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Tigers coach Josh Pastner stays close to home
Keeping stars in town top recruiting priority
LAS VEGAS -- Adonis Thomas left the country for the first time last month when he traveled to Argentina with USA Basketball's under-16 team, an eye-opening experience -- culturally, and in his sport -- for a kid from Memphis.
"The only thing I didn't like was probably the food," said Thomas, the 6-foot-6 junior at Melrose who is ranked among the elite players nationally in the class of 2011. "We went to a steakhouse, and I enjoyed that, but other than that we had ham on everything. That wasn't a good thing for me."
Which, of course, is the sort of lesson University of Memphis coach Josh Pastner would undoubtedly want Thomas to remember when it comes time to choose a college.
In his first summer on the road recruiting as a head coach, the 31-year old Pastner is hoping that elite recruits from Memphis will ultimately agree there's no place like home.
When Pastner got the job on April 6, he told the Tigers' fan base that he would recruit "inside-out," prioritizing homegrown talent the way every successful Memphis coach did before John Calipari took over in 2000 and made recruiting East Coast metropolitan areas like New York and Philadelphia the norm.
During Calipari's nine years, Tiger fans had become conditioned not to worry about whether J.P. Prince would chose Arizona or Elliot Williams would chose Duke. After all, the Tigers ended up with Chris Douglas-Roberts and Tyreke Evans instead -- and still got Williams in the end when he transferred to Memphis a few weeks ago.
The problem with that strategy, however, was that relationships in the grassroots basketball community had become frayed by the end of Calipari's tenure. On the Tigers' 2008-09 Final Four team, only three players on the roster came from the Memphis area, including one from Bolivar (Willie Kemp) and another who began his career as a walk-on (Andre Allen).
Had Calipari stayed at Memphis, the only truly local player projected to be on scholarship in 2009-10 would have been senior Pierre Henderson-Niles.
It's perfectly conceivable that Calipari, if he hadn't gone to Kentucky, would have continued to work nationally more than locally over the next several years. For Pastner, however, the Memphis area has given him a remarkable opportunity to quickly rebuild the Tigers into a national power.
At the Adidas Super 64 last week -- one of the major national events on the summer basketball circuit -- three separate teams with players from the Memphis area made the final 16 in the championship bracket. Just among those three teams, there were potentially nine players who could get scholarships at the high-major level, indicating that there has rarely been a better time to have access to the local talent pool.
"There's a lot of great kids in Memphis people don't know about that you don't see even on this stage," said Ridgeway forward Tarik Black, ranked among the top 50 players in the country. "People don't get to see the talent Memphis actually holds."
Though Pastner and his coaching staff were sprinting all over Las Vegas last week to see as many players as possible, they spent by far the majority of their time watching the Memphis Magic Elite squad, the M33M team and the Nashville Celtics.
That wasn't surprising, given how the Memphis staff has targeted Black, White Station guard Joe Jackson, Jackson North Side forward Casey Prather and Germantown guard Austin Hollins in the 2010 class as well as Thomas for 2011.
Memphis also used last week as an opportunity to further evaluate Sheffield guard Chris Crawford and St. George's guard Bobby Parks, Jr. (2011), both of whom will likely end up playing at high-major schools.
Further down the road, players like Jarnell Stokes from Central (2012) and Jonathan Williams III at Southwind (2013) have already been blanketed by the Memphis staff.
"He's doing a (heck) of a job recruiting in the city," said Eric Robinson, who coaches the Memphis Magic team that includes Jackson, Black, Crawford and Thomas. "I think once he lands his first one, no matter who it is, if it's Crawford, Jackson, Black, Adonis, I think they're going to start flocking. Because right now I've got the cream of the crop, and I think they love playing with each other. So once he offers one and they take it, I think the rest will go, 'Boom.' But that's just my opinion right there."
It's ironic, in some ways, that Pastner has spent so much time on local players while his first verbal commitments for 2010 came from Will Barton and Antonio Barton, two guards from Baltimore.
Though some of Memphis' top targets don't seem to be in a hurry to commit, several of them acknowledged that Pastner is living up to his "inside-out" philosophy.
"He's a great recruiter," Black said. "He e-mails my mom all the time. He makes sure to get that call a month, and he's a great recruiter. He's consistent. He's a true kind of guy, the kind of guy you can trust and believe."
In addition to showering recruits with attention, Pastner has done some other, more subtle things recently to curry favor with the local basketball community including making the Finch Center available for teams to practice. In June, Pastner held a camp for local high school teams to play each other, hoping to strengthen his relationship with coaches who could have some influence on where the top prospects will attend college.
"He's living up to what he said," Crawford said. "I think it's good that he's trying to recruit players in Memphis because we really don't get a lot of looks like some other cities do."
Recognizing that Calipari did not recruit in Memphis very much, coaches from other colleges saw an opportunity to make a splash in the city -- and not just Tennessee, which has spent a lot of time recruiting in Memphis without anything to show for it thus far. Recently, Duke, North Carolina and Missouri have plucked players out of Memphis, while Baylor, Arkansas and Oklahoma have attempted to make their presence felt in the 2010 class.
Because of Thomas, who might be a top-10 player nationally, coaches like North Carolina's Roy Williams and Florida's Billy Donovan were following the Memphis Magic around last week, which means that local players certainly won't be under the radar any time soon.
Though it certainly will provide a challenge for Pastner as he attempts to keep the best of the best at home, the work he's already put in has not gone unnoticed.
"He does a great job," Thomas said. "He calls me, shakes hands with me, says hello. He's a real friendly coach. He's always talking, being in touch and getting to know everybody in my family. I think they would be a good school for me because it's local, good fan base with me being home and my family getting to see me, so it's one of my top schools."
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With recent incidents heightening the piracy crisis in the Gulf of Aden, the third annual Asia Superyacht Conference will dedicate part of the proceedings to discuss the extent of the issues facing superyachts and owners around the world.
Recent piracy activity will be the topic of discussion during the 3rd Asian Superyacht Conference.
With the Suez Canal posing a riskier crossing for superyachts to and from the Gulf of Aden, many yacht owners, captains, shipping companies and brokers remain uncertain as to the impact this has on the level of safety for cruising in the Asian region.
The recently formed International Fusion Centre will offer a detailed statistical view on piracy around the world and an outline of what international organisations are doing to analyse and address the problem. This will be followed by a presentation from Richard Skinner of Orchid Office, who will offer a series of practical recommendations on security steps superyachts should take and what they can do to mitigate the problem.
From 7 – 8 April 2011, the Asia Superyacht Conference will provide a unique insight into the South-East Asian region and enable delegates to meet key contacts all in one place. This year, with the inaugural Singapore Yacht Show co-located with the Conference, delegates will gain a comprehensive insight into how this emerging region is welcoming superyachts from around the world.
'When I travel around the world and attend some of the major shows, it is clear just how little people know about what is going on in the Asia-Pacific region,' commented Conference Chairman Simon Turner.
'The Asia Superyacht Conference will help superyacht industry players better understand the potential of this region. The Forbes Rich List recently announced that there are more billionaires in Asia compared to Europe for the first time in recorded history. There is a huge untapped market here for the superyacht industry,' he continued.
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Fourth-seeded Sam Querrey showed impressive form to advance to the Heineken Tennis Open quarterfinals Wednesday, beating Belgian wild card Olivier Rochus 7-5, 6-3 in just over an hour. Querrey sent down 19 aces in an outstanding serving performance he described as one of the best of his career. ''That's probably one of the best serving matches I've ever played and everything felt pretty good,'' the American said. ''It's my first match of the year, everything felt pretty good and I'm just looking forward to playing tomorrow.'' Second-seed Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany, who counts the 2008 Auckland tournament among his four career titles, had to work harder for his 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-3 win over Colombia's Alejandro Falla. Seventh-seeded Tommy Haas beat Igor Sijsling of the Netherlands 6-3, 6-4 in just over an hour to reach a quarterfinals matchup with Gael Monfils of France, who beat Australian qualifier Greg Jones, 6-4, 6-2 in 66 minutes. Top-seeded David Ferrer was due on court...
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"We are delighted to be able to deliver so many successful programs to our audience," says Thomas Vitale, head of programming at Sci Fi. "Our deal with CBS Paramount enables us to bring a great deal of fresh and extremely popular genre programming to our schedule."
The centerpiece of the deal is "Enterprise," which ran on UPN from 2001-05 and will premiere on Sci Fi in the fall. It's set about 100 years after "First Contact" and stars
The deal also includes a number of shows from recent years that never got a chance to complete their initial runs on network TV. In addition to "Threshold" and "Wolf Lake," Sci Fi has picked up former UPN shows "Haunted," "Special Unit 2," "All Souls," "Jake 2.0" and "Level 9," as well as the mid-'90s
Miniseries "The Stand" and "The Langoliers," both based on works by King, are also part of the agreement, along with several made-for-TV movies, one of which we must point out. It's called "Primal Force," and Sci Fi says it "features Ron Perlman as a rescuer trying to reach plane crash victims trapped on an island with mutant baboons."


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President Barack Obama's announcement that he will be pushing for the "Buffett Rule," a new change in code that will tax income from investments at a higher rate, was allegedly inspired by Buffett's secretary, whom billionaire Warren Buffet claims pays a higher portion of her income in taxes than he does.
Debbie Bosanek is that secretary. And she really doesn't want to talk about this.
Reached via telephone at Berkshire Hathaway's Omaha offices on Tuesday morning, she sighed and politely responded: "I'm sorry, I'm not doing any interviews on that."
"I understand you must be getting deluged."
"I've got to let you go. Bye-bye." With that, she hung up.
Her refusal to discuss the issue with news outlets isn't surprising, though. According to Slate, Bosanek is the queen of the non-comment. "At one news conference, she reportedly wore a T-shirt that said, 'Hi, I'm Debbie B. Warren is not available, and I have no comment.'"
But others have stepped up to take over the discussion for her. Moveon.org has launched a new video campaign, "I am Warren Buffett's Secretary." And conservative website The Daily Caller has responded with their own version of what Buffett's Secretary would have to say.
Watch the videos below. I feel certain I can say that Bosanek would have no comment regarding either of them.
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I hear the GOP hates this. I don't know if they do or not but I can't help but wonder why would they hate this. Could it be because to segregate a class of people is a bit socialistic?
Could it be that's why some of the dems hate it too? Remember there's the far left, they are sickening and no one will ever give them enough money. Then, there's the far right, almost equally sickening because they make religion part of the platform. Then, there's the socialists, that's just plain scary! What makes the most sense is if anyone wants to pay the federal government more money to be applied towards taxes, get out your check book be it Warren Buffet or anyone else and make your own choice, forget about having a bill to regulate it.
Most of the politicians are rich. Anybody think they would vote to make themselves pay their fair share of taxes as if.
You are blaming President Obama for the 3% GE pays?!?! Please learn how your government works before you write anything so stupid.
The tax rules need to be rewritten and while others are figuring out how to do this to make it fair for all Americans the weathest among us should pay more and the loop holds for corporations should be closed.
This entire debate is ridiculous. Of course people and corporations who make more money should pay more in taxes. Geesh.
Who created this, who want to fix the system? Vote will do but in a wrong way. However, for long term, voters and the same system will prove to be right. The fathers of the country was wise and understanding human's problem in thousands years. Today's pros or smarts are not wise in the busy modern world. Action driven is the "culture" or custom today but it won't work for a while.
The CEO of GE (Jeffrey R. Immelt,) is Obama's "Jobs Czar". Do you really wonder why GE only pays 3%? If Barack is serious about taxing the rich shouldnt his people set an example?
It is amusing to see how assistant-Republicans are trying to find the reasons why rich paying at least the same tax as poor is not going to do good for the economy.
"Creating jobs" is not doing it, not any more. We have seen what they create - jobs for their pocket Congress members who they buy and now they do it anonimously. Thank you Supreme court for the "Citizens United", by the way, for making that happen.
Keep up ...
I am still waiting for someone to explain it to me why and how it is doing good for the economy that giants like GE pay 3% corporate tax whereas the corporate tax in this country is 34%. How does it make sense that oil, gas, and pharma are enjoying tax breaks ... Those are billions and billions down a few individuals' pockets.
Perhaps, someone should start investigating certain Congress members and make them talk under oath. Otherwise, we'll never know what their thoughts are. They keep on pretending they do not hear the question.
Come on, people, stop trying to deny the obvious. The class ware-fare is on and for now it is up in DC. The idiots will make it go down to the lower levels. We'll be seeing strikes, walk-outs, union activity, and all attributes of the class war. The nurses are walking out in CA (Oakland) TODAY.
If that is what they want ... We'll have to go through much darker times.
Are we to believe that if given more money government would pay down the debt? No they would use it as an excuse to borrow more money, and cover us in the ditch Obama likes to speak of with six feet of earth. There probably wouldn't be enough money left for a headstone or flowers.
If there was even a chance the extra money from tax increases would go to paying off the debt I might consider indorsing this idea. But we all know DC is broke in more ways than can be listed here. They would simply waste more money!
LOL Most in government would have to pay higher taxes, of course they do not want it to pass
Why do you only consider millionaires to be rich. If someone earns $100,000.and pays $30% tax rate he still has $70,000. left and more counting other deductions! A person earning $60,000 would have have $42,000 left. The people with the lowest incomes should pay the lowest rate. Of course if Americans weren't so brainwashed that government run universal health care is a communist plot, the country would no longer be controlled by Insurance and pharmaceutical corporations and if the banks had stronger regulations, you would not be in the mess you are in now.
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- Caldwell, A.B., editor. History of the American Negro, Washington, D. C. Edition. Volume 6. Atlanta, Georgia: A.B. Caldwell Publishing Co., 1922. Digital version at Internet Archive. Biographies of many prominent black men and women of Washington, D.C.
- Brown, Letitia Woods. Free Negroes in the District of Columbia, 1790-1846. - New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. 226 p. (The Urban Live in America Series) E185.D6 B69
Columbian Harmony Cemetery Records, District of Columbia. 1831-1899. By Paul E. Sluby, Sr. for the Harmony Society. Washington, D.C. - [Washington]: Sluby, [197-?] - 357 leaves. F193 S58 FHL Book 975.3/W1 V22s
The Old Methodist Burying Ground, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.: a section of the Mt. Zion Cemetery as distinguished from the adjacent Female Union Band Society Burying Ground section. By Paul E. Sluby, Sr. -: [S,1.}: Sluby, 1975. - 70 p. FF193 S583 FHL Book 975 Al #7
Woodlawn Cemetery, Washington, DC : Brief history and inscriptions / compiled by Paul E. Sluby, Sr.; edited by Stanton L. Wormley. - Washington: Columbian Harmony Society, 1984. 70 leaves F193. S585 1984 FHL Book 975.3 V38s
- The Bee Full-text of this African-American D.C. newspaper digitized and hosted online by the Library of Congress. Covers 1882-1884.
Slave Records
- United States. District Court (District of Columbia). Records of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Relating to Slaves, 1851-1863. Washington, District of Columbia: Filmed by the National Archives, 1963. FHL films 1299307–8 An indexed digital version of this collection is available on Ancestry (a pay site) as "Washington, D.C., Slave Emancipation Records, 1851-1863." An indexed transcription of the "Manumission Papers, 1857-1863" portion of this collection is available at Christine's Genealogy Website.
- Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Emancipation of Slaves in the District of Columbia, 1862-1863. Washington [District of Columbia]: Filmed by the National Archives, 1963. FHL films 1299303–6 An indexed digital version of this collection is available on Ancestry (a pay site) as "Washington, D.C., Slave Owner Petitions, 1862-1863."
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Avoice: the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Virtual Library Project.
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I still remember the column he wrote for The Nation, decades ago, in which he came out, as it were, as pro-life.
Indiana State GOP Rep. Eric Turner told The Daily Beast, "I believe this will make us the most pro-life state in America."
Fu, though, rejected the claim that his priority is to attack the Obama administration or promote his pro-life agenda.
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Brooks, S.P.; Ebenezer, N.D.; Poopalasundaram, S.; Lehmann, O.J.; Moore, A.T.; Hardcastle, A.J.; (2004) Identification of the gene for Nance-Horan syndrome (NHS). Journal of Medical Genetics , 41 (10) pp. 768-771. 10.1136/jmg.2004.022517.
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Objective: To identify the gene or genes responsible for these diseases. Methods: Families with NHS were ascertained. The refined locus for CXN was used to focus the search for candidate genes, which were screened by polymerase chain reaction and direct sequencing of potential exons and intron-exon splice sites. Genomic structures and homologies were determined using bioinformatics. Expression studies were undertaken using specific exonic primers to amplify human fetal cDNA and mouse RNA. Results: A novel gene NHS, with no known function, was identified as causative for NHS. Protein truncating mutations were detected in all three NHS pedigrees, but no mutation was identified in a CXN family, raising the possibility that NHS and CXN may not be allelic. The NHS gene forms a new gene family with a closely related novel gene NHS-Like1 (NHSL1). NHS and NHSL1 lie in paralogous duplicated chromosomal intervals on Xp22 and 6q24, and NHSL1 is more broadly expressed than NHS in human fetal tissues. Conclusions: This study reports the independent identification of the gene causative for Nance-Horan syndrome and extends the number of mutations identified.
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A Randomized, Open-label Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of ABT-450/Ritonavir/ABT-267 (ABT-450/r/ABT-267) and ABT-333 Coadministered with Ribavirin (RBV) in Adults with Genotype 1 Chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection and Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Type 1 (HIV-1) Coinfection (TURQUOISE-I)
This is a Phase 2/3, randomized, open-label, multicenter study evaluating the safety and efficacy of aBT-450/r/aBT-267 and aBT-333 coadministered with RBV for 12 or 24 weeks in adults with HCV GT 1/HiV-1 coinfection who are HCV treatment-naive or pegiFn/RBVxexperienced with and without compensated cirrhosis.
This study will consist of a Phase 2 pilot cohort (Part 1a and Part 1b) and a Phase 3 cohort (Part 2). Both Part 1 and Part 2 of this study will consist of a Treatment Period and a Post-Treatment Period. in addition, Part 1b will consist of a lead-in period (Pre-Treatment Period) for approximately 2 weeks prior to the initiation of the Treatment Period. Patients with an unquantifiable plasma HiV-1 Rna and a CD4+ count [GreaterThanorequalTo] 200 cells/mm3 or a CD4+% [GreaterThanorequalTo] 14% while on a stable atazanavir (aTV), raltegravir (RaL), or darunavir (DRV) containing HiV-1 aRT regimen will be eligible.
Please note that Part 1a has already been completed so we will only be performing Part 1b and Part 2.
For Part 1b, participants will be randomized to receive DRV 800 mg QD (arm C) or switch to DRV
600 mg twice daily (BiD) administration (arm D) for a minimum of 14 days prior to starting study
treatment. Beginning on Study Day 1, subjects in Part 1b will also receive aBT-450/r/aBT-267 and
aBT-333 coadministered with RBV for 12 weeks.
For Part 2, participants will be randomized into 1 of 2 treatment arms:
arm a (12-Week Treatment arm):
* aBT-450/r/aBT-267, aBT-333, RBV,
arm B (24-Week Treatment arm):
* aBT-450/r/aBT-267, aBT-333, RBV
The primary efficacy endpoints are the percentage of subjects with SVR12 (HCV Rna [Less Than] LLoQ 12 weeks after the last actual dose of study drug) within each treatment arm. The percentage of subjects achieving SVR12 within each treatment arm will be calculated and a 2-sided 97.5% confidence interval (Ci) of the percentage will be computed using the normal approximation to the binomial distribution. a gatekeeping testing procedure will be used to control the Type i error rate at 0.05 and the primary endpoints will be tested separately within each arm:
a1. SVR12: Superiority of arm a to the historical SVR rate for pegiFn and RBV therapy; the Lower Confidence Bound (LCB) of the 97.5% Ci for the percentage of subjects with SVR12 in arm a must exceed 36% to achieve superiority.
B1. SVR12: Superiority of arm B to the historical SVR rate for pegiFn and RBV therapy; the LCB of the 97.5% Ci for the percentage of subjects with SVR12 in arm B must exceed 36% to achieve superiority.
Participant Eligibility
1. Male or female and age is between 18 and 70 years, inclusive, at time of screening.
2. Female who is:
* practicing total abstinence from sexual intercourse (minimum 1 complete menstrual cycle),
* sexually active with female partners only,
* of childbearing potential and sexually active with male partner(s):
- currently using at least one effective method of birth control at the time of screening and agree
to practice two effective methods of birth control while receiving study drugs (as outlined in the
subject information and consent form or other subject information documents), starting with Study
Day 1 and for 7 months after stopping study drug as directed by the local ribavirin label. (Note:
Hormonal contraceptives, including oral, topical, injectable or implantable varieties, may not be
used during study drug treatment).
* not of childbearing potential, defined as:
- postmenopausal for at least 2 years prior to screening (defined as amenorrheic for longer than 2
years, age appropriate, and confirmed by a follicle-stimulating hormone [FSH] level indicating a
postmenopausal state), or
- surgically sterile (defined as bilateral tubal ligation, bilateral oophorectomy or hysterectomy), or
has a vasectomized partner(s),
3. Females must have negative results for pregnancy tests performed:
* at Screening by serum specimen within 35 days prior to initial study drug administration
* at Study Day 1 (Baseline, prior to dosing) by urine specimen.
4. Sexually active males must be surgically sterile or have male partners only or if sexually active with female partner(s) of childbearing potential must agree to practice two effective forms of birth control (as outlined in the subject informed consent or other subject information documents) throughout the course of the study, starting with Study Day 1 and for 7 months after stopping study drug or as directed by the local ribavirin label. (Note: Hormonal contraceptives may be
considered effective if used by the female partners of male subjects.)
5. Subjects must be HCV treatment-naive or pegIFN/RBV-experienced. If pegIFN/RBV-experienced, subject must have documentation that they were adherent to prior pegIFN/RBV combination therapy and meet one of the following categories:
* Null responder:
1. received at least 12 weeks of pegIFN/RBV for the treatment of HCV and failed to achieve a 2
log10 IU/mL reduction in HCV RNA at Week 12 (Subjects will be considered to meet this
definition if the lack of treatment response was documented between Weeks 10 x 16 of
treatment ); or
2. received at least 4 weeks of pegIFN/RBV for the treatment of HCV and achieved a < 1 log10
IU/mL reduction in HCV RNA at Week 4 (Subjects will be considered to meet this definition if the
lack of treatment response was documented after >= 25 days of treatment); or
* Partial responder: received at least 20 weeks of pegIFN/RBV for the treatment of HCV and achieved >= 2 log10 IU/mL reduction in HCV RNA at Week 12 (Subjects will be considered to meet this definition if the lack of treatment response was documented between Weeks 10 x 16 of treatment), but failed to achieve HCV RNA undetectable at the end of treatment; or
* Relapser: received at least 36 weeks of pegIFN/RBV for the treatment of HCV and was undetectable at or after the end of treatment, but HCV RNA was detectable within 52 weeks of treatment follow-up.
HCV RNA levels that serve as documentation to support the type of prior response should have been obtained in relation to the previous pegIFN/RBV treatment. PegIFN/RBV therapy must have been completed no less than 2 months prior to the Screening Visit.
6. Subjects must be able to understand and adhere to the study visit schedule and all other protocol requirements.
7. Body Mass Index (BMI) is from >= 18 to < 38 kg/m2 at the time of screening. BMI is calculated as weight measured in kilograms (kg) divided by the square of height measured in meters (m).
8. Must voluntarily sign and date an informed consent form, approved by an IRB/IEC, prior to the initiation of any screening or study specific procedures.
9. Chronic HCV infection prior to study enrollment. Chronic HCV infection is defined as one of the following:
* Positive for anti-HCV antibody (Ab) or HCV RNA at least 6 months before Screening, and positive for HCV RNA and anti-HCV Ab at the time of Screening; or
* Positive for anti-HCV Ab and HCV RNA at the time of Screening with a liver biopsy consistent with chronic HCV infection.
10. Screening laboratory result indicating HCV genotype 1-infection.
11. Subject has HCV RNA level > 10,000 IU/mL at Screening.
12. Positive past test result for anti-Human Immunodeficiency Virus antibody (HIV Ab) or HIV-1 infection documented by a plasma HIV-1 RNA (viral load), rapid HIV test or any licensed HIV-1 ELISA test confirmed by another test using a different method including but not limited to a rapid HIV-1 Ab test, HIV-1 Western Blot, HIV-1 culture, HIV-1 antigen, or HIV-1 proviral DNA at any time prior to screening, and positive HIV Ab test at Screening.
13. Plasma HIV-1 RNA < 40 copies/mL during screening using Abbott RealTime HIV-1 assay, and plasma HIV-1 RNA below LLOQ by an approved plasma HIV-1 RNA quantitative assay (including but not limited to: COBAS(RegisteredTM) Ampliprep/COBAS(RegisteredTM) Taqman(RegisteredTM) HIV-1 Test, v 2.0 or Abbott RealTime HIV-1 assay) at least twice during the 24 weeks prior to screening including one qualifying result at least 8 weeks prior to screening.
Subjects with a solitary (unconfirmed) plasma HIV-1 RNA above LLOQ and < 200 copies/mL within 24 weeks of screening may be eligible for enrollment with approval of the AbbVie Study Designated Physician.
14. CD4+ count >= 200 cells/mm3 or CD4+% >= 14% during screening and at each timepoint measured during the 24 weeks prior to screening.
Subjects with a solitary CD4+ count < 200 cells/mm3 or CD4+% < 14% within 24 weeks of screening may be eligible for enrollment with approval of the AbbVie Study Designated Physician.
15. On a stable, qualifying HIV-1 ART regimen for at least 8 weeks prior to screening. The HIV-1 ART regimen must include two nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors plus either the ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor, atazanavir, or the integrase inhibitor, raltegravir.
The nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor combinations in the stable qualifying HIV-1 ART regimen must be either:
* Tenofovir disproxil fumarate (TDF) PO QD plus emtricitabine (FTC) PO QD (Individual components or as the fixed dose combination TDF/FTC, Truvada(RegisteredTM)), or
* Tenofovir disproxil fumarate (TDF) PO QD plus lamivudine (3TC) PO QD or 3TC PO BID (Individual components or as the fixed dose combination TDF/3TC).
The ritonavir boosted protease inhibitor in the stable qualifying HIV-1 ART regimen must be:
* Atazanavir (ATV) PO QD coadministered with ritonavir (RTV) PO QD
The integrase inhibitor in the stable qualifying HIV-1 ART regimen must be:
* Raltegravir (RAL) PO BID.
Subjects receiving any other HIV-1 ART in addition to those noted above would not be eligible for enrollment in the study.
Subjects will be considered to be non-cirrhotic and included in the study if the following criteria are met:
16. Per local standard practice, documented results of one of the following:
* A liver biopsy within 24 months prior to or during screening demonstrating the absence of cirrhosis, e.g., a METAVIR Score of 3 or less, Ishak score of 4 or less; or
* A screening FibroTest score of <= 0.72 and Aspartate Aminotransferase to Platelet Ratio Index (APRI) <= 2; or
* A screening FibroScan result of < 12.5 kPa (FibroScan must be approved by the local regulatory agency to qualify for entrance criteria).
- Subjects with a screening FibroScan result that is >= 12.5 kPa and < 14.6 kPa, a FibroTest
result that is <= 0.72 and an APRI > 2, or a FibroTest result that is >= 0.73 and an APRI <= 2 should
have a liver biopsy to determine the presence or absence of cirrhosis. If the liver biopsy
demonstrates the absence of cirrhosis, the subject will be considered noncirrhotic
and will be eligible for study participation.
Subjects will be considered to have compensated cirrhosis and included in the study
if the following criteria are met:
17. Per local standard practice, documentation of cirrhosis by one of the following methods:
* Previous histologic diagnosis of cirrhosis on liver biopsy, e.g., Metavir Score of > 3 (including 3 x 4 or 3/4), Ishak score of > 4 or on a liver biopsy conducted during screening,
* A screening FibroTest result that is >= 0.73 and an APRI > 2,
* A screening FibroScan score >= 14.6 kPa (FibroScan must be approved by the local regulatory agency to qualify for entrance criteria).
18. Compensated cirrhosis defined as Child-Pugh score of <= 6 at Screening.
19. Absence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) as indicated by a negative ultrasound, computed tomography (CT) scan or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) 3 months prior to Screening or a negative ultrasound at Screening. Subjects who have an ultrasound with results suspicious of HCC followed by a subsequent negative CT or MRI of the liver will be eligible for the study.


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Chicken Kabobs
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|Boneless skinless chicken breasts
|16 Ounce (Four 4 Ounce Fillets)
|Red bell peppers
|2 , cut into large squares
|Green onions
|8 , with tops removed
|Dijon mustard
|1 Tablespoon
|Melted margarine
|2 Tablespoon
|Lemon juice
|1 Tablespoon
|Dried chopped parsley
|1 Teaspoon
|Garlic powder
|1 Dash
|Ground black pepper
|1 Dash
Prepare coals in outdoor barbecue grill according to manufacturer's directions.
Unfold fillets and spread thin layer of mustard on one side.
Slice each fillet lengthwise into 4 strips of even width.
Thread fillet strips onto skewers alternating with bell pepper and green onion.In small bowl, combine melted margarine, lemon juice, parsley, garlic powder and black pepper.
Grill kabobs over medium coals with lid closed about 10 minutes or until done, brushing once or twice with margarine mixture.
When done, chicken will no longer be pink when sliced through thickest part.
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Blu-ray discs DRM is broken. Take it!!
Always let the hardware be free…
Blu-ray discs DRM is broken. Take it!!
Always let the hardware be free…
It's the leit motiv of my life these days…
So, I everyday dive in a dense mesh of same names and organizations…
The last days at the Conference were intense, so I'll write about them at home again.
The second day began with RMS's speech about patents. We arrived a bit late, but I can certify it was a very good speech again. After it, Richard sold by (benefic) auction his book "Free Software, Free Society" and a cuddly GNU. Gonzalo had a moment of foolness, and now that GNU is now called "the CartoÑu". Tomorrow will be introduced in society
After a coffee, I began to jump from a session to another again, looking for the most interesting papers to my work. Barranco and Alvarez from CEDEX showed the power of GRASS in hydrology investigation. Gomariz, Moreno, Cánovas and Alonso from University of Mucia explained the architecture they built to create a GIS to investigate hydric resources. They where the free software radicals in the conference, I think the only (LaTeX) beamer I saw in the three days. I was happy to have concurred in technologic decisions for several solutions in CartoLab with them.
The last speeches for me in the morning where about the wonderful world of OGC services: David Jonglez from Camptocamp France SAS talked about MapFish; Fonts and Vidal related the evolution of Vissir2, the web visor of the Institut Cartográfic de Catalunya.
After having lunch Gonzalo gave a great speech standing out the importance of developing general free GIS clients to specific pourposes in order to reduce the time of cartographic works. Victor Olaya made the CartoLab in protagonist again with the announce of Nacho going to be part of the
Sextante developing team.
The rest hours to the night were my approach to OSGeo foundation and its Spanish-American chapter. I'll write about it later. I only can say by now it was really exciting
Great part of attendants went home that night. Gonzalo, Nacho and me ended the night soon at the Camelot Irish pub with Victor Olaya and more people of the conference.
We changed the stage on Friday. The workshops where developed in the Facultat de Lletres of Universitat de Girona. It's a restored Gothic monastery. I think they could be done a better integrated work, but it's still a pretty environment.
Carlos Dávila developed a good workshop on Quantum GIS, a GIS client based on GRASS. I never had worked with a GIS program in such depth. Gonzalo runned out to the train station because he must flight to Asturias the same day. In the other side, the rest of CartoLab team had lunch in the central court of the building, under cypresses shadow.
The culmination for me arrived afternoon with Lorenzo Becchi driving a workshop on OpenLayers. I was tired, of course. But I would resist four hours more learning about that wonderful libraries.
That night Nacho and me had dinner at König and we returned to La Lola pub to celebrate those days :-D(I think Catalonians go to bed too soon, but that night we were too tired to worry about it ;-))
Maybe the III Jornadas SIG Libre had the geek level I would like. But it was in fact the cause of it sucess: everybody felt confortable and everybody could find interesting things for their business. I remembered sometimes GPUL's CTSL'05
Today I'm analysing some documentation I received into the official bag of the conference. I found a very interesting book: "Complete migration to open source software in the Valencian Regional Ministry of Infraestructure and Transport". It's a example to follow, as far I could read by now.
It seems next year there won't be the 4th edition. Why? Because FOSS4G 2010 will celebrate in Barcelona. It is the greatest event about geospatial free software in the world, and Irene Compte, Lluis Vicens and Lorenzo Becci will work in it. So, I'm sure it'll be a new sucess, and I
wish to be there
It's 4 a.m. I'm trying to write slowly in the darkness because Gonzalo it's trying to sleep. He will read his paper tomorrow.
Today started the Conference. It seems the usual professional Conference in a four-star hotel, but there is a bit of unformality air. It's not a geek conference at all (otherwise somebody would burn with gas because the wireless net continuous problems), there are people from different disciplines and organistations (government, university, enterprise, non-profit foundations, even lone developers).
In the opening we could hear some philosophical conferences (web 3.0 gaaaaaa!!!!) and the launching of some projects related to the GIS world (Simon Jirka on 52º North about Sensor Web Enablement, and Chris Holmes on OpenGeo about geospatial web services).
After lunch the most technical speeches began. Nacho opened the fire in his session with the releasing of SDIAnalyzer. He beared the network problems too, so he sadly couldn't improve his speech with a fair demo. Then a pair of speeches followed about Catalonian and Andalusian governments apps around web geospatial services to their citizens.
There was an interesting discussion after the coffe about free (as in freedom) (spatial) data. Once again, governments and non-profit initiatives like OSM exposed their different points of view.
After sunset we went out for a walk with a tourist guide. We could admire how a city was built since the Roman Empire (Via Augusta crosses the city drawing the cardus) to nowadays. It was a pity the cathedral was closed. It's the Gothic cathedral with the longest span in width nave in the world. We could read in those old stones some history about intolerance of Catholics against Jewish (modern era) and Communist and Anarchists against Catholics (Spanish II Republic and Civil War).
Finally we went to have dinner to a nice restaurant where we eat some typical dishes. After it, around 100 GISers crossed in the night the city to find an opened pub. We found a pretty pub where two guitarists played a gypsy concert. I got a bit sad during a moment because I lost my session at the Portiño, but we really got fun dancing
(Of course I'm uploading some photos in my gallery.)
And… in four hours… we'll sing "Join us now and share the software…"
…it happened.
From NoOOXML
In these last days I have been 'unplugged' two very interesting news jumped me from worry to happiness.
One is the ISO stopping Microsoft with the OOXML defective by design standard (via OSNews). If ISO had aproved OOXML maybe it would keep the slavery we bear in communications with administrations.
The other news come from the graphics world. It's, of course, the new policy by ATI releasing GPU specs without restrictions. It will be an important leap for the manufactures and, of course, for the free software world. Now we are waiting for NVidia 😉
Near two years ago I wrote a post about CAD file formats. I defended the DGN format against DWG or DXF. Then I thought the Open Design Alliance was a good idea.
But since that post to now I began to investigate in order to write a translator from DGN V8 for Blender. My first step was towards the Open Design Alliance, but there I couldn't find free libs nor DGN V8 specs. ODA has an interesting point of beginning (if your file formats are not free you can't own your works). But they are not interested en free (as in freedom) software.
So I aimed to Bentley's OpenDGN Initiative. All my attempts finished in a 'forbidden' web page. Then I exchanged a pair of mails with the person at the charge, finally I couldn't got the DGN V8 specs. He stopped to answer my emails. I found similar experiencies of people looking for this document.
As it seems it is impossible to find the DGN V8 specifications as I can find the DGN V7/ISFF, I conclude OpenDGN is not so open as Bentley pretends. So it is a bad idea to found any project in DGN V8 (closed specs), DWG (closed specs, heavy drm-zed format) and DXF (poor format, not standard at all).
Via Martín who writes in gpul's blog I discovered a recent project which target is to design a really open CAD file format. It seems there are interesting discussions about it.
Maybe you think a CAD format is a too specific field to work. But you must think in the roads you drive on, the buildings you live and work, the engines that move you, the networks you connect to. Think about it, and you will see a world to free.
…your DRM (HD-DVD) sucks:
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And something about the next crack at Ars Technica…
Have you suffered the random whims of Word? Do you have a 5-years old document and you can't read properly because the version or the word processor missed? Ok, here is an interesting document about why do you must learn to process with LaTeX your documents (especially if you write lots of mathematical formulas): Word processors: stupid and inefficient, by Allin Cotrell.
The document translated in Spanish. Via Barrapunto.
Sure many people believes that RMS is fool and FSF is losing the way in campaigns like Defective by Design. I was a little skeptic the first time I read "The right to read" near a decade ago. But today I'm a believer, I don't need to read this very interesting Peter Gutmann's paper on Windows Vista efforts to convert a general pourpose machine (a PC) in a f*ck*ng branch of music and cinema enterprises.
So I only wish news like the lawsuit of Autodesk against (slashdot) the Open Design Alliance, with the TrustedDWG in the background, will help to my colleagues engineers to open eyes and drop Autodesk products and closed formats in favour of open (and better) formats like DGN.
Even if Adobe opensources whole Flash, it is NOT an standard. Even if it becomes an standard, it is NOT accesible.
I couldn't have rest after the June tests. GPUL planned to middle July this year for first time a web technologies conference, the I Jornada sobre Tecnologías Web y Software Libre, on 12th, and the traditional cryptography workshop: III Taller de Criptografía, Seguridad y Privacidad, on 13th.
The work was hard for all organizers. We have several speakers who travelled to La Coruña, and Visperas and Benji via ekiga
The Web Conference began with Martín Álvarez Espinar, from the Spanish Office of the W3C, who explained us the structure of the W3C, their investigations and developments, and the importance of standards in the universal access to the web. In the same line, David Cabrero Souto spoke about differents aspects of accesibility in the web. The stinky example, the main web of our University :-P.
After "theory" then we have "implementation" speechs. Ph. D.Fernando Bellas Permuy showed the architecture and explained the decisions in the future academic management of USC and UDC consortium, which will be built with free software on open standards. Asís García Chao and David Barral Precedo of Trabe Soluciones gave us an introduction to AJAX. This speech filled up the classroom, AJAX is getting importance because so-called Web 2.0 (I think we should first make work Web 1.0 ok, but I love gmail and meebo too ;-)).
The culminating moment of the day was the Allan Beaufour's speech. We were honoured by his visit, he travelled from Copenhagen only to give this speech. He talked about the past, present and future of Mozilla Firefox, then he centered in XML technologies and the implementation of the XForms standard in Firefox. I discovered an amazing technology (and how can my English speaking stink, but this is another history).
And finally our Ana Sáiz García gave a CSS introduction. I couldn't saw the videoconference, but she helped me sometimes with CSS so I know she did a good work explaining how important and easy is detaching contents and appearance
The photos of the event by Fid (with my camera) in my gallery.
Open Document Format is standard ISO for exchangin documents: ISO/IEC 26300
I don't want receive any .doc from a public institution nevermore
Via Slashdot, we know we must welcome to the blogsphere to Tim Berners-Lee, the Wide World Web first developer. We can read in his first post at MIT's Descentraliced Information Group Tim explains briefly about his ideas fifteen years ago: use of browser-editor, on-line edition of web pages. So, we can bypass from that times to now: current trends aim to use wikis, blogs… and we think these are new ideas!
I won't make grow the over 450 comments to his first post, so, from here, Sir Tim, thanks for made it possible!
Engeneers near free software desire a powerful CAD program to their GNU/Linux stations, and, when they read news like this in slashdot about little steps to open source by Autodesk they immediately think it's possible in nearly future. Projects like qcad are too young, varkon is a good project, it's used by SAAB Aircraft, but it hasn't specific features to civil engeneering. By now, we must patiently wait.
About this, there is some confusion about file formats. I can read in Beowulf's blog his post about Autodesk. Beowulf is civil engeneer and he's Debian developer, so he can see both sides of problem. But I think he's in a mistake: he's interested in .dxf to be an open standard. Actually it is an open standard, but Autodesk includes privative extensions. As it's explained in white papers of Open Design Alliance, .dxf is a poor format. ODA started its actions in order to achieve an open format compatible with .dwg
In 2003 ODA signed an important agreement with Bentley. The Bentley OpenDGN Initiative was born. So, everybody with his work in .dgn (it usually happen in road databases and maps in Spain and several GIS support it) they have complete control over it. Experts think dgn is better format than dwg, too (i.e. dgn supports serious units management).
Then I think the next step is a great free CAD project based in .dgn, not in .dxf nor .dwg
More about inaccesible web pages: Spanish Govern page about avian flu is made with flash. You know, blind people, you can die like chiken:"Best prevention against avian flu is information", President Office says (but you can't read it).
(You can find this an another funny examples in this column of Daniel Rodríguez Herrera at Libertad Digital (in Spanish))
In this my new home in the Paradise I decided to build my homepage. I was trying to do it some time ago (actually three years ago, when I began Linuxbeat with Bille), but I nerver had time to do it.
I saw Jacobo Tarrío's home page, he took Mediawiki, the Wikipedia engine, and customized it. "It was perfect", I thought, "I can translate my math expressions with LaTeX".
I tried to copy the idea, but I couldn't do it. I have no php knowledgement nor time to waste. I could make my own web writing the html, but I have no sftp connection to the server when I am at the Campus. I was too looking for an easy way to create web pages to my neighbour Belén, to avoid her using the stinky frontpage :-P.
So I began to look for another wiki engines. I started with this interesting article about comparison of wiki engines in the Wikipedia. I tried with phpWiki but I have some problems with my hosting (I'm not the root). Then I tested MoinMoin, I liked it because it didn't need a database, but it was to big to my disk quota and I couldn't overcome some configuration problems.
Finally I found WikkaWiki, and I saw opened Heaven: small, easy to install and use, good security, customizable by CSS and very important XHML 1.0 compliant. Then I got it. You can verify it at Tsao in the Paradise home page (in spanish).
I've just begun my protest against unaccesible web pages in Internet. I'm raging against web that doesn't follow neither the Wide World Web Consortium standards nor accesibility guidelines of WAI. I'm tired of meeting web pages that I can only read "Macromedia Flash plugin required" or so, they are barriers to individuals with disabilities in the www.
You can read the list in Lista Negra in my personal homepage
You can contribute to the list with an e-mail to tsao _at_ enelparaiso_dot_ org
We have a lot of work today with our work to the Territory and Town Planning subject. My friends Silvia and Rocío and myself are in the same group, we must investigate the growing of the city centres in our area.
We use ours School maps, but we wanted to use another resources in Internet. We had very unpleasant experience. Let's see this links:
Why we pay taxes to the govern :-P?
(We could find a decent web page, the Virtual Land Registry, it is fast, give the right information, and doesn't require no plugins, congratulations to the authors)
Update: SitGa: several maps servers of Xunta de Galicia: I installed the f*ck*ng flash plugin, the propietary and *bad documented* svg plugin of Adobe. It didn't work, I only could get a web that says "IE 6.0 recommended" 😛


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ST. PAUL, Minn. The Minnesota Wild have signed 25-year old defenseman Nate Prosser to a two-year, one-way contact extension. Prosser, an Elk River native, has six assists in 23 games for Minnesota this season, 20:37 minutes of ice time, fourth among all rookies. The extension begins next season and is a one-way contract, meaning Prosser's time with the Wild is now secure after bouncing back and forth from minor-league Houston the past three years. The Wild are 14-7-2 with Prosser in the lineup and play at Columbus on Tuesday before returning home with a game against the Vancouver Canucks on Feb. 9. Prosser has tallied seven assists in 28 career games for Minnesota after signing with the team as a college free agent out of Colorado College in 2010.
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