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The public will have a chance to voice their opinions about the proposed closing of Rochester and Pleasant Hill elementary schools at the next meeting of the Seaman school board.
At Monday night's Unified School District 345 meeting, the board members set a public hearing for 6:05 p.m. Jan. 13 to take comments on the proposed closing. The hearing will open that month's regularly scheduled board meeting.
"This is part of our 10-year plan," superintendent Mike Mathes said. "People know this was coming."
The board also postponed review of bids for construction at Elmont Elementary School. Eight companies provided bids for the Elmont project, and district officials haven't finished evaluating all of the submitted documentation. A special meeting will be scheduled likely within the next week once the bid review is completed, Mathes said.
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Hawkeyes win lowest-scoring game in the 43 contests against ISU
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IOWA CITY -- Jaime Printy grabbed the final rebound of the game and raised a fist toward the Carver-Hawkeye Arena ceiling.
Morgan Johnson loped to Printy and embraced her as the final seconds ticked off.
"We got it."
And, as ugly as it was, they're not throwing it back.
The lowest women's basketball game in Iowa-ISU history went to the Hawkeyes, 50-42, Thursday night before a crowd of 4,483.
"It was an incredible defensive battle," Iowa Coach Lisa Bluder said. "It was a battle the whole way."
Iowa (7-3) jumped to a 14-0�lead, lost it, then was able to grind it out at the end. The Hawkeyes shot 29 percent from the field, No. 22 Iowa State (5-1) shot 26 percent.
"That was ugly," ISU Coach Bill Fennelly said as he began his press session. "It's tough to spot a team two touchdowns at the beginning of the game. I'm proud of our effort, but the difference was, we couldn't make a shot."
The outcome meant the home team has won 11 of the last 12 games in this series. Iowa seniors Johnson, Printy and Trisha Nesbitt won their swan song against the Cyclones.
"We talked about picturing the moment," Johnson said. "To go out with a win, it's a great feeling."
The Hawkeyes' delight was the Cyclones' misery. ISU's Hallie Christofferson sniffed back tears afterward.
A scribe asked her why the loss stung so much.
"Because it's Iowa," she said. "There's not much more to say."
ISU didn't score until Nikki Moody's 3-pointer, more than 7-minutes into the game. The Hawkeyes led 14-0 before that, but the Cyclones rallied within 20-17 at halftime.
The Cyclones took their only lead at 26-24 on Christofferson's 3-pointer with 12:20 left in the game.
Iowa went on a 15-2 run to seemingly reclaim control at 39-28, but the Cyclones countered with 11 straight points to tie it, 39-39, with 3:50 to go.
The final run belonged to the Hawkeyes.
Melissa Dixon drilled a 3-pointer with 3:30 left to put Iowa in front for good. Then, Dixon scored on a feed from Bethany Doolittle to make it 47-42 with 1:26 to go.
"I was definitely feeling it," Dixon said. "My teammates got me the ball, and I was open."
Dixon and Theairra Taylor led the Hawkeyes with 11 points apiece. Jaime Printy added 10.
"Our scouting report on Dixon was to guard her just like you'd guard Printy," Fennelly said. "She wasn't a surprise."
Johnson scored seven points, the first time this season she has been held to single digits.
Moody paced ISU with 12 points. Christofferson and 6-foot-7 Anna Prins added 10 apiece, and Christofferson grabbed 13 rebounds.
The 92 combined points was by far the fewest in the 43 Iowa-ISU games. It eclipsed the 102 points scored two years ago in Iowa's 62-40 victory.
Iowa State's Chelsea Poppens missed the game due to lingering effects from a concussion.
"When you don't have your best player, it's hard," Fennelly said. "But that's not an excuse."
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IOWA STATE (42): Hallie Christofferson 2-8 5-5 10, Amanda Zimmerman 0-2 0-0 0, Anna Prins 4-18 0-0 10, Emiah Bingley 0-1 0-0 0, Brynn Williamson 2-6 0-0 6, Nikki Moody 5-12 0-0 12, Nicole Blaskowsky 2-10 0-0 4, Fallon Ellis 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 15-57 5-5 42.
IOWA (50): Bethany Doolittle 1-8 0-0 2, Morgan Johnson 3-8 1-2 7, Samantha Logic 1-7 3-6 6, Theairra Taylor 4-12 2-4 11, Jaime Printy 2-7 6-6 10, Trisha Nesbitt 0-0 0-0 0, Kathy Thomas 0-1 3-4 3, Melissa Dixon 4-8 1-3 11, Kali Peschel 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 15-51 16-25 50.
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I'm gonna put a hog draw thing (corn, sugar, milk, sour mash in a post hole) - I hear that if hogs start frequenting, then deer will stay away, which would be a problem come fall - maybe best to keep it at least 3 or 4 hundred yards from good deer spots? Or doesn't matter? Thanks.


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A while ago I blogged about Unitus and the great work they are doing in the area of microfinance. Currently, we are going through "Giving Campaign" at Microsoft where we focus on increasing the awareness of giving back to the community. It is awesome to see the kinds of things that people give – be it money or mindshare or time back to the community. In this context, I wanted to remind myself and others of Unitus and the great work they are doing.
Here is a link to their website that contains a few testimonial video clips from me and some of my colleagues about the impact that Unitus is having on people around the world.
I always say that the best I can ask of myself and others is to think about giving and do whatever feels right. That is a very individual thing and there is no right or wrong here.


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Earlier this month Al Jazeera acquired Al Gore's Current TV for $500 million. Al Gore reportedly owns 20% in Current TV so he made around $100 million from the sale. Al Gore's net worth is now believed to be around $300 million. But Al Gore did not stop there this month.
Gore also exercised options to buy 59,000 shares of Apple stock on January 15th for a price of $7.475 per share. Apple's stock price is around $500 today so that means that Gore bought $29.5 million worth of Apple stock for only $441,000.
Al Gore was the 45th Vice President of the U.S. from 1993-2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President and had lost the controversial 2000 U.S. presidential election even though he won the popular vote. Ever since then, Al Gore became an author and environmental activist. He is a member of the Board of Directors at Apple and is a senior adviser to Google. Gore is also a partner at VC firm Kleiner Perkins.


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He's the best surgeon ever! He's rebuilt both my body and my husband's. I'm so sad he is retiring.
Great doctor he was there when I needed him the most.
Hard to find good Doctors that you can be friends with now days. When he retires he will be near impossible to replace!
Dr. Cobden was an excellent doctor. I can't take that away from him. He helped me finally figure out what I was suffering from for years. But his staff is sloppy, my meds were changed without my knowledge, then after that I called for the doctor and they took ten days for someone to get back to me about changing my medication (which I never got them changed) and about another injury I had. When I did finally hear back after being bed ridden for ten days, the nurse called and said they had no idea I was suffering from another injury (even though I called every other day until someone finally called me back). The receptionist is rude there, does not give the doctor messages, doesn't treat you with any amount of empathy, and is definitely a patient profiler.
Dr Cobden was very patient and knowledgeable. He took a moment to consider my situation and use his expertise to best work with me an my individual needs. I felt very comfortable with him and he was truly trying to help with compassion. Great job and i look forward to calling you in the future. Receptionist just needs to remember who is paying the bills and take moment to LISTEN and be considerate. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP DR. COBDEN
Right to the point, soslved the problem quickly and to my satisfaction
The Doctor himself seems to know what's going on. As far as pain control they are horrible. I just had major surgery on my lower leg. It's now 7 days after and they are trying to limit me to 2 vicodin a day. I have not been able to sleep as they pain is so strong. I have tried calling Dr. Cobden but he will not speak to anyone. He has this "Mike" speak for him who is very rude and made me feel like I am a pill junky or something. I don't believe there is any reason I should be suffering like this.
My 10-yr-old son went to him for a knee cap that kept slipping out of place. Dr. Cobden recommended a total knee replacement. I felt that was a bit drastic for my son, so I got a second and third opinion. The growth plates on his knees where not done growing and a knee replacement would have destroyed his knee giving him lifelong problems. If you are told to get surgery at any age, get at least two more opinions to make sure you are doing the right thing.
I am extremely pleased with Dr. Cobden's care and I consider him to be one of the most experienced orthopedists in Fairbanks. (My husband and kids have seen other orthopedists and I don't feel they received the same quality of treatment.) Dr. Cobden repaired my meniscus, which I tore when I was out camping. My knee is now 100% improved, I couldn't be happier. Dr. Cobden is at at new office now and his staff is great-very helpful and professional. I would rate Dr. Cobden at the top of the list, I would wouldn't go anywhere else.
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Ferguson: United team did me proud
Sir Alex Ferguson admitted he was relieved his second string Manchester United side cruised past Schalke and into the final of the Champions League.
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Ferguson made nine changes from the team that dismantled the Germans in the first leg and acknowledged he was slightly apprehensive before the game as to whether it was the right thing to do.
But two goals from Anderson and further strikes from Antonio Valencia and Darron Gibson vindicated Ferguson's decision to rest his front line stars ahead of a huge Premier League showdown with Chelsea at Old Trafford on Sunday.
"They did me proud,'' he said of the team that secured a final against Barcelona at Wembley on May 28. "It was a semi-final and the fact it's such an important game does create a bit of doubt in your mind of 'Am I doing the right thing?' but I'm glad we were vindicated.
"It's fantastic for the club. We're where we want to be. I've said many times we should have done better in Europe over the years and I think this team can win the cup.''
Ferguson feels they are better equipped to face Barcelona than two years ago.
He said: "We were the favourites the last time and maybe we have a little more experience. But this year and last year Barcelona's form has been brilliant. It should be a really good final. It should represent the history and traditions of both clubs. There is a different set of traditions with Real Madrid and Barcelona because of their tribalism and history. They have always been the two biggest clubs in Spain and the rivalry is intense.
"I don't think we should be going there lacking in confidence. Their form has been very good this season and we will be playing a fantastic team. But they haven't got a terror against us. We cannot be frightened out of our skin. We have got to find a solution to playing against them.''
To that end, Ferguson will be making contact with old friend Jose Mourinho, who has suffered painfully at Barcelona's hands already this season, most recently this week when Real Madrid were turned over in their own semi-final.
"I speak to him quite a lot,'' said Ferguson. "Real are a different team from us for a start. It's not as if we haven't seen them before. I have watched them many times this season but we will take the information because Jose is very helpful that way.''
Ferguson will become only the second manager to lead a team into four European Cup finals, although he jokingly wished the opposition was slightly easier after goals from Antonio Valencia, Darron Gibson and a second-half brace from Anderson secured a 4-1 win on the night.
"I wish it was Brechin City or someone like that,'' he laughed. "At the start of the season if you look at the final, you think steer clear of Barcelona because their performance is there for everyone to see. But we have done our job well and our away form has been terrific. Wembley is a neutral ground but I think we'll be quite well prepared.''
Darren Fletcher returned after a virus and is now in with a chance of playing a part in the run-in. Ferguson said: "One advantage we've got is that we've got no players missing for the final. For Darren now, he's catching up all the time. We've got three weeks to assess the situation.
"He is looking okay and putting him in from the start wouldn't have been fair to him because he really does need games. Some players are big-game players and he's a big-game player.''
Edwin van der Sar also hailed United's "perfect" demolition of Schalke. He told ITV1: "It was perfect, after the first leg we were quite well set up to be able to make changes and keep the majority of players fresh for the big game on Sunday.
"We saw how emotional Barcelona were yesterday and maybe our reaction was a bit more subdued but Barca's was because they have a big rivalry (against Real Madrid).
"Barcelona play exceptionally good football and of course it's going to be difficult, they showed that in the final in 2009. We have to show we learned the lesson from that one and be better prepared.''
Wayne Rooney, who was rested due to a tight hamstring, said on Twitter: "Gibbo was class tonight, Scholes ran the show. Valencia - world class. Nice to see Andow [Anderson] score too. Great team performance."
Rio Ferdinand also said on Twitter: "Manager shuffled the pack (squad) + got the result we wanted, great use of our squad. Lads were quality 2nite. Every1 saying how bad a team Schalke are et ... you weren't saying that when they knocked Valencia + Inter Milan out before."
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I wrote, a while ago, about the day my mother stopped tasting for good. This can seem like a small tragedy, and of course it is, in relation to debilitating diseases and big disasters. And my mom never thought of herself as anything but a lucky woman. But even small tragedies can resonate in big ways and watching my mom chew the food she couldn't taste, and being cheated out of something so joyful, turned every meal into something elegiac.
So when the news about Zicam broke this week I felt a chill. Consumers, federal health regulators stressed, should stop using Zicam Cold Remedy nasal gel, and related products, because they might permanently damage the sense of smell. This raises two issues. Where have the regulators been all this time while Matrixx, Zicam's maker, has been aggressively promoting the product? As it turns out there have been consumer complaints dating back to 1999, the FDA itself acknowledged investigating those complaints as early as 2004, and Matrixx has never turned over their file of complaints despite a 2007 law that required manufacturers to do so. It did, however, pay an $11.9 million settlement last January to 340 plaintiffs as part of a class-action suit.
The other issue goes beyond consumer neglect. While the loss of smell can be life-threatening (since, as the FDA stresses, people who can't smell won't detect gas leaks or smoldering fires), it also means that a lot of the consumers who can't smell won't be tasting much of anything either, since the sense of smell and taste are so inextricably linked. In fact, as much as 80% of what we perceive as taste is actually smell. And the latest breaking Zicam stories do report, inevitably, that consumers have complained of continuing diminishment or total loss of taste, along with their dead sense of smell, years after their colds subsided, which seems to suggest a permanent anosmia.
A lot of us, as a result, will be hoping the effect isn't retroactive, as we dump the Zicam. I've always lived in fear of losing my sense of taste. Because my mom's loss was so sudden and inexplicable I worry that my own taste buds are going to time out. And that sense of fear has partly been a gift, because it means I approach every meal as the last supper, and savor every flavor.
But, of course, the reason I was reaching for the Zicam myself, whenever I felt a cold starting, was because I couldn't face the slow loss of taste that a cold signifies, like a foreshadowing of the bigger loss I always feared. The fact that Zicam may have meant, for some people, permanently dead taste buds, the very fate they were hoping to avoid for a week or two of congestion, now infinitely extended, is the rudest kind of irony. And it underscores the power of food, how that perfect plate of pasta, and the bowl of strawberries, are among our purest pleasures.
But when our bodies become pharmaceutical playpens a little irony is the least of the dangers. Among the products the FDA warned about this week was kid-size Zicam nasal swabs. And that may mean some children will grow up tasting nothing much at all.


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Holley Ledbetter '12 arrived in Germany three weeks ago — just in time for the soccer country's quadrennial immersion in World Cup mania. But hers is a passion of a different sort. A former medieval and Renaissance studies major with a master's in art history, Ledbetter is investigating ancient runes.
She is completing a six-week internship supporting the international RuneS project, which deals with "runic writing in the Germanic languages." The project focuses on the runic script as a writing system within its historic-cultural context.
"Essentially, the project traces the earliest sound changes of the English language," Ledbetter explains. "By studying the runic inscriptions on objects, linguists can see sounds change as they were actually occurring in the language. What's so cool about this is the fact that the pre-Old English and Old English speakers probably didn't recognize these sound changes … It is the historical linguists of today that are able to work backwards using the Old English literary corpus to understand how new letters and sounds were introduced into the English alphabet."
RuneS is funded by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and based at the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, and includes research centers at the universities of Kiel, Göttingen, Eichstätt-Munich (Institute for English Philology) and Munich (Scandinavian Department). Ledbetter is working mostly on the campus of the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
According to the project description, Old English runes and runic objects found in Great Britain have rarely been analyzed as a writing system with different socio-cultural functions. The runic script as a system, the researchers argue, "evolved in various ways over the centuries, fulfilling various communicative functions within the different historical societies it was used in."
So how does one become involved in interpreting these ancient relics?
"I connected with the project through Mary Blockley, my Old English professor at the University of Texas at Austin," Ledbetter says. "Mary knew of my interest in Old English and Old Norse runes and introduced me to Professors Gaby Waxenberger and Kerstin Kazzazi, the co-directors of the RuneS project."
The project has been funded through 2025 and consists of three modules — editorial basics, runic graphematics, and text-pragmatic and functional aspects of writing. Currently, researchers are tackling the first module.
"The bulk of my work over the next month deals with the publication of the project's first volume," Ledbetter says. "The first volume details the corpus of both pre-Old English and Old English runic inscriptions [and] currently consists of 97 objects with runic inscriptions."
With her interdisciplinary background and love of languages, Ledbetter is a great fit for the internship.
"Because of my M.A. in art history, Gaby and Kerstin have assigned me the task of selecting the images that will appear in the first volume," she says. "I spend most of my day looking over hundreds of images of runic inscriptions — how cool is that? After I finish selecting the images, I will start proofreading the volume. The two scholars I am working with are both hardcore historical linguists, so they are less concerned with finding the perfect image and using art historical terms, which is where I come in. Though my Ph.D. will be in English, my M.A. is in art history, so I am in a unique position to help the project at its current stage."
At Sweet Briar, Ledbetter majored not only in medieval and Renaissance studies, but also in classics with a language concentration in Latin and Greek, and her undergraduate research included trips to England, Spain, France and Turkey. After studying early medieval art at the University of Texas, Ledbetter received a full scholarship to conduct her doctoral research at Western Michigan University, where she'll start this fall.
Ledbetter says she'll continue to interweave her different research interests.
"My thesis, titled 'A Clear Token: The Anglo-Saxon Tacen and the Medieval Donor's Model,' argued for a new reading of medieval donor portraits through a framework developed from Old English poetry and its different uses of the word taken," she explains. "I crossed disciplines with this thesis, creating a committee from both art history and English professors at UT. I chose this topic because I saw it as a way to combine my interests in both literature and material culture. This project also created a nice sort of bridge for my shift into literary studies. My Ph.D. in English … will likely continue to involve objects, so in a way I will never really leave art history."But for now, Ledbetter is — virtually — living in the past.
"This is a really exciting opportunity for any medievalist," she says. "We all hear about runes when we study Old English and Old Norse, but never get the opportunity to take courses in runology. Runes and runology aren't often formally taught in the United States — there's usually no one to teach it. Most scholarly interest in runes is nurtured independently. Having the opportunity to study with professors Waxenberger and Kazzazi is huge for this reason alone."
And in between deciphering runic script, she has been able to enjoy some of Germany's culture, both past and present.
"When Germany beat Portugal the other night [in the World Cup group stage], all of the students got in their cars and drove up and down the street honking their horns. It was very cool to see so much excitement! And I am learning so much about Bavarian customs — just today I visited Burghausen, the longest castle in Europe."
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MUNICH, Germany — With few effective treatment options for heart failure, recent reports in the news about fish oil supplements are encouraging. The condition occurs when the heart becomes enlarged and cannot pump blood efficiently around the body.
"This reinforces the idea that treating patients with heart failure takes more than just drugs," said Dr. Jose Gonzalez Juanatey, a spokesman for the European Society of Cardiology. The doctor was not connected to the studies that determined the findings, which were published online in the medical journal the Lancet (thelancet.com).
Italian researchers gave nearly 3,500 patients a daily omega-3 capsule, derived from fish oils. Roughly the same number of patients were given a placebo. Patients were followed for an average of four years.
In the group of patients taking the fish oil pills, 1,981 died of heart failure or were admitted to the hospital with the problem. In the patients on placebo pills, 2,053 died or were admitted to the hospital for heart failure.
In a parallel study, the same team of Italian doctors gave 2,285 patients the drug rosuvastatin, also known as Crestor, and gave placebo pills to 2,289 people. Patients were then tracked for about four years. The doctors found little difference in heart failure rates between the two groups.
Comparing the results from both studies, the researchers concluded that fish oil is slightly more effective than the drug because the oil performed better against a placebo than did Crestor.
"It's a small benefit, but we should always be emphasizing to patients what they can do in terms of diet that might help," said Dr. Robert Bonow, chief of cardiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and past president of the American Heart Association.
The studies were paid for by an Italian group of pharmaceuticals including Pfizer, Sigma Tau SpA and AstraZeneca PLC.
Fish oils also are thought to increase the body's good cholesterol levels, as well as possibly stabilizing the electrical system in heart cells, to prevent abnormal heart rhythms.
"This study changes the certainty of the evidence we have about fish oils," said Dr. Douglas Weaver, president of the American College of Cardiology.
Weaver said that guidelines in the United States would likely change to recommend that more heart patients eat more fish or take supplements. "This is a low-tech solution and could help all patients with cardiovascular problems."


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There was no shortage of celebrities at this year's Fortune Brainstorm Green conference.
Harrison Ford started us off by talking about the work of Conservation International, Adam Gardner of Guster filled us in on Reverb, his new company designed to make concerts more sustainable, and will.i.am brought us to a close. I think will.i.am was there to talk about EKOCYCLE, but he wound up delivering one of the most important insights of the conference, in my view:
"Be a verb."
Thankfully, he paused and then said, "If you don't know what I mean, Google it."
His point was that sustainability should be about action and that action should be synonymous with brands. Although he didn't say it quite like this, what I took him to mean was if your sustainability efforts aren't obvious in your company's actions, and your company's not known for them, they're not very effective.


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The 10 year celebration has a multitude of chapters that will be revealed on air, in print and in the digital space
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The reality show is about 100,000 men in 7 metro Indian cities competing for various rounds on air and online in the categories of WOW voice, WOW fitness, WOW dressing, WOW talent, and WOW personality
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A NEIGHBOUR in Delhi, who happens to be a Narendra Modi devotee, asked me which leader Pakistanis would want as India's next prime minister.
I'm no clairvoyant, I told the elderly gentleman from Punjab. There are Pakistanis and Pakistanis. The ones I know better — and they are mostly in Karachi, and a few in Lahore — wouldn't mind seeing Manmohan Singh come back.
A fresh mandate (who knows) could spur Dr Singh to confront his obstructive bureaucracy and a self-regarding military to build durable bridges with Pakistan. It is another matter that his neo-liberal economic policies have brought wrack and ruin to millions of impoverished Indians.
Since my neighbour may have been seeking insights into the Pakistan Army's mind, which many Indians regard as Pakistan's God-given saviour (to the chagrin of most Pakistanis I know), I said that particular institution would heartily love to see Mr Modi as the new Indian prime minister.
I said India-baiters in Pakistan, led by its army, could not dream of a more effective and inexpensive way to harm India grievously, possibly even more fatally than the thousand cuts they had threatened to inflict through surrogates in Kashmir and elsewhere.
Pakistan only has to bet on a total sway of religious fanaticism in India, which buoys Mr Modi. India's fascism has flourished on a successful campaign of religious revivalism that was set in motion even before 1947 by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh with generous help from Muslim leaders, though everyone from the left to the right was complicit in its growth.
It was the Indian communists who shored up governments in which the Hindu right gained, usually at the left's expense. Communists promoted Hindu festivals such as Durga Puja in West Bengal as a cultural facet of a liberal ethos, which it claimed to advance. It was a far cry from the left's initial promise of excluding religion from state patronage.
In Kerala in 1957, for example, an authoritarian Congress under Indira Gandhi evicted the communists from power when they sought to limit the intervention of the church in the state's educational curriculum. Times have changed, so has the left, perhaps. Motifs it deemed to be benignly cultural have been converted into a political asset by the right.
The new assertive Indian middle class is not just the Pakistan Army's close ally, it also elevates India's military to the status of the holiest of holy cows. In a perverse way this is what the Pakistan establishment would prefer. The more the urban classes growl at Pakistan the more they help the armies on both sides to become assertive vis-à-vis their civilian rulers.
Both militaries demand a greater role in framing policy while seeking untenable budgets. The new urban Indian is no longer concerned that over 70 per cent of his countrymen are robbed of their future by the elite's consumerist obsession with security.
It is Navratri these days, a nine-day Hindu equivalent of Lent, or Ramazan. Just as khuda hafiz in Pakistan became Allah hafiz under Zia's puritanism, in India the colloquial Ram-Ram turned into Jai Shri Ram. And Navratri has turned into Navratra in the Hindi belt, evidently to check forbidding regional challenges.
The gyms in Delhi are mostly empty as are the restaurants in Navratri. I'd thought that gym-users who were mostly gossiping about stock markets, cricket-politics and movie stars in the daily routine of pumping iron would be averse to the mumbo-jumbo of religious rituals.
But times have evidently changed. The seeds perhaps go back to the 1980s when colour TV brought mythological serials like Ramayana and Mahabharata to the urban classes, and subsequently to the rural masses. The streets were empty when the serials were on. The insidious religious offshoot took time to be noticed.
Much of urban India today seems committed to emulate post-Zia Pakistan when Islamisation was planted firmly in an otherwise multicultural country. In India too, Hindu, Muslim and Sikh identities are stronger than ever before.
An Indian relative who visited his cousins in Karachi during the Zia era came back with the following observation. "Lovely people, very hospitable, lots of money and imported cars. But there are far too many Muslims there." It would not be an exaggeration to suggest that there are far too many Modi-fied Hindus in India today, overwhelmingly so in the influential electronic media, far more than Nehru or Gandhi could have provisioned for.
The hatred the Modi-loving middle class nurtures is not only towards Muslims. There are strong signs of other filters of prejudice. Dalits and tribespeople were commandeered as the sword arm of Hindutva in the Gujarat experiment against Muslims in 2002.
They have to be won over elsewhere for the Hindutva project to succeed. Militant and secular Dalit or tribal movements are wary of encroachment on their natural resources by state-backed corporate houses, which are spearheaded by religious hordes. They will test Modi's alliance with the business captains against his revivalist moorings.
If there was one Indian leader Pakistan's army feared and hated, it was Indira Gandhi. She wrecked their country in 1971 and turned the global issue of Kashmir into a bilateral discussion with Islamabad.
However, I believe she mocked Pakistan even more by adding two clauses in the preamble of India's constitution four years after the Bangladesh war. She added 'secular' and 'socialist' to define the Indian Republic, the opposite of where Pakistan was headed. Now Pakistan can count on Modi to dismantle the preamble no matter how spurious it already looks against today's free-market reality.
A combination of civilian and military rulers helped to convert Pakistan into a religious state. Fire-breathing Modi, admired by the military, is the best candidate to blow India's floundering Nehruvian tryst to rubble. And the West should be there to applaud, as it once did for Pakistan.
The writer is Dawn's correspondent in Delhi.
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Used top sirloin instead for this one and it worked out really well, very tasty dish! A nice diversion from the typical leafy salad though next time might try it all on top of fresh mixed greens. Will keep this one on file for the summer when my garden is busting with tomatoes & cucumbers!
Had this for dinner last night and it is definitely a keeper. Will add a little heat next time as we like Thai spicy.


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I had a good time at the Paper Doll Boutique's Grand Opening of their Beauty Bar hair salon! It was equipped with make up, eyelash extension and a manicure station. I was definitely enjoying the amenities especially, the massages. I was like ahhhhhhh *sighs*
Here with the one of the owners of the Paper Doll Boutique, Veronica. Upon meeting with her she told me about their new line of Virgin Hair, called Paper Doll Hair So if you're ever in Brooklyn make an appointment at their salon!


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Courtesy of Hungarian Tourism Plc. and partners, EIBTM will be running a competition, open to all trade visitors who pre-register and attend. One lucky winner will be selected from the list of attendees and they will receive a luxury trip for two to Hungary.
The winner will receive round-trip economy class tickets from any scheduled European departure city (courtesy of Hungarian Convention Bureau), 3 nights stay in the five star Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest, round trip airport transfers (courtesy of Premium Incoming), a one day Budapest city tour (courtesy of BlagussTravel Ltd) and a half day incentive programme (courtesy of Continental Travel).
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EIBTM 2013 will take place from 19th – 21st November, a week earlier than in previous years. The EIBTM Forum will take place the day before the exhibition on 18th November.


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NEW YORK (Sep. 27)
Ten thousand volunteer workers began soliciting today 100,000 contributions to the $20,000,000 campaign of the New York Federation of Jewish Philanthropies which was formally launched last night with an address by Judge Joseph M. Proskauer before 1,000 persons at the Yeshiva University.
Judge Proskauer, who pleaded for co-operation in Jewish life, pointed to the opening of the Federation campaign in the Yeshiva University as an example of the kind of unity that could be brought about in the Jewish community. He urged that there be no spirit of competition between the Federation campaign and the United Jewish Appeal, declaring that "we are not going out into the commercial market to try to outbid or outsell each other. We are Jews and we are American Jews and we are enlisted for both these great causes." Stressing his support and interest in the overseas activities of the UJA, he commented that "we are in a position to help because we have been able to build a rich and prosperous life here in America" and asked "where would the UJA be if we Jews of America did not take care of our own in this land which has made us bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh?"
Judge Proskauer, a former president of the Federation, stressed the importance of child care, recreational and cultural services provided by the community by agencies affiliated with the Federation, declaring that they were important in helping children to grow into decent, responsible American citizens. "These cultural and recreational institutions of the Federation are as vital in their way as the hospitals and similar institutions, which are of course utterly essential to the life of America and the life of our city."


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Last July, a group of Gastown service industry members raised over $100,000 to open a gym for troubled youth in the Downtown Eastside.
Aprons for Gloves saw bartenders, baristas, barbers, cooks and waitresses all put their fears behind them and endured a hellish three-month training camp and a live fight night to raise funds for a new gym in the area.
Coach Dave Schuck feels it was the Gastown community made the cause so special.
"The support around the community here in the Gastown – East Van area is huge. People that normally wouldn't hear about these types of things have heard of it just from word of mouth and the series we got going. It's organically grown into a bigger event this year because there was a precedence last year."
Many founding members of Aprons for Gloves originally trained at the famous Astoria Boxing Club. When the gym closed down, the youth that filled the gym were left without a place to train.
Since the first Restaurant Rumble, Eastside Boxing Club has opened its doors. The building is on the corner of Pender and Commercial, above the Woodland Smokehouse.
With the new gym in place, new Aprons for Gloves contenders can look forward to assisting the renovations.
"A lot of work has been done on the gym but were saving some of that stuff for the actual contenders, get them to contribute like they did last year," said Schuck. "I think if people help build the gym they have a bit more of an appreciation for it."
Tryouts for this year's Restaurant Rumble take place April 20 and 21 at the newly opened Eastside Boxing Club.
Aprons for Gloves competitor Brian Grant feels the popularity of last years event will carry over into tryouts this year.
"Last year I think we had 55 people come out to the tryouts, this year I wouldn't be surprised if it was double that. A lot people really got excited about the event when they came to watch it and a lot of people were like 'I can do that,' or 'I want to try that.' All the people who said that have an opportunity now."
Following tryouts, a five-episode web-based reality show will follow each contender's journey to fight night. The Restaurant Rumble will take place at the Gastown Woodwards Building July 25 and will be live on internet-PPV.
Below is the first of five episodes from the inaugural Aprons for Gloves 'Road to the Restaurant Rumble.'
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In a time when everybody seems to disrespect what it means to be American, watch what Usain Bolt does.
I have seen many Americans, particularly blacks, do nothing when the national anthem is played. And yet, here is a Jamaican sprinter who has the class to stop an interview, and pay tribute to Americans.
I an now an Usaniac!


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CAMPBELL (BCN) — Police have released a sketch of the suspect they say is involved in a Sunday robbery and shooting that sent two people to the hospital.
Campbell police responded at 12:26 a.m. to a report of gunshots heard in the area of Campbell Avenue and Union Avenue.
Police said arriving officers located two victims in the parking lot of the First Bank at 790 E. Campbell Avenue who were suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
The victims of the shooting are a 22-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man. They remained in the hospital Monday night recovering from their injuries.
While investigating the shooting, police received a report of an armed robbery that had just occurred in the area of Second Street and Civic Center Drive in downtown Campbell.
Police said the suspect in that incident, which occurred 10 minutes prior to the shooting, is likely to be associated with the person involved in the shooting.
The victim of the earlier robbery, a 25-year-old woman, was not injured.
Police said the suspect involved in the shooting is a Hispanic male in his 20s to early 30s, is 5-foot-6 to 5-foot-10, has a medium build and has dark hair.
The suspect was seen fleeing the shooting in dark sedan.
Campbell police are asking anyone with information on the shooting and robbery to call (408) 868-2101. Those wishing to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (408) 947-STOP.
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By Terry Andrews
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|Although I think that at least one guide book has mistakenly listed the first ascent in 1986, I actually did the first ascent in December 1978. Friends had just come out and I had just got three of them for Christmas. Sam Audrain and I went to Sam's Throne and the first climb I got on was Instant Karma. I plugged my new friends in and got it clean on my first try. A local guy that watched and photographed us informed me that I had done the first ascent of "Instant Karma" when I reached the top!
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|terry andrews. I would love to see that photo. That is a rare piece of Arkansas climbing history.
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|Me too!! I never saw any of the photos. I think they exist though! Some old climber from the 70s probably..
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Having played 8 games in IPL 7 so far, RCB has won 3 and lost 5. It is fair to say that they have had a rough start to the tournament, but as we have often seen, there is always scope for a comeback. RCB have done it in the past and definitely have the mettle to do it again. Lets have a look at 3 of their many comebacks from the past:
1) RCB vs DC - 3rd May, 2008:
The first season of the IPL. and audiences were already witnessing some high adrenaline drama unfold on the field. RCB took on DC at M Chinnaswamy Stadium and posted a decent 156 on the board thanks to some handy cameos by the batsmen. DC however looked all set to chase down the score after VVS Laxman and Rohit Sharma got stuck into the bowlers. Both these batsmen scored half centuries after fall of some early wickets. They almost took their side across the line until RCB struck again to dismiss Rohit. Afridi, Laxman and Styris all followed suit and in the end, DC lost the match by 3 runs. RCB won the match courtesy some good death bowling by Praveen Kumar and Zaheer Khan.
2) RCB vs MI - 4th April, 2013:
RCB and MI have always had close-run high intensity matches, and this match just proved to be the pinnacle of it all. Batting first, RCB put up 156 thanks to a blistering 96*(58) from Chris Gayle. Mumbai had a good start but started losing their way with some quick strikes to dismiss Tendulkar, Ponting and Rohit Sharma. Things started looking bleak for MI, but Dinesh Karthik had other plans. He hit 60(37) before being dismissed in the last over by Vinay Kumar. With Rayudu also looking set, things were not lost but Vinay Kumar dismissed him too in the very next ball. It ensured that RCB won the match by the narrowest margins of 2 runs.
3) RCB vs SRH - 4th May, 2014:
We take you to the not so distant past - a match from this very season of the IPL. RCB were playing their first home game of the season when they squared off against SRH. Having to chase 156, RCB made some heavy weather of a par total. Having a terrible start, RCB were reduced to a mere 38/3 in 6.4 overs. AB de Villiers was the man who had to take centre stage for RCB to win the game, and it is exactly what he did. With a little bit of support from Rossouw and Yuvraj in the start, AB managed to get himself set. Then came the time to finally explode and AB de Villiers did so by scoring heavily off Dale Steyn - hitting 23 off his last over to virtually seal the match. RCB won the game with AB scoring 89*(41) - an innings which comprised of 6 fours and 8 sixes.
These matches are enough proof that RCB have it in them to stage yet another comeback in the ongoing IPL season. Hopefully, it is just round the corner and the team will be back on its winning ways.


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The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today's noon briefing by Martin Nesirky, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Good afternoon everybody.
Apologies for being a little late. I am expecting my guests at the briefing shortly. As I mentioned yesterday, we will have Under-Secretary-General Cheick Sidi Diarra with us. He is the Special Adviser on Africa and High Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States. And he will be joined by Alpha Oumar Konaré, the former President of Mali, and James Wolfensohn, the former President of the World Bank.
**Security Council
The Secretary-General addressed a Security Council meeting on peacebuilding, this morning, and he told the Council that it is essential for us to develop the peacebuilding architecture and promote greater coherence within the United Nations system.
He said that success at peacebuilding requires patient, long-term commitments and the involvement of a wide range of actors, working together. The Secretary-General added that we are making progress — in Burundi, Haiti, Nepal, Sierra Leone and elsewhere. But he reminded Council members that for people who have suffered through conflict, progress can't come fast enough.
He emphasized four areas for improvement: to get the right people in the right place at the right time; to have predictable financing; to forge more effective partnerships; and to put women at the heart of peacebuilding. And we have his remarks available.
And also today, the Security Council voted unanimously to extend by a year its authorization for the work of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.
** Sudan Referenda Panel
The Secretary-General's Panel on the Referenda in Sudan met with Salva Kiir, the President of the Government of Southern Sudan and the First Vice-President of Sudan, as they continued their first visit to the country.
The panel had a 90-minute discussion with Mr. Kiir in Juba, looking at matters ranging from how to make the referenda process as free and fair as possible to security arrangements during the campaign. They also discussed how to deal with the key post-referenda challenges.
The panel's chair, former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, later told reporters that he believes a credible result can still be achieved by the scheduled vote date of 9 January next year.
** Darfur
The United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has a newly arrived Acting Deputy Joint Special Representative, Margaret Carey. And yesterday she met with leaders from the Kalma internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Nyala, South Darfur.
The leaders laid out their most pressing needs in terms of security, food, health care and education. The Acting Deputy Joint Special Representative expressed the Mission's keenness to help peacefully resolve any outstanding matters.
Ms. Carey also met with the State's Deputy Wali, or Governor, to discuss ways in which their mutual support can help enhance security and achieve stability in the region.
**Deputy Secretary-General
The Deputy Secretary-General [Asha-Rose Migiro] will depart New York today for Nairobi. At the invitation of the Chairperson of the African Union, Ms. Migiro will give a keynote address at the African Union's launch of the "African Women's Decade" on Friday, along with the President of Kenya and other African Union Heads of State and Ministers.
The African Women's Decade is intended to reinvigorate efforts to accelerate implementation of agreed global and regional commitments. And those efforts should include grassroots participation.
The Deputy Secretary-General will also hold bilateral meetings with officials from the African Union and the Kenyan Government, as well as with senior UN officials based in Nairobi. She will return to New York on 17 October.
**Secretary-General's Appointment
The Secretary-General has appointed Major General Muhammad Khalid of Pakistan as the Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). Major General Khalid will replace Lieutenant General Sikander Afzal, also of Pakistan, whose tour of duty ends on 28 November this year. We have more information on Major General Khalid available in my Office.
**Guest Tomorrow
Tomorrow at the Noon Briefing, my guest will be Angela Kane, the Under-Secretary-General for Management.
And then also tomorrow, Margot Wallström, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, will speak at the Security Council stakeout following the Security Council meeting in the morning.
So, as we await our guests, I am happy to take some questions. Mr. Abbadi and then Erol.
**Questions and Answers
Question: Thank you, Martin. Regarding the referendum on Sudan on 9 January, there are some who think that it may lead to possible violence in the event that the outcome of the referendum would lead to the division of the country. What preventive measures is the Secretary-General envisaging to prevent such outbreak of violence?
Spokesperson: Well, first of all, there is the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Parties to that Agreement and a number of other world leaders met here in New York on the margins of the General Assembly, as you know at the end of last month, and the communiqué that came out of that mini-summit was really quite clear in ensuring that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement is adhered to, and that means that the outcome needs to be respected. We obviously have UN personnel on the ground who are monitoring in the run-up to the referenda, and also helping to ensure that things run smoothly along with the authorities there. I wouldn't want to prejudge an outcome, but it's clear that the Comprehensive Peace Agreement is about ensuring peace. Erol.
Question: Thank you, Martin. Regarding yesterday's selection of the new Security Council members, I wonder beside the initial reaction of the Secretary-General to that election, would he and how he would see this as probably serving more to the idea having, first of all Germany and India in the Security Council now, having also Brazil and this year Japan who is leaving obviously, serving more the idea of the reforming Security Council in the sense of the original proposal of the G-4 initiative and group.
Spokesperson: Well, there are two things here. The Secretary-General looks forward to working with the newly-elected Members when they join the Security Council. That's the first thing. The second thing is, of course, that Security Council reform is a matter for the Member States. The form that it takes, the participation, how a reformed Security Council would look, that much is clear. It's for Member States to decide. The Secretary-General has made clear that he agrees that there does need to be Security Council reform; that the world has moved on. But it's for Member States to decide what form that takes and which countries are in the Security Council, and so on. So, a two-part answer. I see that our… Yes.
Question: If I may just follow up on that.
Spokesperson: Yes.
Question: Since yesterday he discussed that issue with the ambassadors of the Member States, for example, the Ambassador of India, and they are now very much with the hope that their proposal, their vision of the new Security Council will take an impetus with this. So, I am just asking whether the Secretary-General, without pointing that what countries are, is sharing that view of the impetus; your impetus of the, with this election.
Spokesperson: The Secretary-General has repeatedly said that he is encouraged that now there is more active discussion; and not just discussion, but work on moving towards a reform of the Security Council to meet the needs of the world today and to meet the needs of the Member States as they decide. But it's not for him to comment on the outcome. But certainly, he is encouraged that there is great momentum in the discussion. I see that our guests have arrived. And so, I am going to move chairs and invite, if I may, Under-Secretary-General Cheick Sidi Diarra to join me along with Alpha Oumar Konaré, the former President of Mali; and James Wolfensohn, the former President of the World Bank, if I may. Thank you very much.
[Press Conference by Under-Secretary-General Diarra, former Malian President Konaré, and former World Bank President Wolfensohn issued separately.]
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Pecora in Perspective: The Season Opener
The new Pecora Commission, headed by Phil Angelides, kicked off its testimony phase yesterday. The first panel consisted of Lloyd Blankfein, Chairman and CEO, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Co., John J. Mack, Chairman of Morgan Stanley, and Brian T. Moynihan, Chief Executive Officer and President, Bank of America.
There were some good moments. Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs admitted under questioning that the investment bank behaved improperly when it bet on a housing downturn while peddling more than $40 billion in securities backed by risky U.S. home loans, which through the magic of a broken financial ratings system somehow obtained an investment grade rating.
McClatchy, as per usual, does a great job of covering the hearing.
Commission Chairman Phil Angelides, a former California state treasurer, warned Blankfein that he'd be "brutally honest" in his questioning. He asked why Goldman thought it was necessary to take out protection against investment-grade mortgage securities it was selling by purchasing insurance-like contracts known as credit-default swaps. Angelides likened it to selling a car with knowledge it had faulty brakes and then taking out an insurance policy on the buyer.
"I do think the behavior is improper, and we regret . . . the consequence that people have lost money in it," Blankfein told Angelides.
Until Wednesday, Goldman had insisted that it was merely managing its risks when it placed "hedges," in the form of wagers against the housing market, various venues including in secret offshore deals, with insurance giant American International Group and on a private London exchange.
And when Mr. Blankfein said that buyers of mortgage-backed securities were primarily professional investors, Mr. Angelides interrupted to point out that those investors were "representing pension funds who have the life savings of police officers, teachers."
This is big stuff, people. It's admissions like this that set up a climate for regulatory reform. I cannot even begin to guess how much backroom work it took to force Goldman into the corner where they were forced to admit this.
You don't ask a question like that, and get an answer like that, unless both sides already know that the witness is going to go for his own lungs. Here's a big CAK shout out to the commissioners and staffers who were able to force that break in the case.
Some thoughts about regulatory approaches were put forth yesterday, during the second panel:
Kyle Bass, whose Dallas-based hedge fund cashed in by betting on a housing downturn beginning in 2006, told the panel that AIG and other insurers could never have taken on such risk if they had been required to put up initial cash, or collateral, whenever they wrote protection via a swap contract.
Look: a simple straight forward idea! Easy to write into law, common sense to implement. Then there was this:
Michael Mayo, a managing director and financial services analyst for the U.S. branch of French bank Calyon Securities, rattled off 10 causes of the financial crisis, including excessive investment in real estate, the surge in exotic bets such as credit-default swaps, and the fact that U.S. investment banks allowed leverage — the ratio to which their risks outstripped capital — to approach 40-to-1.
"I'm shocked and amazed more changes have not taken place," Mayo said. "There seems an unwritten premise that Wall Street, exactly how it exists today, is necessary for the economy to work. That's not true. … Wall Street has done an incredible job at pulling the wool over the eyes of the American people."
Emphasis added.
And a bombshell!
Every member of Congress should post that quote on their bathroom mirror where they can see it every morning when they brush their teeth.
There is no excuse for allowing banks to have debts that are 40 times the amount of their assets. And there is no excuse for believing that we cannot regulate Wall Street back into a stable and sane economic engine instead of casino full of out of control spending drunks it acts like today.
Testimony was scheduled to continue today, I'm looking forward to Shelia Bair's testimony.


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Name of Commissioner: cddslink/Jennifer Cosplay
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Character commissioned and series/video game (please include if this was the entire costume, just a jacket, prop, accessory, wig, etc.): Tomoe Mami, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, full costume
Links to picture(s) of your commissioned item: maybe I'll take a picture when it fits -3-
Timeline (how long your order took to process): Purchased 7/23/12, arrived today, 8/16/12
Describe your Experience. Pros, Cons, Comments:
Pros: Beautiful costume, lovely material and obviously very well made. Accurate colors and easy to put on. Packaged nicely.
Cons: Stockings were really wrong, so now I need to buy different ones to match the costume right (Mami wears brown cord looking stockings, NOT black ones!!) The corset thing was way too small (my fault, I believe. i couldn't even get it on to my dismay), and the sleeves were cutting off my circulation (that shouldn't have happened). I have to get those parts fixed now. I'm not sure if they'll fix it for me, but I'll update if they do/don't.
Comments: It got here pretty quickly from Hong Kong and the fact that they custom made it for me. The skirt fits so well it's insane, and the shirt is perfect around my chest (yay! I was afraid it would be made too tight even though I gave a measurement of 100cm, which is too big by about 5-6cm.). The gloves are very nice. They forgot to send my arm-bands but they immediately sent them out afterwards. I have yet to get them but I'm sure they'll be OK!
Final Grade: A- for now because of how wrong the stockings were.
UPDATE: They agreed to remake the blouse and corset for me for no additional charge besides shipping cost. Awesome.
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Efficacy of Keppra for Neonatal Seizures
|Tracking Information
|First Received Date ICMJE
|November 17, 2011
|Last Updated Date
|April 17, 2013
|Start Date ICMJE
|November 2011
|Primary Completion Date
|August 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Efficacy [ Time Frame: 24 hours ]
The primary outcome is the proportion of infants who achieve electrographic seizure freedom as measured by continuous EEG monitoring for 24 hours after intravenous levetiracetam administration.
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01475656 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Efficacy of Keppra for Neonatal Seizures
|Official Title ICMJE
|Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of Levetiracetam for Neonatal Seizures
|Brief Summary
The purpose of this research study is to learn how well the medication levetiracetam (Keppra) works to treat seizures in full term and premature babies. Levetiracetam is commonly used in babies with seizures at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, especially if the seizures have not been stopped by other medicines. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the use of levetiracetam for older children (over the age of 4) but not for infants. Even though it is not FDA approved for this age group, doctors at Cincinnati Children's use the medicine as a second drug in babies whose seizures are not stopped by phenobarbital. Some doctors are concerned that phenobarbital is not the best medicine to treat seizures in babies, so researchers are trying to study other medicines.
In this study, the investigators are looking at how well levetiracetam stops or slows down seizures in babies. The investigators are also studying the blood levels of levetiracetam to learn more about how the medicine is processed by the body and what level of medicine in the body works to stop seizures. The investigators are checking labs before and after giving the dose to make sure the medication does not cause any changes in blood counts, kidney function, or liver function. The investigators are following all of the babies in the study after hospital discharge to see if the parents notice any side effects of the medication. Babies in the study will come back to the High Risk Follow Up Clinic at Cincinnati Children's at 6 months of age for a visit with a neurologist and a neonatologist and developmental testing.
|Detailed Description
|Not Provided
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Design ICMJE
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Target Follow-Up Duration
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|Sampling Method
|Non-Probability Sample
|Study Population
|25 neonates ≥ 35 weeks of gestation and ≤ 30 days of life with electrographically-confirmed seizures
|Condition ICMJE
|Neonatal Seizures
|Intervention ICMJE
|Drug: levetiracetam
Infants in the both groups will receive 50 mg/kg IV levetiracetam after (continued) seizures are EEG confirmed.
|Study Groups/Cohorts
|Publications *
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* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Enrollment ICMJE
|Completion Date
|August 2012
|Primary Completion Date
|August 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion criteria:
Exclusion criteria:
|up to 30 Days (Child)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|United States
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
|Not Provided
|IPD Sharing Statement
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|Responsible Party
|Stephanie Merhar, MD, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Stephanie Merhar, MD
|Collaborators ICMJE
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|Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
|Verification Date
|April 2013
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The combination of four sweaty, unassuming guys proudly displaying their heavy metal T-shirts whilst belting out a brand of classic-influenced modern rock that gave them their name, is not the conventional way a new band manages to break through in today's ultra competitive, MTV dominated music industry, but that's exactly how American Hi-Fi have managed it.
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He had owned Southern Indiana Drainage Co., and was a retired farmer.
A Democrat, he was serving as president of the Posey County Council at the time of his death. He was serving his fifth term on the council.
He was also a Smith Township East Precinct committeeman, a job he had held since 1968.
He was a life member of St. Wendel Catholic Church. He also was a member of Knights of St. John, American Diabetes Association, Indiana Farm Bureau, American Legion Post 278, Mended Hearts, Association of Indiana Counties, Cynthiana Chamber of Commerce and Senior Citizens of Cynthiana.
He was an Army veteran of the Korean War.
Surviving are his wife of 37 years, the former Bernice Meny, four daughters Rita Ripple of Cynthiana and Donna Nix, Brenda Garris and Judy Voegel, all of Poseyville; a son, Gregory of Cynthiana; four brothers, Cletus of Evansville, Adolph of Haubstadt, Joseph of Cynthiana and Sylvan of Kokomo, Ind., and seven grandchildren.
Services will be at Wednesday at Pierre Funeral Home, continuing at at St. Wendel Church, with burial in the church cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association.
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Skulls and Skeletons: Human Bone Collections and Accumulations
Of the parts of the human body, the bones have a unique durability that lends itself to collection. Provided a body has not been cremated, the skeletal remains can be recovered even millions of years after death, cleaned of flesh and debris, studied at length, and stored indefinitely without the maintenance that wet specimens require. Motivations for collecting human skeletal material range from the practical (in anthropology, medicine, forensics) to the ritualistic (phrenology, in the relics of martyrs and saints). This book is an examination of those motivations and the collections they have brought about - catacombs, ossuaries, mass graves, prehistoric excavations, private collections, and institutions. The book contains sections on procuring, handling, storing, transporting, cleaning, and identifying skeletal remains. The repatriation of remains and legislation covering the topic are also addressed.
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text: Christian history is replete with bone-rattling documents of theological protest that capsuled the pressing issues of the day: Martin Luther's 95 Theses, which sparked the Reformation, Pope Pius IX's 19th century Syllabus of Errors, and the German Confessing Christians' Barmen Declaration against Nazism. The technique has fallen into disuse, but it was dusted off last week by a group of 18 Christian thinkers of nine denominations. After a weekend war council at the Hartford Seminary Foundation in Connecticut, they joined in a dramatic warning that American theology has strayed dangerously far afield.


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" Address: 362 Long Rd / Canvey Island / Essex SS8 0JU / UK / Telephone: 01268 690960 "
I am reviewing one of my local bars called Madsons wine bar.
This is situated :
Long Road
Canvey Island
01268 690960
Madsons is a wine bar that has been open for five years now. In 2003 William Ferguson (Bill) set up the wine bar on Canvey Island as there are not that many on the Island, mainly just big chains of pubs.
He aquired a place that used to be a bookmakers and had it redeveloped into his new wine bar. This is not a huge pub like the chains but a small local bar that people could get to know each other and make it a very friendly community bar to come to at the end of a hard days work or to join friends at the weekend.
Bill had set up Madsons in a row of a block of shops on one side of the street which is directly next to a flower shop, also two Chinese take aways, an Indian and a fish and chip shop if you get hungry !
There is another pub near enough next door to it called the King Canute which is part of a big chain, so Madsons has some friendly competition.
Bill wanted Madsons to be different from any other sort of pub or bar and this helped a lot with the customers who became regulars over the following years to come.
Bill had set out Madsons so when you come in there was a homely feeling with pictures on the wall, and a light coloured wood finish on the walls mixed with a red design. This is on the bottom half of the walls. The rest is a light coloured wallpaper which gives it a more open feel about the place.
There is a pool table just as you come inside and has plenty of room for three stand up tables with big bar stools.
There is a big black sofa in the middle for those who wish to relax in comfort which the cat who has made the pub his home from across the road normally goes to sleep on !
The bar is nice and compact so it doesn't take too much room from madsons and gives customers a lot more space to move around. This is all done in wood and gives off a good impression on how the design was made for Madsons.
There are two TV's in two corners with SKY on and a stereo behind the bar with a big selection of CD's. There is always something to taste everyones needs.
Outside there are three or four metal tables and chairs for you to sit in if the weather is nice, or for the smokers.
There is also free pool from Monday to Thursday which is a nice touch and has gone down well.
With the drinks there are a lot of choices and on tap we have Coors, Grolsch, Guinness, Worthingtons, Carling and two fridges at the back with more selections in them such as WKD, Smirnoff, Stella, Magners and many more choices.
Behind the bar we have different types of whisky, Bacardi, Rum, Vodka, and on the side there are the after shocks which do give a kick ! There are blue, red and the best of all Black ones.
The prices aren't bad down this way with a pint ranging from £2.10 to £2.60 all depending on what you want. Worthingtons is the cheapest and Grolsch the dearest.
With the bottles they are much the same price but as the Magners are bigger they cost a little more and are just over the £3 mark.
The spirits and aftershocks are about £2 and a double whisky is only about 50p dearer so you might as well have one of those !
Obviously there is a selection of red and white wines ranging from the £5 mark to more expensive ones, but this never seems to go over the £10 mark.
The crisps are cheap at 40p and have a selection of walkers varieties and also bacon and scampi fries along with good old pork scratchings.
There are some very dedicated bar staff here with Sharon and Maria being the main ones. These ladies work very hard and put in long hours. They are very friendly and like a good laugh with the regulars. This gives Madsons a very warm feeling to it as each time you go in you are noticed and get to be known by the staff and other regulars.
They are both there for you if you want a chat and always have time for everybody.
On my first visit here on Christmas Eve 2005 it was packed and as I went here with one of my friends we were greeted with everybody saying Happy Christmas to us even though we didn't know anybody there then. As we got to the bar Bill gave us a cheery smile and started chatting to us.
We had never felt that feeling before when going into a pub as everybody was so happy and cheerfull. So we decided to go back the following week and have been going there ever since.
My last trip there was Saturday evening and it's really good going there now and being known by the staff and other locals. There is always a game of pool going on and lots of jokes going around. It was good listing to some of the 80's tracks last night and a big cheer for Sharon as the trip switch went and she had to get the lights on again ! I guess you had to be there for that one though !
The cat came in for his usual visit and was made a fuss of all of which he enjoys though.
In the years of coming here though I have never found anybody to cause any trouble in the bar and this is very unusual these days and shows how people are here in this little community on Canvey Island.
On all of my trips anywhere I have been I have never found a bar as friendly or welcoming as this one. I would recommend any of you to come down this way and have a pint.
I end this review on a sad note though. Bill died on 12th March this year. I shall not go into details but he was the best landlord and a good friend to everybody in Madsons and he shall be missed. He has his picture in pride of place on the wall by the pool table as you come in.
This review is dedicated to the memory of William Stephen Ferguson (Bill)
© IanM73 2008


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With traditional, stateless firewalling (such as ipfwadm, ipchains) there is no need for special HA support in the firewalling subsystem. As long as all packet filtering rules and routing table entries are configured in exactly the same way, one can use any available tool for IP-Address takeover to accomplish the goal of failing over from one node to the other.
With Linux 2.4/2.6 netfilter/iptables, the Linux firewalling code moves beyond traditional packet filtering. Netfilter provides a modular connection tracking subsystem which can be employed for stateful firewalling. The connection tracking subsystem gathers information about the state of all current network flows (connections). Packet filtering decisions and NAT information is associated with this state information.
In a high availability scenario, this connection tracking state needs to be replicated from the currently active firewall node to all standby slave firewall nodes. Only when all connection tracking state is replicated, the slave node will have all necessary state information at the time a failover event occurs.
Due to funding by Astaro AG, the netfilter/iptables project now offers a
ct_sync kernel module for replicating connection tracking state accross multiple nodes. The presentation will cover the architectural design and implementation of the connection tracking failover system.
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