Paris between the wars.
What about you annoys people most? Probably that I don't give up.
Favorite comfort food? Stinky French cheese.
Proudest accomplishment? Being mayor of the City of Charlottesville.
What do you regret? That I didn't complete my formal education in college.
What's a perfect day? Sitting outside under blue skies in the sun, reading a book at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Must-see TV? Anything on the History Channel.
Favorite bumper sticker? Question authority.
Bern Ewert
Occupation: Private business consultant for development projects.
Age: 59.
How'd you end up in Charlottesville? We came in 1971 when I was deputy city manager and were here until 1976. On the day we left for Stratford, Connecticut, we decided that one day we'd move back here. And we did seven years ago.
Best thing about living here? The people and the quality of life.
What's the worst? I don't think there is a worst.
Favorite hangout? The Downtown Mall. That was one of the projects I worked on when I was here, and I never got a chance to enjoy it.
Why you? As deputy city manager, I was involved with McGuffey Art Center and the Downtown Mall. I was city manager in Stratford, Roanoke, and Galveston, and I was county executive in Prince William County. My experience is in management. It's something I know something about and I care deeply about.
Past political experience? Pretty much zero, other than being city manager, which keeps one in the middle of politics and nonpartisan. I have the ability to get things done and work with people of all backgrounds.
George Bush called himself the education candidate. What candidate are you? I'm the candidate that gets things done with the record to support him. I don't think you can get things done by being one-dimensional. You have to balance the environment, culture, and quality of life. That's not an empty slogan.
What makes you rant? I try never to rant. If you were to say a pet peeve, it would be not maintaining what we own. The Downtown Mall is crumbling. So are school buildings and roads.
Favorite Constitutional Amendment? Probably freedom of speech.
Political hero? Harry Truman— that's the Kansas City in me, Noel Taylor, who was mayor of Roanoke when I was city manager, Abraham Lincoln, and my mother, Claire Ewert, who was a political activist.
The most overrated virtue? Patience— with the status quo.
Now reading? John Adams by David McCullough and the Teddy Roosevelt biography by Edmund Morris.
What about you annoys people most? My impatience with patience.
Favorite comfort food? A double cheeseburger.
Proudest accomplishment? In Roanoke, creating a sense of hope and optimism in a city that had given up on itself. I worked on the downtown revitalization and the City Market. We put a design process together, integrated the city government workforce, reduced the tax rate, revitalized neighborhoods, and put the city on a sound financial basis.
What do you regret? Impatience.
What's a perfect day? My wife and I would be on vacation in Asia, North Africa, or South America, having had a day of exploration. We'd have a dinner of good local food and local wine with my children. Now that they're grown, I can stand them.
Must-see TV? I don't have a must-see TV show, but I liked the original Antiques Road Show, and I watch a lot of public television.
Favorite bumper sticker? "My border collie is smarter than your honor roll student." That isn't my favorite, but it did make me laugh.
Joan Fenton
Occupation: Owner, Quilts Unlimited, a family-owned business of seven retail stores.
Age: 51.
How'd you end up in Charlottesville? I had a business in West Virginia and at the Homestead, and we opened a store in Williamsburg. Commuting back and forth, we stopped in Charlottesville. The more we stopped here, the more we realized this was where we wanted to be, and we moved here in '91.
Best thing about living here? The diverse group of people, the Downtown Mall, the sense of vitality, and the sense of community.
What's the worst? I don't think there's anything awful, but there are places where there's room for improvement: available housing, the homeless problem, communication between the City and the community and maintaining a sense of trust, communication between the City, County and university, public safety issues. And you can always improve education.
Favorite hangout? My office.
Why you? To put somebody on the Council who understands how run a business, balance a budget, and to be innovative when money is tight. It's my idealism and belief in public service— it's time to give back to the community. There are a lot of skills that I bring to the table. Every board I serve on, people want me to be the chair. I work well with people, I listen, and I bring about a consensus. Everybody has to win when you make a deal in business. When working with the university or County, you have to know when to compromise. You can't look at a problem and look at a problem— you have to go on.
Past political experience? I'm chairman of the Board of Architectural Review, which I didn't realize was political when I took the job. I'm chairman of the Downtown Business Association, and I'm on the City's downtown zoning steering committee.
George Bush called himself the education candidate. What candidate are you? Everybody says they're for education. The real proof is what you do about it. I'd actively work for education and talk to teachers, parents and school boards.
What makes you rant? I'm not ranting. What's not being addressed are women's issues: sexual abuse, disparities in income in single family homes, spousal domestic abuse. From my experience as an employer, this is a continuing issue. I've had an employee end up with a broken arm, another one was beaten to death, and I had an intervention where I took a woman to a shelter. I am passionate on this.
Favorite Constitutional Amendment? Freedom of speech. That's what sets us apart from other countries.
Political hero? Ellen Malcolm, the head of Emily's List, a pro-choice group of Democratic women that's the largest PAC in the country. She's so inspiring; it's one of the reasons I decided to run.
The most overrated virtue? People who claim to be virtuous and aren't, who hide behind false virtue.
Now reading? John Adams by David McCullough.
What about you annoys people most? I think the fact that I multi-task and do three things at a time.
Favorite comfort food? My mom's pot roast.
Proudest accomplishment? I got a W. C. Handy Award, the Grammy of blues, for keeping the blues alive in education. And I'm really proud of the B.A.R. It's bad rep comes from previous boards. This board works together with the community for quality designs
What do you regret? Reverend Gary Davis was one of the most incredible ragtime blues guitarists. I spent the summer of '71 learning blues guitar from him. I considered not going back to college for a year to play with him and I didn't. He died that spring, and that's something I can't get back.
What's a perfect day? The day I get everything done and have time to go swimming.
Must-see TV? West Wing, although I hardly ever see it.
Favorite bumper sticker? "Don't blame me, I voted for the real president," "Re-elect Gore in 2004" and "Martin Sheen's My President."
Waldo Jaquith
Occupation: Website developer.
Age: 23.
How'd you end up in Charlottesville? My parents moved here when I was 13.
Best thing about living here? I don't know. It's like asking what you like best about your mother. She's my mother. This is my home. I love it.
What's the worst? I dislike the social stratification. There's an illusion that there are two degrees of separation in Charlottesville. There's not. There is among the hip, white and urban— you know, your readers, your target audience. I volunteer at Computers 4 Kids, and everyone is black. They're very friendly, and I didn't know any of them. There are no [UVA] students. That's a whole different world in Charlottesville. There are groups of people separated economically and socially.
Favorite hangout? Mudhouse.
Why you? Two reasons: First, I feel strongly that if given the opportunity to serve on the council, I can continue my civic work on a higher and more useful level. Two, everybody knows I love Charlottesville and have put a lot of work into making it better. I've been asked since I was 16, Waldo, when are you going to run for City Council.
Past political experience? I started a couple of nonprofits (nancies.org and feo2), I'm on the board for the Information Technology Academy, I was on the board for the Charlottesville Downtown Foundation, I'm on the board for the chalkboard with the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, and I've volunteered for a lot of political campaigns.
George Bush called himself the education candidate. What candidate are you? The social justice candidate.
What makes you rant? Social justice issues can get me off on a real tear. I love the ACLU. They caused me to win a lawsuit and to lose one gracefully.
Favorite Constitutional Amendment? The First. Normally I carry a copy of the Bill of Rights. Without the first, you can't have anymore.
Political hero? Carolyn Corry [activist and Democratic operative who died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 40 in 1999].
The most overrated virtue? To know when to take no for an answer or to give up— that's vastly overrated.
Now reading? Fellowship of the Ring and Infinite Jest by David Wallace, which is the most pretentious book I've ever read in my life.
What about you annoys people most? My confidence.
Favorite comfort food? Beef stew.
Proudest accomplishment? Winning two VH1 music awards [for the Dave Matthews website, nancies.org]. What could be better for someone with no musical ability?
What do you regret? That I have but one life to give for my country. Unfortunately, I only get 80 or 90 years tops for giving my all.
What's a perfect day? Getting up real early at 7am, going to the gym, cleaning my apartment, walking to Bodo's with friends and getting a late breakfast. Whiling away the afternoon sitting in the sun on the Mall, reading the paper, and talking to friends. Dinner with my girlfriend. It does not involve going to Paris or backpacking the Appalachian Trail.
Must-see TV? West Wing.
Favorite bumper sticker? "Vote Waldo" or "Rainbow cowboy boots." Anything but that "whirled peas" bumper sticker.
Alexandria Searls
Occupation: Photographer and teacher at Mary Baldwin. And I'll be teaching at UVA over the summer.
Age: 40.
How'd you end up in Charlottesville? I came here as an undergrad in 1979. I left and came back in 1989 for an MFA in creative writing, and I stayed.
Best thing about living here? I like the small-town feel, knowing so many people walking down the street. Also, there are so many resources. It's better than New York because there are opportunities in the arts you wouldn't have in other places with more competition. There are helpful people and incredibly creative people.
What's the worst? It keeps tearing down its old buildings. It doesn't value its historical buildings and the fabric of its streets. Some people are trying to get it to be something it's not, and their vision isn't an appealing one.
Favorite hangout? It's changed over the years. Originally it was the Virginian. Now it's Higher Grounds.
Why you? So there can be a voice to preserve history and speak up for the Charlottesville I see being taken apart piece by piece. That's not the reason I chose to live here.
Past political experience? It's more on the state level. I didn't get into local politics until three years ago. I became co-chair of my precinct.
George Bush called himself the education candidate. What candidate are you? The preservation candidate.
What makes you rant? I'm not a big ranter these days, but maybe the idea that men represent the business community better than women.
Favorite Constitutional Amendment? The 19th, the one that gives women the right to vote.
Political hero? Jimmy Carter.
The most overrated virtue? Self-righteousness masquerading as a virtue.
Now reading? The budget of Charlottesville. It's more interesting than you might imagine.
What about you annoys people most? I don't always defer to what other people think. And I don't always worry about how I appear.
Favorite comfort food? Baked potatoes with butter, olive oil, salt, pepper, and garlic.
Proudest accomplishment? I'm proudest of my archive of photography on the environment and American history.
What do you regret? Wasting time worrying instead of getting things done.
What's a perfect day? I've gotten a lot of work accomplished, then I relax and take a walk in the park.
Must-see TV? I don't get any channels, so I don't watch TV. I have gotten obsessed with CNN, but I have to go to my boyfriend's to watch it. I've often thought of the show Survivor while running for City Council.
Favorite bumper sticker? Our [heart symbol] is with our river— Rivanna Conservation Society.
David Simmons
Occupation: Registered nurse at UVA in the nephrology outpatient clinic.
Age: 50
How'd you end up in Charlottesville? It was a career move. I'd completed community college with an associate's degree in applied science, and I moved to Charlottesville in 1972 because it was a teaching school and with the thought of returning to nursing school.
Best thing about living here? It's a wonderful city with a variety of things for people to do— art, music, skiing, history— and you can do them if you want. My wife is here, and it's a small university town. I grew up in Caroline County, and the closest city was Richmond, so this is a good fit.
What's the worst? Knowing that we have land boundaries that we cannot expand beyond. I don't really have a worst. We have a pretty good life here. The crime rate is relatively low, and we don't have capital murders at an astronomical rate like other cities.
Favorite hangout? Places where you can get out and walk and meet people: Barracks Road, the Downtown Mall, and around the University and the Corner.
Why you? I think I can positively influence the direction the city is going. I can represent different constituencies and groups in the city through my grassroots work. I'm a good listener. I've served on multiple boards (Shelter for Help in Emergency, AIDS/HIV Services Group, PVCC, Black Nurses Association, Red Cross, OAR, police chief's advisory panel) and with all those contacts, I can look at things with a holistic perspective.
Past political experience? I ran for City Council in the last election and withdrew. I've attended the General Assembly to alter health policy issues, and I've done that on a national level at National Black Nurses Day in Washington on Capitol Hill.
George Bush called himself the education candidate. What candidate are you? I'm the consensus-builder candidate.
What makes you rant? When we lose important programs without looking at alternative ways to fund them. And in health care, the way insurance companies dictate to health care providers on how much medicine a patient can take, or when access to care is decided by someone who hasn't seen the patient.
Favorite Constitutional Amendment? Free speech, the right to free expression.
Political hero? Former President Clinton because he went through hell and he was able to rise above adversity and put things forward that will have an impact later.
The most overrated virtue? They're very important. It would be difficult for me to say which are overrated.
Now reading? Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.
What about you annoys people most? I think my current demeanor. I'm pretty soft-spoken from years of working with patients. I try not to be overbearing, and that's a problem for people who want someone to take a strong stance. I'm constantly looking to not come across as threatening. Conflict resolution has made me that way.
Favorite comfort food? Potato chips.
Proudest accomplishment? My nursing career. At first I wasn't sure that would be the right fit for me.
What do you regret? That I'm not home at times when I believe my wife wants me there.
What's a perfect day? When I can do my work and not get canned by off-the-wall intrusions, and seeing at the end of it that I've had a positive influence on someone.
Must-see TV? Oz on HBO.
Favorite bumper sticker? I don't have a favorite, but probably something with a smiley face.


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This is a basic question about Grothendieck's conjectural category $M_k$ of pure motives (over a field $k$). This construction first produces a category (the "false category of motives") which need not be Tannakian; the category undergoes a modification of the commutativity constraints which produces a category (the "true" category) which could be Tannakian (this is spelled out on page 451 Jannsen's great paper).
The modification requires that the Kunneth components of the diagonal be algebraic (part of the standard motivic conjectures).
Question: Is there an alternate (geometric) construction (modulo standard conjectures) which produces the "true" category bypassing this artificial commutativity modification?
Does this happen in Voevodsky's setup?


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Chinese New Year kicks off at Boys & Girls Club
With whirring song and popping colors, the Chinese New Year commenced like a brilliant carnival at the Boys & Girls Club of Carson Valley on Monday.Though the Year of the Snake officially starts Sunday, Valley resident and cultural educator Sonia Carlson was more than willing to share the festivities a week early with 50 club members at Pau-Wa-Lu Middle School."We want this tradition passed down to the younger generations," Carlson said. "A little diversity in the community."Carlson grew up in the Fujian Province of southeastern China and immigrated to the U.S. in 1987. For 13 years, she has presented cultural songs, dances, dress and other historical customs at schools and museums in the area.Her ensemble Monday included 15-year-old daughter Ingrid Carlson, 9-year-old third-grader Andie Murray, and 14-year-old ninth-grader Maddy Elder.Joking that she couldn't dance, Elder introduced many segments and explained their cultural significance."I think it's important because Chinese is not as celebrated as other cultures," she said.Elder was born in China and adopted by U.S. parents. "It's nice that other people see what other cultures are like," she said. Carlson said the performances illustrate what children are learning in history classes. "The Mongolian Chopstick Dance and the Man Tong Le are connected to the curriculum of AP world history," she said. "Both dances have a long history that goes back to the Qing Dynasty."Carlson told club members that the Chinese New Year is typically celebrated for two weeks. "It ends with a lantern festival when all the lanterns are hung up in the street," she said. Dressed in a pink robe, embroidered with rhinestones, Ingrid performed the Rattan Ball Dance. The green ball, beribboned and strung with bells, jingled as she twirled it around her head, and then invited two audience members to do the same.Sonia performed the Mongolian Chopstick Dance, donning a spangled, turquoise headband, and clicking red chopsticks on her arms and legs as she evoked "a girl dancing on the beautiful prairie." Nine audience members joined in. Ingrid wielded a violin to render in quivering notes "February is the Month for Spring Light" and "The Tea Picking Song." Andie, whose grandmother is Chinese, wore a red headdress studded with a pink flower as she led the Man Tong Le Dance. There were also flower wreaths, calligraphy, and stick-held lanterns. Together, the lessons spanned Chinese ethnic traditions — from the Man and Han to the Yao and Yi. Gardnerville Elementary School fifth-grader Mariana Perez, 11, was impressed by the dances."I like the robes and all the color," she said. "The Flower Wreath Dance was my favorite."The event produced more than spectacle. Carlson was able to impart some wisdom, centered around the Chinese practice of respecting one's elders."You always say thank you to some one older than you," she said. "Say thank you from the bottom of your heart all the time."


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This DVD program is an hour of Kundalini yoga. Maya Fiennes was born in Macadonia, which used to be part of Yugoslavia, and she still has a strong accent. Trained as a pianist, she moved to the UK in the 1990s and married composer and producer Magnus Fiennes. Maya also makes her mild pop music with a strong eastern flavor, and she uses it in the background to this DVD. The yoga in this workout consists in 20-minute warm up which sitting cross-legged, doing some chanting, doing neck movement, spine movement, and breathing exercises; the workout progresses, still sitting, with more strenuous repetitive movements of the arms, breath of fire, more chanting, and lifting the body with the arms, and then it moves to some rowing exercises and movements to a bridge position and down again, all done repetitively. The middle section finishes from cat-cow position with repetitive lifting of opposite legs and arms. There's a ten-minute relaxation period at the end.
Although in the middle the repetitive movements are quite difficult, this is overall a reasonably gentle workout. Personally I have a hard time taking chanting seriously, and it can be silly, but it can also be fun. I did find that it is hard to listen to what Fiennes is saying in the background sound track as she demonstrates the chanting, when I was meant to be chanting too. I found the music in the background somewhat banal. On the whole I preferred the Kundalini workout offered on the DVDs from Ana Brett and Ravi Singh, because it was more playful and it also provides more guidance in how to do the breath of fire. However, this DVD by Maya Fiennes does provide a satisfactory introduction to Kundalini yoga.
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Christian Perring, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dowling College, New York.
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:37 am
Post subject: Mon. Forecast for out east?
Anyone have a take on what is forecast to be a significantly windy day, with NorthEast(?) winds, starting early and lasting most of the day? I've been around here for a while but I don't recall seeing or hearing about a Northeast wind day out east.. Is this likely to happen? and why?
It'd be very strange, sailing Roosevelt and Arlington, trying to stay upwind AND upriver. Sailing starboard tack, heading for the Dump rather than the Silos....Weird if it actually happens.
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 11:59 am
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I have yet to hear any good reports from anyone trying to sail NE or E winds at Rosey/Arlington. Nothing sets up ... just hit and miss breezes with some gusts, no swell ... really pretty boring and a lot of work for a few rides. Probably better for kites than for pole dancers.
Port Kelley, OTOH, can get pretty decent and more interesting in NE winds. They wrap around the river bend through Wallula Gap pretty well, providing a pathway from PK to the huge wide open river bend east of the gap. There may be just enough swell for occasional turns -- better in more wind, obviously -- and it can provide much steadier wind than PK gets in westerlies. Last time I sailed N/NE winds there I just rigged my biggest gear -- 6.2 w/115 liter Synchro with the longest blade fin I own (40 cm?) and headed upwind milking the marginal 20 mph breezes, planing most of the time until the wind backed off. Great
? Definitely not, that day. But it was interesting just because it was something different. And blue desert skies add a lot to the equation.
And, unlike PK in westerlies, getting back when the wind backed off was a relaxed downwind slog right to the launch cove. (When PK westerlies back off, getting back is often a nightmare slog and/or a long swim.)
But .. oh, yeah .... PK is, what? ... 50 miles east of Arlington?
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Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 8:49 pm
Post subject: It was windy, but crappy looking ....
I had to go look anyhow after seeing well over 20 gusting into the 40s from the NNW mostly. Drove to Roosevelt and it was odd seeing the river behave backwards. It was blowing smoke and glassy at T-bird cove rather than on the Oregon side up west of there.
At Roosevelt the wind was almost right down the river, perhaps a bit off-shore (northerly) It was pretty fluky-looking along the Washington side, perhaps a bit more filled in on the Arlington side....Hard to judge with the wind and current together...no experience with this direction at that spot...
It may have been decent sailing, once away from the beach but it was pretty grim looking and cold and deserted! So I passed. If there had been one other sailor willing, I would have gone out just to give it a go, but maybe I'm getting wiser as I get older...A breakdown and a swim back in those conditions would have been...iffy.
I recall almost 20yrs ago sailing a reach or two at Rooster in 3.2, overpowered with snow flurries on Haloween day....alone, but with someone watching from the beach...Now that was "Young and dumb"...
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The trick is to launch at Arlington, where the wind are onshore for safety. Especially on lakes in cold weather, alone or with buds, I often drive to a lee launch just for that reason if conditions are dangerous.
I was once young and dumb, too; I actually sailed in temps in the 30s. But i the Gorge, I'm usually comfortable until close to Thanksgiving most years.
I've seen E wind whitecaps only once at Roosevelt. Along an obvious line from Rosey's east jetty to the Arlington jetty, they met W wind whitecaps head-on ... NOT a place you'd want to be kiting, since the colliding winds' only way out was straight up.
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I hope some of you are catching today out east. Even if I had two knees I'd be sitting on shore today, averaging 40s gusting into the 50s with probably much more at Port Kelley. Sunshine, blue skies, temps near 60, bare hands/head/feet, swell very likely topping 10 feet ... a nice November day in the Gorge.
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Best day this year and by far the strongest. Set a high bar. Arlington from 2 to 4, 3.2 69 big long sets. Never a dull moment.
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Good thing you stopped driving when you did. It got stronger by leaps and bounds further east; up to 50G60 @ 3Mile and maybe stronger at PK on the water.
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Victor called me and headed me off on way back from the cove. Too much on the inside there. He met me after launching at Arlington barefoot(tough guy). Roosevelt was right. Experience teaches not to drink from fire hoses. By the way, your observation right on the money. Bare head, hands and feet and never a bit cold. Swells were exactly as you would expect. So much wind and yet long glassy draws between the crests.
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David Fincher's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea will focus on three particular characters from Jules Verne's novel. Doctor Who's Steven Moffat explains why the Doctor's past is catching up to him. Plus new set photos from The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises!
Spoilers from here on out!
Top image from The Dark Knight Rises.
The Avengers
Here are some set photos from the courthouse in which the final bit of Cleveland filming is taking place. The scene reportedly involves a fight between Loki and one of the heroes. There are some more set photos included featuring our first look at Iron Man - or, at least, some pieces of armor and a motion capture suit. You can also check out the links for additional set videos. [Superhero Hype and Comic Book Movie]
According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the courthouse scene will be a ball with lots of people in formal wear, which - like every ball in every action movie ever - will be rudely interrupted by the unexpected appearance of the bad guys. [Cleveland Plain Dealer]
The Dark Knight Rises
Here are some photos of Morgan Freeman at the Los Angeles set. [Comic Book Movie]
The Hunger Games
Here's an image taken from an apparent tie-in viral website. It's unclear what exactly it is - one possibility is that it's a map of the arena, but that's far from confirmed. [/Film]
Real Steel
Here's a poster. [IGN]
World War Z
One scene recently filmed in Glasgow - which is doubling for Philadelphia in the movie - features a massive sequence with over 700 extras, both humans and zombies. The scene was apparently pure pandemonium, with many extras suffering minor injuries (and in one case being nearly trampled to death, if not for the timely intervention of star Brad Pitt). [New York Daily News]
Terminator 5
Fast Five director Justin Lin suggests he's thinking of bringing back Sarah Connor:
L: I mean, Sarah Connor is such a big part of the franchise, you know. Yeah, I mean I've always been surprised how in part 3 she was just like… It was like one line and she was gone.
She was dead, yeah, yeah. It was insulting, yeah.
Yeah, like leukemia and… But I think the great thing about this franchise is you have… You can actually have different canons because you have the element of time travel. So, there's a way of kind of respecting all the works but also able to create a new time line.
That's right. You can go back and right the wrongs.
The newly announced project stars Avatar's Zoe Saldana and is
all about the wacky adventures of a Jem'Hadar and a Vorta sharing an apartment a supernatural thriller in which Saldana plays a character who is a half-human, half-angel hybrid. Not much more is known, except it's based on a pitch by writers Dean McCreary and Chester Hastings, whose upcoming films include You're My Angel and Fanboy. [The Hollywood Reporter]
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Writer Scott Z. Burns, who is working on the adaptation of Jules Verne's novel with Fight Club and The Social Network director David Fincher, explains the film is inspired by the book but will take very little directly from it, though he does feel confident it will remain true to the spirit of the original book. The main thing he is focusing on is the relationship between Captain Nemo, marine biologist Pierre Aronnax, and harpoonist Ned Land, and he says that he and Fincher have "a very cool idea" for the characters' relationship. [CinemaBlend]
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Here are some set photos from the start of filming. [SpoilerTV]
Underworld Awakening
Here's a poster. [ComingSoon.net]
Doctor Who
Steven Moffat explains the Doctor's arc this series:
I think there's just some weird thing that happens with a character like the Doctor. When you bring him back in 2005, he's the lone drifter that no one's ever heard of, but gradually and inevitably, he becomes the greatest hero in the universe. He can stand up in the center of Stonehenge and say, "Come on, do you think you're hard enough?"
And what does the man who just wants to be a drifter, who just wants to just knock around a bit, think about that? And I think within the mad, mad, mad world of 'Doctor Who,' it's not an incredible development that, of course, the Daleks would be sort of wetting themselves when he turns up. Of course, he'd become a legend. Of course, all of those things would be happening. But why would he be comfortable with that? And you know, he actually abuses this to some degree in [the mid-season finale] 'A Good Man Goes to War,' he abuses the power of it and starts calling in favors and it doesn't work out for him. So that's interesting.
He also uses a rather interesting way to define the Doctor's relationship with Amy and Rory as he explains why the Doctor keeps them around:
Well, I think he likes young people around. He's like them. Obviously the Doctor is old, but that's thinking in human terms. In his terms maybe he's really quite young. I think what we're playing with is [his] concern that he should have been gone before the wedding. It's a little bit worrying. He's getting involved in their real lives and he never, ever, ever intended to. He tends to be the last fling before the altar and here he is, you know, with in-laws [laughs].
There's a lot more at the link. [AOL TV]
Torchwood: Miracle Day
Here's a sneak peek for the next episode, "The Gathering."
Executive producer Jeff Pinkner says the show will continue to explore the past and future, albeit ones greatly changed by Peter's non-existence:
"The future that we saw in 2026 will now not have happened, because by altering the past, inevitably you set in motion a new chain of events that lead to a different future. There will definitely be [flashback] episodes, but the past would be different as well because Peter wasn't a part of it, but he would be in the future."
[TV Guide]
Game of Thrones
Executive producer David Benioff discusses what the newly cast Hannah Murray brings to the part of Gilly:
Hannah brings a wonderfully damaged quality to Gilly-the character is a bit like one of those girls who is kidnapped and abused for years, and brainwashed by her captor into thinking he's a prophet and a righteous man. Hannah understands that intuitively; her Gilly is also lovable and fetching and sympathetic.
He also discusses Carice Van Houten's tricky task as Melisandre:
Melisandre is a tricky role, and very few actresses have all the attributes required. Drop-dead gorgeous? Check. Charismatic and fiercely intelligent? Check. Able to convey a sinister, menacing presence without going over-the-top villainess? Check. In Carice's hands, Mel is like Lady Macbeth and the three witches rolled into one.
Weiss and Benioff also offer a rundown of various other new additions:
Weiss: Gwendoline Christie is fantastic [as Brienne]. She so perfectly embodies the kind of wounded strength the character requires. And she's been training. She will kick your ass.
Benioff: We've already shot many of the Yara-Theon scenes, and I'm happy to report that Gemma [Whelan] and Alfie [Allen] make an insanely good pair of siblings. We could make a whole series about the Greyjoys. Speaking of which, we're negotiating with HBO Family on a Gilly Loves Samwell sitcom. Tom Wlaschiha is a deeply compelling Jaqen [H'ghar]. Carice and Stephen Dillane-watching the two of them together is like watching a master class in acting. Liam Cunningham brings humanity and wit to one of our favorite roles, Davos Seaworth. We haven't shot anything yet with Roose [Bolton], but we know Michael McElhatton will be superb. And he's got the palest eyes of anyone I know.
Finally, they offer some things to look out for in season two:
Benioff: For Tyrion fans (and really, who isn't a Tyrion fan?), season two sees the Imp in fine form, serving as hand of the king and trying to make the best of the chaos in King's Landing. The Stark children struggle for survival, now that Ned's not around to protect them. And Daenerys Stormborn finds that life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Weiss: And Theon. People are really going to like Theon, I think. He makes some bold moves.
Benioff: Right, and Hodor gets his big monologue. Shakespeare, watch your back.
True Blood
Here's a promo for the finale, "And When I Die."
The Walking Dead
New showrunner Glenn Mazzara explains what the show will be doing with the journey to Herschel's Farm:
What's been surprising is that in the graphic novel the story that takes place on Hershel's farm is really only a few issues. We've been able to mine that for many episodes, and we're very excited about the depth to which we're able to push the characters, the different dynamics that we're able to explore.
What particularly surprised you about this material?
Our approach to our group of survivors when they reach Hershel's farm is that they are a plague unto themselves. Nothing goes right for Hershel once Rick and his band show up. They make the zombie apocalypse look like kids in a candy story. What's interesting is that if this was a show solely about Hershel, Rick and his band would really be the antagonists. And that's been really surprising because every action that Rick and his band take is completely logical, but you'll certainly sympathize with Hershel.
Mazzara also says he can't wait to bring the Governor onto the show, and that there's a scene in the fourth episode that will make fans very happy. [AMC TV]
Under the Dome
Showtime is reportedly developing Stephen King's 2009 novel about "locals at a Maine vacation spot who battle one another when a force field suddenly surrounds their town and cuts them off from the rest of the world" as a potential series. [Deadline]
Mark Hamill explains his upcoming guest appearance as a villain, making it sound as though he won't have an extended role on the show:
I thought that since it was sort of a cameo that it'd be nice to keep it secret...I'm only in one scene. It's a dream come true because not only is it a really delightful show, but the scene I'm in is like a James Bond scene. I've seen these spy things before, but I never thought I'd be a part of one. I'm playing this arch-villain holding these two young people hostage, forcing them to jump off a cliff. It's wonderful. I had a great time.
Terra Nova
Here's a promo.
Here's a video featuring production designer Joseph Hodges.
Pirates of the Caribbean actor Kevin McNally has reportedly been cast as Frank Devereaux,a "mad computer genius" and "old 'friend' of Bobby's, who helps the Winchesters out of a jam... reluctantly." [Zap2It]
em>90210 actor Jason Patrick Stewart will reportedly play a new villain named Richard Roman. Executive producer Sera Gamble explains, indirectly confirming Mark Sheppard's return as Crowley:
"Richard is a very canny, charming, well-connected new adversary. When we first meet him, Crowley has sought him out specifically to join forces with him to pursue common interests. Put it this way: Crowley doesn't bring a muffin basket to just anyone."
Here's a pair of set videos.
Warehouse 13
Here are some promo photos for episode nine, "Shadows." [SpoilerTV]
Here's a promo for the next episode, "One Small Step."
Here's a promo and sneak peek for episode eight, "Friend or Faux."
Additional reporting by Mandy Curtis and Charlie Jane Anders.


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Cold weather forces cancellations
Weekend events are being postponed and even cancelled because of the unseasonably cold temperatures
The recent change in weather has led to a change in plans.
First Friday in Bentonville was cancelled because of the cold.
Andy Green with Downtown Bentonville Inc. said some of the expenses were paid for upfront, and now they've lost several thousands of dollars.
So 40/29 News spoke with other event organizers to find out if the weather was affecting them financially.
"It's unprecedented. Obviously we weren't prepared for this, but we're going to make it work," Walton Arts Center PR Manager Beth Bobbitt said.
Many changes have been made to this year's Artosphere, including Saturday's Trail Mix Concert Tour, which will now take place inside the Walton Arts Center.
Thankfully, Bobbitt said they're not losing much money.
"For us it's a little bit unique because Artosphere is an arts and nature festival. The whole concept is that everything is free or low-cost. So from that perspective we're not losing any ticket revenue," Bobbitt said.
"The weather absolutely changed it all. You wake up with snow on the ground in May, and it looks like the forecast is pretty rough for Saturday," Springfest Director Doug Allen said.
Allen doesn't have the luxury of moving his event inside.
It was scheduled to take place along Dickson Street on Saturday, but Mother Nature had other plans.
"Springfest is supposed to be Springfest, not Winterfest. So we want people out there in shorts and sandals having a good time in the sun, and we felt like the best thing for us to do was to postpone the event," Allen said.
Like Bobbitt, Allen is not out much money thanks to the generosity of others.
"We had a lot of volunteers and contributions and stuff like that. A lot of people are just going to forward that onto our next date. So we're very lucky," Allen said.
He said Springfest will definitely take place this year, but the exact date has not been determined.
Those who have tickets to see Old Crow Medicine Show at the AMP on Saturday night will have to wait.
It's been rescheduled for June 23, also because of the weather.
Foamfest, on the other hand, will go on as planned Saturday evening in Fayetteville.
Opening night of the Passion Play in Eureka Springs was cancelled Friday.
Saturday will now be their opening night.


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Someone Lives, Someone Dies, Juliette Is Under Fire and Rayna Is Under
Increased Pressure to Succeed With Highway 65
"I'll Keep Climbing" - In the aftermath of the death of someone in their circle, lives are changed forever in the world of "Nashville," and a new mystery arises. Kelly Clarkson guest stars as herself and makes Gunnar and Scarlett a once-in-a-lifetime offer. Juliette's reputation takes another body blow as creative video editing seems to show her proclaiming there is no God, further fueling her detractors. Rayna's bought herself out of Edgehill, but the the pressure to succeed is greater than ever, and Deacon struggles to write during his sobriety and relative stability and finds help from Maddie and Daphne on "Nashville," WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
"Nashville" stars Connie Britton as Rayna Jaymes, Hayden Panettiere as Juliette Barnes, Eric Close as Teddy Conrad, Charles Esten as Deacon Claybourne, Clare Bowen as Scarlett O'Connor, Jonathan Jackson as Avery Barkley, Sam Palladio as Gunnar Scott, Chris Carmack as Will Lexington, Maisy Stella as Daphne Conrad and Lennon Stella as Maddie Conrad.
Guest starring Kelly Clarkson as herself, Judith Hoag as Tandy Hampton, Chaley Rose as Zoey, Aubrey Peeples as Layla, Ed Amatrudo as Glenn Goodman, David Alford as Bucky Dawes, Derek Krantz as Brent, Melvin Ray Kearney II as Bo, Donn Lamkin as Joey Bacanti, Michiel Huisman as Liam McGuinnis, Courtney Hanson as Emily, Jaren Johnston as herself and Lori Mitchell as Newscaster.
"I'll Keep Climbing" was written by Tyler Bensinger and directed by Callie Khouri.
"Nashville" is executive-produced by Dee Johnson ("Boss," "The Good Wife"), R.J. Cutler ("The September Issue," "The War Room," "A Perfect Candidate"), Callie Khouri ("Thelma & Louise") and Steve Buchanan. The series is produced by Lionsgate, ABC Studios, and Opry Entertainment, and is broadcast in 720 Progressive (720P), ABC's selected HDTV format with 5.1 channel surround sound. This program carries a TV-PG,L,S,V parental guideline.
For more information about "Nashville" visit ABC.com/Nashville


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The Relationship Between Uric Acid and Inflammatory Markers
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01323335
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 25, 2011
Last Update Posted : July 5, 2018
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- Uric acid is a substance found in the blood that may contribute to certain chronic medical conditions and disorders, such as diabetes, insulin resistance, and high blood pressure. High uric acid concentrations have been associated with stroke and heart disease, as well as chronic heart failure. In particular, researchers are interested in determining the relationship between uric acid and inflammatory markers, or chemicals in the blood that can indicate inflammation and other problems with the body.
- To study the specific effects of changes in uric acid in the body.
- To determine whether uric acid contributes to inflammation in the body.
- Healthy individuals between 50 and 75 years of age.
- This study will involve four visits: a screening visit, two study visits, and a followup visit.
- At the screening visit, participants will have a physical examination, blood and urine tests, and an electrocardiogram. Participants will be divided into two groups based on the existing amount of uric acid in their blood.
- Within 7 days of the screening visit, participants will have a full-day study visit with a magnetic resonance imaging scan, followed by a high-fat meal and further blood samples collected over the following 8 hours.
- At least 2 days after the first study visit, participants will have the second study visit, which will require a 2-night stay at the National Institutes of Health. Participants will have a metabolism test, and will receive the following infusions based on the groups they were assigned to at the screening visit.
- Group A (low uric acid) will receive either uric acid or a placebo.
- Group B (moderate to high uric acid) will receive either Rasburicase (a drug that reduces the amount of uric acid in the blood) or a placebo.
- After the infusions and related blood tests, participants will have a high-fat meal with further blood and urine samples.
- Approximately 2 weeks after the second study visit, participants will have a final followup visit with additional blood and urine tests to determine whether the levels of uric acid in the blood have returned to normal.
|Condition or disease
|Healthy Volunteers
|Drug: IV Uric Acid Drug: IV Rasburicase
|Phase 1
Uric acid (UA) is a terminal product of purine metabolism with strong antioxidant properties. UA has sizeable concentrations in biologic fluids only in humans and primates because they have a non-functional mutation of the enzyme uricase that, in other animals, transforms UA to allantoin. It has been hypothesized that this mutation has emerged evolutionarily because through this mechanism, humans can counteract the excessive oxidative stress that occurs in many critical pathologic conditions. Partially in contrast with this theory, high levels of UA have been associated with a number of negative health outcomes, including cardiovascular as well as all-cause mortality. Although it is possible that the UA elevation is merely a marker of critical health because it is an inducible antioxidant, researchers have questioned whether UA has beneficial or detrimental effect on health status. For example, we recently demonstrated that higher UA levels are cross-sectionally associated with higher levels of pro-inflammatory markers, and predict the increase in inflammatory markers over a 3-year follow-up. Understanding whether UA exerts a protective or detrimental effect on health is important in deciding whether mild hyperuricemia should or should not be aggressively treated.
Unfortunately, observational studies cannot fully address this question. In fact, we cannot exclude that the cross-sectional and longitudinal association between UA, inflammatory markers and negative health outcomes, may simply reflect the fact that UA is an inducible antioxidant that is produced in response to increasing oxidative stress. To verify the hypothesis that UA activates inflammation, we plan to conduct two complementary randomized controlled trials, each one including 10 treated and 10 control subjects. In the first trials, subjects with low UA will be administered 500 mg of UA intravenously. In the second trials, subjects with moderately elevated UA will be administered a single acute dose of Rasburicase. Then inflammatory markers will be measured at multiple points in time, for a total of 32 hours. We hypothesize that an acute increase in the circulating levels of UA will be followed by increasing levels of inflammatory markers. At the same time, an acute reduction of UA levels will be followed by a progressive reduction of inflammatory markers. This study should provide information that will help clinicians to decide whether to or not to treat mild hyperuricemia.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|97 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Crossover Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|The Relationship Between Uric Acid and Inflammatory Markers
|Study Start Date :
|March 31, 2009
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|January 31, 2014
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|January 31, 2014
- Effects of uric acid on inflammatory markers
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|50 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Age 50-75 years
- BMI 23-30 kg/m(2)
- Estimated GFR >60 mL/min
- Blessed mental score equal to or less than 3
- Ability to fully participate in an informed consent process
- For Trial A (UA versus Placebo): all participants should have UA<6 mg/dL
- For Trial B (Rasburicase versus Placebo): all participants should have UA 6.0-10 mg/dL
- History of hypersensibility or intolerance to Rasburicase and/or to Lithium
- Chronic Kidney Disease.
- History of kidney stones.
- History of asthma, atopic allergies, hemolytic or methemoglobinemia reactions
- History of unstable angina, cardiac arrhythmia, stroke or myocardial infarction within 3 months, open-heart surgery within 6 months of the study enrollment
- History of drug or alcohol dependence, or positive urine toxicology
- Past or present positive test for HBV, HCV or HIV (base on blood test).
- Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD-deficiency)
- History of gout
- Last menstruation occurred less than 1 year ago
- Unintentional or intentional weight loss of 5 kg in the previous 6 months
- Alcohol daily intake >30 grams (more than 2 beers daily, more than 2 glass of wine or cocktail daily)
- Current smokers or former smokers (stopped smoking less than 1 year before)
- Blood pressure > 150/90 mmHg
- Diabetes mellitus on dietary or pharmacological treatment
- Hb <11.5 g/dL in women or < 12.5 g/dL in men
- Acute infection/inflammation (CRP>5 mcg/mL) for Trial A: UA versus Placebo, CRP >10mcg/L for Trial B: -Rasburicase versus Placebo, or any clinical overt chronic infections including periodontal disease.
- Active liver disease or liver function tests greater than 2 times upper normal limit
- Self reported inflammatory joints or autoimmune diseases
- Treatment over the last 3 months with Allopurinol, Rasburicase
- Treatment over the last 3 months with Warfarin, Dicumarol, Theophylline, Statins
- Necessity of daily treatment with NSAID
- Current hormone replacement
- Ongoing glucocorticoids, corticosteroids, including prednisone and/or cortisone injections or inhalations. (topical steroid cream use and occasional corticosteroid administration over the last 3 months is acceptable)
- Current daily antioxidants or/and multivitamin supplementation or over the last month
- Life-threatening diseases including malignancies
- Recent Blood Donation (last 56 days)
- Any other reason that based on the PI's judgment requires exclusion from this study
- Inability to obtain venous access.
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): NCT01323335
|United States, Maryland
|National Institute of Aging, Clinical Research Unit
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21224
|Principal Investigator:
|Luigi Ferrucci, M.D.
|National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute on Aging (NIA)
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|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|March 25, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|July 5, 2018
|Last Verified:
|January 31, 2014
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CME Group today announced modifications to its wheat futures contract as part of its regular and ongoing contract review process. The modifications, which are the result of feedback from a broad cross section of wheat futures industry participants, will go into effect in two phases.
"As a part of our regular and ongoing contract review process, and working together with a broad cross section of industry participants, we have identified several wheat futures contract modifications to ensure the contract continues to meet customer trading and risk management needs," said Tim Andriesen, managing director, Agricultural Commodities and Alternative Investments, CME Group.
Since February 2011, CME Group has been discussing potential contract modifications with industry participants. As a result of industry feedback, the following modifications will be implemented with the September 2013 wheat futures contract:
- Eliminate wheat containing four parts per million (ppm) vomitoxin from deliverable grades.
- Increase the discount for wheat containing three ppm vomitoxin from 12 cents per bushel to 20 cents per bushel.
- Reduce the discount for wheat delivered in the Northwest Ohio delivery territory from 20 cents per bushel to 10 cents per bushel.
- Beginning December 1, 2011, the exchange will allow the Hard Red Winter, Dark Northern Spring and Northern Spring wheat grades to be deliverable in the St. Louis delivery territory. Currently these classes of wheat are deliverable at all other delivery locations.
"These changes are focused primarily on improving the quality and merchantability of the wheat in the delivery system," said Andriesen. "We believe these modifications will further enhance the strong convergence we have seen in recent contract delivery periods."
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This morning an advisory panel of the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council heard public testimony on proposed policy changes to salmon bycatch. The panel makes recommendations to the governing board of the council, which is meeting this week in Nome.
Chinook runs are down. The pollack fishery bycatches tens of thousands of these salmon every year. And the North Pacific Fishery Marine Management Council is seeking ways to reduce those numbers.
The Council is meeting in Nome this week, and Tuesday the Scientific and Statistical Committee, which advises the Council, heard a presentation on salmon bycatch management.
Three years ago, the Council implemented a Chinook bycatch program. Diana Stram is a Fishery Analysis for the Council and said since 2011 the Council has been "struggling to either fold their Chum bycatch management…into the existing program" or to create a new program for Chum.
Explaining the issue Stram said, "We found that any measure that we layered on top of the same fishery for Chum tended to make the Chinook bycatch worse. And since the purpose was never to exacerbate a problem in an existing program by layering another measure, the Council took a step back and decided to consider them together."
Stram said the Council is considering "whether to move forward with an analysis that would change how Chum salmon bycatch is managed" and whether to modify Chinook bycatch regulations.
When the floor opened to public testimony, the demand was to include the impact of bycatch on subsistence in that analysis.
Brandon Ahmasuk is the Subsistence Resource Director at Kawerak and a lifelong subsistence user. To support salmon bycatch reduction, Ahmasuk explained, "Subsistence users' diet is composed 80-percent of fish. Now the subsistence user is being asked to lower their diet of fish to 20-percent or less. These are areas where supermarkets aren't readily available. These people, they do live off the land."
Ahmasuk said while the pollack fishery is allowed to waste tens of thousands of salmon, the subsistence user "bears the burden of conservation" when gear restrictions are imposed and rivers shut down because of low runs.
Rose Fosdick is the Vice President for Natural Resources at Kawerak. She said the low runs go beyond reducing the subsistence users ability to feed themselves and restricts their ability to continue their culture.
Fosdick explained, "the knowledge of biology, the knowledge of processing, the knowledge of respect for elders and for the environment is being lost without the opportunity to have fresh salmon to work with."
The public asked the Committee to gather more scientific data on why runs are declining in the Norton Sound and to collect surveys on how bycatch affects subsistence users throughout rural Alaska.
As a mitigation measure for the low runs, Tim Smith with the Norton Sound Regional Aquaculture Association proposed activating a local hatchery. The Committee also suggested investigating an incentive-based system to reduce bycatch.


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Coming from Tel Aviv will more often than not prove to be a hindrance, perhaps a fatal one, if a band might hope to get some recognition in the West. Bearing this in mind, Israeli sweat-rock threesome Monotonix appear to have spent at least some of the last three years stumbling into dumb luck. The first person of any public import to talk them up was David Berman, who invited them to tour Europe with his band the Silver Jews after they supported the band on their brief tour of Israel in 2006. It's hard to say whether people specifically listened to him on this issue, as he's not generally considered an oracle on contemporary wildman rock, but they certainly have grown in stature over the last 18 months.
Their debut release, mini-album Body Language, was warmly received; at eight songs and 30 minutes, Where Were You When It Happened? still finds the band prizing brevity, although they can jam individual songs out to a hairy length. The cover is a drawing of the trio emerging from the tugged-open zipper of a pair of jeans, in what one imagines to be equal homage to the Stones' rock milestone Sticky Fingers and the internet's extreme pervert milestone Goatse Man. After a forgettable opener, 'Flesh & Blood', 'I Can't Take It Anymore' exhorts the listener to "scream and shout", just discernible through a muffle-mouthed delivery and a sonic foundation of the most willfully primitivist thud-thuggery.
Truly, Monotonix leave few stones unturned in their attempts to drag themselves along the dirt road with their fists of ham. Readers with an especially keen interest in 'outsider music' might have come across a band from Texas called Complete in the last couple of years; their mindrazingly stupid lyrics and inability to play their possibly ZZ Top-influenced songs in time with each other, coupled with the fact they look like middle-aged meth enthusiasts, has led to earnest debate about whether they are playing with a straight bat. Monotonix, at times, sound somewhat like Complete. 'My Needs' has a great biker-bar central riff, sounding like something The Obsessed wouldn't have chucked out; 'Set Me Free', analogously, runs at a beery, backroom clip that takes the same disrespectful approach to rhythm'n'blues as British proto-punx like Dr Feelgood and The Count Bishops.
'Hunt You Down' is sedate by their standards, built on lamenting lyrics and guitars that drone-like organs – while still no intellectual exercise, it does follow a path akin to Royal Trux (during their non-boogie, non-free noise periods). Kinda funny, insofar as their live persona is pretty much the exact opposite of Royal Trux. Which brings me to the bit that, if you're remotely familiar with Monotonix, you'll have been waiting to be brought up. It would be a jape to overlook the fact that, realistically, their albums play about ninth fiddle to the eight splintered, piss-drenched violins that represent their shows, but one can only keep it up for so long.
Something you fear might also apply to the band at hand. Their homeland rep was allegedly such that they had to achieve some kind of overseas breakout, as no Israeli venue would have them any more; now, they've accrued enough popularity that they can break, climb over and soak other people's property and club owners will smile sweetly from behind a sheaf of bar takings. But what of the people perpetuating this street theatre-with-light-musical-theme? You could imagine many sticksmen, placed in the position of Monotonix's Bonanza The Cat – spending time composing and recording, admittedly not hugely complex, drum parts before playing shows consisting of bashing one floor tom while being carried on people's shoulders – finding a tipping point somewhere along the line where the personal satisfaction of this pursuit is dangerously obscure. For all that we applaud loss of dignity in our rock, nothing is less dignified than musicians dragging out a pantomime they no longer feel like acting, way beyond its welcome.
One day, this will probably happen to Monotonix. For now, treat Where Were You When It Happened? as the, in a very real sense, dry run for their shows. Their fun house is as much Pat Sharp as it is the Stooges, but it's not without its merits.
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Hewlett-Packard on Thursday added tools for orchestration and recovery to its Adaptive Infrastructure portfolio. And, as with most enterprise-class technology announcements these days, HP said that the new tools promise IT cost-savings and reduced risks.
HP enhanced its Insight Dynamics VSE, software for managing physical and virtual resources alike, with the new Insight Orchestration and Insight Recovery tools, the company said.
HP debuted Adaptive Infrastructure as a green storage technology
"We're starting to integrate a lot of the pieces of technology already in datacenters to drive down costs and allow greater agility for our customers," says Duncan Campbell, vice president of Adaptive Infrastructure at HP. "The reason we have this sense of urgency is because too much of IT budgets goes toward support and maintenance."
Insight Orchestration enables administrators to create templates for infrastructure needed to run different applications on servers, including associated storage and network resources, and includes a portal and workflow engine for implementation, HP said. Insight Recovery, meanwhile, is for restarting applications running at a remote backup site and is integrated with HP's StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array.
HP also enhanced Insight Dynamics VSE with capacity-planning functions including software for collecting and analyzing utilization data from Dell, IBM, and other Windows servers and support for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, and ESX.
"The general point is that AI has mostly been about plumbing and infrastructure pieces, and this brings more orchestration and automation," explains Jonathan Eunice, principal IT advisor at Illuminata. "With virtual machines, people are accepting the idea of taking humans out of the loop."
Removing humans is exactly where Eunice sees the promise of cost-savings coming to fruition. "All of the investments I see are really about consolidation and taking labor out of the equation," Eunice explains. "Any investment in consolidation and virtualisation can take costs out."
Insight Orchestration and Insight Recovery, HP said, kick off an increased concentration for this year on the company's AI portfolio. The company also said it has opened four new Adaptive Infrastructure Discovery Centers in Isle d'Abeau, France, Boeblingen, Germany, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Houston, in addition to five existing centers.