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|Thorough sonographic oocyte retrieval during in vitro fertilization produces results similar to ovarian wedge resection in patients with clomiphene citrate-resistant polycystic ovarian syndrome.
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|OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a thorough sonographic oocyte retrieval to a routine in vitro fertilization retrieval to induce ovulation, pregnancy, and endocrine changes in patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome in their post-in vitro fertilization cycles. STUDY DESIGN: Sixty-four patients from a tertiary infertility clinic, with clomiphene citrate-resistant polycystic ovarian syndrome and who were undergoing in vitro fertilization, were assigned randomly into 2 groups. Group 1 (n = 34) had a thorough (every possible follicle punctured) sonographic oocyte retrieval, and group 2 (n = 30) had a routine (only follicles that were likely to contain oocytes) in vitro fertilization retrieval. These patients who did not conceive in their in vitro fertilization cycle were monitored with ultrasound scanning for evidence of ovulation, pregnancy, before and after day 3 gonadotropin, and steroid hormone levels. Analysis of variance and the Student t test were used for statistical significance. RESULTS: Ovulation rates of 53% (18/34) and cumulative pregnancy rate of 44% (8/18) were observed in group 1, with no ovulations in group 2. Significant decreases in luteinizing hormone/FSH ratio (4.1 to 1.7) and testosterone (1.2 to 0.7 ng/mL) occurred after treatment in the thorough sonographic oocyte retrieval group, with no change after routine in vitro fertilization. Operating time was increased significantly in the thorough sonographic oocyte retrieval group (45 vs 24 minutes) in group 2. CONCLUSION: Thorough sonographic oocyte retrieval during in vitro fertilization cycle can produce significant improvements in the endocrinologic abnormalities, ovulation, and pregnancies that are comparable with ovarian wedge resection in patients with clomiphene citrate-resistant polycystic ovarian syndrome.
|Emmett F Branigan; Antoinette Estes; Kenneth Walker; Jillian Rothgeb
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|Type: Journal Article; Randomized Controlled Trial
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|Title: American journal of obstetrics and gynecology Volume: 194 ISSN: 1097-6868 ISO Abbreviation: Am. J. Obstet. Gynecol. Publication Date: 2006 Jun
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|Created Date: 2006-05-29 Completed Date: 2006-06-23 Revised Date: -
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|Nlm Unique ID: 0370476 Medline TA: Am J Obstet Gynecol Country: United States
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|Languages: eng Pagination: 1696-700; discussion 1700-1 Citation Subset: AIM; IM
|Bellingham IVF and Infertility Center, Bellingham, WA, USA.
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therapeutic use*
Drug Resistance
Fertility Agents, Female / therapeutic use*
Fertilization in Vitro*
Follicle Stimulating Hormone / blood
Infertility, Female / etiology, therapy
Luteinizing Hormone / blood
Ovary / surgery, ultrasonography*
Ovulation Induction / methods*
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome / blood, complications, drug therapy*
Pregnancy Rate
Testosterone / blood
Tissue and Organ Harvesting* / methods
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|0/Fertility Agents, Female; 58-22-0/Testosterone; 9002-67-9/Luteinizing Hormone; 9002-68-0/Follicle Stimulating Hormone; 911-45-5/Clomiphene
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Monday, July 28, 2014
Newtown's 13-year-old Babe Ruth baseball team, the Wolf Pack, host of the New England Regional Tournament, will be at home today, Monday, July 28, for a 4 pm game. Newtown will take on Eastern Massachusetts at High Meadow Field on the campus of Fairfield Hills.
The Wolf Pack is coming off an 8-7 win over Franklin County of Vermont on July 27. Following a 5-3 loss to New Hampshire in its first tourney game, on July 26, the Wolf Pack is in the loser's bracket and must win each game to remain in the double-elimination tourney.
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You know you love football. You love watching the players racing across the field with the smell of cut grass setting fire to your team spirit. You sit at the edge of your seat when the players get the ball down the field, avoiding the opposing team as one good whack against the ball with a head or foot sends the ball past the goalie.
Yes, this is the game of football, sometimes known as soccer to other people in the world. If you are a football/soccer fan, you know that the next World Cup in 2014 is being hosted in Brazil. If you are also a football/soccer fan, then you have already booked your trip to Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil. You're looking forward to getting to your luxury hotel, sitting in front of the air conditioners with the cool air washing over your face as you stare out at the sights through your window. But there is more to enjoy in Rio de Janeiro than spending all your time in the air conditioned hotel room.
If there ever was a place to call a football/soccer city, you are now in it. The people in Rio de Janeiro host matches in their many stadiums including the world-renowned Maracana Stadium where the 2014 World Cup will take place. A national passion, football/soccer matches are held with the 20 teams competing to become the city's best team.
Just imagine. You can be sitting in the same football/soccer stadiums where the great Pele, Brazil's Football Player of the Century and national hero, had created his career.
When visiting Rio de Janeiro, take the opportunity to see the other sites and experience the attractions. Take the opportunity to enjoy the helicopter, train and boat tours in Brazil. One of the greatest attractions is on Corcovado Mountain. See the giant 125 foot Christ Statue to feel the religious experience of a lifetime.
Don't forget to have a romantic experience with your female companion. Book a boat cruise to visit the many bays, beaches and archipelagos, including Guanabara Bay tour, along with eating lunch at prestigious seafood restaurants. Take a walk along the Copacabana Beach hand in hand as you watch the sunset.
If you are a history buff along with being a soccer fan, take a walking tour of Rio de Janeiro and the surrounding areas to visit the historical regions. Petropolis city has the Imperial Museum that was once the summer residence of Emperor Pedro II.
While in Brazil, enjoy the culture with authentic folklore music. Feel the Samba players set your veins on festive fire as you watch the dancers sway in their colorful costumes. You'll be clapping your hands to the great nightlife that Rio de Janeiro has to offer.
Sports, music and South American attractions. Cheer on your favorite football/soccer teams as they go up against each other in the 2014 World Cup in a city that's dedicated to their teams. And when the lights in the stadium dim, take in the attractions and romantic sights that line the city of Rio de Janeiro.
And make sure to always carry a pen and autograph book handy. Who knows who you will run into while touring the city? Perhaps you may even bump into Pele.
Jesse Stone is a great lover of a football, Brazilian cuisine, and while he loves his air conditioned hotel room, he likes to get out into the heat of those Rio De Janeiro nights. He blogs on behalf of Sears and other prestigious brands.


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I've been to quite a few cons now and I notice that some guests leap onto the stage and go straight into the Trek related anecdotes. And some don't. In Melbourne she immediately opened it up to questions so what got discussed really depended on what questions were asked. She was happy to talk about 7 though, unlike one guest I heard who seemed to think it ridiculous people were asking about his Trek character.
I had a couple questions but other people asked similar so I didn't end up asking anything.
It's true she wasn't at all the entertainer like other guests, but she was lovely in her own way. Just personality I thought. She got quite warmed up talking about 7's character as well as the costumes.
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Attorneys for plaintiff Jordan Miles and for the three officers gave closing arguments Thursday, providing differing accounts of what happened that frigid night four years ago and disagreeing on who was really the victim.
Miles' lawyer, Joel Sansone, said police "executed a little frontier justice" in the January 2010 encounter when they apparently assumed that Miles, then a dreadlocked 18-year-old student at the city's performing arts high school, was a drug dealer.
The officers contend their actions were justified. And Robert Leight, attorney for Officer Richard Ewing, who now works for a suburban police department, said his client and city officers David Sisak and Michael Saldutte are the victims.
"Jordan's wounds have healed. He's fine now," Leight said, gesturing to photos of Miles' swollen face and head, misshapen from the beating. "But these officers have continued to bear this perception that they're bad cops, that they're rogue cops."
The all-white jury was sent home with instructions from U.S. District Judge David Cercone to return Friday.
Another jury two years ago rejected Miles' claims that officers maliciously prosecuted him by filing charges including assault and resisting arrest, which were later dismissed.
Miles contends he was talking on his cellphone to his girlfriend while walking a block to his grandmother's house, where he routinely spent the night, when the plainclothes officers rolled up in an unmarked car asking for money, drugs and a gun without identifying themselves. His lawyers contend that practice—which police denied using—is commonly known as a "jump out" and used to put suspected drug dealers on the defensive.
The officers maintain they flashed their badges and yelled "Police!" and stopped Miles only because he appeared to be lurking near a neighbor's home. Saldutte testified Miles panicked and ran after being asked why he was "sneaking around"—and the confrontation escalated when Miles allegedly elbowed Saldutte in the head, then kicked Sisak in the knee, before officers mistook a "bulge" in Miles' coat pocket for a gun.
The officers contend the bulge was caused by a bottle of Mountain Dew. Miles denies ever having a bottle of soda, which the officers say they threw away.
Another difference in their accounts—the police claim that Sisak tackled Miles through a shrub, which neighbors say was badly damaged and had two dreadlocks hanging from it the next morning, but Miles claims that never happened. He says that after his arrest and while handcuffed, a twig became wedged in his lip from being beaten with a tree branch or, possibly, Sisak's flashlight. The officer testified he lost the flashlight that night.
The officers contend Miles was never beaten after he was handcuffed, though they acknowledge punching and kneeing him as they struggled to cuff him and fought to keep Miles' hands away from what they believed to be a gun.


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An old Carter Family song. You'll find sheet music at http://libraries.mit.edu/music/sheetmusic/childpages/hellocentralgive.html.
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(D)Hello central give me (A)heaven For I (A7)know my mother's (D)there And you'll find her with the (A)angels Over (A7)on the golden (D)stair
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Brenda Groth wrote: sometime google the bottle house in Copemish Michigan, it has been there since I was a child..it is a couple dozen miles from our house..always fascinated me.
H Ludi Tyler wrote:Thank you. This thread was inspired by Dale Hodgins' suggestion that we each start a thread about all our permaculture projects.
My grade 5 teacher always said I was an inspiration. My classmates called me other things.
I thought this type of personal thread would be a great way for us to showcase what we've done without having people constantly pick holes in it, as happens to ideas which are still in process. I pretty much dropped out of the green building section for a while simply to avoid dealing with someone who wanted to constantly point out why I shouldn't do anything the way I definitely intend to do it. Two of these projects are in process but that doesn't matter to someone who firmly believes it should be done differently. ------- So I think the personal thread thing should give us some sort of immunity from judgment, as these things are a done deal.
I'm going to start mine tonight and the first thing I'll do is load up a photograph of myself and some pictures of things I've done.
Since we moved to the new format I've noticed it's more difficult to edit postings. This may have been done in order to prevent people from removing their posts after they were quoted. In the personal thread we should be able to add and subtract stuff at will. I'll talk to the powers that be and maybe they'll listen.
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MADISONVILLE, KY. (4/11/14) — Julie Babb Espey, 42, of Madisonville, passed away Wednesday April 9, 2014 at her home with her loved ones by her side.
She was born in Madisonville April 16, 1971, she was the daughter of John and Judy (Holmes) Babb. She enjoyed fishing, and loved her family and friends dearly.
She is predeceased by her grandparents, Beulah Mae "Nanny" and George Holmes, grandparents, Jess and Rose Babb and uncles, Steve and Charlie Holmes.
She is survived by her husband, Roger Espey, parents, John and Judy Babb of Madisonville, two sisters, Jonna Moore of Madisonville, and Jennifer (Steven) Gipson of Paducah, three nephews, Johnathan Brittain, Devon Moore, and Jack Bates and several aunts and uncles.
Funeral services will be held Saturday 2 p.m. at Bandy Funeral Home, Nortonville with Rev. Jesse Campbell officiating. Friends may call Friday from 5 - 8 p.m. and Saturday after 12 p.m. at the funeral home. Interment will be Saturday in Grapevine Cemetery, Madisonville. Condolences may be made online at bandyfuneralhome.com.
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Chrysoberyl, a mineral composed of beryllium, aluminum, and oxygen. It is a very hard crystalline substance and is commonly used as a gem. Some types have a yellow tint; others are various shades of green. Greenish varieties with a whitish pupil are called cat's-eye; opalescent ones are named cymophane. An emerald-green variety called alexandrite has the property of turning red when artificial light is passed through it. Alexandrite is a June birthstone.
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By On the occasion of our 20th anniversary
Why Do Mexis Like Wrought-Iron Fences?
By Gustavo Arellano
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Women For: OC are Stitching and Bitching
By Courtney Hamilton
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Taylor Woodrow Homes, a home developer headquartered in Florida and with its California division located in Irvine, has gone Halo-happy with its entry in Homeaid Orange County's Project Playhouse. (HomeAid is the organization that puts human faces on local developers through events that raise money to provide housing to the needy. Project Playhouse is one of those events, where local developers build extravagant playhouses that rich folks outbid one another on so they little princesses and fontleroys can own the greatest playhouses in the land, to raise money for transitional housing for the homeless, who would live in one of those playhouses if given the chance.) Well, Taylor Woodrow's playhouse is called Angels in the Dugout and, thanks to d�cor donated by the Angels Foundation, the pad comes complete with a plasma TV screen in the locker room and stadium seating and floodlights on the roof. The developer also announced that it has committed to matching up to $50,000 raised through Project Playhouse for the HomeAid Gulf Coast Disaster Relief Fund, which will build transitional housing for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Angels in the Dugout will be raffled off on Oct. 22; it's currently on display at Fashion Island. Bring along a needy family to check it out and sigh.
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The deadline for the submissions detailed below has been extended to Jan. 15, 2006, as per Ms. Davies.
In the wake of the Governator's vow to veto the latest civil rights legislation ensuring the same rights to happiness--or, in this case, marriage, which, come to think of it, happiness and marriage are oxymoronic, but anyway . . . --former Weekly calendar editor Stacy Davies sent out the following, and we encourage you all to participate:
My friends--
Many of you were recipients of my email yesterday urging you, as gay citizens, to write your personal stories with pictures and fax them to Maria Shriver. Apparently, we may be too late. The morning papers say the governor will veto the bill as a tribute to "the will of the people." I believe the next will of the people will be that he return to private citizenry.
But take heart. I have an idea. I am going to get a book published. A "coffee table" book, if you will. So put your apathy aside for the moment and read on.
I want all of you, gay and straight alike, to write your personal stories. If you are gay, write about your life, if you are straight, write about a gay person you love. Don't worry if you aren't a "writer" that has no bearing. Send your stories and up to three pictures to me.
This will be a book of us--our lives, our humanity, our existence, that no one will be able to deny. It may take courage on your part, especially if you are gay, to have your picture in a book and let everyone know you. But it is of the utmost importance that your face be seen, that you are known. Of course, no pertinent, trackable, information will be given out in the book, not even last names.
I will edit the stories and make them shine (if they don't already!) I will also have my pro photographer friends help me with the pictures. And I will take the entire manuscript to a gay press and have the book published. I am already compiling a list of top book publishers as well as smaller presses.
If this project speaks to you, if you feel it is important, please contribute. The more people, the more diverse, the more the stereotypes they try to pin on us will fall away. You have my word that this book will be elegant and moving. With your personal stories, how could it be otherwise?
Call for Submissions
Project: We the People, Too: Putting a Face on Gay Americans.
Tell your story as a Gay American--your regular, "boring" old existence, your sorrows, your loves, your accomplishments, your children. You can be humorous, angry, sad, hopeful, contented, just be real and be yourself.
These do not have to be coming out stories, but that's fine too. We want to focus on how Gay Americans are just like other Americans, and deserve the same rights. If you are a straight person, perhaps you know a gay person who has touched your live, or who, sadly, took his or her own life because of societal pressure. This book will be honest and real, but also uplifting.
Submissions should be a maximum of 1000 words, and include up to 3 photos. The more detailed your stories the better. No last names or addresses will be printed in the book. If additional or other pictures are needed for your submission, we will contact you.
The deadline for submissions is November 1, 2005.
Send to: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Just when you thought it was safe to start feeling safe again, along comes urban theorist/prolific author/UCI Irvine adjunct professor/Arellano buddy Mike Davis to scare the beejeebus outta us again. His latest rant, as reported in our big momma paper Village Voice, is death by birides, also known as the avian flu (a great '80s new wave band). In his new book, The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu, Davis explains how swelling slums (a bitchen '70s Dutch surf band) and the industrial poultry model (a'90s British techno band; they're just so-so) make conditions ripe for a plague. "You've literally urbanized chicken populations," says Davis. "And these huge population concentrations increase the speed of evolution of viruses, just like large concentrations of humans do." He adds, "Slum populations are growing at the rate of 25 million people a year. We're talking enormous, unprecedented concentrations of poverty, and public-health researchers and infectious-disease researchers are still racing to catch up with this phenomenon." The Voice has Davis saying researchers "have been screaming at the top of their lungs about this since 1997." Yet in the U.S., flu plans are tantamount to neglecting the levees and gutting FEMA. Now doesn't that make you feel a lot better?
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GoDaddy.com founder and CEO, Bob Parsons, shares his insights into entrepreneurship, the future of online media, and the power of risk taking.
Interview conducted by Nathan C. Kaiser on Wednesday, December 7, 2005 in Scottsdale, AZ.
We decided to target this market because it seemed overpriced and underserved. We made the commitment to become a registrar. It ended up taking over a year and one million dollars to implement. After we sold our first domain name in November 2000 the company still didn?t take off. We were burning cash at a rate $300,000-400,000 a month and it was all my cash since I was the only investor. At that kind of burn-rate and since the business wasn?t taking off I decided in early 2001 to close the company. I ended up taking a trip so I could spend some time deciding how I wanted to close the company; severance and creditors, liquid assets, all that sort of thing. While I was away I decided that that?s not what I wanted to do and that I would see the company through even if it meant that I would go broke.
The way that Parsons Technology came about was simply from having been a computer hobbyist since the first Apple PC became available and then when the first IBM became available in 1980. Being a CPA by education I ended up writing a money management program to take care of the finances for the family.
Yeah. If it makes sense to me. There have been other things that I haven?t done and have been glad about it later, because I didn?t feel that it was something for me to do. I don?t run down every alley. Just run down the ones that make sense. We had the opportunity to get into the downloadable music business a few years ago and we avoided that.
It did. It paid off wonderfully.
But besides all of that it seems like the free publicity would be more than enough to compensate for the lost ad by far.
Well you know in some ways there are. We call them blogs. Many people have blogs, but it remains to be seen whether everyone will end up developing their own website. I know we certainly see that happening but who knows which way it?s going. I do know that there is a trend towards everybody having more of a presence online as opposed to less.
Exactly. We are excited about what we do and we want somebody that?s excited about being part of our team.
I?d say the most exciting trend is the ability for all of us to communicate important facts quickly. Things changed in the current Gulf War when soldiers can blog and email photos taken from their cell phone to friends and family. The fact that we are so wired and that information is shared so quickly it?s almost as though there?s no state secrets anymore. And I think that is very exciting.


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Marilyn Van Derbur spends nearly six hours answering up to 500 emails every day.
She reads the anguish of men and women who have been victims of sexual abuse. She responds with kindness and advice and most importantly, understanding.
Van Derbur, a 75-year-old Denver woman, was sexually abused by her father from the time she was 5 years old into her teens.
It wasn't until she was 53 that Van Derbur said she overcame her own shame and decided to bring what comfort she could to those still suffering.
Van Derbur will share her story at the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center on April 24 with proceeds to benefit the York County Children's Advocacy Center and Turning Point Women's Counseling and Advocacy Center.
Kristen Woolley, founder and president of Turning Point, said she learned of Van Derbur after watching her speak in a training video.
"I said, 'She's so powerful. We have to bring her to York,'" Woolley said.
Woolley said she partnered with the CAC to bring Van Derbur here to educate the community and help survivors who have never been able to tell their stories.
"She gives a voice to survivors," Woolley said.
Living in the public eye
Van Derbur's story was hardly private.
As a former Miss America, when a reporter found out Van Derbur was an incest survivor, the story appeared on the front page of the Denver Post.
"It just never stopped," Van Derbur said of the publicity.
Her story would appear on the cover of the Denver Post six more times. She would watch broadcasts detailing her abuse on the evening news.
After joining a support group, Van Derbur said she kept hearing "brother, brother, brother."
More than half of the people she counseled had been abused by an older brother, she said.
"I thought my pain would be worse because it was my father," Van Derbur said. "But it wasn't. We can't change a man like my father, but we can educate our children."
Van Derbur said when a teenage boy or girl is growing up, they don't always understand that touching a younger or less powerful child can have a life impact.
"One of the reasons why I'm coming here is because I'm passionate about parents talking to their children," she said. "Another reason is because there are so many men and women who are still living in the shame of what happened to them decades ago."
Van Derbur said she's met people who say they just want to see her -- to look her in the eye and know that she's real. That she really made it beyond the grief and shame of sexual abuse.
Many people suppress their feelings as children and it's not until they are between the ages of 35 and 50 that something triggers those emotions, she said.
"For me, it was the age of my daughter -- when she turned 5," Van Derbur said. "If you were uneducated you would call it a nervous breakdown. But it's a normal, natural healing process."
Van Derbur said she was lucky if she could throw on a pair of sweats and go to therapy at 51 years old.
People didn't understand why it took her so long to deal with the pain.
"If it hadn't been that traumatizing for me I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing today," she said. "I knew I could never go on with the life I had before."
Van Derbur has since written a book, "Miss America By Day," about her experience.
"You may read about me, but you'll be thinking about yourself," Van Derbur said.
She finds that many people who hear her story or read her book come back to see her five years later and hear a different message.
"It's really not about me," Van Derbur said. "It's about the people who have come."
After overcoming her own shame, and hearing the pain of so many others, Van Derbur said there was only one day she thought she might give up.
A sexual abuse survivor who was trying to reach her had an email get lost in an unknown account set up by Van Derbur's webmaster.
When Van Derbur finally had access to the account, she found 241 unanswered emails.
"You need to answer people immediately," Van Derbur said. "Someone is telling you something they never told anyone and you have to respond immediately. They wait for it. It's never the same two weeks later. They need to hear from you within a couple of hours."
Van Derbur said she had one woman who emailed her five times a day. Then three times. Then once a day. Now, once every three months.
"She made it," Van Derbur said of the woman's journey. "And we walked it together."
Van Derbur said she suggests that anyone who wants to hear her speak bring someone with them and to learn about the advocacy centers for survivors in York County. Even though people might be afraid to face their pain, she said, they have to do it anyway.
"That's the process," she said.
Van Derbur said her therapist told her once that she had to stop locking her bedroom door at night. The first night she could only let the door open 10 minutes. It was the same thing every night for a week. Then, one night, she turned away from the door and said, "'If I die, I die, but I don't want to live this way anymore.'"
"It's a given. We're all scared, but we do it anyway," she said. "It's a process. No one has to understand that."
If you go
Marilyn Van Derbur, former Miss America, will speak at 7 p.m. April 24 at the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center, 50 N. George St., York.
Tickets are $17 and can be purchased at mystrandcapitol.org. All proceeds go to the York County Children's Advocacy Center and Turning Point Women's Counseling and Advocacy Center.
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Humanity 2.0
In this series of videos Steve Fuller explores the ideas from his new book Humanity 2.0 on a chapter by chapter basis. The first chapter is below, for the rest see here.
Filmed by Luke Robert Mason and hosted on the Virtual Futures Vimeo pages.
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In Memoriam:
Dr. Robert Suderburg
Photo by Michael Avedon
The University
of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) family is again mourning the loss
of a former chancellor. Robert Suderburg, who served as the school's third
chancellor, died April 22 in Williamstown, Mass., at the age of 77. The school's
second chancellor, Robert Ward, died April 3 in Durham at the age of
A composer, conductor
and pianist, Suderburg was chancellor from 1974-1984.
tenure as chancellor was marked by major capital improvements, financed through
increased contributions from the state and private sources. Among these
improvements were the completion of the Workplace and the opening of the Semans
Library; the partial renovation of the old Gray High School building; the
acquisition of the former Mack Truck facility; and the renovation of the old
Carolina Theatre, now the Stevens Center.
"He led the
school through a period of tremendous growth," said Chief Advancement Officer
Mark Hough, who was a student in the School of Drama when Suderburg was
chancellor. "He was a lovely man, always there for the students. He had a great
passion for the arts and for the School of the Arts."
Hough said
it is ironic that Suderburg should pass away during UNCSA's current period of
capital growth, which includes construction of a new state-of-the-art library.
"I think he would be proud of where we are, and where we are going," Hough
Miller, who retired from UNCSA as dean of undergraduate and graduate academic
programs, was a philosophy instructor during Suderburg's tenure. "We are
grateful for his contributions. He raised the level of what we could
accomplish," Miller said. "He was a very innovative
chancellor, Suderburg awarded UNCSA's first honorary doctorates, to recipients
that include author and school founder John Ehle, actresses Helen Hayes and
Rosemary Harris, choreographers Agnes de Mille and Arthur Mitchell, film and
theatre director Jose Ferrer, violinist and composer Itzhak Perlman, and
guitarist Andres Segovia.
is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; daughter, Erika; and son, Jonathan and family. At his request, no memorial service will be
Robert Suderburg and Elizabeth Suderburg perform "Kaleidoscope" in 1982.
Photographer: Charlie Buchanan
C. Suderburg was a
renowned composer, conductor, and pianist, devoted to the performance of
20th-century music. He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota, an
M.M. from the Yale School of Music, and a Ph.D. from the University of
compositions have been published by Theodore Presser and performed nationally
and internationally by major orchestras, ensembles, and solo artists, including
the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Seattle and North Carolina symphonies, and the
Philadelphia String Quartet. His works and performances have been recorded by
Columbia, Vox and Delfon, among others.
taught music at Williams College beginning in 1985. He became
composer-in-residence in 1986, and served as Chair of the Music Department from
1986 to 1995. He retired in 2001.
conducted and taught at Bryn Mawr, the Philadelphia Musical Academy, the
University of Pennsylvania, and the City University of New York. Suderburg also
served as Co-director of the Contemporary Group at the University of Washington
(1966-1974), and President of the Cornish Institute in Seattle (1984-1985). He
served on many boards and panels, including the National Endowment for the Arts
(NEA) Composers Panel from 1975 to 1981.
He received
fellowships, awards, and prizes including two Guggenheim Fellowships, two NEA
Fellowships, numerous ASCAP awards, awards from the Rockefeller Foundation and
the American Music Center, the USIA award, and others.
Robert Suderburg plays the piano for a performance of "Kaleidoscope" in 1982
Sept. 18, 1974: UNC President William Friday (left) shakes hands with
Suderburg (right), as Dr. James Semans looks on, at the Suderburg Installation
Photographer: William Beck
Oct. 4, 1980: Dr. Robert Suderburg at the piano in a performance of "Kaleidescope"
Photographer: Charlie Buchanan
Oct. 18, 1975: L-R: R.B. Crawford, Lewis Hawley, Hillard Staton, Earline King, Skip Dunn, and Chancellor Suderburg (man behind Suderburg unidentified) at the groundbreaking for the Workplace
1976: Chancellor Suderburg at student/faculty baseball game
Photographer unknown
Dr. Suderburg with students, cheering on the Pickles
Roger L. Stevens (left) and Robert Suderburg in renovated Stevens Center
Jan. 6, 1982: Robert Suderburg, Virgil McBride, James Hunt, and Ben Craig at the Governor's Dinner
Media Coverage:
* Williams College: The Passing of Robert Suderberg
*The Business Journal: Former UNCSA Chancellor Robert Suderberg dies
*The Winston-Salem Journal: Former UNCSA Chancellor dies
Special Thanks to the UNCSA Archives for providing the photos seen on this page.
Visit the UNCSA Image Archives or the UNCSA Flickr account to see more pictures of Robert Suderburg.


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June 27, 1996
Subject: Home-schooled students participating in interscholastic sports.
Written By: Diane Schuler Fleming
Requested By: Edward P. Roark, attorney, Garrard County Board of Education; Jerry L. Horn, attorney; and Mark H. Metcalf, Garrard County Attorney
Syllabus: In the absence of a protected property interest, a school board may choose to preclude home-schooled and out-of-district students from participating in a school-sanctioned basketball league.
Constitutional Provisions: United States Constitution, Amendment XIV, � 1
The following questions have been presented to the Office of the Attorney General for consideration:
1. May a local school board legally preclude all home-bound and out-of-district students from participation in a school sanctioned basketball league?
2. Under Kentucky Constitution Sections 184 and 186, may a local school board expend its funds to pay a corresponding share of the costs of providing a gymnasium, facilities, maintenance personnel, etc., for use by home-bound students (for whom no state funds are
paid to the local school) in a school-funded little league basketball program?
3. Is a local board under an obligation to permit home-bound students to participate in a basketball league when such students are not covered by the school's liability insurance policy?
Note: The questions presented for our review make reference to home-bound students. This term is commonly used to refer to students who, for example, due to illness, are out of school for an extended period of time. Therefore, for purposes of this opinion, we are presuming that the requester intended to use the term home-schooled students.
The Garrard County Youth Basketball League
During the 1991 - 1992 school year, school sports teams on the elementary level were discontinued in Garrard County following incidents of property damage, alcohol consumption and vandalism. In an effort to gain control of the situation and reinstate sports activities, the elementary school principals in Garrard County agreed to form and support a little league program. Separate leagues were formed for football, basketball and baseball.
According to Garrard County Superintendent, Dr. William Wesley, the Garrard County Youth Basketball League has close ties to the school system. A commissioner is appointed by the school board to administer the program. In addition, the program is supervised by the Elementary Activities Director who is also responsible for auditing the books each year. Parents participate in the program as volunteer coaches, subject to approval by the school board. Proceeds from the basketball games are returned to the little league fund, and the league is permitted to use school facilities at no charge.
Clearly, the Garrard County Youth Basketball League possesses unusual characteristics which results in some distinctions from more traditional interscholastic sports teams. However, in the interest of clarity, we are treating the Garrard County program the same as any other interscholastic sports program and shall apply the law accordingly.
The first question put forth to our office is whether the Garrard County School Board may preclude home-schooled and out-of-district students from participating in the County Youth Basketball League. This opinion is specifically confined to whether the school board is compelled as a constitutional matter to permit the aforementioned children to participate in the league. We leave the debate over the wisdom, propriety or availability of alternatives to others. We begin our analysis with an overview of home-schooled students and their participation in interscholastic sports.
Interscholastic Sports and Home-Schooled Students
The increasing number of parents who choose to educate their children at home has resulted in a corresponding rise in the number of questions concerning such students participation in school sports. Specifically, home-schooled students want to know if they can participate in interscholastic sports, and they are challenging laws which prohibit them from doing so. The basis of their claims centers upon due process and equal protection violations.
Recently, this issue was addressed in Bradstreet v. Sobol, 630 N.Y.S.2d 486 (Sup. 1995) where a home-schooled student challenged the public school district's regulation which allowed only those students in regular attendance at a school to participate in interscholastic sports. The court quickly dismissed the due process claim, stating that a student's interest in participating in interscholastic sports is a mere expectation. Id. at 487, quoting, Matter of Caso v. New York State Public High School Athletic Assn., 78 N.Y.A.D.2d 41, 46, 434 N.Y.S.2d 60 (1980). Therefore, because a student's interest in playing interscholastic sports is merely an expectation and not a property right, there is no due process violation.
Turning to the equal protection challenge, the court noted that absent a suspect classification or violation of a fundamental right, if a regulation bears some rational relationship to a legitimate state purpose, then it will withstand an equal protection challenge. Id. at 488. Having stated the standard, the court then reviewed the lengthy list of objectives supplied by the commissioner. The list included:
. . . promoting loyalty and school spirit that leads to cohesion of the student body of a school; securing role models for other students, which cannot be accomplished if the student athlete has little contact with the general student population of the school; maintaining academic standards for participation in interschool sports activities; . . . and [avoiding the] havoc [that] may be wreaked upon the public school system if home schoolers are permitted to opt out of the public school program generally and yet selectively participate in interschool athletics . . . .
Id. at 487. The court concluded that one of the privileges of attending school is the possibility of being on a high school sports team. It could not find a good reason why the privilege should be extended to students who do not attend the school. Id. at 488.
We agree with the New York trial court's decision and believe that the constitutional issues which it addressed are determinative of the questions presented by the Garrard County School Board.
Property Rights, Procedural Due Process and Participation in School Sports Activities
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment provides that no state shall deprive any person of . . . property without due process of law. United States Constitution, Amendment XIV, � 1. The first step in determining whether or not one's due process rights have been violated is to find that a constitutionally protected property interest is at stake. This leads us to ask, what are the property interests and how are they created. In Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth, the Supreme Court offered the following guidelines and analysis:
To have a property interest in a benefit, a person clearly must have more than an abstract need or desire for it. He must have more than a unilateral expectation of it. He must, instead, have a legitimate claim of entitlement to it. It is a purpose of the ancient institution of property to protect those claims upon which people rely in their daily lives, reliance that must not be arbitrarily undermined . . . . Property interests, of course, are not created by the Constitution. Rather they are created and their dimensions are defined by existing rules or understandings that stem from an independent source such as state law - rules or understandings that secure certain benefits and that support claims of entitlement to those benefits.
Roth, 408 U.S. 564, 578, 92 S.Ct. 2701, 2709, 33 L.Ed.2d 548 (1972). See also, Derda v. Brighton, Colorado, City of, 53 F.3d 1162, 1164-65 (10th Cir. 1995); Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson, 490 U.S. 454, 463, 109 S.Ct. 1904, 1910, 104 L.Ed.2d 506 (1989).
As the court in Roth pointed out, constitutionally protected property interests are not created by the Constitution. Oftentimes, they arise from state rules or laws which secure benefits and support claims of entitlement. This claim of entitlement must be legitimate, not merely an abstract need or the subject of a unilateral expectation.
For example, in James v. City of St. Petersburg, Florida, 33 F.3d 1304 (11th Cir. 1994), a young woman filed suit when the city turned her water off without giving her prior notice. The court found that the plaintiff failed to comply with the city's rules for initiating water service - agreeing to pay for the service and paying a deposit. In accordance with Roth, the court ruled that the woman had no legitimate claim of entitlement to water service pursuant to Florida law, and thus no protected property interest under the Fourteenth Amendment. Id. at 1307.
Another challenge involving the concept of a statutorily created property right was heard in Zipperer v. City of Fort Myers, 41 F.3d 619 (11th Cir. 1995). There, a mortgagee challenged the lien priority of special assessments imposed on the mortgaged property, based upon the city's failure to notify him of the levy. To determine if a procedural due process violation has occurred, there must be: (1) a protected property interest; (2) deprivation of that interest; and (3) failure to afford due process procedures before the deprivation occurred. Id. at 623. See also, Thompson, 490 U.S. at 460; Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co., 455 U.S. 422, 432-33, 102 S.Ct. 1148, 1156, 71 L.Ed.2d 265 (1982).
While the court acknowledged that a mortgage was a constitutionally protected property interest, it noted that neither the Florida Constitution nor the statutes afforded a remedy to individuals challenging special assessments. Id. at 624. Thus, as in James, without a legitimate claim of entitlement, there is no protected property interest under the Fourteenth Amendment. Furthermore, the court found that the imposition of a special assessment and attendant lien prioritization do[es] not constitutionally impair or deprive a mortgagee of his interest in [the] mortgaged land. Id. To the contrary, the property actually benefitted from the improvements which resulted from the special assessment.
Property interests may arise from sources other than state statutes, but they are arguably even more difficult to prove. In Miller v. Crystal Lake Park District, 47 F.3d 865 (7th Cir. 1995), a park district employee filed suit following his dismissal. The plaintiff claimed that the language in the personnel manual stating that an employee may be dismissed for just cause created a property interest in employment. However, language in the beginning of the manual plainly stated that the contents are merely a guideline and not intended to stand as an employment contract. The plaintiff conceded this point and the court dismissed the claim as being too evanescent and concluded that the lack of foundation in state law prohibited viewing this as a protected property interest. Id. at 866-67.
The court, however, expounded upon the concept of a property interest arising in situations similar to this, stating:
A legitimate claim of entitlement is one that is legally enforceable - one based on statutes or regulations containing explicitly mandatory language that links specified substantive predicates to prescribed outcomes. (Thompson, 490 U.S. at 463). [Citations omitted.] Statutes and regulations are not the only sources of property, but when they are missing the claimant must supply some equivalent expectancy . . . that was legally enforceable, O'Bannon v. Town Court Nursing Center, 447 U.S. 773, 778 n.21, 100 S.Ct. 2467, 2477 n.21, 65 L.Ed.2d 506 (1980), such as a mutually binding obligation, Jago v. Van Curen, 454 U.S. 14, 18-20, 102 S.Ct. 31, 34-35, 70 L.Ed.2d 13 (1981). Mutually binding obligation is just fancy language for contract . . . .
Id. at 867. In essence, the language in the personnel manual in the Miller case evidenced that it was not mutually binding. Thus, because there is no legally enforceable interest, nor a legitimate claim of entitlement, there exists no protected property interest.
The final case of note in this area is Kim Construction Co., Inc. v. Board of Trustees of Village of Mundelein, 14 F.3d 1243 (7th Cir. 1994). There, a contractor who initially submitted the lowest conforming bid, but was not awarded the contract, sued the municipality claiming that he was deprived of a property interest without due process. Following the precedent set forth in Roth, the court dismissed Kim's claim that the mutual understanding implicit in the overall workings of the competitive bidding system created a protected property right. Id. at 1250. The plaintiff failed to show a legitimate claim of entitlement. Absent such a showing, the mere hope or expectation of a benefit does not create a protected property interest.
In summary, the aforementioned cases stand for the proposition that a protected property interest is created by existing rules or understandings which are based upon statutes or regulations that secure specific benefits and support claims of entitlement. The mere expectation of a benefit does not create a constitutionally protected property interest.
Applying this analysis to the fact situation presented by Garrard County leads us to a decision which is parallel to that reached by the court in Bradstreet. If a home-schooled child or an out-of-district student is precluded from participating in the Youth Basketball League, no due process violation has occurred. We have seen no evidence of any law or understanding which would support a legitimate claim of entitlement. At best, the interests of these children can be characterized as an expectation or the hope of a benefit. Such hopes and expectations do not rise to the level of a protected property interest.
A person's property interests can only be violated when such persons are possessed of a legitimate claim of entitlement. Our analysis leads us to conclude that home-schooled and out-of-district students lack a legitimate claim of entitlement to participate in the Garrard County Youth Basketball League. Thus, in the absence of a protected property interest, the school board may preclude these children from participating in the school-sanctioned basketball league.
In summary, there is nothing in the Constitution to prohibit a school board from devising a policy to exclude home-schooled students from participation in school sanctioned leagues. Having reached this conclusion, we believe the other questions submitted by the board are moot.


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Filed under: Announcements,In The Trenches,Not Your Average
Written by: Robbie Ettelson
Miss Info demonstrates journalistic integrity at it's finest
It's always interesting how companies like Harris Publications love to be attached to "good" controversy if it helps sell magazines or get site views, but as soon as someone crosses that proverbial line in the sand and makes "upsetting" comments about T.I.'s or Asian radio dames it's a case of "Post? What post?". Seems that Byron Crawford's expert analysis of the bungled Max B "When Weed Carriers Get Attacked" incident from Friday has gone the way of Father MC's career:
Original Post: Yes, I *am* a publicist!
Official XXL "Rumor" Story: Was Max B Shot During An Attempted Robbery?
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I don't get the point of the caption ? How taking a picture with an artist is hurting her integrity ?Comment by SLurg 04.02.08 @
There's "taking a picture with someone" and then there's "taking a picture all over someone". She's sticking to the Dirt Angel like white on rice.Comment by Robbie 04.02.08 @
Jeeeez, get a grip. The photo looks pretty harmless to me. She's like a foot and a half shorter than him, so of course they have to get that tight.Comment by Marc Oz 04.02.08 @
Have to agree with with Marc and SLurg on this one. Picture looks fine to me and she's a gossip journalist anyway – there's really not much in the way of integrity as far as that field goes to begin with.Comment by ian 04.02.08 @
"there's really not much in the way of integrity as far as that field goes to begin with"
^ That's what I was getting at. I wasn't accusing the broad of giving out "happy endings" or anything. That would be wrong…right?Comment by Robbie 04.02.08 @
Miss Info is a friend of mine so I'm not objective, but I gotta agree you're really reaching on this one.. that's the standard picture everyone takes.
I agree it's weird the post was taken down, though.Comment by Jay Smooth 04.02.08 @
I can appreciate Lord Byron's rants sometimes but honestly the dude just sounds like a whiny bitch half the time.Comment by A 04.02.08 @
Amazing what a reaction a snarky caption can get you these days, huh?
Yeah, calling Miss Info a "journalist" is a bit of stretch now that I think about it.Comment by Robbie 04.02.08 @
The only time I've enjoyed Miss Info was when she "watched" 2 girls, 1 cup. That was her one and only journey into real journalism.Comment by Don D. 04.02.08 @
yum yum yum…miss info. I couldn't care less about her credibility–she's a gossip writer. That's not journalism–and I don't think she claims otherwise. At least she's hot! Unlike the alleged publicist from the Bol incident.Comment by Finally 04.02.08 @
She's not hot, but let me get this straight… Jim Jones and his weedcarrying hook singer have some pseudo "beef." JJ's friend in radio spreads a fake rumor about w.c.'s being shot to discredit wc? Is that what Bol's saying?Comment by Tray 04.02.08 @
someone definately needs to censor the heinous insinuations in that caption immediately.
I was just wondering does her little singlet have "screw-me" written on it? Cant… quite… make it out.Comment by gx 04.02.08 @
From Byron Crawford's blog re: publicist
"She looks like she might have a little Asian in her, but in a bad way"
that made me laugh
( should I say LOL even )
"Yeah, calling Miss Info a "journalist" is a bit of stretch now that I think about it."
LOL, harsh but very true
i guess its not really a surprise xxlmag did this, they are run by the TI's, and they run covers with lil wayne on them. What credibility is there to challenge?Comment by Liam 04.03.08 @
"XXL called me and wanted to apologize about your post about me. And that is why you can no longer find it on XXL. They pulled it."
^ A comment this "publicist" left at Bol's site.Comment by Robbie 04.03.08 @
Robbie, keep your caption as it is.
Rap music is getting more and more WWF by the day. Fuck these no-name rappers, weed carriers, and gossip radio bitches. Most of the radio idiots are getting their 'exclusive' news from bossip, crunktastical, and rhymeswithsnitch anyway.
*goes back to listening to Chronicles Of The Juiceman*Comment by A to the L 04.03.08 @
She's true to her name … what's to debate?
Miss Dapoint & Miss Represent's blogs are the source though!Comment by ED209˚ 04.04.08 @
fun fuckin party though… just look at the funk flex branding, look at JJ's belt, the teal hat, sensory woah, nah fuck it my click doesn't really get down like….Comment by Mike Lavonia the storeowner 04.04.08 @
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Phytophthora ramorum was first identified in North America in 2000 as a lethal stem canker disease of oaks and tan oaks in the central coastal range of California. In 2001, the pathogen was also found associated with ornamental nursery stock causing foliar and branch dieback to hosts such as rhododendrons, pieris, kalmia, camellia and viburnum. This pathogen can be spread in nursery stock, poses a potential threat to forest ecosystems, and could impact the movement and trade of nursery and forest products if introduced into Virginia. VDACS is currently conducting extensive statewide surveys for this pathogen in an effort to detect P. ramorum before it can become established. Early detection is vital to successful eradication efforts in the event P. ramorum is introduced. Each year approximately 1,200 P. ramorum samples are collected and tested by VDACS. These include symptomatic foliar samples as well as soil and water samples.


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Published January 18, 2014 10:50 am
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"Obvious Child," directed by Gillian Robespierre about a comedian's worst/best Valentine's Day of her life, made its premiere Friday, Jan. 17, at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City. The cast includes Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann, David Cross, Gabe Liedman and Richard Kind; part of the Next program.


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Veteran Argentina midfielder Juan Sebastien Veron claims under-fire team manager Diego Maradona is struggling to put together an efficient team of 11 players despite having a wealth of quality at his disposal.
Argentina have slipped to fifth in the qualifying standings in South America, a place below the automatic qualification slots, after losing four of their last five matches.
Veron admitted in an interview with La Red radio station he was concerned about Argentina's qualifying chances, and claimed that Maradona has picked players who are not on the kind of form needed to play for the Albiceleste.
"We've got great players but the coach (Maradona) hasn't really unearthed his best team yet," said Veron.
Here, everyone expects Lio [Messi] to dribble through five players and then score a goal. But he can't do everything himself.
The last time Argentina, FIFA World Cup™ champions in 1978 and 1986, failed to make the finals was in 1970. After recent defeats to Brazil and Paraguay, Veron believes they are in a precarious position.
"Anything could happen," said the 34-year-old when asked whether Argentina were in danger of not qualifying. "The fact is that there are players in the team who are not in their very best form."
Veron highlighted Barcelona's highly-regarded striker Lionel Messi, but defended the player by saying: "At Barcelona they play a game of short, quick passes which is different to the way Argentina play. Here, everyone expects Lio [Messi] to dribble through five players and then score a goal. But he can't do everything himself."
Argentina host already-eliminated Peru on 10 October before travelling to neighbours Uruguay, who trail them by a single point, four days later.
Failure to finish among the top four would force Argentina into a two-legged play-off to secure their ticket for the finals in South Africa next summer.


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|Hematologic studies during isolated ultrafiltration.
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|PMID: 7249428 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|The effect of negative-pressure isolated ultrafiltration on leucocytes, platelets, and clotting factors was evaluated in maintenance hemodialysis patients. A significant decrease in the number of leucocytes was observed during the first 45 minutes of ultrafiltration. However, by one hour, leucocyte counts had returned to pre-ultrafiltration values. A slight, of haptoglobin, free hemoglobin, or fibrinogen after one hour of isolated ultrafiltration. Levels of fibrin degradation products and fibrin monomers similarly showed no change. Heparin administration alone had no effect on the above hematologic values. We suggest that isolated ultrafiltration, as clinically practised, has little acute effect on the coagulation system, and does not cause detectable hemolysis. The transient decrease in leucocyte count, and the modest fall in platelet count that were found are in keeping with changes previously reported to occur during hemodialysis.
|T S Ing; W T Chen; D V Weber; J T Daugirdas; R M Vilbar; J E Hano; H C Kwaan
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|Title: Clinical nephrology Volume: 15 ISSN: 0301-0430 ISO Abbreviation: Clin. Nephrol. Publication Date: 1981 Jun
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Schneiderman says SmartBuy operated from a kiosk and small storefront at Salmon Run Mall near the Fort Drum Army post and ruined the credit of thousands of soldiers through fraudulent charges. The settlement, along with an earlier one with SmartBuy, wipes out $12.9 million in debt for more than 4,000 soldiers nationwide.
Schneiderman said Monday that SmartBuy salespeople talked soldiers into payment contracts with hidden fees and exorbitant interest.
Fayetteville, N.C.-based SmartBuy closed its local operations after Schneiderman demanded it stop deceptive practices and reimburse soldiers.
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Signaling networks activated in lung cancer cells yield new drug targets
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Personalized, targeted therapies can offer prolonged survival and fewer side effects for patients whose tumors have specific genetic alterations. However, most patients will eventually become resistant to treatment with targeted drugs. Finding new targets will help us to develop additional drugs in our arsenal against lung cancer.
Dr. Il-Jin Kim, funded by Uniting Against Lung Cancer, and the team at the University of California, San Francisco are investigating the changes that take place in lung cancer cells that contribute to this resistance, and have published their findings in Nature Communications.
Targeted therapies focus on one specific genetic mutation found in cancer cells. However, Dr. Kim and his team are taking a wider view, investigating networks of genes and proteins working together that contribute to cancer growth. Looking at 92 matched samples (comparing lung adenocarcinoma cells with normal cells from the same patient), they were able to analyze the changes in many genes and organize them into networks controlling different cellular functions.
Lung cancer cells showed changes in many key networks controlling structural and functional components of the lung, the machinery of cell division, and inflammation. Digging deeper into these networks, the team was able to identify key genes that could be targeted to halt cancer growth (akin to taking out the workers in the middle of an assembly line), including VRK1. Preliminary tests showed that targeting VRK1 could increase the sensitivity of lung cancer cells to other targeted drugs.
By mining vast gene expression networks, Dr. Kim and his team hope to expand the pool of therapeutic targets in lung cancer while avoiding severe toxicity to normal cells.
"Many cancer researchers put tremendous time and money into finding new tumor targets by analyzing tumor samples. Though many are very effective, most of them turn out to be very dangerous to non-tumorous tissues as well and despite all the hard work, are unusable," said Dr. Kim. "Our systems genetics results let us select tumor-specific drug targets beforehand, helping us to develop a smarter, safer arsenal in the battle against cancer."
"If we can identify tumor-specific targets before spending decades and millions of dollars on the wrong targets, we can dramatically reduce time and costs of drug development, getting safe and effective treatments to patients in need," added Dr. Kim.
This was his first grant awarded as the principal investigator of his lab at UCSF. "It was Uniting Against Lung Cancer who believed in me. With their help, my lab has been able to discover several novel lung cancer drug targets and markers, and published nine papers since last year. We currently have several projects on going, and I hope to continue in our advancements against cancer."
Dr. Kim's grant from Uniting Against Lung Cancer is sponsored by The Marjorie M. Fisher Fund, the Offices of Dr. David Hidalgo and The Tighe-Hidalgo Foundation.


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Basic Convective and Mesoscale Research
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Funding Agency: NSF and CIMMS Task I
Analyze Martian dust devil characteristics as determined by Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) images and make comparisons with terrestrial dust devils; gain insight into dust devil formation and maintenance dynamics, and their role in boundary layer processes, by comparison of their characteristics in two different atmospheres.
Collaborative efforts with Dr. Ken Edgett and Dr. Bruce Cantor at Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) have resulted in a paper on Martian dust devils in press at the Journal of Geophysical Research. In this paper, observations of dust devils and dust devil tracks from Mars Orbiter Camera images are described. Recent data from the Mars Rover Thermal Emission Spectrometer are used to determine a representative temperature profile that might be typical of Martian dust devil environments in order to make estimates of tangential wind speeds given the physical dimensions determined from the MOC images. The ubiquitous dust devil tracks that mark the Martian surface are described.
An LES of the Martian boundary layer has been conducted to simulate Martian dust devils (see figure below). The vortex detection algorithm again will be used to quantify the simulated vortices and the results will be compared to the observations given in Fisher et al. (2005). A paper authored by Kanak is planned for these results, for submission to Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets.
This project is ongoing.
Cantor, B. A., K. M. Kanak, and K. E. Edgett, 2006: Mars Orbital Camera observations of Martian dust devils and their tracks (September 1997 to January 2006) and evaluation of theoretical vortex models. J. Geophys. Res.-Planets, 111, E12002, doi:10.1029/2006JE002700.


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DIY culture and hybrid cars turn out to be a match made in heaven. CNet has a collection of takes of Prius Hackers, who've taken the job of improving they rides into their own hands. Our ally Phillip Torrone, editor of Make Magazine, calls them "the new breed of hot-rodders" - a population of tech-savvy environmentalists who will fiddle with the car's computer in order to fix annoying built-in features and improve their driving experience.
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Sony unveils gunmetal grey PS3 MGS4 bundle, more
updated 07:55 pm EDT, Thu April 10, 2008
Sony PS3 Metal Gear bundle
Sony is offering consumers a gunmetal grey limited edition Playstation 3 console, with a matching DualShock 3 controller, bundled with Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - Konami's latest sequel to the epic Metal Gear game series. The bundle, which has already been released and almost immediately sold out in Japan, features an 80GB hard drive for storage. Pricing and availability were not expressly mentioned, but Metal Gear Solid 4 is available on June 12th for $60.
With the Standard Edition of Metal Gear, Konami is including a special Metal Gear Saga Vol. 2 DVD and the full version of Metal Gear Online - the beta for which runs from April 17th to May 5th. The DVD includes original video content focusing on the interconnectivity of the game's heroes and villains in the past and present.
Konami is also offering a Limited Edition version of the game, which is presented in a collectible box with artwork by Yoji Shinkawa, an additional Blu-ray disc featuring two never-before seen "Making of" documentaries, as well as a soundtrack for the game.
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Issues of privacy, government secrecy and protection from terrorism are on the minds of citizens locally and throughout the nation as they watch the case unfold against whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
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