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Marlborough - Sister Theophane Smith (Eleanor Smith) died at Bethany HealthCare Center on Monday Dec. 3 after a long illness. She was 102 years of age and had been a Sister of the Good Shepherd for 81 years.
Shrewsbury - Paul J. Leary, 83, a longtime Shrewsbury resident and proud Army veteran died Sunday, Dec. 2 in The Rose Monahan Hospice Residence after an illness.
Paul was a true and honorable veteran of the United States Army where he actively served as Chief Warrant Officer for 22 years serving in the Korean and Vietnam Wars receiving a Bronze Star.
Westborough - Joseph M. Breen, 74, of Westborough, passed away peacefully on Monday, Dec. 3 at the Shrewsbury Rehabilitation Center, surrounded by his loving family. He was the husband of Linda M. (Cole) Breen.
Mr. Breen was a teacher with the Framingham Public Schools teaching Physical and Earth Science. Prior to Framingham, he taught at Nashoba Regional High School. Joe served over 20 years on the Westborough Zoning Board of Appeals and he was a communicant of St. Luke the Evangelist Church.
Northborough - Anthony "Tony" H. Misulis, 85, died Monday, Dec. 3 at UMASS Memorial Hospital (University Campus) surrounded by his loving family.
Mr. Misulis served in the US Navy during WWII in the South Pacific. Tony and Jo (his wife who died in 2007) owned and operated Tilz Restaurant of Northborough for the past 46 years.
Westborough - Kaye Irene (Cochrane) Kelley, 82, of Westborough, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Dec. 1 at the Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation Center. She was the wife of Thomas J. Kelley, Jr.
She worked as a lab technician in Boston and then went on to work in the plant accounting department at New England Electric for 25 years.
Westborough - Virginia M. "Ginny" Cove, 86, of Westborough, died peacefully on Wednesday, Dec. 5 at the Beaumont Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center surrounded by her loving family. She was the wife of the late William R. Cove, Sr.
Ginny was a third grade teacher at Fales Elementary School for many years retiring in 1983.


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So I figured with the digital audio section and more people wanting to explore this realm of audio I'd make an attempt at a very brief starter guide. This is not intended to be an exhaustive 'how-to' but rather an overview that's intended to help someone new to get an idea of what's involved. The objective isn't to teach you everything you need to know, but to get you started. At the conclusion you likely won't have all the answers but you'll at least know which questions to ask. I'm trying to keep opinion out of this and keep it to just what I believe are industry agreed upon facts.
I'll start by clarifying, by 'digital audio' I mean playing audio files from a computer or similar device on an audio system. CDs are technically a form of digital audio, but that's not what we're after here, we're talking about playing digital audio files from a library or file system. This world is easily broken into two main areas of equal importance: Creating your digital files and Playing back your digital files. I'm going to cover each of those separately
Creating your Digital Audio files - Rip, Tag, Organize
There are two basic types of digital audio files, compressed and lossless. There are multiple variations of each, but everything falls into one of the two buckets. For an ideal listening experience you'll want to have a library of lossless audio. Some people will argue that you can't hear the difference between a 320kbps compressed file and a lossless file, but general conventional wisdom is that many people with good enough systems and ears can hear a difference. Hard drive space is cheap enough these days that it just makes sense to rip to lossless.
There are basically two ways to get digital audio on to your computer: you can rip it yourself from your CD collection and/or buy it from an online service like HDTracks. Note that using a service like iTunes isn't ideal if you want lossless audio because their music collection is compressed. I've never given iTunes a dime of my money. There are services like HDTracks that do sell lossless files (and even some higher than CD resolution lossless files). Either way, your music comes in via one of these two methods. My collection consists of a lot of each.
The goal when ripping is to end up with an accurate bit for bit rip of your CD. The first thing you'll need to do is decide on the software you'd like to use to rip your CDs. There are LOTS of options out there that will vary slightly depending if you're on PC or Mac, but they all do essentially the same thing. My product of choose is dbPowerAmp because it has a system in tact that helps ensure that you get an accurate, bt for bit, rip of your CD. It's not the only option, and the purpose here isn't to sell you on dbPowerAmp, so you can do your research and determine what works best for you. Just make sure you end up with something that can give you bit perfect rips.
The next thing is to make sure that your music is tagged properly. Most software and hardware playback solutions work on the concept of a music library, where your library software uses tags that are stored in the media files themselves to organize by things such as genre, artist, and album. The easiest way is to typically tag the files the way you want them as you rip them. I personally use a non-conventional method where I rip my music into a given folder structure and then use software to create the tags based on that folder structure, but most people prefer to let the software manage the tags. Either way, the goal is to use a consistent tagging structure and get your tags the way you want them.
So now you've got your music ripped and tagged, all you need now is a method of actually playing back the files.
Playing your digital audio files
When playing back audio, the goal is to get that bit perfect files that you ripped or downloaded all the way to your preamp or receiver with as little alteration to the original file as possible. There are countless permutations of how playing back a file can be accomplished, but again they fall into two categories: connecting your computer directly to your audio system and using the computer or a remote control app to play back the files OR using a device that sits on the same network as your computer and can stream (wirelessly or wired) audio files. I'll briefly discuss the two:
The first option basically consists of 9for example I can control iTunes on any of my Macs from any of myou somehow hooking up your computer to your audio system and using either the computer itself or a remote control app on maybe a tablet or smartphone to control the audio player on your computer (for example I can control iTunes on any of my Macs using my phone or iPad). This tends to be the cheapest initial option as you can do something like hook up an optical cable directly from your computer to your receiver. However, there are lots of variables like random quality of the digital output on different computers, the need to bypass the system audio mixers on both Windows and Mac, asynchronous USB, etc etc. So this option CAN be cheaper, but it can also get more complex if you really want to do it right.
The other option is to use a device that streams the music from your computer. The two most common examples are the Sonos players and the Squeezebox players. Each work differently but have the same basic function - they stream files wirelessly or wired from your computer or network drive into themselves and output audio into your receiver or preamp. These are a simpler approach because they bypass a lot of the potential issues you can run into with outputting directly like a computer (all those I listed above). The only downside here is expense. They're not incredibly expensive but are an additional cost. These often sound better than a poorly implemented computer output rig, and can sound as good is an expertly implemented one.
I suppose I can't have a digital audio section without at least mentioning DACs. Regardless of which path you choose, you'll also likely want to get an external DAC as well, although which one you get may be defined by which approach you take. There are computer sound cards that have good DACs on board and can potentially output very good sound, and there are streaming devices that also have good DACs inside (I'm particularly fond of the DAC section in my Squeezebox Touch). Remember, the DAC turns a digital signal into an analog one, so digital cable (coax, optical, USB) goes into your DAC, two analog RCA cables comes out and into your preamp or receiver.
So there you have it. Like i said, not a really thorough guide, just a very brief intro for someone thinking about jumping in to the world of digital audio.
Enjoy the music!

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Rich Pellegrino, an outspoken activist for immigrants' rights and an Austell resident, and his family saw something drawn on their car as they left the annual Juneteenth festival in Marietta on Saturday.
Pellegrino, founder of the Cobb Immigrant Alliance, knew immediately what the swastikas were and what they meant. However, his wife and 11-year-old granddaughter did not.
The swastikas were the symbols of the German Nazi Party, which murdered 6 million Jews and 6 million other people from other targeted groups. The swastikas have since become a core symbol of the Neo-Nazi and other white supremacist groups.
Juneteenth is a day celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the day the black slaves in Texas learned of their emancipation in 1865, three years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
"It is what it is," Pellegrino told South Cobb Patch.
Pellegrino tells others who are fighting for the rights of immigrants, those who are here legally and illegally, to "be prepared."
"We need unity more than ever, not only to win the next battle, but for our own protection and solidarity."
Pellegrino has filed a police report, and police are sending extra neighborhood patrols through his area for his family's safety.
He is not sure if he was targeted for being an outspoken advocate for immigrants' rights, especially after being quoted in two recent Marietta Daily Journal articles, regarding President Barack Obama's recent deportation policy change.
The swastikas could have been painted on his car because of all the bumper stickers he has, Pellegrino explained.
On his car, he has a faded 2008 Obama magnet. There's a picture of a Native American with the phrase, "Where's your papers?" In Spanish, the phrase, "We're here to stay. We're not going anywhere." is sprawled across one of the stickers. Another one asks, "Who would Jesus deport?" Still another has hands of different races with the words, "Help America bridge the racial divide."
Lastly, he has a bumper sticker with "bahai.org" on the bumper. The website is for his own religion, Baha'i.
Since the swastikas were painted on his car, Pellegrino has not removed them.
He and his family went out for Father's Day with the symbols painted on the car. They went to play tennis Monday night with them on the car.
"To me, I don't know if I'll take them off right away," Pellegrino said.
Editor's Note: Pellegrino now says the swastikas could have been drawn on his family's car while it was in his driveway on Sunday. He also said his wife did know what the symbols meant when she saw them.


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Norman residents interested in helping the Oklahoma Blood Institute off-set their holiday shortage are urged to participate in a blood drive going on at Norman Regional Hospital.
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Final Score: Dallas 113, San Antonio 92
San Antonio, TX (SportsNetwork.com) - Monta Ellis provided 21 points and Shawn Marion scored 20, and Dallas took advantage of sloppy play by the Spurs to rout San Antonio, 113-92, in Game 2 of their Western Conference quarterfinal series. The Mavericks could have easily been up 2-0 in the series against the West's top seed, but lost the opener, 90-85, Sunday despite leading by double digits in the fourth quarter. The Mavs turned it around on Wednesday by forcing 24 Spurs turnovers, which led to 33 points. Dallas snapped a 10- game skid against the Spurs. Dirk Nowitzki had 16 points, two less than teammate Devin Harris. Jose Calderon chipped all 12 of his points during the third quarter. Manu Ginobili totaled 27 points off the bench for San Antonio, which made half of its shots from the field. Tony Parker had 12 points and Tim Duncan 11 to go with seven rebounds. Game 3 of the best-of-seven set is Saturday afternoon in Dallas.
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NORMAN — Oklahoma health department employees have a seven-word tag line at the end of their e-mails that could be taken as a prescription for better health: It says, simply, "Eat Better, Move More, Be Tobacco Free!"
Maybe that motto and some healthy living initiatives are starting to get through to Oklahomans. The state this week improved three notches on the United Health Foundation's national rankings. We're now No. 43, compared to No. 46 in 2011.
Our health ranking has worsened significantly in the past two decades. We ranked No. 32 in the early 1990s. In 2009, Oklahoma was No. 49, with Mississippi ranked 50th. This year, Mississippi and Louisiana tied for 49th and 50th place.
By comparison this year, we're ranked ahead of Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, West Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama and Kentucky. Any improvement is good news for a state that battles high rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, smoking and a low number of primary care physicians.
Our relatively poor health impacts our schools, workplaces and health care providers. The challenges remain: A relatively high smoking rate, sedentary lifestyles, diabetes and obesity. The state has made some policy changes relative to smoking in public places, in restaurants and on college campuses. School changes have also resulted in more daily exercise and fewer junk foods and sugary drinks in vending machines.
Oklahomans also rank poorly in the percentage of its population covered by health insurance. The U.S. Bureau of the Census estimates 18.7 percent of the state's population is without health insurance coverage. Nationwide, the number of Americans lacking health insurance is about 15 percent.
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"Martial Law Declared" reads a future headline. Could this happen? Yes, because America's democracy is failing. We are forfeiting our freedom.
Thomas Jefferson warned us this day might come, when we surrendered individual responsibility to the state. Can we turn things around? At this point, it seems impossible.
I'm not talking about the government shutdown. That's bad, but this is bigger than politics. As a nation, we have cut the roots of the tree of liberty and the branches are dying. Those roots once ran deep and connected us to our God-given covenant, a compact now forgotten, neglected, or ignored.
Have you ever seen the beautiful $2 bill? They are not common but are legal tender. Unlike the new $100 bill just released, the $2 bill has never been redesigned. I once gave a crisp new $2 bill to everyone in my church to illustrate a truth. On the backside of this currency is the famous picture of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. That's our historical birth certificate!
Today, most Americans don't know where they came from. When I was in high school, my history text included the Great Awakening and stories of how John Wesley's preaching shaped our national values.
Moral consciousness — an awareness of God our Creator and the role of biblical law — caused good people to reject slavery, to accept individual responsibility, to want to own private property and to pursue prosperity for the sake of their family. Our first universities — Princeton, Harvard, and Yale — all majored in theology.
Democracy fails when public school textbooks purposely rewrite history to eliminate the Christian faith of our founding fathers as though our great nation suddenly sprang into existence of itself, in a secular vacuum, without the strong biblical values of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Democracy fails when TV news media all jump on the bandwagon of one party and uniformly demonize the other party. The media monopoly and its pervasive influence amounts to electronic brainwashing. To them, Tea Party patriots, home-schoolers, and social conservatives are evil, while liberals who want to "share the wealth" with income re-distribution are good.
Democracy fails when elected officials don't understand our Republic's roots and pass legislation without considering its full effects. Did they really mean to move thousands of people down to part-time work? Did they really mean to give the Executive Branch such enormous power over U.S. citizens' lives?
There is no vision for American survival much less restoring American greatness. As a consequence we are left to languish in the "i-zone" of ignorance, idolatry and immorality. That's why it feels like we are becoming poorer — because we are.
For fifty years America has been telling God, "Get out of our schools. Get out of our courts. Get out of our sex lives. Get out of our politics." We have taken our $2 bill – a symbol of our historic covenant given us by God - and torn it in half.
Ron Wood ministers at Trinity Assembly of God in Meridian. 601-483-8189. trinitymeridian.com. Hear "The Father's Power" radio show on 103.3 FM Sundays at 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. This Sunday Ron teaches on Divine Healing.


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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —
A fire alarm that echoed through the state Capitol last week forced lawmakers, staff, visitors and others out of the building during a tense week as this year's legislative session nears its end.
It turned out to be minor episode and firemen let everyone back in the building about 30 minutes later.
The timing of the scare, however, came as lawmakers were preparing to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the groundbreaking for the Capitol, and it reminded everyone that the previous Capitol had burned down in 1911 after a lightning strike hit the dome and ignited an unstoppable blaze.
That scare and a centennial celebration on Monday also came as lawmakers are advancing a couple of measures that would pay for the Capitol's restoration, and extend its life for another century.
The Missouri House of Representatives has approved a governor's amendment to House Bill 19 that would appropriate some $121 million of surplus revenue for various projects, including nearly $50 million for stonework, window repair and other structural improvements to the Capitol.
State Rep. Tom Flanigan, R-Carthage, a member of the Missouri State Capitol Commission that is appointed by the governor, said the $50 million, while a start, is not nearly enough.
Stalactites are hanging from the Capitol ceiling in the basement, concrete on the walls is chipping and splitting, and rebar is exposed in places.
Another source of additional revenue for Capitol work could be a $1.2 billion bonding package that lawmakers are considering. It has been proposed to pay for construction needs on college campuses, state buildings such as the Fulton State Hospital, and improvements at Missouri parks. It specifically carves out up to $100 million for the state Capitol.
But a bond issue that would help restore the Capitol still needs to get out of the Capitol, meaning lawmakers must approve it. Voter approval also will be required if the measure passes the Legislature.
Lawmakers have until May 17, their mandatory adjournment.
Flanigan said the Capitol deserves the investment.
"It is the most recognizable structure of the state of Missouri. There are so many people that come and walk through and get a favorable impression of our state," he said.
"It's our flagship building in the state, and we absolutely need to make sure that it's well maintained," said Cathy Brown, the director of facilities and maintenance.
Several lawmakers viewed some of the most troublesome spots during a tour earlier this month. Without advocating for a particular funding strategy, Brown said something will need to be done.
Flanigan said one of their top priorities would be sealing the windows and installing a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system to reduce humidity in the building. That would have to happen first, he said, before restorers could even think about taking on an effort to preserve some of the historic paintings and murals in the building.
"This is a museum," Flanigan said of the Capitol. "You can look around here and see a bunch of pieces where paint is coming off and things are falling down."
Some of the safest paintings in the building, however, are the ones with the closest connection to Southwest Missouri. The Thomas Hart Benton murals have been relatively protected for the past few decades, said Bob Priddy, a veteran Jefferson City radio reporter and another member of the governor's Capitol commission. At one point, the Benton murals, which were originally painted on fabric panels, began to show signs of deterioration so an air monitoring system was installed at the time and the windows in that particular room also were sealed.
Aside from the artwork, Flanigan said the Capitol also needs improvements to its foundation.
Senate Majority Floor Leader Ron Richard, R-Joplin, said in addition to upkeep of the Capitol building, itself, he hopes the state will spend some money on renovating parts of the nearby Post Office Building (which was designed by the same architect who designed the Capitol), as well as the Missouri Department of Transportation building, which connects to the Capitol via an underground tunnel.
If they were to do that, it is Richard's hope that they could provide staff more room to work, and lessen the need for first-floor mezzanine rooms — used by many freshman and Democratic lawmakers — which Senate President Pro Tem Tom Dempsey said may be out of compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Priddy noted that there was a plan at one point in the 1930s to build a new annex to the Capitol for committees, staff and even lawmakers, but the plans were scrapped.
"Well, 100 years later, here we go," an optimistic Richard responded.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Capitol history
Dirt was turned for the new state Capitol in Jefferson City in 1913. The cornerstone was laid in 1915, the first government offices moved into the structure in 1917 and the building was dedicated in 1924.


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[Posted 03/14/2013]ISSUE:FDA is evaluating unpublished new findings by a group of academic researchers that suggest an increased risk of pancreatitis and pre-cancerous cellular changes called pancreatic duct metaplasia in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with a class of drugs called incretin mimetics. These findings were based on examination of a small number of pancreatic tissue specimens taken from patients after they died from unspecified causes. FDA has asked the researchers to provide the methodology used to collect and study these specimens and to provide the tissue samples so the Agency can further investigate potential pancreatic toxicity associated with the incretin mimetics.
BACKGROUND:Drugs in the incretin mimetic class include exenatide (Byetta, Bydureon), liraglutide (Victoza), sitagliptin (Januvia, Janumet, Janumet XR, Juvisync), saxagliptin (Onglyza, Kombiglyze XR), alogliptin (Nesina, Kazano, Oseni), and linagliptin (Tradjenta, Jentadueto). These drugs work by mimicking the incretin hormones that the body usually produces naturally to stimulate the release of insulin in response to a meal. They are used along with diet and exercise to lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes.
RECOMMENDATIONS:FDA has not reached any new conclusions about safety risks with incretin mimetic drugs. This early communication is intended only to inform the public and health care professionals that the Agency intends to obtain and evaluate this new information. FDA will participate in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Workshop on Pancreatitis-Diabetes-Pancreatic Cancer in June 2013 to gather and share additional information. FDA will communicate its final conclusions and recommendations when its review is complete or when the Agency has additional information to report.
The Warnings and Precautions section of drug labels and patient Medication Guides for incretin mimetics contain warnings about the risk of acute pancreatitis. FDA has not previously communicated about the potential risk of pre-cancerous findings of the pancreas with incretin mimetics. FDA has not concluded these drugs may cause or contribute to the development of pancreatic cancer.
At this time, patients should continue to take their medicine as directed until they talk to their health care professional, and health care professionals should continue to follow the prescribing recommendations in the drug labels.For more information visit the FDA website at: Web Siteand Web Site.
Exenatide is used along with diet and exercise to treat type 2 diabetes (condition in which the body does not use insulin normally and therefore cannot control the amount of sugar in the blood). Exenatide is in a class of medications called incretin mimetics. It works by stimulating the pancreas to secrete insulin when blood sugar levels are high. Insulin helps move sugar from the blood into other body tissues where it is used for energy. Exenatide also slows the emptying of the stomach and causes a decrease in appetite. Exenatide is not used to treat type 1 diabetes (condition in which the body does not produce insulin and therefore cannot control the amount of sugar in the blood). Exenatide is not used instead of insulin to treat people with diabetes who need insulin.
Over time, people who have diabetes and high blood sugar can develop serious or life-threatening complications, including heart disease, stroke, kidney problems, nerve damage, and eye problems. Using medication(s), making lifestyle changes (e.g., diet, exercise, quitting smoking), and regularly checking your blood sugar may help to manage your diabetes and improve your health. This therapy may also decrease your chances of having a heart attack, stroke, or other diabetes-related complications such as kidney failure, nerve damage (numb, cold legs or feet; decreased sexual ability in men and women), eye problems, including changes or loss of vision, or gum disease. Your doctor and other healthcare providers will talk to you about the best way to manage your diabetes.
Your doctor or pharmacist will give you the manufacturer's patient information sheet (Medication Guide) when you begin treatment with exenatide and each time you refill your prescription. Read the information carefully and ask your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions. You can also visit the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website ( Web Site) to obtain the Medication Guide.
Exenatide comes as a solution (liquid) in a prefilled dosing pen to inject subcutaneously (under the skin). It is usually injected twice a day within 60 minutes before the morning and evening meals. Exenatide should not be injected after meals. Your doctor will probably start you on a low dose of exenatide and may switch you to a pen with a higher dose of medication if your blood sugar control has not improved after you have used exenatide for 1 month. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand. Use exenatide injection exactly as directed. Do not use more or less of it or use it more often than prescribed by your doctor.
Exenatide controls diabetes but does not cure it. Continue to use exenatide even if you feel well. Do not stop using exenatide without talking to your doctor.
Exenatide comes in prefilled dosing pens that contain enough medication for 60 doses (two doses a day for 1 month). You will need to buy needles separately. Ask your doctor or pharmacist what type of needles you will need to inject your medication. Be sure to read and understand the manufacturer's instructions for injecting exenatide using the pen. Also make sure you know how and when to set up a new pen. Ask your doctor or pharmacist to show you how to use the pen. Follow the directions carefully. Never remove the cartridge from the pen or attempt to add any other type of medication to the cartridge.
Always look at your exenatide solution before you inject it. It should be as clear, colorless, and fluid as water. Do not use exenatide if it is colored, cloudy, thickened, or contains solid particles, or if the expiration date on the bottle has passed.
Never reuse needles and never share needles or pens. Always remove the needle right after you inject your dose. Throw away needles in a puncture-resistant container. Ask your doctor or pharmacist how to dispose of the puncture resistant container.
Exenatide can be administered in the thigh (upper leg), abdomen (stomach), or upper arm. Use a different site for each injection, about 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) away from the previous injection but in the same general area (for example, the thigh). Use all available sites in the same general area before switching to a different area (for example, the upper arm). Do not use the same injection site more often than once every month.
This medication may be prescribed for other uses; ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Before using exenatide injection,
Be sure to follow all exercise and dietary recommendations made by your doctor or dietitian. It is important to eat a healthy diet.
Skip the missed dose and continue your regular dosing schedule. Do not inject a double dose to make up for a missed one.
This medication may cause changes in your blood sugar. You should know the symptoms of low and high blood sugar and what to do if you have these symptoms.
Exenatide injection may cause side effects. Tell your doctor if any of these symptoms are severe or do not go away:
Some side effects can be serious. If you experience any of the following symptoms, call your doctor immediately:
Exenatide may cause other side effects. Call your doctor if you have any unusual problems while using this medication.
If you experience a serious side effect, you or your doctor may send a report to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program online [at Web Site] or by phone [1-800-332-1088].
Store unused exenatide pens in their original carton in the refrigerator protected from light. Once in use, store exenatide pens at room temperature (up to 77°F [25°C]) protected from light. Do not freeze. Do not use exenatide if it has been frozen. Do not store exenatide pens with the needle attached. Keep exenatide pens out of the reach of children.
When traveling, be sure to keep exenatide pens dry. Unused pens should be refrigerated or kept at a cold temperature between 36°F to 46°F (2°C to 8°C). Pens that are in use can be stored at room temperature up to 77°F (25°C) (not in a car glove compartment or other hot place).
Make a note of the date you first use an exenatide pen, and throw away the pen after 30 days, even if there is some solution left in the pen. Throw away any exenatide pens that are outdated or no longer needed. Talk to your pharmacist about the proper disposal of your medication.
In case of overdose, call your local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222. If the victim has collapsed or is not breathing, call local emergency services at 911.
Symptoms of overdose may include the following:
Keep all appointments with your doctor and the laboratory. Your blood sugar and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) should be checked regularly to determine your response to exenatide. Your doctor will also tell you how to check your response to this medication by measuring your blood or urine sugar levels at home. Follow these instructions carefully.
Do not let anyone else use your medication. Ask your pharmacist any questions you have about refilling your prescription.
It is important for you to keep a written list of all of the prescription and nonprescription (over-the-counter) medicines you are taking, as well as any products such as vitamins, minerals, or other dietary supplements. You should bring this list with you each time you visit a doctor or if you are admitted to a hospital. It is also important information to carry with you in case of emergencies.
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Assessing the Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance Coverage of People with HIV
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There are numerous aspects of the Affordable Care Act that will be important for people with HIV in the U.S., — however, it is unlikely that these changes will address all the needs of people with HIV. The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program will thus remain crucial for the provision of adequate health care to HIV-infected individuals, but it will need to change. Changes in the Ryan White Program's role will depend largely on state decisions on Medicaid expansion and health care marketplaces. This article, published in the September/October issue of Topics in Antiviral Medicine, summarizes a presentation by Jennifer Kates of the Kaiser Family Foundation at the IAS–USA continuing education program held in New York, New York, in April 2013.Issue Brief Read More
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A member of a Minnesota State University fraternity was arrested Wednesday after five-month child pornography investigation that was started by an investigator with the Minnesota Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
The Mankato Internet address, which investigators learned was being used by the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, was allegedly using a peer-to-peer sharing network to exchange images and videos of child pornography. The exchanges were discovered by the task force agent, who is an employee of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, in December.
Detectives with the Mankato Department of Public Safety were alerted about the discovery in February after the Internet address was verified through Charter. The fraternity was searched by police Wednesday and a wireless network was discovered inside, according to a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Blue Earth County District Court.
Several members of the fraternity were questioned during the search because they all had access to the wireless network. During the questioning Tyler James Hausen, 23, allegedly admitted to having the peer-to-peer program on his computer. The computer was searched and images of nude, pre-pubescent girls were found, the complaint said.
Hausen appeared in court Thursday for two counts of disseminating child pornography and two counts of possessing child pornography.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. — Lon Kruger couldn't continue his success against his former team as Oklahoma couldn't take care of the basketball.
Over the last decade, Kruger has had the Wildcats' number. While coaching at Illinois, UNLV and now Oklahoma, Kruger's record against the Wildcats was 4-1.
Now it's 4-2.
Kruger's team was done in by 16 turnovers in the 69-60 loss to No. 16 Kansas State on Saturday night.
"We did not take very good care of the ball, and that is entirely because the Kansas State defense was outstanding," Kruger said. "They did a terrific job and dictated. We have not had that much trouble handling the ball on the season, and you have to credit Kansas State for that."
Rodney McGruder scored 20 points and Will Spradling added 15 in a matchup of unbeaten Big 12 teams.
Romero Osby and Amath M'Baye both scored 12 points for Oklahoma.
Shane Southwell and Angel Rodriguez both added 12 points for Kansas State. Southwell had seven rebounds, and Rodriguez had nine assists. With four Wildcats scoring in double figures, McGruder was quick to credit everyone for the win.
"We're a team," McGruder said. "Not just one person can lead us to victory. We do this collectively. That's great. I'm proud of everyone who stepped up."
The Sooners (12-4, 3-1) kept pace with the Wildcats most of the way thanks to snagging 36 rebounds to Kansas State's 24. That would not be enough to counteract the damage done by turnovers.
"Our dives, loose balls, deflections, those little things make a difference," Kansas State coach Bruce Weber said. "We made up for the lack of rebounding by getting those 50-50 balls, or those energy kind of plays that you need."
Even so, Kansas State (15-2, 4-0) only got a double-digit lead in the second half. Oklahoma quickly responded with a 9-4 run that cut the Wildcats' lead to five points.
After turning the ball over just four times in the first half, Kansas State got whistled for a backcourt violation and a travel on consecutive possessions. Oklahoma took advantage of neither opportunity.
Instead, the Wildcats rallied from the series of mistakes with an 8-1 run that began with a contested 3 by Spradling and continued with a basket by Jordan Henriquez and McGruder's fourth 3 of the game. Free throws by Spradling gave Kansas State a 51-37 lead with 8:50 remaining.
With the Wildcats up 52-39 a few minutes later, Oklahoma went on a 9-2 run that included two baskets by Osby and a 3 by Steven Pledger, bringing the Sooners within 52-48.
Spradling promptly hit a long jumper to widen the gap to 55-48.
Rodriguez helped seal the deal in the closing minutes with a slashing layup in the paint and a 3 that put Kansas State up 61-52 with 2:25 left.
Down 66-56 with just under a minute to play, the Sooners resorted to fouling, and the Wildcats prevailed.
The game stayed close in the first half thanks to Oklahoma's rebounding and Kansas State's scoring off turnovers. The Sooners' 20-10 edge on the boards yielded 16 points in the paint in the first half, but the Wildcats offset that advantage by scoring 19 points off 11 Oklahoma turnovers.
"That's entirely because of Kansas State," Kruger said. "I thought their defense was outstanding."
The Sooners got as much separation as they ever would when Andrew Fitzgerald scored twice in the paint and was credited with two more points after a goaltending call. The sequence gave Oklahoma a 12-7 lead 6 minutes into the game.
Consecutive 3s by Spradling allowed Kansas State within 14-13 of Oklahoma midway through the first half.
"I really started to understand what they were trying to do to guard us, and it actually got real easy towards the end to read them on the screens," Spradling said. "With our bigs screening the way they did today, it was real easy to get open."
The Wildcats briefly took the lead after Rodriguez stole the ball and converted on a fastbreak layup.
The teams traded baskets, and then an emphatic dunk by Osby on an inbounds play gave the Sooners a 21-17 lead. Two free throws each by McGruder and Adrian Diaz tied the game.
The free throws were the first points for McGruder, but apparently those were enough to get him going. He proceeded to drain 3s on three straight possessions.
The Wildcats would go on to make 10 3s in the game.
"It's a difference-maker in the game when you study the stats because they had more field goals than us and overall they dominated the rebounds," Weber said. "If you run motion, you keep moving the ball, you keep spacing, it's going to get to the shooters, and finally we're starting to make some shots."
Following McGruder's trio of long-range shots, a dunk by Diaz and a 3 by Southwell gave Kansas State a 35-27 halftime lead.
Kansas State won't get to celebrate long. On Tuesday the Wildcats host No. 4 Kansas, their archrival and a perennial championship contender.
"It doesn't stop here," McGruder said. "We just better prepare for Kansas."


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A wise and affirming meditation on living fully and preparing for death, written by a highly regarded spiritual teacher.
One of the few certainties in life is that at some point, everyone must leave it. Yet the pragmatic decisions that can bring comfort, aid, and reassurance both to those facing death and those left behind are often sidelined due to fear and denial.
Praised by New York Times columnist David Brooks for combining "extreme empathy with extreme tough-mindedness," Erica Brown is a leading religious scholar and counselor. In Happier Endings, she leads readers on an emotional journey toward preparation for and acceptance of death, drawing on the wisdom found in many faiths and spiritual traditions.
The first step, Brown writes, is to be comfortable discussing death. This kind of honesty allows for important conversations, from financial wills to "ethical wills" - guides you can leave to your family about the values you deem important. Along the way, Brown introduces a number of remarkable people who help others prepare for death: from Cheryl, a woman who prepares bodies for funerals in a small Jewish community in Oklahoma; to the spry mother who encouraged her daughters to sprinkle her ashes on her favorite mountain during a ski trip; to the man whose heirs have been reading his ethical will every year for generations.
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Aunt Diane and Uncle Roy found Alyssa's body collapsed on the floor in her apartment late one Wednesday afternoon in September after no one had answered her phone for many hours. That afternoon, everything about their lives changed forever. It was every parent's nightmare stretched out before them in graphic horror. In her memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion sums up those painful minutes of devastation that transform families when her own husband died suddenly of a heart attack in the living room: "Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends."
Alyssa had also died alone, reflecting one of our most persistent fears. We are terrified to die by ourselves, left alone and undiscovered for a long time. The Japanese have a word for it: kodokushi. Translated loosely, it means filonely death.fi In Psychology Today, Professor Bella DePaulo contends that this fear is often treated ...
Erica Brown accomplishes much with her new book, Happier Endings: Overcoming the Fear of Death, not the least of which is writing an engaging and uplifting manual on ways to die well. Brown blends humor, personal experience and solid research in her quest to learn about every aspect of mortality. Where other books focus on one aspect of death, such as grief, ethics or commercial concerns, Brown includes them all and synthesizes them into an approachable meditation on a topic Americans love to avoid.
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The IMF will issue a $450 million loan to Pakistan which risks plunging Pakistan into debt that it can ill-afford. Oxfam is calling for the cancellation of all multilateral and bilateral loans to Pakistan, and for debt relief to be given on emergency assistance from the IMF.
Contrary to the positive picture painted by the International Monetary Fund in its 2010 World Economic Outlook, poor countries are being forced to cut back on their economic crisis-response spending too soon.
Poor countries are being forced to cut back on their economic crisis-response spending too soon. Education and social protection budgets are particularly badly affected. Oxfam is calling on the IMF to take steps to reverse this trend.
The fact that the IMF is proposing that adaptation efforts are funded by grants rather than loans is positive. But this will only work if developed countries ensure the money is there to resource this vital assistance to vulnerable countries.
The World Bank and the IMF must cushion developing countries from the financial crisis that is threatening to hit them hard, while also tackling the challenges of food and fuel price increases, said international agency Oxfam today.


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As of 11:21 PM EST Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud in North Virginia went down, due to severe thunder storms in the area. The Washington Post reports torrential rains, "scary winds," lightning and massive power outages in the D.C. area.
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Amazon EC2 runs many major websites and services. Netflix, Instagram, and Pinterest have all been taken out of service during the outage. Half an hour later, in the midst of Friday night movie night, Netflix sent out the tweet above. Pinterest showed the following misleading alert, an hour an a half into the outage:
VentureBeat has reported that Instagram, and Ruby platform Heroku (that runs many other sites) were also down.
Here's the play-by-play: At 11:21 PM EST, Amazon Web Services reported, "We are investigating connectivity issues for a number of instances in the US-EAST-1 Region." And at 11:31 EST, it added, "We are investigating elevated errors rates for APIs in the US-EAST-1 (Northern Virginia) region, as well as connectivity issues to instances in a single availability zone." By 11:49 EST, it reported that, "Power has been restored to the impacted Availability Zone and we are working to bring impacted instances and volumes back online." But by 12:20 EST the outage continued, "We are continuing to work to bring the instances and volumes back online. In addition, EC2 and EBS APIs are currently experiencing elevated error rates." At 12:54 AM EST, AWS reported that "EC2 and EBS APIs are once again operating normally. We are continuing to recover impacted instances and volumes."
As of 1:15 am EST, Netflix appears to be back up and running, but Pinterest, Instagram and Heroku still appear to be down. It was just an hour-and-a-half during peak traffic time for these affected companies, but this event follows a six-and-a-half hour outage on EC2 two weeks ago. And one of the selling points of the Cloud is that there are redundancies to prevent just such occurrences. A small step backwards, perhaps, for cloud computing.
UPDATE: As of 1:50 AM EST, Pinterest was back up.
UPDATE: As of 9:30 AM EST, Mashable reports that Instagram is still down.
UPDATE: As of 9:41 PM EST, Forbes received a report from Flipboard that our content was still not updating reliably because of the Amazon EC2 outage, 24 hours after it began.
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Oh, no, a technical glitch! We need to get Congress, the FBI and the SEC investigating this immediately!
Sorry, but when Amazon sells cloud computing as more secure and reliable than running your own dedicated data center, and then goes down for hours because of the utterly unprecedented, once-in-a-lifetime event of… um, a thunderstorm, you're not allowed to shrug it off as a "technical glitch".
AWS is a huge part of Amazon's business. We'll see, after tonight, if it's still a growing one.
Seriously you would have thought they might have learned something from the last time with the EBS fiasco. At least when your server goes down you can feel like you have some control over putting it back online. Our servers are down and I just feel helpless.
Software operations is about diagnosing single points of failure and planning for them. Any datacenter that goes through electrical storms like this will go down, period. There are features like setting different availability zones for this eventuality, though, it's just a matter of deciding how much time and money you want to spend on them. :)
I've heard that Azure has slightly better (more importantly, foolproof) ways of doing this though. It'll be cool to see competition hopefully make everyone better at this.
Any major web site or service that went down as a result of this outage was not properly implementing Amazon's cloud service. Only one availability zone was affected. Simple redundancy precautions would have prevented such outages. When a company has their own data-center, they are prone to whatever power failures may occur at their location. Outages happen – wherever. With AWS, however, it is quite easy and affordable to implement redundancy across multiple availability zones. Any company that does not do so has only themselves to blame.
Exactly. It is good design (encouraged by Amazon btw) to have hosts, in the case of the us, in both coasts.
Running a data center comes down to competent management and staff. It doesn't make any difference if you outsource to Amazon – other than now you have zero control over their staff, technology, or priorities – at the end of the day there is technology, and people managing the technology. What happened to HA technology? It's not competition that is making people "learn" from these situations. They happen ALL THE TIME. Before outsourcing to Amazon, who has run IT all these years? IT is not new. Servers are not new. Virtualization is not new. High availability is not new. Generators are not new. Not understanding IT and not having accountable people managing your technology (whether internal or outsourced) is ridiculous. Calling outsourcing a fluffy cloud in no way reduces any risk of the underlying technology issues – it's the same as outsourcing in any previous decade – it's redirecting risk to another organization, and putting your business in their hands.
This storm was a once in a lifetime event in the Northern Virginia/DC area. With Hurricane force winds at 75 to 80 mph. They say it is extremely unusual to get something like this. In my area, the only time i have seen worse storm damage was from Hurricane Agnes in 1972 and another Hurricane around 10 or 12 years ago. And I've never had a power outage last 22 hours. The longest before was only around ten hours and even that is extremely rare in my are. I can count on two hands the number of times we have lost power for an hour or more over the last 40+ years.
This storm was an extremely rare event here.
It's always nice seeing someone with such a grasp on DNS commenting about a company's cloud service. Admittedly I've already grown tired of the term "cloud computing" but in this case it actually behaved as expected. Instead of the storm taking down their entire global presence, it was regionalized. Natural disasters will occur and datacenters will be taken offline. How quickly that is responded to and failed over to another location for emergency mitigation is important. Of course, if you are in the DC area you weren't likely using Netflix or Amazon's cloud service due to widespread power outages anyway. That's like taking a call from someone in a hurricane asking why their cable is out. Anyway, we're talking about 1.5 hours but some jackwagons make it out to be several hours or days.
Amazon had an issue with one segment of one zone. My company leverages multiple zones and have application independence by breaking out different components into different server farms spread across zones. We did not miss a single transaction even though two servers were down. I'll take Amazon over and on-premise data center any day. I have built on data centers for 20+ years and Amazon for almost 5. I will never look back. It is all about architecture. How many datacenters in the Virginia area are still down but have gone unreported? Think!
Relax. #1 Amazon doesn't sell 100% uptime. No one can do that. #2 It wasn't a thunderstorm. Take a look at South Jersey. It's ripped to shreds. There were trees down every 70 yards. An entire electrical station blew up. This storm was major.
Correction: "one data center" could bring down many sites when the customers do not properly utilize Amazon's redundancy offering. Any site that hosts all of their servers in one data center would go down if the data center goes down. If anything, it is outages like this that show the advantages of Amazon over in-house data centers. It just happens that these specific sites hadn't taken the necessary precautions. You don't hear about the competent sites that did not go down simply because of that: they didn't go down.
Nonsense. I lived in DC for two decades and we had several tornadoes and hurricanes (to include Isabell) that generated these kind of winds. The point here is that severe weather and other risks are inherent no matter where you are. In some cases the risks are more severe than others. Your mission critical systems need to be carefully evaluated against these risks in your decision to host at a given location. Additionally, if you think that this is just a one time event, you might want to check out this website which document other cloud outages located elsewhere. http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/index/cloud-outages-cloud-services-downtime.htm
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"scary winds and lightening" eh. so you means the winds made the electricity lighter?
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Though fashionable celebrities are often responsible for directing denim fads (cough: boyfriend jeans), today's Trend Report has a great deal of runway support as well. Balmain created a few notoriously expensive options, which have received loads of press, but the light-wash pieces shown by brands like Diesel and William Rast are equally on-trend and not as silly-expensive. At the Diesel Black Gold show, a paint-on-denim pair was styled with sandals, a Muslin Tux Shirt ($350, 212.625.1555), and a simple gray Bonis Blazer ($400), while at William Rast, pale jeans appeared with a tucked-in chambray shirt and an equally bleached-out vest. Diesel created the aforementioned style solely for the runway collection, but try their Wenga Jeans ($300, 212.755.3555) for a similar effect. If you prefer the William Rast look, just pick up the brand's Sadie Jeans ($220) in Snowstorm and couple it with a Chambray Western Shirt ($113).
As for the light denim that's popular with paparazzi-favorites, we're happy to report that there's not a single shape or style dominating this trend thus far. Star stylist Rachel Zoe showed off one of the wider pairs when she stepped out in Los Angeles last month wearing 7 For All Mankind's Super Flare Jeans ($180) in Ibiza wash. Zoe expertly played with proportion in her outfit; we love how she layered a tunic-length tank and cropped Ralph Lauren jacket over her belled jeans. While her exact pair is from 7FAM's Spring 08 collection, Twenty8Twelve's Celine Flare Jeans ($290) or Mango's Birkin Jeans ($80) will give you a similar look. Or you could pick up 7 For All Mankind's classic Bell Bottoms ($125) in the California wash and fade them yourself!
In addition to wide-leg or bell-bottom options, some celebs, like Lindsay Lohan and Mischa Barton, opt for slim-and-shredded styles. Lohan was spotted in an ankle-zip pair of Balmain's Balmain Acid wash ripped jeans ($2165) with Givenchy's Open-Toe Elastic Cord Wedge Booties ($795) while en route to a meeting in LA last month. Meanwhile in London, Mischa Barton turned up at the launch of her new handbag line wearing ASOS' Iggy Full Ripped Skinny Jeans ($50) with an equally goth-gorgeous pair of shoes, specifically Alexander McQueen's Grommet Booties ($1249). J Brand's Acid Wash Ripped Jeans ($218) and Silence & Noise's Ripped Twig Jean ($68) approximate the look of Lohan's haute jeans, while Current/Elliott's The Skinny Jean ($224) offers a stateside variation on Barton's British pair.
Our final example for today's trend comes courtesy of Rihanna, who recently wore Vintage1's Skinny Jeans ($198) while out and about in Manhattan. The brand (previously known as Pratt's Motor Spirit) will hit Singer22.com shortly, so in the meantime you can contemplate what sort of accoutrement you want to wear with your moto-style jeans. Or if you're impatient, just check out Unknown Factory's Biker Skinny Jeans ($198). The detailing is subtler, but the shade is still super light. Either way, the look is out of this world...
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Valparaiso sophomore Shaquira Scott (Wilmette, Ill./Loyola Academy) has been named the first Horizon League women's basketball Player of the Week of the 2012-2013 season after helping to lead the Crusaders to a season-opening win over Indiana last Friday.
Scott, who played in just ten games as a freshman before suffering a season-ending injury, made an immediate impact in her first game back. The sophomore paced the Crusaders with 17 points in the win over the Hoosiers, Valpo's first over a Big Ten foe since December of 2008. Scott hit 7-of-12 from the floor, including a 3-pointer, and also connected on both of her free throw attempts as the Crusaders led start to finish in the Valpo head coaching debut of Tracey Dorow.
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