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Pretoria - An assault case has been opened following another alleged road rage incident in Pretoria, Gauteng police said on Friday.
"There is a case of assault that has been opened that is currently being investigated by the Brooklyn police station," Warrant Officer David Miller said.
"At this stage it is the early stages of the investigation."
The alleged assault took place at the intersection of Lois Avenue and Atterbury Road.
Eyewitness News reported that the assault occurred on Wednesday at the intersection, where a 65-year-old man was allegedly punched in the face several times by another man.
The 65-year-old man reportedly bumped his car into the other man's car.
This follows Gregory Kleinhentz appearing in the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Wednesday, accused of a road rage assault that happened in Fourways, Johannesburg.
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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, 2010/06/23 - Zeus Technology launches Zeus Elastic Application Delivery platform to address concerns.
A survey of senior IT professionals commissioned by Zeus Technology, the only pure software-based application traffic management (application delivery controller) company, reveals that over half (51%) run, or plan to run, their websites and customer portals in a Cloud Computing environment. 66% have concerns about how websites will perform in Virtual environments compared with Physical. At the same time, the majority (68%) of respondents are challenged by a lack of understanding of how their websites are performing at all.
According to Zeus, the problem is being compounded by the fact that that 95 per cent of IT professionals now look after complex multi-location environments, which may consist of their own datacenters, co-location facilities, the Cloud or a hybrid of all of these. 82 per cent of respondents with more than one datacenter admit that it is difficult to manage web applications across multiple datacenters.
In response to these challenges, Zeus today launches the Zeus Elastic Application Delivery platform, which includes Zeus Traffic Manager 7.0 and the new Zeus Multi-Site Manager. This provides organizations with the ability to deliver fast, secure and available web applications across multiple datacenters and Clouds seamlessly, while providing deep, real-time performance visibility. In Virtual and Cloud environments, it enables automatic scaling of applications to meet unexpected peaks in demand. Initially, auto-scaling is available in Amazon AWS, VMware vCloud, Rackspace Cloud and RightScale based environments. Zeus programming language, TrafficScript, allows for business rules and logic to be incorporated, so application delivery can be tailored to the precise needs of the business.
Tony Lucas, Founder at Flexiant, has been testing Zeus Traffic Manager 7.0 in Beta. He explains, This latest software release from Zeus provides us with one dashboard that allows us to control and monitor all our web applications across multiple sites using advanced visualization and diagnostics. The content caching, auto-scaling and bandwidth management offered by Zeus Traffic Manager 7.0 eases configuration and allows us to accelerate web service speed. At the same time, the application firewall keeps confidential data safe. We believe that Zeus Traffic Manager 7.0 will form a key part of our infrastructure for both our own use and our end-users infrastructure.
Paul Brennan, CEO, Zeus Technology comments, The survey findings indicate that current conditions are creating the perfect storm for IT professionals, making managing complex web applications across distributed Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments particularly challenging. We are confident that the Zeus Elastic Application Delivery platform will enable companies to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services to give companies that essential competitive edge.
The survey, conducted by Vanson Bourne in May 2010, surveyed 100 IT directors and senior managers in the UK.
Zeus Traffic Manager 7.0 has been in beta trial with selected customers including Play.com, Netic, Foehn, Hostway, Gilt Groupe and Joyent. The commercial release will be available in summer 2010.
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Zeus software (zeus.com) enables our customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services in Physical, Virtual and Cloud environments. Implementing a Zeus solution allows organizations to visualize and manipulate the flow of traffic to their web-enabled applications, thus ensuring a consistently robust web infrastructure. Coupled with the ability to deploy new online services very quickly, Zeus helps provide the competitive advantage businesses need, by making their online services faster, more reliable, more secure and easier to manage. Zeus software can be deployed on industry standard hardware, virtual machines and any Cloud platform, making it the right strategic choice for today and tomorrow. Zeus holds strategic partnerships with world-class companies such as Amazon Web Services, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Logicworks, Oracle, Sun, Qualcomm and VMware. Zeus powers over one million website infrastructures across the world including, the BBC, BT, Comic Relief, Dominos Pizza, Gilt Groupe, ITV, Play.com, See Tickets, STA Travel and Virgin Media. Zeus is in a unique position to assist any business looking to enhance their mission-critical Internet service infrastructure.
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With extensive research finding that black patients receive less health care treatment than white individuals, a University of Wisconsin researcher recently found a simple adjustment in a doctor's empathy can greatly reduce these discrepancies.
A team of UW researchers, led by graduate student Brian Drwecki, found both trained health care professionals and students untrained in medicine demonstrated biases in the amount of treatment issued and scores on a scale of empathy.
A UW statement said a test group of students and nurses watched video recordings of both black and white adults as they performed range-of-motion tests.
Drwecki said the individuals on film were actual patients suffering from acute shoulder pain.
After viewing the film, the statement said test subjects dispensed pain treatment to the patients in the clips and were surveyed on their levels of compassion for these individuals, he said.
Drwecki said at the conclusion of the study, as researchers predicted, white students and nurses recommended significantly more pain treatment for the white patients in the videos.
These subjects also indicated higher feelings of empathy for the white patients as opposed to their black counterparts, he said.
A separate facet of the research showed that these racial biases could be corrected with a simple perspective shift on the part of the treatment provider, Drwecki said.
"Simply asking the students and nurses to briefly put themselves in their patients' shoes had a drastic effect on their decision," the statement said.
The statement said after instructing the subjects to spend a moment imagining the situation from the patient's perspective before making a decision, pain treatment was reduced by 98 percent for students and 55 percent for nurses.
Drwecki said the findings demonstrate the need for further research in actual treatment settings in order to address these differences.
He added empathy in health care settings is an area for research that could provide solutions for contrasting levels of care between races.
"The fact that the pain treatment gap could be closed so easily demonstrates the need for clinical trials of this study with real health care professionals in clinics that are known to have racial biases," Drwecki said.


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Lionel Ruffel received his PhD from the Université Toulouse II (France). He is an associate professor of French and comparative literature at Université Paris 8 (Vincennes). A specialist of contemporary literature and theory, he is the author of two essays (Le Dénouement, 2005; Volodine post-exotique, 2007), and more than 20 chapters of books and articles. He is involved in French literary, intellectual and artistic life as a professor, as a scholar, as a publisher, as an essayist, as a literary journalist and as an advisor. Lionel Ruffel has been teaching in the Boston University Paris program since 2005 and was appointed director of academic programs in 2009.


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Sunday Results: * Sunday from 8-11:02 p.m. ET and live in all time zones, "The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards" (6.4 rating in adults 18-49, 19.7 million viewers overall) jumped year to year by 28 percent in 18-49 rating (to a 6.4 from a 5.0) and 17 percent or 2.8 million persons in total viewers (19.677 million vs. 16.851 million), according to time zone-adjusted fast national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. * It's the top-rated "Golden Globes" in six years in both 18-49 and total viewers (since Monday, January 15, 2007, 6.5/15 in 18-49, 20.0 million viewers overall). It's also the second-highest-rated "Golden Globes" in nine years, trailing only the 2007 coverage between now and the Sunday, Jan. 25, 2004 telecast (9.9/23 in 18-49, 26.8 million viewers overall).* "The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards" attracted NBC's highest adult 18-49 and total-viewer results in the Sunday 8-11 p.m. ET time period, excluding sports, in nine years (since the 2004 "Globes" telecast). * Last night's "Golden Globes" coverage is currently the season's #1 awards program to date in 18-49 and total viewers ahead of such prior telecasts as ABC's "CMA Awards," "Emmy Awards" and "American Music Awards" and CBS's "People's Choice Awards." * Versus NBC's non-sports average in this time period last season, the "Golden Globe Awards" telecast is up 220 percent in 18-49 rating (6.4 vs. 2.0, "live plus same day") and 172 percent in total viewers (19.677 million vs. 7.232 million). * "The 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards" currently ranks #1 in the time period among ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in adults 18-34, 18-49, 25-54 and total viewers versus such time-period competition as Fox's "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy," ABC's "Once Upon a Time" and "Revenge" and CBS's "60 Minutes," "The Good Wife" and "The Mentalist." * For a fourth consecutive year, the "Golden Globes" were televised live to all time zones, and some western markets also carried an encore telecast immediately following the live coverage. * From 7-8 p.m., the "Golden Globes Red Carpet Special 2013" aired live in all time zones and the fast affiliate-based ratings issued by Nielsen at 11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT are subject to significant revision. In metered-market households, the "Golden Globes Red Carpet Special 2013" averaged a 4.8 rating, 7 share, up 26 percent versus its 3.8/6 of one year ago. It's the top result in metered-market households for the "Red Carpet Special" in four years (since Sunday, Jan. 11, 2009, 4.9/8).


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Samsung Galaxy Nexus & Ice Cream Sandwich Reviewby Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on January 18, 2012 1:34 PM EST
The Keyboard
The stock Gingerbread keyboard was a significant step forward, but the ICS keyboard is really good. I don't know that there's much that's truly groundbreaking about the ICS keyboard, but it's at the point where short of Swype for those users who care about it, I would be very disappointed to see any third party keyboard replacements from HTC, Motorola or Samsung.
The basic layout hasn't changed from Gingerbread, although there are a few subtle differences. You get the same standard four row keyboard with two alternate modes (numerics and symbols). Where the Gingerbread/ICS keyboards differed from the standard iOS or Windows Phone keyboard is there's a fifth row of punctuation keys by default above the rest of the keyboard. This fifth (or first, depending on how you look at it) row actively changes into a list of predicted words. The word in the center is what the autocorrect engine believes you're typing, while the words on the left/right are alternates. While Gingerbread allowed you to scroll horizontally on this row, the items are fixed in ICS. As a consolation, you can bring up additional autocorrect suggestions by tapping and holding on a word in the prediction row. Accented characters are available by pressing and holding on keys that can be accented. Popup menus also exist for punctuation and the smiley key.
Keypresses are still accompanied by a magnified duplicate of the key itself. Unlike in Gingerbread where the magnified key hovered unconnected, the ICS keyboard connects the magnified key to the key itself. In my opinion this makes the keyboard look less chaotic when you're typing very quickly. Rather than giving the impression of random letters flying around everywhere, the animation serves its intended purpose better: letting you know what you just hit.
There's also a hidden Android Keyboard debug settings pane with some different themes that can be selected.
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Facial Recognition
Android has historically offered multiple options to secure your phone or tablet. Ice Cream Sandwich continues the trend. You can choose a basic PIN with a minimum of four numbers and a maximum of 17. There's an alphanumeric password option, simple slide to unlock and no security at all. ICS adds a new option to the list: Face Unlock.
The feature is exactly what it sounds like. ICS can store a photo of your face and use it as authentication for unlocking your device. While you only need a single picture to start, Google recommends taking multiple photos in different lighting conditions, with/without glasses and with a clean vs. unshaven face if applicable. As a backup you have to provide ICS with a PIN in case it can't recognize your face (either due to lighting conditions or because of a recent tumble down some stairs).
Google warns that someone who looks like you would be able to unlock your device, making Face Unlock less secure than a long PIN, pattern or password. Admittedly a thief would have to either be really lucky or know what you look like to fool the technology, but it is a valid point.
The feature actually works surprisingly well in practice. With Face Unlock enabled the lock screen has a front facing camera live view window that you're supposed to use to center your face. With the exception of really bright (with the light shining into the camera) or really dim scenarios, Face Unlock worked for me almost every time. When it works perfectly using your face to unlock the phone is extremely quick. In the right conditions I've seen ICS unlock itself a split second after I even saw my face on the screen. On average though the process is slower than typing in a PIN or using any of the other unlock methods. Furthermore, if you use your phone a lot at night (especially in cars) you have to hit the power/lock button then tap the lock icon to circumvent Face Unlock and go directly to your PIN/password/pattern. Finally, don't try to use Face Unlock to unlock your phone while driving - that's a recipe for bad, or worse, death.
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thecraw - Saturday, January 21, 2012 - linkcouldn't stop laughing at that statement, sure no one is forcing you to use itunes, its your own problem if you want to backup your iproduct or upgrade your iOS etc.. yes no one is forcing you right... Reply
steven75 - Friday, February 10, 2012 - linkHave you never heard of iCloud? I mean are we in bizarro world here or is everyone really THAT clues on iOS 5? Reply
augustofretes - Monday, January 23, 2012 - linkI found comments like yours absolutely hilarious, because I don't own an iPhone, nor I'm interested on buying one, I'm perfectly happy with my Samsung Galaxy S II running CM9 ;-)
You're not being objective, unless, of course, you only see your homescreen and never open any application.
The iPhone 4S is not perfect, I completely agree, but the interface is more fluid, this is fact, pinch-to-zoom is not a smooth, even on a GNex, as it on the 4S, but it's pretty smooth now.
Sorry mindless fanboy. Reply
kebab77 - Sunday, February 05, 2012 - linkSerious performance boost for phones currently on Android 2.3.x:
... Samsung Galaxy S2 still top of the pile! Reply
macs - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkMy only suggestion is that there are some device that need a sort of priority for a review. Galaxy Nexus and ICS should be on this list like the Apple products (you already do that) and maybe a flagship WP 7 device like Lumia 800/900.
We can wait a bit more for device like Razr, Lumia 710, various HTC, various Samsung,...
In 1 H 2012 my priority list will be Galaxy S 3, first device with Krait and Ipad 3.
Back at reading, I know this will be a good read!
Thank you Reply
roedtogsvart - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkAnand, just thought I'd throw this in there:
For something like $25 (Verizon) you can buy an extended battery and gain an additional 250 mAh (1850 vs 2100) that adds basically no perceptible thickness to the device, though I did not precisely measure. Have you tested with the extended battery? I feel like it makes an already amazing phone even better. Reply
Brian Klug - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkI managed to snag an extended battery for the RAZR review, but didn't get the chance to do the same with the CDMA/LTE Galaxy Nexus. I've seen that battery however, and it is a novel design - the back doesn't get thicker, just flatter (the whole phone is as thick as the bulge).
We've seen pretty linear scalings before, so you can assume that extra 250 mAh will scale linearly as well.
-Brian Reply
3DoubleD - Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - linkThe task switcher is blazing fast on the Transformer Prime, so I'd say it's a Galaxy Nexus limitation and not an ICS limitation. Reply
Lucian Armasu - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkAnand didn't say it's an ICS issue either. He said it's a GPU issue, because older GPU's still can't handle HD resolutions very well, just like Tegra 2 GPU barely could, too.
But I'm sure on lower-end ICS phones with lower resolutions, it should work faster, so it's not like every ICS phone will need a Tegra 3 GPU-level from now on. Reply
GnillGnoll - Thursday, January 19, 2012 - linkHe said it _could_ be a GPU issue. Something which I strongly doubt, it's not like the task switcher adds that much graphics load over rendering the normal UI. Reply


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I love our freedom.
Unfortunately many abuse that freedom too commonly and go incredibly wild with it.
I also love the opportunity of good higher education.
And the opportunity to go and live wherever you want to.
I also love the freedom to come together REGARDLESS of race and just get along (maybe even marry lol)
~God bless America, yes it may have its faults, however there are a lot of people in other countries who could only dream about the things we take for granted daily, and that's something I think we all should realize time to time. It'll help u appreciate what we have, rather than be spoiled and complain about the things we don't.


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DL's Apex Engineering adds two to the team
Apex Engineering Group has hired two professionals in the Detroit Lakes Office — John DeVito and Cade Krueger.
DeVito graduated from the Minnesota State Community and Technical College and was a member of the US Army. He is a civil engineering technician with 17 years of construction experience. DeVito joins the Municipal Services Group.
Krueger holds a Bachelors of Science degree in construction engineering from North Dakota State University and has earned his engineer in training registration.
He previously worked with Olaf Anderson General Contractors and the Pelican River Watershed District. Krueger joins the Municipal Services Group.
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For the first time since 1995, more Americans are pro-life (51%) than pro-choice (42%) on the issue of abortion according to Gallup. This coincides with the trending decrease in U.S. abortions since 1990.
While most Christians are pro-choice and view abortion as morally wrong, there are differing views on how to further reduce the popularity of abortion.
Stereotypically, Christians believe the solution is legislating abortion and making it illegal. This solution is particularly popular among those who take the theological stance that the shedding of innocent blood curses a nation.
Donald Miller counters this perspective with:
A sort of Republican Evangelical Conservative mindset has been to make it illegal, and it's never worked. I don't see it working anytime soon. It's a great bit of idealism. But it is a pipedream, and I think we need to face that now twenty years in.
We need to face that, and we need to be able to work together to come up with other solutions. And so many people will disagree with that. They will say, "No, we have to win a moral victory," and actually, the moral victory will cost many, many lives. And they will say, "It's worth it to be right," and I would say, "No, I think we need to deal with the issue holistically."
Eugene Cho shares a similar perspective (part 1, part 2):
Like most Christians I know, I am against abortion. However, I just do not believe we can legislate it.
Rather than legislating it, I wonder how abortions can be reduced by speaking and appealing to the Heart and Soul of a person and to make all necessary provisions if a person decides to have that baby. In short, can we maintain choice but do all that we can to preserve and ensure the life of an unborn? This is where most of us fall short.
I find it incredibly frustrating and naive when Christians take a stance of being against abortion at all costs but are unwilling to yield to issues that have direct correlation to abortions: sex education in schools [starting in middle school], health care benefits for low income families and women, post birth care and benefits, usage of contraceptives, etc.
Legislation understandably is an ideal solution, but it has been a sloppy and weak one. Unfortunately, politics has become a stumbling block that drives Christians further away from the people they need to reach. Christians have been labeled as judgmental, insensitive, and too involved in politics.
Ultimately, only a life-changing relationship with Christ can effectively change a person and a culture for the better. If you want to reduce abortions, create a better ministry.


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When asked if he has been personally touched by the violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli director Dror Moreh responds with a shrug: "Of course. I don't think there is anyone in Israel who hasn't."
His uncle was a settler in the occupied territories before being killed during the first intifada of the late 1980s. His sister is currently a settler in the occupied West Bank. He himself was just 200 metres from a suicide bombing in 1996 that killed 14 people. "I saw it first-hand, the violence."
Moreh could perhaps be forgiven for being a hawk. But his documentary The Gatekeepers makes the case for a two-state solution. And the evidence comes not directly from the filmmaker, but from the mouths of six former heads of the country's Shin Bet, or security agency, responsible for fighting terrorism and keeping the peace in Israel.
"Nobody can say, 'they don't know what they are speaking about,' " Moreh says. "They are the ones who have been there. They are the experts."
His last film was about former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon. For this one, "I wanted someone prominent in the Israeli defence establishment to speak about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And they were the ones."
He first approached Ami Ayalon, who ran Shin Bet from 1996 to 2000. When he agreed to be interviewed, Moreh asked: "Can you please give me the phone number … and this is how it started. They all agreed to come." The six men represent every surviving former Shin Bet leader, with a combined tenure of more than 20 years.
The interviews ran to more than 100 hours, and the editing challenge was intense. "The first rough cut of the movie was nine and a half hours," Moreh recalls. When it got to three and a half, a second editor was brought it for further trimming. The film now runs a brisk 95 minutes. A companion book is in the works. "You have in the movie about 2% of what I spoke to them about."
I wanted someone prominent in the Israeli defence establishment to speak about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And they were the ones
The structure of The Gatekeepers was inspired in part by Errol Morris's 2003 documentary The Fog of War, which interviewed former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. "It was a textbook for me," Moreh recalls.
The Fog of War won an Oscar for best documentary that year. The Gatekeepers was nominated but lost to Searching for Sugar Man, a very different doc about a forgotten balladeer from the '70s.
But Moreh clearly has aspirations beyond Oscar glory. "If you're really concerned about the well-being of the state of Israel as a state, then you have to adopt what they say, because no one understands the situation better than they."
As to his sister in the West Bank: "I love her very much. She is my only sister. [But] you cannot say you are for a two-state solution and still have settlements. Where will be the other solution for the other state? On Mars?"
The Gatekeepers opens March 1 in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal, and April 5 in Ottawa and Waterloo, with other cities to follow.


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A guide dog and his owner, who together carried the Paralympic Torch in last month's relay, have paid a visit to Steam museum, so the pooch could meet his namesake.
Brunel and owner Tom McInulty regularly travel up and down the country, meeting members of the Macular Disease Society.
Tom joined the society in 2008, as group support and development manager, and now manages 98 of the network of 250 MDS self-help groups in the country.
On Tuesday, Tom and Brunel, who recently won the Outstanding Work 2012 Guide Dog Award, stopped off at Steam, to the delight of museum staff.
Events manager Carolyn Lovett said: "Brunel is a very special dog. He is connected to Steam because Swindon Guide Dogs raise money every year at the Christmas at Steam event and sponsored his name.
"While he was here, he had his photo taken next to our statue of his namesake.
"Brunel and his owner were both absolutely charming."
Tom has been a guide dog owner since 1990 and Brunel is his third dog. Before Tom lost his sight in 1983 in an accident, he had worked in the Merchant Navy from the age of 16.
Climbing Sydney Harbour Bridge, running the London Marathon twice, cycling around the New Forest and walking the West Highland Way in Scotland, are just a few of the fundraising projects Tom has taken part in over the years, to raise money for different charities.


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Study Evaluating Single Doses Of SBI-087 In Japanese Subjects With Rheumatoid Arthritis
This study has been completed.
Emergent Product Development Seattle LLC
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: December 18, 2008
Last updated: June 15, 2012
Last verified: June 2012
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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of single doses of SBI-087 in Japanese subjects with rheumatoid arthritis.
|Arthritis, Rheumatoid
|Drug: SBI-087
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|An Ascending Single Dose Study Of The Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, And Pharmacodynamics Of SBI-087 Administered To Japanese Subjects With Rheumatoid Arthritis
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: rheumatoid arthritis
MedlinePlus related topics: Arthritis Rheumatoid ArthritisU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Pfizer:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Safety and tolerability as determined by the number and severity of adverse events at the different dose levels [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- To describe the single-dose PK and PD profiles (B-cell count) after a SBI-087 administration in subjects with RA [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- To evaluate the effect of a pretreatment regimen on the occurrence of systemic reactions following SC administration of 100 mg or 200 mg SBI-087 [ Time Frame: 12 month ]
- To investigate if changes in biomarkers (eg, complement activation markers, B-cells, CRP, IgE and tryptase levels) are related to the occurrence of systemic reactions on the day of infusion or injection of SBI-087 [ Time Frame: 12 month ]
|Study Start Date:
|December 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|April 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: SBI-087 0.15 mg IV
Drug: SBI-087
IV, Single dose
|Experimental: SBI-087 0.5 mg IV
Drug: SBI-087
IV, Single dose
|Experimental: SBI-087 100 mg SC
Drug: SBI-087
SC, Single dose
|Experimental: SBI-087 200 mg SC
Drug: SBI-087
SC, Single dose
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Must meet American College of Rheumatology criteria for rheumatoid arthritis with functional class I to III.
- Rheumatoid arthritis disease onset at >16 years of age and duration of disease at least 6 months.
- Men or women of nonchildbearing potential (WONCBP), aged 20 to 70 years, inclusive at the screening visit.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any significant health problems other than rheumatoid arthritis.
- Treatment of greater than 10 mg of prednisone per day.
- Therapy with immunosuppressants within 6 months before study day 1
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00815906
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00815906
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|Ehime, Japan
|Pfizer Investigational Site
|Fukui, Japan
|Pfizer Investigational Site
|Kanagawa, Japan
|Pfizer Investigational Site
|Miyagi, Japan
|Pfizer Investigational Site
|Oita, Japan
|Pfizer Investigational Site
|Shizuoka, Japan
|Pfizer Investigational Site
|Tokyo, Japan
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Emergent Product Development Seattle LLC
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|NCT00815906 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 18, 2008
|Last Updated:
|June 15, 2012
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Joint Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Rheumatic Diseases
Connective Tissue Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
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Beautiful Art Deco desk clock made by the German manufacturer Junghans. It is made of solid brass /
Covered at the front with leather skin.
The original clockwork is in good working order.
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There are four types of taxes a typical self-employed person running an eBay business might have to pay.
Income taxes. You will have to pay income taxes on the net profit your eBay business earns. The federal government imposes an income tax, as do the governments of most states (with the exception of Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming). Some local governments (both county and city) also get into the act by taxing businesses within their jurisdictions; a few use an income tax, while others use some other method (an inventory, payroll, or business equipment tax, for example).
Self-employment taxes. If you are self-employed, you are responsible for paying your own Social Security and Medicare taxes. Unlike employees, whose employers are legally required to chip in for half of these amounts, you will have to pay the entire bill — currently, a 12.4% Social Security tax and a 2.9% Medicare tax on all of your taxable income from self-employment (although there is an earnings maximum amount subject to Social Security — $102,000 in 2008). However, you are entitled to deduct half of these taxes from your gross income for purposes of calculating your income tax. To report and pay self-employment taxes, you must file IRS Form SE, Self-Employment Tax, along with your annual tax return. Even if you have a salaried job, and Social Security and Medicare are deducted from your paycheck, you still have to pay those taxes on amounts you earn from the eBay business you run in your spare time.
Employment taxes. If you have employees, you will have to pay half of their Social Security and Medicare taxes, as well as unemployment tax and perhaps temporary disability tax (to your state taxing authority). You'll also have to withhold taxes from your employees' paychecks and deposit them with the IRS. To report and pay unemployment tax, you file IRS Form 940, Employer's Annual Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) Tax Return. To report all withholdings and pay your share of Social Security and Medicare, you must file IRS Form 941, Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return. The rules for employment taxes can get pretty tricky, and many employers are required to make quarterly filings with the IRS. For more information, check out IRS Publication 15 (Circular E), Employer's Tax Guide, at the IRS website.
TurboTax does not calculate your employment tax, but you can set up your payroll through Quickbooks. Because of the frequent filings required for employment taxes, you might investigate payroll services before hiring employees. These services, which may be offered through your bank, online, or through payroll companies such as PayChex, take care of paying your employees and filing federal and state employment tax returns. Make sure to comparison shop as to both price and reliability. These options are also discussed in the discussion about payroll in the section, Hiring Help.
Sales taxes. Almost every state imposes a tax on the sales of goods. The basic principle for eBay sales tax is that you are responsible for collecting sales tax from any buyer in the state where your eBay business has a physical presence, such as where you have an office or warehouse. For example, if you operate in California and a California buyer purchases an item from you, you would be responsible for collecting California sales tax. eBay will add a sales tax calculation into your listing so that buyers in your state can calculate their sales tax. State sales tax rules vary considerably. For example, every state exempts certain sales from tax (that is, you don't have to collect or pay tax on the sale), but the list of what is exempt differs from state to state. Similarly, each state's rules vary about when and how to submit taxes you have collected to the state taxing authority. To find the rules in your state, your best bet is to go straight to your state tax agency for help. The Small Business Administration provides links to all state tax agencies, and Commerce Clearing House (CCH) has a thorough explanation of sales tax obligations at its website. Nolo also offers information about sales tax on the Internet. The rules can be complicated if you use a drop shipper — a business that maintains the inventory and facilitates shipment — or run an eBay consignment shop — a business in which others provide you with inventory to sell on eBay for a fee.


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In a back-and-forth game, the Orange Panthers never trailed and advanced to the East Regional Final with a 69-56 defeat of West Brunswick Wednesday night.
The Panthers got out to a hot start and took an 18-10 lead into the second quarter. The Trojans brought it back to a five-point difference early in the second, but turnovers got the better of them, and the Panthers extended the lead to 11 mid-way through the frame.
Orange continued the run before halftime and took the 37-22 lead into the locker room.
However, West Brunswick showed its fight to stay alive in the postseason nearly doubling its first-half score and outscoring Orange 21-12 in the third. The Panthers held on to a six-point lead with one quarter remaining.
The Orange defense came up big late in the game, and the offense capitalized. The Panthers pulled away to a double-digit lead again and held on for the 13-point win.
Orange's Jawan Chambers led all players with 18 points. J.D. Brooks and Eryk Brandon-Dean followed him with 16 points each. The Panthers shot 55.8 percent from the field and held the Trojans to 37.9 percent.
In the first regional semifinal, Hunt used 61.5-percent shooting from the field in the second half to pull away and take the 68-60 defeat of Havelock.
Tipoff between Orange and Hunt is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Saturday in Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville. You can hear all the action of the East Regional Final on Chapelboro.com.


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A portion of the proceeds from tickets sales and from tickets sold to a post-show party on Sept. 1 will benefit Marriage Equality New York, which works to raise public awareness for equal marital rights.
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When 'Courage Superseded Fear'
Lawyers' Vital Part in Tennessee's 1960 Sit-ins
The Civil Rights Movement was already underway when students across Tennessee began a nonviolent protest that would capture the nation's attention and chip away at the wall of segregation in the South. The students who staged lunch counter sit-ins 50 years ago were groundbreaking heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, to be sure. But what happened after they made their point and landed in jail? Another cadre of civil rights heroes stepped in to aid them -- these were the lawyers.
Disregarding the very real danger of supporting a largely unpopular cause, they did their jobs, helping ensure the success of the students' efforts. In the face of taunts, disgust, threats of violence and even a house-destroying bomb, they did what they were trained to do -- for a cause they believed in.
Six years after Brown v. Board of Education had dismantled the legal basis for racial segregation in schools and other public facilities, students in Greensboro, N.C., went to a department store lunch counter on Feb. 1, 1960, and asked to be served. Students in Nashville from Fisk University, Tennessee A & I (now Tennessee State University), Vanderbilt University and American Baptist Theological Seminary were already in training with Rev. Kelly Miller Smith and Vanderbilt divinity student James Lawson, gathering at the First Baptist Church (now First Baptist Capitol Hill) to learn how to stage a sit-in -- how to withstand their bodies being beaten and their ideals denigrated, while not responding in any way. (In fact, they were told they must also love that person, not just ignore him, as part of following the teachings of Mahatma Ghandi. Lawson had founded the Nashville Christian Leadership Council [NCLC] in 1958, an affiliate of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference that was established to promote civil rights for African Americans through nonviolent civil disobedience.)
When the Greensboro students made news, the Nashville group stepped up their plans, heading for Woolworth's, Kress and McClellan's stores on 5th Avenue North on Feb. 13, 1960, to take seats at the counters to order lunch. There were 124 that day, as they sat, unserved, until the stores closed at 6 p.m. By the next week when they went back there were 340 protesters; in response some stores posted signs saying the lunch counters were closed "in the interest of public safety," or "We Reserve the Right to Service the Public As We See Fit." On Feb. 27, while the protestors sat quietly on the lunch counter stools, white teenagers attacked them, hitting, kicking, yelling at them and pouring ketchup and mustard on their heads. The police were nowhere around but came later to arrest the protesters " but not the attackers " for disorderly conduct.[1]
When they got to the jail the students were no doubt relieved to see Z. Alexander Looby, Avon Williams Jr., and Robert Lillard, who along with many other lawyers that spring came to their legal defense, pro bono. Adolpho A. Birch, Coyness L. Ennix, A. J. Steel, J. F. McClellan, R. B. J. Campbell Jr., W. D. Hawkins Jr., Roscoe Hamby, William Blakemore, E. B. Lindsey, Eugene White, George Barrett and Charlie Galbraith also defended many of the protesters during that time. Bail was set at $100 for each of the 82 charged students but they chose not to pay it, and even when it was lowered to $5, they would not leave the jail.
"We were not received with open arms [at the jail]," Barrett laughs. "They were people who were trying to maintain the status quo. What really infuriated them was when a white kid sat in with them," he says, noting that all of the Vanderbilt students were white. And so is he.
The judge found all of the protesters guilty and gave them the option of paying a $50 fine each or serving 30 days. They chose the 30-day sentences. But on March 3, Mayor Ben West ordered their release.
Barrett, 82, recalls that he and Charlie Galbraith were the only white lawyers who worked for the protester's release. He wasn't afraid and his practice didn't suffer as a result, he says, because he was practicing law with Cecil Branstetter, who "did not raise any objection and was interested. We had the type of practice that was labor oriented. I was proud to start my practice with him." Barrett says his connection to the civil rights movement came naturally, growing up in a working-class Irish family in Nashville. "I used to say when they got through throwing rocks at the African American kids, they started throwing them at us."
In March 1960, Mayor Ben West established the Biracial Committee, of which Barrett was a member, to seek a solution to the city's racial strife. The committee recommended partially integrating the city's lunch counters. Each store would have one section that was for whites only and another section for whites and blacks. This solution was rejected by the student leaders, who considered the recommendations to be morally unacceptable and "based upon a policy of segregation."[2] So, in late March, at the busy Easter shopping season, the African American community pressed on and began to boycott Nashville's downtown businesses.
"They could shop there, but they couldn't eat there; they couldn't try on clothes," Barrett says. "There were two different water fountains!" With the slogan, "Don't Buy Downtown," the boycott was very effective, as white people also stopped going downtown to shop because of the perceived violence. Businesses started to take notice.
"Economics brought it to fruition," Barrett says, recalling the downtown department stores Harvey's, Cain-Sloan and Castner-Knott. "They realized the economic impact was more acute a problem than serving [African Americans]. Fred Harvey was the first man to move -- there was a very quiet integration of the [Harvey's] dining room," he says with a laugh, except that NBC News carried it nationally that evening.
When Mayor Ben West called Barrett to his office he knew the "withdrawal" from downtown stores was making an impact. "He chewed me out because we were 'destroying his city,'" Barrett recalls.
Nashville was the state's model, but other cities joined in "The Nashville movement offered the first formal training to freedom workers in the tactics and strategy of nonviolence. It became a model for civil protest," said former Tennessean publisher John Seigenthaler in an interview with the newspaper in 2007.[3] Seeing the success in the capital city, and learning in the same way, other Tennessee cities were not far behind in their protests.
Memphis. Students from LeMoyne College and Owen Junior College organized sit-ins that took place on March 18, 1960, taking the protest to department stores and the main public library. Overall, more than 300 demonstrators were arrested.
The Commercial Appeal reported it this way on March 20, 1960:
The Southwide "sit-in" movement spilled over yesterday into two Memphis libraries. Police moved fast, and within a half hour had Negro demonstrators removed from both Cossitt Library on Front and Memphis Public Library at Peabody and McLean. Each of the 41 Negroes arrested were booked on triple charges of disorderly conduct, loitering and threat of breach of peace. The city's first sit-in demonstration was less than 24 hours old when yesterday's double-barreled demonstration occurred. About 4:15 p.m. Friday, a dozen young Negroes escaped arrest after a sit-in at the white lunch counter of McLellan's variety store at 57 South Main.[4]
"I happened to have been in Washington, D.C. the weekend they started in Memphis," recalls H. T. Lockard, 89, who was a Memphis lawyer working for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at the time. "I first read about it in the Washington Post," he says of the first Memphis sit-in. He was in a meeting that Sunday morning, which had been called by the late Thurgood Marshall, who was legal counsel for the NAACP then. "He in a very gruff voice told me it was a time to get out of Washington to go back to Memphis to see about those kids." Lockard laughs. "You'd have to know him to really appreciate the way he gave his orders. He said 'Boy -- you need to get out of here ... and do it damn soon.'"
The students in Nashville were already sitting in and getting arrested, Lockard knew, and a Memphian who was also a Fisk student had gone back to Memphis and spoke, with the students and "incited them to action. Students took a cue from him and started their actions," Lockard says of the student. He was Marion Barry, who would later go on to be mayor of Washington, D.C.
Most of the public facilities in Memphis at the time had law suits pending to desegregate them based on the federal cases that had ordered it, Lockard explains. "But we had not in Memphis been able to get a favorable ruling -- so the Overton Park zoo was one of the facilities that was segregated and was a target for the kids," as well as the public library, parks, playgrounds and golf courses. "The department store restaurants were not on our list of law suits but they nevertheless were practicing segregation. All of the public facilities that we all now happily enjoy were off limits to minorities because of race. Those students targeted all those places " and as a natural consequence because their conduct was foreign to the existing law they were arrested."
That's where Lockard, other lawyers and the Memphis branch of the NAACP came into play. "We were able to raise money and make bonds for their freedom and represent them in court."
Russell B. Sugarmon also remembers well the day the students in Memphis held that first sit-in because he and fellow Memphis attorneys Benjamin Hooks and A. W. Willis, were called on, as Sugarmon, 89, told the "Crossroads to Freedom" project in a 2007 interview: "The officer calls [saying] the kids have been arrested sitting there somewhere -- public facilities. They sat in first the library, the museum, the zoo. ... We would spend half the night trying to get kids out of jail."[5]
The first night police kept the protesters in jail until about 3 a.m., with court set for 8:30 the next morning, and when those in jail were released they would go stage another sit-in in the afternoon.
"And by the end of the week," Sugarmon says, "our wives were bringing us changes of clothing, and we were cleaning and showering in the bathroom sink."
It was a week of not getting paid, too, because any available money was used for bail, he said, "because the bonding companies would tell you [they] don't make bails on them. You had to put up cash bonds. My father mortgaged his house."
If they filed a suit, the NAACP in those days, Sugarmon said, paid a $750 flat fee to get through the District Court hearing. "And with us, at times we had about five lawyers on the case 'cause they wanted to be involved. So $750 didn't go very far. I mean, our secretaries netted more doing their work."
H. T. Lockard says they learned how best to represent the protesters because they had some precedent to follow from lawyers in Greensboro, N.C., the site of the first sit-in. "We were making some of the same arguments the lawyers in North Carolina were using."
All the cases were dismissed, he says, except for one involving a Walgreen's store. "I handled that case and they were convicted," but they were later pardoned by Gov. Frank Clement before they served their 30-day sentences.
"We didn't mind paying the fine, but we didn't want the students to go to jail," Lockard says.
He "had a vision of what was going on at the national level," having seen the unfairness and violence through his work with the NAACP. The northern branches were larger and "more viable" than their southern counterparts. "People who dared to become members and be active [in the South] were threatened and intimidated, and some even killed."
Wasn't this scary for a relatively young lawyer to take on? "It was scary," Lockard says, "but my courage superseded my fear."
Sugarmon later became 30th Judicial District judge and a state senator, and has since retired. Hooks went on to be executive director of the NAACP, a criminal court judge and commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, also serving as pastor of his church for 40 years. At the time of his death on April 15, he was of counsel with Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs LLP in Memphis. He was 85.
Lockard was president of the NAACP from 1955 until 1958. In 1964, he became the first African American to hold elective office in Shelby County since Reconstruction when he won a seat on what later became the County Commission. He was the first African-American member of a Tennessee governor's cabinet, as assistant to Gov. Buford Ellington from 1967 until 1971. Afterward, he returned to his law practice in Memphis and served as a judge from 1975 until 1994.
A.W. Willis opened the first integrated law firm in Memphis in the mid-1950s, and in 1961, when James Meredith applied for admission to the University of Mississippi, he was the attorney of record. In 1964 Willis became the first African American elected to the Tennessee General Assembly since the 1880s. Willis died in Memphis in 1988.
Knoxville. Believing the atmosphere in Knoxville was more congenial between whites and blacks than in other cities, Knoxville College President Dr. James Colston asked his students not to protest until he could try negotiating with city leaders. Mayor John Duncan Sr. was easily convinced and, along with other city leaders, negotiated with merchants in the spring of 1960 for desegregation. He took a delegation of Knoxville Chamber of Commerce representatives and two Knoxville College student leaders, to the New York headquarters of some chain stores to ask them to order their Knoxville branches to desegregate their eating facilities. The executives refused to meet with them. In May the Knoxville merchants announced they would not desegregate. So on June 9, 1960, feeling they had no choice, students began sitting in. Duncan continued his support of lunch counter integration and directed police officers to protect the rights of sit-in protesters. In such an atmosphere Knoxville's sit-ins were peaceful. By July 12, after barely a month of lunch-counter protests, downtown merchants changed their stand, and desegregation of downtown eating facilities became a reality.[6]
Chattanooga. In the only city where high school students pushed the protest, 30 African-American Howard High School students walked into three downtown Chattanooga variety stores on the afternoon of Feb. 19, 1960, and quietly took seats at the lunch counters, according to the Chattanooga History Center.[7]
They had not had the extensive non-violent training like students in other cities, but the teens were following the model they had heard about, including a handwritten list of rules for conduct. Rules included such admonitions as "no loud talking," "buy something" and "no profanity." That demonstration was the first in a series that occurred over the next few days, attracting more participants and support with each subsequent sit-in.
"The students' leadership served as a springboard," said 2008 History Makers committee chair Mary Lynn Wilson, "galvanizing the Civil Rights Movement in Chattanooga, creating the awareness that change was in the air and accelerating the process of racial integration in our city."
Jackson. In October 1960, six students from Jackson's Lane College refused to move to the back of a city bus and were arrested; then they organized a bus boycott. Two days later the boycott ended when bus officials agreed to end the practice of segregating bus riders, but it wasn't until March 11, 1961 that black people were allowed to eat at Jackson's Greyhound Bus Terminal's lunch counter.[8]
The students had also begun sit-ins at Woolworth's and McClellan's; angry whites removed black students from counters, and five blacks were arrested.
"I remember one time when somebody broke an egg over one guy's head and he just let it stream down his face and didn't say a thing or resist or anything," wrote John Parish, who covered the sit-ins for The Jackson Sun. McClellan's not only closed the counter but removed the stools from their posts. On Dec. 16, students staged a sit-in at the Jackson Woolworth's counter, marking the ninth consecutive day of demonstrations and the 14th sit-in since Oct. 27. Blacks also boycotted downtown businesses during the Christmas 1960 season.[9] It wasn't until the mid-1960s, The Sun reported in a 2004 retrospective, that the first black person was served at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson. Also in that series, The Sun published photos run by the Commercial Appeal in the 1960s because The Sun had no civil rights-era pictures in its archives. In fact, The Sun in the 1960s largely ignored "the rising tide of the civil rights movement" and refused to run photos of protests and demonstrations. "The thinking seemed to be that if we published 'all that trash about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Selma protests, the blacks in Jackson might become uppity and restive,'" said Johnny Malone, who worked as a Sun copy editor and news editor from 1963 to 1999.[10]
Robert J. Holt, Jackson's City Court judge in 1960, lectured a small group of students who led a march to the courthouse on Election Day, saying "There is too much tension in Jackson and it must be stopped." The marchers' lawyer, Emmett Ballard, a well-respected black attorney in Jackson, asked Holt to dismiss the charges against all but eight of the students. Holt refused, and, missing all irony, told the students why: "In pressing for these things you seek, you do not have the right to run over every other person's rights."[11]
A Bomb and a Surprising Admission from a Politician
On the morning of April 19, 1960, a bomb was thrown into the home of Z. Alexander Looby in Nashville. Although the bomb caused damage to other homes in the neighborhood and blew out nearly 150 windows at Meharry Medical College across the street, Looby and his wife were not hurt.
In a television interview later that day, Looby attributed the bombing of his home to "the hoodlum element in our community," declaring it an isolated incident. Asked if the sit-ins and other civil rights direct action had been worth the growth of racial tension and the threat of violence and mob action, Looby expressed his hope that there would not be more violence and said that the movement was worth the risk of "some possible violence."[12]
The bomber, who was never caught, set off more than blasted bricks and windows that day. When the community learned of the violent act, more than 3,000 people gathered at Tennessee A & I and walked together quietly to the mayor's office at City Hall, in what came to be known the "Silent March." Students and leaders, including Diane Nash, Bernard LaFayette, James Bevel, Marion Barry, Rev. James Lawson and John Lewis confronted West about his view on lunch counter segregation.
"Do you feel it is wrong to discriminate against a person solely on the basis of their race or color?" Nash asked the mayor in front of the crowd. West said yes. He later explained, "It was a moral question " one that a man had to answer, not a politician."[13]
Within a few weeks, six lunch counters in Nashville were serving black people, and by May 10, Nashville became the first major city to desegregate public facilities.
"They accomplished what they wanted to," Barrett says.
The students' accomplishments were a success in other, more subtle ways, too, affecting more than lunch counters. "The same people who were advocating the sit-in movements were also involved in politics. And politicians listened to votes," says Memphis's H. T. Lockard.
"The [sit-in] movement helped to create an atmosphere of acceptability to the things we had asked for in the law suits," he says. "People in public office -- the commission, the mayor, along with the police department -- [had] an air of relief for the students to bring this action. People in law enforcement were just glad to get the whole thing over."
Today, looking out a fourth floor window on the backside of the Tennessee Bar Center in Nashville, over the rooftops cluttered with air conditioning units, you can see the tops of buildings over on 5th Avenue, North. The tall gold, restored letters of the KRESS building loom over the street across from Walgreen's and the Arcade, next to where McClellan's and W. T. Grant's used to be. The Kress building houses upscale loft apartments now and Walgreen's no longer has a lunch counter. People of all colors hurry down the street, late for work, or amble slowly, without work. It doesn't look like much happened here, and most folks don't seem to realize they are walking on what some might feel is hallowed ground. But 50 years ago this strip of street was witness to a turning point of a movement that would not only integrate lunch counters but would cause Dr. Martin Luther King to come to the city soon after and proclaim that he had come to Nashville "not to bring inspiration, but to gain inspiration from the great movement that has taken place in this community."
Dr. King, the lunch counters and most of the lawyers involved are gone. But the dream and the premise live on.
1. www.tn4me.org, a Web site sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and maintained by the Tennessee State Museum.
2. "Nashville Sit-ins," at AllExperts.com (http://en.allexperts.com/e/n/na/nashville_sit-ins.htm).
3. "Everyday people carried the struggle for equality," The Tennessean, Feb. 11, 2007 (www.tennessean.com/article/20070211/NEWS1/100126071/2/11/07"Everyday-people-carried-the-struggle-for-equality).
4. "50 Years Ago: March 20, 1960," The Commercial Appeal, March 20, 2010 (www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/mar/20/mid-south-memories-finally-spring).
5. Video interview with Judge Russell Sugarmon, "Crossroads To Freedom," Oct. 25, 2007, Rhodes College, accessed April 3, 2010 (www.crossroadstofreedom.org/view.player?pid=rds:822).
6. "Sit-ins, Knoxville," Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=S042).
7. "Howard High 1960 Sit-ins Honored at 2008 History-Makers Luncheon," Chattanooga History Center (http://chattanoogahistory.org/page/articles-features/howard-high-1960-si...).
8. "The Untold Story of Jackson's Civil Rights Movement," The Jackson Sun, 2004 (http://orig.jacksonsun.com/civilrights/
9. "A new challenge awaits," by Jimmy Hart, The Jackson Sun, 2004 (http://orig.jacksonsun.com/civilrights/sec3_sitins.shtml).
10. "The Invisible Press," by Dylan T. Lovan, The Jackson Sun, 2004 (http://orig.jacksonsun.com/civilrights/sec6_
11. "White judge speaks out," The Jackson Sun, 2003 (http://orig.jacksonsun.com/civilrights/sec3_judge-holt.shtml).
12. WSB-TV news film clip, The Civil Rights Digital Library, under a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for digital conversion and description of the WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection.
13. Lisa Cozzens, "The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965," African American History, May 25, 1998 (www.watson.org/~lisa/
SUZANNE CRAIG ROBERTSON is editor of the Tennessee Bar Journal.
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India's steel ministry forecast demand for the alloy will quicken after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh eased infrastructure investment rules to revive an economy that's expanding at the slowest pace in a decade.
Consumption will probably increase 8 percent in the three months to March 31 and in the year from April 1, Sayan Sen, manager at the ministry's Joint Plant Committee, which forecasts demand, said in an interview. He declined to estimate sales in the final quarter of last year, pending an official release. Deliveries probably expanded 4 percent in the period, said Abhisar Jain, an analyst at Mumbai-based Centrum Broking Ltd.
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Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao forecasts the $1.8 trillion economy will slow to 5.7 percent in the year ending March, the weakest pace since 2002. That may prompt the central bank to cut borrowing costs by 50 basis points by March 31, according to 11 of 20 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.
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Optimism about the policy changes and lower interest rates has driven up steel shares in the past month. Tata Steel shares increased 11 percent in December, the biggest monthly gain since January, while Steel Authority, the nation's second-largest producer, jumped 12 percent. JSW Steel Ltd. (JSTL), which is facing an iron ore shortage at its main factory in South India, increased 9.3 percent in the period. Tata Steel and Steel Authority don't face raw material shortages because they own iron ore mines.
Tata Steel rose 1 percent to 442.30 rupees, the highest in six months, at close in Mumbai. Steel Authority fell 0.9 percent to 95.15 rupees, while JSW Steel gained 0.5 percent to 831.10 rupees.
Industrial Production
India's cabinet on Dec. 13 approved changes clarifying a century-old law governing purchase of land for industry and highways, making it mandatory for the buyers to win the approval of 80 percent of landholders, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath said on Dec. 13. For public-private partnership projects, 70 percent need to give consent, he said.
"Investment expenditure has really dried up," said Jayant Acharya, director at Mumbai-based JSW Steel, the nation's third- largest steelmaker. "If the government's and the central bank's measures come together, it'll be good for investment expenditure."
The nation's industrial production recovered to grow at the fastest pace in more than a year in October after the government overhauled policies to boost growth in Asia's third-largest economy. The rebound suggests an improvement in the economy next year, Jonathan Cavenagh, a strategist in Singapore at Westpac Banking, said on Dec. 19.
India Demand
Steel demand in India will probably outpace the World Steel Association's October forecast of a 3.2 percent increase in global steel consumption. World demand grew 2.1 percent last year, compared with a 6.2 percent increase in 2011.
Mumbai-based Tata Steel, which started a 3 million ton unit in the eastern state of Jharkhand in November, plans to produce an additional 1 million metric tons from its factory in Jamshedpur in east India by March. India's steel demand may rise by about 5 percent this fiscal year and may surge to 7 percent in the year starting April 1, Nerurkar said.
State-run Steel Authority is in the final stages of adding 4 million tons of capacity this quarter. The New Delhi-based company plans to more than triple production to 45 million tons of hot metal in the next eight years, Chairman C.S. Verma said on Nov. 1.
In November, the environment ministry approved a plan for a JSW Steel unit to raise capacity by 67 percent to 5 million tons and build an adjacent pellet facility. Parent JSW Steel plans to triple capacity to 40 million tons by 2020.
'Investor Confidence'
"It appears that the worst is over for the steel sector," said A.S. Firoz, chief economist at the nation's steel ministry. "While the measures being taken now will show up in investments with a time lag, such actions generate lot of confidence among investors and are good for steel."
JSW Ispat Steel Ltd. (JSWI), a unit of JSW Steel that mainly produces flat steel products used in cars and electronic appliances, is expecting a surge in demand as buyers replenish stocks following a rise in consumption, Ashok Agarwal, joint chief executive officer said on Dec. 28.
"After an interest rate cut, there's bound to be higher demand -- both pent-up and new," said Centrum's Jain. "That'll drive volumes and prices." Prices may rise about 3 percent this quarter, he said.
Domestic use of flat steel products, which surged 20 percent before the 2008 global recession, should grow by at least 10 percent this calendar year, Ankit Miglani, director at ArcelorMittal (MT)'s Indian unit Uttam Galva Steels Ltd. (UTTM), said on Dec. 28. No price increases are expected this month as production will rise following the start of new units, he said.
Homes, Malls
DLF Ltd. (DLFU), India's largest builder of homes and shopping malls, will accelerate projects around the nation's capital in the next three to four months to benefit from higher demand, Senior Executive Director Sriram Khattar said on Dec. 21. A spurt in real estate activity will raise demand for long steel products that comprise more than half of local consumption.
"The last few years have been a period of lost opportunities for the housing sector, which is the engine of growth," Lalit Kumar Jain, president of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India, said in a phone interview. "This fiscal year has been bad and any improvement in demand will depend on government measures."
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FOXBORO, Mass. — Right tackle Sebastian Vollmer was the only member of the Patriots to miss Wednesday's practice, marking the team's healthiest turnout of 2011.
Wide receiver Taylor Price, running back Stevan Ridley, cornerback Kyle Arrington, running back Shane Vereen, linebacker Jeff Tarpinian, defensive end Mark Anderson and linebacker Jermaine Cunningham all returned to the practice field. Wednesday's session was held in full pads inside Gillette Stadium.
Price last practiced Aug. 25. Ridley was injured Aug. 18 against the Buccaneers. Arrington pulled a muscle Thursday against the Giants. Vereen only missed Monday's session. Tarpinian last practiced Aug. 13. Anderson last practiced Aug. 30. Cunningham last practiced Aug. 14.
Vollmer's last practice was Aug. 30.
It's been a good week for the Patriots in terms of their health. Cornerback Leigh Bodden and offensive linemen Dan Connolly and Ryan Wendell all returned to Monday's practice.
Tight end Dan Gronkowski and linebacker A.J. Edds made their debuts at practice after they were officially signed Wednesday morning.
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Environmental Management and Business InstituteEMBI
Key Goals of the EMBI
- Strengthen and connect academic programs that analyze environmental problems, and seek practical, cost-effective solutions to these problems.
- Provide outreach services to businesses and agencies that seek options for addressing environmental problems. Whenever possible, students will be enlisted to participate in these campus/community collaborations.
- Promote research by faculty and students aimed at solving local, regional and global environmental problems.
- Serve as an academic resource for improving environmental sustainability of the UW-Green Bay campus.


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Anime T-shirts
Meet Tenrou - the man behind "The Scenario" wearing the new Tare T-shirt by Chun.
Am wondering about the Hadaka Apron ones he promised though.
Its nice to be able to put a face to the member - its also been great seeing you all in my Facebook too.
BTW, notice the link I gave to Tenrou's Scenario's - it shows all the posts he tagged with "scenario." I have not put your tags links in the post as I'm still working out the effect of tags on SEO - tag clouds can hurt SEO a lot so I need to figure a way to do it right.
Original text from tenrou below.
So, the picture of the black tare-Danny shirt, as promised. Couple of things about the pic.
1. I'm trying not to laugh while this is being taken. My friend's three year old son is running around me and doing sentai poses. He was trying to get me to do them for the photos. ^^;
2. I'm wearing an XL shirt. Most XL shirts made in the U.S. hang a little loose on me (hence why I get them). However, my tare-Danny shirt is from Tanzania, and fits closer to a U.S. Large size. Still fits, just lose some of the looseness. Something to keep in mind for those of you thinking of purchasing.
3. I'm using a simple Sony DSC-P41 Cyber-shot. Sony quit making this particular model years ago. Hence, the picture quality is not at the level you'd see on many newer cameras. Additionally, I have it set at a lower quality setting to keep the file size at a level that I could post the pic, here. ^^
4. Just got a hair cut, today. ^^
5. Finally, a couple of the pictures we took came out with better shirt-shots, but I was losing to the laughter by this point. The kid was funny. ^^;
Love the shirt, chun! ^_^


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Washington, D.C. – Nevada Senator Harry Reid spoke on the Senate floor today regarding legislation to repeal subsidies for big oil companies raking in record profits, and on tightening sanctions against Iran. Below are his remarks as prepared for delivery:
Yesterday, the Senate took the first step toward repealing wasteful taxpayer giveaways to oil and gas companies.
I was pleased that my Republican colleagues joined Senate Democrats to move this debate forward.
The country deserves to hear the truth about double dipping by oil companies: they take taxpayer money with one hand and raise prices at the pump with the other hand.
But don't be fooled by last night's bipartisan vote. Senate Republicans will never side with American taxpayers against Big Oil. It's against their nature.
They proved it yesterday with rhetoric. And they proved it last year, with a nearly party-line vote against legislation to roll back billions in handouts to oil companies making record profits.
But despite Republican rhetoric, Americans understand it will take more than bumper sticker slogans to stop the pain at the pump.
We have to reduce the nation's reliance on foreign oil. But we can't drill our way to energy independence.
We must continuing looking for responsible, new, domestic oil sources. But we must also invest in the clean energy technologies of tomorrow to create good jobs today.
Repealing almost $24 billion in wasteful subsidies to oil companies would pay for those clean energy investments – with money left over to reduce the deficit.
America has only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, but consumes 20 percent of the world's oil supply each year.
So drilling on American soil alone won't solve our reliance on foreign oil.
Last year, America used a lower percentage of foreign oil than at any time in almost two decades, thanks to the Administration's policies.
Domestic oil production has increased every year President Obama has been in office. Meanwhile, the America's dependence on foreign oil has decreased each year.
Yet prices at the pump have continued to rise.
Here is why: for every penny the price at the pump goes up, the five major oil companies make an additional $200 million in profits each quarter.
Gas prices have risen 62 cents this year. Each of those 62 pennies represents pain for American consumers – and billions in profits for Big Oil.
Last year, Big Oil raked in a record $137 billion in profits. And they're on pace for another year of astronomical profits.
So it is beyond ridiculous when Republicans argue that oil companies need billions in taxpayer subsidies each year.
Middle-class families are struggling. Oil companies that last year raked in $261,000 a minute – 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year – are not.
It should be obvious that America needs to reduce its reliance on foreign oil. But if anyone needs another reason, just look at the regimes that benefit from the global addiction to oil.
For example, Iran uses profits from global oil sales to support its terronuclear weapons program.
So it is critical that the Senate act now – and act quickly – to further tighten sanctions against Iran. These sanctions are a key tool as we work to stop them from obtaining a nuclear weapon, threatening Israel and ultimately jeopardizing U.S. national security.
The only way to get sanctions in place immediately is to take up a bipartisan bill that passed unanimously out of the Senate Banking Committee.
I have alerted the Republican Leader that I will soon ask consent to move forward on this measure.
Unfortunately, I understand my Republican colleagues will object to moving forward with these new sanctions because they want to offer additional amendments.
But new changes to the bill at this time will only slow down its passage.
There are a number of Democrats who would also like to offer amendments to this bill. But in an effort to get sanctions in place as quickly as possible, Democrats have agreed to streamline the process and refrain from offering their amendments.
We cannot afford to slow down this process.
Passing this bill immediately will help prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. And that is a goal we can all agree on.


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15 guys admit the most bizarre thing they've done to get out of having sex
What do you do when someone is so persistent in trying to get you into bed? Whatever it takes. A group of guys discussed the craziest thing they've ever done to avoid having sex and it was absolutely hysterical.
Here are some of the most outrageous ones from the thread.
And remember ladies, "no means no."
"While wing-manning a friend (who was having sex in another room of the house) I had to sleep in the same bed as the girl he was having sex with's ugly friend. So she really wants to do the dirty but I'm not feeling it with her at all. So very drunk, I decide to make a "fort" on my half of the bed out of blankets and pillows and such and try to go to sleep. However, she is surprisingly aggressive, so for an hour I have to keep yelling at her, "NO GIRLS ALLOWED IN MY FORT!" She eventually got the message."
"I was drunk, sitting up on top of a dryer in a friend's laundry room. The creepy girl I had avoided all evening entered and had me cornered in the room. She pushes up on me, tries unbuckling my belt, and attempts to kiss me. My only method of evasion was to fall backwards behind the dryer and wait until backup arrived. Three friends heard her calling for help and sprung me from being trapped between the wall and the dryer. I left the room with them as my guardians. I'll never forget the terror of being wedged back there, while watching her fat hot-dog fingers try to molest me from above."
"I was with some friends in a house for the summer. The house wasn't very big and we slept 3 in each room (we were 9 total). For the sake of friendship we all agreed that we wouldn't be fooling around with each other. All was going fine, we were having a really good time together. About 2 weeks in things started to change: One of the two girls that I shared a room with – let's call her Sara – started to do some strange things – like leaving her underwear in my bed, walking around a lot on her underwear, etc. I never said anything because our other friend was in the room and she didn't said anything so my thought was, "It's nothing out of the ordinary, just ignore it." This kept going for a month-and-a-half. We had just 1 more week to the end of the summer and then it got worse: She climbed on my bed, naked! I really didn't liked her that way and I didn't want to go there with her so I panicked. I got up and said, "Sorry Sara, I'm in love with Rita [our other roommate]." I ran to Rita, waked her up and kissed her. The poor thing was really shocked but I explained everything to her. We had to fake sex for the rest of the week."
"Back in college I was a designated driver for a group of friends. We get to a party and my sober ass is bored. Then a very very drunk woman I knew from one of my classes started hitting on me, culminating with her telling me she'd fuck my brains out. Sober me thought this wasn't kosher since she was hammered so I turned around for a moment and yanked a few hairs out of my nose. It made me eyes water and my nose run and I said, "I have a brutal cold you don't want to catch. Why don't you let me get better and then I'll take you out." I gave her my phone number and she though that was so sweet she passed out with her head in my lap. Three days later before class she came up to me, gave me a HUGE hug, and thanked me for not being a dick. We ended up dating and she's still one of my best friends."
"Told her that Jesus wouldn't approve of our having premarital sex (she stunk horrendously once I got down there).
I lived in a small town where dating was really, really hard. I was mid-late 20s and the only people I ever met were married. Actually pretty depressing. One Saturday morning I wake up and have a random Facebook message from some girl in town asking if I wanted to hang out that night. Looked through her pictures; cute, nice body, decent job, and within 5 years of my age!
Decide to hang out at my house and watch a football game. She shows up looking at least 20lbs heavier than her pictures and some pretty broken out skin, but I'm okay with that. Let's see what she's like before dismissing her. I had bought us pizza and booze for the night. She scarfs down her portion of the pie before I've finished half of mine. Next, onto the booze. She finished her bottle of sangria in about 3 minutes…literally chugs every drink.
So she's getting pretty tipsy within 30 minutes of showing up. But that's not enough, so she keeps sneaking into the kitchen and drinking vodka straight from the bottle (I caught her the 3rd time). Classy, huh? The rest of the night involved her trying to get me to make out with her repeatedly. When I would refuse, she'd literally throw a tantrum. Finally, after having enough, I told her she needed to leave. She proceeds to pout on the couch for a few minutes, puts in her iphone headphones, then starts SCREAMING along to some songs.
FINALLY, she apologizes and I manage to get her calmed down. At this point she starts trying to get things dirty-dirty. I'm like, "nope. not going to happen." But then came the big equalizer: She offers anal. I've never HAD anal, so I'm like – uhhhh, seriously? She says yeah. To the bedroom we head.
Even WITH the promise of said anal, I could NOT get over the overwhelming smell of zoo/farm animal that eviscerated the sanitation of the room the SECOND her shorts came off. I gagged. And that's when I found Jesus."
"Not something I did, but my brother. For a few weeks in high school, I lived with my mom, and I was babysitting my younger brothers. A girl with who I went to school decided to stop by, and was clumsily trying to seduce me. She had a bit of a reputation, and I was watching kids besides, so I really wasn't into it. Anyway, she got really forceful, and my younger brother picked up on the fact that I was uncomfortable.
As an aside, I was supposed to be very careful about letting the boys play wrestling video games, as they tended to get a little rowdy. I had completely ignored this rule all day.
Anyway, my brother saw how uncomfortable I was, so he decided that he was going to climb on the back of the couch and dropkick the fuck right out of her.
I pretended to be upset with him until she got back up and left, then high fived him and took my brothers out for ice cream."
"I opened up a collectible card game and miniature store."
"I ran the fuck away. I was with a girl from a party out on the street going at it on top of a car hood in an alley. After a bit she tried to slip me in, because she was wearing a skirt and no panties this was easily attainable. She had a deathlock on my hips with her legs as I was standing there and I asked if she had any condoms. She told me "No," and again with her deathlock on me started to steer me back into her.
In my head I was thinking, "Fuck AIDS and shit, I don't know her, she's not even wearing panties." Instead of telling her I didn't want to, my drunk ass instead went, "Ohhhh!" and pointed out across the street. When she looked, I spun out of her grip and all in one motion grabbed my pants back up and went into a full sprint and jumped the fence into someone's yard and took off down the street.
About the time I hit the ground over the fence I heard her yell 'Are you fucking kidding me!!!'"
"The sex with my ex-girlfriend was so terrible (she'd lay there like a dead fish, basically) that when we would go out to bars, I'd purposely give myself whiskey dick."
"My friend was very drunk in college, and went home with a very unattractive girl. We had tried to stop him, but he didn't listen. Shortly after arriving at her home, he said he regained clarity, and realized he needed to escape. She left the room for a moment to brush her teeth or some such task, and he jumped out her second story window. He forgot his hat, though, and had to climb back in said window. Then he jumped back out. It was a small school. We saw her on campus often."
"When I was an RA in college, one of my residents had a crush on me that wasn't reciprocated. Her roommate invited me over one night to watch a movie with the two of them, then the roommate left the room. There we were, sitting on the floor, watching some stupid chick flick, when she moved over to sit even closer to me. She grabbed a blanket and threw it over our laps, moving even closer. I knew things were going to be going the way of the smooching and horizontal mambo shortly if things went as she planned, but I was not attracted to her and wanted to the foil the plan as best I could.
Thank goodness it was taco night in the cafeteria. Even my eyes watered with the stench and spice of that magnificent fart. And it saved me from doing the hibbidy dibbidy with one of my residents."
"Girl I was dating in college wanted me to come over to her apartment. Told her I couldn't because I was busy watching the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Movie with my roommates (which I was)."
"My girlfriend was in Spain for a while and I was hanging at my local bar for a few drinks after work one night. Somehow while I was having a beer or two and playing darts time passed and all of a sudden it's near closing time. I am normally a bike commuter, but was recovering from being hit by a car so I was waiting on a cab while this 5-6/10 regular customer was trying to chat me up.
I'm courteous and polite, but trying to shut her down. After forty minutes of no cab showing up, chick offers to give me a ride home. I say, fuck it; it's free. I'll take it. Once we're in the car she won't stop seriously trying to hit on me. Eventually she asks why I don't just stay with her and I reply, as I have quite a bit at this point, that I have a girlfriend and I love her. She asks what the hell is so special about this girl that I won't just cheat on her real quick.
Now I'm past being uncomfortable and into getting pissed. I keep my cool, and explain that if I were to come over then I'd need to stop by my house and get my toy box. She asks what that means, and I tell her it's just the standard stuff. Ball gags, riding crops, a couple butt plugs, just the basics. She seems a bit weirded out, but not quite what I want. So I say, if you're into it, that's just the beginning. Are you into bondage? I've got a whole closet full of fun stuff to play with. I keep going, pulling all of this out of thin air, and by the time we're a couple miles down the road at my house, this bitch can't wait to get me out of her car. Never did see her in the bar, either."
"When I was in my fresher year of university I made an error. After being down the nearest student bar and drank an obscene amount of beer, my beer goggle turned on. Enter overweight Irish girl. In my mind I was sure she was beautiful and witty… Turned out not. Cue memory loss and I black back in when I have managed to bring this troll back to my flat in our halls of residence, kissing in the corridor and whatnot.
This was just around the time of Christmas holidays, so one of my flatmates had already headed home for the holidays. Like the rookie he was, he had left his room unlocked. So, drunken me decides "fuck it, he's a dickhead" and lead the girl into his room. After this normal sexual initiations begin and I gradually begin to sober up and feel worse for the beer I have had. So then I decide to be a gentleman and go down on her. Around then I realize my real mistake. There's this fucking rank fishy smell. I am talking about yeast infection bad smell. My nose picked up on it too late… I licked.
And then I vomited. I vomited on her vagina.
Drunken save yourself abandon ship mode engages. I jump up, grab my clothes and leave before she realizes what's happened. As I leave I hear "OH MY GOD!"
Went into my room, locked the door, slept, stayed in the room for roughly 24 hours just in case she hadn't left. Man I was hungry and thirsty.
Worst hangover ever."
"I got married."


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got to spend a few hours on this rock the other day and had lots of fun.
Did a full travers of this rock from lowest point far right to highest point far left. Lots of exclusion (basically all top of rock is off + 1 or 2 other holds) With exclusion it is probably V3ish, even with out exclusion probably about more V2.
Played around on 3 sit start problems that are good, and in the V4-V5 range at least. 1st and 2nd moves from sit start are difficult.
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ACCORD Community First - Remember 9-11 the Ride
ACCORD Community First / Long Beach Fire Department
Attn: David Zanatta
Title: ACCORD Volunteer - Board Member, Secretary / (event coordinator)
Address: 400 Oceangate, Suite 510, Long Beach, California 90802
Phone: 562-244-7644
E-Mail Address: email@example.com
The names of organizations who will be involved in the service activity;
- ACCORD Community First
- JCA Resources, Inc.
- Alliance Resource Consulting LLC
- Robert Hall and Associates
- McKenna's on the Bay
- Orange County Sheriffs
- Orange County Fire
- Newport Beach
- Newport Beach Police
- Long Beach Police
- Long Beach Fire
- City of Laguna Beach
- Laguna Beach Fire
- Huntington Beach Fire
- Huntington Beach Police
- Seal Beach Police
(More to come in the month ahead)
How will the service activity address a community need or challenge? - Over the past 10 years Remember 911 Ride provides this region with a commemorative ceremony that is open to all communities and addresses the public's need to keep this tragic day in their hearts and minds. This day has been FREE and involved Volunteers/riders for ten years. This Year through donations, we will continue to grow the day and establish an Annual Fund for selected charities. The Ceremony; Ride; FREE Concert; Flyover; CommemorativeFireworks display; provides the public with a continued sense of AMERICA, as well as provides a location and solemn opportunity for the public to pay their respects to the fallen; support the survivors; and bring focus and to THANK our Nation's First Responders who put their lives on the line for America each day. Our goal continues to be to maintain this tradition moving forward in the years ahead with the establishment of a Memorial and Scholarship Fund for First Responders and other selected charities that make a difference within the communities they serve.
How will it commemorate the losses on September 11, 2001 and honor the service and sacrifices of those who have responded since that day? - For the first 10 years the focal point of the day was a Commemorative Ceremony staged at a private citizen's home – Fire Fighter Gary Biggerstaff. He hand-made 343 memorial crosses with the names of each fallen Firefighter from 911 and displayed them on his front lawn that was easily accessible for view by the public. It was a place a place for west coast people who could not travel the distance to pay their respects to these heroes. Along with the week-long vigil on the day of September 11, a solemn ceremony is performed with relatives of the fallen invited to speak and the names of those 343 crosses read with the respect and dignity appropriate to the uniforms they represented that fatal day. This year the Long Beach Fire Department has been granted a "piece of the WTC," which will also serve to help the public embrace the memory as we unveil the piece at the Ceremony.
What is the number of volunteers expected? - Each of the 10 years we have organized this day, the volunteer numbers have jumped.
Last year more than 1700 riders volunteered to Ride; more than 2,000 visitedGary Biggerstaff's Cross Memorial at his home and 500+ volunteered in the organization and coordination of the Ride and Ceremony. This year because the day has reached a critical mass and can no longer be held in Gary's community for safety reasons, we have grown the event and volunteer expectations have risen to 2500 riders; 1000 support personnel; more than 2000 volunteer visits to the Memorial Crosses at Gary's home; and an expected attendance to the FREE Tribute Concert; US Military Flyover and Commemorative Fireworks display to hit between 20,000 to 50,000+ people. (After hearing instructions from the Grant conference call we will track this with a volunteer sign in sheet)
What volunteers are expected to accomplish through their service? The volunteers in the past have asked for nothing along this journey in honoring this day. They accomplish a service to their country and community by providing this access to a west coast location where all can morn; they fulfill their need to respect and honor America's fallen; and complete a deep and sincere need to say "THANK YOU" to our First Responders across our Nation, with America in their hearts.
Information about how you will promote the Day of Service and Remembrance? - The response to the 'Remember 911 Ride' has grown tremendously overthe years and has been broken down into three segments. ACCORD Community First, a local Long Beach non-profit has come aboard to coordinate and assist in helping raise funds to promote and establish a sustainable program/event for the years ahead that include three counties of Southern California and raise awareness and money for a newly establish 911 Memorial Fund. The day will include: Media, Promotional posters and handouts; a week long display at Gary Biggerstaff's home of the 343 original crosses open to the public (which will then move to the event location on the day of 911 observance); the Official Ride (lead by a celebrity of note – to come), which is expected to draw more than 2500+ volunteer riders; a military flyover – (confirmed); the same, simple, non-political solemn Ceremony with the naming of the 343, with short speeches by a relative of one of the fallen; a FREE Tribute Concert open to the public (with a top celebrity band - to be announced); and a moving 'America the Beautiful' Commemorative Fireworks display to be viewed by more than (50,000+) people in Long Beach neighborhoods and at the event; along with the establishment of the First Annual Long Beach Fire – Remember 911 Ride Memorial Fund. The Remember911ride website at: www.remember911ride.com carries a full description of the "Story," the event and how the donations will be raised and what this year hopes to accomplish.