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Sara Pickering is the first assistant coach to be hired by the Bulldogs new head softball coach Trisha Ford.
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Sara Pickering returns for her second season as an assistant coach for the Bulldogs after amassing a wealth of softball knowledge and coaching experience with several of the nation's finest programs.
With the 'Dogs, she oversees the team's infield defense, helps coordinate its hitting, handles team travel, and assists in other aspects of recruiting and administrative duties.
In her first season in the Valley, she helped lead the 'Dogs to a 30-24 mark overall in 2013 and second place in the Mountain West with a 11-7 MW record.
Defensively, Fresno State ranked 24th nationally in fielding (.971), and also stood among the national leaders in triples (12th, 0.31 per game), and stolen bases (29th, 1.61 p/g).
Outfielder Brenna Moss topped the nation in triples per game (0.18) and ranked top 100 in stolen bases (15th, 0.67 p/g) and toughest to strike out (72nd, 1:16.3 at-bats), as did outfielder Michelle Solomon (triples, 95th, 3).
Among MW rolls, the team was also easy to spot as it led categories in fielding (.971) and stolen bases (1.61 p/g), and stood second in triples (0.31 p/g).
Among school all-time lists, the team shattered the season stolen base record in '13 with 87 swipes, while Moss reset the individual mark with 34 thefts.
In return for their excellence on the field, Fresno State celebrated a league-leading four All-MW selections by Moss, pitcher Jill Compton, catcher Paige Gumz and infielder Vonnie Martin.
The team's hard work off the field was equally recognized with nine MW All-Academic nods (Stesha Brazil, Harris, Taylor Langdon, Martin, Kelly Megee, Moss, Brooke Ortiz, Runge and Whitney Smith) and one Academic All-District selection (Runge).
Prior to joining the `Dogs, Pickering spent two seasons coaching at Cal State Fullerton. She spent a season as the volunteer assistant and was promoted to a full-time assistant coaching position with the Titans in July of 2011.
Pickering spent the 2009 and 2010 seasons as an assistant coach with the Seminoles under head coach Lonni Alameda, specializing with the FSU infielders and hitters. She helped guide FSU to its best start since 1993 (20-1) and helped the squad hit .297 as a team. In 2009, the Seminoles also ranked among the top 25 nationally in fielding percentage (.971).
From 2003-08, Pickering served as an assistant coach at UNLV. During her time, the Rebels won at least 25 games in each of her five seasons, including a 44-19 mark in 2005 that was capped by an NCAA Tournament bid (and its first postseason trip in nine seasons). Afterward, UNLV hit no fewer than 43 home runs as a team in a season (including a program-best 50 in 2005), and she helped coach one NFCA All-American, five NFCA All-West Region honorees, and 14 All-Mountain West Conference selections.
In the years prior, she served an assistant coach for the Cardinal from 1998-2003, and helped the team advance to five consecutive NCAA Regionals. While at Stanford, she worked primarily with the defense and as the team's hitting coach, she also recruited and helped with community relations.
As a player, Pickering was the first two-time, first-team All-American at Washington. She started every game at second base during her four-year career from 1994-97, a span of 271 games. A three-time team co-captain, she helped lead the Huskies to their first Pacific-10 Conference title in 1996 and left the program with 15 records to her name, including an NCAA record 91 career doubles. During her career, UW was the national runner-up in 1996 and an WCWS advancer in '97 after it made NCAA Regional appearances her first two seasons.
Perhaps her most stunning accomplishment came off the field, as a cancer survivor. Pickering was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease and underwent a life-saving stem cell transplant in 2001. She has been in remission for over 10 years. To further her cause, she raised more than $5,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by completing the 2003 Portland Marathon.
While at UNLV, she helped the fight against cancer as the softball team annually hosted a "K-Out Cancer Day" to help benefit the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation. The Rebels also participated in the NCCF's "Champions Run for Life" event each year.
Pickering, a native of Corona, Calif., graduated from Washington in 1998 with a degree in sociology. She also played professionally in the Women's Professional Softball League (WPSL) with the Virginia Roadsters and Arizona Heat. She was inducted into the Corona High School Hall of Fame in 2009.


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I thought I had nailed down the "Riviera" reference when I found a writer in The WPA Guide to 1930s-era Alabama describing how south Baldwin County consisted of a string of "little fishing villages that remind the visitor of the southern coast of France."
Ah ha, the Riviera.
So I wrote it up as the first time anyone made any connection between that part of the Mediterranean and our part of the Gulf of Mexico.
I was wrong.
Reading my assumption, Cam Plummer, who writes "Yesterday's News" for the Mobile Press-Register, America's next great three-day-a-week newspaper, called my attention to a 1937 speech made by Alabama Gov. Bibb Graves on the occasion of the dedication of the new paved highway on the Fort Morgan peninsula. (Governors love to pave roads.) In his remarks, Gov. Graves, whose family loved the beach, spoke of how he "visualized the Alabama coast as 'the Riviera of the Deep South.'"
Well, there you have it.
But what about "redneck" — more to the point, who connected redneck with Riviera?
My first assumption was that it was Howell Raines, a classmate of mine at Birmingham-Southern College back in the early 1960s who, as a reporter for The New York Times, had written about how former University of Alabama and then-NFL quarterbacks Kenny Stabler and Richard Todd were "Living It Up on the Redneck Riviera" during the offseason. But while Howell felt, as I did, that he was the first to put the words together in print, he conceded that the term had been floating around and he probably "picked it up from the general atmosphere" while he was down there.
One of the places where he might have picked it was Sam and Shine's Lounge, a bar that was owned, in part at least, by Madison "Shine" Powell, a local musician who reportedly wrote and recorded a song titled "Redneck Riviera." Howell could not recall hearing the song, but as veterans of the Coast know, memory gets fuzzy fast down there, so he would not rule out that he did.
So now it was possible that "Shine" originated the name, but while I could find people who remembered him, and even an article that mentioned him and quoted the lyrics, I did not have the actual song to support this claim to fame.
Then I got an e-mail from Carl Gates in Foley, who used to play with "Shine's" band as his father did before him. Carl had come across an online interview I did with Weld for Birmingham, in which I talked about the origin of the name and mentioned how I could not find a copy of the recording.
Sadly, Carl informed me that "Shine" passed away about seven years ago; however, Carl had a 45 rpm of the song and if he could get it transferred to an MP3 format, he would swap me the song for a copy of my book.
We struck a deal.
Mystery solved. "Shine" Powell connected redneck and Riviera in his song, Howell either heard it or heard reference to it, and he wrote it up.
I was happy as a pig in slop.
So I ran my conclusion by Carl, just to make sure I got it right.
And Carl replied with the rest of the story.
"Kenny Stabler," Carl wrote, "used to be a regular at Sam and Shine's (even tried to sing a few times). Kenny coined the term Redneck Riviera and "Shine" wrote the song shortly after . . ."
And there you have it.
Or, at least, about as close to it as you are likely to get.
And when Carl and I make the swap and I have the song in my possession, the circle will be complete — at least until someone reads this and remembers something else, and off I'll go on another expedition into the murky waters of the Redneck Riviera.
But until that someone else comes up with another account of how the term Redneck Riviera came to be, I am going to follow the example of another pro football star who reportedly came in at dawn from a night on the town and was greeted by his long-suffering wife. The conversation went something like this.
She: "Where have you been all night?"
He: "Honey, I did not want to wake you when I came in, so I slept all night in the hammock out back."
She: "I took that hammock down last week."
He: "That's my story and I'm sticking with it."
And I am sticking with mine.
For now.
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This is our house in Palo,IA. This will be our first Christmas in it also. We built this house our selves in 2007. We where also effected by the Flood of 2008. A lot of hard work and rework, great friends,neighbors and Great Spirits in Palo and Cedar Rapids that got us through this (Yes- the house is completly fixed and re-done). Life is a learning curve, sometimes it doesn't make sense or something we agree to, but you have to keep going with a positive atitude. Even though the summer was a lose, we had to at least show our Christmas Spirit and put some lights out. Theres over 6,500 lights outside and the displays outside where made by ny wife. Enjoy the view and Merry Christmas to all.
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I drive by your home each day, Nice Country home, Glad to see your back in and keep up the Good Spirit
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The way it works is each disk represents a child. The number on the disk is their birthdate. So for example the very first disk says "Sunnie 3" - so it's for Sunnie, who was born on January 3rd. It's interesting to see the pattern laid out - tons of Oct and Nov birthdays, and only one in July - who knew!
I originally pinned this idea from a link on etsy, and HERE's the Link!! (such a cute shop - check it out!) - here's the picture:
You can search google or pinterest for "birthday board" and come up with lots of different ideas and variations. My friend Michelle noticed I pinned the board and said we should make them together - I love when people whip me into shape!
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The dark stained disks are readable in real life - in the pictures it looks like they aren't, but really they are. I used my Cameo to cut vinyl for the months and the saying "Grandchildren Birthdays". I really like how it turned out!
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It's been two weeks since our Accreditation Council for CME on-site survey, and although we won't get the official notice on our accreditation status for several months, I feel good about our chances for re-accreditation and about the new system of accreditation. What a surprise! I certainly wasn't at this point when the process started.
I've written this article for several reasons: to help lessen other providers' anxiety about re-accreditation under the new system based on our experiences, to offer some practical tips on how to approach the re-accreditation process, and to share what I learned is the real benefit of the ACCME's new system of accreditation. But first, some background.
The Endocrine Society, in Bethesda, Md., is a specialty society of almost 10,000 physicians and researchers working in the field of endocrinology (i.e., hormones). Our educational programs include an annual meeting and smaller conferences and symposia. We also produce enduring materials, including Web-based programs. We have been accredited by the ACCME since 1975 and this was my third re-accreditation review.
I'd Rather Be at the Dentist
When I received notice from the ACCME in February of our re-accreditation, my initial response was the same as if it were an appointment reminder from my dentist — something I must do but truly dread. Although I'd completed two previous re-accreditation applications and feel fairly well-versed in the ACCME requirements, this would involve the "new system" and an on-site meeting with the ACCME surveyors, as we had not had a visit in the past 10 years. As I quickly read through the materials in the notification package, my anxiety continued to grow. It was apparent that the self-study report was going to be a lot of work.
I got off to a good start. I promptly sent off the required acknowledgement to the ACCME that we had received the package and would be submitting a re-accreditation application. I also sent a memorandum to our CME advisory committee, executive office, and other governing committees notifying them of the survey and providing them with a copy of the self-study report outline so they could understand the process. I created a timeline for drafting and reviewing the material and established our target mail date for sending the application package to the ACCME (early August). I even discussed the file review I wanted to complete for all activity files within the review period with my staff, as well as a checklist we would revise and use for each file. It was the end of February, and I'd lined everything up to organize and work on the study. I put the re-accreditation folder on a prominent corner of my desk and then immediately got caught up in preparing for our annual meeting and other projects.
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Fast-forward to June. The self-study folder is buried somewhere on my desk, and even though I've thought about it and reminded everyone about it on a regular basis, we haven't started. My initial timeline is a sore reminder of just how behind we are on preparing the materials. I haven't written a single sentence, and as I leave for the annual meeting, the albatross is getting heavier, and my anxiety level is growing. I know when I return I have to start preparing the self-study, and time is not on my side.
I actually started working on the application on June 28 — two months behind my original timetable, and I wasn't even sure how to start. I began by creating a document that followed the self-study report outline provided by the ACCME, and expanded this to include the sample self-study questions on the Essential Areas also included in the ACCME package. I started writing a narrative for each section and answering the questions. It became very obvious that one major difference in the two systems was the writing required. This was nothing like what I had done for the previous re-accreditation applications. I spent hours completing the various sections. Some were easy — such as writing a brief history of the program. Others were more thought-provoking and really required not only a hard look at both the good and bad of the program but plans for the future.
The self-study went through numerous reviews and revisions and involved both members and staff. Once in final form, we incorporated our supporting examples and mailed the required four copies to the ACCME on August 8 (just four days after the original target mail date). What a relief!! Phase one was complete — now we had to finish the extensive file review and wait to hear something.
In mid-August the ACCME confirmed October 18 as the date for the site survey and identified the two surveyors. In mid-September we received the list of activity files that should be available for review at the survey. In late September I was contacted by the lead surveyor to discuss the upcoming survey.
"It became very obvious that one major difference in the two systems was the writing required…. I spent hours."
In addition to receiving an agenda for the meeting, I was assured that the surveyors were meeting with us for clarification of the self-study and to gain a better understanding of our CME program. Internally, we identified the team that would attend the meeting, including our executive director and the chair of our CME advisory committee, and discussed final preparations.
The Big Day
Finally, the BIG DAY arrived. To say I was nervous would be an understatement. When the surveyors arrived, the lead surveyor outlined the process we would follow during the meeting and quickly explained the role of the survey team in gathering additional information that would supplement the self-study report.
We then had a productive and extremely useful discussion of our CME program. At times it was a brainstorming session with very open dialogue about what we were doing and how we envisioned our program would change and grow. We discussed outcomes-based evaluation processes and the challenges faced by specialty societies in measuring outcomes, the use of scanning technology to process activity evaluations, and the impact and success of Web-based educational initiatives. There were specific questions about information in the self-study, and we had the opportunity to clarify our procedures. I was also able to have all of the staff involved with our CME program attend the meeting as observers — an incredibly valuable training opportunity for them.
Harrowing Moments
As the day progressed, I thought, "Wow, we've really got our act together," and then the surveyors started the activity file review. I will condense the next harrowing moments into one recommendation that we have immediately implemented. The activity files need to be clearly organized with the educational components in one section and the logistical components in separate sections. For the most part, we had everything the surveyors needed to see — it just wasn't easy to find.
The meeting ended with a summary period where we talked about changes that could be made to strengthen our program. As noted above, documentation and file organization should not be minimized. The files should be easy to review and should make prominent the areas the surveyors must see as part of their file review. The ACCME makes available the surveyor's checklist, which can be used as an internal file review checklist.
When the surveyors left, we all felt as if we had been through an incredibly valuable process. I completed the ACCME evaluation form that had been sent about two days before the survey, and realized that overall the entire process was positive and constructive.
Lastly, I had known that the ACCME thought there would be benefits for accredited providers under the new system having heard Murray Kopelow, MD, executive director of the ACCME, speak on the topic several times. I just didn't get it — until now.
"At times it was a brainstorming session with very open dialogue about what we were doing and how we envisioned our program would change and grow."
The Power of Reflection
Preparing the self-study report forces you to really think about and reflect on your CME program. With all the demands on our time, who really gets the opportunity to stop and think about what you're doing and how you're doing it? Where is your CME program going? What are you trying to accomplish? Does your mission statement really support these goals? Does your organization support the CME program? Do you have competition? Are you really meeting the educational needs of your audience? You will think about and answer all of these questions. Taking a hard, introspective look at your CME program and ways it can be improved is a much better use of time and resources than completing forms, as was done under the old system.
The process was also an incredible training opportunity for staff — especially those new to the area of CME. Our CME staff now understands why we document an activity the way we do and the importance of an easy-to-follow activity-filing system. We've already revised our checklists and activity file structure. We also have instituted procedures to make sure all of the documentation gets in a file — including e-mail messages. The use of e-mail to communicate with planning committees and activity faculty continues to grow, yet we were not systematically filing hard copies of those messages in the activity files. Any and all communication needs to be documented, including notes of phone conversations.
Overall, by going through the process, I've gone from being a skeptic about the new system to being an advocate. It was a lot of work and effort by both members and staff, but I know our CME program and the educational activities designed for our members will benefit.
Note: At press time, Johnson was "on pins and needles" waiting to hear from the ACCME about The Endocrine Society's accreditation status.
Wanda Johnson, CMP, is currently director, CME services, with The Endocrine Society. A nine-year veteran of the society, she began her career there as a long-term temp. In a previous life, Johnson spent more than 10 years working in the banking field; her last position was vice president of the First Women's Bank in Rockville, Md. She holds a second full-time job as a wife and mother of two children. In her free time, she is an avid reader and — as you can probably tell — an aspiring writer.
New System Survival Tips
The report is a detailed summary of all facets of a CME program. Depending on the complexity of your program, it will take a significant amount of time to write and edit the report and compile the examples. Do not minimize your efforts here — the better written and prepared your report is, the easier it will be for the surveyors to understand how you manage the program. I spent a solid month focused on writing and preparing the report with the clock quickly ticking — not the best way to do this! Here are some more tips:
Be reasonable in your timeline for completing the application, considering your other tasks. I created a tense situation early in the process by developing an unrealistic timeline given my workload. It would have been better if I'd divided the report into sections and identified target dates for the sections rather than focus on the completing the entire report by a specific date.
Use the resources provided in the application package. Read everything carefully and follow the guidelines, which will walk you through the process. Once I got started, 98 percent of what I needed had been provided.
Don't be afraid to ask questions of the ACCME staff. It's better to get correct information than guess. I spoke with a couple of CME colleagues who had been through the process with the new system and walked away with misinformation. When I called, the ACCME staff was both friendly and detailed in the clarification. I also found the ACCME Web site (www.accme.org) to be very helpful.


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The AMTS MSC again had representatives of our craft and profession from around the world with men and women from Australia, Canada, China, and the United States competing in five categories.
The AMTSociety's 6th Annual Maintenance Skills Competition (AMTS MSC) was held in the Las Vegas Convention Center this March 13 – 15, 2013. The AMTS MSC again had representatives of our craft and profession from around the world with men and women from Australia, Canada, China, and the United States competing in five categories. By coming to the AMTS MSC these professionals are helping to promote a positive, informative, and professional image of today's skilled aircraft maintenance technicians and aircraft maintenance engineers to the public and to a certain extent our own industry.
The teams that come to the Maintenance Skills Competition are representatives from across the aircraft maintenance world and these teams are sponsored by their respective organizations and companies. Some companies sponsor more than one team such as FedEx who again fielded three different teams and the Aviation Institute of Maintenance Schools who fielded seven teams from amongst their campuses. The Military Category had teams scheduled to compete representing the United States Navy, United States Air Force, United States Army and United States Coast Guard. The USCG even had an event sponsored for the 2013 MSC. But with sequestration in effect the result was that the funding for all the Military teams was rescinded. The Military Category for the 2013 MSC was now empty because of a lack of funds.
Being asked to represent a company in a venue such as the Maintenance Skills Competition is an honor for any AMT or AME. Being chosen for the AMTS MSC is in effect being chosen to represent your company and organization and to show a professional image and high levels of skill and knowledge during the Maintenance Skills Competition. To be chosen and then told you could not go was, I'm sure, a hard dose of bad news for the men and women in the Military Category. But without funding what could these Military Aircraft Maintainers do?
In the case of the United States Coast Guard, one of the two teams decided to take matters into their own hands. The team from Station Clearwater FL believed that the USCG needed to be represented. They asked their Commanders if they could represent the USCG if they went on their own. The answer was yes and the planning went into action. The team members who had been chosen to represent Station Clearwater FL used their own personal time and money for airfare, hotels, food, and entry fee for the MSC. These Coast Guardsmen felt so strongly that the USCG needed to be represented they took it upon themselves to stand tall for their branch of the U.S. Military.
By competing in the 2013 MSC as the only team in the Military Category would certainly focus attention on their actions. No one questioned that they would come in 1st Place by default but rather what was answered was the USCG team members' passion and pride in being aircraft maintainers. The actions of the team from Station Clearwater FL does not diminish the passion and pride of other maintainers in the other branches of the U.S. Military in the slightest. Rather what it accomplishes is it raises the level of pride and passion. The following USCG Servicemen need to be recognized for their actions.
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But this story doesn't stop here as an example of actions speaking louder than words. The MSC is a world class venue for showcasing skills needed to provide safe, airworthy aircraft worldwide. But the competition is also a stage where camaraderie and honor are on display. And FedEx stepped up to the plate this year to drive this point home. Prior to the announcement of the final scores the members of all three FedEx Teams passed the hat around to raise several hundred dollars which was presented to the USCG Team to help with their expenses related to competing.
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Gloria Careaga (Mexico) and Azusa Yamashita (Japan) are the Co-Secretaries General of ILGA.
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Minority Women in Action (Kenya), was elected as Women's Secretariat. United and Strong (St Lucia) was elected as its alternate.
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Playing Politics: The Science of Elections–SA's Latest E-Book
Scientific American launched its e-Book program this summer, starting with The Science of Sports: Winning in the Olympics. Each month, we add new titles selected from the most relevant issues facing science today. For October, our newest e-Book reminds readers that politics makes strange bedfellows. This maxim becomes even more vivid when politics is put under [...]Keep reading »
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Congressional staffers, federal agency senior personnel, non-profit leaders and scientific organization executives joined Scientific American Editor in chief Mariette DiChristina at a recent reception to celebrate the magazine's special issue on cities. "Celebrating cities in many ways is celebrating what is best in us," DiChristina told the crowd as she kicked off the evening honoring [...]Keep reading »
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I was going to let the demise of Muammar Gaddafi pass without comment—after all, what does the murder of this tyrant have to do with science, right? But a bizarre essay in The New York Times on October 26, "Dictators Get the Death They Deserve," by the historian Simon Windbag—I mean Sebag—Montefiore, has pushed my [...]Keep reading »
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Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice. Or so religious conservatives would have us believe. But liberalism is in our genes. Or so researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University would have us believe. Yes, the inevitable has happened. Just before Election Day—surely not a coincidence—scientists report an association between liberal political views [...]Keep reading »
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Although I mostly think about conservation, ecology and nature, I have a soft spot for medicine and, in particular, genetics. It's partly due to my own family history and experience, partly my interest in how people think about medicine and death, and partly my 6-month internship at Nature Medicine, which began more than two years [...]Keep reading »
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…though we can't be bothered to notice all the work you're already doing, to acknowledge the ways in which the explicit and implicit conditions of your employment make it extremely difficult to do it, or the ways in which other cultural forces, including the pronouncements of New York Times columnists, make the "more" we're exhorting [...]Keep reading »
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In the United States, a significant amount of scientific research is funded through governmental agencies, using public money. Presumably, this is not primarily aimed at keeping scientists employed and off the streets*, but rather is driven by a recognition that reliable knowledge about how various bits of our world work can be helpful to us [...]Keep reading »
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Brown-Sequard syndrome
Other Names for this Disease
- Hemicord syndrome
- Hemiparaplegic syndrome
- Hemispinal cord syndrome
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- ClinicalTrials.gov lists trials that are studying or have studied Brown-Sequard syndrome. Click on the link to go to ClinicalTrials.gov to read descriptions of these studies.


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When reading something that has a quote in the middle of it, is it proper to say "end quote" or "unquote" to signal the end of the quote? I've heard both ways.
Both are fine and have been used for decades, as far as I know. The OED on "unquote":
The OED on "quote (v.)":
Based on my experience:
Otherwise, either term is fair game.
I've heard people say "unquote" but always assumed it was a corruption of end-quote. Wiktionary backs up this assertion. A quick search of the Corpus of Conteporary American English finds 288 instances of unquote near "quote", typically in a phrase such as
So unquote is definitely a word that people are using.
One cannot "unquote" a phrase or word if it is being quoted, unless of course you want to remove the word or phrase being quoted. Doesn't that make sense? To "seal" a quote, one must "end quote", or, "end of quote" which satifies and finalizes the context stated. The term "unquote" must have become common when it was accidently misconstrued with "end quote".
I value what my eighth grade teacher taught the lot of us upon a student "quoting" and "unquoting" something said that I've long forgotten. But I will always remember his lesson to be shared immediately there after on a quoted word or phrase...
If anyone can search historically where this term might have become transformed to it's hideous present (save many reporters and announcers on NPR), I would appreciate the info!
In general, I have always heard "quote-unquote" used in direct sequence before a single word, often one which is being questioned. Example: He insists that low fat products are quote-unquote healthy!
Of course you would never actually write the "quote-unquote". It is for spoken word only. When writing you just put quotations around the word "healthy"
As for "quote" and "end quote", they are used around the body of an actual quotation.
He insists that quote low fat prooducts are the way to go for those trying to persue a healty diet. end quote
Here again, these things are never written, just used during spoken communication to clarify the part of the sentence which is a quotation.


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Last year there was a lot of talk from Citrix, XenSource, and Oracle about the acceptance of certain Xen code and drivers into the Linux 3.0 kernel. I still hear it today. They're implying that it means the Xen has been as tightly integrated into the Linux kernel as KVM. And I'm here to tell you that they are wrong.
Here's what Oracle and Citrix have said on the matter:
"I've heard over the last few years, competitors use "There is no Xen support in Linux" as a tagline to create FUD with the Xen userbase and promote alternatives. Well, it's all there people." — Wim Coekaert, Oracle
"During all the fuss of Citrix Synergy last week, an event of pretty earth-shattering importance occurred in the open source world: all key Xen code was accepted into the Linux mainline kernel." – Simon Crosby, Citrix
The Oracle and Citrix marketing on this issue are misleading to say the least. It implies that the recent acceptance of some Xen enablement code into the Linux kernel equates to integration, or that the Xen architecture doesn't matter now that some of their code is in Linux.
KVM is still the only Linux kernel-integrated hypervisor technology. End of sentence. End of story.
There is no special KVM enablement needed in the Linux kernel. KVM is integrated into the Linux kernel. KVM uses Linux for everything from device management to CPU scheduling, memory page sharing, better algorithms for making use of lots of cores and lots of memory, and tying into all the hardware virtualization technology AMD and Intel have been building into x86 for the past 5 years.
Xen is no more mainline or mainstream today in 2012 when it comes to Linux than it was in 2007 when KVM was accepted into the Linux kernel, or 2009 when Red Hat decided to move forward with KVM instead of Xen and integrated KVM into RHEL.
OK, then, what's the Real Scoop?
Xen has still not been accepted (and probably never will be) into the Linux kernel, and cannot leverage directly Linux technologies such as transparent huge pages, CFS scheduler, paging, memory overcommitment with KSM, etc. for its hypervisor technology. You still need to install the Xen kernel on bare metal and build a special VM called a Dom0 to manage it and to provide device drivers. And you still have the suboptimal Xen architecture with Xen-Dom0-DomU. See the ugly diagrams below for more details.
The announcement of Xen and Linux 3.0 means two (and only two) things:
1. The paravirtualized drivers that Xen uses will be integrated into Linux starting with 3.0. This means that just like virtio (KVM/Libvirt) and pv-scsi (VMware), the pv-ops drivers used for accelerated disk and NIC will be available in any Linux 3.x+ guest without having to integrate drivers. This leaves Microsoft Hyper-V alone in requiring integrating drivers for guests.
2. A Linux 3.0 or higher guest can be used unmodified as a Dom0. Remember Dom0 is where the console operating system resides and is also a slave for certain IO from the guests. It is not Xen itself. Xen still resides on the bare metal and is still a separate project from Linux that has to duplicate effort to support hardware and new virtualization technologies.
In summary, it will be slightly easier to use future versions of Linux guests with current and future versions of Xen, and it will be slightly easier to use future versions of Linux as a Dom0 for current and future versions of Xen.
If you want to use a pre-3.0 Linux as a Dom0 it won't work without modifications. If you want to use pre-3.0 Linux guests, you still need to hack in the drivers.
Not such a big deal after all. So does this change anything for KVM?
In a word, No.
One of KVM's strengths is that it is integrated into the Linux kernel and therefore can utilize Linux features for things that hypervisors do besides just being a hypervisor.
Xen hypervisor is still a separate project and a completely separate code base, and features that KVM can use for virtualization and inherits from Linux (scheduling, paging, frequency scaling and hardware enablement, for example) will still need to be separately implemented in Xen. This is part of the design of Xen and is not going to change.
KVM Architecture
Elegant, isn't it?
Xen Architecture
What a mess…
What did they say? Word for word. I'm taking down names.
Here's links to the various blogs Citrix and Oracle have put out:


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No Mark. Stuff like that does not happen in England.
We send all the bad guys over here.
The real bad ones become Conservatives.
I suppose this is as close as we get... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Shipman
...but generally it's all hunky dory. Free health care, social safety nets, no guns, salaried firemen, licensed plumbers, liquor stores open on a Sunday...you get my drift.
There's no agreed derivation of the expression 'hunky-dory'. It is American and the earliest known example of it in print is from the US magazine The Galaxy, October 1866, and even the author of that early citation seemed unclear why the phrase was used:
"I cannot conceive on any theory of etymology that I ever studied why anything that is 'hunkee doree', or 'hefty' or 'kindy dusty' should be so admirable."
That citation does at least suggest that 'hunky-dory' was in common enough use in 1866 for the author not to see fit to explain its meaning, although it's a pity 'hefty' and 'kindy dusty' weren't explained as these have now disappeared from the language.
We do know that 'hunky-dory' wasn't conjured from nowhere but was preceded by earlier words, i.e. 'hunkey', meaning 'fit and healthy' and 'hunkum-bunkum', which had the same meaning as 'hunky-dory'. 'Hunkey' was in use in the USA by 1861, when it was used in the title of the Civil War song A Hunkey Boy Is Yankee Doodle. 'Hunkum-bunkum' is first recorded in the US sporting newspaper The Spirit of The Times, November 1842:
"Everything was hunkum-bunkum for immediate flight."
It's clear that the 'hunky' part of 'hunky-dory' is from the above usages. What isn't clear is how 'dory' came to be added.
By 1877, John Russell Bartlett suggested a Japanese influence. The 4th edition of Dictionary of Americanisms includes a definition of an earlier spelling of 'hunky-dory':
Hunkidori. Superlatively good. Said to be a word introduced by Japanese Tommy and to be (or to be derived from) the name of a street, or bazaar, in Yeddo [a.k.a. Tokyo].


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Neurocognition and Work Productivity in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified January 2014 by University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
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First received: November 7, 2011
Last updated: January 28, 2014
Last verified: January 2014
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This study will investigate the relationships between subjective cognitive complaints, neurocognitive deficits, and work productivity in participants with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), before and after 8 weeks of treatment with an antidepressant medication. Our hypothesis is that, in working participants with MDD of at least moderate severity, neurocognitive deficits will predict poorer work functioning and productivity.
Major Depressive Disorder
Drug: desvenlafaxine
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Neurocognition and Work Productivity in Major Depressive Disorder
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Antidepressants Depression
Drug Information available for: Desvenlafaxine Desvenlafaxine SuccinateU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by University of British Columbia:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- cognitive functioning as determined by neuropsychological testing [ Time Frame: change from baseline to 8 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Neuropsychological testing in 5 domains (memory, psychomotor speed, reaction time, cognitive flexibility, and complex attention) is conducted using computerized measures, both at baseline and after 8 weeks of standard medical care involving antidepressant medication (flexibly-dosed desvenlafaxine)
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- work productivity as determined by rating scales [ Time Frame: change from baseline to 8 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Work functioning (attendance and productivity) is assessed using subjective and objective measures, both at baseline and after 8 weeks of standard medical care involving antidepressant medication (flexibly-dosed desvenlafaxine)
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2014
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|June 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Active Comparator: Workers with MDD
Drug: desvenlafaxine
50-100 mg daily for 8 weeks
Other Name: Pristiq
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|19 Years to 55 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Clinical diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder as per DSM-IV-TR
- Current employment of at least 15 hours per week
- Baseline score of 23 or greater on the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale, indicating at least moderately severe depression
- Baseline score of 6 or greater on the British Columbia Cognitive Complaints Inventory, indicating at least moderate subjective cognitive complaints
- Competency to give informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Current receipt of short-term or long-term disability benefits from employer
- Serious suicidal risks as judged by the investigators
Other DSM-IV-TR diagnoses:
- organic mental disorders
- active substance abuse/dependence, including alcohol
- schizophrenia, paranoid or delusional disorders, or other psychotic disorders
- (as primary diagnosis:) panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or post-traumatic stress disorder
- bipolar disorder
- bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa
- Serious illness that is not stabilized, including cardiac, hepatic, renal, respiratory, endocrinologic, neurologic, or hematologic disease
- Regular/current use of other psychotropic drugs and/or herbaceuticals
- Use of fluoxetine within 5 weeks of Visit 1, monoamine oxidase inhibitors within 14 days of Visit 1, and other antidepressants within 7 days of Visit 1 (all to ensure adequate drug washouts prior to neurocognitive assessment)
- Previous treatment with desvenlafaxine
- Treatment-resistance in the current episode, as defined by failure (i.e., lack of clinically significant response) of 2 or more antidepressants given at therapeutic doses for at least 6 weeks
- Any history of treatment with electroconvulsive therapy
- Initiation of formal psychotherapy (e.g., cognitive-behavioural therapy or interpersonal psychotherapy) with 2 months of Visit 1, or plans to start such psychotherapy during this study
- Current use of any other form of treatment for depression
Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01468610
|Contact: Cindy Woo
|Canada, British Columbia
|University of British Columbia, Department of Psychiatry
|Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 2A1
|Sub-Investigator: Grant L Iverson, PhD, RPsych
|Sub-Investigator: David J Bond, MD, FRCPC
|Sub-Investigator: Lakshmi N Yatham, MBBS, FRCPC
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of British Columbia
|Principal Investigator:
|Raymond W Lam, MD, FRCPC
|University of British Columbia
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|Responsible Party:
|University of British Columbia
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01468610 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 7, 2011
|Last Updated:
|January 28, 2014
|Health Authority:
|Canada: Health Canada
Keywords provided by University of British Columbia:
occupational functioning
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Depressive Disorder
Depressive Disorder, Major
Mood Disorders
Mental Disorders
Behavioral Symptoms
Neurotransmitter Uptake Inhibitors
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antidepressive Agents
Psychotropic Drugs
Central Nervous System Agents
Therapeutic Uses
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