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Tuesday, 11 September 2007
How Are We Related?
Posted by Diane
One of the most frequent questions we receive is "How is my [fill in family member] related to my [fill in family member]?" This week, we'll help you figure out those familial relationships.
The key to figuring out how two relatives are related is to trace back to the most recent ancestor they share. For example:
* first cousins share grandparents
* second cousins share great-grandparents
* third cousins share great-great-grandparents
... and so on. But it gets confusing when you start mixing generations—that's where "removeds" come in. Draw a picture if you have to. For example, say Mark is my sister Sue's son and John is my cousin. This shows Edna is their most recent common ancestor:
Then, figure out how each person is related to the common ancestor. Edna is John's grandmother and Mark's great-grandmother.
Then you're ready to use a relationship chart (
click to download ours, which goes up to sixth-great-grandparents, as a PDF
) or an online tool to figure out the relationship.
To use a chart, look at the top row and pick out one descendant's relationship to the common ancestor (Mark's is highlighted in blue in the example below). In the left column, find the relationship for the other descendant (John's is red). Look where the row and column meet: The lavender square shows the boys are first cousins, once removed:
Fortunately, you also can use an online "cousin calculator"
such as this one to do the same thing
. Just select the relationship of each person to the common ancestor, and you'll see how they're related.
Tuesday, 11 September 2007 16:54:11 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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How Are We Related Again?
Posted by Diane
One of the most frequent questions we receive is "How is my [fill in family member] related to my [fill in family member]?" This week, we'll help you figure out those familial relationships.
The key to figuring out how two relatives are related is to trace back to the most recent ancestor they share. For example:
* first cousins share grandparents
* second cousins share great-grandparents
* third cousins share great-great-grandparents
... and so on. But it gets confusing when you start mixing generations—that's where "removeds" come in. Draw a picture if you have to. For example, say Mark is my sister Sue's son and John is my cousin. This shows Edna is their most recent common ancestor:
Then, figure out how each person is related to the common ancestor. Edna is John's grandmother and Mark's great-grandmother.
Then you're ready to use a relationship chart (
click to download ours, which goes up to sixth-great-grandparents, as a PDF
) or an online tool to figure out the relationship.
To use a chart, look at the top row and pick out one descendant's relationship to the common ancestor (Mark's is highlighted in blue in the example below). In the left column, find the relationship for the other descendant (John's is red). Look where the row and column meet: The lavender square shows the boys are first cousins, once removed:
Fortunately, you also can use an online "cousin calculator"
such as this one to do the same thing
. Just select the relationship of each person to the common ancestor, and you'll see how they're related.
Tuesday, 11 September 2007 16:33:03 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Friday, 31 August 2007
How to Find Records of an Accidental Death
Posted by Diane
I have a family note that says Robert Samuel Robinson (born Sept. 18, 1877, in Chaffey, Muskoka County, Ontario, Canada), died in "western USA" Aug. 11, 1901, and that it was a work-related death. It had to do with electricity, according to family story. I'd love to get a copy of a death certificate and any newspaper articles about the accident, and then to really push my luck, a photo of his grave marker. (
Posted by Tracy on the FamilyTreeMagazine.com Forum
You may not be lucky enough to find a death certificate, as most states—particularly those in the then-relatively unsettled US West—didn't mandate recording of deaths until after 1901. (See
our chart of statewide vital-recordkeeping dates
.) Occasionally, counties or cities recorded deaths before the state required death certificates, so it's worth checking with the county clerk where he died.
An accidental death also might have generated other records, including coroner's reports, coroner's inquests (if the coroner found negligence or intention),
and, as you mentioned,
cemetery records and newspaper articles. Depending whom Robert worked for, his employer might've had to fill out paperwork for a work-related accident.
It sounds like your first problem is you don't know where Robert was at the time of his death. You'll need that information to find coroner's records, which are kept at city or county coroner offices (they also may have been transferred to the state archives and/or microfilmed by the
Family History Library
, which has branch
Family History Centers
around the world).
Finding historical newspaper articles, in most cases, also requires you to know where he lived. You might get lucky and find Robert by searching a database of digitized, indexed newspapers, such as the subscription sites
World Vital Records
see our news blog for more information on World Vital Records' newspaper databases
). But most newspapers haven't been indexed and digitized, so you'd need to use a directory such as the
Library of Congress
Chronicling America
to find newspapers covering his area. Then you could see if a library near you has the paper on microfilm, or try to borrow it through interlibrary loan.
I'd suggest searching a 1900 US census database to see if you can pin down a location for Robert in that year. Continue your research on his earlier life, which could turn up information on where and when he moved to the United States. You also should examine your research and family papers on his parents, siblings and other relatives—information on them might give clues to Robert's whereabouts.
Check online cemetery records, such as
Find A Grave
Cemetery Junction
, just in case he's in one of them. Likely, though, you won't find his burial place until you can learn where he died.
It also might help to do a little historical research on electricity-related happenings in 1901, such as cities that were getting electric power.
This article
, for example, discusses the dangers of electricity between 1901 and 1909.
birth/death records
Friday, 31 August 2007 14:53:56 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Monday, 20 August 2007
Make a Resolution: Viewing Online Photos
Posted by Diane
Momto3boyz asks this
question on the FamilyTreeMagazine.com Forum
: My cousin put some pictures on a family Web site. When I pull them up, most of them come up in thumbnail sizes. When I try to zoom in or enlarge them so I can see the faces, I lose the sharpness of the pictures. Any suggestions on how I can enlarge these pictures?
How you can view images on a Web site depends mostly on the person who posted the images.
You could copy the thumbnail images to your desktop by right-clicking on each one, then selecting the Save to Desktop option (on a Mac, you'd control-click the photo or simply drag it onto your desktop). Then you could zoom in by opening the photo in an image viewer such as Picture Viewer (Preview for Macs). But as you've found, you won't be able to see much detail anyway.
That's because Web standards call for posting photos at a relatively low resolution of 72 dpi (dots per inch). This reduces a photo's file size so the Web page won't take forever to load. So usually, if you try to take an image off most Web sites and enlarge it for your family history book, say, the image looks blurry and pixilated, like this:
Your cousin may have intended to link the thumbnail photos to larger versions of the images (
as we did for this Photo Detective column
), but forgotten to do so.
Your best bet is to ask your cousin to send you higher-resolution versions of the photos—that means 300 dpi, which is the resolution needed if you want to print out the image with the same dimensions as the original. If you want to print out a larger photo, you'll need an even higher resolution.
When you scan a photo, you can select the resolution in your scanner settings—see the owner's manual for help with this. Likewise, if you have a digital camera, you can set it to take low- or high-resolution photos.
The photo on
this Photo Detective blog posting
, for example, is high resolution so you can examine its detail. Save it to your desktop, open it an image viewer and zoom in, and you'll see what I mean.
Preserving Heirlooms and Photos
Monday, 20 August 2007 17:11:49 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Tuesday, 14 August 2007
Immigrants Who Didn't Arrive at Ellis Island
Posted by Diane
My grandfather Anthony Borges was an immigrant from the island Sao Jorge in the Azores [Portugal], and I'm looking for records of his arrival in America. I've tried
Ellis Island
and found nothing. (
Posted by Mumsy on the FamilyTreeMagazine.com Forum
Ellis Island is the best-known US immigration port, so many people assume their ancestors arrived there.
Don't stop your search at Ellis Island. Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans and San Francisco also were major immigration ports, but immigrants could arrive in just about any coastal city.
You didn't say what year your grandfather came to America. Ellis Island opened in 1892 and closed in 1954. And the passenger database you searched covers only arrivals from 1892 to 1924 (you can find this information in the site's
search tips
Sometimes database creators had a hard time reading the original records, so passengers' names might be misspelled. If you're sure your grandfather arrived at Ellis Island, search for alternate spellings, or use
Stephen P. Morse's Ellis Island One-Step search form
If you know your ancestor's port, you can find his passenger record on microfilm at the
National Archives and Records Administration
, the
Family History Library
and most large public libraries.
What if you don't know the port? You can narrow the possibilities by researching his life in the United States. You also may get lucky with a searchable immigration database. The subscription site
has one; a version called Ancestry Library Edition is free at many libraries.
My quick Ancestry.com search returned a Canadian border-crossing record (below) for an Anthony Borges born in 1904 in St. Marie in the Azores. This man arrived first in Canada and traveled to Niagara Fall, NY, on Sept. 7, 1933.
This was the first of many matches for people named Antonio Borges, so if the man in this record isn't your grandfather, try an Ancestry.com search.
Tuesday, 14 August 2007 20:25:48 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Wednesday, 08 August 2007
How to Find Civil War Records in State Archives
Posted by Diane
I have my ancestors' Civil War service records from the
National Archives and Records Administration
. Do military records offered by some states contain different information? I'm wondering whether it's worthwhile to check those records, too.
State archives' Civil War collections often differ greatly from the
Compiled Military Service Records
(CMSRs) and pension files
available from NARA.
States may hold soldiers' letters, regimental histories, Civil War-era newspapers, Grand Army of the Republic post records, veterans' cemetery indexes, soldiers' home records and more. (Archives of formerly Confederate states also have pension records. Those aren't at NARA because the federal government didn't pay
Confederate soldiers' pensions
For example, the
Ohio archives
has correspondence to the state's governor and adjutant general dating from 1859 through 1862 (series 147, volume 42). In May and June, 1862, Col. John W. Fuller and Maj. Z.S. Spaulding of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry 27th Regiment wrote Adjutant General C.W. Hill, describing their encampment and recommending various promotions.
Since state Civil War collections are so varied, I can't say whether the information would be different from what's in your ancestors' CMSRs. But even if the state record doesn't have previously unknown details, You'll have new evidence of your ancestor's presence at the place and time the record was created.
If my ancestor were in the Ohio 27th, I'd want to know whether his commanding officers had anything to say about him, and where he was in June, 1862. (You can browse abstracts of these letters, as well an index to Ohio prisoners at Andersonville and a guide to Civil War-related primary source collections,
on the archives' Web site
Start by searching your ancestral state archives' online catalog for Civil War-era materials related to your ancestor, his regiment, or the county and town where he lived. Likely, you won't know from the catalog listing whether the source mentions your ancestor, so you may have to visit the archives or contact an archivist for help.
You might be able to save yourself the trip by borrowing materials through interlibrary loan, ordering photocopies of documents or seeing if the
Family History Library
has microfilmed copies (which you can rent through a
Family History Center
Check local historical society and university libraries for Civil War collections, too.
And learn nine steps to researching your Civil War ancestors in the
July 2007
Family Tree Magazine
. You can get
bonus information and links to additional resources
—including those at the state level—on our Web site.
military records
Wednesday, 08 August 2007 14:55:51 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Friday, 27 July 2007
Learning Your Ethnic Heritage Through DNA
Posted by Diane
What's the best source for DNA testing for all ethnic groups?
It sounds like you're looking for a DNA test that shows your ethnic heritage, rather than whether you're related to someone. Several types of tests accomplish this to some degree.
Biogeographical tests
Tests such as
DNA Print Genomics'
evaluate autosomal DNA, which makes up all your genetic material except for what's on the XX and XY chromosomes.
AncestryByDNA looks for markers that are characteristic of various groups to estimate your percentages of heritage from four populations: Native American, East Asian, Sub-Saharan African (areas south of the Sahara Desert) and Indo-European (Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Western Asia). The EuroDNA 1 and 2 tests further break down Indo-European heritage.
These tests won't tell you what country your ancestors came from. Also, there's a margin of error—most show that in the form of a bar graph with your most likely percentages along with other possible percentages.
Haplogroup tests
Most genetic genealogy laboratories, such as
Oxford Ancestry
, can test your mitochondrial DNA and assign you to a haplogroup—the genetic group your ancient ancestors (10,000 to 60,000 years ago) belonged to. The haplogroup R1b, for example, is common to Western Europeans.
That's great to know, but not super-helpful for genealogical purposes because records identifying your ancestors don't go back 10,000 years. Also, haplogroup information comes from a small section of your tree because you get your mitochondrial DNA from your mother's mother's mother's mother's (I could go on) mother.
Population comparison tests
Some companies test your DNA and compare certain markers to proprietary databases of DNA results from various populations. You get a report showing which populations your DNA most closely matched.
's DNA Fingerprint test, for example, compares your sample to a database called Omnipop. You get a list of strongest and "medium-strong" matches, and people with European heritage can get a list of likely country matches.
African Ancestry
performs similar comparisons to its database of DNA from African tribes.
Keep in mind the accuracy of these tests is limited by the DNA samples in the comparison database. Not all the world's diverse populations have been sampled, so your best match may not be a close match at all.
And due to migrations of populations and national boundaries, your DNA could be similar to that of a modern resident of a particular country, but not to that area's historical population. Since these DNA databases are growing, though, a good match may pop up down the road.
The best genetic genealogy company for you depends on what you want to know, and what you think your ethnicity is (since different companies' comparison databases may be stronger in different areas). Genetic genealogy experts recognize DNA science is in its infancy, and urge you to back up test results with traditional research. So if a test shows you have DNA markers consistent with American Indians, you wouldn't consider those results ironclad until you find genealogical records of American Indian ancestors.
For our layperson's guide to using DNA in your genealogy research, along with DNA testing company contact information, see the
October 2006
Family Tree Magazine
genetic genealogy
Friday, 27 July 2007 14:17:35 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Tuesday, 17 July 2007
Kids' School Projects: Interviewing a Grandparent
Posted by Diane
My daughter has to interview her grandparents for a school project. Do you have any suggestions for questions she can ask?
Not only do assignments such as this one bring families closer, they're also a great way for kids (and their parents!) to learn about their family history and history in general.
Scott Kelly, who conducts oral histories through his company
Oral Family Histories
, offers these questions to get you started:
When and where were you born?
What were your parents' names?
What is your happiest memory of your father? Your mother?
What is the most important lesson your parents taught you?
What are the names of your grandparents?
What is your happiest memory of your grandfather? Grandmother?
Where did you grow up?
What did you do for fun as a child?
How did you like school?
What did you want to be when you grew up?
Tell me about your first date.
How did you meet Grandma/Grandpa?
Tell me about the day my mom/dad was born.
What advice would you give to new parents?
What jobs have you had?
What are your strongest memories from your time in the military?
What would be your recipe for happiness?
You and your daughter can edit the list together based on the length of the interview, what your daughter wants to ask about, and any project requirements (for example, her teacher may want her to focus on a particular topic such as military service).
Your daughter may want to jot down significant historical events that occurred during her grandparents' lives, such as the Great Depression or the day President Kennedy was assassinated. Then she can ask about them with a question such as, "What's your most vivid memory of growing up during the Great Depression?"
If she's been learning about the Great Depression in school, she'll see how it affected everyday people and maybe even find herself an answer to that perennial question, "Why do we have to learn this?"
She also might be interested in how her grandparents' childhoods compare to her own: Did they have similar hobbies? What chores did they have to do around the house? How did they like their brothers and sisters?
Kelly suggests interviewers use a question list as a guide, not a rigid framework. It's OK if the conversation leads your daughter to ask questions not on the list, or her grandparents to tell stories not related to a particular question. Looking at old family photos may spark her grandparents' memories, too. (Find
more oral history interviewing tips on FamilyTreeMagazine.com
Make sure you record the interview for posterity (and in case your daughter needs it for a report) using a digital voice recorder or a videocamera (get pro's tips for filming interviews in the
October 2006 Family Tree Magazine
If filling in a family tree chart is part of the homework, use the
free downloadable forms on FamilyTreeMagazine.com
. Your daughter's grandparents would probably love to see the finished project.
Oral history interviews
Preserving Heirlooms and Photos
Tuesday, 17 July 2007 17:13:28 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Monday, 09 July 2007
Converting Your Genealogy Files From PC to Mac
Posted by Diane
I've used Family Tree Maker software for several years on my PC. Now I'm switching over to a Mac. What software can I get that will let my data transfer to the new computer without having to buy new software and re-enter everything?
Since Family Tree Maker software doesn't come in a Mac-compatible version, you'll need to either download software that lets you run Windows programs on a Mac, or you can get Mac-compatible software.
If your Mac runs on the OSX Tiger operating system, you can download a beta program called
Boot Camp 1.3
that lets you install and run Windows alongside OSX Tiger. Then you can install and use Family Tree Maker on your Mac. (Macs with the soon-to-be-released OSX Leopard will come with Boot Camp.)
In that case, you can avoid retyping everything by using the Family Tree Maker on your PC to backup your family file, then installing that version of the program on your Mac and restoring the backup file. Follow the
instructions in Family Tree Maker's Help Center
to do this.
If you want to buy new, Mac-compatible genealogy software, learn about your options at
. You still won't have to retype everything. Transfer your data by exporting a GEDCOM from Family Tree Maker and importing it into the new program.
Family Tree Maker GEDCOMS don't save links to images and multimedia, though, so you'll have to re-link all those on your new computer. (A new version of Family Tree Maker comes out in August—maybe its owner,
The Generations Network
, will have pity on us and fix this.)
In either case, you might want to keep the old computer around until you can compare the two databases and make sure everything transferred correctly.
Monday, 09 July 2007 17:08:11 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007
July 4th Quiz Answers
Posted by Diane
Here are the correct answers for the quick Fourth of July quiz linked in the July 3, 2008, F
amily Tree Magazine
E-mail Update newsletter. (We back-dated this post so it wouldn't appear on the blog's front page—we're sneaky like that.)
Quick—if you just stumbled upon this post,
click here to test your knowledge
. When did most Continental Congressional delegates sign the Declaration of Independence?
Aug. 2
. The only person to sign July 4 was John Hancock. Most delegates signed the declaration Aug. 2, 1776, and some delegates weren't present and had to wait even longer. New delegates also were allowed to sign later.
. How many delegates eventually signed the declaration?
(Learn more about the signers on the
National Archives and Records Administration Web site
. The original, handwritten Declaration of Independence survives.
The original, document has never been found. The oldest surviving copies are 25 Dunlap Broadsides, copies printer John Dunlap made the night of July 4, 1776.
July 19, 1776, Congress ordered an engrossed (neatly handwritten on parchment) copy, which the delegated signed.
The National Archives has this document, now badly faded
. In 1823, John Quincy Adams had printer William J. Stone make an engraving of the document, which is the one shown below and most often reproduced today.
. How many lanterns were hung in the steeple of the Old North Church, April 18, 1775?
. Paul Revere told three Boston patriots to hang two lanterns in the steeple, which warned those across the Charles River in Charlestown that the British were arriving by sea.
. Which other guy rode around the same night as Paul Revere, warning colonists that the British were coming?
Both Dawes and Prescott
. William Dawes rode separately from Boston, Mass., to Lexington to tell John Hancock and John Adams they were in danger of arrest by British soldiers marching into the countryside. He and Paul Revere met there and both rode toward Concord; Samuel Prescott joined them along the way. The men were stopped by British soldiers and split up, after which Dawes' horse bucked him and he had to walk back to Lexington. Revere was detained and escorted back to Lexington.
Prescott is the only one of the three to reach Concord, and he kept going to warn others. Paul Revere is the one who made the history books, perhaps because his name worked best in
Longfellow's poem
Wednesday, 04 July 2007 15:46:47 (GMT Daylight Time, UTC+01:00)
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Chateau Balestard La Tonnelle 2005
Bordeaux Red Blends from St. Emilion, Bordeaux, France
Winemaker's Notes
The wine is fermented the traditional way and aged in oak barrels, half of which are new each year. Balestard la Tonnelle is a full-bodied and exquisitely elegant wine, one of the finest grands crus in Saint-Émilion.
Critical Acclaim
Connoisseurs' Guide - "Big, ripe and rich in a way the reflects both the vintage and the new Bordeaux model, this bottling begins with a classic St. Emilion nose of ripe cherries, tobacco and roasted herbs and follows with like-minded flavors that show plenty of ripeness and extract. Supple in front and fairly tannic in back, it extends very well at finish..."
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François Villon mentions the wine of Balestard in his famous poem, written too in the 15th century, and as a testimonial of this historical acclaim the verse still appears on our labels.
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A region named after the charming, quaint historical town in Bordeaux, St-Émilion is situated on the right bank of Bordeaux. It's grapes of choice are Merlot and Cabernet Franc (called Bouchet on the right bank). The region has its own classification system, updated and revised every few years. Two of the hottest chateaux of the area (and the only Premier Grand Cru Classé A) are Chateau Ausone and Chateau Cheval Blanc.
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St.-Émilion produces the most wine on the right bank of Bordeaux. As most of its wine is based primarily on Merlot, St-Emilion wines are described as having finesse and elegance. The best wine of the region can last upward of 10-20 years, like a good left-banker, but many find that the wines here matuer earlier than those based on Cabernet Sauvignon. The soils in the area differ greatly, from gravel to limestone to clay and sand. As a result, the wines of this region are diverse. Quality wines display silky tannins and ripe, soft fruit – the higher quality wine showing full-bodied texture and layers of complexity.
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I Like! I like!
I can see the PCs returning again and again, to be "connected".
I had the connection he sold them give a discount because they were referred.
He will serve as one of the Mob connection points to (both ways.)
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Centipede Nails
Lifeforms (Constructed) (Any)
's comment on 2007-09-27 02:01 PM
I think I'm throwing this in for when the party meets the big wizard. He has a table, and chair follow him everywhere. (he only has ramps)
or, I can just picture the salesman, "Well if you are going to buy those, you'll want this installer. oh, and a leg repair device. Oh, and spares too. My wife Rachel will paint them or mark them with your crest for a nominal fee. I hear they have a tendency to walk off. Ha ha. If you wish, we can sell a specialized holder. You just dial in how much weight you want here. Turn the crank like so. and the correct number come out here." Oooo A vending machine (like a gumball machine that takes 1 coin to purchase.) Or, a tradesman opens his vest with tons of these lining the inside. a Field repair handbook. (think iPods) Useful for PCs and GMs alike.
Anything invoking this much thought deserves a 5/5
Question, Do they need to be fed?
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Beast Weed
Lifeforms (Flora) (Forest/ Jungle)
's comment on 2009-01-08 05:24 PM
I like the idea of a buff for wild creatures. I asked myself the same questions as Zylithan.
Do the root and leaves have different effects/uses? I might re-label "Actual Effects" as "Side effects."
I will keep this in the GM toolbox.
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The Ring Of Life
Items (Jewelry) (Magical)
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I like the description of the item, and it sparked many thoughts for my campaign.
An additive thought on an alternate creation.
To Create/recharge it, it sucks the life-force from everything within miles, creating dead-zones, with small magically protected circles of life in the center.
This can be especially useful for a necromancer, or any evil villain wishing to start his own empire of abundance by destroying the neighboring empire to feed his. Like an Fantastic A-bomb of death and life. Use it against your enemy's armies. and bolster your crops.
Plot Hook - Zones of death have been appearing through out the countryside like crop circles. Nothing remains alive.
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Mail of the Dead
Items (Armor) (Magical)
's comment on 2009-01-06 11:59 AM
Seems to me like a great brainstorming seed. Like this is the jumping off point for creating something memorable. The name is what drew me in. So Use that. It seems to me this submission is missing three big things.
1. Details on the advantages.
2. What price does the armor take from the user?
3. What does the name have to do with the background?
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-Speed is doubled, and in combat the wearers strength and Agility increase by 25% during combat.
-The smell of death radiates from the armor, and the wearers mind is constantly being bombarded by voices of the dead. Every round of battle the wearer must guard their mind or have one of the spirits who lust to kill the living take over.
Revise the History to include how the dead spirits attached to the metal.
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The New Snickers Diet
The New Snickers DietFeb 14th, 2010 | By Nancy Andrews | Category: Diet Reviews
Have you heard of the Snickers diet? I hadn't until a neighbor told me that she was on it. Intrigued, I asked her more about what that was and she told me she was just eating 3 Snickers candy bars a day.
Now this may be a calorie controlled diet so she may actually lose a pound or two if she was able to actually stick with it for a week but all I could think was how silly it was. I mean eating candy 3 times per day just to limit your calories.
Now on the positive side, what that diet could do is limit your calories and do it with a pre-packaged meal that is, well, quite affordable. But is it something your really should do?
In my opinion, the insulin spikes you'd get from eating a candy bar would eventually wreck havoc on your system. So even though you were eating low calorie, after an initial pound or two loss, your body would likely stop losing weight.
A better idea would be to buy these new protein bars that Snickers makes. They call them their Marathon brand bars and they have up to 20 grams of protein in them, a decent amount of fiber and vitamins that you can use. And they are also affordable.
Of course any program like this is eventually going to bore you to tears and that makes it a poor choice for anyone who has significant weight to lose and needs support getting there. For those people who want some fast weight loss as well as big weight loss over time, try the Medifast diet. This diet is also pretty much prepackaged and specially portioned between protein, carbs and fats to get your body to start burning fat fast.


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The most significant EU-related development over the holidays was Estonia's official entry into the eurozone on New Year's Day, an event that is worth revisiting as the single currency prepares for what is likely to be another year of turmoil.
As Fredrik Erixon, director of the Brussels-based European Centre for International Political Economy, notes in a new "Obituary for the Estonian kroon", it wasn't too long ago that the Estonian government was being advised to drop its peg to the euro and let its currency float in order to save its economy from the ravages of the European debt crisis.
But Tallinn hung tough, and as we noted in an article last month, is now poised for gross domestic product growth that is the pride of the EU. According to forecasts by Eurostat, its 4.4 per cent 2011 real GDP growth would make it the best performer in the eurozone.
When I talked to Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves last month, he recalled with hard-to-contain smugness the amount of pressure the country resisted to devalue during the early days of the euro crisis. "All three Baltic economies were in serious trouble, and all kinds of people said devalue, devalue, devalue," he said. Read more


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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's signature law slashing collective bargaining rights for public employees has already taken one judicial hit, and now it's taken another:
Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas ruled that the law violates both the state and U.S. Constitution and is null and void. The ruling comes after a lawsuit brought by the Madison teachers union and a union for Milwaukee city employees.
Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie said he was confident the decision will be overturned on appeal.


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Libraries Australia functionality allows you to import MARC records from external databases. The import functionality applies only to those search databases that support the export of MARC records. Not all the search databases available through Libraries Australia have this facility.
You are required to search the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD) before you import a record to ensure that you will not be adding a duplicate record to the database.
When importing a record from an external target it is likely that it will need editing before it can be added to the ANBD.
There are a number of general editing guidelines that should be followed when importing records:
- Remove any fields that are pertinent only to the system where the record originated. Fields that fall into this category include 001, 003, 005, and 035*.
- Remove all institution specific data (ISD). ISD is usually defined as data that is applicable only to the institution that created it or to a specific copy of a work within that library and because of this it is not be shared with other libraries. Fields that fall into this category usually begin with or contain a 9, e.g. 9XX, 099, 59X, 790. There is one standard MARC21 exception – field 490 (Series untraced or traced differently). General note fields containing copy specific information should also be removed, e.g. 500 $a"No. 345 of a limited edition of 500".
- Remove or modify any data that does not meet Libraries Australia cataloguing standards (e.g. names constructed according to earlier cataloguing rules, nonstandard content in coded data). For some assistance with standard coded data content please see Conventions for Cataloguing in a network.
- Remove any holdings on the record and add your own locations after the record has been successfully saved in the ANBD.
- Retain the original cataloguing agency's symbol found in field 040 $a.
- When importing records with non-Roman script, edit the $7 script subfield in parallel tags if necessary.
*Libraries Australia records will be matched against records in the OCLC database on a regular basis. The OCLC number will automatically be inserted into matching ANBD records. Please do NOT manually add tag 035 to any record you import from OCLC.
$7 Script subfield
Check that records with non-Roman script carry the correct script code in the $7 script subfield. Edit the $7 script subfield as required to indicate the language of the script in the tag, inserting the appropriate script code.
The following codes should be used:
|0#$607$7ba$aMingkhwan Thornsirikul.
|should be changed to:
|0#$607$7ba$aMingkhwan Thornsirikul.
MARC field 040 in imported records
Regardless of which database a record is imported from, the 040 $a subfield should always contain the original cataloguing agency's symbol, ie DLC, CStRLIN, NZNB. Add a $d for the database where you found the record if it is not already present. Most of the database symbols used in Field 040 are international symbols taken directly from the MARC codes for Organizations http://www.loc.gov/marc/organizations/, the exception being that we use NZNB for Te Puna records, rather than the MARC code Nz.
The codes you will need when importing MARC records from Libraries Australia target databases are:
|Research Libraries Group Union Catalogue
|Library of Congress
|Chinese University of Hong Kong
|University of Hong Kong
|Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
|Waseda University
|Te Puna
|British Library
|Your own NUC symbol
eg. $aOCoLC$cNl$dNZNB$dNSL
The remaining target databases do not support the export of MARC records.
The common subfield codes in the 040 field are:
$a = Original cataloguing agency
i.e. the Library symbol of the organisation that created the original content for the record. When importing a record from an external target cataloguers should retain the existing library symbol.
$b = Language of cataloging
i.e. the language used when cataloguing. A code is used for the language. This is the language used for the physical description, notes and subject headings. When importing a record from an external target, cataloguers should remember that Libraries Australia expects this language to be English. The language of the cataloguing is assumed to be English if the $b subfield is not present. It is also permissible to have a $beng. Records where the language of cataloguing is not English have to be amended before being imported to Libraries Australia.
$c = Transcribing agency
i.e. the Library symbol of the organisation that transcribed the record into machine readable form. When importing a record from an external target, cataloguers should retain the existing library symbol in this field. If copying an authority record from LCNA, cataloguers may provide their own library symbol in this field.
$d = Modifying agency
i.e. the Library symbol for the organisation responsible for modifying a record. A modification is defined as any correction to a record, including cataloguing, content designation, or keying changes, but not including the addition of a holdings statement. In Libraries Australia practice $d is also used to input the symbol of the database where the record was found (if not already present in the field) and the symbol of the library that imported the record.
$e = Description conventions
i.e. the description rules used in creating the record. All Resouce Description and Access (RDA) records should have 'rda' added.
040 $aNSL$cNSL
[Record originally created and transcribed at the State Library of New South Wales]
040 $aDLC$cNSL
[Authority record originally created by the Library of Congress and transcribed from LCNA or LCSH onto Libraries Australia by the State Library of New South Wales]
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dNSL
[Record created in and copied from the Library of Congress and modified by the State Library of New South Wales]
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBAKER$dTEF$dVP@$dBTCTA$dOCoLC$dANL
[Record originally created by LC then copied from OCLC by the National Library]
040 $aNSL$erda
[Record originally created at the State Library of New South Wales with Resource Description Access]
Importing records from an external database Via Libraries Australia Search
You can search external databases, such as Library of Congress catalogue, to find bibliographic records (see Chapter 3). Having found the bibliographic record you want, you can then import (or add) the record to the ANBD and then add your library's holdings.
Please note that databases use their own record schema and records that are not in MARC21 format cannot be imported. Therefore there is no Librarian's (MARC) view or Import record button when viewing records from ARO, APAIS/APAFT or PictureAustralia.
When you have found the record you wish to import, go to the Full View of the record and click on the Import Record button.
You will then be taken to a screen where the data you have entered into the web cataloguing form appears in a box with MARC codes and numbers. The codes and numbers will appear in PICA MARC format. The PICA MARC format is a version of MARC used by the Libraries Australia Cataloguing Client which has been developed by the OCLC/PICA company in the Netherlands. More information about these codes and numbers can be found at: http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/cathelp/bib/documents/Pica_to_MARC_Codes.pdf
If you wish to add the new record to the ANBD, click on the Save button. You will then be taken through to the Holdings screen and then follow directions below.
Adding your holdings
The holdings screen will have a red number at the top of the page. This number is the ANBD number, a unique number identifying this record. You can find this exact record by searching on the ANBD number (ignore the last digit – this is the check digit) using the Number index in Advanced Search. The bibliographic record you have entered will appear on the screen.
The following information will be displayed:
Inserted: This is the date that the record was inserted.
Modified: This is the date that the record was last modified.
Status: This is the status of the record.
Add relevant information:
NUC: This is the National Union Catalogue code of your library. If you are unsure ofyour NUC code you can find it using ILRS: http://www.nla.gov.au/ilrs
Call no: This is the call number of the item you are cataloguing.
Local system no.: If your library has a local identifying number for this item, enter ithere.
Serial volume nos.: This is the volume number/s if you are entering a serial/journal. Serial dates: These are the dates of the serial you are entering.
Completeness note: This is the completeness note for serials (850$h). Referral note: This is the referral note for serials (850$k).
Retention period: This is the retention and guaranteed subscription note for serials(850$x).
URI: The Uniform Resource ID field is to be used for URLs of electronic resourcesavailable only through local access. This is the 956 tag. For example, if your library only offers access to a particular electronic database for your patrons, and not all people, put the URL of this electronic resource in the URI field. The URI field will only be visible to your patrons. URLs for freely and/or widely available electronic resources should be included on the main web cataloguing form page under URL.
Once you have entered in the holdings screen information, click on the Save button.
Importing records from an external database Via the Cataloguing Client
Cataloguers can search external databases through the Client and import a bibliographic record directly into the Client for editing and saving. Only those databases that support the export of MARC records are available for searching and importing a record.
Searching of these databases is included in your subscription fee.
1. Open the external databases broadcast search screen:
a. log in to the cataloguing client
b. select Libraries Australia
c. select NBU
d. type 'ext f' into the command line
This will take you to the broadcast search screen for external databases.
Alternatively, click on the 'external databases' button to reach the external database broadcast search screen.
NOTE: To return to the ANBD click on the 'ANBD' button or type 'fil 1.1' in the command line.
You can select any or all of the listed databases by clicking in the box beside each database name.
To check how you can search each database, see Appendix 7 of the Cataloguing Client Manual
2. Search and display the record you wish to import.
3. Click 'copy external bib' button. This takes you to a new screen which displays the copied record. NOTE: those tags which relate to the record you copied will be deleted, for example, the record number, 9XX tags and so on, but ISBNs and ISSNs, for example, will be copied.
4. Use Save to save and validate the record or edit the record then Save. To discard without saving, use the back arrow button.
Adding Holdings
Click on the Add Holdings button, this will add a basic Holdings record which you can then edit,
- e* 850 ##$c
Add your holdings to the $c subfield and add other subfields as required. Use the F1 key to take you to the Help screen for Holdings, or see Figure 1 Holdings subfields.
NOTE: Do not add a $a with your NUC symbol to the Holding, it will be automatically added when you Save the record.
Save the record when you have finished adding your holdings. Check the Holdings and your NUC symbol, which should have been automatically added as a $a.
Holdings: MARC Tags and Subfields
Subfields in bold are repeatable.
Figure 1: Holdings subfields
|Holding institution (NUC symbol)
|Local system number
|Call number information
|Serials volume numbering
|Serial dates
|Serials completeness note
|Serials referral note
|Serials retention & guaranteed subscription note


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More than half of deported immigrants planned to cross illegally into the United States again, a new study by the University Arizona of migration and deportation practices found.
And one of the reasons might be strong family ties in the United States, the researchers say.
"People have established lives in this country and will do just about anything possible to be reunited with their family members in the United States," said Daniel Martinez, one of the study's main investigators and an assistant professor of sociology at George Washington University.
The preliminary findings of the study were presented today during a news conference at the UA.
A bi-national team of researchers interviewed more than 1,100 deportees between 2010 and 2012 in six Mexican cities along the border — including Nogales, as well as Mexico City.
The authors of the study hope the findings can help shape the current immigration reform debate.
"We need to think outside the box when it comes to immigration reform," Martinez said through a video conference from Washington. "We need to look at the root causes of immigration to really understand."
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Surnames from Mother to Daughter of Antonia LeRouge:
Lujan, Vigil, Rodriguez, Martinez, and Duran
Mom was born on March 4, 1916. Her birth certificate stated that she was born in Lumberton, New Mexico and her parents were Antonio LeRouge and Antonia Duran. This birth certificate stated that it was a "delayed birth certificate".
The "story "of my Mother's birth was that her Mother would go to Pagosa Springs to her Mother's house to have her babies. If that was the case, her birth was probably in Pagosa Springs, Colorado and not Lumberton New Mexico, hence the "delayed birth certificate". In 1916, she may or may not have been delivered by a Doctor.
The Census documentation at the bottom is not complete. I was unable to find census information for my Grandmother Antonia Duran LeRouge after the 1910 census. Our Mother was born in 1916; therefore her Mother should be listed in the 1920 census along with my Mother and our Grandfather.
Little else to go by, but her birth certificate, we have attempted to locate our Ancestors.
Who were these ancestors? Enter, Betty Earle. Betty is what could originally be called our "Genetic Cousin". We match through the Mitochondrial DNA, New Mexico DNA Project, of Family Tree.
We are no longer Genetic Cousins, but just Cousins or Primas. We don't know which ancestor we connect to, so a Genealogy of Mom's would be helpful. While researching her ancestors, Betty is always in the lookout for ours. It was Betty that located the 1930 US Federal Census of our Great Grandfather, Rosario Duran. In that household was Carlos LeRouge, age 14, the Grandson of Rosario Duran, our Uncle Carlos, and our Mother's Brother. That was what we needed, another starting point. And, thanks to Betty we're on our way.
With that information on hand, I've located some more of Mom's relatives.
Please contact me if you also connect, can add to this family tree, or have any corrections !!
:: The following is what we have so far ::
1. Mother -Paula (Lujan) Vigil- Her Daughter Maria Antonia Vigil.
2. Mother - Maria Antonia (Vigil) Rodriguez- Her daughter Maria Antonia Rodriguez.
3. Mother - Maria Antonia (Rodriguez) Martinez – Her daughter Maria Dolores Martinez.
4. Mother - Maria Dolores (Martinez) Duran – Her daughter Antonia Duran.
5. Mother - Antonia Duran- Her daughter Antonia (Duran) LeRouge.
These women comprise the Mitochondrial DNA of our Mother Antonia. Her Haplogroup is B: Native American
Re: Martinez-Duran Missing Links
Ancestry.com, Message Board
Jose Rosario Duran, legitimate son of Antonio Abran Duran and of Maria Agapita Martinez with Dolores Martinez, single, legitimate daughter of Antonio Adanto Martinez and of Maria Antonia Rodriguez.
This information states that Maria Agapita Duran maiden name was Martinez, and that Maria Antonia Martinez maiden name was Rodriguez.
Re: Maria Antonia Vigil
Ancestry.Com, family tree
Maria Antonia Vigil daughter of Julian Antonio Vigil and Paula Lujan (No family listed for Paula Lujan)
1850 United States Federal Census-Ancestry.com
Juan Rodrigas – s/b Juan Ignacio Rodriguez
Maria Rodrigas- s/b Maria Antonia Vigil
Children: Francisco, Juana, Guadelupe, Ologio, Paula, Juan, Antonia, Dolores, Ramona and Manuela – all spelled Rodrigas
Rio Arriba New Mexico Territory
Note No. 1: Juan and Maria are Juan Ignacio Rodriguez and Antonia Vigil Rodriguez, our 3rd Great Grand Mother and Father. Their daughter Antonia-Maria Antonia Rodriguez married Antonio Adanto Martinez.
1860 United States Federal Census-Ancestry.com
Juan Ignacio Rodriguez-Husband
Antonia Vigil-Wife
Children: Eulogio, Iran, Vicente, Juana, Antonia, Ramona, Dolores and Manuela Rodriguez
Precinct 6, Rio Arriba, New Mexico Territory
Note No. 2: same as No. 1
1870 United States Federal Census-Ancestry.com
Antonio Duran – Husband
Agapita Duran – Wife
Children- Jesucita, Rosario J, Seferino, Piedad and Rufina
San Jose, Rio Arriba, New Mexico Territory
Note No. 3: Antonio Duran and Agapita Duran are our 2nd Great Grand Father and Mother. Agapita's maiden name is Maria Agapita Martinez. Their son Rosario J. Duran is our Great Grand Father and the Husband of Dolores (Dolorita) Martinez.
1880 United States Federal Census-Ancestry.com
Antonio Aban Duran-Husband
Agapita Duran-Wife
Children-Rosario, Severino, Demetrio, Piedad, Carlota, Estefana, Sabina and Benita
Rio Arriba, Rio Arriba, New Mexico
Note No. 4: Same as No. 3
1880 United States Federal Census-Ancestry.com
Antonio Martinez-Husband
M. Antonia Martinez-Wife
Children-Juan B. Pelisiano, Eursula, Dolores, Mariana and Maxsedmia
Rio Arriba, Rio Arriba, New Mexico
Note No. 5: Antonio Martinez and M. Antonia Martinez are our 2nd Great Grand Father and Mother. M. Antonia's maiden name is Rodriguez. Their daughter Dolores (Dolorita) is our Great Grand Mother and the wife of Rosario J. Duran.
1900 United States Federal Census-Ancestry.com
Antonio Martinez-Husband
Antonia Martinez-Wife
Children-Marianita and MacEdonia
Edith, Archuleta, Colorado (residence was Pagosa Springs)
Note No. 6: Same as No. 5
1900 United States Federal Census-Ancestry.com
Antonio Duran-Husband
Agapita Duran-Wife
Children-Estefna, Demetrio and Carlota
Park View, Rio Arriba, New Mexico
Note No. 7: Same as No. 3
1900 United States Federal Census-Ancestry.com
Rosario Martinez – Error on Census – s/b Rosario Duran – Husband
Dolores Martinez- wife-Martinez was her maiden name-She is now married to Rosario Duran.
Children-Antonia, Atanacio, Melisendro, Sabina and Elvira – Error on Census-surname listed as Martinez-s/b Duran
Park View, Rio Arriba, New Mexico
Note No. 8: Rosario Duran and Dolores Martinez Duran are our Great Grand Father and Mother. Their daughter Antonia Duran is our Grand Mother.
1910 United States Federal Census-Ancestry.Com
Antonio Martinez-Husband
Antonia R. Martinez-Wife
Children-Juan B. Martinez – Grand children – Silviano Martinez, Andres Martinez, Francisco A. Martinez and Bernardita Garcia.
Lumberton, Rio Arriba, New Mexico
Note No. 9: Same as No. 5
1910 United States Federal Census-Ancestry.Com
Rosario Duran-Husband
Doloritas Duran-Wife
Children-Antonia, Atanacio, Melisendore, Savina, Elvira, Miguel, Flor, Rosario and Vicente
Tierra Amarilla, Rio Arriba, New Mexico
Note No. 10: Same as No. 8
1920 United States Federal Census-Ancestry.Com
Pasario Durtan (Rosaria Duran)s/b Rosario Duran – Husband
No wife listed
Children-Sabinita, Elvira, Miguel, Flor, Rosario, Vicente and Carlos (in the 1930 census, Carlos is his Grandson Carlos LeRouge)
Lumberton, Rio Arriba, New Mexico
Note No. 11: Same as No. 8
1930 United States Federal Census-Ancestry.Com
Rosario Duran-Husband
No wife listed
Children-Rosario Duran, Vicenti Duran, Grandsons Carlos LeRouge and Cristobal Valdez
Lumberton, Rio Arriba, New Mexico
Note No. 112: Same as No. 8


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JERUSALEM (Jul. 13)
Many Israelis were uneasy and some angered today-over what amounts to the ouster of the 42-member Taiwan team from the Olympic Games due to start in Montreal July 17. These feelings stem from sympathy for a country being ostracized from an international event for purely political reasons–a humiliation suffered by Israel on more than one occasion in the past. But the main concern is that the ban on Taiwan would set a precedent for a similar ban on the Israeli team in the 1980 Olympics which will be held in Moscow.
The Israeli government has made no official expression of displeasure over the treatment of the Taiwanese and is not expected to. To become officially embroiled in the matter would only offend Canada, a friendly nation with which Israel maintains diplomatic and trade relations.
Israel has no diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But if Canada can block the team from Taiwan, with which it severed relations in 1970 when it recognized the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union, it was felt here, could easily do the same against Israel with which it broke relations in 1967. The Russians may not challenge the name "Israel" but may simply say that a "Palestinian" team was a more appropriate representative of this particular land, sources here said.


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Ocular Penetration of 1.5% Levofloxacin and 0.5% Moxifloxacin During Corneal Transplant Surgery
This study has been terminated.
(Study terminated due to lack of enrollment.)
Santen Inc.
Vistakon Pharmaceuticals
Information provided by:
Santen Inc.
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 26, 2008
Last updated: August 24, 2009
Last verified: August 2009
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Compare the corneal penetration of levofloxacin 1.5% and moxifloxacin 0.5% in patients undergoing penetrating keratoplasty (PK)
|Corneal Transplantation
|Drug: 1.5% levofloxacin ophthalmic solution Drug: 0.5% moxifloxacin ophthalmic solution
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Basic Science
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Observer-masked, Parallel-group, Multicenter Trial Evaluating the Ocular Penetration of 1.5% Levofloxacin Ophthalmic Solution and 0.5% Moxifloxacin Ophthalmic Solution in Subjects Undergoing Corneal Transplant Surgery
Resource links provided by NLM:
Drug Information available for: Ofloxacin Levofloxacin Ofloxacin hydrochloride Moxifloxacin Moxifloxacin hydrochlorideU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Santen Inc.:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Concentration of levofloxacin and moxifloxacin in the corneal tissue [ Time Frame: Time of surgery ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Adverse Events [ Time Frame: 4 days ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2008
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|March 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: 1
Drug: 1.5% levofloxacin ophthalmic solution
Topical application Instill 1 drop two times, 5 minutes apart. Time from last drop to surgery is determined by group.
Group 1: 30 minutes prior to surgery
Group 2: 1 hour prior to surgery
Group 3: 2 hours prior to surgery
Group 4: 4 hours prior to surgery
Other Name: IQUIX
|Active Comparator: 2
Drug: 0.5% moxifloxacin ophthalmic solution
Topical application Instill 1 drop two times, 5 minutes apart. Time from last drop to surgery is determined by group.
Group 5: 30 minutes prior to surgery
Group 6: 1 hour prior to surgery
Group 7: 2 hours prior to surgery
Group 8: 4 hours prior to surgery
Other Name: VIGAMOX
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
- Man or woman 18 years of age or older
- Scheduled for corneal transplant surgery
- Patients must be healthy enough to undergo surgery
- Women must be postmenopausal for at least 1 year or surgically sterile incapable of pregnancy
- Women must be abstinent at the discretion of the investigator
- Women practicing an effective method of birth control
- Women agree before entry to continue to use the same method of contraception throughout the study
- Women of childbearing potential must have a negative urine pregnancy test at screening
Exclusion Criteria
- Presence of an active ocular infection or positive history of ocular herpetic infection
- History of severe dry eye syndrome
- Use of contact lenses in the 2 weeks prior to the study and for the duration of the study
- Received an experimental drug or used an experimental medical device within 30 days before the planned start of treatment
- Pregnant or breast feeding
- Employees of the investigator or study center with direct involvement in the proposed study or other studies under the direction of that investigator or study center as well as family members of the employees or the investigator
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: NCT00764582
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00764582
|United States, Florida
|Boynton Beach, Florida, United States
|United States, Indiana
|Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
|United States, Michigan
|Great Rapids, Michigan, United States
|United States, Missouri
|Kansas City, Missouri, United States
|Springfield, Missouri, United States
|United States, New York
|Stony Brook, New York, United States
|United States, Ohio
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
|United States, Oregon
|Portland, Oregon, United States
Sponsors and Collaborators
Santen Inc.
Vistakon Pharmaceuticals
More Information
Keywords provided by Santen Inc.:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 25, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Brian Schwam, MD, VISTAKON Pharmaceuticals
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00764582 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
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Corneal penetration of levofloxacin and moxifloxacin
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Eye Injuries, Penetrating
Eye Injuries
Facial Injuries
Craniocerebral Trauma
Trauma, Nervous System
Nervous System Diseases
Wounds and Injuries
Wounds, Penetrating
Pharmaceutical Solutions
Ophthalmic Solutions
Norgestimate, ethinyl estradiol drug combination
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Topoisomerase II Inhibitors
Topoisomerase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Contraceptives, Oral, Combined
Contraceptives, Oral
Contraceptive Agents, Female
Contraceptive Agents
Reproductive Control Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Anti-Infective Agents, Urinary
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Motorola's (MOT) mobile-phone business has turned from dynamo to disaster in just a few short years. With no hot products to follow its popular Razr, the onetime industry leader has rapidly lost market share and sales. The situation has grown so rocky that CEO Gregory Q. Brown has struggled to find a qualified executive to run the business—or any viable bid to acquire it.
But Motorola's move on Mar. 26 to spin off the mobile-phone unit could change the division's fortunes. The Schaumburg (Ill.) company plans to set up the business as a separately traded public entity, and the board has retained executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates to recruit a new CEO for the company. Brown is now likely to find it much easier to attract a top-flight candidate, since the new chief will have a free hand. "That changes the dynamics of the search," says Peter D. Crist, head of executive recruiter Crist Associates in suburban Chicago. "Top execs at key players such as Nokia and other rivals would not have been interested [if the phone unit were not separate]. Suddenly they perk up and say: 'I can run that business.'"
Any Upside Is a Win
What looked like "a poisoned chalice," as one analyst called the phone unit, has suddenly become a golden fount of opportunity. As a part of Motorola, the phone business was slowed by a bureaucratic corporate culture. Even though the mobile-phone business makes up half of the company's sales, its executives have not always been able to operate independently. Their investment, supplier, and operational decisions have been intertwined with those of Motorola's other divisions. "This looks a lot less unattractive than the encumbered, politically mired entity that existed at midnight on Mar. 25," says Yankee Group telecom analyst John Jackson.
Expectations are also at rock bottom. American Technology Research is forecasting that revenues at the phone division will slide to $16 billion in 2008, down from $19 billion last year. So almost any improvement in the unit's financial performance will be seen as a sign of success.
Sources close to the search say Brown has been actively considering candidates in recent weeks, and he has set the bar high. Managing a global phone manufacturer is no easy task, especially with the rocky economic outlook and Carl Icahn battling Motorola for board seats. The business struggled under the previous two CEOs, Christopher B. Galvin and Edward J. Zander, who handed over the reins to Brown in January. "We want someone who is a proven leader with a results orientation," Brown told BusinessWeek. Someone "who preferably has technology awareness and a consumer-electronics or customer background in the wireless space."
Motorola would not comment on specific names. But recruiters and analysts say executives in the top two or three posts at Motorola rivals or its chief customers make likely candidates. Among Motorola's customers, Verizon (VZ) COO Denny Strigl and former Sprint Nextel (S) CEO Gary Forsee are considered possibilities. A Verizon spokesman says Strigl is not a candidate for the Motorola job; a spokesman at the University of Missouri, where Forsee is president, says he remains committed to his role there.
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One possibility among Motorola rivals is Nortel Networks (NT) CEO Mike S. Zafirovski, a former top executive at Motorola and General Electric (GE). Known as Mike Z, he became chief of Nortel after successfully running Motorola's phone business and being promoted to chief operating officer. At Motorola he was considered a turnaround specialist for improving margins in the cell-phone business and speeding up product delivery. He left after losing out to Zander in the competition to replace Galvin in 2004.
Zafirovski could not be reached for comment. A Nortel spokesman said he remains "100% dedicated to Nortel's transformation." Another possibility is Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice-president for new markets at Nokia. Vanjoki is highly respected in the industry as an authority on brand and customer markets—precisely the areas where Motorola is weak. "The one person on the planet who would be the perfect candidate is Vanjoki," says Robert J. Laikin, CEO of Brightpoint (CELL), a major distributor of Motorola and Nokia phones. "But he'd never do it because he'd be considered a traitor in Finland." Vanjoki could not be reached for comment.
Motorola is no stranger to spin-offs. It cut its semiconductor unit loose in 2004 under conditions similar to those of the phone unit now. The new company, Freescale Semiconductor, was considered an underperformer with poor prospects. But Freescale was able to recruit a strong CEO in veteran IBM executive Michel Mayer. Mayer improved the business, and the shares quickly doubled from their initial 13.
Freescale was eventually sold to a group of private equity investors and has fallen on hard times amid the economic downturn. But Brown says the handset business may have similar potential to surprise skeptics—if it attracts the right chief executive. "I think it's a fantastic opportunity to restore and revitalize a proud franchise," says Brown.


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Annual Cycle: Genesis 18:1 - 22:24 (Hertz, p. 63; Etz Hayim, p. 99)
Triennial- Year II: Genesis 19:1 - 20:18 (Hertz, p. 66; Etz Hayim, p. 104)
Haftarah - II Kings 4:1 - 37 (Hertz, p. 76; Etz Hayim, p. 123)
Prepared by Rabbi Lee Buckman
Head of School, Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit
Department of Services to Affiliated Congregations
Rabbi Martin J. Pasternak, Director
(18:1-15) Abraham welcomes three wayfarers with full hospitality, not realizing that they are angels. They tell Abraham that Sarah will have a son. Sarah, overhearing, laughs in disbelief.
(18:16-33) God tells Abraham of his decision to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham tries to dissuade God, with the famous words," Shall not the judge of all the earth deal justly?" Abraham bargains with God, who promises not to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah if even ten righteous men can be found there.
(19:1-19) The angels warn Lot to flee Sodom with his family. His wife disobeys the order not to look back, and is turned into a pillar of salt.
(19:30-38) After the destruction, Lot's daughters, believing there is no one else left on earth, trick him into an incestuous union. They each bear sons, the founders of the nations of Ammon and Moab.
(20:1-18) Abraham and Sarah are in Gerar. Abraham says that Sarah is his sister, so Abimelekh king of Gerar has Sarah brought to him. In a dream, God appears to him and frightens him away from Sarah. Abimelekh rebukes Abraham, but then compensates him for his trouble.
(21:1-8) God keeps His promise; Isaac is born. Isaac is circumcised on the eighth day of his life, and there is a banquet on the day of his weaning.
(21:9-21) Sarah fears the negative influence Ishmael may have over Isaac. Hagar and Ishmael are sent away. God promises Hagar, "I will make a great nation" of Ishmael.
(21:22-34) Abraham and Abimelekh make a covenant of peace at Be'er-sheva.
(22:1-19) The Akedah, the story of the binding of Isaac.
(22:20-24) Genealogy which includes Rebekah, future wife of Isaac.
As dawn broke, the angels urged Lot on, saying, 'Up, take your wife and your two remaining daughters, lest you be swept away because of the iniquity of the city.'
Still he delayed. So the men seized his hand, and the hands of his wife and his two daughters - in the Lord's mercy on him - and brought him out and left him outside the city.
When they had brought them outside, one said, 'Flee for your life! Do not look behind you, nor stop anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, lest you be swept away!'
Lot's wife looked back, and she thereupon turned into a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:15-17)
For discussion:
What was so bad about Lot's wife turning around and looking back? What's so sinful about it? Not all of the comments above seem to accuse her of wrongdoing or condemn her. Or perhaps, we should read more into what they are implying?
Some points to consider:
When in life do you think it is not good to look back? What about the modern American credo - "get over it" or "get past it"? Are there any applications to events that have happened to us in recent times?