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Anybody play this TCG? It's pretty much a reboot of Duel Masters.
Anybody play this TCG? It's pretty much a reboot of Duel Masters.
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To be honest I prefer Duel Masters.
I don't like how they changed the name and race of some of the old monsters.
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Went to Friday Night Magic last night, and after losing in the second round I was taught how to play Kaijudo. my opponents played and the store had a million demo decks. But anyway, it plays like Magic in a way. I picked it up fast, and lost the first game (we were both using demo decks and he ad a Reg/Green Aggro type deck and I had Black/ Red slow but powerful deck. Then we switched and I wopn without losing any sheilds. I'll probably keep playing this game.
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Kaijudo's been picking up in my area lately moreso than Cardfight!! Vanguard due to being such a dirt cheap TCG where you don't need to spend up to $200 for a competitive deck. You could max out on a specific card in your deck for $9-10 in Kaijudo compared to $40-60 in Vanguard and that's a tremendous secondary market price gap in this terrible economy IMO.
Kaijudo's card pool is rather small compared to Vanguard's which got a head start last Spring but it's catching on pretty quick to try to appeal to Yu-Gi-Oh! players who quit or are fed up with how rich people are paying top dollar for cards that their minority has difficulty affording when they are falsely blaming Konami for it but in a sense they are to blame for some of it though.
For some odd reason I have more fun playing Vanguard than Kaijudo but I'm willing to accept the fact that Kaijudo is the lesser of two evils between the two TCG's. What's really backing the success of Kaijudo is the nostalgia of Duel Masters not the Animated Series on The Hub and for some odd reason American TV Networks refuse to air the Vanguard Dub which would help spread the word on the franchise instead of just being secluded to the Internet.
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Sorry to bump this thread but this is some important news, Wizards of the Coast has recently announced that Kaijudo now has Organized Play as well as Sanctioning for tournaments as well!
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MARION -- Pinckneyville's volleyball team went 5-0, including a win over Murphysboro in what became a championship match, to sweep the Marion Invitational round-robin tournament at Cuss Wilson Gymnasium on Saturday.
Murphysboro finished second at 4-1 after falling to Pinckneyville in the final match that was moved to the end of the day in a rearranged schedule.
The host Lady Wildcats went 3-2 but rose above the .500 mark for the first time this season as they are now 13-12 overall. Marion lost to Murphysboro (25-20, 25-16) and Pinckneyville (25-21, 27-25, 15-8) but defeated Herrin (25-17, 25-15), Du Quoin (25-16, 25-15) and NCOE (22-25, 25-20, 15-5).
"We showed improvement," said Marion coach Lauren Blumhorst. "We just looked slow and tired later in the day in our last two matches (the two losses). Right now we need a leader to emerge and keep us positive when times get tough."
Montana Schafer, who was Marion's representative on the all-tournament team, compiled 34 kills, 11 blocks and six assists in the five matches. Randi Smith added 14 kills and five blocks, Haley Rushing had seven kills and 23 digs, Lyndsee Adams had 11 kills and 12 digs, Sheyanne Stacy had 28 digs, Maddy Pool had five kills and Brianna Holmes had 50 assists with Dakotah Quertermous adding 15 assists.
Herrin went 1-4 on the day with the lone win coming in its final match against NCOE by a 25-23, 12-25, 15-6 score. Herrin lost to Murphysboro, Marion and Pinckneyville in two games and lost to Du Quoin in three (25-13, 19-25, 15-10).
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Emin first gained notoriety nearly three decades ago as a member of the YBAs (Young British Artists), with deeply personal and confessional works that chronicled her life, thoughts, joys, and sorrows, often obscured by an apparently reckless and hedonistic lifestyle. Over the years, as her steady, prolific output attracted high-profile collectors, prestigious museum and gallery shows, and an international audience, her public image gradually morphed from that of an art world wild child to a pillar of its establishment. This perception was cemented by her election to the Royal Academy in 2007, followed by her appointment there as a professor — one of only two women in the institution's history ever to achieve this distinction. (The other is Fiona Rae.)
Today Emin ranks among the best-known British artists. Her position within the international art market, though, seems less settled. Francis Outred, the Christie's head of postwar and contemporary art in Europe, concedes that Emin's auction prices do not match her fame: The record for a non-charity sale is £157,250 ($250,000), achieved at Christie's London in February 2010 for one of her appliqué blankets, It's the Way We Think, 2004. Outred describes her market as a peculiarly British phenomenon, with a limited auction market that does not match the extent of public interest. More to the point, he says, "buyers of her best works are committed collectors and do not want to sell," thereby limiting the supply.
Representatives at Emin's primary galleries — White Cube in London and Lehmann Maupin in New York — concur, saying that her more substantial exhibited works all sell, yet few reappear on the secondary market. The galleries placed work from her exhibition at the 2007 Venice Biennale at prices from £12,000 to £350,000 ($24,000 to $700,000), including some substantial sculptures. None of the large-scale works have reappeared at auction to date.
"Collectors want to keep her sculptures; they don't want to sell," says gallerist David Maupin, who will give over both of his New York gallery spaces to Emin's work in May. "In my view, she is a visual poet, and one of the most important living artists. Although her work sells well, hers is not a speculator's market."
The roster of museum and private collections holding her work is extensive, the private list peppered with celebrities — Orlando Bloom and Kate Moss — and prominent collectors — Anita Zabludowicz, Victor Pinchuk, Kent Logan, the Rubell Family — and notables who straddle both worlds — Elton John, George Michael, and Kenny Goss, who may well possess the greatest number of her works.
According to Daniela Gareh, director of sales at White Cube, American collectors were the first to snap up Emin's major works in the early 1990s. But the collector who probably did more than anyone else to put her on the map is Charles Saatchi.
For his legendary "Sensation" exhibition in 1997, he acquired Emin's tent, Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995, 1995, a small camping shelter embroidered with the names of everyone she had ever slept with, including her mother at birth. Private dealer Eric Frank originally bought the tent from her for £12,000 ($19,000) and sold it to Saatchi for £40,000 ($64,000). Saatchi was rumored to have turned down an offer of £300,000 ($540,000) before it was destroyed in a catastrophic 2004 Momart storage fire.
Saatchi's other major acquisition was My Bed, 1998, which he bought for £150,000 ($248,000) from Lehmann Maupin's "Every Part of Me's Bleeding," the exhibition that won the artist a nomination for the 1999 Turner Prize. The installation consists of her actual bed — unmade and with soiled sheets — on a dirty rug littered with empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts, condoms, and other detritus. Saatchi still owns the work, and market insiders believe it is so iconic that it would now fetch in excess of $1.5 million.
Saatchi also paid the top auction price for a group of Emin's paintings when he acquired Exorcism of the Last Painting I Ever Made, 1996, at Christie's London in February 2001 for £108,250 ($157,000), outbidding the Tate Gallery and more than doubling a high estimate of £40,000 ($58,000). The paintings were the product of a performance by Emin in Sweden, during which she sought to overcome anxieties going back to her student days, when she destroyed all her paintings.
Born in 1963 in Croyden, London, Emin was raised in poverty in the seaside town of Margate after her father left her mother. Emin's teenage years saw a catalogue of misfortune, including rape, pregnancies, and abortions, which are all intimately documented in her work. It was halfway through a two-year program at the Royal College of Art in 1989 that she demolished her paintings. Her longtime friend and fellow artist, Sarah Lucas, encouraged Emin to pursue her art through whatever methods inspired or motivated her. The two opened a shop selling art and objects in London in 1993. The same year she was spotted by gallerist Jay Jopling, who gave her a solo show cheekily titled "My Major Retrospective" at his then new White Cube gallery. It consisted mostly of memorabilia and a large embroidered blanket.
Following the debut at White Cube, which has shown her regularly since, came a breakthrough exhibition at the South London Gallery in 1997, the same year as Saatchi's "Sensation" showcase at the Royal Academy. In the United States, Emin's first showing was by White Cube at the Gramercy International Art fair (the forerunner of the Armory Show), in 1994. She was included the following year in Richard Flood's "Brilliant!" exhibition of YBAs at the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, and Lehmann Maupin began to represent her in 1997.
Emin's work embraces a wide variety of media — from letters and memorabilia to photographs, drawings (her most prolific format), mono- and editioned prints, gouaches (mostly of her own body), paintings, videos, films, neon sculptures, textiles, and sculptures — with writing and storytelling the common thread.
Such a diverse body of work takes time to study and understand, which accounts in part for Emin's lower prices compared with other notable YBAs, according to Alexander Branczik, senior director of contemporary art at Sotheby's London. He also notes that bidding for her work comes mostly from the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe, and to a lesser extent, the United States. "We haven't had interest from South America or Asia yet, though that may change," he says, since White Cube launched in Hong Kong recently and Lehmann Maupin will open there this spring.
Works on paper, mainly depicting the artist herself, have appeared at auction since 1997 and garnered up to £46,850 ($75,000), the sale price for the 2011 gouache Deep Blue III, at Christie's London this past June. The highest price for a single photograph is £32,450 ($51,800), paid at Phillips de Pury & Company in London in February 2011 for I've Got It All, 2000, from an edition of six, in which the artist clutches a pile of money to her crotch.
Emin's most commonly auctioned sculptural works are phrases in her own handwriting set in neon, usually issued in editions of three, with two artist's proofs. Her first was The Tracey Emin Museum, 1995, which was made to hang outside the self-styled Tracey Emin Museum in Waterloo Road, London, where she traded her own work from 1995 to 1998. The artist still owns this unique work. An early example of her editioned neons is Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Cover My Body in Love, 1997; it was shown at White Cube in April 1997, when the edition sold out at £4,750 ($6,800) each. A piece from this edition later sold at Christie's London in February 2003 for £19,120 ($31,000). Another early neon, Be Faithful to Your Dreams, 1998, went for £43,250 ($70,000) this past October at Phillips in London.
The record for a neon, and the second highest auction price for the artist, was set at Sotheby's New York during the charity Red Sale in February 2008, when the heart-shaped I Promise to Love You, 2007, sold for $220,000. The top non-charity price for a neon is the £85,250 ($133,000) achieved at Phillips in February 2010 for another example of I Promise to Love You, from the same edition. On the primary market her neon works are currently priced between £55,000 and £100,000 ($87,000–160,000), according to Gareh.
Currently the most sought-after works, Gareh says, are Emin's appliqué blankets or quilts, especially those that measure more than six feet square, with early examples commanding prices close to $1 million in private sales. (The artist used to make them herself, but now employs assistants.) Emin exhibited her first blanket, Hotel International — a reference to a hotel her father owned — at White Cube in 1993. It is currently in the private collection of Lehmann Maupin co-owner Rachel Lehmann and her husband, Jean-Pierre.
In 1999 Lehmann Maupin was selling Emin's blankets for between $20,000 and $30,000. Collector Kent Logan bought one, Psycho Slut, 1999, and donated it to sfmoma. Another, Mad Tracey from Margate, 1997, is in the Goetz Collection, in Munich, while Damien Hirst's Murderme collection holds later examples. By April 2001, White Cube in London was selling them for between £60,000 and £70,000 ($84,000 and $98,000) each. At that time, she was making only two or three a year.
The $250,000 price paid nearly three years ago for It's the Way We Think, is both the record for a blanket and the artist's record at a non-charity auction. (The overall record for Emin, who donates a considerable amount to charitable events, is the £800,000 [$1.5 million] exchanged at a 2007 Elton John AIDS Foundation sale for the appliqué blanket Star Trek Voyager, 2007. However this price is not representative of the primary or secondary market prices typically seen for these works.) Emin stopped making appliqué blankets in 2009, according to David Maupin, but she continues to make stitched, figurative embroideries on silk. Gareh says they retail for between £125,000 and £175,000 ($199,000 and $280,000).
She has also periodically made large sculptures — huts, towers, helter-skelters — from reclaimed wood, the likes of which were first shown at the 2007 Venice Biennale and originally sold for prices up to £350,000 ($560,000). They have risen significantly since, though none has appeared at auction.
Emin's career entered a new stage last month when White Cube debuted its São Paulo gallery with an exhibition devoted to her work. The gallery selected Emin for the event from its impressive roster because "she is a world-class artist with a growing reputation who has never shown in Brazil and who is generating increasing international interest," says Tim Marlowe, White Cube's director of exhibitions. Further broadening her audience is a museum show on view through February 21 at MALBA (Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires), in Argentina. Her first major solo museum exhibition in the U.S. is planned at MOCA North Miami in December 2013.
Museum director Bonnie Clearwater is curating that show; she was also the first curator at an American museum to buy a work by Emin: in 1997 she purchased one of Emin's early film works, Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995, from Lehmann Maupin for MOCA North Miami. The film recounts how Emin entered a dance competition in her hometown but was jeered by a crowd of boys with whom she had slept; they chanted "slag, slag, slag." The film ends with her dancing jubilantly in her own studio — a celebration of her success as an artist.
Clearwater believes she is important because, like Rothko, "she shows how apt emotion is to art. She did not enjoy art school because they did not recognize emotion in art unless it was cynical or ironic." Clearwater places her in the traditions of both medieval religious art (but in a secular vein) and the picaresque novel exemplified by Daniel Defoe's 18th-century Moll Flanders, a racy story concerning a social outcast who navigates high society by means of her wits. Emin "has a clear voice. You can't confuse her with anyone else," says Clearwater.
As she continues to make new work, Emin admits that she feels a certain distance from the often shocking pieces that marked her entry into the limelight nearly 30 years ago. In a BBC interview earlier this year, Emin described the experience of having to reinstall My Bed several times for a traveling retrospective. "Every time, I had to take a deep breath because it was like really throwing myself back into the past, into a place I would never ever be now. I'd never have a bed like that. I can't even believe I lived like that," she says. Her memory continues to serve her art, she adds, but "I don't want to be a screaming adolescent girl when I'm nearly 50."
To see images of Emin's works and their auction prices, click on the slideshow.
This article was published in the January issue of Art+Auction.


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Ask anyone not from around Boston—Hollywood types, especially—to characterize the city, and you're likely to get a few botched attempts at the Yankee accent, a crack about the famously bad drivers (fine; deserved), and, despite the lingering mob association, the overall sense that the ethos is as staid and buttoned-up as the pearls-and-cable-knit aesthetic. But Boston today is just a shadow of its stereotypical self—as much, if not more, about the forward-thinking as it is about the status quo. One of new mayor Marty Walsh's first orders of business—after establishing a citywide wireless program called Wicked Free Wi-Fi, that is—was to put together a late-night task force to challenge some of Boston's more provincial holdouts, including the 2 A.M. closing time for bars, early curfew for food trucks, and the ban on Sunday morning liquor sales. The message: We like to shake things up as much as the next town.
The Boston skyline as seen from thr Charles River.
It's not just an attitude adjustment. Throughout his 20-year tenure, former mayor Tom Menino oversaw a major transformation of the city's skyline with the addition of some 80 million square feet of glass and steel, including a Rafael Viñoly–designed convention center, and the cranes keep on rising. Before long, the 60-story Millennium Tower, on the site of the old Filene's department store in Downtown Crossing, and a residential complex set to go up between the Back Bay neighborhood and Symphony Hall, will unseat the John Hancock Tower and the Prudential as the city's most imposing high-rises. Meanwhile, the Rose Kennedy Greenway—the final piece of the Big Dig project that connected the North End neighborhood to the rest of the city—has injected some major green, with a mile-and-a-half stretch of park, public artworks, fountains, and food trucks. (Not to mention a custom-built carousel that eschews the standard horses for the more locally relevant cod, harbor seals, and lobsters.) "If I have an afternoon off and it's a nice day, one of my favorite things to do is walk along the Greenway," says chef and restaurateur Joanne Chang, who operates four locations of her much-loved Flour bakery, as well as the Asian diner Myers + Chang. "It's one of the best ways to see Boston."
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (31 votes).
In short: Love this race .In full: Got my PB under 1:30 by running with or just in front of the runners world pacer , big thank you goes out Steve , cheers mate.Date of review: May 6, 2012
In short: terrible race rude organisersIn full: total chaos. rude organisers. horrible. fylde coast running races are expensive and terrible value for moneyDate of review: March 3, 2012
In short: Very poor organisationIn full: First off this is a good flat course and good for PB(if not windy) Blackpool sea front is Blackpool sea front. I was staggered at the amount of dog dirt on the front - however all of that is outside of the orgnisers control. What is in their control was the total chaos at the start by bringing all the runners to the line through the start meaning many of the slower runners could not get to the back. I last did this in 2010 and then the loop towards the tower was midway through the race not at the start. This lead to lapping many runners over the last 3 miles. No instruction was given at the start for lapped runners to stay left and not impeed the faster runners. The worst culprit for this was the runners world pace group blocking the whole course. However one thing that did plesantly surprise me was the number of runners lapped who shouted encouragement after i passed them - thanks to all of you - I found all marshalls and the chip collectors friendly and encouraging that however can not be said of the staff at the Hilton who appear to have been on a "how to be rude and aggressive to potential customers" course prior to the event. Having paid £20 to enter why cant numbers and chips be posted ? I am not to bothered by goody bags full of flyers that go straight in the bin, but I just dont get a pair of 50p non running socks ! What was the point in that ? The medal was a vast improvement on the one given in 2010This could be a fantastic race but it does leave a bitter taste for the price charged you do come away thinking it was organised on the cheap .Date of review: March 3, 2012
In short: Overall Good Race.In full: PB potential - get in front of the pacers at the start of the race though or you'll be blocked in - everyone congregates around the pacers and with the sea walls, it's a fight to get past them. Apart from that, and no gun at the start it was a good race. Thought we may be queing for ages to get race number and chip, but that was well organised - only took 5 mins. Plenty of parking down side roads unless you're looking to park 10 yards away from the start line! Water tables were Ok and marshalls were friendly - I think helping to take the tops of the bottles slowed things down though - bottles were good. See ya next year.Date of review: March 3, 2012
In short: Great medal.In full: Once again a well organised race on the coast,thanks to all who helped especially on a cold day.Perfect race weather and a great medal and I am sure the pacers helped a lot of runners.Well done to all involved,plenty encouraging marshals.Date of review: March 2, 2012
In short: Always a well organised and friendly race. A good early season race to target with PB potential if you're in good shape. My third entry in five years and will probably return again. In full: Always a well organised and friendly race. A good early season race to target with PB potential if you're in good shape. My third entry in five years and will probably return again.A big thanks to the guy in union jack kit who pushed me on over the final mile to a PB.Date of review: March 2, 2012
In full: Most things have been said really. Parking wasn't good, toilets weren't enough. People trying to use the Hilton were rudely turned away and told to use the outside portaloos, even though the queues were so long you would miss the start of the race.I couldn't quite believe the goody bag - decent medal but the rest??? Strange socks?? Not running socks. For what is one the most expensive halfs I've done in the UK this was disappointing. We all know the goody bag is not why we do races, but even so, especially with the price, I expected more. I appreciate chip timing increases costs, but it's not like there's the cost of road closures, and I thought we had the prestigious support of Hilton Hotel.One other gripe, as someone who travelled 140 miles to attend- couldn't the race number and chip be sent out in advance? I sent a SAE for this, but still had to collect on race day, which isn't ideal. And placing race results on the door of the registration office- people seemed very offended that others needed to get in and out whilst they were perusing the results. Date of review: March 2, 2012
In short: At least it was a day out.Date of review: March 1, 2012
In short: Friendly and fast - good funIn full: This was my first ever Half, so I've nothing to compare it to but I can talk from a beginners point of view.I stayed at the Hilton so had none of the problems with loos. Registration was straight forward.I enjoyed the Piper but I wasn't trying to get into the zone I was just soaking it up.The start was a bit back to front, as the way to the start took us to the front but I easily found my way to where I wanted to be - thanks to the Runners World pacers and their lollipops.I did hear a gun fire but that was at 10.55, so I'm not sure what happened for the 11.00 start.Marshalling was very good - and I found them to be encouraging (thanks guys).I didn't run with a pace group but those that I saw were great, encouraging everyone and metronomic in their accuracy. Congratulations.I can see why people were upset by the goody bag but I loved the medal. Yes, they were just handed out with no ceremony but I was ok with that. Let's try to forget the socks, eh ;o)One other thanks, to the people removing the timing tags at the end, They were frozen but still friendly.I enjoyed this event.Date of review: February 29, 2012
In short: Well organised. Fast course if the wind stays away!In full: This is a really good race and is very well organised. The only area for improvement for me would be the baggage area which was really just a pile of bags and in no way secure.Like most Fylde races, if the wind stays away the course will be fast.Date of review: February 29, 2012
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HOUGHTON – Roger A. Lewis, 41, a well-known hockey player from Houghton, died on Friday evening, Jan. 4, 2013, due to injuries received in a snowmobile accident.
He was born in Hancock on April 30, 1971, a son of Roger L. and Patricia A. (Lazzeri) Lewis. He attended Houghton Schools and graduated in 1990 from Houghton High School.
Roger started playing baseball as a youth in Little League and also played for the Stanton Wildcats in the Copper Country Twilight League.
Roger was an avid hockey player. He started playing in the Mite Division in the Copper Country Junior Hockey Association. Roger excelled in all sports and during his four years of high school, he played on the Houghton Gremlins hockey team, coached under the late Don Miller, and also played on the school's golf and football teams and lettered in all three sports. Following high school, he played Junior Hockey for one year in Duluth, Minn.
He then returned to Houghton where he worked for the City of Houghton at the Dee Stadium and also in his father's painting business, Lewis Painting.
In 1993, Roger enrolled at Northern Michigan University. He played hockey in four leagues over the course of his career, starting in the WCHA as a walk-on for the Northern Wildcats in 1994, playing there until 1997. In the 1997-98 season, he played in the CHL for the Memphis Riverkings and in the UHL, for the Saginaw Lumber Kings; 1999-2000 in the WPHL for the Corpus Christi Icerays as well as the Austin Ice Bats. In the 2001-02 season, he played in the CHL for the Amarillo Rattlers and Lubbock Cotton Kings: 2001-02 for Corpus Christi Icerays; 2002-03 for the El Paso Buzzards; and in the 2002-05 seasos, played his third stint for the Corpus Christi Icerays. He finished his career with 40 goals and 86 assists.
Roger returned to Houghton in 2005, once again working in his father's business and in 2011, purchased Lewis Painting from his father which he currently owned.
Roger continued his hockey career with the Portage Lake Pioneers during the 2006-07 season. The Pioneers were crowned National Champions that season and Roger was their number two scorer with 19 goals and 23 assists. During the next five seasons, he would be the team's leading scorer for three of the five years. His career stats were 135 games played, scoring 102 goals and 126 assists. The Pioneers had great success in the G.L.H.L. during his playing days.
A leader on the ice offensively, Roger was also a leader in the locker room and off the ice. Teammates respected his skills, experience and personality. Many close friendships developed between Roger and his teammates.
Roger also played several years in the Copper Country Oldtimers Tournament for Bruno's Motors.
Roger had a super personality and a great sense of humor. He will be remembered for his smile and the ability to make others smile. He was polite to everyone he came across, never passing one by without stopping to talk. His friends could count on him to be there, never hesitating to help one of them if needed.
Roger loved being in the outdoors. He enjoyed snowmobiling and was an avid boater and jet skier. He enjoyed life to the fullest. Roger will be greatly missed by his family, many friends, hockey teammates and his best friend and buddy, his yellow lab, Tyson, who was always by Roger's side.
Surviving are his father, Roger of Houghton and his special friend, Linda Bilich; one sister, Gina Lewis of Kewaunee, Wis.; his maternal grandmother, Rose Lazzeri of Fort Smith, Ark; and aunt, Cookie Green of Fort Smith; as well as numerous aunts, uncles, cousins; his best friend and buddy, Tyson; and many, many dear friends.
Roger was preceded in death by his mother, Patricia in 2007; his paternal grandparents, Lloyd and Cecelia Lewis; his maternal grandfather, Al Lazzeri.
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, at Sts. Peter & Paul Lutheran Church in Houghton with Pastor David Weber to officiate. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until the time of services on Saturday in the church.
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Skip to comments.Obamacare Is Crumbling
Posted on 03/25/2013 11:28:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Obamacare is falling apart before our eyes. The long-term care insurance program known as the CLASS ACT was deemed financially unworkable and shut down by the administration's own actuaries. Taxpayer-funded health care cooperatives never got off the ground and were shut down in the fiscal cliff deal. Last month the federal Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan stopped accepting enrollment applications. This week 79 U.S. senators, including 34 Democrats, voted to repeal the law's medical device tax. Premiums in the individual and small group markets could spike as much as 116 percent next year. The wheels are already wobbling and the worst is yet to come.
The exchanges at the heart of the new Obamacare entitlement are slated to be up and running for open enrollment beginning October 1. Millions of Americans will be dumped into these exchanges by employers dropping coverage and millions more will be forced to enter the exchanges by the individual mandate. But will there actually be functioning exchanges for them to go to? Maybe not.
The Obamacare law was written to incentivize states to do the heavy lifting of setting up and running the exchanges, which are administratively and technologically complex. But more than half the states said no thanks, looking at the proposed regulations and long-term operating costs and choosing to let the feds try to administer their own mess. And the states that did choose to play ball weren't able to make much progress because the Obama administration stalled key regulations until after the election.
Now the feds are rushing to get the exchanges ready.
"We are under 200 days from open enrollment, and I'm pretty nervous,'' confessed Henry Chao, the deputy chief information officer on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services - which is setting up the federal exchanges. "The time for debating about the size of text on the screen or the color or is it a world-class user experience, that's what we used to talk about two years ago," Chao said. "Let's just make sure it's not a third-world experience."
So don't be surprised if open enrollment doesn't start October 1 as planned. And when the exchanges are up and running, what plans will be available to purchase through them? One effect of stalling the regulations past the election is that the choices offered in most states will be meager simply because there isn't much time to develop plans and make sure they are compliant.
The plans that are offered are going to be expensive because of the law's mandates and regulations. Every major insurer is now warning of a huge spike in premiums, especially for younger, healthier people who can no longer be offered significantly lower rates than older people who use more health care. Some people may get subsidies to help pay - after filling out a 21-page form - but others will find their families ineligible for subsidies unless they stop working full-time or, believe it or not, get divorced.
Democrats want to believe that the future of Obamacare was secured by President Obama's reelection. But if implementation ends up being the disaster that looks increasingly likely, the American people will have the final word.
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Helen Keller cudda seen this coming.
And then the cry will be: WE NEED A SINGLE PAYER PLAN, WE NEED A SINGLE PAYER PLAN!!
The question is will the Dems dump it before 2014 and will the GOPers bail them out?
And the sad thing is....Boehner will give it to them
We hear Puerto Penasco is a good place for that...just 1.5 hrs. south of the border.
If we find a good experience there, we will consider more medical tourism in future.
the GOP is an arm of the Dem party so of course they will.
The MSM will spin Obamacare disaster as "unintended consequences". But this isn't true, any responsible person could have seen this coming a mile away. In fact Obama knew, that is why the law was delayed until after 2012 and waivers before 2012 were often granted. So if anyone says they could not have foreseen the problems with ObamaCare they are either a liar or an idiot.
Seems 0bama is trying to remove the 'free market' portion of this equation. This is why 0bamacare is unconstitutional and so is John Roberts.
"The question is will the Dems dump it before 2014 and will the GOPers bail them out?"
Depends on what GOPers we're talking about. If conservatives are willing to punt again in 2016 and vote for a RINO you can bet Obamacare is here to stay.
The 2014 congressional election should be a slam-dunk running on just one issue, but professional RINOs will F' that up royally.
If these consequences were "unintended",
then the "elite" who designed this system
are a bunch of dummasses that shouldn't be anywhere near
the levers of power.
One good thing Boehner did was uniting the GOP 100% in voting against Obamacare. Let's allow some credit where some credit is due please.
Execute the death squads. Er, I mean, execute the administrative means to stop the work and actions of the
health resources allocation panels.
The question is will the Dems dump it before 2014 and will the GOPers bail them out?
No way in Hell the Democrats back off on this. They got what they want , now they just have load the system with enough illegal aliens and freeloaders who see a perceived benefit to themselves to develop an unbeatable electoral constituency for Obamcare that can not be overturned.
I agree, there is no proof that Nancy Pelosi is a liar.
You should get a SENTRI pass in order to cross back into the USA easily. Without a SENTRI pass it takes hours cross the border.
Do you have one?
yes - 3 years ago. I would say that was his peak.
No, it is doing just fine. You just aren't paying enough taxes yet to make it work BETTER.
I have a SENTRI pass. If you have a passport and no arrest record you can get one too. Google GOES (global online enrollment system) and apply on line. You will have to go in for an interview. I cross the border at San Diego. Without the SENTRI pass the wait time is 2-3 hours on most days for pedestrians and cars. I walk back and my wait time is about 5 minutes or less. I would never go there without the SENTRI pass. You can use it at the airport too.
No doubt this is going to be an upheaval regarding Obamacare. My city just won a contract to open a call center to help enroll ummm (fill in blank) people, yes people for Obamacare. Being out of work I just applied for a position in that new call center. I hope I do get a job that will help pay for rent however I do not wish success on this knowing it could jeopardize future jobs and Lord knows what else like bankruptcy.
Why couldn't Congress demand or make a law demanding health insurance to accept preexisting condition. Almost everyone has at least 1 condition now these days. No need to dismantle the whole health care.
That would be a good ongoing FReeper thread: medical tourism places that bear recommendation.
I think there should be cruiseliners 12 miles offshore on all
three coasts, with their own small airlines.
Who is Bart Stupak Alex?
I believe he is an ex-congressman who has now declared he is against Obamacare.
I doubt Henry Chao's plan will work! (What an appropriate name!)
Sounds like a great idea to me.
But Magic Johnson said it IS working. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3000608/posts
The corrupt GOP is the "away jersey" of the criminal lib-dem party.
RE: But Magic Johnson said it IS working
Never trust the opinion of a hundred millionaire on something that mainly affects the little people.
Obamacare does not affect guys like him.
I am not at all optimistic that Obamacare will go away. It is part of the great wealth redistribution system that our overlords are going to use to finance their futures. Add to that all the newly made citizens from amnesty and you have a sure win for the democrats for many years to come. When I see people in the streets with pitch forks, tar and feathers and guns or maybe a string of real conservatives elected in 2014 maybe then I might have some hope.
There is a question in my mind whether the primary (there is only one "primary") purpose of 0bamacare
is wealth redistribution,
or the destruction of the economy.
Of course, we know that A invariably leads to B,
but leftists do not know, nor believe that.
We need all them Obama-ites to keep on spouting off about how great ObamaScare is gonna be - at least until the 2014 midterm elections.
"We are considering crossing over into Mexico for dental work later this year."
Be careful if you haven't done this before. You may need to provide documentation. That might include:
* A notarized medical report.
* A medical diagnosis by your dentist.
* Recommended treatment.
* Consent bonds.
You might also want to hire an in-country case executive to handle any paperwork and ensure that the proper medical procedures are followed.
Find a top-notch medical tourism company. There are a number of medical tourism organizations that can make recommendations.
And get a ransom, kidnap and extortion rider on your travel insurance policy so you can pay off the cops or cartels if you're kidnapped. You might want to look at an executive travel policy that will cover all kinds of messy situations. No. I don't sell insurance.
Since I don't have any recollection of Americans being kidnapped recently in Mexico I don'T think I will be worrying about that.
I just realized I forgot the sarc tag.
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FUDU wrote:Well you aint saying nothing slick to a can of oil.
You're not Nostrafreakingsdamus with those statements. I don't really disagree, but citing the QB ratings chart as proof of your theory is hogwash. You ignore all the surrounding circumstances. Foles isn't doing much without that strong balance of the running game, and let's get some sample sizes before getting all giddy about it. That same list of ratings shows that other thing that gets stated over and over again, top stud picks in the draft.
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A quick note on health carePosted Thursday, September 17, 2009, at 2:35 PM
Just a little while ago as I was perusing my daily headlines and reading YET ANOTHER story on health care I reached a conclusion. I have absolutely no idea what is in any of the several proposed bills and frankly I don't trust anyone involved in the process.
This is not an issue of black or white, right or left, etc. The reason this is such an issue, at least for me, is because of all of the misinformation out there for us all to see.
With a handful of different bills on the table, who knows what's in one vs. what's in another? No average American actually has time to read thousands of pages of this stuff. Heck, neither do the politicians.
Every group who weighs in on the bills obviously has some sort of interest, whether financial or political, in each of these bills.
Basically, what I'm trying to say is that while I may not have a clue what is actually going on in Washington with our health care I do know one thing and that is that virtually everyone who opens their mouth about it is lying to us all about something.
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I'm with you, Corey. Even if I had the time to sit down and read every word, after a while you just get bogged down in rhetoric. One step further, I think there is a reason for that..."they" don't want us to be able to digest it intelligently...by throwing it at us all at once, chances are we will trust their guidance...thankfully, people are wising up to this and not being blindly led as we have been in the past.
-- Posted by BarbaraNTexas on Thu, Sep 17, 2009, at 2:41 PM
Corey Noles' response:Your exactly right! I don't deny one bit that we need some type of reform, but rushing things scares me. It's a shame it's not possible to let such a vote go to the people.
This caught my ear yesterday: http://marketplace.publicradio.org/displ...
-- Posted by jabelson on Thu, Sep 17, 2009, at 3:36 PM
Corey, how can a vote by the people be informed, if they're basing their decision on all the misinformation that's out there?
Jabelson, you've been missed.
-- Posted by goat lady on Thu, Sep 17, 2009, at 9:24 PM
One solution would be to break it all down into smaller chunks. The 'people' should be furnished with all the information up front. Remember how we used to have to do outlines in school? Put all the major concerns in an outline..with pertinent information or at least a prioritized list of issues..give this to the 'people' and let us decide which chunk to address first..deal with that and go to the next chunk. How many times have you had something come up in your life that at first glance seemed undoable? But then you broke it down and attacked it one piece at a time and before you knew it, it was done? Now, I know this may seem idealistic on the national level, but why should it? We all know something needs to be done about this whole situation, but the governments way and the people's way are just butting heads against each other..and if I remember correctly (tongue in cheek here), this country is 'of the people and for the people'...
-- Posted by BarbaraNTexas on Fri, Sep 18, 2009, at 7:26 AM
As we all know the biggest issue is there is just too much involved to fix anything in one fell swoop. This isn't going to go anywhere overnight and it will take planning and a lengthy process. If I were the one in charge, my first step would be in research...surveys of the people...find out exactly what the 'people' have issues with specifically and what THEIR ideas for solutions would be for those specific issues. Up front all I would do is ask questions. THEN, I would sort the information I had, make a prioritized list based on the 'people's' responses, THEN set out to correct each issue on that list. But that is just me and I am not the government.
-- Posted by BarbaraNTexas on Fri, Sep 18, 2009, at 7:32 AM
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In short: FAb Race and great organisation - Thank you LliswerryDate of review: January 29, 2014
In short: Very well organised with PB potentialDate of review: January 27, 2014
In short: smooth as silk organization.Date of review: January 26, 2014
In short: Good early season benchmark raceIn full: Good parking and registration facilities. Nice atmosphere, great marshalls and pancake flat course around pretty farmland. One gripe. The usual gripe. Only Large and XL tshirts left at the end. "The men had taken the Smalls" apparently. Keep the smalls for the ladies!!! We don't want to wear tents.Otherwise, a lovely morning in Newport.Date of review: February 4, 2013
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In short: superbly organized as always.In full: Never fails to deliver a well organized event always a pleasure, pity that the wind can't be controlled though Date of review: January 30, 2013
In short: Excellent race, despite very windy conditionsDate of review: January 30, 2013
In short: Flat as a pancake through country lanes great cakes and quality tee at finish.In full: This is a fixture in my calender always a good turn-out, over 600 this year.Smoothly organised, good value and very well marshalled, a friendly bunch those Lliswerry runners. Thank you.Date of review: January 29, 2013
In short: A great run through part of Newport's hinterlandIn full: This race is impressive on so many counts - and it keeps getting better.Pre race instructions were clear; On the day organisation was slick; The flat course is equally good for beginners or as a tempo run; The race t-shirt is fantastic.Changes to the start/finish arrangements and chip-timing were great improvements for 2013. The latter no doubt facilitated the very quick results service. Well done Lliswerry Runners!Date of review: January 29, 2013
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Legends of the Trail
Eight people who've been blazed new ground, from a 100-miler pioneer to the grand master of Pikes Peak to a modern-day phenom
Trason shows the steely focus that made her unbeatable. Photo by Patitucciphoto
Ann Trason
A love of running
Ann Trason is the most successful female ultrarunner of all time. An alternative argument about the now-52-year-old is impossible: in the late 1980s, '90s and first half of the 2000s, Trason racked up 14 wins at the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run (WS 100) and set gobs of ultramarathon course records. Many of these still stand, including her 1993 6:09:08 at California's American River 50, her 1994 18:06:24 at Colorado's Leadville Trail 100 and her 1997 22:27:00 at Utah's Wasatch Front 100. A glimpse at her running history on Ultra Signup yields more evidence—there, 51 finishes are listed between 1985 and 2004 and 49 of them are wins.
Trason set standards that the women of ultrarunning are just now beginning to catch. Last summer, ultrarunner Ellie Greenwood finally broke Trason's WS 100 record.
"Admittedly, it's taking a while for women's results to come close to Ann's," says Greenwood, "When people put Ann in a separate category, I think this is defeatist and unfair for her. She's a female runner just like us and we should be trying to better her times and not saying, 'But that was Ann Trason.' Her records are proof of what we can achieve."
Trason's dominance is not surprising to those who know her well. UltraRunning magazine publisher, John Medinger, has been friends with Trason since 1987 and remembers her ethic: "Running was the principal focus of her life. She trained hard, and competed harder. She was, in one word, fierce."
Medinger recounts, "At the Way Too cool 50K one year, Ann came upon fast ultrarunner Dave Scott not too far from the finish and asked him if he wanted to tie. Dave realized this was Ann's polite way of saying, 'Do you want to run in hard together or do you want me to beat you?' The pair finished together."
"The mental aspect of ultrarunning was important to her," says journalist and trail runner Sarah Lavender Smith, who interviewed Trason in 1997 and 2008 and who became acquaintances with her through the east San Francisco Bay trail running scene. "I've heard her say multiple times that ultrarunning is a thinking person's sport."
Throughout her career—as early as college—Trason was plagued by injuries, including hamstring, knee and back issues. Lavender Smith says that Trason trained and raced with discomfort for many years.
Despite Trason's once-full-time involvement in ultrarunning as a runner, race volunteer and race director of northern California's Dick Collins Firetrails 50, she has since chosen to disappear from the scene. She declined to participate in an interview for this article, saying, "[I'm] not running, and it is hard to talk about it."
Says Medinger, "Ann's shy when it comes to talking about her running. it's ironic because she's incredibly engaging in interactions with friends. i never call her unless I have an hour to talk!" Medinger says Trason has turned her energies to road cycling as a hobby. "She rides double centuries, but just for fun."
"Publicity or public praise has never been important to her. She ran because she loved it—the challenge, the competition, the adventure," says Medinger.
— 1985 > Ann Trason runs, and wins, her first ultramarathon, California's American River 50.
— 1989 >Trason wins the Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run (WS 100) for the first of 14 times.
— 1994 > Trason sets both the (now-previous) WS 100 course record and the Leadville Trail 100 course record, finishing second overall in both races.
— 1996 > Trason wins both South Africa's Comrades Marathon and the WS 100, which are less than two weeks apart.
— 1996 > Doctors discover that one of Trason's hamstrings is 90-percent detached and surgically repair it.
— 1997 > Trason wins both the Comrades Marathon and the WS 100 again. Trason tells journalist Sarah Lavender Smith that, due to her recovering hamstring, she is only able to train for these races at about 80 percent of her usual volume.
— 2000 > Trason and her husband, Carl Andersen, take over directorship of Dick Collins Firetrails 50.
— 2004 > The last ultramarathon result for Trason is listed on Ultra Signup, a win at the California's Sierra Nevada Endurance Run 52-Mile. She is 44.
— 2010 > Trason and Andersen relinquish RD-ship of the Firetrails 50.


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Music promoter Lou Pearlman needed help to keep his huge financial Ponzi scheme going. Tampa lawyer Jim Lowy said he got it from then-Florida Attorney General - and now Governor - Charlie Crist as well as major financial institutions.
Crist delayed or interfered with investigations against Pearlman and his companies, Lowy said in a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Tampa. The complaint alleged that $10,500 contributed by Pearlman and his companies to Crist's campaign for governor may have been diverted from scammed investors. And while Crist was attorney general, he enjoyed the use of Pearlman's skyboxes and private jet, according to the complaint, reimbursing the impresario for trips at far less than the actual cost.
"Crist violated his professional duty to avoid the appearance of impropriety," said Lowy's lawsuit, which states Crist reported the cost of a trip on Pearlman's Gulfstream jet at less than $350, when the actual cost is about $4,000 an hour.
Crist declined to comment, saying he had not been briefed on the details of the complaint.
Lowy and his 78-year-old mother count themselves among the victims of Pearlman's $317-million Ponzi scheme, in which early customers were compensated not from returns on investments but from the funds provided by later investors. His mother is among the 80 plaintiffs in the lawsuit, along with Beverly Silva, who had about $850,000 invested in Pearlman's companies and is now destitute.
"You expect the government to protect you," said Silva, a former St. Petersburg resident who now lives in Center Conway, N.H. "Everyone was covering up things and we're the ones to suffer."
The millions invested in Pearlman's companies have vanished, along with Pearlman, who is believed to be out of the country. That has left investors looking for ways to be compensated for their losses. Monday's lawsuit also names as defendants nine former employees of Pearlman's Orlando businesses.
A court-appointed receiver who has been sifting through the remains of Pearlman's interrelated companies says the only assets left have liens or mortgages against them. A group of banks has filed to force Pearlman and one of his companies, Trans Continental Airlines, into involuntary bankruptcy.
Two Pearlman ventures attracted state regulators' attention during Crist's years as attorney general. A model-scouting business that generated 2,000 consumer complaints was the subject of a full-fledged investigation by Crist's office. The inquiry ended in 2003 with a statement that there was insufficient evidence to file charges.
The Trans Continental investment program kept a much lower profile but sporadically came to the notice of state financial regulators as early as 1995. There were questions about the company's claims that its accounts were FDIC insured and inquiries into whether the company was selling unregistered securities. However, Pearlman deflected investigations with letters claiming he was doing nothing wrong.
If state officials had done their jobs and conducted even a modest investigation, they would have discovered the Ponzi scheme and been able to protect investors, Lowy said.
Lowy and the other investors also are suing Fiserv, which acted as custodian for retirement accounts invested in Trans Continental, and Bank of America, Fifth Third Bank and Wachovia Bank, which handled investor funds. Lowy says they had a duty to stop Pearlman from transferring money from investor accounts to offshore accounts.
Dun & Bradstreet, which issued a positive report on Trans Continental that was distributed to some investors, also is a defendant.
This is the first legal complaint to name Pearlman's long-time business associate Theodore Wullenkemper, who owns a blimp advertising business in Germany. According to the lawsuit, Wullenkemper helped Pearlman set up a German company that received millions of dollars of investors' money.
State officials say Pearlman once claimed that $40-million of investor money was in a company called German Savings.
-- Times staff writers Steve Bousquet and Kris Hundley contributed to this report. Helen Huntley can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 727 893-8230.


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Topic: login and localization
In my app I need to handle user login and localization to support multiple languages. At a first glance Tobias Luetkes SaltedHashLoginGenerator with it's localization dependency seemed like a good candidate. I have it all set up and I've played around with it for a while. To me this seems quite ok, but I haven't really anything to compare with, since I haven't done anything like this before.
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Pau Gasol (left hand) is undergoing surgery to repair the fracture of his fourth metacarpal.
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Avery Bradley (Achilles) will not play Saturday vs. Portland.
Raymond Felton scored 10 points with eight assists, four rebounds and two steals on Thursday night against the Timberwolves.
Kawhi Leonard was on fire yet again during a 118-104 win over the Nuggets on Thursday, scoring 34 points with five rebounds, four assists, two steals, one block and two 3-pointers.
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An Observational Study to Understand Challenges Associated With Progression of Insulin Therapy in Type 2 Diabetes (MOSAIc)
This study has been completed.
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The purpose of this study is to identify specific patient, physician, and health system related factors associated with the progression to a more intensive regimen from initial insulin therapy for patients with type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
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|Time Perspective: Prospective
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|A Multinational Observational Study Assessing Insulin Use: Understanding the Challenges Associated With Progression of Therapy - The MOSAIc Type 2 Diabetes Study
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Risk factors associated with progression from initial insulin therapy [ Time Frame: Baseline through 24 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Number of participants with failure to achieve Glycosylated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) less than 1.2 times upper limit of normal [ Time Frame: Baseline through 24 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Number of hypoglycemic episodes [ Time Frame: Baseline through 24 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Number of participants adhering to prescribed insulin therapy [ Time Frame: Baseline through 24 months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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|Insulin Progressors
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Study Population
Patients with Type 2 diabetes attending primary care and diabetes specialty clinics.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes
- Have presented within the normal course of care
- Have been on their initial insulin therapy for ≥3 months (with or without any combination of approved non-insulin anti-diabetic medications)
- Are not simultaneously participating in a study that includes an investigational drug or procedure at entry into the study
- Have been fully informed and have given written consent for the use of their data
- Have a sufficient understanding of the primary language of the country such that they will be able to complete the questionnaires
- Have not initiated basal bolus therapy (three mealtime insulin injections)
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Brazil: National Committee of Ethics in Research
Canada: Ethics Review Committee
China: Ethics Committee
Germany: Ethics Commission
India: Institutional Review Board
Israel: Ethics Commission
Italy: Ethics Committee
Japan: Institutional Review Board
Mexico: Ethics Committee
Russia: Ethics Committee
Russia: Pharmacological Committee, Ministry of Health
Saudi Arabia: Ethics Committee
South Korea: Institutional Review Board
Spain: Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios
Spain: Ethics Committee
Turkey: Ministry of Health
United Arab Emirates: Drug Control Department - Medicines and Pharmacy Control - Ministry of Health
United Kingdom: Research Ethics Committee
United States: Institutional Review Board
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Keywords provided by Eli Lilly and Company:
Patient Reported Measures
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus
Disease Progression
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes
Insulin, Globin Zinc
Hypoglycemic Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 13, 2008) - The U.S. women's beach volleyball teams of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh and Jen Boss and April Ross have advanced to the semifinals of the Berlin Grand Slam, part of the SWATCH FIVB World Tour.
Meanwhile three U.S. teams have made it to the second round of the men's tournament.
On Saturday, top-ranked May-Treanor (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Walsh (Santa Clara, Calif.) will play second-seeded Juliana Felisberta Silva and Larissa Franca of Brazil for the 14th time on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour since March 2004. Two of the previous 13 matches were in the finals in Berlin in 2005 and 2007 with the May-Treanor and Walsh winning both times.
Saturday's second semifinal match will see eighth-seeded Boss Boss (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and Ross (Costa Mesa, Calif.) go against seventh-seeded Jia Tian and Jie Wang of China as the two teams meet for the third-time on the SWATCH FIVB World Tour. Boss and Ross won both previous matches, including the 2007 gold-medal match in Stavanger, Norway, when Boss and Ross had to qualify for the main draw and became the lowest-seeded team (29th) to win a SWATCH stop.
The U.S. team of Nicole Branagh (Orinda, Calif.) and Elaine Youngs (El Toro, Calif.) was eliminated on Friday in a 25-23, 21-18 loss to Tian and Wang. Boss and Ross are chasing Branagh and Youngs for the second spot on the U.S. Olympic beach volleyball team. A victory at a SWATCH FIVB Grand Slam event is worth 30 percent more points than at an open tournament. The women's medal matches will be played on Saturday.
"I am glad we got the two very close wins today," Walsh said after her team's wins over China and Brazil. "Since this is our first international event this season, I think we had some troubles adjusting to the ball. We did not have a good rhythm to our games today, especially with our passing. Both opponents played very well and we make some big plays at the end of both matches to win."
The reigning Olympic and three-time world champions, May-Treanor and Walsh opened with a 21-16, 15-21, 15-12 victory in 49 minutes over sixth-seeded Chen Xue and Xi Zhang of China before advancing to the semifinals with a 21-12, 16-21, 15-11 win in 49 minutes over 26th-seeded Maria Antonelli and Vanilda Leão of Brazil.
After eliminating 15th-seeded Helke Claasen and Antje Roder of Germany 21-11, 21-17 in 35 minutes on Friday, Boss and Ross advanced to their third SWATCH FIVB semifinal with a 21-13, 21-17 victory in 36 minutes over third-seeded Shelda Bede and Ana Paula Connelly of Brazil.
In the men's tournament, top-seeded Phil Dalhausser (Ormond, Fla.) and Todd Rogers (Santa Barbara, Calif.), sixth-seeded Jake Gibb (Bountiful, Utah) and Sean Rosenthal (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and 10th-seeded Matt Fuerbringer (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Casey Jennings (Las Vegas, Nev.) all won their pools and advanced straight to the second round.
With all three U.S. teams in the top-half of the bracket, Dalhausser and Rogers open play Saturday against 15th-seeded Martin Laciga and Jan Schnider of Switzland while Fuerbringer and Jennings play 14th-seeded Jonas Reckermann and Mischa Urbatzka of Germany. Gibb and Rosenthal will play 17th-seeded Pablo Herrera and Raul Mesa of Spain.
The men's medal matches will be played on Sunday.
There is more information on the FIVB beach volleyball site at www.fivb.org/EN/BeachVolleyball/index.asp.


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AAPL: All Aboard the Fire Tim Cook Bandwagon
On April 17, I sounded the alarm arguing that Apple
As long ago as last October, I warned that missteps such as MappleGate were the types of moves that would make a guy like Steve Jobs ax a B-player like Cook.
Shortly after last week's article, I Tweeted:
You watch -- give it a few weeks. The Fire Cook talk will become commonplace. Just like the life w/o Jobs talk has. That's how it works.— Rocco Pendola (@Rocco_TheStreet) April 17, 2013
And, lo and behold, Sunday night, Henry Blodget of Business Insider posts a Tweet of his own which credits a Forbes article with rolling the ball on talk of Tim Cook's ouster:
@hblodget @peterprudden actually I think @rocco_thestreet called for it over a week ago.— Craig Scott (@CraigScott31) April 22, 2013
In that Forbes' piece, the author, Gene Marcial, claims that "Wall Street sources close to some Apple executives say
Marcial goes on to hijack part of the argument I made last week with this unoriginal bit of wisdom:
So unless Apple CEO Cook announces something really dramatic in new products or astronomical earnings on Tuesday, the stock will surely decline even more. And so will Tim Cook's standing with shareholders and investors -- and Wall Street. That may finally signal his exit.
I don't think I have ever worked in a more predictable business. Or one with so few people who have original thoughts.
--Written by Rocco Pendola in Santa Monica, Calif.


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Enjoy Stockton Bridge Grille's Triple Play of simply spectacular ocean/beach views, delicious food and friendly service. A long time local favorite, Stockton Bridge Grille has been delighting patrons since 1985. From the intimacy of dinner for two, to the fun of a night out with friends, our full service restaurant and bar is sure to please. Stockton Bridge Grille has been serving guests, catering to large affairs, business parties and wedding receptions for 25 years.
While seafood specialities such as our clam chowder and cioppino are widely regarded as "the best in the entire country", Stockton Bridge Grille offers a full range menu. We have wonderful small plates as well with an eclectic mix of flavors from tex mix to Southeast Asia. Our bar carries wine from around the world and local varities, many by the glass. Indulge in our special martini madness list and tropical drinks blended fresh. At Stockton Bridge Grille we take pride in our dishes prepared fresh with the best ingredients and our desserts are made in house with the highest standards.
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Backing Up Android And iOS Devices
Smartphones and tablets present new backup challenges for IT. First, IT has to wrestle with a broad category of products that run on a variety of operating systems, which complicates centralized management and backups. Second, many of these mobile devices are owned by the employee, not the company, which limits IT's control. At the same time, these employee-owned devices access corporate applications and data, and IT has an obligation to protect that data.
The result is that IT has to assemble a set of policies and technologies that rely on a variety of products and services, including cloud-based backup, file synchronization and mobile device management. A growing number of cloud backup and file synchronization services offer administrative controls that allow IT to enforce policies, provision and deprovision users, and monitor content such as Office files.
At present, backup isn't a significant feature in mobile device management products, but that's likely to change over time as more and more end users bring personal mobile devices into the workplace. At the same time, mobile device management helps ensure that data will be safe from prying eyes in the event that a device gets lost or stolen. (S5060612)
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Conn. Tigers hold off Jammers
JAMESTOWN, N.Y. – The Stedler Division Connecticut Tigers spoiled Jamestown's return from a six-game road trip, Wednesday at Diethrick Park, defeating the Jammers by a 3-2 count in front of 1,965 fans.
The Tigers (12-17) did all of their damage in a single inning, plating the first three runs of the game in the top of the third. Facing Jammers starter Chad Kuhl, Connecticut set the table with singles from Pat Leyland and Austin Schotts before taking a 2-0 lead on Curt Powell's two-run triple.
Moments later, Powell scored on Dominic Ficociello's sacrifice fly to make it 3-0.
Jamestown would spend the rest of the game chipping away at the Tigers' lead, however, it would never quite get there. The Jammers' first run of the night came in the fourth inning when Jacoby Jones led off with a single, stole second and moved to third on a balk. Two pitches later, Jin-De Jhang grounded out to first, scoring Jones and making it 3-1.
That would be the lest Jammers run until the bottom of the ninth when Jamestown nearly pulled even with Connecticut.
The Tigers quickly recorded two outs before the Jammers began to rally.
Jhang, Harold Ramirez and Michael Fransoso all singled with two outs and Fransoso's single scored Jhang to make it 3-2. After Fransoso's hit, Connecticut called on Zac Renninger to replace Jonathan Maciel and that proved to be the difference.
Renninger forced Danny Collins to line out sharply to third and the Tigers preserved the one-run win.
The Jammers finished with just six hits in Wednesday's loss -one each from Adam Frazier, Jones, Jhang, Ramirez, Fransoso and Jeff Roy. Kuhl allowed three runs (two earned) on six hits with six strikeouts in five innings pitched.
Despite the tough night and 0-1 season record, Kuhl's ERA is a miniscule 1.20 this season.
Jamestown (17-12) will try to avenge the setback Thursday when it again hosts the Tigers.
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