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Heat olive oil in large nonstick broilerproof skillet over medium heat. Add pancetta and onion and sauté until onion is soft, about 10 minutes.
Preheat broiler. Whisk eggs, 1/4 cup water, salt, and pepper in medium bowl to blend. Pour eggs into skillet with onion and pancetta. Stir 1 minute. Add 1/2 cup chopped mint; stir 30 seconds. Reduce heat to low and cook without stirring until almost set, about 10 minutes.
Broil frittata just until firm, about 1 minute. Using spatula as aid, transfer frittata to serving platter. Sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons chopped mint. Cut frittata into wedges and serve.
* Pancetta, Italian bacon cured in salt, is available at Italian markets and in the deli case at many supermarkets.


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CF Foundation's Business Model Highlighted in San Diego Business Journal
March 4, 2008
A March 3 article in the San Diego Business Journal highlights the Foundation's success in funding biotechnology firms to develop treatments for cystic fibrosis. U.S. foundations invested about $75 million last year in drug discovery and development, and the CF Foundation invested the majority amount—about $48 million, the article notes.
"We're taking philanthropy dollars and becoming venture capitalists, in a sense," Robert J. Beall, president and CEO of the CF Foundation says in the story. "It's just a model a lot of voluntary health organizations are going after now because really we're having success. We've never had a pipeline that has as many drugs in it as now."
The story also features Vertex Pharmaceuticals, which is developing two promising compounds to treat CF. Overall, the Foundation has more than 30 potential CF therapies in its drug development pipeline aimed at treating both the symptoms and the root causes of the disease itself.
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It looks as if we will get to see TBS baseball in HD this year. I hope the cable companies and Dish Network offer these channels as well. I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of these channels in HD including TBS and USA.January 9, 2007 - Satellite provider DirecTV at CES 2007 announced that it plans to launch 100 new HD-dedicated channels in the coming months to support what it has dubbed "the year of HD." The company will effectively be offering three times more HD programming than any other distributor by the third quarter of the year. And there are spectacular additions coming, as we'll list below.
Look out for HD-ized versions of major network channels, including A&E, National Geographic, Bravo, NFL Network, Cartoon Network, Food Network, TBS, FX, The History Channel, HGTV, The Weather Channel, USA Network, MTV, and our personal favorite, the SciFi Channel.
For more than a year, nerds like us have begged for DirecTV to carry the SciFi Channel in HD so that we can watch HD versions of Battlestar Galactica as soon as they debut. It seems that our prayers and cries for a response have finally been addressed. Thank you, DirecTV.
The provider will also extend its sports-based HD programming by offerings hundreds of new games from the Regional Sports Networks around the country. DirecTV will additionally serve up an expanded line of premium movie channels in high-definition.
"This is DIRECTV's break-out year for HD," said Chase Carey, president and CEO, DIRECTV, Inc. "The launch of our two new satellites will complete the largest capacity expansion in DIRECTV history, and no other video service will be able to match the sheer volume and quality of our HD programming. With HD adoption now reaching critical mass in the U.S., and 40 million homes projected to have HD-capable TV's this year, DIRECTV will be uniquely positioned as the best choice for HD programming."
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Brian Sipe pulled another rabbit out of his hat yesterday to keep the hard-to-believe Browns unbeaten for a second week.
Sipe rallied the Browns early and late to a 27-24 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in a game that rivaled one of a week earlier when the gutsy quarterback piloted the team past the New York Jets in overtime.
In this one, the Browns jumped out to a 20-0 lead and totally dominated play until late in the third quarter, practically lulling to sleep a sun-drenched crowd of 42,181 fans in Arrowhead Stadium.
But then the Chiefs awakened with a vengeance, fighting back for three touchdowns in less than 13 minutes, and were on top of the Browns, 24-20 with only 2:19 left on the clock.
All appeared lost for the Browns after KC's rookie quarterback, Steve Fuller, put on a passing display that bordered on the spectacular, completing 14 of 25 aerials in the second half.
But those who counted the Browns out did so without regard for Sipe, the veteran quarterback who, everybody used to say, wasn't good enough to lead a winning team in the National Football League.
That criticism should have died with the Chiefs' hopes, however, as Sipe marched the Browns down the field for the game-winning touchdown - a 21-yard pass to Reggie Rucker with 52 seconds remaining - covering 76 yards in eight plays in a mere minute and 27 seconds.
The touchdown pass to Rucker was practically a carbon copy of one that the pair teamed up on in the first quarter to score, that one a 17-yard pitch. Both came down in Rucker's arms in the shadow of the goal post, about a foot from the back line of the end zone.
When it was over and the Browns were able to whoop and holler - and also sigh with relief - Sam Rutigliano praised the "character" of the Chiefs, and also the ability of Fuller, who was drafted in the first round out of Clemson and who probably will be KC's new regular quarterback.
"He is very, very resourceful...he's got a good arm and great mobility," Rutigliano said of Fuller.
Indeed he does, as the Browns reluctantly affirmed throughout the second half, after the Chiefs' starting quarterback, veteran Mike Livingston, was excused by a combination of ineffectiveness and a re-injury to his right knee.
Rutigliano also said that "We showed our character...we showed a great deal of moxie, especially at the end."
Then, quipping as only winners do, Rutigliano said, "I told you we would gave to force the Chiefs out of their game, make them stop sitting on the ball, and we did."
Unfortunately, that almost cost the Browns the game, when the Chiefs opened up after falling behind, 20-0.
Sipe completed 19 of 35 passes for 243 yards, and had one aerial intercepted. But it was a fumble by Dave Logan after a pass reception that hurt the most and almost killed the Browns' chances midway through the fourth quarter.
At the time the Browns were clinging to a 20-14 lead, but after Gary Barbaro recovered Logan's fumble at the Browns' 32, the Chiefs were in business.
With Fuller firing at will and Ted McKnight got the TD on a one yard plunge.
Moments after the ensuing kickoff, Sipe suffered the interception that seemed to put the game out of reach. On the Browns' first play from scrimmage at their own 19, he aimed a pass at Logan, but it was deflected by defensive end Art Still and picked off by Tim Collier.
Seven plays later the Chiefs settled for a 30-yard field goal by Jan Stenerud and the Browns subsequently got their last ditch, but winning drive underway.
It took Sipe six plays to go from the Browns' 24 to the Chiefs' 21. And then, with 1:02 on the clock, fate stepped in and lent a hand.
Greg Pruitt, who rushed for 69 yards in 14 carries, went out for a pass along the left sideline and was hit hard - hard enough to justify an interference call by the officials, he thought - by linebacker Tom Howard.
Greg jumped to his feet shouting "interference...interference." But the referee paid no attention. Collier, the Chiefs' tough right cornerback, did, however, and taunted Pruitt.
"He stuck the ball in my face and said, 'Quit your crying,'" related Gregg. "I pushed him and he hit me, and that's when we got into it."
Pruitt was ejected from the game for fighting. And, fortunately, Collier also was asked to leave, and thus a rookie defender, M.L. Carter, replaced him for the Chiefs.
It was Carter's presence that motivated Rucker to tell Sipe to call the same pass play that provided the Browns' first touchdown.
"In that respect, the fight between Collier and Greg turned out to be the key play," said Rucker. "I told Brian, just get me the ball...I don't care what happens, just get it to me and I'll catch it.
"On that play, there are two other guys (Logan and Ozzie Newsome) who go to the flags, and I go up the middle. I run an option route, meaning I go any way I want and it's up to Brian to find me and get the ball to me." He did.
"It was the prettiest pass I've ever seen Brian throw," said Rucker. "When I made my release off the line of scrimmage, I knew I had a chance because I could see the rookie (Carter) was nervous. If I had dropped the ball, I would have kept running right up into the stands."
"I'm ready for a laugher, aren't you guys?" Sipe asked the Cleveland press corps as they interrogated the heroes. Nobody dissented.
In the first half the Chiefs crossed the 50-yard line only once, and never penetrated deeper than the Cleveland 30.
Don Cockroft got the scoring underway with a 27-yard field goal at the 9:43 mark of the first quarter, and four seconds before the second period started Rucker caught the 17-yard touchdown pass that gave the Browns a 10-0 lead.
Then, late in the second quarter, the Browns culminated a 77-yard drive that took only six plays as Sipe hurled a 20-yard touchdown pass to Newsome for a 17-0 lead.
It stayed that way until the 11:30 point of the third period when Cockroft kicked another field goal, this one a 32-yarder, and all that seemed necessary was to play out the string.
That field goal was Cockroft's 13th successful one in a row, tying him with Garo Yepremian and Stenerud for an NFL record.
It also was the last points the Browns put on the board until Sipe pulled another rabbit out of his hat, and now they're 2-0 with Baltimore coming in town for the home opener next Sunday at the Stadium.
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Below is a strongly worded letter from Alameda County schools superintendent Sheila Jordan to state superintendent Jack O'Connell. In the letter, Jordan says she has "urgent concerns" about the appointment of a new state administrator in Oakland.
Jordan supported the state takeover of OUSD in 2003, but she told me today that "it's more than time" for the school board to choose its own superintendent. In her proposal to O'Connell (which he rejected, she said) she recommended that a fiscal advisor oversee the district's finances.
Jordan also writes that her office urged the state to disapprove OUSD's 2007-08 budget, which projects a large budget. The letter was sent to the governor, the Oakland mayor and other major political players, late last month.
September 25, 2007
Jack O'Connell
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
California Department of Education
PO Box 944272
Sacramento, CA 94244-2720
Dear Superintendent O'Connell:
I want to express my urgent concerns regarding the pending appointment of a new State Administrator for the Oakland Unified School District, to replace Ms. Kimberly Statham. I forward this proposal in the spirit of the personal and legal responsibility we have, to be collaborative, in the effort to provide leadership and support for the fiscal and educational recovery in the districts we both represent.
Although there are areas of noteworthy progress, the District continues to face major financial challenges. The Alameda County Office of Education has detailed the District's financial issues in a series of letters directed to the State Administrator. I need not reiterate the specifics here. Suffice it to say that the District has failed to meet the targets outlined in the State's initial Multi-Year Fiscal Recovery Plan, and that my Office has recommended that the State Department of Education disapprove the District's budget.
The pending permanent replacement of Ms. Statham provides an opportunity to assess the best way forward for Oakland. Given that the State takeover was the result of fiscal mismanagement, it is vital that the next person in charge of the Oakland District have a demonstrated record of experience in California school finance and business. SB39 specifically states, "The administrator shall have recognized expertise in management and finance" [Education Code 41326 (b) (2)].
This is the perfect time for the State to accomplish the shared educational goals for students, by marrying the fiscal expertise of a State appointed trustee with a locally appointed Superintendent. If OUSD is going to provide a strong and quality education for its students, it must be built upon a solid fiscal recovery plan.
It is also vital that the person in charge of the District have the support of the community and share its aspirations for the speedy achievement of responsible self-governance.
In the past year, the Oakland School Board has made great strides forward in its ability to govern the District. The Board has taken a close interest in the State Administrator's management, as evidenced by the Board's unanimous August 8 resolution regarding the Multi-Year Fiscal Recovery Plan. The Board's progress has achieved statewide recognition in the form of AB45, calling for a phased return of governance of the Oakland District to its elected School Board. That bill reflects the growing desire and ability of the community to take charge of its schools.
I propose that the State Department of Education assign a trustee instead of a state administrator. The window of urgency when a State Administrator was required to manage the District appears to have closed. The recent staff departures from the State Administrator's Office in Oakland may be read as a signal that the issues facing the District at this time can best be resolved by a District Superintendent who is accountable to the School Board and the community.
The State's financial interest in the Oakland District, notably the outstanding balance on the State's emergency loan, can be adequately protected by the appointment of the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) as Financial Adviser to the District. FCMAT would work in conjunction with the County Office of Education and would report directly to the State Department of Education.
The recovery formula proposed here replacement of a State Administrator with a Trustee and a locally selected District Superintendent together with a FCMAT Fiscal Advisor "is the successful model used in the fiscal recovery of the Emery School District." FCMAT was also assigned by me and successfully assisted in the fiscal recovery of the Berkeley Unified School District. I urge you to consider the adoption of this proposal for Oakland.
Sheila Jordan
Alameda County Superintendent of Schools
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David Kakishiba, President, OUSD
Scott Hannan, CDE
Leon Glaster, OUSD
Joel Montero, FCMAT
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Amahl and the Night Visitors
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The School of Theater and School of Music are collaborating yet again to share with you the many arts that our Mason students have to offer!
This prelude is a revival of commedia dell'arte, in which masked actors portray stock characters. Though we may not recognize it by name, this tradition is entrenched in many aspects of our culture, from tv and literature to the stage!
After the prelude, Mason Opera will present Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, a work that captures the timeless mystery and glory of Christmas. Menotti drew inspiration from medieval nativity paintings in writing this one-act opera, which had its premiere performance on Christmas Eve in 1951. He artfully combined modern and traditional musical styles in his composition. The opera's moving story and music will certainly get audiences in the Christmas spirit!
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Sunday, December 8 at 7 p.m.
Center for the Arts Concert Hall
The Mason Symphony Orchestra and combined choruses invite you to welcome the holiday season with music!
In addition to selections from Handel's Messiah, they will be performing other holiday favorites such as The Nutcracker suite and Corelli's "Christmas Concerto." Works by Mendelssohn and Brahms, two masters of writing for orchestra and choir, will round out the program.
We hope you will join us for one of the School of Music's favorite holiday traditions!
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Plus, don't miss Horns a Plenty Christmas before the School of Music Holiday Sing-Along! This organization plans events for horn players to get together and perform Christmas music for audiences nationwide. We're lucky to have an active Horns a Plenty group right here in the D.C. area!
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Eduard Arkadyevich Asadov (Russian: Эдуа́рд Арка́дьевич Аса́дов, IPA: [ɪdʊˈart ɐrˈkadʲjɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ɐˈsadəf] ( listen); September 7, 1923 – April 21, 2004) was a Russian poet and writer of Armenian origin. Born in the town of Merv, Turkestan ASSR, to Armenian family. Both parents were teachers. Father (born 1898) fought Dashnaks in the Caucasus during the Civil War. After his father's death in 1929, Eduard and his mother moved to Sverdlovsk to her father Ivan Kalustovich Kurdov. At the age of 8 Eduard composed his first poem, then entered the Pioneers' Organization and, later, Komsomol. Since 1939 he resides in Miscow, studies at school No.38 and finishes it in 1941. A week after graduation party Great Patriotic War bursted out. Asadov went to the front as a volunteer. As a soldier he was a mortar pointer, then assistant to commander of Katyusha battery at North-Caucasian and 4th Ukranian Fronts. At the night of May 3-4, 1944 defending... Read more
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Preston manager Alan Irvine believes promotion, play-off and relegation issues in the Championship will all go down to the wire.
Preston climbed into the top half of the table with a 2-1 success over Barnsley - their third win in five matches - and Irvine has been taken aback by his side's rapid progress.
He said: "It's amazing what can happen in this league.
"The result just shows how you can have a disappointing little run and then suddenly go flying up the league.
"It's such a tight league and it's going to be like that all the way through. It has been so tight in so many of the games."
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I truly hate mixing flour to get the right consistency for my gluten free recipes. I have been using chia flour that I purchased from www.nuchiafoods.com and it works. I don't have to mix, and find a binder. This flour is certified gluten free and I can substitute it in most flour recipes, one to one.
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I receive their magazine and was interested in a recent article about eggs in gluten-free diets.
People should be aware that the yolks of eggs contain choline, vitamin A, and other heart-healthy critical nutrients. The yolks are delicious and nutritious and should not be discarded. Eggs are great sources of very low-fat complete protein, are easily digested, and come in cute natural single-serving packages. They are invaluable in maintaining a healthy diet. Considering the number of food choices that lead to nutrient deficiencies (unnatural processed foods), eggs are perfect food.
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NEW YORK (AP) It looks like the iconic balloons of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will be allowed to take to the skies.
NYPD Chief of Patrol James Hall says Thursday's weather forecast "looks very good."
The characters that glide between Manhattan's skyscrapers can't lift off if sustained winds exceed 23 mph and gusts top 34 mph. That's because of city rules enacted after fierce winds in 1997 caused a Cat in the Hat balloon to topple a light pole and seriously injure a spectator.
The NYPD, the National Weather Service and Macy's representatives will make a final determination in the morning.
This year's balloons include SpongeBob Squarepants, Snoopy, Spider-Man and a 47-foot hot air balloon displaying the faces of characters from the classic film "The Wizard of Oz."
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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known which regimen of combination chemotherapy is most effective in treating advanced colorectal cancer.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of various combination chemotherapy regimens in treating patients who have advanced, recurrent, or metastatic colorectal cancer that cannot be treated with surgery or radiation therapy.
Colorectal Cancer
Drug: FOLFOX regimen
Drug: fluorouracil
Drug: leucovorin calcium
Drug: oxaliplatin
Phase 3
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Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Randomized Phase III Trial of Three Different Regimens of CPT-11 Plus 5-Fluorouracil and Leucovorin Compared to 5-Fluorouracil and Leucovorin in Patients With Advanced Adenocarcinoma of the Colon and Rectum
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- Compare the time to progression in patients with locally advanced, locally recurrent, or metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma treated with combinations of oxaliplatin, fluorouracil, leucovorin calcium, and irinotecan.
- Compare the quality of life, response rate, time to treatment failure, and overall survival in patients treated with these regimens.
- Compare the toxicity of these regimens in these patients.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to ECOG performance status (0-1 vs 2), prior adjuvant chemotherapy (yes vs no), prior immunotherapy (yes vs no), and age (under 65 vs 65 and over). Patients are randomized to one of three treatment arms.
Only arm II remains open to accrual.
- Arm I (Saltz regimen): Patients receive irinotecan IV over 90 minutes followed by leucovorin calcium IV over 15 minutes and fluorouracil IV once a week for 4 weeks followed by 2 weeks of rest. Courses repeat every 6 weeks. (Arm I closed to accrual as of March 15, 2002.)
- Arm II (FOLFOX4 regimen): Patients receive oxaliplatin IV over 2 hours on day 1 and leucovorin calcium IV over 2 hours plus fluorouracil IV over 22 hours on days 1 and 2. Courses repeat every 2 weeks.
- Arm III (oxaliplatin plus irinotecan): Patients receive oxaliplatin IV over 2 hours and irinotecan IV over 30 minutes on day 1. Courses repeat every 3 weeks. (Arm III closed to accrual as of March 15, 2002.) Treatment continues in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Quality of life is assessed before treatment, during treatment (arm specific), and after completion of treatment.
Patients are followed every 3 months for 1 year, every 6 months for 2 years, and then annually thereafter.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 825 patients (275 per arm) have been accrued for this study thus far. Additional patients are being accrued on arm II. (Arms I and III closed to accrual as of March 15, 2002.)
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Histologically or cytologically confirmed locally advanced, locally recurrent, or metastatic colorectal adenocarcinoma not curable by surgery or radiotherapy
Histological or cytological requirement waived in patients who developed radiological or clinical evidence of metastatic cancer after a prior surgical resection unless:
- More than 5 years has elapsed since primary surgery OR
- Primary cancer was stage I or II
- Site of primary lesion must be or have been confirmed endoscopically, radiologically, or surgically to be or have been in the large bowel
- Measurable or evaluable disease
- No CNS metastases or carcinomatous meningitis
- 18 and over
Performance status:
Life expectancy:
- At least 12 weeks
- Absolute granulocyte count at least 1,500/mm^3
- Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3
- Hemoglobin at least 9.0 g/dL (transfusion allowed)
- Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 mg/dL
- AST no greater than 5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Alkaline phosphatase no greater than 5 times ULN
- Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times ULN
- No uncontrolled hypertension
- No unstable angina
- No symptomatic congestive heart failure
- No myocardial infarction within the past 6 months
- No serious uncontrolled arrhythmia
- No New York Heart Association class III or IV cardiac disease
- No interstitial pneumonia or extensive and symptomatic interstitial fibrosis of the lung
- No pleural effusion or ascites that cause respiratory compromise (grade 2 or worse dyspnea)
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- No active or uncontrolled infection
- No symptomatic sensory peripheral neuropathy
- No known allergy to platinum compounds
- No history of gastrointestinal bleeding unless it is determined to be acceptable by the enrolling physician
- No other prior or concurrent malignancy within the past 3 years except nonmelanoma skin cancer, carcinoma in situ of the uterine cervix, or other resected malignant tumor with less than a 10% probability of tumor relapse within 3 years of diagnosis
- No medical or psychiatric conditions that would preclude study
- No colonic or small bowel disorders with uncontrolled symptoms of more than 3 loose stools per day
- Colostomy or ileostomy allowed at investigator's discretion
Biologic therapy:
- Prior adjuvant immunotherapy for resected stage II-IV disease allowed if adjuvant therapy concluded at least 1 year before documentation of recurrent disease
- No concurrent sargramostim (GM-CSF)
- No prior chemotherapy for advanced colorectal cancer
- No prior standard adjuvant chemotherapy for rectal cancer
- Prior adjuvant fluorouracil for resected stage II-IV disease allowed if adjuvant therapy concluded at least 1 year before documentation of recurrent disease
Endocrine therapy:
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- At least 4 weeks since prior major radiotherapy (e.g., chest or bone palliative radiotherapy)
- No prior radiotherapy to more than 15% of bone marrow
- No prior standard adjuvant radiotherapy for rectal cancer
- See Disease Characteristics
- At least 4 weeks since prior major surgery (e.g., laparotomy) (2 weeks for minor surgery) and recovered
- Insertion of a vascular access device not considered major or minor surgery
- No other concurrent investigational agents
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00003594
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|Study Chair:
|Henry C. Pitot, MD
|Mayo Clinic
|Roscoe F. Morton, MD, FACP
|John Stoddard Cancer Center at Iowa Methodist Medical Center
|Study Chair:
|Charles S. Fuchs, MD
|Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
|Study Chair:
|Brian P. Findlay, MD
|St. Catharines General Hospital at Niagara Health System
|Study Chair:
|Ramesh K. Ramanathan, MD
|University of Pittsburgh
|Study Chair:
|Stephen K. Williamson, MD
|University of Kansas
Additional Information:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00003594 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 1, 1999
|Last Updated:
|January 28, 2012
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
stage III colon cancer
stage IV colon cancer
stage III rectal cancer
stage IV rectal cancer
recurrent colon cancer
recurrent rectal cancer
adenocarcinoma of the colon
adenocarcinoma of the rectum
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Colorectal Neoplasms
Colonic Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Digestive System Neoplasms
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Intestinal Diseases
Intestinal Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Rectal Diseases
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Antineoplastic Agents
Immunologic Factors
Immunosuppressive Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Protective Agents
Therapeutic Uses
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Missing man was a former teacher
About a year ago, Rob Boyle waved goodbye to his friend Ronnie Franklin.
"I'll see you when I see you," he told him. Ronnie and his family had been house sitting for Boyle since last spring -- no easy task considering Boyle's menagerie of turtles, snakes, cats and dogs. Boyle was an avid collector of reptiles and traveled all over Texas in search of snakes, Franklin explained.
The house sitting ended this week when the police identified the skeleton found near the intersection Oldham Lane and South 11th Street, several miles down the street from Boyle's home, as the remains of Robert Ambrose Boyle, 50.
A transient searching for aluminum cans in the area stumbled across his bones Sunday. Boyle, a Hardin-Simmons University graduate and former teacher, was last seen in Abilene on March 26, 2007, and his vehicle was found abandoned in a city park.
Police and a cadaver dog team from Mineral Wells searched a two-acre tract of land in the 1200 block of Oldham Thursday morning. Searchers did not find any other bodies, but Spirit, a black Labrador trained find remains, led police to more bone fragments, said Abilene Police Detective Jeff Bell. Police requested that the dog and her canine handlers from a volunteer group in Mineral Wells assist them in finding any missing pieces of the skeleton, any evidence or any other remains.
"The dog was very instrumental in locating the additional remains," Bell said. The husband and wife team planted small neon flags when Spirit alerted, and police later examined the area, said Abilene Police Sgt. John Reid. Police do not yet know if any foul play is involved and are still waiting word from the Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office, which matched the remains to Boyle's dental records.
Boyle, a recovering alcoholic, was originally from New Jersey but moved to Texas for a fresh start, said Franklin, who had considered him a friend for about 15 years.
"We kind of adopted him because he didn't have a family down here," Franklin said. He taught the family's youngest son to play guitar and would always be at the home for Thanksgiving an Christmas, said Franklin's wife Glenda.
After the move, Boyle earned a bachelor's degree in behavioral science from HSU, was certified as a teacher in Texas and started teaching at Abilene schools.
In 2003, Abilene High School Junior ROTC students named him an honorary cadet in the TX-081st.
"I knew the kids liked him," said Paul Washinsky, a Junior ROTC instructor. "He had a rapport with the kids that sparked their interest." Boyle, who was a substitute at the high school on almost a daily basis, brought his snakes in one day for the kids, Washinsky said.
"You can imagine how that got (the kids) going," he said.
Several years ago, Boyle quit his teaching job and later began to have problems with medication, said his friends and a neighbor. He landed in the hospital several times and tried to straighten out his life, first in a Houston and then in Austin, Franklin said.
"He was a great guy," said neighbor Tony Tewalt. "He was just chemically unbalanced, and when he wasn't taking his medicines, he was a different person." When the problems took over, things went down hill and the friends lost touch with Boyle.
"I had always hoped," Franklin said. "Then his birthday was in November, and he always does the Thanksgiving thing with us. When November came, and he didn't make a peep, I knew."
Police are still looking for information about Boyle's death. If you have any information, call Crime Stoppers at (800) 868-8477 or the nonemergency police number, 673-8331.
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The Composites and Urinary Bisphenol-A Study (CUBS) is a clinical study of dental composite for its effects on urinary bisphenol-A levels. The study will enroll approximately 139 children recruited from study-affiliated clinical sites in New England.The primary aim of CUBS is to test the hypothesis that urinary bisphenol-A (BPA) concentrations increase after composite restoration placement. BPA is a chemical used in the synthesis of matrix monomers and has been shown to have harmful effects in toxicological studies in laboratory animals. Currently it is unknown whether dental composite restorative materials containing monomers that are derived from BPA result in chronic low-dose BPA exposure in children.
Dental Caries
Procedure: Restoration of dental caries with dental composite
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Pharmacokinetics Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Health Effects of Dental Composites in Children
- Change from baseline in urinary bisphenol A level and 1 day [ Time Frame: Baseline and 1 day ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Change from baseline in urinary bisphenol A level and 14 days [ Time Frame: Baseline and 14 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Change from baseline in urinary bisphenol A level and 6 months [ Time Frame: Baseline and 6 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
|Study Start Date:
|December 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Composite
Procedure: Restoration of dental caries with dental composite
Dental Resin Restoration (bisphenol A diglycidylether methacrylate based composite)
Other Name: Composite to be used is Z100 by 3M ESPE (St Paul, MN, USA).
Detailed Description:
Study subjects will be new or existing patients of the clinical sites who are in need of dental restorations, meet all eligibility criteria, and provide informed consent/assent to participate. Subjects will be asked to provide two pre-treatment urine samples and three post-treatment samples. Urine collections occur next-day and 14 days after treatment, with one final urine collected approximately 6 months later (marking the end of the subject's active study participation). Data will be collected from the clinician's standard oral examination (including new and existing dental treatments), the data collector's measurements of height and weight and interviews administered to the parents/guardians to assess sociodemographic and other relevant factors (e.g., recent food/beverage consumption). Confidentiality will be maintained by assigning each subject a unique number and using only this number or aggregate data in all study reports. All study records will be securely maintained with access limited to essential study personnel only.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|3 Years to 17 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Aged 3-16 (<17) years at enrollment.
- 2+ posterior teeth with caries requiring restorations treatable by composite.
- Toilet-trained (not using diapers, pull-ups, or training pants during day or night).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Medical conditions that would render the subject physically unable to provide urine samples.
- Guardian is not proficient in spoken English or Spanish language
- Child is aged 8.0 years or older and not proficient in spoken English or Spanish language
- Living >35 miles outside of the dental clinic or the NERI office (Watertown MA)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01484132
|United States, Massachusetts
|New England Research Institutes, Inc.
|Watertown, Massachusetts, United States, 02472
|Principal Investigator:
|Sonja McKinlay, PhD
|New England Research Institutes
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|New England Research Institutes
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01484132 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|November 16, 2011
|Last Updated:
|March 19, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by New England Research Institutes:
Dental Caries
Dental Restorative Materials
Dental Composite
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Dental Caries
Stomatognathic Diseases
Tooth Demineralization
Tooth Diseases
Bisphenol A
Estrogens, Non-Steroidal
Free Radical Scavengers
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Protective Agents
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IN THE WORLD of the grey partridge (Perdix perdix), you're a good catch if you're a vigilant male. A biologist in Sweden has found that females are unimpressed by macho types which defeat other males in fights. Instead they go for males that keep a good lookout for danger.
Jens Dahlgren of the University of Lund in Sweden carried out experiments to determine just what it is that female grey partridges look for in a male (Animal Behaviour, vol 39, p 464). Grey partridges are monogamous, which means that choosing a mate is particularly important. Often, females that are breeding for the first time change their mate several times before finally settling on a partner for life.
Dahlgren found that female grey partridges do not choose their mates on the basis of any obvious morphological charac teristics. Puzzled, he decided to investigate whether they are influenced by the 'vigilant behaviour ...
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RUMFORD, R.I. - Lamar men's golfer Dawie Van Der Walt is in 81st place following an opening round of 78 Thursday at the 44th Northeastern Amateur at Wannamoisett Country Club.
A native of Cape Town, South Africa, Van Der Walt carded a 39 on the front-nine and a 39 on the back-nine for a 9-over par 78. His round included one birdie, eight bogeys and one double bogey.
Chris Kirk and Matt Every are tied for the 18-hole lead after carding opening rounds of 3-under par 66. Kirk's round included three birdies and no bogeys. Every posted four birdies and one bogey in his round. There are six players tied for second at 2-under par.
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'Game of Thrones' Season 4: Jon Snow is 'profoundly different' after Ygritte, says Kit HaringtonAdd to Favorites | Game of Thrones
Warning: Spoilers for "Game of Thrones" Season 4, episode 9 "The Watchers on the Wall" are contained in this article.
Jon Snow lost the one woman he's ever loved, and he's going to be forever changed by it.
Zap2it spoke with Kit Harington about filming the death of Ygritte, and he admits that it was a very hard scene for him and Rose Leslie to shoot. "It's one of those moments when I'm going to be very nervous about because it's so important to me and Rose Leslie, who plays Ygritte, that it works," he says. "I think we as actors tied it up as well as it was written. I think Rose definitely did. Whether I did, who f***ing knows."
Though Ygritte was technically Jon's enemy at the end, she was also one of the most important women in his life. Harington thinks that's why Ygritte had such a strong effect on him.
"Apart from his sister Arya, he's never had a female figure close enough to him. I think that's why he's so confused by [Ygritte] for so long," Harington says. "She wants to attach herself to him, and he finds this utterly confusing. He's never had a mother figure, he's never had anything close to him but his sister, finally he gives into his male urges, and that has a profound effect on any man. Love is, even for a medieval dude like Jon Snow who's f***ing steel inside as far as I'm concerned, meeting a woman is going to break that."
Now that Ygritte is dead, expect a very different Jon Snow in Season 5. "That's the biggest thing that happens to him: Falling in love, falling out of love, and then losing your love in the most heartbreaking way. So after that happens, after she dies, he is -- and this is what I wanted to get in the series -- is he's a profoundly, profoundly different person," Harington says. "He's cold. He's cold inside after that."
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One often repeated charge is that Locke, like other Europeans of this era, adopted what we might call an Aristotelian strategy in respect to black Africans. This strategy is to treat them as less than human. Since they are less than human, any argument that they have natural rights to life, liberty, health and property can be dismissed -- for they are not people. One passage in Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding which is often invoked to show that Locke has the kind of view is section 16 of the Chapter on Maxims in Book IV of the Essay.
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BEIRUT: The past 10 years have seen an election campaign spending race heavily influenced by corporate branding culture, a phenomenon for which the admen of Lebanon proudly take credit.
"You can deliver a creative idea to sell a car, to sell a shampoo, and to sell – and I may use the word 'sell' because you are selling at the end of the day – a political party," said Georges Najm, one of the founders of Clementine, an advertising agency that grew out of the Free Patriotic Movement's core media team.
His comments were not intended to be cynical. Najm, who has a background in finance and marketing, is a proud supporter of Michel Aoun, but when it comes to devising marketing strategies for what he calls the "Tayyar mother-brand" and its "sub-brands" – individual lawmakers – he is a calculating professional.
Najm represents a growing industry of advertising and marketing specialists who are bringing commercial strategies to political campaigns, luring in a new generation of post-Civil War voters with slick packaging, clever slogans and, increasingly, digital outreach.
"We've seen the development of a real corporate identity," said Serge Dagher, a former communications chief for the Kataeb Party and general manager of the Rizk Group, which is coordinating the party's election strategy. "Each party has adopted a color, a communication style. ... All of that was not present a few years ago."
In the 1990s and early 2000s, he explained, most parties were preoccupied with adapting to the post-conflict political landscape. Image was not important, especially to the generation that remained with the party throughout the war and knew its history all too well.
"With the youth comes the demand for a sexier look and appearance," he said. "They want quick and fast statements, inspirational statements," he went on, speaking of the popularity of Twitter, now a necessity among the political class. "Before you would see politicians giving a speech for 30 or 40 minutes. I don't see young people sitting through a speech like that."
Industry sources across the political spectrum declined to discuss the specifics of their 2013 campaigns, which are on hold until a new electoral law is passed, but all agreed that social media will play a much bigger role in the next round than it has in the past.
None seemed concerned that redrawing districts or introducing confessional voting restrictions would have a serious impact on their strategies, or that a likely delay in holding elections was anything but temporary.
Vincent Chamoun, regional development director for M&C Saatchi, which works for the March 14 coalition, sees the changes in the new media landscape as positive, because they favor content over what he called "propaganda" – messaging intended to shore up existing support rather than speak to the public at large.
"Outdoor [advertising] will remain because it has impact, it has a wide outreach, it has a wide audience, and because also it's some kind of show of force ... [but] I'm not sure this will affect political choice," said Chamoun. "I think the game changer will mostly come from other media where the content can be much more developed, such as social media."
"Today, the debate does not happen through the media, it happens [among] people after they have received the message," he continued. "The debate will happen in society."
The first professionally managed political media campaign is a matter of debate, with several parties claiming credit. Some trace it as far back as the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's 'Kuluna lil-Aamal,' 'We are All for Work' campaign back in 2000, but most agree the political ad wars have been intensifying since the Syrian withdrawal in 2005, when political parties started waging open and aggressive electoral battles.
Much of this competition was fueled by the rivalry between the FPM and March 14 parties for Christian votes, a contest that helped spawn the "I Love Life" and "Be Beautiful and Vote" campaigns, both of which exemplify the aesthetic shift away from the traditional portraits of yesteryear toward a pithier, more commercial approach.
Unsurprisingly, most of those working on campaigns see them as a creative competition of ideas, a testament to the country's democracy. Parties such as Hezbollah and the Amal Movement, which do not face any serious challengers, eschew expensive consultants and flashy ads for in-house media teams and simple messaging.
This democratic spirit is considerably dampened, however, when one considers the cost of rolling out a professional, national campaign. One industry professional estimated that a major political party would spend "at least $500,000" on election advertising.
Under current campaign finance laws, which are also subject to change with a new electoral law, each candidate is limited to a budget of LL150 million ($100,000) in the two months leading up to elections.
But, as Rania Baroud, a professor of media studies at Antonine University, told The Daily Star, "There is no transparency in the law."
"It sets a limit to the budget of every candidate but it doesn't limit the budget of a party. ... This is a loophole."
Not only do campaign finance laws not apply to parties or coalitions, they are poorly enforced, and violations are so common as to be considered common practice, Baroud added.
Campaign events, rallies, and giveaways are not regulated; the same goes for spending that takes place before the two month period leading up the election. Fees paid to consulting and advertising agencies are also not accounted for in the budget ceiling.
Chamoun echoed Baroud's concerns about the lack of regulation – or an electoral law, or a government, for that matter – saying of the post-2005 electoral arena: "We have no referee. ... There is an open fight, but there is nobody to manage this."
The work of advertising agencies doesn't always end at the polls. Agencies that successfully get their candidates elected will often be rewarded with lucrative government contracts, most often from ministries controlled by their respective parties or their allies.
Clementine has executed campaigns for the Telecommunication and Energy ministries; Rizk group for the Social Affairs Ministry, IDAL and Ogero; IMPACT BBDO for the Interior Ministry; and M&C Saatchi for the Justice, Environment, Finance and Interior ministries.
Most of the advertising professionals who work on political campaigns are also partisans to some extent. For others, elections are strictly business.
"What we do is we tell people the choices available to them, but you don't have to embrace that choice, do you?" said Joe Ayache, the Beirut managing director of IMPACT BBDO, which works regularly with the Future Movement.
Ayache, who has been in the business for decades, says maintaining healthy boundaries is the key to professional success and warm relations with competitors based on friendly rivalry.
"Probably if I were younger it would have mattered more," he said with a laugh, responding to a question about the possibility for conflict between private political views and professional duties.
"From a personal point of view, I'm starting to be more and more convinced that change is not possible anymore."
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Reading are still without a win in the Barclays Premier League this season and remain in the bottom three, while the Canaries extended their unbeaten run to four games. McDermott pinpointed a first clean sheet of the season as the positive for the Royals and was not upset that a league win remains elusive.
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On the night of the new moon, the demons rise in force, seeking the deaths of two men, both of whom have the potential to become the fabled Deliverer, the man prophesied to reunite the scattered remnants of humanity in a final push to destroy the demon corelings once and for all.
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Kevin Kouzmanoff went 2-for-4 with four runs batted in to lead the San Diego Padres over the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-3 on Monday night.
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Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian diplomat, political philosopher, musician, poet and playwright. Machiavelli was a figure of the Italian Renaissance, and a servant of the Florentine republic. In June of 1498, following the ouster and execution of Savonarola, the Great Council elected Machiavelli as the Secretary to the second Chancery of the Republic of Florence.
He is most famous — or notorious — for one of his shorter works, The Prince, sometimes described as a work of realist political theory. However, both that text and the more substantial republican Discourses on Livy — as well as History of Florence (commissioned by the Medici family) — were printed only after his death, all appearing in the early 1530s. In his own lifetime, while he circulated The Prince among friends, the only work Machiavelli promoted through printing was his dialogue on The Art of War. But generations from the sixteenth century onwards were most attracted and repelled by the cynical approach to power on display in The Prince, Discourses and History. Whatever Machiavelli's own intentions (and they remain a matter of hot debate), his name became synonymous with ruthless politics, deceit and the pursuit of power by any means.
Machiavelli was born into a tumultuous era in which Popes were leading armies, and wealthy city-states of Italy would fall one after another into the hands of foreign powers — France, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. It was a time of constantly shifting alliances, condottieri who changed sides without warning, and governments rising and falling in the space of weeks. Perhaps most significant during this erratic upheaval was the sack of Rome in 1527 by rampaging soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire, the first time that Rome had been sacked by a Germanic army in nearly twelve centuries. Rich cities such as Florence and Genoa suffered a similar fate during these years.
Machiavelli, trained as a man with severe rigor by his father, was educated to be skilled in Latin, but had little Greek. He entered governmental service as a clerk and ambassador in 1494; that same year, Florence had restored the republic and expelled the Medici family, rulers of the city for nearly sixty years. Machiavelli was placed as a member of a Council responsible for diplomatic negotiations and military matters. Between 1499 and 1512, he undertook a number of diplomatic missions to the court of Louis XII in France, Ferdinand II of Aragón, and the Papacy in Rome. From 1502 to 1503, he was a witness to the effective statebuilding methods of the soldier/churchman Cesare Borgia, who was at that time enlarging his territories in central Italy through a mixture of audacity, prudence, self-reliance, firmness and, not infrequently, cruelty.
Between 1503 to 1506, Machiavelli was responsible for the Florentine militia including the defense of the city. He distrusted mercenaries (a sentiment he explained in the Discourses and in the Prince) and much preferred a citizen militia. This philosophy bore fruit when, in 1509, Florence's citizen forces defeated Pisa under Machiavelli's direction. However, in August 1512, the Medici with the help of Pope Julius II used Spanish troops to defeat the Florentine forces at Prato. The Florentine head of state, Piero Soderini, resigned and went into exile, and Florence and the republic was subsequently dissolved. Machiavelli, having played a significant role in the republic's anti-Medici government, was removed from office and in 1513 he was accused of conspiracy and arrested. Although tortured "by the rope" (a practice wherein one's hands were bound behind one's back and connected to a pulley which would lift the victim off the ground, dislocating one's shoulders), he denied his involvement and was eventually released. He retired to his estate at Sant'Andrea in Percussina near Florence and began writing the treatises that would ensure his place in the development of political philosophy and conduct.
In a famous letter to his friend Francesco Vettori, he described how he spent his days in exile:
When evening comes, I return home [from work and from the local tavern] and go to my study. On the threshold I strip naked, taking off my muddy, sweaty workday clothes, and put on the robes of court and palace, and in this graver dress I enter the courts of the ancients and am welcomed by them, and there I taste the food that alone is mine, and for which I was born. And there I make bold to speak to them and ask the motives of their actions, and they, in their humanity reply to me. And for the space of four hours I forget the world, remember no vexation, fear poverty no more, tremble no more at death; I pass indeed into their world.
Machiavelli himself identified a unifying theme in The Prince and the Discorsi:
All cities that ever at any time have been ruled by an absolute prince, by aristocrats or by the people, have had for their protection force combined with prudence, because the latter is not enough alone, and the first either does not produce things, or when they are produced, does not maintain them. Force and prudence, then, are the might of all the governments that ever have been or will be in the world.
Machiavelli died in San Casciano, a few miles outside of Florence, in 1527. His resting place is unknown; however a cenotaph in his honor was placed at the Church of Santa Croce in Florence. The Latin sentence on the tomb — TANTO NOMINI NULLUM PAR ELOGIUM — is translated as either 'for so great a name, no praise is adequate' or 'No elegy is equal to such a name'
Machiavelli's best known book is The Prince, in which he describes the arts by which a Prince (a ruler), can retain control of his realm. He focuses primarily on what he calls the "new prince", under the assumption that a hereditary prince has an easier task since the people are accustomed to him. All a hereditary prince needs to do is carefully maintain the institutions that the people are used to; a new prince has a much more difficult task since he must stabilize his newfound power and build a structure that will endure. This task requires the Prince to be publicly above reproach but privately may require him to do immoral things in order to achieve his goals.
Machiavelli explains through examples which princes are the most successful in obtaining and maintaining power. He draws his examples from personal observations made while he was on diplomatic missions for Florence and from his readings in ancient history. He periodically uses Latin phrases, and many examples are drawn from Classical sources.
Machiavelli does not dispense entirely with morality nor advocate wholesale selfishness or degeneracy. Instead he outlines his definition of, for example, the criteria for acceptable cruel actions (it must be swift, effective, and short-lived). Machiavelli also does not miss the irony in the fact that good can come from evil actions. Notwithstanding the mitigating themes in The Prince, the Catholic Church put the work in its Index Librorum Prohibitorum and it was viewed in a negative light by many Humanists such as Erasmus.
The primary contribution of The Prince to the history of political thought is its fundamental break between realism and idealism. The Prince is a guide to acquiring and keeping power. In contrast with Plato and Aristotle, the ideal society is not the aim. In fact, Machiavelli emphasizes the need for the exercise of brute power when necessary and rewards, patron-clientelism etc. to preserve the status quo.
The term "Machiavellian" was adopted by some of Machiavelli's contemporaries, often used in the introductions of political tracts of the sixteenth century that offered more 'just' reasons of state, most notably those of Jean Bodin and Giovanni Botero. The pejorative term Machiavellian as it is used today (or anti-Machiavellism as it was used from the sixteenth century) is thus a misnomer, as it describes one who deceives and manipulates others for gain; whether the gain is personal or not is of no relevance, only that any actions taken are only important insofar as they affect the results. It fails to include some of the more moderating themes found in Machiavelli's works and the name is now associated with the extreme viewpoint.
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Machiavelli also wrote plays (Clizia, Mandragola), poetry (Sonetti, Canzoni, Ottave, Canti carnascialeschi) and novels (Belfagor arcidiavolo) as well as translating classical works.


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Stela of Steward Ptahemsai
Wealthy Egyptians sometimes commissioned unique stelae with representations specific to their personal needs and wishes, but most people could not afford such custom-made funerary equipment. Instead, they selected uninscribed stock pieces with standard representations of men, women, and offerings and had the names of individual family members added after purchase. The owner of this stela held a position comparable to that of a modern butler or house manager. His socioeconomic position suggests that this example was an "off-the-rack" model.
- Medium: Limestone
- Place Made: Saqqara, Egypt
- Dates: ca. 1876-1759 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: middle XII Dynasty-late XII Dynasty
- Period: Middle Kingdom
- Dimensions: 20 1/4 x 11 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (51.5 x 30 x 8 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Temples and Tombs, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
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- Accession Number: 37.1345E
- Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Stela of Steward Ptahemsai, ca. 1876-1759 B.C.E. Limestone, 20 1/4 x 11 13/16 x 3 1/8 in. (51.5 x 30 x 8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1345E. Creative Commons-BY
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- Catalogue Description: Tall rectangular limestone stela belonging to the Steward Ptahsoker. The inscribed surface is surround by a raised frame, the top part of which is inscribed [hieroglyphic inscription]. The large inscribed surface is divided into five registers. The top register (h. 3.3 cm.) bears the inscription: [hieroglyphic inscription]. The second register (h. 10.3 cm.) shows Ptahsoker seated at a table. Facing him is a squatting male figure holding his hand to his breast (all the squatting figures on this stela hold one hand to their breast). Above this figure is the name: [hieroglyphic inscription]. To the right of this man is a squatting woman, facing right towards a seated man who faces her from the opposite side of a table. Above her is [hieroglyphic inscription]. In the third register is a seated man [hieroglyphic inscription] facing right towards two squatting women [hieroglyphic inscription], [hieroglyphic inscription]. To the right are two squatting men facing each other [hieroglyphic inscription], [hieroglyphic inscription]. In the fourth register are, at the right, two squatting women facing each other [hieroglyphic inscription], [hieroglyphic inscription]. To the right a squatting man faces right towards a squatting woman [hieroglyphic inscription], [hieroglyphic inscription]. The bottom register has a large table holding offerings flanked on each side by a man with outstretched arms. Both men are labeled: [hieroglyphic inscription]. Technique is a poor sunk relief. Condition: Upper right corner missing; all surfaces scratched.
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install and do calibration
Never touch anything while app calibration!!!
app will calibration itself.
your own risk.
Many people report that touch issue is fixed after recalibration.
So If some problem on keyboard or touch, Just try it.
And I'm happy to hear that this works on vega.
Webmachines(retailer of ux100) made this app for ux100 users.
So i can't change or improve this app.[I'm just 'user', not developer ]
Before calibration, active usb host mode.
If some trouble while calibration, you can see serious problem on touch.
then this will help you.
- connect usb mouse and you can find X mark on screen
- do recalibration (Never touch screen while calibration and no charge)
Edited by Redmirage, 18 January 2011 - 06:30 AM.