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Stabilization of colloidal systems through the formation of lipid-polyssacharide complexes. Development of a procedure for the preparation of colloidal systems involving a combination of two ingredients: a water soluble and positively charged polyssacharide and a negatively charged phospholipid. Colloidal systems (submicron emulsions and polymeric nanoparticles and nanocapsules) are stabilized through the formation, at the interface, of an ionic complex: aminopolyssachride-phospholipid. These colloidal systems are characterized by their positive charge and their improved stability. Furthermore, they can be freeze-dried, stored in a dry state and hydrated when required. They can be interesting systems for the administration of drugs by the oral, transdermal, ocular, nasal and vaginal routes of administration. In addition, they can be of interest for cosmetic use.
1. A process for the preparation of a colloidal system having a size less than 1 micron suitable for delivery of an active material, said system comprising a coated member selected from the group consisting of nanodroplet, nanocapsule and nanoparticle, comprising the steps of
providing a solution comprising hydrophobic polymer or oil and negatively charged phospholipid dissolved in an organic solvent,
providing an aqueous solution of cationic aminopolyssacharide selected from the group consisting of chitin and chitosan,
combining said organic and aqueous solutions so as to simultaneously and spontaneously form and coat said member with a film which is the ionic reaction product of said phospholipid and aminopolyssacharide, and to provide said particles with a positive surface charge
wherein one of said solutions contains said active material and wherein said amino- polyssacharide is between 0.05 and 0.5% by weigh and said phospholipid is between 0.2 and 1% by weight.
2. The process of claim 1, wherein said phospholipid is lecithin.
3. The process of claim 2, wherein said amino-polyssacharide is up to 2% of the mixed organic and aqueous solutions and said phospholipid is up to 5% of said mixed organic and aqueous solutions.
4. The process of claim 2, wherein said aminopolyssacharide is chitosan.
5. The process of claim 2, wherein said hydrophobic polymer or oil is oil in a concentration of up to 1% based on said aqueous medium.
6. The process of claim 5, wherein said oil is selected from the group consisting of vegetable oil and semisynthetic polyoxyethylated oil.
7. The process of claim 2, wherein said hydrophobic polymer or oil is a polyester at a concentration of up to 4%.
8. The process of claim 2, wherein said mixture contains a cyroprotective agent and said particles are freeze dried.
9. The process of claim 8, wherein said cyroprotective agent is dextran or glucose or a mixture thereof.
10. The process of claim 2, wherein said aqueous solution is an aqueous acidic solution.
11. The process of claim 2, wherein said mixing takes places in the presence of an active material selected from the group consisting of drug, vitamin, vaccine and skin hydration agent.
12. The process of claim 11, wherein said active compound is selected from the group consisting of indomethacin, metipranolol, diazepam, tiopental and cyclosporin A.
13. A colloidal system having a size less than 1 micron comprising a coated member selected from the group consisting of nanodroplet, nanocapsule and nanoparticle comprising a hydrophobic polymer or oil and having a surface coating which is the ionic reaction product of a negatively charged phospholipid and a cationic aminopolyssacharide selected from the group consisting of chitin and chitosan, said member having a positive surface charge.
14. The system of claim 13, wherein said phospholipid is lecithin and said aminopolyssacharide is chitosan.
15. The system of claim 14 containing an active material selected from the group consisting of drug, vitamin, vaccine and skin hydration agent.
16. The system of claim 14, in which said member is a nanodroplet.
17. The system of claim 14, which is a nanocapsule.
18. The system of claim 14, which is a nanoparticle.
19. The system of claim 14, containing a cyroprotective agent.
20. A freezed dried system of claim 13.
This application is a 371 of PCT/ES96/00116 filed May 24, 1996.
This invention relates to stabilization of colloidal systems through the formation of lipid-polyssacharide complexes and development of a procedure for the preparation of colloidal systems involving a combination of two ingredients: a water soluble and positively charged polyssacharide and a negatively charged phospholipid. The procedure can be applied to the stabilization of colloidal systems of pharmaceutical and cosmetic use. These systems include oil-in-water submicron emulsions, nanocapsules consisting of an oily core surrounded by a polymer coating and polymeric solid nanoparticles. The common feature to all these colloidal systems is that they consist of a dispersed phase--oily nanodroplets, nanocapsules or nanoparticles--and a continuous aqueous phase. The originality of the procedure relies on the incorporation of lecithin (anionic ingredient), as a lipophilic surfactant, in the dispersed phase and of the chitosan, as a hydrophilic suspending agent, in the continuous aqueous phase.
Lecithin is a natural surfactant composed of a mixture of various phospholipids. The major compound is phosphatidylcholine (a phospholipid of a neutral character) and the secondary compounds are phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine and phosphatidic acid (phospholipids with a negative charge). Presently, there are several types of lecithin available in the market. They differ in their origin and in their phosphatidylcholine content.
Chitosan is a natural polymer obtained by a deacetatilation process of the chitin (compound extracted from the crustacean shells). Chitosan is an aminopolyssachride and has a positive charge. Presently, there are several types of chitosan available in the market. They differ in their molecular weight, deacetilation degree and the type of salt or acid form.
The colloidal systems of the invention are characterized by having contain lecithin and chitosan in their composition and they have a positive charge and an improved stability. Other ingredients will be specific to the type of system i.e. an oil, in the case of the submicron emulsions; an oil and a hydrophobic polymer, in the case of the nanocapsules, and a hydrophobic polymer in the case of the nanoparticles. Drugs, proteins and other bioactive compounds of interest in medicine and cosmetics can be incorporated in these systems. Consequently, the application of these systems could be extended to the fields of medicine and cosmetics.
A important draw back of the colloidal carriers is their unstability following in vivo administration and also during storage. It is well known that the majority of the colloidal carriers have a negative surface charge and, because of this fact, they interact with the cationic biologic compounds upon in vivo administration, thus leading to coalesce and destruction of the system. Difficulties in the freeze-drying process, more specifically problems in the reconstitution of the freeze-dried systems, represent another important limitation for the correct exploitation of the colloidal systems specially the nanocapsules and submicron emulsions. As a consequence, these systems have to be stored as a suspension liquid form, a situation that normally leads to the destruction of the systems in a few months. The novel systems presented here have a positive charge and an improved stability upon contact with biological cations and during storage. Consequently, these systems overcome the limitations mentioned above.
There are in the literature a large number of publications and patents describing procedures to produce colloidal systems such as nanoparticles, nanocapsules and submicron emulsions. Therefore, the production of these systems is not the object of the present invention. The object is, however, the incorporation in such colloidal systems of two specific ingredients: lecithin and chitosan. The preparation of these systems involves the use of two phases: an oily phase that is dispersed in an aqueous phase. Both phases normally contain surfactants. The most common surfactant introduced in the oily phase is lecithin. Lecithins are natural compounds that contain phosphatidylcholine and other phospholipids of negative charge. Consequently, colloidal systems containing lecithin have a more or less important negative surface charge. This negative charge normally leads to the destruction of the system, mainly upon contact with biological cations. This limitation inherent to most of the colloidal systems has been recently overcome by using lipophilic surfactants with a positive charge. These positive surfactants are introduced in the dispersed oily phase (S. Benita, oil-in water emulsion of positively charged particles WO 93/18852).
The present invention describes a new approach to provide the colloidal particles of a positive charge. This approach is based on the use of the cationic polyssacharide, chitosan, that is dissolved in the continuous aqueous phase and a lipid anionic surfactant, such as lecithin, that is introduced in the oily dispersed phase. The positively charged chitosan molecules interact with the negatively charged phospholipids, thus forming a film at the interface of the colloidal system. The interaction process of chitosan with phospholipids was previously described as a way to stabilize emulsions (no submicron emulsions) ( P. Faldt, B. Bergenstahl, P.M. Claesson, Stabilization by chitosan of soybean oil emulsions coated with phospholipid and glycolic acid, Colloids Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects 71, 187-195, 1993) and liposomes (I. Henriksen, G. Smistad and J. Karlsen, Interactions between liposomes and chitosan, Int. J. Pharm., 101, 227-236, 1994). Nevertheless, no reference concerning the application of such interaction (chitosan-phospholipid) to the stabilization of submicron emulsions, nanocapsules and nanoparticles has been found. On the other hand, it is important to mention that the approaches described until now for the freeze-drying of colloidal systems, such as nanocapsules and submicron emulsions, are based on the use of enormous amounts of sugars (R. J. Gautier and R. S. Levinson, Lyophilized emulsion compositions and method, South Africa patent No. 864032) whereas the freeze drying of the nanocapsules covered in this invention require the use of relatively low amounts of sugars (less than 10%).
The systems covered herein, characterized by the formation of a polysaccharidelipid complex at the interface, have some relevant advantages: (1) The systems can be stored in a suspension liquid form for extended periods of time, (2) the nanocapsules based on this approach can be freeze dried and the resultant dry product reconstituted upon addition of water (3) the chitosan-coated nanocapsules herewith described are more stable in the presence of biological cations than conventional uncoated nanocapsules, (4) the systems have a positive electrical surface charge that enables their interaction with negatively charged biological surfaces.
The present invention describes novel systems of interest in therapeutics and cosmetics. These systems can be presented in a liquid form of variable viscosity or in a semi-solid (cream) or solid form (freeze-dried powder).
The dispersed phase of the system consists either of a polymer or an oil or both substances simultaneously. The specific ingredient of this dispersed phase is a negatively charged phospholipid. This phase can contain as well a variable amount of an active ingredient. The oils can be chosen among vegetable oils or semisynthetic polyoxyethylenated oils (Migliol�, Labrafil�, Labrafac� . . . ) of various H.L.B. (hydrophilic lipophilic balance) values. The polymer can be any hydrophobic polymer which is adequate for pharmaceutical or cosmetic use. The proportion of the hydrophobic polymer with respect to the oily phase can vary from 0% (submicron emulsions) up to 100% (nanoparticles). Intermediate proportions lead to the formation of nanocapsules in which the oil is in the polymer forming a reservoir system.
The specific ingredient of the external aqueous phase is chitosan. For freeze drying purposes some cryoprotective agents such as dextran and glucose need to be added to this external phase. This phase can incorporate as well ingredients to provide a certain density or viscosity to the preparation, bacteriostatic agents for the prevention of contamination and other hydrophilic agents.
These systems can be formulated in different ways in order to incorporate in their structure one or more active ingredients of a hydrophilic or lipophilic character. The active ingredient is the ingredient for which the formulation is destined; in other words, the ingredient which will have an effect following its administration to an organism (humans or animals). The corresponding effect can be curing, minimizing or preventing a disease (drugs, vitamins, vaccines . . . ) or improving the physical appearance and aesthetics (e.g . . . skin hydration . . . ) and others.
Cyclosporin A, an immunossupressive peptide, indomethacin (anti-inflammatory drug) metipranolol (beta-blocker) and tiopental (hypnotic agent) are examples of drugs which have been successfully associated to the colloidal systems described herein.
A common feature to the systems described herein is the colloidal nature, which means that their size is lower that 1 μm. Tables 1 and 2 show the mean particle size of the nanocapsules, submicron emulsions and nanoparticles containing the oil Migliol� 840 and various amounts of polyepsiloncaprolactone, soybean lecithin and dextran.
As mentioned above, a relevant property of the systems described here is their positive electrical charge. This positive charge promotes the interaction of the systems with the negatively charged mucosa and epithelia and also improves their stability in the presence of biological cations. As shown in table 3, the zeta potential of the systems varies between +30 and +60 mV, being these values dependent on the molecular weight of chitosan.
The inner structure of the systems described here is variable and dependent upon the composition of the system. As indicated before, the composition of the systems can vary substantially, the common ingredients being lecithin and chitosan or their derivatives. Two main inner structures can be described: a reservoir system consisting of an oily core surrounded or not by a polymer wall and a matrix system consisting of solid particles containing none or little amounts of oil entrapped.
The redispersability of the colloidal systems upon freeze-drying is a major advantage of the systems. Tables 3 and 4 show the particle size of the nanocapsules before and after freeze-drying.
The procedure described in this invention leads to the formation of novel systems for pharmaceutical or cosmetic applications. In addition, these systems could be administered by various routes: topical, oral, nasal, pulmonary, vaginal and subcutaneous. The specific ingredients, chitosan and lecithin, provide to these systems a positive electrical charge and an improved stability, not only during storage but also upon freeze-drying and further rehydration.
TABLE 1______________________________________Particle size of the poly(ε-caprolactone) (PECL) nanocapsulescontaining Migliol � 840 and a fixed concentration of chitosan(Seacure 123, 0.2%)% Lecithin % Dextran % PECL (w/v)(w/v) (w/v) 0 1 2______________________________________0.5 1 340 � 23 361 � 22 353 � 210.5 2 278 � 43 324 � 28 292 � 381 1 324 � 23 384 � 5 313 � 191 2 313 � 11 303 � 28 318 � 241.5 1 314 � 19 341 � 18 346 � 201.5 2 284 � 12 321 � 10 339 � 13______________________________________
TABLE 2______________________________________Particle size of the poly(ε-caprolactone) (PECL) nanoparticlespreparedwith a fixed concentration of chitosan (Seacure 223, 0.2%)% Lecithin % Dextran % PECL (w/v)(w/v) (w/v) 1 2______________________________________0.5 1 290 � 16 308 � 150.5 2 286 � 12 296 � 201 1 330 � 15 330 � 21 2 299 � 16 317 � 101.5 1 337 � 10 355 � 191.5 2 326 � 18 332 � 12______________________________________
TABLE 3______________________________________Zeta potential of the poly(ε-caprolactone) (PECL) nanocapsulesandsubmicron emulsions containing Migliol � 840 and a fixedconcentration of chitosan (Seacure 320, 0.2%). Zeta Potential (mV)% Lecithin Nanocapsules(w/v) Submicron emulsions PECL 1% PECL 2%______________________________________0.5 +52 � 2 +60 � 1 +60 � 11 +60 � 1 +61 � 1 +60 � 0.071.5 +59 � 0.3 +59 � 2 +61 � 0.4______________________________________
TABLE 4______________________________________Particle size of the poly(ε-caprolactone) (PECL) nanocapsulescontaining Migliol � 840 and a fixed concentration of chitosan(Seacure 223 viscosity 100 cps and Seacure 320 viscosity 680 cps,0.2%). Final concentration of PECL and lecithin in the suspension:1% and 0.5% respectively.Chitosan Particle size (nm)viscosity % Dextran After freeze-(cps) (p/v) Before freeze-drying drying______________________________________100 1 459 � 23 487 � 19100 2 472 � 8 462 � 19680 1 443 � 30 475 � 30680 2 461 � 13 505 � 16______________________________________
Preparation of a formulation of nanocapsules containing PECL and Migliol� 840.
The nanocapsules were prepared using the following ingredients (%,w/w):
______________________________________Migliol � 840 oil 0.5Soybean lecithin 1.0polyepsiloncaprolactone 1.0Dextran 1.0Chitosan 0.2Water up to 100%______________________________________
Chitosan and dextran were dissolved in an acidic aqueous solution (acetic acid 0.05M, pH5.0). The oil Migliol� 840, the surfactant soybean lecithin and the polymer poly(ε-caprolactone) were dissolved in 25 ml of acetone. The acetonic solution was then added, upon magnetic agitation, to an aqueous solution. Three minutes later the system was transferred to a rotavapor for the elimination of the acetone. The size and zeta potential of the nanocapsules were: 385 nm and +45 mV respectively.
Finally, glucose was dissolved in the aqueous suspending medium and the nanocapsules freeze-dried. The particle size and zeta potential of the nanocapsules was determined again upon freeze-drying and resuspension. Results were: 359 nm and +42 mV.
Preparation of a formulation of nanocapsules containing PECL and Migliol� 840.
The nanocapsules were prepared as described in example 1 but containing different amounts of lecithin and oil:
______________________________________Migliol � 840 oil 1.5Soybean lecithin 0.5polyepsiloncaprolactone 1.0Dextran 1.0Chitosan 0.2Water up to 100%______________________________________
The particle size and zeta potential of these nanocapsules were: 433 nm and +32 mV, respectively, before freeze-drying and 582 and +43 mV after freeze-drying.
Preparation of a formulation of a submicron emulsion containing Migliol� 840.
The emulsion was prepared as described in example 1 but without the polymer PECL:
______________________________________Migliol � 840 oil 1.5Soybean lecithin 0.5Dextran 1.0Chitosan 0.2Water up to 100%______________________________________
The results of particle size and zeta potential were: 463 nm and +42 mV, respectively.
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Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was one of those people. That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busy with her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice of political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler, the man who would soon change the whole of Europe - starting with her own small life. Anna suddenly found things moving too fast for her to understand. One day, her father was unaccountably missing. Then she herself and her brother Max were being rushed by their mother, in alarming secrecy, away from everything they knew - home and schoolmates and well-loved toys - right out of Germany...
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Music, fiesta to observe patron saint's feast day at St. Philips in the Hills church in Tucson
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Harford Hires Smelkinson As Men's Basketball Head CoachApril 4, 2014
BEL AIR, Md. – The Harford Athletic Department and Athletic Director Ken Krsolovic have announced the hiring of Mike Smelkinson as men's basketball coach. Smelkinson was previously at the helm of the Howard Dragons.
"Mike Smelkinson stood out among a huge pool of applicants. His track record of academic and on-court success for his student-athletes is exemplary," Krsolovic said. "Add in his familiarity with the MD JUCO Conference, NJCAA Region 20, and his work ethic, and you have a person who can lead the Fighting Owls to new heights in Division I play. I am truly excited for the prospects of the Harford men's basketball program under his direction."
During Smelkinson's three seasons as the head coach at rival Howard, the Dragons were a combined 49-37 overall and 26-19 in MD JUCO play. He took the Dragons to the NJCAA National Tournament in 2013 after winning the Region XX Championship at the Division II level.
Last season, Smelkinson took the Dragons to the Region XX Final while tying for first place in the MD JUCO regular season standings with a 10-6 conference mark. Under Smelkinson's guidance, Howard finished in the top five of the MD JUCO standings both of the last two seasons.
One of Smelkinson's specialties seems to be turning around programs. In his first season at Howard, he took the Dragons to 13 victories, more than doubling the previous season's win total of six. Prior to his stint at Howard, Smelkinson was the head coach for one season at Marriotts Ridge High School, where he took a winless team to eight victories in 2011.
Smelkinson served as an assistant coach at his alma mater, St. Mary's College of Maryland, from 2008-10. He assisted in all coaching duties, including recruiting, creating scouting reports, player development and game management duties. During his final year at SMC, Smelkinson was the head coach of the JV squad.
Smelkinson played his final two years of eligibility at St. Mary's College, helping the team to a 2008 NCAA DIII Sweet 16 appearance and national ranking. The Seahawks won the Capital Athletic Conference Tournament while Smelkinson led the CAC in assists. He started his collegiate career at NCAA DII's California (Pa.) University, playing in every game from 2004-06.
As a high school standout, Smelkinson earned Howard County Player of the Year honors in 2004 at Long Reach High School.
Smelkinson graduated from St. Mary's College of Maryland in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in human studies. He earned his master's degree in education from Walden University in 2013.


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2014 (R. SENIOR)One of four Sooners to start every match on the season ... Team co-captain alongside Abby Hodgen ... Started every match for Oklahoma since her sophomore season, notching 61 consecutive starts and 67 total appearances as a defender for OU ... First team Academic All-Big 12.2013 (R. JUNIOR)First-team Academic All-Big 12 ... One of three Oklahoma team members to start every match in 2013 ... One of two team captains for Oklahoma in 2013 ... Owned three shots (two on goal) ... Posted shots in matches against Tennessee, Oklahoma State and Utah.
2012 (SOPHOMORE)First-Team Academic All-Big 12 selection ... Made her first career start in OU's season-opening win over Nebraska ... Went on to start all 20 games in her sophomore season ... Scored her first career goal in OU's double-overtime loss to UNLV on Sept. 1 ... Notched an assist in a 1-1 tie against Oklahoma State.
2011 (FRESHMAN)Made first appearance as a Sooner in season opener vs. UAB ... Also came off the bench in four games.
HIGH SCHOOLLettered four years at T.K. Gorman Catholic High School under Skyler Clarkston ... Played for the boys' team as a freshman, sophomore and junior .. School did not have a girls team until senior year in which she helped organize ... Named team most valuable player of boys' team as a junior ... Three-time all-district honoree for boys' soccer ... As a senior on girls' team, named the district's MVP and first team all-state ... Also ran cross country and track in high school ... Four-time all-state honoree in cross country and team won state championship in 2007.
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agreed. the NBA can go under as well and it wouldnt be missed.
wow you're miserable..lol . this was a great write up given the detail and hours from the show ending. glad im not in your crosshairs in this lifetime ! skunk
absolutely. unless you hate yourself and enjoy being a supporter of this farce
Anyone still rooting for this franchise after a great team was blown up for the sake of a real estate deal is mentally ill. Anyone rooting for the nba in general is a fool::fixed refs, thug commish, scum players dictating trades, n 8+ busted markets with no chance to win or make $$$ good luck with that
2 years later hes gonna be pimped out behind bars
it will be addressed after a mass elecrocution of a few hundred people. thats how we roll
Jason O'Donnell, dont you know we're all in hell already? you stupid chuckle head. get a new pair of glasses and find us all a clue to help the situation, you four-eyed freak
how does one have cap room if the whole league is bankrupt! aside from TV, is anyone actually paying for this garbage!!! smells like a ponzi scheme
lol this might be the last summer you have to do your hobby of dr shopping you loser.
i just bought my popcorn in advance , so im ready, to sit back and watch the 2011 sequel to the school budget wars! its my super bowl. nothing better than watching pigs squeel
its time to re-visit (i mean rip up) entitlement contracts for public SERPANTS.
Just fire them all and offer to hire them back at reasonable terms. if they dont like it, they can go somewhere else (lol where they gonna go?).
it's like that.
Benefit increases are natrually passed along to the person using them , no? The time has come to start the union busting process
its only going to get worse. ever see the rusted out steal beams holding the overhead wires? how much longer do they have before all out replacement.
NJT needs its own new line adjacent to amtrak, but that would cost a fortune with the pension taking slobs sucking up the revenue.
best bet is to invest in something to keep you occupied during the nightmares and expect the worse
your hallucogenic pal Corzine had years to fix this line during high times! instead he was under the desk with his union pals. go cry a river you big baby
ahhh the lean years are finally settling in. "daddy, how come no fireworks this year?" "son, we had to overpay our education management and sit around cops over $150 k a year to do nothing!"
the NBA is a bankrupt , non-competitive, rigged, farce! how can anyone even bear to waste their time with this crap let alone their own blood money!!!
she's gonna be real terrified when she sees the cucumber passed around her cell block!
they re probally collecting unemployment and welfare. somewhere a scumbag lawyer is looking to defend them
he's a man of the people.
anyone against what he's doing in the current environment should be jailed for stupidity, attempted robbery, and treason.
that includes anyone who was behind that pathetic rally led by those thugs last week.
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I once heard the Rev. Will Campbell — the civil rights activist and colorful Baptist preacher, who died June 3 in Nashville — say the prayer before a floor session of the Tennessee House of Representatives. I don't recall the exact words of this prayer, but it went something like: "Oh Lord, please don't let these legislators mess up Tennessee any more than it already is."
We could certainly use a prayer like that today. Earlier this month, the Volunteer State was once again featured unflatteringly in a segment of "The Daily Show." This time it was for what has been lampooned as a sadistic health care lottery for some of the sickest and poorest residents of this state. Twice a year, Tennessee offers eligibility to TennCare (which is where Medicaid dollars are spent in this state) to those who can get through on the telephone to request an application for the program.
The competition is fierce, so it's extremely difficult to get through. The phone line shuts down after 2,500 calls, which the state usually receives within an hour or so of the lottery. Even if the caller gets through, there is no guarantee he or she will actually qualify for TennCare. Applicants must meet strict income, debt and medical requirements.
The fact that so many Tennesseans feel the1 need to participate in this kind of lottery is heartbreaking. Equally troubling is the fact that even more residents of this state could hear a busy signal from TennCare as a result of Gov. Bill Halsam's decision to refuse acceptance of additional Medcaid dollars through the Affordable Care Act.
Among them could be the 5,000 Tennesseans who would be eligible for life-saving cancer treatment under an expanded TennCare program.
A key component of the Affordable Care Act allows the state to add 180,000 state residents to the TennCare program. These new enrollees would be mostly the working poor — Tennesseans who have no health insurance with their employer, who can't afford to be in the state's new health exchange and who make up to 138 percent of the poverty level.
The federal government would cover the total cost of this coverage for the first three years and 90 percent thereafter. These funds are intended to soften the blow for as much as $7.8 billion in Medicare cuts to Tennessee hospitals.
In handing down its historic decision last year legitimizing the Affordable Care Act, the U.S. Supreme Court decided states should have a right to refuse an expansion of their Medicaid programs. Haslam passed on accepting these funds with the knowledge that he could have never gotten the expansion approved by the Republican-controlled state General Assembly.
Many GOP lawmakers let the governor know quite sternly they did not want anything to do with what they call "Obamacare."
Haslam told a joint assembly of the House and Senate in March he would pursue a "third" option on the Medicaid expansion issue by requesting permission from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to "leverage" federal dollars meant to purchase private health insurance for uninsured Tennesseans.
I met with officials from the American Cancer Society's Cancer Action Network last week, who told me they are still holding out hope the Obama administration will approve Haslam's alternative plan for securing additional Medicaid dollars. The details of this so-called Tennessee Plan have not been released, probably because state officials are currently in negotiations with the HHS.
Recently, HHS gave approval for an alternative Medicaid plan in Arkansas, where the Democratic governor and Republican-led Legislature reached an agreement to add even more residents to the state's Medicaid rolls than the number called for under the Affordable Care Act. By rebranding the deal the Arkansas Plan, not Obamacare, Republicans there were more willing to accept the additional dollars.
Haslam is hoping the same thing can happen in Tennessee if the Obama administration approves the Tennessee Plan. He may be right, but I suspect it will be a battle no Republican wants with an election year coming up. It is also one the governor could lose in this the reddest of the Red states.
Many Tennessee Republicans believe accepting Medicaid dollars from Obamacare would be endorsing the president and socialized medicine. Some lawmakers will say it, but not because they truly believe it. They will say it out of fear that a well-financed far-right tea partier will challenge them in the GOP primary next year.
"Please, God, don't let the General Assembly make things even worse for the sick and poor in this state."
Robert Houk is Opinion page editor for the Johnson City Press. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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A few weeks ago I got an email — subject line: "Shake Out That Party Dress!" — from Marie McKown, manager of business tourism and Midwest, at Tourism Ireland. I've worked closely with Marie for a several years, and she helped me coordinate the details for two wonderful press trips to Ireland. Marie knows that I have a soft spot for all things Irish, being that my husband was born in Dublin, and her email was an invitation for us to attend the Ireland-U.S. Council 51st Annual Dinner at the glamorous and historic Metropolitan Club in New York City, as a guest of Tourism Ireland. Once my husband got wind of the invitation — well, let's just say we attended last night, with bells on.
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This might be old news for some but I only found out about this malware a few days ago. Sorry if this is a bit of a long winded post.
This malware infects a computer with malicious software (DNS Changer) to change the users DNS server settings to replace the ISPs good DNS servers with bad DNS servers operated by the criminal.
I used MacScan which found the DNS Changer malware. I isolated it and dumped it in the trash and emptied the trash as instructed. I am still getting the Google alert telling me my computer is infected this time a different colour! The websites set up to tell you if you are infected are also telling me that I am still infected. Ive read some other stuff on the internet so I know my router has been affected. Through a command in Terminal in Utilities, it shows it has 2 DNS servers that have been identified as one of the many rogue DNS servers set up by the criminals.
Ive got an iMac PowerPC G4. Its just my home computer about 7 years old and Im using the Built -in- Ethernet. So I need to replace the rogue DNS servers with good ones. I did speak to my ISP provider and was told that as my Mac is using DHCP it means that my router cannot be infected - which goes to show how much they know. Ive done some research on line but I cant find instructions specific enough to enable me to change my DNS settings especially as my machine is an older one. This is what I have:
I click on Network.
Built-in-Ethernet is green because thats what Im using. But there is no Advanced button to press. Just Configure.
I press Configure.
Location: is Automatic
Show: is Built-in-Ethernet
My button options are TCP/IP, PPPoE, AppleTalk, Proxies, and Ethernet. There is no DNS button across the top of the box with these others.
Under TCP/IP it says Configure IPv4 in front of a drop down menu that is showing Using DHCP
Under this there is my IP address.
There is a Subnet Mask number printed as well.
And under that is the printed Router number: 184.108.40.206. These are printed, they cannot be altered and they are not the same IPs that showed up when I used Terminal.
Under this is the DNS Servers box which is empty.
Under this the Search Domains box is also empty
Under this is IPv6 Address which is a long line of letters and numbers, lots of 0s. Plus the option to Configure IPv6.
There are no DNS servers for me to remove and replace in the boxes. So how do I change them?
Any help would be much appreciated as the FBI, who have caught the criminals behind it and who are now maintaining those rogue (actually no longer rogue) DNS servers will be turning them off on July 9th and if I havent fixed this problem by then I will be cut off from the internet. Thanks
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But what router do you have?
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To get to the router settings on a Linksys router (it's different for each brand so look up how to do it for your router brand) you open Safari on a computer connected to the network and in the URL box type "192.168.1.1". It will bring up a window asking for your username and password. Username is left blank and the password is "Admin". This will take you to the router settings where you can adjust the DNS (I think) and DHCP settings on the network.
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Thanks for the prompt reply guys.
The router I have is a Motorola Surfboard cable Modem.
Also I just read somewhere that I can type new DNS servers into the empty DNS server boxes but I'm not sure if this is enough to override and replace the bogus DNS servers.
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Anyway, you should be able to change your DNS settings from System Preferences, Network, WiFi, Advanced, DNS.
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The only other bit of hardware I have with my Mac is the Motorola Sufboard cable Modem. The model number is SB5101E. And I assume the router is a physical piece of hardware so I assumed the Motorola was the router/Modem.
cradom when I used Terminal in Utilities to check what DNS servers my computer was using it came up with 2 of the rogue DNS servers which are 18.104.22.168 and 126.96.36.199. Also I am still getting the alert that my Mac's infected.
This is the website that tells you how to check if you're still infected by the malware and how to fix it (up to a point) "www.dcwg.org/" and here is a site that tells you what the rogue DNS servers are: DNSChanger Notification
And here's an a recent article on it: Google warns users infected with DNSChanger as Web outage nears - PC Advisor
I really appreciate your help, guys. If someone here can't help I'll just have to keep searching the net
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I don't want to write anything for the file name, (if that's what it's asking me for) in case I get it wrong and mess it up. Does anyone know what to do when you get to this point? Because it seems as this will work and help me to delete the bogus DNS servers from my machine if I can just get past this bit. Thanks.
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Actually you need to press Control-o to write out the file and then control-x to quit nano. No need to type in a filename, it assumes the one you opened.
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Something's not right. I'm so close to sorting this and it's so frustrating that I'm at this last hurdle and it won't work. I'll go through what I'm doing so far from advice given elsewhere:
In Terminal type sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf
Enter password
Delete bad DNS servers
There are 4 lines. The last 2 are the rogue DNS servers added by the malware. The first 2 are my ISP's DNS servers that I called and asked them for. The cursor is at the beginning of the first line so I have to use the back arrow to scroll down 4 lines to the last number of the last line of rogue server then use the backspace arrow to delete the 2 lines of the bad DNS servers.
Press Control - x to exit
Doing this jumps me straight into a highlighted question: "Save modified buffer (ANSWERING "No" WILL DESTROY CHANGES) ?" I'm given the highlighted options of yes, no or cancel.
Then press y to save changes
Pressing y for yes jumps me straight into the highlighted line "File Name to Write: /etc/resolve.conf." I cannot come out of this highlighted line. I can only move the cursor along this line to the beginning of " /etc..." This is where the problem starts.I was advised to press y again but that only adds the letter to the line. I pressed Control - O as you advised but nothing happens - presumably because it's not one of the options below. The only options I have at this point, which are also highlighted with this line are:
Control - G Get Help
Control - T To Files
M-D DOS Format
M-O Mac Format
M-A Append
M-P Prepend
M-B Backup File
Control - C Cancel
So I only get as far as saving the file. It seems to accept the save up to a point but then it wants me to do something else. Add to the name of the file? If I do add to the file name, then press return, it jumps to "File exists, OVERWRITE ?" with the options yes, no or cancel. I don't dare choose any of them. If I try to close nano and exit I get the "closing this window will terminate the following processes inside it: login, bash, nano."
I can't do anything except to close and terminate because I can't complete the process of deleting the rogue DNS servers.
What do you think? Are all the steps in this process correct?
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I'm so tired of this. I've been working on it for a week now.
cradom, thank you so much for all your help. If you can shed any further light on this that would be cool. Maybe the rogue servers can't be deleted in this way. Can't be that easy! Maybe it does have to be done by the ISP or through the actual router, except I've got a Motorola Surfboard Cable Modem that has no manual reset, so I may have to try to speak to their technical support team.
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I didn't need to do anything with my cable modem/router in the end.
I'd like to thank everyone for their advice and help on this. It was much appreciated. In the end it was using crontab that did it for me and in case anyone new has a problem with this in the future, this was the process:
Go into Utilities in Applications and open the Terminal app
Type cat /etc/resolv.conf to check what servers you have
To delete the rogue servers from here type sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf.
Enter your password.
Delete rogue servers. You have to scroll with your cursor to get to the end of the line and then delete from there.
Press Control - O to write out and save changes
Press Control - X to exit.
Restart machine.
This actually didn't work for me personally. So after more searching, help and advice, I got this process:
Go into Terminal
Type sudo crontab -l (That's the letter ell) This shows what entries are in the directory. In mine, the malware script showed up as /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/QuickTime.xpt. If you have more than the malware entry in there, you will want to edit and delete. To do this for a single line:
Type sudo crontab -e. Use arrow key to navigate to line. I scrolled to end of line.
Type dd to delete the line
Type wq and press Return to write out the file and quit.
I had only the one entry and that was the malware script so I was able to use sudo crontab -r which will delete everything in there, so you have to be careful with it. After that I also flushed the cache. For Tiger you go into Terminal and type lookupd -flushcache. This is like a reset. Two extra servers showed up and I assume they are the original servers that were there - which means that when I called my ISP to ask for the servers they used, they gave me 2 different ones from the original. Whatever.
I restarted my machine and the google alert was gone. I checked out the site that tells you if you're still 'infected' and the background was green. I'm clear.
Thanks everyone!
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I've been reading this threads and trying all means. Yes, I'm uber desperate.
I typed sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf and it prompted for my password. But I can't seem to type anything!! What's wrong? Each time I pressed "enter", it says password is incorrect. I mean, duh. It doesn't even allow me to type anything.
I'm stuck in that section and hopefully the rest will work smoothly!
Thanks guys!
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Teaching and Learning in Post-Soviet Russia
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Randy Hines, professor of communications, spent five weeks in Russia as part of a Fulbright program teaching public relations and advertising to communication students and professionals. Following are his reflections from the experience.
As part of my Fulbright Senior Specialist assignment this summer, I was to tour a major newspaper, magazine and book publishing headquarters in Barnaul, a southern Siberian city of 700,000. It was set for Thursday. As I had been finding out, however, plans in Russia are tentative. I received a call Tuesday afternoon telling me it had been changed to 10:30 Wednesday morning.
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I had met the company's friendly publisher the week before when I had presented at the International Conference on Social Advertising (public service advertising). He had given me his weekly newspaper and encouraged a tour. When the e-mail arrived, it contained five other requests ranging from promotion ideas to journalist salaries to worldwide trends in journalism. All of that was expected in less than 20 hours.
Of course, the e-mail needed translation to English. I had had one month to prepare for Russia, and language instruction didn't fit into the schedule of obtaining visas, buying tickets, mailing donated textbooks, e-mailing lesson plans to Altai Academy and finishing my classes at Susquehanna. Russian is not an easy language. Its alphabet has 33 characters. Many letters are foreign to Americans. A P is the R, for example. An upside-down V is the letter L.
I marked up the tabloid, but what could I say about a foreign-language newspaper? Quality newsprint created a clean appearance with no smudges. The front page was sharp with three skyboxes featuring inside stories. I recommended moving a small cartoon bumping against a large photo to a text-dominated area in the bottom corner of the page. To my pleasant surprise, many nodded in agreement.
Sharp color photographs were large throughout the 32-page tabloid. Good cropping eliminated wasted space. Inside pages were readable (for Russians, of course) with adequate spacing and column widths, usually. A few pages squeezed in six narrow columns, too many for a tabloid. One two-page spread was fun. It used a large but simple graphic of a downtown loop, with descriptions, colors and codes explaining the content. I even read one of the subheads: Retro Trams. (Those three P's were a big giveaway.)
One editor asked about freedom of U.S. newspapers to write negative things about their government. I said many papers use their editorial pages to criticize President Bush's policies on a regular basis. This seemed to amaze most of them. I've been told the government still controls quite a bit of news content.
My publisher friend also produces a weekly business tabloid, a monthly business magazine and children's books. His tabloid for businesses encounters red tape and has to be registered with the government as an advertising medium because its ad content is 40 percent or higher.
As for my other duties, certainly teaching Russian students was a thrill. They were thoughtful: standing when I entered the classroom for the first time. They were talented: winning recent awards for their public relations and journalism activities. They were typical: chatting occasionally, a few coming in late, some forgetting to silence their cell phones. They were trendy: wearing expensive jeans and fancy tops rather than sweats.
SU students and faculty should appreciate our resources. The department had only one projector system, so many of my planned PowerPoint presentations were left behind for later use when it's available. Handouts were rare luxuries, printed on the blank side of used paper.
The faculty also treated me royally, but a final-week incident brought me down to earth. I was told (that morning) I would be speaking at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate a new headquarters for regional journalists. The governor cut the ribbon as media snapped photos and shot TV video. He went in, drank champagne, spoke and then conducted a news conference. I was next. When I stood to speak, the governor left the room, as did four-fifths of the audience. I gave my speech to about 12 journalists who were polite (or wanted to hang around for more champagne).


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When Allie (Danielle Evon Ploeger) returns home during her final college summer break, she doesn't anticipate staying long, but that all changes when there's a death in the family and Allie inherits her childhood home.
Her life-long BFF, Kenzie (Kelsey Thomas) helps her deal with her loss, and other family drama, by forcing her to join The Browncoats, the team she captains in the small town's co-ed softball league.
Kenzie's advice for Allie is simple… When life sucks, just grab your glove, and grab a ball. Everything just sort of fades away when you're playing catch.
Following the screening will be a Q&A with cast, crew, and director Lex Lybrand.
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The 2011 vintage was one of the coldest since the El Niño and La Niña years of 1998 and 1999. Although the cumulative 2200 growing degree days are slightly higher than those of 2010, the vintage proved dramatically cooler given the very cold, late winter and delayed bud break. In fact, parts of the Arroyo Seco had their first vine-damaging spring frost ever! 2011 was an ideal vintage for our Late Harvest Riesling with cool, moist air ensuring the development of Botrytis, the Noble Rot. Our well-trained vineyard workers selected each cluster by hand, keeping only the perfect Botrytis-affected berries and removing the rest. This is a wine that was truly made in the vineyard.
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Scientists have taken the concept of agent-based AI one step further and are creating a virtual world inhabited by agents capable of learning, changing, breeding and evolving. The virtual agents will need to learn to survive - make their own food, develop a form of communication, create a life for themselves - all on their own. The sistem will have a series of 1000 agents hosted on a server farm of about 50 computers and rendered for the real world using a modified version of the Counter Strike gaming engine. Hopefully the agents will develop a form of communication - to then be deciphered by human computer scientests and linguists - of their very own. A very interesting read and concept.
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I can't tell you how many times I have been in the midst of a quick blog entry or post on a forum, only to discover that my session had timed out. For me, I can honestly say this is one of the most frustrating occurrences that can happen on the Internet. Enter Scribe. This is an excellent Firefox extension which ads quick save functions to web forms. This means you can save any web form text you are currently filling out – including blog entries and forum posts. It even supports the CTRL – S command keys so you don't have to take your hands off that keyboard. Go ahead and give it a download and ponder how you ever managed without it.
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His name is Rio and he watches from the stands. Except that he doesn't.
As England took to the field for Friday night's World Cup qualifier in San Marino, the Manchester United number five was in Qatar covering the game for Al Jazeera TV.
And while the 34-year-old felt the need to rest his aching bones after a season with the Red Devils, he also came off second best in a battle of wits with Roy Hodgson.
For the whole saga boiled down to a clash between the old-school experience of Hodgson and the brand-savvy street-smarts of Ferdinand. A cold war between a well-travelled, multi-lingual coach whose dream dinner guest is John Updike, and a Peckham boy whose interests include watching 'Prisoner's Wives' and "merking" team-mates in World Cup Wind-Ups.
It would, of course, be mean-spirited to dismiss the varied achievements of Ferdinand both on and off the pitch, which include domestic and European titles and various charitable projects as well as TV, film and media work.
Nor would it be fair to mention Hodgson without discussing his unsuccessful stint at Liverpool and the insensitive 'Tube fiasco' where the England boss told bystanders that Ferdinand's England career was "over".
But there is no doubt that Rio's handling of his recent call-up has damaged his '#5' brand and suggested that the aspirational player may not be as clever as he thinks he is.
Indeed, England fans would have been more understanding of the centre-back if he had offered up a candid explanation of the need to manage his chronic back problem. After all, it is widely accepted that older players require more time to recover from niggles.
However, Ferdinand's major error was in communicating the issue via Twitter with the message: "I am gutted to pull out of the England squad, but it was the right decision for my intricate pre-planned programme."
The message came across as nothing short of flippant, with the defender seemingly expecting fans to be impressed by the word "intricate".
Things took a turn for the worse when it became apparent that part of this "intricate" programme was to fly 15 hours to Qatar; a journey so restful that on a previous trip, Ferdinand tweeted: "Just landed in Qatar... zero sleep on the plane!!".
When asked why he was in Qatar and not San Marino, Ferdinand answered: "It was there in black and white what I had to do and that's what we done" - suggesting that his punditry skills might not live up to Gary Neville's.
England fans are no mugs and their judgement, sung from the stands in San Marino, was damning.
It is strange that someone who uses social media to advertise the minutiae of daily life should be so reticent about the details of his intricate training programme and then complain about the assumptions of "haters".
Ferdinand has been embroiled in far too many controversies for someone so aware of building a brand. Too many incidents are left open for "fans to make up their own minds". For every winner's medal to celebrate, there is a counter-productive PR fail to rue.
Undoubtedly, Rio will take to Twitter to defend his decision in the same way he tried to laugh off 'choc-ice-gate'. However, in private, Ferdinand must realise his game-plan is shot. By keeping a dignified silence, Hodgson allowed Rio to talk himself into a corner.
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Join the Shadow Council at the official website, where you can make your voices heard alongside other fans on the forums. You can also take part in developer chats and even vote for two of the six factions that will be available in the final version of the game.
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Today MMX is released and the Early Access phase comes to an end. Thank you to everyone who supported us! Find more info on the game on the blog or on www.mightandmagicx.com.
During the Early Access phase, you have the opportunity to start a great journey in the peninsula of Agyn. You will be able to complete the game's first Act (out of four) and to test four classes (out of twelve) so that you can get a firsthand impression of what MMX will look and feel like once it's finished. More info also on: www.mightandmagicX.com.
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Best Honky-Tonk Band St. Louis 2002 - Rockhouse Ramblers
When it comes to that slippery music genre called alt-country, it's often easy to find the "alt" but all too often difficult to find the "country." Throwing a pedal steel over a morphine-paced slacker whine just doesn't cut it, son. Nor does a pale imitation of the country-rock hybrid best pulled off 30 years ago by folks such as Gram Parsons, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Buffalo Springfield and Poco. But hard country can be found in the River City, served up in a full-blown honky-tonk style that would be recognized and admired by Lefty, George, Merle, Porter, Connie, Kitty and Hank -- Thompson, that is. If you want to hear the real deal, played red-hot and true, track down the Rockhouse Ramblers. Fronted by Kip Loui and driven by the guitars of Gary Hunt and John Horton, this quartet knows a full range of '40s, '50s and '60s honky-tonk classics, from the hits to such obscure gems as a Johnny Bush jolt of heartache called "What a Way to Live." No housewife country or freeze-dried Garth Brooks horseshit from these guys. And none of this homage crap that makes you feel as if you're in a mausoleum instead of a juke joint. These boys play it right but make the music their own -- shuffle beat, lost love, Hunt's tasty if occasional steel work and the dead-on George Jones sliding vocals of bassist Dade Farrar. Check 'em out.


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LEGO CMF Series 11 Minifigures Leaked?
I have had a picture emailed to me from Brickshelf user ajdken2010 who has taken a photo of 5 of the minifigures from the Series 11 of the Collectable Minifigure series that is due out in September over in the UK.
The image shows from left to right Evi Mech, Female Scientist, Yeti, Lady Robot and Welder. The Yeti and Welder look awesome and only confirms the rumored list that did the rounds late 2012. The new series has the set number 71002 once we have more we will let you know. The same picture is on European sites Hoth Bricks and Kockamania but original source is ajdken2010
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- Lady Robot
- Jazz Musician
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