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The invention relates to a method of treating and a therapeutical composition for the treatment of Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and related infections. The composition comprises from 1 to 100% of a complex of Poly(A).Poly(U), preferably associated with other anti-AIDS coagents which act on the HIV virus according to a different mechanism from that of the complex of Poly(A).Poly(U). The composition is suitably administered in 100 to 4,000 mg doses and at 3 to 5 day intervals.
1. A method for the treatment of Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in humans comprising administering to humans in need of such treatment an effective amount of an AIDS symptom reducing amount of a complex of Poly(A).Poly(U) and an anti-AIDS coagent which acts on the HIV virus according to a different mechanism from that of the complex of Poly(A).Poly(U).
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the complex of Poly(A).Poly(U) is administered in the amount of from about 100 mg to about 4,000 mg.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein the complex of Poly(A).Poly(U) is administered in the amount of from about 150 mg to about 1,000 mg.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein the administration is repeated at intervals of from about 3 to about 5 days.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein the anti-AIDS coagent administered is selected from the group consisting of AZT, DDI, DDC and combinations of the foregoing.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the complex of Poly(A).Poly(U) is administered in the amount of from about 100 mg to about 4,000 mg.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein the complex of Poly(A).Poly(U) is administered in the amount of from about 150 mg to about 1,000 mg.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein the anti-AIDS coagent administered is AZT and wherein the weight ratio of Poly(A).Poly(U) administered to AZT administered is from about 1:10-1 to about 1:10-4.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein the said ratio is from about 1:10-1 to about 1:10-2.
10. The method of claim 9 wherein the complex of Poly(A).Poly(U) is administered in the amount of from about 100 mg to about 4,000 mg.
11. The method of claim 9 wherein the complex of Poly(A).Poly(U) is administered in the amount of from about 150 mg to about 1,000 mg.
12. A method for the treatment of AIDS comprising the administration at intervals of from about 3 to about 5 days of a combination of from about 150 mg to about 1,000 mg of a complex of Poly(A).Poly(U) with from about 0.015 mg to about 10 mg of AZT.
This is a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 08/437,219 filed May 8, 1995, now abandoned, which in turn was a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 08/218,850 filed Mar. 28, 1994, now abandoned, which in turn was a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 099,048 filed Jul. 28, 1993, now abandoned, which in turn was a continuation of U.S. Ser. No. 866,435 filed Apr. 10, 1992, also abandoned.
The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing complexes of polyadenylic acid with polyuridylic acid (hereinafter referred to as "the complex of Poly(A).Poly(U)" or "PolyA.PolyU"), optionally associated with another anti-AIDS drug, and also to the use of such complexes for the treatment of Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and related infections.
British Patent No. 2 211 847, which corresponds to U.S. Pat. No. 4 927 755, the relevant teachings of which U.S. patent are incorporated herein by reference, describes a process for the preparation of homopolymers and copolymers of polynucleotides and complexes thereof. Although these products were previously known, previous processes were not able to produce them at an economically acceptable cost without toxic impurities which made them unsuitable for pharmaceutical use. The process described in the aforesaid British patent leads to products of sufficient purity for pharmaceutical use, namely for the treatment of tumors.
The complex of Poly(A).Poly(U) has been described as a poor anti-viral agent (cf "Effects of polynucleotides on monkeys and man", CLINICAL ASPECTS OF INTERFERONS, 1988, pages 319-331). Even though viruses and retroviruses behave somewhat differently, one of skill in the art would not expect that Poly(A).Poly(U) might be an efficient anti-retroviral agent. Contrary to that which would be expected, the applicants have found Poly(A).Poly(U) to be effective in the treatment of AIDS.
It has been found that a complex of Poly(A).Poly(U) is also a potent inhibitory agent of various HIV viruses, by blocking the entry of the virus. The invention thus provides a therapeutic agent for the treatment of AIDS and HWV, wherein the major active ingredient is Poly(A).Poly(U). Preferably, the Poly(A).Poly(U) is prepared by the process described in said British Patent No. 2 211 847.
It has been found that Poly(A).Poly(U) is especially effective when administered with other anti-AIDS drugs, notably 3'-azido-3'-deoxythymidine (AZT), Dideoxyinosine (DDI) or Dideoxycytidine (DDC). Of particular interest is that fact that the complex of Poly(A).Poly(U) has been found to synergistically enhance the effect of AZT, DDI and DDC. Accordingly, a further aspect of the invention is directed to a pharmaceutical composition comprising pharmaceutically acceptable diluents or carriers and a combination of Poly(A).Poly(U) and another anti-AIDS drug acting according to a different mechanism from that of the complex of Poly(A).Poly(U), the amount of each component of the combination being selected so that the combination is effective in the treatment of AIDS and/or in the inhibition of HIV.
The invention also provides a method for the treatment of AIDS, the method comprising administering an effective amount of Poly(A).Poly(U), alone or in combination with another anti-AIDS agent, to a patient suffering from AIDS.
Accordingly, this invention provides a therapeutic composition for the treatment of Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and related infections, said composition comprising as an active ingredient from about 0.1 to 100% of a complex of Poly(A).Poly(U), optionally associated with another anti-AIDS agent acting on HIV viruses according to a different mechanism from that of the complex of Poly(A).Poly(U), and pharmaceutically acceptable diluents or carriers.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the anti-AIDS coagent acting on the HIV virus is selected from the group consisting of AZT, DDI, DDC and combinations of the foregoing. The weight ratio of Poly(A).Poly(U) to the anti-AIDS coagent is suitably from about 1: 10-1 to about 1: 10-4, but is preferably from about 1: 10-1 to about 1: 10-2.
The interest of Poly(A).Poly(U) in the treatment of AIDS will appear clearly from the various experiments hereafter described.
These and other aspects of the present invention may be more fully understood from the following detailed discussion and the drawing, with the drawing showing the viral proteins synthesized during incubation.
Two batches of CEM cells (T cells rich in CD4 receptors) were infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus HIV-1 Bru (LAI) and were treated with Poly(A).Poly(U) 24 hours after infection. Two similar batches of HIV infected CEM cells were used as controls, i.e. they were not treated. The cell cultures were regularly inspected under a microscope to observe the onset of cytopathic effects (fusion of cells and formation of syncitia) resulting from the HIV.
The experimental protocols were as follows: 5�106 CEM cells were incubated with 1 ml of supertatent containing HIV with a reverse transcriptase activity of 1.0�106 cpm. One hour afterwards, the cells were centrifuged and the cellular residue (0.5�106 cells) was suspended in RMP1 medium containing 10% fetal serum and 2 μg/ml polybrene. Twenty-four hours later, Poly(A).Poly(U) was added at a concentration of 200 μg/ml. The cell cultures were maintained without further addition of Poly(A).Poly(U).The results were as follows:
TABLE 1______________________________________ Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Day 11______________________________________Controls ++ ++++ ++++ cells deadTreated Cells -- + + ++______________________________________
The symbol "+" indicates the appearance of cytopathic effects; the number of such symbols used is an approximate quantification. These results show that the cytopathic effects are significantly reduced by the treatment.
Cultures were prepared as above described, and during the night of days 7 and 8 were incubated with 35 S-methionine for electrophoretic analysis on SDS of the viral proteins synthesized, both in the cellular mass and in the supernatent. The results are shown in the accompanying drawing. In the drawing, "-" indicates a sample from an untreated control and "+" a sample from a culture treated with Poly(A).Poly(U). The identifiers on the right of the indicators shown are as follows:
______________________________________gp 120 the envelope proteinp68 reverse transcriptasep55 precursor of the core proteinp40 precursor of the core protein, partially cleavedp32 endonucleasep25 the major core protein______________________________________
The results show an almost total reduction of the presence of viral proteins in the cells and supernatents of the cultures treated with Poly(A).Poly(U).
The quantity of p24/p25 antigen in the supernatent was measured 8 days after infection, by the ELISA test. These results are as follows:
TABLE 2______________________________________ Controls Treated Cells______________________________________ 1.01 μg/ml 0.03 μg/ml 1.27 μg/ml 0.07 μg/ml______________________________________
This shows suppression of 96.5% of the HIV production in the cultures treated by Poly(A).Poly(U).
The action of Poly(A).Poly(U) on the inhibition of the production of HIV has been confirmed by the following experiments.
1. Effect of variation of the dose of Poly(A).Poly(U:
CEM cells were infected with HIV. Twenty-four hours later, different concentrations of Poly(A).Poly(U) were added. The production of the virus in the supernatent of the culture was determined on day 5 after infection, by quantifying the amount of p24/p25 antigen present. Control cells, which had been infected but to which Poly(A).Poly(U) had not been added, had by then ruptured. The obtained results were as follows:
TABLE 3______________________________________Poly(A).Poly(U) p24/p25(μg/ml) (μg/ml)______________________________________0 1.1025 0.5350 0.14100 0.10200 0.07______________________________________
2. Effect of Repeated Treatment:
The operating procedure was similar to that described in experiment 1, but addition of Poly(A).Poly(U) was at a concentration of 200 μg/ml at 24 and 96 hours after infection. An untreated control was also run ; as before, the cells in the control had rupted by day 5.
The concentration (μg/ml) of p24/p25 at the days 4, 5, 6 and 7 after infection was measured in the untreated control and in the cells treated at days 1 and 4. The obtained results were as follows:
TABLE 4______________________________________ p24/p25 (μg/ml) Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7______________________________________Controls 0.72 1.25Treated cells 0.05 0.10 0.20 0.26______________________________________
3. The effect of Poly(A).Poly(U) is at an early step in virus infection:
HIV infected cells were treated with 200μg/ml of Poly(A).Poly(U) at different times before, during and after infection with HIV. On day 6 after infection, the number of syncitia were counted. On day 7, the level of p25 in the culture medium was assayed:
TABLE 5______________________________________Poly(A).Poly(U) Syncitia (%) p25 (ng/ml)______________________________________Control (untreated) 90 1320Cells treated at:3 days before 85 12152 days before 72 9651 day before 45 2801 hour before <5 6Together with HIV <5 51 hour after 10 1104 hours after 10 120______________________________________
Cells were infected with HIV 24 hours before a single treatment with:
(a) Poly(A).Poly(U) alone, at a concentration of 100 μg/ml;
(b) AZT alone, at concentrations of 100, 250, 1,000, 5,000 and 10,000 ng/ml, (5 samples;
(c) a combination of (i) AZT at concentrations of 100, 250, 1,000, 5,000 and 10,000 ng/ml, and (ii) in each instance, Poly(A).Poly(U) at a concentration of 100 μg/ml.
A control (non-treated) was also maintained; the cell culture in the control dies progressively after day 7. So, no figure appears in day 12 and day 14 columns. The levels of antigen p25 in the supernatents were measured at days 7, 12 and 14 after infection. The results, expressed in μg/ml, were as follows:
TABLE 6______________________________________ p25 Day 7 Day 12 Day 14______________________________________Control 1250Poly(A).Poly(U) 135 980 1200AZT100 38 380 1200AZT100 16 75 900Poly(A).Poly(U)AZT250 18 170 1200AZT250 5 40 840Poly(A).Poly(U) 100AZT 1000 <5 52 590AZT 1000 <5 17 200Poly(A).Poly(U) 100AZT 5000 <5 27 275AZT 5000 <5 10 48Poly(A).Poly(U) 100AZT 10 000 <5 20 220AZT 10 000 <5 8 39Poly(A).Poly(U) 100______________________________________
These results show that the combination of Poly(A).Poly(U) with AZT is more effective than either alone.
The results show that Poly(A).Poly(U) has an inhibitory effect on HIV. This has been observed in different tests:
A) metabolic synthesis of viral proteins in infected cells
B) activity of reverse transcriptase in the culture medium of infected cells
C) amounts of the major core protein p25 of HIV in the culture medium of infected cells; and
D) cell fusion
The inhibitory action of Poly(A).Poly(U) on different types and isolates of HIV:
In all of the experiments presented above, the HIV-1 Bru isolate (commonly referred to as HIV-1 LAI) was employed. In order to demonstrate that the inhibitory action of Poly(A).Poly(U) is not restricted to the HIV-1 species used, another species of HIV-1 referred to as ELI (31) and two different HIV-2 species, ROD and EHO, were tested. Poly(A).Poly(U) added 6 hours before infestation of CEM cells with these viruses resulted in more than 90% inhibition of virus production.
In all these tests, Poly(A).Poly(U) at a dosage of 200 μg/ml exercises an inhibitory action which is between about 85 and about 90%. For human beings, an amount per single injection of from about 100 to 4,000 mg is considered suitable; doses of from about 150 to 1,000 mg can be efficiently injected into human beings. It is preferred that treatment be as close as possible to the time of infection; however, treatment before of after infection is also effective. The treatment is suitably repeated at intervals of about 3 to 5 days.
The compounds of the present invention are suitably administered by injection in water solution. The active ingredient is added to the water solution. Poly(A).Poly(U) is suitably added at about 0.2 to about 1.0 g per 100 ml water solution. Coagents, such as AZT, DDI and DDC, can suitably be added. The weight ratio of Poly(A).Poly(U) to the anti-AIDS coagent is suitably from about 1: 10-1 to about 1: 10-4. A preferred water solution for use in the present invention is:
______________________________________NaH2 PO4 --H2 O 0.100 gNaCl 0.068 gNaOH to neutralize (pH 7)H2 O q.v. to 100 ml______________________________________
In each 100 ml of water solution there is dissolved:
______________________________________Poly(A).Poly(U) 0.40 gMannitol 1.84 gNaCl 0.48 g______________________________________
If one or more coagents is desired, they are cumulatively added to the water solution, i.e. nothing is removed to account for the addition of the coagent. A suitable amount of a coagent, notably AZT, is from about 0.04 mg to about 4 mg per 100 ml of water solution. For example, 150 mg of Poly(A).Poly(U) associated with 15 mg of AZT, may be administered by injection of 38 ml of a water solution as above described.
It has been demonstrated that the complex of Poly(A).Poly(U) has a potent anti-retroviral action. However, using Poly(A).Poly(U) in combination with another outer-retroviral agent such as AZT, DDI or DDC gives far better results than use of either alone. An explanation for this may be that Poly(A).Poly(U) works at the level of penetration of the virus into the cell, whereas AZT, DDI and DDC work at the level of intra-cellular transcription. Whether or not this is the correct theory for the manner in which the combination of Poly(A).Poly(U) and another anti-retroviral drug is effective, the fact remains that the combination is superior to the use of either agent alone.
It will be understood that the claims are intended to cover all changes and modifications of the preferred embodiments of the invention herein chosen for the purpose of illustration which do not constitute a departure from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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For the second shootout this season, the Philadelphia Flyers opted not to use future NHL Hall of Famer Jaromir Jagr as one of their three shooters. Instead, Danny Briere, James van Riemsdyk and rookie Matt Read were trotted out there for Monday's 3-2 shootout lost to the Colorado Avalanche.
Briere went first, and tucked the puck past Jean-Sebastian Giguere's skate while van Riemsdyk, making his first career shootout attempt, channeled his inner-Patrick Kane with a couple nifty moves before roofing the puck on Giguere. Read, also making his first attempt skated in on Giguere with the game on his stick and fired a wrister, beating Giguere but not the crossbar.
The Flyers only other shootout was a 4-3 loss to the New Jersey Devils Nov. 3 where Peter Laviolette went with Wayne Simmonds, Briere and Claude Giroux as his three shooters. Fair enough. Briere and Giroux are above and beyond the most gifted breakaway skaters on the Flyers roster, but why Simmonds?
Last night raises the same question. Why Read or van Riemsdyk, who neither had a shootout attempt in their careers, instead of Jagr?
Jagr is 5-for-22 in his career in the shootouts, scoring 22.7 percent of his attempts. That percentage puts him third on the Flyers roster in terms of percentage of scoring on shootout attempts behind Briere and Giroux.
His success rate isn't as impressive as you'd think it would be for the active leading scorer in the league with 656 goals to his name. But we have to wonder what Laviolette's thinking was behind leaving Jagr sitting on the bench for the second shootout of the season.
It's been over three years since Jagr's last shootout attempt, but it's a breakaway contest. He has had his fair share of breakaways in the past three years playing in Russia and with the Flyers.
Maybe Laviolette had a gut-feeling that van Riemsdyk and Read would come up with goals. van Riemsdyk scored and Read did beat Giguere, but it does warrant the question of why no Jagr?

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It's been a grueling week for Sony Dwi Kuncoro, and it's just getting tougher.
The man who was once Indonesia's top badminton singles player won his first title in two years in Bangkok on Sunday and then played two matches on Tuesday to secure a berth in the main draw of the Indonesia Open.
Then Sony found out his opponent on the first day of the $650,000 Super Series Premier event today is Denmark's Peter Gade, the tournament's third seed.
Sony earned his berth with a 21-18, 21-19 defeat of Frenchman Brice Leverdez in the qualifying round final at Istora Gelora Bung Karno in South Jakarta. Earlier on Tuesday, he had a tough first-round qualifier against India's Anand Pawar before winning 21-23, 21-10, 21-9.
"I just got back from Thailand on Monday night. I'm definitely tired," Sony said. "But my game has been improving and I don't have any injuries, so I'll be ready for tomorrow's match against Peter."
Sony won the Indonesia Open in 2008, and no local shuttler has lifted the trophy at the tournament since then.
World No. 1 Lee Chong Wei, the Malaysian who won the next three men's singles titles, is absent this year due to a foot injury. Fellow favorite and world No. 2 Lin Dan of China withdrew from the tournament for an unspecified reason.
Sony, currently ranked 65th in the world after enduring a catalog of injuries in the past two years, said he would love to win the tournament again. But he's realistic about his chances.
He has a 2-1 record against Gade, but their last meeting was five years ago when Sony won in the 2007 World Championships quarterfinal. "I'll just take one game at a time. But I'll try to win. I want to win," the 28-year-old said.
Andre Kurniawan Tedjono was the other local shuttler who qualified for the main draw. He beat compatriot Shesar Hiren Rustavito 22-20, 20-22, 21-18 to move on and meet another Indonesian, Taufik Hidayat, in today's first round.
"I've played nine times against Taufik and won only three. I'll try to improve that record," Andre told state news agency Antara. "He has a great smash and I'll try to prevent him from using it."
In women's singles, Ana Rovita stunned national team shuttler Lindaweni Fanetri 17-21, 21-19, 22-20 to advance to the main draw. Ana won her qualifying spot after Adriyanti Firdasari earned direct entry to the main draw due to Frenchwoman Pi Hongyan's withdrawal on Monday.
"My secret? Well, I just fought until the end. I was really tired in the third set but I saw her getting slower too, so I just took my chances to win," said the world No. 269, who will play against Gu Juan of Singapore in the first round. "It'll be a tough match [against Gu], but I'll give my best shot."
Two other local women qualified for the main singles draw. Desi Hera earned her berth by downing Xing Aiying of Singapore 21-15, 10-21, 21-14, while Aprilia Yuswandari beat compatriot Maziyyah Nadhir 21-12, 21-16.


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My ransomware page had an FBI logo on the left corner, a field with my location and IP address, and a statements about copyright and related rights, and illegal access from something. You can try quitting out of Safari, but a popup will block you from doing so. Forcing Safari to quit, or shutting your computer down manually, are two ways to close out of it.
To get this virus popup while doing such a simple search kind of worries me...I wasn't really thinking about viruses when looking for interview questions.
Getting a little freaked out, the first thing I did was unplug the ethernet from my Mac Pro, and disconnected the power cable(without worrying about turning it off properly), both at about the same time. Haven't really practiced this stuff, so I was just going on instinct I guess.
Then, I ran downstairs to unplug the network stuff. These ransomware viruses can actually travel from one device onto another if they share the same network.
I went back upstairs and took out 3 HDDs(BootCamp, TimeMachine, and Data files) and left in only the OS ssd.
Held the power button on for 15 seconds just for fun.
Turned the MP back on with the ethernet unplugged and network still off(just in case the wifi was on).
When you open up Safari, it might want to automatically take you back to the last website visited, which should be the ransomware's site, and since you have no network connection, it can't force popups on you. From here, you have to reset Safari. Might as well do everything just to be safe, is my motto.
Note: All this can be done with the computer connected to the internet, but doing it with no connection does not allow any interaction between the site and other devices you might have.
According to some further research, these viruses do not yet have any true sticking abilities on the Mac, thankfully. It can't embed itself and encrypt files the way it can on Windows machines. What it does pray on is that people will get freaked when they can't quit out of Safari, and see that it keeps going back to that sight, enough that they will pay the ransom....when in reality, it's the lazy virus attempt on a Mac. It's no joke on a Windows machine, though.
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WORCESTER, Mass. – The Crusaders recorded seven first place finishes but it was not enough as the men's swimming and diving team fell to Providence on Saturday afternoon at the Hart Center by a final of 171.5-125.5. Senior diver Nick Videtti (Woodcliff Lake, N.J.) led the team with first place finishes in both the one-meter (258.52) and three-meter (250.35) dives.
Senior Jan Yburan (Livingston, N.J.) finished first in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 55.70 seconds while junior Jack Swain (West Hartford, Conn.) touched the wall first in the 100 breaststroke at 1:02.31. Freshman Andrew Higgins (New Canaan, Conn.) won the 200 breaststroke (2:18.93), sophomore Tyler Wright (Waterboro, Maine) took first in the 100 butterfly (53.95) and the 200-yard medley relay team comprised of junior Thomas Horigan (West Hartford, Conn.), Swain, Wright and Yburan finished first with a time of 1:40.05.
Wright also took second in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:02.52 and third in the 100 freestyle at 50.99. Yburan finished second in the 50 freestyle (23.13) and Swain took third in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:20.27. Other top performers for Holy Cross included junior Brendan Higgins (Summit, N.J.) who finished behind Videtti in the one (186.23) and three (184.35) meter dives, sophomore David Mullany (Monroe, Conn.) who took third in the 500 freestyle (5:11.39) and 1,000 freestyle (10:44.51) and senior Patrick Gibbons (Reston, Va.) who finished third in the 50 freestyle (23.56).
The 400 freestyle relay team made up of sophomore Max Kearns (Marion, Mass.), Horigan, Gibbons and Mullany also posted a third place finish with a time of 3:28.31.
Prior to the start of their final meet at the Hart Center, head coach Barry Parenteau and assistant coaches Wil Aybar and Ian Hennessey honored Gibbons, Videtti, Yburan and fellow seniors Ben Chelmow (Newton, Mass.), Zachary Cietek (Guilderland, N.Y.), Tim Liddy (Garden City, N.Y.), Kevin O'Connor (Ridgewood, N.J.) and Anthony Russo (Stratford, Conn.) for their hard work and dedication to the team. Click below to view the video.
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Unseen McQueen comes to an end
It's the final day of our Unseen McQueen series and time to unveil the last piece of our newly edited exclusive archive footage and interview with Nick Knight.
In 2000, Nick Knight and Lee McQueen collaborated on their Angel installation for the Festival de Avignon, exhibited in La Beauté en Avignon. The work was composed of 80 gallons of live dyed maggots arranged in the shape of an angelic face. Seated upon a tall circular silver font and adorned with blue neon, the installation aesthetically mirrored the fly killers found in butchers shops. As the maggots transformed to flies, the facial form completely disintegrated, turning black.
The newly edited footage reveals the preparation for the installation, alongside interviews with Knight and McQueen focusing on the ideas behind it: 'You get the most beautiful girl made out of the most grotesque thing. It transcended that - we didn't want to put any protocol on the image. I don't believe in stereotyping..I think beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' McQueen explains.
In conjunction, Lou Stoppard interviewed Knight about the installation. Knight forthrightly discusses his long term collaboration with McQueen and Björk and the significance of maggots. 'The maggot itself is an interesting phenomenon. Without maggots, you don't have life. Maggots take away the disease from death,' Knight explains.
Review the newly edited footage of Angel and interview now. Stay tuned for Knight's McQueen tribute film on Friday, 31 July 2015, but in the mean time catch up on the entire Unseen McQueen project.


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This course examines the interplay of biomedical, societal, and ethical concerns in global health. An extended unit on epidemiology offers quantitative tools for analyzing the effectiveness of various public health responses, while readings, guest speakers, and films highlight the influence of cultural, economic, and political factors. Students will research health issues in a population of special interest to them and raise awareness or advocate for a public health concern of their choice. Enrollment limited to 25 students.
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Around 14 months ago the husband & I were spending a lazy holiday in Rarotonga. We did quite a bit of snorkelling on the reefs, and especially enjoyed our experiences at Muri, where we saw a good range of reef fish in near-ideal conditions (as in, clear, calm, relatively shallow water). There were several moray eels, which were at first hard to spot – and then you saw them, loitering in a crevice, giving the impression of watching you rather closely and with their open mouths exposing some rather sharp, pointy teeth: "all the better to bite you with, my dears." We viewed them with caution.
But when you think about it, that wide-mouthed loitering would seem to pose a problem for the eels. This is because most predatory fish feed by opening their mouths wide from a closed position: water floods into the lower-pressure area inside the mouth & dinner comes along for the ride. Sitting around with your mouth half-open doesn't sound like a good strategy. I found the answer while reading The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson, under – you've guessed it – 'E for Eel'. (This wonderful book was recently reviewed on Sciblogs by Siouxsie Wiles.)
As an aside, I love the way this chapter kicks off:
The Snowflake1 eel, a kind of moray, is harmless if you leave it alone and refrain from drinking its blood (which is toxic).
I was also fascinated to know that the morays' genus, Echidna, derives from a rather unpleasant individual in Greek mythology; beside her, Henderson says, "the Snowflake and other Moray eels are pussycats" – yet people still fear them:
Part of the reason for this is surely their superficial resemblance to snakes… Another may be the eels' mouths, which are constantly open, suggesting that they are ready to strike. But this is not, I think, the whole story. An eel's eyes, bulging and unblinking, look like those of a corpse, and the way the animal moves its body … is disturbingly sensual. Saltwater eels are uncanny.
You can see, I hope, why I like the book; the writing is lovely. But anyway, back to those gaping maws.
Henderson explains how a moray's hunting style more closely resembles the eponymous 'Alien', for these eels have two sets of jaws! The second set is found in the back of the throat – the 'pharyngeal jaws' - but can be thrust forward extremely quickly and retracted equally rapidly, so that they "[pull] the prey down into the oesophagus as the animal closes its mouth." You can see how this all works in the image below, from the National Science Foundation website.
Image credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation (after Rita Mehta, UC Davis)
The work of Rita Mehta, who's been studying moray eels' feeding anatomy, is featured in the following video, in which you can see those pharyngeal jaws move forward to grasp a 'prey' item. All the more reason to be fairly circumspect on the reef, methinks!
1 If you think 'Snowflake' is an unusual name for an eel, how about the 'Rusty spaghetti' version?


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Land of the free? Remembering when the man who penned "The Star-Spangled Banner" defended slaveryWednesday, Jul 4, 2012 11:30 AM UTC 0
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As with gay marriage, presidential action creates a new political realityFriday, Jun 15, 2012 10:26 PM UTC 0
Bowing to the CIA, the National Archives says it won't release 1,100 secret assassination documents in 2013Thursday, Jun 14, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 0
The hidden and growing danger of Obama's remote air war in Pakistan and YemenTuesday, Jun 12, 2012 11:45 AM UTC 0
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The legislative architect of the Great Recession lands a plum post at a conservative think tankThursday, Jun 7, 2012 1:53 PM UTC 0
The Kansas Sec. of State already has Romney's ear on immigration. Will the candidate follow him on other issues?Wednesday, Jun 6, 2012 1:08 PM UTC 0
Jack Goldsmith, a former Bush official, supports an ACLU lawsuit for more information on remote aerial warfareFriday, Jun 1, 2012 3:30 PM UTC 0
Rubio ally offers a "1/4 DREAM Act" while Obama stallsThursday, May 31, 2012 4:16 PM UTC 0
Six UAV test sites are up for grabs -- and state governments are eager to get their hands on themWednesday, May 30, 2012 2:19 PM UTC 0
Photos of missile debris help trace the path of a CIA drone missile that killed a young girlTuesday, May 29, 2012 11:45 AM UTC 0
Hispanic voters may not be as decisive a voting bloc as everyone assumes. Just look at the swing statesThursday, May 24, 2012 5:27 PM UTC 0
The industry's fighting back, determined to remake its image. "Change scares people," an industry rep tells SalonTuesday, May 22, 2012 11:45 AM UTC 0
An airplane pilot reports a near collision with a "remotely controlled aircraft" over DenverFriday, May 18, 2012 5:51 PM UTC 0
ICE said it would target dangerous immigrants, but it's actually deporting a higher percentage of non-criminalsThursday, May 17, 2012 9:15 PM UTC 0
Right-wing writers, from Charles Krauthammer to Matt Drudge, join the left in criticizing domestic drone useThursday, May 17, 2012 1:16 PM UTC 0
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Here is something easy that will get you started and boost your confidence..
This instructible assumes a working knowledge of pattern welding.
This is a recyclable instructible as well as a knife making tutorial.
Step 1:
4 x Black square section spring washers
2 x Large uncoated brite steel nails
Ferric chloride (or the acid you normally use)
Bicarb soda
Black tie wire (stainless wire will work too, but costs more).
Step 2:
You will also need to clean the washers to remove the fire scale.
Bind with the tie wire in alternate layers the two brite steel nails, and three black washers.
Keep one washer in reserve, this will be the cutting edge.
The nails are naturally scarfed.
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Amalgamate into a single billet.
Heat and twist the billet.
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So the CHOC Walk (if you dont what that is visit www.CHOCwalk.org) is this Sunday. Im pretty pumped. Me and three friends went last year and we had tons of fun. I love going to Disneyland early in the morning @ sunrise (ie. July 17th, 05/05/05, KROQ breakfast w/No Doubt), especially when theres not a lot of people there.
Is anyone else planning on going?
After we work up an appetite walking around DLR were planning on going back to DL when it opens for Breakfast at the Plaza Inn. I hear they have a good breakfast buffet!
This year, Team K.I.M. (Kids In Motion), has grown to 8 members and has a goal of raising $650.00 for CHOC. If you would like to help us raise money for CHOC click this link... https://secure.gotech.net/clients/ch...rForm&ID=10662
(My CHOC Walk I.d. is WRDinc)
Maybe we'll see you at breakfast Sunday morning!
Team K.I.M. (Kids In Motion), Wesley (WRDup), Kim (WjerseyQueen), Brandon & Gina at last years CHOC Walk.


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Full detailed profile on Ryan Bittle playing JR Chandler on All My Children Daytime Soap Opera.
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Birthday: March 21, 1976
Born in La Crescenta, California, Ryan Bittle first appeared in television in 1994. Before that he played water polo for his high school and had plans to go on to play NCAA water polo and attend medical school. This is when he discovered acting and held off on college in order to act in the television series, "Sweet Valley High." He left the show after two seasons and returned to school at Pasadena City College, and Julliard School in New York City. He did several guest stints on shows such as "Boy Meets World," and "CSI: Miami" amongst others and moved to film, making "Take Me Home Tonight," and "Anne Claus Is Coming To Town" but recently, Bittle has settled in to his newest role as JR Chandler on "All My Children." Bittle enjoys playing sports in his spare time and coaches water polo at the high school level.
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Illustration: Jazzy updates from Camberwell's very own Gaurab Thakali
Gaurab Thakali has been busy drawing jazz. Not polite, middle-aged living room jazz – we're talking wet floors, rusty trumpets, ripped underskirts and dirty shoes jazz. Every time we look at his modest Flickr page we have to pinch our arms and remind ourselves that yes, Gaurab is still studying. Still studying! At Camberwell in London. How is he so good? You ask. Well, we have no idea. All we know is that he can draw fun like no one else right now, be it in the shape of groups of men wandering the streets, men and women getting down and dirty in jazz clubs or just some guys listening to music on the street. Looking for cheerful, music-based illustration? Gaurab's got it going on, and he's got way more to give.


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Can You Spot the Egg?
You can go "Easter egg" hunting in Tim Burchett's latest ad for county mayor.
At the point where Burchett is walking up a trail on House Mountain, his back to the camera, look into the right bottom corner of the screen and you will see a turtle crawling down the trail.
This is a subtle reference to a much talked about Burchett commercial during a run for the state senate. He had gained notoriety with his infamous "road kill" bill, allowing people to pick up deer and other game killed on the highway and use it. In the commercial, Burchett is headed to Nashville but brakes his truck, gets out and picks up a turtle crossing the road and safely takes it to the other side.
The commercial was conceived and shot by Tom Jester, known for provocative or quirky commercials in Knoxville. Jester shot the latest Burchett commercial, picking House Mountain, "the highest point in Knox County, symbolic of taking the high ground" in the race for mayor.


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Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a script that returns the names of all the users in an Active Directory group. How can I sort those names in alphabetical order?-- JW
Hey, JW. Ah, yes, sorting data: the bane of script writers everywhere. Unfortunately, VBScript doesn't have a built-in sorting mechanism, and neither does ADSI. Consequently, most people believe they have no choice but to live with data sorted by whatever order ADSI or WMI or imposes on them. So is that the case? Are you truly at the mercy of ADSI when it comes to returning group membership in alphabetic order? Hey, you know what they say: where there's a will, there's a way.
There are actually a couple different ways you can sort data, and if you'd like to know more we encourage you to tune in to Scripting Week 2, a series of 10 webcasts to be held in January, 2005. (The schedule hasn't officially been finalized, but details will be available in the Script Center very soon.) Because you're only dealing with a single item - user names - we'll show you how to use a simple bubble sort to return these names in alphabetical order. If you need to deal with - and sort - a bunch items (user names, email addresses, profile paths, etc.) you don't want to use a bubble sort; that would be way too complicated. But for sorting a single list like this, the bubble sort works pretty well, and requires only a few lines of code.
Here's what our script looks like:
Dim arrNames()
intSize = 0
Set objGroup = GetObject("LDAP://CN=Accountants,OU=Finance,DC=fabrikam,DC=com")
For Each strUser in objGroup.Member
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUser)
ReDim Preserve arrNames(intSize)
arrNames(intSize) = objUser.CN
intSize = intSize + 1
For i = (UBound(arrNames) - 1) to 0 Step -1
For j= 0 to i
If UCase(arrNames(j)) > UCase(arrNames(j+1)) Then
strHolder = arrNames(j+1)
arrNames(j+1) = arrNames(j)
arrNames(j) = strHolder
End If
For Each strName in arrNames
Wscript.Echo strName
We begin by creating a dynamic array named arrNames (for more information about dynamic arrays, see this portion of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide). Why do we do this? Well, we've already determined that ADSI doesn't have a built-in sorting mechanism; therefore, we can't sort the data as it comes back. Instead, we have to grab the data, temporarily store it in an array, and then sort that array.
Next we use this line of code to bind to the Accountants group in our hypothetical Active Directory:
Set objGroup = GetObject("LDAP://CN=Accountants,OU=Finance,DC=fabrikam,DC=com")
When we bind to a group, one of the properties we get back is the Member property, which just happens to hold the membership list for the group. If we just wanted to echo back the distinguished name of each group member, and if we didn't care about sorting the membership list, we could use code like this:
For Each objMember in objGroup.Member
Wscript.Echo objMember
But that's not what we want, is it? First of all, we probably don't want distinguished names like CN=Ken Myer, OU=Finance, DC=fabrikam, DC=com. Instead, we probably want plain old common names (CNs), names like Ken Myer. Consequently, inside our For-Each loop we bind to each user account, the better to retrieve the CN for each user. We use this code to bind to the individual user accounts:
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUser)
Second, we don't want to echo the user names right now; instead, we want to stash those names in our array and then sort them before we actually display them inscreen. That's what this code does; it grabs each user's CN and creates a spot to store that CN within the array arrNames:
ReDim Preserve arrNames(intSize)
arrNames(intSize) = objUser.CN
intSize = intSize + 1
(Yeah, we know: if you aren't used to working with arrays, this might look more like gobbledygook than it does scripting code. If you need an explanation, check out the Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide.)
Eventually, arrNames will contain the CNs for each user in the Accountants group. What we need to do then is sort that array using a bubble sort. Explaining the ins and outs of the bubble sort is more than we can handle in this column; we'll explain it a bit better during Scripting Week 2. For now, we'll just say that the bubble sort methodically compares each item in the collection against every other item, slowly by surely determining the alphabetical order. For example, suppose our array looked like this:
The bubble sort would begin by comparing Sam and Mary. Because, alphabetically-speaking, Mary comes before Sam, the bubble sort switches their places in the array. The array then looks like this:
Next the sort compares Sam and Abigail and, again, swaps their places in the array. Now the array looks like this:
We now know that Sam is the very last item in the array. It has to be; we've compared Sam with every other item. Therefore, in this simple example, the bubble sort is finished with Sam, and only has to compare Mary with Abigail. The script compares the two, swaps their places, and gives us this final, sorted list:
That's the basic idea anyway and, admittedly, the actual code looks a bit more complicated:
For i = (UBound(arrNames) - 1) to 0 Step -1
For j= 0 to i
If UCase(arrNames(j)) > UCase(arrNames(j+1)) Then
strHolder = arrNames(j+1)
arrNames(j+1) = arrNames(j)
arrNames(j) = strHolder
End If
If you take the time to trace what's happening, though, you'll see that the code follows the process we described above; it's not as bad as it looks. The one tricky thing to note here is that we must convert each name to uppercase (using the UCase function) before making our comparisons. That's because VBScript makes comparisons using the ASCII values of individual letters. In ASCII, uppercase letters always come before lowercase letters; thus Zachary would come before anne. Converting everything to uppercase ensures that ANNE comes before ZACHARY.
Finally, we use another For-Each loop to cycle through the array arrNames and echo the user names in alphabetical order.
As we noted the bubble sort is not the only way to sort data, and it has its limitations: it's best used when you have only a single field (like user name) to worry about, and can be slow if you have hundreds of items in your list. If the bubble sort won't handle your sorting needs, you can either wait for Scripting Week 2, or take a look at the brief discussion of Disconnected Recordsets found in the Scripting Guide.
This script appears to work great except if there is only one user in the group. For some reason when I run it against a group that only has one user it returns that there are no users in the group.
If you want to do it in perl, try this:
# Sort the members in an ldif file for easy comparison against another ldif file of members
# Outputs in non-standard ldif format - one line per member
# for easy comparison. If you want "proper" ldif out, use an ldif output file
# Ldif input file should be sorted prior into CN order
# to make the final comparison easy (use ldifsort)
# The ldapsearch should have been done prior extracting just members (& DNs)
# Could substitute LDIFIN for an ldapsearch result...
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::LDAP::LDIF;
print "LDAP Sort Members running...\n\n";
my $BASEFILE = "members";
my $LDIFIN = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new( "$BASEFILE.ldif", "r", onerror => 'undef' );
open OUTFILE, "> $BASEFILE-sorted.ldif" or die $!;
my @members; # Define array to be sorted.
while( not $LDIFIN->eof()) {
my $entry = $LDIFIN->read_entry();
my $dn = $entry->dn;
my @members = $entry->get_value( "member" );
# Sort the array:
@members = sort { lc($a) cmp lc($b) } @members; # Want to ignore case...
# now print results
print OUTFILE "dn: $dn\n";
foreach my $member (@members) {
print OUTFILE "member: $member\n";
print OUTFILE "\n";
print "\nFinished....\n";


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The Bachelor
Shawntel Newton's Book, "The Final Rose," Available Soon — Will Ben Flajnik Be in It?
The hottest funeral director/embalmer in Bachelor Nation — and possibly the entire world — may not have gotten the guy at the end of Season 15... but she'll soon have a bunch of books to keep her warm at night. (Take that, Brad Womack!... Um, yeah.)
Shawntel Newton has been working on a memoir about growing up in the funeral industry — and there will probably be some stuff about The Bachelor in there, too. On January 3 Shawntel recently posted on her Facebook wall, "I have one more reader finishing up with my book...then it's off to be printed!! I am going for the end of this month and my book, The Final Rose, will be released!"
She updated on Thursday, January 12, "Moving right along...just saw all my pages for my book in the format that's going to be used and it looks awesome. It will be a total of 153 pages. Not bad right?!? :) the light at the end of the tunnel is so close."
Brad may want to order an early copy since he'll probably get at least one chapter, right? And what about Ben Flajnik? It's no longer a secret that Shawntel is the "mystery woman" who shows up on the Monday, January 16 episode of The Bachelor Season 16 to try and date Ben (and rustle a ton of feathers).
Will she write about that potentially embarrassing experience, or did the pages already hit the printer before she could get to that point (and if so, can we get a sequel??).
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Matthew Bachand
Engagement Director
As an Engagement Director, Matt oversees our work in Providence and across Rhode Island's College Success Communities. Prior to joining Mass Insight, Matt was the Deputy Director of the Department on Disability Services in Washington, DC and the Chief of Staff for the Office of Special Education in the District of Columbia Public Schools. Prior to his tenure in DC, Matt spent seven rewarding years teaching secondary English in the Baltimore City, MD and New Haven, CT School systems. He has a BA in English and Japanese from the University of Kansas, an MAT from Johns Hopkins University, and an MPA from The Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
Michael Contompasis
Senior Field Consultant
Michael Contompasis recently retired after two years as Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools. Previously he served as the district's Chief Operating Officer from 1998 through 2005. Before moving to a district leadership role, Mr. Contompasis was the Head Master of Boston Latin School, the state's top performing 7-12 secondary school, where he was honored as a Milken Educator in 1997. From 1996 to 1998, he also served as a cluster leader overseeing and mentoring the principals of ten K-12 schools in the district. He began his career in education as a Biology teacher in 1966. He was presented with a Distinguished Service Award by the Council of Great City Schools in 2006. Mr. Contompasis currently serves as an unpaid advisor to the Mayor of the City of Boston in addition to his role as Senior Field Consultant for the School Turnaround Group.
Karen Daniels
Engagement Manager
Karen Daniels manages the development of the Grove Hall Community Schools into a College Success Cluster as well as supporting the development of further Boston clusters. Prior to joining Mass Insight, Karen served as Executive Director for Step UP, a multi-university collaboration with Boston Public Schools and the mayor's office. Prior to this in 2004, she worked in Chicago as Mid-South Regional Director for Ren2010. She has served as a school principal for grades K-12 in Boston and Brookline, Mass. She counts her proudest moments as an English teacher in Boston where she taught middle and high school students. Karen holds a B.A. in English from Boston College, a M.A. in English, and is presently pursuing her doctorate degree in Education Leadership from UMass/Boston.
Mariah Deans
Project Coordinator
Mariah directly supports our field work in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Prior to joining the Mass Insight team, Mariah worked as a summer staff special projects manager with the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE). She completed her M.A. in Education: Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Mississippi. As a graduate student, Mariah taught middle school English in Okolona, Mississippi as a member of the Mississippi Teacher Corps. Mariah also holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt University in Political Science and Sociology.
Dipa Desai
Program Manager
Dipa supports fieldwork in Connecticut. Dipa also plays an integral role supporting our research and internal functions. Prior to joining Mass Insight, Dipa interned in the Guidance and Counseling Office at Classical High School in Providence, RI. Dipa also served as a Research Assistant at Hasbro Children's Hospital. Dipa recently earned her M.Ed. in School Counseling from Providence College.
William H. Guenther
CEO and Founder of Mass Insight Education
Bill is CEO and Founder of Mass Insight Education, an independent not-for-profit organization based in Boston, MA. Founded in 1997, Mass Insight Education has been a statewide leader in Massachusetts' education reform drive and national leader for school turnaround strategy. Mass Insight Education organizes partnerships of states, districts, schools, business, and universities and has two divisions: the Massachusetts Math & Science Initiative implementing a $30m program using Advanced Placement as a lever to attain excellence in math and science and to transform school culture, and the School Turnaround Group organized to support state and district strategies to successfully turnaround failing schools. Bill is a graduate of Harvard College and the New York University Law School.
Nora Guyer
Program Manager
Nora directly supports field work in the Providence Public School District. She has been working in schools since 2003 in a variety of positions including English teacher at St. Andrew's School, a boarding school in Delaware; middle and high school admissions at a Quaker School in Philadelphia; guidance counseling at Cherry Hill High School East in New Jersey; and college counseling at Harlem Village Academy High School. Nora recently completed a M.S. in Statistics, Measurement, Assessment and Research Technologies from the University of Pennsylvania. She also has a M.S.Ed. in School and Mental Health Counseling from the University of Pennsylvania and an A.B. in English and American Literature and Languages from Harvard College.
Hilary Kopp
Senior Program Manager
Hilary directly supports our work in Connecticut. Prior to joining Mass Insight, Hilary was the Senior Project Manager at BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life), a nonprofit that partners with schools and districts to provide extended learning time for low income, academically challenged students. She went to BELL from the classroom, as she was a mid-career changer who sought firsthand experience as an elementary teacher. Prior to teaching, Hilary worked on the development and evaluation of education and youth workforce development initiatives for less advantaged youth with MDRC, Jobs for the Future, and the Commonwealth Corporation. Hilary holds a M.P.A. from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, a M.A. of Education from Salem State University, and a B.A. in Political Science from Colgate University.
Ami Magunia
Engagement Director
Ami serves as an Engagement Director, directly responsible for managing fieldwork with one of Mass Insight's engagements. Ami began her career in education as a Teach for America corps member in Baltimore, MD. After teaching elementary students for 4 years, Ami broadened her education reform efforts in Baltimore City by working for The New Teacher Project to manage the district's alternative teaching program. She later joined the district leadership team serving as both the Special Assistant to the Chief Human Capital Officer and Manager of School-Based Recruitment and Staffing in 2010. Ami received her B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in business administration and later received her M.A.T. from Johns Hopkins University in Teaching.
Emily Pallin
Engagement Manager
Emily managed district fieldwork with Providence Public School District to establish a Partnership Zone and launch a joint labor-management Lead Partner organization. She also supports key internal functions for the STG, and leads the Connecticut team. Prior to joining the STG, Emily was a research associate at New Visions for Public Schools, an exemplary provider of school support and turnaround services in New York City. Emily holds a M.P.A./P.N.P. from NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a B.A. in Public Policy from Hamilton College.
Anupama Pattabiraman
Program Manager
Anu supports district-level fieldwork at Jefferson Parish Public Schools. Prior to joining Mass Insight Education, Anu was a tutor with Revolution Prep, a provider of SAT test prep and other academic services. She also served as a regional manager for Revolution Prep's Ivy Program, managing the development of summer branches in Northern Virginia. In addition, she supported a coalition of local healthcare coalitions and foundations serving low-income populations in the Washington, DC area, with a particular focus on research around patient engagement in healthcare. Anu holds a BSE in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University.
Melinda Perez
Program Manager
Melinda's experience includes teaching fourth grade in Guatemala, K-8 ESL in South Korea, and working as a resource and inclusion specialist at Title I schools in both Texas and Massachusetts. Her work as an educator has exposed Melinda to a breadth of approaches for enhancing student achievement. In addition to her teaching background, Melinda has also supported a variety of mentoring programs at Big Brothers Big Sisters and has written curricula for WorldTeach. She received a B.A. in English from Grinnell College and an Ed.M. in Learning & Teaching from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Alison Segal
Program Manager
Alison supports communications, the college success community design team, and the State Development Network at Mass Insight Education. Prior to joining Mass Insight, she worked as a preschool teacher in the Greater Boston area, at Rhode Island Kids Count, and as a graduate research assistant to Dr. Kenneth Wong at Brown University. Alison received a B.A. in Human Development & Family Studies with a minor in Spanish from UConn, and a Master's of Public Policy with a concentration on education policy at Brown University.
Sara Shaw
Program Manager
Sara has supported district-level fieldwork in Cleveland and Syracuse and is delighted to be a member of the Evansville engagement team. Prior to joining Mass Insight, Sara taught in Milwaukee, WI, first as a high school Spanish teacher with Teach For America and then as an elementary school Spanish and Title I English teacher. While teaching, she developed school-wide accountability systems, supported novice foreign language teachers, and designed a character education program. Sara received an AB in Comparative Literature with a certificate in Translation and Intercultural Communication from Princeton University and an MA in Education from Marquette University.
Larry Stanton
Senior Field Consultant
Larry leads our State Development Network and supports strategic planning efforts in our Partnership Zone districts. Larry served as Strategy and Planning Officer for the Chicago Public Schools from 2003-2008 with responsibility for developing, managing and communicating the district improvement strategy. Since 2008 he has been an independent consultant helping clients in education and workforce development to develop and implement strategies for change. His clients included school districts, state departments of education, charter school networks, teachers unions, nonprofit organizations and foundations. From 2010 to 2012 Larry co-chaired the Illinois committee charged with developing new teacher and principal evaluation systems. He has also served as vice chancellor for administrative services of the City Colleges of Chicago. He began his career as a high school English teacher and tennis coach. Larry has a M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School, a J.D. from Loyola University Chicago and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.
Andrea Wolfe
Program Manager
Andrea plays an integral role supporting district-level work in Providence, Rhode Island. Prior to joining Mass Insight, Andrea taught bilingual 4th grade at some of the most under-performing schools in Austin, Texas--she received AISD's Teacher of Promise award for an outstanding first year teacher, and ensured 100% of her students met or exceeded grade level expectations on state tests. After three years in the classroom, Andrea joined TNTP as the Training & Resource Manager for the Chicago Teaching Fellows program managing new teacher training and support in Chicago Public Schools. Most recently, Andrea worked with several TNTP programs across the country to improve recruitment strategies, coaching and new teacher effectiveness. Andrea received her BA from the University of Notre Dame.


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I started covering the US Navy's off-again/on-again Broad Area Maritime Surveillance (BAMS) program about five years ago. It's been back on for two years and — last I checked — poised for a contract selection decision in five days.
This makes me sad. Why? Because I just thought of an obvious angle for a BAMS story that I've missed somehow for the last five years!
For posterity's sake, I'll tell you about it.
If I had the chance to re-interview all of the competitors and USN program officials, here's the first question I would ask: Why is this a winner take-all award instead of a split-buy?
The competitors for BAMs are the Northrop Grumman RQ-4N Global Hawk (high-altitude, turbofan, active electronically scanned arrays), Lockheed Martin/General Atomics Mariner (medium-altitude, turboprop, mechanically scanned arrays) and Boeing/Gulfstream G-550 (high-altitude, turbofan, optionally manned, multiple active arrays).
Each product is basically an off-the-shelf platform modified to meet the USN's requirement. The USN is not paying to design a new aircraft. It's essentially buying a la cart. That's probably why each platform offers vastly different operational strengths and weaknesses.
This competition isn't a choice between two discreetly differerent rivals, like the YF-22 versus the YF-23. This is more like the YF-22 versus the B-1. Each platform is a completely different capability, but both are useful for their intended purpose.
I agree there are downsides to a split buy award: the upfront costs are higher than a winner-takes-all award, you lose some of the marginal benefits of commonality and training gets more complicated.
But there are other advantages. The USN would not be beholden to one contractor for BAMS for the next two or three decades, but could keep playing the two teams off each other over the life of the program. Instead of a narrowly focused solution, the USN's operators could employ the platform that makes the most sense for each mission.
Not to mention the fact that Congress tends to like split buys, as it spreads the jobs more broadly and subjects the defense industry to greater competition.
I'm not saying a split-buy is the best answer for BAMS, but rather that it's an imporant and seemingly logical question that I should have asked long before now.
But tell me what you think about it.
(Full disclosure: my wife works for Lockheed.)


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Temporal trend and climate factors of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome epidemic in Shenyang City, China
Author affiliations
1 Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Shandong, PR China
2 State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, China CDC
3 China CDC Key Laboratory of Surveillance and Early-Warning on Infectious Disease, Beijing, PR China
4 Shandong University Climate Change and Health Center, Shandong, PR China
5 Division of Infectious Diseases, William C. Gorgas Center for Geographic Medicine, University Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, USA
6 EDEB/NCEZID/CDC, Atlanta, Georgia 30329, USA
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BMC Infectious Diseases 2011, 11:331 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-11-331Published: 2 December 2011
Hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is an important infectious disease caused by different species of hantaviruses. As a rodent-borne disease with a seasonal distribution, external environmental factors including climate factors may play a significant role in its transmission. The city of Shenyang is one of the most seriously endemic areas for HFRS. Here, we characterized the dynamic temporal trend of HFRS, and identified climate-related risk factors and their roles in HFRS transmission in Shenyang, China.
The annual and monthly cumulative numbers of HFRS cases from 2004 to 2009 were calculated and plotted to show the annual and seasonal fluctuation in Shenyang. Cross-correlation and autocorrelation analyses were performed to detect the lagged effect of climate factors on HFRS transmission and the autocorrelation of monthly HFRS cases. Principal component analysis was constructed by using climate data from 2004 to 2009 to extract principal components of climate factors to reduce co-linearity. The extracted principal components and autocorrelation terms of monthly HFRS cases were added into a multiple regression model called principal components regression model (PCR) to quantify the relationship between climate factors, autocorrelation terms and transmission of HFRS. The PCR model was compared to a general multiple regression model conducted only with climate factors as independent variables.
A distinctly declining temporal trend of annual HFRS incidence was identified. HFRS cases were reported every month, and the two peak periods occurred in spring (March to May) and winter (November to January), during which, nearly 75% of the HFRS cases were reported. Three principal components were extracted with a cumulative contribution rate of 86.06%. Component 1 represented MinRH0, MT1, RH1, and MWV1; component 2 represented RH2, MaxT3, and MAP3; and component 3 represented MaxT2, MAP2, and MWV2. The PCR model was composed of three principal components and two autocorrelation terms. The association between HFRS epidemics and climate factors was better explained in the PCR model (F = 446.452, P < 0.001, adjusted R2 = 0.75) than in the general multiple regression model (F = 223.670, P < 0.000, adjusted R2 = 0.51).
The temporal distribution of HFRS in Shenyang varied in different years with a distinctly declining trend. The monthly trends of HFRS were significantly associated with local temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, air pressure, and wind velocity of the different previous months. The model conducted in this study will make HFRS surveillance simpler and the control of HFRS more targeted in Shenyang.


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Posted at: 04/18/2013 7:07 PM
Updated at: 04/18/2013 7:15 PM
By: Gadi Schwartz and Shaun Griswold, KOB 4 On Your Side
For several weeks the KOB Eyewitness News 4 On Your Side team has been investigating allegations that the Rio Arriba County Sheriff's deputies may be letting suspects out of traffic tickets for $500 dollar contributions to a mysterious scholarship fund.
When Magistrate Court Judge Alex Naranjo said he was suspicious when he heard about it.
"I was very alarmed, I was very alarmed," he said.
Here's how 4OYS is told the scam worked: Someone is pulled over, cited and then given the opportunity to donate to a scholarship fund in exchange for deputies dropping the charges.
But the fund is not associated with the county or the courts. And sources tell 4OYS federal agents have seized copies of the checks that have been paid to the scholarship fund.
Naranjo says it looks very suspicious
"If somebody is being cited for driving with a revoked license," he said. "It's not up to the officer to dismiss that if he gets money for whatever funding might be."
A spokesperson for the Sheriff's Department says what they are doing is perfectly legal as long as the person who gets a ticket asks to give to the scholarship fund. He claims the deputies are not allowed to ask for donations.
"None of the deputies ask 'hey would you like to take another option?' If they do that they would be subject to discipline in this office," department spokesperson Jake Arnold said.


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Landlords - Advice
Good Practice Guide for Private Landlords
The private rented sector has an important part to play in providing housing within the borough. One of the aims of the council is to improve the quality of this stock. To achieve this, it wishes to promote a closer working relationship with landlords and agents. As part of this process we are keen to provide guidance and support. Therefore, we have produced this good practice guide which gives advice about the letting of property within the private sector. This guide gives information which should be helpful to landlords and agents. It also highlights areas of good practice in private sector residential letting.
We have produced this Good Practice Guide for Landlords in Enfield. In this section you will find information on:
2. Housing standards and Safety Condition
- Private Rented Sector - Landlords Obligations and Enforcement
- Gas Safety
- Electrical Safety
- Safety relating to Furniture and Furnishings
- Overcrowding
3. Tenancies
- Landlords Guide to Assured and Assured Shorthold Tenancies
- Tenancy Agreement
- Inventory
- Inspection for Repairs
- Repairs
- Anti Social Behaviour
- Gardens
- Deposits
- Rent Arrears
- Housing Benefit - Local Housing Allowance
- Ending a Tenancy
5. Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs)
- Overcrowding in HMOs
6. Protection for Tenancy Deposits
- Government Authorised Deposit Schemes
Contact Us
We hope you find this guide helpful. If you need to contact us about any matter within this document or want further information, please contact us:
Private Sector Housing, London Borough of Enfield, PO Box 59, Civic Centre, Silver Street, Enfield, EN1 3XL
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Austin, TX—Whole Foods Market is teaming up with Chef Ann Cooper to raise money for establishing salad bars in school cafeterias across the country.
At the fifth annual coffee-tasting event hosted in New York, NY by the Organic Coffee Collaboration, a market study was released showing that organic coffee sales have taken off in recent years—big time, and in spite of the trend for coffee in general.
Galt, IA—The month of August saw yet another food recall, this time due to a Salmonella enteritidis outbreak in eggs.
Rockville, MD—According to the Private Label Food and Beverage in the U.S. report by market research publisher Packaged Facts, private-label food and beverage sales totaled $87 billion in 2009, to account for 17% of total food and beverage retail sales in the united States. Dollar sales rose 6% over the 2008 level of $82 billion, driven primarily by a 7% increase in the food market.
Bob Moore, founder and president of Bob's Red Mill presented naturopathic medical students with $15,000 in scholarships, for expressing their take on a particular grain of their choosing on youTube. Students from seven accredited naturopathic programs in the united States and Canada were called to submit videos featuring the health benefits of grains on the popular site.
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Half way through our day in the snow, the "big kids" woke up and joined our fun.
Papa Ron brought Mike, our nephew, and his girlfriend, Katie, over to play in the snow. This was Katie's first time in the snow, so the day was extra special.
This is how it went....
Katie wasn't sporting her cute snow bunny outfit but Papa Ron found some warm cowboy Carhartt clothes, topping the outfit off with Mike's gloves to give her the complete sporty-cowgirl-look; she was ready for the snow!
Mike was ready for the sled.
He moved up in rank, booting the teenagers off of the quad, he took over as driver.
Ready for the pull.
Lucy's kept an eye on things.
Katie's turn to show her quading skills.
Jack and Lucy wanted to get pulled around too.
Mike attempted to snowboard on a sled but things didn't go as planned.
Mike pulled out Vic's snowboard, dusted off the cobwebs, and cinched his Nike's into the bindings. Megan yelled back to him, "ready," then took off whipping him up and down the front yard!
I'd say he was pretty successful at snowboarding in the snow and on the grass with our make-shift ski equipment.
Katie and Soph played catch-the-snowball until they decided making a snowman would be more fun.
Mike kicked off the new Frosty by starting the first ball and rolling until it was life-size!
Sophie was so excited to have found Frosty's arms!
Katie topped him off with a button nose!
So much fun in the snow with family and friends.


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