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Small sinkhole appeared in middle of street several days ago. Asphalt still intact but won't be for long.
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Small sinkhole appeared in middle of street several days ago. Asphalt still intact but won't be for long.
Could this be the sign of a larger problem underground?
We've received your issue and will inspect it, weather permitting, as soon as we can. Thanks.
Patch done. Will monitor.
Thank you. With the heavy traffic on the road, it seems like the patch may already be starting to sink again.
Not a problem. Will keep an eye on it.
The "patch" did not solve this issue! The sinkhole is getting worse by the day. Please investigate!
Thanks for photo. Will check again.
This is still sinking. Maybe there is a bigger problem that needs to be investigated rather than filling the hole once a week?
Job security lol
A small hole has opened up in the patch. Looking down inside, it appears there is about 4-6" between the surface asphalt and the filler.
I left a message with Public Works yesterday regarding this and I'm still waiting for a call back.
Concerns forwarded to appropriate utility. DPW will continue to monitor and temporarily repair.
Department of Public Works assigned this issue to Utility/Private Repair
So this is starting to sink and open up again. My entire house vibrates every time a truck drives over this sinkhole. Please fix!!
Anyone out there???
Hole squared-off and patched. DPW will continue to monitor. Issue closed. Thanks for reporting.
Much better than previous patches. Thanks, appreciate it!
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TAMPA, Fla. � Nathan Horton had another successful performance against Tampa Bay in Boston�s latest road win.
Horton scored two goals and the Bruins beat the Lightning, 4-2, on Thursday night.
�He�s one of the elite right wingers in the league when he�s on top of his game,� Boston coach Claude Julien said. �He�s got so much potential, and we know that. He�s been through some tough times with that concussion, and hopefully we get him back healthy and get some consistency out of his game because he certainly deserves it.�
Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand also scored for Boston, which improved to 6-1-1 on the road. Horton has 26 goals and 46 points in 45 games against the Lightning.
After blowing a two-goal lead, the Bruins took a 3-2 advantage on Marchand�s goal from the slot with 6:02 to go in the second. Horton extended the lead to 4-2 when he redirected Zdeno Chara�s pass at 2:33 of the third.
�We wanted to make sure that we got the first one tonight and try to quiet the crowd down a bit,� Marchand said. �Luckily, we got two. We kind of saved ourselves a little bit of trouble after they came back.�
Marchand has nine goals on 20 shots this season.
Tampa Bay got goals from Steven Stamkos and Cory Conacher, but the Lightning�s two-game winning streak, which followed an 0-5-1 stretch, was snapped.
�That�s what we�ve got to aim for, beat that kind of team,� Lightning coach Guy Boucher said. �At ice level, this was probably the most intense game of the year.�
The Lightning went 0-for-3 on the power play. Boston has given up just three goals in 54 short-handed situations.
�They don�t give up much on the PK,� Stamkos said. �So that�s definitely an area we could have been a lot better. We couldn�t even get into the zone.�
The Bruins took a 2-0 lead early in the first on goals by Horton and Bergeron.
Horton scored on the rebound from the low left circle 1:11 into the game. Bergeron made it 2-0 when he beat goalie Anders Lindback from the right circle at 3:50.
�We had a good start,� Horton said. �I think that�s what carried it through the game.�
Tampa Bay got within 2-1 on Stamkos� 11th goal of the season with 11:47 left in the first. Teddy Purcell set up the goal after winning a battle for the puck in the slot.
Purcell finished with two assists.
Conacher got a wrist shot from the left circle past Tuukka Rask 9 minutes into the second that tied it 2-2. The rookie snapped an eight-game drought with his sixth goal of the season.
�It seems like when we don�t have that home-crowd pressure on us we can play our game, and it�s been working pretty good this year,� Rask said.
Notes: Boston D Dougie Hamilton had two assists. � Stamkos has four goals in three games. � Boston LW Milan Lucic was back in the lineup after he missed Sunday�s 3-2 win at Winnipeg because of a personal matter. � Tampa Bay D Keith Aulie didn�t play due to flu-like symptoms.
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Located in the hallway leading from the Great Forge to the Military Ward.
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A vast trench extended along the Commons section of Ironforge. Lava can be seen flowing beneath; however, the kindly dwarves included safety netting, and ramps to get out if you accidentally fall.
The Ironforge battlemasters located within the Military Ward. They are looking over a map of Alterac Valley.
The entrance to Tinkertown viewed from the Military Ward.
This library included many books and scrolls that you could click on to learn about the lore of the dwarves.
The exterior of the Hall of Explorers was a museum of sorts, with all manner of creature skeletons. Each sat on a pedestal with a plaque that could be clicked to be read, giving some brief information about the specimen.
Located within the Mystic Ward. Characters porting to Ironforge via mage portals or Shatt/Dalaran portals appeared here.
Looking down on the Great Forge, the heart of Ironforge. You can see the forge itself in the very center, surrounded by smaller anvils. On the far right you can see the griffons of the IF flight path. Molten lava continuously pours down from above.
Standing in the center of the Great Forge looking at the king's chambers.
On top of the Ironforge mountain and to the side was an airport. This area was unreachable by players, but could be seen when flying over on taxi griffons. For a time in vanilla it was possible to take advantage of terrain bugs to actually climb up there and hang out (though there was nothing to do but look around).
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CRANSTON � Ed Cooley, the charismatic Providence College basketball coach, bounded from the lectern in the gymnasium on Monday morning and began working the crowd. He spent about 10 minutes shaking the hands of each of the 75 or so seated teenagers all wearing the same outfit � royal blue sweatshirts and navy slacks.
But this was no summer camp with suburban kids paying $300 to spend a week bouncing basketballs and rubbing elbows with the Friars. As Cooley said repeatedly during his talk, this is �the real world,� better known as the Thomas C. Slater Training School for troubled boys and girls.
Cooley, one of nine children who grew up poor on the South Side and West Side of Providence, immediately clicked with the teenagers who are serving time for crimes such as murder, robbery, assault and gun charges.
Their world was his world 30 years ago. Several of the boys perked up when he said that he lived in a house on Prairie Avenue and later move to Sassafras Street in the heart of the South Side. He had four brothers and four sisters and getting enough food each day was a challenge. He told them about waiting in line outside the Washington Park Community Center for a �block of cheese and powdered milk.� He remains haunted about having the electricity turned off and living by candlelight.
�The one saving grace I had growing up was hope,� Cooley said. �All I had was sports � basketball, football and baseball.�
It was Cooley�s first time at the training school, but he told the teenagers that one of his brothers spent time in prison, while another dealt drugs and later became an addict, hooked on crack, heroin and cocaine.
Last year, Cooley said, the brother with drug problems dropped by the PC campus.
�He walked into a practice and I didn�t even recognize him,� he said. �He went to the streets.�
Cooley, a big man who wore white shorts and a striped polo shirt, spoke extemporaneously for about 45 minutes, frequently spicing up his delivery with salty language. At the urging of longtime Community College of Rhode Island Coach Vin Cullen, Cooley talked about the value of high school and college degrees.
Cooley graduated from Central High School and spent a year at New Hampton Prep in New Hampshire where he was one of seven black students. He said there were even fewer black students at Stonehill College, where he earned a scholarship to play Division II basketball.
�I felt like a raisin in a milk bowl,� he joked. �I felt suffocated.�
But Cooley made it work, even though he struggled in school. He learned to live and thrive at the predominantly white Catholic college in Easton, Mass.
He told the teenagers that they are still young and there is time for them to reverse direction in life. It can be difficult, he said, but it�s important to break away from friends and family who may be holding you back.
�Don�t be afraid to be different,� he said. �At some point in your life, you have to block out the noise and become what you want to become. It�s hard, but you can do it. Go out and prove everybody wrong. You can change your life by doing the right thing starting now.�
Cooley, the first black PC basketball coach, talked about just returning from Colorado Springs where he will be involved in selecting the players for the 2016 United States Olympic basketball team. He said that he plans on winning a national championship or two at PC and then coaching the 2020 Olympic basketball team, pretty heady stuff for a poor kid from the South Side.
Afterward, Cooley stuck around and answered questions. He asked each boy to identify himself before they spoke. One boy, William, asked him what he would be doing if he hadn�t become a big-time basketball coach.
�That�s a good question,� Cooley said. �School teacher or an administrator. I think public service is huge.�
Several of the boys were impressed that a guy who grew up like them had made something of himself.
�That was really inspiring,� said Useer, 16, who is serving a sentence for first-degree robbery. �He came from the �hood like us. A lot of people wouldn�t come here, especially if they are rich.�
Said Ja�leil, 17, also jailed on a robbery charge: �It was nice and he showed us respect. He gave us a little hope. He grew up like us and had a hard life.�
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The Walking Dead Season 5 left us on a relatively safe cliffhanger teasing the reunion of Rick and Morgan, but Season 6 may well bring all the Alexandria walls down. Comic-Con 2015 has brought the cast back to San Diego, and you know know what that means! The Season 6 trailer is here, and fans are already ravenous.


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Vikings defensive end Jared Allen was fined $50,000 by the NFL for two plays considered roughing the passer last Sunday against Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub.
According to an e-mail from a league spokesman, Allen "struck the opposing quarterback below the knee area," a violation of an NFL rule.
Because of one of Allen's hits, Schaub suffered a torn medial collateral ligament in his left knee that could sideline him for a month.
In the letter to Allen, NFL director of football operations Gene Washington noted that Allen was previously fined this year for a late hit. On Oct. 19 against Chicago, Allen was flagged for unnecessary roughness after he jumped into a pile of players.
"I'm going to avoid all questions on that right now until after my appeal," Allen said Friday. "We'll see how it works out."
On Wednesday, though, Allen insisted that he was not a "dirty player," noting his track record, and that he didn't intentionally try to hurt Schaub. In fact, Allen said, he apologized to Schaub and joked with him.
Schaub, though, didn't seem to take the apology to heart. Asked by Houston reporters if it was a cheap shot, Schaub told the Houston Chronicle on Wednesday, "Well, I think it was.
"The ball was already gone and a player went for my leg, which isn't what they are supposed to be doing," Schaub said.
Texans coach Gary Kubiak questioned the legality of three plays in Sunday's game, sending them to the league for review.
On a third-down play on the Texans' opening drive, Allen, who got past rookie offensive tackle Duane Brown, tumbled into Schaub as he completed a 10-yard pass to tight end Owen Daniels. On the play, Allen was falling and hit Schaub around the knees.
On second down, early in the second quarter, Allen and defensive tackle Kevin Williams simultaneously slammed into Schaub, who completed a 17-yarder to Daniels. Williams plowed into Schaub high with his arms and Allen, who was off balance after a block by a lineman, dived into Schaub's knees.
Allen's agent, Ken Harris, said he has filed an appeal on the $5,000 fine from the Bears game but is awaiting a hearing date.
Third-down leader: Vikings running back Chester Taylor naturally wants more touches. He isn't doing too badly with the ones he's getting.
Taylor leads all NFL running backs with 13 catches on third down for 115 yards, including a key one Sunday against the Texans.
On third and 9 from the Texans' 23, quarterback Gus Frerotte dumped a pass to Taylor, who made a linebacker miss to gain 12 yards. Later, in the second quarter, Taylor gained 12 yards on a draw on third-and-long.
"Whenever they give me the ball, I try my best to do whatever I can and make a play," Taylor said. "I just want to go out there and produce when my number is called upon."
Five of Taylor's 13 third-down catches have earned first downs. Excluding Frerotte, Taylor is second on the team with nine third- and fourth-down conversions.
Frerotte said Taylor is an excellent third-down back because of his intelligence, his ability to pick up the blitz and his shiftiness.
"And he's short and hard to find," Frerotte said. "No, he just has all the things you need."
Briefly: The Vikings worked out receiver Derek Hagan, a former third-round pick of the Miami Dolphins who was released Tuesday.
Hagan was a starter during the preseason but lost his job to Greg Camarillo.
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MOUNT VERNON — The 30th running of the Rotary Yellow Jacket Relays provided exciting finishes in girls action on Saturday at Mount Vernon's Yellow Jacket Stadium. After a day of tough competition from the 13 participating schools, Mount Vernon won the Division I meet while Clear Fork did the same in Division II/III competition.
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Mississippi State guard Dee Bost, who had 16 of his 21 points in the first half, drives to the basket and scores as Kentucky's Anthony Davis attempts to block the shot on Tuesday night in Starkville.
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Usher debuted new songs in an unconventional way Friday night: The singer danced to his new music as part of the off-Broadway play "Fuerza Bruta: Look Up."
The production is a fast-paced and acrobatic play in which the audience stands as performers dance and jump around on the walls, onstage and on the floor with the crowd. Usher worked as its lead "Running Man," beginning the show on a treadmill, bursting though paper-made walls as his song "Climax" blasted in the background.
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J¨ org Garbers and Frans Wiering
Utrecht University
Department of Information and Computing Sciences
We describe an alignment-based similarity framework
for folk song variation research. The framework makes
use of phrase and meter information encoded in Hum-
drum scores. Local similarity measures are used to
compute match scores, which are combined with gap
scores to form increasingly larger alignments and
higher-level similarity values. We discuss the effects
of some similarity measures on the alignment of four
groups of melodies that are variants of each other.
In the process of oral transmission folk songs are re-
shaped in many different variants. Given a collection
of tunes, recorded in a particular region or environ-
ment, folk song researchers try to reconstruct the ge-
netic relation between folk songs. For this they study
historical and musical relations of tunes to other tunes
and to already established folk song prototypes.
It has often been claimed that their work could ben-
efit from support by music information retrieval (MIR)
similarityandalignmentmethodsandsystems. Inprac-
tice however it turns out that existing systems do not
work well enough out of the box [5]. Therefore the re-
search context must be analyzed and existing methods
must be adapted and non-trivially combined to deliver
satisfying results.
1.1 Similarity and alignment
Similarity and alignment can be considered two sides
of the same coin. In order to produce an automatic
alignment we need a measure for the relatedness of
musical units. Conversely, in order to compute the (lo-
cal) similarity between two melodies we must know
which parts of the melody should be compared.
similarity measures. In a previous paper we derived
generalized queries from a group of folk song vari-
ants [3]. For a given group of musically related query
melodies aligned by the user, we were able to retrieve
bers for this group.
Making a manual alignment is time-consuming and
involves edit decisions, e.g. 'shall one insert a rest in
one melody or delete a note in the other?'. When look-
ing for good additional group members in a database,
one should allow both options. However, keeping track
of all options quickly becomes impracticable. In this
paper we therefore look into automatic alignment of
corresponding score positions and ways of controlling
the alignment with basic similarity measures.
1.2 Overview and related work
In this paper we first discuss why automatic detection
of (genetically related) folk song variants is very de-
manding and is a major research topic in its own. Next,
to support research into similarity measures based on
musically meaningful transformations, we develop a
framework that helps to model the influence of local
similarity measures on variation detection and align-
ment. Starting from the information encoded in our
folk song collection, we motivate the use of available
structural and metrical information within alignment
directed similarity measures. Finally we compare au-
tomatically derived alignments with alignments anno-
tated by an expert.
Generally, we follow a similar approach to Mon-
geau and Sankoff's [6], who tackled selected transfor-
mational aspects in a generic way. They set up a frame-
work to handle pitch contour and rhythm in relation to
an alignment-based dissimilarity (or quality) measure.
They based their framework assumptions on musical
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common sense and based their model parameter esti-
mations on the discussion of examples.
We agree with them that musical time (as repre-
sentated in common music notation) is a fundamen-
tal dimension in variant similarity. This distinguishes
our approach from ones that deal with performance-
oriented timing deviation problems. A shortcoming of
Mongeau and Sankoff's global alignment algorithm is
that it cannot handle aspects of musical form, such as
repeats or reordering of parts. They are also criticized
for sometimes ignoring barlines [2].
Contribution: In this paper we present an approach
to tackle these shortcomings by proposing a phrase-
and meter-based alignment framework. By using sim-
ple and out-of-the-box local similarity measures within
the framework and studying the resulting alignments
we prove that the framework is useful.
For folk song researchers, an important question is to
identify which songs or melodies are genetically re-
lated. A way for them to tackle this question is to order
melodies into groups that share relevant musical fea-
tures. We assume that in the process of incrementally
building those melody groups, researchers construct a
sort of mental alignment of related parts of the candi-
date melodies. The detection of relevant relationships
between variants is affected by the perceived similarity
of the material, the knowledge of common transforma-
tion phenomena and the discriminative power of the
shared features with respect to the investigated corpus.
Researchers have identified transformations that
range from a single note change to changes of global
features like mood. A mood change can for example
affect the tonality (major/minor), the number of notes
(due to liveliness) and ambitus (due to excitation) [10].
2.1 Modeling musical similarity
To support folk song variation research, one could
choose to model expert reasoning using rule systems.
Such a system would consist of transformation rules
the relation between melodic variants. A fundamental
problem with this approach is that we are still a long
way from sufficiently understanding music perception
and cognition. Therefore it is impossible to fully for-
malize the necessary expert knowledge and model the
rules of musicological discourse.
Also, it is difficult to find out which approaches to
folk song variation are the most promising, because
there is little scholarly documentation about music
transformations. An exception is Wiora's catalog of
transformation phenomena [10]. It describes musical
features and related transformations and is a good in-
spirational source for models of similarity and human
reasoning about it. But it lacks descriptions of the con-
texts in which certain transformations are permissible.
It also does not provide the means to estimate the plau-
sibility of one transformation chain as compared to an-
otherwhenexplainingacertainvariation. Itiscommon
in folk song research to reason about the relatedness
of specific songs rather than to provide comprehensive
models. However, what is needed for MIR is a com-
prehensive theory about this kind of reasoning.
We chose a different approach to model variant re-
lationships, namely to investigate local similarity. This
closely follows musicological practice. Often some
striking similarities between some parts are considered
sufficient evidence for a variant relationship.
seems to leave MIR with the task to design local sim-
ilarity measures for variation research. However we
also need to model what is striking and what are rele-
vant parts and we must find ways to turn local similar-
ity values into overall relevance estimates.
2.2 Structural, textual and metrical alignment
In this section we mention some relations between the
parts of a song and between parts of variant songs that
support or inhibit the detection of variants. By doing
so, we motivate the structure-based alignment frame-
work that we describe in the next sections. Our as-
sumptions stem from general experience with folk
songs and from dealing with a collection of Dutch folk
songs that we currently help making searchable. [9]
Strophes: In songs, music is tightly bound to the
lyrics. When two different songs have similar lyrics,
we can often simply use textual similarity to relate mu-
sical parts with high confidence. However, we cannot
rely on text alone: if textually different variants or dif-
ferent strophes are encoded, we need to make use of
musical similarities. This should be unproblematic in
principle, since different strophes of a song typically
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share the same basic melody.
Phrases: Musical phrases in a folk song are typically
related to the verse lines of a poem. When dealing with
automatic alignment we must be aware that the level
of phrase indication might differ: one phrase in song A
might match with two shorter phrases in song B, or the
same rhythm can be notated with different note values.
Accents: Word accents in a verse typically follow a
common scheme, such as dactyl and trochee. These
accents often correspond to the metrical accents of the
notes, which can be found by looking at the barlines
and measure signatures. We cannot always assume the
same meter across variants, since different durations
can turn a 2-foot verse scheme into a 3-accent melody.
Also, extra syllables in the lyrics may make it neces-
sary to insert notes.
Accent (beat position) and phrase position may also
be important for musical similarity of variants: in our
previous work we found that pitches on stronger beat
positions tend to be more stable across variants than
less accented notes. There also seems to be a higher
agreement between variants at the beginning and end
of a strophe or a phrase (cadence notes), while inner
variation is higher [4]. We will study these claims fur-
ther in future research.
In this section we describe three components for struc-
ture-based folk song alignment: hierarchical segmen-
tation, phrase-level alignment and strophe alignment.
The general idea of the proposed framework is to use
alignments and alignment scores of smaller musical
parts in the alignment process on higher levels. The
more part A from the first melody resembles part B
from the second melody according to a similarity mea-
sure, the more preferable is it to align A with B rather
than with another part of the second melody with a
lower similarity. However, constraints in higher level
alignments can overrule this preference.
3.1 Hierarchical song structure
In accordance with the analysis given in the previous
section, wesplitsongshierarchicallyintosmallerparts.
meter information and phrases that correspond to the
lyrics are indicated. For each song, at least one stro-
phe is encoded. For some songs two or more stro-
phes are separately encoded. We convert our encod-
ings to Humdrum **kern format with the usual = bar
line markers and special !!new phrase comments.
We use the Humextra [7] toolkit to access the rele-
vant information in Humdrum**kern files (one file
perstrophe). Inourdatamodel, eachstrophecontainsa
sequence of phrases. We currently do not deal with re-
peat structures, since they are not encoded in our data,
but written out. Each phrase is split into bar segments
using the given bar lines.
A bar in turn is recursively split into smaller beat
segments delimited by metrically strong beat positions.
These are not encoded and need not coincide with note
events, but are inferred from the bar lines and the mea-
sure signature.
ing Humdrum fragment, which can be used to retrieve
notes and extra information such as the syllables, and
a beat range, which identifies the start and duration of
the segment measured in beats.
When retrieving the notes for a structural unit, spe-
cialcareistakentohandleboundaries: incompletebars
can occur not only at the beginning or end of a strophe
but also at the beginning or end of a phrase. A bar
segment will only return those notes of the bar that are
part of the parent phrase segment, and likewise for a
beat segment.
3.2 Phrase level alignment
The user of the framework chooses an elementary sim-
ilarity measure sim that is defined on either bar seg-
ments or beat segments. The framework computes a
similarity value for any pair of segments (one segment
from melody A, the second from melody B).
To combine segments of two phrases into a phrase
level alignment, we use standard global string align-
ment techniques with match scores and deletion and
insertion related gap scores [11]. We define the match
score of two segments a and b as being equal to
sim(a,b). The scaling of gap scores with respect to
sim is left to the user.
To cope with the common phenomenon of different
durations of the upbeat bar and the last bar in the same
phrase in two variants, we support different gap scores
for inner and (left/right) outer gaps. Also, we could
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use local instead of global alignment methods to look
for motivic similarity instead of phrase similarity [6].
Futureimprovementswillsupportaugmentation, di-
minution, fragmentationandconsolidationasdescribed
in [6] in combination with segment constraints. We
will also look into inner-phrase form deviations, such
repeats of a bar or beat segment. (See section 5.)
3.3 Strophe alignment
For the strophe level alignment the framework em-
ploys phrase alignments: from the alignment scores
similarity values are calculated for all possible pairs of
phrases (one phrase from melody 1, one from melody
2). Different phrase-level similarity values from alter-
native elementary similarity measures and from non-
alignment similarity measures (e.g. on cadence tones)
can be consolidated into one similarity value. Then a
string alignment technique can be used again to find
the best alignments of the phrase sequences based on
these similarity values. This handles transformations
from ABCD to ABD.
To assume sequential similarity and to use phrases
only once on the strophe level would sometimes be
misleading. Consider simple transformations from
AABB to AAB or BBAA. Therefore the framework
supports the creation of alignments where one strophe
is fixed and each phrase p of it can be matched against
any of the phrases q of the phrase set S variant strophe:
MatchScore(p,S) = maxq?S{similarity(p,q)}
To cover cases where strophes of one song differ
significantly, the framework simply performs all pair-
wise comparisons between all strophes from one vari-
ant with all strophes from the other variant.
To study the usefulness of our framework, we com-
pared alignments produced by framework-based mod-
els with manual alignments (annotations). One of the
authors selected sets of similar phrases from a vari-
ant group and produced for each set a multiple align-
ment of their segments in a matrix format (one line
per phrase, one column per set of corresponding seg-
ments). Segments are identified by their starting met-
rical position (e.g. 3.2 for bar 3, second part) and all
segments in a bar must be of the same size.
FromeachmultiplealignmentannotationofN phra-
seswederivedN(N-1)/2pairwisealignments. Wecom-
pared these to automatic alignments derived from spe-
cific framework setups. Each setup consists of:
A basic distance measure (seed) acting on segments
defined by the expert annotation. The segments usually
stem from the first subdivision of the bar (one half of a
bar in 6/8, one third of a bar in 9/8 measure). Excep-
tion: a 4/4 variant in a 6/8 melody group is split into
four segments per bar.
A normalization to turn the segment distance values
into match scores between 0 and 1.
e−distanceas the match score for this experiment.
Gap penalty scores for inner and outer gaps (between
0 and 1.5 for this experiment). Note: gap scores are
subtracted and match scores are added in an alignment.
For each setup we generated a log file. For overall
performance comparisons we produced summary fit-
ness values per variant group and across all tested vari-
ant groups. For the fitness of a setup for a particular
variant group (group fitness), we counted all pairwise
alignments in which the automatic alignment has the
same gap positions as the annotation and divided this
number by N(N-1)/2. For the overall fitness of a setup,
we took the average of the group fitnesses.
We employ
4.1 Results
Four (not necessarily representative) groups of variant
We only present a summary about the lessons learned
from studying the log files [1], which contain anno-
tations, links to the musical scores, alignment results,
failure analysis information and summaries.
The overall performance of selected setups is shown
in table 4.1 and discussed in the next sections.
4.2 Discussion of distance seeds
In this section we discuss the performance of increas-
ingly complex elementary distance measures (seeds).
Baselines are provided by trivial and random.
The trivial distance 0 turns into a match score of
1 to any pair of segments. As a consequence the ac-
tual alignment depends on the gap scores and the al-
gorithm execution order only. In our test setup this
always means that the algorithm always chooses left
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Table 1. Alignment fitness. IG/OG: inner/outer gap
scores. G1-4: percentage of well-aligned phrases per
group. A1: average of G1-4; A2: average of G1-3.
(outer) gaps to compensate for the beat segment count
difference of the variants.
A random distance between 0 and 1 leads to a more
evendistributionofgaps. Whenoutergapsarecheaper,
there is a preference for outer gaps. Interestingly in
our examples random performs better than trivial, be-
cause the manual alignments contain more right than
left outer gaps. As a consequence we should consider
to lower the right outer gap penalty with respect to the
left in future experiments.
To study the performance using phrase and meter in-
formation only, we defined the beatPos distance as the
difference of the segment number relative to the pre-
vious barline. The second segment of a bar thus has
distance 1 to the first segment. The algorithm should
prefer to align barlines this way. Surprisingly it per-
formed worse than trivial. However, we found that too
many (relatively cheap) gaps were introduced to match
as many segments as possible. We compensated this in
another test run with gap penalties greater than 1 and
achieved much higher fitness than trivial. In general
there were only few examples where both phrases were
supposed to have inner gaps at different positions.
The next distance measure events measures the dif-
ferenceofthenumberof notesinasegment. Tiednotes
that begin before the segment starts count for both the
current and the preceding segment. The effect of this
measure is that regions of same event density (related
to tempo or rhythm) are preferred matches. Events per-
forms overall better in the alignment than beatPos.
To take both onset and pitch intoaccount at the same
time, we used proportional transportation distance
(PTD) [8]: we scaled the beat segment time into [0..1]
and weighted the note events according to their scaled
duration. As the ground distance we used (4∆pitch2+
bers modulo 12. Our distance measure ptdAbsolute
takes advantage of the fact that the given melodies are
allinthesamekey. Itperformsbestincomparisonwith
the previous measures.
If we do not assume the same key, it does not make
sense to employ absolute pitch, but instead one can
compare only the contours. One approach to tackle this
is ptdRelative, which takes the minimum over 12 ptd-
Absolute distances. However, it performs much worse.
The reason for this is that, given this distance measure,
two segments that each contain a single note always
haveadistance0. Oneshouldthereforeapplythismea-
sure only on larger segments or model the tonal center
in the state of the alignment process (see section 5).
4.3 Discussion of annotation groups
The four variant groups were chosen to display differ-
ent kind of alignment problems.
The manual alignment of the group G1 (Wat hoor ik
hier...) does not contain any inner gaps. There is lit-
tle variation in absolute pitch, so ptdAbsolute achieves
100% the same alignments. The framework proves to
be useful and handles different kind of measures (6/8
and 9/8) correctly.
Group G2 (Ik ben er ...) contains one inner gap. Ac-
cording to the annotation, the final notes d,c,b of one
variant (72564) are diminished (d,c lasts one beat in-
stead of two beats). Because the framework does not
handle such transformations yet, this was annotated as
a gap. For the similarity measures this gap is hard to
find, probably because the neighboring segments pro-
vide good alternative matches and often a right outer
gap is preferred. Lowering the gap penalties leads to
the introduction of unnecessary extra gaps. However,
ptdAbsolute with high gap penalties achieves 83% suc-
cess and misses only one pair (72564 and 72629), be-
cause it matches d with e. The framework deals well
with aligning 4/4 with 6/8 measures.
Group G3 (Moeder ik kom ...) contains a repeated
segment. Variants that have no repeat are annotated
with a gap at the first occurrence of the segment. How-
ever, there is no compelling reason why this gap cannot
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be assigned to the second occurrence. This ambiguity
accounts for many "failures" in the test logs.
Group G4 (Heer Halewijn) was chosen because of
its complexity. Only when looking at the annotation
for a while the chosen alignment becomes understand-
able. It ismainlybased ontonal functionof pitchesand
contains many inner gaps. For pairs of phrases, other
alignments are plausible as well, but in the multiple
alignment several small hints together make the given
annotation convincing. Therefore there are only few
correct automatic alignments. Interestingly, however,
the algorithm manages to align a subgroup (72256,
74003, and 74216) without failure.
ilarity framework for folk song melodies represented
as scores. We have done initial tests that show both the
usefulness and limitations of our segmentation, align-
ment and evaluation approach. We see two continu-
ations. First, we should use the framework to study
similarity seeds that take the observed stability of be-
ginnings and endings into account (see section 2.2).
Second, the alignment framework needs to be de-
veloped further into several directions. 1) We did not
so far pay any attention to the relationship between the
statistical properties of the distance measure, its nor-
malization and the value of the gap penalties.
should support the modeling of states and non-linear
gap costs. 3) Multiple alignment strategies should be
incorporated in order to relate more than two melodies.
The need for this became apparent in the last alignment
group. Multiple alignments are particularly needed for
group queries [3]. Therefore we will not only evaluate
the quality of the alignments but also the performance
of melody retrieval using these alignments.
Acknowledgments. This work was supported by the
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research within the
WITCHCRAFT project NWO 640-003-501, which is part
of the CATCH-program.
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Set in a lovely quiet country street just minutes from the Versant Nord, this chalet is in a prime location for all things outdoors. Its rural setting makes it ideal for complete relaxation.
The National Park with its extensive hiking trails and caneoing opportunities is just minutes away.
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Our beautiful 83 home senior apartment community is located in Poway, just north of San Diego. Close by enjoy shopping, dining, churches, public transportation, pharmacy, medical services and Pomerado Hospital. The Spanish-style building has two landscaped courtyards featuring a gazebo and fountain perfect for relaxing or enjoying the sunny weather. These apartment homes are one bedroom ranging from 579- 628 square feet. Select senior apartments offer special features for mobility and sensory impaired persons. Off street parking is also available. Our two story building offers laundry centers on each floor that are easily accessible via elevator. Enjoy the onsite library featuring a computer with internet access, along with an activity room. Coordinated resident activities are also offered for your enjoyment and entertainment. Los Arcos is an income restricted community and limitations are determined by the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee. Gross income must not exceed $28,900 for one person and $33,050 for two persons. We invite you to call us today and schedule a tour to learn more about Los Arcos Senior Apartments.
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Well I think if you're a lady the first thing you notice about me is my dimples I have kind of a baby face and I think the second thing you might notice about me is I'm told I have a nice bot laugh out loud now if you were a man the first thing you notice is I am very friendly and outgoing and I would probably make you laugh
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Well my favorite book would have to be the road less traveled 1 and the road less traveled 2 and I think my favorite movie was easy rider and as far as music I like probably the old seventies rock n roll the best now food is a different story growing up on a dairy farm I'm pretty much into meat and potatoes vegetables and so forth my favorite is barbecue ribs I love to barbeque
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The Sun the rain the air I breathe clothes on my back aloof over my head money to pay bills friends and family a motorcycle to ride and most of all my true love by my side
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Well to be honest with you lately its been how come I haven't met the right kind of girl it seems so lately all I've met is a bunch of alcoholics and then I think a lot about my mom and I think a lot about travel an I think a lot about what I might want to do in the next few years I think about my dream of a cabin up north in the woods that kind of stuff
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Well some Friday nights I could be sittin home watchin TV with popcorn another Friday nights I could be at some dance clubs sippin on a diet soda listen to live music in trying to get someone to dance with me or I could be out if it's warm enough riding my motorcycle or I could be at a concert somewhere or possibly at a party with friends never no
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'Sheep's poop, sir,' said Mark.
Mark's father has always wanted him to be a Somebody. But unless Mark picks up at school, it looks like sheep's poop is where he's heading. Then Mark and his friends discover they've lived before. Not only that – they were Famous and Important People!
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Morris Gleitzman grew up in England and came to Australia when he was sixteen. He was a frozen-chicken thawer, sugar-mill rolling-stock unhooker, fashion-industry trainee, student, department-store Santa, TV producer, newspaper columnist and screenwriter. Then he had a wonderful experience. He wrote a novel for young people. Now he's one of Australia's most popular children's authors.
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For years now, the NFL has been bedazzling the Super Bowl with busloads of Hollywood stars and singers in an attempt to distract viewers from the fact that the game is usually a snooze-worthy blowout. But thanks to the New York Giants' historic last-minute victory Sunday night over the previously unbeaten New England Patriots, as well as an arena-rock-worthy halftime show from American icon Tom Petty, the people behind the big game finally got the mix of music and smash mouth right. (Except for the moments when it got things so, so wrong, which were also kind of great.) And so, we give you the first Super Bowl Musical Monday Morning Quarterback Report. (Also check out our take on Super Bowl movie ads — are you pumped for the next potential blockbusters?)
The Big Winners
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Classic rock has become the new standard at the big show, thanks to recent gigs by the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and last year's guitar-stroking extravaganza from Prince. And despite the suggestive beating-heart-pierced-by-Flying-V-guitar opening, laid-back Petty played his four-song halftime gig as if he were just strolling in for another night of work by the world's best bar band. No corny medleys, no hokey gimmicks, just unforgettable anthems that, frankly, by the end of the night couldn't have been more apt for both teams: "I Won't Back Down" (Giants), "Free Fallin' " (Patriots) and the nothing-but-hustle rocker "Runnin' Down a Dream" (Giants again).
Justin Timberlake: Though he mostly just got his ass kicked, the singer/actor proved his comic chops again in the hilarious Pepsi/Amazon "Magnetic Attraction" ad that mixed his slapstick abilities with a cameo from his "D— in a Box" co-star, Andy Samberg.
Metal: As if the game needed any more aggro help, the Patriots entered to Ozzy Osbourne's iconic "Crazy Train," while the promos for Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" pulled out Danzig's dark "Mother," a Toyota ad went indie by using Fu Manchu's "Mongoose" and the ad for the big-screen adaptation of "Iron Man" pulled out Audioslave's stomping "Cochise." And as the clock ran out, Europe's "The Final Countdown" brought an end to the Patriots' dream-turned-nightmare.
Kanye West: On the cusp of the Grammys, West's "Stronger" pumped over the loudspeakers as the soon-to-be world champion Giants ran out onto the field.
Jordin Sparks: Her dad, former Giants player Phillippi Sparks, never made it to the big dance, but his daughter did him proud with a stirring rendition of the national anthem in front of her hometown fans.
Alicia Keys: The Grammy winner plugged her upcoming tour with a rousing pregame medley that included "Fallin'," "If I Ain't Got You" and "As I Am."
Madonna/Shakira: Now we get how the Material Girl is the highest-paid female singer on the planet. Her brief appearance in an ad for Sunsilk hair products reportedly brought in millions. Shakira can't complain either. Not only did she get to plug her years-old hit "Whenever, Wherever," but she played alongside Madonna and Marilyn Monroe, which isn't bad company.
Alice Cooper: We have no idea what the original shock-rocker was doing crouching on the ground with his albino snake at the end of that Bridgestone Firestone ad (maybe lying in wait for co-star Richard Simmons to jog by?), but it worked.
Arcade Fire: The Canadian band's "No Cars Go" was used as a bumper by Fox during one of those dancing-robot bits, giving them massive exposure, though not likely the kind they desire. According to Pitchfork, although Fox asked permission to use the tune, it's unclear if the band gave its consent.
Kina Grannis: The unknown singer/songwriter, who won a Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl" competition and a deal with Interscope Records, was introduced on one of the world's biggest stages, singing her acoustic ballad "Message From Your Heart." The ad reportedly cost $5 million, so you better believe that they think she's got the goods.
Latch Key Kid: A close second to Grannis in terms of worldwide coming-out parties was the election-themed Coke ad scored to "Good Times" by Southern California musician Kid (real name: Gavin Heaney). The spot, featuring Democrat James Carville and Republican Bill Frist cavorting together, perfectly fit the mood of the cheery ditty about sharing good times with good friends.
The Flaming Lips: Our personal pick for the ultimate halftime band (think about it: aliens, spaceships, giant inflatable hands, dancing Santas and exploding confetti cannons!) subverted straight society for the umpteenth time when their proggy, Pink Floyd-like ode to running from lava flows, "Pompeii Am Gotterdammerung," accompanied a Ford Sync ad.
Bower: The fat guy who jump-started the car with his nipples in the Mountain Dew AMP ad? None other than Michael Bower, the guy who played Donkeylips on Nickelodeon's "Salute Your Shorts" and a budding rapper in the Eminem mode.
The Losers
Paula Abdul: The "American Idol" judge's pre-taped, lip-synced "performance" of "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow," the first single from fellow judge Randy Jackson's new album, nearly rivaled the former pop star's infamous "baked potato" dance to "Vibeology" at the 1991 Video Music Awards. Save for the impressive male-dancer-assisted high kick/ split she pulled off near the end, the painfully '80s Janet Jackson rip-off tune and skinny-tie-era backup dancers made Adbul look like the Mrs. Robinson of dance pop. Judging those kids on "Idol" just got a lot harder.
Ben Roethlisberger: The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback's off-key warbling of "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" was supposed to be bad, we get it. But it was so bad, some Steelers fans might have preferred it if he entered a Superbike race instead.
Michael Jackson: At this point nobody wants to see the actual King of Pop in a TV ad, but the slimy digital reptiles doing the "Thriller" dance to promote the 25th anniversary of the singer's landmark album (oh, and SoBe Life Water too) were almost as creepy as a trip to Neverland Ranch.
LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, Macy Gray and Missy Elliott: That fake-grinning, head-nodding Diet Pepsi Ad to the tune of Haddaway's club classic "What Is Love" was so cheesy that we agreed with "A Night at the Roxbury" star Chris Kattan when he yelled, "Stop it!" at the end.
"American Idol": Between Roethlisberger's lame ad and Abdul's crash-and-burn performance, not to mention bionic host Ryan Seacrest's painful "red carpet" interviews with the likes of Samuel L. Jackson, the show wasn't done any favors by its host network.


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INtranasal OXyTocin for the Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders (INOXT)
This study is currently recruiting participants. (see Contacts and Locations)
Verified October 2015 by Anagnostou, Evdokia, M.D.
Evdokia Anagnostou
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
McMaster University
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
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Evdokia Anagnostou, Anagnostou, Evdokia, M.D.
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First received: February 7, 2013
Last updated: October 21, 2015
Last verified: October 2015
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There is substantial evidence from animal model and healthy control data, that oxytocin is involved in the modulation of social cognition. In addition, recent genetics and plasma level studies suggest a possible role for oxytocin in the pathophysiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). As a large number of children with ASD are transitioning into adulthood and will likely require treatment, the lack of data to make meaningful treatment recommendations to facilitate adult living is an urgent issue. This study will examine the effect of intranasal oxytocin (IN-OXT) on social function in adults with ASD. It is hypothesized that IN-OXT will be superior to placebo in improving social function by the end of study treatment.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Drug: Intranasal Oxytocin
Drug: Placebo
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|INtranasal OXyTocin for the Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Autism Spectrum Disorder
Drug Information available for: OxytocinU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Anagnostou, Evdokia, M.D.:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- To identify the effect of IN oxytocin (IN-OXT) vs. placebo on social function in adults with ASD. [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Social function will be assessed using the Clinical Global Impressions Scale - Improvement - Social (CGI-I- Social).
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- To identify the effect of IN oxytocin (IN-OXT) vs. placebo on continuous measures of social cognition and responsiveness in adults with ASD. [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Social cognition will be assessed through the Revised Eyes Test and social responsiveness will be assessed through the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS-2) and the Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC)
- To determine the safety and tolerability of IN-OXT in adults with ASD. [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Safety will be assessed through the Safety Monitoring Uniform Report Form (SMURF) and the Clinical Global Impressions Scale - Improvement (Social)
- To examine the effect of IN-OXT vs. placebo on quality of life and anxiety. [ Time Frame: 12 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Quality of life will be assessed through the World Health Organization Quality of Life Survey (WHOQOL-BREF) and anxiety will be assessed through the Symptom Checklist 90-Revised (SCL-90-R)
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|June 2014
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|March 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|March 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Active Comparator: Intranasal Oxytocin
Drug: Intranasal Oxytocin
24 IU taken BID, in the morning and at noon/early afternoon
Other Name: Syntocinon
|Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Drug: Placebo
24 IU taken BID, in the morning and at noon/early afternoon
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 45 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
- Male or female outpatients 18-45 years of age, inclusive
- Meet Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. DSM-V criteria will be established by a clinician with expertise with individuals with ASD. Best estimate Diagnosis will be reached using DSM-V criteria, the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and the Autism Diagnostic Interview (ADI-R).
- Have a Clinical Global Impression-Severity (CGI-S) score ≥ 4 (moderately ill) at Screening.
- Verbal scale IQ ≥ 70
- If already receiving stable concomitant medications affecting behavior, have stable regimens with no changes during the preceding 1 month prior to Screening (with the exception of fluoxetine, where a period of 6 weeks is needed), and will not electively initiate new or modify ongoing medications for the duration of the study
- If already receiving stable non-pharmacological educational, behavioral, and/or dietary interventions, have continuous participation during the preceding 3 months prior to Screening, and not electively initiate new or modify ongoing interventions for the duration of the study
- Have normal physical examination and laboratory test results at screening. If abnormal, the finding(s) must be deemed clinically insignificant by the Treating Clinician.
- Ability to speak and understand English sufficiently to allow for the completion of all study assessments
- Ability to obtain written informed consent from the subject (if developmentally appropriate), or ability to obtain written informed consent from their surrogate decision maker (SDM), if the subject is unable to provide consent.
Exclusion Criteria
- Patients born prior to 28 weeks gestational age
- Patients with a primary psychiatric diagnosis other than ASD
- Patients with a medical history of neurological disease, including, but not limited to, epilepsy/seizure disorder, movement disorder, tuberous sclerosis, fragile X, and any other known genetic syndromes, or known abnormal brain MRI/structural lesion. Exceptions: 1) simple febrile seizures, 2) epilepsy/ seizure free for at least 2 years prior to Screening
- Pregnant female patients, sexually active female patients on hormonal birth control and sexually active females who do not use at least two types of non-hormonal birth control
- Patients with evidence or history of malignancy or any significant hematological, endocrine, cardiovascular (including any rhythm disorder), respiratory, renal, hepatic, or gastrointestinal disease
- Patients with one or more of the following: HIV, HBV, HCV, hemophilia (bleeding problems, recent nose and brain injuries), abnormal blood pressure (hypotension or hypertension), drug abuse, immunity disorder or severe depression.
- Patients unable to tolerate venipuncture procedures for blood sampling
- Patients who are currently taking oxytocin or have taken intranasal oxytocin in the past with no response
- Patients with a sensitivity to oxytocin or any components of its formulation
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: NCT01788072
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01788072
|Contact: Evdokia Anagnostou, MD
|416-425-6220 ext 6005
|Contact: Dina Zaghloul, BMSc
|416-425-6220 ext 6602
|Canada, Ontario
|St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
|Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4K1
|Contact: Iulia Patriciu, MA 905-521-2100 ext 39774 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Marc Woodbury-Smith, MD
|Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
|Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4G 1R8
|Contact: Rianne Hastie Adams, MSW, RSW 416-425-6220 ext 6515 email@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Evdokia Anagnostou, MD
Sponsors and Collaborators
Evdokia Anagnostou
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
McMaster University
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
|Principal Investigator:
|Evdokia Anagnostou, MD
|Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
|Principal Investigator:
|Marc Woodbury-Smith, MD
|McMaster University
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No publications provided
Keywords provided by Anagnostou, Evdokia, M.D.:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on November 24, 2015
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|Responsible Party:
|Evdokia Anagnostou, Principal Investigator, Anagnostou, Evdokia, M.D.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01788072 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|February 7, 2013
|Last Updated:
|October 21, 2015
|Health Authority:
|Canada: Health Canada
Keywords provided by Anagnostou, Evdokia, M.D.:
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Autistic Disorder
Child Development Disorders, Pervasive
Mental Disorders
Mental Disorders Diagnosed in Childhood
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Reproductive Control Agents
Therapeutic Uses
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Home to the native Cahuilla people for centuries, this spring provided water for travelers and early prospectors. The area, which supports a large stand of fan palms, is one of the best stops for bird-watching, as migrating birds (and bighorn sheep) rely on the water as well. A number of gold mines were located here, and the area still has some remains, including an arrastra (a gold ore–grinding tool) and concrete pillars. Flash floods in 2011 and 2013, however, have necessitated that some areas no longer be open to the public.
Cottonwood Visitor Center, Joshua Tree National Park, California, 92277, United States
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