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Evaluation of the Precision of the Microperimetry Function of the Spectral OCT/SLO
The recruitment status of this study is unknown because the information has not been verified recently.
Verified September 2012 by Optos, PLC..
Recruitment status was Recruiting
Recruitment status was Recruiting
Optos, PLC.
Johns Hopkins University
University of Southern California
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Optos, PLC.
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 21, 2012
Last updated: October 28, 2012
Last verified: September 2012
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To conduct a precision study to assess the microperimetry function of the Spectral OCT/SLO. The study will assess variability across measurements taken by three different operator-device configuration across clinical sites, variability between subjects within a given operator-device configuration, and variability within a subject for a single operator-device configuration.
Age-Related Macular Degeneration,
Geographic Atrophy,
Diabetic Retinopathy,
Macular Edema,
Retinal Vein Occlusion,
Central Serous Retinopathy,
Pattern Dystrophy of Macula
Epiretinal Membrane,
Macular Hole.
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Evaluation of the Precision of the Microperimetry Function of the Spectral OCT/SLO
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: age-related macular degeneration
MedlinePlus related topics: Retinal DisordersU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Optos, PLC.:
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|October 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|October 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|October 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|No Retinal Disease
|Retinal Disease
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|21 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Twenty-four subjects, 12 without retinal disease (Cohort 1) and 12 with retinal disease (Cohort 2) will be recruited. Any subjects that do not comply with or complete the study protocol will be replaced to ensure that a total of 24 subjects complete the protocol. Subjects will be screened and recruited based on the Inclusion/Exclusion criteria outlined within this protocol. Subjects fulfilling the stated criteria and who are willing to comply must sign an informed consent prior form to study participation.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subject must be 21 years of age or older.
- Subjects recruited to Cohort 1 will have no known retinal disease except for refractive errors (-7.5 D to +7.5 diopters).Subjects who are recruited to Cohort 2 will have one or more of the following retinal pathologies: early and intermediate Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Geographic Atrophy, Diabetic Retinopathy (mild, moderate, severe), Macular Edema secondary to Diabetes, Retinal Vein Occlusion, Central Serous Retinopathy, Pattern Dystrophy, Epiretinal Membrane or Macular Hole.
- Subjects who have signed an informed consent form.
- Subjects who can comply with the protocol.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects younger than 21 years of age.
- Subjects who cannot comply with the protocol.
- Subjects who cannot complete the Simple Test procedures
- Subjects who are not available to be testing 3 times during the day (Morning, Mid - Day, and Afternoon).
- Subjects with visual acuity worse than 20/100 (Best Corrected).
- Subjects with dense media opacities.
- Ocular surgery anticipated on the day of the study visit.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01692938
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01692938
|United States, California
|USC, Doheny Eye Institute
|Not yet recruiting
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
|Contact: Srinivas Sadda, MD
|Principal Investigator: Srinivas Sadda, MD
|United States, Florida
|Retina Group of Florida
|Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, 33334
|Contact: Lawrence S Halperin, MD 954-776-6880
|Principal Investigator: Lawrence S Halperin, MD
|United States, Maryland
|Johns Hopkins Unversity
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287
|Contact: Quan Nguyen, MD 410-502-9821
|Contact: Hongting Liu
|Principal Investigator: Quan Nguyen, MD
|United States, Texas
|Valley Retina Institute
|McAllen, Texas, United States, 78503
|Contact: Victor Gonzalez, MD 956-631-8875
|Principal Investigator: Victor Gonzalez, MD
Sponsors and Collaborators
Optos, PLC.
Johns Hopkins University
University of Southern California
|Principal Investigator:
|Quan Nguyen
|Johns Hopkins University
More Information
No publications provided
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on November 27, 2015
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|Optos, PLC.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01692938 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 21, 2012
|Last Updated:
|October 28, 2012
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
United States: Institutional Review Board
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Central Serous Chorioretinopathy
Diabetic Retinopathy
Epiretinal Membrane
Geographic Atrophy
Macular Degeneration
Macular Edema
Retinal Diseases
Retinal Vein Occlusion
Cardiovascular Diseases
Diabetes Complications
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetic Angiopathies
Embolism and Thrombosis
Endocrine System Diseases
Eye Diseases
Retinal Degeneration
Vascular Diseases
Venous Thrombosis
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on November 27, 2015


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The state Legislature's top agenda item for 2012 is putting Coloradans back to work. Our state has more than 400,000 people who are either looking for work, have given up looking or are working part time when they desperately need something more. Unemployment for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans is almost double the rate of the general population. Minorities and youths have an even tougher time finding work.
Yet every day, 150,000 illegal workers head off to work in Colorado. Our state representatives should be doing everything they can to ensure that Colorado job openings go to legal workers. This session, the Colorado Mandatory E-Verify Act has been introduced to require private employers to utilize the federal E-Verify system to help ensure workers they hire for new jobs are legally authorized to work.
Current Colorado law, sponsored by Sen. Bob Bacon in 2006, requires that employers hire only legal workers, mandating the use of a paper-based employment verification procedure. This paper process is outdated, susceptible to fraud and difficult to audit. Having employers use E-Verify simply updates the current law by making use of the technology available - and it's much more effective.
E-Verify is an Internet-based system that compares a worker's name and Social Security number against federal databases. It helps employers ensure that workers they hire are work authorized. It's free and easy to use, taking only seconds. In fact, 95 percent of the employers who use it are satisfied.
Colorado already requires state agencies as well as businesses vying for state contracts to use E-Verify. Nine other states have passed legislation requiring private employers to use E-Verify. Using E-Verify for new jobs dries up the jobs magnet for illegal immigration, thus eliminating the need for workplace raids and deportations. As more states pass mandatory E-verify legislation, it puts pressure on the federal government to pass E-Verify nationwide. But our unemployed Coloradans cannot wait.
Many Colorado employers already use E-Verify on a voluntary basis. There are more than 20,000 business locations in Colorado using it and 700,000 across the U.S. It's estimated that 1 in 4 new employees in the U.S. are checked with E-Verify. Since many employers want to do the right thing, having everyone use E-Verify levels the playing field. We should be rewarding honest employers. And E-Verify protects employers using the system from fines if they unknowingly hire unauthorized workers.
E-Verify is extremely accurate - more than 99.5 percent of legal U.S. workers are verified to be authorized. Use of E-Verify is a deterrent; many illegal workers do not apply where it's in use.
The vast majority of voters support making E-Verify mandatory for all employers. A 2011 Rasmussen Poll found 82 percent of likely U.S. voters say businesses should be required to use E-Verify - this strong support cuts across party lines and minority groups.
Will our Colorado legislators vote to put legal workers back to work by voting for this common sense law? Or will they put the interests of illegal immigrants and employers who exploit them over that of our own citizens?
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Christmas is the perfect time to deck up homes as extravagantly as we want. But, you don't have to go broke to achieve that. We came up with a list of Christmas decorations for cheap to help make shopping a breeze for you.
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Seniors' Captain's Day at Greetham Valley is usually quite a long one, this year's fifty four competitors played eighteen holes on the Lakes course then nine holes on the par three Academy course. It had been cancelled in September due to heavy rain and this time the weather for Rutland was held warm, sunny but very windy. Seniors' Captain Rod Wells got his game off to a bad start by not scoring on two of the first three holes. However, his game got better after that and he came in with thirty five points. Rod then took on the far from easy par three Academy course and came in with nineteen points.
After the bad start, he was happy to have played the rest of the course quite well and that his short game on the Academy course was good enough to help him to the win. Rod is the first Seniors' Captain to win the Captains Day while in office.
Terry McNulty was second with thirty seven on the Lakes and sixteen on the Academy. George Cooper was third with thirty five and eighteen.
The best scores on the Lakes were: David Kirtland, thirty six, Dick Thirlwell thirty five and Neil Lowndes thirty five. Ian Jarvis won the Academy course with twenty one, Denis Watts was second with twenty and Peter Giblett was third, he also scored twenty.
Rod had, only a few days earlier, led his team to another win against Stoke Rochford. The team had won the away leg of the two games earlier in the year and knew that the Stoke team would be doing all they could to avenge that defeat. As at Stoke, the game could have gone either way as some results were quite close, however, Greetham Valley won by five games to three on the day. Greetham's next game is against Rutland Water at home this week.
Trevor Smith who had held the record with a gross sixty seven for several years was second in the medal with a gross sixty nine, nett sixty seven and was cut to one. Kevin Shilham off nine, Ryan Tarrant off four and Peter Bagshaw off nine were third fourth and fifth on count back after they all came in with a nett seventy.
The Seniors Medal was played on the Lakes course on an overcast day with occasional spells of rain. Keith Heppenstall won division one with a nett sixty eight and was cut to fifteen. Peter Wood was second with seventy on count back from Jack Vernall. Neil Lowndes won the lowest gross with an eighty two.
John Morfee won division two and the medal with a nett sixty seven and was cut to twenty, John also won the lowest gross with eighty nine. Denis Watts shot a gross ninety, nett sixty seven to come second but had a much better reason to celebrate after scoring a fantastic hole in one at the par three sixth hole. He said that he hit a sweet six iron at the flag, it bounced a couple of times then went straight into the hole to register Denis's first hole in one; he was cut to twenty one. Charles Guttridge came third with a nett sixty eight.
Ladies' Vice Captain Bev Dolman, Liz Haughton, and Pat Jones represented Greetham Valley in the Lincolnshire Ladies County Scratch Final as winners of the South Division. Unfortunately, the normal team of Sophie Beardsall, Emma Tipping and Gilly Grant were all unavailable due to work commitments. They were up against it as their handicaps are ten, eleven and twelve respectively, they played three first team county players from Woodhall Spa whose handicaps are all around scratch. They lost three nil but had a very enjoyable day at Kenwick Park secure in the knowledge that they had made it to the final for the third year on the trot. Bev said that it was lovely to see the young Ladies playing so well and we wish them all the best in the county finals at Wilmslow next week.
The Second Team held their end of season event which was open to anybody who had played for the team this year. The front nine was irons only and the second nine was "normal" golf. Strangely, two out of three players scored better using irons only! Nick Cunnington won the game with thirty nine points, Pete Dickinson had thirty eight to take second and Neil Crees took third with thirty five.
This was the last event for second team captain Alan Bennett and he offers his utmost thanks to the commitment of all 42 players who have played Second team golf over the last three years of his captaincy.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Newly released information in the George Zimmerman case shows a clearer picture of the night Trayvon Martin was shot and killed.
The State Attorney's office released hundreds of pages of documents, pictures and interviews Thursday.
Pictures show the crime scene and items laying in the grass, such as keys, a plastic bag, and the bullet casing. Others show the gun used to kill Martin. One series of pictures shows Zimmerman's injuries, which include lacerations to his face and the back of his head.
SLIDESHOW: Zimmerman Discovery Photos
In an interview with investigators, one unidentified emergency responder said, "He had cuts and abrasions on his face, his nose looked like it had some damage and he had a cut on the back of his head, and we basically just cleaned him up."
George Zimmerman's father, Robert Zimmerman, told FDLE investigators in an interview he and his family have received death threats. At one point, he said the voice heard yelling for help on a previously-released 911 recording was not Trayvon Martin.
"The 911 tapes and the other tapes were played for the Martin family and they identified that as their son crying for help," Robert Zimmerman said. "That is absolutely, positively George Zimmerman."
Extensive police reports showed 11 witnesses. Several of those witnesses told police they saw two figures outside, one pursuing the other, and heard the shot.
"Saw a fistfight, just fists, I don't know who was hitting who," one unidentified witness said. Went back to turn the stove off and by the time I walked back I heard the shot."
One witness told police he saw "a black male, wearing a dark colored "hoodie" on top of a white or Hispanic male and throwing punches 'MMA (mixed martial arts) style.' He stated he yelled out to the two individuals that he was going to call the police. He then heard a 'pop'. He stated that after hearing the 'pop', he observed the person he had previously observed on top of the other person (the black male wearing the 'hoodie') laid out on the grass."
One report also stated one Sanford, Fla. detective believed probable cause existed to charge Zimmerman with manslaughter. The detective told prosecutors that the fight between Zimmerman and Martin could have been avoided if Zimmerman had remained in his vehicle and awaited the arrival of law enforcement. He said Zimmerman, after leaving his vehicle, could have identified himself to Martin as a concerned citizen and talked to him instead of confronting him.
He said there is no evidence Martin was involved in any criminal activity. The officer's name is not legible in the report.
Zimmerman was eventually charged with second-degree murder for the shooting of the 17-year-old Martin, who was unarmed. Zimmerman has pleaded not guilty, citing self-defense.
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Last year, Saudi Arabia purchased 22 BAE Systems Hawk advanced trainer jets. (BAE Systems)
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LONDON, ROME AND WASHINGTON — Gulf Cooperation Council nations involved in a massive drive to bolster their combat aircraft fleets are likely to acquire new lead-in trainer jet capabilities to match, but only after deciding which fighter types they will operate.
If two is a trend, then the process of acquiring fighter jets before deciding on the destination of your trainer order is already in play, with Saudi Arabia and Oman tying the purchase of the latest advanced jet trainer (AJT) version of the BAE Systems Hawk to the acquisition of combat aircraft.
Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are all in stages of lining up deals to expand their fighter capabilities. Buying new, highly capable lead-in trainers is unlikely to be far behind.
Countries planning to update their fighter fleets may be waiting to purchase trainers until they know what they will be training for, said Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with the Virginia-based Teal Group.
When the Saudis did their Hawk recapitalization, they waited until their plans were in place in terms of Eurofighter and F-15SA, Aboulafia said. That helped clarify requirements and may [be] in play here.
While Alenia Aermacchis M-346 and Korean Aerospace Industries (KAIs) T-50 are looking to challenge the longtime dominance of the Hawk, the Gulf Cooperation Council countries remain BAE territory. Saudi Arabia, Oman, the UAE, Kuwait and Bahrain all have variants of the British aircraft in their training fleets.
The 2012 deal with the Saudis took care of one of the two largest requirements in the region, with 22 Hawk AJTs part of a £1.6 billion (US $2.5 billion) training package.
Archie Neill, BAEs Hawk business development director, said the first seven Saudi aircraft are on a new assembly line at the companys Warton, England, plant.
First deliveries are planned for March 2016, followed by the Omani delivery planned for around August 2017, Neill said.
Saudi Arabias selection of the new Hawk design leaves the UAE as having one of the biggest outstanding trainer requirements, Aboulafia said.
The UAE requires 48 planes, some of them in a light attack configuration. That should have been a windfall for Alenia, whose M-346 was selected in 2009 as part of a roughly 1 billion (US $1.3 billion) deal. But the company has yet to receive a purchase order.
An Alenia spokesman declined to comment on the holdup.
At the time, knowledgeable analysts said the two countries had discussed development of a UAV with a payload and range exceeding the limits set down by the Missile Technology Control Regime, which constrains the sale of missiles and UAVs.
When the UAV deal stalled, the UAE reportedly put the trainer deal on ice, perhaps permanently. BAE and the T-50 team of KAI/Lockheed Martin are hoping they can get back into the running if the competition opens again.
The Emirates ejected Hawk from the original competition without the aircraft making the shortlist, leaving a straight fight between the M-346 and the T-50.
We are not in any specific discussions [with the UAE] around the lead-in trainer at this time, BAEs Neill said. We are standing by to have any discussions they might want, but we are not quite there yet.
In addition to UAE, Qatar and Kuwait are potential, if likely small, markets for trainers. The Qatari requirement could grow if the country follows through on a fivefold increase in a fighter force, which currently numbers 12 Mirage 2000s and six Alpha Jet trainers.
Alenia Aermacchi, meanwhile, is reportedly eyeing more than one gulf nation for its M-346.
While a spokesman declined to identify the country or countries in question, both Qatar and Kuwait seem likely to be among the regional targets. Alenia has led the Eurofighter Typhoon sales effort in Kuwait since 2010, and the sale of an advanced European or US fighter would open up the need for a new lead-in trainer.
While waiting on the UAE, the M-364 has found customers in Singapore, Israel and Italy.
Neill said he was not aware of any formal lead-in trainer competition in the region, but a lot of existing trainers will be falling off the perch over the next four to five years, and we are looking to the Middle East as a key customer area.
BAEs marketing effort is underway. Early November saw the Royal Air Force with its Hawk-equipped Red Arrows display team in Qatar ahead of appearing at the Dubai Airshow. The M-346 is absent from the Dubai flight line this year, however, having appeared at previous shows.
It may be that some potential customers wont even have a competition in much the same way as Oman, which secured an advantageous deal for the Hawk on the back of the purchase of 12 Typhoons.
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Its not just lead-in jet trainers that are up for replacement.
BAE is providing a training package for the Saudis, which includes Pilatus PC-21 turboprop trainer planes, primary trainers and simulators, and other training devices.
The PC-21 has already been adopted by Qatar and the UAE in the past four years for basic training and other duties.
Cameron McKenzie, the Middle East managing director of ground-based training provider CAE, said that any acquisition of lead-in fighter trainer aircraft will undoubtedly include a comprehensive ground-based training systems package that includes simulators and part-task trainers.
There are excellent examples of Middle East customers Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar who all plan to take advantage of ground-based training systems as part of their overall aircrew training requirements, McKenzie said.
The CAE executive said there is a challenge in the Middle East to not only operate platforms safely, but also quickly and effectively build the competencies required to ensure mission success.


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OXNARD, Calif. – Former Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent was released from his residential substance abuse treatment program Tuesday and is now free to pursue his football career again, sources said.
Brent's initial meeting with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had to be pushed back after he wasn't released Monday. The meeting has been rescheduled and is expected to take place sometime over the next two weeks, sources said.
Brent, 26, will have to meet with Goodell before he can join any NFL team. He has intentions of restarting his NFL career after retiring last July, a source said.
Brent's likely landing spot remains the Cowboys after owner Jerry Jones said to start training camp last week he'd welcome Brent back.
Brent retired about 24 hours before the Cowboys were to leave for training camp last July and before the league could hand down any punishment.
Brent was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 10 years of probation in January after being convicted of intoxication manslaughter for the December 2012 crash that killed friend and teammate Jerry Brown Jr., a practice squad linebacker. Brent was released from jail June 15 and allowed to spend the final 45 days of his jail sentence in rehabilitation.
Brent will have to apply for reinstatement into the league — that process has begun — and could face additional discipline from Goodell.
"I do believe in paying your debt," Jones said following a news conference to open training camp last Wednesday. "Paying your debt, paying the price. I don't have the information you need to have to make that consideration. We have stood with Josh Brent from the very beginning and continue. Josh Brent deserves an opportunity. I know firsthand he has contrition. So, yes, I will consider giving him an opportunity.
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Publication Date: August 28, 2010
Citation: Schiller, I., Vordermeier, H.M., Waters, W.R., Kyburz, A., Cagiola, M., Whelan, A., Palmer, M.V., Thacker, T.C., Meijlis, J., Carter, C., Egnuni, T., Hardegger, R., Marg-Hauffe, B., Raeber, A., Oesch, B. 2010. Comparison of Tuberculin Activity in the Interferon-gamma Assay for the Diagnosis of Bovine Tuberculosis. Veterinary Record. 167(9):322-326. Interpretive Summary: Bovine tuberculosis (bTB), caused by Mycobacterium bovis, accounts for up to 10% of human TB cases in developing countries and is increasing in cattle in the US and UK. Control of bTB is hindered by the presence of numerous wildlife reservoirs such as white-tailed deer, European badgers, and brush-tailed possums. Reasons for the failure to eradicate the disease are multi-factorial. Limitations in the sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic tests are factors contributing to the persistence of bTB. Test interpretation and accuracy are confounded by variations in the frequency of tuberculin testing, ambiguities in test result interpretation, and the use of varying tuberculin preparations The Bovigam™ assay is approved for use within the United States as a complimentary test for bovine tuberculosis. This assay relies on a specific response to the tuberculosis agent. In the present study, reagents used in the test and test applications were evaluated to improve test specificity and sensitivity. Knowledge obtained from this study may lead to an improved test for tuberculosis, thereby, advancing the national tuberculosis eradication program.
Technical Abstract: Cattle infected with bovine tuberculosis still represent a serious regulatory and health concern in a variety of countries. Early diagnosis using the in vitro interferon gamma (IFN-g) assay has been applied for more than a decade. Briefly, IFN-g responses in whole blood cultures stimulated with purified protein derivatives (PPDs) from Mycobacterium bovis (PPD-B) or M. avium (PPD-A) are quantitated. The production of a higher amount of IFN-g in cultures stimulated with PPD-B in comparison to PPD-A is indicative of an M. bovis infection. In the present study, different sources and concentrations of PPDs were compared with regard to diagnostic reliability in experimentally- and naturally-infected animals. Significant differences (P < 0.05) between sources and concentrations of PPD for stimulation were detected, indicating the need for standardization of PPDs used in the IFN-g assay. Additionally, we propose a tool named Relative Potency 30 (RP30) that allows rapid comparison of batches and sources of PPDs.


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RMJM has landed the £300 million Commonwealth Games athletes village in Glasgow
The village will accommodate 8,000 athletes and officials during the event. Following the completion of the games, further housing will be built on the 38.5 ha site. In total there will be 1,400 homes and a 120-bed old-people's home.
RMJM form part of the City Legacy Consortium, which includes CCG, Cruden, Mactaggart & Mickel, WH Malcolm, Davis Langdon and WSP Group.
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What do you notice about this image?
The correct answer is "the distance from the treeline to the wall is ten paces".
Why is this significant?
This is supposed to be a fortified city aligned with Florence.
It's fortified out of necessity.
Renaissance Italy was a time of almost constant warfare between city-states and their respective hegemonies.
This city would be required to defend itself.
The trees would provide cover to attacking armies--up to TEN PACES FROM THE WALL.
These trees shouldn't be there. They wouldn't be there.
The garrison commander would have conscripted civilian labor and pushed that treeline back a good half mile or so.
If you want people to feel immersed in Renaissance Italy, you need to not make stupid mistakes like this.
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He's got some straight final fantasy garb on.
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I'm a younger Trek fan (a couple months shy of 25), and this was my first real exposure to TOS. I'm so glad to see these again.
I remember that after Sci-Fi pulled the Special Editions, someone (apparently an SFC employee?) posted the scripts for the unaired Nimoy segments on the SciFi.com message board. They were then reposted to Nimoy.com - the site went down a long time ago, but luckily,
it survives in its entirety on Archive.org
One odd thing I noticed: The script for "The Tholian Web", as posted, has Nimoy mentioning that when the episode aired in November 1968, Richard Nixon had just been RE-elected, which is incorrect - Nixon was elected to his FIRST term in '68. I find it hard to believe that this was a mistake in the actual script, or the final filmed version. Maybe it was an error in the transcript?
Anyway, that's not all. I also probed the Internet Archive captures of the Sci-Fi message board itself, and found the script of the Nimoy segments for "The Cage," which somehow didn't get mirrored on that other site.
Read them here.
I also backed up text files of all the scripts on my computer in case the Internet Archive backups ever disappear.
Good work, my friend. I would interested in acquiring those transcripts, since some of them aren't opening on the site you posted. I should add that someone on YouTube has been posting versions of the Sci-Fi Channel Special Edition segments of Leonard Nimoy from the third season. Here is the link:
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I found a long enough bolt to make the clamp actually clamp and I had some spare rubber tubing shims to protect the paint from the metal clamp so I figured I was good to go. I was nearly done with getting the derailleur's adjusted correctly when I realized why it was going so slowly for me. The clamp had failed to clamp and it had slid down the tube towards the bottom bracket very slowly and this is why I kept magically finding too much slack in my cables. Also, the clamp had slid off the rubber shim and gouged the paint all the way down to the metal. FUCKING BRILLIANT. I don't mind scratches, but I haven't even ridden this bike yet and it looks like a cracked out beaver tried to chew the down-tube in half. I could have cared less if I'd have scratched it from my inaugural SPD mishap, but NO, this came from me being an impatient idiot, fuck me I was pissed.
So I did the only thing I could think to do, I threw all hope out the fucking window, broke a few things, sulked around for a bit, and then rode my shitty beach cruiser up to Little Caesar's for some solace in a box. You see, I am a fat little boy, and stuffing my face is the only thing that makes me feel better. It doesn't make me feel happy, just better, and at exactly the point when I am done eating I feel like shit.
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A jogger early Thursday morning found the body of a 24-year-old woman who was stabbed to death and left on the sidewalk of Santa Rosa's busy Fourth Street.
Police said the body likely had been on the sidewalk for only a few hours before being discovered at 5:21 a.m. The night before, hundreds of trick-or-treaters had thronged the McDonald Avenue neighborhood across the street.
Police identified the victim as Michela Wooldridge, who recently moved from Humboldt County and was possibly homeless.
Wooldridge was stabbed multiple times, but there was no indication of a robbery or sexual assault, police said.
No suspect had been identified, Police Sgt. David Linscomb said.
"It's a little bit unsettling," said Todd Bertolone, co-owner of Bertolone's Reality, where Wooldridge's body was found in front of the driveway. "It's sad, is what it is."
No one interviewed had been allowed close enough to the body to determine whether they had ever seen Wooldridge before. Homeless people do pass along Fourth Street, they said, some likely camping on nearby Santa Rosa Creek.
"I hope they catch whoever did this," said Donnailla Johnson, owner of Icon Hair Studio.
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Today I was going to cut the grass and that went down the drain. Dead and would not start. Charged and still dead. New battery tomorrow. Call from bank someone using charge card, new card and number, headaches. Do you have days that nothing comes together. What do you do to keep it together. I went and laid down and didn't think any more. Not the right things to do should have walked.
walking is the very best stress reliever I have, I can go out in a funk, and come home relaxed and stress free
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No, we never saw their faces, just the hint of gnarled jaw underneath.
Which oddly enough resembles the skin of victims of The Flood in Waters of Mars. Wonder if theres a connection?
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The remains of an effigy bowl are among the artifacts collected at the Kellytown site. A nearly intact village dating from A.D. 1250-1450 has been found there.
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Little noticed by most drivers is a vacant field on the southeast corner. This is an important Native American archaeological site listed by Historic Nashville Inc. as one of the nine most-endangered historic sites in Davidson County and by the Tennessee Preservation Trust as one of the 10 most-endangered historic sites in all of Tennessee.
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In the ESPN Sunday studio there was plenty of critism of Jason Garrett's handling of the final minute of regulation in last week's loss to the Arizona Cardinals and his subsequent unwillingness to claim blame.
Bill Parcells: "You have to be accountable. Everybody knows what happened. You have to stand up. You have to reiterate to them, 'Listen, I made a mistake.' This is a game that's not without human error. But this situation goes back to situational football. You have to prepare for it in the summer. Go over these kinds of things repeatedly during summer and then on Fridays, periodically during the season, you have to take time to review them."
Herman Edwards: "When this situation occurs and the game is lost, as the head coach, you don't wait until the middle of the week. When the game is over, as soon as it is over, you come to the locker room and you gather your football team together and you tell them this: 'Look, I hold you guys accountable to play and preparation during the course of the week. I hold myself accountable as to what happened today. I didn't manage the clock correctly. I screwed it up. It was all me.' Then you go through the process of what you were thinking and why it happened…You want to hit it right after the game. That let's your team know, I'm accountable to you guys as well as you guys are accountable to me."
Mike Ditka: "You can't undo what happened. You've got to go to your football team, you've got to tell them very simply, 'My bad. Here's what I'm going to do from now on guys. I'm going to trust you because you are the players on the field. I'm going to put you in the best position I can for you to play your best football. I'm going to trust you to win the football game because players win football games.'"


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If a student misses a second exam, I will probably count how you performed on that section of the final as your exam grade.
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After watching their 52-33 lead shrink to just six late in Friday's Scioto Valley Conference game, Southeastern found its footing in time to preserve a 67-59 win at Piketon that dealt a serious blow to the Redstreaks' effort to stay in the SVC title race.
The win for the Panthers (12-4, 7-4 SVC) not only helped them stay on the fringe of the title chase with the Redstreaks (11-8, 8-4), but also gave them a boost going into next week's tournament draw, something Southeastern coach Jeran Cox said was important.
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Designing Your Flight Review
Customizing your training will make you a safer, smoother and more efficient pilot
Like many newly minted instructor pilots, my first "dual given" was a flight review. I didn't know how to put together a review. At the time, the regulations gave almost no guidance and didn't require a minimum amount of time on the ground or in the air (this has since changed)." />
Enhancement: Enhancement of your skills includes anything that makes you a more well-rounded pilot. Get a tailwheel checkout to improve your rudder work for better coordination in the plane you usually fly or for improved single-engine performance in a twin. Log a couple hours in a sailplane to better judge glide performance should your engine quit, and to get better at spot landings and energy management. Add a certificate or rating (which satisfies 61.56) to increase your options. Identify an area where you can add to your existing skills, and devise a flight-review that will help you reach that goal.
"At the end of the day, it improved my knowledge of my airplane. I also built some needed confidence."—Steve Oxman, private/IFR
The greatest enhancement you can make, however, is to improve judgment through realistic decision-making exercises. Here's where you find the difference between a run-of-the-mill flight instructor and a true aerial educator. You don't have to spend thousands of dollars attending simulator-based training to learn aeronautical decision-making (ADM). A well-employed simulation of any sort can sharpen your skills.
I've had it happen twice in just the last year—once in California and once in Oregon. I conducted a flight review with pilots flying retractable-gear airplanes. One of the items I include in my syllabus is a simulated in-flight electrical failure, including a discussion of its effect on landing-gear extension. It's not in any of the handbooks, but battery power alone may not extend the landing gear fully into the downlocks, although it may get down far enough to illuminate the "down and locked" panel lights. An electrical failure, then, should be followed by reducing electrical load as much as possible, then diverting to a safe altitude long enough to complete the emergency gear extension checklist to get the wheels the rest of the way down.
In both cases, within a month of completing my flight review, the students e-mailed me that they'd experienced electrical failure in instrument conditions and, as a result of decision-making skills learned in the review, declined ATC's offer of immediate landing and instead requested a vector and an altitude to complete gear extension, landing safely soon afterward. Realistic scenarios presented in a flight review can make decision-making easy when faced with the scenario "for real."
Brief your instructor to present realistic scenarios. Have him/her turn off the GPS unannounced in flight and, when it "dies," navigate the old-fashioned way. Ask your instructor to present an in-flight fuel-management problem—leave it to him/her, as a professional, to develop a realistic and safe scenario. Come with a list of emergencies to review, leaving it up to the instructor to spring one of them on you. Download some challenging weather data and flight-plan to avoid hazards, discussing and refining your go/no-go criteria. A couple hours later, look for the weather that actually developed, including any PIREPs for the route, and discuss whether you might have made different choices.
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|Strategies for the diagnosis of mitochondrial fatty acid beta-oxidation disorders.
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|PMID: 12135806 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Mitochondrial fatty acid beta-oxidation disorders (FAOD) are a group of clinically and biochemically heterogeneous inherited metabolic defects. The spectrum of phenotypes has expanded from hepatic encephalopathy to encompass myopathy, cardiomyopathy, peripheral neuropathy, sudden death and pregnancy complicated by fetal FAOD. Pre-symptomatic diagnosis is important to prevent morbidity and this is now achievable through newborn screening using tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). Moreover, most of the diagnosed defects are treatable and the prognosis is generally favourable. This article reviews the features of FAOD, critically evaluates methods of investigation including metabolite analyses in body fluids, in vitro oxidation rates and acylcarnitine profiling studies, enzymatic and mutational tests, and discusses genotype-phenotype correlation, treatment and monitoring options. Based on this knowledge, strategies for the biochemical investigation and differential diagnosis of patients presenting clinically, asymptomatic neonates detected by newborn screening, infants born after complications during late pregnancy, and cases of sudden death with suspected FAOD are presented. Laboratory investigation commonly begins with a search for diagnostic metabolites in physiological fluids, followed by in vitro functional studies if the initial findings are inconclusive, and confirmation by enzymology and molecular analyses. Occasionally a stress test in vivo may be required. At other times there may be no firm diagnosis achieved.
|Keow G Sim; Judith Hammond; Bridget Wilcken
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Four years ago this past July we kicked off the Pickens Plan and changed forever the discussion of energy in the United States.
From a standing start we attracted 1.7 million Pickens Plan supporters who have been able to keep up a conversation with their state legislators and members of Congress to make sure the issue of reducing our dependence on oil imported from OPEC didn't become the "Washington flavor-of-the-month" and then forgotten about.
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Apart from pistols themselves, I suspect that the accessory most often purchased and yet least carried is the pistol mounted flashlight. Rails on pistols of all sizes have wildly proliferated to the point where it's more strange to see a new gun without one than with. It then only follows that gun owners would run to the store and buy things to put on there, whether they make sense or not.
I am not immune! The first thing I bought for my USP-45F after a holster, was H&K's "Universal" Tactical Light (strangely named since it only fits on the pistols of one manufacturer!). It mostly sat in a drawer and stored dead batteries.
Similarly, soon after I sold the H&K and bought some Glocks, I purchased a Streamlight TLR-1 and, again, promptly stored it in a drawer. It did get attached to a G17 I had designated the "house gun", but since I had no holsters to accommodate the gun with the light attached, it didn't see use at the range very often. Then it was moved to a Streamlight 870 mount that I attached to my Remington 1100 shotgun and didn't see a pistol again for a couple years.
I've been curious about carrying my G19 with a light attached since I bought it, and was finally motivated to action by Comp-Tac's recent 14% off Valentine's day sale and bought a C-TAC for a G19 with a TLR-1 attached. This holster ran me $110 shipped and arrived within a week. If you aren't familiar with the C-TAC, it looks like an overly complicated kludge at first, but once everything gets adjusted right under a tight belt, it's probably the best holster I've ever worn in terms of keeping a heavy pistol tight to your body at a consistent angle without needing constant readjustment. It also seems to grab my cover shirt less than other holsters.
I had initially wanted a Blade-Tech IWB, but I was informed by their customer service that the G19 with TLR-1 combo was too wide for comfortable carrying. As I have discovered this was not the case with the CTAC, I presume their holster is designed incorrectly. Raven Concealment offers another option, but at almost $40 more than the CTAC with a several month wait, I passed.
Compared to a normal G19 CTAC, the support struts are a good 1.5″ further apart, and the Kydex body of the holster is about an inch wider and longer overall. This means that if you already own a normal CTAC, your struts are going to be adjusted differently on the light holster to get a similar carry angle.
The holster body appears to rely on friction for retention instead of a mechanical lock, and thus there isn't that satisfying audible and tactile snick as you holster the gun. Since the mouth of the holster is shaped wide enough to accommodate the gun and light, there is more space between the holster body and the trigger guard. It is possible for me to squeeze a finger in there and trip the trigger. THIS IS NOT A CRITICISM! It is not a reason to not get the holster, but is an inevitable consequence of the design and is something the user needs to stay aware of. A wider opening means more risk of getting clothing, draw strings, and other foreign objects caught in the trigger guard when holstering, with obviously catastrophic consequences.
Concealed carrying the gun with the light was surprisingly not much different than without the light. The struts were farther apart, but despite a bulkier holster, the difference wasn't visibly noticeable. If you rely on using the CTAC with a shirt tucked over the rig, there might be enough difference to matter, but I haven't tried it.
The biggest change I noticed was the length and width of the holster body made its presence more felt when sitting in the car or bending over. It's not a big loss in comfort, but it's there.
At the range, drawing the gun is unchanged. Reholstering is actually somewhat easier than the standard CTAC, since the mouth of the holster body is much longer front to back. Angling the pistol forward, dropping the bezel of the flashlight in, then rotating the pistol vertical as I shove it in seems to work best for me. I'm not a good enough shooter to notice a huge difference in shooting the G19 with the light attached, but it does feel less snappy overall and it seems like I'm faster to get the sights back on target.
A brief sidebar on using a pistol with a light: It's imperative to keep in mind that you do not have a flashlight that's also a pistol, but rather a pistol that has a flashlight attached. You should absolutely not use the light for searching or general illumination if you aren't justified in pointing your gun in that direction. If you only have the attached light available and need to light up a room, pointing the gun and light at the floor bounces enough light around the room to see what you're doing. A class dedicated to the use of the gun in low light situations would not be a bad idea!
To sum up, I've found that carrying a pistol with a light attached is definitely possible and downright convenient. You give up a degree of concealment and comfort for always having a light available that does not impede your shooting, reloading and gun handling. It is not a replacement for carrying a dedicated flashlight, and the price tag of a specialized holster, the light itself, and a supply of batteries is not small. The trade offs are affordable enough for me that I don't think I'll go back to carrying a bare gun. It is not something that I can confidently recommend to everyone, the pistol mounted light is not as much a no brainer accessory to your pistol as carrying a reload or a cell phone. But if it's something you think might be useful to you, I can enthusiastically recommend the CTAC for carrying a gun with a light.


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After a decent opening, the big-budget film has proved to have legs with moviegoers: Domestically, "The Hobbit" has collected $222.7 million; abroad, it has grossed $464 million.
Quentin Tarantino's slavery tale "Django Unchained," meanwhile, lassoed the runner-up spot, as the violent R-rated flick took in $30.7 million. Since debuting Tuesday, the movie has made a strong $64 million.
"Les Miserables," a star-studded adaptation of the classic Broadway musical, sold $28 million worth of tickets this past weekend, raising its six-day total to $67.5 million.
Even the critically lambasted family comedy "Parental Guidance" did solid business. Though its weekend take of $14.8 million wasn't especially impressive, the film starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler has now made $29.6 million — far more than pre-release audience polling suggested it would gross.
Focus Features, meanwhile, debuted its environmental drama "Promised Land" in 25 theaters. The movie, co-written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski, took in only a weak $72,047, amounting to a disappointing $2,882 per-theater average. The $16 million film, about a small town weighing whether to allow hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to extract underground natural gas, will expand to about 1,500 locations next weekend.
Overall, ticket sales were up 20 percent compared with the final three-day period in 2011, according to Hollywood.com.


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Knut The Polar Bear Suffered From Brain Disease
Early results from a necropsy on Knut, the world famous polar bear who passed away over the weekend, reveal that he was suffering from a brain ailment. The Berlin zoo
Knut the Polar Bear Dies at the Berlin Zoo
Knut, the world famous polar bear, died on Saturday at the Berlin Zoo at the age of four years old. About 600 to 700 people witnessed his passing while viewing
Captivity Making Famous Polar Bear 'Knut' Insane In The Membrane
When you remove wild animals from the vast open spaces they're instinctually accustomed to and cram them into unnatural, man-made environments, something not-so-good is bound to happen. Some may argue
Castrate Knut The Global Warming Polar Bear?
It's been a long, rough road for Knut the Polar Bear. Once the darling of the media industry and symbol of global warming, Knut has fallen fast from his days
Anyone Want To Buy Knut The Polar Bear?
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Knut The Polar Bear Gets His Own German Music Video
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i thought knox had some really good bars
eral was cool for first time seeing/hearing him
yeah the old style was all about replay...and the new one is more focused on live performance...still the subtle bars are there...just less of them...
it's a lot easier for me to interact with the live crowd this way
also...s/o to daze, franco, and pt...they are all dope
this whole battle was freestyle
my 2nd and 3rd vs franco are freestyle
all but 8 bars vs daze were freestyle
i basically just get drunk/whatever and...
Isaac is nasty. the "apparent" line was dope. His first round was my favorite.
this battle was really dope.
working out the contracts with aftermath has taken a while
dope song
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i thought that Paxx v Lexx was cool. One kind of let me down and the other really impressed me and won clearly no debating....
sorry if you guys couldn't make out what i was saying, i imagine it was distorted because of my screaming?
i think the battle will be released not...
should be fun stuff...just finished finals now on to embattlement preparation
it really was an awesome event and great time
i strongly urge everyone to go to no coast for an event or six
it's the coolest hip hop environment...
if Carter is there we will take on anyone 2v2...i'm not even asking he's on my team by default
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Customers who stop for a piece of pie at Joseph's Family Restaurant in Oak Park Heights don't often plan ahead.
Many of them, according to owner Joe Kohler, pull in when they see the restaurant's trademark green sign as they drive west on Minnesota 36. They use a small right-in, right-out access to get to the frontage road and businesses, such as Joseph's, Wendy's and Fred's Tires.
"We're a convenience business," Kohler said. "We can't afford to lose any of the ways that people can get to us -- none of them. We can't afford that, and that's what they're planning to do."
As part of the massive reconstruction of Minnesota 36 next to the new St. Croix River bridge, the right-on, right-off access road about a quarter-mile west of Osgood Avenue would be closed.
Minnesota Transportation Department officials said the closure has been planned for the roadway since 1995 in line with its practice of trying to consolidate access to highway corridors.
But Kohler and other business owners are hoping to change the mind of MnDOT project manager Jon Chiglo. About a dozen officials and business people met Tuesday at Joseph's to discuss options.
Kohler suggested that MnDOT consider leaving the access road open for a few years to see how traffic flows once the new bridge is finished in 2016. No accidents have been reported at the intersection to the police for the past 12 months, he said.
Keeping the access open would be fair, he said, since MnDOT agreed in 2012 to retain access to Omaha Avenue from eastbound Minnesota 36 after receiving complaints from Oak Park Heights business owners and city officials.
"We're talking about what's fair and equitable," Kohler said. "I honestly thought that once they (on the south side of the highway) got it, we would be a shoo-in, too. We'd like for this to be rectified."
Plans had called for the Omaha Avenue right-in, right-off access to the south frontage road to end this fall, but business owners said it was critical for SuperAmerica, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and other businesses.
Chiglo said MnDOT reserves the right to close access to the south frontage road if safety is an issue.
That's not the case along the north frontage road, where major reconstruction of the intersection with Osgood Avenue is being considered, he said.
Jim Leonard, co-owner of Fury Motors, and Washington County officials are working on a plan that would move the frontage road about 250 feet north -- across the street from the north entrance to Walgreen's.
The road would cut through Fury Motors land at the northwest corner of Minnesota 36 and Osgood Avenue and connect with the existing frontage road via Oren Avenue North, just east of Joseph's.
Fury is building a Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep dealership on the former Denny Hecker dealership. Leonard said Tuesday he plans for it to open when the new St. Croix River Bridge is finished.
Negotiations for easements across the Fury land have been underway for 18 months. If details are worked out, construction could start this summer, said Wayne Sandberg, deputy director of Washington County public works.
A left-turn lane would be added to Osgood Avenue at the new frontage road, which would improve safety and increase access to businesses, Sandberg said.
Sandberg said he did not support a proposal to keep the right-in, right-out access road open for a trial period.
"People say, 'Well, leave it open for a few years, and we'll see what happens ... if we have a few crashes,'" he said. "That's great, but are you willing to say that same thing if you knew it was going to be your wife or your kid who was hit? Chances are, you'd probably say 'No. Let's fix it now.' "
Chiglo said MnDOT could be liable if someone is "significantly injured. ... That's where the challenge occurs."
MnDOT officials might consider leaving a temporary right-in, right-out access to the north frontage road until the proposed realignment of Osgood and the frontage road is approved and constructed, he said.
But "temporary" was the operative word.
"Until we get it done, we can put a temporary access in there and build a temporary turn lane in there, temporarily, until we get this done," Chiglo said. "But once this is done, we would say that that has to be eliminated."
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Medical Costs Associated With Obesity At $147 Billion
The increasing number of obese people in the United States has led to serious health conditions, reduced quality of life, and escalating costs, according to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in August. The study, "Vital Signs: State-Specific Obesity Prevalence Among Adults—United States, 2009," revealed that medical costs associated with obesity in 2006 were approximately $147 billion (in 2008 dollars).
In addition, diseases associated with obesity accounted for 27% of the increases in US medical costs from 1987 to 2001. Compared to people of normal weight, the estimated medical costs for obese persons were $1429 higher.
The authors estimated that in 2009 there were 72.5 million obese adults in the US or approximately 26.7% of the adult population (95% confidence interval [CI], 26.4%-27.0%). The percentage of obese adults was 25.6% (95% CI, 25.3%-25.9%; P<.001) in 2007, 23.9% (95% CI, 23.6%-24.1%; P<.001) in 2005, and 19.8% (95% CI, 19.5%-20.1%; P<.001) in 2000.
"We knew the prevalence was high, but you always hope you will see a decline," Bettylou Sherry, PhD, RD, and the study's lead author, said in an interview with First Report – Managed Care (FR-MC). "In order to get a decline, you need to change individual's behavior as well as the environment and the policies. It takes time to do that."
Dr. Sherry, the lead epidemiologist for research and surveillance for the CDC's obesity prevention and control branch, said the statistics are likely underestimated because the results were based on a self-reported telephone survey and not on measured heights and weights. Men and women tend to overestimate their height and women tend to underestimate their weight, according to Dr. Sherry, who also mentioned that the heaviest people tend to underestimate their weights to the highest degree.
A total of 405,102 people participated in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey, an annual, state-based, random-digit-dialed landline telephone survey of US adults. The body mass index (BMI; kg/m2) was calculated for each participant, with a BMI ≥30 considered obese. People who reported themselves as ≥500 pounds as well as ≥7 feet or <3 feet were excluded. Of the 158,455 male participants, 27.5% were obese (95% CI, 26.9%-27.8%). Of the 246,646 women, 26.0% reported they were obese (95% CI, 25.7%-26.4%).
The study had a sampling protocol representative of each individual state, rather than the entire United States. The Council of American Survey and Research Organizations (CASRO) response rates for the states ranged from 37.9% for Oregon to 66.9% for Nevada (median: 52.9%), and cooperation rates ranged from 55.5% for California to 88.0% for Kentucky (median: 75.0%).
Each state failed to meet the target of ≤15% obese adults, which was set by Healthy People 2010, a 10-year health promotion program spearheaded by the US Department of Health and Human Services. Colorado had the lowest percentage of obese adults (18.6%), while Mississippi had the highest at 34.4%. Only Colorado and Washington, DC (19.7%) had rates <20%.
Whereas no state in 2000 had an adult obesity rate ≥30% and only 3 had prevalences ≥30% in 2007, there were 9 states in 2009 with ≥30% adult obesity rates (Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia).
The BRFSS study indicated that the following groups had the highest obesity rates: non-Hispanic blacks (36.8%), Hispanics (30.7%), those who did not graduate from high school (32.9%), and persons aged 50-59 years (31.1%) and 60-69 years (30.9%). The authors mentioned obese adults are at increased risk for serious health conditions such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes, certain types of cancer, and premature death.
Other studies indicate a higher prevalence of obesity, according to Dr. Sherry. For instance, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) showed that 33.8% of adults age ≥20 years were overweight (BMI ≥30) in 2007-2008, including 32.2% of males and 35.5% of females. Participants in the NHANES study had their heights and weights measured and recorded, leading to more accurate results than the BRFSS survey.
In addition to the fact that self-reported heights and weights may underestimate the results, the authors mentioned other limitations to the BRFSS trial. The study excluded people who did not have landline telephones. Adults with only wireless telephones tend to be younger, black or Hispanic, and have lower incomes and no health insurance. Further, because the CASRO response rate was only 52.9% and varied by state, there may be a bias if the participants had different characteristics related to obesity than nonrespondents.
Dr. Sherry said several steps are being taken to help lower obesity rates. On a national level, First Lady Michelle Obama launched the "Let's Move!" campaign in February focused on childhood obesity, while President Barack Obama created the Task Force on Childhood Obesity. The programs focus on the following areas: empowering parents and caregivers; providing healthy food in schools; improving access to healthy, affordable schools; and increasing healthy activity.
The Obama administration's economic stimulus package also included money to fight obesity. The CDC is running a state-based physical activity, nutrition, and obesity prevention program. The organization provides money to communities for several initiatives, including having healthier foods in schools and building infrastructure such as sidewalks and parks so people can walk and exercise.
For example, the city of Philadelphia received $15 million from the CDC earlier this year to battle obesity. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the city's Department of Public Health will work with a nonprofit organization called Food Trust and use some of the stimulus money toward a program aimed at 1000 corner stores in low-income areas. The stores will be asked to sign an agreement to offer at least 2 categories of healthy foods, according to the newspaper story.
Dr. Sherry said the states receiving stimulus money will have to show improvement in their obesity rates over a 2-year period. If they fail to do so, they will not continue to receive the funds.
"I think these are wonderful steps," Dr. Sherry said. "(Obesity) has to be addressed. There has to be work across multiple sectors and settings. All of these programs are helping to do this. We're trying to push environmental changes."—Tim Casey
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About This School
In 2010, Tobinworld had 11 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The California average is 24 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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As a Bus Driver for tobinworl I find it a great experience taking a responsibility for these special students. I also feel for the parents of these children on a day to day basis. All you have to do is show them love and compassion, it surprized me to see one of my students smile where they do not understand what that is.
Of course they do have bad days but who does not?
As a long time employee of Tobinworld I would like to share what the California Department of Education said about our school. The review team visited in early 2012 and said that Tobinworld is "the best Non-Public school in the state." That is excellent! We work hard to provide a rewarding experience for our students and what a diverse population we have! We have students with autism, learning disorders, and emotional challenges. It is fun and exciting! Our positive behavior program includes an on site Baskin Robbins managed by students as part of our vocational program, a nearby retail outlet, "Tobinworld Treasures", a competitive sports program, and a great Reward Store. The consistent behavior program helps teachers to motivate students to meet his or her individual educational and behavioral goals. Visit Tobinworld at www.tobinworld.org


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Sean Wiley will make one of many trips to Harrisburg next week.
The Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Campaign Committee will host a breakfast reception for Senator-elect Wiley and two other Democrats who won Senate seats Tuesday.
That reception for Wiley, Senator-elect Matt Smith of Allegheny County and Senator-elect Rob Teplitz, who will represent most of Dauphin and part of York counties, will be held Wednesday at 8 a.m. at the Harrisburg Hilton & Towers.
Republicans still hold a majority in the state Senate, but it's not as great as the previous 30-20 margin. It will be 27-23 in the Senate.
— John Guerriero