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At least five people were killed by a suicide bomb in a car outside police headquarters in Maiduguri, Nigeria on Friday, according to the BBC.
The police said that following the blast security forces attacked a suspected Boko Haram hideout, prompting a fierce gun battle, reported the BBC.
The BBC was told by the police that one policeman and four civilians were killed.
The Borno state police commissioner, Bala Hassan, told Reuters that four people were killed, including one policeman and three civilians. The suicide bomber allegedly drove the car into the entrance of the police headquarters.
"He was driving a Toyota Camry, which he tried to drive right into the station. When he couldn't do this, he detonated the bomb," said Hassan.
Witnesses told Reuters they suspected the death toll could be higher.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
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The northeastern city has been the center of the Islamist group Boko Haram's insurgency, according to Agence France Presse. The insurgency has killed more than 1,000 people since mid-2009.
Boko Haram's mosque and headquarters were located in Maiduguri, until they were destroyed in 2009 in a military assault.
A special military task force has been stationed in the city, which has been hit by bombings and shootings in recent months.
More on GlobalPost: Nigerian army kills 16 suspected Boko Haram militants
On Tuesday, Nigerian soldiers killed at least 16 militants near a Boko Haram hideout in Maiduguri, said AFP.
President Goodluck Jonathan's administration has said that talks with Boko Haram will be held "on the condition that their leader will come out and announce a cease-fire for three months or a minimum of 40 days," according to a Nigerian Muslim cleric, Sheikh Dahiru Usman, who said he was in touch with government officials and Boko Haram leaders, according to Bloomberg.
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It's easy to imagine Clinton and Bush debating education policy and respectfully agreeing or disagreeing —Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast
The race for the presidency in 2016 might seem a little familiar, according to The Daily Beast's Eleanor Clift.
"Looking ahead to 2016, Hillary Clinton is her party's most likely nominee, and Jeb Bush is his party's most credible nominee should they decide to run," Clift wrote on Tuesday.
The Clinton and Bush surnames have held an almost uninterrupted presence in the White House for the last 34 years, with Bush's father and brother serving as president (and vice president in the case of his father) and Clinton's husband filling the gap between the two Bush presidencies.
Clinton also served as Secretary of State from 2008 to 2012.
According to Clift, belief that the 2016 election would be dominated by these familiar names was heightened during an education summit in Dallas earlier in the week where both candidates made an appearance.
"It's easy to imagine Clinton and Bush debating education policy and respectfully agreeing or disagreeing," Clift said. "Each would happily set aside questions about Benghazi or brother George's presidency; leaving that for others to explore."
Clift's anticipation of a kinder, gentler election season in 2016 may be wishful thinking, however. While she predicts that the race will be between these two establishment candidates with immense policy experience, thus replacing the "down with the establishment" approach of the tea party and Occupy Wall Street with two candidates willing to "respectfully agree or disagree," polls still indicate that the 2016 lineup is still very much in question — especially for republicans.
While most early polls have put Hillary Clinton as the only Democrat with a solid edge, the Republican ticket isn't as set on Jeb Bush. For example, the Iowa straw poll in February crowned former Arkansas governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee as the frontrunner. Rand Paul, who is largely considered to represent the more anti-establishment wing of the Republican Party, took the top slot in both the Conservative Political Action Conference poll and the Northeast Republican Leadership Conference.
"Things are so wide open that even 2012 nominee Romney is getting another look," The Washington Post's Karen Tumulty and Robert Costa wrote in February. In fact last month a poll conducted in Massachusetts (where Romney was governor, as it were) placed the 2012 nominee above not only Jeb Bush, but Rand Paul and New Jersey governor Chris Christie.
"With Christie's political career on life support, the party is again casting about for a savior," The Week's Jon Terbush wrote in response to the Massachusetts poll. And as Clift suggests, Bush seems to be filling that void. For now at least.
JJ Feinauer is a web producer for Moneywise and Opinion on DeseretNews.com. Email: email@example.com, Twitter: @jjfeinauer.


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I assume that whoever made this tab is a guitarist? Because if it was a bass player then whoooo-boy you're in trouble! The bass is horribly wrong, if you listen to the track it plays a little bit of what the guitar plays. You even missed the bass fill during the solo! Hang your heads gentlemen.
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Our dd is starting K in the 20th of Aug. The school when we registered her is telling us that she is considered a walker and won't have a bus to pick her up. We live 1.2 miles from school (according to Google map) using a back street and not the main highway. According to PGCPS transportation is available but may not update until the 17th. Called DOT and was told that I should be getting a letter in the mail by last week. No letter came so I called him again this morning. He says that her name isn't in the system as being registered yet. Excuse me, we sat there for over 1/2 an hour waiting for the secretary to come back from lunch and then another hour to do the paperwork. How is she not in the computer as being registered yet? I call the school and 1st out of their mouth is "isn't she a walker?" What does her being a walker have to do with her name not in the school system as a student?Answer Question
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|Sport, 7 pitches, 700', Grade II
|YDS: 5.10c French: 6b Ewbanks: 20 UIAA: VII ZA: 20 British: E2 5b [details]
|Moser, Bohm, Rhine, Cailler, & Soper - 2003
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By Blake Summers
From: Park City, Utah
Dec 11, 2009
|Killer views from top of this one. Climb the arete on the crux pitch!
By Scott Moser
Apr 13, 2010
|On March 21, 2010, returned to this route 7 years after doing the FA. Led all pitches and found it in great shape. The rock is solid, and the climb is still great. Approach trail is in good shape, follow the ridge above the dunce until the trail cuts off to the left. We put up a new route which follows the first two pitches of Satori and then cuts out left for 5 beautiful pitches up to 5.11a (though once the dust gets cleaned out of the holds, it will likely be more like 5.10d). The new one is called "Off The Couch".
By Mark Grundon
Mar 3, 2011
|Just a comment on the anchors on the second pitch where the ledge is. The rock is kind of hollow and fractured there. You wouldn't be opposed if someone moved the anchors over on more solid rock?
By Ed Rhine
May 12, 2012
|As one of the FA people, I would say go ahead and move the anchors if that second pitch belay is hollow. Thanks
By Chrissy Crushes
From: Boulder, CO
Apr 9, 2015
|<3 this climb. Tons of fun. Do it!
By Ken Chase
From: Toronto, ON
Feb 5, 2016
2nd bolt seems runout on p1, but its easier than it looks. p7, despite being 5.7 has a slightly committing move on a serious runout before the last bolt. (could use a bolt between, there's quality rock around).
Needs a new summit register (spongebob is full and also got wet) - possibly a new summit tube, it obviously let water in at some point. Bring pens too to donate, the ones there never seem to work (donated one 2 years ago). Careful rapping off the p3 belay ledge, serious gravel/loose rock around, ropes being lowered over will take a bunch with.
w/70m linkable p1+2 (hard to hear climber from belay though), 3+4, 5+6, 7 is around the arrete up a boulder stack. P3-6 are stellar, p6 is the crux where things get overhanging and awesome (10c).
By Will P.
Apr 14, 2016
Additional approach beta:
After El Bobo & the 3rd class ridge, you'll get to split with an ugly scree slope going up hill, and the red blazed trail going (climbers) left. Go left! Climb is a few minutes down the trail.
Going up the scree slope and following the fixed lines takes you to Zapatista.
By Allen Lee
From: Branson, MO
Dec 15, 2016
|Awesome route. 4th and 6th pitches were my favs. A little confused finding the start of the route but managed alright.
By julie.wang
Dec 20, 2016
|stay off the right side blocks for full value!
By 20 kN
From: Hawaii
Jan 12, 2017
|Satori is one of the best climbs in EPC, and possibly the best 5.10 multipitch in the park. Dont underestimate its value just because it's not on the Jungle Wall or some mega-classic that gets climbed day in and day out. The rock quality is exceptional and the movement is quite fun. The route is quite a bit better than many other classics in EPC.


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Rachel will perform a Latin Jive routine with her instructor, local Peter Leroy, who has 20 years of competitive dancing experience and is the Principal instructor of Latin Dance Fever.
Golf and dancing have a few things in common, says Rachel. "I found with both my golf game and my dancing I've needed patience, balance and also a good instructor, which I'm very lucky to have."
"My husband Greg and I took some dancing lessons leading up to our wedding in 2009. I do really like dancing and I'm enjoying learning it again," she said. "I am also looking forward to raising money for the cause and having a great time, but the dancing itself I'm pretty nervous about!"
According to organisers, there will be a variety of awards announced on the night, including people's choice, most technical, best slip-up recovery and most cheesy smile.
"I'm hoping I don't win the best slip-up recovery!" Rachel jested. "It's probably the first time I haven't wanted to win an award, but hopefully I can win the most funds raised and the best performance - says my competitive side coming out!"
The event is being organised by one of Rachel's customers at the Rachel Hetherington Golf Range. Rachel's mother is a breast cancer survivor and her cousin recently passed away from cancer.
"We have a lot of customers whose lives have been touched by cancer, so for me I'm happy to raise some money and learn to dance at the same time," she said.
Tickets are available to join in the night of the laughs and entertainment at the Tweed Shire Celebrity Dance for Cancer. Organisers will hold an auction and raffle on the night.
If you would like to contribute to Rachel's efforts to raise $3000-plus for the Cancer Council, click here to "place donations.":https://nsw.cancercouncilfundraising.org.au/personalPage.aspx?RegistrationID=759063
For more information contact the Rachel Hetherington Golf Range on (07) 5590-7686 or go to the website "www.rhgolfrange.com.au":https://www.rhgolfrange.com.au/ and click here for "event information.":https://www.facebook.com/tweedshirecelebritydanceforcancer
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Currently Rachel is a teaching professional and has her own golf range on the Tweed Coast. During a 16 year Tour career, Rachel achieved 2 wins on the Ladies European Tour, before qualifying for her LPGA Tour Card on her first attempt and going on to win an incredible 8 times on the LPGA.
During her LPGA Career, Rachel finished runner up in three of the four Women's Majors, being the Women's British Open, Nabisco Dinah Shore and the McDonalds Championship. She also achieved a Top 4 finish in the US Women's Open. She was extremely successful in domestic US Events, winning all 8 events in the US, and was most noted for her Playoff record against World number 1 Annika Sorenstam. In winning her first LPGA Tournament, Rachel overcame Annika Sorenstam on the 1st Playoff hole, and went on to defeat the World number one in 3 out of 4 tournaments.


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Hello I am Dr. Amy and will help you with your question. I will give them a call and see what they say about your concerns and if they can shed light on the forum chatter on this... BSE is typically in the nerve tissue (ie spinal cord, brain, cutaneous nerves) however there is contamination factors that should be addressed. Will get back with you asap.
What is you intended use of this product?
Unfortunately they are closed for the evening, I left a message for them to call me back tomorrow. From reading the limited literature on this product it does not appear that it is labelled for use as an arthritis drug, meaning it would not be able to go intravenously, under the skin or in the muscle or joints. I am suspecting you want to use this as Adequan® or Chondroprotec® for arthritis and joint health? If this is the case, this product is not labeled and not approved for use this way. It is approved for use as below:
I would stick with Adequan® or Chondroprotec® as they are approved as injections, meaning they have been through the clinical trials and are proven to work.
The human Polysulfated Glycosaminoglycan product called Arteparon was discontinued in 2002 after studies found that oversulfated chondroitin sulfate is a contaminant in heparin associated with adverse clinical events... events such as rapid, serious side effects indicative of an allergic-type reaction, potential bleeding risk... actual signs were: within several minutes after intravenous injection of unfractionated heparin (contained in this product) — with angioedema (hives), hypotension (low blood pressure, poor circulation), swelling of the larynx and related symptoms (unable to breathe), which in some cases ended in death >>> not good.
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Thank you for your answer. It's very thorough. Adequan and Ichon are actually considered interchangeable by a lot of horse owners. The reason Ichon is not considered the same
Thank you for your answer. It's very thorough. Adequan and Ichon are actually considered interchangeable by a lot of horse owners. The reason Ichon is not considered the same is for patent reasons. Adequan has a patent, so Ichon labeled itself as something different so that it could legally come out with a Polysulfated Glycosaminoglycan product. This is one example: http://www.chronofhorse.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3937631If you do get a hold of them, please ask about BSE and how their product differs from Adequan structurally. I think they're the same thing. I'm more worried about giving it to my horse if it doesn't go through the same QA as Adequan, but I would really like to try it because I already bought it and I'm having second thoughts. I'm sure if you get a hold of them you'll have to say it's for post surgical scars or something in order for them to give you straight answers. They were pretty harsh on the phone with me and I was just asking 1 quick question.. good luck;) Anyway, thanks for your help on this;) I really appreciate it.
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Ok it is 12 pm on the east coast, no call back from the company this morning,,, I just called and left another message for them to call me on my cell. I researched the product on a veterinary forum last night as well... There were several postings from Boarded equine vets that said not to use this product as you would adequan as it has not gone through the same product testing and control models as adequan and Legend have... basically we don't know what adverse reactions they may have in the muscle /vein /or subcutaneous tissue, and for this fact it is not recommended... it was clearly stated by these vets that this is NOT a generic of adequan, there are different components to it and derived differently than adequan. There was no mention about the BSE being a concern for these vets. Given the fact that horses are so sensitive, the lack of testing, and the recommendations off the forum,,, I would not use it in the rescue horses I work with whom have no home/owners and definitely would not use it in a pleasure or working horse. I will continue to try to contact the company regarding the BSE question you have. This product would be a "use at your own risk" or "off label use" for something other than what it is labelled for. I cannot recommend you use this product other than what it is labelled for. See if you can return the product to the manufacturer and get your money back for it. I would caution you with online forums that are not monitored by veterinarians, anyone can put anything out on the internet so take it all with a grain of salt as they say.
Ok I just saw this: http://drtanis.com/2011/06/03/adequan-on-backorder/ Looks like Adequan may be on backorder. I'll have to find out. I really appreciate your advice. I will definitely accept once you talk to them. Thank you for your help.
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Yes Ichon is chemically identical to Adequan. It is water-based as Adequan equine. Regarding the BSE, the risk is negated, Adequan is derived from bovine trachea as well and they have reported no problems, as I posted previously BSE mainly contained in the nervous tissue.
The vet confirmed that using this like you would adequan is "off-label" use. For obvious reasons he cannot give a yes/no to using this product they way you want to.
I hope this has given you the information you requested. Please see your veterinarian to discuss if using this product off label is right for your horse.


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Welcome back to another edition of the TRS Round Table! We're here to discuss the episode of Friendship is Magic, "Somepony To Watch Over Me," which aired on the Hub on March 8, 2014. We're ready to find out just how much we can get away with in talking about the episode. Joining the Round Table are Pocket, HuffyTheMagicDragon, KefkaFloyd, ComradeCosmobot, and drunkill. Read more and maybe you'll get a bow from the hats and bows closet!
drunkill: This week we had another new writer for the show, Scott Sonneborn, who has delivered a solid episode in "Somepony To Watch Over Me" for his first outing. It has some similar qualities to season two's "Sisterhooves Social", given that it about the sibling relationship between Applejack and Apple Bloom.
Pocket: It's been said before that Applejack episodes tend to fall flat because there aren't many interesting directions to take her character. She's hard-working, she's family-minded, and she's very concerned about being seen as dependable and self-sufficient; it's all been done before in various combinations. So, kudos to Sonneborn for coming up with a new angle. And at the same time, we've seen hints of it before, mainly in "Bridle Gossip" where it wasn't clear how much of it was due to Applejack being paranoid of Zecora in particular.
What I hadn't considered until just now when I typed that out is that the two Apple sisters are a lot alike. They're both stubborn and eager to prove their self-reliance. What parent, or parental figure, hasn't had that moment where they realized "He/she's just like me at that age"? So building off that was a good bit of character development for Apple Bloom as well, who (like her friends) hasn't done a lot to distinguish herself so far.
HuffyTheMagicDragon: Another criticism of Applejack I've heard is that she's a bit too perfect. She certainly comes off as the perfect big sister in the previous two sisterhood episodes, "Sisterhooves Social" and "Sleepless in Ponyville." But this season has been revealing some cracks in that armor, first in "Pinkie Apple Pie" and now here. Considering how close the two sisters are, AJ being too protective of Apple Bloom and not allowing her independence seems like the logical flaw in their relationship to expand upon. So I was happy that an episode finally did that. I definitely feel this was one of the stronger Apple Bloom episodes too, in part because cutie marks never came up once. The sister episodes have all been good for their respective Cutie Mark Crusaders.
KefkaFloyd: Applejack wants what's best for her sister, and sometimes she has to be "mom" instead of big sister. We've all bristled under overprotective parents at times and I wonder if this episode was aimed more at the parents watching than at the kids. Apple Bloom is smart and resourceful but like kids she gets in over her head. Instead of covering her in helmets, Applejack has to recognize when it's best to let AB try something and knowing when to step in.
drunkill: Applejack is overprotective of Apple Bloom and becomes wary that she'll be fine on her own. Despite finishing her chores without a hitch all the problems begin once a fretful Applejack returns to the farm.
Pocket: As enjoyable as the episode was to watch, I just couldn't buy into it. It clearly took things to extreme levels for the sake of humor rather than trying to feel natural. Real life is often funny enough on its own, and this show has had no end of really funny moments that still feel perfectly natural (Polsky seems to be particularly good at it, including one moment where revealing why a nonsensical gag made sense was the punchline).
Perhaps an inevitable point of comparison is the movie Finding Nemo. In that movie, we saw the source of Marlin's paranoia right at the start of the movie, which was necessary for the audience to sympathize with him and think "I'd probably be that way too, if that had happened to me", even as we chuckled at how overprotective he was. Here, we knew from the get-go that Applejack was overreacting to a minor slip-up and had nothing left to do but laugh at what a silly pony she was being.
We've seen before that Apple Bloom is capable of looking after herself. "Bridle Gossip" was one obvious case, but there are also the many chores she's been trusted to handle all this time. And on the flip side, we've also seen her get into plenty of scrapes that she couldn't get out of on her own, like stealing Zecora's potion and giving herself cutie pox, or venturing into the Everfree Forest and almost getting turned to stone by a cockatrice. I feel like if Applejack was liable to suddenly snap and decide her sister needs to be constantly supervised, it would have already happened by now.
Which just goes to show how significant the show and characters have evolved since the first season, even in ways that aren't immediately evident. Continuity has a way of crossing lines of no return without ever realizing it. If this had been a season one episode, it probably would have worked out fine without any changes and maybe even been one of the fan favorites for its humor.
ComradeCosmobot: Yeah, Applejack's supervision of Apple Bloom really did stretch credulity, and it slightly soured the episode for me, although I can hardly say that it made for a bad episode for all that. But it does feel more like something that a mother figure (not really present in FiM) would do, rather than Applejack, per se. I've never really felt like Applejack was exactly the coddling type…
KefkaFloyd: Sometimes episodes are a little more stand-alone than others, and this one felt like it had a point to make, damn the torpedoes. I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with that, but I felt that—as funny as the individual jokes are—there were one too many of them. I knew the point: that you can go too far in the name of safety. But it wore out what were some otherwise really funny jokes.
HuffyTheMagicDragon: I agree the episode would have benefitted if they had dialed the jokes back just a notch. Still, it's always fun to see ponies go over-the-top crazy. It's a proud tradition in this show. And perhaps we don't see it quite often enough with Applejack.
drunkill: There were a plethora of visual gags this episode, it became particularly absurd when AJ was baby proofing the farm, annoying Apple Bloom immensely
Pocket: My personal favorite was the second helmet. It's a style of gag that shows up a lot in modern cartoons, but I can't recall ever seeing on this show before. Much more subtle was the crib bars on Apple Bloom's bed, which some people (myself included) didn't even notice until it was pointed out later. I wonder if that one was even in the script, or if it was yet another touch added by the storyboarders.
KefkaFloyd: I love the logic. If one helmet works, two would be twice as effective! I loved the more subtle ones, like Sweeite Belle settling into bed. She really is just like a little Rarity.
HuffyTheMagicDragon: A couple of the best jokes in this episode are fairly standard self-aware cartoon gags – particularly the "hats and bows closet" (cartoon characters wearing the same clothes all the time) and "no time for a song!" – but they executed them well. I certainly laughed. I feel like this show has been just aching to make those jokes for quite a while now.
ComradeCosmobot: No doubt. Those are the sorts of jokes you can only tell when you've been on the air for four seasons. Two seasons just isn't enough to be able to lampshade yourself. And while putting the helmet on, repeatedly, is something of a cliche in these sorts of episodes, it's still a nice spot of humor all things considered.
drunkill: The fear of being coddled forever caused Apple Bloom to sneak away with the help of Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo to prove herself to Applejack that she doesn't need constant supervision. Whilst alone in a misty flame-filled swamp Apple Bloom encounters another of Equestria's sinister mythical creatures, a Chimera.
ComradeCosmobot: Yet another example of the writers bringing in mythological creatures as need be. It's nice to see that, even with a tatzlwurm out mucking things up for Twilight, there are plenty of new old favorites out there waiting to be found, like this Chimera (and the Homeric lion-lamb-snake form, to boot).
KefkaFloyd: Modeled a bit after the three-headed soldier in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I thought it was one of the better mythological bits we've gotten lately. It's true to the original conception of a Chimera but it has its own pony spin to it.
HuffyTheMagicDragon: Always good to meet another mythological beast in Pony. I prefer those to the pun-monsters, and I've been hoping to see a chimera for a while now. Though when the heads started speaking, I strongly suspected it might turn out to be friendly, especially after the line about having a sister looking over your shoulder. I'm not sure if that might have led to a better or worse resolution, but I won't complain about getting another Applejack action scene. I liked how she ended up using all of the nonsensical-sounding equipment she listed earlier.
drunkill: Applejack has accepted that Apple Bloom is growing up and can look after herself without the need to be uncharacteristically overbearing. (plus final thoughts for the episode)
Pocket: The resolution, where Applejack points out that what Apple Bloom did was reckless and will probably get her in trouble with Granny when they get home, before acknowledging that her sis is growing up and deserves to be trusted more, struck a perfect balance for me. Too many shows either have their kid characters never face any consequences for their actions (or portray the authority figures who dole them out as harsh and unsympathetic) or make them out to be incapable of ever doing anything right.
KefkaFloyd: I thought it was a good moral with some cartoon exaggeration thrown in for good measure. It's not the greatest of episodes, but it was still entertaining. It was definitely more of a parents episode than a kids episode, but shows like these tend to have one of those now and then. I like ti when the CMCs progress, and hopefully some day, we'll actually see them take the next step, or the Pepsi Challenge, or whatever to get their marks.
HuffyTheMagicDragon: I enjoyed the episode a lot, but the resolution was a bit confusing. Applejack fears for Apple Bloom's life when she's accidentally spilling food on her head, but then feels she's ready for independence when she nearly gets eaten by a chimera? It's a good thing Apple Bloom didn't narrate the moral, because "run away from home into mortal danger to prove yourself" would have been an… odd message for the target age group. But the lesson was a good one from Applejack's point of view: AJ realizes that Apple Bloom was forced to take drastic action in order to prove her independence, because she would never have been able to prove it otherwise while under Applejack's smothering care.
drunkill: Thanks again everyone for joining the Round Table, and we'll be here next week for more discussion on everyone's favorite horse show! ■


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COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine's office said it continues to reduce the number of law-enforcement officers statewide who have access to controversial facial-recognition technology.
The system rolled out last year allows police to take an image of an unknown person and run it through a database of 23 million Ohio driver's license photos and prison mug shots to try to establish a match. State officials said it has resulted in at least one murder arrest.
About 30,000 police officers and others could directly access the system when it was first deployed. The American Civil Liberties Union and others complained that it invites abuse and privacy violations.
Access to the system has now been cut to 5,594, according to numbers released by DeWine's office this week and reported by The Columbus Dispatch. That's 2,236 fewer than in April when the numbers were last released.
After concerns arose last year about privacy and overly broad access, DeWine appointed a study commission and then worked with police agencies to restrict access to only those who need to conduct facial-recognition searches.
"Not everybody needed to have facial recognition," said Tom Stickrath, superintendent of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. "We've whittled the number considerably. I don't know that it will go down much more."
The drop in users also has led to a decrease in the number of facial-recognition searches. A total of 2,802 searches have been conducted in the first six months of this year, compared with 6,607 during the last seven months of 2013.
Critics of the system include David Pepper, a Democrat who is opposing Republican DeWine in the Nov. 4 election. He said Ohio still has far more users of the technology than in other states.


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Controversial abortion display stirs controversy on UA campus
{}{} One of the most controversial displays to protest abortion was shown on the University of Alabama quad Wednesday.
{}{} The 'Genocide Awareness Project' shows actual bloody-aborted fetuses and in multiple ways stresses their size and level of development.{} Most were to graphic to show on TV and some U.A. students said the photos had no place on a public campus.
{}{}{} "Just think of the victims who have had abortions and if they're walking by that -- that could affect them in a way that is past free speech," Katie Howard expressed with frustration after walking past the display.
{}{}{}{} Bama Students for Life invited the Center For Bio-Ethical Reform Abortion to bring the display to campus.{} "Abortion supporters get upset when they see our photos because a lot of times they realize what abortion is," says Claire Chretien, who is president of the Student Pro Life group.
{}{}{} But, it is the 'genocide' element that opponents take serious issue with.{} Some of the signs liken abortion to lynchings, even the{}Holocaust.{} That left the head of a Jewish{}fraternity on campus fuming. "Someone dying in a gas chamber is not the same as someone in a doctors office and having an abortion. That's the same as me making comparison to my teacher telling me to take my hat off in class here and call him Hitler out here."
{}{} A representative with Bama Students for Life responded saying "the unborn are being targeted for their size or their level of development, their degree of{}{}{} dependency and Jews were targeted because of their religion during the Holocaust. So I think you can absolutely equate the two."
{}{}The controversial display prompted one professor to bring out his class which is learning how to make an argument to the display.{} He denounced the display as educational.{} However, some pro life students such as Jessica Holt says the 'genocide project' is a fair show of opinion.{} "I'm glad they're there because it's the truth and I just think it will make more of a lasting impression..."


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A man who was arrested after performing a daring motorcycle proposal in stopped traffic on a Southern California freeway said he didn't plan the proposal that way but seized the moment, and he doesn't regret it.
The groom-to-be, 24-year-old Hector Martinez of the Covina area in California, was arrested Tuesday on three misdemeanor charges relating to his Jan. 27 wedding proposal. Video of the stunt raced across the Internet after it was posted on YouTube.
The video, shot by Martinez's family members from a nearby overpass, shows an estimated 250 bikers riding on Interstate 10. The video shows the bikers slowing down near an exit, then coming to a complete halt on the freeway, blocking all lanes and forcing traffic to stop.
Biker Martinez urged his girlfriend, Paige Hernandez, off the back of his bike, then started spinning the back wheel of the bike, producing a thick cloud of pink smoke. He then got down on one knee and proposed. While that was happening, some bikers could be seen popping wheelies.
Hernandez accepted the proposal, then the group quickly left the highway and went to a restaurant off the freeway's exit. The entire proceedings lasted about two minutes.
The video had been viewed more than 1.7 million times as of Wednesday, and the reaction was mixed. Some viewers praised Martinez's courage and originality, while others said stopping traffic on a freeway could have resulted in an accident.
RELATED: Pilot Proposes With Plane-Crash Prank
Police called it a spectacle.
"It's a slap in the face of law enforcement, in general," Sgt. Kurt Stormes of the California Highway Patrol said of the incident, according to The Associated Press.
No one was harmed, but in an interview with ABCNews.com, Martinez said he understood why police and others took a dim view of what he did.
"I know with everybody watching it, everybody has their own opinion and I respect that, and there are people out there that aren't happy with it and I respect that. You know, I kind of just did it," he said, acknowledging that he didn't think it through well.
RELATED: Ohio State Man Proposes Using Elaborate Scavenger Hunt
Martinez said he and Hernandez were participating in a charity ride that others had planned, and he had intended to propose that day at the restaurant where the group was headed. Other bikers decided to stop on the highway, and because his family was already at the overpass near the restaurant waiting to film the proposal he'd originally planned, Martinez said he seized the moment.
"I first thought, 'Man, the freeway is not really too romantic,' but it ended up being a hit," he said.
Martinez faces misdemeanor public nuisance and participating in an unlawful assembly charges, authorities said Tuesday, the AP reported. Three of his friends were also arrested.
The couple's families were initially not happy about the freeway proposal, Martinez said.
RELATED: Russian man fakes car accident death in grisly proposal
"They said it was a knucklehead move, but at the end of the day, they loved it and they're glad nobody got hurt … and they're glad that I learned my lesson. So at the end of the day, I've got a lot of love for everybody," he said.
"I don't regret doing it."
Hernandez said she had no clue the proposal was coming.
"I was just more shocked, you know, that we were in the middle of the freeway, so I think that's what threw me off even more. I was like, 'Oh, my God, this guy is crazy,'" she said.
The two, who both work in the social work field, haven't set a wedding date but Hernandez said she hopes it will be next summer.


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Latest Rainbow Six: Siege Patch Creates Issues
The latest patch for Rainbow Six: Siege hasn't exactly done it's job.
Released earlier today, patch 1.2 was set to fix bugs and sever issues. While most of the stated fixes have been a success, others have only made the bugs worse.
Matchmaking (both ranked and causal) is taking much longer. Prolonged searches for team members is now a common occurrence. It's a problem that makes looking for a game a chore, with both sides quitting out.
1.2′s biggest problem is the 'smoke screen' bug. After a map has loaded, players become stuck at a single screen. This bug has been documented since release. Ubisoft stated 1.2 would fix this issue but it has only made it worse. Out of 10 games, 4 were met with the error.
Players have began to vent their frustration in game chat lobbies. Ubisoft's patch has increased lobby waiting times while increasingly the frequency of a major bug. Rainbow Six: Siege is great fun, but constantly closing the game is not.
After delaying the DLC, this is the last thing Siege needed.
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GNU/Linux, as a system, offers characteristics that are valid for personal users as well as users of a medium or large-scale infrastructure.
From the perspective of GNU/Linux system users, we could distinguish:
The individual or domestic user: normally, this type of user has one or several machines at home that may or may not be shared. In general, in this environment, GNU/Linux is used to develop a desktop system, which means that the graphics part will be important: the GNU/Linux desktop.
For this desktop we have two main options in the form of Gnome and KDE environments, both of which are perfectly valid. Either of the two environments offers applications running and visualisation services, together with a broad range of basic own applications that allow us to develop all sorts of routine tasks. The two environments offer a visual desktop with different menus, icon bars and icons, in addition to navigators for own files and various useful applications. Any environment can run its own applications and the others', although, in the same way as the applications, they run better in their own environment because their visual aspect is more suited to the environment for which they were designed.
Regarding applications for the personal user, we should include the typical ones of the desktop system. If the user has a home network, for example, a small group of computers joined by an Ethernet type network, services for sharing files and printers between machines could also be interesting. Services such as NFS may be necessary if there are other Linux machines; or Samba, if there are machines with Windows.
In the case of having an Internet connection through an ISP (Internet Service Provider) depending on the type of connection used, we would need to control the corresponding devices and protocols:
Modem connection: telephone modems tend to use the PPP protocol to connect with the provider. We would have to enable this protocol and configure the accounts we have enabled with the provider. An important problem with Linux is the winModems issue, which has caused a lot of trouble. This modem (with some exceptions) is not supported, because it is not a real modem but rather a hardware simplification plus driver software, and most only function with Windows, meaning that we need to avoid them (if not supported) and to buy real (full) modems.
ADSL modem connection: the functioning would be similar, the PPP protocol could be used or another one called EoPPP. This may depend on the modem's manufacturer and on the type of modem: Ethernet or USB.
ADSL connection with a router: the configuration is very simple, because in this situation all we need to do is to configure the Ethernet card and/or wireless card in our system to connect with the ADSL router.
Once the interface to Internet is connected and configured, the last point is to include the type of services that we will need. If we only want to act as clients on Internet, it will be sufficient to use the client tools of the different protocols, whether FTP, telnet, the web navigator, e-mail or news reader etc. If we also wish to offer outgoing services – for example, to publish a website (web server) or to allow our external access to the machine (ssh, telnet, FTP, X Window, VNC, services etc.), in this case, server – then we must remember that this will only be possible if our provider gives us fixed IP addresses for our machine. Otherwise, our IP address will change every time we connect and the possibility of offering a service will become either very difficult or impossible.
Another interesting service would be sharing access to the Internet between our available machines.
Mid-scale user: this is the user of a middle scale organisation, whether a small company or group of users. Normally, this type of users will have local network connectivity (through a LAN, for example) with some connected machines and printers. And will have direct access to Internet, either through some proxy (point or machine designed for an external connection), or there will be a few machines physically connected to the Internet. In general, in this environment, work is partly local and partly shared (whether resources, printers or applications). Normally, we will need desktop systems; for example, in an office we can use office suite applications together with Internet clients; and perhaps also workstation type systems; for example, for engineering or scientific jobs, CAD or image processing applications may be used, as well as intensive mathematical calculation systems etc., and almost certainly more powerful machines will be assigned to these tasks.
In this user environment, we will often have to share resources such as files, printers, possibly applications etc. Therefore, in a GNU/Linux system, NFS services will be appropriate, printer services, Samba (if there are Windows machines with which files or printers need to be shared), and we may also need database environments, an internal web server with shared applications etc.
Large-scale users: this type of user resembles the preceding one and differs only in the size of the organisation and available resources, which can be plenty, in such a way that some resources of the NIS, NIS+ or LDAP type network system directory may be needed in order to handle the organisation's information and reflect its structure, certainly also to have large service infrastructures for external clients generally in the form of websites with various applications.
This type of organisation has high levels of heterogeneity in both system hardware and software, and we could find lots of architectures and different operating systems, meaning that the main tasks will consist of easing data compatibility by means of databases and standard document formats and to ease interconnectivity by means of standard protocols, clients and servers (usually with TCP/IP elements).


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Preventing Aggression In Veterans With Dementia (PAVED) - Telephone Sub-Study With Rural Veterans (PAVED-T)
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Aggression, a common symptom in persons with dementia, is linked with multiple treatable etiologies such as pain, depression, caregiver burden, and caregiver relationships. Pain, the main predictor of aggression, is a common symptom that is inadequately assessed and treated in persons with dementia. The main treatment for aggression is antipsychotic medications that are ineffective, costly, and possess considerable adverse side effects. There is a need to test psychosocial interventions that address treatable causes of aggression. Preliminary data suggest the potential utility of Preventing Aggression in Veterans with Dementia (PAVeD), an evidence-based psychoeducational intervention aimed to prevent aggression, with urban dwelling Veterans. PAVeD, an in-home intervention that requires significant clinician time and expense has yet to be evaluated in a rural culture with Veterans who are in poorer health compared to urban Veterans.
The purpose of this intervention demonstration pilot study is to pilot test and evaluate the PAVeD-Telephone intervention. Twenty rural Veterans with dementia and pain and their caregivers from the Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) Program will be invited to participate. Clinical activities directed toward caregivers are supported by policies and procedures set forth by the Veterans Health Administration (Appendix A). Mixed-methods will be used to collect data using semi-structured interviews and standardized data collection measures suitable for persons with dementia and their caregivers. The interviews go beyond an evaluation of the outcomes by exploring how the intervention was experienced by the dyad.
The specific aims of the study are to:
- Describe the feasibility and acceptability of the PAVeD-Telephone intervention (number of dyads recruited and completing the study) by rural Veterans and their caregivers.
- Describe the preliminary outcomes (aggression, depression, Veteran/caregiver relationship quality, pleasant events, caregiver burden, and pain) at baseline, 3 and 6 months.
- Understand the cultural beliefs and practices of this population and the impact of the intervention.
The PAVeD-Telephone intervention is an innovative approach to shift the paradigm of treating aggression with antipsychotic medications. This study is consistent with the goals of the South Central Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) to improve evidence-based practices in rural Veterans and their caregivers. The next step in this program of research is to submit a Health Services Research and Development Service (HSR&D) application for pilot funding to further develop and test the telephone-based intervention and an appropriate control condition.
|Dementia Pain
|Behavioral: Preventing Aggression in Veterans with Dementia (PAVeD)
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|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Preventing Aggression In Veterans With Dementia (PAVED) - Telephone Sub-Study With Rural Veterans
- Incidence of Aggression [ Time Frame: 3 months and 6 months post-intervention ]Evaluate the incidence of aggression different than expected in the Telephone PAVeD subjects
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|Study Start Date:
|August 2011
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Behavioral: Preventing Aggression in Veterans with Dementia (PAVeD)
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|65 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
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|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- diagnosis of dementia
- pain symptoms documented by the HBPC staff
- residence in a VA designated rural area of Lufkin or Conroe
- presence of a caregiver
- Enrolled in Home Based Primary Care at Michael E DeBakey VA Medical Center
Exclusion Criteria:
- display of aggression (spitting, cursing/verbal aggression, hitting, kicking, grabbing, pushing, throwing, biting, scratching, hurting self/others, tearing things/destroying property, making inappropriate verbal sexual advances, or making inappropriate physical sexual advances) in the past year
- score of 6 or greater on the Functional Assessment Staging (FAST) scale
- inability to complete by phone a cognitive screening assessment (Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status) or the Philadelphia Geriatric Pain Intensity Scale.
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|Responsible Party:
|Michael Mallen, PhD, Michael E DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01385007 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|June 24, 2011
|Last Updated:
|June 28, 2011
Keywords provided by Michael Debakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center:
residence in a VA designated rural area
presence of a caregiver
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neurocognitive Disorders
Mental Disorders
Behavioral Symptoms
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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Why Does Everyone Cheat?
Do your children, employees, spouse lie or cheat? Lying and cheating run rampant in our society. But why to we do it? This is important to know if we wan't to prevent it. Lets see what the science says so … Continue reading
Do your children, employees, spouse lie or cheat? Lying and cheating run rampant in our society. But why to we do it? This is important to know if we wan't to prevent it. Lets see what the science says so … Continue reading
by Sunny May 23, 2012
It's that time of year again when a new crop of ambitious young folk will be graduating high school and heading off into their glorious futures by selecting the exact wrong career for themselves.
We all want nothing more than to have that perfect career that makes us feel like life is the equivalent of skipping through a summer field, with flowers in bloom all around and the golden sunshine on your face (this is a fictional world where there are no bugs in that summer field). Most of us instead end up with a career like that miserable camping trip where it rained the whole time and you were freezing and tired and hungry non-stop…oh yes, and lots and lots of nasty, crawling, dirty bugs.
Reportedly over half of American workers hate their jobs. Only 45% of Americans report being "satisfied" with their jobs. (Frankly if being "satisfied" means happy I'll go shoot myself in the head right now.) Has this dearth of people in happy careers stopped succeeding generations from going through the same completely wrong process leading to the same terribly wrong decision? No. No it hasn't. I'm not breaking any sound barriers here – I'm not going to tell you how to pick the right career – but here are 7 common, and completely wrong, ways people make career decisions that may lead to the TWENTY YEAR camping trip from hell.
Face the Facts: We Are All Headed for an "iDisorder" Heading for an iDisorder! Published on March 28, 2012 by Larry Rosen, Ph.D. in Rewired: The Psychology of Technology It should come as no surprise that we are all hopelessly addicted to our … Continue reading
Thanks to Miketron at Null Hypothesis Fifteen years ago, you would have been lucky to have heard of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder. Of course, you probably would have seen its effects in school playgrounds or the supermarket: screaming children unable to be … Continue reading
Psychologists can now determine by personalities that as young as three years old if your child might be future gamber.
According to a 30 year-long longitudinal study by University of Missouri's Wendy Slutske and colleagues. They used data observing 939 individuals over as long as 30 years. 22 behavioral descriptors were tested to separate the participating toddlers into five temperament groups: under-controlled (10.4%), inhibited (7.8%), confident (27.5%), reserved (14.8%), and well-adjusted (39.6%).
The study found a 50 percent increase in the likelyhood to be a gambler in the under-controlled temperament group when checked again at 21 and 32 years of age compared to the other groups. These potential gamblers were described as restless, willful, impulsive, emotionally labile, impersistent, having fleeting attention, having expressed negativism, and withdrawing from tasks.
The report reasoned: "Perhaps it is the combination of impulsivity (or risk taking) in conjunction with the tendency toward negative emotions, such as anger, hostility, and anxiety, that constitutes the personality vulnerability for disordered gambling."
The men in this study were significantly more likely than women to report disordered gambling at age 32 – 6.4 percent versus 1.9 percent.
There are plenty of detractors as well, but the point is this. As parents it is our job to understand the issues involved and potential pitfalls to avoid when raising our children. Potential proclivity for gambling can be a serious issue and being forewarned is forearmed.
Good Luck,


text: State Open notebook: Woodwards head in different directions By Doug Smock June 20, 2013 Story Share Courtesy photo Woody Woodward's 67 was the low round of the day. VIENNA, W.Va. - Jay Woodward is the man of few words in Bridgeport's top golfing family, but he had a few words about his younger brother Woody's college career.The more talkative Woody fired a 67 Thursday in the second round of the West Virginia Open, sporting his new Wake Forest shirt as he went. He is joining the Deamon Deacons this fall - and not following Jay to Penn State."No, he's too good to go there," Jay said after his second-round 72. "He needs to go somewhere south, and go somewhere he can play year-round and learn a little more from a good coaching staff, good schedule."That's not taking anything away from Penn State, it's just [that] Wake Forest is a little better."Just a little. Wake is the alma mater of several current and former PGA Tour pros, including Webb Simpson, Bill Haas, Jay Haas, Scott Hoch, Curtis Strange, Lanny Wadkins and the king himself, Arnold Palmer.Jerry Haas, Jay's brother and Bill's uncle, enters his 18th year running the Hokies program.Woody Woodward played scholastically at Hilton Head Prep, where he was named the South Carolina High School Player of the Year in 2011 - the same year he won the West Virginia Junior Match Play. He also finished fourth in Junior PGA Championship that year.He was ranked 12th in the college recruiting class of 2013 by Junior Golf Scoreboard, and Thursday's round shows he hasn't lost anything."Unfortunately, I had my two shoulder surgeries [during recruiting], but I was able to bounce back in juniors, get to the point to where I could start getting recruited by Jerry Haas at Wake," he said. "Kind of fell in love with the whole school, the whole atmosphere and what they were building, so [I'm] excited to go in."Jay Woodward said he has a few classes to go to get his business management degree at Penn State, plus he has another year of eligibility.Woodward finished as high as fourth in a tournament in 2012-13, finishing with a 60th place in the Big Ten tournament. "It's kind of tough with the weather. Sometimes you feel prepared going into a tournament because you get practice, and other times it snows the whole week before," Jay said. "It's been up and down, but every summer I seem to get it back. I'm right on track."nnThe 111-year-old Parkersburg Country Club does not feature an imposing course, at least at first glance. The track consists of 18 mostly flat holes with the Ohio River fronting the far side. But the West Virginia Golf Association is finding a way here and there to make it difficult.The scores show it: Ten of the 120-man field shot below the par-72 on Thursday, a day after seven players did it in the first round. The two-day course average is 76.892, almost 5 over par. Parkersburg's Kenneth Hess, who has played the course as much as anyone in the field, saw the difference, especially with a few devilish hole placements. Those teeing off from No. 10 had to finish with two of the toughest on the course, plugged into small landing areas."I'm comfortable playing this golf course, and even if you play difficult tournaments here, they don't stick them in these hole locations," Hess said. "This is probably the most difficult putting I've seen anywhere, especially on this golf course." "This course is decent, it's not that hard when it's normal, but when they put it like this, and 'tip' everything out, this is an extremely hard golf course."Ken Tackett, executive director of the WVGA, said the tournament committee got creative - too much so, some players would say."It's our state championship, and [the scores] aren't that bad," Tackett said. "We had a 67 and a 69. It's right where we want it; the conditions are so soft that you're really able to hide the hole locations and the good players can throw right at it. The rough is in perfect shape, the greens are firming up, the foot traffic is getting better and better."Tomorrow should be perfect." nnMore and more, "pace of play" is the buzzword in tournament golf, and the state Open is no different.The threesome of Woody Woodward, leader David Bradshaw and Christian Brand was caught several times waiting on the threesome in front. Sometimes there was trouble, such as a player losing his ball; sometimes they seemed to bog down.Then again, Woodward is one of the fastest players around, and Bradshaw and Brand are not slowpokes. When they got in their rhythm, they seemed to play better, too.All problems were ironed out and everybody lived to tell about it, penalty-free - as usual."Today, we had a couple of groups who were struggling for a while," Tackett said. "Being on 'cart path only' and you hit a couple of bad shots and have to go back to your cart, go back over to your ball, and then you start grinding trying to save [your round]."We had no rounds, today or yesterday, over 5 hours. They're all between 4 and 4:45, and we're happy with that - especially with 'cart path only.'"nnSixty-two players made the cut of 9-over 153. The ones making it on the number included two Kanawha Valley players heading to college careers, Chris Williams of Scott Depot (Coastal Carolina) and Will Evans of Charleston (Marshall).Other Valley players who will tee it up today: Brand, Bosten Miller, Phillip Reale II, Duke Erwin, Tyler Franklin and Carl Roncaglione of Charleston; Sam O'Dell, Brian Anania, Scott Davis and Brandon Tinney of Hurricane; Joshua Wolfe of Elkview; and Robert Jones of St. Albans.Other notables included Tad Tomblin of Alum Creek at 4 over and veteran amateur contender Steve Fox at 8 over.Reach Doug Smock at 304-348-5130, firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him at twitter.com/dougsmock. 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Here's a refreshing news item with real relevance to the livestock industry.
The Ninth Circuit Court has reversed a district court ruling and declared the notorious "conservation" group Sea Shepherd to be, in the words of the court, "pirates."
Sea Shepherd, founded by the infamous eco-agitator Paul Watson, calls itself "the world's leading direct-action conservation non-profit." Despite its noble mission, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski said the group's "aggressive and high-profile attacks" on Japan's whaling fleet endangered lives, ordering them to stop.
"You don't need a peg leg or an eye patch to be called a pirate," Judge Kozinski wrote. "When you ram ships; hurl glass containers of acid; drag metal-reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders; launch smoke bombs and flares with hooks; and point high-powered lasers at other ships, you are, without a doubt, a pirate, no matter how high-minded you believe your purpose to be."
Sea Shepherd has for many years harassed Japanese whaling ships, attempting to disrupt that country's annual "hunt."
Okay, let's be fair: The Japanese government, despite declining domestic demand for whale meat and rising outrage among its own people, continues to insist that the whaling ships are engaged in "research" and that they need to slaughter whales to better understand their adaptations to the changing marine environment.
Or some such load of you-know-what.
That stance has permitted Japan an exemption from the international ban on whaling, but the whales that Japanese ships slaughter are processed and packaged for consumption, not dissected for research. It's one of the more myopic policy positions you'll find anywhere on Earth, continuing to defy growing global criticism in order to produce a food item—albeit one that traditionally was a national staple—that its own people no longer want or consume.
Japan's fisheries minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, even rolled out the tired argument that whaling is part of "Japanese culture" and that the nation will never give up hunting the animals.
"Japan is an island nation surrounded by the sea, so taking some good protein from the ocean is very important," Hayashi told Agence-France Presse. "For food security I think it's very important."
Right. Keep telling yourself that it's all about taking "good protein" from the ocean. Nobody's buying that line any more than Japanese consumers are bringing home the blubber on their weekly shopping trips.
Condemning violence
The more important takeaway here is the Circuit Court's ruling putting a label on the violence perpetrated by Sea Shepherd (and several other animal rights extremist groups). U.S. District Judge Richard Jones in Seattle had sided with the protesters, tossing out a lawsuit filed by Japanese whalers seeking a halt to the group's aggressive tactics (which were highlighted on the Animal Planet reality show "Whale Wars.") Judge Jones ruled the protest tactics were nonviolent because they targeted equipment and ships, rather than people.
In overturning the district court ruling, Judge Kozinski wrote that, "The activities that Cetacean [the Japanese whaling ship] alleges Sea Shepherd has engaged in are clear instances of violent acts for private ends, the very embodiment of piracy."
That puts a name to Sea Shepherd's tactics and underlines again that when it comes to animal rights activists, the ends do not justify the means.
Vandalizing research facilities, sabotaging meat plants and equipment, intimidating and threatening one's opponents with physical harm can no longer be protected as free speech. It's not. It's violence, and that's never acceptable.
Now, it's no longer legal, either.
By the way, Sea Shepherd is pushing a petition to stop the extradition of Paul Watson to respond to a pair of Interpol warrants issued for his arrest at the request of Costa Rica and Japan.
"Captain Watson is a world-renowned and highly respected leader in environmental issues," the petition states.
And he's also a pirate engaged in "clear instances of violent acts for private ends, the very embodiment of piracy."
Finally, the legal system has condemned Sea Shepherd, and by extension, the other animal extremists hiding behind their self-styled "morality."
It's time to hang 'em from the yardarm.
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CBS News Correspondent Kelly Cobiella reports that some in the Kerry camp are dreaming of a split ticket with Republican senator John McCain as the vice presidential candidate.
"A lot of swing votes would be so impressed if either of the candidates find ways to reach some bipartisan common ground," columnist and political analyst Craig Crawford said.
McCain and Kerry, both former Vietnam veterans, are reportedly close friends and talk regularly. As recently as Wednesday, Kerry floated McCain's name as a possible secretary of defense, saying, "John McCain and I worked very closely together on a bunch of issues."
The Arizona senator insists he's totally ruled out the idea of teaming up with Kerry. However, those who follow McCain closely say the senator is upset over the Bush Administration's handling of Iraq, and he is still smarting from the way the Bush campaign handled him in the run for the Republican nomination in 2000.
If he did team up with Kerry, many believe it would be on condition they could agree to disagree, Cobiella reports.
"I guess McCain would do it with the caveat that he could disagree with his commander and chief in a time of war," said Mike Franc, of the American Heritage Foundation.
But would core Democrats accept a candidate for vice president they see as opposing abortion rights and affirmative action?
"The Democratic base would be apoplectic if a man with his social views were to be just a heartbeat away from the Democratic administration," Republican pollster Whit Ayres said.
Most pundits don't think Kerry would risk losing core voters for a chance at undecided voters. The McCain question could be settled by June 9th - the deadline for the senator to file reelection paperwork for his senate seat.


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If you don't realize I'm a Tar Heel I'm not sure that you've been following closely. I love my Heels, that's where I spent the best years of my life and where I learned so much about football that I can be considered an "expert" at this game. As we saw last week with Auburn and Tennessee I have very little tolerance for "bad" football. Mistakes and poor decision making really get my dander up and poorly prepared players just draw my ire.
Enter North Carolina. Everett Withers did not have the boys prepared for this end game scenario. Not in the slightest. Scattered brained. Bad decisions. Lazy football.
None of which is acceptable. It is one thing for your players to not be good enough, it is another thing for guys to not understand down and distance, throwing the ball away and when to make something happen. UNC was guilty of the number one sin in football; not knowing what has to be done.
Take a look at the drive chart, it tells you most of what you need to know as the Heels just refused to take the necessary steps to get to the endzone when they had the ball, with no timeouts but plenty of time to run the two-minute offense to get on the board.
35-28. 1:35 to go. 84 yards.
Let's get it.
If you're an offensive football player this is why you play the game. The touchdowns are nice, the big plays are glorious, the blow outs are fun but the game being in your hands is why you strap it on week in and week out. This is why you do the seven on sevens and the blitz drill and the weight room stuff. This is the part of football that you oughta be living for everyday. The part where you need to do all that you can to get your team a score.
Except UNC doesn't do that.
We'll skip the play calling issues because quite honestly I cannot get past the actual execution to dial up all the issues in the calls. What we do have is a Heels team that makes some pretty egregious errors in their execution of the two minute situation. I guess we'll start at the beginning:
The first play, a four yard pass over the middle to Jheranie Boyd. Not a terribly bad play, no one else was open and the ball got out quick. Georgia Tech's Quayshawn Nealy makes a good play and we're down 8 seconds. Here is where the Heels start to stick in my craw; the speed at which they get to the line.
You know Boyd got tackled. You see that he is in bounds. You know you have no timeouts. You know you've got 80 yards to go for the score. Get to the football. Get lined up. Get a play off.
And they do. Seventeen seconds to go four yards. Not ideal but not awful either. What comes next is awful though. Bryn Renner takes a sack. Sacks are bad in any scenario but here, when you've got to move the football 80 yards and you've got no timeouts a sack is a killer.
Throw the football away.
Get the ball downfield or throw the football away. Those are the only two options here. A sack can't be one. The only thing worse than a sack is a turnover and that's only a little bit worse because while a turnover is a swift death a sack is a slow, slow agonizing torturous death for an offense trying to run the two-minute drill.
Next play, a 24 yard hit to Eric Ebron in the seam. Clock stops. You're on the right track. 44 seconds are off the clock in three plays. The Heels aren't in bad shape but things could be better. Especially without the sack. 51 seconds left to go 59 yards. This is still do able.
Then the Heels lose more time. They're not ready when the ball is spotted. 6 second click off as the Heels get to the line and get their play called but that's excusable because they appear to be in rhythm. Things are working. Bryn hit Giovani "near" the sideline but the freshman is tackled in bounds. More time going off the clock but you're getting positive yards.
26 seconds gone for that first down play.
That's unacceptable.
Two schools of thought are at work here. I'm of the 2nd and 2 you spike the football so you have third and fourth down to get things right. Apparently John Shoop is of the let's run a play and keep the defense off balance school of thought. Both have their merits but neither is from the "let 26 seconds run off the clock because we picked up 8 yards" gameplan; only defenses with a lead subscribe to that logic.
25 seconds left. Brennan Williams gives up a sack. Well, to be more accurate, Brennan Williams gives up a sack and Bryn Renner takes one. Brennan has got to sell this out. He made Jeremiah Attaochu run the hump did not get the linebacker out of the picture. Bryn didn't step up and make a play.
20 seconds left on the clock.
Tick. Tick. Tick.
19. 18. 17. 16. 15. 14. 13. 12. 11. 10. 9.
The ball finally gets spiked. 9 seconds left on the clock. Two plays, maybe.
Except you get 0 plays.
Eric Ebron took his time getting back to the line. He's offsides when Renner spikes the football. Thanks to UNC's 2010 Music City Bowl happenings there is now a 10 second run off rule in college football. The rule that helped the Heels beat the Vols last December is the same rule that ended any chance the team had of coming back this Saturday against Georgia Tech. No timeouts. Offensive penalty. 10 seconds come off the clock.
When there are only nine seconds that means game over.
35-28 gives the Jackets the win.
What should have happened? What has to be done differently going forward?
Let's start with urgency. Get to the line. You can't stand around and bitch about giving up a sack if you're the offensive line. You can't lollygag back to the line if you're a tight end. You can't mosey up to the line of scrimmage if you're UNC. It has to happen now. Immediately. Get to the line and get a play off or spike the football.
These guys are young and they'll learn but this is the sort of in-game moment that has to be drilled into players during "scenarios" practice. When you run your two minute offense during Wednesday practice that intensity must be for real. Players must have it. Coaches must give it to them. Not having the substitutions and the play calls and the signals and the understanding of clock management is unacceptable.
Withers and Shoop will get the boys right. This will not go unaddressed as an issue. Expect the Heels to be crisp when they get into this situation in the future.
And I could not end this without giving props to Georgia Tech's defense. Al Groh and the Yellow Jackets played this end game scenario the way they should. No prevent defense, pressure on the quarterback and guys making tackles to keep UNC's players in-bounds. That's good coaching. For all the Al Groh jokes the fact is this guy knows his way around a defense and had his players ready to do the right things to win this ball game.


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My friend Cindy I met on Scrapjazz.com a couple years ago. She came out this past July & we met face to face for the first time. She flew out from Minnesota and stayed for 10 days with me here in Seattle. We planned her 10 day stay to be during the Scrapbook Expo so we could have a hayday shopping! After all our passion is scrapbooking & that passion for scrapbooking is what brought us together to begin with.
Sorry the pictures are kind of small, but I've only started scrapping Day 2 of 10 & we took over 2000 pictures combined.
I had a hard time scrapping this as it was day 3 of being sick, but I'm happy with the results!
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Study of Imatinib, a Platelet-derived Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitor, and LBH589, a Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor, in the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed and Recurrent Chordoma
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified December 2012 by Deric M Park MD, University of Virginia.
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
Recruitment status was: Active, not recruiting
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First received: July 28, 2010
Last updated: December 26, 2012
Last verified: December 2012
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This is a multi-center study to assess the safety and to determine the maximum tolerated dose of the combination of imatinib and LBH589 in patients with newly diagnosed and recurrent chordoma. For the recurrent population, those patients that do not require immediate surgical resection will be eligible. Patients will be treated with 4 cycles, followed by surgical resection if possible. If indicated, surgery may take place prior to the completion of 4 cycles.
|Drug: Imatinib + LBH589
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Multicenter Phase I Study of Imatinib, a Platelet-derived Growth Factor Receptor Inhibitor, and LBH589, a Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor, in the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed and Recurrent Chordoma
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Drug Information available for: Imatinib Imatinib mesylate PanobinostatU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Number of dose limiting toxicities [ Time Frame: At time of study drug discontinuation ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Tumor response [ Time Frame: Week 7 ]Tumor response will be evaluated using the RECIST criteria
- Tumor response [ Time Frame: Week 12 ]Tumor response will be evaluated using the RECIST criteria.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|October 2011
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: Escalating doses of imatinib and LBH589
Study will incorporate a "3+3" dose escalation design.
Drug: Imatinib + LBH589
Escalating doses of imatinib and LBH589 will be administered.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients greater than or equal to 18 years of age.
- Histologically documented diagnosis of chordoma
- At least one measurable site of disease (as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors, see Appendix 3).
- Performance status 0,1, or 2 (ECOG) (see Section 6)
Patients must have adequate bone marrow and end organ function, as defined as the following:
- WBC > 3.0 x 109/L
- ANC > 1.5 x 109/L,
- Platelets > 100 x 109/L
- Hemoglobin > 10 gm/dl
- Total bilirubin < 1.5 x ULN (Does not apply to patients with isolated hyperbilirubinemia (e.g., Gilbert's disease) grade <3.
- AST/SGOT and ALT/SGPT < 2.5 x UNL
- Serum creatinine ≤ 2.5 x ULN or 24 hr creatinine clearance ≥ 50ml/min
- Serum albumin ≤ 3g/dL
- Serum amylase and lipase ≤ 1.5 x ULN
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 x ULN
Patients must have the following laboratory values (WNL = within normal limits at the local institution lab) or corrected to within normal limits with supplements prior to the first dose of study medication:
- Potassium (WNL)
- Magnesium (WNL)
- Phosphorus (WNL)
- Calcium (WNL)
- Female patients of childbearing potential must have negative pregnancy test within 7 days before initiation of study drug dosing. Postmenopausal women must be amenorrheic for at least 12 months to be considered of non-childbearing potential. Female patients of reproductive potential must agree to employ an effective barrier method of birth control throughout the study and for up to 3 months following discontinuation of study drug.
- A scan should be performed within 14 days prior to registration. The same type of scan, i.e., MRI or CT must be used throughout the period of protocol treatment for tumor measurement.
- Patients must have an interval of greater than or equal to 3 months from the completion of radiation therapy to study entry.
- Patients must be willing to participate in the pharmacokinetic studies.
- Written, voluntary informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient has received any other investigational agents within 28 days of first day of study drug dosing for treatment of chordoma, unless the disease is rapidly progressing. Patients who have been previously treated with imatinib or LBH589 are ineligible.
- Patients must not be on enzyme inducing anticonvulsants or valproic acid, a seizure medication with HDAC inhibition activity.
- Patient is < 5 years free of another primary malignancy except: if the other primary malignancy is not currently clinically significant nor requiring active intervention, or if other primary malignancy is a basal cell skin cancer or a cervical carcinoma in situ. Existence of any other malignant disease is not allowed.
- Patient with Grade III/IV cardiac problems as defined by the New York Heart Association Criteria. (i.e., congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction within 6 months of study)
Impaired cardiac function including any one of the following:
- Inability to monitor the QT/QTc interval on ECG
- Long QT syndrome or a known family history of long QT syndrome.
- Clinically significant resting brachycardia (<50 beats per minute)
- QTc > 450 msec on baseline ECG (using the QTcF formula). If QTcF >450 msec and electrolytes are not within normal ranges, electrolytes should be corrected and then the patient re-screened for QTc
- Myocardial infarction within 12 months prior to starting study
- Other clinically significant uncontrolled heart disease (e.g. unstable angina, congestive heart failure or uncontrolled hypertension)
- History of or presence of clinically significant ventricular or atrial tachyarrhythmias
- Female patients who are pregnant or breast-feeding.
- Patient has a severe and/or uncontrolled medical disease (i.e., uncontrolled diabetes, chronic renal disease, or active uncontrolled infection).
- Patient has known chronic liver disease (i.e., chronic active hepatitis, and cirrhosis).
- Patient has known brain metastasis
- Patient has a known diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
- Patient received chemotherapy within 4 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosourea or mitomycin-C)prior to study entry, unless the disease is rapidly progressing.
- Patient receiving concurrent treatment with warfarin.
- Patient previously received radiotherapy to > 25 % of the bone marrow
- Patient had a major surgery within 2 weeks prior to study entry.
- Patient with any significant history of non-compliance to medical regimens or with inability to grant reliable informed consent.
- Patients may not be receiving any other investigational agents.
- History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to imatinib or LBH589 used in study.
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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: NCT01175109
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01175109
|United States, Massachusetts
|Massachusetts General Hospital
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
|United States, Michigan
|University of Michigan
|Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109
|United States, Virginia
|University of Virginia
|Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, 22908
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Deric M Park MD
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|Deric M Park, MD
|University of Virginia
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|Deric M Park MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia
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|NCT01175109 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|July 28, 2010
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|December 26, 2012
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Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Imatinib Mesylate
Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors
Mitosis Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
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Ken Goodson is the Robert Bosch Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Davies Family Provostial Professor at Stanford University. His research group studies thermal phenomena in electronic nanostructures, energy conversion devices, and microfluidic heat exchangers, with a focus both on fundamental heat transfer physics and on contemporary industrial problems. Goodson's 40 Ph.D. alumni include 17 Professors at MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, The University of Michigan, and senior staff at Intel, Qualcomm, IBM, and Exxon-Mobile. Goodson (BS MIT 1989, PhD MIT 1993) has co-authored 170 archival journal articles, 250 refereed conference papers, 31 US patents, 2 books, and 9 book chapters. Goodson is a Fellow with ASME, IEEE, APS, and AAAS, and is a recipient of the ASME Kraus Medal, the ASME Heat Tranfer Memorial Award for Science, the the Kern Heat Transfer Award, SRC Technical Excellence Award, and the IEEE THERMI Award. He has been recognized through plenary lectures at INTERPACK, ITHERM, SEMITHERM, THERMINIC, MNHTM, and PHONONS, as well best paper or outstanding paper awards SEMITHERM, ITHERM, and the IEDM. He is a former Associate Editor with the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, from which he also received the Outstanding Reviewer Award. Other recognition includes the IEEE Golden Reviewer Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, and the NSF CAREER Award. He was a JSPS Visiting Professor at The Tokyo Institute of Technology and was Editor-in-Chief of Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering. Goodson is a founder and former CTO of Cooligy, which built microcoolers for computers (including the Apple G5) and was acquired by Emerson in 2005.