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FIRST DAY: ARRIVAL IQUITOS A tour around the centre of the city to get to know the most significant landmarks, some of which are from the rubber boom (subject to arrival time) Transfer to the lodge by boat down the Amazon. Floating houses. Visit the 'paiche' farm – the largest fresh water fish; during the transfer we will note various different communities on the banks of the Amazon. Arriving to the lodge we will be welcomed with a local drink and will find our rooms. Four nights in the Amazon Botanical Lodge with full board. Take the 'medicinal plant' walk and get to know 'uña de gato', 'sangre de grado' and 'clavo huasca' amongst others. Enjoy spectacular views of the Amazon from a well placed viewpoint and finish the day with a night walk to see tarantulas, insects. Night at Botanical Lodge. (L, D) SECOND DAY: CEIBA - LUPUNA See the local birds in their natural habitat (by canoe from November to July or walking from July to November). Take a walk deep into the jungle to find the giant trees – including the voluptuous and impressive Ceiba-Lupuna. Take in the local flora and fauna. Visit to a small zoo to see the anacondas, some species of monkeys among other animals. Take a night trip in a canoe around the lodge and enjoy the sounds of the forest at night. Night at Botanical Lodge. Third day. Visit to a small town at the edge of the river, to get to see the way of life, the culture of bananas, yuccas, and papayas, among others. Camping night at the jungle sleeping in tents. Night walk to get to know some basic knowledge of how to survive in the jungle. Morning Walk. Return to Botanical Lodge. (B, L, D)
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After his mother's death, Kuro Takagi transfers to Yotsuji Private High School where his father is the proprietor. But Yotsuji is no ordinary school. It holds a strange rule of "No students on campus after dark!" On his first day of attendance, Kuro and his classmates inadvertently break the school's highest protocol and find themselves victims of a faculty zombie attack. Although they manage to narrowly escape, this is but a prelude to more encounters with the undead, especially after Kuro discover his own blood-ties and latent zombie abilities. From there, it's full steam ahead as this dark and intense action/comedy shifts into high gear.
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LIFE Behind the Picture: W. Eugene Smith's 'Guardia Civil,' 1950
Originally published in the April 9, 1951, issue of LIFE magazine, W. Eugene Smith's photo essay, "Spanish Village," has been lauded for more than six decades as the most moving photographic portrait ever made of daily life in rural Spain during the rule of dictator Francisco Franco. But, as the years have passed, the most chilling image from the piece — the closed, hard faces of three members of Franco's feared Guardia Civil — has been exalted to a point where the essays' other masterful, evocative pictures have been largely forgotten.
For countless people around the world, including photography buffs who really ought to know better, Smith's Guardia Civil photograph is the "Spanish Village" essay.
Here, on the anniversary of the day in 1939 when Franco's Fascist forces conquered Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, LIFE.com presents "Spanish Village" in its entirety — in somber celebration of one of the single greatest photographic achievements of the 20th century. Even as the faces in the essay's most famous picture evince the cruelty and arrogance often assumed by small men granted great power over others, other images in the piece illuminate the timeless rhythms of a small, isolated Spanish town of the last century, about which LIFE wrote: "It lives in ancient poverty and faith."
In the 1951 article itself, meanwhile, that accompanied Smith's pictures, the magazine told its readers:
The village of Deleitosa, a place of about 2,300 peasant people, sits on the high, dry, western Spanish tableland called Estramadura, about halfway between Madrid and the border of Portugal. Its name means "delightful," which it no longer is, and its origins are obscure, though they may go back a thousand years to Spain's Moorish period. In any event it is very old and LIFE photographer Eugene Smith, wandering off the main road into the village, found that its ways had advanced little since medieval times.
Many Deleitosans have never seen a railroad because the nearest one is 25 miles away. Mail comes in by burro. The nearest telephone is 12 miles away in another town. Deleitosa's water system still consists of the sort of aqueducts and open wells from which villagers have drawn water for centuries … and the streets smell strongly of the villagers' donkeys and pigs.
[A] small movie theater, which shows some American films, sits among the sprinkling of little shops near the main square. But the village scene is dominated now as always by the high, brown structure of the 16th century church, the center of society in Catholic Deleitosa. And the lives of the villagers are dominated as always by the bare and brutal problems of subsistence. For Deleitosa, barren of history, unfavored by nature, reduced by wars, lives in poverty — a poverty shared by nearly all and relieved only by the seasonal work of the soil, and the faith that sustains most Deleitosans from the hour of First Communion until the simple funeral that marks one's end.


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Facebook is the largest and most popular social networking site on the Web today. Millions of people check into Facebook daily, which makes it a fantastically powerful tool for finding people you might have lost contact with: friends, family, high school chums, military buddies, etc. In this article, we're going to look at a few ways you can use Facebook to reconnect.
1. Facebook friends page
Go to the find your friends on Facebook page. You have a number of options here: find people you know by email, find people you know by last name, find people on your IM (instant messenger) list, browse for people alphabetically (this is somewhat tedious) or browse Facebook pages by name.2. Piggyback on your friends' friends
Use your Facebook friends as a resource. Click on their Friends and choose the "See All" option to scroll through their list of friends. This is a great way to find someone in common that you might have forgotten about.3. Facebook suggestions
Use the Facebook Suggestions link (found to the right of your news stream) as a jumping off point. You'll not only see potential friends and fan pages here, but if you scroll down a little, you'll also see an opportunity to search within your groups: college, high school, workplace, camps, etc.By default, when you search for a topic on Facebook, the results you see will be from your list of contacts; your "circle of friends", so to speak. If you would like to expand that circle to include results from anyone who has chosen to make their Facebook information publicly accessible, simply click on "Posts By Everyone". This gives you the option to view information from people who are not included in your contact list.
4. Use Facebook to find a phone number
Did you know you can use Facebook to make your own personalized phonebook, with a customized directory of all your friends, family, and acquaintances? Here's how you can do that.5. Search Facebook profiles
Facebook has a page designated especially for the networks that people choose to belong to. On this search page, you can search by name, email, school name and graduation year, and company.6. Filter your Facebook results
Once you start typing something into the Facebook search bar, a feature called Facebook Typeahead kicks in, which returns the most relevant results from your immediate contacts.By default, when you search for someone on Facebook, you'll get all the result on one page: people, pages, groups, events, networks, etc. You can filter these easily by using the search filters on the left-hand side of the search results page. Once you click on one of those filters, your search results will rearrange themselves into only results that coincide with that particular subject, making it easier for you to track down who you're looking for.7. Search for two things at once
Facebook (unfortunately) doesn't have much in the way of advanced search, but you can search for two things at once by using the the | character (you can make this character by pressing "shift backslash"). For example, you could look for baseball and Billy Smith with this search: "baseball | Billy Smith".8. Find classmates on Facebook
Search for former classmates on Facebook. You can either simply browse through a graduation year (this is a GREAT way to find people you've lost touch with), or you can type in a specific name to get more narrowed results.9. Find work colleagues on Facebook
If someone has ever been affiliated with a company (and has put this affiliation on their Facebook profile), you'll be able to find it using the Facebook company search page.10. Search for Facebook networks
This Facebook search page is especially helpful. Use the dropdown menu to search within your networks, or browse the lefthand side menu to filter your search results (recently updated, lists, possible connections, etc.).Facebook's general search page searches ALL results; friends, groups, posts by friends, and Web results (powered by Bing). You are given the option to "like" pages and groups that you might be interested in here, as well as search for specific words within your friends' status updates.


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Soul Motion and Ballroom = The Freebox…
I'm very excited to be in the Soul Motion™ Leadership Training Program 2013/2014. It's been a long time coming and I am so grateful for this positively life transforming experience. I have practiced Soul Motion for almost 10 years. The story of how I found it is quite serendipitous and wonderful, but I'll save that for another time. Today I want to start the next chapter by beginning to capture my insights, inspirations, take aways and forward creations.
I have had two days back teaching ballroom since returning from the first module and I found some common themes arising on my lessons derived from Soul Motion, and absolutely valuable to the ballroom dancer:
There are 3 points of view:
Inside – I must feel my inner sensations and stay connected to this source of my dance while attending to
Partner – I must take my partner in as part of my dance – sounds obvious, but believe me it's not that easy for everyone. This is a level beyond both partners knowing their steps, this is a meeting of the energies of both partners. While in this intimate connection with myself and my partner I must connect to
The entire room – the space around us, the community of dancers on the dance floor. We refer to this as an aspect of floor craft in ballroom dancing – the ability to flow our dancing within a room of other couples while avoiding collisions.
Common themes
I'm making notes for now and plan to expand on these themes in future posts:
Dance movements from the inside out!
Ground – we must feel our feet connected to the earth and use this connection as as source of energy.
Take root to fly – One way of doing this is to practice press through balls of feet and crown of head – bi-directional stretch
We dance in all directions with our back body, side bodies, front body – making use of 360 degrees orientation – dancing the entire body in all directions.
Slide plates of shoulder blades down the back – feel sternum or breast bone lift
ABCDE of partnership – pause presence engage from there.
Extend connection from the heart through the palms of the hands
Cross lateral movement – CBM – Diagonal
Be breathed, notice it
Relax, feel and allow this spacious sense to engage the subconscious mind where all technique, skill and creativity is awaiting its entrance! Tension is what is blocking the door.
This is the movement moment! Not where I just was or where I am going. Full presence is an aliveness in this moment. The ability to extend the point of view to include others allows this presence to expand and be felt.
Sitting, the new killer? Stand-up desk hack
The new killer it seems is sitting. Studies are popping up everywhere and being cited by such publications as The New York Times, The Globe and Mail and dozens of other news outlets about the dangers of sitting for too long.
Long before these studies came out I have always wanted a stand-up desk. It just makes sense to me, I don't feel as good or think as well when I'm sitting as when I'm on my feet. In August, Forbes posted this article with some great looking options for stand-up desk. All of which look pretty attractive, are functional and are pretty much out of my price range. Besides, I just bought a desk from the antique mall down the street that goes with my metal bookshelf (purchased from a neighbor who was moving to LA.) I love my metal desk for several reasons, one being it is big, two: it's retro and cool, three: it reminds me of my dad – who had a similar style desk in our garage when I was growing up.
So I won't purchase a stand-up desk anytime soon, but I created a hack that, is super functional and makes me really happy!
I had a square wire shelf left over from a set of cubbies that I bought and only needed half of. You could use almost anything that is slightly larger than the set of 3 plastic letter trays. I currently have them attached with a rubber band so the wire rack won't slip off the tray. It's a bit ghetto (hey, so am I deep down :-)), but it works and I feel so happy! I know soon I can make it more attractive, but the functionality is primo!
Other benefits:
Whatever reference materials I need for the projects I am working on are right under my computer.
I can move it forward and back on my desk so if I need space to work on something on the desktop, it's there and I can sit if I want to.
Standing when I work makes everything feel easier to me. When I sit down and start working on something, then discover I need something from across the room…it feels like a chore to get it (and there is good exercise in standing up and sitting down) but when I'm standing everything is in my reach.
Standing doesn't have to be stationary! I can dance, shake my butt, lift my legs, wiggle around feel more free.
I'm on a mission to get you to Sit Less and Dance More. I hope you find this helpful. If so, leave a comment. If not, leave a comment. If you think it will help a friend, share it!
Deep breathing lesson – energize and destress
There has been a great discussion in one of the business Facebook groups I am a member of where Mia Rose asked about breathing techniques that energize. That inspired me to create this video for her and for you, I hope you try it. Let me know how it goes for you!
The contest has begun!
It's fun to think that because I took action and decided to go for it and just make the video, that now more people are learning about the Freebox! What a great feeling – I love that sometimes things I do on a whim have a real payoff. I am sure everyone who posted deserves to win, and I'm pleased to be in the top 5. But I really hope I get to get on stage and dance with Tony and all the people at UPW!
Here's the link – From Team Tony: Meet Mary, who believes in changing people's state through moving their bodies. She recorded a year of dancing videos and wants to help serve others to dance the world awake! Want to help Mary go to UPW? Share this post or use the following link on Twitter or your blog: http://bit.ly/V90C30
Happy Dance.
I did a happy dance: the song is by Jem and it's called, "It's Amazing".
I entered a contest last week to win two free tickets to Tony Robbin's Unleash the Power Within in Orlando in November. Tonight I was notified that I was one of five finalists. Tomorrow there will be a link on Tony Robbin's Facebook page and his G+ page (and of course I'll post it here) that you can watch and vote for by sharing it. The more shares the better – that's what decides who wins.
Why do I want to win?
This is a major opportunity to turn so many lives for the better. Two of my siblings have already agreed to go with me. We are going to buy tickets and invite the other two also. Our mother passed away last year and we are just now finalizing the sale of her home. My sisters and brother have all had very challenging relationships and have experienced divorce and suicide up close- (as have I, though now I have a great relationship with my wonderful husboyfriend.) They all have children, some of whom have children. There are long-standing dynamics that could be transformed – many lives will be positively transformed by my winning those tickets. For me, it would be a true miracle to have us all together at UPW in November.
Just making the final five on the merits of the Freebox Everyday Dance Project makes me very happy. I would love to get more people dancing. As a coach, I know an experience like UPW will make me even better. I am so grateful to have this opportunity!
Please Excuse the mess!
If you're looking at this page today, you've probably navigated over from the YouTube video I shared with my RMT family. This blog has been inactive for the past year once I completed the Freebox Everyday Dance Project. I knew I would be reinventing myself and it – but I had some work to do! As you can see, I still have work to do – there is so much content from that project and I still hope to create a cohesive way to make it available for viewing, but now I am reinventing, recreating and reinvigorated!
The (new) Freebox site will be a site where people come for mind/body fitness. I am in the process of crafting the message – getting the words just right to describe what feels to me like a very holistic offering. So for the next few months, this site will be my public learning experiment. It's the place where I will share my learning and growing process as I complete my coaching certifications both with Robbins-Madanes Strategic Intervention and Life on Purpose Institute. Simultaneously I aim to integrate the training I received through my Forrest Yoga teacher training, my time spent in Soul Motion practice with my teacher Vinn Marti as well as the insights from personal practice.
I call this the Freebox and it's my favorite place to be. Welcome and thanks for joining me here!
"Spiral of Service" collaboration with Soul Motion creator, Vinn Marti and projection artist, Nihan Yesil
My dear friend and teacher Vinn asked me to create a video to go with his reading of this passage he wrote called Spiral of Service. I agreed then thought about it for a long time with no real idea of what to do for it. Then I was visiting with my friend Nihan at her studio and had the idea to ask her to play with me. She had done a simply breathtaking live performance piece where she had projected images on a dancer (her equally talented and cute sister) to an original score. Her work is very inspiring to me http://umbratorium.tumblr.com/
Vinn is the creator of the Soul Motion dance ministry and he is responsible for opening me up as a dancer and a person more than anyone else I've ever known.
It's an honor to collaborate with them.
Freebox Evolution
This blog has been a very personal account of my journey of posting a dance video everyday for one year. During that year I experienced a full gamut of emotions – bliss, frustration, deep depression, love, elation and lots of self loathing and self pity. It was a brilliant process to put myself through. Now that I am enrolled in the Robbins-Madanes Institute for Strategic Intervention I am gaining a great deal of perspective on my emotions. It's a great gift to have these videos because I remember my state for everyone of them and now I understand so much more about how those negative emotions served me in the past and how I no longer need the uglier ones that were habits of my mind.
I'm happy to report that now that almost a year has past since The Freebox Everyday Dance Project's finale, I am able to look back on the project with a great deal of love and respect for myself and all the people who supported me through it. I also can see that there is a lot of good in what I was doing. Creative, poignant, funny, goofy, strange – but a full artistic range was expressed in the pages here.
Where would it all lead I wondered. I don't know the answer to that completely yet, but I do know that my mission is still to dance and get people to dance with me. But even more than that it's to champion dance for the healing tool that it is. Through dance we can experience our soul and there is little that can match that. I appreciate my many teachers, but especially Vinn Marti, creator of the Soul Motion movement community (www.soulmotion.com) for gracing me with permission to find the courage to dance from my heart and to share from my authentic truth.
This blog will evolve to expand The Freebox from a blog that charts my personal process to a place that invites others to join the movement literally. The Freebox is a space of growth, healing, community and fun. Oh yes, FUN! That is our main goal. Thank you for checking in here…and I look forward to sharing the evolution with you.
Begin again…
I've been thinking a lot lately about the days when when I was posting everyday. I was talking with Mark about what I miss about it – not including the silly amount of stress I put on myself to get a video out everyday – but the flow of our lives. One of the big things I loved was coming up with a concept and taking action on it right away. There was a sense of urgency that forced letting go of perfectionism and fostered action.
For a long time I didn't look at this blog or watch the dances, but lately I find myself surfing over to Youtube and watching as a witness. I like what I see and it makes me want to dance more. So I figured, why not. Why not just post a video when I feel like it? Maybe I'll find a theme to work on, but in the meantime why not just dance? So here it is, yesterday's dance. I showed it to Mark last night and he said he could see some real shifts in my movement approach from the videos of a year ago. I've been working on opening up my upper back and I can see it too. I was happy with the balance on some of the moves that surprised me when they showed up. It's a one take improv dance – oh what gifts show up in just listening….
Energizing the Staff at Head Start of Shawnee Mission
A couple of weeks ago I got a call from Terrie Van Zandt-Travis, Executive Director at Head Start of Shawnee Mission. She asked me to come out and energize her staff for the start of their school year on Monday, August 1.
She said she had saved the Kansas City Star newspaper article about The Freebox Everyday Dance Project since June 15, 2010 and was excited to have the opportunity to do a video with me.
My visit was a surprise to the staff, but they all were good sports and played along. We danced to ABC by the Jackson 5.


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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police says a second Israeli man has set himself on fire after falling on hard times.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said a man in his late 40s set himself ablaze Sunday near a bus stop in central Israel. Onlookers tried to extinguish the flames. He was rushed to the hospital with severe burns.
The man's brother told Israeli media he faced large debts and warned his family he would follow in the footsteps of Moshe Silman, who set himself on fire at a protest against Israel's high cost of living last week. Silman later died of his wounds and was buried Sunday.
Cases of self-immolation as a form of protest are extremely rare in Israel, but Rosenfeld said four Israelis have attempted or threatened it since Silman's act.


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SINCE 1986, BCI members Bill and Carole Haber of Beverly Hills, California, have played a key role in BCI's progress, including facilitating the purchase of our headquarters building. Recently, the Habers enabled us to purchase: a new Minolta copy machine, a new file server for our office network, a much-needed TV/VCR combination and slide projector for our Education Department, and the current Foundation Directories for our Development Department.
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Wingdams are often common in big rivers to funnel the current towards the river channel to keep it deep for barge traffic. They are rock structures that can protrude from the surface, or be a couple of feet below the surface.Wingdams that hold walleyes typically have a moderate current and clean rock. If a wingdam has too strong of a current, then it will be difficult to fish and the walleyes won't stick around it. Look for walleyes near wingdams when water conditions are either normal or low. If water conditions are too high, they may be dangerous to fish, or very hard to work. Most wingdam fishing occurs in the fall, because water levels are typically lower that time of year.
Wingdam current is slowest on the shore end and fastest along its channel end, either end could hold active fish, but they usually stick with an area where the current is to their liking. Usually this is on the upstream edge of the wingdam in the small eddy that is formed. If the walleyes are actively feeding, they could also be right on top of the structure.
It is possible to work the wingdams in a number of ways. Start with a 3-way rig composed of a 2 ounce-pencil weight on a 12" inch 12-lb. test dropper coupled with a minnowbait on a four-foot leader. Troll parallel to the upper lip of the wingdam, and make slight S-curves with your motor. This will help you pinpoint how far away the fish are from the structure. If you hook a fish, keep a mental note of how close it was to the wingdam, for future reference.
Once you have the fish closed in on the structure, you can use a presentation to get closer to the fish. Pitch jigs with curlytails to where you had success earlier. Or, if you didn't hook up with any walleyes before try this approach: pitch jigs to the top of the structure and slowly hop the jig all the way to the bottom of the wingdam. For boat control, you can either anchor upstream, or keep yourself near the structure with your trolling motor.
When selecting a jig for this method, make sure that you can feel the bottom with every short hop. If you cannot, then you will need a heavier jig. Most fish will hit when the jig is on the upper portion of the wingdam, and if you feel a tap, set the hook immediately. If you happen to get snagged, there is an effective way to loosen your jig. Let out line so the current takes it downstream forming a large 'U." When you have let a good amount of line, jerk your rod sharply, the pressure of the current pushing downstream helps pull your jig in the opposite direction of you, and should come free most of the time.More Tips -Walleyes usually rest on the flat bottom above a wingdam. They move into the eddy on the front slope of the wingdam or right on top of the wingdam to feed. Walleyes in the downstream eddy are rarely active, and harder to reach.
-Current speed varies over the length of a wingdam. As a rule, the current is slower near shore and fastest at the channel end of the wingdam. The fish position themselves where the current is just right. -Angle your casts downstream when fishing on a wingdam or along a riprap shoreline. Should you get snagged, feed line until a 10- to 20-foot belly forms downstream of your lure.
-Close your bail, let the current pull your line tight and then give a sharp jerk with your rod. This exerts a downstream pull that usually frees the bait.
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?????? It should most definately be there. http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=128529
Is the displacement the bottom of the skybox?
No. Theres a vmf in the download. Look for yourself!
Make the level of 4 displacement a level 3
Tried from 1 to 4, crashes every time.
I fixed it. Took me ~30 seconds to find the problem.
The brush that makes up the flat ground (not the displacement) is intersecting the skybox by a cunt hair. You have to zoom way in to see it.
I just went back and ran it the way you originally had it (before I changed it) and it didnt crash.
So Im not sure what the problem is.
Thank you.
Nope fuck it STILL CRASHES after that fix dammit.
You realise it's probably not crashing but you're just being incredibly impatient.
Does the map crash, or does the compile say "not responding"
It compiles, the game starts, the map loads, and then about half a minute later, hl2 gives me the memory error and crashes for both Gmod and half life. All of my other maps are fine.
When do you experience the crashing? Like, where in the map?
I just ran around in it for a while without issues until I noclipped over to the displacement area. When I walked up on the large mound near the middle with the really square edge it locked up on me.
Ive had similar issues in the past when doing things with displacements (usually when subdividing really stretched out brushes).
The map has a lot of problems. I dont know if you just dont know yet (I was there at one point), or if its just a rough start. Either way, you need to get in the habit of doing things in a different way.
I didnt care about how the displacement looked (hence the really square edges and other horrid alpha crap. In other respects, how is it badly made? Enlighten me please. Also, other maps of simailar design that Ive concocted seem to function normally. I freeze up with the memory error anywhere, even outside the skybox, within 45 seconds. I timed it.
console say anything up to the point where it crashes? theres nothing wrong with the map as far as i can tell, works flawlessly for me, i would have done it differently but thats just me.
No. No console errors. The thing I opened firegod still has the same problem.
Are you launching the game from hammer? Because it works fine on my end.
It worked fine for me until I started walking around on the displacement terrain.
I am launching my game from hammer. I am currently using my android, so I cannot test something that could fix the error.
For some reason that could often create some weird errors while playing. You should compile it and run the game by hand. As someone said earlier on, that displacement that people crashes on most likely needs to be fixed too.
its often the case with very small brushes that if they do compile, they can create an artifact of some sort. as in, a massive brush that reaches all the way to the range of the map.. is it possible that because the displacements are so sharp/high that MAYBE one lost its origins or something and is leading to a memory leak?
all hypothetical...
Ghost brushes usually occur when a brush has been badly edited, so you get a brush that is visible but has no substance. The OP is getting a crash, not a ghost brush. Other people are able to run the map, and so why it is crashing on the op's machine is a mystery. It might be an idea that you read the whole thread before posting...


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Higher ed advocates focus on retirement benefits
While higher education issues seem hidden behind state gun control and uranium mining discussions at the Capitol so far, professors from VCU and other schools are urging legislators to improve retirement benefits for public university and college employees. Pushing for more funding for higher education, better faculty retirement options and lower tuition for in-state residents, three groups spearheaded the task of getting their voices heard last week. Officials from the Faculty Senate of Virginia, the VCU Faculty Senate and the American Association of University Professors met at legislative offices Thursday morning. Their first order of business was to push for educators' retirement benefits. House Bill 486, sponsored by Delegate Onzlee Ware, D-Roanoke, aims to create better retirement incentives for public higher education employees. The bill would allow such workers, who currently have optional retirement plans, to opt in to the Virginia Retirement System. Employees who wish to maintain an optional retirement plan, and were hired after July 2010, would be provided between 8.5 and 8.9 percent "creditable compensation" from the commonwealth. All other employees would be entitled to a rate of 10.4 percent creditable compensation from the state. Creditable compensation constitutes all the salary and wages paid to a full-time, salaried higher education employee as a result of services performed. It also includes payments for compensatory time, severance pay or employer-provided payment for the purchase of service credit in the VRS. The purpose of HB 486 is to give state employees in the higher education system the opportunity to purchase service credit in the VRS based on accumulated earnings and experience, even if those workers are covered under an optional retirement program. "Many employees come in untenured, so they have a choice whether they want to participate in an optional retirement plan or the VRS, since optional retirement plans are portable and can be taken to other systems. But if you get here [Virginia] and you realize how great it is, then you might wish that you had signed in to the VRS," said Robert Andrews, organizer of the 2013 Higher Education Advocacy Day. "The bill makes it so down the road, once [employees] get tenured, they can make a one-time swap to buy equivalent amount of work time in the VRS," said Andrews, a professor in the VCU School of Business and an officer in the VCU Faculty Senate. "It's certainly revenue neutral, and it's really important for state employees to buy in to this established benefit plan." In addition to retirement benefits, education lobbyists are also looking to provide financial benefits to educators' families. Senate Bill 104, introduced by Democratic Sen. John Edwards of Roanoke, would reduce the tuition rate for children of Virginia higher education employees by 50 percent. Currently, state universities and colleges can decide individually whether to waive tuition for their employees' children. SB 104 would ensure that all state institutions implement the reduction immediately. "Growing up with a mother as a college professor, you really gain a perspective into how valuable higher education is," said junior Alex Wells of George Mason University. "I think that being proactive in the House and Senate really shows that we're committed to the long-term prosperity of prospective students and faculty in Virginia." Participants in Higher Education Advocacy Day also expressed a need for more state funding to make college tuition more affordable for future students. Members are seeking legislative action to filter more than $200 million for state tuition assistance, as well as more than $2 billion in employer-based financing towards the VRS program. "We're important in supporting higher education and maintaining credibility against voices on the other side who feel that they don't have any responsibility to contribute to higher education," Andrews said. "If we don't have competitive institutions that have the financial resources to provide quality faculty members, or opportunities for students to have more feasible access to college, then we inevitably suffer in attracting professional businesses to our state." |
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Henrico's Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is one of only 20 gardens in North America nominated for USA Today's "10Best Reader's Choice" contest for Best Public Garden.
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The Fifth Annual Henrico Police Athletic League (PAL) Award Banquet, held Feb. 6 at The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, honored HPAL's top volunteers and employees, including Morgan Lewis, Youth of the Year; Dale Alexander, Volunteer of the Year; Lowell Thomas, Employee of the Year, and Victor Williams, Board Member of the Year. Also honored for their support were Jim and Christi Dowd of Richmond BMW and Josh Davis of Henrico County Public Schools Pupil Transportation.
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You might have seen something called Khumba while clicking through a Redbox recently (or perhaps it was nestled in some hidden corner of a DVD sale shelf). And chances are, you passed it by without much of a thought. Makes sense; that goggle-eyed cartoon zebra on the cover (a zebra that's dangerously close to becoming Madagascar copyright infringement) doesn't inspire much confidence.
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Religious headscarves have been banned in schools in several European countries. In 2009, a similar ban was instituted in all Dutch-speaking Belgium schools [JURIST report] in the northern region of Flanders. In 2008, the Dutch government announced plans to ban burqas [JURIST report] in schools. In that same year, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) [official website] unanimously ruled [JURIST report] that there was no human rights violation when a French school expelled two students in 1999 for refusing to remove their headscarves. In 2004, France banned religious clothing and symbols in public schools [JURIST report]. A German court has upheld a similar ban [JURIST report].
In spite of the lack of arrests made under the 1999 lawsuit, Guatemala has actively sought to punish those involved in crimes against humanity, corruption and disappearances. In October, two former National Police were sentenced to 40 years [JURIST report] in prison for the disappearance of student and union leader Fernando Garcia after he was shot and hospitalized in 1984. In August, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) [official website, in Spanish] announced that it had issued arrest warrants for former government officials including those for former interior minister Carlos Vielmann, former police director Erwin Sperissen and former prison director Alejandro Giammettei in relation to the extrajudicial killing of several inmates [JURIST report]. In 2009, a retired Guatemalan colonel was sentenced [JURIST report] to 53 years in prison for his role in the disappearance of eight indigenous Guatemalans during the civil war.
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The Obama administration changed its position despite repeated appeals from rights groups to utilize civilian courts over military commissions for the trials of suspected terrorists. Last March, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin [official website] called on the Obama administration to hold civilian trials [JURIST report] for Mohammed and other suspected terrorists saying that the military commissions system is fatally flawed and cannot be reformed. Earlier that month, the ACLU released a full-page advertisement in the New York Times urging President Barack Obama [JURIST report] to uphold his pledge to try 9/11 suspects in civilian criminal court. That release came just days after White House advisers announced they were considering recommending [JURIST report] that Mohammed be tried in a military court rather than through the civilian criminal justice system. In an interview last July, Holder stated that the main goal of the administration is to hold the people responsible [JURIST report] for 9/11 accountable in the most effective way possible. Holder reiterated his support for holding the trials in civilian courts [JURIST report], saying that the criminal justice system has been proven an effective location for terrorism trials and that excluding civilian courts as a possible tool in fighting terrorism would ultimately weaken the nation's security. Holder announced in November 2009 that Mohammed would be tried in a civilian court [JURIST report] in Manhattan, drawing intense criticism and leading the Obama administration to reconsider the decision.
In an era of frequent litigation, class actions, sweeping injunctions with prospective effect, and continuing jurisdiction to enforce judicial remedies, courts must be more careful to insist on the formal rules of standing, not less so. Making the Article III standing inquiry all the more necessary are the significant implications of constitutional litigation, which can result in rules of wide applicability that are beyond Congress' power to change. The present suit serves as an illustration of these principles.
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We now hold that review under § 2254(d)(1) is limited to the record that was before the state court that adjudicated the claim on the merits. Section 2254(d)(1) refers, in the past tense, to a state-court adjudication that resulted in a decision that was "contrary to", or "involved" an unreasonable application of, established law. This backward looking language requires an examination of the state court decision at the time it was made. It follows that the record under review is limited to the record in existence at that same timei.e., the record before the state court. This understanding of the text is compelled by "the broader context of the statute as a whole," which demonstrates Congress' intent to channel prisoners claims first to the state courts.
Pinholster was convicted of the 1982 killing of two men during a burglary in Los Angeles. During the guilt phase of his trial, Pinholster rejected assistance from attorneys and insisted on representing himself. However, after being informed that the prosecution planned to offer aggravating evidence during the penalty phase to support a sentence of death, Pinholster accepted the trial court's appointment of two attorneys to his case. Pinholster's attorneys moved to exclude aggravating evidence on the ground that the prosecution had failed to provide notice of the evidence to be introduced, but it was later discovered that Pinholster, while representing himself, had in fact received notice and had denied the motion to exclude. The same jury that had convicted Pinholster in the earlier guilt phase of the trial sat for the penalty phase and voted unanimously for death. The California Supreme Court affirmed and subsequently denied two habeas petitions.
In Greene v. Fisher [docket; cert. petition, PDF], the Supreme Court is being asked to determine what the temporal cutoff is for one of its decisions to become "clearly established Federal Law" under 28 USC § 2254(d) [text], as amended by the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. Petitioner Eric Greene was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for involvement in a robbery of a convenience store in which the store's owner was shot and killed. At the trial, Greene had objected to the admission of confessions of his conspirators and co-defendants on Confrontation Clause [Sixth Amendment text] grounds. The court allowed the confessions with Greene's name redacted. He renewed this objection on appeal, arguing on the grounds of the Supreme Court's decision in Gray v. Maryland. Gray was decided before Greene's conviction became final but after the state court's last decision on the merits. Greene argues that whether the Gray case should apply will be outcome determinative of his appeal. The Third Circuit held [opinion, PDF] that an opinion issued after a decision on the merits in state court is not "clearly established Federal Law," acknowledging that its decision created a circuit split.
The court also denied certiorari in three Guantanamo detainee cases, allowing the decisions of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit [official website] to stand. The court did not act in a case involving the Uighurs [JURIST news archives], a group of Chinese Muslims captured in Afghanistan. The Uighurs claim they were wrongfully captured and have attempted to challenge their indefinite detention. Some are still being held at Guantanamo since being captured in 2001. Of the 22 Uighurs originally detained at Guantanamo Bay, 17 have been relocated.
Congress's findings and the legislative record leave no doubt that the minimum coverage provisionwhich regulates the way people pay for services in the interstate health care marketis a valid exercise of the commerce power under the standards established by the Supreme Court. It regulates activity that is commercial and economic in nature, and that substantially affects interstate commerce. First, Congress found that people who consume health care without insurance shift billions of dollars of costs annually to other participants in the interstate health care market. Second, Congress found that the minimum coverage provision is key to the viability of the Act's regulation of medical underwriting, which guarantees that everyone will be insurable regardless of illnesses or accidents.
The Eleventh Circuit denied the petition for initial hearing en banc [JURIST report] in the appeal. The order confirmed that the appeal will nonetheless be expedited. Oral arguments are currently scheduled for June 8 before a randomly-selected three-judge panel. The identities of the panel members will not be disclosed until at least 14 days before the arguments. Last month, the Obama administration filed a brief with the court contesting the plaintiff states' request [JURIST report] to have the appeal heard by an en banc court. Last month, Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli filed a petition for a writ of certiorari [JURIST report] with the US Supreme Court asking the court to rule on the constitutionality of the law on an expedited basis, before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit rules on the issue, but the Obama administration opposes the petition [JURIST report]. In January, a judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia dismissed a lawsuit [JURIST report] challenging a provision of the health care reform law. In October, a federal judge in Michigan ruled that the law is constitutional [JURIST report] under the Commerce Clause as it addresses the economic effects of health care decisions, and that it does not represent an unconstitutional direct tax.
Vu is among several dissidents in Vietnam who have been convicted for anti-government activity. In January, a Vietnamese court sentenced former communist official Vi Duc Hoi to eight years in prison [JURIST report] for advocating democracy and a multi-party system. In January 2010, a Vietnamese court sentenced [JURIST report] writer and democracy activist Pham Thanh Nghien to four years in prison on charges of spreading anti-state propaganda. That same month, a Vietnamese court convicted four democracy activists [JURIST report] of subversion. Following the one-day trial, human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh [JURIST news archive] was sentenced to five years in prison. The four defendants were accused of activities aimed at ending communist rule in Vietnam. Dinh admitted to advocating multi-party democracy in Vietnam and joining the banned Democracy Party. Prior to Dinh's conviction, a Vietnamese court sentenced [JURIST report] pro-democracy dissident Tran Anh Kim in December 2009 to five-and-a-half years in prison for subversion.
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human freedom does not legitimate bad moral choices, nor does it justify a stance that all moral choices are good if they are free: "The exercise of freedom does not imply a right to say or do everything." (The Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 1740) Christian belief in human freedom recognizes that we are called but not compelled by God to choose constantly the values of the Gospel—faith, hope, love, mercy, justice, forgiveness, integrity and compassion.Pelosi has defined freedom as the ability to choose whatever one wishes. This isn't true freedom and Archbishop Niederauer is spot-on.
It is entirely incompatible with Catholic teaching to conclude that our freedom of will justifies choices that are radically contrary to the Gospel—racism, infidelity, abortion, theft. Freedom of will is the capacity to act with moral responsibility; it is not the ability to determine arbitrarily what constitutes moral right.
What, then, is to guide the children of God in the use of their freedom? Again, the bishops at the Council provide the answer—conscience: "Deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon himself but which he must obey. Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what is good and to avoid evil, sounds in his heart at the right moment . . . . For man has in his heart a law inscribed by God . . . . His conscience is man's most secret core and his sanctuary. There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths." (GS, No. 16) Conscience, then, is the judgment of reason whereby the human person, guided by God's grace, recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act. In all we say and do, we are obliged to follow faithfully what we know to be just and right.Another error is believing that following your conscience is enough. While this is true, it doesn't mean that one can't have a faulty conscience. Therefore, we must continue to be formed according to the truth as proposed by the Catholic Church. This isn't being a slave or robot, but using freedom (as properly defined above) to choose what is true, good, and beautiful. Not just anything we want.
How do we form and guide our consciences? While the Church teaches that each of us is called to judge and direct his or her own actions, it also teaches that, like any good judge, each conscience masters the law and listens to expert testimony about the law. This process is called the education and formation of conscience.
Catholics believe that "the education of conscience is a lifelong task." (CCC, No. 1784) Where do we go for this education of our consciences? Our living tradition teaches us that "In the formation of conscience the Word of God is the light for our path; we must assimilate it in faith and prayer and put it into practice. We must also examine our conscience before the Lord's Cross. We are assisted by the gifts of the Holy Spirit, aided by the witness or advice of others and guided by the authoritative teaching of the Church." (CCC, No. 1785)
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Much has been written
about the severe Amazon EC2 outage last week. This made me think about the
necessary tools needed for deploying high-availability applications in a cloud
environment. Java Enterprise Edition is very complex to use but remains the
popular choice among enterprise application developers today and it has a huge
installed base needing some form cloud readiness. Application platform
frameworks, like Spring, provide the runtime middleware container for both
custom or packaged applications that run on a cloud service like PaaS
(Platform-as-a-Service). Features of programming languages like Java, C#, C++,
Ruby or Python; can be extended at runtime by APIs, embedded declarative
clauses or metadata patterns provided by a framework like Spring. Optimal
allocation of system resources (memory, threads, connection pools etc.),
quality-of-service (reliability, availability etc.) and connectivity
(messaging, networks & databases) are managed on behalf of the application
by the framework. With the huge investment in Java code today, many firms are
adopting Spring's Model-View-Controller (MVC) for web applications, plug-ins
for the Eclipse IDE and the many web service add-ons available. The beauty of
the framework and its relevance to cloud is that Spring separates all business
logic from application (logical or physical) infrastructure. Now we can have a
real application bus where you combine virtualized or non-virtualized
applications with structured or unstructured data. Those applications will be
exposed to both managed and unmanaged mobile devices (but that's another blog
post!). We would build applications by taking blocks (objects) of code using
Spring and populate the business logic using open source lifecycle tools
existing outside of the cloud. Dynamic programming models like Ruby can be used
as large-scale web-based front-ends with the power of Java EE under the hood
extending the life of existing legacy applications in a painless way. With the
framework in place, cloud advances in multi-tenant governance; horizontal
scaling or cloud transaction processing can take place without causing major
application reconstruction.
It is no secret that iPads are gaining traction in the corporate enterprise with its ideal form factor, weight and battery life. What Nicholas Carr didn't see with his iconoclastic report "IT Doesn't Matter," was how the tightening of the technology stack would be enabled by consumer endpoints capable of running any application from a data center or the cloud. I was interested to see this week's VMWare View 4.6 for the iPad joining the category of other apps like Citrix Receiver or the new Rackspace OpenStack admin app. VMWare had to program custom gestures to blend the iOS experience with what most users often run on VDI - Windows. Now you can use two-fingers to right click and Apple-like drag & drop features to interact with Windows. Heck, you can even run Flash on the iPad. Unlike Microsoft's protocol, RDP, VMWare uses PCoIP, which transmits only changing pixels to stateless endpoints over the network. Since the protocol can tunnel over HTTPS, proxies or firewalls don't block it. This enables virtual end-to-end tapping; finding your nodes without knowing their physical path. The iPad used as a VDI device helps Microsoft defend their presence in the enterprise since the access device would satisfy users and may reduce the complaints about enterprise application user experience. "The sun shines, and people forget; the spray flies as the speedboat glides and people forget...," people forget how many Windows workstations are still out there.
Even though Near Field Communications (NFC) has been around for 15 years, it could become mainstream in the U.S. smartphone market this year. NFC operates at 13.56Mhz and at speeds from 106 kbits/s to 848 kbits/s all within a 4 cm range. We are finally catching up with Japan (e.g., Osaifu-Keitai system) and other areas of the world where NFC is used for mobile commerce and payments. With better software integration, you now have the intersection of context, proximity and event handlers that blend the physical and virtual worlds. It would make sense if Google announced a mobile payment platform since NFC is natively supported in Android 2.3. You have to consider other players with a little more "trust" than Google such as Apple iTunes or even Paypal. Merchant players like First Data or GPN are reluctant to adopt an offering that is not industry standard. MasterCard and Visa have made progress raising consumer awareness for NFC but financial institutions are not good catalysts for ecosystems. Even though NFC silicon can be standardized, individual competitors that bring their own implementation of payment systems can stall adoption and create payment silos. The battle will be which model will prevail - operator-centric, bank-centric, collaboration-centric or peer-to-peer-centric. Perhaps it doesn't matter since once a user has selected a smartphone platform, they automatically get the mobile payment system. Otherwise we would need a system like "payment roaming" similar to what evolved during the early expansion of cellular networks and billing systems.
I've been following some recent discussion about mobile virtualization. One article by Alex Williams at ReadWriteWeb caught my attention. I agree that many people carry two smartphones today, one for business and one for personal use. It's true that mobile processors lack virtualization support at the hardware level and manufacturers would have to pre-load this type of functionality. I don't agree that virtualization will drive more downloads of apps onto a single device with dual partitions however. It has more to do with the change in application frameworks rather than optimizing bare metal VMWare hosts in mobile devices. You wouldn't be able to run Android and iOS4 on the same device anyway. You might want RIM Blackberry for business and Windows Mobile 7 or WebOS for personal apps, for example. Developers are getting tired of the multi-platform treadmill for keeping various versions of mobile apps up to date. You create a "rich" web experience app using the latest HTML5 standards first and then wrap native code around it for the downloadable version. More advancement in local cache storage will alleviate the bandwidth demands too. This way your users to get the same look and feel and predictable UI behavior, no matter if it's downloaded from an app store or running in the mobile browser.
The HTML5 Video wars have settled into two camps. Microsoft and Apple support H.264. This video codec was recently freed by the MPEG LA but only for video free to view by end users ("Internet Broadcast AVC Video"). Google open sourced its VP8 video in May under the WebM open Web media project with a BSD-style, royalty-free license. Mozilla and Opera support WebM. I think H.264 is a short-term solution for Apple given the fact that the MPEG LA can change the fee structure in 2016. There is a possibility in the mean time that a pass-through fee could be imposed for protected video content running over iTV. Apple needs to get moving quickly on the follow-on to H.264 - HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding, aka H.265). HEVC aims to reduce bitrate requirements by half through increased computational complexity. Targeted at next generation HDTV systems with progressive scanned frame rates and scalable from QVGA to 1080p, it will fully replace the H.264. Apple also needs to make sure that its processors will be able to handle the future compression (3x or more) while preserving battery life and reducing device heat dissipation. Video standards can't be "free to roam or make a home out of everywhere they've been." It's too costly for content creators to publish to conflicting standards.
A rubric is a scoring tool for subjective assessments. Tech-savy consumers have a natural ability for assigning rubrics when purchasing entertainment or media. The trade-offs in accessibility, content quality and cost have become problematic in $69.8 billion U.S. TV subscription market. Apple is expected to introduce the new iTV service platform during their event at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco this week. Internet online video did to cable TV what cable did to network TV. The industry has accelerated the unbundling of content from its transport. It's happened in music, newspaper publishing and book publishing. While the Comcast/NBC merger continues to come under FCC scrutiny, Apple is negotiating with ABC, CBS and Fox for 99-cent streaming TV show rentals. Google is also negotiating with Hollywood for Pay-per-View service on YouTube. On the fringe, you have Xbox and Hulu. Microsoft recently increased its Xbox subscription rate, and why not? Hulu is trying to sell a $9.99 monthly subscription (with advertising) to its users. The consumer can assess their needs layer by layer, just like solving the Rubix cube. Once you decide on the content, you can decide how best to consume it. Leveraging existing in-home appliances like a Blue-Ray player or Xbox, provides the Codec, streaming processor & local cache needed for HD 1080p. People will not want throw away their existing investment, despite what Apple or Google may do.


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Today, most households are able to send in their surveys by mail. But in 1940, more than 100,000 Census workers walked house-to-house collecting information about the U.S. population.
The results, which are now available online, provided a snapshot of socioeconomic changes in the midst of the Great Depression.
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JONESBORO — It is a no go for a proposed survey of Lee Street Park — for now.
Plans to conduct a study of the city park were sidelined by the Jonesboro City Council Monday because of a lack of bids from companies interested in doing the survey. The decision was made at the request of Mayor Joy Day, who said she wanted more bids before a company is hired.
City officials are still getting used to owning the park since the county government unexpectedly dropped it in their lap this past spring.
"We only received one bid for the survey," said Day. "However I would not like the city to move forward without at least three bids. We will work on that and you know I will try to go as low as I can go on the price."
Councilman Randy Segner has been tasked with helping the city scare up more bids for the survey project. Segner was asked to help find additional bidders because he is a real-estate broker by day and city councilman by night.
He told his fellow council members that he is going to try and find at least two or three additional bidders for the project.
"I've got contacts in the real estate industry that I can reach out to so we can try and get more bids," he said.
Day said the lone bid the city has so far received for the survey was for $2,850.
Even though city leaders are not yet planning to buy any new equipment for Lee Street Park, postponing the survey does delay efforts to learn the exact dimensions of the park.
That in turn delays efforts by the city government to become familiar with the park, which county officials abruptly turned over to Jonesboro's control in March. The county's parks and recreation department had run the park since the 1950s but County Manager Wade Starr told the Clayton News Daily in April that it had to be turned back over the city.
He said Jonesboro had to resume control over Lee Street Park because Clayton County was at an impasse with its city in negotiations on a new service delivery strategy agreement. Starr said the county could not legally run a park inside the city limits without a service delivery strategy in place.
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Welcome to the I-502 Implementation page.
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On the menu to the left are links to the Washington State Liquor Control Board's (WSLCB) official statement and a fact sheet that addresses many of the ways in which the initiative will impact the Washington State Liquor Control Board moving forward.


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Ketamine Versus Placebo for Treatment Resistant Major Depressive Disorder
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Cristina Cusin, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: August 15, 2012
Last updated: May 30, 2013
Last verified: May 2013
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Ketamine infusions resulted in an acute reduction in global depression scores and in severity of suicidal ideation. The investigators therefore plan to investigate the feasibility and efficacy of repeated intravenous administration of ketamine in severely depressed, treatment resistant patients. The results of the study could lead to development of new strategies for treating depression.
Condition | Intervention |
Major Depressive Disorder |
Drug: Ketamine Drug: Placebo |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Randomized, Double-blind Ketamine Augmentation in Chronically Suicidal, Treatment-resistant Major Depression |
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Further study details as provided by Massachusetts General Hospital:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Hamilton Depression Rating Scale - 28 Items [ Time Frame: up to 4 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Subjects will be assessed with HAM-D
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Systematic Assessment for Treatment Emergent Events (SAFTEE) [ Time Frame: up to 5 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Subjects will be monitored for emergence of side effects weekly for the first 8 weeks and then every two weeks for 8 weeks.
Estimated Enrollment: | 30 |
Study Start Date: | January 2013 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | October 2014 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | October 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: Ketamine
Subject will receive 6 infusions of ketamine over three weeks.
Drug: Ketamine
ketamine infusions twice a week for three weeks, total of 6 infusions as augmentation of ongoing antidepressant regimen.
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Subjects will receive 6 infusions of normal saline over 3 weeks.
Drug: Placebo |
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 65 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Outpatient with sever treatment resistant depression
- Currently depressed
- Currently under regular psychiatric care
- On an aggressive antidepressant regimen, stable for 4 weeks.
Exclusion Criteria:
- No history of other major psychiatric illness, including bipolar
- No history of psychosis
- No history of drug abuse
- No major medical illness or unstable medical problem
Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01667926
United States, Massachusetts | |
Depression Clinical and Reseach Program - MGH | |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
Massachusetts General Hospital
Principal Investigator: | Cristina Cusin, M.D. | MGH Department of Psychiatry |
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 09, 2014
No publications provided
Responsible Party: | Cristina Cusin, MD, Instructor HSM, Massachusetts General Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01667926 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | 2012-P-001042 |
Study First Received: | August 15, 2012 |
Last Updated: | May 30, 2013 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Depressive Disorder Depression Depressive Disorder, Major Mood Disorders Mental Disorders Behavioral Symptoms Ketamine Anesthetics, Dissociative Anesthetics, Intravenous Anesthetics, General Anesthetics Central Nervous System Depressants |
Physiological Effects of Drugs Pharmacologic Actions Central Nervous System Agents Therapeutic Uses Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists Excitatory Amino Acid Agents Neurotransmitter Agents Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Analgesics Sensory System Agents Peripheral Nervous System Agents |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 09, 2014