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Post Crisis Changes in Mortgage Lending in U.S. - Forecast & Analysis 2010-2015
- September 2010
- Region: United States
- 95 Pages
- Markets and Markets
Report Description: Post Crisis Changes in Mortgage Lending in U.S. – Analysis & Forecast
The U.S. has the world's largest mortgage market; in 2009 the country had an outstanding mortgage-to-GDP ratio - above 100% - despite being very badly affected by the recent financial crisis. The report 'Post Crisis Changes in Mortgage Lending in the U.S. – Analysis & Forecast, 2010-2015' is a market research study of recent changes in the U.S. residential mortgage industry. The report has five chapters – Market Overview, Forecast & Analysis, Strategy Formulation, Case Studies, and Vendor Analysis.
'Market Overview' focuses on post crisis changes in the U.S. residential mortgage industry. It identifies top players and their market shares according to mortgage origination as well as servicing volume. Overall, the chapter contains the gist of recent changes or developments related to the industry.
The second chapter, 'Analysis & Forecast', contains estimates for residential mortgage originations till 2010. To forecast origination, this report recognizes the three most important demand side factors and three most important supply side factors. The demand side factors include GDP, unemployment, and saving rate as a percentage of disposable income; and the supply side factors include inflation, mortgage rate, and new home starts.
The 'Strategy Formulation' chapter features strategies followed by top players in the U.S. as well as by some offshore players in Australia, Bahrain, Hong Kong, the U.K. and other markets.
The 'Case Studies' section discusses the impact of technology on mortgage lenders' productivity. We have reviewed the role of mortgage technologies in improving the efficiency of lenders.
'Vendor Analysis' includes profiles of the top eight technology providers. To identify these, the first top 50 vendors were selected based on certain criteria. The top 50 vendors were analyzed on the basis of their developments to enhance products and services after January 2009; the top eight were then selected from these. The chapter also benchmarks profiled vendors SHOW LESS READ MORE >
1 Introduction
1.1 Report Purpose
1.1.1 Report Catalyst
1.1.2 Report Structure
1.2 Research Objective
1.3 Study Methodology
2 Market Overview
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Post Crisis Mortgage Scenario
2.2.1 Fear Of Foreclosure Leads To Refinancing
2.2.2 Costly Fha Creates Opportunity For Private Mortgage Insurance
2.2.3 Banks Under Pressure To Repurchase Mbs
2.2.4 Banks Prefer Reverse Mortgage
2.2.5 Market Consolidation
184.108.40.206 Mortgage – A Consolidating Market
220.127.116.11 Residential Mortgage Lending – Top Lenders
2.3 Government Revamps The Mortgage Industry
2.3.1 Mha (Making Home Affordable) Program
2.3.2 Federal Reserve'S Mbs Purchase Program
2.3.3 Tax Credits To Boost Home Sales
3 Analysis And Forecast
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Analysis Of Demand Side Indicators
3.2.1 Nominal Gdp To Grow Over 3% By 2015
3.2.2 Highest Unemployment Rate Since 1984
3.2.3 Savings Rate Reduces From The 2009 High
3.3 Analysis Of Supply Side Indicators
3.3.1 Reducing Core Inflation
3.3.2 Mortgage Rates At Their Lowest
3.3.3 Housing Starts To Grow From 2010
3.4 Mortgage Origination To Increase After 2011
3.4.1 Mortgage Origination Will Grow At 10% Cagr
3.4.2 From Refinance To New Purchases
4 Strategy Formulation
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Strategies Adopted By U.S. Banks
4.2.1 Acquiring Troubled Lenders For Expansion
4.2.2 Efforts To Reduce Default Rates
4.2.3 Efforts To Create Awareness & Brand Building
4.2.4 Upgrading Technology
4.3 Early Movers Will Exploit Opportunities In Near-Future
4.4 Strategies Followed By Banks In Foreign Markets
4.4.1 Product Bundling Strategy Effectively Adopted By Australian Banks To Build Customer Loyalty
4.4.2 Arab Bank'S Initiative In Bahrain Helps Reduce Burden Of Repayment Through Linked Accounts
4.4.3 Lloyds Tsb Allowed Its U.K. Borrowers To Use Third Party Contributions For Home Purchases
4.4.4 U.K. Based Guarantors' Mortgage Programs To Boost Lending
4.4.5 Ireland Based Bank Protects Home Owners From Falling House Prices
4.4.6 Success Of Repayment Options Depend On Flexibile Terms
22.214.171.124 Multiple Repayment Options By Standard Chartered Bank
126.96.36.199 New Zealand Based Tsb Bank'S Flexible Repayment Options
4.4.7 Hybrid Home Loans In New Zealand, Canada And The U.K. Give The Advantage Of Fixed As Well As Variable Rates
5 Case Studies
5.1 Case Study I – Community Bank Of Pennsylvania Increased Loan Volume And Streamlined Mortgage Process With Integrated Point Of Sale Solution By Mortgagebot
5.1.1 About Community Bank
5.1.2 Objectives
22.214.171.124 Manual Data Entry Paper Dependency And Inefficiency – Main Bottlenecks Faced By The Bank
126.96.36.199 Challenge – Increase Efficiency And Productivity
22.214.171.124 Bank Selcts Mortgagebot'S Powersite Mortgage Pos
188.8.131.52 More Channels, Higher Volume And More Productivity Were The Main Benefits
5.1.3 Conclusion
5.2 Case Study Ii – Mortgage Builder Software Implements End-To-End Saas Loan Origination Platform At Cortland Bank
5.2.1 About Cortland Savings And Banking Company
5.2.2 Objectives
184.108.40.206 Challenge Of Cost And Time In Implementing An Enterprise Level Los
220.127.116.11 Saas Model Offered By Mortgage Builder Solved The Bank'S Requirement
5.2.3 Conclusion
6 Vendor Analysis
6.1 Vendor Benchmarking
6.1.1 Strategic Benchmarking
6.1.2 Functional Benchmarking
6.2 Vendor Profiles
6.2.1 Del Mar Datatrac
18.104.22.168 Products And Services
188.8.131.52 Developments
6.2.2 Ellie Mae
18.104.22.168 Products And Services
220.127.116.11 Developments
6.2.3 Isgn
22.214.171.124 Products And Services
184.108.40.206 Developments
6.2.4 Mortgage Builder Software
220.127.116.11 Products And Services
126.96.36.199 Developments
6.2.5 Mortgage Cadence
220.127.116.11 Products And Services
22.214.171.124 Developments
6.2.6 Mortgagebot
22.214.171.124 Products And Services
220.127.116.11 Developments
6.2.7 Motivity Solutions
188.8.131.52 Products And Services
22.214.171.124 Developments
6.2.8 Mrg Document Technologies
18.104.22.168 Products And Services
18.104.22.168 Developments
List Of Tables:
Table 1 List Of Acquisitions And Benefits To Acquirers
Table 2 Lenders Effort To Reduce Delinquencies
List Of Figures:
Figure 1 Degree Of Correlation Between Residential Mortgage Origination And Its Drivers
Figure 2 Excessive Consumption In Line With Overvalued Housing
Figure 3 Nationwide Average Home Prices (1987 – 2009)
Figure 4 Total Number Of Vacant Homes: Condos And Single Family
Figure 5 Foreclosures Continue To Soar
Figure 6 Total Mortgage Repurchases By Banks (2009)
Figure 7 Combined Market Share Of Top Five Lenders Since 2004
Figure 8 Market Share Of Mortgage Lenders In Q1–2010
Figure 9 Sales Of Existing Single Family Homes
Figure 10 Number Of Houses Sold
Figure 11 U.S. Gdp Growth Is Back In Positive Territory
Figure 12 Unemployment Rate Is At Its Highest
Figure 13 Number Of People Unemployed And Duration Of Unemployment
Figure 14 Personal Savings Rate At An All Time High
Figure 15 Correlation Of Inflation With Home Price Index
Figure 16 Mortgage Rates In Line With Treasury Yields
Figure 17 Average Mortgage Rates Show Downward Trend
Figure 18 Total Housing Starts (2005 – 2010)
Figure 19 Prime And Sub Prime Mortgage Originations By Fico Score
Figure 20 Mortgage Origination (2008 – 2015)
Figure 21 New Mortgage And Refinance Origination (2004 – 2012)
Figure 22 Advertisement Through Print Media
Figure 23 Common Strategies Adopted By Vendors
Figure 24 Strategy Adopted By Vendors
Figure 25 Product Line And Functionality Offered By Vendors


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Consolidating storage is a complex, challenging process. Whether you're tackling DAS, NAS or SAN, there are key issues that must be addressed to have a successful storage consolidation project.
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easy to delineate, and the savings can be substantial. Depending on the scope of the project, storage consolidation helps the bottom line by reducing assets, lowering hardware and software maintenance, upping storage capacity utilization, and enabling more effective and efficient storage management.
Unfortunately, storage consolidation isn't as simple as buying a large, enterprise-class storage array and migrating applications to the new platform. In a nutshell, a consolidation project follows the three Ps: process, procedure and policy. Whether a consolidation project involves DAS, SAN or NAS, there's a commonality to the approaches in addition to the expected differences.
Common issues
There are multiple options, protocols and architectures that may be employed to achieve a consolidated storage infrastructure, but we'll use a Fibre Channel (FC) SAN as the option of choice. While not all-inclusive, some of the top items to consider before embarking on a consolidation project include the following:
Tiered storage. It's best to implement a tiered storage infrastructure while consolidating. Much work is required to implement a tiered storage architecture, such as classifying data and understanding the value of data over time. But having the infrastructure in place early on--even if some educated guesses are required for initial application data placement--will reap significant benefits down the road.
Common data protection. It's much more straightforward to create and manage a common data protection scheme for operational and disaster recovery (DR) purposes and for a consolidated storage environment vs. a distributed one. Consider moving large backup jobs to the storage network rather than running them on the LAN. It may also be the perfect opportunity to integrate a disk-based backup architecture. For DR, consider creating a storage tier that seamlessly supports replication to a remote site. In any case, having centralized control and management will simplify and streamline the processes.
High availability. Availability becomes a greater concern because storage consolidation is akin to putting "more eggs in one basket." The storage network should keep running in the event of a minor malfunction such as a host bus adapter (HBA) or cable failure. Techniques such as dual HBAs with multipathing software, dual fabrics and resilient connectivity paths should be implemented if they weren't previously used in the decentralized environment. For areas outside the storage infrastructure, consider server clustering.
Interoperability. Whether consolidating with new equipment or incorporating existing assets, interoperability issues always arise. For example, your FC fabric may be based on the latest and greatest technology, but those two-year-old HBAs in your application servers are no longer supported or need a major microcode/firmware upgrade. Operating system support, especially for older servers handcuffed by legacy application requirements, can also be an issue. Getting an upfront and detailed inventory of the current environment will save a lot of time, as well as avoid aggravation during and after migration to the consolidated infrastructure.
Multiprotocol. You should plan for multiprotocol storage connectivity now. For a consolidated storage infrastructure, this is one of those rare opportunities where you're working with a relatively clean slate, so take full advantage of it. If FICON or iSCSI may be a requirement in the future, ensure that your product selection can accommodate and support multiple protocols. It's even more important to understand the application requirements and performance characteristics of each of the protocols used. For example, FC is supported at multiple speeds today (1Gb, 2Gb and 4Gb), but future speeds (10Gb) may require different products/connectivity options.
Director switches. Think about scalability and cost-effective port density for the new, consolidated storage network. Historically, the fewer the ports on a single FC switch, the more inter-switch links (ISLs) are required to scale the fabric. Newer, director-level switches have impressive port counts--many in the hundreds on a single device. While still maintaining dual fabrics in alignment with the high-availability objectives in a consolidated SAN (many director-level switches also support separate logically segregated fabrics), port density should be a serious consideration to avoid wasting ISLs on interconnectivity.
That doesn't mean a core/edge architecture can't be used to ensure the most cost-efficient use of each port, but the total number of ports dedicated to connectivity, rather than fabric expansion, will make the fabric more cost-effective in the long run. The icing on the cake is that more of these director-level switches allow scaling when needed by adding ports via new blades without interrupting fabric services.
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While not specific to consolidation, it's important to note that the implementation of an enterprise storage management team will have a cultural effect on your staff. For example, your server team will no longer own the storage attached to their servers (e.g., DAS), and must learn to deal with the new kid on the block--the enterprise storage management team. Similarly, the network team may take issue with not managing all networks, including the storage network. These are significant issues that need to be addressed up front.
Policy planning. Prior to beginning a consolidation effort, policy issues must be addressed. Hand in hand with the justification for the enterprise storage management team is the requirement for strategic and tactical storage policies, along with associated standard operating procedures. One of the more obvious areas is specific to storage provisioning. Assuming the consolidated storage infrastructure is implemented, the next steps are allocating and provisioning storage to the servers and applications that require it. Naming conventions, allocation processes, data protection and documentation are just a few of the tasks related to storage provisioning. "Winging it" at this critical juncture of the consolidation project isn't acceptable. Having policies and procedures in place will make the multiple decisions required in a complex task such as storage provisioning much more straightforward.
Data migration. One consolidation task is to have the consolidated storage infrastructure built and ready to go. A totally different task is to get your application data migrated. Beyond just considering the pure volume of data to be migrated, take a look at some other important items that need to be considered and weighed, such as the number of files (e.g., many small files could make the migration take much longer, depending upon the approach), the different migration options (tape, network, mirror) and the data migration windows. The initial location of the servers and storage is also a major consideration, and often dramatically pares down the available migration options. Conducting dry runs to benchmark how long a data migration may take is strongly recommended; all too often, the data transfer spreadsheets you create are more theoretical than practical.
Risk mitigation. Even the most detailed and well-thought-out storage consolidation projects are full of hidden perils. What if a data migration hiccups in the last minutes of a five-hour data transfer? What if the application testing team finds some post-migration issue that isn't remotely related to the new storage infrastructure? What if the I/O performance in the consolidated environment is taking a beating due to multiple, disparate standalone applications simultaneously hitting the shared, consolidated storage infrastructure? It's important to have Plan B and Plan C ready so you can respond to those "keep our fingers crossed it never happens" scenarios.
Change control. Don't underestimate the level of participation required for storage consolidation. While it may be obvious that internal change-control processes and policies must be strictly adhered to, the number of coordination touch-points for storage consolidation activities is usually higher than for other change activities. For example, a consolidation effort may include the application owner; database, server and network administrators; the enterprise management storage team; and probably the data center manager and a project/program manager or two. Depending upon the activity, storage vendor product engineers may also be part of the equation. Proactive coordination is critical to success.
Unique issues with DAS, SAN and NAS
There are also specific issues that are dependent upon the current state of the storage being consolidated. For example, DAS doesn't require external HBAs, as the storage is internal to the server. If your consolidation project includes many DAS servers and applications, then it's important to determine if those servers have I/O backplane slots for the appropriate number of HBAs. In addition, it's best to standardize on a small number of HBA products--possibly by operating system and/or server type. In a multipathed, high-availability, dual-HBA environment, the cost of these HBAs can have a big impact on the consolidation project budget if a significant number of HBAs are required.
Compared to consolidating DAS, SAN environments offer different challenges. There's a high probability that the consolidated environment won't be new, as the goal is often to utilize as much existing SAN hardware and software as possible. Tough decisions need to be made, such as whether the fabrics should be merged or if it's better to create a totally new fabric.
It may also be necessary to decide if HBAs should be standardized or if old ones should be "grandfathered in" for the sake of capital cost (give operational and management costs due consideration when tackling this issue). And if your SAN comprises a multitude of arrays from different vendors, it's a perfect time to start planning for a tiered storage environment.
Consolidating NAS can range from buying larger filers to moving toward NAS gateways that can use the consolidated SAN infrastructure for its storage requirements. It may also be a good time to take a serious look at iSCSI, depending on the block- or file-based requirements of your specific applications. Give careful consideration to the storage services you're using on the new consolidated storage infrastructure and see if you can leverage some of the same software in your NAS environment, rather than having separate sets of software for each environment.
Other issues to consider include the opportunity to revisit storage virtualization strategies, the pros and cons of doing server and storage consolidation at the same time, and understanding what applications/environments may not benefit from consolidation.
The cost savings of storage consolidation can result in a fairly rapid return on investment. But a lot of upfront work is required to ensure a successful deployment that reaps the benefits of these activities.
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SIKESTON -- Charles Lloyd Meunier, 84, died at 10:57 a.m. Sept. 28, 2006, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
Born Sept. 6, 1922, in Blytheville, Ark., to the late Charles Thomas and Dora Sweat Meunier, he served in the U.S. Army Infantry, Patton's 3rd Army during World War II, entering the service in November 1942. He fought in the Battle of the Bulge and served in Normandy, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and Austria. He was discharged in 1945 with the rank of sergeant-rifleman and the following decorations and ribbons: Combat Infantry Badge, Expert Rifleman, Good Conduct Medal, ETO and four Bronze Battle Stars. He worked for 31 years for the International Shoe Company and was a member of the St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. He was a member of the American Legion Henry Meldrum Post 114 and served in several offices there. He was a member of the VFW Post 3174 and the Sikeston Eagles Aerie 3314.
On June 1, 1963, in Jackson, he married Mae Moore who survives of the home.
Other survivors include: one son and daughter-in-law, Kevin and Laura Meunier of Kelso; two daughters and sons-in-law, Valarie and Virgil Arnzen of Benton and Kimberly and Tom Miller of Sikeston; three sisters, Dorothy Meunier, Louise Meunier and Mary Vaughan all of Sikeston; three grandchildren, Nicholas Meunier of Kelso, Amy Arnzen of Chaffee and Matt Arnzen and his wife, Loretta, of Chaffee; two great-grandchildren, Grace and Tyson Arnzen both of Chaffee; and three special friends, Kyle Welter, Ryan Welter and Landon Miller all of Sikeston.
Two brothers and one sister preceded him in death.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. with a prayer service at 7:30 p.m. today at the Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Francis Xavier Church. Serving as celebrant will be Monsignor Richard Rolwing assisted by the Rev. Scott Sunnenberg.
Burial will follow at 1 p.m. with full military honors presented by the Missouri State Military Funeral Honor Guard in the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield.
Pallbearers will be: Lee Vaughan, Philip Stinnett, Randy Davidson, Mike Vaughan, Tim Merideth, James Hann and John Welter.
Honorary pallbearers will be: Wesley Stutts, Byron "Barney" Caldwell, Monroe Wheeler, Bud Stone, Bill Hodges, Roscoe Vaughan and Ale Cato.
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"Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world." - Maria Montessori
Acorn Montessori School is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA) and is a member of the American Montessori Society (AMS). The school is governed by a Board of Trustees consisting of members of our parent community, alumni, and professionals from the greater Hunterdon County community. The Montessori approach is based on the findings of child development specialist Dr. Maria Montessori. Although conceived over 100 years ago, Dr. Montessori's approach is completely aligned with the findings of current child development research. According to her, children "develop" in three-year cycles — birth to age 3, age 3 to 6, and age 6 to 12.
To create an educational environment sensitive to those cycles, our programs are structured around these age groups, based on the belief that learning is a 360-degree process where children learn both from their teachers and each other. Younger children look to the older ones as role models, and the self-esteem of older children grows as they become mentors and leaders in the classroom. At the conclusion of each year, the oldest third of the class moves on to the next level, giving children the opportunity to grow together and develop a strong sense of community, an arrangement that gives all children the opportunity to serve as classroom leaders at some point during the three-year cycle.
A typical class at Acorn Montessori School consists of approximately 24 children, with at least one trained Montessori (head) teacher and one or two assistant teachers.
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A revised version of the city's ordinance providing guidelines and regulations for noise control was approved by the Board of Aldermen during their regular monthly meeting Thursday.
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Bell likes all kinds of retrievers, Labs included, and admits that the short-haired breeds have certain advantages ("Cockleburs are the golden's biggest drawback," he says), but long hair is not exclusive to golden retrievers. A number of working dogs, including spaniels and many pointing breeds, are long-haired animals, and even Chesapeakes can run to the wooly side. Since Bell is primarily a duck hunter, he can usually manage to avoid areas with heavy burr infestations, and he uses a four-pronged comb to remove the burrs his dogs do pick up. His dogs work remaining burrs out on their own during the ride home. Early on, Bell hunted pheasants as well, and it was there that he found that his dog's propensity to stick to the local flora was more than offset by it's keen sense of smell.
"I've said this before," Bell says, "and I'll stick by this contention, and I think everybody will agree: The golden has a better nose than the other (retrievers). One time, my cousin and his son were visiting us up at my property in northern Missouri. His son had shot at a duck and had apparently missed. So later on, we were walking back up to the house to go to breakfast, and Casey, my golden, was walking beside us.
All of a sudden, her head just snapped around and she took off back down toward the slough we'd been hunting, although at that point she was quite a ways from where we'd been, and she came back out with that duck. So, yes, I think a golden's nose is the greatest thing about them when it comes to hunting." This from a man who belongs to four different retriever clubs and competes against dogs in and around Missouri.
Bell is a people-person—he taught physics at a local community college for 15 years before getting bumped into administration. He says he works only enough now to support his dog habit. That could be why he is so in love with the breed, which, he says, he "got onto" back in 1974. Besides being working partners in the field, Bell's two goldens are his buddies at home too.
"Some dogs sit on the pro truck year around and just compete," he says. "Mine, we compete with the pros a lot, but the dogs get in the truck with me, drive up to the drive-in bank teller, where the lady sends out cookies to them in the little carrier. Then, they come in and jump on the couch with me and watch the NCAA basketball games."
But it all starts with breeding. "Some people object to the cost (for a good puppy from a top breeding), but if you get a better dog to start with, you'll save a lot of money in the long run," Bell says. "When people take their time and buy from a good breeding ... I've just never seen a dog that wasn't pretty good to some level. It might not have been a field champion, but it made a pretty fine hunting companion."
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A 25 year-old man was struck and killed by a driver who was arrested for DUI after the early Wednesday morning accident on Sunny Meadow street in Mira Mesa. The driver of the truck was headed west at a high rate of speed when he hit the victim, who he may have known according to neighbors, and his truck carried him about 100 feet from the impact point where he came off the truck and landed on the sidewalk. . The driver then went to the end of the block where an elderly woman who witnessed the accident yelled at the man to turn around and go help the man. He then screeched his tires and went back to the house where the the impact occurred and the police found him there. The man was pronounced dead at the scene and his body, covered by a yellow cover, remained for a time during the investigation.


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Interpretation based on richness of experience: Theory development from a social-constructivist perspective
The view that children's understanding of mind is constructed through social interaction is consistent with other social-constructivist models. We provide examples of similar claims in research on emotion perception, pretense understanding, autobiographical memory, and event knowledge. Identification of common elements from such socio-cultural perspectives may lead to greater theoretical integration and provide a new framework for exploring human development.


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Shakira's: Be camera-ready for The Voice just about two months after welcoming son Milan with her pro-soccer-player boyfriend, Gerard Piqué, 26. "After the delivery, you look like a shar-pei!" says the singer, 36, who spent a month at home in Barcelona getting back in shape.
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"I did Zumba throughout my pregnancy," Shakira says. (We love the mental image.) "That helped me not gain too much weight." Post-baby, she did Zumba four to five mornings a week and even trained privately with its creator and CEO, Beto Perez, for a week.
Left: A pregnant Shakira with Gerard in January.
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"Two minutes of ab work isn't enough," says the star, who focused on tightening her stomach throughout her workouts.
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"I'm quite proud of my rear," Shakira says. To tone it, Kaiser had her hold a plié and squeeze her glutes 30 times. And cardio dance moves, Kaiser adds, helped create "more well-rounded" legs than she'd get only by running or on the elliptical.
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Shakira had eight small meals a day (200–250 calories each). Fiber filled her up; protein, calcium, iron and fish oil built muscle.
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"I don't obsess over my flaws, because I see my body as a whole," Shakira says. "Besides, I think men appreciate confidence more than perfection." Copy that!
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Start on all fours, back flat, knees under hips, palms under shoulders. Inhale, rounding back, imagining that you're pulling your navel toward your spine (as shown). Exhale as you return to start for one rep. Do 30 quick reps.
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Sit with knees bent, toes touching floor, arms extended in front of you; lean back until abs engage. Reach hands forward as you bring toes 4 inches off floor (as shown). Return to start for one rep. Do 15 reps.
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Balance on a stability ball, toes out and hands behind head. Lean right, extending left arm overhead and reaching right elbow toward right knee (as shown). Return to start; repeat on opposite side for one rep. Do 15 reps.
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Start with feet hip-width apart, right toe out, arms extended overhead. Lift right knee so thigh is parallel to floor as you bring elbows to knee (as shown). Return to start; repeat on opposite side for one rep. Do three sets of 15 reps.
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Controlled burn at Lake Fayetteville protects vegetation, dam
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Two burns at Lake Fayetteville will protect the natural vegetation in the area, as well as the dam. One burn is taking place near the north side of the lake, the other will be near the Lake Fayetteville dam.
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…put last night's leftovers to good use. We were all out of salmon, but we did have some of the couscous and veggie mixture left. So I had that and heated up one of the sesame-ginger tuna fillets to have with it. It made for a simple, but east hot lunch. It had approximately: 450 calories, 39g carb, 13g fat, 42g protein, and 6g fiber.
When we were finally ready to make dinner tonight, we wanted to do something quick and use up some odds and ends we had on-hand. We had a pre-made pizza crust, grapes, bacon, and a couple of odds and ends. I remembered that once we had been to a restaurant and had a flatbread that they called the BCBG flatbread because it was just blue cheese, bacon, grapes, and it was drizzled with honey.
So we made our own version of that tonight, and it was actually really, really good as well as a fun and different meal. Afterwards, I snacked on a little yogurt and pineapple for dessert.
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OpenPortal WSRP as a Liferay Plugin
By trajesh on Feb 16, 2009
There has been quite a few queries on Liferay OpenPortal WSRP integration, Here are some notes in addition to the below blog entries.
- OpenPortal WSRP is now moved to liferay plugins under wsrp-portlet directory - Yes this is the case even in Liferay 5.2 and in all future versions.
- The WSRP Administrative interface ( Producer and Consumer admin portlets ) will appear in the "Control Panel" if the WSRP Portlet plugin is deployed successfully.
- The OpenPortal WSRP has dependency on the Metro stack, Hence deploying it on application servers other than glassfish or tomcat may conflict with the applications servers webservices stack. The above plugin is tested and recommended to be deployed over glassfish or tomcat liferay distribution.
- Make sure that you set portlet.container.impl=sun in portal-ext.properties as mentioned in the above blog.


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Mantenna - Thursday, April 16
Jennifer Love Hewitt shows off her rockin' new bod for Maxim, an '80s pop has-been is heading to jail, and 10 awesome videos of reporters getting owned...it's the Mantenna!
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Jennifer Love Hewitt and Her Sexiest Shoot Ever
Jennifer Love Hewitt has hit back at critics who have judged her recent weight fluctuations by posing for a series of sexy photos for Maxim. She appears on the cover of the men's magazine for the third time and looks terrific. The recently slimmed-down star of The Ghost Whisper tells the magazine, "It's nice to have the Maxims of the world out there. You can look at them when you're 80 and be like, 'See? No, really, I was cute. I promise!'" [Celebuzz]
10 News Reporters Getting Owned
Being a real journalist is tough as hell. Sometimes you've got to brave hurricanes, sometimes you've got to deal with faulty equipment, and sometimes you're going to deal with people just owning the piss out of you. Here are 10 videos of reporters getting a little more than they're asking for in interviews. [Uncoached]
Green Lantern Gets a Hefty Budget
Considering he's a comic book hero who doesn't have the biggest fanbase, it was surprising to read news today that the Green Lantern film is going to get a whopping $150 million budget to play with. At this point it's slated for a December release in 2010, though this to is a tad mystifying seeing as most comic book fare gets the summer blockbuster treatment. Martin Campbell, who directed Casino Royale, is helming the picture, and it has yet to cast an actor to play the Green Lantern himself. Some pretty heavy hitters have thrown their names into the hat – Ryan Gosling and Chris Pine included – though Brian Austin Green has recently made the adorable suggestion that he be considered for the role. If Green got the role, maybe they could write in a sequence where he plays a synthesizer and sings to a group of female volleyball players on the beach. [Screen Rant]
Pirate Bay Pirates Will Win For Sure
The verdict in the trial against the owners of the largest torrent sharing site on the internet, The Pirate Bay, is dropping this Friday. And, according to Anders Rydell, who wrote a book about the pirating movement online, suggests that no matter what the verdict is, the pirates will win. If they're innocent, it will revitalize the community of file sharers because legality will be less of a question. If they lose, they'll be martyrs and the pirate community will surge to fight the power even harder. [Wired]
Kanye, Coldplay, NIN Headline Roskilde 2009
Lily Allen, Kanye West, NIN, Coldplay, Lil Wayne, and Elvis Costello lead the lineup for the 2009 Roskilde festival, to be held in July in Roskilde Municipality, Denmark. Other confirmed acts are Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Pet Shop Boys, Oasis, and Fleet Foxes. This lineup is pretty unreal. [Roskilde Festival]
"Hungry Eyes" Singer Gets a Jail Sentence
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"Hungry Eyes" singer Eric Carmen was sentenced to 180 days in jail today by an Ohio judge today for the epic DUI caught on tape back in September. Lucky for him, he'll only have to do 30. The former member of The Raspberries was also ordered to pay a $1,000 fine. For those who haven't seen the tape, Carmen was so drunk that he hit a fire hydrant and then handed cops his credit card instead of his driver's license. Carmen also blew a .23, nearly three times the legal limit. This was Carmen's second DUI. He will begin serving his sentence on April 25th. [TMZ]
Bill Gates Designs Your Next Car
Looks like the blue screen of death is about take on a whole new meaning. A Mr. William H. Gates III (that would be Bill Gates of Microsoft fame, of course) is listed as one of the inventors on a recent patent application for an "Electromagnetic engine." What's that mean? According to the filing at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the contraption somehow "converts mechanical energy of a piston to and from electrical energy during each piston cycle." There are two engine designs illustrated in the patent, and the basic premise of both is to combine the electrical generating capabilities of a generator with the moving pistons of an internal combustion engine. Here's hoping this pans out better than the whole Vista thing, Bill. [Jalopnik]
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OECD Sees Bleak Global Outlook
The outlook for the world's developed economies is the bleakest since the oil shock of the early 1970s, an indicator of future activity released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development showed Friday.
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Adding to the gloom, the OECD's leading indicator data suggest that the large developing economies are increasingly being dragged down by the recession in richer nations.
The OECD's leading indicator for its 30 developed-country members fell again in December, as did the individual indicators for each of the Group of Seven leading industrial nations. The leading indicators for non-members China, India, Russia and Brazil also fell sharply.
"Leading indicators…continue to point to a weakening outlook for all the major seven economies," The OECD said. "The outlook has significantly deteriorated in the major non-OECD member economies who are now also facing strong slowdowns."
Important parts of some G-7 economies are already experiencing slowdowns on a scale last seen in the early to mid 1970s, when a surge in oil prices and a shortage of energy led to severe cutbacks in industrial production.
The OECD's leading indicators are designed to provide early signals of turning points between the expansion and slowdown of economic activity, and are based on a wide variety of data series that have a history of indicating swings in future economic activity. A total of 224 series are used, or between five and 10 for each country. –Paul Hannon


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Rebecca Romijn as Mystique
Are you still with me? Hang on to your hat's ladies and gentlemen, we're about to catch the Mystique cosplay train - we'll stop at destinations such as nude Mystique, body painted Mystique and I'm to sexy for my blue skin Mystique. Either, come on everybody, join the cosplay joy ride.....you could say we're going First Class ;)
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Baseline skillset
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Erick Mead
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Re: Baseline skillset
Ignatius Teo
There's nothing wrong with his statement...."kata [i.e 型 - mold/model/pattern of behaviour, NOT 形 (katachi) - shape/form] form the
of bujutsu and budo. Only through repeated practice of these
foundational elements
can we arrive at an understanding of their
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only from that point that we can begin to explore
concrete applications
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You seem to be confusing kata 型 - a "behaviourial" model with 形 - the shapes or forms that such "behaviour" is manifested with waza 技 - technique (i.e. applications of such "behaviourial" patterns 型 within the shapes and forms of 形 ).
I confuse nothing of the kind, nor could you possibly. The article was only provided in translation (and used 'kata,' not 'katachi'). It did not provide any kanji of the original but only Neville Nason's translation. I suggest you ask him. Of course, maybe he really meant 肩
Ignatius Teo
My question is "what are the
foundational elements
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?"... to me, this "essence" is the baseline skills we are talking about....
The point of all three quotes, from their respective positions, is that budo is suffering from respective different tendencies to monism Both tendencies need reintegration. On the one hand, some karate has tended to go all physical toward striking in losing the cerebral strategic/philosophiical elements of its non-striking controls (Ushiro). On the other hand, some Aikido has tended to go toward the philosophical/ cerebral losing grounding in the concrete world of effective technique (Ikeda). Doran speaks to the need for reunifying both elements as parts of an irreducible whole, citing Yagyu Jubei Notably O-Senei also said in Budo Renshu, that Yagyu Jubei was a watchword for aikido and the required unificaiton of mind and body intraining.
My criticism is that the way to reintegrate body and mind from the soft cerebral form of aikido is not backwards -- but irimi. We should rejoin the concrete nature of practice with a rigorous intellectual exposition of the physical mechanisms of rigorous practice.
O-Sensei, Budo Renshu
If you reach the point of accumulating a certain amount of enthusiastic practice, when the real figtht comes, you will see the fallen form of the enemy there, beforeyou even raise a hannd... You should train with the belief that when you are enthusiastic the techniques come in this way
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OSU's admission requirements promote student success by assessing student preparedness and academic potential in the unique context of each student's personal experience. Admission assessment will consider all achievements, both academic and non-academic, to enroll students with a broad range of characteristics and perspectives. Considerations include, but are not limited to: academic achievement, creativity, initiative, motivation, leadership, persistence, service to others, intellectual curiosity, exceptional personal or academic recognition, unusual talent or ability, substantial experience with other cultures, and ability to overcome significant challenges.
The admissions process consists of a fair and comprehensive review of all applicants to determine potential success at OSU. It is crucial for applicants to carefully complete the application process by providing thorough information. Estimating the likelihood of admission is very difficult without considering the complete application file.
Please note that academic performance is not the sole criterion for admission to the university. The university may evaluate a person's behavior and background to determine their ability to maintain the standards of academic and professional conduct expected at the university. An evaluation may take into consideration current behavior and performance as well as past experiences and actions. Simply qualifying for admission does not guarantee admission.
The newest version of the SAT and ACT exams include a written essay portion. OSU requires students graduating in the year 2006 and beyond to submit scores for the new SAT Reasoning Test including the written essay test, or ACT test scores including the ACT writing exam.
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The SAT college code for Oregon State University is 4586.
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The Verizon Developer Community membership offers a wealth of resources across multiple industries for developers building their own apps and solutions. For developers focusing on enterprise projects, Verizon's M2M (Machine to Machine) solutions include useful tools and APIs.
The M2M Ecosystem, along with Verizon's network, allows business owners to receive important, actionable data in real time. This speeds up the decision-making process, ultimately saving time and money. Using this ecosystem, you can write apps that can work across multiple devices, allowing managers to track their assets, monitor and manage their fleets, and get access to smart energy and telematics.
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The Transpac Single Kit Case is the perfect choice for transporting small location lighting kits. Moveable interior dividers allow users to quickly configure the space for their own needs.
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The Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) and Andrew Ross are undertaking a project which builds on our existing understanding of the influence of planning on health inequalities and the quality of homes and communities. Our aim is to document emerging new ways of working and influence these by signposting to the established evidence of how planning can contribute to reducing health inequalities and improving health, helping to apply existing (rather than necessarily creating new) evidence and resources, and influencing new ways of working in the context of reforms across England.
The TCPA and Andrew Ross will write and publish a handbook on how to integrate health into the government's planning, health and social care reforms, and housing policy, and why they matter. In collaboration with stakeholders and regional partners, the TCPA and Andrew Ross will deliver 5 seminars across England to give planners and public health staff the opportunity to apply the handbook to their own situations, working and governance arrangements. There will be two distinct outputs:
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The TCPA is grateful to the Planning Exchange Foundation, NHS Bristol Public Health Directorate, First Ark Group, and the Sandwell Primary Care Trust, Luton Borough Council, and the Hyde Group for their support of this project.
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I love how you can still look awesome even with the sea breeze! You look especially amazing in the second photo and I love the denim shirt xxReplyDeleteReplies
thanks so much louise :) i had no idea which picture to use for lookbook to be honest and you should see the outtakes where i have no face, just hair! lol! i love my denim shirt, certainly considering a new one. by the way, have you ever considered getting a lookbook? i think your sense of style is really amazing and your pictures are good enough xxxDelete
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WASHINGTON - A private funeral will be held today in Bethesda, Md., for Sylvia Hermann, the mother of U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau.. Herman, 89, died Sunday.
Hermann had been active in Republican Party politics since she was a little girl, said Lloyd Smith, an aide to Emerson.
Her husband, Abe, was the chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1960. He preceded her in death in the 1980s.


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Anecdote of the Jar
by Wallace Stevens
Anecdote of the Jar Theme of Transformation
It's funny how a jar, which can't really transform itself, can have such a transformative effect on the environment around it, at least in the point of view of our speaker. In "Anecdote of the Jar," the little jar changes the wilderness around it, figuratively whipping it into significance so that it's no longer wild. So take that, wilderness! We have to also think about how this little jar is a kind of symbol of industrialization, and a world that is transforming and ever becoming more reliant on technology. Still, though, the jar itself cannot, like the birds and bushes so rampant in Tennessee, transform without the hand of humankind. Well, so take that little jar!
Questions About Transformation
- How might the jar transform the wilderness out of the wild?
- Do you think that the jar, in any way, was transformed by its placement? Why, or why not?
- What effect does reading about the jar's transformative powers over the wilderness have on you as a reader? As a person? Are those effects different?
- What, if anything, in this poem, remains unchanged by the placement of the jar?
Chew on This
Close, but no man-made cigar. Though the jar transforms the wilderness by bringing it under its dominion, the wilderness retains some qualities that are beyond the reach of the jar.
There's more than meets the eye in the wild. In this poem, the power of the wilderness is that it can transform through procreating and growing, while the jar is bound to its original form.


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Methylphenidate Treatment of Attention Deficits in Epilepsy
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Methylphenidate (MPH) has long been used to improve attention and cognitive difficulties associated with ADHD, including in children with ADHD and epilepsy (Torres et al., 2008). Methylphenidate (MPH) is also helpful in treating attention and other cognitive difficulties in a variety of other neurological and medical conditions (Kajs-Wyllie, 2002; Prommer, 2012). We seek to evaluate the potential efficacy and safety of this medication in treating attention deficits, as well as other cognitive difficulties, experienced by adult patients with epilepsy.
To our knowledge, there are currently very few studies which explicitly examine the impact of MPH on measureable attention deficits and other cognitive deficits in adult patients with epilepsy. We hope to quantify what impact, if any, methylphenidate has on attention, in addition to other specific measureable cognitive functions, in patients with cognitive complaints and epilepsy, and contribute to a growing body of evidence which supports the safety of methylphenidate's use for attention deficits in patients with epilepsy. As other effective treatments for attention and other cognitive difficulties in patients with epilepsy are not currently available, MPH could represent an important option in the treatment of such patients.
Cognitive Deficits
Attention Deficits
Drug: Methylphenidate
Phase 4
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Methylphenidate Treatment of Attentional and Cognitive Deficits in Epilepsy
- Conners' continuous performance test (CPT) [ Time Frame: difference of 2 treatments (randomized to weeks 2, 3, or 4) from placebo (randomized to week 2, 3 or 4) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Scores on this test measure attentiveness/vigilance and response time. Primary measure will be confidence interval differences.
- Seizure frequency/severity [ Time Frame: Change from baseline (day 1) to methylphenidate treatments (single doses randomized to weeks 2, 3, or 4, and end of one month treatment at end month 2) ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Seizure diaries will be monitored for changes in seizure frequency and/or severity associated with methylphenidate use during 2 single dose exposures and during 1 month open label.
- Symbol-digit matching test [ Time Frame: difference of 2 treatments (randomized to weeks 2, 3, or 4) from placebo (randomized to week 2, 3 or 4) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Symbol-digit matching test is a measure processing speed and working memory.
- MCG paragraph memory test [ Time Frame: difference of 2 treatments (randomized to weeks 2, 3, or 4) from placebo (randomized to week 2, 3 or 4) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]MCG paragraph memory test is a measure verbal memory.
- Beck Depression Inventory [ Time Frame: Change from baseline to end of methylphenidate open label treatment (end month 2) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Beck Depression Inventory is a questionnaire to assess mood.
- Beck Anxiety Inventory [ Time Frame: Change from baseline to end of methylphenidate open label treatment (end month 2) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Beck Anxiety Inventory is a questionnaire to assess anxiety.
- QOLIE-89 [ Time Frame: Change from baseline to end of methylphenidate open label treatment (end month 2) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]QOLIE-89 is a questionnaire to assess quality of life and subjective cognitive effects.
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|August 2014
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|May 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|April 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: Participants with epilepsy
Participants will receive three single doses of blinded medication, either a placebo, 20mg of methylphenidate, or 40mg of methylphenidate, and will complete cognitive testing and neuropsychiatric questionnaires. This single-dose phase will be followed by an open-label 4-week treatment trial of methylphenidate.
Drug: Methylphenidate
Participants with epilepsy will first receive blinded, single-dose capsules which contain either:
Placebo 20mg of methylphenidate or 40mg of methylphenidate.
At each visit, they will receive one capsule and then complete the neurocognitive batteries and neuropsychiatric questionnaires. There will be no medication administered between visits during this time. Following the final randomized visit, interested participants will be prescribed 10mg of methylphenidate twice daily, to be increased to 20mg of methylphenidate twice daily. After four weeks, their scores on the batteries and questionnaires will again be assessed.
Other Name: Ritalin
No Intervention: Healthy Controls
Healthy controls will complete the same neurocognitive batteries and neuropsychiatric questionnaires as individuals with epilepsy, but will not be exposed to study medication.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
For participants with seizures:
- H/o seizures of any cause
- Subjective cognitive complaints
- Stable antiepileptic drug doses which are not expected to change during the study
- Recent normal cardiac auscultation (may be done prior to enrollment by personal physician or study staff)
For healthy volunteers
- No history of seizures or other neurological disorders
- No history of cognitive complaints for any reason (including ADHD)
- Not on any medications which would interfere w/ cognitive testing
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of an adverse reaction to methylphenidate
- Seizure frequency > than 1 complex partial seizures (CPS) or absence seizure per month or > than 3 generalized tonic-clonic seizures (GTCS) per year
- Age >60 or <18
- Family history of sudden cardiac death at age <40
Personal medical history of
- Arrhythmias,
- Structural cardiac disease,
- Other cardiac abnormality
- Uncontrolled hypertension (BP >140/90 during study)
- Uncontrolled tachycardia (HR >100 during study)
- Progressive neurological disorders (e.g., dementia) which may interfere w/ cognition for reasons other than seizures
- Glaucoma
- Other major medical illnesses which may interfere with cognition or medication (e.g., severe liver or renal disease, active infections, etc)
- Intellectual disability/mental retardation
Substance use history
- Met criteria for substance use disorder within the past year
- Any active illicit substance use
- Alcohol use meeting criteria for substance abuse
- Unwillingness to abstain from alcohol w/in 24 hours of testing
Personal psychiatric history
- Any history of psychosis or mania
- History of suicide attempts within the last year
- Active suicidality
- Severe cognitive impairments (e.g. aphasia) which render a participant unable to consent
- Currently receiving medications which would be expected to interfere with the study tasks, if they cannot be held for study visits
- Pregnancy or active breastfeeding
- Women of childbearing potential who are sexually active and not willing or able to use a contraceptive strategy during the course of the study
- Any other factor which may interfere w/ a participant's ability to consent or to complete the required cognitive tasks, or may significantly interfere with their performance on the required tests
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02178995
|Contact: Kimford Meador, MD
|United States, California
|Stanford University
|Not yet recruiting
|Palo Alto, California, United States, 94305
|Study Director:
|Jesse M Adams, MD
|Stanford University
|Principal Investigator:
|Kimford Meador, MD
|Stanford University
|Study Chair:
|John Barry, MD
|Stanford University
|Responsible Party:
|Kimford Jay Meador, Professor, Stanford University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT02178995 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|MPH in epilepsy
|Study First Received:
|June 24, 2014
|Last Updated:
|July 9, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Institutional Review Board
United States: Food and Drug Administration
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
Cognition Disorders
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Neurodevelopmental Disorders
Mental Disorders
Neurocognitive Disorders
Central Nervous System Stimulants
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors
Neurotransmitter Uptake Inhibitors
Membrane Transport Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Dopamine Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 29, 2016


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The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo is held at one of the finest horse facilities in the United States, the Will Rogers Equestrian Center. Fort Worth is home to many prominent horse associations, training and breeding facilities and ranches in North Texas.
In 2015, our horse shows attracted over 4,500 entries in our 9 breed/discipline shows. During our 2015 Stock Show, we sanction the AMHA, AQHA, APHA, Donkey & Mule, NCHA, NRCHA, NRHA, PHBA and POA Shows. Also, the Cowboy Publishing Group will present the Timed Event Challenge for our Roping, Barrel Racing and Pole Bending Exhibitors in conjunction with the Jud Little Ranch "Fast Five" Amateur Competition.
We also will feature Cowboy Mounted Shooting and Mustang Magic, a competition of top Mustang Trainers from around the United States.
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Donald Trump Dances To Drake's "Hotline Bling" On SNL!
In an attempt to be relevant and hip as he campaigns, Donald Trump made an appearance on last night's "Saturday night Live" episode. Like many who have flipped Drake's "Hotline Bling" into their ownRead More »
Taraji P. Henson Guest Hosts SNL & Gives Her Best Nicki Minaj Sketch (Video)
Taraji P. Henson is probably overbooked these days, but when she's not busy filming for the hottest television series gracing the tubes right now, Empire, she's out spreading that radiant energy that she possess &Read More »
Kanye West Performs At SNL 40 (Video)
This past weekend was a big one for Yeezus. His first sneaker collaboration with Adidas were released, the 1st annual Roc City Classic concert went down and Saturday night he performed on his backRead More »
Jay Pharoah – Talked to God (Prod. By @Only1Rahk)
In Jay Pharoah's (of SNL/Saturday Night Live) home state of Virginia, he has been receiving a lot of radio love for the single, "Talked to God." Off of his Resurrection EP, "Talked to God"Read More »
December 6th, Nicki MInaj Will Perform On Saturday Night Live
NBC is holding back no punches with his most recent SNL performance lineup. We have most recently seen Kendrick Lamar, Bruno Mars and now we will see Nicki MInaj. This will be in timeRead More »
SNL's Michael Che To Bill Cosby: "Pull Your Damn Pants Up" (Video)
Michael Che lead the Weekend Update during this week's Saturday Night Live. The comedian started the monologue by saying, "Hey, Bill Cosby – pull YOUR damn pants up," before joking about the situation. AlthoughRead More »
Mystikal Joins Bruno Mars & Mark Ronson For SNL Performance (Video)
Bruno Mars was the musical guest on last night's Saturday Night Live. The singer teamed with Mark Ronson to perform their collaborations "Uptown Funk" and "Feel Right." During the James Brown inspired "Feel Right,"Read More »
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CHAFFEE - Garry Wayne McLard, 37, died at 5:40 a.m. June 26, 2004, at Rockview, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Born Aug. 26, 1966, in Kennett, son of Mike McLard of Chaffee and the late Genoa Ann Williams McLard, he was a maintenance worker for the QC Corporation in Cape Girardeau.
While serving as a specialist with the U.S. Army, his work during Just Cause provided responsive support to soldiers in Panama in 1990. During Desert Shield and Desert Storm, he was instrumental in the start-up of briefing teams at the Pentagon in 1991. McLard managed the performance of the graphic illustration team during Operation Desert Storm. His advice and design expertise made the daily Gulf War briefings to the secretary of the Army a success.
On Oct. 26, 2002, he married Leslie Parker who survives of the home.
Survivors in addition to his wife and father include: five stepsons, Collin James, Danny Munn, David Munn, Matthew Munn and Melvin Minks of Chaffee; two stepdaughters, Shashana Ramsey and Jackie Williams of Chaffee; one brother, William Cobb of Slidell, La.; one sister, Crystal Moore of Kennett; and two stepgrandchildren.
One sister and two brothers preceded him in death.
Visitation is from 4 p.m. today until service time at 7:30 p.m. at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. The Rev. Bob Murray will officiate.
Graveside military rites will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Missouri Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield.


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U.S. Infantry Commemorative Dollar
Before the Battle of Bunker Hill, the British colonies in New England defended themselves with their own local militias...groups of volunteer soldiers set up as separate military units in each state and town. But when it came time to break free of British rule by defending Boston in June 1775, the men of the Continental Congress decided to gather the militias into a single organization and began forming companies of riflemen.
This effort to unite the fighting forces created the Continental Army, which later became the U.S. Army Infantry. The Continental Congress appointed George Washington as the Army's first Commander-in-Chief.
Ever since, the U.S. Infantry has remained an essential part of the military in the United States. Soon, the story of this important organization will be told in a new museum called The National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center. And now there's a coin that tells a short version of the story too!
My coin of the month hasn't been around since 1775, but only 2008, when a law to create it was passed by Congress and the President.
The law required the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue a special silver dollar to honor the legacy of the U.S. Army Infantry and the establishment of the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center. And here it is.
As you can see in the pictures, the coin's images symbolize the Infantry's courage, pride, sacrifice, sense of duty, and history. Isn't it great how much history can be wrapped up in one little coin?
That's my coin for this month. If you want to learn more about these Infantry designs and what they mean, just check out the Commemorative Coins page!


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This is Scuba Santa's ninth season at Newport Aquarium.
Scuba Santa will in Newport Aquarium's giant shark tank with his elves, sharks, shark rays and sea turtles.
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>Does anyone have any advice about the Jornada 680,
>which seems to have a better OS than the 720? Is the NEC Mobilpro
>superior? Price is a consideration--I will probably seek a used
The 720 OS is far superior to the 680's, faster and less prone to hangups.
Ditto for the Jornada 728, with a bit more memory and a better battery but not
faster than the 720.
The Mobilepros are somewhat unwieldly, slower than the 720, except for the
latest one, the Mobilepro 900. Even the 790 is not as quick as the Jornada 720.
Also, their screens, while being larger, do not hold any more information than
the 720 screen. The characters are larger and easier to read from a distance
but, in my opinion not as well defined.
All these machines are perfectly useless for web surfing, slow, incomplete,
immature, with small screens. They're OK for email, I suppose.
You might want to look into Psions. Their OS is rock solid and stable and full
of features, far superior to any of the Windows CE versions. The series 7 and
the Netbook are large machines with wonderfull screens and are the fastest
around. On the other hand, they do have some hardware problems.
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Again, challenging and fun all at the same time. Water spots in good place and I loved the waffles at the end:)
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Proenza Schouler Tiptoes Into Wearability
Were those really playful takes on Chanel tweedy jackets at Proenza Schouler?
Yep – but they were directed at ladies who like dropping art-fashion names when they're at their banking office.
At night and on weekends, these women will toss one of the fluttery sheer dresses over leggings and a camisole (unless they're as thin as the models, I doubt they'll be daring enough to style them, as Proenza did, over braziers).
And to make a splash at the Easter egg hunt, there are the dresses where someone got drunk and lost it with the fluorescent pink and orange Sharpies. It was actually electrically colored silk guipure lace. You see, there's a lot of innovation happening in fashion.
If you're not daring enough to wear acid-yellow lace, consider the print dresses that looked as though someone had an accident with the tie-dye – a very fortunate accident. They're so memorable that, like the fluorescents, you wouldn't wear them often, but no one would forget you when you did.
Proenza Schouler is a brand known for its wizardry with (this season) silk twill, chiffon, and tweed. Efforts from them germinate in the creative side of the brain. Nonetheless, those tweedy suits and separates took Proenza into wearable territory. Folks want both, and they offered it.


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A warm moment with the family Haertl last night—
11 year old Kate, leaning in to her father: "Dad, you're the best". 14 year old bother Jake, not biting, replies, "Suck up". "I'm not a suck up," Kate responds, "I just don't feel good and when I don't feel good I'm nice to people". Eat your heart out Ward Cleaver.
Tough task---
I wasn't as worried about Tennessee as much as I was Alabama for the Shocks. The Tide hasn't been up much this year, but they're long, athletic and capable and the Shocks were coming off a tough, emotional win in Wichita over the Vols. Even the slightest let up would be dangerous against an unbeaten team at home that really needed a win over a highly ranked foe.
It didn't start well when Cleanthony Early almost scored for Alabama to start the game; fortunately it was one of his few misses of the night. There were still a couple questionable shots and decisions, but his 26 points were needed on a night when a lot of their key people were in foul trouble. 20 of those 26 points came after the break and 11 of them came on 11 attempts from the line. In short, Early looked the part of the NBA prospect on his way to a season high.
Odds and ends---
Even the most hardened of Shocker fan couldn't go with the conspiracy theory at Alabama; the Shockers outscored the Tide by 11 at the line, hitting 25 of 27. 'Bama actually had one more field goal than WSU, but the Shocks out rebounded the Tide by 12. Wichita State improves to 3-0 in true road games with a five point win, the same margin they enjoyed at St. Louis. WSU committed just two turnovers in the last nine and a half minutes against pretty fierce pressure, which underscores their poise and toughness, something you have to have to be one of the best road teams in the country, which the Shockers have been over the last three years. Wichita State is now 4-0 against the top 50 in the KenPom (KenPom.com—great site that's widely respected), with two of those wins coming on the road.
Now what?
After a pretty arduous run in the conference, it'll be good to only play a couple of times in the next 12 days, everyone can probably stand to catch their breath and Ron Baker needs a few days to get that bad ankle mended. Games against North Carolina Central and Davidson should be relatively easy tests at home, then its right into conference play with the start of the New Year. What a ride this has already been, but just think about how much more crazy it could get.
One more pitcher… maybe---
The Royals keeping greasing the pan on the hot stove. Kansas City will have more than a reputable lineup next spring; they'll have a dangerous one. In Omar Infante they pick up one of the best on base guys in the American League, a legitimate two hole guy who can hit in front of Eric Hosmer, Bill Butler and Alex Gordon. The Royals have made solid upgrades offensively at the top of the lineup with Norachicka Aoki and Infante. That KC went four years for a guy who probably made more sense for three (Infante is 32 years old) shows that they are serious about winning now. That urgency is underscored by a payroll that's expected to exceed $90M. They're still going to have to get one of the homegrown young guns to come through on the hill, but the Royals are a legitimate playoff contender .


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SBS Newsletter – May 2011
In this issue
SBS Senior Celebration Ceremony
SBS Honors Outstanding Teachers
New PhD Blazed Trail for Women in Radio
Students Receive SBS Scholarships
Etkin '81 Honors Prof. Gere with Scholarship
NPR News Names Cornish Host of "Weekend Edition Sunday"
IREX Funds Anthro Grad Student to Study History Initiatives in Balkans
New Leader of the Band
WGBY Ads Win PBS Inspiration Award
Upcoming Events
From time to time the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences sponsors lectures, panels and programs that may be of special interest to alumni. Most of these take place on campus, generally in the late afternoon or early evening, and are free. If you are interested in receiving notification of these events, let us know and we'll put you on a listserv.
Alumni News
Scott Hiller '90 (political science) is volunteer assistant coach for Northwestern University women's lacrosse that won this year's NCAA championship in May, beating top-seeded Maryland. The team is headed by his wife, Kelly Amonte Hiller. Scott is a standout lacrosse player and coach in his own right. He is third on the career points list at UMass, where he was one of just two players to be named All-American all four years. Currently he is co-president and general manager of the Washington Bayhawks of Major League Lacrosse. Read more...
Jackie Lyons '11 (sociology) was named to three All-American lacrosse teams after scoring 41 goals and 32 assists as the Minutewomen captured the Atlantic 10 title and advanced to the NCAA tournament. She finished her career as the team's all-time scorer with 226 points, games played and games started. She was also a two-time A-10 offensive player of the year. Read more...
An ad for the UMass system produced by Eran Lobel '89 (communication/economics), owner of Element Productions of Allston, MA, has won a New England Emmy (best commercial). "Truly World Class," narrated by actor Bill Pullman MFA '80, debuted last fall. Read more...
Race horse Mucho Macho Man, owned by Dean and Patti Reeves '82 (communication), came in third in Kentucky Derby! In the Preakness, he came in sixth, having pulled a shoe. Stay tuned for the Belmont on June 11!
Former UMass hockey player Peter Trovato '05 (journalism/political science) is the founder of the Massachusetts Soldiers Legacy Fund, which provides money to guarantee college funding for the children of Massachusetts soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. He received the Alumni Association's Distinguished Young Alumni Award this year. Read a profile.
George Epstein '48 sent in some memories of his undergraduate years. "We had about 2000 students in entire student body. It was great school then too. . . Lots of school spirit. Everyone was friendly. To help with expenses, many kids worked on nearby farms (you could eat all the apples you wanted!). Tuition was about $300 per year; I had the Lotta Crabtree scholarship—also worked in the chem lab. It was also lots of fun. (I became a chemist—did grad work at MIT and enjoyed a wonderful fulfilling career. At age 84, am still involved [and] have second career -- Poker (have written two poker books, am columnist for two poker newspapers, and teach poker at senior center and at West LA College. Great recreation for older folks!). I was there when we changed from MSC to UMass, and, serving as sports editor, ran the contest to name our sports teams. Great professors -- even played baseball against their team. (Prof. Walter Ritchie was a good sport when I slid into second base and knocked him down.) Prof. J. Harold Smith was my idol; encouraged me to study and enjoy learning chemistry. . . Recall annual tug-of-war at College Pond. Math and Physics taught in old wooden buildings. Goessmann (chem.) Lab was magnificent. So many wonderful memories. So many wonderful classmates and profs."
Please send us your news! Also, view upcoming alumni events, sponsored by the Alumni Association, on their Events Listing. And check out MaroonCentral, the Alumni Association's online community. This is a FREE social networking service that encourages communication and professional networking among alumni and students through class notes, profiles, a searchable directory, and more.
Faculty and Department News
In May Jane Fountain (political science and public policy), director of the National Center for Digital Government and the Science, Technology and Society Initiative, gave the keynote address at the United Nations Conference on e-Government in Asia and the Pacific in Seoul. Read more...
Jack Ahern (landscape architecture and regional planning), vice provost for International Programs, was inducted as a Fellow of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture at the national organization's annual meeting in Los Angeles. Read more...
David Mednicoff (Center for Public Policy and Administration), associate director of STPEC, presented his research in Singapore as part of a two-day international conference on the Arab Gulf region. Read more...
Research Professor Mitch Mulholland (anthropology), director of Archaeological Services, retired in May after three decades of research, scholarship, and dedication to his field that touched the lives of thousands. In addition to a festive send-off on May 28, a professional tribute took place earlier in the day at the annual Conference of the New England Archaeology, held at UMass.
SBS in the News
Amherst Bulletin, 5/27/11. A remembrance of William F. Field, first dean of students at UMass, who died May 22, includes comments from Prof. Emeritus Lewis Mainzer (political science).
New York Times, 5/27/11. In a letter to the editor, M.V. Lee Badgett (economics), director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration, responds to an op-ed that took issue with her research on the positive economic impact of same-sex marriage. Worcester Telegram & Gazette, 5/11/11. Badgett co-authors a column on a study in Massachusetts that found that more than three-quarters of the 283 transgendered people surveyed reported some form of discrimination. Such discrimination costs Massachusetts at least $3 million a year in higher social service expenditures and millions more in lost income taxes. Badgett says the study focused on Massachusetts because there is a bill under consideration in the Legislature to ban such discrimination. Boston Globe, 5/11/11. Badgett comments in an article about the study.
Muskegon Chronicle [Mich.], 5/23/11. The Bluegreen Alliance in Muskegon, MI, distributed copies of a Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) report on the economic benefits of a green chemical industry in the U.S. The alliance is encouraging communities with ties to the chemical industry to work with chemical companies to create new products and processes as well as new jobs. Black Star News, 5/16/11. A columnist writing about the National Urban League's upcoming "jobs tour" of New England, designed to promote job creation, cites the finding by PERI that New England lost 348,000 jobs between December 2007 and November 2009. Hartford Courant, 5/15/11. An economics columnist discussing myths about state government in Connecticut cites a PERI study that found, when age and educational level are taken into account, the average public-sector worker earns about 2% less than an equivalent private sector employee.
Boston Herald, 5/22/11. Tom Juravich (labor studies) says that legislation to take away the ability of municipal unions to control their own health plans is not simply a cost-cutting measure, but rather is part of an attempt to weaken all unions in the state.
Earthtechling.com, 5/19/11. Robert Pollin (economics), co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), says the U.S. Department of Energy's loan guarantee program for renewable energy is not well understood.The program, he says, makes borrowing by startup companies easier because it backs up loans. The overall goal is to boost innovation in new fields of energy development, he says. Iwatchnews.org, 5/13/11. A new report co-authored by Pollin and James Heintz (PERI) says a shift to "green" chemistry and stronger regulation of toxic chemicals could help revive the nation's chemical industry. They say such a shift will create new market opportunities and create jobs in a sector that has lost more than 300,000 jobs since 1992. The Real News Network, 5/2/11. Pollin and former economics faculty member Leonce Ndikumana, director of operations policy at the African Development Bank, discuss how some African countries are borrowing and investing in an effort to create jobs.
WGBY-TV "Connecting Point," 5/18/11. Brooks Fitch interviews John R. Mullin (landscape architecture and regional planning), director of the Center for Economic Development and dean of the UMass Graduate School, about the UMass/Springfield partnership.
Boston.com, 5/17/11. B.J. Roche (journalism) blogs about how students are leaving college with ever larger amounts of debt and highlights some people and organizations that offer scholarships to help reduce that debt. SBS is prominently noted for offering lifelines to talented students.
WAMC "Academic Minute"; Inside Higher Ed, 5/16/11. Michelle Budig (sociology) discusses the financial cost of motherhood and why mothers consistently earn less.
WGBY-TV "Connecting Point," 5/13/11. Political consultant Tony Cignoli, Mike Hannahan (political science), and Jerold Duquette from Central Connecticut State University discuss the coming presidential race, the 2012 Massachusetts contest for U.S Senator and the odds of western Massachusetts keeping both of its congressional seats during re-districting.
Masslive.com, 5/12/11. Ray La Raja (political science) and U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal of Springfield (who also teaches in the journalism program) discuss why Massachusetts is losing a seat in the U.S. House and how that might affect western and central Massachusetts in a program put together by Mai Hedayat-Zadet '12 (journalism/environmental design), a member of the SBS Dean's Student Advisory Council and a winner of one of this year's SBS Dean's Opportunity Fund Scholarships.
Yahoo! News, 5/10/11. Deepankar Basu (economics) is co-author of a Political Economy Research Institute study that shows a weakening link between economic growth and job creation.
Foreign Affairs, 5/9/11. Charli Carpenter (political science) writes about the need for a truly independent agency within the United Nations to investigate war crimes. She says the current system is flawed and depends on offending governments cooperating with investigators and accepting criticism, something few if any countries will actually do.
The Real News Network, 5/5/11; part 2, 5/9/11. Professor Emeritus and Sheridan Scholar James Crotty (economics) discusses how some conservatives want to return the U.S. to a 1920s-style of unregulated capitalism and weak unions.
Colorado Independent, 5/5/11. Colorado conservation groups are citing a report by James Heintz (Political Economy Research Institute) that says EPA regulation of greenhouse gases will create 1.4 million new jobs. The groups are opposing a member of the Colorado congressional delegation who supports curtailing the EPA's ability to do so.
Iowa Independent, 5/3/11. A report by Jeffrey Thompson (Political Economy Research Institute) finds that higher taxes do not play a notable role in causing people to move to a different county or state. Other factors, mainly employment, housing and family concerns, are what motivate people to move.
WGGB-TV 40, 5/2/11. Steve Fox (journalism) discusses the role of social media', and Twitter in particular, in breaking news about the death of Osama bin Laden. "There's a multi-platform world going on here," he says. "People no longer get their info from just one source."
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