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The Enerpak Tube 5000 mAh external battery pack offers a huge capacity of backup power in a pocket-size package. Made by uNu, a 2013 CES Design and Engineering Award honoree, this device can extend talk, video, and standby time on smartphones or tablets via USB port—just use a cable you already own.
- Brand: uNu
- Model #: ENERPAK
- Compatibility: Most Smartphones and Tablets and USB Chargers and Cables
- Battery: 5000 mAh Polymer
- Input: 5V/1A
- Output: 5V/1A (USB)
- Minimum Rated Talk Time: 15 hours
- Minimum Rated Standby Time: 600 hours
- Color: Blue, Pink, Black, or White
- Material: ABS Plastic
- Measurements: 7.5" L x 4.5" W x 0.7" H
- Weight: 4.96 Ounces
- Origin: Imported
- Other Notes: Built-In Flash Light
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For first-year students, we consider your coursework and grades, with the expectation that you will have at least four college-preparatory courses each year and the hope that you have challenged yourself with advanced courses where available. To the extent that we can, we also consider the level of competition in your secondary school. We will also consider all information available to us, including test scores, academic record, extracurricular activities, your personal essay and school recommendations from a counselor and a teacher.
For transfer students, we consider your most recent academic performance as an indicator of your preparation and readiness for the Guilford experience. The admission committee thoroughly reviews each applicant to determine academic preparation as well as to evaluate other qualities such as leadership, creativity and school and community involvement. To the extent that we can, we also consider the level of rigor at your previous college(s) or university(ies). We will also consider all information available to us, including test scores, academic record, extracurricular activities, your personal essay and Dean of Students form.
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International students planning to attend Guilford College must meet the following medical requirements:
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In accordance with immigration regulations, you must provide us with copies of your immigration documents upon arrival. These regulations apply to students from outside the United States, as well as to students transferring to Guilford College from another U.S. school. Questions about class registration, student ID cards and getting settled on campus will be answered during orientation, which is mandatory for all new and transfer students.
Immigration regulations require the International Office to maintain records on all international students attending the College. Therefore, you must maintain regular contact with the international student adviser and update your file when changes are made, such as renewal of a passport, visa, time and point of reentry, change of major or a change of address.
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You may move in to campus housing on the first day of orientation, which usually coincides with the start date of your I-20.
The public transportation system in Greensboro is operated by the Greensboro Transit Authority. Greensboro Transit Authority has been providing quality public transportation services to Greensboro residents and visitors. GTA operates bus service Monday through Saturday along 15 routes and seven Sunday routes.
If you have a spouse or children, the Office of Admission will assist you in bringing your spouse and children to the United States with you. The process includes requesting completion of form I-20, along with financial documentation. The process is very similar to when you obtained your visa, since your family will be required to apply for the F-2 from the U.S. Embassy in your home country. Any other family member can visit you by obtaining a visitor's visa to come to the U.S.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) requires all international students in F-1 status to maintain full-time enrollment status throughout their program of study. Unless it is your first semester, you do not have to be enrolled in the summer. Summer is considered your official "vacation time" from school, so you may remain in the United States and not be enrolled.
As an F-1, you are allowed to work 20 hours a week on campus during fall and spring semesters and full time during the summer. If you want to work off campus, you will have to apply for permission and F-1s may not work off campus during the first nine months of program study.
Guilford College policy states that you are required to attend for one full semester if you enter the United States on an I-20 from Guilford College. Guilford College will not release a student to another college or university until he/she completes one semester of attendance.
Residence halls are closed to all students during the semester break between December and January. If you are without resources or a place to stay during these times, please contact the International Student Adviser.
After completing your first academic year (or two consecutive semesters), you are eligible to take vacation breaks while remaining in the United States. When temporarily leaving the United States, you must have your I-20 endorsed by the International Student Adviser.
Guilford also offers an Extended Family Program to all international students to learn first-hand about American customs, transitions and social structures of the American home and family life. All volunteers are from the Guilford community.
When leaving the U.S., the student must get the International Student Adviser's signature on the document to reenter. The I-20 also contains very important information on rules and regulations. By signing the I-20, students agree to comply with all regulations and understand the consequence of violations.
The visa stamped in the student's passport at the U.S. Consulate gives the student permission to enter for a specific purpose and period of time. Since the stamp is important only for entry and reentry into the United States, a student need not worry if it expires while they are in the U.S., but they must get a new visa to reenter if they leave the U.S. and the existing data has expired.
We have a Mentor Program, which is designed to help all incoming international students, whether they require an F-1 Vise or hold an American passport, adjust easily to life both on and off campus. All mentors have experience abroad and most are students who recently studied abroad.
Guilford also offers an English Language adaption class, which will focus on developing conversational skills.
We have an international advisor and an international education specialist who assist in the Visa process and general adjustment to the College.
Guilford has an optional Extended Family Program which provides an opportunity for our international students to learn first-hand about American customs, transitions and social structures of the American home and family life. All volunteers are from the Guilford community.
There are several student clubs, including Asian Culture Club, International Club, Muslim Student Association, Hispanos Unidos de Guilford (HUGS), Blacks Unifying Society (BUS) and Hillel.

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Pharma Report 2012: Get Back in Shape
Pharma Report 2012: Get Back in Shape
When big pharma looks in the mirror, what does it see? A body beset by old, expiring brands and not enough energetic, youthful ones to replace them. Marc Iskowitz has industry's regimen for regaining form
Once bloated and winded, the drug industry has made strides at shaping up its US operations, shedding excess pounds and taking steps to shore up long-term health. That's a start. Getting back into real shape will take a package of exercises that build muscle in more ways than one, analysts say.
Industry had a positive 2011, with spending on branded products in the US up by 2.2% in actual dollars to $258 billion from $252 billion, according to IMS Health. It bettered 2010, when spending on protected medicines shrunk 0.7% to $229 billion, and it helped boost overall drug outlay by 3.7% to $320 billion for the year.
New product launches, many of them for innovative medicines and indications to treat rare diseases, helped fuel the increase. But patent losses continue to bite. The glut of expiries is set to reduce global brand revenues by $120 billion through 2015.
Those losses will be felt the most this year and next, predicts Michael Kleinrock, director of research development for the IMS Institute. "Brand growth will be historically low," in the 0-1% range.
Perhaps the most important trend to watch in terms of the industry's comeback lies in new drug pipelines. These may be slowly improving, yet no company has more upcoming launches than expiries, Sanford Bernstein analyst Tim Anderson tells MM&M: "GlaxoSmithKline starts to get into positive territory because their patent expiries lapse. Pfizer—any drug that they launch, or that launched, [when] netted against expiry is a flat line." Even Bristol-Myers Squibb—widely hailed as the most productive biopharma company—winds up being a flat-liner.
In the following profiles of the top 20 companies as ranked by 2011 US sales, you can judge the performance for yourself. In addition to revenues, US and global; top brands and their US sales (courtesy of IMS); and promotional spend (as per Cegedim Strategic Data; ranking encompasses US sales top 20 vs. ranking on pp. 44-45 based purely on promo spend), we include a list of each firm's planned launches—late-stage compounds that analysts believe stand a strong chance of making it to the US market—and upcoming patent expirations.
Pfizer's oral RA drug tofacitinib and Eliquis (apixaban), the blood-thinning drug Pfizer is co-developing with BMS, are the high-profile agents coming due in 2012. There will also be pivotal data sets this year, the most dramatic being in Alzheimer's disease, although the category lacks a launchable drug in 2012.
"If these Alzheimer's drugs work [Lilly's solanezumab and J&J/Pfizer's bapineuzumab]," says Anderson, "they would put the industry back on the map, but scientists put the odds at less than 50%. These drugs could help resurrect the image of the industry."
Putting money into R&D
Among other steps companies are taking to get back into shape, most plowed more money into R&D last year, despite the fact that it's hard to scale innovation. Our company profiles rank firms on their actual R&D spend, indicating the change vs. 2010, and calculate spend as a percentage of revenue.
Pfizer, for one, did not follow the pack in this department. "Pfizer could theoretically spend less and get the same output, which is why they are ratcheting down their R&D spend," says Anderson.
Profiles also show what's emerging from pipelines, as does the approvals table on page 50. Drilling down into last year's newbies, Healogix CEO Harris Kaplan notes that only 23% of 2011 approvals were for drugs with new mechanisms of action vs. almost 60% in 2002. And orphan drug approvals—which were up last year—aren't a replacement for better chronic therapy treatment.
"While orphan drugs with their associated high prices are helping to fill the gap caused by generic expirations," says Kaplan, "they do not substitute for an ongoing patient and industry need for new advances in large, chronic disease categories where there is still significant unmet need such as hypertension, depression, GI disorders, etc."
Industry can pat itself on the back for a productive 2011 both in terms of drugs approved (30, vs. 23 in 2010) and the therapeutic advances they represent, but one year is not a trend, cautions Wayne Pines, a former FDA associate commissioner who is now president, regulatory services and healthcare for APCO Worldwide.
"I don't think the approval numbers indicate anything significant about FDA," says Pines. "The agency can approve new drugs only when the data meet its standard for safety and effectiveness."
Pines and Kaplan say they're more concerned that these innovative drugs get reimbursed. Kaplan says payers are beginning to push back on reimbursing drugs costing patients well into six figures per year.
Another strategy companies continue to employ to fill revenue gaps is M&A, like Sanofi's acquisition of consumer health firm Chattam last year. The easiest way to replace lost sales, these are likely to continue, says Anderson.
Of course, many firms continue to trim their bottom line through wave after wave of job cuts and corporate reorganizations. "In terms of cost-cutting, these companies have a long way to go before they've cut to the bone," says Anderson. He expects more of the same operationally in all buckets—including sales force and R&D.
But the most significant predictors of financial health include more than just a company's willingness to diet. A big one is the firm's degree of diversification into areas like consumer and animal health—businesses that are not subject to the pushes and pulls of the pharma business. "If you broadened it out," says Anderson, "Abbott and J&J are most diversified and have had the best stock performance."
Another leading indicator is the durability of companies' product lines, i.e., how high is the line's barrier to entry. "Animal health and vaccines—they are oligopolies," says Anderson, in that competition is less and they don't have generics issues.
Exposure to emerging markets is a third important variable, as everyone agrees that their future growth is likely to outpace US and Europe. European companies like Sanofi, GSK and Novartis have the most exposure, while for domestics like BMS and Eli Lilly, it's 10% or less.
Again, don't look for this to be industry's magic pill. "Those that are reaching out to new geographies are making 50 cents on the dollar," says Anderson, "but that is better than making no cents on the dollar. It is almost like the industry is pulling out the couch cushions to look for spare change."
Revenues, brands, media spend, patent expirations and drug approvals
1. Pfizer (see below)
1 Pfizer $25.1B down 7.7%
Global revenue: $67.4B (1st); up 0.4%
R&D spend: $8.4B (3rd); down 9.7%; 12.5% of rev.
Top brands: Lipitor ($7.7B), Lyrica ($1.8B), Celebrex ($1.8B), Geodon ($1.4B), Viagra ($1.0B)
Planned launches: Eliquis (SPAF), tofacitinib (RA)
Promotional spend: $2.2B (1st); 8.6% of rev.
Patent expirations: Lipitor (2011), Celebrex (2014), Zyvox (2015)
Pfizer has pretty much made it past a chasm of a patent cliff with relatively minor adjustments, and now boasts one of the best late-stage pipelines. It recently won approval for cancer drugs Xalkori (crizotinib) and Inlyta (axitinib) along with a label expansion for vaccine Prevnar 13. Waiting in the wings are rheumatoid arthritis drug tofacitinib and anticoagulant Eliquis (apixaban)—a JV with BMS for stroke prevention that analysts have high hopes for, despite an FDA delay. The biggest of pharmas acquired Wyeth in 2009 and King in 2010, and last year lost exclusivity for $10-billion mega-blockbuster Lipitor—along with two-thirds of the statin's market share, despite an aggressive defense. CEO Ian Read floated plans for a big shakeup, but ended up placing only Pfizer's animal health and nutrition units on the block. Pipeline wins haven't quieted calls for more aggressive action—most recently Goldman analyst Jami Rubin's call for a full-scale Abbott-style spin-off.


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DoudouLinux - Cookbook: recipe #102, Configuring my SSH access
recipe #102, Source Code Managers: Configuring my SSH access
If you can't access to your project CVS trees or download area via Developer Access (write access), it means that your SSH access is not correctly configured. The only thing to do is to create a ssh-key and register it.
To create an SSH key, type in a shell:
It will ask you for a passphrase.
Only this passphrase will be accepted for SCM or rsync/scp/sftp authentification, not the Savane password. The public key will be placed at ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
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Vajrayana Buddhism is most closely associated with Tibet and can be characterized by the figure of the siddha, the master whose spiritual realization is so profound that he or she has power over the phenomenal world, and in whom the profundity and vastness of absolute truth is fully and completely manifested. Many of our most well-known authors come from this tradition of Tibetan Buddhism .
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The Treasury of Knowledge: Book Six, Parts One and Two
Indo-Tibetan Classical Learning and Buddhist PhenomenologyJamgön Kongtrul's encyclopedic Treasury of Knowledge presents a complete account of the major lines of thought and practice that comprise Tibetan Buddhism. Among the ten books that make up this tour de force, Book Six is by far the longest—concisely summarizing the theoretical fields of knowledge to be studied prior to the cultivation of reflection and discriminative awareness. The first two parts of Book Six, contained in this volume,… Read More
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This term comes from the dirty south. Most common in Atlanta, plump monkeys are fat women, usually in their 20s, that feel like when intoxicated that are no longer fat, but supermodels, and feel they are good enough to talk to good looking men. They usually hang around the bar and squeeze their fat breasts together in hopes that someone will buy them a drink, when what they really need is a Diet Coke or a swify kick in the crotch.
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Median year structure built divides the distribution into two equal parts: one-half of the cases falling below the median year structure built and one-half above the median. Median year structure built is computed on the basis of a standard distribution (See the "Standard Distributions" section under "Derived Measures.") The median is rounded to the nearest calendar year. Median age of housing can be obtained by subtracting median year structure built from survey year. For example, if the median year structure built is 1968, the median age of housing in that area is 40 years (2007 minus 1968). (For more information on medians, see "Derived Measures.")
Limitation of the Data
Data on year structure built are more susceptible to errors of response and non-reporting than data for many other questions because respondents must rely on their memory or on estimates by people who have lived in the neighborhood a long time.
Question/Concept History
The 1996-1998 American Community Survey question provided a write-in space for the respondent to enter a year the structure was built. From 1999-2007 the question provided 9 pre-coded response categories, which showed ranges of years, and from 2003-2007 the response categories were updated to provide detail for recently built structures. Starting in 2007, the response category 2000 or later and the instruction Specify year with a write-in box replaced the two categories 2000 to 2004 and 2005 or later.


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The Freedom From Religion Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio filed a lawsuit today (Feb. 6, 2013) on behalf of plaintiffs who seek removal of a portrait of Jesus from Jackson Middle School in Jackson.
FFRF sent an initial letter of complaint Jan. 2 to Jackson City School District Superintendent Phil Howard. Howard is a named defendant, as are the Jackson City Board of Education and the school district.
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The portrait of Jesus Christ is prominently displayed on an entrance wall at the school, where it has been located for some years. The superintendent has stated that "it would take a court order to remove the picture," according to the complaint.
Dan Barker, FFRF co-president and a former evangelical minister, is very familiar with the painting, having encountered it himself in countless Christian churches. "It boggles the mind that in 2013, a public school superintendent and school board would not understand that a devotional painting of Jesus, called 'The Head of Christ,' — identical to millions hanging in churches and Sunday school classrooms around the country — may not be posted at the entrance of a middle school."
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Senior did his best trying to stop graduation prayer - Max Nielson
At FFRF's national convention in October in Portland, Ore., Len Eisenberg, who with his wife Karen endows FFRF's Thomas Jefferson Youth Activist Award, introduced Max Nielson, student plaintiff in FFRF's ongoing South Carolina lawsuit over a school district policy that sanctions graduation prayer. Max received a $1,000 Catherine Fahringer Memorial Student Activist Award from FFRF.
Hello, everyone. It's really great to be among such admirable and wonderful people. Don't you feel that energy when we're all in the room together? We'd like to thank Annie Laurie and Dan and all the people at FFRF because, even though we provide a little financial help, they're the ones who have to talk with Sean Hannity and take a shower afterward. They're doing all the hard work.
Max Nielson is a pretty amazing person. He's not only a black belt in karate and an Eagle Scout, he's earned the equivalent of an international high school diploma. He's won not one but two board of director seats for secular coalition groups in the Carolinas area, and he's also the founder and president of the Secular Student Alliance group at his college, the College of Charleston.
He also told me he's an amateur contortionist. He's going to turn himself into a human pretzel up on the stage here — or maybe not. He'll tell you all about his saga with trying to get the school graduation prayer stopped, and how this has been a really transformative event in his life. So will you please welcome, Max Nielson. — Len Eisenberg
Hi Mom. That's Mom [in audience]. She's great. So, like they said, I'm Max Nielson. I grew up in South Carolina for the most part.
I was born in Atlanta, moved away when I was 4. Canadian father, rural South Carolinian mother, and so if I say, you know, the "sooth," or "oot and aboot," feel free to laugh, just laugh, it's very comic.
Growing up in South Carolina, you might not think it, but I had a really secular upbringing. I attended the Unitarian Universalist congregation of Columbia. Many times, the pastor when I was going was regularly Mister Reverend Patrick, or something like that. He was a pagan. It wasn't this idea that "Oh, there's one true religion." That was never really introduced to me in any solid way.
As I was going through school, I encountered a lot of people who were very fundamentally religious — like the kind of a goofball kid in seventh grade who rejected the science lesson because he knew Earth was 6,000 years old. And I was like "Weird! What are you doing?!"
That kind of got me interested, so I started studying counter-apologetics through middle school, and that was fun. I really enjoyed getting to rationalize things that were not rational.
Another big part of my youth was Boy Scouts of America. I stayed in the closet long enough to get the Eagle Scout. That was good, but kind of ironic. My entire troop knew I was an atheist, but they went ahead and made me chaplain's aide. So, yeah, I can sympathize with Dan, I've led a few prayers, too.
High school was great. No it wasn't. But in ninth grade I was in Irmo, South Carolina, and the Pastafarians at USC just brought in a pretty amazing speaker, Richard Dawkins. I got to see him in ninth grade, and I was young and didn't know anything. I kind of formulated this idea, like "Oh hey, I should probably be a scientist, so that I can help humanity." Another thing that happened early in high school is someone wanted to form a Gay-Straight Alliance, and the principal resigned over it. He walked out. He retired early because he didn't want to be the principal at a school with a Gay-Straight Alliance. That was also weird.
Later in high school, I got into the international baccalaureate program. It's a smaller program at most high schools, and especially mine, so I was around 30 of my really close friends, and in the classroom, day to day, religion just stopped being a topic. I was that mildly articulate atheist kid who would shoot down your argument, and that was fun, but it never came up
After I qualified for the international baccalaureate diploma, I was pretty much the paragon of post-high school apathy. I did not care about anything, and it was fantastic! But 10 days before graduation [at which Christian prayer would be recited because a majority of seniors voted to have prayer], my good friend Kelly Freeman linked me to an interview with Harrison Hopkins on a podcast called "A Matter of Doubt."
He challenged almost the exact same policy at his high school in Lawrence County, S.C. It was 10 days before graduation, but I knew I had to do something, because I could do something, and that made all the difference. Kelly walked me through it.
She basically pointed me at the most important button on any activist website ever: Contact Us. So I did, and FFRF got back to me very fast, either that same day or the next day. Through that, I scheduled meetings through the principal, and FFRF sent legal letters to the school district to back me up.
Mom: 'Yeah, go ahead'
Right about this time, my mom comes home from school. She's a teacher at that school. Yeah, she's been teaching English at Irmo High School for seven years. So, she gets into the computer room, and I'm just covered in sweat, out of my mind, deliriously excited that I can fight injustice as I saw it. She can tell I'm visibly disturbed, and I lock eyes with her, and I'm, "Mom — can I stir shit up?"
And she's like, "Yeah, go ahead," which was amazing. She had my back, she was with me. She had always felt uncomfortable with the public prayers they had at graduation.
I met twice with my principal, Mr. Weinkle. The first time, he just wanted to make sure I wasn't crazy. He made this really bizarre reference, looking down and holding his belt, "I'm from a town in North Carolina. I totally see where you're coming from with this, it's a pretty a metropolitan area, but I can't help you because this is the bible belt." That was shocking.
It seemed like he understood the issue. He understood why it was wrong but still wasn't willing to help because of where we were [in the bible belt]. To me, that just wasn't acceptable. So I contacted the superintendent and FFRF got me an amazing lawyer, Aaron Kozloski. It was great to have Aaron on the case; he's a brilliant guy. It's been really fun working with him.
The second time I met with my principal, he handed me the district policy. What it basically said was they could have prayer if it was nonsectarian and nonproselytizing. Nonproselytizing pub-
lic prayer, folks; you heard it here first.
Leading up to meeting with my superintendent, I knew that if I walked in as one voice, I would probably be dismissed as one voice, because that's what tends to happen. So I got pretty busy.
In one night, I talked to 150 people online — friends, strangers, people who were my friends on Facebook, it didn't matter. I heard some strange things, but every single person I talked to supported my actions. They all trusted me enough as a person, and understood the issue well enough to see that what the school was doing, even if they agreed with it, wasn't constitutionally sound.
Amazing support
I met with Steven Friedman, who had pushed the issue of starting a Gay-Straight Alliance at Irmo High School that caused Mr. Walker to walk out. I sat down with him at a coffee shop, and we wrote a nice little letter to [Superintendent] Stephen Hefner.
When I walked into Mr. Hefner's office, I gave him the letter. Mr. Kozloski was also there. It was a productive, friendly meeting. Mr. Hefner said he'd get back to me later that day. And so, I received this famously quotable email:
"While I am a staunch supporter of separation of church and state, I do not believe that freedom of religion should be interpreted as freedom from religion within public schools."
That's one hell of a proposition. The next day was graduation, and I walked across, and they prayed, and I didn't remove my cap, and I did lock eyes with the superintendent.
A lot of news interviews followed, and from what I've heard, the comments got nasty. The only one particularly scary kind of event or comment was online, someone who posted my home address and cell phone number.
That was sandwiched between two mildly aggressive people blurting out anger at me. So, as Len said, I do have black belt in karate, and I was walking around the house with my bow staff like "I'm not going die today."
I was pretty convinced I was going to live. Nothing happened, of course, so I was fine. What was so weird and crazy to me about my case was that the moment it was a story, so much support came out of nowhere — the community, the national atheist community, FFRF, Friendly Atheist, Secular Student Alliance, Center for Inquiry.
I had no idea any of this existed, and they were all within an instant surrounding me in support and compassion and reason, and it felt amazing because on no level of this issue was I, the kid, doing the terrible thing. I was the person standing up, and everyone saw that, and it was great.
Most recently, we've had the North Carolina Student Secular Summit, which is a terribly long name, and it was great. It was supported by the Triangle Freethought group, which I believe is an FFRF group, right? Yes.
We also have the Carolina Secular Association now, and the Secular Coalition for South Carolina, and Harrison Hopkins has a student group at Presbyterian College in South Carolina. Harrison has already raised more than $2,000 at Presbyterian College, a school with fewer than like 5,000 kids, for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society. That's amazing!
In this lawsuit, to maintain legal standing [because he'd graduated], I had to get two co-plaintiffs, two good friends of mine. Dakota McMillan, one of them, just this past week, I believe, started the Secular Student Alliance at Irmo High School, the 400th SSA affiliate.
The final point I'd like to make: I feel like, maybe, that bible belt Mr. Weinkle was referencing is starting to get unbuckled. And I think we in the freethought movement throw around the term a lot when we're talking about the South. From what I've seen, using that term did nothing but support the Religious Right's claim in my case.
I think this is the rise of the "secular South." Thank you all. Thank you all so much!
Matthew "Max" Nielson is principal plaintiff in FFRF's federal lawsuit against School District 5 of Lexington and Richland Counties, S.C. Jacob Zupon and Dakota McMillan are co-plaintiffs who will graduate respectively from Irmo High School in 2013 and 2014, keeping the lawsuit ripe. A district policy titled "School Ceremonies and Observations" sets guidelines for benedictions and invocations at graduations and athletic events: Use of prayer "will be determined by a majority vote of the graduating senior class with the advice and counsel of the principal."
The prayer, written by the district but delivered by a student "volunteer," was addressed to "Father" and asked for the "Lord's guidance, protection and mercy," asked students to be "touched" by "the Lord," to be led "on the path you intend for their lives to lead" and thanked a deity for "the teachers, parents and administrators that were here through our 12 years of school."
Teen relates hate she endured for contesting school prayer - Jessica Ahlquist
Jessica Ahlquist, plaintiff in a successful federal lawsuit challenging a prayer banner at her high school in Cranston, R.I., gave this speech [edited for print] October 12, 2012, at FFRF's 35th national convention in Portland, Ore. Jessica stood tall in the face of adversity and became the first recipient of FFRF's Atheists in Foxholes Support Fund, a $10,000 award. She also received two Thomas Jefferson Student Activist Awards (a $2,000 award in 2012 and a $1,000 award in 2011).
First, let me give my biggest thanks to the Freedom From Religion Foundation and to everybody here, with special thanks to the Eisenbergs, who really help support students like Max and me. I can give you my thanks all day, but I will never be able to fully express how wonderful and supportive FFRF has been.
The story I am going to tell you was certainly no walk in the park for me, but it was made possible by the people who came to fight at my side, and that was Annie Laurie and Dan and all of you. You are some of the coolest, bravest people I've ever met.
Everything has changed for me in the last few years. I'd like to reflect on what's happened. I was born and raised in Rhode Island. I started attending Cranston High School West when I was 14. Cranston and Rhode Island are overwhelmingly Catholic.
I always knew I wasn't welcome to share my real beliefs and continued to call myself a Catholic until the day I came out as an atheist. Near the end of my freshman year in spring 2010, I saw the prayer banner [actually a painted mural] for the first time in the school auditorium. I knew almost immediately it was wrong to have it in a public school.
I thought of going to the principal's office to remind him it was there. I did a lot of research on the Constitution and American history, and by the time I finally decided that I wanted to report this to the school administration, school had already gotten out for the year.
But that summer, a private group rented out the auditorium for a recital. The mother of one of the girls in the recital noticed the prayer. As a secular Jew, it was unsettling for her. Her mother-in-law, a Holocaust survivor, was also in the audience. (And they don't tell this in school, but Hitler was a Catholic.) The mother decided to write to the America Civil Liberties Union, which sent a letter to the school that the prayer needed to be removed because it violated the Constitution.
That summer the school committee [of the city of Cranston, i.e., the school board] put together a subcommittee to discuss its options. Of course there really weren't options. In this country, we vote on many things, but we don't vote on people's rights — we do, but we shouldn't.
The subcommittee scheduled public meetings. I was so happy and relieved. I thought, "How awesome, now I don't have to do anything." But I was really invested and I wanted to reach out to that mother and show her that she wasn't the only person who felt the way she did about the prayer.
I didn't know the atheist community existed. I didn't know what the ACLU was. So I did the only thing I could think of. I created a Facebook group specifically about removing the prayer. I would come home every day to see if anyone had joined, and no one did for months. But I was excited and really wanted someone to join my group.
In November 2010, the school committee had a second public meeting. I was naïve. I believed that when I got to the meeting, these educated administrators and lawyers and politicians were going to say, "Oh, we forgot it was there. We'll take it down because of course that's illegal."
Only about 15 people were there. I've absolutely hated public speaking all my life, but I was so upset and confused by what people were claiming about our country's history and Constitution that I decided that I had to speak. I was literally shaking, and my voice was so soft it's amazing that people were even able to hear me.
As soon as the words were out of my mouth, someone let out an audible gasp and another person whispered, "That little witch." I was shocked, intimidated and scared, but I was also really angry. The people that followed me to speak were lying through their teeth.
I had said that the prayer didn't follow the concept of separation of church and state, that in this case, prayer was the church and school was the state. I thought that was pretty simple, but a priest smirked at me and said "Honey, Russia had state schools; we certainly don't want that."
It made me so angry that I decided to speak again that night. I noticed how good it felt to say, "I don't believe in God" and to just let them squirm and to not care.
No more pretense
I'd been pretending all my life. That night a video camera was stuck in my face and I was on the local news, just for being an atheist. It's really that easy. I'd honestly thought the meeting was just a formality, that no one would actually say the prayer should stay up because they're educated adults and stuff.
But I learned what easily was the biggest lesson I learned in all of this: There's a difference between an adult and a grownup.
I went online and found my Facebook group had exploded in a few hours. Over 150 people had joined and were wishing me support. The group eventually reached over 6,000 members. That's a big part of how I got through this.
The average high schooler doesn't exactly watch the news and keep up-to-date with what's going on in their community, so few people in school knew what was happening and no one really brought it up. But silly me, hearing about our rights, I kept researching and speaking at meetings to convince them to remove it. That's when everything started getting crazy.
The next meeting in February 2011 was much larger, maybe a hundred people. I don't think most of them knew why they were there because a lot of them were talking about abortion and America's borders and random stuff, the economy. An older woman said how prayers in school remind kids to be good and not get pregnant. She pursed her lips and looked over at my friend and me.
At the last meeting in March, the full school committee voted 4-3 to keep the prayer up. Over 250 people attended and all but six were wearing signs that said "Keep original banner." I was devastated.
Just because some people tried to vote on my rights does not mean I was going to settle for that. I was faced with this issue and decided to see it through. With help from the ACLU, I filed a lawsuit, Ahlquist v. City of Cranston in April 2011.
The morning after we filed, I came into homeroom, like I do every day. The morning announcements came on and everyone rose to say the Pledge of Allegiance. During the appropriate moment, all of the students turned and screamed "under God" at me. I was actually surprised by that but I should have expected it. The teacher did nothing. I knew that reporting it was useless because most of the administration hated me anyway. From that morning on, I refused to say the pledge, refused to take part in something used as a weapon.
It's utterly sick that on the first day of kindergarten, 5-year-olds memorize how to pledge their allegiance. They don't know what allegiance means. And, as I'm sure you know, "under God" wasn't even added until the 1950s.
Under siege
The administration and members of my community were inexcusably unconcerned about my daily treatment and often made things even worse. During diversity week, the school has little presentations about discrimination — bullying, racial topics, etc. The diversity week team invited the mayor, Allan Fung, to speak about minorities and how as a Chinese American, he had succeeded in the world of politics.
After he finished giving his nice little speech, someone asked, "How do you feel about the prayer?" We were in the auditorium, and he pointed to it and said, "I want to see that prayer stay exactly where it is. I have a law degree. This doesn't discriminate against anyone and I'm Catholic."
The students jumped up, cheering and clapping. Then an autistic student raised his hand and tried to explain why the prayer was illegal. The mayor just kind of dismissed him, and none of the 10 or so teachers in the room offered to let me leave or do anything to calm anyone down. I had to sit there and let them all stare at me for the rest of the presentation.
One day in English class, my friend's boyfriend texted her to tell her that they were debating "the prayer." Kids in his class were threatening to beat me and my friend up. We've been best friends since seventh grade. I think her parents blame me for her being an atheist. This obviously scared us, so we went to guidance and got dismissed early from school.
There were afternoons when I would come home crying. Acquaintances wanted nothing to do with me. I didn't even see my friends very much, because even though they still liked me, they didn't want people to hate them for associating with me.
Even just walking down the hall to use my locker was a struggle because people would yell things and stop me in the hallway. But things would get much, much worse.
I received a phone call in January from Steven Brown, the executive director of the Rhode Island ACLU. He simply said, "Hey Jess, we won."
I was so thrilled I said, "Shut up" to this esteemed lawyer. More than excited though, I was relieved to have won the lawsuit, but more relieved that it was finally over. This nightmare experience was done, and everyone could forget about what happened and go on as normal. But that's not what happened.
'Sincerest hate'
The very night I won, the craziness started. People took to social media to express their sincerest hate toward me. Twitter and Facebook absolutely exploded with death threats and rape threats and other terrible things.
My favorite, and I mean that ironically of course, was "OMG she is almost as bad as blacks."
Kids whom I had known since kindergarten were threatening my life and insulting my character, saying I was a freak and should die. People said I should be gang-raped and my family should lose their home and live out of boxes in the street.
Some of the kids warned me they were going to throw things at me if I came to class. Other people claimed to know license plate numbers of the cars my family members drove. My home address was posted online. I have an 11-year-old brother and a 7-year-old brother whom I worried about every single day.
I have a little sister who's 15 whom I worried about the whole time I was in class because these people seemed to have no limits.
One day I was walking up my driveway and a group of kids drove by screaming out the window that they hoped I burn in hell. They had followed me home. The threats became so terrible, in fact, that the city decided to provide me with police officers who followed me around from class to class every single day for weeks.
I don't need to explain to you how that made learning and having a normal high school experience impossible. The community as a whole was doing everything it could to make me feel hated and out of place. They wanted me to leave and literally said "Get the hell out of here."
There was this organization that tried to send me flowers, the Freedom From Religion Foundation or something like that [laughter]. They contacted four different flower shops and they all refused to send me flowers. But you know, Annie Laurie and Dan don't give up, and they were mad and eventually found a flower shop in Connecticut [Glimpse of Gaia] that agreed to send me, the "evil little Satan girl," flowers.
The atheist community was so glad that someone had not been a bigoted jerk that they sent me so many flowers that I was not able to see my floor. I'm amazed that I didn't suffocate in my sleep. The owners are really nice people, and they recorded something like "We're thankful for the business and praise, but this is our job. We don't need to be praised for not discriminating against people."
I know them personally now. They are really good people and I believe they're atheists, too.
'Evil little thing'
Of course you all know about "evil little thing." [Democratic state Rep. Peter Palumbo called her that on a radio show.] I can't seem to get away from that. I was actually introduced as an "evil little thing" at the Reason Rally in front of 25,000 people. They presented me with a check for $60,000. That was a scholarship fund that Hemant Mehta, the Friendly Atheist, started so that I can go to college.
It was really meaningful to have the people who had donated in front of me. JT Eberhard had made "evil little thing" T-shirts to sell, with the profit going to my scholarship fund. I thank all of you who did that for me. That's one of the greatest things that has come of all of this.
Eventually, the subcommittee held the final meeting to discuss whether to appeal our victory. In the weeks leading up to that meeting, my wonderful uncle Steve (who everyone thinks is my father) and who founded the Humanists of Rhode Island, sent out email and Facebook alerts and did everything he could to explain that we really need people to come to this meeting to show support for the court's ruling.
The school was already in debt and had spent over $100,000 on this lawsuit, paying my lawyers because they had won. And, of course, who got blamed for the cost of the lawsuit? I did.
My uncle was successful though. People even came from out of state, driving for hours just to be at that one meeting. They stood out in the rain just so we could all get into the meeting.
Police searched the building for bombs before the meeting. I'm not kidding; it was that ridiculous. There were hundreds of people, and it was just as hilarious as it was scary. There were signs everywhere, screaming people, lunatics, all you can imagine.
After hours and hours of people speaking — it was more people on our side than the other side this time — they decided not to appeal. The vote was 5-2. We won, and it's over now!
The hate continued for a little while after that. Overall, I came out of this far more positive than negative. The support I received was infinitely stronger than the hate.
Again, thank you for all of that. This is a great group of people, and I'm so glad for this community because they've given me a lot more than I would have expected.


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Drug: Atripla
Drug: Kivexa plus Sustiva
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|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase 4, Open Label, Randomized, Controlled Study to Assess the Effect on Lipid Profile of Switching From a Stable HAART Regimen of Fixed Dose Abacavir/Lamivudine (Kivexa) Plus Efavirenz, to Once Daily Atripla in Adult HIV-1 Infected Subjects With Raised Cholesterol
- Change from baseline in total fasting cholesterol at Week 12. [ Time Frame: 12 Weeks ]
- Change in total fasting cholesterol at Week 24 [ Time Frame: 24 fweeks ]
- Changes in fasting LDL, HDL, triglycerides, non-HDL cholesterol and cholesterol ratios [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
|Study Start Date:
|March 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: 2
Open label Kivexa (abacavir (as sulfate) 600 mg/lamivudine 300 mg) once daily for oral administration plus Sustiva (efavirenz 600 mg) once daily for oral administration
Drug: Kivexa plus Sustiva
Open label once daily for oral administration
Experimental: 1
Open label Atripla (efavirenz 600 mg/emtricitabine 200 mg/tenofovir DF 300 mg) once daily for oral administration to be taken on an empty stomach
Drug: Atripla
Open label once daily for oral administration to be taken on an empty stomach
Detailed Description:
This protocol is a Phase 4, open label, randomized, UK multi-center, controlled study to assess the effect on lipid profile of switching from a stable HAART regimen of Kivexa + EFV to once daily Atripla in adult HIV 1 infected subjects with raised cholesterol.
At Baseline, subjects will be randomized 1:1 to one of two treatment groups:
Treatment Group 1: switch to Atripla Treatment Group 2: Continuation of previous stable HAART regimen of Kivexa + EFV Initiation of treatment with study drugs must take place within 24 hours after Baseline visit. At Week 12, subjects in Treatment Group 2 (continuation of Kivexa and EFV regimen) will switch to Atripla. Treatment in both groups will continue through Week 24
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Equal to or greater to 18 years old
- Plasma HIV RNA less than 50 copies/mL equal to or greater than 12 weeks prior to Screening
- Stable HAART regimen of Kivexa + EFV for equal to or greater than 24 weeks prior to Screening
- Documented confirmed raised total cholesterol greater than or equal to 5.2 mmol/L for last two consecutive tests (at least 4 weeks apart) with the last result less than or equal to 4 weeks prior to Screening
- Subject willing to continue current unmodified HAART for 12 weeks if randomized to Group 2
- Subjects requiring concomitant lipid regulating therapy must be established on a stable dose/frequency greater than or equal to 12 weeks prior to Screening and be expected to remain stable in dose and frequency throughout the treatment phase of the study
- Adequate renal function by calculated creatinine clearance greater than or equal to 60 mL/min according to the Cockcroft Gault formula
- Negative serum pregnancy test (females of childbearing potential only i.e., not surgically sterile or at least 2 years post-menopausal)
- Hepatic Total Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 mg/dL
- Adequate haematologic function of absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1000/mm3, platelets ≥ 25,000/mm3, Haemoglobin ≥ 8.0g/dL
- Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must be using two methods of contraception to avoid pregnancy throughout the study and for up to 12 weeks after the last dose of study drugs in such a manner that the risk of pregnancy is minimized. Subjects may choose two (barrier plus highly effective method - see section 7.8 for further discussion) of the birth control methods listed below:
- Hormonal birth control drugs
- Male or female condoms with or without spermicidal gels
- Diaphragm cervical cap with or without spermicidal gels
- Intrauterine device
- Female subjects who utilize hormone contraceptive as one of their birth control methods must have used the same methods for at least 3 months prior to study dosing
- Female subjects who are postmenopausal for less than 2 years are required to have FSH greater or equal to 40 mIU/mL. If the FSH is less than 40 mIU/mL, the subject must agree to use highly effective method of birth control (as described above) to participate in the study
- Male subjects who are sexually active must be willing to use effective barrier contraception (e.g. condom with spermicide) during heterosexual intercourse from screening through completion of the study and continuing for up to 12 weeks after the last dose of study drugs
- Life expectancy greater to or equal to 1 year
- The ability to understand and sign a written informed consent form, which must be obtained prior to initiation of study procedures
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant or lactating subjects
- Previous treatment with emtricitabine (FTC), tenofovir DF (TDF) or adefovir dipivoxil (ADV)
- Known hypersensitivity to emtricitabine (FTC), tenofovir DF (TDF), efavirenz (EFV) or Truvada
- Documented resistance to any of the study drugs (either genotypic or phenotypic)
- Severe hepatic impairment
- Hepatic transaminases (AST and ALT) greater or equal to 5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Subjects receiving ongoing therapy with any of the medications that are contraindicated with any of the study drugs. Administration of any of these medications must be discontinued at least 30 days prior to the Baseline visit and for the duration of the study period. The full list of disallowed medications can be found in appendix 7.
- Active, serious infections (other than HIV infection) requiring parenteral antibiotic therapy within 15 days prior to screening
- Prior history of significant renal or bone disease
- Any current known clinical or symptomatic laboratory parameter of GSI grade 4. Asymptomatic grade 4 abnormalities will be permitted at the discretion of the Investigator if deemed clinically appropriate (excluding AEs and laboratory parameters mentioned elsewhere in the inclusion/exclusion criteria). Abnormalities deemed insignificant by the Investigator must be discussed with the Sponsor prior to enrollment.
- Malignancy other than cutaneous Kaposi sarcoma (KS) or basal cell carcinoma. Subjects with biopsy-confirmed cutaneous KS are eligible, but must not have received any systemic therapy for KS within 30 days of baseline and are not anticipated to require systemic therapy during the study
- Current alcohol or substance use judged by the investigator to potentially interfere with subject study compliance
- Subjects currently taking part in any other clinical trial using an investigational product, with the exception of studies where the treatment studied has been stopped for more than 1 month
- Any other clinical condition or prior therapy that, in the opinion of the investigator, would make the subject unsuitable for the study or unable to comply with the dosing requirements
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00615810
|United Kingdom
|Gilead Sciences
|Granta Park, Cambridge, Abington, United Kingdom, CB21 6GT
|Study Director:
|Cham Herath
|Gilead Sciences
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Cham Herath, Gilead Sciences
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00615810 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2007-003354-28 EudraCT Number
|Study First Received:
|February 1, 2008
|Last Updated:
|July 30, 2010
Keywords provided by Gilead Sciences:
non HDL cholesterol
Metabolic parameters
treatment experienced
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Efavirenz, Emtricitabine, Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate Drug Combination
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C9 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C19 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2B6 Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inducers
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inducers
Anti-HIV Agents
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 25, 2017


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