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Katy Perry: I don't need Prince Charming
Katy Perry no longer needs a "prince charming" to make her happy.
The American singer is in the process of getting divorced from Russell Brand, following a 14 month marriage. Their split is charted in her new concert movie Katy Perry: Part of Me 3D and she has hinted it has made her totally rethink what she wants from life.
"Always, love is an incredible emotion," she replied, when asked if she is open to finding love again. "If you lived life without love you wouldn't be living. I feel like to shut that out of my life just because I've had an interesting experience it would be very unfortunate. My fairy tale has altered - I don't necessarily need the prince charming in order to have the happy ending, I can have the happy ending for myself at this point in time."
Although their relationship fell apart, Katy is still glad she was with Russell for several years. She has now moved on and is ready for the next stage in her life.
"I look like I'm having fun right? I'm totally cool," she told UK TV show Daybreak. "I'm just excited. I do have a second chance at life and also that I already have a brilliant life and sometimes I need to remind myself.
"Everything is a lessons learned. Everybody asks me if there are any regrets: no, this is a very valuable lesson. You have to live life in order to achieve those lessons. It was important to me to show the real honest side of me."
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In Brief | Nation and World May 6
Carlesimo out as Nets coach after loss
NEW YORK — After spending $350 million to upgrade their roster last summer, the Brooklyn Nets will start this offseason by looking for a coach.
The Nets announced Sunday that P.J. Carlesimo wouldn't return, hours after they were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.
Carlesimo helped the Nets finish 49-33 after replacing the fired Avery Johnson in December, earning the No. 4 seed in the Eastern Conference. Carlesimo went 35-19 on an interim basis.
But they spotted the Chicago Bulls a 17-point halftime lead and lost 99-93 at home Saturday night in Game 7.
S. Williams advances in 2 sets at Madrid Open
MADRID — Top-ranked Serena Williams won her opening match on the red clay of the Madrid Open on Sunday.
She and other stars are glad the tournament returned to the traditional surface after its trial with blue "Smurf" clay flopped last year.
After dispatching Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan 7-6 (5), 6-1, the defending champion said she liked the new courts at the Caja Magica.
Older sister Venus Williams withdrew early Sunday morning before her first-round match because of back problems.
Eighteen-year-old American Madison Keys upset fifth-ranked Li Na of China 6-3, 6-2. Former top-ranked player Caroline Wozniacki was ousted by Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-4.
Fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland defeated Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria 6-2, 6-4 and will play Britain's Laura Robson.
Other seeded winners included Angelique Kerber, Petra Kvitova, Marion Bartoli, Dominika Cibulkova, Ana Ivanovic, Nadia Petrova and Maria Kirilenko.
In the men's event, Gilles Simon, Fernando Verdasco and Jeremy Chardy all won matches to move on to the second round.
Wawrinka beats Ferrer to win Portugal Open
OEIRAS, Portugal — Stanislas Wawrinka won the Portugal Open by beating top-seeded David Ferrer 6-1, 6-4 in Sunday's final.
The second-seeded Wawrinka, who is from Switzerland, broke Ferrer's serve three times while not giving up one break point to finish the lopsided match in 1 hour, 5 minutes.
It was Wawrinka's fourth career title and first this year.
Haas defeats Kohlschreiber in BMW
MUNICH — Tommy Haas won the BMW Open for the first time in his 10th attempt.
The third-seeded Haas beat defending champion Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 7-6 (3) on Sunday to win the first all-German final in Munich in 48 years.
The 35-year-old Haas capped an impressive week by beating Kohlschreiber in 83 minutes for his 14th ATP Tour title and his fourth on home soil. He is the first 35-year-old to win an ATP Tour event since Fabrice Santoro at Newport in 2008.
Haas will rise to 13th in today's world rankings. The German has an 18-7 match record this year, reaching the SAP Open final in San Jose, where he lost to Milos Raonic, and knocking out top-ranked Novak Djokovic en route to the semifinals in Miami.
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NC artist to create busts of black Indiana lawmakers
A North Carolina sculptor has won a commission to create bronze busts of late U.S. Rep. Julia Carson and another black Indiana lawmaker for a permanent collection.
Jon Hair of Cornelius, N.C., will create busts of Carson and James Sidney Hinton, who became the first black elected to the Indiana General Assembly when he won a term in the House in 1880. Carson served in the state Senate before being elected to the U.S. House in 1996. She died in 2007.
The Indiana Arts Commission, Indiana Historical Bureau and Indiana Department of Administration announced Thursday the busts of Hinton and Carson will be displayed in niches on the second and third floors of the Statehouse in downtown Indianapolis. They'll be part of black history display authorized by the General Assembly.
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The postcard is dated 1957. As admirers of Canada's greatest pianist will have guessed, it was written by Glenn Gould to his beloved dog, while the musician was part way through a historic tour of Russia during the height of the Cold War.
The Toronto pianist was the first major North American artist to appear in Leningrad and Moscow after the death of Joseph Stalin, and it is difficult now to appreciate the impact he made. As a Russian pianist told me many years later: "Before Glenn Gould came to our country we played Bach one way. After his visit we played Bach another."
The postcard is part of "Glenn Gould: the Sounds of Genius," the most comprehensive exhibition ever presented on Gould's life and work. Assembled primarily from the holdings of the Library and Archives of Canada and on view at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, it was unveiled in the fall of 2007 to mark the 75th anniversary of Gould's birth and the 25th anniversary of his premature death in 1982. It is scheduled to run until May 17.
The items range from a copy of The Daily Woof, an animal newspaper produced by the exhibition's subject at the age of 8 or 9, to his manager Walter Homburger's reports to the Star on that famous Russian tour. A clip can be seen from John McGreevy's Cities series on CBC television, showing the aspiring maestro conducting elephants at the Toronto Zoo, singing Mahler all the while.
If all this is beginning to illustrate the first half of the conductor George Szell's exasperated quip, "that nut's a genius," there is plenty to illustrate the second half as well.
At the age of 31, the "nut" left the concert stage and over the succeeding decade alone released 32 albums. "My idea of happiness," Gould said, "is spending 250 days a year in a recording studio."
He was wrong, admittedly, in predicting that recordings would eliminate the concert halls of the world. In making this prediction, he depended less on factual evidence than on personal need, a theme developed by Dr. Helen Mesaros in Bravo Fortissimo Glenn Gould: The Mind of a Canadian Virtuoso, one of the more interesting of several recent books to have put the animal lover on the couch.
His reclusiveness became notorious. When, in a Star article, I jokingly referred to him as "the hermit of St. Clair," (we lived in the same apartment building), I received one of his legendary nocturnal phone calls, chiding me for telling people where he lived.
When I responded by saying, "Glenn, St. Clair runs practically across the city," he responded, "You don't know how persistent these people can be."
The exhibition leaves recent revelations of Gould's ultra-secret love life undocumented, but offers a fascinating array of letters and artefacts covering just about every other aspect of his time on earth. His 1895 Chickering baby grand is here, along with his 1943 Steinway concert grand, CD 318. So is his earliest surviving composition, A Merry Thought, written for piano in 1941 and dedicated to his Grade 5 teacher, Miss Trott.
There are interactive aspects to the exhibition as well, enabling visitors to experience his groundbreaking CBC radio documentaries ("Contrapuntal Radio," he dubbed them) and his signature performances.
But of all Gould's words documented in this exhibition, those I found most illuminating about his art were the following: "One does not play the piano with one's fingers; one plays the piano with one's mind."
If ever Canada has produced a pianist identifiable equally as a thinker, he surely must be that person. He is also the pianist who made and still makes us think. Passive listening to Glenn Gould is just about impossible, and for that act of energizing the listening experience we remain eternally in his debt.


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Stealing from the King and There's Nothing I Can Do About That
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When sketch comedy group "Awful People" try to get away for a writing retreat in rural Maine, their lives change in an instant when they stumble upon/kidnap author Stephen King. With America's best selling horror author at their mercy, a bad situation just gets worse. Intermixed with rapid fire sketches, rock n' roll, and strong narration, we witness The King's desperation as he tries to reason with the group and their demented leader, who seems hell bent on getting exactly what he wants. Tensions rise, friendships are destroyed, and it all leads to one fiery conclusion.
Awful People present Stealing from the King is a darkly humorous and profane 35-minute love letter to the King of horror and his massive body of work. It features a wraparound story chock full of King tropes and straight on parodies in between. Narrated by Gregory Hollimon (Strangers with Candy) and performed by Brooke Elbrecht, Mel Forrest, Trey Hanks, Keegan Hill, Warren Phynix Johnson, and Derek Schleelein. Directed by Wolfgang Stein.
There's Nothing I Can Do About That is a sketch comedy revue that will take you on a cheery tour through our collective feelings of helplessness and apathy. You'll encounter violent grandmothers, convoluted Halloween costumes, cake, a well-meaning gay couple, and a therapist determined to convince his patients that the world's problems just sound better when they're sung.
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Wheat Jonathan Lane, Gleadell's trading manager, comments on grain markets:The expected onslaught from hurricane Isaac, while potentially dumping much needed moisture onto the US wheat areas prior to winter sowing, is also seen increasing the likelihood of delaying corn and soybean harvests. US markets also gained strength on the assumption that the meeting tomorrow of Russian ministers to discuss the 2012 grain crop, will adopt 'some type' of grain export restriction, without declaring an 'all-out ban'.EU markets also traded higher, supported by growing yield concerns in Russia, Kazakhstan and the Ukraine, and the potential of lower export availability. French and German wheat harvests are now winding down, with French analysts reporting 'good surprises in less favourable areas', over quality and yield. In Germany, the overall crop seems to be satisfactory and much better than was feared only a few weeks ago. Across continental Europe, everyone has milling wheat – and milling premiums are disappearing at a rapid rate of knots. Even the Danes are supplying milling wheat specs against feed wheat contracts. However, the UK remains depressingly bogged down with heavy rains, heightening quality concerns. It has to be hoped that the forecast of ten days of good weather will materialise and allow real progress to me made. The HGCA estimates the UK harvest 40% complete, but with very little harvest activity in the west and north. UK millers, hit by weather delays and quality issues, have stepped up purchases of imported grain from France, Germany, Denmark and further afield – and this will put a cap on UK domestic milling premiums. With the harvest far from over, specific weight seems to be the main quality issue, leaving most domestic users reviewing their intake criteria and this, in turn, will determine the price. Despite a lower UK crop, we will still produce an exportable surplus and, in many regions, this is struggling to meet a minimum of 72kg/hl. Bushel weights below 72kg, in the export market, are heavily discounted below the nominal 72kg market but, unless quality is well below 68kg, it will find a buyer at some stage. OilseedsWillie Wright, Gleadell's Oilseed Trader, comments on the markets:Soybeans and soybean meal have rallied to new contract highs once more. November soybeans touched $17.60 earlier in the week with signs of weakening at this time. Heavy rains are now hitting the US Midwest, which will do nothing to help the soybean or corn crop at this stage. Long soybean specs continue to sit tight as we enter the US harvest period, normally specs would sit out the harvest period and re-enter post-harvest once yield and quality has been established. The UK rapeseed harvest is all but completed, although there is still plenty to harvest north of the border. Quality and yields have remained at the lower end of expectations, yields are being reported at around 3.4t/ha, with many reports of oil content running around 42.5%. The UK crop looks set to come in at circa 2.45mln t, giving us an exportable surplus of around 500,000 tonnes for the season, much of this exportable surplus will have moved in the July-August period, leaving the UK with little to offer the European market place post-Christmas. On the plus side, prices remain firm with ex farm values sitting at £390/tonne for early September movement, and much better crush margins than were first anticipated. We are at the optimum drilling time for OSR through to 7th September, however, with a larger majority of hybrid varieties now being grown in the UK, drilling until 15th September shouldn't be an issue! Harvest values for 2013 are trading around £350 ex farm. The European economic market place continues to provide real nervousness in global markets, with the Catalonian region of Spain coming forward to ask for a 5 billion rescue package from the Spanish government. Growth in China remains a concern and, with oil prices firm and the prospect of higher food prices in the coming months, the economy doesn't look set to take off at any time soon.
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LORETTO, PENN. -- Joe Walton was coaching right until the end.
The swirling emotions of a pending retirement and the final game on the sideline would have been enough for many of us to take a few moments to be selfish, to look around and soak in a few lasting memories at the expense of staying focused on the game in front of us.
Not Walton. The veteran Robert Morris coach wouldn't have it any other way. His disappointment Saturday afternoon at Saint Francis had everything to do with his team's performance in a 23-3 loss to the Red Flash and little to do with his exit from the program he constructed out of nothing.
"I was more concerned about seeing if we could get the ball in the end zone," Walton said.
Robert Morris entered the day with a chance to send Walton out on a high note, complete with a share of his seventh Northeast Conference title. Instead, an inconsistent season ended with no piece of the crown, a 5-6 record and a tie for third place.
"I think generally speaking we were an up-and-down team," Walton said. "We couldn't concentrate two weeks in a row. When that happens, you're going to get beat."
Walton would have preferred the focus the past two weeks to have stayed on his football team rather than on him. He enjoyed the lower profile at Robert Morris after years in the NFL, enjoyed the close relationships he had with his coaching staff and the players every season. It kept the focus on football, rather than on the extraneous pomp and circumstance that often surrounds the sport now.
"I haven't liked it at all," Walton admitted. "Football takes a lot of focus by everybody. The coaching staff, the players, and as I've said, last week was senior day and retirement and all that...it's not the time to do it. I think everything was done a little too early."
This was a labor of love for Walton, a chance to simply coach football and make an impact. The chance to coach college football, something he'd never done before, was part of what drew him to Robert Morris in the first place. And what began as an experiment expected to last a few years became a 20-year love affair, one that will continue when Walton steps into a new role as a special assistant to the athletic director.
"Robert Morris has become my second home," Walton said. "Certainly being able to stay there and still be around people that I like is quite nice."
Head coach-in-waiting John Banaszak has Walton's trust and support to take the wheel, to guide the program into the next phase of its existence. And with Walton in the opposite end of the building, the football staff won't have to change the locks on their offices.
"I think John will let me watch if I have a chance," Walton said with a laugh.
In many respects, it would have been nice for Robert Morris to send him out as a champion, even if it was just for a piece of that NEC crown, even if it didn't include the bid to the FCS playoffs. The Disney version of the Joe Walton Story ends with him being hoisted in the air after an NEC title and perhaps even a national championship, a Cinderella run to claim the FCS crown.
But forget the accolades for a moment, from his All-American status at Pitt to the six NEC titles at RMU. Forget about handing out another trophy and listen. Listen to the hundreds of players who walked into the Robert Morris program under Walton's guidance and found a path. Listen to the dozens of players who earned a second chance from him and ran with it. Listen to the late Tim Hall, who went from an afterthought to a star in just two years and became Robert Morris' first NFL draft pick.
Listen to Hall's family, who still hold Walton in the highest regard for spearheading a scholarship in his name after Hall was murdered in Kansas City in 1998. Most of all, listen to Hank Fraley, one of the other Colonials to make it to the NFL.
"The best thing about Coach Walton is not his on the field stuff, but off the field," Fraley said. "You're a part of his family."
That, not a piece of hardware with the league stamp on it, is the trophy of a true champion.
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On October 21, 2003, Michael Wagner, M.D., Ph.D., made a presentation in the Web-assisted Audioconference entitled Methods for Real-Time Detection and Assessment of Disease Outbreaks Using Information Technology.
The is the text version of Dr. Wagners's slide presentation. Select to access the PowerPoint® slides (990 KB).
Michael Wagner, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance Laboratory
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University of Pittsburgh
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Slide contains text and text boxes linked by directional arrows. On the left most side of the slide is an underlined heading that reads "First Hint of Trouble." Under this heading are three bullets: statistical analysis of data; astute observer; and definitive diagnosis of new or "terrorism" organism. From the top of this bulleted list is an arrow that leads to a text box on the right. Within this text box is the heading "Analysis/Characterization" that is followed by three bulleted questions: Is it an emergency? Quarantine? and Get more antibiotics? Directly below that text box is another that has the heading "Additional Data Collection" which is followed by three bullets: "shoeleather," microchip testing, and decision support at the point-of-care. These two text boxes are linked to each other with semi-circular arrows pointing from the Analysis/Characterization text box to the Additional Data Collection text box. From the Analysis/Characterization text box an arrow and points to the right, to the word "Responses."
On the right hand side of the slide are graphics indicating that data goes from the retail stores to a data center, then to the RODS lab and finally to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
NRDM development supported by PA Bioinformatics Grant #ME-01-737, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and New York State
This slide shows 9 lines of information written in a code using various symbols. Three text boxes highlight zip code, visit time and date, and free-text chief complaint information included among the lines of code.
The text "N/V/D- Chief Complaint" is followed by an arrow that points to the right towards a text box and is labeled "Naïve Bayes Classifier." The text box contains the following information: P (Respiratory|NVD)= .05, P (Botulinic|NVD)= .001, P (Constitutional|NVD)= .01, P (GI|NVD) = .9, P (Hemorrhagic|NVD)= .001, P (Neurologic|NVD)= .001, P (Rash|NVD)= .001, P (None|NVD)= .036.
On the right hand side of this text box is another arrow that points to the right and is followed by the text "GI Prodrome Output."
This slide contains a screen shot of a Web page for Utah's RODS system. At the top of the page is a "Systems Message Log," Information in this log includes date, time and a short note describing any alarm that may be occurring. Below the message log is a series of 8 line graphs. They represent the number of all visits, respiratory, GI, rash, constitutional, hemorrhagic, neurological, and botulinic. At the bottom of the page is a drop-down menu that allows a user to select and view a variety of "counts" or graphs.
This slide contains another screen shot of a Web page from Utah's RODS system. This page is identified at a "Mapplot" and contains a State map that can broken down into many "layers." These layers are identified on the right-hand side of the page as Olympic Village, Healthcare Facilities, Highways, Streets, Water, Landmarks, Airports, Zip Codes, Counties, and Western States. The map also shows information about the number of visits or "prodromes" in each layer. There is a drop-down menu that allows a user to choose a specific category. At the left of the screen is a legend that helps a user to interpret what number of cases each color on the map represents.
RODS development supported by PA Bioinformatics Grant #ME-01-737, AHRQ, National Library of Medicine Training Grant (Dr. Espino).
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A PUBLIC consultation on whether Wiltshire's fire service should merge with Dorset's is back on after a political row.
But significant changes are being made to the consultative document at the centre of the falling-out between Conservative councillors which led to the authority's chairman, Graham Payne, being ousted.
The original paper, drawn up by the two counties' chief fire officers, put forward a detailed business case for a merger as the only way to avoid cuts which would mean closing retained fire stations such as Wilton and downgrading Salisbury, with up to half Wiltshire's firefighters losing their jobs.
Each service is facing the prospect of annual budget shortfalls exceeding £3m in a couple of years' time.
Wiltshire Council, however, wants to take over the county fire service's back office functions, as it has done with the police, and this is what led to the Tory split and the postponement of the consultation last month.
Such a move would save £800,000 a year. It would prevent the merger and would require frontline cuts.
This option, and a variation on it which would still require frontline cuts, are likely to be included in the consultation document.
The consultation will begin on Monday, July 21 and run for 13 weeks. It will involve focus groups of randomly selected residents, business and voluntary group forums, and questionnaires available in public buildings and online. The issue will also be discussed at area board meetings.
A decision will be made in November.


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|Renal Transplant Rejection
|Other: Pharmacokinetics/dynamics
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
|Official Title:
|Interest of Calcineurin Activity for the Therapeutic Tacrolimus Monitoring in Renal Recipients
- Determination of tacrolimus concentrations in whole blood and of calcineurin activities in lymphocytes [ Time Frame: at day 8, day15, day21 (pharmacokinetics on 4 times samples), day 28, month 2 and month 3 (residual measurement) ]
- Pharmacogenetics (3A5) [ Time Frame: at day 8, day 15, day 21, day 28, month 2 and month 3 ]
- Genotyping of CYP3A5 * 3 (A6986G) and mdr-1: mutations of these proteins could explain the changes of absorption of tacrolimus.
- For each patient, during the first month of treatment, 5 ml of blood will be collected on EDTA tube.
- Genotyping is realized by the allelic discrimination technique Taqman, on a ABI Prism 7000 (TaqMan ®) in the Molecular Biology unit, Pharmacogenetics and Hormonology Bicêtre Hospital
|Study Start Date:
|January 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
No Intervention: Tacrolimus
Determination of tacrolimus concentrations in whole blood and of calcineurin activities in lymphocytes at D8, D15, D21 (pharmacokinetics on 4 times samples), D28, M2 and M3 (residual measurement)
Other: Pharmacokinetics/dynamics
Determination of tacrolimus concentrations in whole blood and of calcineurin activities in lymphocytes at D8, D15, D21 (pharmacokinetics on 4 times samples), D28, M2 and M3 (residual measurement)
Detailed Description:
Some authors showed that the determination of calcineurin (enzyme of cyclosporin and tacrolimus action) activity was very interesting in bone narrow and hepatic transplant in order to monitor tacrolimus or cyclosporin. Indeed, Furthermore, target Tac concentrations still fail to provide in certain patients an appropriate immunosuppression reflected by rejection. Because a lack of data in renal transplant, we propose to study this population treated by tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil and corticoids in the first three months following the transplantation.
Our major aim is to study the relationship between calcineurin activity and immunologic events in 200 renal recipients treated with tacrolimus in the first three months following transplant. Immunologic events could be acute rejections and infraclinical rejections. The second aims are 1) if this relationship exists, to define the threshold predicting acute rejection using ROC-curve, 2) to define variations between pharmacodynamic (calcineurin activity) and pharmacokinetic (whole blood concentrations) tacrolimus monitoring and 3) to compare calcineurin activity in patients with acute rejection and those with borderline rejection. Blood samples will be collected into EDTA-containing vacutainers prior to the tacrolimus morning administration and at 2, 4, 6 and 9 hours following the administration at D7, D14 and D21. Whole blood tacrolimus concentrations and calcineurin activity were measured using LCMSMS and HPLC techniques. After D21, only residual measurements will be carried out at D28, M2 and M3. A comparative statistical analysis will be performed between data defined with and without rejection. In case of difference, a ROC curve analysis could define normal ranges of calcineurin activity.
This is the second study of the Sud FRANCILIEN Institute for Research in Nephrology-Transplantation defined with Nephrology departments in Mondor and BICETRE hospitals and the object "Interest of pharmacodynamics of immunosuppressive drugs in renal-transplant recipients" is a new theme of these teams.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- adult renal transplant recipients
- treated by tacrolimus (Prograf or ADVAGRAF), corticoids, Cellcept,
Exclusion Criteria:
- patients with a high risk of bad compliance (toxicomania, severe psychiatric troubles)
- multiorgan transplant patients with mTOR inhibitors treatments
- HIV infected patients
- lack of consent for this study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01413685
|Hôpital Henri Mondor
|Créteil, France, 94000
|Principal Investigator:
|Philippe GRIMBERT
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|Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01413685 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|June 24, 2011
|Last Updated:
|November 13, 2014
Keywords provided by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Calcineurin Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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BEDFORD, Mass., Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. announced promising results of their sustained release travoprost (OTX-TP2) study for the treatment of glaucoma and ocular hypertension. OTX-TP2, a drug-eluting intracanalicular plug inserted through the punctum, was evaluated for the reduction of elevated intraocular pressure over a two-month period.
The pilot Phase II study enrolled twenty patients (36 eyes) at the Umhlanga Hospital Medical Centre and Netcare Alberlito Hospital in South Africa. Patients with documented open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension (intraocular pressure (IOP) >/= 24 mmHg and </= 34 mmHg) were enrolled in the study, with a mean IOP at baseline of 28.7 mmHg. A single plug was administered in each enrolled eye. Analysis showed a decrease in IOP of 6.8 mmHg over two months of treatment. No excessive tearing or other unanticipated adverse events occurred.
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Results are comparable to topical brand name ophthalmic solutions, Travatan® (Alcon Laboratories, Inc.), Lumigan® (Allergan, Inc.), and Xalatan® (Pfizer, Inc.).1 However, current topical administrations are plagued with issues of non-compliance, which can lead to costly and invasive surgeries, vision impairment, and even blindness. It has been reported that up to 60% of patients do not administer ophthalmic drops as directed, even though patients' perception is that they are compliant with 97% of their dosing.2 Sustained release travoprost may help to circumvent these issues of patient non-compliance by eliminating the need for daily dosing.
"Not only did the plug deliver therapeutic amounts of drug over two months, reduction in intraocular pressure remained consistent and significant throughout the entire treatment period" stated Pierre Wassermann, Principal Investigator at the Umhlanga Hospital Medical Centre in South Africa. "This product has the potential to revolutionize management of the disease by putting drug dosing in the hands of the physician rather than the patient."
Glaucoma is a chronic disease that must be monitored and treated for life, impacting more than 2 million Americans, and is the leading cause of blindness in the United States. "Achieving clinically meaningful IOP reduction over a two-month period with single-dose administration is a tremendous achievement" stated Amar Sawhney, President and CEO of Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. "We are optimistic about recent advances in extending delivery, visualization, and persistence of our formulations to longer durations."
About Ocular Therapeutix's Drug Products:
Ocular Therapeutix uses the company's proprietary polyethylene glycol hydrogel intracanalicular plug technology to release proven and approved drugs in a sustained fashion over a specified period of time. At the end of the treatment period, the plug begins to absorb, and exits the nasolacrimal system without need for removal by the physician. The plugs contain a visualization agent for retention monitoring throughout the treatment period.
About Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.:
Founded in November 2006, Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. is a privately held company based in Bedford, MA, focused on the development and commercialization of ophthalmic therapeutic products using its proprietary hydrogel technology. Ocular Therapeutix is using its hydrogel technology for development of a variety of ophthalmic applications including hydrogel sealants for ocular surface protection, drug-eluting punctum plugs for treatment of various anterior segment diseases, and with therapeutic agents for back-of-the-eye diseases.
1Package Inserts: Xalatan® 0.005% latanoprost ophthalmic solution, Pfizer, Woodstock, IL, USA. 2011; Lumigan® 0.01% and 0.03% bimatoprost ophthalmic solution, Allergan, Irvine, CA, USA. 2012; Travatan Z® 0.004% travoprost ophthalmic solution, Alcon, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. 2010.
2Goldberg I. Compliance with Medical Management in Glaucoma. Asian J of Ophthalmol 2000;2(4):3-6.
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Saturday, Dec. 1, 12:48 a.m.: I pop the handle and cautiously step out of my car in the parking lot behind Mirror Image studios in Anaheim, a small venue in the belly of a dark, nondescript business park. I see and hear small groups of people laughing and bullshitting, but I recognize no one.
1:10 a.m.: For the past 15 minutes, I've been waiting for LA mixtape impresario DJ Nik Bean to arrive. Earlier in the week, I met him and legendary West Coast rapper Kurupt for an interview. They were shooting a video for the song "Lend Me Ya Ear" off Kurupt's new mixtape, Money, Bitches, Power, due out in January.
1:14 a.m.: It's cold, and I can't stop coughing. DJ Nik and Kurupt have been friends for about five years and collaborated on a number of projects, including the mixtape. After meeting them on set, talking with Kurupt about his former fiancee Natina Reed passing away and hanging out at Hooters for an evening, the two let me in on a private show Kurupt would play in Orange County at Mirror Image. I'd never heard of it.
1:16 a.m.: I decide to go inside. It turns out to be a ridiculously packed, late-night gangsta party. I try to ignore the stares. Is it that obvious I don't belong? Probably.
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1:20 a.m.: I know I'm getting ill. A few minutes after getting out of the car, I meet up with DJ Nik at the front of the crowded entrance, and we head inside.
1:21 a.m.: We walk through the VIP backstage section to try to find Kurupt. He's nowhere to be found. This place is wall-to-wall people. There are two half-naked women with clothes painted on. Everyone is smoking weed.
1:23 a.m.: We walk through an enormous cloud of smoke.
1:33 a.m.: Kurupt shows up with a posse in a parking lot behind the studio. There are four cameras in his face. DJ Nik and I walk up to him. Kurupt gives me a hug. Everyone reeks of weed.
1:41 a.m.: The entire posse is trying to jam through one door. The back entrance connects to the stage. Too many people, not enough space. A man with a tattooed face almost runs me over.
1:44 a.m.: Inside, there are almost as many people onstage as there are in the crowd. Still, the crowd is packed tightly.
1:46 a.m.: Dr. Dre's son Curtis Young, a.k.a. Hood Surgeon, is onstage, so is Tash from Tha Alkaholiks. An MC is screaming about getting everyone off the stage. It's extremely annoying. Everyone is drunk and/or high and not moving.
1:51 a.m.: Kurupt finally comes toward the front of the stage with his brother, Philadelphia rapper Roscoe. He starts off his set with a tribute to Nate Dogg. Everyone is throwing up their West Coast signs and waving their hands.
1:55 a.m.: Kurupt smokes a huge, 8-inch blunt onstage.
1:58 a.m.: Kurupt raps to Dr. Dre's "Xxplosive" and Warren G and Nate Dogg's "Regulate." One of the naked, painted girls from the VIP room is shaking her ass very fast.
2:26 a.m.: "I'm gonna come down and smoke with you," announces Kurupt to the crowd. He bobs his head up and down. He starts freestyling. It's fucking great.
3:10 a.m.: Kurupt hugs me goodbye before he leaves. He tells me that he's going to write a book about his life.
3:15 a.m.: DJ Nik and I head over to Denny's, which is about five minutes away.
3:18 a.m.: It's packed as shit inside. We wait about 25 minutes for a table.
3:20 a.m.: I ask DJ Nik if he's ever been to jail. He tells me some crazy story about being arrested for having weed and a baseball bat in the backseat of his car about six years ago. The cops claimed he was in possession of a deadly weapon. He used to sell weed back in the day, but he doesn't anymore.
3:41 a.m.: It seriously looks like a Hot Topic convention to my left. Some dude with five rings in his lip and blood tattoos coming down his neck is among a clan of ugly women wearing slutty, all-black clothes.
3:50 a.m.: We talk about how the club is a place where you go to get laid. DJ Nik tells me that a lot of ladies try to take him home when he's in the booth. He likes younger women.
4:06 a.m.: We talk about how pimps make good money. I don't understand why prostitutes can't keep the money they make.
4:10 a.m.: We conclude that stripping might be more profitable.
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If you're wondering, Tyrese finds rumors that he's dating Whitney Houston just as funny as most of you. The National Enquirer is at the helm of this relationship rumor, claiming that the two singer-actors met at a pre-Grammy party in Los Angeles earlier this year and have been "quietly dating." Tyrese took to Twitter to denounce the rumors.
The Transformers 3 star tweeted, "Negative blogs, press, blurbs, people spreading negative things. Rumors. I rest well at night cause none of these things matter anymore." He added, "Man, if y'all don't Gtfoh w this dumb s***.. Hahahahahaahahaa... #Never... I repeat.. Never..!!"
While Whitney herself hasn't issued a statement about the matter, her daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, vented her frustrations about Tyrese's pointed denial. She responded to him via Twitter with, "Lmao at Tyrese.. Damn it's like that?! Hah, well to clear it up, trust me, MY MOM WOULD Never. Hah #shesroyalty."
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Major downsizing for UT with loss of Wangmene
Updated 12:26 am, Monday, March 5, 2012
AUSTIN — Texas will have to play what could be its most important game of the season without its best interior defender.
Alexis Wangmene, a 6-foot-7 forward who became a valuable member of the Longhorns' frontcourt as a fifth-year senior, will miss the rest of the season after dislocating his left wrist in Saturday's 73-63 loss at No. 3 Kansas, a source said Sunday.
The school issued a statement saying Wangmene will undergo a test today.
Entering a Thursday conference quarterfinal game that could determine if they receive an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament, the sixth-seeded Longhorns (19-12, 9-9 Big 12) would have counted heavily on Wangmene to slow down Iowa State forward Royce White. Now, UT will have to face the third-seeded Cyclones — as well as any other possible opponents in the postseason — with Wangmene on the sideline.
A native of Cameroon, Wangmene was adopted at 14 by the family of Spurs general manager R.C. Buford and played at Central Catholic High before attending a prep school in New Jersey for a year.
He played sparingly at UT until last year, when he started seeing regular minutes as a defensive and rebounding specialist. This season, as one of just three veteran players on a roster with six freshmen, he emerged as a team leader, averaging 4.7 points and 4.8 rebounds in 21.8 minutes per game.
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In the first half of Saturday's game at Kansas, Wangmene's defense helped limit Jayhawks big man Thomas Robinson to 3-of-10 shooting. But in the first minute after halftime, Wangmene was undercut by teammate Clint Chapman, who was trying to take a charge. Wangmene landed on his left hand, and replays showed his lower arm snap.
Chapman, who is playing with a sprained ankle, and freshmen Jonathan Holmes of Antonian and Jaylen Bond are the only healthy interior players remaining on UT's roster.
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When, where: Wednesday-Saturday, at Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.
Wednesday: (8) Oklahoma vs. (9) Texas A&M, 6 p.m.; (7) Oklahoma State vs. (10) Texas Tech, 8:30 p.m. (KCWX)
Thursday: (4) Baylor vs. (5) Kansas State, 11:30 a.m. (ESPN2); (1) Kansas vs. OU/A&M winner, 2 p.m. (ESPN2); (2) Missouri vs. OSU/Tech winner, 6 p.m. (KCWX); (3) Iowa State vs (6) Texas, 8:30 p.m. (KCWX)
Friday's semifinals: 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. (KCWX & ESPNU)
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Australian top chef Greg Doyle in Manila starting Jan. 25
The Peninsula Manila's general manager Sonja Vodusek thought the event important enough to go back to work while she was still on holiday. It turns out the holiday was her honeymoon (congratulations!). But being Australian, she felt that she had to be at the hotel's "Tasting Australia 2013."
The lunch didn't feature the cooking of the guest chef from Australia, Greg Doyle, who won "Restaurateur of the Year" because of his successful "The Sailors Club" in Sydney. He will be arriving on the last week of January when the 10-day festival starts on Jan. 25.
The write-up about Greg Doyle is crowded with awards, Michelin stars he has earned, and several restaurants he cooked at or owned that were cited as best or "national." Now I suppose we have to wait for him to arrive to taste his cooking and find out what Australia has been raving about.
He will have with him as well Steven Skelly, his executive chef at The Sailors Club, his pastry chef Nic Waring and fellow Aussie Adam Mathis of The Peninsula Tokyo.
Indigenous ingredients
We were not exactly deprived that day of the announcement. Executive chef Samuel Linder and his staff used Australian ingredients for the meal served, including many indigenous ingredients. The Tasmanian Ocean trout was poached and presented with goat cheese and lemon myrtle snow. We had Rosella sorbet, a variety of hibiscus or gumamela mixed with Yarra Valley sparkling wine to cleanse our palate before the main dish.
That was braised lamb in a pie and smoked Wagyu beef served with bush tomato fondue, honey-glazed beets and mushy peas. Dessert was a variation of the pavlova with a wattle seed cream.
But chef Doyle was there on the computer screen to answer questions. I asked him if fine dining is, indeed, dead since he emphasized that his restaurant wants more casual dining. He said that the times call for that, though the cooking will have the same high standards.
International 'kitchen tour'
Another hotel announced its own promotion this January. The Inter-Continental Manila will have a "Kitchen Tour" until the end of the month at the Prince Albert Restaurant featuring recipes from the book "InterContinental Kitchen" (2007).
I knew I had an Inter-Continental Manila book but, as it turned out, I had two. The other one was "A Chef's Journey," published in 1996 to celebrate the hotel chain's 50th anniversary, and featuring mostly the Asian properties.
Executive chef Alisdair Bletcher chose the dishes to be featured and resignedly said he kept the recipes intact save for some ingredient changes. For instance, the pan-fried foie gras sat on top of a cepe couscous instead of a risotto, the original recipe from Phoenicia in Lebanon. Tilapia substituted for the sea bream in the light, very good dish from Cyprus.
We took a trip to those Inter-Continental properties through our palate. The Cyprus dish was decidedly Mediterranean, with a light tomato sauce, and the caul wrapping the tilapia not only kept it together but added a bit of good fat to the flavor.
The pumpkin and ginger soup with seared scallops from Berlin was perhaps the best of that kind of soup that has become popular in many restaurants. For dessert, it was a hop to London with strawberry mille feuille with vanilla goat cheese mousse and strawberry jelly.
While we ate, we were kept abreast about some of the properties and how the scenery has changed since the book was printed five years ago. It certainly is true with InterContinental Manila.
And what about Manila's recipe? It was pancit palabok. Don't ask me why.
The "Kitchen Tour" also includes trips to Romania, Bora-Bora, Perth and Toronto and will be available until Jan. 31.
And I don't know about you, but I still like fine dining with its uniformed formal waiters, the white tablecloth, the good crystals and china. It should be good this Valentine's Day, especially with the chocolate treats like the lipstick that we tried on our lips and erased with a lick.
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The last time we left our champions of weird, they were in a little bit of chaos. The Grand Rapids trio of nut jobs (who used the unusual drum-bass-keyboard lineup) started off releasing avant-noise-pop songs named after colors with Jack White as their producer. The resulting album, Do Rabbits Wonder?, was release to little acclaim and even smaller sales figures. Switching labels, they released Flamingo Honey, this time releasing 10 songs that, all together, clocked in at less than 10 minutes. It was obvious that this was a band that thrived on novelty, but sadly not quality.
Though a step forward in terms of quality, Types of Wood will do little to shake that image.
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At yet another new label (this time Brille), the band is exhibiting restraint for the first time. The crazy keyboard freak-outs that highlighted Rabbits' best moments (like "Red", and the excellent coulda-been single "Blue") are absolutely nowhere to be found. As a matter of fact, vocalist David Swanson's keyboard paranoia takes a huge backseat this time out, leaving bassist Steve Damstra to do most—if not all—of the melodic work. Unsurprisingly, an album that is drum-n-bass in the truest sense sounds extremely dry. No fancy echo effects or production flourishes—just a drum kit and a bass. Is the band angling for a radio hit? Tracks like the straight-forward and simplistic "Up-Tight" certainly have more crossover appeal than most all of the band's back catalog, but unfortunately, this is simply too simple and basic a sound. Hooks are around but not terribly catchy—they aren't going to pull out a left-fielder like King Missile's "Detachable Penis" anytime soon. Even when not exciting, the band was at least always interesting, but tracks like "Slugger" and "Umbrella People" conjure up the one word that Whirlwind Heat would never seem to encompass: dull.
This isn't to say that Types of Wood doesn't have its moments. The low-down, almost bluesy "Captain Cave" is such a radical departure from their sound, it's almost like a Bizzaro World radio transmission of a Blues Traveler ballad. The 8-minute long "Nylon Heart" has a laid-back and jazzy vibe, slowly devolving into Strange Instrumental Noodling Land, but still remaining more melodically compelling than the majority of the album. The undeniable highlight, however, is "Gene Pool Style"—a fantastic and hilarious lyrical tale of selling sperm to make money told with absolutely zero sincerity. Yes, this is the Whirlwind Heat we know and love.
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Troy Glaus and Eric Hinske hit homers, Hinske made a "game-saving" catch and rookie Casey Janssen earned his third victory in four starts as the Jays beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 6-4.
"It's not an easy win, but we beat a team that's been hot lately," said Jays manager John Gibbons. "It was a big game for us. We needed that one, no question."
Tampa Bay had the tying run at third base in the eighth, but B.J. Ryan got pinch-hitter Toby Hall to ground out, turning the Rays away empty-handed.
Ryan wrapped things up in the ninth to earn his 10th save.
Coming off a three-game sweep at the hands of the Colorado Rockies, the Blue Jays were in trouble early against the Rays. Julio Lugo led off the game with a double and advanced on a bunt single by Carl Crawford.
Jonny Gomes followed with a line drive that seemed destined for the gap in right-center, but Hinske made a tremendous diving catch, holding the Rays to just a sacrifice fly.
"Hinske's play was a game-saver," Gibbons said. "If that ball gets through, you're looking at a whole different game. That may be a blowout-type inning."
An infielder until last year, Hinske is experiencing the outfield for the first time, but he played Gomes' drive like a seasoned professional.
"I took a good angle to the ball," he said. "I realized about halfway there that it was hanging up there a little bit and I was going to have a chance to make a play on it.
"I just laid out for it and caught it. It was cool -- it was exciting."
There was more nifty defense in the second, when Frank Catalanotto started an inning-ending double play, sliding feet-first to catch a sinking liner from Joey Gathright, then throwing to first base to double up Josh Paul.
"Those were two great plays that were key for the ballgame, and we were able to hold on at the end," said Glaus, who wasted no time in wiping out Tampa Bay's early 1-0 lead by smacking a two-run homer in the first, his 13th. The long ball struck a sponsor's display in the outfield seats and won a car for a lucky Jays fan.
Tampa Bay's Russell Branyan tied the game in the second with a leadoff homer to center, his fifth, but Hinske put the Jays back in front with a solo shot in the bottom of the second.
Hinske's drive came with a dose of controversy, striking a metal railing on the bullpen bench over the left-field fence and bouncing back into play. Crawford threw the ball back in and Hinske was tagged as he rounded the bases, but second-base umpire Greg Gibson ruled that the ball had gone out, giving Hinske his second homer of the season.
"When I got to second, I saw the umpire put his arm up and make the home run sign, so I kept going," Hinske said. "Then the ball came back, and I was like, 'What's going on?' "
The Jays added two more in the third. Lyle Overbay doubled home Catalanotto, then scored on Gregg Zaun's sacrifice fly.
A second sac fly by Zaun in the eighth inning gave Toronto some valuable insurance after the Rays had closed the gap to one.
Janssen turned in a solid if unspectacular outing, retiring eight of the last nine batters he faced. He allowed four runs on six hits over 6 2/3 innings, walking none and striking out three.
"He did what he had to do," said Gibbons. "He kept us in the game. It wasn't pretty -- it was exciting but the bullpen came through."
Janssen struggled with his command, but he concentrated on keeping the ball down.
"I knew I wasn't going to blow anybody away today -- not that I do normally, but I just knew I had to mix it up and not make too many mistakes," he said. "I got into a little bit of a groove in the fourth, but from the first pitch, I knew I didn't have great stuff."
Ian Harrison is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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North Tonawanda's Taylor Devices expects drop in profits
Taylor Devices chief executive Douglas P. Taylor has a message for the North Tonawanda shock absorber manufacturer's shareholders in the wake of the company's record-breaking profits last year: Don't expect history to repeat itself.
"We've got plenty of business right now. We've got a good backlog of business," Taylor said after the company's annual shareholder's meeting on Friday. "We're looking forward to another decent year in 2014."
Mark McDonough, the company's chief financial officer, echoed Taylor's message, warning shareholders that the all-time high of $2.5 million in profits last year is a record "that will probably hold up for the next couple of years."
While Taylor Devices executives said they expect the company's business to be solid, they told shareholders the sluggish economy is making developers and government entities reluctant to commit to big projects, which are still hard to finance because of tighter bank lending standards.
And while the company's aerospace and defense products business grew solidly last year, the threat of lower defense spending because of sequestration is adding to the uncertainty about funding levels for the military projects that Taylor Devices works on. That's prompting the company to step up its efforts to find sales from foreign military projects.
Sequestration "is the elephant in the room," said Paul Tutobene, the sales manager for Taylor Devices' aerospace business. "Our biggest customer is going to be shrinking."
Those factors were apparent during the summer. Taylor Devices' profits tumbled by 67 percent during its first fiscal quarter, while sales shrunk by 28 percent, as its key construction and aerospace markets both weakened.
Sales of the equipment that it makes to protect buildings and bridges from earthquake and wind damage plummeted by 37 percent during the quarter that ended in August. Aerospace sales, primarily to the defense market, dropped by 9 percent. Revenues from industrial projects slid by 15 percent.
The weakness was especially intense in the company's Asian markets, which have become a big source of business for its construction products, especially in the wake of the 2011 Japanese earthquake. Taylor Devices' Asian sales plunged by 46 percent, while U.S. revenues were down by 14 percent during the summer quarter.
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Kathy Vermillion's public relations adviser described his client as scary, out of control and determined to destroy the reputation of her ex-boyfriend, Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak, according to persons who have heard a tape Sisolak secretly recorded of the meeting.
The purpose of the meeting, which was also attended by Vermillion's attorney, Rob Martin, was to discuss Vermillion's lawsuit against Sisolak, in which she alleged he had an "improper and secretive" relationship with her 15-year-old daughter and that Sisolak had violated her privacy by discussing the results of a drug test she took.
Sisolak and Vermillion had dated for five years before breaking up in October. Separate from the drama of her suing Sisolak, Vermillion is under scrutiny for her financial management of the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth, the charity she founded 12 years ago. She says she plans to cut her ties with the organization so it won't be saddled with controversy.
Sisolak said the meeting on Sunday was tantamount to a shakedown because he was told if he paid $3.9 million, the lawsuit would be dropped. Vermillion has described the meeting as something of an informal settlement conference. The tape has been turned over to Metro Police investigators.
Mark Fierro, Vermillion's public relations consultant, said Thursday his remarks on the tape about his client were taken out of context. He didn't dispute the gist of the paraphrase but said it was in reference to her reputation being destroyed and how "nobody would be able to put her back together again."
On the audiotape of that meeting, sources say, Fierro talked about how the lawsuit could destroy Sisolak's political career and that some people would believe he was immoral and lecherous if videotaped remarks by Vermillion's daughter ridiculing Sisolak were made public.
Fierro said Thursday he was not referring to the videotape but to the mere allegation, contained in the lawsuit, that Sisolak had been involved in an unseemly relationship with the teen.
In that video, shown to reporters Monday, the teenager talked of Sisolak taking her to Victoria's Secret, taking her and a friend to buy bikinis while in San Diego, texting her late at night and seeing a movie with her, which the teen said felt like "a date."
On Wednesday, the girl's father said he talked to his daughter about the video and that she said she was coaxed into being videotaped and that the allegations against Sisolak were false. Vermillion countered that her daughter stood by her comments.
Fierro said Thursday that neither he, Martin, nor Vermillion coaxed nor coached the young woman.
If Vermillion's lawsuit had legal merit, no one talked about it during the meeting, sources said. Instead, Martin was described as saying that if the case went to trial he would have a "difficult time" convincing a jury that Vermillion deserved anything.


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August 24, 2009
These days, people are traveling more than ever. Your next-door neighbor is as likely to be from Armenia as Arkansas. And your next business trip may take you anywhere from Mexico to Madagascar. Communicating across cultures begins with the basic understanding that one size does not fit all. Simply because you practice certain cultural habits or patterns does not mean the rest of the world does. "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" makes perfect sense in Rome, Romania or Rio de Janeiro.
David A. Ricks, in his book Blunders in International Business, writes: "Cultural differences are the most significant and troublesome variables. The failure of managers to fully comprehend these disparities has led to most international business blunders." Failing to recognize and adapt to these differences can mean the difference between a done deal and a faceless failure. Robert L. Stevenson, in his book Global Communication in the Twenty-First Century, says "language, more than anything else, is the heart of culture." Assumptions about culture affect the way people communicate with each other. Culture usually refers to the diverse ways in which people think, act or behave – toward themselves, with their families and with people in their own society. Culture includes customs related to religious, social, political and family values. Various cultures have divergent values for time allocation and use, for family values and conversation, and for "personal space."
These differences need to be recognized, valued and appreciated before any real communication can take place. The main criterion for understanding other cultures is simply to know your own. Very often, we don't know what our own culture is, so it's difficult to understand someone else's....


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Elegant Lighting 1902D24GSA
1902D24G/SA 1902 Century Collection Hanging Fixture D24in H30in Lt: 12 Gold Finish (Swarovski Spectra Crystal)
The Century Collection is a classic 19th century French inspired chandelier consisting of flowing lines of light refracting crystals gently dropping down into a bell shape. Each layer is banded with crystal octagons and a single crystal spear. A column of chrome or gold inside with soft candelabra bulbs allows the glow from within to peek between the crystals strands. Available at AppliancesConnection
- Width / Diameter (in.): 24
- Height (in.): 30
- Chain/Wire Included: 5 ft.
- Light Blubs: 12
- Bulb Type: E12
- Bulb Wattage: 40
- Max Wattage: 480
- Voltage: 110V-125V
- Finish: Gold
- Crystal Trim: Spectra� Swarovski�
- Crystal Color: Crystal (Clear)
- UL & Ulc Standard: Yes
- Hanging Weight: 51
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- Brand:Elegant Lighting
- Stock Id:668243
- Product Number:1902D24GSA
- Style:Transitional
- Lighting Finish:Gold
- Number of Lights:12
- Bulb Type:E12
- Swarovski Crystal:Yes
- Width:24
- Wattage:480
- UL Listed:Yes
- Weight:50.36 lbs