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Google's 2012 Zeitgeist Report is out today, and it makes for predictably fascinating reading. The report tracks the top search terms from Google users around the world. These are the highest trending stories, defined by Google as having the "highest amount of traffic over a sustained period in 2012 as compared to 2011".
The top 10 list for the world reveals that internet users have an unending fascination for celebrities -- especially dead ones:
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- Hurricane Sandy
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- Michael Clarke Duncan
Whitney Houston I kind of understand, but the fascination with Green Mile star Michael Clarke Duncan's death and the suicide of Canadian teenager Amanda Todd seem a little morbid. BBB12 is Brazilian Big Brother. Brazilians apparently love reading about TV on the internet, Brazilian shows accounted for 4 of the top 10 TV searches worldwide this year. (Here Comes Honey Boo Boo was the top American show in third place.)
Here are the top event searches worldwide. U.S. events definitely seem to dominate:
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- Hurricane Sandy
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Beyond Al Qaeda
As Western countries rush into Africa's troubled Sahel region, are we once again forgetting history?
For sheer sexiness, few news monikers can compete with the al Qaeda label.
This, in a word, is how one of the world's most remote and traditionally obscure regions, Africa's arid and largely empty Sahel, has suddenly come to be treated as a zone of great strategic importance in the wake of the recent offensive by a hodgepodge of armed groups, including one called al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, that has threatened the survival of the Malian state and sent violent ripples throughout the neighboring area.
France has responded with alacrity and seeming confusion to the Mali crisis, sending in an intervention force that at first seemed destined to be very small and then immediately ramping up the numbers into the thousands, all while scurrying to enlist regional partners in places like Nigeria, Chad, and Niger.
Paris has exhibited great difficulty in conveying a clear aim or speaking with one voice, saying contradictory things in rapid succession -- promising that this will be a limited intervention quickly handed over to the Africans, while vowing to do whatever is required to stamp out terrorist movements in Mali and restore legitimate government.
To understand what is really going on in Mali and in the broader Sahel today, though, it is vital to think through decades of colonial and independent history in the region. And when one does, it becomes clear that, apart from the trendiness of al Qaeda, a relative newcomer as factors go, what is most striking is the remarkable continuity of this region's crises.
One of my first big stories as a foreign correspondent came in 1983 when freelancing in West Africa for the Washington Post. I made a river crossing into Chad from Cameroon aboard a dugout pirogue in order to cover a flare up in fighting between France and Libyan-backed insurgents there who threatened to topple the government of the day.
Less than 24 hours and a helicopter ride to the front later, I observed from a sandy trench as French jets pounded rebel positions in the desert. Their aim was to stop the insurgents' advance toward the capital, much as it was in Mali last week.
The lifelong geopolitical dream of the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qaddafi took many guises, but his goal, at bottom, was always to opportunistically project power southward, across the Sahara and far and wide into the Sahel, a region that for these purposes extends from Sudan to Senegal.
Already in the early 1970s -- long before anyone had heard of al Qaeda -- Qaddafi had formed an Islamic legion of Sahelian recruits. Although the Libyan leader's rule was essentially secular at home, he was an opportunist abroad, using Islam and his own peculiar brew of pan-Arabism as both intoxicant and glue for rebellions aimed at challenging the political order left in place by European colonialism. The Libyan leader's bag of tricks involved annexation (Chad), merger (Sudan) and most grandiosely, pan-African union.
Qaddafi's colorful behavior and megalomania made it easy to overlook the extent to which the troubles he helped foment were a carryover from much older struggles. In the late 19th century, France and Britain vied mightily for control over the Sahel, the eastern extremity of which (today's South Sudan) was a cornerstone of their respective imperial schemes.
Paris, already enjoying possession of North Africa, dreamed of ruling over the Sahel, from the Atlantic coast in Senegal all the way to White Nile, in Sudan. This would have permitted utter French domination, both east-west and north-south, of trade between Europe, the Maghreb, and the population and resources centers of West Africa.
If anything, Britain's dream was even more ambitious. It was based on Cecil Rhodes's scheme to build a continuous rail network -- a virtual spine traveling the length of the continent and linking Cape Town and all of southern Africa's vast mineral wealth to Cairo, via people- and produce-rich East Africa.
None of these grand designs considered, however, the existence of fiercely independent-minded peoples, and especially Muslims with well organized societies and sophisticated martial traditions throughout the contested Sahelian region.
Both Britain and France faced some of the stiffest tests of their imperial era here. For London, this came in campaigns to subdue Sudan, and for Paris it involved Samori Ture, the founder of an amorphous Islamic state, centered not far from the region of today's fighting in Mali, that resisted conquest through most of the 1880s.
Pundits who bang on about the events in Mali on television today speculate glibly about the possible linkup of militant Islamic movements in places like Mauritania, Mali, Algeria, and northern Nigeria, potentially constituting a vast sea of Muslim radicalism and hostility to the West. They would do better to understand that such currents are inherent to the politics and culture of this region and are in no way a recent import. Rejection of borders and of the European drawn states is as old as the borders themselves, and Islam has always played a central role in this, as intellectual base, religious justification and rallying catalyst. These currents have been given added force and coherence by the age-old movement of peoples and ideas via pastoralism, overland pilgrimage to Mecca and the existence of large, sprawling and aggrieved transnational ethnic groups -- like the Tuareg, Hausa, and Fulani, to name three -- whose interests were never considered by the imperial mapmakers.
Most of those who write on today's crisis seem to ignore that the Tuareg, who are a key to events in Mali, have been sporadically fighting for decades against the country of that name we see on the map. During a visit I made to Timbuktu in the 1990s, Tuareg rebels fired mortars into the town that landed within meters of my hotel with no prior warning, scrambling tourists and creating a state of emergency.
As for other rebel groups in the region, their general pattern has been to raise tensions like this, forcing the government, in effect, to sue for peace by offering money, talks about greater autonomy, or other concessions. What was new this time had less to do with the presence in the equation of an al Qaeda spinoff than with the fact that there has been no government worthy of the name in the capital, Bamako, since a military coup overthrew the elected president last March.
Before we start breaking out hammers in search of nails, this crisis should serve as a powerful reminder of the necessity of much stronger preventive diplomacy in Africa in general, a thread that runs through major crises in Rwanda, the Congo and most recently Côte d'Ivoire. When I spent time in Mali in the summer of 2011, Western diplomats seemed scantily informed and almost blasé about the situation there; this at a time when the political cognoscenti was already warning of an advanced state of rot that involved mounting corruption, drug trafficking, and high-level dawdling over rising Islamic militancy.
However, even the best diplomacy, which we clearly haven't had in Africa, won't change the fact that the Sahel is in for a period of extended unrest and uncertainty. Its vastness contains some of the most sparsely inhabited real estate anywhere, peppered here and there by far-flung population centers with little economic viability or connection to the outside world. Places like these are easy to attack and hard to hold, and the militants' game of blackmail for greater resources is extremely tempting.
Whatever the political or religious labels of the militants, however, the biggest driver of turmoil in this region in the future will be population. The peoples of the arid Sahel have some of the highest birth rates in the world, and there is little prospect that they will be able to accommodate the quadrupling or more of their populations, as projected by the U.N., before century's end. Under such scenarios, Mali will go from 16 million or so today to 75 million people. Even poorer Niger, next door, will surge from today's similar population base to 125 million.
Explosions like these will make a mockery of the political map of Africa that is familiar today, as major ethnic clusters outstrip the claims of the present-day states to govern them. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb surely must be dealt with now, but over time it will be the least of our worries.
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Nachman and Raizy Glauber, both 21, were looking forward to welcoming their first child into their tight-knit community of Orthodox Jews. They were killed in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The cause of the crash remained under investigation Monday. The driver of the BMW was expected at least to face charges of leaving the scene of an accident.
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Doctors had delivered the baby by cesarean section. Neighbors and friends said the boy weighed only about 4 pounds.
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5273014 Chinese silvergrass Miscanthus sinensis Root(s) Leslie J. Mehrhoff |
1344067 Chinese silvergrass Miscanthus sinensis Control Great Smoky Mountains National Park Resource Management Archive |
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- Alabama Invasive Plant Council - Watch list A
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, 1994.
- Connecticut Invasive Plant List
- Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group
- Faith Campbell, 1998
- Georgia Exotic Pest Plant Council - Category 2
- Hoffman, R. & K. Kearns, Eds. 1997. Wisconsin manual of control recommendations for ecologically invasive plants. Wisconsin Dept. Natural Resources, Bureau of Endangered Resources. Madison, Wisconsin. 102pp.
- Illinois Invasive Plant List
- Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society
- Jil M. Swearingen, Survey of invasive plants occurring on National Park Service lands, 2000-2007
- Jil Swearingen, personal communication, 2009-2013
- Kentucky Exotic Pest Plant Council - Severe Threat
- Maryland Cooperative Extension Service. 2003. Invasive Plant Control in Maryland. Home and Garden Information Center, Home and Garden Mimeo HG88. 4 pp.
- Maryland Department of Natural Resources, 1994
- Mid-Atlantic Exotic Pest Plant Council, 2005
- New Hampshire Restricted Invasive Species
- New Jersey Department of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry, 2004
- Nonnative Invasive Species in Southern Forest and Grassland Ecosystems
- Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, Pennsylvania.
- South Carolina Exotic Pest Plant Council - Severe Threat
- Tennessee Exotic Pest Plant Council - Significant Threat
- Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, 2009
- WeedUS - Database of Plants Invading Natural Areas in the United States
Taxonomic Rank
Kingdom: Plantae |
Phylum: Magnoliophyta |
Class: Liliopsida |
Subclass: Commelinidae |
Order: Cyperales |
Family: Poaceae |
Genus: Miscanthus |
Other System Links
Plants: MISIBayer: MISSI
NPDN Pest: PCACABB
NPDN Host: 36260
Synonyms and Other Names
Other Common Names:
Chinese silvergrass, eulalia, Chinese plume grass, zebra grass, eulaliagrass
Common Name Reference: | Weed Science Society of America Common Names List |
Scientific Name Reference: | USDA, NRCS. 2010. The PLANTS Database. National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. |


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Weekend Open Forum: Do you use a custom cooler?
A decade ago, custom heatsinks and liquid cooling solutions were all the rage among techies. While overclockers and other such performance junkies still commonly purchase aftermarket coolers, they seem less popular among your average system builder these days. Today's processors are more power efficient than ever and they ship with adequate air coolers, while full blown liquid cooling loops are generally more hassle than they're worth for most power users.
Considering the interest expressed in Sandia's rotating heatsink concept, we're wondering how many of you use custom coolers. My Thermaltake Tai-Chi shipped with internal liquid cooling when I bought it in 2005, but I eventually scrapped that for the Thermalright Ultra-120, and that was later shelved in favor of the Core i5-750's stock HSF. As always, you're welcome to flaunt your rig in the comments and feel free to use our gallery if you need an image host.
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Nothing much to flaunt, but I'm running an i5-760 @ 4.0Ghz with a Thermaltake Frio, Idling at 30 Celcius now
I have a Corsair H70 with an indigo patch, AMD P2 955 (C2) at 3.8Ghz, idles at about 35-38 Celsius.
I got the cheapest Noctua heatsink I could find, and it made the CPU run a good 20 degrees (Celsius) cooler than the stock heatsink, so I'm very happy.
I have, in the past, tried to use such aftermarket heatsinks. But the only reason that I would use one now would be for audio concerns -- not for cooling per se. If the stock sink works without causing undue noise, then I'll stick with it. Otherwise, I'll get something that promises about 10-20 dB -- period.
I've found that the stock Intel HSFs tend to spike quickly in the summer months. That said, I usually replace them with a step up unit, but not the top of the line, since all my machines are very mainstream, and not OC'ed.
It's comical to watch my i3-530 temps pretty much mimic room temperature, with a CM Hyper 212 as the cooler. This rig, in a CM Storm "Scout", is very quiet.
I stuffed an earlier 86 watt Intel cooler on my Pent Dual Core E2200. (65 watt TDP CPU) There's a lot more metal in the earlier HSF.
Believe it or not my eMachines T-5026 (Prescott P-4) has a better than stock cooling solution from the factory. (It's based on a CM "X-Dream" with a 92mm PWM fan and custom side duct. But, the blasted thing still carries a 50c idle through much of the year.
(Really hot days I turn it off, and use something else). I'm toying with the idea of stuffing these guts in a CM "Elite 335" case. But I fear "Old E", might feel violated by this, and give up the ghost on me. (The "Elite 335" has 120mm front & rear fans, which I suppose would help quite a bit with the temps, any thoughts)?
Running a Core i7 920 at stock speeds with a Thermalright Ultra 120 and a 120mm fan. Idles at about 35 - 36 celcius.
I have an i5 2600k with the regular HSF packaged with the processor. Idles at 32-35c in a room that ranges in the low 80s-f. No problems. It's in a huge case that has three case fans. Not presently OC'd.
I'm running on stock with AMD's C&Q active I'm not really a performance junkie although I stressed my computer overclocking it a couple of months ago, I have installed a CoolerMaster Hyper TX2, nothing too fancy but it keeps the proc really really cool!
Definitely, always the best...Noctua NH-D14. Not sure why the idle temps matter but 30c on a warm day. lower otherwise. Phenom2x6 Oc'd to 4.0 Ddr3@ 2000 CH4 mobo.
When I got an H50 for my i7 920, I moved my Cooler Master V8 onto my Athlon, which was a great case of overkill.
When my i7 computer locked up last week I took it completely apart, and then reassembled it (putting the stock cooler on instead of the H50) and there is a huge difference.
I used to run the 920 at 3.8 Ghz, and it idled at high 30s. Now with the stock cooler, at stock speed, it idles mid 40s. Definitely going to put the H50 back on it ASAP.
I have an i5-2500k @ 4.0Ghz with a H70, and it idles around 38-40 Celsius in a room that's about 7-10 degrees cooler then that. I'm quite happy with my set up :)
For me, it's all about noise. I bought an oversized heatsink for lga775 (3Ghz dual core processor) and fitted an ultra quiet 12" case fan to it. Even under load the cooling is so good the fan doesn't turn at over 750rpm. PSU is fanless ST40NF so my desktop is virtually silent.
i7-980 Antec H-90
OC'D to 4.5Ghz
Running real stable at 90.0 F
Installed a Freezer 7 Pro Rev.2 when I upgraded my system, only remaining components before the upgrade are the motherboard, cpu and memory. Running an AMD Phenom II X4 @ 3.0 GHz. Unfortunately I didn't record the cpu temp when it was running with the stock cooler. Very quiet and my system runs pretty good.
I bought a Noctua NH-D14 and a Thermalright Silver Arrow to compare and contrast. I ended up using the Silver Arrow with 3 140mm fans (push) on my 4.3Ghz 1100T. The only negative review I saw was Tom over at O3D.
He apparently had a problem with two of them, so I tried to break mine. Upon coming home last week and it was 27C in the house. I upped the Vcore to 1.55v and I could only OCCT it to a top temp of 56C. (thats the CPU temp, not the lower reading core temp) The thing is silent, and a diffusing monstrosity.....and it sure is purty!
Thermaltake FRIO OCK - proud owner of one of the only 2 piece's in India.
I was on a AMD Phenom II X6 1010T - but that was overkill for me - so sold it and back to my Core 2 Quad Q6600
Idle temp - 35
Load - 55
As of right now I'm still using a Zalman CNPS 9900NT heatsink fan on my gaming rig, though I am currently compiling all the parts for a fully liquid cooled system.
Right now I have everything but 2x Aqua Computer aquagraFX GTX460 blocks, and the 18 Bitspower Shining Silver compression fittings I need.
Parts I do have are:
1x HWLabs Black Ice SR-1 360
1x HWLabs Black Ice SR-1 240
2x D5 pumps (Bitspower mod tops to come in the future)
1x Aqua Computer Kryos XT cpu block
2x Bitspower 150 water tank z
10x 120mm Sharkoon Silent Eagle fans
im running an i5 2500k @ 4.6Ghz with an Corsair H50 with 2 100 cfm noctua fans. All that while running at a cool 35 C in an antec 900 case.
"Do you use a custom cooler?"
No exceptions.
If only there were some use for the stock heatsink fans- a tech version of a foodbank or Goodwill. I'd love to know that the godawful bifurcated pieces of Intel engineering are being cherished by remote tribes in New Guinea or Indiana as fertility fetishes or decorative headwear ornamentation. At least the older heatsinks can be put to some awesome uses
I've got a un-named tower cooler with a 120mm fan and that keeps my current Core2Quad Q6600 happy at around 28-32'C idle, and under 40'C under load when gaming etc.
My planned AMD build will use my H50 water cooler, which is currently sat in the box next to the CPU. Just need the motherboard and I can build it!
My planned AMD build will use my H50 water cooler, which is currently sat in the box next to the CPU. Just need the motherboard and a flame retardant suit, and I can build it!
Zalman 9700 with a phenom 2 X3 720 BE. I have it on a 24/7 overclock of 3.5 but I've had it as high as 4. It runs between 45c-50c depending on the weather(hot and humid in my area).
I think A water cooled solution for you should consist of a sprinkler system
I think A water cooled solution for you should consist of a sprinkler system
I considered this in detail, and I've opted for a fountain situated in the location currently occupied by the SSD enclosure... I feel it will provide the best fire-resistant solution whilst appearing cosmetically appealing at the same time!
My rig started out with the stock cooler on an AMD Phenom II 955BE. Forever it was at the stock speeds, then i became frisky and managed a slight overclock to bring it to 965 speeds. Here recently I replaced the stock heat sink with a Corsair H60, and WOW is it amazing. While at first I considered this a compromise since my RAM is literally touching the mounting bracket for the CPU, and I needed something small to replace the stock HSF, but I didn't want something that would be just the same performance. I however was completely and totally surprised with the cooling performance out of this little black square. I went from 55-60°C idle with a slight overclock of 3.4Ghz to 31-33°C idle with the CPU overclocked to 3.84Ghz. I cannot do anything but recommend this CPU cooler. It's also dead quiet compared to the stock HSF. I have this in a push/pull configuration with 2 Thermaltake Thunderblade's with 70ish CFM's. I love this cooler. I really do.
I have one Asus Triton 75 in use on my main rig, cooling my AMD PhenomII X3 710 @ 2.99 GHz and an Asus Silent Knight (chrome) just waiting for a new build =)
Noctua NH-D14 for my i7 and LOVING it so far.
I am using a Corsair H50 to cool my AMD Phenom II x4 970. It's significantly better that the stock cooler, but i think high end air coolers of the same price could do as good or better of a job to cool my CPU. With my AC set at 74 degrees my CPU idles at 30 Celsius and gaming around 50. When i have my AC set at 78 idle is around 34 Celsius and gaming near 55. I do not recommend the H50 for a Phenom II X4.
I've got the Sandy Bridge i5 2500. I don't overclock because I'm more interested in system stability than in raw power. Most applications don't use everything my processor can put out, and if they do... well, I can live with taking a little more time to encode video.
As for interest in the rotating heat sink... it offers something that none of the current custom coolers can, a low profile with a low maintenance demand. For something even quieter and more efficient than the stock cooler, without the negatives of current custom coolers... I would definitely be interested. But I'd still rather run my hardware at default speeds and simply enhance cooling and efficiency rather than overclocking and needing extra cooling just to stay stable.
my old core i7 920 with a corsair H50 not the best but does the job
I'm currently using a Prolimatech Samuel 17 to cool an i5 2500k. Partly because I'm using said processor in the Lian Li PC-Q08 and have VERY LITTLE clearance for a heatsink. Even the stock heatsink was pushing it, but I'm kinda glad I have that massive chunk of metal that dwarfs the motherboard.*
955 BE @4.0Ghz and Mugen 2 rev. B. 59 Celsius at full load.
almost from my first computer, I like them silent and slightly overclocked.
I've got a Core i5 750 overclocked to 3.6GHz with a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ cooler. It idles somewhere around 30C and i've never seen it hit past 65C under full load.
Zalman CNPS10x Flex ftw! Horrible mounting process on socket 1155/1156, but the cooling is good. It's really just a heatsink, so you can pair it up with whatever fan(s) you wish to use. It can have one on the front and one in the back. I went for a single low-rpm Akasa Apache fan, to keep my rig quiet. Actually, I got the same heatsink and fan in both my computers now.
The i7-2600K idles at 25-33c across all cores. My old i7-860 idles at ~25c on all cores. I dunno why core #3 on my i7-2600K always seems to run 8c hotter than core #0. I first thought I must have really messed up the application of cooling paste, so I redid it and it's still the same. I'm guessing it's just the architecture of the CPU, or core priority or something. I read the temps with HWMonitor from CPUID.
Anyone else having similar temp differences on their i7-2600K cores?
i7 2600k @4.5 alpenfohn matterhorn, no problems here,
Have more heat from the ka2 560 ti oc, plays most games at 60 fps no problems but runs around 70c even with its two fans and not overclocked
I have a box full of OEM coolers that have never been used, save them in case I wind up selling the processor. Zalman, Noctua, Corsair, Swiftech, etc. - anything but stock.
Stock cooler.
Nothing to flaunt here for me either. I keep meaning to step it up and do a complete rig out with all the latest stuff, but i'm just always bloody working or doing something else.
Then again, I would say that i'm not 'bursting' to get a new set up with a custom cooler, my little E3200 does everything i ask of it without breaking any sweats.
Cooler Master V6GT
I have a shelf full of OEM HS/F's as well. My ten year old daughter was in the shop last week and started looking at the shelf of old motherboards. Being the artistic soul she is, made the observation that they look like "tiny cityscapes" a couple hours later she turned an AM2+ DFI 790 FX M2RS into a rather nifty diorama, and lit it with some LED's.
I use a Cooler Master V8 with my Phenom II X4 955 BE. Processor is currently running at stock clocks but I plan to overclock it to around 4 Ghz while waiting for Bulldozer to arrive. I hope the V8 is up to the task.
First: Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro
Second: OCZ Vendetta 2
Current: Zalman Flex
Stock cooling is for suckers.
I use a Cooler Master V8 with my Phenom II X4 955 BE. Processor is currently running at stock clocks but I plan to overclock it to around 4 Ghz while waiting for Bulldozer to arrive. I hope the V8 is up to the task.
Unless you live near the equator with no air conditioning fps, The V-8 will cope nicely with a 4.0Ghz OC on a 955. i had a V8 on an Phenom II x6 @ 4.2 with additional Voltage and it handled it nicely.
Not since my Athlon Xp 3200 (areo 7 plus). The size and weight of most aftermarket coolers have made me worry that they'll damage the motherboard.
Not since my Athlon Xp 3200 (areo 7 plus). The size and weight of most aftermarket coolers have made me worry that they'll damage the motherboard.
I was also initially concerned about the weight of some of the aftermarket coolers but many of the higher end units have mounting systems that replace the stock brackets. At one point was running a Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 with dual fans on my X58 system, wasn't a problem and can see no evidence of it warping the motherboard.
For my latest build I used the stock cooler that comes with the i7-2600k, with no immediate plans to overclock yet. However, the fan nose was irritating me, so within a week, I upgraded to a zalman 120mm CPU cooler. Fan runs slow and silent.
955be @ 3.6
corsair H70
the stock that came with my phenom wasn't that bad tbh
I don't overclock so I use the stock cooler. I'd like to hear of horror stories of leaky water coolers.
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Evaluation of the H-Coil Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Device - Safety and Feasibility Study for Treatment of Major Depressive Episode in the Elderly
The recruitment status of this study is unknown because the information has not been verified recently.
Verified January 2012 by Shalvata Mental Health Center.
Recruitment status was Not yet recruiting
Recruitment status was Not yet recruiting
Shalvata Mental Health Center
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Shalvata Mental Health Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: January 25, 2012
Last updated: January 27, 2012
Last verified: January 2012
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Purpose: To evaluate the safety and anti-depressive response of the H1 Coil TMS Device in elderly patients suffering from major depressive episode.
Twenty-seven (27) treatment resistance depressed-patients, 68 years of age and above, currently in a depressive episode.All subjects will receive prefrontal deep rTMS of H1 Coil (42 trains of 2 seconds, 10 Hz, with 20 seconds inter-train intervals, up to 120% of motor threshold), for 4 weeks, 5 days a week, overall 20 sessions.Safety and efficacy tests will be conducted before starting the trial (screening), once a week for the trial duration and one month following end of treatment.
Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Depression |
Device: dTMS treatment (H1 Coil) |
Phase 2 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
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Further study details as provided by Shalvata Mental Health Center:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Safety of the H1-Coil [ Time Frame: One Month ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]maintaining subject's pre treatment, physical and neurological status.
- Clinical antidepressant response [ Time Frame: One Month ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]a decline in Hamilton depression rating scale (HDRS) from the baseline rating by 50%.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Clinical antidepressant remission [ Time Frame: One Month ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]exit Hamilton Depression Rating Scale <9.
- Symptomatic improvement at the end point. [ Time Frame: One Month ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Change in Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS), Quick Inventory of Depression Symptomatology - Self Report (QIDS-SR), Clinical Global Impression (CGI).
Estimated Enrollment: | 27 |
Study Start Date: | January 2012 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | December 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: elderly depressed patients
Twenty seven (27) patients aged 68 years or above, currently suffering from a major depressive episode, who did not respond to treatment with at least one antidepressant medications in the recommended dosage and duration, or could not tolerate at least two antidepressants.
Device: dTMS treatment (H1 Coil)
All subjects will receive prefrontal deep rTMS of H1 Coil (42 trains of 2 seconds, 10 Hz, with 20 seconds inter-train intervals, up to 120% of motor threshold), for 4 weeks, 5 days a week, overall 20 sessions.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 68 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosed by a senior psychiatrist as suffering from major depression episode according to DSM-IV (either as a part of a unipolar or a bipolar disorder).
- Rating on HDRS ≥ 20.
- Age: 68 years and above
- Treated for the current depressive episode, at least 6 weeks per antidepressant with one antidepressant in accepted dose, without improvement, and/or intolerance to 2 antidepressants, according to medical chart and ATHF (antidepressant treatment history form) instruction guidelines.
- Gave informed consent for participation in the study.
- Negative answers on safety screening questionnaire for TMS.
- If referred by a treating psychiatrist, he or she approves of the subject's participation in the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Axis 2 diagnosis, which is considered prominent to the current depressive episode.
- Substantial suicidal risk as judged by the treating psychiatrist or by an independent psychiatrist.
- Attempted suicide in the past year.
- Cognitive impermanent - if MMSE < 24, patient will be further assessed , and may be excluded according to the primary investigator's discretion
- History of seizure.
- History of epilepsy or seizure in first degree relatives.
- Any CNS disorder that may increase risk of seizure significantly
- History of a significant head injury.
- History of any metal in the head (outside the mouth).
- Known history of any metallic particles in the eye, implanted cardiac pacemaker or any intracardiac lines, implanted neurostimulators, surgical clips or any medical pumps.
- History of frequent or severe headaches.
- Use of hearing aids for hearing loss.
- Known history of cochlear implants.
- History of drug abuse or alcoholism.
- Serious and unstable medical condition, which is likely to exacerbate or endanger the patient during the treatment period.
- Inadequate communication with the patient.
- Under custodial care.
- Participation in current clinical study or clinical study within 30 days prior to this study.
- Patients suffering from bipolar disorder, not currently treated by mood stabilizers
- Patients declared as legally incompetent, with an appointed physical guardian and/or cannot sign informed consent due to cognitive incompetence.
Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01521052
Contact: Dafna Shefet, MD | 972-9-7478524 | firstname.lastname@example.com |
Israel | |
Shalvata Mental Health Center | Not yet recruiting |
Hod Hasharon, Israel | |
Contact: Dafna Shefet, MD 972-9-7478524 email@example.com | |
Principal Investigator: Dafna Shefet, MD |
Sponsors and Collaborators
Shalvata Mental Health Center
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 11, 2014
No publications provided
Responsible Party: | Shalvata Mental Health Center |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01521052 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | SHA-0001-11 |
Study First Received: | January 25, 2012 |
Last Updated: | January 27, 2012 |
Health Authority: | Israel: Ministry of Health |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Depression Depressive Disorder Behavioral Symptoms Mood Disorders Mental Disorders |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 11, 2014


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Hoverballs!: Japanese Defense Ministry Shows Off More Of Its Flying Drone Sphere
We last saw the Japanese Defense Ministry's spherical flying drone trying to spy on a lady in her apartment, and now its back being demonstrated in front of a roomful of reporters. COME ON BRO, NO LOOPTY-LOOPS?!
The video below shows the drone doing everything it was designed to do: zipping around omnidirectionally, rolling across the floor, and staying aloft even when it strikes--or is struck by--an obstacle.
Perhaps most impressive: the thing is built with off-the-shelf parts and costs a ridiculously lean $1,400. For that you get airborne speeds topping out at nearly 40 miles per hour and stability backed up by three on-board gyros that keep the thing aloft even when it runs into objects. Not bad bang for your buck.
$1,400? Damn, I've actually racked up bigger bills out to dinner. Who knew ordering "two bottles of the oldest wine you've got, Frenchie!" could be so expensive? SPOILER: Not me -- I always sneak out before dessert and leave my dates with the tab! Internet dating FTW.
Hit the jump for a video of the drone in action.
Flying Sphere-Shaped Drone Wows Crowds in Tokyo [popsci]
Thanks to Stro, Kevin, Jon, PrincessPadmesMasturbationFantasy (WOW), Houston and GARY, at least one of which is a giant Star Wars sized pervert (my money's on Kevin).
Seen here spying on a lady changing before coming though the window and chasing her up the stairs, a spherical reconnaissance drone developed by the Japanese military is put through its paces. For now the ball is remote controlled, but an autonomous flight system is currently ... / Continue →
"Scientists" (read: terrorists) at the Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT) have attached a Linux box to a quadrocopter drone and taught it to locate Wi-Fi networks and attack them from the air. Oh -- plus they named it SkyNET. What the shit... Whilst internet-only attacks ... / Continue →
Great, they're trying to trick our women. This is a video of a guy jerking around a realistic robotic baby's head like he's searching for the holes in a bowling ball. KEEP LOOKING TILL IT STARTS SPARKING AND CATCHES FIRE! ...the goal of Osaka University's AFFETTO was to crea... / Continue →


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San Francisco, November 2012 – Climate change threatens to undermine hard-won human development gains and the longer the world waits to act the more costly the damages and solutions will become, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark said in the last 8th of November.
Speaking at Stanford University in California, Helen Clark warned that without more coordinated global action to tackle climate change it will be increasingly hard to reduce poverty in all its dimensions and the costs of adaptation will also rise steeply everywhere.
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Maputo, October 2012 – The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response - UN-SPIDER, conducted from 8th to 12 of October 2012 a Technical Advisory Mission (TAM) to Mozambique upon the official request of the Mozambican Government to assess the existing use of space-based technology and information for disaster management and emergency response in the country.
Maputo, October 2012 – The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response - UN-SPIDER, in collaboration with the Mozambique Government through the National Institute for Disaster Management (INGC), and the UNDP in Mozambique, organized a one-day workshop in Maputo on the use of space-based technology in disaster risk management.
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Potsdam, NY, Jun 02, 2010 — The St. Lawrence County Arts Council has run out of room at its storefront headquarters in downtown Potsdam. Faced with the challenge of offering more art classes and limited space, the Arts Council recently expanded to unused rooms in a building owned by Clarkson University. Executive Director Hilary Oak gave Todd Moe a tour of old Snell Hall this week. She says bringing new art to an old space is a step toward developing a multi-arts building in Potsdam that would serve all of the North Country. Oak says the former classrooms were "waiting to be used again."


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Bogota, Colombia - It was the early evening, just after sunset, when six gunmen wearing ski masks stormed a ranch home on the outskirts of Granada, Colombia and forced Carmenza Suarez de Cruz into a car, and drove her down a dirt road into the darkness.It all happened so fast that her husband, kids, and her dozen or so guests - all enjoying a house party - stood by, helpless to do anything about it.That was on July 24, 1996, and Carmenza Suarez de Cruz hasn't been seen by her family ever since.
The gunmen were working for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, and within seconds turned the 55-year-old wife and mother into another one of their civilian hostages.The FARC demanded thousands of dollars for Carmenza's release. The family were ranchers; they're middle class, not rich, but nevertheless cobbled together the money, paid the FARC, and expected Carmenza to be released. But she wasn't.Months later, the FARC demanded more money. The family paid it, but again Carmenza was not released. Disillusioned, the family could no longer keep paying ransoms. Years have now passed, but the pain of the kidnapping hasn't."Many people tell me, 'Why are you still looking for her? The FARC probably killed her,'" Esmeralda, her daughter, told Al Jazeera. "And I look at them and I say, 'It's very easy for someone to say that when it isn't your mother.' The only way for someone to know how it feels is to live through it. It's very difficult."KidnappingIn its almost 50 years of existence, the FARC has engaged in high-profile kidnappings of politicians, soldiers and police officials to be used as leverage in negotiations with the Colombian state. On Wednesday, a French journalist seized a month ago by the rebels was released amid a frenzied media blitz.
But the FARC's kidnapping of civilians has often gained less attention. The ransoms extracted for civilian hostages served as a source of income to help fuel the group's armed conflict against the government.Under intense military bombardment since 2002, the FARC has increasingly shifted its focus to the lucrative drug trade. Earlier this year, the FARC announced they would no longer participate in kidnappings, and in early April it released the last 10 military and police hostages in its possession to worldwide media attention.This was seen by many as a watershed moment in Colombia's armed conflict. But the whereabouts of an unknown number of Colombians remains unsolved. Simply determining how many civilian hostages are in the hands of the FARC or other armed groups has proven problematic.According to official data from the Colombian government, there are still 97 civilian hostages in the country. Pais Libre, a respected local NGO, counts the number at 405, while other research organisations claim an even higher number.The discrepancy is due to the fact that some never report the kidnapping of a family member or loved one to authorities, out of fear that doing so could put their loved ones at more risk. Many civilian hostages are passed between various FARC divisions, or exchanged between other armed groups or criminal gangs. Simply determining how many civilians remain kidnapped is increasingly seen as key to advancing peace."We first need to do an inventory now of how many civilian hostages we have in Colombia," Victor J Ricardo, a former Colombian diplomat, told Al Jazeera from his home in Bogota. "Are there 200, 400, 800 civilians still kidnapped? Right now all we have is an uncertain list. After that, we need to do a truth commission that can establish who is really kidnapped, who has been killed, and who is responsible."
"The government has focussed on politicians and military hostages, and the civilians barely get any mention unless they are someone from a very influential family."
- Esmeralda Cruz
And according to journalist Herbin Hoyos, who runs a radio programme that transmits messages from family members to captives in the jungles, there are another 107 police or military whose whereabouts are unknown, having either defected, been killed, or still being held in a civilian capacity. "The release of the final 10 military and police hostages (in April) closed one chapter," Hoyos told El Espectador newspaper. "But it opened another: The anonymous hostages. The people that have yet to return to their homes and that society has not heard from. In this moment, it's a perfect opportunity to do something about them."Through all the years, Esmeralda Cruz says she feels abandoned by the government which she says has focussed on high-profile Colombian and foreign hostages at the expense of her mother. "The government has focussed on politicians and military hostages, and the civilians barely get any mention unless they are someone from a very influential family," Cruz said. "Otherwise, you go to the government office to get help, like I have, then they just tell you, 'Wouldn't it be better to think about something else?' and we know what that something else is. Things like, 'Your mom is probably dead, move on.'"President Juan Manuel Santos indicated in recent weeks that civilian hostages will become a priority. Pieded Cordoba, a former senator who has orchestrated several humanitarian handovers, has also said she might now turn more of her attention to missing or kidnapped civilians.Through the years, Esmeralda Cruz has received mixed signals as to the fate of her mother. A FARC commander many years ago told her that her mother might have been killed by an accidental discharge of a weapon while in captivity, but Esmeralda still demanded proof."I told him, 'OK, I want her body then. Or tell me where she is buried so I can get her body and have a funeral," she told him.But the FARC commander could not provide the proof.As recently as 2007, someone who had contact with the FARC told Mrs Cruz that her mother was still alive and being held against her will. It's been 16 years since her mother was snatched from her home, and Esmeralda is confident that she is still being held hostage somewhere in the jungles."If I could talk to my mom I would tell her a lot of things," Esmeralda said, choking back tears. "I would tell her that if at any time she thinks she is alone, and that nobody remembers her, is when we are remembering her the most. There has not been one day in the last 16 years she has been forgotten. She has been present in every second of my day." "I still have dreams that my mom will come home one day," Esmeralda concluded. Follow Gabriel Elizondo on Twitter @elizondogabriel.With additional reporting from Maria Elena Romero.
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