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Though Bryant is globetrotting comfortably on his surgically repaired Achilles' tendon, he's still uncertain when he'll join the Lakers on their practice court as they begin their return from a hugely disappointing season for the 16-time champion franchise.
"I feel good," Bryant said. "I don't think we have a particular timetable as to where I should be right now, but I'm feeling good."
After an offseason that began in mid-April when he tore his tendon in a game against Golden State, Bryant likely is still a long way from stepping on the practice court. Yet nobody around the Lakers is willing to predict any timetable for the fourth-leading scorer in NBA history.
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Treatment for Bipolar Depression: Acute & Prophylactic Efficacy With Citalopram
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Bipolar depression is one of the least studied depressive illnesses. The standard practice for many doctors is to use antidepressant medicines, but there are few studies on the long-term results of these medicines. The goal of this study is to look at how effective and safe these medicines are in treating bipolar depression when taken with a mood stabilizer medicine.
The drug being studied is citalopram, also known as Celexa. Celexa is FDA approved for the treatment of major depression, but is not FDA approved for the treatment of bipolar depression. It is, however, standard practice for many doctors is to use antidepressants, like Celexa, to treat their patients with bipolar disorder depression.
The drug will be studied in three ways. We will see if it helps treat depressive symptoms. We will see how the drug affects the brain using PET and fMRI scans. Finally, we will look at the possibility that there may be a gene that could predict if a person would get better taking the drug using genetics.
Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Depression
Drug: citalopram + mood stabilizer
Procedure: FDG PET scans
Procedure: MRI structural scans
Procedure: Genotyping
Procedure: Blood Draw
Drug: placebo + mood stabilizer
Phase 2
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Treatment for Bipolar Depression: Acute & Prophylactic Efficacy With Citalopram
- In acute treatment, citalopram will be more effective than placebo for depressive symptoms in bipolar disorder [ Time Frame: 6 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- In acute treatment, citalopram will be associated with a greater risk of acute hypomania, mixed-states, or mania than placebo. [ Time Frame: 6 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- In maintenance treatment, the total number of affective episodes and their rate (episodes/study time), as well as time to intervention with other medications and time to first episode, will be lower in the placebo than in the citalopram group. [ Time Frame: 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Antidepressant response or remission in depressed bipolar patients will be associated with changes in cortical and paralimbic regions, consistent with SRI antidepressant response in unipolar depressed patients. [ Time Frame: 6 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Polymorphic variation at the 5HTTLPR gene will alter the risk of acute mania or increased mood-cycling with citalopram vs. placebo treatments [ Time Frame: 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 2007
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|October 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|October 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: 1
Mood stabilizer plus citalopram
Drug: citalopram + mood stabilizer
Citalopram dose will be flexibly designed, beginning at 10 mg/d for at least one week, and the increased by 10 mg per week to a maximum of 50 mg/d. No target dose will be provided but rather clinicians will dose to clinical efficacy. Thus the study will provide clinicians data on the effective dose if it is positive. The dose will not be predetermined at static amounts.
Other Name: CelexaProcedure: FDG PET scans
Two scans will be acquired in two separate PET imaging sessions, 6 weeks apart (baseline vs. end-of-acute treatment phase). The exploratory imaging component of this study will be limited to 60 individuals (30 in each arm) taking lithium as a sole mood stabilizer.Procedure: MRI structural scans
Procedure: Genotyping
MRI acquisitions will be acquired using a Siemens 3T whole body scanner (Trio) with a 60 cm diameter bore.
Anatomical imaging will be conducted for anatomic reference for precise spatial normalization of co-registered PET images for the planned functional analyses.
The exploratory imaging component of this study will be limited to 60 individuals (30 in each arm) taking lithium as a sole mood stabilizer.
Subjects will be asked to provide a blood sample at the start of the study and after 6 weeks for the genotyping portion of the study.Procedure: Blood Draw
Subjects will have their blood drawn at Tufts Medical Center at the same time as their safety labs are performed.
Placebo Comparator: 2
Mood stabilizer alone
Procedure: FDG PET scans
Two scans will be acquired in two separate PET imaging sessions, 6 weeks apart (baseline vs. end-of-acute treatment phase). The exploratory imaging component of this study will be limited to 60 individuals (30 in each arm) taking lithium as a sole mood stabilizer.Procedure: MRI structural scans
Procedure: Genotyping
MRI acquisitions will be acquired using a Siemens 3T whole body scanner (Trio) with a 60 cm diameter bore.
Anatomical imaging will be conducted for anatomic reference for precise spatial normalization of co-registered PET images for the planned functional analyses.
The exploratory imaging component of this study will be limited to 60 individuals (30 in each arm) taking lithium as a sole mood stabilizer.
Subjects will be asked to provide a blood sample at the start of the study and after 6 weeks for the genotyping portion of the study.Procedure: Blood Draw
Subjects will have their blood drawn at Tufts Medical Center at the same time as their safety labs are performed.Drug: placebo + mood stabilizer
This arm will only receive mood stabilizing medication. All subjects will be required to receive treatment with lithium, lamotrigine, valproate, or carbamazepine for at least one month at therapeutic blood levels or doses before randomization, or they must initiate one of these agents at study entry.
Other Name: lithium, lamotrigine, valproate, or carbamazepine
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The problem of interest
Depression is a common serious illness, with great personal suffering and a 10% or more risk of suicide. There are two kinds of depression, bipolar (depression alternating with mood swings) and unipolar ("simple" depression, or major depressive disorder). In both kinds of depression, antidepressants are commonly used. However, unlike unipolar depression, where a good deal of research supports this use, there is very little research on antidepressant use in bipolar disorder. Some studies support benefit with antidepressants for bipolar depression; i.e., if one is depressed, antidepressants can help a patient get better in the short-term. However, long-term studies are limited; the few available studies with older antidepressants did not demonstrate long-term preventive benefit. Some clinicians think new generation antidepressants (like Prozac and other serotonin reuptake inhibitors) are safer and more effective than the older antidepressants. Yet there are no rigorous long-term studies of new generation antidepressants in bipolar disorder. Recent observational studies with new antidepressants suggest that they may be harmful to some patients with bipolar disorder.
Clinicians are thus left in a quandary. Antidepressants appear to be effective in the short term, but should the antidepressants (especially new generation antidepressants) be continued long-term? Some studies support both approaches. Importantly, some evidence exists that antidepressants can make many patients worse, with more and more depression or mania over time.
This is a major public health problem, since clinicians prescribe antidepressants for the long-term in up to 80% of patients with bipolar disorder. This represents standard treatment, despite the limitations of the available evidence and the suggestion that in some patients such antidepressant use may be harmful.
This study is also looking at possible biological predictors that may reflect an individual patients' likelihood that he or she will respond to a specific treatment.
How the problem will be studied
This project is one of the most rigorous studies of new generation antidepressants in long-term treatment of bipolar disorder. We will recruit patients with bipolar disorder who are currently in a depressive episode and are taking or eligible and interested in taking a mood stabilizer such as lithium. Subjects will then be randomly put into one of two groups. The first group will receive the generic antidepressant, citalopram while the other group will receive placebo, sugar pill. Patients will be closely followed and monitored by the research psychiatrist and through a series of safety labs. Subjects will have an MRI and PET scan for the biological predictors section of the study. The key question is: After the acute recovery, should they continue antidepressants or not?
As there is limited scientific data, and opposing kinds of clinical experience, there is no clear rationale to making this decision. Our study seeks to provide a scientific basis for making that decision. We plan to follow subjects for a goal of 1 year to obtain long-term outcome data on which approach is best.
How the research will advance scientific knowledge or human health
Since there are no rigorous long-term studies with new generation antidepressants in bipolar disorder, this study will be a major advance in that knowledge. Clinicians will have some evidence on which to base that decision, rather than simply their own opinions or patients' preferences. In the light of recent evidence that antidepressants are potentially harmful to some patients, this study will provide more information about how new antidepressants work specifically for bipolar patients rather than unipolar depression (also known as major depression). The biological portion of the study will shed light on possible biological factors that could show how an individual may respond to a specific treatment. This could potentially help doctors to decide on which treatments are more or less likely to work for their individual patients rather then using a "hit or miss" type method.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 64 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Current age ≥18 years
- DSM-IV diagnosis of BPD, type-I, or type-II
- Current major depressive episode using DSM-IV criteria, lasting 8 weeks or longer.
- Use of lithium, divalproex, carbamazepine, or lamotrigine at therapeutic serum levels or doses for ≥4 weeks prior to study entry, or willingness to accept one of these agents.
- Prior to initial evaluations, each subject must provide competent, written, informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Past non-response to a therapeutic trial of R,S-citalopram (≥100 mg/day for ≥8 weeks).
- Previous intolerance of R,S-citalopram;
- Diagnosis of unipolar depression
- Diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder
- Serious medical illness with acute instability (cardiac, respiratory, hepatic, renal), based on hospitalization in the past month
- Abnormal thyroid function tests
- Previous allergic reaction to or inability to tolerate lithium, divalproex, or carbamazepine at therapeutic serum levels.
- Current or past renal dysfunction if taking lithium
- Current or past hepatitis or other liver disease if taking divalproex
- Current or past hematologic disease if on carbamazepine
- Severe suicidal ideation, plan or intent, as documented by a score of ≥4 on the Montgomery Åsberg Depression Rating Scale suicidality item (Item 10).
- Presence of psychosis
- Cognitive impairment sufficient to impair ability to give informed consent.
- Current pregnancy, or inability to utilize contraception
- The presence of any metallic implants
- History of claustrophobia
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00562861
|United States, Georgia
|Emory University School of Medicine: Wesley Woods Health Center
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
|United States, Massachusetts
|Tufts Medical Center
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02111
|United States, North Carolina
|Duke University School of Medicine
|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27705
|Principal Investigator:
|Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MPH
|Tufts University Medical
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|Responsible Party:
|Nassir Ghaemi, Director of Mood Disorders Program, Tufts Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00562861 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 20, 2007
|Last Updated:
|June 11, 2013
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by Tufts Medical Center:
Bipolar Disorder
Bipolar Depression
Clinical Trials, Phase II
Clinical Pharmacology
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Bipolar Disorder
Depressive Disorder
Affective Disorders, Psychotic
Behavioral Symptoms
Mental Disorders
Mood Disorders
Analgesics, Non-Narcotic
Anti-Dyskinesia Agents
Antidepressive Agents
Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation
Antimanic Agents
Antiparkinson Agents
Autonomic Agents
Central Nervous System Agents
Central Nervous System Depressants
Cholinergic Agents
Cholinergic Antagonists
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Muscarinic Antagonists
Neurotransmitter Agents
Neurotransmitter Uptake Inhibitors
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Pharmacologic Actions
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 26, 2015


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her roll her ankle a few days ago. Have you ever rolled an ankle? It hampers your mobility on the court, reduced the amount of push off you can use for your strokes and messes up your balance. Never mind the back issue Serena MTO'd for. The woman was obviously hurt.
Also, why would she have nerves? She was up a set against a teenager.
If anything, it's Sloane who couldn't close it out due to nerves (or was it ability?) when she had the chance and allowed the third set to go on for so long.
Save this post please. The next time Sloane plays Serena, Williams will trounce the little one in straight sets.
You basically changed the subject here. Yes, I have been injured before. Most days I play through, sometimes I can't. Who cares. Yes, Serena is probably still a better overall player than Sloane and will likely win the majority of their encounters.
That doesn't change the fact that Serena is the current #1 drama queen. That was in full effect last night, with Serena acting like she was about to die one moment and then hitting a 118 mph serve the next. So sometimes Serena is her own worst enemy with some of these "physical" issues.
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Texas hold 'em (also hold'em, holdem) is the most popular type of poker in the professional poker playing community. It is also the most popular poker variant played in casinos in the United States, and its no-limit betting form is used in the main event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), as seen on ESPN, widely recognized as the world championship of the game. It is also the main game in the World Poker Tour (WPT) that hosts international poker tournaments around the globe. This main stream popularity has made it very popular with strip poker players.
Although it can theoretically be played by up to 22 players (or 23 if burn cards are not used), it is generally played with between 2 and 10 people. It is one of the most positional of all poker variants, since the order of betting is fixed throughout all betting rounds. Hold 'em is commonly played in the rest of the world as well, but seven-card stud, Omaha hold 'em and other games may be more popular in some places.
Strip Poker - Texas Hold'em - Origins
There is no precise information on where or when Texas Hold 'em Poker was first played. According to legend, the earliest game played was in Robstown, Texas, in the early 1900s and it first came to Dallas, Texas in 1925. Texas hold 'em was introduced to Las Vegas by a group of Texan gamblers and card players, including Crandell Addington, Doyle Brunson, and Amarillo Slim. Addington wrote about the history of no-limit Texas hold'em for Brunson's Super System 2. The game was later introduced to Europe by bookmakers Terry Rogers and "The Gentleman" Liam Flood.
Strip Poker - Texas Hold'em - Rules
The descriptions below assume a familiarity with the general game play of poker, and with poker hands. For a general introduction to these topics, See Strip Poker, Poker Hand Ranks, Poker Hand Probability, and Poker Hand Slang Names.
Strip Poker - Texas Hold'em - Objective
Like most variants of poker, the objective of Texas Hold 'em is to win the pot, which is the sum of the money bet by oneself and other players. The pot is won either at the showdown by forming the best poker hand out of up to 7 cards available, or by betting to cause other players to fold and abandon their claim to the pot.
Strip Poker - Texas Hold'em - Betting Structures
Hold 'em is normally played using small and big blind bets. Antes may be used in addition to blinds, particularly in later stages of tournament play. A dealer button is used to represent the player in the dealer position; the dealer button rotates clockwise after each hand, changing the position of the dealer and blinds. The small blind is posted by the player to the left of the dealer and is usually equal to half of the big blind. The big blind, posted by the player to the left of the small blind, is equal to the minimum bet. In tournament poker, the blind/ante structure periodically increases as the tournament progresses. (In some cases, the small blind is some other fraction of a small bet, e.g. $10 is a common small blind when the big blind is $15. The double-blind structure described above is relatively recent; until the 1980s, a single-blind structure was most common.)
The three most common variations of hold 'em are limit hold 'em, no-limit hold 'em and pot-limit hold 'em. Limit hold 'em has historically been the most popular form of hold 'em found in casino live action games in the United States. In limit hold 'em, bets and raises during the first two rounds of betting (pre-flop and flop) must be equal to the big blind; this amount is called the small bet. In the next two rounds of betting (turn and river), bets and raises must be equal to twice the big blind; this amount is called the big bet. No-limit hold 'em is the form most commonly found in televised tournament poker and is the game played in the main event of the World Series of Poker. In no-limit hold 'em, players may bet or raise any amount over the minimum raise up to all of chips the player has at the table (called an all-in bet). In pot-limit hold 'em, the maximum raise is the current size of the pot.
Strip Poker - Texas Hold'em - Play of the Hand
Play begins with each player being dealt two cards face down. These cards are the player's hole or pocket cards. These are the only cards each player will receive individually, and they will only (possibly) be revealed at the showdown, making Texas hold 'em a closed poker game. The hand begins with a "pre-flop" betting round, beginning with the player to the left of the big blind (or the player to the left of the dealer, if no blinds are used) and continuing clockwise.
After the pre-flop betting round, the dealer deals a burn card, followed by three face-up community cards called the flop. The flop is followed by a second betting round. This and all subsequent betting rounds begin with the player to the dealer's left and continue clockwise.
After the flop betting round ends, another card is burned, and a single community card called the turn (or fourth street) is dealt, followed by a third betting round. A final burn card is followed by a single community card called the river (or fifth street), followed by a fourth betting round and the showdown, if necessary.
Strip Poker - The Showdown
If a player bets and all other players fold, then the remaining player is awarded the pot and is not required to show his hole cards. If two or more players remain after the final betting round, a showdown occurs. On the showdown, each player plays the best five-card hand he can make from the seven cards comprising his two hole cards and the board (the five community cards). A player may use both of his own two hole cards, only one, or none at all, to form his final five-card hand. If the five community cards form the player's best hand, then the player is said to be playing the board and can only hope to split the pot.
If the best hand is shared by more than one player (e.g. if no player is able to beat the board), then the pot is split equally amongst all remaining players. However, it is common for players to have closely-valued, but not identically ranked hands. In particular, kickers are often needed to break ties. Nevertheless, one must be careful in determining the best hand. The goal is to make the best five-card hand; if the hand involves fewer than five cards, such as two pair or three of a kind, then kickers are used to settle ties (see the second example below.) Straights often split the pot, and multiple flushes may occur. In the case of flushes, the flush is awarded to the player with the highest flush card which completes a flush and beats the board's flush cards. If there is a flush on board, (i.e. if all the board cards are the same suit), then under cards in that suit do not play, and if no one has a card in the flush suit beating the board, then the pot is split. The sole exception to this rule is the case of a straight-flush.
The best possible hand given the five community cards is referred to as the nuts. The lowest possible nuts is three queens (this occurs with, for example, 2 3 7 8 Q on the board, with no more than two cards of any one suit).
Strip Poker - Texas Hold'em - Starting Hand Terminology
There are 1,326 distinct possible combinations of two hole cards from a standard 52-card deck. However, since suits are only relevant for flushes, many of these hands are indistinguishable from the point of view of pre-flop strategy. In fact, considering suits to be equivalent unless both cards are the same suit, there are precisely 169 distinct possible starting hands in hold 'em.
As an example, although J♥ J♣ and J♦ J♠ are distinct combinations of hole cards, they are indistinguishable as starting hands. Any starting hand comprising two Jacks is called pocket jacks and is denoted JJ. Similarly, any starting hand comprised of two Aces is called pocket Aces and is denoted AA, and any starting hand comprised of two 7's is called pocket sevens and is denoted 77. Each of these starting hands is called a pocket pair or a wired pair.
The starting hands which are not pocket pairs fall into two classes" the suited hands and the unsuited hands. An example of a suited hand is 8♠ 7♠. Any starting hand comprised of an 8 and a 7 of the same suit is called 8-7 suited and is denoted 87s, where "s" is an abbreviation for "suited". An example of an unsuited hands is Q♣ 9♦. Any starting hand comprised of a Queen and a 9 of different suits is called queen-nine off suit and is denoted Q9 (or sometimes Q9o, where "o" is an abbreviation for "off suit"). Remember, an "s" always denotes a suited starting hand, while the absence of an "s" always denotes an off suit starting hand.
In almost all poker writing, the rank of 10 is abbreviated with the letter "T", so that all the ranks can be written with a single character, unless cards are featured pictorially when "10" is often used.
Consecutive cards of the same suit are called suited connectors. Many starting hands have colloquial names. See also List of slang names for poker hands.
Strip Poker - Texas Hold'em Strategy
There is no easy way to state proper strategy for Texas hold 'em games. In general, most authors recommend a tight-aggressive approach to playing regular cash games. This strategy involves playing relatively few hands (tight), but betting and raising often with those that one does play (aggressive). Although this is an often recommended strategy, there are some professional players who employ other strategies to great success. Many strategy guides focus on playing very few starting card combinations and discuss many particular starting cards in extreme detail. Other authors claim that the importance of starting card combinations is overstated.
Almost all authors agree that altering one's play based on one's position is an important component of proper Texas hold 'em strategy. Since the order of actions is approximately the same on every betting round (with the exceptions of the blinds before the flop), those who will act later have more information than those who must act earlier. As a result, almost all poker strategy discussions encourage players to play fewer hands in early position and more in later position.
The no-limit and fixed limit versions of hold 'em are strategically very different. "In fact, the games are so different that there are not many players who rank with the best in both types of hold 'em. Many no-limit players have difficulty gearing down for limit, while limit players often lack the courage and 'feel' necessary to excel at no-limit." Since the size of bets are usually smaller in limit games, the ability to bluff in this game is somewhat curtailed. Since one is not (usually) risking all of ones money in limit, players are sometimes advised to take more chances.
In addition to these differences, lower stakes limit games exhibit different properties than higher stakes games. Small stakes games usually involve more players in each hand and can vary from extremely passive (little raising and betting) to extremely aggressive (many raises). The difference of small stakes games have resulted in several books dedicated to only those games.
Strip Poker - Texas Hold'em - In Popular Culture
In 1998, the movie Rounders starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton gave moviegoers a romantic view of poker as a way of life. Texas hold 'em was the main game played during the movie and the no-limit variety was described, following Doyle Brunson, as the "Cadillac of Poker". There was also a clip of the classic showdown between Johnny Chan and Erik Seidel from the 1988 World Series of Poker incorporated into the film.
CommanderBond.net reports that the centerpiece card game in the next James Bond film, Casino Royale, will be no-limit Texas hold 'em instead of Baccarat as in the original Ian Fleming novel.
Strip Poker - Texas Hold'em - Spectator Sport
Hold 'em first caught the public eye as a spectator sport in the United Kingdom with the Late Night Poker TV show in 1999. The popularity of the show led to lipstick cameras also being used for American poker programs.
In 2003, hold 'em exploded in popularity as a spectator sport in the United States. This was due to several factors, including the introduction of lipstick cameras that allowed the television audience to see the players' hidden cards. ESPN's coverage of the 2003 World Series of Poker featured the unexpected victory of Internet player Chris Moneymaker, an amateur player who gained admission to the tournament by winning a series of online tournaments. Moneymaker's victory initiated a sudden surge of interest in the WSOP, based on the egalitarian idea that anyone " even a rank novice" can become a world champion.
In 2003, there were 839 entrants in the WSOP Main Event. In 2004, that number tripled. The crowning of the 2004 WSOP champion, Greg "Fossilman" Raymer, a patent attorney from Connecticut whose trademark holographic sunglasses have become legendary, further fueled the popularity of the event among amateur (and particularly internet) players. In the 2005 Main Event, an unprecedented 5,619 entrants vied for a first prize of $7,500,000. The winner, Joseph Hachem of Australia, was a semi-professional player. The runner-up, Steve Dannenmann, an amateur from Maryland, opined that he was only "the fourth or fifth best player" in his regular home game.
Two additional hold 'em series debuted in 2003, the World Poker Tour and Celebrity Poker Showdown. All three of these shows are still currently in production and garner a large and loyal viewership.
With the ability to edit a tournament that lasts days into just a few hours, ESPN's World Series of Poker focuses on showing how various star players fared in each event. Key hands from throughout the many days of each event are shown, and similar, highly edited coverage of final tables is also provided.
The World Poker Tour does not offer general coverage of the multi-day poker tournaments. Instead, WPT covers only the action at the final table of each event. With aggressive play and increasing blinds and antes, the important action from a single table can easily be edited into a two hour episode. Although the tournament fate of fewer stars are chronicled this way, it allows the drama to build more naturally toward the final heads up showdown.
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Theory of electrolytic dissociation
theory of electrolytic dissociation --> Arrhenius doctrine
The theory of electrolytic dissociation (1887) that became the basis of our modern understanding of electrolytes: in an electrically conductive solution (e.g., acid, base, or salt), free ions are present before electrolysis, and the proportion of molecules dissociated into ions can be calculated from measurements of electrical conductivity as well as of osmotic pressure.
Synonym: arrhenius law.
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First off, click here and then "listen" to enjoy a masterpiece. Secondly, I wanted to share another Facebook status – this one from my editor who runs the TU Crime blog: "World Cup …. I'm a convert. I'm sorry for my 40+ years spent making fun of soccer." But the main reason for this post […] [Read More]
Collecting 2,500 soccer balls for Malawi
An area sports foundation led by the former University at Albany's female soccer coach has kicked off a program to send 2,500 soccer balls to needy children in Chituka Village in the African country of Malawi. Kalekani Banda scheduled his donation project to coincide with the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup, which is being held […] [Read More]
Your local soccer league info here
As a proud resident of Guilderland, I thought I'd pass along information about the town's spring soccer programs. Feel free to drop your program's information below. This is from Jen at Guilderlandsoccer.com/GASL.htm: "The spring 2010 Guilderland Youth Soccer Association is offering an Adult Soccer program, Guilderland Adult Soccer League. The season begins May 5th. GASL […] [Read More]
Soccer film fest
Some fascinating soccer films are set to be shown in April at the MASS MoCA in nearby North Adams, Mass., and I wanted to tell you about them and Kicking & Screening, the organization behind the film festival. Founded in April 2009, Kicking & Screening is a devoted solely to films and events about the […] [Read More]


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'Critical' Spaceplane Engine Testing Underway
Testing has begun on an engine that could make it possible for a plane to travel into space, travel at five times the speed of sound, and make it possible to reach any destination on the planet in no more than four hours, Suzannah Hills of the Daily Mail reported on Saturday.
The vehicle in question is the Skylon, an unmanned, reusable spaceplane that is currently in development at UK aerospace company Reaction Engines Ltd (REL). According to Hill, the craft can take off and land from any conventional airport runway, but can actually fly 18 miles above the Earth's surface and out of the planet's atmosphere at Mach 5.
Space Exploration Network (SEN) reporter Ben Gilliland reports that engineers have begun a series of "critical" tests on the Sabre (Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine) used by the Skylon. The engine can operate like either a jet engine or a rocket engine based on its altitude, he said, and the cooling systems used to keep the engine operational are the focus of the ongoing examinations.
"When the craft takes off it operates in 'air-breathing' mode, allowing the engines to gather oxygen from the air, which is mixed with liquid hydrogen from internal tanks. But as Skylon would travel at five times the speed of sound (Mach 5) the air being sucked into its engines would be heated by friction to 1,000C — far too hot for the engine to utilize," he said. "This month´s tests will focus on the critical 'pre-cooler' system needed to chill the incoming air to a usable temperature."
"The pre-cooler´s intricate cooling system uses freezing, high-pressure helium to chill the air to -140C before it passes into the engine´s combustion chamber where it is mixed with hydrogen and ignited to produce thrust," Gilliland added. "What makes the system special is that fact that Skylon fills up with oxygen on the go as it flies through the atmosphere, meaning it doesn´t have to launch with a full tank, greatly reducing its weight. Another key part of the design is its ability to chill the air enough to reduce its volume, meaning the craft doesn´t need to carry heavy compressors."
Evan Ackerman of DVice said that the proof-of-concept cooling system has been working "perfectly" in testing thus far — a good sign for the REL R&D team behind the Sabre engine, because as he notes, it is not just "a functional piece of the final engine" but arguably "it's the hardest piece, meaning everything is downhill from here."
Next up for the Skylon will be a small-scale operational test of the entire engine, Ackerman added. In addition, they will need to produce updated design drawings for the engine and the entire Skylon vehicle, as well as a demonstration of the air intake (engine nacelle) configurations, BBC News Science Correspondent Jonathan Amos said. Amos said that the company has raised 85% of their funding from private investors, but could ultimately need to solicit government funding to raise the $400-plus million needed to continue the next phase of their work.
"We intend to go to the Farnborough International Air Show in July with a clear message," REL Managing Director Alan Bond told the BBC. "The message is that Britain has the next step beyond the jet engine; that we can reduce the world to four hours — the maximum time it would take to go anywhere. And that it also gives us aircraft that can go into space, replacing all the expendable rockets we use today."
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Philadelphian Baked Apples
25 Sep 2009
Philadelphian baked apples are prepared with green apples and cream cheese. Sweetened with honey, the philadelphian baked green apples are filled with walnuts and cream cheese mix. Served with the sauce poured over it, these baked apples are pure heaven for fruit lovers!
|6 Medium (Use Hard Green Apples)
|Cream cheese
|8 Ounce (1 Package)
|3 Tablespoon
|Finely chopped walnuts
|1 1⁄2 Tablespoon
Presoak a clay pot, top and bottom, in water for 10 minutes.
Core the apples, removing all the seeds but being careful not to break through the bottoms of the apples.
Combine the cream cheese, honey, and walnuts and stuff the cavities of the apples, then place the apples in the presoaked pot.
Cover the pot and place it in a cold oven.
Set the oven temperature at 450 degrees.
Cook for 40 minutes, test by pricking with a toothpick after 30 minutes.
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Forget Cancùn. Even Playa del Carmen, which surrounds the Banyan Tree, is a distant memory from within the resort's walls. Here it's just you, your villa, and the landscape — your pool deck opens onto a scene of lush vegetation and a network of lagoons. It's hard to want more, given the sheer luxury of the place. The villas blend contemporary design with Asian and Mayan influences, and are as well-equipped as any we've seen; there's plentiful private space, both indoor and outdoor, and each villa comes with a private pool that's the size of some hotels' public pool.
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Vatican's top American has mixed record on abuse
One priest Levada did punish was Conley, who called police when he suspected Aylward had sexually abused the teen in the church rectory. The archdiocese concluded that Aylward's behavior was inappropriate but not sexual; authorities investigated but did not file charges.
Aylward publicly apologized, but Conley told church leaders he was disgusted that Aylward was not removed. He publicly called Aylward a pedophile and accused the archdiocese of a cover-up.
Conley was removed from the parish and transferred to a retreat center for what the archdiocese said were behavioral problems, angry outbursts occasionally directed at parishioners and disparaging remarks about the archbishop.
The archdiocese also said calling Aylward a pedophile even after he was cleared in investigations had jeopardized the priest's reputation.
Healy, the archdiocese spokesman, said the church was trying to find the truth and do what was best for the parish - and that Conley's disruptive behavior had to be handled.
"Hindsight is 20-20," Healy said. "If we knew what Aylward had done, we would've removed him immediately."
Conley sued for defamation, claiming he was disciplined and penalized for reporting the abuse. The archdiocese settled in 2002 for an undisclosed sum that included his retirement benefits.
Attempts to reach Aylward were unsuccessful. The boy also sued the archdiocese, which settled the case for $750,000.
Flaccus reported from Los Angeles. Donald reported from San Francisco and Berkeley. AP Writers Terry Chea in San Francisco and William McCall in Portland, Ore. also contributed to this report.
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