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I didn't experience any bugs in KotOR2. It was just obvious in the last third of the game that they didn't have any time to finish it, especially the Malachor parts. I liked the game, anyway.
Also Lucas seems to hate the game, and it was more or less written out of Star Wars canon (the canon refers to it, but it's totally rewritten). I'm surprised LucasArts allowed the game to appear on Steam at all.
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SOooooo we decided, after a lot of research, to go with the Envirolet. AND LOVE IT! NO smells…. LOOKS normal (even when you lift the lid). Our house guests have had no problems. I have a cute little canister with the daily mix and signs on how to put two scoops a day 'down the hatch'. Along with signs on using the tp.Toilet itself is on the second floor with the base directly below on the first floor in the utility room. Again, no smells. I have a tassel on the rake bar with another note on how to give it a couple pulls once a day.
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I live alone and enjoy a life of voluntary simplicity. And yet, I find that I must do more to protect my way of life. This is precisely why I installed the Envirolet Waterless Self-contained Basic Plus Non Electric composting toilet. Where I live, if the electric grid goes down so does my water supply. The communal well pump is electric and there is no generator or backup storage.
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Black Men
Black Men
To the Black boys
Out all day, running the streets
The Black boys who'll work hard
Just to rock Jays on their feet
The Black boys
With their mohawks, Locks, or fades
Saggin' pants, Trukfit tees, Gucci belts
Snapbacks, tattoos, and stuntin' shades
Or the skinny jeans
And skateboards
Who ride on until they soar
To the Black boys who are fighters
And use their fist to earn respect
Or the ones in gangs
Who'll die for their set
To the Black boys
Who'll claim Crip or Blood
Who disrespect any Nigga on the block
And just don't give a f*ck
Black boys with attitudes
And anger issues
Middle finger in the air
But will ride or die with you
To the Black boys
Raised by their single momma's
Wheelin' and dealin' and
Buryin' problems
To the Black boys in the hood
Playing ball or spittin rhymes
The ones no one tends to give a f*ck about
No child left behind
My *ss
It's past time
For it to be the last time
To lose another Black boy to the streets
Why don't we be the change we wanna see
And practice what we preach
To the Black boys who rock hoodies
For protection from the rain
Who are accused of being up to no good
And assumed not to belong there because of their race
To the Black boy's mothers
Who had to bury her child
Who will never again hear his laugh
Or see his smile
To the Black boy
Who could be our brother, father, cousin, or son
Whose chance of making it past thirty
Is close to none
Cus Black boys get killed out there
It's real out there
It's hard out there
You get scarred out there
Cus Black boys
Are victims
To the world
To the streets
It aint the first time or the last time
Cus history: it repeats
To the Black boys who hurt
And don't know their own self worth
To the Black boys who don't read or do read
Who are chained to their minds
Or who are totally freed
To the Black boys who work hard
Or do nothing at all
To the ones who pick themselves up
Or stay down when they fall
To the Black boys who know they can do good
Cus our President is Black
Who know they can be anything
And now it's a fact
Cus their President looks like them
Plays ball like them
Smokes like them
To the Black boys
Our system has failed
Who has spent less time in school
And more time in juvy or jail
Understand a system can't protect
Who it wasn't meant for
It wasnt designed to help you, Black boy
So what you all bent for
Why are you so disappointed Black boy
Did you think Trayvon was the first?
No Sir there are more
Some of them situations is even worse
There was Oscar Grant, Sean Bell, Troy Davis
And many of other uknown victims
Millions of cases
Why do you cry Black boy
Dry your tears; I'll tell you what to do
Become lawyers, judges, supreme court rulers
Black boys writing new laws
To prepare a better future
To the black boys called n*gg*r
Or called a thug cus they pants sag low
Who carry a chip on they shoulder
Cus no one else will ever really never know
What it means to be a Black boy
Oh Black boys my heart cries, weeps, and bleeds for you
Again and again
Cries and bleeds and weeps for the Black boys
Who will never have the opportunity to become Black men
Rest in peace
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The poem conjures up pity for those who wants freedom At the time, it seem to be a sentimental appeal against colour race and creed.. My poem titled: "LET'S SHUN RACIAL SEGREGATION" is an authority on such topic to read for anyone who cares
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My new @LinkedIn post on 2 equations that explain Indian politics & business, based on my great @wharton @penn trip https://t.co/jmsmVllVJc.
— Geoffrey Garrett (@garrett_geoff) November 9, 2015
Must-read: India's Energy Crisis @RMartinBoulder explains why you should care https://t.co/RmjGTF3Ik9 pic.twitter.com/Pldu8dbXvV
— MIT Tech Review (@techreview) October 20, 2015
Can India electrify without destroying the planet? My big feature for @techreview http://t.co/VpvJDwUjZ1
— Richard Martin (@RMartinBoulder) October 7, 2015
India has world's first 100% solar-powered airport http://t.co/HHQ2yeR5jU now for the planes... pic.twitter.com/QodTEGl98Q
— CECHR (@CECHR_UoD) August 20, 2015
PM @narendramodi 's speech today and #entrepreneurship in India, My take: https://t.co/RVN7EDbQiw @NITIAayog @TiEBangalore @myamcat
— Tarun Khanna (@TarunKhannaHBS) August 15, 2015
Climate Change: Why the Tropical Poor Will Suffer Most http://t.co/CyH6drXssq
— MIT Tech Review (@techreview) June 19, 2015
In its annual Climate Change Vulnerability Index, the U.K.-based risk analysis firm Maplecroft lists the top 32 countries at "extreme risk" from climate change. The top 10 are all tropical countries: Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Nigeria, Chad, Haiti, Ethiopia, the Philippines, the Central African Republic, and Eritrea. Of these, all but Nigeria and the Philippines are on the UN's list of the world's 48 poorest countries.
The reasons that the poor living at low latitudes will bear the heaviest burdens of climate change are meteorologically, economically, and geopolitically complex, but they all arise from an inescapable statistical fact: normal temperature ranges in the tropics fall within a narrower range than those in more northern climes, and so any deviation is likely to have more significant effects.
"Summers in much of the tropics are already becoming systematically hotter than they used to be, affecting food supplies and contributing to heatstroke and death like we saw in India just this year," says Susan Solomon, a professor of climate science at MIT...
Management #Thinkers who Influenced us in 2014 in India. Nirmalya Kumar @ProfKumar @TataCompanies is #1 @thinkers50 pic.twitter.com/suvFG30Myg
— Competitiveness (@arthsastra) December 9, 2014
erb.umich.edu/Research/Faculty-Research/2012/Bunch-Park2012.pdf (15 pages)
Business Leadership Review 9.1: www.mbaworld.com/blr, www.mbaworld.com/Evidence-and-Ideas/BLR/BLR-9-1
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Elated to share great news with you all! IndiaCollegeSearch becomes 1st Education #Startup from India to win... http://t.co/Pjy7nuFD4I
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Check out the complete list of Commerce colleges in India http://t.co/nXfDH6iRRp
— IndiaCollegeSearch (@india_colleges) September 29, 2014
Checkout the complete list of B-School offering Executive MBA http://t.co/i2fKuupmzi
— IndiaCollegeSearch (@india_colleges) September 15, 2014
"India needs a CEO more than it needs a PM. That is what Modi can deliver." http://t.co/GVAfY0N1NT— Knowledge @ Wharton (@whartonknows) May 20, 2014
India's rise on the global stage has "taken some body blows in the past few years," says Wharton management professor Jitendra Singh, who will be the next dean of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "For the next government, there are three critical deficits they must begin to address immediately: a deficit of governance; a deficit of integrity and trust, and the fiscal and budgetary deficits. While there are many specific issues one might pinpoint, I believe most can be traced back to these deficits....
Top 50 Inspiring and Most Read #Startup Stories of 2013 - http://t.co/p7HpBEx2OV
— YourStory (@YourStorydotin) December 30, 2013
"You can't be that kid standing at the top of the water-slide, over thinking it. You have to go down the chute." #Startups #Entrepreneurship— NASSCOM for StartUps (@NASSCOMStartUps) October 23, 2013
At a time when healthcare costs in the United States threaten to bankrupt the federal government, this new breed of Indian hospitals is performing the same medical procedures for 5 percent of the cost. That may not seem surprising—after all, wages in India are significantly lower than they are here—until you consider two points...
But how do they do it? Govindarajan identified three major trends that have allowed these Indian hospitals to cut costs without sacrificing quality of care...
But how do they do it? Govindarajan identified three major trends that have allowed these Indian hospitals to cut costs without sacrificing quality of care. The first is something he calls a hub-and-spoke design. Traditionally, Indian hospitals, like those in the U.S. and Europe, were founded in major population centers. In order to reach the masses of people in need of care, however, they began opening smaller clinics in more rural areas feeding into the main hospital, similar to the way that regional air routes feed into major airline hubs.
This tightly coordinated web cuts costs by concentrating the most expensive equipment and expertise in the hub, rather than duplicating it in every village.- See more at: http://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/newsroom/articles/health-lessons-from-india#sthash.5cMl7WLv.dpuf
The hospital of the future is operating now. And it's in India. Prof @vgovindarajan talks innovation and healthcare http://t.co/SMyCqKj8r4— Tuck School (@TuckSchool) September 13, 2013
Meet your new global consumer
You've heard of the burgeoning consumer markets in China and India that are driving the world economy. But do you know enough about these new consumers to convert them into customers?
Do you know that:
• There will be nearly one billion middle-class consumers in China and India within the next ten years?
• More than 135 million Chinese and Indians will graduate from college in this timeframe, compared to just 30 million in the United States?
• By 2020, 68 percent of Chinese households and 57 percent of Indian households will be in the middle and upper classes?
• The number of billionaires in China has grown from 1 to 115 in the past decade alone?...
Indian School of Business Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, www.isb.edu, (Wikipedia)
ISB's Digital Summit 2013
August 30th and 31st, 2013
Rank in 2013 34
Rank in 2012 20
Rank in 2011 13
Ten years ago, the founders of the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
articulated a vision that was as daunting to execute as it was simple to
state: to build a world-class business school in India.
The rest is history: within a decade the ISB grew from a start-up venture to globally top-ranked business school...
...What appeals most is Sinha's honesty. He readily accepts that ISB has succeeded beyond the expectations of its founders. And at the same time, admits that many of the early goals are yet to be reached. This candour makes the book an eminently readable one. And useful, too...
news.yourstory.in, student.yourstory.in
Bangalore::Hack 2013, the first ever hackathon initiated by Sequoia Capital in India, will take place in Bangalore on September 14-15, 2013. Bangalore::Hack 2013 will bring together Bangalore's finest developers, programmers and designers to showcase their ability to create innovative products. Divided into teams, these hackers will compete to create and develop cool coding hacks in tracks that involve mobile applications, web apps and systems and cloud infrastructure...
Bangalore::Hack 2013, the first ever hackathon initiated by Sequoia Capital in India http://t.co/fTwWgWapn5 @Sequoia_Capital— YourStory (@YourStorydotin) August 24, 2013
3.6 million students (18%) studying "commerce & management" in India #highered @DrEducationBlog http://t.co/q3TWrtFipI— Dan LeClair (@AACSBdan) August 26, 2013
August 14, 2013, The Economic Times
AHMEDABAD: The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) on Tuesday appointed Ashish Nanda, a Harvard Law School professor, as its new director nearly ten months after former director Samir Barua's five-year term ended in November 2012. The institute, eyeing a spot among world's top B-schools, had for the first time advertised the post in an international publication seeking a candidate with global exposure. The quest has ended with appointment of Nanda, a Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School, and an IIM-A 1983 batch alumnus. ..
Chicago Booth Professor Named Governor of Reserve Bank of India http://t.co/tqqMBq7tEP @booth_insider— BW Business Schools (@BWbschools) August 8, 2013
...If all goes well, India's economy should recover and return to its recent 8% average in the next couple of years. Enormous new projects are in the works to sustain this growth. For example, the planned Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (delhimumbaiindustrialcorridor.com), a project with Japanese collaboration entailing more than $90 billion in investment, will link Delhi to Mumbai's ports, covering an overall length of 1,483 kilometers (921 miles) and passing through six states. The project includes nine large industrial zones, high-speed freight lines, three ports, six airports, a six-lane expressway, and a 4,000-megawatt power plant...
Among our most read: on what's troubling India's economy. http://t.co/lEJumgz4DH— Project Syndicate (@ProSyn) August 10, 2013
The Times of India, July 24, 2013
KOLKATA: Aspirations at IIM-Calcutta have always been sky-high. Living up to the standard it has set over the years, the institution is now vying for global ranking.
IIM-C has applied for accreditation from what is considered to be the most prestigious global agency - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Two sister IIMs - Ahmedabad and Bangalore - have got accreditation from the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).
Over the next few months, mentors from different top business schools will visit the IIM-C campus to help the institute fine-tune its teaching-learning process and make it worthy of the accreditation. According to sources, a number of changes are being brought into by the faculty to make academic experience for students vastly different from what it was earlier.
On Wednesday, the first mentor, Gonzalo Garland, will arrive on campus from the Instituto De Empresa, Spain...
The full ranking is here. @Interbrand & @EconomicTimes announce the 30 Best Indian Brands: http://t.co/RpZxRn1a9S #BIB2013— Interbrand (@Interbrand) July 31, 2013
"China ready to invest $160 billion in Andhra Pradesh", @NDTV (Wikipedia), July 21, 2013
Wikipedia: List of Indian states by GDP
+ "silicon india": "India's top 15 cities with the highest GDP"
+ CIO.IN: "Indian CIOs Riding High on the Digital Wave": ...Interestingly, in India, 85 percent of organizations are digitally astute...
+ CIO.IN: "Licensed Software can Increase India's GDP by $739 billion".
A new study from BSA | The Software Alliance and INSEAD, finds that increasing the use of legitimate licensed software could in turn increase India's GDP by $739 billion...
Hyderabad: China is ready to invest about $160 billion in different sectors in Andhra Pradesh (Wikipedia) and improve bilateral ties with India, according to economic advisor to the President of China.
Shoosan Maa, the economic advisor to Xi Jinping and also the Member of Parliament, met Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy in Hyderabad and discussed plans to invest in sectors like food processing, small-scale industries, infrastructure and education, among others, a CMO release said.
While quoting Shoosan on China's intention of pumping in $160 billion in the state, the release did not state any timeframe or phases in which such a huge investment could materialise...
...Shoosan said his country would send 10,000 students to Hyderabad for education in various streams, according to the release.
The Indian Express, June 26, 2013
Students across the globe will now be able to access courses and classroom content developed by IIT Bombay. The institute Tuesday joined the massive open online courses (MOOCs) platform started by ...
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) currently have their own initiative, the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), which was started in 2008 and facilitates access to its courses online, free of charge. Currently 300 modules in web or video format can be accessed online by students and faculty from 600 colleges across the country. Another 1,000 are in the process of being developed and added....
The Times of India, December 17, 2012
SANTIAGO INIGUEZ, president, IE University, talks to Karan Gupta, study abroad consultant, about the challenges facing higher education worldwide
What are the key challenges facing higher education today?
It depends on the region you analyse because we see that the focus has now moved from the Western hemisphere to Asia and so the problems in Europe and in the US are different from those that universities face in Asia or Latin America. For example, if you look at Europe and US, you'll find that we are attending to problems of governance at most universities, financing models and how to bring innovation into the reality and maximise the learning process of users and technology in the learning process. On the other hand, if you look at Asia or Latin America (which has a lot of similarities vis-a-vis higher education ), I guess that the challenges are how to build up prestigious accredited institutions with global status, how to develop their own research and contribution to knowledge from their distinctive perspective and how to build up sustainable models of universities that can transform the world of higher education. So both worlds are complementary and up until now Western universities have been to some extent an inspiration for Asian universities. In future, it may be reverse where Asian universities will become references for many Western universities.
Any steps that you have taken to help overcome the challenges?One of the steps I have taken is to organise the Reinventing Higher Education conference...
PaGaLGuY free ebook article with download link and , 17, July 2012, 274 pages.
From the introduction of the book:It is these sort of uniquely Indian misinterpretations of admissions and post-MBA careers at b-schools outside India that led us at PaGaLGuY to conceptualise this PaGaLGuY Kickass Guide to MBA Abroad. We decided that we will put together a set of articles, interviews and opinions that help Indian MBA applicants get started on the admissions, financing and post-MBA career aspects of international bschools in an ebook that is written from an Indian point-of-view...
July 19, 2012 in India Knowledge@Wharton
Huge Potential
According to the "Indian Education Sector Outlook -- Insights on Schooling Segment," (PDF, 9 pages) a report released by New Delhi--based research and consultancy firm Technopak Advisors in May, the total number of schools in India stands at 1.3 million. Of these, private schools account for 20%. Educomp's Dhar points out that only around 10% of the private schools have tapped the potential of multimedia classroom teaching whereas in government schools, it has barely made any inroads...
The Times of India, June 25, 2012.
James W Dean Jr, dean of University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School, talks to Shashank Venkat about the institute's management programmes and inaugural global business consulting projects in India.
The Indian student population in your full-time MBA programme has grown from 8 to 13%. What is driving this growth at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School?
Indian students are extremely competitive. Students who apply to us have the strongest preparation, especially in terms of math, among all the other students. This is the reason they do very well in the GMAT exam. Since the medium of instruction in our institute is English...
Business Standard (India), June 14, 2012
An increased supply of executive education programmes by the Ivy League institutes and other international B-schools, including Harvard Business School (HBS), Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Tuck School of Business, INSEAD, Oxford University's Said Business School and Duke University, in Indian the market is set to add pressure on management institutes in the country.
B-schools Business Standard spoke to said though there will be pressure, the only way is to deliver quality products and services. "Executive training at the Indian Institutes of Management is changing with the competitive pressures from Ivy League global B-schools such as HBS and INSEAD turning their heads to the Indian executive education market. The impact of executive programmes by international B-schools on management development programmes, offered by IIMs, is likely to be on quality and nature of programmes conducted in the executive education domain," says Keyoor Purani, chairperson, MDP, IIM-Kozhikode (IIM-K)...
NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2012, 14th - 16th February, Mumbai
Financial Times, December 14, 2011.
Italy's Università Bocconi is set to become the first leading international university to open an India-based business school under its brand.
Faculty page of Professor Vijay Govindarajan of Tuck School of Business
Thinkers 50, 2011 Ranking: #3 and Winner: 2011 Breakthrough Idea Award
Businessworld, 03 Dec 2011
The next 50 years will be defined by two important trends - both favouring India. The world's population is about 7 billion, of which 5 billion are poor. Companies typically target the 2 billion rich. Over the next 50 years, the projection is that we will have 12 billion people, of which 10 billion will be poor. So, the biggest opportunity for corporations is to convert the poor into a consuming base, so that they become an even bigger opportunity over the next 50 years.
However, you need innovation to serve the poor. I recently wrote a piece on a $300 house for the poor. Once you construct a home, it becomes a reservoir for other products. Apple, for instance, does not sell a single iPhone to the poor. If you could make an iPhone for $5, there is a $25-billion market. Even for a giant like Apple, that's a big revenue opportunity.
The second big trend is sustainability. This planet cannot be sustained if the 5-billion poor turn into consumers...
The Indian School of Business (ISB) has received the accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), making it the first business school in South Asia to be recognised by the premier global body. The accreditation by AACSB coincides with the 10th anniversary of the b-school.
Dean Ajit Rangnekar: "We are delighted to have received the prestigious AACSB accreditation, which is regarded as the hallmark of excellence in business education. The AACSB is unique because of its mission-driven approach, evaluating the applying schools against peer schools with similar missions. Given our commitment to creating research-based knowledge, and developing leaders through innovative world-class programmes, we are delighted to have this robust and independent reaffirmation of our adherence to our mission."
He further added, "We are confident that this recognition will translate into increased interest by the international community comprising of faculty, students and recruiters, and help us chart Asia's and India's growth as the global management education hub."...
business today india, September 18, 2011
The country head of HSBC was the first woman to enter the male bastion of investment banking
...The list of Kidwai's firsts is staggering: she was the first Indian woman to graduate from Harvard Business School, or HBS; the first woman to be hired by PriceWaterhouse in India; the first woman to lead a foreign bank in India. Kidwai says she had to work "very hard" to find her space among the men...
Article of the Hindustan Times, July 12, 2011.
Dezsö J. Horváth, dean of the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada, is one of the longest serving business school deans in the world (He has been Dean at Schulich since 1988). Someone who has been one of the key figures in forging of ties between the Schulich School and the GMR Group (best known for the Delhi and Hyderabad airports) for setting up a top-ranked international B-school in Hyderabad, Horváth shares with HT his plans for the Hyderabad campus, the education that will be delivered to Indian and international students and how he hopes the Foreign Educational Institutions (Regulation of Entry and Operations) Bill will get through Parliament on time...
(bill no 10.(57 of 2010) of the Parliament of India, Rajya Sabha, website)
Some of the interdisciplinary research and curricular approaches include:
Professional Science Masters
Service Science supported by IBM (IBM Systems Journal)
MD/MBA at Dartmouth
Stanford GSB and Law school for energy policy
Columbia Business School
IE Business School and Brown University
Indian B-schools have to broaden their own mindset by accepting that they are not in the business of offering MBA degrees. Instead they are in the business of developing talent, which innovates, improves and provides solutions to business and societal problems. Thus, one approach to make B-schools relevant is to consider some of the biggest challenges faced by the Indian society and collaborate to offer programmes, which go beyond disciplinary boundaries. Read more.
NASSCOM, with Fragomen as Knowledge Partner is pleased to announce "Global Immigration - Trends, Opportunities & Challenges - 2011", an immigration workshop on employer responsibility, new global legislative developments and strategies for compliance at a time of ever increasing restrictions on the worldwide deployment of international personnel.
We had an interesting year where corporations were coming out of the recession and increased deployment globally in line with renewed client demand. In the last one year, we have seen more protectionist measures as well as new challenges. We have seen visa costs increasing and minimum eligibility requirements more stringent across the globe. Mobility and Immigration professionals have been working in tandem with government agencies and industry bodies to be able to address these new demands and be in compliance with the legal requirements.
This conference will enable attendees to obtain and understand a comprehensive overview of the current Immigration trends, challenges and best practices covering multiple international destinations for multi-national corporations. We have confirmations from embassies as well as government immigration authorities from major geographies to speak at the event.
The program with details can be downloaded by clicking here. We look forward to meeting you at this seminar.
The Results, 18 February 2011, PaGaLGuY.com
This year we have ranked a total of 104 b-schools. The year 2010 has seen a lot of important new b-schools starting up, of which the three Indian Institutes of Management at Rai
India Times, Posted January 18, 2011 (Times Ascent, career & business).
1) How prepared are business schools today for unprecedented circumstances like the economic downturn?
The financial crisis was an inflection point in the evolution of management education. Not only has MBA education matured over the past 30 years, but also the crisis provoked important questions about how management education should be taught. It is clear that future leaders will deal with incredible complexity: the globalisation of economies, sophisticated financial markets, greater sensitivity to environmental issues, increasing cultural diversity, etc.
2) Which are the areas in the global education system that need immediate attention?
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The authors examined the safety and efficacy of long-term fluoxetine monotherapy, lithium monotherapy, and placebo therapy in preventing relapse and recurrence of bipolar type II major depressive episode. The authors hypothesized that fluoxetine monotherapy would be superior to lithium monotherapy with a similar hypomanic mood conversion rate.
Patients at least 18 years old who recovered from their major depressive episode during initial open-label fluoxetine monotherapy were randomly assigned to receive 50 weeks of double-blind monotherapy with fluoxetine at 10–40 mg/day, lithium at 300–1200 mg/day, or placebo. The primary outcome measure was time to relapse or recurrence. Secondary outcome measures included the proportion of patients remaining well and the frequency of hypomanic symptoms.
There were no significant differences in clinical or demographic characteristics among the fluoxetine (N=28), lithium (N=26), and placebo (N=27) groups. The mean time to relapse was 249.9 days for the fluoxetine group, 156.4 days for the lithium group, and 186.9 days for the placebo group. The hazard of relapse was significantly lower with fluoxetine compared with lithium, and the estimated hazard of relapse with lithium was 2.5 times greater than with fluoxetine. There were no statistically significant or clinically meaningful differences in hypomanic symptoms among treatment groups over time. One patient taking fluoxetine and one patient taking placebo discontinued treatment because of hypomania.
These findings suggest that long-term fluoxetine monotherapy may provide superior relapse-prevention benefit relative to lithium monotherapy after recovery from bipolar II major depressive episode without an increase in hypomanic mood conversion episodes.
Practice guidelines for treating bipolar disorder discourage the use of long-term antidepressant therapy (1–5). Several expert panels recommend discontinuing antidepressants within 12 weeks of recovery from bipolar depression (1–3). One clinician survey recommends discontinuing antidepressants within 8–20 weeks after recovery from depression (2). This time frame is considerably shorter than that recommended for relapse-prevention of unipolar major depressive disorder (6). However, there is no evidence to suggest that patients with bipolar disorder require less prophylactic antidepressant therapy than do patients with unipolar depression. We previously compared survival rates in recovered bipolar II patients and unipolar depression patients receiving fluoxetine monotherapy for 26 weeks (7) and found that somewhat fewer bipolar (22%) than unipolar (33%) patients relapsed during prophylactic therapy. While practice guidelines recommend antidepressant maintenance for recovered patients with unipolar depression (6, 8), the opposite recommendation is made for recovered bipolar patients (1–5, 9, 10).
Most practice guidelines for bipolar disorder derive from studies of both patients with bipolar I and bipolar II disorder taking different antidepressant medications. These studies have generally reported an increase in mood conversion episodes and depressive relapses during anti-depressant use (10–14). While one randomized study of bipolar I and bipolar II depressed patients reported good antidepressant efficacy with more manic conversions with venlafaxine compared with sertraline or bupropion (10), a study comparing adjunctive bupropion with desipramine therapy in addition to established mood stabilizer therapy found no difference in antidepressant efficacy and a higher manic conversion rate with desipramine (15). A retrospective study of bipolar I and II patients (16) found that 44% of patients reported at least one mood conversion during antidepressant therapy if they had a history of prior mood conversions. However, the authors acknowledged the limitation of using retrospective self-report data in patients taking various antidepressants and mood stabilizers. Although a recent literature review (11) found rates of 20%–40% for antidepressant-induced mood conversions, it also found that adjunctive mood stabilizer therapy provided limited protection against antidepressant-induced mood conversions. Finally, several case-control and randomized trials of bipolar II patients found that long-term antidepressant therapy may not produce an increase in mood conversion episodes and may prevent depressive relapse (17–20).
In this article, we present results from a randomized double-blind placebo-substitution study of the long-term safety and efficacy of fluoxetine monotherapy of bipolar II disorder. We hypothesized that fluoxetine monotherapy would be superior to lithium monotherapy in preventing relapse or recurrence of depression. We further hypothesized that there would be a similar mood conversion rate among treatment groups.
Outpatients at least 18 years old who had a DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of bipolar II disorder with a current major depressive episode and a score ≥16 on the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D; 21) were enrolled. Exclusion criteria were prior mania or psychosis, substance abuse or dependence within the preceding 3 months, nonresponse to fluoxetine within the current episode, sensitivity to fluoxetine or lithium, presence of an unstable medical condition, pregnancy, nursing, renal insufficiency, dementia, malignancy, and concurrent use of antidepressant or mood stabilizer therapy.
Patients provided informed consent in accordance with the ethical standards of the University of Pennsylvania institutional review board. The study was conducted using the Good Clinical Practice guidelines with oversight by the university's Office of Human Research and an independent data and safety monitoring board.
A psychiatric history was verified using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV format (22). Medical history, physical examination, and laboratory tests (including blood urea nitrogen and creatinine levels, thyroid panel, pregnancy test in women, drug screen, and ECG) were performed. Estimates of the number of prior depressive and hypomanic episodes were obtained as defined by DSM-IV criteria.
Structured HAM-D and Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS) (23) scores were obtained by a study clinician. Symptom ratings were obtained with attribution as to the origin of the symptom. For example, insomnia could be recorded on the HAM-D as a depressive symptom or recorded on the YMRS as a hypomanic symptom. It could also be simultaneously recorded on the HAM-D and YMRS as a mixed hypomanic and depressive episode symptom if the evaluator attributed the insomnia to both conditions. This rating method sometimes resulted in baseline YMRS scores that were above zero. This procedure has been employed in bipolar trials as a real-world means of distinguishing mood conversion episodes from depressive symptoms (20, 21, 24, 25).
Initial fluoxetine monotherapy, at 20–80 mg/day, was administered on the basis of response and tolerability. Patients who had a final HAM-D score ≤8 by week 12 of treatment were randomly assigned to continuation monotherapy for an additional 50 weeks with fluoxetine at 10–40 mg/day, lithium at 300–1200 mg/day (with a serum level of 0.5–1.5 mmol/liter), or placebo. Patients assigned to the fluoxetine group who previously took >40 mg/day of fluoxetine had their double-blind fluoxetine dosage reduced to 40 mg/day, and those who previously took ≤40 mg of fluoxetine daily had their established double-blind fluoxetine dosages maintained. Patients assigned to the lithium group had their previous fluoxetine therapy discontinued. Lithium therapy was initiated at 600 mg daily for 1 week, and a serum lithium level was obtained. Based on tolerability and serum lithium level, the lithium dose was increased to 900 mg daily during week 2 of therapy. This process was repeated until a serum lithium level of 0.5–1.5 mmol/liter was achieved by week 4 of therapy. Patients assigned to the placebo group had their previous fluoxetine therapy discontinued and placebo substituted. This procedure was based on prior safety data from double-blind fluoxetine discontinuation trials (26). Sham serum lithium levels were reported to the study clinician for patients assigned to receive fluoxetine or placebo. Short-term zolpidem (≤10 mg), lorazepam (≤2.0 mg), or trazodone (≤75 mg) was permitted for severe insomnia.
Outcome measures were obtained at baseline (i.e., the last week of open-label fluoxetine therapy) and during double-blind treatment after weeks 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 20, 28, 36, 44, and 50. Because outcome assessments were not equally spaced in time, the number of days since baseline was used for statistical analyses.
Outcome measures included HAM-D and YMRS scores. A treatment-emergent side effect profile of reported and elicited adverse experiences was obtained at each study visit, including the onset and cessation date, the severity of the event, the relationship of the event to treatment, and the outcome.
Full syndromal depressive relapse was defined as an increase in baseline HAM-D score to ≥14 plus meeting criteria for a major depressive episode (6, 7, 19). A subsyndromal depressive episode was defined as any increase in baseline HAM-D score without meeting criteria for a major depressive episode. Patients experiencing subsyndromal depressive episodes underwent double-blind rescue therapy via upward or downward adjustment of medication within the allowable dosage (and serum lithium level) parameters.
Syndromal and subsyndromal hypomania were assessed via patient telephone reports of mood change and by clinician-elicited assessment of mood conversion symptoms in the preceding treatment period performed at each study visit. Hypomania was defined by DSM-IV criteria as an episode lasting ≥4 days with ≥4 symptoms. Subsyndromal hypomania was defined as an episode lasting ≤3 days with ≥4 symptoms or an episode lasting ≥4 days with ≤3 symptoms. Hypomania was also examined using YMRS score cut-points of ≥8 and ≥12 at any study visit (19, 20, 24). Patients experiencing syndromal or subsyndromal hypomania underwent double-blind rescue therapy via upward or downward adjustment of medication within the allowable dosage (and serum lithium level) parameters.
The study was powered to generate a sufficient sample size to test the original hypothesis that fluoxetine monotherapy is superior to lithium, fluoxetine plus lithium, and placebo in preventing depressive relapse at 6 and 12 months. Before the start of the trial, the study design was modified to drop the fluoxetine-pluslithium treatment condition to specifically compare fluoxetine monotherapy and lithium monotherapy, with placebo as the control condition. The assumptions for our calculations were based on the results from a previous study of long-term fluoxetine monotherapy (7). Using Kaplan-Meier analyses, after 6 months the cumulative proportion of patients not relapsing was 0.7 on fluoxetine and 0.1 on placebo, and after 12 months the proportions were 0.6 and 0.1, respectively. To be conservative, we based our power analysis on the expected survival frequencies of 0.6 for fluoxetine and 0.18 for placebo. The group size needed to detect a significant difference in 0.6 versus 0.18 with the log-rank test at the p<0.05 level with 80% power was 23. Assuming a 50% remission rate during initial fluoxetine therapy, the minimum number of patients necessary was 4×23×2=184. However, because the number of double-blind treatment conditions was reduced to three at the outset of the trial, our sample size was conservatively adjusted to 168 (yielding 28 patients per treatment condition).
Analyses were conducted in Stata, version 10.0 (Stata Corp., College Station, Tex.), according to the intent-to-treat principle, with two-sided tests of hypotheses and an alpha of 0.05. Initial analyses were descriptive, summarizing demographic and clinical variables by treatment condition. Kaplan-Meier survival curves were plotted, as well as overlaid individual-level profile plots of YMRS scores. The log-rank test was used to compare the survival distributions to relapse between treatment groups. The mean time to relapse or recurrence in days was estimated for each treatment group.
We fit a Cox proportional hazards model with two indicator variables: one for fluoxetine (which took a value of 1 for fluoxetine and 0 otherwise) and one for lithium (which took a value of 1 for lithium and 0 otherwise). We tested the null hypothesis that the hazard ratios were equal in both groups by estimating the hazard ratio for fluoxetine compared with lithium (primary test) and fluoxetine compared with placebo (secondary test). The Cox model also allowed for comparison of fluoxetine with placebo as a secondary test of equality of regression coefficients (27). Fisher's exact test was used to compare the proportion of patients in each treatment group who relapsed.
Mood conversion rates were compared between treatment groups using quasi-least squares (28). Quasi-least squares allowed for the use of a linear regression model with adjustment for the correlation between repeated measurements on each patient (29). Quasi-least squares regressed YMRS scores on the following covariates: baseline YMRS score; time (days from baseline divided by 7); indicator variables for fluoxetine and lithium (which took a value of 1 for fluoxetine or lithium and 0 otherwise); and time-by-treatment group interaction terms. We tested whether the time-by-treatment group regression coefficients differed significantly from zero (indicating that change over time for that group differed significantly from placebo). Quasi-least squares was used to estimate the expected YMRS scores at baseline and 350 days after baseline, and to obtain the estimated change over 350 days. We estimated the proportion of patients in each treatment group that had YMRS scores ≥8 and ≥12 at any time during treatment and compared these proportions using Fisher's exact test.
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to compare mean and median changes in YMRS scores. These analyses allowed us to compare the greatest elevations in YMRS scores (compared with baseline) for each patient.
Finally, Fisher's exact test was used to compare the proportion of patients who had adverse events in each treatment group. The frequency of each event type by treatment was examined to identify potential differences in event "signal" among treatment groups. This was done because the study was not powered to detect small to moderate differences in adverse events between treatments. We note that failure to identify a significant difference between treatment groups does not prove that no clinically meaningful difference exists.
A total of 167 patients were enrolled (Figure 1): 89 were women, with a mean age of 36.9 years (SD=12.7, range=19–76), and 78 were men, with a mean age of 37.9 years (SD=12.9, range=20–84). Nineteen patients (11.4%) did not pass screening, and 148 patients received initial fluoxetine monotherapy. Sixty-five patients (43.9%) discontinued initial fluoxetine monotherapy: 26 (17.6%) because of lack of efficacy, five (3.4%) because of adverse events, two (1.4%) because of noncompliance, and 32 (21.6%) for withdrawn consent or loss to follow-up. None discontinued initial fluoxetine monotherapy for hypomania.
Eighty-three patients (49.7%) recovered during initial fluoxetine monotherapy, and 81 patients were randomly assigned to receive double-blind therapy with fluoxetine (N=28), lithium (N=26), or placebo (N=27). There were no statistically significant differences in baseline clinical or demographic characteristics among treatment groups (Table 1). The mean average lithium dose was 1027 mg/day (SD=210.8), and the mean average serum lithium level was 0.69 mmol/liter (SD=0.27). The mean average maximum fluoxetine dose was 34.3 mg/day (SD=7.9).
The mean time to full syndromal depressive relapse or recurrence was 249.9 days (95% confidence interval [CI]=186.8–312.9) for the fluoxetine group, 156.4 days (95% CI=92.3–220.6) for the lithium group, and 186.9 days (95% CI=113.0–260.7) for the placebo group. The significance level for a comparison of time to relapse on fluoxetine and lithium or placebo was p=0.03 (Figure 2).
The Cox proportional hazards ratio for relapse was significantly lower for fluoxetine compared with lithium (ratio=0.4; 95% CI=0.2–0.9; p=0.04). In contrast, the hazards ratio was not significantly different for lithium compared with placebo (ratio=1.2; 95% CI=0.6–2.4; p=0.7) or for fluoxetine compared with placebo (ratio=0.5; 95% CI=0.2–1.1; p=0.1). Thus, the estimated relapse hazard with lithium was 1÷0.4=2.5 (95% CI=1.1–5.0) times higher compared with fluoxetine monotherapy.
The proportion of patients who relapsed was 32.1% on fluoxetine, 57.7% on lithium, and 51.9% on placebo (Fisher's exact test, p=0.14). (Note that Fisher's exact test ignores time to relapse and censored data.) There was no significant difference in mean serum lithium levels between patients who relapsed (0.74 mmol/liter; SD=0.30) and patients who did not relapse (0.65 mmol/liter; SD=0.24).
Ten patients had hypomanic episodes: three in the fluoxetine group, two in the lithium group, and five in the placebo group. The mean number of episodes was 1.1 (SD=0.3, range=1–2), and the mean episode duration was 9.6 days (SD=5.7, range=5–16). Twenty-one patients had subsyndromal hypomanic episodes: 10 in the fluoxetine group, seven in the lithium group, and four in the placebo group. The mean number of episodes was 1.2 (SD=0.4, range=1–2), and the mean episode duration was 10.7 days (SD=14.8, range=1–48). Two hypomanic episodes resulted in treatment discontinuation: one in the fluoxetine group and one in the placebo group.
There were no statistically significant differences in YMRS scores among treatment groups over time (Table 2). The estimated change in YMRS score from baseline to day 350 was −6.3 (95% CI=−47.5 to 34.9) in the fluoxetine group, 7.2 (95% CI=−33.3 to 53.8) in the lithium group, and 0.1 (95% CI=−1.0 to 1.2) in the placebo group.
Figure 3 displays the individual-level profile plots of YMRS scores. The number of patients with a YMRS score ≥8 at any study visit was six (21.4%) in the fluoxetine group, two (7.7%) in the lithium group, and three (11.1%) in the placebo group. The number of patients with a YMRS score ≥12 at any study visit was three (10.7%) in the fluoxetine group, two (7.7%) in the lithium group, and two (7.4%) in the placebo group. The mean value of the highest minus the baseline YMRS score was 4.0 (median=2.0) in the fluoxetine group, 3.0 (median=1.0) in the lithium group, and 3.7 (median=2.0) in the placebo group.
Overall, three patients (3.7%) withdrew because of adverse events: one (3.6%) in the fluoxetine group, one (3.8%) in the lithium group, and one (3.7%) in the placebo group. There were no serious adverse events. The most frequent adverse occurrences (≥10%) for all treatment groups were headache, polyuria, polydypsia, tremor, weight gain, agitation, and minor depressive symptoms. With the exception of an increase in resting systolic or diastolic blood pressure in four (14.3%) patients in the fluoxetine group, two (7.7%) in the lithium group, and three (11.1%) in the placebo group, no other clinically meaningful physical or laboratory events were observed during double-blind therapy. Four patients briefly received concomitant treatment with zolpidem, lorazepam, or trazodone for severe insomnia.
Table 3 lists the frequencies of reported and elicited psychiatric adverse events during double-blind therapy. We compared the distribution of adverse events in each treatment group that might suggest subsyndromal hypomania (e.g., agitation, insomnia, hyperthymia, irritability, pressured speech, racing thoughts, akathisia, mood lability, and hypomanic symptoms). There was no statistically significant difference among groups.
Long-term antidepressant therapy of bipolar disorder has received relatively little attention (30). Although some practice guidelines have recommended the cautious use of antidepressants in bipolar depression, these guidelines differ widely on the optimum duration of antidepressant therapy (9). Moreover, most guidelines extrapolate from studies of patients taking tricyclic antidepressants or from studies of mixed bipolar I and II patient populations (10–13, 30–32). While all practice guidelines recommend discontinuing antidepressants after recovery from depression (1–5), this approach has not been adequately examined.
Although the benefit of antidepressant therapy in bipolar II disorder is supported by some studies (7, 18, 20, 15, 33–37), other studies have not confirmed this benefit or have reported an increase in mood conversions during antidepressant use (10, 11, 15, 38–40). A naturalistic study that reviewed outcomes of 54 bipolar patients receiving combined therapy with lithium plus an antidepressant for up to 5 years found that 50% of them remained well for 17.2 months longer than patients receiving lithium monotherapy (32). Manic conversions occurred in only 14% of patients (primarily taking tricyclic antidepressants). More recently, Kupfer et al. (18) observed a sustained remission rate of 67% over 24 weeks in 21 bipolar type I and II patients who responded to adjunctive citalopram therapy in combination with lithium therapy.
A nonrandomized case-control study (17) reported significantly fewer depressive relapses in bipolar patients who continued antidepressants (32%) compared with those who did not (68%). Moreover, antidepressant use was not associated with a greater mood conversion rate. However, this observational study included only 15% of the patients who initiated antidepressant treatment and continued it for 6 months. A subsequent retrospective study (33) that examined relapse rates in recovered bipolar patients who either continued (N=19) or discontinued (N=25) antidepressant therapy found that after 1 year of treatment, depressive relapse occurred in 68% of those who discontinued therapy and 32% of those who did not. Moreover, patients who continued therapy for at least 6 months were less likely to relapse (33).
Finally, we conducted a 26-week randomized double-blind placebo-substitution study of fluoxetine monotherapy in recovered bipolar II patients (19, 24). In that study, 43% of patients receiving fluoxetine and all of those receiving placebo relapsed during continuation therapy (p=0.08). While the mean increase in YMRS score in that study was slightly higher in the fluoxetine group than in the placebo group (mean=3.0 [SD=1.8] compared with mean=0.2 [SD=0.4], p=0.01), the difference between groups was not clinically meaningful. Moreover, no hypomanic episodes were observed.
Findings from the present study are not definitive. Several limitations and caveats should be considered in their interpretation. For example, although the removal of the combined lithium-plus-fluoxetine condition increased the cohort sizes, the study still had only limited power to detect more than a substantial superiority of fluoxetine monotherapy. Moreover, it is possible that the lithium-plus-fluoxetine condition would have provided even greater efficacy than fluoxetine or lithium monotherapy.
We did not employ a patient-rated chrono-record for identifying ultrashort mood conversion episodes (10). It is possible that we missed some subsyndromal hypomanic episodes that occurred between study visits. However, the proportion of patients in each group with even modest increases in YMRS score was neither statistically significant nor clinically meaningful.
The frequency and severity of mood conversion symptoms might have been greater if depressive and hypomanic symptoms had been rated without attribution as to cause or if we had used different threshold criteria (10, 15–18). Moreover, rating insomnia on both the HAM-D and YMRS could have inflated YMRS scores. While such inflation is possible, a similar effect would be expected for all treatment conditions. We found no significant differences in YMRS scores among groups.
It is possible that the frequency and severity of mood conversion episodes would have been greater if treatment duration had been longer. However, we found no clinically meaningful increase in YMRS scores after day 70. This observation supports earlier studies of antidepressant use in bipolar II patients (7, 20, 35, 39, 40).
It is possible that the low mood conversion rate observed in this study resulted from the use of an "enriched" bipolar II population with more mild illness and a lower propensity for fluoxetine-induced mood conversions. However, the illness severity of patients in this study was similar to that of bipolar patients in prior studies that found similar frequencies of mood conversions during antidepressant monotherapy (10, 20, 35, 39, 40).
It is possible that we underestimated the frequency of subsyndromal hypomanic episodes by employing the YMRS cut-point values of 8 and 12. Also, this study was not powered to detect a difference in YMRS score between treatment groups (and, as noted earlier, failure to identify significant differences in YMRS scores between groups does not constitute proof that differences do not exist).
Finally, while it is possible that a delayed effect of fluoxetine withdrawal affected relapse rates in the lithium and placebo groups, the rate of relapse during the initial 50 days of double-blind therapy was similar for all treatment groups (Figure 2).
Dr. Amsterdam receives grant support from NIMH grants MH060998, MH060353, MH080097, MH077580, and NIH/National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine grant AT005074. Dr. Shults receives research support from NIMH grants MH060998, MH060353, MH080097, MH077580, and NIH grant 1R01CA096885.
This research was supported by NIMH grant MH060353. Additional support for the preparation of this manuscript was provided by The Jack Warsaw Fund for Research in Biological Psychiatry of the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia.
The authors report no financial relationships with commercial interests.
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Gold nanoparticles, particularly with the particle size of 2–5 nm, have attracted increasing research attention during the past decades due to their surprisingly high activity in CO and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) oxidation at low temperatures. In particular, CO oxidation below room temperature has been extensively studied on gold nanoparticles supported on several oxides (TiO2, Fe2O3, CeO2,
Gold has been used for coinage, jewelry, and other types of art for thousands of years due to its high stability in wet air. Chemical researchers rarely considered the catalytic activity of gold until the exciting discovery that gold possessed unique catalytic activity in the low temperature oxidation of carbon monoxide [
The discovery that gold is active for heterogeneous oxidative reactions at low temperatures, especially for CO oxidation, motivated a considerable amount of research on the activity of gold based catalysts. Development of new processes based on the gold catalysts, would improve the selectivity of important chemical reactions, thus reducing the by-products and energy consumption and potentially limiting production of undesired chemicals that may be unfriendly to the environment or human health. Up to now, gold catalysts have been shown to have potential applications in environmental catalysis (CO oxidation, de-NO
Despite the numerous studies on the effects of different factors such as particle size, preparation methods, pretreatment conditions and choice of supports, the origin of the outstanding catalytic properties of gold nanoparticles is still under debate. It is generally accepted that gold nanoparticles are highly reactive in the ultra-fine particle size range, although the particles sized between 10–50 nm have also been reported to exhibit certain reactivity [
Recently, the discovery of "inert" mesoporous silicas, such as SBA-15, MCM-41, MCM-48 and HMS, has stimulated intensive studies of "host-guest" chemistry inside the channels of mesoporous silicas, which have potential applications in catalysis, selective adsorbents, medicine, sensors, and nanomaterial fabrications [
In this paper, we review the current advanced ways of designing mesoporous silica based gold nanocatalysts. However, this paper does not deal with the Au@mesoporous SiO2 core/shell type catalysts, since such systems are not suitable for applications in low-temperature oxidation of CO and VOCs. We only focus on Au/SiO2 catalysts for environmental heterogeneous catalysis, therefore the newest publications on Au-SiO2 composite systems appearing in 2012 and 2013, are not included in the present overview. In
When a non-reducible oxide, like silica, is used as a support it is very difficult to obtain an optimum particle size range of gold due to the weak interaction between gold and the irreducible support. In such cases, mesoporous silica with a well-defined pore size seems to be an appropriate support for the confinement of Au-NPs. In this respect, systems such as MCM-41 and SBA-15 are especially valuable, as their porous structure is periodic and their pore size can be controlled within a range of a few nanometers [
TEM images of the calcined catalysts prepared by a colloidal deposition method: (
Our group prepared gold catalysts supported over SBA-15 with different CeO2 loadings (5–30 wt.%) and their catalytic performances were evaluated in CO oxidation, chosen as a trial reaction [
STEM images of as-synthesized catalysts: (
CO conversion (%) to CO2
Generally, the preparation of active Au/SiO2 catalysts with base solution methods is difficult and the resulting materials have very low activity in CO oxidation. This problem could be circumvented with the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method although this method needs expensive equipment. Furthermore, Yang
TEM images of Au/SBA-15 (
The results of the activity of this catalyst in CO oxidation are shown in
Catalytic activity of Au/SBA-15 (
In 2005, Mou and coworkers [
TEM images of MCM-41 modified with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTS), then AuCl4− adsorbed, and reduced by NaBH4 (
Besides MCM-41, MCM-48 and SBA-15 are also used as the supports to prepare Au-NPs in the same process, e.g. modification of APTS, adsorption of AuCl4−, then reduction with NaBH4. From
TEM of (
Recently, Dai's group has been interested in developing strategies that can effectively graft Au-NPs onto mesoporous silicas [
CO conversion of the calcined mesoporous silica containing Au-NPs: (
The general synthetic procedures of Au-NPs confined in channels of various mesoporous silicas. Reproduced with permission from [
Dai and coworkers [
More recently, other authors [
TEM images of (
Somorjai and coworkers [
Synthesis of Au/Ti-HMS by
Dai's group [
Except for the above-mentioned synthetic routes of mesoporous silica containing Au-NPs, Lennox
Scheme of electroless synthesis Au/SBA-15 and alkanethiol-capped gold nanoparticles. Reproduced with permission from [
Highly dispersed metal (Pd and Pt) nanoparticles and uniformly distributed metal (Au and Ag) nanowires have also been synthesized in ordered mesoporous silica SBA-15
Meanwhile, another facile and unique methodology to synthesize the nanosized and uniform noble metal (Pt and Au) nanoparticles has been developed using mesoporous silica support including single-site titanium oxide moieties (Ti-HMS) under microwave irradiation [
Main data of research papers on CO oxidation over Au/mesoporous silica reported in this review.
|Preparation methods
|Average Au particle size (nm)
|Au loadings (wt.%)
|Colloidal deposition
|Doping oxide
|Au/mesoporous silica
|Au/mesoporous silica
|One-pot synthesis
|Au/mesoporous silica
|Colloidal synthesis
|Cationic complex precursor
|Silver-catalyzed electroless deposition
The role of gold in the total oxidation of different types of saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons, unsaturated carbonyl compounds, alkynes, and alkadienes, the so-called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), has also been extensively studied [
Methanol conversion as a function of reaction temperature for SBA-15 supported catalysts: SBA-15 (
On the other hand, Sobczak and coworkers [
Recently, Kucherov and coworkers [
Conversion and selectivity in the methanol oxidation reaction on Au/MCM-41(HCl). Reaction conditions: reactant mixture 4 mol% methanol, 8 mol% O2, 88 mol% He balance. Flow rate: 40 mL min−1. Reproduced with permission from [
Efficiency of VOC and S-VOC removal on 0.9 wt.% Au/HZSM-5: long-term test at 320 and 500 °C. Reaction conditions: reactant mixture 1100 ppm CH3OH + 1060 ppm of (CH3S)2 + air; 75 200 h−1. Reproduced with permission from [
In this review we have provided a survey of the development of highly dispersed mesoporous silica based gold catalysts. It is well known that the conventional methods such as impregnation, deposition-precipitation, colloidal deposition,
In this review, the majority of reported mesoporous silica based gold catalysts were prepared by loading Au-NPs on mesoporous silica supports. To enhance the dispersion of available Au nanoparticles, improve the thermal stability, and understand structure-property corrections, it is desirable to build up a large specific surface area, as well as stable and single interface catalytic architectures by various noble synthesis methods. It has been claimed that three strategies such as pre-modification, post-modification and co-modification could be adopted to modify Au/SiO2 systems by adding the modifier or additive [
We propose several ideas for further research. First, although we observed the phenomenon in various mesoporous silicas, the essential reasons for the sintering resistance of Au nanoparticles during calcination process are not clear. For example, the particle size, the morphology and distribution of Au-NPs confined in the various mesoporous silica supports depend on the synthetic routes and on the type of mesoporous silica supports. Thus, detailed and systematic experimental work and even theoretical calculations on these catalyst systems are needed. Second, in order to fully understand the novel synthesis of Au-NPs incorporated into mesoporous silica supports, all of the detailed physical characterization before and after thermal treatment is required. Third, most of the catalysts have only been tested in CO oxidation because it is a sensitive probe reaction and very useful in environmental protection. However, a deep physico-chemical investigation of CO oxidation over these novel catalysts should be done, especially with
The China Scholarship Council is sincerely acknowledged for supporting Wu's scholarship. H. Wu thanks the Excellent Doctorate Foundation, Doctorate Foundation of Northwestern Polytechnical University, and the Scholarship Award for Excellent Doctoral Student granted by Ministry of Education.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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Jake Willimon, a Life Scout in Troop 551 of Spearman, has been working on his Eagle Scout Project for the past several months.
For his project, Jake chose to build a monument for Maj. Samuel B. Cornelius at Maj. Samuel B. Cornelius Field (Spearman Municipal Airport). He replaced the airport sign and is building a memorial in honor of Maj. Cornelius that will consist of a granite monument and a flag pole.
On September 17, 2010, National POW/MIA Recognition Day, Willimon hosted a dedication ceremony for the memorial. Boy Scout Troop 551 helped with the ceremony.
Following the Pledge of Allegiance, Sheryl Meek, Valedictorian of the Spearman High School Class of 1961, read a letter written by fellow classmate Malcolm Kirkland. A letter from Governor Rick Perry was also read, as was the inscription of the monument honoring Maj. Cornelius.
Among those attending the ceremony were Maj. Cornelius' widow, Lynda Hester and her husband, Paul, and Sam's sister, Adele, and other family members.
Jake is the son of Mikal and Carla Willimon of Spearman.
Samuel B. Cornelius moved with his family to Spearman in the summer of 1957. His father, Henry Cornelius, worked for Shamrock Oil & Gas. He had an older sister, Dell, and a younger brother, Edwin. All three graduated from Spearman High School (Dell - 1958, Sam - 1961, and Edwin - 1970).
Sam loved all sports, especially football. He played football for four years in Spearman, and received a football scholarship to Texas Tech, where he played for another four years. Sam was awarded the Del Morgan Courage Award for being an outstanding Red Raider, played in two Sun Bowl games and was recruited by the Kansas City Chiefs to play pro football.
Sam instead joined the U.S. Air Force and went through pilot training at Reese Air Force Base in Lubbock. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant and flew the F4 Phantom jet. He was stationed at bases in the U.S. from California and Washington State to North Carolina. He rose to the rank of Captain, and then Major.
Sam married Lynda Kilpatrick of McCamey, and they had a daughter, Leslie, in 1970, and a son, Doug, in 1973.
Sam made two tours to Vietnam, returning home safely from both. Early in 1973 a peace treaty was signed and the long Vietnam War stopped. All the Prisoners of War were returned to the states. Sam was stationed at Seymour Johnston AFT in 1973, and served as an escort to his friend, Brian, a released POW. These escorts flew to Washington, DC from North Carolina to pick up the returning men and take them back to their bases.
Soon after Brian returned home, and Sam's son was about 4 months old, Sam volunteered for one more tour of duty overseas. He was based in Thailand and flew bombing missions into Laos and Cambodia.
In mid-June of 1973, Sheriff R.L. McFarland and two USAF personnel from Lubbock informed his parents, Mary and Henry that Sam and his co-pilot, Capt. John Smallwood, had crashed over Cambodia and were said to be Missing in Action. Reports said that no parachutes were seen by aircraft flying with Sam. Search and rescue missions continued for some time with no results. Eventually, the searching stopped. Some years later, Sam and John were listed as KIA (killed in action).
Their remains have never been found, and a DNA sample was sent by Dell to the Recovery Center in Hawaii and will be stored there to one day hopefully be matched with some of the discovered remains that still await testing.
Sam was thirty years old when he died. He met and knew people wherever he went. He loved to hunt and fish and always had dogs for pets. He lived a good life, and though it was a bit short. He gave his all for family, friends and country. He did the job he wanted to do and served his country.
Sam's wife, Lynda, and the children moved back to Texas. She eventually remarried, to another Air Force pilot. They lived in the Arlington, VA area and both children attended colleges on the east coast.
Doug and his family, including a son, live in the DC/Virginia area. Leslie and her family, including a son and a daughter, live in Arizona.
Sam's parents are buried at Hansford Cemetery. His sister, Dell, lives in Abilene, and his brother, Edwin, lives in Galveston.
Editor's Note; The following is the inscription that will be on the Monument at Maj. Samuel B. Cornelius Field in Spearman.
Maj. Samuel B. Cornelius Field Monument
This airport shall be known as Major Samuel B. Cornelius Field and is dedicated to the heroism, honor, and sacrifice of Major Cornelius.
Major Samuel Blackmar Cornelius was born April 2, 1943, and graduated from Spearman High School in 1961. He attended Texas Tech University and after graduation entered the United Sates Air Force. He was a member of the 336th Tactical Fighter Squadron and piloted F4 Phantoms. His electronic weapons systems officer was Captain John J. Smallwood of Marietta, Georgia. On June 16, 1973, during his third tour of duty, Sam's F4 was hit by hostile fire and crashed in Cambodia. No parachutes were seen and no emergency beeper signals to indicate that the crew had ejected safely were heard.
Major Cornelius and Captain Smallwood were listed as MIA, and their bodies were never recovered. This incident occurred six months after the signing of the Paris Peace Accords.
This monument is dedicated in gratitude of Major Samuel B. Cornelius, Captain John J. Smallwood, those who have sacrificed their lives and freedom to serve our country, all former American Prisoners of War, those still missing, and those Americans who may still be held prisoner.


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1999 528i battery died i recharged it now engine cranks but wont start
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Any stored codes?
You may need to reboot. There have been a few reported instances where the battery slowly died, and the car would not start after the battery was recharged. Unfortunately, the owners selfishly never reported back as to how they solved the problem.
I suggest a reboot. One or more modules may have suffered from a slowly dying battery. Open the trunk, wait 16 min until the trunk lights go out, and disconnect the negative lead of the battery where it's connected to the chassis. Wait 10 min or so, and reconnect.
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According to Sports Illustrated, 60 percent of NBA players either face financial hardship or bankruptcy within five years of retirement. NFL players face a worse fate, with a reported 78 percent of former professional football athletes afflicted with financial hardship after they stop playing.
Like many Americans, pro athletes don't plan for their financial future, or make attempts to invest but fail to see their investments payoff. Proper education is key to avoiding unfortunate money situations for athletes and non-athletes alike.
However, not every athlete meets financial hardship after retiring. Notable athletes such as Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky have been known to maintain their wealth long after retiring, but who else was able to wisely invest?
We examine seven former professional athletes who were able to take their skills beyond their respective sport in order to produce a promising financial future for themselves. One has even grown so rich his net worth is in the billions.
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Dancers spend an unusual amount of time on their toes, much like the coworker who creeps up behind your chair every day just to watch you for a while. Gaze at grace with this GrouponLive deal to see Shakespeare Dances performed by sjDANCEco at the California Theatre. For $40, you get two tickets for general admission (up to an $86.96 value, including all fees). Performances begin at 8 p.m.; doors open at 7 p.m. Choose between the following dates:
- Friday, October 5
- Saturday, October 6
In its 10th-anniversary season, sjDANCEco enters with a movement-based exploration of the Bard's works, centered around choreographer José Limón's most famous piece, The Moor's Pavane. Based on Shakespeare's Othello, the production intimately stages the tale with four dancers portraying the two couples at the center of the drama: Othello and Desdemona, and Iago and Emilia. The male leads often break off from the pack, the pair mirroring each other in balancing poses and flourishes as Iago whispers venomous falsehoods into Othello's ear. Desdemona treats her fatal handkerchief as though it's another character, keeping it close to her hand until Emilia snatches it for her husband's twisted plans.
The evening also showcases new pieces from the company's artistic directors and choreographers, each paying some homage to Shakespeare's plays or lesser-known radio jingles. Conductor Barbara Day Turner shows off her timekeeping talents as she leads the San José Chamber Orchestra in stirring musical accompaniment.


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Down 12 points at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Ursuline B rallied back to defeat Good Counsel 57-52 in overtime in the consolation game of the Eastchester Tournament on Saturday.
Ursuline B (2-1) trailed by as many as 13 points in the third quarter. But fueled in part by freshman Katie McLoughlin's 14 second-half points and Molley Sheehan's late-game heroics, the Koalas made a 21-10 fourth-quarter run.
"She was able to create things on the offense for us and was very aggressive," Ursuline B coach Kathleen LiBurdi said of McLoughlin. "She was seeing things so clearly out there and was reading what the defense was giving her. She's a very smart player as a freshman."
With 35 seconds left in the fourth, the senior captain Sheehan sank a three-pointer to draw Ursuline to within three. Then, as time expired, Sheehan nailed anothere three-pointer to send the game into overtime tied at 47.
The Koalas' stout defense limited Good Counsel to only five points in overtime to secure Ursuline's second win of the season.
"It helps boost our team's confidence," LiBurdi said of the comeback. "It shows that they can come back from any deficit if they play well together."
McLoughlin finished the game with 16 points. Johanna Levine had 26 points for the Good Counsel.
Best of the rest: Clarkstown South's Laura Castaldo scored her 1,000th career varsity point in a 61-42 win over Sleepy Hollow. (See separate post for more info) … Cassidy Wooten hit for 22 points as Ardsley defeated Dobbs Ferry 58-48 in the consolation round of the Irvington Tournament. … Laurilyn Gelardi (pictured right) had 23 points for Irvington in a 70-52 win over Blind Brook in the championship game of William WarnockTournament. … Jalay Knowles hit for 10 points but Ossining fell 69-38 to Pennsylvania's Spring-Ford High in a game played in the Bahamas.
Saturday, December 7
Kennedy 48, Bishop Loughlin 37
Spring-Ford (Penn.) 69, Ossining 38
Pelham 55, Woodlands 38
Bill Green Holiday Tournament at Bronxville
Consolation: Rye Neck 46, Tuckahoe 32
Championship: Bronxville 38, Keio 17
Byram Hills tournament
Consolation: Maria Regina 69, Yonkers 38
Championship: Pearl River 52, Byram Hills 30
Eastchester tournament
Consolation: Ursuline B 57, Good Counsel 52, OT
Hackley tournament
Consolation: Hackley 50, King 35
Kari Pizzitola Tournament at Scarsdale
Championship: Scarsdale 62, Mahopac 59
Lakeland tournament
Championship: Lakeland 31, Clarkstown North 25
North Rockland tournament
Consolation: Nyack 57, Mount Vernon 46
Championship: Beacon 69, North Rockland 54
Pawling tournament
Championship: Pawling 43, Palisade Prep 20
Sleepy Hollow tournament
Championship: Clarkstown South 61, Sleepy Hollow 42
William Warnock tournament at Irvington
Consolation: Ardsley 58, Dobbs Ferry 48
Championship: Irvington 70, Blind Brook 52
Prediction record tonight: 11-3
Season prediction record: 33-15


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Affluent Lifestyle Guide
On November 1, Royalton White Sands will welcome a new sister property with the opening of Royalton Blue Waters sitting adjacent to the Jamaican resort. Located on the shores of White Bay near Montego Bay, the upcoming 228-room hotel will offer full access to the White Sands' facilities, giving guests a chance to experience two properties for the price of one.
When Melbourne-born Paul Salmon first visited his girlfriend in Negril in 1991, the Jamaican holiday hotspot was merely a fishing village, known by few others than backpackers, hippies and lovers of the island. "I went to visit my Australian girlfriend there in 1991, right before I moved to New York to work on Wall Street," he remembered as we dined on fresh juices, patties, fried fish, spicy corn and jerk chicken sandwiches at Melvin's Juice Box in the West Village. "We stayed in a roots bamboo shack on the beach in Negril and traveled the island in a minivan. I fell in love with it."
The lush, buoyant island of Jamaica has always drawn music professionals, fashion photographers, hospitality entrepreneurs and vacationers with a love for Reggae and tropical landscapes. It is a favorite escape for Drake, Jay Z, Beyoncé, Rihanna and Santigold, and its energy and style continue to radiate globally. Now with the stabilization of the political landscape and reduced crime rate, and the efforts of both the business and culture communities, Jamaica is emerging as one of the hottest destinations for travelers. It is ripe with potential and talent, from Kingston's music studios, art galleries and dance parties to the elegant new resorts of the coast.
Sandals Royal Caribbean just stepped up their accommodations game with their new over-water suites. Located in Montego Bay, Jamaica, these five Tahitian-style bungalows rest on a floating deck connected by various walkways in a circular layout. Above the turquoise sea, the villas boast king-sized beds, floating over-water hammocks, two outdoor showers, private infinity pools and hardwood floors.
Sometimes it feels as if we've forgotten how to vacation, lost the ability to truly relax and disconnect. Technology has essentially both made it easier and harder to find our Zen while away from home. Packed full of must-see attractions and hourly itineraries, our trips have us needing a holiday from our vacations when they're all said and done.
Drake, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Queen Latifah, Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith, Scarlett Johansson, Ralph and Ricky Lauren, Kate Moss, Jude Law, Paul McCartney, Gwen Stefani—the list of celebrities who love Jamaica goes on forever. This isn't really anything new for the Caribbean's third largest island.
It's nearly wedding season, so congratulations to all couples en route to their "I do" moment. We won't say "en route to the altar," because altars aren't a necessary element anymore—and neither are white dresses, seating arrangements or shoes, for that matter. A luxury wedding in 2014 is all about creating maximum joy and meaningfulness for the couple and the guests. If traditions fit into the plan, great, if not, they get a reboot. Here are some of our favorite trends, sourced from wedding experts in top destinations.
In the past, all-inclusive resorts weren't considered a luxury vacation. The one-price-pays-all concept would consist of mediocre accommodations, watered down cocktails in plastic cups, and uninspired cuisine in buffet-style restaurants. Well, times have changed, and the proof is in the pudding at the new Azul Sensatori Jamaica, which officially welcomed guests in April 2014 after a super-quiet soft opening in December 2013.
Baha Mar Ltd. and Meliá Hotels International recently signed an agreement for Meliá to take over the Nassau Beach Resort in Baha Mar, which is part of an all-inclusive resort development project being raised in the Bahamas.
Jamaica's Round Hill Hotel and Villas continues to expand its culinary offerings to delight international travelers, most recently with a new farm-to-table menu designed by Chef Martin Maginley. The See, Touch and Taste Program utilizes the bounty from the property's own organic vegetable garden and is available for guests at The Grill restaurant every Thursday and Sunday night. Everything on the farm-to-table menu comes directly from the on-property garden or farmers in the community, including all aspects of the meal, from the meat to herbs and dressings for salads said Chef Maginley. Small changes such as retiring balsamic vinaigrettes from the menu and replacing them with savory, herb vinaigrettes make a big difference. Overall we are providing lighter meals but with more fl... Read More
Sitting amidst the Caribbean coastline lies a stunning property; a one-of-a-kind villa open to guests as the ultimate island hideaway. As the first villa to offer an on-site spa with full staff, Roaring Pavilion THEE Divine Villa by LaCure Villas allows guests to fully rejuvenate within its walls and experience a new kind of luxury.... Read More
Set amidst 2,200 acres of prime real estate near Montego Bay, The Tryall Club features 75 estate villas on the Caribbean waterfront. From the charming two-bedroom homes with classic Jamaican flair, to the modern eight-bedroom properties with private pools, the fully staffed luxury villas wont soon be forgotten.... Read More
The first two projects to debut from the newly formed Geejam Collection are the stunning oceanfront 13-villa Trident Hotel and the landmark Trident Castle that has been converted into a luxury eight-room hotel, opening March 15, 2013. Music veteran and hotelier Jon Baker, partner and co-owner, Steve Beaver and billionaire businessman and Port Antonio native Michael Lee-Chin lead the Geejam Collection. Continuing the momentum begun by Geejam Hotel, established in 2008 and drawing this generations movers and shakers to the region, the project will further invigorate tourism in Port Antonio, putting it firmly back on the map as The Other Jamaica. The third project is the Blue Lagoon Restaurant & Villas, set to open later in the year 2013.... Read More
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