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Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 13, R499, 14 July 2009
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Bernard Dixon
Bernard Dixon is the European editor of the American Society for Microbiology
- Mediawatch: Bernard Dixon looks at some of the problems when general commentators started to turn to swine flu.
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While much of the reporting of swine flu in recent months has been of high quality, it has been accompanied by an unusual degree of error and confusion. Paradoxically, the journalists (and interviewees) to blame have often been those intent on correcting misapprehensions.
"In the US, they've stopped trying to do individual case surveillance and they're focusing on testing healthy young adults hospitalised with respiratory disease," The Times (8 June) quoted Neil Ferguson of Imperial College, London, as saying. Ferguson was arguing that British data underestimated the extent of the infection in the country.
But what precisely are "healthy young adults hospitalised with respiratory disease"? Was Ferguson reported accurately? If so, did he realise the weirdness of his remark? Either way, did the reporter and The Times sub-editors think they understood? What did readers think?
The same article quoted Ferguson's view that Health Protection Agency figures included at best only half the total number of UK infections. "GPs identified six cases last month not linked to known infections," the article continued. But again, what exactly did this mean?
Some journalists (like some speakers at scientific meetings) err because they forget that at least some members of their audience need help to fit new information into the context of their own incomplete knowledge. Another writer in The Times (6 June) made this mistake in seeking to explain the nomenclature of different varieties of flu and their causative viruses.
"It was called swine influenza (H1N1) because its genes matched those of viruses found in pigs," he wrote. "The name stuck, which upset the Israelis and was not good news for Egyptian pigs. The animals were slaughtered en masse, despite the virus never having been detected in a pig."
But swine influenza does not have genes. It is a disease. And do these comments really clarify the relationship between the H1N1 virus and those (which ones? porcine influenza viruses?) found in pigs?
Anyone who has studied microbiology will remember learning at a very early stage the importance of distinguishing between a microorganism, the infection it causes and the disease that may then result. Yet these distinctions can be lost on journalists, who therefore fail their readers. This is especially true of a journalistic species common in the UK but virtually unknown in many other countries — the newspaper columnist. As well as addressing matters they understand, columnists are entirely confident to plunge into far less familiar fields — ones that have generated topical issues of public importance. They must have opinions about everything.
Anyone who has studied microbiology will remember learning at a very early stage the importance of distinguishing between a microorganism, the infection it causes and the disease that may then result
(Sir) Simon Jenkins, a political journalist and former editor of The Times, now pens a column for The Guardian. Writing on 29 April, he assured readers, inter alia, that swine flu was a mutation and he repeatedly described MRSA and Clostridium difficile as diseases. Such elementary errors (equivalent to a political journalist confusing a county with a country) might be overlooked were it not for the fact that Jenkins built on these insecure foundations a case that "we have gone demented", and that swine flu is "not a pandemic" but "an opportunity for public figures to scare and posture and spend money".
Jenkins warned his readers that "we appear to have lost all ability to judge risk" and that people "cannot set a statistic in context". Yet a week later he was writing the following:
"At last an expert speaks. 'It's just like a cold, says girl, 12,' according to the Daily Mail. The paper had tracked down a flu victim…suffering from the 'killer virus' that has brought imminent death to, variously, each school in Britain, 94,000 Londoners, every pig in Egypt and, says a hysterical virologist, 'the whole of humanity'… She was mocking the health minister, Alan Johnson, and his minions cowering in their Cobra bunker. She was jeopardising thousands of virologists who depend on regular pandemic scares for government grants."
Whether the subject is infectious disease or electors' voting intentions, one might expect a media commentator to recognise the absurdity of citing one individual case as support for any generalisation whatever. Setting a statistic in context?
Fortunately, The Guardian had other contributors on hand to put Jenkins right, especially over what he called "scaremongering" and "science-based insanity" about previous problems such as SARS. "They were risks, risks that did not materialise, but they were still risks," wrote Ben Goldacre (29 April). "Simon Jenkins won't be right if nobody dies, he'll be lucky."
Then, on 12 June, the day after the WHO announced that swine flu had indeed become the first global pandemic for 40 years, Jennifer Cole wrote an excellent, balanced piece about the nature of the threat and our preparedness to deal with it. She highlighted the quality and timeliness of the public information leaflet, distributed to every household in the UK, which Jenkins had dismissed as "fatuous".
"When the current scare is over and the bill tallied, surely there should be an enquiry into the fiasco," Jenkins wrote on 5 May. "Voltaire was right. We should take out a virologist from time to time and shoot him, to encourage the others. And perhaps an editor too."
Voltaire did not, of course, comment specifically on virologists or editors. Writing today, he might reasonably have chosen columnists.


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Safety and Efficacy Study of Nitazoxanide in the Treatment of Acute Uncomplicated Influenza
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This study is a global multicenter randomized factorial double-blind, placebo-controlled trial designed to evaluate (i) efficacy and safety of nitazoxanide 600 mg administered orally twice daily for five days compared to a placebo in the treatment of acute uncomplicated influenza and (ii) efficacy and safety of combination therapy with nitazoxanide 600 mg plus Oseltamivir 75 mg co-administered orally twice daily for five days compared to nitazoxanide monotherapy (600 mg b.i.d. for 5 days) and Oseltamivir monotherapy (75 mg b.i.d. for 5 days) in the treatment of acute uncomplicated influenza.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Influenza |
Drug: Nitazoxanide Drug: Oseltamivir |
Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase III, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Nitazoxanide and Nitazoxanide Plus Oseltamivir in the Treatment of Acute Uncomplicated Influenza |
- Time to resolution of all clinical symptoms of influenza as reported by the subjects [ Time Frame: Up to 28 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Time to resolution of each individual symptom of influenza [ Time Frame: Up to 28 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 1400 |
Study Start Date: | March 2013 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | May 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Active Comparator: Nitazoxanide
Two Nitazoxanide 300 mg tablets and one placebo capsule twice daily with food for 5 days
Drug: Nitazoxanide
Other Names:
Active Comparator: Oseltamivir
Two placebo tablets and one Oseltamivir 75 mg capsule twice daily with food for 5 days
Drug: Oseltamivir
Other Names:
Active Comparator: Nitazoxanide and Oseltamivir
Two nitazoxanide 300 mg tablets and one Oseltamivir 75 mg capsule twice daily with food for 5 days
Drug: Nitazoxanide
Other Names:
Drug: Oseltamivir
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Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Two placebo tablets and one placebo capsule with food twice daily for 5 days
Ages Eligible for Study: | 13 Years to 65 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 13 to 65 years
Presence of clinical signs and/or symptoms consistent with acute illness compatible with influenza infection (each of the following is required):
- oral temperature of ≥100.4 °F or ≥38 °C (obtained in office or self-measured within 12 hours prior to screening - if self-measured, subject must also have taken an antipyretic within 4 hours prior to screening) AND
- at least one of the following respiratory symptoms (cough, sore throat, nasal obstruction) that is considered by the patient to be moderate or severe (greater than mild severity) AND
- one of the following constitutional symptoms (fatigue, headache, myalgia, feverishness) that is considered by the patient to be moderate or severe (greater than mild severity).
Confirmation of influenza A or B infection in the local community by one of the following means:
- the institution's local laboratory, or
- the local public health system, or
- the national public health system, or
- a laboratory of a recognized national or multinational influenza surveillance scheme.
Onset of illness no more than 48 hours before enrollment in the trial.
Note: Time of onset of illness is defined as either the earlier of:
- the time when the temperature was first measured as elevated, OR
- the time when the subject experienced the presence of at least one respiratory symptom AND the presence of at least one constitutional symptom.
- Willing and able to provide written informed consent (including assent by legal guardian if under 18 years of age) and comply with the requirements of the protocol, including completion of the patient diary.
Exclusion Criteria:
Severity of illness requiring or anticipated to require in-hospital care or subject defined as being at high risk of complications from influenza infection according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) guidelines for seasonal influenza in adults and children (Committee of Infectious Diseases (CID) 2009:48) or current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) criteria. Current criteria for persons 13-65 years of age who are at risk of influenza complications include (list to be reviewed and updated as required prior to initiation of the study and at least monthly during the study):
- Persons with asthma or other chronic pulmonary diseases, such as cystic fibrosis in children or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults.
- Persons with hemodynamically significant cardiac disease.
- Persons who have immunosuppressive disorders or who are receiving immunosuppressive therapy.
- HIV-infected persons.
- Persons with sickle cell anemia or other hemoglobinopathies.
- Persons with diseases requiring long-term aspirin therapy, such as rheumatoid arthritis or Kawasaki disease.
- Persons with chronic renal dysfunction.
- Persons with liver disorders.
- Persons with cancer.
- Persons with chronic metabolic disease, such as diabetes mellitus, inherited metabolic disorders and mitochondrial disorders.
- Persons with neuromuscular disorders, seizure disorders or cognitive dysfunction that may compromise the handling of respiratory secretions.
- Residents of any age of nursing homes or other long-term care institutions.
- Persons who are morbidly obese (Body Mass Index ≥40)
- American Indians (seemed to be at higher risk of complications last flu season)
- Alaskan natives (seemed to be at higher risk of complications last flu season)
- Females of childbearing potential who are either pregnant, breast-feeding or are sexually active without the use of birth control. Female patients of child-bearing potential that are sexually active must have a negative baseline pregnancy test and must agree to continue an acceptable method of birth control for the duration of the study and for 1 month post-treatment. A double barrier method, oral birth control pills administered for at least 2 monthly cycles prior to study drug administration, an intrauterine device (IUD), or medroxyprogesterone acetate administered intramuscularly for a minimum of one month prior to study drug administration are acceptable methods of birth control for inclusion into the study. Female subjects are considered of childbearing potential unless they are postmenopausal (absence of menstrual bleeding for 1 year - or 6 months if laboratory confirmation of hormonal status), or have had a hysterectomy, bilateral tubular ligation or bilateral ovariectomy.
- Vaccination for seasonal influenza on or after i. August 1, 2012 in the case of subjects enrolled during the 2012/2013 flu season in the United States, ii. February 1, 2013 in the case of subjects enrolled during the 2013 flu season in Australia or New Zealand, or iii. August 1, 2013 in the case of subjects enrolled during the 2013/2014 flu season in the United States, Canada, Europe, or other countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Receipt of any dose of nitazoxanide, oseltamivir, zanamivir, amantadine, or rimantidine within 30 days prior to screening.
- Prior treatment with any investigational drug therapy within 30 days prior to screening.
- Subjects with active respiratory allergies or subjects expected to require anti-allergy medications during the study period for respiratory allergies.
- Known sensitivity to Nitazoxanide or any of the excipients comprising the Nitazoxanide tablets.
- Known sensitivity to Oseltamivir or any of the excipients comprising the Oseltamivir capsules.
- Subjects unable to take oral medications.
- Subject has chronic kidney or liver disease (including Hepatitis A,B or C) or known impaired hepatic and/or renal function.
- Presence of any other pre-existing chronic infection that is undergoing or requiring medical therapy.
- Presence of any pre-existing illness that, in the opinion of the investigator, would place the subject at an unreasonably increased risk through participation in this study.
- Subjects who, in the judgment of the investigator, will be unlikely to comply with the requirements of this protocol.
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Study Director: | Jean-Francois Rossignol, M.D., Ph.D. | Romark Laboratories L.C. |
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Responsible Party: | Romark Laboratories L.C. |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01610245 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | RM08-3002 |
Study First Received: | May 30, 2012 |
Last Updated: | December 27, 2013 |
Health Authority: | United States: Food and Drug Administration |
Keywords provided by Romark Laboratories L.C.:
Influenza |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Influenza, Human Orthomyxoviridae Infections RNA Virus Infections Virus Diseases Respiratory Tract Infections Respiratory Tract Diseases Nitazoxanide Oseltamivir |
Antiparasitic Agents Anti-Infective Agents Therapeutic Uses Pharmacologic Actions Antiviral Agents Enzyme Inhibitors Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action |
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Enrollment in schools has steadily declined since 1990. An estimated 3.5 million to 5 million Iraqis were displaced by the war, either within Iraq (internally displaced persons, or IDPs) or in Syria, Jordanm, and elsewhere. Between 2008 and last summer, only 622,000 displaced people had returned, according to U.N. refugee officials. They somberly noted last July that "an estimated 1.3 million IDPs are in IRaq; 467,565 IDPs and destitute persons reside in 382 settlements countrywide. The conditions in the settlements are extremely poor."
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Thousands of women and girls have been driven into prostitution, or kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery; rising Islamic militancy has stripped the rights of millions more. The government reported in 2009 that 750,000 widows are living in poverty. This autumn, the U.N. Special Representative for Iraq described economic conditions as deteriorating and the status of human rights activists in Iraq as "fragile and miserable." More than half of all Iraqis live in "slum conditions," compared with 17 percent in 2000. By a 2-to-1 margin, Iraqis told a Gallup pollster this September that the economy is worsening, and by a large margin they also said that their standard of living is crumbling.
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This extraordinary level of war death came on the heels of 12 years of sanctions in which an estimated 500,000 children perished—a toll, said Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, that was "worth it" to punish and contain Saddam Hussein.
GRIM HISTORY—The statistics translate into a grim history, an "epistemology of war," as General William Tecumseh Sherman said of his own rampage in the American Civil War. We should know this war by what these statistics and these reports tell us. But we bury these numbers, these accounts, saying it's "a mess" and moving on. If ordinary media coverage is any guide, Iraq scarcely exists for Americans any more. In 2010, only 1 percent of the news coverage in major dailies and television mentioned Iraq. Prominent journalists routinely describe the violence in Iraq in mild terms—for example, that "tens of thousands" were killed—and very rarely discuss the ongoing refugee crisis and other deadly and persistent consequences of the U.S.-instigated conflict.
With such little attention paid, so few retrospectives or reflective analyses, the war's meaning is virtually a blank slate. Or is it? Right-wing supporters of the war are busy claiming victory, defending the decision to invade, or even claiming that the George W. Bush "democratization" agenda (which was at best a secondary rationale for the war) was the spur to the Arab Spring of anti-authoritarian revolts. If we believe that merely "tens of thousands" died in Iraq—with no reference made to the displaced, the impoverished, and the uncared for—then the claim that it was worthwhile to get rid of Saddam sounds more plausible.
It is on these grounds that the "meaning" of the Iraq war will be assessed as the last U.S. troops depart (if they do) in the coming weeks and months. We are conditioned to grasp events through our national narratives, the stories we tell ourselves about the essence of America. What is most redolent for European-origin Americans, and has been for hundreds of years, is the "frontier myth," in which we tame the wilderness, subdue the savages, and reap the bounty—often violently—while implanting democratic values on this contested terrain.
This was not only the animating narrative of continental expansion in North America, but, beginning in the early 20th century, it was the one that drove and justified U.S global reach. The Iraq war and this national narrative are nearly a perfect fit. Hence the anxious claims of victory, of bringing democracy and free markets, of American bravery, of vanquishing terrorists—and importantly, the concomitant disavowal of the morral confusing scale of civilian suffering.
We recall the American sacrifice, good intentions, and the ungrateful natives, but we suppress from memory the sheer chaos and ruin our interventions caused. The same was true for the wars in Korea and Vietnam. In both, two million to three million died, and millions more were made homeless, with toxic physical and psychological effects that have lingered for decades. Our national narrative—as embodied by the Korean War Memorial and Vietnam War Memorial on the National Mall in Washington—does not bother to mention the Korean and Vietnamese peoples.
Because we pay so little attention to the actual scale of destruction, displacement, and death, we can pretend that our involvement was more benign than it actually was. This is a dangerous habit, one ingrained in our politics and our social discourse about the war. The moral hazard is perhaps obvious: we are walking away from our responsibilities to account for our own destructiveness. Legall, we are obligated as an occupying power to provide security and protect civilians, which has not occurred. Strategically, the United States—while not held accountable by the American public—risks "reputational costs" because the U.S. is viewed by many, particularly Muslims, as reckless and callous. And politically, this abiding habit of forgetting is dangerous because when the next call to arms comes round, as it will, we will not have the memory of war's real consequences to stay our hand.
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Whether it's a winter escape to the tropics or a trip farther north in high summer, you can't say enough about warm-weather angling—packs of bonefish "Hoovering" the flats, lolling tarpon, trout dimpling under sapphire skies, peckish bluegills on a farm pond, shirtsleeves and shorts, sandals and shades. On warm, sun-soaked days and mild, congenial evenings, everything conduces to a larger and fuller fishing life.
I like catching as many fish as possible, and I'm prone to keeping at least loose track of numbers if only to gauge, in a vaguely scientific way, one day or one season versus another. Some say that scorecard mentality is all about vanity and ego. In fact, I'll take quality over quantity every time because dealing in sheer numbers, in fishing and life, is a setup for failure.
Streamers often coax big trout into violent takes, causing many anglers to say, "The tug is the drug." That's why most enthusiasts run heavy, articulated streamers through the deepest water; these flies have so much motion they may convince you to take a bite. Other anglers target big browns and rainbows using ridiculous stoneflies that appear to be part nymph/part tarantula, with legs wiggling in every direction.
When I started fly-fishing I couldn't see past trout and dry flies, and that cost me some good years when I could have carried a 12-weight in my hand and gone mano-a-mano with tarpon, sailfish and marlin. When I finally caved in to pressure and spent springs in the Florida Keys, my desires narrowed to this: I need two more lifetimes, and enough cash to buy an 18-foot Maverick and a 150-horsepower Yamaha.
I fished the yamsi ranch last spring, in the sparsely settled and flat pine-forest country of southern Oregon, with owner John Hyde. John grew up on the ranch. He raises range-fed beef when he's not involved in his first love, guiding folks on his home waters. He's tall, slender; his hat and mustache are both broad.
The St. Joe River is no secret among north Idaho anglers, but those who fish it agree: the "Joe," as locals call it, is very much a diamond in the rough.
If there's one thing fly fishermen get worked up about, it's fly rods. Golf addicts may expound for hours about a club head's "sweet spot," and ammunition reloaders go glassy-eyed talking about ballistics and shot patterns, but even these fanatics would be hard pressed to rival a shop full of anglers discussing "swing weight," "modulus" and "action." The funny thing is, most of these same experts have little idea how a graphite rod is made (and in the fly shop we're all experts, at least when it comes to what we think a rod should be). The process is as fascinating as it is complicated. Knowing a thing or two about rod construction greatly increases your appreciation of what fly rods are . . . and yes, maybe what they should be.
What are we to make of the international effort to manage bluefin tuna? A better question might be: Is there an international effort to manage bluefin tuna? From what we saw in 2010 and over the past 45 years, the answer to the second question has to be "No."
For the third day in a row I had set my alarm for 5 a.m, and after a quick cup of café con leche I drove across the then-small city of Miami (this was in the early '60s), over three bridges and onto Key Biscayne. Then, after a left turn onto a narrow, partially hidden, sandy road, I parked under a large seagrape tree, a tree I had parked under many times before. From there, just a quarter-mile walk along the beach brought me to the northeast shore of the key, where I looked out on a large, open flat facing the ocean.
Tom Whiting was born and spent much of his childhood in Denver, Colorado. The Whiting clan admits that Dr. Tom must be some strange agrarian throwback. From youth he was fascinated by fowls, and their variety. When Tom was about 10 years old, a lucky break: His family moved to the suburbs, where he raised a few chickens, peddled eggs in the neighborhood and worked on a game-bird farm. Although he spent hours dreaming up breeding programs, there were no plans to become a feather merchant; when it was time to go to college he delved into music, political science and literature at Colorado State University. One day his older brother asked him what he really wanted to do. Tom replied that he often thought about quail. Avian science was the answer. After getting a bachelor's degree in avian science at Colorado State and completing genetics internships with two poultry producers, he knew he wanted more.
Why an article about the Adams? Because I recently rediscovered the Adams as a lifesaver during what could otherwise have been a very frustrating day.
A few weeks ago, my friends Mike Clark and John Gierach invited me to fish some trout ponds not far from Boulder, Colorado that had been stocked with some rainbow/steelhead hybrids several years ago. We've fished these ponds several times over the past few years and knew the trout were large, very strong, extremely fast and would eagerly rise to midges. It was mid-April, so we assumed that midges would be the order of the day. I packed fly boxes loaded with midge adult, emerger and larva patterns in all the colors that had been successful in the past.
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Used to be that a fly-rod company built the rod and sold it to a fly-shop guy. The fly-shop guy then wrapped some casting tips around that product, and sold it to you (with a markup, of course).
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I always pay close attention to the monthly unemployment statistics. I'm not an analyst. Or an economist. But I've been unemployed for 2½ years, scraping by on freelance work. I like to dig a little deeper into the numbers to get a better feel for what's really going on -- and what that might mean for me.
Sometimes the unemployment rate goes up a bit, as it did in July, because the unemployed who'd previously given up looking for jobs optimistically decide to resume their searches. Unfortunately, this isn't what happened in July. Instead, another 150,000 people dropped out of the labor force. I also read that the average duration of unemployment fell by a little over a week, to 38.8 weeks, in July. At first glance this may look positive -- people must be finding jobs faster, right? Not necessarily. It can also mean that people who've been out of work for longer periods of time have stopped looking and so are no longer counted.
You can always pick out a few numbers and focus on them to make things look better than they actually are; but the "big picture," the overall trend, remains bad. What I see, from my admittedly skewed perspective as one of the chronically unemployed, is that too many people are despairing of ever finding jobs and are simply giving up.
Numbers are cold. Analysts can choose to highlight the positive ones, but that doesn't change the pain, the fact that millions and millions of people are having a terrible time surviving this longest period of 8 percent-plus unemployment since the Great Depression. The longer this drags on, the worse the impact is on real human beings and their families.
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Andre Kelly, 44, a/k/a "Duke", of Edison, N.J.; and Mustafa Harris, 32, a/k/a "Moose," and Marcus Williams, 27, a/k/a "Twin," of Plainfield, pleaded guilty to separate Informations charging one count each of distribution of crack cocaine. Kelly, Harris and Williams entered their guilty pleas before U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton in Newark federal court.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, in 2010, Kelly, Harris and Williams each distributed crack cocaine to an FBI confidential informant for prices ranging from $1,500 to $3,000.
Each defendant faces a minimum potential penalty of five years in prison and a maximum potential penalty of 40 years in prison and a $2 million fine, as well as restitution as ordered by the Court. Sentencing for all three defendants is scheduled for September 27, 2011.
U.S. Attorney Fishman credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Ward in Newark, and the FBI Violent Crimes Criminal Enterprise Task Force assigned to the Safe Streets Task Force; the Union County Prosecutor's Office; the New Jersey State Police; and the Plainfield Police Department for the investigation leading to the guilty pleas.
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Cardholder: The customer to whom a credit card or debit card has been issued or the individual authorized to use the card.
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PCI: Abbreviation for "Payment Card Industry". The PCI Data Security Standards are the result of collaboration between the four major credit card brands to develop a single approach to safeguarding cardholder data. The PCI standard defines a series of best practices for handling, transmitting and storing cardholder data.
KUMC will establish a Payment Card Committee with oversight of all payment card programs on KUMC campuses. This Committee will review and approve all requests to accept payment cards, and perform all necessary actions to ensure KUMC's PCI compliance. The committee will include, but is not limited to, representatives from the Controller's Office, Compliance, Internal Audit, Internet Development and Information Security.
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Confession Tuesday...
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Congratulations President Barack Obama!
Hope, Peace, and Hallelujah!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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Finally! Thought this day would never come.
- 7:51 AM, January 20, 2009
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Anyone else feel like it might be possible to be proud to be an American again? The beauty and strength of our new president's words will carry me through many a dark day.
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An aiguillette (from French "aiguillette", small needle) is an ornamental braided cord most often worn on uniforms, but may also be observed on other costumes such as academic dress, where it will denote an honour. Originally, the word "aiguillette" referred to the lacing used to fasten plate armor together. As such, a knot or loop arrangement was used which sometimes hung from the shoulder.
Aiguillettes should not be confused with lanyards, which are cords also worn from the shoulder (or around the neck), but do not have the pointed aiguillette tips (see Aiguillette (ornament)) and are usually of fibre rather than gold or silver wire, and often not braided.
Theories of introduction[edit]
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A series of fanciful legends has developed about the origin of aiguillettes. One account[by whom?] relates that when certain European troops behaved reprehensibly on the field of battle, their commander decided to hang certain of them.[citation needed] The troops asked to be given a chance to redeem themselves and started wearing a rope and spike about their shoulders with the promise that if they ever behaved badly again, they were ready to be hanged on the spot. It is further related that these troops covered themselves with glory thereafter. Another tale recounts that aiguillettes originated with cord and pencil worn by generals and staff officers for writing dispatches.[citation needed] Still another account[by whom?] has it that the idea is French in origin and goes back to the use of horses in battle.[citation needed] A general's aide-de-camp carried a loop of cord to tie up the general's horse during dismount. As a practical approach, the aides would loop the cord around the epaulette flap on the shoulder of their tunic. All such accounts have no known basis in fact.
Further, it has been argued by gunners[which?] that the aiguillette originates with the practice of carrying a pick on a shoulder rope, with which a gun captain would clear the touch-hole of a fouled cannon.[citation needed] Musketeer arguments suggest that the "tags" on the aiguillette are representations of wooden charge carriers. Another discounted[by whom?] gunner-related origin suggests that the "tag" represents a spike carried by the gun captain with which he would "spike" the gun if capture was imminent.[citation needed] Finally it has been suggested that the aiguillettes derive from the shoulder decoration worn by standard bearers in the French Imperial (Grande) Army under Napoleon.[citation needed] The standards were topped by the imperial eagle, or "aigle" in French. The standard bearers were known as "aiglettes" to their comrades-in-arms.[1]
A more probable explanation[original research?] is that the aiguillette derived from the laces used to secure plates of armor together —the breast- and back-plates would be attached on one side with short loops of cord acting as a hinge, and on the other by a longer and more ornate tied one,to support the arm defences.[2] The ensuing knots would hang down the shoulder. (As with combat boots, the longer the lace, the less the need to undo the entire lace.) As armour became more ornamental and less practical, so too did the ties. This would also explain[original research?] the aiguillettes of varying levels of complexity in the uniforms of the Household Cavalry (see picture above), as opposed to other "unarmored" troops.
Aiguillettes distinguish Army officers of General rank such as the Chief of Army, Deputy Chief of Army, members of the Chief of Army's Senior Advisory Committee, Military Attaché and Aide-de-camp. Most senior officers wear the Aiguillette on the right shoulder, whilst Military Attaché and Aide-de-camp wear the Aiguillette on the left. Royal Aiguillettes are of plain gold, naval aiguillettes are of blue and gold, army aiguillettes are of red and gold, air force aiguillettes of light blue and gold.
The Governor-General of Australia, as the Commander in Chief of the Australian Defence Force, is entitled to wear a uniform on which an Aiguillette made of platinum is worn.[3]
Aiguillettes with shoulder boards are worn by military aides-de-camp to the Governor General. The aiguillette is gold with brass tags and worn on the right shoulder. Aides-de-camp to the provincial lieutenant governors wear the same gold-pattern aiguilette on the right shoulder, but do not wear shoulder boards. Aiguillettes are worn on the left shoulder by aides-de-camp to generals, flag officers and diplomats. Aides-de-camp assigned to the Sovereign or officers holding a royal appointment wear the aiguillette on the right shoulder. Obsolete-style gold-braid aiguilettes mixed with army crimson, navy blue, or air force blue may also still be worn by aides-de-camp to lieutenant governors, flag and general officers and diplomats who still have them.
The aiguillettes are worn only with the dress uniform. There are several types of aiguillettes in the French military:
- Aiguilettes on the right shoulder are worn by officers filling certain duties.
- Staff officers in the President's staff, the Prime Minister's staff, the Minister of Defence's staff and the Maréchaux's Staff. The aiguillette is always in gold wire.
- The aides-de-camp to the President, the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Légion d'honneur, the Chief of the Defence Staff and the DGA. The aiguillette can be silver or gold, depending on the officer's corps. The AdC to the generals in the army and the air force and all the staff officers in the navy can also wear this aiguillette.
- The military attachés of an embassy. The aiguillette is always in gold wire.
- Aiguillettes on the left shoulder are worn by all members of some units :
- The Gendarmes. The aiguillette is white for the Gendarmerie départementale and gold for the Gendarmerie mobile, including the Garde Républicaine.
- The Bands. This aiguillette can be blue, red, or gold.
Aiguillettes should not be confused with fourragères, which can be worn in the same way on the left shoulder in parade dress.
In Ghana, aiguillettes form part of the uniform of certain branches of the police, including the customs police, and immigration police. Ordinary police officers wear white aiguillettes with dark-blue uniforms, while customs and immigration officials wear red aiguillettes with olive-green outfits. When worn, the aigullettes denote on-duty status.
Aiguillettes are only worn by the aides-de-camp to the President and Taoiseach. The President's ADC wears it on the right shoulder, the Taoiseach's ADC on the left.
Civil Defence (Cosaint Sibhialta) personnel wear a white aiguillette on their dress uniform.
Gold aiguillettes are also worn by officers in the Defence Forces with their Mess Dress uniform. They are worn on the left hand shoulder.
In the IDF, soldiers who wear an aiguillette are mostly instructors.
List of aiguillette's colors and roles in the IDF:
- Green & White- Military intelligence instructors (mainly)
- Black- training staff (mainly)
- Blue & Red- Military Police
- Red (right side)- IDF orchestra
- Red (Left side)- Navy instructors (mainly)
- Purple- Service conditions
- Blue & White- Unit's NCO
- White- Security guards
- Gray- Education instructors
- Green- General instructors
- Brown- Diagnostic crew (mainly)
- Gold- Obedience NCO
- Orange & Azure- Search and Rescue units
- Orange & Black- Combat Engineering Corps
- Yellow & Black- WMD instructors
- Azure- Off-road vehicle operators (mainly)
- Azure & Green- Off-road vehicle operators instructors
- Azure & Yellow- Casualties & City Officers administration
- Azure & Purple- Reserve mobilization
- Green & Red- Civil population emergency instructors
- Golden- Military attaché
In the Israeli Police, policemen mainly wear a black aiguillette, and Israeli Border Police policemen wear a Dark green aiguillette.
Aiguillettes are authorized for wear by the Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP); Commandant, Philippine Coast Guard (PCG); (PNP) Philippine National Police Chief; National Director, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP); National Director, Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) to any member of their Officer and Non-Commissioned Officer Corps serving as General Aides (Aide-de-Camp General), Senior and Junior Aide-de-Camps, Diplomatic Aides, Ceremonial Sergeant Major(s) and First Sergeants, Honor & Ceremonial Guards during their tour in active and active reserve duties.
Service aiguillettes[edit]
A Service Aiguillette is authorized for wear by Commissioned Officers serving as Aides to the President, Vice-President, Aide-de-Camp to the Secretary and Undersecretary of National Defense, Military and Assistant Military Attaches attached with various Philippine Embassies and Consulates worldwide.
- Four loops - Personal aides to the President or Vice President; aides to the Secretary or Undersecretary of National Defense and Military Attaches and Assistant Attaches assigned to an embassy. Military Attaches and Assistant Military Attaches may wear aiguillettes only within areas of accreditation, except when specifically requested and accompanying an Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer to whom accredited at an official function.
Aides to Generals, Admirals, or officials of higher grade are also authorized to wear four-looped aiguillettes.
- Three loops - Aides to Lieutenant Generals or Vice Admirals.
- Two loops - Aides to Major/Brigadier Generals, Rear Admirals/Commodores, or other officers to lower grade entitled to an aide.
Diplomatic Service aiguillettes[edit]
Aides to top-ranking foreign representatives visiting the Philippines will wear aiguillettes when so ordered. An aiguillette appropriate to the official's grade to whom attached will be worn.
Administrative Service aguillettes[edit]
Administrative Assistants to the Deputy Chief of Staff at General Headquarters may wear the aiguillette when acting in the capacity of Aide de Camp. The aiguillette appropriate to the grade of the Deputy Chief of Staff to whom attached will be worn.
Wearing with a fourragere[edit]
When the fourragere is worn with an aiguillette, it will be worn under the aiguillette.
Color of therope[edit]
All service aiguillettes are made in gold, with the exception of Philippine Air Force Aiguillettes made in silver.
Russian Federation[edit]
Aiguillettes are worn by honor guard personnel. A single silver aiguillette is worn on enlisted cut uniforms of minor detachments. A single gold aiguillette is worn on officer cut uniforms of minor detachments. A double gold aiguillette is worn on officer cut uniforms of major detachments. All personnel of major detachments wear officer cut uniforms. Also, dembels (demobilized soldiers) often decorate their uniforms with makeshift aiguillettes.
Aiguillettes are worn on the right shoulder by officers of certain appointments only. They include the:
- Chief of Defence Force (CDF)
- Commissioner of Police (CP)
- Commissioner of the Singapore Civil Defence Force
- Aides-de-camp (ADC) to the President
- Honorary aides-de-camp to the President
- Military attachés and assistant military attachés
- MA/SA/NA to the Chief of Defence Force and service chiefs
Aiguillettes are also worn on the left shoulder by musicians of the Singapore Armed Forces Band and the Singapore Police Force Band.[4]
In Singapore, ADCs who are officers of the Singapore Armed Forces and the Singapore Civil Defence Force wear gold aiguillettes and police officers wear silver aiguillettes.
Sri Lanka[edit]
Aiguillettes of gold-wire cord are worn on the right shoulder by;
- Chief of Defence Staff
- The three service commanders,
- The Inspector General of Police
- Aides-de-camp to the President.
Aiguillettes of gold are worn on the right shoulder by;
- General officers, flag officers and air officers
- Aides-de-camps to general, flag and air officers
- Military attachés
Aiguillettes of black are worn on the right shoulder by;
- Police offices senior gazetted officers
United Kingdom[edit]
There are four types of aiguillette worn by the British Armed Forces.
- Aiguillettes (1st Class or Royal) are of gold-wire cord and are worn on the right shoulder by, among others, admirals of the fleet, field marshals and marshals of the RAF; honorary physicians, honorary chaplains, honorary surgeons and aides-de-camp to the Sovereign; equerries to members of the royal family. Some appointments carry the privilege of wearing miniature Sovereign's Cypher on the points of the aiguillettes. These aiguillettes are also worn by commissioned officers of the Household Cavalry (in full dress only). They are worn on the left shoulder in full dress by warrant officers of the Household Cavalry.
- Aiguillettes (2nd Class or Board) are of gold and dark blue, crimson or light blue depending if worn by Royal Navy, Army or RAF officers and are worn on the right shoulder by, among others, military members of the Defence Board and each Service Board and the personal staff of governors. A simplified version with no coils is worn on the left shoulder by staff corporals, corporals of horse and lance corporals of horse of the Household Cavalry in full dress.
- Aiguillettes (3rd Class or Staff) are of gold and dark blue, crimson or light blue depending if worn by Royal Navy, Army or RAF officers. They are worn on the left shoulder by, among others, attachés, assistants and aides-de-camp.
- Simple aiguillettes are worn by lance corporals of the Household Cavalry and by bandsmen of Dragoon Guards and Dragoon regiments in full dress.
United States[edit]
The aiguillette is worn on the right shoulder by military aides to the President and the Vice President. It is worn on the left shoulder by military assistants to the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, aides to the Service Secretaries (Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy & Secretary of the Air Force), military attachés, General Staff Corps officers, and aides to flag officers. The cord colors are gold for the Marine Corps and Army, gold and blue for the Coast Guard and Navy, and silver for the Air Force. The gold cord aiguillette is worn by the directors of the United States Marine Band, while the enlisted personnel wear aiguillettes of white cord.
A red aiguillette is worn on the left shoulder by United States Navy Recruit Division commanders, whereas a blue aiguillette is worn by Recruit Division commanders in training, Recruit Division commanders wearing these are referred colloquially as "red ropes" and "blue ropes" respectively. The U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard in Washington, D.C. wears a blue aiguillette on summer white uniforms and a white one on winter blue uniforms.
A blue aiguillette is worn on the left shoulder by cadets in charge of quarters at the United States Air Force Academy, as well as by military training leaders at technical training bases. Student airmen leaders at technical training bases (sometimes called "ropes" in reference to the aiguillette) also wear aiguillettes, with green representing the lowest level of student leadership, yellow representing the intermediate level of student leadership, and red representing the highest level of student leadership. Students wearing a white rope are commonly referred to as chapel guides, and are charged with providing social or moral support to their fellow airmen. Airmen who wear the black rope are experts in drill, choir, or ceremonies, and pride themselves on appearance and uniform wear. Airmen who wear a blue and white rope are members of the drum & bugle corps for their base. In the United States Air Force, honor guard members wear a silver aiguillette on the left shoulder.
The aiguillette should not be confused with the fourragère, which is worn by soldiers and Marines who are assigned to units that were awarded certain decorations by the French and Belgian governments for valorous conduct in the First and Second World Wars. Nor should it be confused with the Schützenschnur, a multi-weapon marksmanship decoration awarded by Germany to qualifying soldiers of NATO countries serving in Germany.
A similar, albeit thicker, device, the Blue Infantry Cord, is worn on the right shoulder by all enlisted soldiers and officers whose primary military occupational speciality is infantry.
- ^ R.H. Rankin, Uniforms of the Sea Service, Naval Institute, 1962
- ^ "Origin of Aiguillettes", All Hands 615 (April 1968): 34-35, Naval Department Library, Australia
- ^ Aiguillettes - Australian Army
- ^ Singapore Police Force Band
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AF-S NIKKOR 35mm f/1.4G: Updating the Classic Wide Angle Lens
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