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The West can't yet declare "mission accomplished" in Iraq, writes Tim Colebatch.
In the Democracy Open, Iraq has won its first-round match. In 80 per cent of the country, at least, people defied the gunmen and went out to vote in this weirdest of elections.
You can't but feel for those Iraqis for whom voting in a free election was a thing of joy, something they could not dream of when they were under the thumb of Saddam Hussein. Even if the voters had no idea who the candidates were, or what their policies were, this was a liberating experience.
But for all the symbolic and practical importance of Sunday's vote, don't think for a moment it means the West's mission in Iraq has succeeded. This was the first round. There's a long way to go before Iraq reaches the final, and much tougher opponents lie ahead.
Iraq expert Anthony Cordesman, of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, put it bluntly in a recent review of policy options: "The odds of lasting US success in Iraq are now at best even, and may well be worse."
The test of ultimate success for Iraqis and the West alike is now the same, Cordesman wrote. It is to create a sustainable, tolerant Iraqi state that enjoys national unity, internal stability, rising welfare and peace with its neighbours, and in which power and wealth are shared fairly between its ethnic and religious groups.
That's a tall order for a divided country with little experience of sharing power, and is now the battleground in the West's war with Muslim terrorists. And while the US and its allies can influence events, Cordesman added, they cannot control them. Two steps by the Iraqis themselves are crucial.
"The first is the emergence of a government, which Iraqis see as legitimate and which can govern effectively," he wrote. "The second is to create Iraqi military and security forces that can largely replace US and other coalition forces no later than 2006."
You can't but feel for those Iraqis for whom voting in a free election was a thing of joy.
Governments and commentators keep assuring us both things are happening. But independent experts present a more complex picture, one borne out by the views of Iraqis themselves in opinion polls.
At the centre of it is the paradox of Iraqis' attitudes to the US occupation. On one hand, a narrow majority of Iraqis say life is better now than it was under Saddam Hussein, and a larger majority expect it to be better in five years' time. And yet, far from feeling gratitude, most distrust US motives, have no confidence in its armed forces and want them out of the country as soon as possible.
A recent poll by the International Republican Institute (linked to President Bush's Republican party), found that 49 per cent of Iraqis thought their country was heading in the right direction while 39 per cent thought it going the wrong way. The telling thing was the regional breakdown.
In Kurdish areas, 70 per cent took a positive view, as did 60 to 65 per cent of people in the Shiite areas. But in Baghdad the proportion dropped to 37 per cent, in Mosul and Kirkuk to 19 per cent, and in the Sunni heartland - or those parts of it safe enough to be polled - to 15 per cent.
Lack of security was the overwhelming reason. Cordesman and others emphasise that the insurgency is being fought almost entirely in just four provinces: Baghdad, and the three Sunni provinces surrounding it. And they are the areas where gunmen kept the voters at home on Sunday, meaning Sunnis will not be fairly represented in the new legislature.
A survey in August found that in most of Iraq, for all the problems, only 25 to 35 per cent of people said life was better under Saddam. But in Sunni areas, 69 per cent said they were worse off now.
What is not unique to the Sunnis is a widespread distrust, bordering on paranoia, towards the Americans. In September, a poll by the Republicans found 35 per cent of Iraqis said the US-led forces were mainly to blame for their lack of security; only 40 per cent blamed foreign terrorists or Saddam's followers. A poll in May by the US authorities themselves found only 10 per cent of Iraqis trusted the coalition forces, and 80 per cent wanted them out.
That won't happen any time soon: not because the Americans would refuse to go, but because no Iraqi government could ask them to go while its security forces are so undermanned, undertrained and underequipped. Cordesman, a former Pentagon official, wrote that in mid-November, Iraq had just 5210 trained and equipped military personnel on duty, and 10,491 National Guards.
Yet the paradox is that the overwhelming presence of US forces is helping to create the enemy they then have to defend Iraq from. Cordesman and other experts argue that the solution is for the US to gradually step back from front-line operations and put more resources into training Iraqis, just as US contractors should make way for Iraqis on the economic front.
Iraq will never be the pro-American beacon the Bush Administration dreamed of. But with luck and disciplined, objective policies, it can still become a country worth living in.
Tim Colebatch is economics editor and a former Washington
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A special salute to discourteous drivers
Saturday, Jan 12, 2013 06:00 am
I would like to give a thank you to the "special" drivers who come home on Ray Gibbon Drive each day and help keep my driving skills keen. Let me explain that the part of the road I am speaking of is coming off the Anthony Henday heading north towards Holes on the Ray Gibbon Drive where it goes from two lanes to one. Everyone knows the right lane ends yet lots of aggressive drivers go right to the very end of the lane, then just start moving over, causing the people in the left lane to hit the brakes.
There are some people who legitimately get caught by surprise when the lane ends and I am not speaking about them. The drivers I want to thank are the ones who know the lane will end and go like they are late for a funeral, rushing past all the patient drivers and forcing their way in at the last possible minute expecting everyone to let them in.
Each time one of these "special" drivers does this, it causes all the courteous drivers in the left lane to hit the brakes, which causes a chain reaction of drivers hitting their brakes and slows traffic back for quite some distance.
If everyone just got in the left lane prior to the 137 Avenue lights, traffic would move much smoother and there would be less horn honking and fewer "salutes." For those of you who are late for those funerals and are more important than the rest of us lined up in the left lane and fully intend to keep up your aggressive driving habits, have a nice day. Yeah, right!
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text: This is brilliant. It tells the truth in a dispassionate way that reveals why the argument continues week after week, month after month, and year after year with Romo. Does he have the ability to win it all. I think so. Has the team been not all that at times which was more than he could overcome? Absolutely. Did he have the best team in the NFC once and failed to guide them to the championship? Yes. Do people try and make excuses for that game by blaming others. As certain as water is wet and the sun rises in the east. Like the kid. Like to see a better team around him. But it is to the point that I sit expecting the other shoe to drop at the end of every season. No matter how many heroics he does leading up to the come big or go home game. Just like I expect the excuses that will continually be offered in his defense. Because with Romo, it is never his fault.


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Few fans were singing the blues Thursday night as the Mississippi Valley Blues Festival opened its three-day run in downtown Davenport, chased by Mississippi River floodwaters from its normal home in nearby LeClaire Park.
The 29th annual event was moved because the fourth flood in recent months had left the condition of the park uncertain. As a result, vendors, volunteers and the blues lovers are scattered along a few blocks of 2nd Street to listen at one or both of the stages featuring blues artists from all over the country.
Among the blues fest regulars is John Loos of Muscatine, who was in attendance Thursday with family members and his new bride, Katy.
"Last year we didn't make it, but I have for many years," he said. "Actually, I am excited for a change. It is nice on the river, but I do like change. So far, I like it."
Loos' aunt, Gerry Bermel, also of Muscatine, also is a regular.
"I have come all 29 years, never missed it," she said, holding her granddaughter, Bianca Cabrera. "I always took my girls and now they are 21 and 19 and they are here too, and they love it, too."
Bermel said she was uncertain which venue — LeClaire Park or downtown — she likes better. But in a way, it doesn't matter.
"We would still come no matter where it is," she said. "Of course, we love the park."
Julie Reyes is vice president of theblues fest, sponsored all 29 years by the Mississippi Valley Blues Society. She expected about 7,000 people to have passed through the gate once Thursday's performances concluded.
"This is a good-size crowd," she said. "Most wait 'til the sun goes down to come out."
Before 7 p.m., people were packed in front of both stages, some finding shade while others battled the bright sun.
Sylvia Runkle of Rock Island is a regular blues fest volunteer. But Thursday night, she was in the audience, enjoying the music with friends.
"I saw one show and it was absolutely great," she said.
Jana Rose and her son, Rawley, 5, of Rock Island, were excited that Thursday was the opening day of the three-day event.
"I have been here every single year. I look forward to it," said Rose, trying to hold on to Rawley's hand. "My dad is part of the Blues Society. Whenever I am in town, I come.
"Rawley loves the lemonade. He loves to bring the glow sticks out at night and play with the other kids."


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THE LETTER—Katharine Cornell shoots a lover and tells why.
COQUETTE—Love turns to rend a flirt. Helen Hayes' best performance.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM— Shakespeare in a scintillating synthesis of music and ballet. In German,
CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE—Eva Le Gallienne's troupe in a shifting bill of sound plays, soundly played.
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE—Walter Hampden keeping green the memory of Ibsen.
PORGY—A crippled Negro's love along the docks of Charleston.
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This past weekent, I happened to notice a new magazine which I had not seen before called, "My City Eats and Entertainment." It is published in Orlando, but there are apparently local versions for Fort Lauderdale, Miami and other Florida cities. The one I picked up features the Ft. lauderdale area. This one is an excellent source of potential clients! I was able to grab contact information for 32 potential clients. I got busy last night and sent emails to most of them. They all had websites, but some had a "form email" contact page, so I will call those today. I sent an email to all of the ones who had a real email address.
Recently, I created an Excel spreadsheet with some basic columns, like, "Potential Client", "Date of Initial Contact", "Method of Contact", "Follow Up Date", etc. I use this to track my marketing efforts. It is a low budget (free) CRM (customer relationship management) tool and it will allow me to track my contacts and to see what methods of advertising work and which ones don't work for my area. If you are interested in the spreadsheet I use and you're not good with Microsoft Excel, send me an email (email@example.com) and I will send you a blank version of it to use for yourself.
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October 23, 2008
I've had some experience with infidelity.
Fresh out of high school, my boyfriend got my best friend... uh-hum... pregnant.
The Ex-spouse, Jimmy (notice that Ex receives the capitalization and spouse does not. It's all about the capitalization, you know). Anyway, the Ex-spouse Jimmy, developed a romance with a coworker. He moved out of my house and into her's.
That being said, there's some bruising history with this particular topic and I must get something off my chest:
I claim no responsibility as your moral authority and/or babysitter. I also refuse to be any sort of alibi for extra-marital flirtation - no matter how "innocent" you claim it to be.
Now doesn't that just brighten your day!? Did mine!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
No Alibi
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Dan Passarelli is an author and the founder of Market Taker Mentoring LLC, the home of personalized, one-on-one options education.
SLB March 90-95 Bull Call Spread
One of our new actionable options trading ideas in Market Taker Edge is the Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB) March 90-95 bull call spread.
Prices at the pump got you down? Maybe you're on the wrong side of that trade. SLB has been on an upward trajectory since August of last year. And being able to capitalize on higher gas prices should continue to help that strength.
Bull call spreads have two components: a long call and a short call with a higher strike in the same expiration month. The long call provides bullish exposure. The credit from the short call offsets the cost of the long call, making the entire transaction cheaper. This has a few very important consequences.
For one, the percentage returns might end up being significantly better with the spread depending on how the stock plays out. If the stock is up at the short strike price at expiration, this strategy will significantly outperform simply owning a call. But if a very dynamic move higher occurs, owning a call beats owning the spread. On a steady riser like SLB, the spread should provide better profits in the event of a rise up to, but not through the $95 strike.
If the stock moves adversely (i.e., lower), the spread is emphatically better than the outright long call — there is less at risk with the lower debit. The spread also hedges time decay and volatility risk, making it a smarter play overall.
On Friday, the SLB March 90 Calls closed at $3.20; and the SLB March 95 Calls closed at $1.28. Schlumberger was trading at $90.37.
Dan Passarelli of MarketTaker.com writes the Market Taker Edge options newsletter. Dan has more than 17 years' experience in the options industry as a market maker, Options Institute instructor and author of "Trading Option Greeks."


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Adding a Photo Gallery Activity
To add a Photo Gallery activity to your project: start editing your project and go to the Activities tab. Under 'Your App Activities' click the + Add an Activity button and select Photo Gallery from the list.
Now let's take a look at the Photo Gallery Activity settings.
Activity Name
The name that you want to give your activity. This will appear on the dashboard and on the Action bar. It can be whatever you want but should probably describe what it is used for. For example: "Band Members".
A few words describing this activity. This text may be displayed on the dashboard as a subtitle when it's Show Subtitle Text setting is enabled.
This is a relative index that controls the order of the activities in your application. The position will effect where your activity is displayed on the dashboard and in the action bar drop down. For more information on this setting please read: How to change the order of the icons on the dashboard.
Build this activity (include it in the app)
Whether or not this activity will be included in the app. This may be useful if you're creating different versions of your app that you want to contain different content.
Hide this activity (don't list it on any dashboards or navigation drop-downs)
When selected, this activity won't show on the dashboard or any navigation drop-downs. You can still access this activity from an HTML-based activity using it's Activity URL. For more information, refer to the topic Linking to Another Activity.
This is where you can select the icon that will be used to represent this activity on the dashboard. Click the 'Browse' button to select and image file.
Here you can control the features that you want to enable or disable in your Photo Gallery Activity:
Show Index Page?
Whether or not your activity will include an index page. The index page is a scrollable grid containing thumbnail versions of all of your photos.
Show Descriptions?
Whether or not the descriptions of your photos will be displayed.
Enable Set-picture-as?
Whether or not the user has the ability to set the photo as their device's wallpaper, contact photo, or any other available system dependent option.
Enable Photo Sharing?
Whether or not the end users of your application will be able to share your photos. Photos will be shared using the share intent and available to applications that support that intent (e.g. Gmail, Twitter, Facebook)
Save Your Settings
Once you're finished entering the above information, click on the 'Save Changes' button to create your Photo Gallery activity, and begin the process of adding photos.
Here you can upload a photo that will appear in your Photo Gallery Activity. Supported image formats: PNG and JPG. Click the 'Browse' button to select an image file to upload.
The title that will be displayed in the photo's description area.
A short description of the photo that will be displayed in the photo's description area.
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tl;dr I (re)joined Facebook and Instagram.
I used to be in both places. Then, almost a year ago, I wrote a bit about deciding to leave both social networks. Without rehashing that entire post, I'll say that it came down to being opposed to the behaviors of the company.
In the past year we've seen that Facebook and Instagram have continued being less-than-perfect. Alternatives have sprung up such as Pressgram1. Google has started using personal data for explicit advertising, a la Facebook.
We've learned that the NSA is watching everything, regardless of company.
By the numbers, most folks are still on Facebook and Instagram when compared with alternative networks. Popularity isn't everything, but it is something.
In the past several months I've had a few personal and a couple professional opportunities missed due to my non-Facebook and non-Instagram stance.
I've changed my mind. I've decided that while I still disagree with many things about how Facebook / Instagram does business, I suspect that the benefits of having a presence will outweigh potential downsides.
Was I wrong a year ago? Maybe. Am I right now? Maybe. Am I confident in those answers? Maybe.
We'll see. Let's be all social networky.
Follow my mobile photography on Instagramn (@hockleyphoto), or add me as a friend on Facebook.
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The Explorer does not disappoint!: Explorer of the Seas Cruise Review by krazy_dave
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The Explorer does not disappoint!
Destination: Bermuda
Embarkation: Bayonne (Cape Liberty)
Once we finally got there, we did have to wait through a long line of cars to drop off our luggage with the porters, took about 30 minutes. After we parked however, and things were in the hands of Royal, things rolled right along. From the time we parked to the time we boarded was under 15 minutes. And one minor advantage to the long delay getting to the ship was that we had immediate access to our stateroom.
I booked an aft corner stateroom-9390, and had ordered decoration since we were More celebrating my wife's birthday and out anniversary. The decorations were nicely done. The cabin itself is a good one. It's a little wider than the other balconies I've been in, and the balcony itself is also a bit bigger. It's got a bit of a funny layout because the railing is canted inward, which takes away a bit of standing room but is fine to stretch your legs under in the lounger.
Once again, the food was first rate, from the selections in Windjammer, sandwiches on the promenade, to the fine meals in the MDR. The bartenders were quick to fill orders and made some nice strong drinks. I also finally found the cigar lounge and discovered that its a nice, very quiet place to relax.
On to entertainment. Erky was away, he's getting married but his stand-in Titi worked very well with Leigh's brand of wackiness. The love and marriage show was a killer this time around, and I took the bronze in the belly-flop competition. And the ice show, Spirit of the Seasons was terrific even though I had seen it before.
The seas were much smoother than our last cruise in April, and the weather was nicer except for a couple of brief showers in Bermuda. Did a helmet dive with Greg Hartley again and it was better than the first time around. I highly recommend it (www.hartleybermuda.com). We also took the sunset cocktail cruise-too cloudy to see the sunset but the unlimited rum swizzles made up for that. The rest of the time was just relaxing on the beach at Snorkel Park. We had dinner at the Bonefish bar and grill. There's nothing like fish that was still swimming the day you're eating it!
The rest of the cruise was fun, won a bit in the casino on the first and last nights so that pretty much covered what we spent on shore. It's nice ending a vacation with the same amount of money in your pocket as when you started. Getting off the ship wasn't too bad, everyone's numbers were actually a little ahead of schedule, and traffic leaving wasn't a problem as the bridge was open again.
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The news that Areva and the Chinese company Guangdong Nuclear Power Group have pulled out of the bidding for the Horizon franchise to build some of the UK's next generation of nuclear power stations was unsurprising. Areva is not an operator of nuclear stations and the government is reported to have made clear to the companies that while Chinese investment was welcome, a Chinese operator was not. Read more
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The United States, Mexico and Canada have agreed to work together to alter a Mexican research nuclear reactor so that it does not use fuel that could potentially be used to make bombs, the White House announced today.
It's one of a string of deals the Obama administration has announced in connection with the Nuclear Security Summit.
President also lauded a decision by Russia to shut down its final plutonium reactor, saying, "this important step forward continues to demonstrate Russia's leadership on nuclear security issues, and will add momentum to our shared global effort."
The White House also said today that the U.S. and Russia have updated a 2000 agreement in which each country agrees to periodic destruction of weapons-grade plutonium.
Earlier in the summit devoted to the threat of nuclear terrorism, Ukraine and Chile announced they are giving up stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, which can be used to make a nuclear weapon.
In the new North American agreement that includes the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mexico will convert the fuel in its research reactor from highly enriched uranium to lower enriched uranium. The higher grade is needed for nuclear bombs.
"I welcome this critical step forward, which is a signal of our strong trilateral partnership, and our shared commitment to nuclear security in North America," President Obama said in a statement.
Mexican President Felipe Calderon said his country is committed to suppressing nuclear terrorism, and the fuel switch reduces "the risks associated with illicit trafficking of nuclear materials."
Canada also has a plan to send spent nuclear fuel back to the U.S.
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David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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Line up confirmed : Roberto Fonseca - Piano, Keys, Vocals; Ramses Rodriguez - Drums & Yandy Martinez - Bass & Double Bass! The dazzling musician The New York Times called " a charismatic spark plug of a pianist from Cuba " made his debut at the Havana... find out more Tap to see more
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War & Peace in 20th Century Latin America
Welcome to War & Peace in 20th Century Latin America. This webpage should provide access to all of the resources you need to do well in this class.
Course Objectives
This class examines the role of social, economic, political and intellectual causes and consequences on important revolutionary movements in 20th Century Latin America. The course will consider cases of successful and unsuccessful attempts to achieve political change ranging from the Mexican and Cuban Revolutions, to Central America's road from war to peace in the 1980s and 1990s to US interventions in the Caribbean and military dictatorships in South America. Issues considered will include roles of national versus regional institutions, international interest and impact, religion, and class and ethnicity. Students are expected to have taken history courses and/or be familiar with the general outline and issues of Latin American history; the difference between primary and secondary sources; and approaches to historical inquiry and writing.
This course has three primary objectives: to deepen student knowledge about the history of Latin America and/or the role of conflict in the twentieth century; to develop student skills in historical research, analysis and presentation of written and oral argument; and to provide an opportunity for students to conduct independent historical research from development of an original thesis to presentation of initial conclusions (a research paper & presentation).
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Senior Liberal MPs hit back at a growing National Party campaign against the $3.4 billion takeover of
Liberal MPs dismissed the opposition as "tub-thumping", "irresponsible" and a test of deputy Prime Minister and National Party chief
"Truss needs to show leadership on this," said one Liberal MP. "You can't unwind the clock on this stuff and be revving up people with unrealistic expectations.
"Leadership is saying to your constituency that you have to go down a different pathway – you can't stick to the past."
Opposition among National Party MPs and a small group of country Liberals has hardened since the election, with debate over the sale likely to come to a head as early as the first joint party room meeting on November 12.
Another Liberal MP said some of the National Party's concerns were reasonable, but other parts were "just pure protectionism".
"There's an [anti-China] element with some of these guys," he said.
NSW Liberal upper-house state MP,
"What a way for a new federal government to start; saying we're open for business, but we're dragging our heels on significant foreign investment."
"Agriculture seems to be prone to this tub-thumping nationalism and excessive government control and we're poorer for it," he said. "What do you end up with? Second-rate companies that are behind on innovation and distance themselves from their clients."
ADM pushed back expectations about when it would close the controversial acquisition from December into the first quarter of 2014.
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Geodon in Weight Loss Study for Bipolar Disorders
This study has been completed.
Stanford University
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Terrence Ketter, Stanford University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: May 11, 2007
Last updated: March 29, 2017
Last verified: March 2017
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This research study is designed to determine if replacing your current antipsychotic and/or mood stabilizer with ziprasidone (Geodon) will impact weight. This research is being conducted because Geodon has a documented effect on mood. Additionally, we believe Geodon to be an effective medication for overweight or obese patients with bipolar disorder. There will be approximately 25 patients enrolled in this study.
|Bipolar Disorder
|Drug: Ziprasidone/Geodon
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: No masking
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Adjunctive Ziprasidone in Overweight and Obese Patients With Bipolar Disorder
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: bipolar disorder
MedlinePlus related topics: Bipolar Disorder Body Weight
Drug Information available for: Ziprasidone hydrochloride Ziprasidone Ziprasidone mesylateU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Terrence Ketter, Stanford University:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- The Primary Outcome Measure Was Weight Change From Baseline to Endpoint. [ Time Frame: Baseline, 12 weeks ]The primary outcome measure will be the change in weight from baseline to endpoint using a random regression mixed effects model.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Changes From Baseline to Endpoint in Body Mass Index (BMI) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 12 weeks ]Secondary outcome measures will include the change from baseline to endpoint in Body Mass Index (BMI).
|Study Start Date:
|January 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Ziprasidone/Geodon
Ziprasidone/Geodon up to 320 mg per day
Drug: Ziprasidone/Geodon
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:Patients will meet the following criteria to be eligible to participate in the study:
- Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder Type I, Type II, or NOS treated in ongoing therapy with atypical antipsychotic(s) and/or mood stabilizer(s) that have been implicated in causing weight gain (i.e. lithium, valproate, olanzapine, risperidone, quetiapine, aripiprazole).
- Age 18-65 years old
- Males; or nonpregnant, nonlactating females who are postmenopausal, surgically sterilized, or using a barrier method of contraception and have a negative pregnancy test
- Initial body mass index e 30 kg/m2, or e 27 kg/m2 and demonstrating or receiving treatment for metabolic consequences of overweight (fasting total cholesterol e 200mg/dL, fasting triglycerides e 250 mg/dL, or fasting blood glucose e 100 mg/dL).
- Stable medication regimen of at least one month
- Not have been hospitalized due to medical or psychiatric reasons during the past year from date of consent.
- Ability to understand and cooperate with study procedures
- Have signed a written informed consent prior to entering the study Exclusion Criteria:Patients may not participate in the study if they have any of the following conditions:
- One of the following DSM-IV Axis I diagnoses: delirium, dementia, amnestic and other cognitive disorders, schizophrenia, anorexia nervosa or bulimia, or substance abuse or dependence (active within the last month), abuse of illicit drugs (excluding marijuana) within the past month
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Medical complications of obesity such as diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and cardiovascular disease unless followed by their own general medical practitioner who authorizes their participation in the trial, and continues to follow them medically and make necessary adjustments of concurrent antidiabetic, antihypertensive, antihyperlipidemic agents during the trial;
- Item 10 (Suicidal Thoughts) on the MADRS greater than or equal to 4
- Suicide attempt within the past three months
- Obesity of endocrine origin
- Seizure disorders
- Progressive neurologic or systemic disorders; HIV
- Other serious illnesses such as cardiac, hepatic (including cirrhosis), renal, respiratory, neurologic, or hematologic disease or glaucoma
- Hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism unless adequately treated with TSH no more than 10% above or below the limits of the normal range.
- Administration of any investigational drug within 30 days prior to screening
- Allergy or hypersensitivity to ziprasidone
- Administration of clozapine in the prior three months
- Pregnancy within the past six months
- Patients will be discontinued from the study should they develop any significant adverse side effects that cannot be managed by dosage adjustment
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00472641
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00472641
|United States, California
|Stanford University School of Medicine
|Stanford, California, United States, 94305
Sponsors and Collaborators
Stanford University
|Principal Investigator:
|Terence Arthur Ketter
|Stanford University
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Additional Information:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 28, 2017
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Terrence Ketter, Professor, Stanford University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00472641 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|May 11, 2007
|Results First Received:
|December 9, 2016
|Last Updated:
|March 29, 2017
|Individual Participant Data (IPD) Sharing Statement:
|Plan to Share IPD:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Bipolar Disorder
Pathologic Processes
Bipolar and Related Disorders
Mental Disorders
Serotonin Antagonists
Serotonin Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antipsychotic Agents
Tranquilizing Agents
Central Nervous System Depressants
Psychotropic Drugs
Dopamine Antagonists
Dopamine Agents
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This interview with Greg Anderson of Sunn 0))) was done face to face by Z. D. Smith on October 17th, 2005.
I was recently afforded the pleasure of a brief chat with Greg Anderson, of Southern Lord records and Sunn 0))) (as well as others), after a Boris/The Hidden Hand show at The Knitting Factory.
Right now has got to be a pretty interesting time to be a member of Sunn 0))). You guys just put out a kind of radical album, that's in some ways unlike anything you've done before, not to mention you just got a full-color picture in the New York Times. What stage do you feel like you're in right now?
I feel really grateful, actually. I feel really thankful in a lot of ways, and it's very bizarre to me because we've been doing this for a quite a long time, and Stephen and I never, ever expected any of this. That goes for whatever we do; so when something happens for us, it's kind of like a pleasant surprise, because we never expect anything. Our expectations are nothing. Always. And so when stuff happens for us it's really cool, and I'm just really blown away that people are connecting with what we're doing. It's very strange to me, because [Sunn 0)))] is very challenging. I know this music is not for everyone; there's rarely drums, there's no song structure, no choruses; there's no verse-chorus-bridge and I realize that's challenging for a lot of people; it's experimental music, no matter how you slice it. That to me is very exciting that people are getting into it; it's kind of like, what the fuck? [Greg laughs.]
So do you feel like your audience and the way you're being perceived is expanding?
Yeah, definitely. I mean, more people are getting into it, and like I said, it's not for everybody, it's challenging. We never expected any of this, and now that it's happening, people are buying our records, coming to our shows - it's mindblowing. It's great.
So given that Sunn 0)))'s music is so experimental and in many ways not like anything else, or any other metal, do you do feel any affinity for any of the experimental or avant-garde tradition, like La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, any of those guys?
Oh, yeah, we have a lot of respect for those guys. But for me, the thing that I personally connect with is jazz. Like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy - that is to me, the experimentalism and the freedom that, although Sunn 0))) has nothing to do with them soundwise, it's the concept and theory. I always say, Sunn 0))) is my jazz band. We're into freedom and exploration of sound, and I was really inspired by what those guys were doing, and that to me is an inspiration for what we're doing in Sunn 0))).
Then with a jazz influence in mind, obviously with _Black One_ there's a black metal influence. You've got Wrest and Malefic doing vocals, the song titles are pretty black metal, and there's a certain feeling of coldness, you could say, that feels like a lot of black metal, especially American black metal. How did that come to be?
Well, Stephen and I. basically, to start with, every record that we do, we try to make it a little different from the one before it. Sometimes it's subtle differences, sometimes it's major differences, and recently, like with the _White One_ and _White Two_ records, we've really been trying to go into new territory. So with this new record, Stephen and I had been listening to a lot of black metal, and most of the stuff we were really intrigued by was stuff that was kind of pushing the boundaries of black metal, was stuff that these guys Wrest and Malefic were doing, and so we ended up just contacting them, and asking them if they'd be interested in working with us. It was very cool because our hunches were correct. We thought, these guys seem to be cool and seem to be pushing a lot of boundaries; maybe they'll be interested in playing in something that's really avant-garde, compared to what they're used to. And they were into it, and they ended up wanting to be involved in what we were doing, and what they turned in, as far as collaborations go, I think is absolutely great, really very cool.
How much of a hand did they have in writing the music, aside from the vocals?
Well, the music was written by Stephen and I, and they contributed the vocals but actually on one of the tracks, "Cry For the Weeper", Malefic added some guitar and keyboards, too. But mostly it was vocals from those two guys; they were given an open invitation for whatever they wanted to do, and Wrest decided to vocals. We said, "Hey man, play guitar, play drums, play bass, do vocals, do whatever you want." He decided to do vocals only, and that's what he did on the second track, "It Took The Night To Believe." As far as Malefic goes, he contributed to one song, recording the stuff at his house, and then we actually got to collaborate in the studio with him, he came in and he did some vocals live.
Yeah, you definitely notice a kind of expanded sonic palette, in terms of the textures that you use. When you're composing the songs, what's your approach to the sound? Is it more of an improvisation, or do pay some mind to the harmonic motion, what overtones are being sounded, something like that?
As far as what we do in the studio, it's part improvisation. Some of the sounds are completely made up on the spot and some of the songs are kind of skeletal ideas that Stephen or I will bring and say, "Hey, we've got this rough idea, let's add to it, let's expand it" [we are briefly interrupted because the lady working the door at The Knitting Factory needs us to move further away. We do so.]
We use a little bit of both aspects in the recording. Some improvisation, some preconceived ideas that we bring in.
We use a little bit of both aspects in the recording. Some improvisation, some preconceived ideas that we bring in.
So, talking about the recording process, you say that you are always expanding and changing things. Do you have any idea what's coming up next? Do you have anybody you'd like to work with, maybe?
Actually, the very next thing we're doing is a collaboration record with Boris. We're recording it, actually, next week, in Seattle. It's gonna be before we start our West Coast tour with them; it's gonna be a Sunn 0)))/Boris collaboration record, and we have no idea what's going to happen. Stephen and I have a few ideas for stuff we'd like to put in there but I don't know as far as what's going to happen. So there's that, and then beyond that Stephen and I have been talking about working with more percussion, actually, and working with some drummers. There's nothing planned, but there's been talk.
Obviously in some ways things are really going well for Sunn 0))) right now, but you and Stephen are also both involved in half a dozen other very vital projects [Goatsnake, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Khanate, Burning Witch, Khanate, Ginnungagap, Lotus Eaters]. Any ideas on what's coming up outside of Sunn 0)))?
I dunno, man. Actually, I'm kind of working on some solo stuff, that may see the light of day, just pounding it out right now, and really experimenting but there's actually talk right now of maybe another Goatsnake recording happening next year, I don't know if it's going to happen or not, but there's been talk and Steve of course has a lot of different projects going on. For me, personally, it's really difficult to do a lot of stuff because of the label [Southern Lord Recordings]. It takes a lot of my attention, to do things correct, and the way that I envision them turning out, it requires pretty much all of my attention. It's really hard for me to focus on [musical side projects], and that's one of the reasons that Goatsnake has kind of fallen by the wayside a little bit, or one of the reasons that I don't do much else outside of Sunn 0))) because Southern Lord requires a majority of my attention. But Steve's involvement with Southern Lord is on a design basis. He does all the design so he has a lot more time to do that stuff, and I think that's awesome, I think it's killer that he's doing all this other stuff.
Following up on that, Goatsnake has obviously been around for a little while. But something like Teeth of Lions Rule The Divine: with that sort of collaboration, do you usually have a specific musical idea that you want develop through that, or is it more of an excuse just to play music with people you'd like to play music with?
Kind of a little bit of both. Teeth of Lions, actually, was just Stephen has been jamming with this guy from the UK, Justin [Greaves]. And Justin is a fucking amazing drummer, and Steve is like, "Hey, I've been jamming with this guy Justin, he wants to jam with you," and we happened to be going over to the UK at that point, and we were really good friends with Lee Dorrian, and into the same stuff, so we just said, "Let's make a really super-heavy record." To me, Teeth of Lions is kind of like a Sunn 0))) record, with drums. A lot of riffs are very similar to what Stephen and I would try to do in Sunn 0))). But a lot of stuff we do, we try not to analyze it too much. We try to let it happen. I think that's the fun and joy of doing it; it keeps it fun and exciting and fresh, you just do it and if it's something you think is valid you put out on a CD or a record.
People certainly seem to be responding to it.
Yeah! I'm grateful. I think it's amazing.
So what do you think of the new Earth record?
I think it's absolutely amazing. Of course, I put it out, so I might have a kind of biased opinion [laughs], but I think on so many different levels it is a really incredible record, because it would be so easy for those guys to say, "Ok, the climate is right for us to make a super-heavy drone record. People are into this kind of stuff, Sunn has kind of set the table for us, we could do that." Instead, they make the absolute, most different record that you could possibly think of. However, it's still slow, it's still heavy, and it's still dark, just in a completely different context. They're injecting this country, sort of Neil Young atmosphere to it, which I think is genius, man! And it's so dark, which is always what attracted me to Earth, whether it's _Earth 2_, or _Pentastar_, or the later stuff, after Dylan came back, it's still dark, and it still has. I connect with it because it's really dark, and it's great; I think that this album is the pinnacle of Earth. It's as dark as _Earth 2_, it's as heavy, but it's not distorted! It's fucking genius, man. It blew me away when I first heard it. I was speechless, I didn't know to say. I thought it was the most amazing album. And to be able to put it out, and help those guys out now, and that people are appreciating what they're doing now, it's a blessing, man. It's just great.
Well, that's about it. Do you have any final message for our readers, outside of the music, of course?
[laughs] No, no message, man. Just: thanks for the support, and hope you enjoy it now, and in the future. That's about it.
I'd like to thank Greg for a heroic interview in the face of a night's worth of bourbon and other delights, as well as Dave from Earsplit PR for his dilligence in making this talk happen.


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4. Away in a Manger 2:14
5. Mary's Baby 2:51
6. Coventry Carol 1:57
7. Joy to the World 2:21
8. I Heard the Bells 1:56
9. Hark the Herald Angels Sing 1:53
10. Oh Come All Ye Faithful 2:45
11. Silent Night 3:23
12. We Wish You a Merry Christmas 1:50
|Buffy Christmas CD is a wonderful collection of your favorite Christmas Classics. Plus a few surprises including the wonderful Christmas song Marys Baby written and performed by John Stewart. Buffy's Husband John Stewart produced this Christmas record and also performs on the CD with her. Revel in the Christmas Spirit with the Stewart's on this wonderful release.
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Her name is Buffy Ford-Stewart, the widow of The Kingston Trio original group member John Stewart. He called her Angel Rain. For John Stewart, who died in San Diego in 2008, she was the muse for one of the great American singer-songwriters of the last 50 years. Without her, he may never have written the body of work ranging from "Daydream Believer," "Mother Country," and "California Bloodlines" to the latter day "Jasmine." As one of the founders of Americana music, she inspired John's lyrical, authentic, poetic, and visionary body of work. She was his all-time woman, the one who believed in him, the keeper of the flame lit by the treasury of songs authored by poet, artist, writer, dreamer, storyteller, and magic man.
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APN Outdoor chief executive officer Richard Herring used SMS to garner a direct response from Transit TV's audience. Photo: Angela Brkic
When the management of Transit TV wanted to find out who was watching the TV screens they'd installed in 220 of Sydney's buses, they bribed passengers into telling them.
Passengers were offered the chance to win prizes, like an iPod or a hi-fi system, if they sent a short message service (SMS) message with their age, sex and bus route number to a competition hotline.
"The aim of the promotion was to gauge the ability of Transit TV to provide a direct response from its audience," says Richard Herring, CEO of APN Outdoor, the company that runs the Transit TV service. "Given the environment and the timing of the responses we required, SMS was the most instant and measurable form of communication that we could have used (and) it also provided us demographic information."
The target for the promotion was the 500,000 "boardings" on Transit TV-equipped buses each week. The company estimates the average Sydney bus ride takes 28 minutes. Ads for the eight-week promotion were played twice an hour on the TV screens, says Herring, in between Transit TV's regular content of advertising, news, sport, weather, trivia and music videos.
The SMS data was managed by web design company MassMedia Studios, using its Traction marketing system.
Each SMS received by Traction was automatically sent a confirmation SMS. Then Traction extracted the relevant fields from the SMS message. Thus, an SMS reading "24M380" was decoded by the program as being a 24-year-old male on route 380.
The system also recorded the traveller's phone number and the time and date of entry. SMS entries with incorrect syntax were appended to a spare field.
Leon Young, MassMedia's business development manager, estimates that about 10 per cent of Transit TV's SMS data was invalid.
Young says Traction could have been configured to return a message to the entrant, asking them to re-enter using the right syntax, but this was not done.
"Some massaging of the data was done to correct obvious mistakes but it was not an issue if not every entry was perfectly formatted," Young says.
Transit TV management could access Traction via the internet and generate reports on the data at any stage of the promotion. "The reporting system within Traction allowed (the Transit TV SMS) data to be reported upon in the ways you might expect. For example (you could) list messages by day, see the number of messages each day or report by any of the data fields collected," Young says.
The data could also be exported in formats as diverse as Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) or Comma Separated Variable (CSV).
Transit TV staff used the simple CSV format for their data, which they imported into Microsoft Excel to view and manipulate. The prize list was also automatically generated by MassMedia's system.
"The (SMSs) were entered into the (government-approved) prize management system in Traction and once the promotion was closed, it drew the winners," says Young. "Winners were notified by SMS."
The promotion received more than 4000 SMS entries but the resulting data didn't reveal "anything dramatically different", following known SMS usage patterns, says Herring. "There were more (entries) in the 15-24 age group, declining as ages increased."
Transit TV will now use the data to show advertisers the demographic breakdown of passengers and as a demonstration of a successful SMS promotion using Transit TV.
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Transit TV wanted to track passenger numbers on buses with installed TV screens.
A promotion was run encouraging passengers to SMS their age, sex and bus route number for the chance to win a prize.
Transit TV management have more information about their viewers, which they can use to sell advertising, and advertisers can run their own SMS promotions.
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SMS (Short Message Service): A text message that can be sent from a mobile phone.
CSV (Comma Separated Variable): A file format that stores data, with each piece of data separated by a comma. The file can be viewed and manipulated in a spreadsheet program like Microsoft Excel.
XML (Extensible Mark-up Language): A language designed for web documents with customised tags that describes the data within the document and allows it to be exchanged with other applications.


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For most people, healing from a wound is a short-term problem. But for 6 million Americans, the process can be painful—and never quite complete. "A chronic wound is one that hasn't healed completely after eight weeks of conventional therapy," says Michael Strauss, M.D., interim director of the wound care program at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and director of the hospital's hyperbaric medicine program. "Typically, the problem is associated with underlying causes such as diabetes, vascular disease, malnutrition or limited mobility—all of which are linked to impaired healing abilities. Poor blood flow results in a lack of oxygen to the wound site." Without enough oxygen and the vital nutrients that blood delivers, conditions such as leg ulcers and pressure sores can result in serious infection and tissue damage, leading in some cases to limb amputation and death.
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People with diabetes are particularly prone to non-healing wounds. Many have neuropathy, a condition that decreases the level of sensation in their feet. All too often, the lack of a painful sensation gives patients the false impression that nothing is wrong. Consequently, they delay seeking care for the problem, resulting in a serious and potentially limb-threatening wound. Poor circulation and decreased immune functioning further contribute to the problem. For these reasons, people with diabetes account for 60 percent of non-traumatic amputations.
Although 55-year-old Videlia Campos wasn't facing limb amputation last year, she was grappling with diabetes and a complicated wound on the big toe of her right foot caused by a bunion operation. "On a scale of one to 10, with 10 being the worst, the pain was a 10," says Videlia. "I couldn't eat, sleep or walk."
Videlia's podiatrist referred her to the Long Beach Memorial wound care program, where she underwent a comprehensive evaluation. During the process, she was diagnosed with a blocked coronary artery, which prevented blood from adequately circulating throughout her body to heal the damaged tissue. Following angioplasty, a minimally invasive procedure in which Videlia's artery was cleared with a balloon-tipped catheter, she started on a 20-session course of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. This treatment is offered at only about 500 wound care centers in the nation.
Advanced Techniques
One of the most advanced techniques that specialists use to heal chronic wounds, hyperbaric oxygen therapy was originally developed as a way to restore oxygen in deep-sea divers who suffered the "bends" by surfacing too rapidly.
But physicians soon discovered that hyperbaric oxygen therapy also facilitated the healing of wounds, preventing up to 80 percent of potential amputations when combined with surgery and medical management. During the therapy sessions, patients recline inside a three-foot wide, seven-foot long chamber while breathing 100 percent pure oxygen under pressure that's equivalent to being 33 feet under the sea. A physician oversees the entire process. Long Beach Memorial has six hyperbaric chambers—some of which are large enough to permit patients to sit up almost fully during treatments.
"The increased pressure in the hyperbaric oxygen chamber puts 10 times more oxygen in patients' blood plasma and tissue fluids than they'd have if they were breathing air on the surface," says Dr. Strauss. The additional oxygen is then carried through the bloodstream to the wound. This promotes healing by assisting with the development of new tissues and blood vessels at the wound site.
After 20 sessions, Videlia's toe was 75 percent healed. "I was able to walk—and my pain level had dropped to zero!" she says. She's currently undergoing more treatments to heal her toe completely. "Hyperbaric therapy is such a blessing for people with problems like mine," she says. "It really works."
Michael B. Strauss, MD
- Hyperbaric Medicine, Undersea & Hyperbaric Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery


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Wooley quitting TV for radio
Charles Wooley from 60 Minutes.
Longstanding 60 Minutes reporter Charles Wooley is quitting TV to host a new national talkback radio show being launched by Macquarie Regional Radioworks.
The new program called Across Australia will be broadcast from 9am until noon from Wooley's home base of Hobart from January next year.
While Wooley reportedly considered combining the roles and staying on at Nine Network's flagship current affairs program, the announcement today said he would leave 60 Minutes.
Tim Hughes, executive chairman of Macquarie Media Group, which owns Macquarie Regional Radioworks, said he'd thought for some time there was a market for a national regional radio morning program.
"The difficulty has been finding the right presenter."
Wooley, who specialised in quirky Australian stories on 60 Minutes, is an experienced journalist who has travelled the world, but also had a genuine interest in and affection for life in rural and regional Australia.
In a statement Wooley said: "I have always enjoyed covering stories in regional and rural Australia - there is no better medium than radio to continue that work.
"I look forward to sharing the airwaves with the great characters of this country, turning the spotlight on the issues that matter and covering the big events for the people that are the backbone of Australia."
Hughes said he was confident Wooley would develop a "very strong rapport" with our large audience across Australia.
Macquarie Regional Radioworks, the largest owner of commercial radio stations in Australia, is the main operational business of the Macquarie Media Group.
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DMX, "Dog Years" (Originally Published January/February 2009)
[July 2, 2008]
While awaiting scheduled court dates for the driving and drug charges in Miami, X misses a court date in Arizona. The judge issues a bench warrant and $25,000 bond. "That means, essentially, if he's picked up [outside of Arizona], he can bond out in the state of Arizona," explains Cohen. DMX is arrested for the bond violation as soon as he steps off a plane in Arizona and is later released. "He's always getting off," says Sherriff Arpaio. "He goes to Florida, he gets arrested… These justices keep letting him out. He seems to be released on bond all the time, and he skips… He's led a charmed life. It's about to stop."
[July 19, 2008]
DMX is arrested at a Phoenix mall on two felony charges: theft and taking the identity of another. The charges stem from an alleged incident at the Scottsdale Mayo Clinic three months earlier, in April, when X was being treated for an illness. While there, he reportedly used the alias Troy Jones and skipped out on a $7,500 bill. Po, who was with him at the time, says X was at his home when he fell ill. "He was curled over in the bed. He was in a lotta pain, and he was like, 'Yo, I can't breathe.' 'Cause, you know, he has asthma. He lives at least 30, 40 minutes from the hospital. So I grab him up, throw him in the car, and I jet to the hospital." Upon arrival, Po says he gave the nurse a fake name. "I wanted him to just get the service immediately… Usually when you say an artist like DMX, everybody is so starstruck they not concentrating on what's going on."
Po adds that, after X was treated for pneumonia, people in the waiting room started recognizing him, so the two left. But Po says he left his cell-phone number with the hospital. "[The police] ran up in his crib saying that they was looking for papers from the hospital because he used a false name… It wasn't really that."
[July 25, 2008]
DMX pleads not guilty to two felony theft charges in connection to his hospital visit. Outside of the Phoenix courtroom, he breaks into a freestyle about his recent troubles. "If and when you ever fall down," he rhymes to a crowd of waiting reporters, "get back up/ Drop something/Stop fretting/Pick that.. back up/Stand for something or fall for everything/ Wait for the right pitch or miss with every swing."
[August 12, 2008]
A Phoenix judge issues an arrest warrant for DMX for missing a scheduled pretrial hearing in relation to the drug charges stemming from the May 9 raid on his home.
[August 14, 2008]
DMX is arrested outside a South Florida Wal-Mart by Miami police in connection to the bench warrant issued two days earlier. "This is fishy," says Cohen of the arrest. "A police officer pulls up behind a car that was parked in an illegal spot. X is the passenger in the car—his friend went into Wal-Mart to get something. They see X in the car, they ask him for I.D. because they just want to check who he is."
Bradford is among those who think Sheriff Arpaio has it out for X. "He was looking for some way for X to serve some time," says Cohen. "He was very frustrated that X kept getting bond and that he kept picking up these new charges and that they kept letting him out." Sheriff Arpaio says he just wants to bring the rapper to justice. "Our office has arrested this guy, what, five times? And he keeps being released and committing crimes," says Arpaio. "I don't have it out for him. I never met the guy, never heard his records."
[August 15, 2008]
DMX's townhouse at 2007 Fifth Avenue in Harlem sells for a reported $120,000 through a sheriff's auction. The 3,700-square-foot home was put up for sale two days prior, due to a judgment won by Amusing Diversions Inc. The company filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit in 2004, claiming X failed in his obligations to promote Boomer 129, the line of dog wear they'd developed together. (They also claimed he came to one promotional event late and drunk.) A $253,000 judgment resulted after X didn't show up in court. The buyer will assume an estimated $400,000 in unpaid mortgage on the house that X purchased in 2001 for $750,000 and later transferred by deed to his wife.
[August 19, 2008]
While incarcerated in Miami, DMX misses another scheduled court date in Arizona. The felony warrant prevents him from getting bond, so X is supposed to remain in jail until his court date for the cocaine and marijuana
[August 26, 2008]
DMX attends an extradition hearing in Miami in hopes of getting released on bond so he can return to Arizona for the court case he missed. However, Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Schwartz upholds the no bond hold that resulted from an outstanding warrant in Arizona, which means X is to remain in custody for at least another month. DMX reportedly responds in the courtroom, "I ain't going back to no fuckin' jail," as he leaves the podium, earning a rebuke from Judge Schwartz. "I already had it set up that he was gonna plea the next day," says Cohen. "So when the judge said to X, 'Well, sir, I guess I'll see you on October 3 or October 4,' X walked away from the podium and said, 'You're not gonna see me fuckin' October 3,' 'cause he already knew."
[August 27, 2008]
Pleading guilty to charges of attempted purchase of cocaine and marijuana, X is sentenced to time served and a $483 fine, avoiding jail time. "If we didn't wrap [the case] up, he would've had to spend an extra 60 to 75 days in jail," says Cohen, calling the prosecutor's case "weak." "They arrested, I think, 50 people all in the same day, and all of the probable-cause affidavits were identical. It was like a sting where they were sitting out on a corner and people would walk by. They knew who he was—they called him by name. And then, all of a sudden, they make this arrest, and it makes the news that they're doing this big bust. To me, something didn't smell right."
[September 12, 2008]
DMX is extradited from Florida to Arizona's Maricopa County Jail on an outstanding warrant for missing a previous court date.
[September 22, 2008]
Complaining of numbness in parts of his body, DMX is rushed to the emergency room of South Florida's Aventura Hospital for what reports state is "fear of a stroke." Due to the hospital stay, he misses a September 23 court date in Arizona. DMX's next court date is scheduled for December. According to Charles Kozelka, the Maricopa County public defender assigned to X's felony cases in Arizona, any trials would likely take place in 2009. Kozelka says, "It's a long process, but we are looking forward to getting his name cleared."
Optimism is strong within X's camp for a musical comeback, too. "When he does come out…he's got a lot that he's thought about, a lot to say," says Yonkers producer Divine Bars, who's been laying tracks with
X in the studio. "He's taking a negative and turning it into something positive."
Po, too, believes his friend will be okay. "It's not that he's out of the loop, that he don't understand his left from his right," he says. "Sometimes [drugs] hinder him, as far as getting his work done. But he's not an outta-control dude. He's not fighting and slipping."


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By Kush Wadhwa, NII Consulting
Have you ever thought of hiding data in such a manner that it cannot be deleted even after the hard disk is formatted? Well, in this this article , we'll look at just that; we will see how you can hide and unhide crucial data on your hard disk. The technique which is used to hide the data is known as HPA which stands for Host Protected Area. Let us first discuss HPA…
HPA – The Hidden Protected Area (also known as the Host Protected Area and as the Predesktop Area) is a special area (usually a few gigabytes in size) located at the end of a hard disk.
Since we have to calculate the hard disk space which is to be put in HPA, heres a little about hard disks sectors.
Sectors – A sector is the smallest unit that can be accessed on a hard disk. Each platter, or circular disk of a hard disk is divided into tracks, which run around the disk. These tracks get longer as they move from the middle towards the outside of the disk, so there are more sectors along the tracks near the outside of the disk than the ones towards the center of disk.
1 Sector=512 bytes
Let us first see how many sectors are there in my hard disk which can be easily done using hdparm command.
From the above figure we can see that the total number of sectors present in the hard disk is 78165359 sectors. Converting given number of sectors in Gigabytes, we get 37.27214766 GB. To hide the data make separate partition (Note: This partition should be the last partition). HPA cannot be made in the beginning or in the middle of hard disk. Using sfdisk -luS note the starting sector of the last partition. Let the starting sector of last partion be 64776751.Now I just want 64776751 sectors to be accessible and rest of the sectors should be in HPA mode. For putting the sectors in HPA mode I will use a small C code with a name setmax.c which can be downloaded from the link below.
To compile this program I will use gcc
[root@hack3rs root]#gcc -o setmax setmax.c
To compile it in statically,
[root@hack3rs root]#gcc -static -o setmax setmax.c
Since 64776751 sectors have to be made accessible we will do as follows:
[root@hack3rs root]#./setmax –delta 64776751 /dev/hdc (depending on your device name).
–delta option will make temporary HPA. If you want to make permanent HPA then use –max option with setmax.
Congratulations! you have hidden your last 8388608 sectors which is equivalent to 4GB. You can make sure if your hard disk is in HPA mode or not by using disk_stat which comes with sleuthkit. Sleuthkit can be downloaded from its official site http://www.sleuthkit.org. The general syntax of disk_stat is disk_stat . Here device name can be /dev/{hda,hdb,hdc,sda,sdb,sdc}. Be sure not to write the partition name.
Unhiding your host protected area(Specially written for digital forensics team)
When digital forensics team is inspecting the machine, they should make sure if the hard disk is in HPA mode or not. If the hard disk is in HPA mode, then its quite possible that data is stored in that area and that data could help them solve the case. So let us first detect the hard disk is in HPA or not. As said earlier this can be easily done using disk_stat. This will show you Maximum Disk Sector and Maximum User Sector.
Maximum Disk Sector: This gives the total number of sectors present in hard disk.
Maximum User Sector: This gives the total number of sectors which user can access.
As per example above I got the followin result
Maximum Disk Sector: 78165359
Maximum User Sector: 64776751
** HPA Detected (Sectors 64776751 – 78165359) **
This means that sectors from 64776751 to 78165359 are in HPA mode. Now again use setmax to unhide HPA.
[root@hack3rs root]#./setmax –delta 78165359 /dev/hdc
This will make all your hard disk accessible. I hope you all enjoyed reading the article.
Happy Experimenting!
15 Responses to "Hiding data with Host Protected Area (HPA) in Linux"
kush its really nice article. keep it up 🙂
Its a very Good work.U r always doing something iteresting.Thanks.
It's really interesting article and i'll try it on my SATA drive.
Meanwhile Symantec Ghost has a utility for disk partition "GDisk" which can detect and wipe HPA.
A very nice site where you can read various articles on forensic.
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Hi Monica
Thanks for your feedback. Looking for continued interaction with you.
Hi Rahul
Thanks for your feedback. Looking for continued interaction with you.
Hello Vikas
I was looking for more utilities which could wipe out HPA. You added 1 more utility in my list. Thanks for giving good links & feedback. Looking forward for continued interaction with you.
Nice article. Keep up the good work.
What a great article. I've examined a number of hard drives with free as well as commercial utilities and none of them seems to have a HPA. I'm not sure if my technique is correct. I suppose one way to check would be to put a text file into a HPA and then retrieve it. I see the article mentions creating a HPA using setmax but what about writing a file to the area? This is so fascinating and yet frustrating!
Hello Iain
Thanks for your feedback. I mentioned in my article that HPA can only be set at the end of the hard disk i.e on the last partition or the free space which is at the end of the hard disk. Now coming to your point, you want to write some text files or we can say you want to put some files in HPA area. In that case what you can do is, you can remove HPA first using setmax utility and once you have put the desired files at the end of the hard disk, you can again create the HPA on the area where file is kept . You can create the HPA using setmax tool
Hello Kush
I guessed that may be the case. I'm not sure about a utility to place the file(s) exactly where I need on the hard disk. I suspect that something like EnCase or WinHex could be used to write the data byte by byte te exactly where was required but that seems a bit tedious. Is there something else which could be used to write (say) MyInfo.txt to start at sector 673425 (hypothetical name and number, but I hope you get the drift!)?
Thank you for your time.
Hello Iain
Its a bit complicated question. And as far as my knowledge goes you can use dd command in linux or dd.exe in windows to achieve this task.
Hi Kush
Thank you for the comment and apologies for not responding earlier. I check here on most days and the first time that I saw your reply was today, 4 July 2007.
I've been looking at this further and have "stumbled" upon dd. What a marvellous piece of software. I can write zeros or random data to a HD, copy the MBR from a FD to a file, write to specific areas of a disk, write the content of memory to a file … and much more. I'm going to have fun playing around with this and seeing just what it can do!
Hi Kush,
Thanks for such a great program. It's 2011 now and your program says that it's only for IDE programs. I tried it with a 1.5TB sata drive and it only recognized 137GB's. Any chance you might update the program to support more recent drives? Thanks
Are there modern tools that will allow you to remove end partition HPAs on advaced format sata drives?


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Ultrasound Guidance for Intravenous Cannulation in Emergency Department Patients.
This study has been completed.
University of California, San Francisco
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: June 4, 2008
Last updated: June 5, 2008
Last verified: June 2008
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A randomized trial of the use of ultrasound by emergency physicians in the placement of intravenous catheters in emergency patients who are found to have difficult intravenous access (defined as two failed attempts by nursing staff).
|Difficult IV Access
|Device: ultrasound
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation in Emergency Department Patients With Difficult IV Access: a Randomized Trial.
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: UltrasoundU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by University of California, San Francisco:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Number of IV Attempts
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Time to placement of IV catheter
|Study Start Date:
|June 2005
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2005
|Primary Completion Date:
|August 2005 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Ultrasound
use of ultrasound
|Device: ultrasound
No Intervention: no ultrasound
no ultrasound
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- patients requiring an IV in the emergency department and who have two failed attempts by nursing staff
Exclusion Criteria:
- emergent need for IV access
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00692549
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|John C. Stein MD, University of California, San Francisco
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|NCT00692549 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|June 4, 2008
|Last Updated:
|June 5, 2008
Keywords provided by University of California, San Francisco:
iv access
Patients with difficult iv access in emergency departments.
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Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes
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30 CFR Part 75
Safety Standards for Underground Coal Mine Ventilation
AGENCY: Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Labor.
ACTION: Final rule; conforming rule to Court's order.
SUMMARY: MSHA published safety standards for the ventilation of underground coal mines on March 11, 1996, which became effective on June 10, 1996. The National Mining Association (NMA) and the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) challenged the rule. On June 17, 1997, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) issued an order granting the petition for review relating to the 8-hour interval requirement for preshift examinations pursuant to 30 CFR 75.360(a)(1) (1996). The Court further denied the petition for review on all other issues and upheld the Agency's rulemaking. This document provides notice of, and effectuates, the Court's order.
DATES: Effective June 30, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia W. Silvey, Director, Office of Standards, Regulations, and Variances, MSHA, phone 703/235-1910; fax 703/235-5551.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 15, 1992, MSHA published a final rule (57 FR 20868) revising its safety standards for ventilation of underground coal mines. The American Mining Congress and the National Coal Association [predecessors to NMA] and the UMWA challenged the 1992 rule in the D.C. Circuit. The D.C. Circuit stayed the application of 30 CFR 75.321(a) (oxygen in bleeder entries), and MSHA voluntarily stayed 30 CFR 75.313 (main mine fan stoppage with persons underground) and 75.344(a)(1) (compressors located in noncombustible structure or area). The remaining provisions became effective on November 16, 1992, or as otherwise provided in the rule.
MSHA agreed to further review the 1992 rule and to propose revisions. With the consent of the parties, the D.C. Circuit stayed the proceedings pending the Agency's review. On May 19, 1994, MSHA published a proposed rule (59 FR 26536) revising certain provisions of the 1992 rule.
On March 11, 1996, MSHA published a final rule (61 FR 9764). On June 7, 1996, the D.C. Circuit issued an order staying the application of 30 CFR 75.313(d)(2) (stopping of withdrawal of persons upon fan restart) and 75.321(a)(2) (oxygen in bleeder entries). All other requirements of the final rule, including the remaining provisions of 75.313 (main mine fan stoppage with persons underground) and 75.344(a)(1) (compressor enclosed or continuously attended), became effective on June 10, 1996, or as otherwise provided in the rule.
On June 17, 1997, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in National Mining Association v. Mine Safety and Health Administration and Secretary of Labor (MSHA), D.C. Cir. No. 92-1288 and consolidated cases, issued an order granting the petition for review on NMA's challenge to Sec. 75.360 relating to preshift examinations.
The operative difference between the two provisions was the substitution of the phrase ``8-hour interval [or] period'' in Sec. 75.360(a)(1) (1996) for the phrase ``beginning of any shift'' in previous Sec. 75.360(a). In compliance with the Court's order, paragraph (a) of previous Sec. 75.360, with minor modifications, is now in effect as new paragraph (a)(1).
List of Subjects in 30 CFR Part 75
Mine safety and health, Underground coal mines, Ventilation.
Dated: June 19, 1997.
J. Davitt McAteer,
Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health.
Accordingly, part 75, subchapter O, chapter I, title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations is amended as follows:
1. The authority citation for part 75 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 30 U.S.C. 811.
2. Section 75.360, paragraph (a)(1), is revised to read as follows:
Sec. 75.360 Preshift examination.
(a)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (a)(2) of this section, a certified person designated by the operator shall make a preshift examination within 3 hours preceding the beginning of any shift during which any person is scheduled to work or travel underground. No person other than certified examiners
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may enter or remain in any underground area unless a preshift
examination has been completed for the shift.
* * * * * [FR Doc. 97-16963 Filed 6-27-97; 8:45 am]


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There are two ways to share items in Google Reader. You can click the share button at the bottom of a post or you can use the share bookmark.
If you do both then you'll end up with two submissions to your shared items feed.
It's a fair question ask; "Why would you share a single item twice?".
It can happen by accident, of course, it's all too possible that you'll end up on an actual blog page (perhaps following a link from Sphinn or Mixx) and decide to share it. Later on, back in your Reader, you rediscover the same post, notice that it hasn't been shared (or doesn't seem to have been shared) and press the Reader share button.
I use my share button a lot; it feeds Facebook, Friendfeed, MyBlogLog and as well as some internal bigmouthmedia news networking. Sometimes I'm keen to get a blog post shared quickly, so rather than waiting for Google Reader to update, I'll use the bookmarklet on the post itself.