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Safety and Efficacy of Topiramate in Neonates With Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy Treated With Hypothermia (NeoNATI)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01241019
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 16, 2010
Last Update Posted : December 13, 2013
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|Condition or disease
|Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy
|Drug: Topiramate in newborns with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy treated with therapeutic hypothermia
|Phase 2
Neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, due to perinatal asphyxia, is one of the leading causes of cerebral palsy, whose incidence, despite improvements in perinatal practice and neonatal care, has remained essentially unchanged over the recent past decades. It occurs approximately in 2-3 newborns every 1000 live births with a mortality rate of 10% for mild degrees and 60% for severe degrees. About 30% of survivors with mild hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy and 100% with severe hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy exhibit variable degrees of neurological disability.
Several studies have demonstrated the therapeutic effects of whole-body or selective head cooling to treat neonates with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Mild hypothermia, (rectal or esophageal temperature 33-34°C), started within 6 h after birth and protracted for 48-72 h, can significantly improve primary outcome measures such as death or disability at 18 months or improve the neurological outcome in survivors. Consequently, mild hypothermia is at present recommended for the treatment of moderate degrees of encephalopathy.
Topiramate an anticonvulsant agent widely used in adults and children, has been demonstrated to posses neuroprotective properties against hypoxic ischemic brain damage, both in vitro and in animal models and has been included in neuroprotective strategies for ischemic stroke and neonatal hypoxic-ischemic cerebral injury. Recently, topiramate treatment in asphyxiated newborns has been reported safe.
Aim of the present study is to confirm the safety and to evaluate whether the association of topiramate enhances the neuroprotective properties of hypothermia for the treatment of neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|64 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Safety and Efficacy of Oral Topiramate in Neonates With Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy Treated With Hypothermia: a Pilot Study of the Neonatal Neuroprotection of Asphyxiated Tuscan Infants (NeoNATI) Network
|Study Start Date :
|February 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 2013
Experimental: Topiramate
Newborns with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy treated with mild hypothermia and topiramate
Drug: Topiramate in newborns with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy treated with therapeutic hypothermia
TPM 10 mg/kg once a day will be administered with an orogastric tube as enteric-coated granules mixed with water on arrival in the NICU, when the cooling will be begun (T0), once a day for the first 3 days of life, for a total of 3 doses per patient.
No Intervention: Control
Newborns with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy treated with mild hypothermia
- The primary aim is to evaluate the neurological outcome at 6, 12, 18 months of life [ Time Frame: 18 months of life ]
- The secondary aim is to evaluate the efficacy of treatment with topiramate for improving neuroradiological outcome at 3 and 12 months of life [ Time Frame: 12 months of life ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|36 Weeks and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Gestational age > 36 weeks and birth weigh > 1800 g with at least 1 of the following: a) Apgar score < 5 at 10 minutes; b) persisting need for resuscitation, including endotracheal intubation or mask ventilation 10 minutes after birth; c) acidosis (pH <7.0, base deficit >-16 mmol/L in umbilical cord blood or arterial, venous or capillary blood) within 60 minutes from birth;
- moderate to severe encephalopathy, consisting of altered state of consciousness (irritability, lethargy, stupor, or coma) and > 1 of the following sings: a) hypotonia, b) abnormal reflexes, including oculomotor or pupil abnormalities, c) absent or weak suck, d) clinical seizures.
- abnormal aEEG
Exclusion Criteria:
congenital abnormalities, congenital viral infections or evidence encephalopathy other than HIE.
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): NCT01241019
|Neonatal Intensive Care Unit - Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Meyer
|Florence, Italy, I-50139
|Neonatal Intensive Care Unit - Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana
|Pisa, Italy, I-56100
|Principal Investigator:
|Luca Filippi, MD
|Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria A. Meyer, Firenze, Italy
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Luca Filippi, Dr. Luca Filippi, Azienda Ospedaliero, Universitaria Meyer
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
EudraCT: 2010-018627-25
|First Posted:
|November 16, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|December 13, 2013
|Last Verified:
|December 2013
asphyxia neonatorum, hypothermia, neuroprotection
Brain Diseases
Brain Ischemia
Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain
Pathologic Processes
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Body Temperature Changes
Signs and Symptoms, Respiratory
Cerebrovascular Disorders
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Hypoxia, Brain
Hypoglycemic Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs


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Bruce Morcombe lashes out at 'funny' new TV murder show
BRUCE Morcombe has taken TV producers and executives to task over the trivialisation of murder.
Mr Morcombe, father of abducted and murdered Palmwoods teenager Daniel Morcombe, has hit out at crime shows glorifying "the most horrendous of crimes".
He took to the Daniel Morcombe Foundation Facebook page on Wednesday to air his grievances after seeing 20 minutes of new Channel 10 show Mr and Mrs Murder.
The show, featuring actors Shaun Micallef and Kat Stewart as husband-and-wife crime scene cleaners and amateur sleuths, describes itself as "a warm and witty whodunit; delivering murder mysteries with a smile."
Mr Morcombe said the name of the show and its use of the word "murder" were what he took offence to.
"What is the fascination with murder by TV show producers and network programmers?" he wrote online.
"Are we the only people who find the subject revolting? Take it as fact, you do not want anyone you know to
experience this most horrendous of crimes.
"To trivialise such violence on TV is nothing short of a disgrace."
He listed TV hits Bones, NCIS and CSI, but made specific mention of the show's name, Mr and Mrs Murder, as "overstepping what is acceptable".
"Vote with your remote and switch these baboons off. Murder is NOT entertainment," he said.
"You don't have TV shows called Mr and Mrs Rape or Mr and Mrs Child Molester, so why do we put up with this?"
Channel 10 declined to comment.


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May 2 (BBC News Ukraine) At least 31 people have been killed in a fire in an official building amid violence in Odessa in south-west Ukraine, the interior ministry says. The deaths came as pro-Russian protesters clashed with Ukrainian government supporters in the city. Officials said some people were overwhelmed by smoke and others died after they jumped from the building. Earlier President Oleksandr Turchynov said many separatists had been killed in a government offensive in Sloviansk. Activists have seized scores of government buildings and detained observers in eastern Ukraine.
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Ukraine crisis: Dozens killed in Odessa fire amid clashes
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Presti explains decision to trade James Harden
James Harden, Daequan Cook, 2 others sent to Rockets
Oklahoma City Thunder general manager Sam Presti talked to the media Sunday about the Saturday night trade that sent James Harden and three other players to the Houston Rockets.
James Harden and Daequan Cook were sent along with Cole Aldrich and Lazar Hayward to the Rockets in exchange for Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb and draft considerations. Martin, 29, spent the past three seasons in Houston after six with the Sacramento Kings.
Thunder coach Scott Brooks worked with Martin when Brooks was an assistant in Sacramento.
Lamb is a 6-foot 5-inch tall rookie out of the University of Connecticut. He plays shooting guard and was the second-leading scorer on the Huskies' 2011 national championship team.
"I think these guys add to what we have in place," Presti said.
Former Thunder player and current Connecticut head coach Kevin Ollie spoke very highly of Lamb, Presti said.
The decision to trade Harden was not easy, Presti said. He said the Thunder have to build their "program for sustainability."
"The challenges of sustaining success are a lot more stringent than those of achieving success," Presti said.
"It doesn't change how we feel about James Harden. We wish him the best," Presti said.
Presti said that while the Thunder and Harden tried to reach common ground, there was ultimately none to be found. At that point, he said, the Thunder had to "play the hand" it was dealt.
He said the trade allowed Oklahoma City to meet some needs and create some flexibility.
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This week there are not one but TWO singles of the week - I have been sitting on Danielson and Taylor Kirk for heaps and ages waiting to write about them, it can't have been comfortable. In fact, if I am honest, there are THREE singles nestled under my patootie, because the Body Language one is a bit ruddy good as well.
All in all, a good week for bands. Rejoice!
Single of the Week Number One!
Timber Timbre - 'Black Water' (Full Time Hobby)
If Taylor Kirk is going to hell, I am going with him, he knows the way. 'Black Water' is the first song from 'Creep On Creepin' On' - HANDS DOWN my favourite album so far this year; swamp music for the damned it is, slinkier than Audrey Horne dripping about in velvet and so utterly Fallen in the best (i.e. biblical) sense, you might start tempting those Apocalyptic horses with a sugar lump or two before saddling down the path to RACK and RUIN. I mean, he might be singing about 'needing some sunshine' but don't be fooled; Taylor wouldn't know what to do with a primary yellow ray if it bit him. And so, as 'a thousand white fish floating belly up' move slowly downstream, I run round the house, locking and double-locking the doors, checking the window seals for tell-tale scrapes and sharpening a knife for 'neath my pillow. Nobody - but NOBODY - should sound this terrifying and alluring allatonce, it is music that brings out the Victorian Gentlewoman in a person; it makes me frail. You know, to listen to Timber Timbre is to have a soused handkerchief applied gently over your nose and mouth. And the marvellous thing is, you don't even mind, you may in fact breathe that bit more deeply. How wonderfully intoxicating 'Black Water' is.
No, she's gone.
Single of the Week Number Two!
Danielson - 'Grow Up' (Sounds Familyre)
There are number of bands I adore that could comfortably be described as shrill, Danielson and Oh No Ono being two who, in particular, seem to have missed their moment under the brightest, biggest spotlight. This a crashing irritant and a grand injustice, especially when Danielson can fashion a song that seems to be about arguing with your therapist and which darts like a newt, never once stopping to make anything clear or easily pinned to your parents; a high-pitched riddle. And so while I thought there was a line about being told to 'grow a pair' it seems - as ever - this was pure projection, because 'Grow Up' is about teenage proclivities and obsessions; being given the keys to the adult kingdom but not being allowed to actually use them. 'You're not my Mummy, don't even try' is what Daniel definitely does say, and I am fond of this, the strop as song. There's even a bit which goes 'Ooooooo, what does THAT MEAN?' like you might in a row. Essentially, it is very like hearing next door's teenager getting all eggy at her parents - but set to some music that has no brakes on, and overall much easier to discern without recourse to a glass held up to the wall. Ridiculous, het-up and with a sense of momentum that would shame a steam train, Danielson are definitely not getting any shitter.
Body Language - 'You Can' (Double Denim)
'You Can' is a slow jam, it is the sort of song the term 'slow jam' was made for. This is release number four on Double Denim, and they definitely are a label worth smashing your piggy bank for - albeit slowly, and with a paper hammer, because they aren't churning out sevens like cheap gypsies on a lucky spree; there's a nice, stately pace to their release schedule. As for Body Language, they've 'got time to kill and they've 'got to fill it up,' in the only way they know how. So, even though it is all quite what can you possibly mean, Body Language?, I do know what whip-crack hi-hats signify and I also know what those wavery synths are saying, I'm not ruddy daft. 'You Can' isn't about pop socks, Hobbycraft cross-stitch kits, Dawn Bibby, removable hair on tiny combs, miniature china rabbits or HDMI cables. It is, however, a really, really amazing song about Special Times, which ideally would be dedicated to all the lovers by a permanently damp DJ. Like syrup, it is - which is why I will recommend you do not listen to it, unless your favoured companion is reachable by taxi.
Jyager feat. Seb Rochford - 'Do It All Tha Time'
When someone offers you something to hear for your column even though strictly speaking it is not going anywhere or appearing on any shop shelves because strictly speaking, none of it is allowed, you should always say yes - even if it goes in the bin shortly after. 'Do It All Tha Time' did not, mainly because I have been trying to work out exactly what Jyager does do all the time; I am wondering if it is Scrabble. I bet he knows all the non-U Q words. He still can't spell 'the' but that doesn't really matter because he can write a ridiculous hip-hop jam that bodyslams - rather than booty-bumps - your ears. Swap your email address for it here.
Psychologist - 'Waves of OK' EP (Not Even)
Because I have in my possession a couple of Scanner twelves from the olden days of yore, I was willing to be patient with Psychologist. He wants us to listen to a distorted phone call message called 'Together Clinging' in which a young woman drears on about promoting a UK Garage night, littering her speech with BASE-ICK-LEEs and making me gladder than ever I left the capital 18 months ago - this being exactly the sort of dread, pointless nonsense you have to listen to on the flipping bus every flipping day there. Then, in 'Comes In Waves' we get his piano yearn proper - and it is sparse, vaguely Gospel in aspect and of course, redolent of that other Man With A Piano & Some Problems, Mr. James Blake. Unfortunately Psychologist, though in principle occupying roughly the same block of barren, loveless flats, leaves me absolutely cold. Songs like 'Waves Of OK' sound like wailing for the amusement of the creator, rather than polishing the wail into something rather more universal and communicative. Oh dear, I am not keen.
Singing Adams - 'Bird On The Wing' (Records Records Records)
The Singing Adams is him out of the Broken Family Band, who most upstanding coves seemed to have something of a soft spot for, not least because him out of them had quite a way with tween song banter; a dying art, I feel. Anyway, I am reliably informed 'Bird On The Wing' is about remembering someone who has died; this may make up for how slight it sounds.
Glasvegas - 'Euphoria, Take My Hand' (Columbia)
Somehow or other it is possible to avoid bands entirely, even if your whole week's natural order and schedule is driven by Mondays When Records Happen and Sundays When They Must Be Criticised and Wednesdays When They Must Be Loaded Onto Some Sort Of Listening Device. I would not change this for the world of course, but strangely Glasvegas have entirely passed me by; shadows flickering at the periphery but never quite emerging with grins and/or flick-knives. By all of which I mean, I have quite literally never heard them. So though I am unable to tell you if 'Euphoria, Take My Hand' is representative, I can tell you it is as glossy as brylcreem, unabashed in its expression of fulsome sentiment, and big on drama, employing an emotional palette not entirely dissimilar to that utilised by the dread U2. You know, if I met Euphoria, I think I'd be after more than a hand-hold.
Starfucker - 'Death As A Fetish' (Polyvinyl)
The cataclysmically badly-named Starfucker really are amiable, they have written a song with a title redolent of Goths, that brings on none of the attendant mopery. 'Death As A Fetish' is a sunny blast of scuffed perkiness, and even though everything is buried in the mix as if clarity were a swear, it doesn't matter. There are a few too many whiny, arcade synths on it for my liking, but this is a small gripe not worth chucking plates or ripping up photos over.
The Goldberg Sisters - 'Shush' (PIAS)
'Shush' is very trad, it is 'Woman' by Mr. Lennon with all the guitar lines dipped in chrome. This makes it sound supremely irritating, but in fact it is rather pleasant.
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Scientific environment: The Division of Cognitive & Motor Aging (DCMA) is located at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM), a national leader in medical education, basic research, and clinical practice located in Bronx, New York. The faculty of AECOM has a strong record of extramurally funded research activities. In fact, seven Einstein programs have been designated NIH "Centers of Excellence", including established centers in diabetes, cancer, liver disease, brain research, AIDS, sickle cell disease, and an initiative to reduce and eliminate ethnic and racial health disparities. The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology at AECOM is the academic home of three collaborative clinical research centers which investigate biological, cognitive, and neuropathological markers that distinguish normal aging from dementia. The Einstein Aging Study (EAS) Program Project (5P01AG003949-23; PI: Lipton) is a longitudinal research study with over 20 years of funding which examines cognitive and neural mechanisms that underlie cognitive decline leading to dementia. The LonGenity study (P01AG027734, PI: Barzilai) investigates genetic basis of longevity in an Ashkenazi Jewish population. Lastly, and of central importance to my proposed project, the Division of Cognitive and Motor Aging (DCMA) (R01AG036921-01A1; PI: Holtzer); CFAR Supplement/HIV aging: Novel markers and interventions for cognitive dysfunction (5P30AI051519-09s; PI: Verghese); as well as 5R01AG025119 (PI: Verghese) & K23AG030857 (PI: Holtzer) seeks to investigate the links between cognitive & motor pathways in an aging population.
The DCMA is directed by Joe Verghese, MBBS, a Professor of Neurology at AECOM and an expert in the field of mobility. Roee Holtzer, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and the department of Neurology is also affiliated with the DCMA and has specific interests in attention and executive control processes in aging. Jeannette R. Mahoney, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology, has special interests in multisensory integration and aging. The DCMA is strongly committed to fostering aging research within AECOM, developing research careers, and provides a unique opportunity to examine the intersection of cognitive and motor function vis-à-vis aging, dementia and diseases that affect the central nervous system. The DCMA is affiliated with the Geriatric Neurology Clinic directed by Dr. Verghese, and located within a mile of our center. The Geriatric unit provides a central hub for clinical research conducted with older adults as well as teaching of students from all disciplines with an interest in geriatric care.
All three clinical research aging centers maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Institution for Clinical and Translation research, funded by a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), which houses a neuroimaging facility as well as sophisticated laboratories for the analysis of biological specimens, and with the Memory Disorders Clinic (directed by Dr. Verghese), which provides an additional venue for clinical research and teaching. Finally, there are also strong collaborative ties with the Geropsychology and Neuropsychology Programs at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University (Dr. Holtzer), the Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory at AECOM (Dr. Foxe), and the Einstein Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center (MRRC; Drs. Lipton & Li).
Laboratory: The DCMA is located in the Van Etten Building at AECOM in Bronx, NY. The DCMA suite occupies 4,500 square feet, and includes offices for study personnel; a cognitive neuroscience laboratory; a gait laboratory which houses a twenty-foot GAITRite instrumented walkway that measures quantitative gait variables; a neuroimaging laboratory where functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRs) studies are conducted while participants walk continuously on a second customized instrumented walkway; a MSI laboratory where experimental studies are conducted; and a physical intervention room with exercise and balance equipment. The site also includes multiple testing rooms for interviews and neuropsychological assessments, a conference room with a projector, as well as comfortable waiting rooms and lunchrooms for our participants. Neuroimaging facilities are located close to our center, and offer state of the art imaging procedures including FMRI, DTI, and volumetric MRI.
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Geriatrician Joe Verghese explains how subtle changes in gait can identify which patients are at risk for frailty – with the goal of preventing falls and mental decline. Dr. Verghese is chief of geriatrics at Einstein and Montefiore Medical Center and a professor of neurology and of medicine at Einstein. This edition of Einstein On, a research and medicine podcast, is hosted by Paul Moniz, managing director of communications and marketing at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.


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The Wassup Boys were a glimpse at the Early 2000 Male's civilized relationship with technology. No, really.
In 2000, Budweiser brought us the inimitable—or perhaps slightly imitable—"Wassup" commercial. Okay, maybe very imitable—Grandmas, Superfriends, Teletubbies, you name it, everyone got into the action.
I always get a little misty when I think of the manners and mores of men who lived in times of yore. The way they used cordless phones and had their friends pick up the princess-phone "extension" lines in the kitchen; the way they clacked away at their clunky desktops while staring at CRT screens. Shit, I mean, they actually had spoken-word conversations with each other! Girls were girls and men were not tied to wireless devices. Those were the days.
Anna Jane Grossman will be with us for the next few weeks, documenting life in the early aughts, and how it differs from today. The author of Obsolete: An Encyclopedia of Once-Common Things Passing Us By (Abrams Image) and the creator of ObsoleteTheBook.com, she has also written for dozens of publications, including the New York Times, Salon.com, the Associated Press, Elle and the Huffington Post, as well as Gizmodo. She has a complicated relationship with technology, but she does have an eponymous website: AnnaJane.net. Follow her on Twitter at @AnnaJane.


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It may be November, but firefighters continue to battle several wildfires in the area, including a 2½-week-old blaze near Vallecito Reservoir.
The Vallecito Fire, believed to be lightning-caused, was burning mostly along the ground through dead and down trees, according to a news release issued Friday by the U.S. Forest Service.
No homes were considered threatened.
The blaze was first reported Oct. 16 west of Vallecito Reservoir in the San Juan National Forest.
It was burning within the perimeter of the 2002 Missionary Ridge Fire.
Firefighters have been unable to make a direct attack on the fire because of the steep terrain and danger of falling trees from the old burn area.
Instead, firefighters created a bulldozer line to protect homes and private property on Hummingbird Lane and Ho Hum Drive.
The fire was 25 percent contained as of Friday.
Fire activity increased Thursday afternoon, producing a 100-acre run up the head of Jack Creek drainage crossing the Endlich Trail and approaching the Weminuche Wilderness. It produced a vertical smoke column visible from the entire Pine River Valley.


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MAY 2012 issue - International Edition
CONSIDER THIS: Vitriolic Attacks on American WomenBy Ernest Corea*
WASHINGTON DC - America's commemoration of International Women's Day (March 8) took place while unseemly demonstrations of gender bias, misogyny, crude insults, and efforts to limit women's access to health care were trundling along as well.
In some public references, these have been bundled together as a "war on women." The description has a touch of hyperbole, although it also fails to capture some significant aspects of what has been going on – and keeps going on
VIEWPOINT: Plea for a Contrarian View on Oil and NukesBy James Stafford*
Iran should be allowed nuclear weapons. China has no military ambitions in Asia. The U.S. should pay heed to Chinese sensitivities. Fukushima will not influence the nuclear energy prospects long term in the world. Alternative energy investments are a bad idea for investors. Barrack Obama is a "disappointing president". These are some of the salient points of an interview legendary Swiss investor Dr Marc Faber, the editor and publisher of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report, gave to Oilprice.com
VIEWPOINT: A Tale of Two Coming SummitsBy Dr Ian Anthony*
NATO summit will be held in Chicago, in an election year. While it will be hard to find anyone willing to go on record as saying that the choice of location is intended to be a boost for President Obama, it's difficult to interpret it any other way. The NATO summit on May 20-21 will take place at the same time as a meeting of leaders of the most industrialized countries, the Group of Eight (G8). Perhaps unfortunately for NATO, both the agenda and the format of the G8 summit make it the more interesting and important of the meetings.
VIEWPOINT: Social Justice Put on the Backburner in EgyptBy Sharif Abdel Kouddous*
CAIRO - Egypt is teetering on the edge of an economic crisis. Cast adrift in a deepening political quagmire over the past fourteen months, the economy has now reached a critical juncture, as the country faces the pressing challenge of financing a large budget deficit as rapidly dwindling foreign currency reserves threaten to crack apart an already fragile situation
VIEWPOINT: What The Arab Spring Means For FreedomBy Megan Martin*
WASHINGTON DC - Wielding mobile phones and computers, the young activists across the Middle East have altered the way the world approaches popular mobilization, social networks and Internet freedom.
The Internet can be a transformational force for societies and individuals, allowing for organization on a mass scale and the free flow of information.
VIEWPOINT: For a Denuclearised Middle EastBy Daiskau Ikeda*
TOKYO - In recent months, the dispute over the nature and intent of the Iranian nuclear development program has generated increasing tensions throughout the Middle East region. When I consider all that is at stake here, I am reminded of the words of the British historian Arnold Toynbee (Left in Picture), who warned that the perils of the nuclear age constituted a "Gordian knot that has to be untied by patient fingers instead of being cut by the sword.
NUKE ABOLITION: Impassioned Plea for Averting War with IranBy Richard Johnson
LONDON - Pax Christi, the International Catholic Movement for Peace, has made an impassioned plea for averting war with Iran. "Surely such a war would spell worldwide disaster, and it's up to movements like us to send a strong message against military aggression," Pax Christi said in an important document.
NUKE ABOLITION: Dangers of Extended Nuclear Deterrence in AsiaBy Neena Bhandari
SYDNEY (IDN) - With India and Pakistan testing nuclear-capable ballistic missiles this April, close on the heels of North Korea's unsuccessful test launch of a long-range rocket, a new report by the Sydney-based Lowy Institute for International Policy says it is Asian strategic mistrust that is holding back nuclear disarmament.
According to Lowy's international security programme director Rory Medcalf, who is also principal editor of the report titled Disarming Doubt: The Future of Extended Nuclear Deterrence in East Asia, the nuclear disarmament push in Asia had stalled, owing to the region's tangle of strategic mistrust
NUKE ABOLITION: France's Fuzzy FaceBy Julio Godoy
PARIS – If you ask the French ministry for foreign affairs about the country's position on a Middle East free of nuclear weapons, the spokesperson will surely refer you to the statements by the French ambassadors before the UN both in New York and Geneva, and will repeat that France supports the global application of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
ASIA: Quietly China Increases Defence SpendingBy Devinder Kumar
NEW DELHI - Amid little fanfare and just ahead of the opening of the National People's Congress (NPC), China announced its draft defence budget for 2012 on March 4. At 670.2 billion Yuan (US$106.4 billion) it represents an 11.2 per cent increase from last year's budget figures of 602.6 billion Yuan.
ASIA: Nobody Bothers If a Tibetan Burns HimselfBy R. S. Kalha*
NEW DELHI - When most people in India saw Jamphel Yeshi, a young 27-year old Tibetan, setting himself on fire – on March 26, 2012 – to protest the arrival in India of the Chinese leader Hu Jintao, they could not but have pondered over the sad fate that has befallen a forgotten people.
PLANET EARTH: Green Economy is Not Always GreenBy Richard Johnson
GENEVA - The round of informal negotiations from April 23 to May 4 on the outcome document of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) failed to reach consensus on a global plan of action, titled "The Future We Want," to be adopted by a summit meeting of world leaders mid-June in Rio, Brazil.
PLANET EARTH: We Need Transformational Change'By Daniel Mittler*
BERLIN - Almost twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro we know solutions are available and affordable, that investments in clean technologies are rising, that deforestation can be stopped, and food provided for all if governments have the will. We also know development in both North and South remains deeply unsustainable.
PLANET EARTH: Creating Resilient AgricultureLONDON - Food security is critical to the mission of Rio+20. The threats are numerous: repeated food price spikes; shortages of good-quality land and water; rising energy energy and fertiliser prices; and the consequences of climate change.
Already, somewhere between 900 million and a billion people are chronically hungry, and by 2050 agriculture will have to cope with these threats while feeding a growing population with changing dietary demands. This will require doubling food production, especially if we are to build up reserves for climatic extremes.
PLANET EARTH: Sustainable Energy for All is PossibleBy Simon Trace*
RUGBY, UK - The Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative was launched in September 2011 by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. The three key objectives of the initiative, to be achieved by 2030, are: - Ensuring universal access to modern energy services
- Doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency
- Doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix
PLANET EARTH: Poor Sanitation is a Costly Menace to AfricaBy J C Suresh
TORONTO - Poor sanitation is not only a menace to public health, but also a roadblock to sustainable development and a huge strain on financial resources, according to a new World Bank study.
A report by the Bank's Water and Sanitation Program (WSP) finds that poor sanitation is causing a loss of US$5.5 billion every year to 18 African countries. That estimated loss in turn adds up to annual economic damages between 1 percent and 2.5 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
WORLD BANK: Waiting For 'Other Shoe' To DropBy Ernest Corea*
WASHINGTON DC - When will the "other shoe" drop? And how? Will it create a reverberating, equanimity shattering thud? Or will it drop with the muted thump of a toddler's soft toy falling on a plush rug?
With the election process at the World Bank (the Bank) completed, and Dr. Jim Yong Kim, president of Dartmouth College, confirmed as the institution's twelfth president, questions like these are now likely to be running through the minds of the Bank's professional staff. These are the men and women on whose efforts the effectiveness of the Bank depends


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The "Great Generational Wealth Transfer" has sparked a new conundrum for advisors. On the one hand, there is growing opportunity to capitalize on the massive $30 trillion asset transfer that will be expected from Boomers to their heirs over the next several decades. Since younger generations don't typically have a lot of experience with managing large sums of money, they will probably be looking for assistance. On the other hand, there's a tremendous amount of risk in losing assets under management. According to Kim Dellarocca, head of segment marketing and practice management at Pershing, "almost 90% of prospective heirs say they will move assets to another firm once they receive their inheritance."
Why haven't more firms prepared to manage this transfer knowing it was coming? The reason is usually not because they lack the desire to build relationships with the primary investor's children, but more so because these generations are not easy ones to work with. Being a member of Generation X, I can vouch for my own and say that's true.
The reason is simple: falling between the Boomer and Millennial generations, we may be experiencing a sort of middle-child syndrome. We graduated when the stock market and economy were doing relatively well, but have had little to get excited about since. We are accustomed to being "do it yourselfers" having grown up with no "formal" education around how to manage money, how to climb the corporate ladder or how to raise our families. Because of these and other factors, advisors need to work differently with Gen X'ers. They must relate to this generation's ever-growing host of financial responsibilities, economic uncertainties and continually rising costs that only further cause cynicism about the market, retirement and working with financial professionals.
Our latest research report identified some roadblocks to retirement planning and investing that Gen X'ers currently face. Keeping these in mind when working with Generation X will help you appeal to their specific financial planning needs and turn these obstacles into opportunities:
Roadblock No. 1: They struggle with money management and also with competing priorities and are looking for an advisor who "gets them" and understands their challenges.
Gen X investors realize they need to be saving more but may lack the basic financial management skills needed to proactively plan for retirement and other long-term goals. Our research found that Gen X'ers between the ages of 30 and 44 scored significantly lower on our Financial Wellness Assessment in the area of basic money management than any other age group. Over 50% are uncomfortable with their debt, more than 40% are spending more than they make each month, and 60% don't have an emergency fund. Some Gen X'ers face competing priorities in caring for both their children—the "boomerang generation"—and their aging parents, who need help because of less government and employer benefits to help supplement retirement and health care costs. They're even opting to raid their retirement funds to pay for their children's college education in many cases.
Obviously, as they inherit wealth and ultimately grow their own wealth, the members of this generation will not have these issues, but they will remember who was there to help them when they did. As natural skeptics, Gen X'ers are least likely to welcome a polished presentation about your capabilities after inheriting their parents' assets, so if you want to keep these assets under management, it's best to be a resource for them now so you'll have a strong relationship by the time they need help managing their assets.
This is not to recommend you become a credit counselor, merely that you start the relationship early, include them in your meetings and conversations with their parents, and pass on tools, resources, and information that will help them manage their money and balance their many competing priorities.
Roadblock No. 2: They lack confidence and knowledge when it comes to investing, and don't know where to begin or how to even evaluate their options. In the absence of a strong relationship with their parents' advisor, we believe many will simply fire their parents' advisor and try to go it alone when the time comes.
According to our research, 90% of employees between the ages of 30 and 44 are saving in their company sponsored retirement plan, yet only 15% said they knew they were on track to replace 80% of their income (or their goal) in retirement. While they said they have a general understanding of stocks, bonds and mutual funds, only 30% said they were confident that their investments were allocated appropriately. This could be the result of reading or hearing about saving and investing for retirement without getting the personal guidance on how to apply this knowledge to their individual circumstances.
Having low confidence in their investing decisions and around their ability to retire, coupled with troubled money management skills, makes this group particularly vulnerable to another potential economic downturn, and advisors should position themselves as the missing link. To do this effectively, advisors must start years before any transfers of wealth occur, taking the time in meetings with the entire family (and possibly over coffees and lunches with the adult children of their clients) to build Gen X investors' trust by educating them on how the markets work, how to effectively allocate assets and build a portfolio that will weather the test of time, and how to evaluate individual investment opportunities.
In my next column, I'll share some additional tips for how advisors can work more effectively with Gen X'ers. This generation will require more work upfront than the Boomers did, but it will pay off handsomely in gaining their trust and loyalty as clients down the road.


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The FBI will review thousands of old cases, including some involving the death penalty, in which hair samples helped secure convictions, under an ambitious plan made public Thursday.
More than 2,000 cases the FBI processed from 1985 to 2000 will be re-examined, including some in which execution dates have been set and others in which the defendants already have died in prison. In a key concession, Justice Department officials will waive usual deadlines and procedural hurdles that often block inmates from challenging their convictions.
"This will be critical to giving wrongly convicted people a fair chance at a fair review," said Steven D. Benjamin, a Virginia attorney who's the president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
The defense lawyers' association joined with The Innocence Project, based at New York City's Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, as well as pro bono attorneys to press for the review.
The study will focus on whether analysts exaggerated the significance of their hair analyses or reported them inaccurately. Defendants will be notified and free DNA testing offered if errors in lab work or testimony are detected.
"The government's willingness to admit error and accept its duty to correct those errors in an extraordinarily large number of cases is truly unprecedented," declared Peter Neufeld, a co-director of the Innocence Project. "It signals a new era in this country that values science and recognizes that truth and justice should triumph over procedural obstacles."
DNA testing can cost several thousand dollars, Innocence Project spokesman Paul Cates said in an interview Thursday.
"There is no reason to believe the FBI Laboratory employed 'flawed' forensic techniques," FBI Special Agent Ann Todd, a spokeswoman for the bureau, said in an email. "The purpose of the review is to determine if FBI Laboratory examiner testimony and reports properly reflect the bounds of the underlying science."
Todd called microscopic hair analysis "a valid forensic technique and one that is still conducted at the lab" in conjunction with DNA testing. But in some cases, defense attorneys say, lab analysts have overstated the significance of their findings.
In 1981, for instance, an 18-year-old Washington resident named Kirk Odom was convicted of rape and sodomy. At his trial, an FBI analyst testified that Odom's hair samples and samples taken from the crime scene "were indistinguishable" and that this was very rare. Odom was convicted and served about 22 years in prison. In 2011, he was exonerated by DNA testing that wasn't available at the time of his original trial.
Odom's case, along with the cases of two other Washington men who'd also been exonerated by DNA testing after convictions based, in part, on testimony about hair analysis, prompted the broader FBI review.
"The number of cases that involve potential testimony errors is not known, at this time," Todd said.
Of 310 individuals exonerated through DNA evidence, according to an Innocence Project database, 72 were convicted in part because of microscopic hair evidence.
Some died before they could be exonerated.
In 1986, a jury convicted Army veteran Timothy Brian Cole of raping a Texas Tech University student. A lab analyst testified that there were similarities between Cole's pubic hair and hair found on the victim. Cole died in prison in 1999, about a decade before DNA testing and the real rapist's confession exonerated him.
In other cases, wrongly convicted defendants survived their incarceration.
Dwayne Allen Dail was convicted in 1989 of a rape in Goldsboro, N.C., after testimony from the victim, as well as from a North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation forensic chemist. The lab analyst said hairs at the crime scene could have come from Dail, and his views, though not definitive, were heard by the jurors as those of a recognized expert.
Dail was exonerated in 2007 after DNA testing.
Cates, the Innocence Project spokesman, said that "we are hopeful that state crime labs will also recognize their duty" to confirm the accuracy of past lab tests, although the agreement announced Thursday covers only testimony and reports from FBI lab analysts.
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A guest at the New Jersey MLB Draft headquarters for Thursday's proceedings, high school center fielder Derek Hill was asked his favorite player.
He did not hesitate in his answer, naming Detroit Tigers right fielder Torii Hunter, the nine-time Gold Glove winner.
When — and if — Hill signs, he'll be in the same organization.
The Tigers selected the speedster from Elk Grove High School in California with the 23rd pick in the first round of the MLB Draft.
He's the first prep position player the Tigers have drafted in the first round since they took Cameron Maybin with the 10th pick in 2005. (The Tigers took Nick Castellanos in the supplemental first round in 2010.)
"Derek is an excellent hitter, a great defensive outfielder and has electric speed," said the Tigers' vice president of amateur scouting, David Chadd. "We're pleased to have the opportunity to add him to our organization."
A University of Oregon recruit, the 6-foot-2, 195-pound Hill is one of the fastest players in the draft, running a sub-6.4-second 60-yard dash, and is the best defensive outfielder. His father, Orsino, a former minor-league player, is an area scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
"My dad tells me to be humble and to appreciate this," Hill told the Sacramento Bee. "I've been around the game my entire life, so I know how to act, what to say. It was a little more nerve-wracking at first for games but I just did the best I could, but it's been an absolute blast. We're almost there. Can't wait."
Several of the Tigers' other favorite prospects — UNLV starter Erick Fedde, Virginia closer Nick Howard, TCU lefty Brandon Finnegan, Wichita St. first baseman Casey Gillaspie — went in the picks right before Detroit's.
The Tigers have only drafted 23rd overall once before, in 1979, selecting Livonia High's Chris Baker, as a compensatory pick for losing free agent Jim Slaton to the Brewers.
After going away from their normal modus operandi of selecting power arms by taking a high school position player in the first round, the Tigers went right back to the norm in the second round, tabbing Alabama right-hander Spencer Turnbull with the 63rd overall pick.
The 6-foot-3, 230-pounder features a fastball that sits in the mid-90s (hitting as high as 98 mph) making him profile as a guy who might end up in the bullpen in the future. He also has a slider that could develop into a better-than-average pitch, and a change-up, so he could remain as a starter, as well.


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By David B. Samadi MD & Marc K. Siegel MD
The world of prostate cancer is changing rapidly. It wasn't long ago that when a man was diagnosed with this dreaded disease he wrestled for weeks with a decision of what to do based on his age, his sex life, and his attitude toward having surgery, versus undergoing radiation, versus watchful waiting. Many patients routinely sought second and third opinions from different specialists before they decided what to do. But that agonizing decision has now given way to only one real viable option:
Surgery is your best chance for a cure.
It all starts with the Prostate Specific Antigen and a simple prostate exam. If the PSA is trending upward or a suspicious nodule is discovered, a good doctor will opt for a biopsy. The PSA has recently come under attack in the media and by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for being inaccurate, but it has also saved many lives, and it is one of the main reasons that death from prostate cancer has declined.
If a biopsy shows prostate cancer but it appears to be limited disease, many men will opt for radiation therapy or watchful waiting. This is often unwise.
New techniques of radiotherapy including the much-touted cyberknife prey on this confused group of patients. The cyberknife focuses a high intensity beam of radiation so that you need only five sessions rather than the usual fifty, but no long term studies have been done on its effectiveness. Side effects like incontinence may be fewer than with surgery initially, but with radiation, side effects may increase over time, including the risk of bleeding, damage to the adjacent tissues, bladder or rectal cancer.
Patients are naturally attracted to any new technology, but we can't think of two new technologies that are more different clinically than robotic prostatectomy and the cyberknife. The former is the definitive treatment and best chance at a cure in the right hands and the latter is an unproven flashy treatment that is at best a salvage approach when surgery is unsuccessful.
The main problem with radiation therapy of the prostate of all types is that once you have had it, it distorts the architecture of the prostate to the point where surgery is no longer possible except in the most skilled hands. The opposite is not true; once you have had surgery you can still have radiation if the cancer returns.
It is also very difficult to really know the stage of prostate cancer without removing the gland and sampling the lymph nodes. Studies have shown that at least 40 percent of patients end up having more extensive disease than was originally determined by the biopsy.
The advantage of surgery is that it removes the whole prostate gland. If your cancer is contained in the gland, most likely you are cured. Here the PSA becomes an extremely important tool, because with no prostate left this number should be zero, or very close to it. Any amount of PSA is an alert to your surgeon that there could be a recurrence.
People are living longer, healthier lives these days, so the age that prostate surgery is considered as the best option is also increasing. Don't let a doctor dependent on rigid guidelines tell you that there is an exact age above which you shouldn't have surgery – this decision depends on the individual patient.
Prostate surgery is an art. Robotic prostatectomy may be a preferred option, but only in the hands of a surgeon with a lot of experience, and preferably one also trained in open and laparoscopic surgery as well. The days when prostate surgeons couldn't see the prostate when they operated and were forced to rely on so-called "tactile feedback" are over. With the robot, if you know what you are doing it is possible to create a bloodless field where the prostate is in view at all times.
Removal of a cancerous prostate is now possible with a rapid return of both continence and sexual function. It still makes sense to carefully consider all options before proceeding, but the game should take place on a 2012 playing field rather than one from the 1990s.
David B Samadi MD is the chief of robotics and vice chairman of urology at Mt. Sinai Medical Center. Marc K Siegel MD is an associate professor of medicine and medical director of Doctor Radio at NYU Langone Medical Center. He is the author of The Inner Pulse; Unlocking the Secret Code of Sickness and Health.


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Duke Divinity School's Doctor of Theology (Th.D.) program has received a $15,000 grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion to better prepare students for teaching.
Susan Eastman, director of the Th.D. program and associate professor of the practice of Bible and Christian formation at the Divinity School, applied for the grant and will administer a "Teaching Initiative Gathering" at Duke on March 8-9, 2014. Nine Th.D. alumni who are currently teaching will discuss how the program prepared them and their experiences so far as professors. The meeting will be coordinated by the Th.D. program and facilitated by consultants from the Wabash Center.
"We are very pleased to receive this generous grant," Eastman said. "It will provide a valuable opportunity for conversation with and among our alums, which in turn will give us feedback for strengthening the Th.D. in the area of teacher preparation."
The grant is part of the Wabash Center's Graduate Program Teaching Initiative, which was launched in 2010 to assess how well doctoral programs prepare their Ph.D. and Th.D. students to teach. The center provides grants to selected doctoral programs that demonstrate a willingness to assess their program.
Funded by Lilly Endowment Inc., the Wabash Center was established in 1995 to strengthen North American theological education. The center hosts programs at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Ind., plans and support projects elsewhere, and grants funds to faculty members and institutions to support initiatives that promise to improve teaching and learning.


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Questions about the grammar of than were
energetically debated in C18, and still today are
sometimes asked. By origin it is a subordinating
conjunction, used to introduce comparative clauses,
as in:
He knows more than I do about the family history.
The use of the subject pronoun I anticipates the verb
(do), and confirms that a clause is to follow. This is
proof that than is indeed a conjunction – in that
sentence. But older commentators were inclined to
think, "once a conjunction, always a conjunction," and
to disregard common constructions like the following:
He knows more than me about the family history.
In that alternative version of the sentence, the object
pronoun me shows than operating as a preposition,
which normally takes an object. Prepositional use of
than with an object pronoun has been recorded since
C16, yet prescriptive grammarians still argue that the
subject pronoun is the proper one to use after it; and
they would "correct" the second sentence to:
He knows more than I about the family history.
To many people this sounds less natural, but its
proponents argue that it is an elliptical version of the
first sentence above, i.e. that a whole clause is to be
understood after than, and so I is the correct pronoun.
Yet there's no need for this elaborate argument if we
allow that than is both a preposition and a
subordinator. Research associated with the Longman
Grammar (1999) showed that speakers mostly use
than (and as) as prepositions (i.e. with a following
object pronoun) and only rarely with a following
subject pronoun. Fiction writers make about equal
use of the two constructions, while academic writers
use neither. Academic comparisons more often turn
on correlative phrases with comparative adjectives:
He possessed a greater sense of history than others
of his time.
You could therefore say that the problem is academic!
It rarely comes up in academic prose, and in fiction
and conversation where than is much more often used
with simple pronouns, the use of object forms is quite
idiomatic. In practice the issue only arises with first or
third person pronouns that have distinct forms for the
subject and object (I, we, he, she, they). For the second
person pronoun you, the third person it, it makes no
difference – or for nouns and proper names: He knows
more than John (does) about the family history.
A different issue with than is its potential
ambiguity when used elliptically, as in:
She's kinder to her dog than the children.
To settle the ambiguity in sentences like that, the
point needs to be spelled out more fully. (See further
under ellipsis.)
Combinations with than:
1 Than and what. The most extended use of than as
a preposition is to be seen in nonstandard usage such
as: He wanted it more than what I did.
Such constructions provide an empty object for
than but ensure the use of the subject pronoun in the
following clause. It could thus be seen as a kind of
hypercorrective response to the grammatical
"problem" (see hypercorrection). The what is
unnecessary because the sentence could perfectly well
be: He wanted it more than I did (or more than me). The
construction than what is associated with impromptu
talk – one of the various redundancies that occur
when we construct sentences on the run, which need
to be edited out of written documents.
2 Following than it's possible to use either an
infinitive or an -ing form of the verb. Compare:
She rushed on rather than let us catch up.
She was rushing on rather than letting us catch
But as these examples show, the choice can effectively
be made by matching the forms before and after than:
the -ing follows a continuous/progressive form of the
main verb, while the infinitive goes with other aspects
and tenses.
3 Than with quasi-comparatives. A number of
adjectives and adverbs imply comparisons without
having the standard comparative suffixes such as -er
or more. They include collocations like
different/differently than (and superior than) which
are used especially in speech as alternatives to
constructions with from or to. Other constructions
which sometimes use than are sequences such as
hardly . . . than, scarcely . . . than, where the
alternative is to use when as the subordinator. Purists
are inclined to argue that than has no place in such
phrases, because the comparison remains implicit
rather than explicit in the form of words. Yet common
idiom endorses such combinations. See further under
different from, hardly and scarcely.
Taken from: http://www.cambridge.org/uk/linguistics/peters/
English Teacher


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Night Vision
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When the sun goes down and the moon comes up You can see a lot of things if you look deep enough It's all around [Guru] The city skyline, in the nighttime, be the right time, to ball out (Yeah) Who's the real pimp, gangster hustler, you call out Is it him, is it him or is it, Dukes over there? Real recognizes real, so yo, no one cares The chief executive mack, in so deep you can't imagine I've seen the beatdowns, the gunfights, plus the paddywagon See daddy with his pants saggin, pushin whips that's too fly Switchin up to a suit and tie, ladies say he's too cute to lie (Forget about it) And none of my girls, wanna, talk to you Plus, none of my boys, gotta, talk to you Cause when you see me, they'll be somewhere in the cut And you can't be me, so nip that weak talk in the butt The party's crowded, and everyone, is showin love Whassup, what's the deal, how's things holdin up? (Whassup young blood?) The smooth dude, that moves through, with the utmost precision Truly a wiseguy, seein life with my night vision [Isaac Hayes] See that young blood, comin down the street Don't be hypnotized by the stride of his feet.. Pickpockets.. streetwalkers.. number runners.. hustlers [Guru] Lots of ladies, wanna, check me out And lots of haters, wanna, X me out I got more style than Gucci, Louis or Prada Drop more jewels on you, than your uncle or father Once this envious kid, was temptin me kid to stoop down to his level and cold empty his wig He was mad cause his girl wanted up in my world (hahahaha) I looked the other way, and she was still, stuck in my world Aiyyo; baby wants to run with me, come with me, have fun with me I be the man when I'm dipped, or in a t-shirt, and dungarees I overheard her man, that was screamin in her ear while I nodded to my peeps, who was schemin in the rear If he's gon' flip, he's gonna, find out quick That I stroll with a click, and we roll mad thick He shook my hand and laughed it off, that was his best decision We keep it tight aight? Hangin out, with that night vision [Isaac Hayes] I bust into this night club I can see you perpetraters Passin out your BID'ness cards Wearin your knockoff gators Pimps.. heartbreakers.. dumb-ass Johns.. You got to make a decision, to go witcha instincts and rely on your night vision
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Written by: Isaac Hayes, Keith Elam, Victor Flowers
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It's True
We recently reported on the eBay auction in which some crazy person paid $2025 for an Ultima Online account. (Don't believe it? Click here.) The account was two years old and held significant in-game assets, including a castle. Still, throwing down a hunk of dough that size for an Ultima Online account seemed downright nutty to some of us.
Fortunately, we were able to corner the buyer, one Ms. Ima Addict, and ask her a few questions, exploring the fascinating motives behind this UO addict's purchase. Our interview follows.
How old are you?
What is your day job?
I work in a Call Center Engineering IS department for a large telecommunications company.
What do you do?
I do support, maintenance and system administration of 2 "Mosaix" dialers (HP 700 CPU's running HPUX 10.20 and Summa 4 Digital Switches), both of which are in Denver. The "Credit & Collections" Call Centers that I support are in St. Louis and New York--they connect to my boxes over the WAN and tie lines between our ACD and their center. I support all aspects of hardware & software, including the networking, cabling and telephony sides. I travel occasionally to train new employees at the call centers.
What kind of hours do you work?
I'm on call 24x7.
How long have you played UO?
I purchased the game in October of 1997, but started out on a different server than what I currently play on. My friend who convinced me to purchase UO stopped playing shortly after I got the game, so I didn't play very frequently at the beginning. I didn't start on my current server until February or March 1998.
If you have a significant other, what does he/she think?
I think that I'm perhaps in a unique position--I'm currently living in Denver doing some contract work. I moved down here in April 1998 with the expectation of being here for a year (but my year is up next month and it now it looks like I'll be staying until at least October.) Right before being offered this job, I had just purchased a house in Seattle with my SO and a friend. Both of them and another friend are living in our house and I'm in here in Denver. I have a small group of friends here in Denver, but spend most of my nights playing UO. My Denver friends were very supportive of me purchasing the account over e-bay, even though they don't play UO.
Does your significant other play UO?
Before moving to Denver, my SO and I lived together. He wasn't interested in playing UO or many other games on a regular basis because of other things (computer related) that kept him busy. Once I moved to Denver, however, his interest in playing UO picked up--true, we wrote e-mail every day and/or talked on the phone, but we could interact AND catch up on life (house, cats, rats, etc.) while playing UO. Both of the other people living in the house play UO as well (partly due to my badgering) so it works out well. Whenever I go home to visit, we all end up playing at the same time so we can share tips when we're within shouting distance.
Like many others, we tend to use ICQ when playing, although I prefer IRC.
Why spend $2K?
Well, my limit was the amount of my tax return for this year (which I haven't actually received back yet), but I also recently received a large settlement from a 1995 car accident. I probably *should* have used the money to pay bills or make improvements to my home, but I will be using the rest of my tax return and all of the settlement to pay bills, so I really don't feel *too* guilty. I don't normally spend a lot of money on hobbies (which is why my computer is still a 200mhz).
When I do go shopping, be it for clothes or computers, I like to do it *once* per year (if that often) and therefore tend to drop large quantities of money at one time and then spend nothing on those items for the rest of the year. I have a really good job with a salary in the mid-upper five figure range (at least, this is pretty good, IMO, for someone who got bored with college and stopped going before even getting her Associates Degree, although I did have a 3.55 GPA and was taking mostly math and computer related classes).
With the combined factors of my tax return, settlement and salary, $2k doesn't seem like a *lot* of money, especially if you consider how much time and effort was put into developing these characters and collecting the unique items, magic weapons/armor, real estate, etc. When you also consider that Castles are fairly rare in the game, cost about 6 million gold, and that it is IMPOSSIBLE to find a piece of land large enough to place them on... I would say that it is worth it. I might change my mind and start banging my head on the desk later, but for now this is my story and I'm sticking to it. Yeah. Also, it will be nice to have some free time now that the weather is getting warmer--more time for jetskiing, camping, horseback riding and sailing. (Yes, I do have a social life when I decide to participate in it.) I'll probably do something productive this summer (like taking some night classes), so it will be nice not to feel like I need to spend a lot of time trying to make enough gold to purchase a castle.