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What does the future hold for higher education in America? As we endure yet another severe budget crisis here in California, all the energy seems to be on the side of our critics. With revenues dwindling and calls for accountability on the rise, more of the same old business model "innovations" are being offered up to us as if they are the cutting edge of pedagogical thinking. As Frank Donoghue notes, "the business model for higher education devised by the for-profits has tremendous appeal to administrators and lawmakers in an era of steadily declining public funding and tuition raises that are quickly becoming prohibitive. Many underfunded traditional public and private institutions are dealing with their financial problems by adopting the business methods and aspects of the for-profit's mission . . . The embrace of the business model by those colleges and universities will significantly change the way that professors are treated; indeed, it could reshape their professional identities. As university presidents behave more and more like CEOs (already a cliché), provosts and deans become the primary managers and supervisors, and professors become the managed service workers, interacting on the front line with students/customers (also already a cliché). University chief financial officers will become more powerful, conducting rigorous audits and influencing polices to control overhead and cut costs, just as they do in corporations."
Donoghue calls this "the hostile takeover of the professor's job" and points out some of the language coming out of the for-profits is a harbinger of things to come as professors there are referred to as "practitioner-faculty" or "information delivery personnel." His eye-opening book, The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, shows that this development is nothing new. Contrary to those who speak of the state of higher education as "in crisis," Donoghue argues that, "Since the beginning of the Reagan era . . . corporate America has largely viewed higher education as a consternating labor problem. The dismantling of the American professorate is part and parcel of the casualization of labor in general, a phenomenon that began in earnest in the 1980s and has accelerated since."
Ironically, the Cold War offered higher education a bit of a respite, Donoghue observes, as the United States found it useful to hold up support for arts and sciences disciplines as evidence of our superiority to the soulless Soviet Union. Before that period, however, the hostility amongst the corporate world toward higher education was unabashed with "Unregulated monopolistic capitalists such as Carnegie and Crane" seeing much of higher education as "literally worthless." More specifically, Donoghue notes that, "America's early twentieth century capitalists were motivated by an ethically based anti-intellectualism that transcended interest in the financial bottom line. Their distrust of the ideal of intellectual inquiry for its own sake led them to insist that if universities were to be preserved at all, they must operate on a different set of principles from those governing the liberal arts." For this principle they looked to Fredrick Winslow Taylor, whose ideas in Principles of Scientific Management became the core of the corporate world's gospel of efficiency and launched a nationwide campaign to systematize labor at the turn of the 20th century.
Taylor's entry into American higher education came in 1909 when MIT president, Henry S. Pritchett wrote to him and asked how he could do an "economic study" of education. In response, Taylor personally recommended Morris Llewellyn Cooke, whose Academic and Industrial Inefficiency provided the blue print for academic Taylorism. As Donoghue notes, "Cooke's recommendations are very farsighted. They accurately anticipate the business model for today's for profit universities . . . Not surprisingly, Cooke calls for the abolition of tenure, since tenure, the ultimate worker autonomy, has no place in Taylor's system. Two of his other findings are far more subtle: Cooke recommends that to maximize efficiency and organizational control, (1) textbooks and lecture notes for all of a university's 'elementary and medium branches' of instruction should be standardized and (2), that those materials plus every professor's lectures and 'pedagogical mechanisms' should be the property of the university. Cooke's recommended policies would eventually form the lines of battle between faculty who wish to preserve their professional individuality and university administrators eager to control the growing costs of multifaceted institutions of higher learning." Donoghue observes that the power of this kind of academic Taylorism comes from Americans' readiness to accept "an ethic of productivity for its own sake as the irrefutable measure of success of any kind." For Corporate America, this has been a useful tool in their efforts to externalize the cost of worker training to the state, which it can then chastise regularly for failing to produce workers ready to compete in the marketplace. Hence the battle has been going on for a century.
Today, Donoghue suggests, those who favor a view of education not totally dominated by a purely instrumental business model are losing, badly. In chapters on the casualization of academic labor, the decline of publishing, the overproduction of graduate students, the assault on tenure, and the corporatization of academia, he makes a starkly convincing case that professors and other academic workers are being deskilled, outsourced, and systematically devalued. In his estimation, "the corporate reorientation" of American higher education is nearly complete and in the very near future "it will be the rule, not the exception, to think of a university as a company rather than a social institution." The liberal arts model of education will not die, but live on only in a hundred or so prestigious institutions devoted to "educating the children of the elite and privileged for positions of leadership in law, science, medicine, the corporate sector, and, of course, their own exclusive branch of higher education." For the rest of us? "The two year college, often run for profit, will become the new standard post-secondary education vehicle" without the need for anything other than "credentials directly related to [the customer's] future occupation." Thus, "The gulf between these elite universities and the institutions that educate everyone else will widen in ways that will complicate our efforts to define both the idea of higher education and the concept of access to higher education."
For those of us who got jobs in community colleges because we believed that it was a noble calling to bring the assets of "elite" education to the most democratic, diverse, working class institutions in America, Donoghue's book is not pleasant reading. But, even if you don't agree that our situation is as dire as he does, the trends he outlines are surely with us. His modest solution is for faculty to 1) thoroughly understand how institutions of higher education work and 2) challenge the economically myopic and sometimes factually inaccurate assertions of the business model. Put succinctly, we have to be able to name the system and call out snake oil salesmen when we see them. Thus, we can no longer be naïve about the ideological nature of reform and what is driving it. We also need to stop lying to students that the only benefit of education is the guarantee of improved economic standing when, as Holly Sklar notes, "wages have fallen despite greatly increased education. Since 1973, the share of workers without a high school degree has plummeted and the percentage with at least four years of college has more than doubled. But the 2008 average hourly wage was 10 percent below 1973, adjusted for inflation . . . [In addition to this], college tuition and fees increased three times more than median family income from 1982 to 2007. Student borrowing has more than doubled in just the last decade. Students from lower-income families receive smaller grants from colleges and universities than students from upper-income families." Clearly a college education is still a very valuable asset, but it's not the goose that laid the golden egg. So, unless being educated has some other pressing personal and/or social value, we may as well fold our tent.
To this, I would add that the more idealistic notion that we need to hold true to some of the old, traditional definitions of liberal education and assert that it is not "serving students" to treat them like customers at Walmart. It is not elitist to hold to pedagogical standards, but it is cynically elitist to evoke democracy and devotion to students while gutting the core mission of our colleges in the service of a vast and vulgar instrumentalism that knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Perhaps even community college students should know that there's more to life than measured outcomes.


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What exactly are the reasons for the problems you are having? More tahn happy to try and help, but the post lacks alot of the important information that we would need to help.
Following a month of phenomenal progress by my guild (5/6 SSC, 3/4 TK, Gruul and Maggy on Farm and Rage downed in Hyjal) it seems that we are now wiping on the simplest of fights. The guild (Zero Tolerance oN Al'Akir EU (Horde)) has recruited several new players but these new recruits check out on armoury and should have the experience to one shot most of the bosses we have downed so far. Following numerous wipes on Solarian last night and wipes on other bosses over the past week and a half I feel its time to see what ideas anyone has on strengthening and improving my guild set up. Any ideas are greatly appreciated.
Gangrene - Guild Leader Zero Tolerance, Al'Akir EU , Horde
What exactly are the reasons for the problems you are having? More tahn happy to try and help, but the post lacks alot of the important information that we would need to help.
Firstly I can say that all the core raid team are geared in 2 or 3 pieces of T5 or the new badge gear , healers have 1800+ bonus healing with best healers having 2300+ healing. Tanks are all 16500+ HP unbuffed with standard SSC/TK stats. DPS are standard mixture of caster and melee with all kara, gruul, maggy, and some SSC/TK gear and put out a decent amount of DPS.
Over the past month we have gone from having lurker and VR down to become a guild with 5/6 in SSC, 3/4 in TK and Rage downed in Hyjal.
Raid leaders are either myself (main tank) or a dedicated raid leader in the guild. We are using all standard add-ons - vent, DBM and OMEN. All boss tactics are expiained clearly by the raid leaders and alarms are voiced over vent for bosses like Solarian and Lurker. Recently we have recruited specific classes to the guild and all have been checked on armoury and via trial raids into Gruul and Maggy.
Over the past week and a half we have struggled on every boss encounter we have attempted , even Gruul - with a fantastic wipe coming from an experienced member standing right next to the main tank at the shatter stage of the fight. Other bosses we are struggling with are Solarian - with people that have the Wrath de-buff deciding not to run and stay right in the middle of the raid therefore wiping the raid in one shot. We have also struggled on Fathomlord with no interrupts coming from the rogues and warriors on the priest add meaning tht its taking longer than normal to down the adds and therefore the boss enrages wiping the raid in magnificent style.
Now I have gone about this diplomatically and have gone over tactics time and time again and have threatened negative DKP and raid kicks for people that consistently mess up and wipe the raid.
Now I am not sure if its just a case of people slacking thinking that cos we have downed these bosses before that the raid will be EZ mode and they can just slack off, or is it a case that we have simply progressed too quickly and should cool off the raiding and focus on maybe just the first 3 bosses in SSC including Leo and also just VR in TK.
This is getting real frustrating for both me and the rest of the guild and any ideas you have to improve raid performance would be really appreciated.
Gangrene - Guild Leader- Zero Tolerance , Al'Akir EU, Horde
Well, it doesn't sound like gear is an issue. It sounds like experience (or just being plain stupid) is.
You have progressed very fast. That's not a bad thing but it does mean that not everyone in the raid group will necessarily have the most experience of each boss you've killed. How many 'new' people are you taking to nights where it all goes wrong? Is that where the issue comes... i.e. the new guys are still learning the fights? Or are there particular people who blow up the raid again and again?
Do you guys use WWS at all? Posting reports from raid nights (even disasterous ones) can help people see what they're doing wrong and motivate them to do better. Even with the best of gear you have underperformers.
I think you're in a bit of a dangerous position, honestly. After stellar progress it's going to hit people hard to wipe on the easy things. Focussing down on a few bosses and getting some kills is a good idea, but you should also be working on your next kill forward, or the great performers on your guild may start getting a bit ... itchy.
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Thus far I have not used WWS but will definitely look into it, sounds like it could be useful to "embarass" the under-performers into getting their act together. With regards to new people coming into the raids, thats not a problem , the past few times its been experienced raiders that have been messing things up for us and wiping the raids and we try to only take a couple of new guild members on the raids at a time so as to make sure we dont flood the raid with people that dont know the fight.
We initially started out as a casual raiding guild maybe raiding 3 or 4 times a week , but more recently we have dropped kara and have been focussing on 25 mans and have been raiding 7 days a week - starting at 19.00 on mon-fri and 14.00 on saturday and sunday, we have consistently one shotted the likes of Leo and Fathomlord and everyone is keen to finish Kael and Vashj. Checking on progress of other guilds on the server I can see that in comparison we have progressed extremely fast, we have absoloutely demolished the bosses we have downed so far and one shotted fathomlord and solarian on our first try. It is only the past 10 days we have had trouble and people are already starting to get "itchy" and threatening to leave if it continues.
Do I need to start to think about /gkicking these underperformers and consolidate the rest of the guild or do I persist with these people and pressure them to start performing once again. (You gotta love being a guild leader).
Help needed please!!
Gangrene - slowly going mad with the pressure of being a GM and Raid leader (Why me!!!!)
Well there are a few different things you could do:
1) Kick the people messing up. - This is drastic and whilst it may scare others into trying hard for a bit, its not the method of motivation you want to use.
2) Keep going at it again and again untill they change. - This will upset people as noone likes to wipe.
3) Stop the raids from going as fast and focus on the bosses more.
Though whichever one you do I would suggest going toa 5 day raid scedule, sounds bit like burnout, or the start of it. give your guys time off, make them have it even if they dont think they need it, as they do. Do this then go for say 2 days farm, one in SSC and one in TK. Make it clear that that is all that you get in there, this will make them focus to get the place cleared, if they dont focus, they dont clear and dont get the drops they want. If they clear then brilliant, However don't expect tehm to clear at the start of this, they will be laid back and expect it easy from the sounds of things, reducing the time they have in there will make them wake up and pay attention.
With the other 3 days go for your new bosses, have them wiping on a new boss day in day out, unless ofc you down it, then go for the next. This will make them fcus yet again or make them give up, the ones that give up well they are not the ones you want if you want progress, so its no loss, and if they dont give up, well then they will start learning the fight and realising they need to be at teh top of their game to beat the thing. This should then change the attidude in general, and then the next "farm" night where they are in SSC/TK, well then they will be more focused and will do better, whihc in turn boosts morale and performance.
This is what I would do if it were me, with my raid group, as they thrive on the challenge, tel them we can downa boss and tehy take it easy, tell them im not farming anywhere else till the boss goes down, well the boss goes down the next try ussually.
Hope even if you dont use my method it has given you some idea in how to remotivate your raid group.
just beacuse a boss is on farm, it doesnt mean a fight can be done with people slacking. getting this idea through your raiders heads is very important.
even if you've killed hydross, say...30 times...on the 31st kill if people pull him across the imaginary line 5 times in one attempt, it will still be a wipe.
i would focus on a few things:
1.) Stress how important it is to focus each boss attempt, no matter how many times you have done it. Make sure each individual is executing and performing their specific rolls in the fight, and make sure they realize that they still have to perform them.
2.) let them know you will not progress to new content if they cannot get the farm stuff down. a raid week is only a maximum of 7 days, and each hour, day, wasted, is less time seeing new content.
3.) remember where you came from. you must keep your raiders humble to an extent, but also instill them with the confidence they need to have each and every night.
25 players can easily raid every night. thats a given. but having someone who can lead those 25, who can motivate them, and get them to perform each night through the ups and downs is really what defines a raid leader or guild leader.
If you have 1-2 people doing stupid things constantly it's a little different than a person here or there. People get relaxed with fights, or think they know it enough to push where they don't need to. Extra DPS because they know it's going to hit right before and not after a transition, silly things like that, which aren't needed and can wipe.
Statistically it might seem like a great group of people where each person only screws up once every 25 fights, but on fights like Hydross and Solarian, bad enough luck with those 25 fights and you'll wipe all night.
As a Raid leader you owe it to the raid to let them know what went from and to try to solve the problem, that doesn't mean you have to solve in infront of them in vent or in raid chat though. Being embarassed in front of the whole guild can make people realize they did wrong, and can also make them gquit, and really, when you pull Hydross or blow up the raid on Solarian, how much extra proof do they need to know they screwed up.
/w wiper You just killed the raid, sucks. Do you know what went wrong and what to do different?
If it happens again, pull someone in off the wait list if you have someone there. Just try to have all this sort of stuff written on your forums before. You're much less a dick in their eyes when you're following SOP than when you're making a gut, heat of the moment, decision not in their favor.
Maybe it's just the people that I work with, but if someone wipes the raid twice, I often get a whisper from them saying something like "I understand if you want to replace me." After something like that, they feel like crap, they don't need your help in the matter generally (in feeling like crap that is).
You are covering a lot of ground every week with your raiding schedule. By the time your raid is back to Solarian, it sounds like your average raider has fought Gruul, HKM, Maggy, 5 bosses in SSC, and 2 in TK. Thats 10 different bosses with 10 different strategies to remember. You might consider dropping some farm bosses out of the schedule.
Also on Fathom Lord, rogues can get frozen and are then unable to interrupt the heal. I prefer having a shaman and we have a lock put curse of tongues on the priest.
Gangrene, our guild has done exactly the same thing you have described and had the same results. We one shotted Karathress/Rage/Solarian on our first attempts and it only took a couple of pulls to get Anetheron. Then the next week we wiped on VR, wiped on Solarian (5 times), had clicking issues on Mag, wiped 4 times on the trash leading up to Morogrim and failed to down Leotheras.
Our GM was at his wits end and very frustrated (hehe) and he made us take a week off. We had been raiding really hard from February to May and I think what got us was fatigue and exhaustion. After the week off we went back in and refined our strats a bit on Anetheron and the other bosses, and we've gotten back to a fairly decent win %. I think the adrenaline rush from killing new bosses just ran out and we were going too fast to keep it up forever, but I'm not sure. On Kazgolar we ran into a DPS check we couldn't meet so we're stuck farming anyway, with 5/6 ssc 3/4 tk 2/5 MH and everything prior killed we're going to spend a few weeks just building up DPS before we try to take out new bosses except early BT maybe.
We did bring in some new guys to replace the ones who burned out and even if they have decent gear and know the areas every guild runs the encounters slightly different. It's just going to take a bit of time I think for you to get your feet on the ground before you make a big push through Tier 6.
Some thoughts that may help ...
It is important to keep a constant stream of recruits - one of the best pieces of advice that I heard/read somewhere here was to recruit ahead of your need as people will leave/stop playing.
Secondly I have changed my recruitment approach a bit and now focus more of people's skill and dedication than their gear. Too often I have recruited people with good gear who fail. Finding people that have a lot of raiding experience preTBC helps and ensure that the people you recruit are hungry to raid and not just wanting easy bosses and loot.
Lastly it is important to push progress - another great piece of advice from Ciderhelm. Farming bosses is the quickest route to burn-out in my opinion. Find new challenges either by facing new bosses or clearing trash quicker.


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San Diego punk outfit, The Crocodiles, have released the new video for "Sleep Forever," which interestingly was shot during a sleepless night.
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=Dedicated to Sarah because you make Louis So Happy=
"Zaynie? Baby what do you mean Zaynie?" I asked taking his little hands in mine.
"I wasn't supposed to tell you that." He mumbled sadly. I smiled caressing his cheek.
"It's alright love, I understand if you don't wanna tell me." Louis nudged into my touch.
"He likes Niall. But Niall likes Liam. And he said it's a dumb crush. But crushes aren't dumb cause I had a crush on you and now-" Louis subconsciously twisted his band on his finger with his thumb. "It's not dumb because Zaynie's cute and nice. And he's pretty and he deserves to be happy too." I pecked Louis nose.
"You make it sound like you like him." I teased tickling his sides. He squirmed letting out giggles.
"Hazzy!" He laughed. I pulled his chin towards mine for a chaste kiss. "I'm serious." He pouted. I pecked his lips again.
"And I'm serious when I say your pout is gonna be the death of me." He frowned before sighing and adjusting himself in the bed. "I didn't upset you did I?" I asked peppering kisses down the back of his neck.
"No... I'm just tired." I pressed a kiss to his collarbone. "Don't you have to go soon?" I glanced at him through my eyelashes.
"Trying not get rid of me?" He shook his head. "But yeah I do. And if you wanna save time you can blindfold me and we can share a shower." He shelled out a shy grin.
"I'll wait." He mumbled into the pillow." I nodded.
"Want me to bring you back a flannel before I get in?" He shook his head. "Are you gonna go back to sleep?" I asked surprised. He hummed weakly and I laughed. "In sticky shorts?"
"I'll take them off when you leave. " I pressed a kiss to his temple.
"I'll be back. You can remove your little mess." I declared grabbing my clothes. He hummed once more into the pillows as I left. And when my shower was done and I was spunk free, Louis was sound asleep. His boxers on the floor. I pressed a kiss to his cheek and wrote him out a little 'see you later babe love you' and placed it on the side. Along with a few notes. Figuring maybe he'd go out today. When he wakes up that is.
When I returned home, Louis wasn't in our room. Zayn looked utterly miserable however in the kitchen scavenging off of any food in the cupboards.
"Hey where's Louis?" I quizzed. His tongue ghosted over hos lips.
"Helping Niall get ready for his date." He said with an overly dramatic sigh.
"Not happy about that?" Zayn shrugged offering me a dip into the bag which I declined.
"He's a good guy. He deserves better. That's all I'm saying. He seems to be getting played." I nodded. "Ya know?"
"I never gave him too much of a chance." Zayn grinned.
"You should. He's a good guy." He mumbled.
"Why's this?" I asked with an grin of amusement.
"Don't know. We went out for drinks. We laughed. Had fun. He's nice he deserves better. Nothing to it." I nodded enthusiastically. A little to dramatic actually.
"Right, I'm gonna go see Louis. You keep thinking those thoughts." Zayn raised an eyebrow at me, and I dismissed myself to Niall's room.
I cat called at the sight of the boy. Black cardigan with a white collared shirt and black jeans.
"Well dang." I mumbled loud enough to make my presence. Louis and Niall's heads snapped up. "You look nice." I commented. Niall grinned.
"Thanks mate." He thanked. I moved my way towards Louis, looping my arms around his tiny waist. "Your boyfriend's really something Haz."
"Fiancé." Louis corrected with pride. Niall chuckled.
"Fiancé sorry. Keep forgetting. Still can't believe you guys are gonna get married and have kids and stuff like that." I raised an eyebrow.
"Not so soon though."
"November 9th is soon isn't it? I mean it's 4 months away. You have time for all that stuff?" Niall asked leaning on the heels of his hands. Louis bit his lip.
"Still don't have school for another month..." He mumbled. "It'd be on a Saturday."
"No I'm not worried about the wedding. I'm fine with the wedding. It's just kids and stuff. He's only 19 may I remind you." Niall shrugged. "Anyways, Liam's on hos way." Niall instantly perked up with fear.
"Shit shit shit, I'm not done yet though I have to do my quiff."
"Have Zaynie do it, he does them really well." Niall nodded.
"Zayn!" I glanced at Louis.
"Zayn doing anything tonight?" Louis nodded.
"He's met a girl and they're drinking buddies. That's all I know." I smiled.
"Then where shall we go cupcake it's an entire evening of Italy for just the two of us." He looped his arms around my neck.
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Jelly Jelly Lyrics - The Allman Brothers Band
Jelly Jelly
by Gregg Allman
Copyright 1973 Allbro Music, Unichappell Music Inc. and Elijah Blue Music
Stormy stormy rain
I'm as lonesome as a man can be
Oh, it's stormin', stormin' rain and
I'm as lonesome as a man can be.
Whoa, the way you've been treatin' me,
I realize it's not the same.
It's a down-right rotten,
Low down dirty shame
Lord it's a down right rotten
low down dirty shame
The way that you treated me
Lord I know I'm not to blame
Jelly jelly jelly
Jelly stays on my mind (Hal Leonard book says "Jelly stains on my mind")
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Jelly roll killed my pappy,
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2 July 2012 – As MotoGP left Assen on Saturday, there was a tie for the championship lead between Jorge Lorenzo and Casey Stoner. The current title holder, who won the Dutch TT from team-mate Dani Pedrosa, took full advantage of Lorenzo's accident at the first corner.
With Álvaro Bautista having made a sluggish getaway, the Gresini man flew into the opening turn from several hundred metres further back, duly losing control and sliding into Lorenzo. The contact resulted in a heavily smoking Yamaha bike and a naturally furious Mallorcan.
Furthermore, having still been in pain upon returning to Barcelona, Lorenzo has been treated in hospital and doctors claim that he was fortunate not to suffer a broken ankle.
As a result of the unexpected drama, the pair of latest World Champions are now drawing level atop the standings on 140 points. Pedrosa's second place at Assen has also allowed him to close in on Lorenzo and the gap back to third place overall is now 19 points.
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Add-On Ramelteon in Bipolar I Disorder With Clinically Significant Sleep Disturbance
|Tracking Information
|First Received Date ICMJE
|December 20, 2007
|Last Updated Date
|May 8, 2013
|Start Date ICMJE
|December 2007
|Primary Completion Date
|September 2010 (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00585208 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
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|Brief Title ICMJE
|Add-On Ramelteon in Bipolar I Disorder With Clinically Significant Sleep Disturbance
|Official Title ICMJE
|A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of Add-On Ramelteon in Ambulatory Bipolar I Disorder With Clinically Significant Sleep Disturbance
|Brief Summary
The purpose of this research study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of ramelteon (Rozerem™) as an add-on treatment for sleep problems in patients with bipolar disorder. This study will determine whether or not the addition of ramelteon to ongoing medication(s) for bipolar disorder is useful in improving sleep.
|Detailed Description
This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, single site, 8-week trial of add-on ramelteon in outpatient adults (18-65 years old, inclusive) with lifetime bipolar I disorder, with mild to moderate manic symptoms, and currently experiencing a clinically significant sleep disturbance. Approximately 60 subjects will be screened to obtain 30 subjects who enroll in the 8-week trial. Subjects will be randomized to ramelteon or placebo in a double-blind manner as add-on to current treatment. Any other psychotropic medications that the subject is taking at the initiation of participation in this protocol should be continued unchanged throughout the course of this study, except in instances in which these medications require dose reduction for management of side effects. Efficacy and safety assessments will be performed weekly, and the presence of treatment-emergent adverse events will be monitored and recorded.
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Phase
|Phase 3
|Study Design ICMJE
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Condition ICMJE
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|Study Arm (s)
|Publications *
|McElroy SL, Winstanley EL, Martens B, Patel NC, Mori N, Moeller D, McCoy J, Keck PE. A randomized, placebo-controlled study of adjunctive ramelteon in ambulatory bipolar I disorder with manic symptoms and sleep disturbance. Int Clin Psychopharmacol. 2011 Jan;26(1):48-53.
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|Enrollment ICMJE
|Completion Date
|December 2010
|Primary Completion Date
|September 2010 (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
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Exclusion Criteria:
|18 Years to 65 Years
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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|United States
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|May 2013
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Going To Kirby Sigston Lyrics - The Mountain Goats
we boarded up the windows.
and we sealed the door shut.
and we let the special chicken build a nest right by the window.
your face was glowing.
the heat was strong.
we ate cold black eggs all day long
in the winter when the wind kicked up.
i saw your body moving through the incandescent light.
you were dancing by yourself there.
your sweater hugged your shoulders and it was alright.
we plucked sugar crystals from the cold english air.
i had a present for ya hidden down there
in the winter when the wind kicked up.
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Ravenous Reading: Legend by Marie Lu/
This book is one of those rare books that completely and utterly blows you away.
As an avid reader of young adult dystopian novels, I was naturally drawn to Legend. It is the first in a trilogy set in a future United States that is split into two warring nations. The two narrators of the story are teens that live in the Republic of America, in an equally familiar and futuristic version of Los Angeles. The future of each child is decided by their score on a test they take as a preteen. Those that score highly are allowed to further their education, and work their way into a high-ranking military position, while those who score lowly are forced onto the streets, susceptible to a ravaging plague. 15-year-old prodigy June achieved what has never been done before, by getting a perfect score on the test. She is well on her way to becoming a star in the military. Day, on the other hand, is a wanted criminal. Ever since he failed the test, he abandoned his old identity in hopes of survival, turning to petty crimes and hiding out in the streets in order to protect his poor family.
The two teens' contrasting worlds collide when June's older brother and guardian is murdered, and the Republic names Day as the prime suspect.
The following story is completely action-packed, a gripping and unpredictable turn of events that forced me to keep reading into the wee hours of the morning, no matter how tired I was. I definitely didn't expect to already be so excited about it less than fifty pages in! I haven't had a reading experience like this since I first read The Hunger Games in 2010. While the premise of Legend itself has similarities to THG and Divergent, it is a completely different and completely original novel. Marie Lu is a fantastic writer, and I'm so stoked to pick up the other books in the series! The dual perspective is well executed. Each chapter is perfectly paced and grabs hold of you, and the story world and complex young characters are very well developed. This is something I don't get very often with teen dystopias, due to the fact that many simply copy popular ones or are too similar to each other in certain aspects. I'm not saying this about all dystopias, but the popularity of the genre means that settings, storylines, characters, etc. become predictable. This book was not one of those.
I totally recommend this book, especially if you feel burned out by other books in this genre. Marie Lu's Legend is positively brilliant!


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfied & Byers has been generating buzz for decades, spotting early investment opportunities and making billions with companies like Google and Amazon. This summer, the attention is no different, but the reason for it is.
The firm, with a roster of senior partners including Al Gore and Colin Powell, is embroiled in a lawsuit that's the talk of the valley, exchanging nasty accusations with a junior partner who accuses Kleiner of gender bias, sexual harassment and overall boorish behavior toward women.
The legal fight offers an inside peek at the firm's jet-setting ways, internecine fights over board of director seats at "portfolio" companies and the cost of social snubs.
The lawsuit was filed by Ellen Pao, a 42-year-old Harvard Law School graduate who joined the firm in 2005.
Pao accuses Kleiner of blocking her and other women from advancement and lucrative positions she claims are reserved for men. The firm has proclaimed its innocence and alleges Pao "twisted facts and events in an attempt to create legal claims where none exists."
Pao still works at the firm, which calls itself one of the most "progressive" companies in Silicon Valley in its hiring practices. Kleiner says that one-quarter of its senior partners are women.
Since Pao filed the lawsuit in May in San Francisco Superior Court, the tech world has been abuzz. Tech web sites have closely covered the case, even live blogging routine hearings.
In larger context, Pao's suit highlights an oft-heard claim that, despite progress, it's difficult for women to break through in Silicon Valley's male-dominated culture. When Google executive Marissa Mayer was named Monday as the new CEO of Yahoo, the story was widely depicted as a testing of the valley's renowned glass ceiling.
"This is a garden variety sex harassment case," said Stanford University law professor Deborah Rhode, a sexual harassment legal expert. "It got the buzz because this is such a male dominated culture and it's such a large firm" with a good reputation.
Kleiner opened its doors in Menlo Park in 1972, when few independent investment firms existed. Its rise mirrored that of Silicon Valley's. The firm's early investments in some of the computer industry's biggest names propelled it to prominence. There were few if any women at the top of the firm's organization chart for most of its history, a reflection of the all-male culture that was prevalent when Silicon Valley emerged.
Kleiner has hired high-priced employment attorney Lynn Hermle to do battle with Pao's equally high-profile attorney, Alan Exelrod, who in 1998 won a $7 million sexual harassment judgment from what then was the world's largest law firm, Baker & McKenzie.
Hermle's first line of defense is an attempt to move the lawsuit from the public glare of open court to the closed doors of arbitration, where private judges render confidential decisions. Judge Harold Kahn will hear Kleiner's arguments for arbitration on Friday.
Regardless of what happens next, damage already is done.
"The last several days have been a difficult time for me and my partners at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a firm I'm proud to have been a part of for 32 years," senior partner John Doerr said in a recent Web message to the firm's employees. "It is not easy to stand by as false allegations are asserted against the firm, especially because legal constraints prevent us from responding fully at this time."
The firm's senior partners and lawyers are refusing to discuss the case with the media, referring reporters to its publicly accessible court filings. Similarly, Pao and her attorney claim they aren't seeking media attention and are also declining to comment.
But the court records are full of accusations, counter accusations and long-simmering resentments of Pao and her bosses at Kleiner, who labeled her a poor performer passed over for promotion only for lack of merit.
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Last Tuesday, volunteers delivered empty pill bottles to homes in Shelby County to test the viability of door-to-door distribution of medication after a biological attack. Sixty volunteers delivered empty pill bottles to 1,200 homes on the outskirts of Memphis while sheriff's deputies patrolled the neighborhood.
Shelby County is using the same type of plan the United States Postal Service is putting into place around the country to respond to an anthrax or other biological attack, but with a twist that gives Fortune 500 companies in the area a role too.
Officials have set up memorandums of understanding (MOU) with around 20 businesses (all with 500 employees or more) to provide them directly with medical countermeasures for their employees and their families.
All of the companies are Fortune 500 companies in the Memphis area, Shelby County Health Department Risk Communications Supervisor Kasia Smith-Alexander said in a phone interview on Monday. The agreement says "this is what the health department would provide and this is what we would expect in return," she said.
What the health department would provide is a supply of lifesaving drugs in exchange for helping decrease the strain on medicine delivery teams and medicine distribution sites after a biological attack.
"This increases the amount of people we can ensure get the medication. Multiply that by two or three times per employee and that's fifty to sixty thousand people who won't have to visit our sites because they are being take of care by their employers," she said.
The practice is encouraged by the Centers for Disease Control and recommended by other metropolitan public health agencies. A plan in Atlanta, for example, estimates providing medication to large companies could cut in half the number of people coming to dispensing sites. A 10,000-person corporate headquarters could easily reach 50,000 people.
Working at a Fortune 500 company, however, wouldn't make it more likely a person would receive medical countermeasures, she said. Medicine wouldn't be delivered to the companies any earlier than they would be to the general public.
The overall goal is "making sure everyone gets medication," she said.
Smith-Alexander declined naming companies who have MOUs with the health department over concerns that people may travel to those sites to find medication instead of waiting for the door-to-door delivery or stopping by a distribution site.
Tuesday's door-to-door exercise was successful. Sixty volunteers delivered simulated medication to 1,257 homes in 73 minutes.
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This waiting has to be remembered because it will make a difference. When a woman enters into the world of religion she has to follow a totally different path from the man. Man is aggressive, doubts, inquires, goes out of the way to search, tries to conquer everything. He has to, because he exists around aggressive semen. His whole body exists around a sexuality which has to seek, penetrate.
All the arms that man has created up to now - even the bomb, the H-bomb - they are just projections of the male sex, projections of the penis. The arrow, the gun, or the bomb, penetrate; they reach, they cross the distance. Even going to the moon.a woman will simply laugh and think it is foolish: "Why go there?" But for man it is worth risking his life because it is a sort of penetration, penetration into the mysteries of life.
The more distant the goal, the more appealing. Man will reach Everest, he will reach the moon; he will go further ahead, he cannot be checked, he cannot be prevented. Whatsoever becomes known becomes useless: then it is not interesting. Deeper mysteries have to be penetrated, as if the whole of nature is the woman and man has to penetrate and know.
Man has created science; women can never be scientific, because the basic aggression doesn't exist there. They can be dreamers because dreaming is a waiting, it is part of the womb, but they cannot be scientists, they cannot be logical; logic is also aggression. Women cannot be skeptical and doubting; they can trust, they can be faithful, and this is natural to them because it is all part of their womb. And the whole body exists so that the womb can survive in it; the whole body is just a natural device to help the womb. Nature is interested in the womb because through the womb life comes into existence. This gives a totally different orientation to the woman.
For her, religion can be a sort of love, it cannot be a search for truth. The very phrase "search for truth" is male-oriented. It can be a waiting for the beloved, for the lover; God can be a son, a husband, but God cannot be truth. It looks so bare, flat, dry, dead; there seems to be no life in the word truth. But for man, truth is the most meaningful word. He says, "Truth is God, and if you know the truth you have known all." And the way man is going to follow is to conquer: nature has to be conquered.
Because of these distinctions, there has always been a problem. It arose with Buddha because Buddha's whole method was male-oriented. It has to be so, because to devise methods is again an aggression. Science is an aggression, yoga is also an aggression, because the whole effort is how to penetrate the mystery and dissolve it, how to come to know; the whole effort is how to demystify the universe. That is what knowledge means: we have come to know, now there is no mystery.


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The Obama administration plans to release a review of U.S. policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan on December 16. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said on Tuesday that "the report will not contain any surprises," according to Voice of America — which is to say that it will simply rehash the administration's public position that Obama's strategies are succeeding. "Gibbs," added VOA, "says the administration is pleased with progress in several areas," and "he has no doubt that the war effort is going better than it was a year ago."
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