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The Missouri Valley's auto-bid into the NCAA Tournament is on the line this week as the conference tournament begins in St. Louis. All 10 MVC teams will be in action, battling for a trip the Big Dance and official conference supremacy. It all gets underway on Thursday with the opening round of the tournament.
The seeding in the 2012 MVC Tournament is clear-cut at the top and bottom, and a gigantic mess everywhere in between. Wichita State, at 26-4 overall and 16-2 in conference, locked up the top seed over Creighton, who finished two games behind at 14-4 in conference. Then things get a little wacky.
Five teams finished the conference slate at 9-9, creating a mess of tiebreakers to sort out the seeding. Evansville won the tiebreakers, which may have included a coin flip and relay race, to take the No. 3 seed. Illinois State lost the hop scotch tiebreaker, but still managed to take the No. 4 seed into the tournament. Northern Iowa and Missouri State were the fifth- and sixth-seed, respectively.
The remaining four teams will battle it out in play-in games on Thursday. The schedule and other information can be found below.
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6:05 p.m. - No. 8 Indiana St. Sycamores vs. No. 9 Southern Illinois Salukis
8:35 p.m. - No. 7 Drake Bulldogs vs. Bradley Braves
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By ANGELJEAN CHIARAMIDA
---- — GEORGETOWN — Officials are working to develop a zoning bylaw relating to the siting of medical marijuana-related businesses in town now that a company has expressed interest in locating a cultivation center on Jackman Street.
In May, Elizabeth Holland, of Medical Evolution, wrote to the Board of Selectmen requesting a slot on the board's agenda to discuss the possibility of a medical marijuana cultivation center, potentially at an industrial building on Jackman Street. The board was to hear Holland's presentation on July 22, but the lack of a quorum canceled that meeting, which is now postponed to Aug. 26.
Massachusetts law allows the production, distribution and use of marijuana for medical purposes. The state law allows up to five registered marijuana distribution licenses for Essex County.
Brandon Tarricone, Holland's business partner, said the LLC first began in Delaware and is currently in the process of incorporating in Massachusetts as a nonprofit, as is required by the state law related to medical marijuana dispensaries.
In her email to selectmen, Holland said she and Tarricone will be applying for a registered marijuana dispensary license in the state, and applicants must identify a cultivation location on the license application.
After the license is obtained, Holland wrote, the company will open a registered marijuana dispensary in Essex County, but in her email, she said the company's interest in Georgetown is for cultivation purposes.
"We are beginning a negotiation to purchase an industrial building in Georgetown on Jackman (Street) for a cultivation center," Holland wrote. "There would be no sales, or patients seen at the location. It would be a private and secure location, and the use of the building would be shared only on a need-to-know basis for fire, police and city officials.
"It is not our intent to open (a registered marijuana dispensary) in Georgetown, but would certainly consider Georgetown i(f) there is interest from the town," she added.
According to Town Planner Howard Snyder, the location that Holland is referring to is in the town's Industrial B zone, which allows light manufacturing. The area has easy access to I-95.
The company, if approved, will develop a cultivation center that would grow, harvest and process the marijuana, which includes curing, drying and packaging the substance grown within secure walls of a building, Tarricone said. The size of the facility would be between 6,000 to 10,000 square feet.
Snyder said there is also a question as to whether this type of entity falls under the same protection granted to agriculture businesses.
As the subject matter is so new, Snyder said, the process of a company locating medical marijuana-related facilities in a community is somewhat unknown territory.
Communities in the state have begun formulating bylaws dealing with the issues that can arise in such a situation, he said, or have passed temporary moratoriums to give themselves time to study and develop bylaws.
Snyder said the Planning Board will hold its first public hearing on a proposed zoning bylaw for medical marijuana businesses at 7 p.m. on Aug. 28 at Town Hall. The bylaw cannot eliminate the possibility of siting a medical marijuana business in the town, he added.
Tarricone isn't surprised at Georgetown's move to construct a bylaw about the new medical marijuana distribution industry. Communities across the state are doing the same, he said.
So many communities throughout the state have questions, Snyder said, that the law firm of Kopelman and Paige has developed a sample bylaw that a town can follow and adapt. The firm is the legal counsel for several Greater Newburyport communities.
In Georgetown, Town Meeting must approve zoning bylaws, Snyder said, meaning the earliest that can occur is at fall Town Meeting in October.
Meanwhile, Medical Evolution made a presentation to Newbury selectmen more than a month ago, with the intent of establishing the registered marijuana dispensary in a Kent Street building in Byfield. Owned by R.J. Kelly, the building is located just off I-95. However, shortly after the presentation, Newbury selectmen received a letter from Kelly, stating that he had no intention of leasing his building to the company.
Tarricone said he and Holland aren't dissuaded that the Newbury prospect fell through. The company is talking to people in 10 other cities and towns in Essex County and still weighing its options, he added.
Georgetown's draft of the proposed 16-page bylaw is available for review on the Planning Department's page on the town's website (www.georgetownma.gov) and in the Planning Office at Town Hall.


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The Commission of The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City
Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Mexico in 1886. He began to study painting at an early age, and after graduation in 1906 he received a stipend to go to Madrid to study. In 1909 he moved to Paris, and, except for a brief trip back to Mexico in 1910-1911, he remained in Europe until 1921, living mainly in Paris. Before returning to Mexico in 1921, Rivera received a grant from the Mexican Ministry of Education for travel in Italy to study fresco painting. He returned to a post-revolutionary Mexico, in which a revival of the mural as an art form was occurring.
In 1922 he joined the Mexican Communist Party, and was elected to the Executive Committee in 1923, along with two other muralistas: David Alfaro Siquieros and Xavier Guerrero. Also in 1923, he was given a prize commission of a large series of fresco murals for the Ministry of Education building, which would occupy him for over five years. In 1924 he was expelled from the Communist Party for the first time, and he received another commission for a fresco cycle in the national School of Agriculture in Chapingo. He worked on both projects simultaneously until the Chapingo work was completed in 1927.
Early Attempts to Bring Rivera to San Francisco
Diego Rivera's mural at SFAI was his second commission in the United States. Although Ralph Stackpole is generally given credit for helping Rivera to obtain his first two mural commissions in San Francisco, Ray Boynton, like Stackpole a faculty member of the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), also played a significant role. Boynton was one of the first and most prominent of Bay Area fresco muralists, and he had traveled to Mexico in early 1926 to study with Rivera and see his work in Chapingo. He brought back several of Rivera's paintings and suggested to arts patron Albert Bender that Rivera should be commissioned to paint a mural in San Francisco. Bender bought several of Rivera's paintings, and they began a correspondence. Boynton also helped organize a 1926 exhibition of Rivera's drawings at the San Francisco Galerie Beaux Arts. Stackpole went to Mexico later the same year and also visited Rivera in Chapingo.
In 1927, Bender invited Rivera to come to San Francisco, but Rivera had been invited to attend the tenth-anniversary celebration in Moscow of the Russian Revolution. As the leader of the Mexican delegation, he met Stalin, tried to obtain mural commissions, stayed through May Day in 1928, and then returned to Mexico. He resumed work on the top floor of the Ministry of Education project, and met Frida Kahlo, who had started painting and, influenced by her friend Tina Modotti, had joined the Communist Party. Modotti was one of Rivera's models for the Chapingo project (the other was his wife, Lupe Marin) and was another link to San Francisco: she had lived there from 1917 to 1920, and then traveled between Mexico and California with photographer Edward Weston, until she settled in Mexico City permanently, without Weston. Bender was a patron of Weston's.
The Stock Exchange Building Mural
In 1928 architect Timothy Pfleuger had begun the transformation of the old U.S. Sub-Treasury Building on Sansome Street, and had commissioned Ralph Stackpole to create sculptures for what would become the entrance of the San Francisco Stock Exchange. Michael Baltenkal Goodman (who appears on the right side of The Making of a Fresco) was in charge of the interior renovation, and Adaline Kent, Robert Howard, Clifford Wight, Harry Dixon, Ruth Cravath, and Otis Oldfield were given commissions for the interior. Ray Boynton, Maynard Dixon, and others submitted portfolios for consideration for murals, but were rejected. Before starting on the commission, Stackpole went back to Mexico to visit Rivera and do research for the project.
Stackpole returned to San Francisco in 1929 with two of Rivera's paintings, one of which he gave to his friend and patron William Gerstle, President of the San Francisco Art Association and board member of the newly constructed California School of Fine Arts. Bender continued to invite Rivera to come to San Francisco, but his attempt to secure a visa for Rivera in June failed. Bender organized a series of exhibitions in California's major cities in order to promote the artist and counter some of the anti-Rivera sentiment that was a result of his Communist affiliations.
Rivera and Kahlo were married in August of 1929. Three weeks later Rivera was again expelled from the Mexican Communist Party. His political views were increasingly anti-Stalinist, and he had accepted both a government job as the director of the San Carlos Academy and a mural commission for the Presidential Palace, which appeared to confirm his lack of commitment to the struggle of the people against the establishment. Later that month he received another mural commission, from Dwight Morrow, the American ambassador to Mexico. He was the father of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and former partner of J. P. Morgan. Morrow offered Rivera $12,000 to paint a group of murals in the former palace of Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes in Cuernavaca. Rivera was fired from his position at the Academy for attempting too radical a change of the curriculum. He put off the Presidential Palace project and went to work in Cuernavaca.
Rivera in San Francisco
In 1930 Bender, Gerstle, Pfleuger, and Morrow joined forces to bring Rivera to San Francisco. Gerstle offered Rivera a commission to paint a fresco in the new California School of Fine Arts' loggia, and Pfleuger offered a larger commission for a mural in the stairwell leading to the luncheon club in the Stock Exchange Building. Maynard Dixon, along with Ray Boynton, one of Rivera's earliest supporters, actively lobbied against the commissions, saying that the commissions should be given to Americans. Bender worked with Ambassador Morrow to obtain a visa for Rivera. An exhibition of Rivera's work was scheduled for December at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo arrived on November 10 and moved into Stackpole's studio on Montgomery Street, where Gerstle also had a studio. Rivera started working on the Stock Exchange commission, which would become Allegory of California. Rivera met tennis star Helen Wills Moody, winner of eight Wimbledon titles (1927-30, '32, '33, '35, and '38, a record bested only by Martina Navratilova with nine). Wills became a favorite model for Rivera, and she appears as the central earth goddess figure and the flying nude on the ceiling in Allegory; she was also likely the model for the early sketch of the CSFA fresco.
Rivera began work on the mural at CSFA. Unhappy with the location on the second-floor outdoor loggia he had been offered at the school, he tried to persuade Gerstle that it was unsuitable because the rain would damage the fresco. He asked Gerstle for all of the upper walls in the gallery adjacent to the courtyard, imagining a fresco cycle on the scale of Giotto's Arena Chapel in Padova. Gerstle was finally able to secure one of the walls in the gallery for Rivera. Rivera began preparatory studies in March after finishing the Stock Exchange project. The local newspapers published articles speculating on the subject and composition. He and Frida spent six weeks in Atherton, about 30 miles south of San Francisco, as guests of Rosalie Stern, who commissioned a small fresco for her dining room.
Rivera applied for another commission on Pfleuger's new project, the Oakland Paramount Theater, but was turned down. He told Gerstle that he would add Pfleuger to the art school's mural to show him that "there were no hard feelings." He returned to San Francisco and began painting at the school on May 1, 1931. Clifford Wight and Ralph Stackpole had worked with Rivera in Mexico, and, with the addition of the artists who had worked on the Stock Exchange project, Rivera now had a team of artists who were experienced in working together. He had been in San Francisco for almost six months and was under pressure to return to Mexico to resume work on the murals in the National Palace. Rivera and his team worked day and night, completing the fresco on May 31. His signature and "1-31mayo, 1931" are painted to the right of Geraldine Colby Frickie, below the underside of the drafting table.
An exhibition of the preparatory drawings was installed on the gallery's other walls, and a series of receptions were held in the gallery to celebrate the completion of the mural. Rivera left for Mexico on June 3.
Controversy at Coit Tower
Clifford Wight also worked with Rivera on the murals in the Detroit Institute of the Arts in 1932, and then on the Rockefeller Center mural in New York in 1933. The Rockefeller commission was withdrawn in May 1933 because the mural contained a portrait of Lenin, and it was destroyed in February 1934. Wight returned to San Francisco and received a Works Progress Administration (WPA) commission to paint one of the murals in Coit Tower. He included the Communist logo of a hammer and sickle in his mural, starting a controversy that resulted in the closing of Coit Tower during the summer of 1934.
In The Making of A Fresco, the central figure, a machinist wearing blue overalls, has a red medal with a red star hanging from his breast pocket. The background of the medal appears to have originally been white. The Soviet Order of the Red Star was founded in May of 1930 for exceptional service to the cause and defense of the Soviet Union. Whether Rivera had second thoughts about the inclusion of this blatant symbol of Communism, or was convinced by his patrons to "tone it down" is unknown, but the red star is clearly visible. Rivera claimed that it was a Bull Durham tobacco tag—although that tag was black and white. He made it red, he said, to draw the eye across the composition, which it does, linking the red of the steel girders on the right side with the red of the workers' shirts on the left. At some point in the early 1980s, the star was turned into a hammer and sickle by an anonymous hand. Conservators discovered this alteration in 1990, and removed what turned out to be toothpaste. Given Wight's subsequent involvement in controversies over communist representations, it is interesting to speculate on his role in the inclusion of the medal and its symbol.
Coit Tower Muralists and the California School of Fine Arts
Rivera's presence in San Francisco further stimulated an already vibrant West Coast muralist movement. Arthur Brown, Jr., assisted by Henry Howard (son of John Galen Howard, architect of the UC Berkeley campus), had designed Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill and it was dedicated in October of 1933. Ralph Stackpole and Bernard Zakheim organized a group of artists to ask the WPA's Federal Art Project to fund a series of murals for the interior of the tower. The commission was granted and this project became the prototype for the agency.
Most of the artists employed were faculty or students at the CSFA. Maxine Albro had studied fresco in the 1920s with Ray Boynton at CSFA and with Rivera in Mexico. Victor Arnautoff studied with Ralph Stackpole and Edgar Walter at the CSFA. Arnautoff was the mural project director at Coit Tower, and also painted a mural there. Ray Bertrand had been a student of Spencer Macky at the CSFA, where he later taught lithography. Another Coit Tower artist and student of Arthur Putnam and Gottardo Piazzoni at the CSFA, Rinaldo Cuneo, was also in Paris at the same time as Rivera. He later joined the faculty of the CSFA. Mallette (Harold) Dean studied at the CSFA and assisted Clifford Wight on one of Wight's three murals.
Parker Hall was married to Albro and studied at the CSFA. Edith Hamlin was one of the many students at the CSFA who came to work at Coit Tower and was married to painter Maynard Dixon. George Harris was another young CSFA student. Robert B. Howard, another son of John Galen Howard, had worked on the Stock Exchange project, taught at the CSFA, and was married to sculptor Adaline Kent. Otis Oldfield had known Rivera in Paris and taught at the CSFA. Suzanne Scheuer was assisted by Hebe Daum, another young CSFA student, who later married Peter Stackpole. Frede Vidar studied at CSFA for six years.


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GROUPS and clubs which use Barnoldswick Youth Centre are to form a community association to try to fight possible charges from Lancashire County Council.
The groups, including a computer group, art group, Bridge club and painting group, held a meeting with Barnoldswick councillors to discuss their concerns.
They had asked representatives from Lancashire County Council to attend the meeting, but they decided not to send anybody.
Coun David Whipp, who chaired the meeting, said: "A number of the groups who use the centre are concerned that the introduction of any charges would threaten the valuable work they do.
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Funhouse Comedy nights are returning to the Braintree Arts Theatre in Notley Road on February 20.
Headlining is television's Alfie Moore, a police sergeant who looks back on his 18 years of being on the beat.
Support comes from comedian, actor and writer Brendan Dempsey and completing the line up is skilful Jonny Lennard.
Compere for the night is the clever and amusing Stuart Mitchell.
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Firefighters called to fire at amusement arcade (From Clacton and Frinton Gazette)
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Updated 4:59pm Wednesday 20th February 2013 in News
CLACTON'S popular Magic City amusement arcade will reopen tomorrow morning following a fire this afternoon.
Four fire crews were called to the arcade, in Pier Avenue, shortly before 4pm today.
A small fire is thought to have started in a void between floors following an electrical fault.
Crews used breathing apparatus and one hose reel to extinguish the fire.
Owner Billy Peak said: "We will be open in the morning. We think it was an electrical fault.
"The fire brigade got here very quickly and identified where the fire was.
"One small area will be condoned off."
Mr Peak said a number of arcade customers were evacuated after fire alarms went off.
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I heard people were trapped inside the crooked house & the fire may have been caused by the volcano in the ballpool!
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PROOFREADER wrote:And what was used to deliver this jet of water to the source of the fire? honestly have you really nothing better to do than constantly post pedantic and often incorrect nonsense.
Crews used breathing apparatus and one hose reel to extinguish the fire? Very clever those firemen, what did they do beat out the flames with them? It should read crews wearing breathing apparatus used one water jet to extinguish the blaze.
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Obesity Guidelines Development Methodology
The panel has attempted to provide primary care practitioners with recommendations regarding effective strategies to evaluate and treat overweight and obesity in adults. The panel anticipates that the recommendations also will be followed by the large proprietary weight loss industry in the United States. The guideline is based on a systematic review of the scientific literature published in MEDLINE from January 1980 through September 1997. This was done in the interest of time and economy. This information was supplemented by material provided by the panel and a search of appropriate references in eligible articles. The panel identified randomized controlled trials as the strongest level of evidence for the evaluation of treatment efficacy. Thus, evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) serves as the basis for many of the recommendations contained in this guideline. However, in some instances, the panel had to make recommendations in the absence of RCTs. Each evidence statement (other than those with no available evidence) and each recommendation is categorized by level of evidence (A through D). Statements for which there is no available evidence are so indicated.
Panel Selection
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Obesity Education Initiative Task Force recommended panel members representing the various expertise required to deal with the issues of cardiovascular disease and body weight. The executive director of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) also provided recommendations for the primary care practitioner who would represent AAFP. The panel members include primary care practitioners, clinicians from academic medical centers, nutritionists, exercise physiologists, pulmonologists, cardiologists, psychologists, behaviorists, epidemiologists, and experts on cost issues. Some of the panel members were also members of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity. The funding source for the guidelines was primarily the NHLBI, with the cooperation of the NIDDK of the National Institutes of Health.
Topics Included in the Guidelines
The panel decided to focus on all adult (18 years of age and older) overweight and obese patients with a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 25, and particularly those with cardiovascular risk factors. Excluded from the analysis were patients with known genetic or hormonal syndromes and pharmacologically induced obesity.
In addition, since pediatric obesity contributes to about one-third of adult obesity, the panel felt that some attention needed to be focused on the issue of overweight in children and adolescents. Treatment issues surrounding overweight children and adolescents are quite different from the treatment of adults. The panel recommended that this issue warrants its own project as soon as possible.
The therapeutic interventions requiring examination included diet, physical activity, behavior therapy, pharmacological therapy, surgery, and combinations of these. No clinical interventions were excluded at the outset. Because of the importance and complexity of the primary prevention of obesity, the panel decided not to deal with these concerns in detail and that the issue be addressed in a separate document. However, clinical interventions to prevent further weight gain in patients already overweight, or those patients not currently overweight at high risk for becoming overweight, were considered relevant therapeutic interventions. The guideline also contains some information on the cost of obesity.
In terms of reliable diagnostic measures, the panel decided to concentrate on useful tools readily available in a physician's office, i.e., weight, height and BMI. The panel did not search for evidence to prove that measures of body composition or metabolic rate are useful tools; however, they did include studies using these diagnostic measures.
Development of the Evidence Model
The panel determined the evidence model used to develop the guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of obesity. The model contains two broad categories, the association of weight to cardiovascular and noncardiovascular mortality and morbidity in the population and the clinical issues related to the treatment of the overweight individual. The population portion of the model addresses such questions as, "Is there an association between weight and cardiovascular risk factors?", and "Is there an association between weight and cardiovascular and noncardiovascular morbidity and mortality?" The patient portion of the model focuses on the clinical setting and addresses such questions as, "Does a reduction in weight result in a decrease in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality?"
Search and Review of the Literature
The literature was searched and systematically reviewed by
The panel decided on the parameters for the literature search, particularly for the search dealing with the model linking treatment to weight loss. The parameters of the search included year of publication, country, language, study design, length of the study, outcome measures (which, what, and when), and patient characteristics (age and weight).
The panel decided to limit its search to English-language studies, but included foreign studies that provide an English abstract and are randomized controlled clinical trials. The search included human studies only published in MEDLINE from January 1980 to September 1997. No editorials, letters, or case reports were accepted. The panel was aware that two books published in the early 1980s coded the bulk of the obesity literature written to that point.
Panel staff and librarians at the National Library of Medicine's National Information Center for Health Services Research determined the medical subject heading terms used in the literature review.
Of the 43,627 titles acquired from the MEDLINE search, 18,217 were duplicates, leaving 25,410 titles to be considered. Using the ProCite reference database, the 25,410 titles were screened by two reviewers and ultimately marked for their appropriateness. Abstracts for the appropriate 8,040 remaining titles were then screened for relevance in two rounds. Two individuals independently reviewed each abstract using the inclusion and exclusion criteria developed by the panel. A third reviewer would sporadically check the quality of the screening. This review led to 2,440 possibly relevant abstracts. Due to the greater quality of the evidence, the decision was made that randomized controlled trials pertinent to the treatment portion of the model be the top priority for data abstraction. Ultimately, 394 articles of randomized controlled trials were reviewed for data abstraction.
Literature Abstraction and Preparation of Evidence Tables
In order to abstract the correct data related to the treatment portion of the model in a consistent manner, a 25-page form called the "Critical Review Status Sheet (CRSS)" was developed. The CRSS was reviewed and approved by the panel. It took into account the inclusion and exclusion criteria described below and allowed for (1) the collection of data on the study's purpose and design; (2) the intervention parameters, including the format, setting, practitioners, population demographics, and detailed descriptions of the intervention per se, be it dietary, physical activity, behavioral, pharmacotherapy, or other types of interventions (surgery, acupuncture, hypnosis, etc.); and (3) outcome measures, including the method of determining the outcome, and adverse events. The CRSS was pilot-tested by staff as well as by staff of the San Antonio Cochrane Center.
The San Antonio Cochrane Center is one of 12 centers around the world that comprise the Cochrane Collaboration. The Cochrane Collaboration is an international organization established in 1993 whose mission is to prepare, maintain, and disseminate systematic reviews and meta-analysis of health care interventions. The San Antonio Center provides advice on multiple aspects of systematic review, including searching and selecting materials, abstracting materials, organizing materials into evidence tables, and performing meta-analysis.
Inclusion and exclusion criteria—The appropriateness of an article was determined by applying criteria determined by the panel. These criteria included the time frame for the study, i.e., the minimum amount of time that must pass before the outcome measure is made; how body weight was reported; and the type and size of the study. In defining the time frame, the panel needed to clarify if the important outcome was weight loss or sustained weight loss. Due to the importance of both outcomes, the panel decided to include studies that considered the effects during the acute phase of weight loss, and those that examined effects during the maintenance phase. Both types of studies were deemed important, and two cutpoints were considered appropriate for follow-up. At a minimum, studies had to have a time frame from start to finish of at least 4 months. However, in order to consider the question of long-term maintenance, studies with outcome data provided at approximately 1 year or longer were examined. The panel decided to exclude studies that used only self-reported weights for their measurement. No exclusion of studies was made by study size.
Preparation of evidence tables-Of the 394 articles of randomized controlled trials considered for data abstraction by the San Antonio Cochrane Center, 158 were rejected for a variety of reasons; i.e., randomization was not adequate or subjects were not all overweight or obese. Ultimately, 236 articles were abstracted by two separate reviewers who independently read and abstracted each article according to the CRSS. The reviewers met, compared coding, and resolved discrepancies. The data were then compiled into individual evidence tables developed for each RCT. In addition, summary tables were developed to compile the evidence necessary to address the 23 questions relevant to the treatment portion of the model.
The Formulation of the Evidence into the Guidelines
In order to consider the evidence for each of the 23 questions, the panel met in groups of 6 to 10 members. During the first round of considering the evidence, 12 small groups of panel members were randomly assigned to consider the evidence for 2 or 3 questions. They developed evidence statements and determined the strength of the evidence. Their recommendations were presented to the full panel, which then made additional recommendations regarding their conclusions.
After considering additional studies for questions where adequate RCTs were not available, another iteration of evidence statements and recommendations was developed. The full panel met again to consider this iteration, which was considered by small groups assigned to focus on either a specific treatment modality or outcome measure. The small groups brought their recommendations back to the full panel for their final consideration. The panel weighed the evidence based on a thorough examination of the threshold or magnitude of the treatment effect.
Each evidence statement (other than those with no available evidence) and each recommendation is categorized by a level of certainty (A through D) as described below. The consensus process used for drawing conclusions and writing the recommendations was a group process that took into account all opinions. Conclusions reflect the widest possible agreement of the panel.
Consideration of Special Populations and Situations
The panel also evaluated population factors and clinical situations that might potentially influence the physiological, medical, behavioral, or sociocultural context for obesity identification and treatment. Evidence on special populations and situations was captured from non-RCT evidence when available, but in many cases such evidence was meager. Population factors selected for special consideration with respect to obesity classification and treatment were age, gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, pregnancy, eating disorders, sleep apnea, extreme obesity, concurrent treatment of other major conditions (such as heart disease or diabetes), and treatment of obesity in conjunction with smoking cessation.
These considerations were addressed in all stages of guideline development. Persons with relevant special expertise were invited to serve on the panel. The search for evidence was formulated to ascertain studies that include special populations. Studies evaluated were coded to permit analysis of the extent to which the special populations or situations of interest had been included and whether findings for these populations and situations deviated from those for the majority populations in these studies. In the numerous cases where evidence on these special issues was insufficient to meet standards for inclusion in the main text of the guideline, potentially important issues were identified for the user and cross-referenced to an appendix or discussed in sidebar text.
External Review of the Guidelines
The external review of the guidelines included 115 reviewers from 59 government agencies, professional societies, and consumer groups represented on the Coordinating Committees of the National Cholesterol Education Program and the National High Blood Pressure Education Program, as well as the NIDDK's National Task Force on the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, and selected members of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity.
Reviewers were asked to evaluate the guideline based on five criteria: validity, clarity, flexibility, completeness, and clinical applicability. Reviewers were also encouraged to provide additional comments. Comments of the peer reviewers were evaluated by the panel and panel staff, and were incorporated into the guideline where appropriate.
Caveats to Recommendation Use
In applying these guideline recommendations, the reader should note some caveats:
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A big thank you to all our participants and supporters-we made $200.00 for the Dog Park just by eating!! Save Aug. 20 for our last Restaurant night at Café Amici's. Details to follow.
Tree guards have been placed on the smaller trees to protect them from urine. We are expecting our 4 new larger trees to be planted soon. We also are expecting a load of gravel. If we need help with spreading the gravel, we will not hesitate to call on our friends!
FYI: The warning sirens occasionally heard while at the Park are from the nearby New Haven Country Club golf course. They are warning golfers to leave the course because active weather is approaching the area. We can benefit and exit the Park also.
The 13 run baseball pool is half over. It has so far netted the Park over $700.00 in donations.
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on Jan 16, 2009 at 1:48 pm
In response to "Clean up after your dog"
I too would love to see dog owners be more responsible about cleaning up after their dog(s). I have often thought about what words would motivate such dog owners to be more responsible. All I have is "please pick up your dogs poop."
I recently spent time cleaning up tracked in dog poop from my house and had to throw away my child's boots because the material would not wash properly.
We walk to school and see numerous piles, just waiting to be stepped in.
I've been a dog owner and always picked up the poop. When I ran out of bags I would go back and pick it up...It's just the right thing to do and actually very simple.
I appreciate the "Clean up after your dog" letter. I truly hope it works to clean up our town.
on Jan 16, 2009 at 2:28 pm
As a dog owner who is responsible, I get totally frosted when I see other people walking their dogs with nothing in tow to clean up with. It gives those of us who are responsible a bad name and frankly, I resent that!
As for a good line -- I like to use, "Would you walk away and leave that in your own backyard? Can I follow you home to validate?"
That seems to work from a shame factor, if nothing else.
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I'm a dog owner and agree 100% with everything that has been said. I'd like to add something though: "And clean up after your CATS or keep them INSIDE". My dogs must be leashed (i.e. with me) whenever outside, I do clean up their poop (though don't allow them to poop on private residences in the first place), and if they bark I am responsible to ensure that they don't disturb anyone. All of that is fine. I am simply tired of the cat poop on my front lawn, the paw marks up my freshly washed car, etc. My kids always have understood that they need to be careful on the backyard lawn as it's our dog(s)' bathroom. Unfortunately, they also have to be careful on the front lawn too. Gross, but dogs tend to like to eat cat poop so I also have to be careful if I do escort them out onto the front lawn. I really don't understand why cats, unlike dogs, are allowed to roam free without any restrictions wrecking havoc on other people's property.


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Normally, people don't tune in to watch losing teams play. There are many reasons for this — most games are broadcasted locally, most consumers of those broadcasts are fans of the team, most fans don't like watching their team struggle over and over again, most fans tend to be optimistic to a fault, etc — but regardless, it's pretty much common sense.
That is, except when historic losing is on the line. Apparently, people like to watch teams that are so bad that they could make history for stinking. I can't imagine why watching a train-wreck team is more entertaining then all the other things you could possibly be doing with your time, but for many people, I guess this passes for must-see TV.
According to CNBC's Darren Rovell, the Nets' local broadcast station, the YES Network, has actually seen their ratings for Nets games rise for the last five games as the Nets approached the record for most consecutive losses to start a season.
Ratings for the team's games are averaging 25,000 households per game through last night's telecast, which is still down 35 percent from last year's ratings at this time. But as the Nets have continued to lose, more people have watched.
In the last five games, ratings are up 22 percent and the network says key demographics are up triple digits as compared to the first 13 games played.
Maybe those viewers are just that mesmerized by Marv Albert's voice. Who knows? Or maybe there actually is something entertaining about watching a team so bad that they surrendered 49 points in a single quarter on a night where a loss would have put them in the record books. Maybe I'm the clueless one here after all.


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It's been a year since my last journal update, so I'll just talk about what I've been up to--which is anime! It all started during the 2013 summer season. I never did the seasonal anime watching thing before (except for Chihayafuru 2, which doesn't count). I've also watched a lot of sports anime. Anyway, here are some recommendations from what I've seen recently:
Tsuritama: A touching show about friendship and fishing. It has bright visuals and a cheery, recorder soundtrack.
Noragami: A stylish show in a setting with gods, ghosts, and demons. But it's the characters who will leave an impression.
Silver Spoon: From the author of Fullmetal Alchemist. Really interesting show about farming. And the messages will resonate with today's youth.


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You may have missed the grand "re-opening" of "Graves Grocery, A Community Rest Stop" in Lacey's Spring. It is a dream come true for the new proprietor, Pam Graves. She said it all started with a sign during her morning routine.
"On the way to school, the sign out front of the store said 'for sale' and I said, my word, maybe it's the right time," she recalled.
The mother of five said goodbye to the daily commute to Huntsville and enlisted the help of family and friends for some remodeling. "One thing I've learned is out of some of my greatest hardships have been my greatest growing experiences."
It's not the first time the building is being used in this way. In fact it goes back about a hundred years. Sabrina Green remembers it from her childhood.
"It originally started out being Atkinson's store. A lot of times if we stayed after school, we'd walk across the road to come here."
She said there were a few owners in between. "Then Pam came back and brought more to it. It used to have sandwiches and stuff as well but now we've got good sandwiches, good deserts."
James Garrison has fond memories of the place from many years ago. "I've been up here to dances. They have dances up here in the parking lot. Used to have gospel singings here. Used to have hoedowns, you know - country songs, stuff like that."
Right now things are a little more subdued with the preachers granddaughter as the new owner. The best part? She is close to home and her children.
"The older brothers come up here and drink coffee and talk and that kind of stuff," added Garrison.
"And so the kids have kind of got a place to come to if they're after school. And parents a lot of times can come sit if they're waiting for practices. So she's done a lot for us", said Green.
As for Pam, she said there has been a lot of support from friends, family and neighbors. "A real outpouring and so it's been a wonderful blessing."
Others like Garrison say it's Pam who deserves the credit. "And she was really a blessing to the whole community
Pam has several irons in the fire when it comes to serving her community. She is involved in several Christian Ministries, especially those for moms. For her it's like a calling. And family and friends show up to help, because that's what people do in Bobby's Bama.
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President Barack Obama will lead the nation for four more years and he's not wasting a day. After winning both the electoral and popular votes Tuesday night, the first family arrived back in Washington Wednesday evening.
Fifty-nine million people voted for the Democratic president, compared with more than 56.5 million voters who cast their ballot for Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
The president prevailed in many of the key swing states, including Ohio and Wisconsin. No Republican candidate has ever won a presidential election without winning Ohio.
The president earned 303 electoral votes, while Romney earned 206. The president surpassed the 270 votes needed to win the race around 10 p.m. Tuesday night.
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The neighborhood looked like business as usual Wednesday morning, as patient neighbors of the president dealt with strict that presidential security. But a long line of people waited for President Obama's motorcade to arrive back in Kenwood very early Wednesday morning. Supporters waved flags and cheered in celebration as the president's detail pulled in.
The president went to his house following a moving victory speech at McCormick Place, where he held his Election Night rally. Thousand of his supporters filled the convention center.
"What makes America exceptional is the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth, and the belief that our destiny is shared - that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and the future generations," Obama said. "The freedom that so many have fought for and died for comes with responsibilities as well as rights and among those are love and charity and duty and patriotism -- that's what makes America great."
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The president made his victory speech at around 12:30 a.m. He addressed an energetic crowd, even after they had been on their feet for a good five hours.
"Some of you were new this time around, and some of you have been at my side since the very beginning," President Obama said. "But all of you are family. No matter what you do or where you go from here, you will carry the memory of the history we made together - and you will have the lifelong appreciation of a grateful president."
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"Everyone wins in Chicago when Obama wins," the owner said. "We could couldn't celebrate at McCormick Place, so why note celebrate in his own neighborhood, at his favorite breakfast place?"
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"We had a couple of requests to do something special," he said. "We had it in mind but we didn't let it out to the public until today. This is the second time around. It's a more exciting time this time around because it was so close."
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The village even held their own mock election where - not surprisingly - the president won.
In the president's childhood home of Jakarta, Indonesia, his former nanny said she was proud to hear about his win. Mr. Obama lived with his mother and stepfather in the Indonesian capital from age 6 to 10.
New York City's Times Square had its own celebration when people heard the news of President Obama's re-election, and New Yorkers were literally seeing blue.
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