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Franken grills Dickerson on Time-Rove scandal: "Why can't you just say they're big liars?"
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Former Time magazine correspondent John Dickerson answered questions raised by a Media Matters item during an appearance on The Al Franken Show. His answers indicated that he is familiar with the Media Matters item, yet Dickerson did not deny the central point of the item -- that he and his colleagues participated in the publication of misleading articles that contained statements they knew to be false. Nor did Dickerson offer a single relevant explanation or justification for the knowing publication, without rebuttal, of a false statement by White House press secretary Scott McClellan.
Former Time magazine White House correspondent John Dickerson appeared on the February 8 broadcast of Air America Radio's The Al Franken Show, where host Al Franken asked him about a February 7 Media Matters for America item. The February 7 item demonstrated that Dickerson and at least two Time colleagues, White House correspondent Matthew Cooper and Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy, helped to write an October 2003 article that contained statements they knew to be false.
When the article was written and published, all three reporters knew for a fact that White House senior adviser Karl Rove had outed undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame. They knew this because Cooper was one of the reporters to whom Rove leaked Plame's identity in July 2003; at the time, Cooper told Duffy and Dickerson about the leak. But the October 2003 article reported that Rove had "initially" been suspected to be the source of the leak, falsely suggesting that these suspicions were no longer valid. Worse, the article quoted White House press secretary Scott McClellan describing the accusations as "ridiculous" and saying, "There is simply no truth to that suggestion." As Media Matters demonstrated, Cooper, Duffy, and Dickerson all knew that McClellan's statement was false, yet their article presented it without rebuttal.
Further, Media Matters quoted a January 2004 article co-written by Dickerson that pretended that it was an open question whether anyone "in the White House" outed Plame despite the fact that Dickerson knew full well that someone "in the White House" had outed Plame; Dickerson also asserted that it was "likely that no charges will be filed."
His answers to Franken's questions about the matter indicate that Dickerson is familiar with the February 7 Media Matters item, yet Dickerson did not deny the central point of the item -- that he and his colleagues knowingly participated in the publication of misleading articles that contained statements they knew to be false. Nor did Dickerson offer a single relevant explanation or justification for the knowing publication, without rebuttal, of McClellan's false statement.
Instead, Dickerson repeatedly argued that he and his colleagues were unable to report that they knew that Rove had outed Plame, because doing so would violate Cooper's confidentiality agreement with Rove. But even if true, this is entirely irrelevant. Neither Media Matters -- nor anyone of whom we are aware -- has suggested that Time should have done anything to break that confidentiality agreement. Media Matters and others have simply suggested that Dickerson and his colleagues should not have published unchallenged statements they knew to be false and that they should not have misled Time's readers. During his Al Franken Show appearance, instead of answering Franken's question about the February 7 Media Matters item, Dickerson suggested that those who have criticized the Time articles do so because they "hate Karl Rove" -- precisely the sort of irrelevant misdirection that journalists scoff at when utilized by politicians.
Dickerson now writes for Slate.com, which is published by Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. Neither Cooper, nor Duffy, nor Time magazine has addressed the questions Media Matters has raised about the October 2003 article.
From Dickerson's February 8 appearance on The Al Franken Show:
FRANKEN: You were, as White House correspondent for Time magazine, privy to the fact that Matt Cooper had talked to Karl Rove, and that Karl Rove had outed Valerie Plame, not by name but by identity, to Matt Cooper. And tell me if I got this wrong -- that there were in subsequent articles you contributed to in one way or another in Time magazine that wrote about the controversy of Plamegate, there was things like quoting Scott McClellan saying the White House had nothing to do with this, that kind of thing, where you guys knew that he was not telling -- that what he was saying wasn't true. And that you allowed it to stand without saying, "We know this not to be true." Which, I understand why you would do that. But there are some people a little peeved about this.
DICKERSON: Yes, there are some people peeved about that. I think that's right: I think if you look at the articles, you know, when they were written, it was all very, very carefully written. And the reason you can't just come out and say, "They're big liars, they're big liars," is because you end up giving up a source. Now, people who hate Karl Rove and hate the president think, well, "Yes, damn it, you've got to give up your source." But, um, you know --
The "very carefully written" articles Dickerson referred to contained statements Dickerson and his colleagues knew to be false and misleading -- a fact that Dickerson has not contested. Dickerson's attempt to shift the discussion to "people who hate Karl Rove" is misleading at best: The Media Matters item that sparked this conversation did not include a single negative word about Rove. Karl Rove is not the issue here; Time's publication of a misleading article containing statements its authors knew to be false is the issue. Nor did the Media Matters item suggest Time should have "give[n] up" its source. It simply suggested that Time reporters should not have misled their readers.
As Dan Froomkin, columnist for Washingtonpost.com (also published by Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive), explained in addressing the Media Matters item, Dickerson and his Time colleagues had several options that would have neither "give[n] up" their source nor misled their readers:
Media Matters, the liberal media watchdog Web site, raises an interesting point about Time Magazine's coverage of the Valerie Plame affair.
Back in this October 2003 story, the magazine reported: "White House spokesman Scott McClellan said accusations of Rove's peddling information are 'ridiculous.' Says McClellan: 'There is simply no truth to that suggestion.'"
It is now clear that several reporters and editors at Time knew very well that McClellan's statement was false.
Media Matters writes: "But despite that knowledge, they participated in the publication of an article containing that quote, with no indication that it was untrue. They participated in the publication of that article, which, in reporting that 'Rove was initially accused by Wilson of being the man behind the leak,' implied that Rove was no longer under suspicion -- even though they all knew that Rove was, in fact, [Matt] Cooper's source."
Is there any excuse for a news organization to print a statement that they know is untrue, without at least trying to clue their readers into the truth? That seems to defeat the central purpose of journalism.
So what should Time have done? One option might have been to go to Rove and say: We know McClellan isn't telling the truth. You either need to tell us the truth, on the record, or tell him the truth.
What if Rove had refused? One option might have been to go to McClellan and tell him that they had reason to think his statement was not accurate.
And if McClellan brushed them off? They should have stopped at nothing until they found a way to report what they knew to be the truth.
Froomkin did not suggest another option: Had Time reporters been unable to find a way to "clue their readers in to the truth," as Froomkin put it, they could have simply decided not to print the false statement.
Franken and Dickerson continued:
FRANKEN: Do you really give up the source, or do you just go, "They're big liars, they're big liars, but we won't say who" --
DICKERSON: Well, you can't do that, because you can't, for one of two reasons. One, you've got to show your proof, you can't just say "They're big liars, and we know something you don't, and that's -- but we're not going to say any more." And if you say we do know they're liars, when they're talking about whether Karl Rove was involved or not, the only way --
FRANKEN: Well, wait a minute, wait a minute, why can't you say, "They're big liars, they're big liars," and not show your proof? Because you don't show your proof all the time.
DICKERSON: Well, but you can't, you can't say, in that instance, it's -- if you say, "We're certain we know," there's only one way you could be, or in this case, when you're talking about Karl Rove, there are only ways, you know there's, if you know, you know it's Karl. I mean, you can't--
Dickerson's explanation of why he and his colleagues couldn't have indicated that they knew McClellan's statement was false is not only completely irrelevant, it is inaccurate as well. Dickerson's point seems to be that if Time had reported that McClellan's statement was false, readers would have known that Rove had outed Plame -- and that readers would have known that Rove had done so to a Time reporter, thus violating the Cooper-Rove confidentiality agreement.
But that is not true. Readers would not necessarily have known Rove was Time's source. To take the most obvious example: An October 2003 reader would have had to consider the possibility that another journalist -- say, New York Times reporter Judith Miller or syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak -- to whom Rove outed Plame had told a Time reporter about it on background, so that the truth would come out without anyone knowing that they had broken their agreement with Rove. By Dickerson's logic, once Rove and Cooper agreed that their conversation was confidential, no Time reporter could ever report that Rove had outed Plame -- regardless of how they found out about it.
Franken and Dickerson continued:
FRANKEN: Well, you're in an odd position, because you guys are --
DICKERSON: You are in an odd position, I guess, but the larger point is this: You have a source, and you make an agreement with that source not to blow their identity. That, you have to keep that agreement. And the reason you do that, even in a situation where some people may, for all those people who may hate Karl Rove and this White House and want them to be outed, you've got to remember that the same protections are the ones that protected the people who came forth about the NSA wiretapping. And people come forward about things all the time knowing their cover isn't going to get blown. Sometimes it's in an instance that people would like, because it uncovers an NSA wiretapping scheme that they don't think is appropriate, and in some cases it protects people that they hate and would like to see run out on a rail. But you can't pick and chose.
One might imagine that the "larger point" is actually that journalists should never knowingly mislead their readers -- under any circumstances. Again, however, Dickerson's focus on a journalist's agreement with a source is a red herring. It simply doesn't matter. He and his colleagues could have fulfilled their obligation not to mislead their readers while still respecting Cooper's agreement with Rove. They chose not to do so.
Franken and Dickerson continued:
FRANKEN: Is there any distinction, however, between a whistleblower who is outing something that the government is doing which is possibly unconstitutional, and a whistleblower who is outing a whistleblower?
DICKERSON: Well, it, sure, there is, but the point is, you have, when you make a promise to somebody, you make the promise, you make the promise. It stands. I mean, it's not, you, that's, you know, you don't say, well, you don't say, "Well, I'm going to make this promise until things get, you know, until I decide not to make it, or until I decide I'm going to out you." I mean, you know, there's just, it's not the way you do it.
One might imagine that printing statements of government officials that you know to be false -- without any hint of rebuttal -- is "not the way you do it," either. Dickerson, however, expressed no regret that he had participated in the publication of an article that did exactly that.
Franken and Dickerson concluded:
FRANKEN: You're gonna get the tough questions on this show. But you know that, don't you?
DICKERSON: Sure, sure, sure. But you can see how you can't, you know, you make a promise, and then you just decide to break the promise, it's --
FRANKEN: Can't you just, like, hint --
DICKERSON: You can't have a, you can't have a, you can't have a situation, you can't have a press that works, or that functions, without anonymous sources.
FRANKEN: I understand.
DICKERSON: I mean, maybe in a perfect world, we'd like no anonymous sources ever --
FRANKEN: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
DICKERSON: -- and it's all, but you can't, if one person decides, well, I'm going to break this because in this instance it's compelled, now, of course, I mean, if it's a murder, or some other -- situation, perhaps you have a situation where you're saving lives by breaking a confidence, that's another matter. But in this, but in, in order for the system to stay whole, you have to keep your promises.
"In order for the system to stay whole," Dickerson lectured, reporters have to keep their promises to sources. He offered no insight about what happens to the system when journalists knowingly deceive their readers.
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Be sure to use ginger beer, not ginger ale. The beer's more assertive taste will marry well with Averna, an herbal Italian amaro.
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- 2 ounces Averna (an Italian amaro)
- 1 round, thin slice of lime
Fill a highball glass with ice. Add the ginger beer, then place a fine-mesh strainer over the glass and squeeze in the juice from the lemon half (this should be about 1/2 ounce). Pour the Averna on top. Garnish with the slice of lime.
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07 Focus Cold Air Intake System
Whats up peps, I am putting the K&N cold air intake system on my 07 2.0L, any thoughts or concerns???? Hope I bought the correct system, I no there is a few out there, I figured I couldnt go wrong w/K&N...
i had the f2. went to k&n also. i like mine a lot
Moved to Duratec Performance Chat. Ford Focus Technical Chat is for discussions pertaining to maintenance, recalls, and vehicle repairs. This is the proper forum for discussions about performance modification to your engine.
I have one of those K&N's, and I have problems with lean codes. I think it might be related to something else, so we'll see what happens when I do some other maintenance I'm overlooking.
I've got the Typhoon K&N Intake on my 07,
I like that FocusedSlayer
Thank you,
Most people are afraid of heat soak because of the way its positioned . But I've never had any problems out of it and I've had it on a couple of months after I bought the car.
I understand heat soak. same on out mustangs. Car engine bays are much cooler now than long ago.lol. My 91 saleen got around 110/120 after sitting for 45min. so driving i know cooler do to air flow. If it is a factor then all a person would have to do is add 6/8 more iches to put filter in fender. It would be up high, right behind light. Not down low like mine. I know mine picks up hot air from the road way. Closer to road more heat to get. I learn that with the pony to.
Thanks, I will post some pics when I get it installed...
@ focusedslayer....what sizes are the piping on that? your setup is the same as what im wanting to do. in fact your car is the same as mine except i have an 06. im wanting to that exact setup. i jus want to make sure i grab the right sensor seeing as there are two sensors. lol
Posted via FF Mobile I went to K&N's website then filled out the make,model and year and it gave that Typhoon intake and I think 1 other option for the intake that fits close to the ground.
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I think my puppy may of caught parvo disease
i was taking my ten week old jack russel puppy for a walk , he has had one shot.and i took him down to the woods and he was near something i do not know if it was cat or dog poo what should i do? i would have to put him down if he caught parvo
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Is he sick? If he is not sick then he doesn't have parvo. If he IS sick you need to take him to a vet and find out what is the matter with him. People have let dogs die because they thought they had parvo and they really only had an upset tummy from eating something bad. Keep him on his leash so he can't get into stuff when you are walking him. That will be much safer.
Member 641257 answered on 4/13/10. Helpful? / 0
oh no!
take him to the vet immediately. How do you know it was not raccoon droppings they carry round worms, hook worms, tape worms, distemper and rabies sometimes.
If it was near water and the woods, it was a raccoon and they carry MANY parasites.
My friend in the club his dog ate raccoon poops two weeks ago and he got VERY sick. He said the dog had dirrehea, fever and vomiting.
Opposums carry another parasite that causes paralysis and death. sorry about that but they do , they are the ones who really cause damage. It is a water traveler too. www.labbies.com/lepto.htm
We had a pony we had to put to sleep that got that. He had grass where a Oppossum poo'd we didn't know.
Hope your pup gets better soon.
Dieta answered on 4/13/10. Helpful? / 0
First off, don't panic, and don't make assumptions to quickly.
Not every wild animal is infected with this virus.
If your dog suddenly began to feel sick, then its a good chance he has picked something up, but only a vet can diagnose exactly what.
So before jumping to conclusion and putting your very special breed to sleep, make 100% sure that it is necessary.
He may have lucked out this time. I sure hope so!!!
My property is heavily wooded. My youngest dog Gidget was dropped out here, and I have no idea how many days she may have wondered this wooded area before finding her way to my door. She was somewhere between 7-9 weeks. She was wormy, she ate poop and bugs, so I can only assume she had stumbled across alot of squirrel/opossum and rabbit poop on her journey. She didn't have shots, but fortunately worms were her only infestation and the vet got rid of them quickly.
So, give your JR a chance. He may be just fine!!
Good luck!!!
Gidget answered on 4/13/10. Helpful? / 0
I understand you are worried, but I'm not sure how you can go from thinking he may have been exposed simply because he was near some other animal's feces to even thinking about putting him down.
Take Fudge to the vet and have him checked out. There's no reason to even think about putting him down even if he is sick. If you catch it in time, though very grave, parvo is an illness which some dogs DO recover from.
It's more likely that he'll be just fine and doesn't have parvo, but do take him in if you suspect anything at all. But don't always assume the worst unless you've been told to by your vet.
Good luck!
Jack answered on 4/13/10. Helpful? / 0


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* Minister says India plan could put climate talks back on track
* But says Cancun talks overshadowed by Japan's Kyoto comments
By Krittivas Mukherjee
NEW DELHI, Dec 2 (Reuters) - An Indian proposal on how rich and poor nations report their actions to fight global warming could help get the United States on board for a broad agreement on climate change, India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh said on Thursday.
Negotiators at Nov. 29 to Dec. 10 U.N. climate talks in Mexico are trying to define the climate actions required of developed and emerging economies, to overcome a major area of dispute in sharing the burden of carbon emissions cuts.
Stalling progress is the question how rich and poor countries report their cuts and actions, and whether this controversial issue also called measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) should be subject to international review.
In Mexico, India is proposing all countries, rich and poor, that contribute more than 1 percent of global greenhouse gases should report their steps to the United Nations every three years. Others can report their actions every six years. Continued...


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I Agree With Arnold Schwartzeneger — WHAT??????
Arnold Schwartzeneger is a tool. A HUGE tool. Cheated on his wife…MULTIPLE times, fathered a child with one of the many women, then wrote a tell-all book detailing said cheating and general narcisistic behavior. And then…and THEN goes on a press junket to end all press junkets telling anyone who will listen that he is confident that once his wife Maria calms down that…get this…SHE WILL TAKE HIM BACK!!!!!!!!
You can't say the guy doesn't have a set. I watched him on Piers Morgan last night and he was saying the same thing he's said on all the other interviews then Piers asked him about politics. He asked what he thinks of all the negative campaign ads going on right now in the presidential election cycle and he said…now get this…that BOTH sides MAKE STUFF UP!!!!
Now I can't say I, EVERYBODY, didn't know this already but I have NEVER heard ANY politician say this EVER!!!! I have heard them say that they disagree with the tactic but I have NEVER heard a politician admit THAT THEY MAKE STUFF UP!!!!. Especially when your party is REALLY CLOSE in the polls this close to the election…I guess Arnold has decided he's done in politics and just doesn't care or he's too narcisistic to think that it would hurt him.
So…I agree with Arnold. They make stuff up. BOTH parties. This is just killing me-seriously…but I guess truth is truth. Even when a narcisistic, egotistical, mysoginistic politician speaks it.
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T-350 question
I just started a full restoration on a 86 c10 I picked up. I pulled the trans out today cause I wanted to put a b&m shift trans kit in it. But I'm not sure if its a 350 or 350c. The one thing I did notice is there is a HD mark on the top of the case. Can anyone help or tell me what to look for.
probly a 375 witch is a th400 with a 350 style out put shaft so a turbo 400 shift kit will work
th 350 used till 1980 had rear modulator and cable down shift
th 350c 81-86 looks like a th350 but has a blue square plug on driver side
t 400 or 375 modulator on passenger side and kick down switch on driver side
The thm-350c was stock in those trucks. I had an 84 GMC Sierra with the 250cid 2 barrel straight 6 with the 350c.
It has the 4 prong square plug which is for the TCC lockup.
After cleaning it up I noticed there is the-375 written on it so I'm thinking this was put in in place of the the stock one because the torque converter was replaced as well
I meant to put th-375 sorry
The TH350C has an electrical plug adjacent to the shift shaft. Some were 4 prong, square plugs and others were two prong like shown below:
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LA VERNE - Al Mendoza of La Verne did what he had to do in Vietnam as a combat-trained Marine. Although he served two terms, acted as a tunnel rat and point man in always potentially fatal engagements and took part in 21 major battles, he saw himself as just a grunt preserving freedom for fellow Americans.
The problem for Mendoza was losing so many comrades, then returning to an unappreciative nation.
"I didn't understand why people were spitting on me and calling me names," Mendoza sadly reflected. "It took me 40 years to get straightened out. I went through hell and back. Without my wife Rosemary and my daughter Melissa, I would have given up. "
Melissa, a Bonita High School and Stanford University honors graduate who is now an University of La Verne psychology doctoral candidate, didn't always understand her father's anguish from his military experiences and the Vietnam War. He never spoke about his pain, but she knew his spirit was often troubled.
Al figured because he didn't tremble, have panic attacks or become violent, he didn't suffer from post-traumatic-stress disorder. Wading through bureaucratic red tape, he finally found Dr. Paul Custer. When the Upland clinical psychologist suggested he might suffer from PTSD, Mendoza was initially offended because Custer was not a veteran.
"I later realized he cared," Mendoza said.
And so did his daughter.
When Al agreed to participate in former Rep. David Dreier's Veterans History Project, he discovered talking with and being around other veterans helped him and them. Melissa took note of this and decided to widen the scope of veterans helping each other. She had been the keynote speaker at La Verne's Memorial Day commemoration in 2009 and heard more stories about veterans trying to reintegrate into families, communities and even themselves.
"Talking to my dad and other veterans I realized this is a very specific culture," Melissa said about the reasoning behind founding Veterans Engaging Together (VET) to partner older veterans with younger ones and soldiers returning from Iraq, Afghanistan and dangerous duties. "There's a language, a camaraderie and mutual respect among veterans,
"Who better to support veterans than other veterans?" she rhetorically asked. "Growing up as a daughter of a veteran, I was affected indirectly by his experiences. But my dad wasn't talking to me or my mom about his military or wartime experiences. "
VET meets at the La Verne Community Center from 9 a.m. to noon on the second Friday and fourth Wednesday of every month. It is not a therapy service, Melissa clarified. Issues facing veterans and soldiers have been over-researched by professionals who are often not veterans, she opined, but veterans themselves know "where the rubber meets the road. "
"Beyond one hour with a psychologist in an office, veterans have a whole world to negotiate trying to acclimate to families and communities again," Melissa continued. "An older veteran may have been in a different conflict in a different time, but he shares similar emotional experiences. They face the same problems trying to become a father, mother, community person again. Many veterans ask why their comrades died and they lived. They must find purpose and meaning in their lives again in order to heal. "
Melissa said everyone feels the fallout when soldiers come home, but soldiers are more apt to talk with another soldier. VET offers them the chance to come together, talk and share information.
"Older veterans help younger ones understand they're not alone. They leave each session with renewed hope," she added. "The only requirement for participation in VET is being a veteran. There are no fees, no agenda and the gathering is informal. "
"It works," Al said.
He and Melissa agreed PTSD and other serious issues must be addressed. But it is equally important to "harness the strength of men and women who've already proven their loyalty, commitment and willingness to sacrifice," she added.
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Bayou Country Superfest Fun Fest to offer free fun
BATON ROUGE - Organizers for the fifth annual Bayou Country Superfest Fan Fest at Tiger Stadium released their schedule of events and more information Tuesday.
The country music festival runs Friday, May 23, through Sunday, May 25, and includes high-profile country music stars in the stadium as well as traditional tailgating outside at Fan Fest.
The Fan Fest will be held at Lot 101 in the shadow of Tiger Stadium on LSU's campus and is free to the public. Attendees will have the opportunity to see free musical performances, meet and greet artists, win prizes, and buy official festival merchandise.
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The filming of Godzilla took over Moncton Street yesterday in the quiet fishing village of Steveston. I've said it before, but I'll say it again. Every production that comes to B.C. has to film there.
Of course I'm joking about every production having to film in Steveston, but it does seem that everything does film there.
Yesterday was no different and it was the turn of the Hollywood movie Godzilla.


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Drawing out quite the list of Tinseltown stars, Perez Hilton held a belated birthday bash at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles on Saturday night (March 27).
Kicking off the festivities following the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, Hollywood hotties such as Audrina Patridge, Lindsay Lohan, Katy Perry and Ashley Tisdale all turned up to check out the 'Carn-Evil' Theatrical Freak and Funk themed fete.
Making the trip to Sin City to support a friend, Leona Lewis paid a visit to Caesars Palace Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Friday night (March 12).
Looking adorable, the "Bleeding Love" babe happened to be among the stars on hand for Matt Goss' Live From Caesars Palace stage show debut.
Doing their best to boost candy sales, the stars were out in full force at the Sugar Factory inside Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas on Sunday (February 14).
Opening on Valentine's Day, the festive fete brought out former "Girls Next Door" co-stars Holly Madison and Kendra Wilkinson, who brought along her footballer hubby Hank Baskett.
They're always up for a good time, and last night (January 19) Kim and Khloe Kardashian were spotted at the launch of Melanie Brown's Sugar Factory Couture Lollipop series.
The "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" babes looked lovely as they posed for the paparazzi before heading inside the Guys and Dolls Lounge in West Hollywood.
Looking all glammed up, Melanie Brown was spotted leaving the Mayfair hotel wearing a blonde wig paired with a sexy sequence silver mini dress on Tuesday evening (October 27).
The Spice Girl happened to be out for a photocall for the launch of Glaceau Vitamin Water.
Taking advantage of her newly-single status, Lindsay Lohan was spotted out at H.Wood nightclub last night (April 20).
The "Mean Girls" cutie showed off her ever-thinning frame with a pair of low-rise jeans and a fitted t-shirt, though she looked to be a bit distressed.
Though things haven't been going too well for Lindsay Lohan as of late, it seems she may have finally found a gig to earn some money and keep her busy.
Making the weekend trip to Sin City, Lindsay Lohan was on hand at Planet Hollywood to celebrate the opening Of PEEPSHOW on Saturday night (April 18).
The "Mean Girls" starlet joined a star-studded guest list, mingling with PEEPSHOW frontwoman and former Spice Girl, Melanie Brown.


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31 weeks and I have gained 30lbs! Holy crap, and I am only 5'2". I though I would gain the typical 25-35lbs total during this pregnancy, but apparently I am in store for a bit more than that. It scares me that only around 15lbs of this will go away after my baby is born... then I will have an additional 30lbs or so to lose on my own... Oh my good lord almighty... I feel SO huge!
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Looking forward to a wonderful followed by some tasty and then
31w and 11lbs.
I was in the negatives until after 20wks. Typical for me to lose about 10+lbs in the first trimester.
My weight gain with others has ranged from 1lb-29lb, So anywhere from nothing to 30 seems a fine amount for me
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30 weeks and I'm 17 pounds up. 5 of those in the last week!
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32 weeks tomorrow. I am still down one pound.
At 28 weeks, 4 days and gained 10 pounds. No gain for the past two months. I started about 60 pounds overweight though so I'm pretty much on target. I was told I shouldn't gain more than 20 pounds.
31 weeks today, and I'm up to a total of 13 pounds. I was negative until about 20 weeks. If things keep on track, hopefully I'll stay around a total of 25 pounds, which is a good place to be for starting overweight. I've never gained this slowly before, so it's new to me! 4 of those pounds were in just the last 3 weeks, however! Need to start controlling my ice cream cravings right about now. ;)
SAHM to Melinda (Oct '03), Jacob (Aug '05), Alex (Apr '08), and Malcolm (Sept 29, '11)
32 weeks and 15 pounds. I was about 10 pounds overweight to start with, so if at all possible I would like to keep it around 20 pounds total. This past week I gained 2 pounds from eating crap, for some reason I had a major honey cruller craving!
~Iris~ Catholic mama to DD1 11/15/05 * DD2 04/28/08 * 06/23/2010 * and our little rainbow DS 10/07/11
31.5 weeks and up 21 lbs....I started out 13 lbs over my pp weight with DS so hoping to keep the total gain under 30lbs but ideally closer to 26 lbs or so...we'll see.
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24 lb at 29 weeks. Yikes. Last time I was right on target all the way through and ended up gaining 29 lb total. 14 lb came off at birth and it took me a *year* to lose the remaining 15 (granted I wasn't trying really). This time I am hovering at the upper edge of the max recommended weight gain. (I started both pregnancies at a healthy weight - BMI 21.8 for DD and 21.4 for this baby.)
Honestly my biggest motivation to keep it down is I really do not want to deal with delivering a big baby - DD was just under 7 lb and that was hard enough, thank you.
Me, DH, DD1 (2009), DD2 (2011), and DS (2015).
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29 weeks, 12 lbs at my last appointment. I started out about 3 lbs heavier than before my first pregnancy. Heavier than I'd like to be, but not significantly so.
Loving wife to a wonderful and Godly man, and SAHM to two beautiful boys, DS1, natural hospital birth (2/2010) and DS2, beautiful homebirth (10/2011)
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I'm 30 weeks and now 18 pounds up. It is feeling like a lot more, I can't breath! I'm a bit worried that none of my winter clothes will fit. I hate buying new clothes, but I suppose I will just have to suck it up.
Social working mommy to 10/10/11, three cats, and a dog.
31 weeks today and I've gained 26 pounds. I don't actually feel very big anywhere but my very round belly, but obviously other bits of me are larger than I realize...I turned around yesterday and knocked a water glass off the table with my bum . DH of course thought it was hilarious.
Head over heels for DH bonus mama to super sweet DSS (10/9) and mama to DD (10/11)!
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While retirement homes for the elderly are commonplace in the US, they are a new, and growing, phenomenon in India. Reporter Elliot Hannon visits one of the newly constructed Indian retirement communities to see who's moving in.
MARCO WERMAN: I'm Marco Werman and this is The World. Here's the way it's supposed to work: your parents care for you as you grow up, and you care for your parents as they grow old. Well, the second part of that equation seems to happen less and less these days. Modern economies tend to reorder the traditional family. A case in point is India. The country's booming economy has brought changes to its family culture, and has led to a new growth area: retirement homes. Elliot Hannon visits one of the new Indian retirement communities to see who's moving in and who's cashing in.
ELLIOT HANNON: If you stand in the middle of the Ustav Ashiana retirement complex, there's a certain sense of dejà vu. Fountains tumble in manicured gardens. Gray-haired retirees shuffle along on afternoon walks. Inside the activity center, card players pair up in the early evening. And elderly spectators gather as a ping pong rally heats up. While it may seem like a Florida retirement village with its leisurely pace, this one is located two hours south of New Delhi in the Indian state of Rajasthan, and the 600-unit complex has a few features you won't find in Ft. Lauderdale. Small speakers around the courtyard send soothing mantras into the night air. They are part of the mediation centers provided for the residents. And for the more devout, a Hindu temple has nightly services. Until recently, you wouldn't find retirement communities like this one in India. This is a country where people are supposed to care for the parents who raised them. It's part of the deal. But the terms of that deal are starting to change, says Jitender Datta. He owns a condo at the Ustav and splits his time between India and Baltimore, Maryland.
JITENDER DATTA: Thirty, forty years back, we never could even think that they should have a separate place for retirement. But now because of the new dynamics of the country for the last probably 15, 16 years, I think it's changing, it's changing a lot. So even your kids probably, they don't want to stay in the same city because they got a better job somewhere else. Just like in the US.
HANNON: As the economy in India has taken off, so have young job seekers, moving from villages to cities, and from Indian cities, to capitals around the world. The new economic climate in the country has meant better-paying opportunities, and more of them. But it also means late hours at the office, or graveyard shifts working for Western companies. All of those changes have affected Indian families, and it's sparked a new market for retirees in India. Varun Gupta is the Director of Ashiana Housing Limited.
VARUN GUPTA: Around 2000, we got serious, we saw the economy change. We saw that there is a requirement, which is gaining. We saw in our projects in Bhiwadi, which were normal group housing, that senior citizens were buying in to those projects.
HANNON: Sensing a growing and untapped market, Ashiana built one of the country's first retirement homes. The very wealthy could already afford to outfit their houses and lives for old age. So Ashiana took aim at a less affluent market, and affordability was key, says Gupta. A one bedroom condo at the Ustav runs about $40,000. That may seem like a great deal in the US, but it's still out of reach for most Indians. Ashiana opened the Ustav in 2004. Sales got off to a slow start, but gradually newspaper ads and word of mouth paid off, and the company sold all 600 units. So it started building two more complexes. For Gupta, that's just the beginning.
GUPTA: We have a plan to get into about ten retirement communities over the next two years. There's huge potential. It should be about $10 billion dollars worth of real estate value in demand, and supply very limited.
HANNON: In the late evening at the Ustav, 50 residents file into a bright hall for a social gathering. The men are decked out in suits and ties and the women are draped with brightly colored saris. They look at ease as they shout over each other to answer trivia questions. And as they debate how to answer "Who is the creator of the universe in Hindu mythology?" it's hard not to think, "Who needs Florida?" For the World, I'm Elliot Hannon, New Delhi.
WERMAN: Elliot also sent us some photos from those Indian retirement communities. You can see those at The World dot org.


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Two women were praying one day.
One cried out to God, "Oh God, you love me and you love my unborn baby. Please have mercy on us and help me to find a job that will enable me to keep my baby; to feed her, clothe her, and keep her forever."
Elsewhere a second woman cried out to God. "Oh God, I am unable to have children. Please speed up my adoption process and bring me a child quickly. Fill this empty hole in my heart with a baby who needs my help."
One year later, a woman was proudly introducing her daughter to her loved ones. "Isn't she beautiful? For this child, I prayed and prayed. God answered my prayers. It was God's will that she would be in my arms."
Elsewhere, a woman sat on a bench with empty arms, listening to a friend,
"God must have better plans for you."
"Everything happens for a reason."
"God shut those doors. It wasn't supposed to happen."
Seeking God's will used to be so simple in my mind.
It was so simple that these pithy, reductionist sayings didn't seem bizarre to me at all.
But when we choose to see God's will in everything, while ignoring the futility and despair of this life, we miss God's will entirely and we lose sight of the hope of the gospel itself.
These are eight myths that I have identified in my life about God's will and God's involvement:
1. High school students should know what God's will is for their lives and choose a college major accordingly.
The decisions we make during our early adulthood (career, marriage, etc.) alter the courses of our lives. But to expect that an 18-year-old would have the perfect life mapped out for himself/herself places too much responsibility, expectations, and false hopes on a young student, setting him/her up for failure and disappointment.
Those dreams look different in ten years, for better or for worse. And there is nothing sacred about the age of 18 in the determination of one's destiny. Mostly likely, the 18-year-old will get it wrong a few times.
2. God's plan for me is my vocation.
God's will is about loving God and loving others. Only in a position of privilege can a person have the notion that work should be some romantic expression of his/her gifts and talents.
3. If you are bored with your job, it must not be your calling, or God's will for your life.
The gospel does not promise the actualization of our full potential. Many martyrs have died without being able to make a living performing in a band or writing a ground-breaking novel.
We tend to believe the myth that our fulfillment in life involves labor which is creative, stimulating, and success-generating. But the idea that God's will must involve following one's dreams contradicts Scripture and disrespects the millions of impoverished people around the world who labor in harsh circumstances every day to provide for their families.
4. Some people have high callings.
God's will does not have a front row and a back row. Missionary martyr is not first place; suburban housewife or husband is not number 53.
Finding wholeness and love in this life is all there is. There isn't a bonus level with ninja powers.
5. If God does not want me to do something, God will close the door.
If God always were to "shut doors" on disobedience, then there would be no abuse, no lies, no bank robberies, or littering. God does not close doors to prevent all bad things from happening.
And the converse is also a myth: If all the doors are opening for me, it must be God's will. Shouldn't we beware of the illusion of orchestration through circumstances? Sometimes the best things are ruined and all the doors are shut in our faces. Sometimes the worst things open up for us with ease.
6. If something goes wrong, what you are doing must not be God's will.
Resistance is not an appropriate gauge of the righteousness of a decision, nor is a "sense of peace". Sometimes resistance proves to us that we are following Jesus. And sometimes resistance happens because this planet is a tough place to live.
7. Everything that happens to me is part of God's plan.
Things happen to us that are contrary to God's will. A person neglects or abuses a child. A drunk driver has an accident. God does not cause these things. What if you were supposed to get that job and someone lost the paperwork because this world is a dark place? What if your child was supposed to thrive at birth, but humans don't always do their jobs perfectly?
What if what happened wasn't truly meant to be? Is that okay? Can futile, awful things happen in this world?
8. Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
Why don't we put our faith in the Holy Spirit working within us much more than the signs and wonders without? Why do we look for confirmation of God's will in tealeaves and toast crumbs? Are we really going to take this or that highway because someone had a bumper sticker that seemed like a "God thing"? Why does this seem more like voodoo and less like faith?
One of the most amazing, gospelly books in the Bible, Ecclesiastes, sets us free from the pursuit of meaning in all things. Nothing is new under the sun. Everything is a chasing after the wind. The wisdom in this poetry can set us free from seeing our lives through a Jesus-crystal ball. Sometimes bad things happen and that's the way this world works. This fallen, dark, corrupt world gets it wrong. Why does that surprise us? Why do we need to explain it away?
The answer I have found to all of these myths is in one statement: This too shall be redeemed.
We do not have to find meaning in every event, every change, every decision, every slight, every loss, every win. We find meaning in watching it all be redeemed in time.
Eventually. Perhaps at the end of all things when things are made whole again.
Elsewhere, a woman sat on a bench with empty arms, listening to a friend,
"God must have better plans for you."
"Everything happens for a reason."
"God shut those doors. It wasn't supposed to happen."
She looked up at this friend and said with sadness and peace, "No, I'm not sure it was supposed to be this way. But this too shall be redeemed."


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Dead at 36, killed by his almost religious adherence to a diet of drugs, cheap brandy and absinthe, Modigliani's entire adult life amounted to a suicide committed by degrees. He may have believed too literally in a certain romantic notion of what it is to be an artist, widely current in fin-de-siecle and early 20th-century Paris, and have mistaken disorientation of the senses for inspiration.
Surprisingly little is known about him. He emerges from various accounts as a kind of caricature early Modernist, the supreme peintre maudit. His friends even nicknamed him 'Modi', pronounced 'maudit' ('damned'), a fact of which he seems to have been singularly proud and which he did his damnedest to live up to. In the stories told about Modi he is a cartoon character, invariably manic and absurd: pawning his clothes for drink or drugs to dance, naked and intoxicated, through the streets of Montmartre in midwinter; demolishing one of the walls of his studio in a drunken rage; abruptly terminating an argument with his lover, Beatrice Hastings, by throwing her through a window.
He cannot always have been quite so stereotypically crazed, and Picasso, intriguingly, suspected him of playing up to his image, noting that he always reserved his worst behaviour for public occasions - but there is almost no evidence of what he might have been like in his quieter moments. The relationship between Modigliani's personality and his most admired art - those beatifically calm, elongated stone heads with inscrutable almond- shaped eyes - has never been clear. He has been submerged by his own myth and become, merely, a colourful character, almost entirely devoid of human characteristics.
The Unknown Modigliani, which opened last week at the Royal Academy, is a promisingly titled exhibition. It suggests disclosure, a fleshing out of the bones of the Modigliani myth, a revelation (or at least a glimpse) of the private man. The show consists almost exclusively of drawings from the collection of Paul Alexandre, a doctor and friend of Modigliani's said to have supplied him liberally with opium in exchange for works of art. Although the show offers no deep insight into Modigliani's personality, it is possible to read between the immaculate lines of the artist's drawings and to guess at some of the conflicts that were played out in his sad, short life.
The earliest drawings in the exhibition reveal an artist fashionably fascinated by the subject matter of the Parisian fin-de-siecle, producing stylish impressions of essentially the same demi-monde painted by Toulouse-Lautrec. Sketching a gawping clown or a dancer lifting her skirts to an appreciative audience in a Montmartre music-hall, Modigliani reveals an entirely conventional avant-garde determination to find the subjects of his art in low rather than high life. Much the same impulse lay behind his contemporary Picasso's melancholic pictures of circus troupes and the urban poor, the sad harlequins and emaciated laundresses of his Blue and Rose Period pictures.
Modigliani's drawings of this time are shot through, too, with an uneasy and somewhat forced mysticism. He draws a pair of spiritualists, rapt and entranced during a seance, clearly attempting to endow his subjects with a sinister and sacerdotal intensity but sabotaging the effect with his characteristically elegant, dandyish draughtsmanship. The resulting awkwardness is extremely characteristic of much of Modigliani's work: the sense of a split between subject and manner, of an artist working the wrong genre like a comic actor trying to play Macbeth or a novelist of social manners attempting to write epic poetry. Elegance may, in retrospect, have been Modigliani's greatest shortcoming, as well as what came to him most naturally.
There is a scrap of paper behind glass, encountered early in this show, on which he has written what may be the closest he came to a manifesto for his art: 'What I am searching for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the Subconscious, the mystery of what is Instinctive in the human Race.' Not much of a manifesto, perhaps, and it does not even make much sense, but it does give a clear sense of what Modigliani was after: something profound; something powerful; something universal.
This explains why, like many other artists of his time, Modigliani began to work in ways indebted to non-European art. The elongated oval heads and the solemnly expressionless caryatids that he drew and sculpted were his stab at timeless, tribally powerful art. But unlike Picasso's work in a similar vein, which manages a kind of genuine modern savagery, Modigliani's primitivist work remains curiously and perpetually elegant.
This is particularly apparent in his many drawings of caryatids in the current exhibition. They have the character of stage props, or of architectural decorations, and to note the difference between one drawing and another is often to see an artist working on the irreproachably stylish embodiment of a preconceived formula - adjusting the fine line of a profile, say - rather than responding to the urgings of a dangerous and unfettered creativity. Modigliani may not have been quite the wild man of his myth. This may also explain why he worked so hard at that myth.
Modigliani's primitivism, which lies behind the works for which he has been most often remembered - his sculpted heads, his portraits of people transformed into mute and sightless totems - has a distinctly odd character. It uneasily combines two vastly different traditions of art. His sources might be the Buddhist statuary of India or Cambodian temple sculpture, but his visual sensibility is thoroughly Western European, infused with a kind of bravura seemingly derived from Italian High Renaissance and Mannerist art: Modigliani's caryatids and his long-necked Buddhas with their mysterious smiles owe as much to Leonardo da Vinci and Parmigianino, the painter of long- necked madonnas, as they do to the art of the East. The collision of these various influences and affinities with the artist's avowed intent to confront 'the mystery of what is instinctive in the human race' produces something of a freak: art that is torn between immense spiritual ambition and facility; art that marries the atavistic and the chic.
In another life, Modigliani could have been a talented painter of society portraits. His various drawings of the so-called Amazone, an unnamed Baroness in riding costume, demonstrate his considerable talents for characterisation (almost caricature) as well as his desire to transcend such talents: she is a haughty socialite, on the brink of metamorphosing into one of Modigliani's fey and theatrical temple goddesses. Modigliani might have been happier if he could have admitted that it was to her polite and well-mannered world that he really belonged. Narcotics and alcohol may have been his way of trying to induce, in himself, frenzies that he could not naturally feel; and Modi's tragedy may have been that he expended his life in an attempt to live up to a nickname that did not really describe him.
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No. 10/12 UCLA's Bats Too Much for Lobos
March 3, 2013
New Mexico Lobos Softball - @ San Diego Classic I; March 1-3
San Diego Classic I Tournament Central (links to live stats)
Friday, March 1: Lobos vs. Utah State, 3 p.m. MT | Lobos vs. San Diego, 8 p.m. MT
Saturday, March 2:Long Beach State 6, Lobos 2 | BYU 6, Lobos 1
Sunday, March 3: No. 10/12 UCLA 14, Lobos 3
Up Next: Lobos at the 2013 Husky Softball Classic (hosted by Washington), March 8-10
Game 23 - UCLA 14, New Mexico 3 (5 inn.)
SAN DIEGO -- No. 10/12 UCLA used six hits to score 12 runs in the top of the fourth inning en route to a 14-3 run-rule victory over the New Mexico Lobos on Sunday in the final day of the San Diego Classic I hosted by San Diego State and San Diego.
The Lobos drop to 11-12 overall while the Bruins, who won all five of their games at the Classic, improve to 17-2.
Freshman Courtney Geith and redshirt freshman Karissa Haleman each were 2-for-2 against the Bruins. Haleman drove in two RBIs while Geith drove in the Lobos' other run.
Chelsea Anaya and Naomi Tellez added a hit apiece.
Freshman Lauren Soles got the start and threw five complete innings. In 27 batters faced, she allowed nine hits and five earned runs while walking three and striking out two.
Senior Kari Gutierrez made a brief relief appearance in the top of the fourth inning as did freshman Lisa Rodrigues.
The game was tied at one run apiece through two innings of play. The Bruins struck first, using two hits to score one run in the top of the first inning while the Lobos matched the run in the bottom of the second inning thanks to a single down the right field line by Karissa Haleman that scored Courtney Geith. Geith had led off with a bunt single.
The Bruins pulled ahead, 2-1, in the third as Ally Carda hit a solo home run over the right field fence.
UCLA held the Lobos scoreless in the bottom of the third frame and then entered the fourth and went to work.
The Bruins pounded out six hits -- including two doubles and a triple -- and capitalized on a Lobo error as well as some pitching blunders to put up 12 runs in the top of the inning.
New Mexico tried to find a fit in the circle, putting in Kari Gutierrez as relief and then putting in Lisa Rodrigues before re-entering Soles to get the final two outs of the inning.
Of the 12 runs scored in the inning - six were a result of pitching blunders as three runs were walked in, two scored off a hit-by-pitch and another run scored as a result of a wild pitch.
It was 14-1 heading into the bottom of the inning.
New Mexico put up a run in both the fourth and the fifth. Again it was Haleman driving in Geith in the fourth and in the fifth, a single through the left side by Geith allowed Chelsea Anaya to reach home.
However, the game ended, 14-3, as UCLA had more than an eight-run advantage over the Lobos after five innings of play.
New Mexico travels to Seattle, Wash., next weekend for the 2013 Husky Softball Classic. The Lobos will face Bradley, Seattle, Washington and Yale.


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Carvedilol controlled release is a marketed drug to treat high blood pressure. This study is to compare carvedilol controlled release to carvedilol controlled release plus lisinopril (fixed-dose combination) after repeat dosing in patients with high blood pressure. This is to make sure that when carvedilol controlled release is given with lisinopril it acts the same in the body as when given alone. The study will also assess the safety and tolerability of the fixed-dose combination.
|Drug: SK&F-105517 (COREG CR FDC)
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Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
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|An Open-label, Randomized, Crossover, Repeat-dose Study to Evaluate the Steady-State Pharmacokinetic Profile of the Final Fixed Dose Combination (FDC) Formulation of COREG CR and Lisinopril as Compared to COREG CR in Subjects With Essential Hypertension
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Comparison of the amount of SB-568859 found in the blood after a 7 days of dosing with carvedilol controlled release and carvedilol controlled release plus lisinopril [ Time Frame: 7 days ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Assessment of the safety and tolerability of carvedilol controlled release and the fixed dose combination based on blood and urine tests, vital signs, and reporting of side effects. [ Time Frame: 7 days ]
- The pharmacokinetic parameters to be evaluated are the Tmax, Ct, and t1/2 of carvedilol [R(+)- and S(-)-enantiomers] when administered as the FDC formulation compared to COREG CR alone.
- Safety and tolerability as assessed by clinical data from AE reporting, nurse/physician observations, vital signs, ECGs and safety laboratory tests.
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- Adult males or females of non-child bearing potential who are between 18 and 60 years old.
- Have a history of mild to moderate essential hypertension or present with mild to moderate essential hypertension defined by Diastolic Blood Pressure >/90 and </109 mmHg, and/or Systolic Blood Pressure >/140 and </179 mmHg
- Body weight > 60 kg (132 pounds) and body mass index (BMI) between 19 and 35
Exclusion criteria:
- Any clinically relevant abnormality identified on the screening history, physical or laboratory examination, or any other medical condition or circumstances making the volunteer unsuitable for participation in the study.
- History of advanced retinopathy (i.e., Keith-Wagener Grade III or IV)
- Secondary forms of hypertension including (but not limited to) coarctation of the aorta, primary aldosteronism, renal artery stenosis, or pheochromocytoma
- Type 1 diabetics [note: Type 2 diabetics with HgbA1c less than or equal to 9.0% can be enrolled provided the Investigator considers the subject clinically stable]
- Signs, symptoms, or history of congestive heart failure, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accident, or transient ischemic attacks
- History or presence of clinically significant hepatic disease
- Liver function tests (ALT, AST, total bilirubin or alkaline phosphatase) more than 2 times the upper limit of the laboratory reference range
- History of severe pulmonary disease including asthma or chronic obstructive lung disease or previous history of 'hypersensitivity' to B-blockers
- Previously treated hypertension in subjects in whom, at the discretion of the Investigator, antihypertensive therapy cannot be safely withdrawn during the study
- Subjects who are on more than 3 antihypertensive or diuretic medications [Note: combination antihypertensive and/or diuretic products (such as lisinopril and hydrochlorothiazide) should be considered as 2 medications, and the doses of each component should be recorded.]
- Subjects who metabolize carvedilol poorly based on CYP2D6 genotyping as determined at screening
- History of regular alcohol consumption exceeding 7 drinks/week for women or 14 drinks/week for men (1 drink = 5 ounces of wine or 12 ounces of beer or 1.5 ounces of hard liquor) within 6 months of screening
- Positive urine drug screen (UDS) including alcohol at screening. A minimum list of drugs that will be screened for include amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine, opiates, cannabinoids and benzodiazepines.
- Treatment with an investigational drug within 30 days or five half-lives, whichever is longer, prior to the first dose of study medication (this includes investigational formulations of marketed products)
Subjects receiving ongoing treatment or anticipated to receive treatment with any of the following medications during treatment with study medication:
- monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitors
- any Class I or III antiarrhythmic
- alpha-adrenergic receptor blockers
- beta-2-adrenergic receptor agonists
- lithium
- Consumption of grapefruit or grapefruit juice within 7 days prior to dosing
- Women of child-bearing potential
- NOTE: Pre-menopausal females with a documented tubal ligation or hysterectomy are eligible. Postmenopausal females are eligible, defined as 12 months of spontaneous amenorrhea [in questionable cases a blood sample with simultaneous follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) > 40 MlU/ml and estradiol < 40 pg/ml (<140 pmol/L) is confirmatory].
- Resting pulse rate of ≤ 50 beats per minute (bpm) at screening
- QTc ≥ 450 msec
- ECG criteria as defined in protocol
- Refusal or inability to discontinue use of medications known to be inhibitors/inducers of cytochrome P-450 2C9, 2D6 and 3A4 for at least 14 days or 5 half-lives [which ever is longer] prior to Day 1 of Session 1 and until 48 hours after the last dose of study medication. [Examples include: paroxetine, isoniazid, "azole"antifungal drugs (e.g. itraconazole), erythromycin, ticlopidine, amiodarone, quinidine, rifampin, phenobarbital]
- Donation of blood in excess of 500 mL within a 56-day period including the estimated 210 mL of blood to be drawn during this study
- History of sensitivity to carvedilol, lisinopril, alpha-blockers, beta-blockers or ACE inhibitors
- History of sensitivity to heparin, heparin-induced thrombocytopenia, or sensitivity to any of the study medications or components thereof
- History of angioedema
- Positive for Hepatitis B surface antigen
- Positive for HIV
- Unwillingness or inability to follow the procedures outlined in the protocol or inability to provide written informed consent
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|United States, Texas
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Vascular Diseases
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Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antihypertensive Agents
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Taylor expansion
Hello mathgroup.
I want the coefficients list of the 3rd order Taylor expansion of Cos[x]:
N[CoefficientList[ Normal[Series[ Cos[x],{x,0,3}]],x]]
This gives me
{1., 0, -0.5}
Note that the coefficient of the 3rd order term, being zero, is missing.
N[CoefficientList[ Normal[Series[ Cos[x],{x,0,4}]],x]]
{1., 0, -0.5, 0, 0.0416667}
What should I do against missing zeroes at the and of the List?
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The course of treatment should not be slow kill if there are adult worms - if you are not giving anything you should definitely test 2x a year or every 7 months. Each month that the worms are in there they are doing damage on many levels - to kidneys, heart, lungs, etc. Particularly if a dog is fully active because the more active they are, the more damage that is done - and if you don't know they are HW+, chances are you are doing more than letting them leash potty and go to their bed.
American Heartworm Society | Canine Guidelines
As expected, the number of worms has an effect on the severity of disease, but of equal, if not greater, importance is the activity level of the dog. Controlled studies have shown that dogs infected by surgical transplantation with 50 heartworms and exercise-restricted took longer to develop clinical disease and developed less pulmonary vascular resistance than dogs with 14 heartworms that were allowed moderate activity.
This was also evident in naturally infected dogs where there was no correlation between the number of heartworms and pulmonary vascular resistance and is an indication that the host-parasite interaction plays a significant role in the severity of disease. A subsequent study reported similar findings in dogs being treated with melarsomine. Whereas live heartworms can cause endarteritis and muscular hypertrophy of arteriole walls especially in the caudal pulmonary arteries, dying and dead heartworms cause a significant portion of pathology seen in clinical disease. As worms die from either natural causes or as a result of administration of adulticidal drugs, they decompose and small worm fragments lodge in the distal pulmonary arteriole and capillary beds in the caudal lung lobes blocking blood flow. These worm fragments along with the elicited inflammation and platelet aggregation result in thromboembolisms.
During periods of increased activity or exercise, the increased blood flow to these blocked vessels can cause capillary delamination, rupture and subsequent fibrosis. This leads to increased pulmonary vascular resistance and potential right-sided heart failure. This illustrates a direct correlation between the activity level of the dog and the severity of disease.
What is the course of treatment for heartworm? When its detected early, it is the preventive that is given. I test my dog each spring to make sure she is negative from the previous year, she usually is. If she wasnt, then she would be treated with the preventative. A lot cheaper to just do a test once or twice a year and avoid posioning your dog. Flea prevention. DE is put around the yard and house. Can be put directly on the dog as well. If you are not seeing fleas or are not prevelent in your area, no need to treat. I live in Macedon, NY, just east of Rochester.
As for ticks, I have not found the meds prescribed for the brown dog tick to be effective against the deer ticks that my dogs sometimes pick up. It even says so on the product label. Read your labels people.
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Hey Gator, Got this from a a WSU report
A climate that provides adequate temperature and humidity to support a viable mosquito population, and also sustain sufficient heat to allow maturation of ingested microfilariae to infective, third-stage larvae (L3) within this intermediate host is a pivotal prerequisite for heartworm transmission to occur. Laboratory studies indicate that development and maturation requires the equivalent of a steady 24-hour daily temperature in excess of 64°F (18°C) for approximately one month. Intermittent diurnal declines in temperature below the developmental threshold of 57°F (14°C) for only a few hours retard maturation, even when the average daily temperature supports continued development. At 80° F (27° C), 10 to 14 days are required for development of microfilariae to the infective stage. The length of the heartworm transmission season in the temperate latitudes is critically dependent on the accumulation of sufficient heat to incubate larvae to the infective stage in the mosquito.
GatorBytes - please don't make statements that sound so definitive in these health sections - your declarations are not current research/best practice from the AHS, nor are they necessarily even correct. I am sorry if you don't agree with it; you are entitled to your own opinion but you are not entitled to your own facts.
When was Gator's last heartworm test? Hopefully you are testing every 7 months if you give a med once a month.
And dogs in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse do get HW and yes, the mode of transmission means that people who let their dogs walk around HW+ do make it easier for other dogs to get the disease. This was well noted in the Hurricane Katrina effect. I also ask at my vet office percent of owners who test as recommended and percent of clients who use regular HW meds - either from an Rx the vets provide or buying there, and the numbers are abysmally low, which means that there are definitely dogs who are walking around with HW, making my dogs more susceptible if I were not to use the meds.
rocksdad, in WNY and I use HW year round by mouth - 45 days in the winter, 30 days in the summer, and then for fleas, if necessary, I will use a topical 1x in late June and monitor from there. Generally I use no flea at all but have been concerned with a growing tick population - however, I am at a standstill on that until I figure out what I want to do.
Dogs are considered the definitive host for heartworms ( Dirofilaria immitis). However, heartworms may infect more than 30 species of animals (e.g., coyotes, foxes, wolves and other wild canids, domestic cats and wild felids, ferrets, sea lions, etc.) and humans as well.
American Heartworm Society | Canine Heartworm
O.K, now they are saying could infect humans as well.
Move over Rover, I need your HW pill.
My guess this will be the new herd immunity (like vaccines) activists...."my child caught HW b/c you refused to use prevention on your dog"...LOL
Originally Posted by llombardo View Post
If it's July wouldn't the dose have to be given by at least August 15 to cover the 45 day cycle?
Originally Posted by llombardo;5577418[B
]The only reason why they say give it year round is because owners forget to give it[/B]. The year round covers the owner mistakes. It says it on their page...The "American Heartworm Society is now recommending year-round prevention, even in seasonal areas. One reason for this is compliance to make sure the medicine has been given properly by the pet owner." It's just easier for people to remember once a month. When I asked my vet about every 45 days she said that is fine, but since the cycle runs right on that border I better remember to give it.
The only reason why they say that is for the $$$. To imply millions of dog owners are essentially too stupid to remember is absurd. Not like you have to give it on exact same day every month. It helps you to remember sure...so what if you missed by couple weeks or month....be better for the dog if you spaced it out.
Why in seasonal area's? Ridiculous. This is a pesticide. AHS is saying, whether your dog needs it or not....do it b/c you need 8 months of pesticide to get in practice for when you do need it?
Originally Posted by GatorBytes View Post
And considering, where I live which is mins. from lake Ontario, I can say that consistent temps noted by WSU don't happen until July. So why would I give in may/june...now I could see a dose ONLY in Oct. That would cover off July, Aug. Sept. Oct is not going to have consistent temps in excess of 64 for the month.
So HW pesticide treatment would be once a yr.
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I love how Canada always gets lumped into one big category!
And considering, where I live which is mins. from lake Ontario, I can say that consistent temps noted by WSU don't happen until July. So why would I give in may/june...now I could see a dose ONLY in Oct. That would cover off July, Aug. Sept. Oct is not going to have consistent temps in excess of 64 for the month.
So HW pesticide treatment would be once a yr.
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Here is Dr Dodd's recommendation...
May - October Heartworm Preventive
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Introduction to The Youth Work Forum
There are over 2 million children and young people in London that's around 25% of the city's population! Without question our capital presents the church with an incredible opportunity to reach the next generation with the amazing truth of Jesus! But this vast, diverse and complex city also brings many challenges and as God's people we must be at the forefront of understanding and reflecting on our ever changing culture and the challenges it brings these young people!
Baptist churches across London are already engaged in fantastic ways, serving and reaching the children and young people of our city with the good news of Jesus and the LBA wants to come alongside the great work already happening to further resource, equip and encourage you in this. We believe the best way of making this happen is pulling together different voices (youth workers, church leaders, parents and young people) to think through how we can best bring the love and truth of Jesus to the youth and children of our city!
As part of this thinking, in the autumn of 2012 and in response to the need for a more coordinated youth and children's work strategy the LBA Youth Forum was started.
The Youth Forum is collection of youth and children's workers, church leaders and parents from right across our capital, representing the diversity of our churches in gender, age, ethnicity and cultural background! Each member brings to the discussion different experiences, skills and perspectives as we seek to consider the opportunities and challenges before the church and youth & children's ministry in London. We're united in our desire to help children and young people discover who Jesus is for themselves, coming to know the full and abundant life He offers as well as equipping the church in seeing this become a reality in their community!
Current members of the Forum include;
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- Amie Buhari             Clapham Baptist Church
- Mark Humm                        Purley Baptist Church
- Pete James                           The King's Cross Baptist Church/LBA
- Norman Kincaid                 London Baptist Association
- Michele Mahon                  Brockley Baptist Church
- Matt Moore                          High Road Baptist Church
- Sherrin Neenan                  Balham Baptist Church
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If you would like to know more or find out how you can be involved then just get in touch.
In response to needs shared by church leaders, youth workers and volunteers at a series of gatherings held through 2012 the Forum is currently focusing on the following areas;
- Support churches in their ongoing children's and youth work, enabling them to have confidence in serving those in their local community.
- Encourage discipleship, bringing to maturity the faith of children and young people in addressing those obstacles that can hinder their relationship with Christ.
- Resource leaders, wherever possible, in their delivery of children's and youth work.
- Share good practice and other innovative projects wherever they are taking place.
- Organise training and conferences that are relevant and when necessary create or highlight relevant theological and training material relevant to children's and youth work.
- Research & collate the breadth of youth and children's work across the Association and establish a database of youth and children's workers
- Maintain the vision as well as serve as the accountable body for the 20/20 initiative
We are still in the early stages of the Forum's development and so still learning and listening to what is needed. However we have currently targeted a number of key areas as we seek to serve churches in their work with children and young people.
As a forum we meet every two months, talk through ongoing opportunities, ideas and needs from across the association discuss the development of resources, training, support and connections for youth and children's ministry to share with you as churches.
We hold 3-4 wider gatherings each year! These last for around 2 hours and take place over some lunch! This is a chance for ALL those involved in youth and children's work to come and network, be encouraged, resourced and share directly with us how the association can better support them in their work. In addition to this we will be hosting one bigger gathering each year, (held through the day on a Saturday), offering opportunity for a longer period of time together for worship, training, networking and fellowship! Check out the diary for details of the next gathering!
This exciting venture began at last year's Baptist Assembly (London 2012), in which hundreds of young people gathered in central London to celebrate God's love for them and be encouraged and equipped in what it means to be a disciple of Jesus. Check out the 20/20 link for more of the latest details of this year's event.
We have a growing database of youth and children's workers from Baptist Churches across London. Through this we can let people know about upcoming opportunities and gatherings. If you are a youth or children's worker and not sure if you a part of the database just EMAIL US and we will make sure you are!   Â
As a forum we are here to serve you! If you have any questions, ideas or needs regarding youth and children's work in your local area then we would love to hear from you! The forum is made up of existing church workers, leaders and parents who take time out to serve voluntarily and we will do our best to get back to you as quickly as possible with any ideas, suggestions or connections.
We would love to hear from you!
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Boris Johnson has rarely been a regular on the clubbing circuit - unless you count his notorious student membership of the Oxford University Bullingdon set.
But earlier this month the Mayor paid an unlikely visit to London's best known nightspot, Ministry of Sound, where he was subjected to the full blast of its hugely powerful £1 million sound system at maximum volume.
The demonstration came as Mr Johnson was given the "site visit" tour of the Southwark superclub as part of a last-ditch attempt to persuade him to stop plans for a block of flats directly opposite its entrance.
The club's bosses are alarmed that if any of its new residents complain about noise from the club, where up to 1,600 revellers gather on Friday and Saturday nights, its licence and its long-term survival will be in jeopardy.
Some of Britain's best known DJs, including Judge Jules, Pete Tong, Fatboy Slim, Calvin Harris and Example, as well as Sir Elton John, have joined the campaign to safeguard the 22-year-old venue.
Lohan Presencer, chief executive of the Ministry of Sound Group, which also includes the world's largest indie record label, said he wanted to prove to the Mayor that the proposed site of the Eileen House tower - just 20 yards from the club - was entirely unsuitable.
He said: "We showed him videos of the people queuing up outside and he could see it was busy and noisy. When we turned on the sound system he could hear the "thud, thud" from outside and said he could see how it could be really irritating if you lived nearby.
"When he watched the video Boris said to me, 'Did you encourage them to be that noisy?' But I said, 'No they are enjoying themselves, they're having a night out. We are Ministry of Sound and we are noisy in every sense of the word.'"
Mr Johnson visited on May 16 with his chief of staff Sir Eddie Lister, legal advisers and representatives of the developer.
The club is built on a side street close to the Elephant and Castle but does not currently have any residents living nearby.
As well as noise "leaking" from the main nightclub and the bar, which is in an old bus shelter, up to 300 revellers gather every night in the outdoor smoking courtyard. There is also noise from the queues that start building up from 10pm at least four nights a week. The club often does not close until 7 or 8am.
The plans from developers Oakmayne were rejected by Southwark council in October 2011 - against the advice of the authority's planning officers - before being called in by Mr Johnson for Mayoral review in December that year.
The Mayor yesterday extended the deadline for submissions about the plans for three weeks to 13 June. He is expected to make a final decsion some weeks after that but in all previous five precedents when the Mayor has called in developments he has ruled in favour of them going ahead.
Mr Presencer warned: "The bottom line is if they don't handle this properly we will have no choice but to force through a judicial review because it it such a fundamental threat to our business." The club has already spent £1 million fighting the development.
No-one was available to speak from Oakmayne but in the past it has said it could "co-exist" with the Club. Earlier this month the proposed tower's architects Allies & Morrison, submitted revised plans with acoustically sealed windows and partly sealed winter gardens in place of open balconies.
Mr Presencer said the new plans went some way towards addressing its fears but did not go far enough. "Even this time it's a fudge," he said.
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