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A Study to Compare the Safety and Effectiveness of Indinavir Combined With Stavudine and Lamivudine
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This study will see how safe and effective against HIV the drugs L-756423 plus indinavir (IDV) are compared to just IDV when taken with stavudine (d4T) and lamivudine (3TC). The study will also see whether taking 1 large dose of L-756423/IDV once a day is as safe and effective as taking 2 smaller doses twice a day.
HIV Infections
Drug: L-756423
Drug: Indinavir sulfate
Drug: Lamivudine
Drug: Stavudine
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Safety Study
Masking: Double-Blind
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Multicenter, Double-Blind, Randomized Pilot Study to Compare the Safety and Activity of L-756423/Indinavir, 1600/800 Mg Qd or 800/400 Mg Bid Versus Indinavir, 800 Mg q8h, All in Combination With Stavudine and Lamivudine
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Patients are randomized to 1 of 4 treatment arms. In Group 1, patients receive a dose of L-756423/IDV once daily plus IDV placebo. In Group 3, patients receive a lower dose of L-756423/IDV twice daily (with the daily dosage equaling that of Group 1) plus IDV placebo. In Groups 2 and 4, patients receive equal dosages of IDV plus L-756423/IDV placebo. In all 4 groups L-756423 and IDV are blinded to the investigator and patient. All groups receive open-label d4T and 3TC. Patients routinely undergo a physical exam and have blood and urine tests to ensure the drugs' safety and tolerability, which will be evaluated by tabulation of adverse events and clinical assessment of laboratory data. In addition, CD4+ T cell and plasma viral RNA levels are measured to quantify the drugs' antiretroviral activity.
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|18 Years and older
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Inclusion Criteria
You may be eligible for this trial if you:
- Have HIV infection.
- Have levels of CD4 cells of 100 cells/mm3 or greater.
- Have a viral load of 10,000 copies/ml or greater.
- Are 18 years of age or older.
Exclusion Criteria
You may not be eligible for this trial if you:
- Have ever taken anti-HIV drugs.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00002424
|United States, California
|UCLA School of Medicine / Ctr for Research and Education
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 900951793
|United States, District of Columbia
|Georgetown Univ Med Ctr
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20007
|ViRx / Dupont Circle Physicians Group
|Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20009
|United States, Florida
|Associates in Research
|Fort Myers, Florida, United States, 33901
|Univ of Miami School of Medicine
|Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
|United States, Georgia
|Grady Mem Hosp
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30308
|United States, Illinois
|The CORE Ctr
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|Rush Presbyterian - Saint Luke's Med Ctr
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|United States, Kentucky
|Univ of Kentucky
|Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40536
|Univ of Kentucky Med Ctr
|Lexington, Kentucky, United States, 40536
|United States, Massachusetts
|Beth Israel Deaconess Med Ctr
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
|United States, Michigan
|Henry Ford Hosp
|Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48202
|United States, New York
|Aaron Diamond AIDS Rsch Ctr / Rockefeller Univ
|New York, New York, United States, 10021
|NYU Med Ctr / C & D Building
|New York, New York, United States, 10016
|SUNY at Stony Brook / Div of Infectious Disease
|Stony Brook, New York, United States, 117948153
|United States, Rhode Island
|The Miriam Hosp
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02906
No publications provided
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|NCT00002424 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 2, 1999
|Last Updated:
|June 23, 2005
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Keywords provided by NIH AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service:
Drug Therapy, Combination
Drug Administration Schedule
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Anti-HIV Agents
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Pharmacologic Actions
Protease Inhibitors
Therapeutic Uses
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The Rev. Joseph Selenski, senior pastor of Lifeway Community Church in North Bangor, is the starting pastor for the new church.
Lifeway Community is the sister church for Potsdam Area Neighborhood Church and both are part of the American Baptist Churches USA denomination.
People will not be coming from my church in North Bangor. It will just be new folks that are here, the Rev. Mr. Selenski said. Thats why we call it planting a church its growing a brand new church, so folks who arent served by a church, whatever their reasons are, may have that opportunity to start off at a new church operation.
The Rev. Mr. Selenski said the American Baptist Churches Association wanted him to start a new church in the Potsdam area because there had been one for about 100 years before it closed its doors two years ago. After closing, the former church donated leftover treasury money to the Potsdam Area Neighborhood Church, providing for the property purchase as well as most of the construction and renovation process.
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Sixty-three-year-old Richard "Rick" Curl is accused of sexually abusing a girl he used to coach in the 1980s. Police say detectives determined that Curl allegedly started inappropriately touching the victim when she was 13. Between the time she was 15 and 18, the abuse "progressed to an inappropriate sexual relationship," say police, in places in Montgomery County, including Curl's homes and the Georgetown Preparatory School swimming facilities. USA TODAY and the Washington Post reported in July thather parents learned about the relationship in 1987 when they read her diary. Curl allegedly paid her parents $150,000 in a settlement to keep them quiet about the relationship.
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On Tuesday, an arrest warrant was issued for Curl charging him with one count of child abuse.
Curl, who now lives in Vienna, Va., turned himself in to detectives on Thursday morning.
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Multiple myeloma is cancer that starts in the plasma cells in bone marrow. Bone marrow is the soft, spongy tissue found inside most bones. It helps make blood cells.
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Plasma cell dyscrasia; Plasma cell myeloma; Malignant plasmacytoma; Plasmacytoma of bone; Myeloma - multiple
The exact cause of multiple myeloma is not clear. Past treatment with radiation therapy increases the risk of this type of cancer. Multiple myeloma mainly affects older adults.
Multiple myeloma most commonly causes a low red blood cell count (anemia), which can lead to fatigue and shortness of breath. It can also cause low white blood cell count, which makes you more likely to get infections. Multiple myeloma can also cause low platelet count, which can lead to abnormal bleeding.
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Jeter, coming off surgery to repair a broken ankle he suffered in Game 1 of the ALCS last October, batted leadoff as the designated hitter. He singled in the first inning and grounded out to third in the third.
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Born in Boston, Massachusetts in December 1954, Harold Hongju Koh is an attorney of Korean-American heritage…. In 2009 President Barack Obama nominated him to be the Legal Advisor to the U.S. State Department.
Koh is an advocate of transnationalism, a concept that argues in favor of "global governance" as opposed to the constitutional sovereignty of independent nation-states. This perspective holds that the world's most challenging problems — war, terrorism, "climate change," hunger, financial and social inequalities, diseases, human rights violations, racism, sexism, and xenophobia — are too complex and deep-rooted for any single nation-state to address effectively on its own. The solution, says Koh, would be for all members of the international community to recognize a set of supranational laws and institutions whose authority overrides that of any particular government. Koh believes that such laws should "be internalized into the domestic law of even resistant nation-states." …
"After September 11," Koh said, "we were viewed with universal sympathy as victims of a brutal attack. But we have responded with a series of unnecessary, self-inflicted wounds, which have gravely diminished America's standing as the world's human rights leader." He cited the following examples: "the horror of Abu Ghraib"; "our disastrous policy on Guantanamo"; "our tolerance of torture and cruel treatment for detainees"; "warrantless government wiretapping"; "our attack on the U.N. and its human rights bodies"; "the denial of habeas corpus for suspected terrorist detainees"; and "our counterproductive decision to create military commissions." …
Koh has derided the Patriot Act as legislation that "was created with hardly any deliberation or genuine legislative process," and which consequently "should really be called the 'Round-up-the-Usual-Suspects' Act."
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Hardware Accelerated BitLocker Encryption: Microsoft Windows 8 eDrive Investigated with Crucial M500by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/10/2013 1:28 PM EST
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Braumin - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkThis is some pretty cool news actually. Now Bitlocker just needs to support smart card authentication at bootup and we can start using it. Reply
lecaf - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkWhy would you want that?
Sure smartcard for OS authentication is a good security feature, but reusing the same smart card for disk unlocking would be nonsense from a security standpoint, and using two would not be practical. Reply
Araemo - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkWhy would you want that? Because every additional password you give a user increases the chances of them writing it on a sticky note on the computer and bypassing your well-designed security.
Without an ability to use your AD credentials for pre-boot authentication, I recommend my customers go TPM-only (with secure boot if supported) for that reason, plus the supportability reasons.
Technically, bitlocker supports smartcard-auth... as long as you have a third-party module running pre-bootmgr to authenticate the smartcard and supply the drive protector key to bootmgr.
I've seen no product that does this, however, so the above statement is more correct than microsoft's line. ;) Reply
Braumin - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkHow do you manage the PIN for 30,000 laptops? 100,000? Even 10 laptops? Just give everyone the same PIN and call it a day? What happens when an employee is fired? You just go re-pin all of your machines? Have them make (and then forget) their own PINs? Reply
lecaf - Friday, April 12, 2013 - linkThere is a tool for that: Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Management (MBAM).
It's a central DB storing recovery information and allow non administrators users to change the PIN.
Don't use the AD for storing recovery keys as they are stored in clear text. Reply
Araemo - Friday, April 12, 2013 - linkMBAM is a necessity for deploying BitLocker in an enterprise environment. But it's not free. You have to buy MDOP. Reply
macshuffle - Sunday, April 21, 2013 - linkI rolled out MBAM globally for our environment. I'm currently looking to upgrade to the recently released MBAM v2.0 as it includes many fixes the original version should have had. It is easy to setup and install....just make sure you backup that key database and the encryption cert for it...otherwise your users will not be able to recover their systems. As another mentioned, you obtain MBAM by purchasing MDOP. Reply
Blindsay04 - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkVery cool indeed, Any idea if this would work in windows 7 ultimate/enterprise as well or is it only bitlocker in windows 8? Reply
lurker22 - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkShame MS won't simply add eDrive standard support to Windows 7. Reply
bobbozzo - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkFWIW, I can do the same thing by setting a drive password in the motherboard bios with a drive that has hardware encryption... instant encryption enable/disable.
I have a V-100 Enterprise Kingston drive, but it should work on any drive with hw encryption as long as the motherboard supports a drive password. Reply
chubbypanda - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkOf course, that's the way to go. Though in M500 review, Anand said something to oppose to that, something I don't quite understand:
"Unfortunately, most ATA passwords aren't very secure... " (http://www.anandtech.com/show/6884/crucial-micron-...
He'd tried and couldn't use long and/or elaborate strings for ATA password in UEFI BIOS? Not sure what machines he's using. Reply
zachj - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkWouldn't this also increase drive life? If software-based full disk encryption makes the drive appear like it's 100% full, then every single write requires a block to be erased first right? Reply
kpb321 - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkNot every write because they have spare area but it would certainly increase the wear because they would be doing it a lot more often. Reply
Anon123 - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkUSELESS
Everyone knows bitlocker contains backdoors. Reply
DanNeely - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkCitation please. Reply
Jammrock - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkThere are tools that can decrypt BitLocker, TrueCrypt and PGP. But in order for them to work you need a memory dump of the system or the hibernation file so the encryption key can be pulled from memory. But then this is a "flaw" with all software based encryption, as proven by the CSS and AACS hacks to get DVD and Blu-ray working on Linux.
There are no backdoors in BitLocker. I work at Microsoft and lost my BitLocker recovery key (long story). I called our internal support and their answer was, "you're data is gone."
But the real proof has to do with one word: profits. If there were backdoors Windows would be disqualified for government and enterprise use. Profits go bye-bye. There are no backdoors. Reply
lecaf - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkWhile I agree with you that no known backdoor exist in Bitlocker, your statement "data is gone" is completely wrong. Any encryption implementation would provision recovery keys managed by your organization. MS has a neat server called MBAM for that purpose. So if you loose the primary key, then your security officer could just ask the server to provide a spare (recovery) key.
Of course that it is valid if your organization manages encryption, if you did it by your self then you've got a serious procedure problem at MS. Reply
Jammrock - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkI'm well aware of the key recovery tools. That part is covered under the "long story" part.
This was an interesting case with a new laptop, secure boot, a DisplayPort adapter and a new build of Win8. To make a long story shorter, the BitLocker recovery key was uploaded to Active Directory and I had it saved to a USB drive. When I disabled secure boot it appears that something changed the recovery identifier, which invalidated all the recovery keys.
The change happened just before I went into a reboot loop caused by a corrupt DisplayLink driver, so the change never got updated to MBAM/AD. With the invalid recovery key I was unable to get into safe mode to fix it ... at first. This is when I called internal support and they said, "good bye data."
Eventually I plugged the DisplayPort adapter back into the exact same USB port as the last boot and got back in normally, updated my recovery keys and have been running smoothly ever since (thanks to an updated DisplayLink driver). So I didn't end up losing my data, but had I been unable to get past my frowny of doom loop I would have.
Moral of the story, don't make any UEFI security changes once you've encrypted your drive without backing your recovery keys up immediately afterwards. Reply
lecaf - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - link"which invalidated all the recovery keys."
Thats interesting, I hope you had the dev team look into this, as this seems like a bug, and should never happen.
"Moral of the story, don't make any UEFI security changes"
..or pause Bitlocker before doing them :) Reply
taltamir - Monday, June 24, 2013 - link"But the real proof has to do with one word: profits. If there were backdoors Windows would be disqualified for government and enterprise use. Profits go bye-bye. There are no backdoors."
Verisign had a backdoor which was made for the US government. And yes, it was catastrophic for their reputation when it came out. But you can't claim that no business will ever do it, because businesses did. And the US government used it despite having a backdoor in it. Reply
B3an - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkWhy have i never seen this Win 8 feature mentioned anywhere else before? I always keep up to date on Windows news but this don't seem to have been posted anywhere. Reply
B3an - Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - linkVery nice feature BTW. Shame my 840 Pro's don't support it! Reply
iuqiddis - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkDoes anyone know how well the linux kernel supports the hardware encryption already present in these SSDs? Or is the only choice to use software encryption? Thanks. Reply
Rick83 - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkWhether or not hardware or software encryption are a choice on SSDs is still hotly debated on the dm-crypt mailing list. dm-crypt does support external crypto-engines, but due to the device-mapping nature of the implementation, I'm not sure how well it would work to take into account such integrated solutions. Reply
mayankleoboy1 - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkDont know about hardware encryption, but Linux kernel is adding a AVX2 based software encryption! Reply
gattacaDNA - Monday, May 13, 2013 - linkUnless you are running some of the latest kernels with the right cryptlib packages and then edit / tweak about 4 or 5 different system files, the latest fedora 18 does not even support SSD Trim. The default state of TRIM is OFF. I know b/c I just went thru quite a quest to turn it on. Cannot comment on anything like eDrive but I'll take a _properly implemented_ drive password on the right platform, one who's UEFI/BIOS is designed to handle longer / extended passwords over nothing. Cheers. Reply
Tjalve - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkThis is awsome news. Ive been knowing abolut the windows 8 support for a long time, however i never found any information on what standards needed to be supported, and none of the drives I tested this on, worked.
So its my understanding that you need to enable UEFI and boot with UEFI. Does that mean that you need to reinstall the OS aswell? Reply
Azethoth - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkNo, secure boot does not require you to re-install the OS. However, and this is a big hairy however, every other device during boot needs to be signed as well. Sadly this gives you a >>>50% chance that your graphics card is going to screw you. For Radeon the chance is 100% - the chance you are a lucky Powercolor or something owner. For nVidia they have a firmware update for one of their GPU's. Outside of those two cases you are 100% screwed.
For AMD you will not even find an official notice, but Googling will find a snippet that someone quotes indicating they suck at doing it.
Gah, this new comment code looks nice but sucks for disabling the Chrome expandable text entry box. Reply
Azethoth - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkOh yeah, this is for DIY computers. If you bought a win8 compatible from an OEM then they took care of signing things correctly. Reply
Azethoth - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkLooks like things are less bleak, this post indicates you can request the required hybrid vbios from MSI, Sapphire and VTX3D as well. Still sucks for me because 1 Diamond and 1 XFX card. Reply
Tjalve - Friday, April 12, 2013 - linkAlright. So to get this going, you need to enable secure boot? I didnt read that that was a requiremenet, only to boot with UEFI instead of legacy BIOS? Reply
B3an - Sunday, April 14, 2013 - linkPretty sure you don't need Secure Boot enabled. Don't know why Azethoth mentioned SB...
You just need UEFI boot enabled. Specifically "UEFI 2.3.1 (Class II no CSM/Class III)" as mentioned in this article. I'd guess most new motherboards with UEFI will support this as long as you're on the latest BIOS/UEFI update. Reply
Araemo - Thursday, April 11, 2013 - linkWhy would you want that? Because every additional password you give a user increases the chances of them writing it on a sticky note on the computer and bypassing your well-designed security.
Without an ability to use your AD credentials for pre-boot authentication, I recommend my customers go TPM-only (with secure boot if supported) for that reason, plus the supportability reasons.
Technically, bitlocker supports smartcard-auth... as long as you have a third-party module running pre-bootmgr to authenticate the smartcard and supply the drive protector key to bootmgr.
I've seen no product that does this, however, so the above statement is more correct than microsoft's line. ;) Reply
Johny12 - Monday, April 15, 2013 - linkI thought the purpose of hardware encryption on the SSD was to reduce the burdon on the host CPU. So with Sandforce you got both better CPU performance AND the benefit of their compression/de-dupe? Reply
hceuterpe - Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - linkYou gotta be kidding me. I JUST bought the Crucial C400 SED variant less than a month ago!
Oh well, I don't plan on using Windows 8 (I rejected it) and my laptop doesn't have UEFI. Also The M500 doesn't seem to best the C400/M4 across the board.
For people who don't understand Bitlocker, you guys need to stop bashing it and comparing HDD passwords (seriously??). For a large organization, it's one of the easiest ways to enforce data-at-rest security. As for bitlocker, in software mode I've noticed my other laptop (which I don't own myself) tends to hang for extended periods of time especially when it pages. I've heard similiar behavior from Truecrypt, as well.. Reply
LS1 - Thursday, December 19, 2013 - linkHas anyone been able to get eDrive working right with the Samsung EVO yet? The latest firmware update is supposed to make the drive TCG/OPAL 2.0 Compliant. I gave it a shot and I believe I meet all the system requirements (UEFI with CSM disabled and Secure Boot enabled, Windows 8.1 Pro, BitLocker, etc.) but it still asks me if I want to encrypt only the used space or the entire drive (it shouldn't ask that if it's using eDrive from what I've read). Tried this on a Lenovo K410 Desktop without a TPM chip and on Lenovo ThinkPad T430 with a TPM chip without any luck...if it doesn't work on the business line T series ThinkPad then I don't know what will work or what I might be doing wrong? Reply
LS1 - Tuesday, December 24, 2013 - linkFinally got eDrive to work on the Samsung EVO but I had to install the Samsung Magician software and enable "Encrypted Drive" which instructed me to perform a secure erase and a clean install of Windows 8 which I did and it but I had to make sure the EVO was #1 on the boot order in UEFI/BIOS and also had to run "bcdboot %systemdrive%\Windows" from the Windows command prompt since I kept getting BitLocker errors saying "element not found". After it's done however the same problem as the Crucial M500 exists where the ATA security set is disabled and one CANNOT perform a Secure Erase on the drive and the Samsung Magician software doesn't allow you to set "Encrypted Drive" back to "Ready to be Enabled" or "Disabled". Reply
jjbravo - Thursday, August 28, 2014 - linkI tried everything posted and still can't get this working.
1. Got the TPM Enabled in BIOS
2. Set Passwords for Admin and User in BIOS
3. Secure Boot enabled
4. CPM Disabled
5. Enabled Drive encryption in Samsung Magician
6. Executed Secure Erase
7. Installed windows 8.1 PRO from scratch
Still wants to use software encryption. Can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.
Igorw - Tuesday, September 02, 2014 - linkSee the step by step instructions posted by me here: http://superuser.com/questions/692172/how-do-i-enc... Reply
jjbravo - Monday, September 08, 2014 - linkI followed all your steps to the T, no luck.
It just goes and uses software encryption every time.
Thanks. Reply
Igorw - Monday, January 13, 2014 - linkThank you for the walk through and also pointing out what to look for if the encryption uses software mode instead of hardware mode (that part really helped)!
With some trouble I now finally have Bitlocker running in hardware mode on my Samsung 840 EVO. The tricks to get it running on this drive were 1) Upgrade your Samsung firmware, 2) Use Secure Erase on the drive after turning Encrypted Drive to Ready to Enable and 3) Install windows in UEFI mode (I had no idea that it was possible to install windows in different modes).
Thanks again for the great step by step guide. Reply
Krysto - Monday, February 10, 2014 - linkThe encryption is done by hardware instead of software? So that means it could be backdoored by hardware vendors. Not the fact that Bitlocker is proprietary shouldn't worry you to begin with, in this case. Reply
Ctrl_Alt_ID - Saturday, May 03, 2014 - linkAnand wrote about eDrive over a year ago and still can't readily find an Ultrabook that fully supports eDrive, TPM 2.0, and Connected Standby. Why is this taking so long to come to market? Reply
kivnic - Saturday, April 04, 2015 - linkI'm still having a lot of trouble getting this to work. I have a TPM module installed, CSM disabled and UEFI bios use confirmed. I've followed the steps exactly for my Evo840 with Samsung Magician, and Gigabyte's support staff assures me that the motherboard does support edrive. However, every time I get to the step of enabling encryption I get the "Encrypt part of drive or whole drive" question indicating software-based encryption.
As a test, I installed Windows 8.1 to an old SATA drive instead and then activated bitlocker on the Samsung SSD as a secondary drive. That worked great, and when I run the command "manage-bde.exe -status f:" it confirms that the ssd is indeed hardware encrypted in this secondary drive position.
How come I can't get it working when the SSD is the primary drive? Any ideas would be appreciated! Reply


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The annual report made by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to the President for submission to the Congress on all operations provided for by section 1701o of this title shall contain pertinent information with respect to all projects for which any loan, contribution, or grant has been made by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, including the amount of loans, contributions and grants contracted for.
Source(Aug. 2, 1954, ch. 649, title VIII, § 817,68 Stat. 648; Pub. L. 90–19, § 10(j),May 25, 1967, 81 Stat. 23; Pub. L. 97–375, title II, § 207(a),Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1824.)
Section was enacted as part of the Housing Act of 1954, and not as part of the National Housing Act which comprises this chapter.
1982—Pub. L. 97–375struck out requirement for the inclusion of pertinent information respecting all builders' cost certifications required by section 1715r of this title, including amounts paid by mortgagors to mortgagees for application to the reduction of the principal obligations of the mortgages pursuant to that section.
1967—Pub. L. 90–19substituted "Secretary of Housing and Urban Development" and "Department of Housing and Urban Development" for "Housing and Home Finance Administrator" and "Housing and Home Finance Agency", respectively.
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Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima attempted to clear up the confusion on Twitter, writing: "I'm seeing a lot of tweets about how when Snake takes off his goggles, he's old-looking because of his gray hairs. That, however, is just the backlighting making them look gray."
The difference is even more pronounced when you compare the promotional image and the game footage. Still, noted!
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yeah! but if clementine gets bit in the game then dies ill lose intrest like its a good game but telltale needs her to stay alive or make something misterious happen so you hear me telltale please dont kill clem in like the 3 episode like i know shes the main charecter in season 2 and youll most likely keep her alive but please dont kill her. Oh and also im sorry about my typing mistakes :p
NO haven't you notice that in most zombie stories the humans are always covered in zombie flesh and they never caught it this way


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It happened again.
One of the bridges that go over Interstate 81 was struck by a vehicle Tuesday afternoon. This time, it was the overpass for Route 177, near Adams Center.
A too-tall backhoe, towed by a southbound tractor-trailer on a flat-bed trailer, struck the overpass about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday, Jefferson County Sheriffs Department investigators said. No one was injured.
The heavy equipments boom struck the bottom of the overpass, investigators said.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was William J. Shamper, 57, Harrington, Pa., The truck is owned by Formula Leasing, Ontario, Canada. It was insured. State police were unable to say Wednesday whether traffic was backed up because of the mishap.
Every so often, the same kind of thing happens to the Interstate 81 overpasses. It happens so often the state Department of Transportation decided earlier this year to use infrared sensors on the busy highway at the South Harbor Road overpass.
DOT crews installed height detection sensors to a permanent message board near the bridge, which has an underpass clearance of 14 feet, 3 inches.
A tractor-trailer heading south that is too tall would activate a sign beacon north of the bridge. To avoid the hazard, trucks can detour to the bridge and return to the road without changing direction.
The South Harbor Road bridge was last hit in October 2012 by a crane bucket fastened to a flatbed tractor-trailer, causing traffic to be detoured. A previous such accident, in March 2011, led to several months of repairs and partial road closures.
DOT spokesman Michael R. Flick said such crashes can be avoided.
The simplest thing there is for the carrier to go up and over, as there is an exit there that allows anyone who is over height – or thinks they may be over height – to exit 81, and then go straight across Route 177, back onto 81 without having to interact with the bridge, he said.
That bridge is scheduled for replacement in 2015, he said.
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|At a U.N. meeting earlier this week, more than 80 heads of state met to focus on the problem of global warming. President Bush did not participate in that meeting, choosing instead to convene a separate two-day conference in Washington on global warming. "Climate change is a global problem and we are contributing to it," said U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice. "Therefore, we are prepared to expand our leadership to address the challenge." Under the U.S. plan, countries would work together to set voluntary targets for greenhouse gas reductions, rather than the mandatory targets that would have been put in place by the Kyoto Protocols. Will the new round of talks lead to any changes in U.S. climate policy?


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Drone-fired missiles continue winnowing the list of suspected enemies of the United States.
On December 6, a U.S. drone strike in North Waziristan, Pakistan, reportedly killed suspected al-Qaeda leader Khalid bin Abdul Rahman al Husainan.
According to a U.S. intelligence source cited by The Long War Journal, "al Husainan was killed in a recent drone strike in Pakistan's tribal areas. The US launched a drone strike in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan on Dec. 6, as well as two strikes in in the Wana area of South Waziristan on Nov. 29 and Dec. 1. One intelligence official said al Husainan may have been moved to Afghanistan after being wounded in a drone strike."
NBC News reported that al-Hussainan, aka Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti, was killed while eating breakfast. Reportedly, the 46-year-old "cleric" was seen as part of the "very top tier" of remaining al-Qaeda leadership.
Three days after killing al Husainan, the United States killed another al-Qaeda commander in a drone strike in North Waziristan.
A shower of missiles lit up a compound in the village of Tapi near Miramshah in North Waziristan, according to Reuters. The Express Tribune reported that an alleged al-Qaeda commander known as Mohammad Ahmed al Mansoor and three members of his family were killed in the attack.
As described by The Long War Journal, "Al Mansoor was a midlevel al Qaeda commander and was "one of many Pakistanis who are filling out leadership positions in al Qaeda."
While there is likely much to despise about the men targeted and summarily executed by the government of the United States, two irrefutable facts should trouble constitutionalists: First, neither man was ever charged with any crime, no attempt was ever made to apprehend them, and neither was afforded the opportunity to answer the accusations made against them. Neither was afforded even the most perfunctory level of due process that the Constitution guarantees to "all persons."
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The Secretary of Agriculture may enter into a cooperative agreement with an eligible entity to carry out a project under a national aquatic animal health plan under the authority of the Secretary under section 10411 of the Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8310) for the purpose of detecting, controlling, or eradicating diseases of aquaculture species and promoting species-specific best management practices.
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As a condition of entering into a cooperative agreement with the Secretary under this section, an eligible entity shall agree to—
(A) assume responsibility for the non-Federal share of the cost of carrying out the project under the national aquatic health plan, as determined by the Secretary in accordance with paragraph (2); and
(c) Applicability of other laws
In carrying out this section, the Secretary may make use of the authorities under the Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 8301 et seq.), including the authority to carry out operations and measures to detect, control, and eradicate pests and diseases and the authority to pay claims arising out of the destruction of any animal, article, or means of conveyance.
(d) Authorization of appropriations
There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2018.
Source(Pub. L. 110–234, title XI, § 11013,May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1361; Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XI, § 11013,June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2122; Pub. L. 113–79, title XII, § 12103,Feb. 7, 2014, 128 Stat. 979.)
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The Animal Health Protection Act, referred to in subsec. (c), is subtitle E (§§ 10401–10418) of title X of Pub. L. 107–171, May 13, 2002, 116 Stat. 494, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 8301 of this title and Tables.
Pub. L. 110–234and Pub. L. 110–246enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234was repealed by section 4(a) ofPub. L. 110–246.
Section was enacted as part of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, and not as part of the Animal Health Protection Act, which in part comprises this chapter.
2014—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 113–79substituted "2018" for "2012".
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Enactment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234by Pub. L. 110–246effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, see section 4 ofPub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 8701 of this title.
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If at first you don't succeed, take a lesson from Joe Petitti of Price.
"I started applying for a buffalo tag 35 years ago," he recalls. He was just 50 years old then. Every year since the first application, he re-applied, until finally, at age 85 he drew the long-awaited permit to hunt buffalo in the Henry Mountains.
Petitti was ready, and he was in shape for what was to be a long hike in the boondocks in search of a trophy.
Petitti got with Two R Ranch Guides and Outfitters for some professional hunting help.
On Nov. 16, they set off safari-style to the rugged terrain of the Henrys. Once camp was set up, the guides did some scouting and located a group of bulls.
"They were up a box canyon," said Derris Jones of Two R. "They'd been chased during the hunt and they had found a place to hang out."
November 17 began long before dawn with bacon and eggs for breakfast at 4:30 a.m.
At 5:30 the team started the hike. They would not see the camp again for 13 hours.
They did not see the buffalo again until about 9 a.m. The bison had roamed a bit. Ron Hodson, who was stationed as a spotter in the cliffs above the the canyons and draws, managed to relocate them. Hodson radioed the new location via walkie-talkie.
Petitti and the team set off. "Before the hunt I had asked Joe how far he thought he could walk and he told me about a mile," said Albert Sacco. "It was more like three miles in."
Petitti had no problem with that. It was adrenalin, maybe, because he found the buffalo.
It was a big one, maybe 900 to 1,000 pounds. "It's an elk and a half," quipped Sacco.
Jones figured it was a mature bull about five years old. And it was lying down.
Petitti waited for it to get up. He shouldered the rifle when the buffalo got to its feet and found that the sun was right in his eye.
He shot, scored a hit, but it was only a wound. The half-ton beast took off.
Jones said they were able track it into a side canyon.
He headed up one side of the canyon, intended to spook the buffalo down to Petitti. That turned out to be unnecessary, because the buffalo was heading down anyway.
When the bull was maybe 50 yards away, Petitti got off another shot. It was another wound. The buffalo kept coming.
"I had a tree picked out," Jones laughed.
This tale was being told as the group sat around a table in the Balance Rock cafe Helper, on the left side of the room as you enter the door.
"When the buffalo was about as far away as the table over there," Jones pointed to a table on the right side of the room, "Joe got him. The buffalo disappeared." It was hidden by rocks and underbrush.
Slow and cautious, they approached. The last shot was perfect.
It took three pack horses to haul out the best parts of the bison, one horse for the head and hide alone.
It was getting dark as the team headed back to camp.
This is when Sacco got his laughs. "After 35 years of waiting, Joe finally gets a buffalo. So what does he say when he gets back? Well, his night vision isn't too good anymore and his flashlight was getting dim. He says, 'You wouldn't happen to have any D cell batteries, would you?'"
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Dynamic social and economic changes in Laos during the past decade have created openings for targeted assistance from the United States. Throughout Laos, USAID assists the Lao people in raising their quality of life, protecting natural resources, and modernizing the economy in a sustainable manner.
Laos faces many challenges in health, including limited ability to monitor and respond to infectious disease outbreaks, limited coverage for maternal and child health, and an overstretched health care workforce. Laos also faces major environmental challenges, such as expanded commercial exploitation of forests, plans for additional hydroelectric facilities, foreign demand for wild animals, and an expanding population. The country's economy remains dependent on external demand, particularly in mining, hydropower and forestry.
In Laos, USAID oversees a blended portfolio of both bilateral and regional programs addressing critical needs in the health, environment, and economic development sectors. Laos' growing regional importance is reflected by its location—bordering China, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand—its membership in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and its position on the Mekong River. Throughout Laos, USAID funds support projects to assist Lao people to raise their quality of life, protect natural resources, and modernize the economy in a sustainable manner.
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Throughout the month of April, the City of Colorado Springs Office of Innovation and Sustainability (OIS) held a Sustainability Snapshot Contest as part of Earth Month festivities. Visit the OIS Facebook page, facebook.com/CS.OIS, to view 193 photos of participants performing 20 sustainable activities. Six people entered a photo in all 20 categories to become eligible for the grand prize drawing of $500, sponsored by SunShare. The winner was Jennifer Elledge. Additional $100 winners included: Sam Terry in cycling/alternative transportation (sponsored by Old Town Bike Shop), Kathy Thierry in ride to downtown on a bus or using alternative fuel (sponsored by Southern Colorado Clean Cities Coalition), and LeeAnn Westfall in recycling (sponsored by Greener Corners). Ryan Lloyd also won a heavy duty tote bag made from repurposed City banners in the college/university bonus category. Winning names were drawn during the Pikes Peak Library Districts May 1 All Pikes Peak Reads book selection announcement ("The Year of the Flood" by Margret Atwood) in honor of the tie between sustainability and this year's theme, Survival: Against All Odds. Of course, the real winners are all of us. Special thanks to each person who participated!
The median on Cascade Avenue between Pikes Peak Avenue and Colorado Avenue will be re-landscaped this summer. The goal is to enhance our community and beautify a central location in downtown Colorado Springs while demonstrating environmental and financial sustainability. Implementation of the winning design will be paid for by Xerox's community donation of $21,000, a public-private partnership. The winning design, Connections: Inspired by the past……Designed for the future, was created by Cache Landmark Landscaping. The shapes and forms for Connections were inspired by patterns found on Ute Indian ceramics and tapestries. The form provides a palette for changing colors, materials and textures. The intention is to provide a connection to the past with the sustainable design applications of low water-use, recycled materials and low maintenance, providing a legacy for the future. The design was revealed at the VEDA Greenie Awards and Fashion Show in April. Click here to learn more.
Arts, culture and creativity help deepen a sense of place, inviting new people to increase a neighborhood's vibrancy. The non-profit Concrete Couch, City of Colorado Springs, and sponsors are teaming up to launch SCAMP, a Summer Community Art and Mural Program. Many of this year's locations are currently vandalized by graffiti, requiring staff time to mend. In fact, the City covered 12,000 graffiti tags in 2011 alone. It's important to remove graffiti quickly because graffiti attracts graffiti, which can send a message that an area is in decline or crime-ridden. Murals tend to discourage graffiti. SCAMP invites the community and neighborhoods to play a hands-on role in the creation of these projects. For example, you can show up at City Rock, 21 N. Nevada Ave., between 9 a.m. to noon Mon. May 21 through Fri. May 25 to help with a mosaic art bench (concept pictured). Most materials are reused and donated from The ReStore or El Paso County's Household Hazardous Waste Facility. A bike tour/celebration this fall will visit the 2012 SCAMP sites throughout greater downtown Colorado Springs.
Eagle Scout Jonathan Thompson recently worked with the City's Office of Innovation and Sustainability and Forestry Division to help a greater number of bicyclists hit trails and roads on a Bicycle Tree Tour. The tour was originally given and posted online last spring, in celebration of World Environment Day. Since then, Thompson has taken the tour a big step forward by documenting the GPS coordinates for each tree and having the on-line version formatted (by friend Taylor Lopez, theflashpanda.com) into a one-page, tri-fold brochure. Thompson further provided an initial run of 300 brochures available for distribution at local visitors' centers and bike shops. Click here to view the tour.
The City's Stormwater Engineering Division invited some schools to participate in our "Scoop the Poop!" Art Contest. Students from Chipeta, Grant, Howbert and Keller elementary schools created posters displaying the importance of picking up pet waste in our local parks. The winning posters from each school were made into public signs for their school's adjacent parks, click here to view. Pet waste is a huge problem in Colorado Springs. Not only is it a nuisance, but it can also carry viruses and bacteria that are extremely harmful to humans and animals in our watershed. In addition to the risk of diseases, the organic matter and nutrients contained in pet waste can degrade our water quality. Click here for a PDF on the importance of cleaning up pet waste.
In conjunction with Project FEVER (Fostering Electric Vehicle Expansion in the Rockies) and Governor Hickenlooper proclaiming May 17 "Electric Vehicle Day in Colorado", the Southern Colorado Clean Cities Coalition and City of Colorado Springs are hosting a free community event to raise awareness and understanding of plug-in electric vehicles. From 4:30 to 7 p.m., explore and test drive new electric plug-in vehicles, see electric vehicles already deployed in our community and learn about charging stations on the SE corner of Nevada Avenue and Kiowa Street. From 6:30 to 8 p.m. enjoy the movie screening of Revenge of the Electric Car at the Lon Chaney Theater at the City Auditorium, 221 E. Kiowa Street. Learn more at www.ElectricRideColorado.com.
The most sustainable building is one that already exists and May 2012 is National Preservation Month, a month-long celebration of America's history sponsored by the National Trust for Preservation, History Colorado and the City of Colorado Springs. The Colorado Springs Historic Preservation Board has partnered with local community groups and restaurants to develop a Historic Buildings Restaurant and Pub Crawl (visit six of ten locations to win gift card prizes to featured restaurants and pubs), on-line or physical Tour of Colorado Springs Hidden Gems and free guided tour opportunities (listed below in Going Greener calendar). Can you spot Jack Quinn's in the photo?
Photo courtesy of Pioneers Museum.
The City's Innovation and Sustainability Team is focused on promoting the spirit of innovation in the organization and facilitating the financial and environmental sustainability of the City. Team members include Innovation and Sustainability Manager Nick Kittle, Innovation Analyst/Grants Coordinator Jay Anderson, Sustainability Coordinator Carrie McCausland and Energy Efficiency Services Administrator Cathy Crawley. To help people understand these roles better, intern Augie Perez created a series of short, fun videos featuring each team member. Click on the links above to view.
Photo by Catamount Institute/Chris Abby.
What do you need to know to ride a bicycle safely in traffic? On Wednesday, May 16, League of American Bicyclists certified instructor and City Traffic Engineer Employee Anthony Pratt will share his tips plus bicycle innovations you may see in other cities, some of which will be coming to Colorado Springs. This "Green Bag Lunch-n-Learn" falls in the midst of National Bike to Work Week (Colorado and Colorado Springs celebrates a month later with a Bike to Work Day on Wed. June 27, 2012). Pratt will also cover Bike to Work Day as well as the League of American Bicyclists' 2012 National Bike Challenge, a free way for people to track bicycling miles online this summer competing as individuals, teams, communities and states. (The City and other Colorado Springs groups already have teams and are tracking miles.) The lunch-n-learn runs over the noon lunch hour, from 12:11 to 12: 49 p.m., at the City Administration Building, 30 S. Nevada, in Suite 102. Attendees are encouraged to bring and enjoy their lunches during the presentation. Those who come also have the opportunity to win a door prize tote bag made from reused City banners (pictured).
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The Invention of Lying
"The Invention of Lying" takes place in an alternate reality in which lying--even the concept of a lie--does not even exist. Everyone--from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman on the street--speaks the truth and nothing but the truth with no thought of the consequences. But when a down-on-his-luck loser named Mark suddenly develops the ability to lie, he finds that dishonesty has its rewards. In a world where every word is assumed to be the absolute truth, Mark easily lies his way to fame and fortune. But lies have a way of spreading, and Mark begins to realize that things are getting a little out of control when some of his tallest tales are being taken as, well, gospel. With the entire world now hanging on his every word, there is only one thing Mark has not been able to lie his way into: the heart of the woman he loves.
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Video: Some of NY's Highest Paid Teachers (outside NYC) are in WNY
BUFFALO, NY - Buffalo Business First is out with its latest rankings regarding schools, with a look at teacher salaries in Upstate New York based on data supplied by the New York State Department of Education.
The data is from 2011, the latest year for which numbers are available.
The rankings show that some of the highest paid teachers in the state --outside of New York City -can be found right here in Western New York and that better salaries do not always mean better results with students.
Of the 431 upstate districts surveyed, four of the top ten are in Western New York; Sweet Home (4th) Williamsville (8th) Lackawanna (9th) and North Tonawanda (10th)
"You really have to dig into the data," cautioned Phillip Rumore, President of the Buffalo Teachers Federation, which is the largest teacher's union in Western New York.
"If you have a more veteran staff, then obviously the salaries are going to be higher. If you don't, the salaries are going to be lower," Rumore told WGRZ-TV.
"We do have more of a senior staff here," said North Tonawanda Superintendent Gregory Woytila.
"We probably have 60 to 70 staff members that are on the top step (of the salary scale) and that grows every year as they reach that," Woytila said.
Teacher layoffs can also affect the numbers and North Tonawanda has had its share in recent years. Unlike in private industry where more experienced and higher paid workers are generally the first to go, the opposite is true in academia
"When you lay off teachers, the last in is the first out...so your lower paid teachers are being laid off which leaves you with a higher pool of salaries left to average," Woytila said.
The manner in which union contracts are structured can also influence median pay and it varies among districts how long it can take a teacher to reach that mark.
"Starting out teachers probably get paid less to come to North Tonawanda, but there are jumps in scales for longevity and staying in teaching which our staff have that maybe another district doesn't."
The data does not necessarily support the notion that districts paying higher salaries will see a better performance among students, as the survey shows some of the higher paying districts are on the lower end of Business First's most recent rankings for academics.
Although Rumore still insists, "most of the studies that I've read have shown that if you want to have better results and you want to hire the best and the brightest, you have to pay them a good salary."
The numbers also seem to know no economic bounds, with some districts serving areas struggling economically, like Lackawanna and North Tonawanda, ranking right up there with more affluent areas like Williamsville in terms of teacher pay.
Woytila was the only one of the WNY Superintendents whose districts were ranked in the top ten to agree to speak with Two On Your Side regarding the rankings.
One other Superintendent refused comment, saying he didn't think the reasons could be explained in an understandable way, and that there was no way to do it "in a manner which would reflect positively on our district."
Two other Superintendents we attempted to reach did not return phone calls seeking their comments.
Click on the video player to watch our story from 2 On Your Side Reporter Dave McKinley and Photojournalist Charles Moore.
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