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Wednesday, October 3, 2007 9:19am
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A Longitudinal Study of Osteoarthritis (OA) Disease Progression Measured by MRI, dGEMRIC, and Radiography
This study has been completed.
University of California, San Francisco
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First received: July 20, 2007
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Detailed Description:
In order to design future disease modifying osteoarthritis drug (DMOAD) proof of concept studies, this study is being conducted to assess magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements of cartilage morphology and glycosaminoglycan (GAG) content as it relates to the progression of disease in subjects with potentially rapidly progressing OA. The subject population is selected to have higher likelihood of having rapidly progressing OA (i.e., a more rapid joint space narrowing (JSN) compared to general knee OA population and thus, may be more likely to have changes in GAG content and/or cartilage volume. The results of this study may provide a reasonable means to assess DMOAD activity of drugs in development. The non-OA controls are included to determine the rate of change for subjects of similar age. Ideally, results of this study will identify reliable methods for delayed Gadolinium Enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC) and MRI cartilage assessment that correlate with OA disease progression as compared to x-ray changes.
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case Control
Observational Model: Natural History
Time Perspective: Longitudinal
Time Perspective: Retrospective/Prospective
|Official Title:
|A Longitudinal Study of Osteoarthritis (OA) Disease Progression Measured by MRI, dGEMRIC, and Radiography
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Osteoarthritis X-RaysU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by University of California, San Francisco:
|Study Start Date:
|August 2004
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2007
Case: A
Subjects with potentiall rapidl progressing OA
Control: B
Age-matched healthy subjects with no knee pain
Detailed Description:
The objective of the study are:
- Evaluate OA progression by evaluating cartilage morphology, cartilage glycosaminoglycan (GAG) content, and joint space changes measured by MRI (3.0T), dGEMRIC index, and radiography, respectively using age-matched control subjects to identify disease related changes.
- Identify subject characteristics associated with more rapidly progressing OA.
- Identify most sensitive efficacy endpoints for future DMOAD proof of concept (POC) studies.
- Establish time interval for future studies based on MRI endpoints.
- Evaluate the effect of contrast agent on MRI cartilage morphology and T2 measurements
- Define criteria for classifying cartilage legions/deficits using dGEMRIC and T2 measurements.
- Collect biofluid samples for future validation of disease specific biomarkers.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|40 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Female patients evaluated to be relatively in good health
- 40 years old and above
- Negative pregnancy test
Additional inclusion criteria for OA patients:
- Frequent knee symptoms in the past year, defined as:
- pain, aching, or stiffness on most days of a month during the past year
- use od medication (all types) for treatment of knee pain on most days of a month during the past year
- Kellgren & Lawrence Grades 2 or 3 of the study knee (with either the same or less severe OA , or no OA in the contralateral knee)
- Body mass index (BMI) of 30 and above
- Medial joint space width of 2 mm and above
Additional inclusion criteria for age-matched controls:
- BMI of 28 and above
- No evidence of knee OA in either knee (i.e., Kellgren & Lawrence Grade 0 diagnosed by x-ray on AP view; infrequent knee pain, aching, stiffness during the past year; infrequent use of medication (all types) for treatment of knee pain during the past year.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Anticipated need for knee surgery in the next 2 years
- OA predominantly in the lateral tibiofemoral compartment measured by PA x-ray view of the study knee
- Intra-articular steroids to study joint (3 month washout), intra-articular hyaluronic acid to the study joint (3 month-washout), doxycycline (3 month washout), or arthroscopy within the last 6 months
- Medial joint space width less than 2 mm measured by PA view of knee x-ray
- History of joint replacement, intra-articular fracture, osteotomy, arthroplasty, or meniscectomy of the study knee
- History of other diseases that may involve the study joint including inflammatory joint diseases, crystalline disease, endocrinopathies, metabolic, diseases, knee infection of the study knee, neuropathic disorders, avascular necrosis, Paget's disease, or tumors (chondrocalcinosis is acceptable; treated thyroid disease is acceptable)
- Systemic inflammatory diseases (e.g., Rheumatoid arthritis)
- Other pain that the principal investigator feels can not be distinguished from knee pain (e.g., lumbar pain, hip pain, trochanteric bursitis)
- Musculoskeletal pain that may preclude the subject from remaining motionless for the MRI acquisitions
- Unable to undergo an MRI exam of the knee because of contraindications
- Unable to receive gadopentate contrast agent injection because of contraindications. A study subject who displays any sign of an allergic reaction to the contrast agent will be withdrawn from the dGEMRIC part of the protocol and will not receive any subsequent contrast agent injection. The subject may continue to complete the remainder fo the study, which includes MR morphometry scan, collection of blood and urine sample for biomarker assays, and completion of study questionnaires.
- Clinical chemistry laboratory values more than 2 times the upper limit of normal
- Participation in clinical trial with a study during in the past 14 days
- Other severe acute or chronic medical or psychiatric condition or laboratory abnormality that may increase the risk associated with trial participation or may interfere with the interpretation of trial results and, in the judgment of the investigator, would make the subject inappropriate for entry in the this trial
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: NCT00505297
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00505297
|United States, California
|University of California - San Frnacisco
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94107
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of California, San Francisco
|Principal Investigator:
|Sharmila Majumdar, PhD
|University of California, San Francisco
|Principal Investigator:
|Thomas M. Link, M.D.
|University of California, San Francisco
More Information
Keywords provided by University of California, San Francisco:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00505297 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|July 20, 2007
|Last Updated:
|July 20, 2007
Keywords provided by University of California, San Francisco:
Osteoarthritis (OA)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
delayed Gadolinium Enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC)
disease modifying osteoarthritis drug (DMOAD)
Potentially rapidly progressing osteoarthritis
MRI measurement of cartilage
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Disease Progression
Joint Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Rheumatic Diseases
Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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Media representatives are advised that notedactress Bo Derek will join Toronto Mayor in making an announcement to combatthe illegal trade in wildlife. The announcement is being made against the backdrop of the Convention onthe International Trade in Endangered Species meetings in the Netherlands and will launch WildAid's (www.wildaid.org) Active Conservation Awareness Programin Canada.
Event: Launch of WildAid's ACAP program
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2007 Time: 1:00 p.m. Local Time
In advance of the world's largest wildlife trade meeting next week, 35 organisations have launched a powerful, 4-minute television spot urging China to keep its ban on tiger trade.
One of the UK's leading actors, Martin Jarvis, lent his voice to the spot, which details the consequences that reopening legal trade would have on wild tigers. The public service announcement can be viewed at http://www.endtigertrade.org.
WildAid was one of only five winning applicants, out of 311 total, to win the UNDP Equator Prize for our work with the Women's Association Pescado Azul, in the island of Isabela, Galápagos.
Pescado Azul provides jobs for unemployed women and sustainable economic alternatives for fishermen. Traditionally, the fishermen have relied on declining coastal sea cucumber, lobster, and shark populations for their livelihood. The association provides an alternative by creating a market for yellowfin tuna, a migratory species, which is processed, smoked and sold to tourists.
There is growing public support in China for the need to protect the world's dwindling shark population, but little understanding about the connection between conservation and shark finning, according to a survey.
Shark fin, once offered as a gift to emperors, is traditionally served at Chinese wedding banquets and occasions when the host wants to impress guests with expensive and unusual dishes.
Some also believe it is good for health.
WildAid and the SSIC today launched the findings of a survey in to shark consumption habits and attitudes.
The survey report revealed that Chinese consumers have very little understanding of the negative environmental impacts associated with shark losses, while indicating mounting public support for effective shark conservation activities.
The survey, carried out between November 2005 to February 2006, produced unique in-depth information on the status of shark fin consumption, and identified public attitudes toward shark conservation in China.


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BROOKSVILLE — A $15 copper-wire heist will cost Habitat for Humanity $1,500 and an extra week or two of work, leaving a woman and her 18-year-old daughter waiting to move into their new home.
Christine Rideout, 45, got a call Wednesday morning informing her that her house, being built by Habitat for Humanity in the 16000 block of Boca Raton Street, had been burglarized.
Rideout and her daughter, Alexandra, have been on Habitat's waiting list for three years and will now have to wait until August or September to move from their apartment to the home. They were hoping to move in by July.
"We were so close," Alexandra said.
Sometime between 11 a.m. Tuesday and 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, an unspecified number of intruders broke the back window of the one-story house and cut wiring from the electrical box, said Alex Quintard, construction supervisor for Habitat for Humanity of Hernando County.
Quintard said whoever stole the wire didn't know what they were doing. The thief, or thieves, left the most valuable sections of the copper wiring intact, stealing just $15 worth of the increasingly valuable metal, he said. But because of where the wires were cut, Habitat volunteers must rewire the entire house.
Christine and Alexandra had hoped to find a home in Florida a few years ago when they escaped the cold winters of western New York State. But a spike in home prices changed those plans.
Instead, the two have been renting an apartment in Spring Hill, though Christine said the rent is too expensive. She works from home for two separate business and will pay a mortgage on the new house.
"The longer we take, the longer they struggle to live where they are," Quintard said.
He said he hopes donations to the Christian-based organization will help offset the cost of the rewiring. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans paid for 75 percent of the home, and Habitat the remaining 25 percent. Quintard said Habitat would use its own funds to pay for the wire.
Hernando sheriff's deputies investigated Wednesday morning, but found little information that could help them determine who stole the wire, said spokeswoman Sgt. Donna Black.
Hernando Builders Association president Dudley Hampton Jr., said copper wire theft is "the number-one theft on our job sites, what little job sites there are out there."
Someone even stole copper wire from the association's air conditioner, though that thief was eventually caught, he said.
Hampton thinks the surge in copper prices and high unemployment have caused the spike in copper thefts.
"That doesn't make it right by any means," he said.
Some builders have installed motion-activated cameras on their work sites to deter thieves.
Hampton also thinks metal recyclers could help by refusing to buy any copper wire they believe is stolen.
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The Big Picture
Re-calculating the Save
Two weeks ago I proposed a new way of defining saves. The save had been instituted to reward the evolving role of the fireman, the reliever who came into a game in a tight situation to save the day. However, today's closer rarely faces a game on the line situation, unless he creates it himself. The rule defined the role over the years, turning saves into relatively passive activities. It's time to refine the rule, or introduce a more active statistic to move the closer back to the role intended, the pitcher who saves the day.
Which is where I came up with my proposal--rather than awarding saves to the person who finishes the game, the reward goes to the pitcher with the best performance in terms of increasing the team's chance of winning while also meeting a threshold increase of 0.1. Unlike the 1970s, when baseball defined the save rule, we now know the probability of a team winning at every point in the game. Given the score, base situation, and inning when the reliever enters and leaves the game, we can tell how much he helped shift the probability toward winning.
That was the theory. This week's column puts the theory into practice to find out how the proposed rule changes the number of saves awarded and which pitchers benefit and decline under this scheme. The play-by-play data used comes from Baseball Info Solutions and covers 2002-2006. William Burke and Keith Woolner supplied the Win Expectancy data, and I'm grateful for their help.
For every game in that time frame, queries determined the last event in a game in which a team was tied or trailing. Relievers entering the game after that point were eligible for a save, provided they did not get the win. For each reliever eligible, the inning, half-inning, outs, base situation, and score difference was recorded both for the event in which he entered the game and the event in which he left the game. Queries then calculated the win expectancies for both points, and the difference became the score for the pitcher for the game. If the score was...
... then the reliever was credited with a save. Note that the team's chance of winning has to increase by at least 0.1--to spell it out, that means if a team already has better than a 90 percent chance of winning, the reliever can't get a save.
The data shows that the new proposal eliminates about 40 percent of current saves:
A much higher percentage of saves under the current rule are eliminated, almost 65 percent. Over one-third of those lost are shifted to other pitchers with the new proposal, however:
The data shows that a large number of saves are going to pitchers who enter the game in high-probability win situations. This rule shaped strategy and contract negotiations for a generation, and yet it is mostly applied in situations where the probability of winning is already better than nine in ten. The distribution of the various parameters shows us how the new proposal shifts save opportunities. First, the distribution of inning entered:
As you can see, many of the ninth inning saves are eliminated. Basically, if you enter the start of the ninth and the lead is two runs or more, there's no save opportunity. Notice, however, that pitchers in the sixth and seventh inning get many more chances to pick up a save.
The next table shows the distribution of outs when entering the game:
The distribution is not all that different. A higher percentage of saves comes with outs already recorded in the inning, but the great majority still occur with a pitcher entering with no outs. Pitching a full inning without allowing a run raises the win expectancy by over 0.1, and that gets higher the later in the game a pitcher enters.
Now for the base situation the pitcher faces entering the game:
Again, the number of saves awarded in the relatively easy situation of entering the game with no one on is reduced. But while the number of saves rewarded in tougher base situation goes up, the current rule actually does a pretty good job of rewarding pitchers who enter games with runners on base.
The distribution of the lead a pitcher inherits changes things quite a bit:
Under the current rule, saves are pretty much evenly distributed over one-, two-, and three-run leads. Again, the rule for awarding a save by starting the ninth with a three-run lead or less shapes the distribution, but under the new proposal, the distribution is heavily weighted to games with a smaller score difference. Another way to look at this is by subtracting inherited runners from the lead, a measure of potential scoring:
This distribution makes it clear that saves under the new proposal are shifted to much more perilous situations. Under the current rule, the distribution peaks at +2, but with the new proposal, 87 percent of the saves come in situations where this figure using leads minus baserunners is one or less, or the games that are really in jeopardy. It is also clear on examination of the average win expectancy when a pitcher enters a game for a save--the average win expectancy for a pitcher earning a save under the current rule is 0.89, but under the new proposal, 0.77.
The new proposal clearly makes earning a save more difficult. Just how much is evident in the leader board for the new proposal over the five years from 2002-2006:
It seems the quality closers also do very well under the new proposal. What interests me is if this rule change was ever adopted, would managers start using these relievers differently? Would we see them more often in the eighth inning, or even the seventh? Some closers complain if they come in before the start of the ninth. If coming into a key situation in the seventh will earn them a save, are they more likely to want to pitch early? Would they eschew pitching with a two-run lead in the ninth? I'd suggest that closers pitch longer in games less often; better to save them for that tough situation in the eighth, and give someone else the three-run lead in the ninth.
There are, of course, pitchers who do face those early, tough situations. Here are the pitchers who increase their saves by at least ten under the new proposal; you'll recognize a few quality set-up men in that group.
Among the many excellent comments on the original piece, one person suggested that since the chances of a change to the save rule were thin, perhaps this new proposal should stand by itself. He suggested, "The Rescue" be introduced as a new statistic. I like that idea very much; the difference between a save and a rescue is the difference between catching the person who tripped and rushing into a burning building to pull out the children. If a middle reliever ends up with more rescues than a closer, maybe fans and management will start to question that role more closely.
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Two KwaZulu-Natal field rangers found dead in Lake Nhlabane near Richards Bay will be buried this weekend, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife said on Thursday.
Spokesman Musa Mntambo said the funeral of Mbazwani Mhlongo, 57, would be held at the eTshaneni Area in Mkuze on Saturday, and that of Phumlani Mthembu, 34, on Sunday at the Phelandaba area in KwaNgwanase, northern KwaZulu-Natal.
The two went missing at Lake Nhlabane in the Enseleni Nature Reserve last Friday.
They were part of a four-man patrol that found four gill nets and a canoe at the reserve, which they decided to confiscate.
Mhlongo and Mthembu opted to paddle the canoe back to base, while the other two walked back.
Mhlongo and Mthembu failed to arrive and a massive search was launched. Their bodies were found in the lake earlier this week, along with the canoe. - Sapa


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CHICO -- The man who was killed Wednesday after being struck by a log has been identified as 42-year-old Deacon Murphy of Los Molinos, according to the Butte County Coroner's Office.
Murphy died after a log that was sitting on top of a fully-loaded logging truck rolled off about 12 feet above the ground and hit him on the head at about 1:30 p.m. at Sierra Log Homes at 3650 Morrow Lane.
Murphy was attempting to unhook the chains holding the logs when the accident happened, according to police.
Sierra Log Homes employees used a forklift to stabilize the logs while emergency personnel attended to Murphy, according to police.
He was not an employee of the business but had made frequent deliveries in the past.
Murphy, who was driving a Deacon Murphy & Girls truck, was unconscious when he was transported to Enloe Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries, according to police.
Police officers on the scene documented the accident and notified the California Department of Occupational Safety and Health, which is investigating the incident.


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By JIM O'CONNELL
AP Basketball Writer
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Seth Curry scored 26 points, Mason Plumlee had 23 and second-seeded Duke beat Albany 73-61 on Friday in the second round of the Midwest Regional.
The Blue Devils (28-5) will meet the winner of the game between seventh-seeded Creighton and 10th-seeded Cincinnati in the third round Sunday at the Wells Fargo Center.
Duke shot 58.7% (27 of 46), just off its season-beat 60.8% against Florida State.
The Blue Devils, who lost 75-70 to 15th-seeded Lehigh in the second round last year, never really pulled away from the Great Danes (24-11), who got as close as eight points with 4:40 to play.
Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski extended his all-time lead with his 80th career victory in the tournament that he has won four times.
Jacob Iati had 15 points for Albany, which was making its third NCAA appearance, all since 2006.
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The German Economics of Chicken Foot SoupBy
Inge used to hate it when I wasted anything. She put an egg timer in the shower to make sure hot water didn't disappear. She brought home a winter coat for me from the Red Cross, where she volunteered. If ever I said anything about lunch, she would remind me that she, a young girl from a refugee family in central Germany during the lean years after the World War II, used to have to comb trash heaps to find the ingredients for chicken foot soup.
Inge hosted me as an exchange student in Germany 20 years ago, opening her house for a year in the absurdly idyllic village of Eschershausen and getting up in the dark to make sure I had breakfast before school. She passed away two years ago, but I've been thinking of her this month, as I read about the fight between Chancellor Angela Merkel's government and the U.S. Treasury Department, or Merkel and the European Commission over the country's trade surplus. I keep thinking that Inge and I would probably be arguing about it, as we did about the egg timer.
Last week Germany's Sachverständigenrat released its 50th annual report. The body is a little like the Council of Economic Advisers in the U.S., but in Germany, members are appointed to five-year terms by Germany's largely ceremonial president, based on suggestions from the ruling coalition. A report from the Sachverständigenrat, rather than reflecting Merkel's wishes, is supposed to show what the profession of economics understands to be true. It is the view from Germany, and this year it bears the title "Against a Backward-Looking Economic Policy."
Germany's economy is doing well, the report opens, particularly relative to the periphery of the euro zone. But this shouldn't be taken for granted. After passing domestic welfare and labor reforms in 2003, German political parties argued during this year's elections over which reforms to unwind.
This, wrote the Sachverständigenrat, will not do. Forward-looking economics does not kick tough problems, such as a coming wave of German retirees, into the future; forward-looking economics creates a crisis-proof economic structure that will serve as a "role model" for the rest of the euro zone. "Only when Germany's federal government does the right thing in taking responsibility for itself," the report reads, "will it be able to convince other governments in Europe to take on their own national responsibilities and bring about the necessary reforms."
Essentially, according to its own council of economic experts, the German government is in danger of becoming too soft with its own people—and so runs the danger of signaling to the rest of the euro zone that soft is acceptable. Unemployment in Spain lies at 26 percent; in Germany, it's at 7 percent. The prescription for both remains the same.
This seems crazy, but then I think of Inge and remember that she was not crazy. Her view of the world was painted with the same colors as what the Sachverständigenrat published last week. Hard work and sacrifice have always worked in the past. There is no reason to doubt them now. Germans look to their own sacrifices—some from the 1950s, many from the last two decades—and believe they aren't telling anyone to do anything they haven't had to do themselves.
If you are unhappy, then let me tell you what chicken foot soup tastes like.
To understand the German approach to macroeconomics, says Martin Hellwig, you need to understand how surprisingly little wealth German households have. Hellwig, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods who publishes extensively on finance and macroeconomics, points to a study from April on household finances in the euro zone. Median wealth for a German household stands at €51,000 ($68,870), the lowest in the euro zone. For Greece, €102,000. For Spain, €183,000.
Hellwig suggests several reasons for this. German law and postwar public housing programs have discouraged home ownership, depressing wealth in the country. (Even German homeowners' wealth merely approximates that of homeowners in Spain.) German retirement savings are locked up in pension annuities, which were not counted in the report.
And, says Hellwig, the low wealth number "may be due to wealth destruction in the war." Wealth accumulates through generations, but Inge walked from the east with her mother and siblings with only as much wealth as she could carry—literally, in a rucksack. In her albums were sepia pictures of the estate her family had owned in Prussia, but she passed on to her children only the value of a small house she built with her husband when both started from scratch after the war. One of the great secrets of public and private life in Germany, seldom spoken but always known, is that during the war Germans suffered, too.
The German economy is hard to get around in Europe, by simple virtue of its size. This would make it seem "rich." German families hold 24 percent of the household wealth in the euro zone. But they do not feel wealthy. I ask Hellwig, via telephone to Bonn, whether that makes futile the call from the U.S. Treasury for more German spending on consumption. "Yes," he says. I think of the egg timer in the shower in Inge's little house.
Since the war, Germany's governments have also consistently succeeded in keeping wages down to make the country's exports cheaper. ECB data rank median income for Germany at fifth in the euro zone. This lever—keep wages from rising, encourage exports—has always worked for Germany. It has bred not resentment in the country, but pride. And it has helped elevate one measure of economic value that has become a focus for German economists—and for the Sachverständigenrat in particular: competitiveness.
This year's annual report spends several pages on just how hard competitiveness is to measure. Most generally it refers to how difficult or expensive it is to produce goods in a country. Normally, an exchange rate can reflect differences in competitiveness, but the lack of an exchange rate within the euro zone makes this trickier to measure. The European Central Bank measures relative change in production costs from a baseline of 100 percent in 1999, before the introduction of the euro. On this measure, Germany has dropped its costs down to 92 percent, relative to 14 years ago. Spain has raised its production costs to 110 percent of where they were.
Competitiveness is not just a function of wages, but of a country's legal environment. In 2003, when all that German saving was headed out of the country to the rest of the booming euro zone, Germany's then-center-left coalition undertook a series of painful labor and welfare reforms, making it easier to bring on part-time workers. Forget Germany's post-war austerity; the country can point proudly to a recent record of thrift and sacrifice.
This is the program Germany is urging on the rest of Europe. The Sachverständigenrat can, with some justification, see the country as a role model. But these measures are relative, not absolute. A country can become less competitive because it is awarding its workers too much in wages or legal protection. Or it can become less competitive because it's catching up. To use one exaggerated example, Estonia, a model of austerity, has become 25 percent less competitive, according to the ECB. But 25 years ago, Estonia was Soviet-occupied, hungrily watching TV broadcasts from Finland. It has a lot of catching up to do.
Despite Germany's success in keeping wages down, the country's households still earn much more money, in absolute terms, than families in the euro zone economies for which it sees itself as a model. The median German household earned €33,000 a year in 2010. In Spain in 2008 (the last year for which the ECB has numbers), the median household earned €25,000. In Portugal, that's €15,000. At its worst in 2006, Germany saw unemployment of 12 percent. Unemployment in Spain has been above 12 percent for all but five of the last 20 years; only once has it briefly dipped lower than 8 percent.
The memory of sacrifice and wage reform in Germany is both recent and real. It is also relative and out of scale with the economic suffering that parts of the euro zone are seeing now. To stay competitive, Germany kept its wages stagnant for several periods during the second half of the 20th century. It is asking other countries now to drop wages, all at once, to do the same.
And to regain its competitiveness when its own unemployment hit 12 percent, Germany reformed its labor markets, a step that the euro zone's periphery—and even France—need to take. But Germany is now asking for labor reform and wage cuts together, when Spain's unemployment has topped out at around 26 percent. It's not hard to see why Germany feels it has the moral standing to prescribe medicine it has taken itself. It's also not hard to understand how Spaniards might feel when they read the prescription pad.
Inge and I never got to talk about Spain. (She communicated profoundly, after the trauma of Sept. 11, 2001, on how important it had been to her for her children never to have seen a war.) I did travel with her to the then-only recently reunified eastern part of Germany in 1992. She asked a shopkeeper how things were going. "Because it's important," she said, "that you do well over here." This was sincere, but it also landed wrong with the shopkeeper. "We worked hard and did well," was the thought. "We only want the same for you."


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The rolling hills, scenic roads and timeless ambiance of downtown Galena are to this day a celebration of a simpler era. Founded in 1826 as a center for lead mining, Galena's restored homes and commercial buildings have such a rich history that 85% of them are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to being a historic mining center, the town was home to Ulysses S. Grant in 1860 when he arrived to work in his father's leather goods store. After the Civil War, Grant returned to Galena and was presented with a handsome home that he visited frequently during his presidency. The Grant Home is now a state historic site.
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I know this is a wierd request. But there are some reports written for 2012 that I would like to use on a 2008 server. I think that I can use xslt to convert the 2012 reports to the 2008 format, or it might not be that difficult to just build
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I can fully understand why Microsoft would not create such a tool. And in fact, it is such a wierd scenario, I cannot imagine anyone creating such a tool.
I will leave this marked as not answered for one more day in case someone does have such a wierd product.
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Retailers parlaying the power of SAS® for retail analytics into big results will share their secrets during two Big Ideas sessions at the 103rd NRF Annual Convention and EXPO Jan. 12-14 in New York.
Omnichannel analytics has become critical because the customer expects to shop anywhere at any time, said Lori Schafer, SAS Retail Executive Advisor and co-author of Branded! How Retailers Engage Consumers with Social Media and Mobility. SAS will showcase its customer and merchandising analytics retail software during NRF 2014. But the most valuable information will come from SAS customers leading Big Ideas sessions on Monday and Tuesday. SAS Big Ideas Sessions at the 2014 event include:
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Banbury MP Sir Tony Baldry did not vote in the amendment debate on the controversial High Speed Rail Link last night (Monday).
Sir Tony chose to abstain from voting in the House of Commons, in which MPs voted 451 to 50 in favour of the scheme. South Northamptonshire MP Andrea Leadsom, whose constituency includes Brackley, was called to a meeting in Brussels which meant she could not take part in the debate.
Speaking on his website before the vote, Sir Tony said: "With regards to the vote on the Hybrid Bill, I think one has to look at the Parliamentary arithmetic, and make sure that those opposed to HS2 don't turn a defeat into a defeat.
"There was a wobble by the Labour Party a little while ago, but chastised by leaders of cities in the north and Midlands, Labour are now seemingly back supporting HS2.
"There is therefore no way in which the Hybrid Bill can be defeated in the House of Commons and I don't personally think it is necessarily good tactics for HS2 opponents to try and make this particular vote a test of strength, when it is clear that the bill will get overwhelming support in the Division Lobbies.
"The Hybrid Bill process is likely to take a number of years, well into the next parliament, by which time the position of the political parties in respect of HS2 may well have changed. I think it is unlikely that any Chancellor of the Exchequer is going to find £50 billion to pay for HS2. And for those reasons I intend to abstain in the vote on the Second Reading."
Mrs Leadsom, who was recently promoted as a Treasury Minister, wrote on her blog on March 27 following a HS2 meeting with new chairman of HS2 Ltd Sir David Higgins. He said there would be no plans to discuss substantial changes to the route of phase one, which passes through her constituency.
She said: "I am disappointed that as the reasons for HS2 have changed so many times and are now about capacity and connectivity rather than speed, Sir David did not open to re-evaluating whether the route is correct. It also makes clear that he has insufficient consideration for the environmental impact of HS2.
"My fight against HS2 goes on. Until there is a dramatic rethink about HS2, I will continue to fight for generous compensation and effective mitigation to help those substantially affected by HS2 move on with their lives."


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A scheduled appearance today by Lynndie England at the Library of Congress has been cancelled due to security concerns, according to library employees.
On Wednesday, Washington Wire reported on the discussion with the Library of Congress Professional Association's Veterans Forum.
The session with England had irked LOC employees and others who felt the former Army Reservist, whose name and face became synonymous with military abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, should not be given a public platform.
The appearance also irked the publisher of the biography she was there to discuss. "Tortured: Lynndie England, Abu Ghraib and the Photographs That Shocked the World," was written by Gary S. Winkler and England's appearance was not a sanctioned event by the author or publisher.
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Conspiracy theorists have been saying it for years, and though the Department of Homeland Security claims it's absolutely untrue, a stack of unsettling coincidences seem to link Plum Island research to Lyme disease.
Plum Island is less than 10 miles off the coast of Lyme, Connecticut, where Lyme disease was first diagnosed and which has the highest number of reported cases of Lyme disease of any area in the country. Just off Long Island, Plum Island Animal Disease Center was opened in 1954 during the Cold War with the stated goal of researching animal diseases in order to protect livestock. The USDA claims that a pathogen has never escaped from the island, but there are still a few unnerving possible connections.
Some people claim that Plum Island was involved in "Project Paperclip," a program in which Nazi scientists are said to have been recruited to study biological warfare on the island.
When the Centers of Disease Control opened Margaret Batts Tobin Laboratory Building in Texas, they announced that the facility would be used to study diseases identified as potential bioterrorism agents, including anthrax, tularemia, cholera, and Lyme disease.
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Hi Chriss..I haven't had a chance to meet you yet. I was busy getting my son off to Japan on an exchange trip when you joined. I've been reading lots of your posts though and wanted to say Hi and welcome. I truly felt your frustration and sadness when I read about your fiasco with your friend....there are so many aspects of our Lupus journey's that are a struggle....we could all write volumes, if we wrote a book together. I understand the pain of being left out, or treated like you were...just wanted to say I'm sorry. Hugs, Lori
I was checking up on ya today..and there was a post to me..hugs. Hey. Chriss, if you click on view conversation in my post it will take you to my profile, and it displays our convo..and your post will be on my profile. Then I'll know you wrote me...
Friday, that is wonderful...I am too concern, that is a large leap in weight over such a short period. And taking many diuretics...doesn't sound right...Well, Friday will be here soon enough...tomorrow, so fret not. Love. O.
I called my rheumy to see if they had any cancelations and they moved my appt up to Friday, so I hope they give me something bcuz I've gained about 20lbs in a month. My body is sooooo heavy and my legs and feet are so big. But I'm ok I guess. I am starting to get a little concerned. Thanks for checking on me
Chriss...stretch marks...did you mention that symptom to your doctor? Humm, I think I would do a walk in to your Primary..today. Love.O.
Hey you...seeing how goes it. Your swelling deflated yet? Seen your doctors? How's the homestead arrangement. Me? I've just been putzing about...rain prevents me from swimming, so I laze about, move this to there and from there to here...ya know, putz. Nothing...
Happy Wednesday....hugs and love. O
Hope all is well. hugs kathy
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House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Primary Industries and Energy
Commencement: Royal Assent
To ensure that oilseeds used by a producer on- farm for commercial purposes are not exempt for the purposes of levy payment.
A levy is imposed on the following oilseeds:
- Sunflower,
- Linseed,
- Soybean,
- Safflower, and
- Rapeseed.
Sunflowerseed production totalled 84kt (valued at $28m) in 1991- 92, is estimated to total 38kt (valued at $16m) in 1992- 93, and forecast to total 176kt (valued at $27m) in 1993- 94. 1 Sunflowerseed exports totalled 49kt in 1991- 92, are estimated to total 1kt in 1992- 93, and forecast to total 28kt in 1993- 94. 2
Soybean production totalled 63kt (valued at $22m) in 1991- 92, is estimated to total 49kt (valued at $21m) in 1992- 93, and is forecast to total 72kt (valued at $31m) in 1993- 94. 3
The levies are imposed on oilseeds by the Oilseeds Levy Act 1977 and are payable by the grower. The Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 provides for the collection of the levies. Proceeds raised by the levies go to the
Grains Research and Development Corporation, under the provisions of the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989.
The levies on oilseeds were imposed by the Commonwealth at the request of the oilseeds industry, and funds raised are matched by the Commonwealth up to a maximum of 0.5% of the relevant industry's gross value of production. Oilseed levy receipts are estimated to total $1.858m in 1993- 94 and $2.077m in 1994- 95. 4
The operative rates of levy, as at 1 February 1994, are:
- Sunflower 1.00% ad valorem, 5
- Linseed 1.00% ad valorem,
- Soybean 1.00% ad valorem,
- Safflower 1.00% ad valorem, and
- Rape Seed 1.00% ad valorem. 6
Under section 8 of the Oilseeds Levy Act 1977, levy is not payable in the following circumstances:
* if leviable oilseeds are delivered by the producer to a particular person and the amount of levy payable would be less than $50.00 or a prescribed amount 7 [subsection 8(1)];
* if leviable oilseeds are processed by or for the producer, and he/she uses the oilseeds, or all of the products and by- products of the processing, for domestic purposes on his/her farm [ subsection 8(2)]; and
* if leviable oilseeds are processed by the producer for commercial purposes on his/her farm and the amount of levy payable would be less than $50.00 or a prescribed amount [subsection 8(3)].
The purpose given in the Explanatory Memorandum for the amendments proposed by this Bill is to ensure that oilseeds used by a producer on- farm for commercial purposes are not exempt for the purposes of levy payment. The reason for the proposed amendments is that subsection 8(2) of the Oilseeds Levy Act exempts from levy, for example, a sunflower producer who establishes a margarine processing facility on- farm and sources his/her raw material requirements internally. It can be inferred from the Explanatory Memorandum that the Grains Council of Australia, which is the industry representative organisation under the legislation, considers this exemption to be inappropriate.
Main Provisions
Under the amendment proposed by clause 3 to subsection 8(2), levy will not be payable if leviable oilseeds are processed by or for the producer, and he/she uses the oilseeds, or all of the products and by- products of the processing, for domestic purposes but not for commercial purposes on his/her farm.
1. Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Commodities, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1994, pp. 134 and 137.
2. ibid., p. 141.
3. ibid., pp. 134 and 137.
4. The Commonwealth Public Account 1994- 95, Budget Paper No. 2, p. 40.
5. The term "ad valorem" means a surcharge based on a percentage of the value of the product.
6. The rates of levy specified in this Digest have been obtained from the Levies Management Unit of the Department of Primary Industries and Energy and relevant principal legislation and regulations.
7. No amount has been prescribed.
Ian Ireland (Ph. 06 2772438)
Bills Digest Service 23 June 1994
Parliamentary Research Service
This Digest does not have any official legal status. Other sources should be consulted to determine the subsequent official status of the Bill.
Commonwealth of Australia 1994.
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Published by the Department of the Parliamentary Library, 1994.


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In his first interview since welcoming his son, Bronx Mowgli, Pete Wentz described the birth of his first child as "pretty surreal." The 29-year-old musician went on to say on Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM radio show, "Obviously, some stuff my wife would freak if I said, but she's pretty much a saint. Right before she went into labor, I was like, 'Oh my God, I think I'm having a heart attack!'"
Pete went on to describe his experience in the delivery room: "Natural things start going on in your body. My heart started beating really fast," Us magazine reports. He then said, "You see your wife in all this pain, and you really don't know what's happening. [But Ashlee] "took care of me and made sure I was OK and then we went into labor. That's why she's a saint."
Pete continued to gush about his wife: "She's a amazing girl. She was like, 'I will make sure you're OK. I didn't even stop to think, 'Well, you just had an epidural and you're about to have a baby!'" When Bronx was born, Pete said Ashlee stated: 'He's beautiful. He's perfect.' He added, "We were instantly in love. It's impossible not to be!"
Click below to find out how Ashlee is doing and why they chose the name Bronx Mowgli….
Pete said that Ashlee is doing "really good" and added that he has changed "quite a few" diapers already – even ones of the "exploding" nature. Pete joked, "Having a child is like opening a new spot in L.A. — everyone's trying to get in every night!" The Fall Out Boy bassist said Bronx "is definitely going to come out on tour. We need a whole team of stuff that is going to get him through that."
And as for the unique name choice, he explained they had been "throwing it back and forth a while ago. I feel weird because all these people have all these ideas on what it means … I don't think anyone knows the real story of why or how." He briefly said [Jungle Book] author Rudyard Kipling is "really cool and The Jungle Book is something that me and Ashlee bonded over."
Regarding his new role as a father, he said, "It's different when it happens. Your life is 100 percent different now – you want it to be different."
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Cannes Festival: Iran's imprisoned filmmakers
At last year's Cannes International Film Festival in May, 2009, the word from Iran was that something exciting was about to happen with new upcoming elections. Unfortunately, few could predict that disputed elections, mass street protests, and waves of repression were soon to follow.
At the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, one of Iran's most famous filmmakers, Jafar Panahi, Director of The Circle, Crimson Gold, Offside and other award-winning films, is imprisoned. He was arrested during the shoot of an unofficial feature with filmmaker-friend, Mohammad Rasoulof. After mortgaging his house to put down considerable bail money, Rasoulof was released. Panahi remains in jail. Most recently, the FIPRESCI, the international film critics association headquartered in Munich, called for his release.
According to some Iranians, here in Cannes, Panahi was offered the same deal as Rasoulof: pay considerable bail as security and take a vow of silence about his imprisonment, but he refused. Panahi's belief is that his imprisonment in Iran can help draw attention to the large-scale imprisonment of thousands of journalists and other dissenters inside Iran, forgotten by the international community. According to a recent Amnesty International report, more than 2,000 journalists are inside Iranian jails.
One of the most interesting cases thus far is that of another Iranian filmmaker and journalist, Mohammad Nourizad. Unlike Panahi, Nourizad was a propagandist for the Islamic government and a close associate of Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Nourizad made propaganda films for television and wrote a regular column for the hard-line newspaper, Kayhan, considered an official mouthpiece for the Supreme Leader. Nourizad wrote a letter to Khamenei denouncing the disputed Iranian elections which returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power, and the brutal repression of peaceful demonstrations. Kayhan, offered Nourizad a deal to apologize on Iranian state television in exchange for his release, but he refused. He's now been sentenced to two years in prison and 80 lashes.
The repression of Iran's democratic movement was evident most recently in the execution of five people in Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Among the 4 men and 1 women executed, one was a 28-year old elementary school teacher arrested for writing an article whose trial lasted 6 minutes. Neither his lawyer nor family was aware of the death sentence. The executed woman was Kurdish and did not speak Farsi. She signed a confession without understanding what it said, did not understand what was being said at her trial, and despite her denials, was accused of being a member of the Kurdish separatist organization, PEJAK. In a smuggled letter she wrote from prison, she said she was tortured, her hair had turned white, and she lost much of her eyesight.
Iranians feel that much of the human tragedy that continues inside Iran is ignored by the Western press, which instead chooses to focus on the nuclear standoff. Comparing the terrorism the Ahmadinejad government has imposed upon its own people to the situation in apartheid South Africa, many Iranians want strategic, diplomatic and political sanctions against Iran, focused not just on the possession of uranium, but on human rights.
This is Milos Stehlik of Facets Multi-Media from the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France.


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This article is the first part of a two-part series on the challenges facing sea turtle conservation in Ghana and other parts of the world. Part one focuses on the issues of poverty and unemployment in Ghana that exacerbate the difficulty of saving female sea turtles during their vulnerable time of egg laying. Part two discusses how the small Ghanian Sun & Moon Turtle Foundation is doing its part to save sea turtles and their eggs from poachers and fishermen who inadvertently catch them in their nets, as well as to educate the community about the value of their environment and the animals that inhabit it.
As the crashing waves on the Ghanaian coast fade with the receding daylight, the time of the turtle has begun. The daytime beach, ruled by scurrying crabs and stray dogs, sleeps after an exciting day to be replaced by the nighttime beach, dominated by nesting female sea turtles meticulously digging deep holes in order to lay hundreds of eggs. But the nighttime beaches of Ghana host a more sinister crowd and one over which sea turtles have no power: poachers.
On the colorful flag of the little-known African nation of Ghana lies a single black star, the "black star of Africa." Ghana is one of the most peaceful and democratic countries on this plagued continent, with Ghanaians seeming to hold the "black star of Africa" in their hands. Many see the small nation of 24 million as a beacon of hope, a sign that violence, wide-spread corruption and dictators do not define Africa.
Indeed, the first leader of Ghana (then called the Gold Coast) intended to bring peace and stability to the entire continent. After leading a nonviolent quest for independence from Britain, President Kwame Nkrumah created the Organization for African Unity, today known as the African Union. He said, "[Ghana's] independence is meaningless unless it is linked with the total liberation of the African continent."
In December, Ghana held its fifth free election, the first democratic election in Africa since the violence of the Kenyan elections, the failed Zimbabwe election and the coups in Mauritania and Guinea. After an extremely close run-off election in January, John Atta Mills became the third president of the Fourth Republic of Ghana, pledging "prosperity to all, not just a few." He was inaugurated in Accra, the coastal capital, on Jan. 7 of this year.
Due to Ghana's political stability and wealth of natural resources, the economy has thrived. Cocoa has become an integral part of the economy, and cocoa bean production has made Ghana into the world's second largest exporter of cocoa. While many Ghanaians practice agriculture, a flourishing service-based industry exists with the latest televisions, computers, cell phones, supermarkets and fashion trends.
But, just outside these supermarkets are many Ghanaians and other Africans asking for money from the wealthy Ghanaians and foreigners. The same, regrettable system of forced begging by children seen in "Slumdog Millionaire" is a common sight in certain areas of Accra.
This situation highlights the substantial unemployment rate and the high percentage of the population under 15. Suffering from the age-structure problem, Ghana's population under 15 comprises almost 40 percent of the total. In 10 years, where will these young people find jobs? There isn't a McDonald's or Hy-Vee to earn a bit of spending money at minimum wage. Much higher rates of unemployment will be expected as the working-age population grows at a higher rate than available jobs.
Unfortunately, many of these young people will end up selling in the market, competing with hundreds of the same sellers, earning barely enough to live. In rural communities, difficult economic times will likely lead to an urban invasion, and many more people will migrate into the already sprawling city of Accra, which is approaching three million people.
In coastal communities, some of these unemployed youth and adults will inevitably resort to poaching nesting sea turtles, which is not a sustainable source of income and is damaging to the local marine environment.
During my time abroad in Ghana, I saw firsthand many of these issues. I also met many people, both locals and foreigners, who are trying to solve these problems, especially those revolving around sea turtles.
The life of gentle giants
Sea turtles are long-living marine reptiles with a unique life history. Eight species of sea turtle roam the seas around the world: green, leatherback, loggerhead, black, hawksbill, Kemp's ridley, olive ridley and flatback. In Ghana, olive ridleys and leatherbacks are known to nest, but green sea turtles also have been seen offshore and occasionally are captured in nets.
Female sea turtles complete a journey paralleled by few other creatures. Every two or three years, the females and males come from thousands of miles and gather offshore to mate. Females then at night drag their bodies onto the sand and dig large holes into which upwards of 100 eggs are laid. After carefully concealing the nest, the female turtles will return to the sea.
After an incubation period of about 60 days, the eggs hatch and hundreds of baby sea turtles frantically scramble down to the sea, hoping to avoid stalking predators such as dogs, birds and bobcats. Some scientists estimate that only one baby turtle in one thousand survives until adulthood.
Once in the water, baby sea turtles face huge hurdles from the currents to predation by larger marine animals. Some of these babies will grow into adults and return to the very same beach that they were hatched on. By a process we do not yet understand, sea turtles return within a few hundred yards of their exact nest location.
Most sea turtles found in Ghana are olive ridleys, which are almost 3 feet long, weighing about 80–100 pounds. A few leatherbacks nest every year on the beaches of Ghana. Leatherbacks are giants of the ocean, measuring almost 7 feet long and weighing up to 1,000 pounds. Leatherbacks can dive deeper than most whales and dolphins. In the past, green sea turtles have nested on the beaches of Ghana, but recently they have disappeared. Occasionally a green sea turtle will be captured in a fisherman's net.
Threats to sea turtles
Sea turtles face many threats, both in the water and on land. These threats vary greatly throughout the world.
In places like Florida, conservation efforts are focused on reducing beach interferences, such as lawn chairs, beach toys and debris from the ocean. When I visited a sea turtle monitoring operation near Sarasota, Charlene Mackin, a volunteer beach monitor, showed me a turtle "crawl," tracks from a nesting female, that came dangerously close to beach chairs.
"Sea turtle females will get trapped in the beach chairs and flail until exhausted," explains Mackin. Unfortunately, most of these turtles end up dying before help can come.
Efforts in Florida also consist of convincing beach owners to turn off lights at night, because lights from inland can disorient and distract females from nesting properly.
But conservation efforts that focus on clearing debris from the beach and turning off lights may seem like a dream for concerned community members in places in the developing world such as Ghana.
All sea turtles are listed as endangered by the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) and thus any trade of sea turtles is prohibited. Within Ghana (and the United States), each occurring sea turtle species is listed as endangered.
Yet, convincing coastal communities to change traditions that are generations old extends beyond simply legal actions or definitions.
The problem on the coast of Ghana near the capital city of Accra is two-fold. Sea turtles face threats when in the ocean and when on land. Fishermen often catch sea turtles in huge, invisible gill nets. Believing these catches are a gift from God, many fishermen bring the turtles into shore, knowing that their actions are illegal, and sell the turtles for their meat to local restaurants. An olive ridley female will sell for about $9 in the market.
This extra $9, split amongst the crew, could mean a better meal for families or could also mean more cell phone credit. Regardless, the fishermen view this divine gift as such; they do not "fish" for turtles but merely take advantage when the opportunity arises.
On land, nesting females face threats of equal concern. The coastal region around the big city of Accra harbors much poverty, especially in the small fishing village of Teshie, where I spent most of my time. Many of the men who are unemployed have realized that turtles fetch a good market price; $9 can stretch a long way in Ghana.
Recently, in Teshie, these unemployed men are taking to the beaches at night and collected females who are about to lay eggs. The men sell the turtles, and a new generation of sea turtles is lost.
These threats are present in most other coastal communities in Ghana and on the West African coast, but a small number of communities do protect sea turtles, as some local religions worship the turtles as gods.
Part two of this article will focus on the small but determined group fighting to save the sea turtles.
Resources for sea turtle conservation and information
National Marine Fisheries Service
I met Yemma and his friends
I met Yemma and his friends in Teshie january 2008 and I am very impressed with their work and it was a wonderful experience to witness how turtles are protected through the Sun and Moon Turtle Foundationnul! Thanks and Happy New Year from Eva Nilsson and family from Halmstad Sweden
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Is this article about turtles or a review of Ghana's economy? Whats the purpose of the comparison to Slumdog millonaire in relation to the turtles?


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LIVE OAK - The county is holding a public hearing tonight on a master drainage plan for the Live Oak and Soquel areas.
Representing a largest urbanized area in the unincorporated county, the Live Oak and Soquel neighborhoods have a history of storms and subsequent flooding making streets impassable. Redevelopment funds helped alleviate some of the problems, but those funds are no longer available.
The meeting is being held tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Simpkins Family Swin Center, 979 17th Ave. County staff will present and take input on a capacity study, as well as a preliminary assessment of creek stability for larger waterways in the area.
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The damage estimate has been increased to $500 million from the devastating storms that brought high wind and baseball-size hail last month to much of North Texas, including Denton County, according to a statewide insurance group.
The Insurance Council of Texas, which represents about 500 property and casualty insurers statewide, had previously estimated that the series of storms April 3 had caused about $300 million in damage.
"When it's all said and done, the storm will have damaged at least 35,000 automobiles and approximately 22,000 homes," council spokesman Mark Hanna said in a prepared statement.
The estimate does not include how many of those homes and vehicles were in Denton County, but most were in the county, officials have said.


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• The Bible Studies for Life lesson for July 13 focuses on 1 Peter 1:3-9, 13.
Every person on Earth lives by faith. Each one trusts in something or someone. The object of faith, however, varies greatly.
Where do you place your faith? Is your faith based on wishful thinking? "Sure hope it rains, so my garden will grow." "Maybe this will be the year the Cowboys win the Super Bowl." The outcome of either one of those statements is based on an it-might-or-it-might-not-happen hope.
As followers of Christ, our confident assurance is not based on wishful thinking. We are to fix our lives on Jesus Christ who is our sure hope. In him, we live, move and have our being.
Christ's finished work
In his first epistle, Peter wrote to people scattered throughout the world because of persecution. Suffering, prejudice and death were not uncommon experiences for the first century church. What kept them from giving up and denouncing their faith? It was their faith in Christ alone.
In 1 Peter 1:3-4, the apostle speaks of the new birth given by a merciful Father to those who believe in the resurrected Christ. Those who receive this new life through Jesus now experience a living hope. This hope brings an inheritance that cannot expire, disappear or ruin.
It is tempting to put our hope in our circumstances, our plans or our bank accounts. Our circumstances change in ways we never could predict. In the blink of an eye, lives are altered in big and small ways. The economy takes a downward turn, and our finances are ruined.
Christ is our living hope in which we have confident assurance. He never will die, because he defeated sin and death on the cross. Those who put their trust in him will not die either. In the finished work of Christ on the cross, our hope is made secure.
Refined by fire
From the moment we receive Christ until we stand before him face-to-face, we are being changed, saved and transformed from the inside out. We live in a fallen world and have to deal with the consequences of sin. Peter reminds us we are shielded by God's power (v. 5) throughout our journey. Even as our Savior suffered, so will we. Why are we surprised when people disagree with our beliefs, mock our faith or seek to silence our voices?
God uses these difficult times in our lives to refine us. Peter says our faith is more valuable than gold (v. 7). Even gold will perish, but a faith made strong through all kinds of trials will endure to the end. It will bring honor, glory and praise to Jesus when he is revealed fully.
Many in the world today understand the refiner's fire. They live under repressive governments who persecute them for following Christ. In his book, The Insanity of God, Nik Ripken gives a riveting account of faith lessons learned from the persecuted church.
Nik heard Stoyan's (his name means "stand firm") story of a focused faith that helped him survive prison and persecution.
Stoyan: I thank God, and I take great joy in knowing that I was suffering in prison in my country, so that you, Nik, could be free to share Jesus in Kentucky.
Nik: Oh no. No! You are not going to do that! You are not going to put that on me. That is a debt so large that I can never repay you.
Stoyan: Son, that's the debt of the cross! Don't steal my joy! I took great joy that I was suffering in my country, so that you could be free to witness in your country.
Christ suffered for us so we can be free. For whom do we take great joy in our suffering so they can be free to know Jesus?
Yet to come
Through faith, we love a God we do not see. We believe in a faithful, steadfast God who fills us with joy almost beyond description. An old preacher once proclaimed: "We were saved. We are being saved. We will be saved." The end goal of our faith is the salvation of our souls (vv. 8-9). We don't just wait for heaven to enjoy our salvation. It is something we experience now with growing understanding because of the knowledge we gain about the work of Christ in us.
As we wait for that day to stand in Christ's presence, Peter gives us three things to equip us for what is yet to come (v. 13). First, he tells us to prepare our minds for action. His words are reminiscent of Paul's in Romans 12:2: "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."
The second admonition is to be self-controlled. In 1 Peter 5:8-9 he expands his teaching: "Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings."
He also urges us to set our hope fully on grace. Our confident assurance is focused solely in Jesus. He is the author and perfecter of our faith. He endured scorn and shame for our sake so we might live with him. Why did Jesus do that for us? "So that you will not grow weary and lose heart" (Hebrews 12:3).
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Upper Arlington Restaurant Employee Charged After Allegedly Forcing Himself On Fellow Employee
UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio
A man is charged with gross sexual imposition and having a weapon under disability after he allegedly forced himself on a coworker.
According to court documents, Justin James Albert Gosetto, an employee at Alex's Bistro, located in the 4600 block of Reed Road, approached a female employee and attempted to make sexual advances.
The alleged victim told Upper Arlington police that Gosetto attempted to make out with her and put his hands down her pants.
When police found Gosetto, they found him to have a Smith and Wesson 357 revolver tucked in his pants pocket.
Gosetto posted $50,000 bond on Wednesday.
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Petricola carditoides (Conrad, 1837)
Common name(s): Rock dweller, Heart rock dweller, Hearty petricolid, Nestling clam
|Synonyms: Rupellaria carditoides
|Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia
Subclass Heterodonta
Order Veneroida
Family Petricolidae
|Petricola carditoides shells found nestling in piddock clam holes at beach #4, Olympic Peninsula
|(Photo by: Dave Cowles, July 2006)
How to Distinguish from Similar Species: Family Pholadidae, the piddock clams, are also found in holes bored into rock but their valves are more elongated and are very different on the anterior end than on the posterior end. Petricola pholadiformis is an Atlantic species that was introduced to quiet bays (especially Willipa Bay) along with oysters. It bores in clay in a few places. It actually bores into the clay or into waterlogged wood rather than nestling in already-created holes, and its shell resembles that of a piddock clam. Its shell is more elongated and it has heavy radial sculpture. Petricola californiensis is found in southern California. Its shell is thinner and more elongate, with fine radial lines and purple-brown stains near the hinge. Hiatella arctica, also a nestler, has a thinner shell, more persistent periostracum, and bright red siphon tips.
Geographical Range: Sitka, Alaska to Baja California
Depth Range: Low intertidal to 50 m
Habitat: Nestles in cavities in rock, especially those bored by piddock clams
Biology/Natural History: Young individuals attach to the rock by byssal threads, but the adults do not. This clam secretes a fair amount of mucus.
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Harbo, 1997
Johnson and Snook, 1955
Kozloff, 1993
Morris, 1966
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This species nestles in the holes left in shale by piddock clams. Several individuals are visible in this photo.
In this inside view, the anterior end of the shell is up and posterior is down.
The well-defined pallial line is visible in both shells, as well as the deep pallial sinus near the posterior end.
Both the anterior and posterior adductor muscle scars are visible near the hinge, with the posterior scar most evident.
A good deal of brown, adhering periostracum can still be seen near the hinge of this individual.
The hinge has two cardinal hinge teeth on one side and three on the other.
This broken piece of shale shows the clam's nestling position in an abandoned pholadid clam burrow.
Photo at Shi Shi beach by Dave Cowles, August 2007