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Multicentre Prospective Cohort Study of Patients With Chronic Alcoholic and/or Metabolic Liver Disease (CALMET)
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified March 2015 by University Hospital, Bordeaux.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
University Hospital, Bordeaux
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First received: October 25, 2010
Last updated: March 4, 2015
Last verified: March 2015
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Detailed Description:
Chronic alcoholic and metabolic liver diseases are the two main liver diseases in France. The long-term prognosis of these two diseases are not well known because main studies are retrospective and with only alcoholic patients. The knowledge of the natural history of these diseases should improve the management of patients with such diseases.
The aim of this prospective cohort is to describe the natural history of patients with chronic liver disease due to alcohol or metabolic disease and to identify factors associated with complications of these liver diseases (cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, ascites. ..).
|Liver Diseases, Alcoholic Metabolic Diseases
|Other: Intervention according to the standard of care.
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Multicentre Prospective Cohort Study of Patients With Chronic Alcoholic and/or Metabolic Liver Disease
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MedlinePlus related topics: Liver Diseases Metabolic DisordersU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by University Hospital, Bordeaux:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Death [ Time Frame: up to 36 months ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Complications of liver disease [ Time Frame: up to 36 months ]ascites, encephalopathy, liver cancer, bleeding from oesophageal varices
- Complications of obesity [ Time Frame: up to 36 months ]cardiovascular diseases, pulmonary diseases, etc.
- Complications of diabetes [ Time Frame: up to 36 months ]renal failure,etc.
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
- serum
- plasma (DNA)
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|December 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|June 2015
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|June 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Patients with chronic alcoholic and/or metabolic liver disease
Other: Intervention according to the standard of care.
Every 6 months, patients will have clinical, biological and morphological evaluation according to the standard of care.
Detailed Description:
In 2010, the two most frequent chronic liver diseases are alcoholic and metabolic disease. The natural history of these two diseases is not well known. Indeed, most of the studies were retrospective and evaluated alcoholic disease or metabolic disease but never both diseases. However, these two diseases have the same histological lesions and can be associated. The knowledge of the natural history of these diseases could improve the management of patients in order to decrease complications and improve survival. The aim of this prospective study is to describe the natural history of chronic liver disease due to alcohol and/or metabolic syndrome and to identify factors associated with complications (ascites, encephalopathy, death, complications of obesity, diabetes or chronic alcohol abuse). All patients will be followed every 6 months for 3 years with clinical, biological and morphological parameters.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
18 years old patient with chronic liver disease (liver biopsy with bridging fibrosis or cirrhosis) or non-invasive markers of fibrosis (fibrotest > 0.58, FibroScan > 7.9 kPa), no decompensated cirrhosis, chronic alcohol use and/or metabolic syndrome.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age over 18 years
- chronic liver disease (liver biopsy with bridging fibrosis or cirrhosis) or non-invasive markers of fibrosis (fibrotest > 0.58, FibroScan > 7.9 kPa)
- no decompensated cirrhosis
- chronic alcohol use and/or metabolic syndrome (at least 3 criteria of metabolic syndrome)
- Written informed consent
- Patient covered by the French health insurance system
Exclusion Criteria:
- short term life threatening disease
- Other cirrhosis causes
- Impossibility of regular follow-up
- Under guardianship major Patient
- Presence of focal hurt suggestive of CHC
- pregnant women
- cirrhosis complication
- Child-pugh score superior or equal to 7
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01237574
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|Responsible Party:
|University Hospital, Bordeaux
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01237574 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|October 25, 2010
|Last Updated:
|March 4, 2015
Keywords provided by University Hospital, Bordeaux:
Liver Diseases
Metabolic Diseases
liver disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Liver Diseases
Metabolic Diseases
Liver Diseases, Alcoholic
Digestive System Diseases
Alcohol-Induced Disorders
Alcohol-Related Disorders
Substance-Related Disorders
Chemically-Induced Disorders
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Paul de Launay's reminiscences of Paris, where he lived all the years of his childhood and youth, would make an interesting volume. There is offered here only his early recollection of the great scientist Pasteur, whose institute of scientific research was situated in the quarter where Paul de Launay's father lived. The de Launays lived in fact in the second house from the Institute Pasteur. It is evident from the reminiscences that the young lad Paul had a flair for greatness in men, and that Louis Pasteur, preoccupied with his serums and his ferments, failed not to appreciate the devotion of a little schoolboy:
"We lived then in Rue Dutot in the Southwest of Paris. Every day, trudging along from my home to the school, I passed in front of the Institute Pasteur, and every day returning home for lunch I had the opportunity to see the great Pasteur as he came out of the Institute to get into his carriage, a one-horse carriage with one lone coachman waiting for him every day at the same hour. The street was a quiet one, and usually Pasteur and I were the only persons (not counting the coachman) in front of the Institute toward lunch time. Invaribly, and with pleasure, I took off my beret as Pasteur approached, and he invariably, as all gentlemen do in the Old Country, acknowledged my salute by taking off his top hat. I remember his smile. He generally smiled at me, although I remember too that he often looked worried. As he came out of that gate and as I waited to let him pass, my hat off my head and smiling, his head was often lowered as if he were in serious thought, yet he never failed to notice me. Perhaps he could not help noticing me, as I was the only other soul there."
"Later, I remember acting as guide for visitors in Paris, guests in our home from different parts of the world, who wished to observe the work that was being carried on in the Institute. I used to take these friends of ours to see the laboratories and the rooms where patients were being treated on Thursdays between nine and eleven. I can see the lines of patients yet, many of them shepherds who had been bitten by mad dogs and who had come to the Institute to receive free treatment. Pasteur himself frequently injected the serum in the hip of the patient. On one of these occasions our guest whom we took to see Pasteur was the famous Dr. Louis Appia, one of the founders of the Red Cross at Geneva. Many times, visiting the Institute and standing near Pasteur to watch the injecting of the serum, I recall how the great man, recognizing me, tapped me gently on the shoulder or placed his hand on my head as he spoke a few words of greeting."
"Pasteur was a man of rather small stature, something like five feet five. His hair was a mixture of silver and black. His pointed beard was a short and grayish. He always wore a little black necktie, like the one we wear with our Tuxedos. His clothes were black, and he always wore on this silk hat a band of black felt such as is worn in France for mourning. The only decoration he wore was the rosette of the legion of Honor, a lapel button made of red moiré. Otherwise he was simplicity itself."
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Stephen Beeler named new head volleyball coach
January 15th, 2014 | SMWC
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) head Athletic Director Deanna Bradley has selected Stephen Beeler as the new head volleyball coach. Beeler will serve as SMWC's head volleyball coach for the first scholarship program. With the expected completion of the new sports and recreation facility, the College adds volleyball as its eighth sport.
Beeler, a native of Terre Haute, Ind., comes to SMWC as the co-founder and director of the Crossroads Volleyball Club (COA) in Terre Haute. Beeler has been involved with the club as a coach and recruiter over the past 16 years. At Terre Haute South High School, he served as the junior varsity coach and varsity assistant coach from 1997 to 2004. From 2004-2009, Beeler was also the head volleyball coach for the Lady Braves and he currently teaches physics.
Coaching youth volleyball since 1999, he brings plenty of experience to the college level. "I have been involved in volleyball in the area for the last 17 years. I coached at Terre Haute South for 13 seasons. I also co-founded COA Volleyball Club 16 years ago and have helped grow it from a team of 11 players to a club with nearly 180 travel players that competes at the national level," said Beeler.
Beeler's success at both the club and high school level is evident. At the Crossroads Volleyball Club, Beeler has been responsible for coaching a two-time AAU All-American, qualifying two teams for the Junior Olympics, and coaching two USAAI volleyball athletes. He has also been the first coach in the Wabash Valley to coach in a national tournament. At Terre Haute South, he coached ten players that went on to play collegiate volleyball.
"I am excited to be the first volleyball coach of a scholarship based program at SMWC," exclaimed Beeler. "It is such a great opportunity to build a quality program from the ground up."
While volleyball was offered in the fall of 1991, it was not a scholarship program. The new program will compete collegiately in the fall of 2015, which will give Beeler time to recruit student athletes. It will be a challenge says Beeler, but one he looks forward to: "It will be a long process of finding the type of player that has the athletic ability, patience, work ethic, and volleyball IQ to compete at the college level. I expect to spend a lot of time talking to potential recruits this spring and hope to bring in a couple of players next fall that are willing to sit out a year in exchange for being the first scholarship volleyball players in school history."
Athletic Director Deanna Bradley believes Beeler is the right person for the job and will bring success to a new sports program at SMWC. "We are thrilled to welcome Coach Beeler to The Woods," said Bradley. "Steve has solid experience in program development and an extensive pipeline for recruitment opportunities. It is exciting to have someone with his background and experience to begin the recruiting responsibilities for the startup of our first scholarship volleyball program here at SMWC."
Beeler looks forward to the new challenge that awaits him. "I am extremely thankful to Deanna and the school administration for giving me this opportunity. I cannot wait to get started."
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Some commentators have interpreted that invocation of the 50-year-old Soviet satellite's launch as a call for renewed investments in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). To be sure, these are worthy areas on which to focus. However, scientific innovation will require educators and policy makers to think more broadly and boldly.
Over the past six months, I have been reading about a movement among educators and scientists to integrate the arts into STEM education initiatives. (Wheaton Professor of Education Vicki Bartolini is engaged in a planning effort aimed at early childhood classrooms.) The resulting new acronym, STEAM, has provided a rallying point for some academics to assert the value of the arts in education. Personally, I was already convinced. Based on my own experience, I have always believed that there is a relationship between proficiency and natural ability in the arts and a proclivity toward math and science. A number of research studies seem to support this idea, particularly the link between math and music. Nonetheless, this emerging point of view underscores just how prescient the Wheaton faculty were when they developed the "Connections Curriculum" almost 10 years ago.


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Jon Niese turns 25 this Thursday. Put another way: someone was born, grew up, went through the minor leagues and established him as a major league starting pitcher since the last time the Mets won a World Series.
I've often thought of looking at Niese as a good measuring stick for exactly how long it has been since that elusive title. Niese is like The Portrait of Dorian Gray, growing ever older, while the memories of 1986 remain fresh in our minds, seeming to have happened yesterday. So how does the Mets Person Drought compare to other teams in Major League Baseball?
Twelve franchises have either never won a championship, or haven't won more recently than the Mets. So while the Mets Person Drought is personified by Jon Niese, the Pirates are represented by pitcher John Ennis, whose last game in the major leagues was September 12, 2007. The Cleveland Indians are best represented by Cynthia Clawson, who in the time since the Indians last won on October 11, 1948, has won five Dove Awards and a Grammy for her gospel singing.
And while the Cubs don't have a perfect representative born on October 14, 1908, it is worth noting that the economist John Kenneth Galbraith was born the very next day. Since the Cubs won a championship, Galbraith served under four presidents- Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson-and won the Medal of Freedom twice, before passing away in 2006.
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AM2 Motherboards-Part 4: ATI Crossfire Xpress 3200by Wesley Fink on 8/21/2006 7:00 AM EST
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mike6099 - Thursday, September 21, 2006 - linkThe review does not list the ASUS M2N32-SLI as having raid 5. however, at newegg it lists that it does. does the ASUS M2N32-SLI indeed have raid 5 capability? Reply
dougcook - Friday, September 08, 2006 - linkBe careful with the MSI K9A. If you get one, you'll probably want to get a better chipset cooler for it.
I bought an MSI K9A board (after reading this review). The 570 chipset seemed about right for me. Everything seemed ok (some things seemed a bit cheap, but nothing really unusual). There were reports about it being incompatible with some memory, so I was careful there and got the good stuff. I got it all installed and it looked like it was running fine...
For one day (until I actually tried to use it).
The first real thing I did was burn a few CDs. In the middle of the 3rd CD, the Northbridge overheated and the machine turned itself off. This happened 2 more times, and then the machine failed to boot at all (even after giving it time to cool off). I wasn't overclocking, and the box had decent ventilation. The CPU's temperature was fine, the GPU's temperature was fine, the case temperature was fine, but the chipset temperature was through the roof. I had to return the motherboard.
This may not happen for everybody, but looking on NewEgg, it seems that this has happened to many other people. The MSI northbridge does not have an adequate heatsink and is likely to burn up. Save the time and get something better. I got the equivalent ABit 570 SLI motherboard, and I've been very happy so far. I hear good things about the ASUS 570 as well. Reply
Stele - Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - linkGreat article! If only there were more Xpress 3200 boards on the market now... perhaps Anandtech would do a further roundup when that is the case?
Good to see that most motherboard manufacturers are keeping that 24-pin ATX connector well at the edge. So far the only outstanding exception to this practice seems to be EpoX...
As for the 4-pin 12V connector, well, it may not be the best place to be for airflow and cable routing reasons, but that location is actually part of the ATX form factor specifications, which clearly states that the 12V connector should be "next to Voltage Regulator" (ATX Specification v2.2, pg 8). Motherboard designers likely just followed that to make life easier. Specifications aside, it also makes much engineering sense as it keeps traces short - crucial to maintain the quality of power supplied to something as important as the CPU VRM. Besides, airflow considerations are less of an issue with respect to four strands of wire.
IMHO perhaps the one improvement the designers could do while keeping with the spirit of the specifications would be to put the connector on the other side of the VRM, nearer the motherboard edge, though still at the I/O side of the motherboard instead of at the edges nearer the 24-pin ATX connector. Reply
lopri - Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - linkBoy, do I love this article! Thanks to Wesley for this great review. Usually in previous AT motherboard reviews, many difficulties/bugs that end-users experience were often overlooked. (Warm-boot, Cold-boot, Vdroop(?), etc.) I sort of understood it as a result of working with motherboard manufacturers (It's been mentioned that they get BIOS updates on a daily basis), but I used to think AT's motherboard reviews were somewhat different from end-users' experience of retail products.
This review feels much realer and it sounded almost like what I went through with a couple of the boards that I bought after reading AT reviews. I'm very glad and grateful, and hope AT keeps this critical viewpoints for future reviews, especially for motherboards.
Le Québécois - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkWhen you are talking about the SB600 features
# Supports the following AMD processors: Desktop: Athlon 64, Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64 FX X2, Sempron, Opteron, dual-core- Opteron
Shouldn't it be: Athlon 64, Athlon 64 X2, Athlon FX, Sempron... To my knowledge Amd have Athlon 64 X2 ;) and even if the FX-60 (939) and the FX-62(AM2) have 2 core AMD still call them simply by FX and not FX X2. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkEdited. Basically, SB600+RD580 supports all current 939/AM2 AMD CPUs. Not sure about SB460, as Wes specifically didn't list dual core and Opteron parts there. I would guess it does, but I will leave that edit to him just to be safe. Reply
Furen - Monday, August 21, 2006 - link=)
He just meant that FX X2 doesn't exist. There are A64s X2s and A64 FXes but even the dual-core parts are plain FXes. Reply
mendocinosummit - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkSo, awards were handed out despite the fact that ASUS and other top mobo manus don't have ATI boards yet? Am I to assume that this is the end of the mobo lineup? I would really like to see at least two more boards featuring a ATI chipset; especially since the ECS board will basically be a flop at launch. Reply
Gary Key - Monday, August 21, 2006 - link
quote:We also have a few mATX AM2 boards along with a couple of value solutions that we will be reviewing shortly. There is still the upcoming DFI 590SLI AM2 board to review also. :) Reply
Am I to assume that this is the end of the mobo lineup?
yyrkoon - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkWill you guys be testing any of the ABIT boards ? For me personaly, so far, my choice is the ABIT AN9 32x (non fata1ity). I like this board because it offers the SIL 3132 controller, and has an eSATA socket in the I/O section. This is, I'm hoping to use this board with a SATA port multiplier, for some external RAID 5 goodness :) Reply
Wesley Fink - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkWe plan to test the Abit, but we have not yet received the board. Reply
yyrkoon - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkGood to hear :) Reply
mendocinosummit - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkSweet. I was hoping that was the case. Reply
Wesley Fink - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkIt's not the end of the AM2 board testing. We fully expect great RD580 boards from DFI and Asus. However, after testing 9 AM2 boards in-depth it was time to assess where we were.
goinginstyle - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkFinally a review that does not have Conroe plastered all over it. I have the ECS RD480 board based upon an earlier review of it here. The board has performed well and is stable as a rock. Do you think you maybe have a bad board or is it really as bad as it was described? I was looking forward to going to AM2 with a cheap X3800x2 but did not want a nvidia solution since I already have crossfire. Will there be other RD580 boards from Asus or DFI or maybe someone like Abit?
I was excited about this board after reading the review at HardOcp where it received an editors award. Your comment "we have to wonder how ECS could manage to produce such a mediocre motherboard." is completely opposite of the other review. But after reading both reviews again I noticed your test results were very consistent when compared to the other boards that were not reviewed in that article. Looking at the results I have to wonder what board they tested.
Just a few questions if you have time. What would cause the cold boot issue? Does the board have the SB600 or SB460 as listed in the chart. How is the performance of the jmicron chipset? I can not find any test results with it and it seems like everyone is using it now. Thanks for providing some very useful AMD information as they still exist even after Conroe. Reply
Wesley Fink - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkThe ECS has the SB600. ECS included literature that stated the soutn bridge was SB460, but we took off the heatsink and looked. It is definitely an SB600. We will change the ECS spec chart.
The cold boot issues can be poor power regulation, the board's boot sequence, or even just a poor BIOS. It IS possible it might be corrected in the furure with a BIOS update, but there are plenty of other AM2 boards that work well today and cost about the same or less.
We noticed in the other website review you reference that they made a passing mention of the missing CAS adjustment, but they still gave it an Editors choice. They also noted the very poor overclocking, but still gave the ECS an Editors Choice. I'm sorry, but we don't give Editors Choice awards to the worse overclocker of 9 competing AM2 boards that does not even offer CAS adjustments. Reply
allnighter - Monday, August 21, 2006 - link...work comp, win2k+explorer Reply
Patrese - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkGreat review, I only missed Oblivion results. I'd like to see more Anantech reviews about motherboards directed to other audiences, like HTPCs, for instance. There are a lot of motherboards directed to that segment, like the Asus M2NPV-VM, and I think it would be great to see a review as detailed as you generally do for the entusiast boards. A MicroATX roundup would be perfect... :) Reply
Wesley Fink - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkA few HTPC motherboard reviews are already in process. You will be seeing these from Gary Key in the near future. Reply
jackylman - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkI'd really love to see some hardcore Sempron undervolting on those reviews. (hint,hint) Reply
Patrese - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkGreat! :) Reply
classy - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkWhats with the smarttargeting pop-up? Reply
Fenixgoon - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkno popups for me - win XP w/ firefox Reply
mendocinosummit - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkI got it twice on every new page for the review. I also have Firefox and XP SP2. I wonder if they are being attacked. Reply
psychobriggsy - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkNice review, shame that I kept on getting pop-ups asking me to log into www.smarttargetting.net when I went to the next page (Safari / Mac OS X, not it's no IE Windows issue). Reply
Wesley Fink - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkThere are also pop-ups with IE. We have notified our IE support of the issue. They will fix the issue as soon as possible. Reply
Wesley Fink - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkIE has fixed the pop-up error. Let us know if there are any further issues. Reply
Bonesdad - Monday, August 21, 2006 - linkme too... Reply


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Monet and the Impressionists is the largest and richest collection of Impressionist paintings ever to come to New Zealand.
This is a rare chance to see over 50 paintings from one of the world's finest collections of 19th-century French painting, held by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Twenty-seven stunning paintings by Claude Monet – including works from his Water Lily, Haystacks, and Rouen Cathedral series – are displayed alongside Impressionist masterpieces by Renoir, Degas, Cézanne, Pissarro and others.
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The single most common source of copyright violation notices is downloading files through peer-to-peer (P2P) programs such as BitTorrent, BearShare, Limewire, etc. It is important to understand that the vast majority of files shared using these programs are done so in violation of copyright law. While P2P programs are not illegal, these programs can be used in illegal ways. It is everyone's responsibility to use P2P programs legally and responsibly.
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Whether you're gaga for Gruyère, bonkers for Brie, or wild about Wensleydale, all cheese lovers have a new reason to celebrate—a breakthrough discovery in the history of cheese-making. A team of scientists announced that they have found the earliest evidence of human cheese-making dating back more than 7,000 years ago in Northern Europe. Blessed Were…


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Kourtney Kardashian Is Expecting Baby #2, But Daniel Craig Is Not Impressed
Kourtney Kardashian is pregnant again. Woop-de-doo. We're with the not-at-all-impressed Daniel Craig on this one.
-Lucia Peters
Sick of hearing about Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries? Yeah, us too. But lest you be so foolish as to think that you can escape the web of Kardashian conquest, an announcement has just come from another member of the family: Kourtney and her boyfriend Scott Disick are expecting baby number 2.
That's right: There's another Kardashian on its way that we'll all be expected to keep up with. Not that we really needed it or anything, but there it is.
Kourtney first confirmed the news to Us Weekly in an exclusive cover story that will hit newsstands on Friday. She apparently took a pregnancy test about five weeks ago and was so elated about the positive result that she woke up Scott at 7am to tell him the results. Scott, it should be noted, is not a morning person.
Though Kourt and Scott's first child, 2-year-old Mason Dash Disick, was kind-of-sort-of an accident, their second wasn't. Said Scott, "It wasn't like we weren't trying. We kind of just said, 'If it's meant to be, it'll be.'" No doubt we'll be hearing much about Kourt's pregnancy on her new web series, the oh-so-creatively named Kourtney's Mommy Blog. Kourtney's Mommy Blog features what she's learned raising Mason, her "kid tips," her parenting philosophy—and a crash course in kiddie fashion. Because of course making sure your child is dressed in designer clothing is your most important job as a parent.
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These sorts of announcements from the Kardashians do seem to be rather carefully timed, don't they? After all, Kourtney acknowledged to Us, "Now I'm nine weeks along. You're supposed to wait 12 weeks to tell people, but I feel confident." So much for waiting out the first trimester to break the news, eh? We can't help but think that sharing it this early was specifically geared towards drawing attention away from Kim's divorce. In fact, it might also have been part of a plan to draw the public's focus away from rumors that Kardashian parents Kris and Bruce Jenner are also headed for a divorce. Suspicious? Just a tad.
In other news, Daniel Craig is just as sick of the Kardashians as we are. According to the Daily Mail, he told British GQ in an interview for their upcoming January edition that he thinks the Kardashians are idiots for making careers out of their private lives. "I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel," he said. "It's not about being afraid to be public with your emotions or about who you are and what you stand for. But if you sell it off, it's gone…. You can't buy your privacy back," he added. He had a couple of other choice words for them, too, but I'll let you wander over to the Daily Mail to experience them for yourselves.
Hear, hear, Daniel!
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Capt Clifford F McCroskey was my grandfather. He passed away in June 1962 onboard his vessel "the Sheila" in Astoria, OR. He was married twice, the first to Edna Hope and from this marriage was my Father, Clifford I McCroskey, born on Jan 31, 1924. Hope died in 1926. He married in the 1930's to Margaret Florence.


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Don and Marie have endured enough Winnipeg winters and now, they're ready to pull the cord on the block heater for good.
"I want to get out of this city; I have just had it with winters," says Don, in his mid-50s.
The couple want to move west to the coast, where they can buy a little condo or home for about $400,000.
It would be an upgrade in price from their current house, worth about $200,000, which has no mortgage, but they've been saving aggressively for the last decade to prepare, stashing away about $600,000 in GICs.
"If we move out there when he's 60, I'll still be working," says Marie, in her late 40s. "I'd likely try to get a job full-time."
Even then, Marie, who works in manufacturing, wouldn't be eligible for her current employer's defined-benefit pension, which starts at age 55. At that point, she'll receive a reduced amount from the $11,000 annual benefit she will get at 65, but living in a more temperate climate sooner than later would be worth the cost, she says.
Don, in contrast, has no pension plan with his job in sales, but the couple has been saving about $50,000 a year and they're willing to do what it takes to achieve their B.C. retirement dream.
Still, when it comes to investing to reach their goal, Don says he's a little at a loss of where to put his money.
"I don't know enough about investing. We tried it and it didn't work," he says. "Those guys (advisers) just look after themselves."
That said, a little bit of advice wouldn't hurt.
Certified financial planner Jamie Kraemer says Marie and Don might have to scale back their enthusiasm about early retirement if they want to move to the West Coast.
"Certainly they can't retire in three years, but even when we move their retirement date back six years, they are likely going to face some challenges," says the vice-president of TFI Financial Services in Winnipeg.
"I think it may be a little ambitious to retire early without some sort of continuing means of income."
If they retire and move in six years, they'd likely exhaust their savings by the time Don reaches age 70, Kraemer says. This forecast is based on a number of assumptions, including a retirement after-tax income of about $50,000 a year, factoring in earnings from part-time work in B.C.
"Just to make the money last to age 70, he'd have to be earning about $26,000 a year and her about $10,000 to $11,000 a year before taxes."
Kraemer also estimates Don would receive about $6,000 a year in CPP if he started receiving the benefit at age 60, and while he would receive OAS at age 65, Marie, still in her 40s, wouldn't be eligible until age 67 under the new rules.
Although they have saved a tremendous amount of money, Kraemer says appearances are deceiving in this instance.
"I've assumed a very low rate of return if they continue on with their current investment philosophy."
Although they're presently receiving four or more per cent on a number of their GICs, many of those investments will expire soon. And they will not be able to renew for five-year terms at much more than two per cent interest, which will barely keep pace with inflation.
Saving about $13,000 a year going forward, Don's RRSPs, now worth about $230,000, would likely be worth about $315,000 by the time they retire in six years, based on these low rates, and Marie's RRSP would be worth about $210,000.
Kraemer estimates they'd have about $55,000 each in their TFSAs in six years, based on future $5,500 a year contributions. The annual limit will increase by $500 in 2013, he notes.
They also have an additional $155,000 in savings, which will also grow during that time, but Kraemer says much of the money won't be available for income needs.
"Going from a $200,000 house to a $400,000 condo, they're going to eat into all those savings and more, because it's not just the difference in cost of real estate," he says. "There are moving costs, realtor commissions, legal fees and all sorts of other things."
Kraemer says Don and Marie should consider working longer in Winnipeg to save more for retirement or they will need to earn more in B.C. -- working full-time, if possible -- while spending much less. In addition, the longer they wait to retire, the better Marie's pension payment will be, which will help pad their base retirement income, decreasing pressure on their savings.
"She's not eligible for it until age 55, and even then she'll see a 60 per cent reduction," he says. "That only leaves her with $4,400 a year at age 55 from her pension."
Over the course of her retirement, she would be missing out on almost $100,000 in income if she draws on her pension 10 years early.
But Don and Marie could likely extend the life of their savings by diversifying their investment portfolio. Kraemer says they should seek the advice of a financial planning professional who can help them map out a plan with suitable investments that will produce a better return than GICs to grow their money over time.
While they may fear losing money in the stock market, they should be able to create a conservative portfolio of GICs, stocks, bonds and other assets that can give them an annual return that keeps two to three per cent ahead of inflation.
Based on the aforementioned assumptions, this portfolio should at least add another five or six years onto their savings.
Despite what Don says about advisers looking out only for themselves, Kraemer says many investment professionals take their responsibilities to their clients very seriously.
"There is good and bad in the industry, but my advice to them is to work a little longer than they think they should and to talk to an adviser who can help them build a conservative portfolio where they're not putting all their eggs in one basket," he says.
"It's good that they're saving so much, but it's going to take a lot out of their retirement savings to move from a $200,000 house in Winnipeg to a $400,000 condo in B.C."


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As Flex continues to be adopted by more and more RIA developers, it's great to see efforts that support developing with the Cairngorm framework (Steven W. has a roundup). For many developers, it makes for an easier transition toward structured MVC architecture and a 'pattern mindset' in general. This new eclipse plugin is another one to add to the list.
For a few months now, Luis Lejter has been working on a cool plugin for Eclipse (Flex Builder), and finally I can spread the good word! It's more than a Cairngorm wizard, and has nice features like ASDoc documentation generators, end-to-end class generators for REST / WSDL / Remoting, and an e4x editor expression builder, to name a few.
Check out the full feature list on his new blog, and the screenshot gallery (running on OSX).
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James Gandolfini Dead — Star of 'Sopranos' Suffers a Stroke
James Gandolfini, the star of 'The Sopranos' — considered by many to be one of the best TV shows of all-time — died today in Italy, according to a report from TMZ.
Gandolfini, who according to TMZ suffered a stroke, was 51 years old.
He was a prominent, talented Hollywood actor who appeared in movies such as "True Romance," "Zero Dark Thirty" and "Get Shorty," but he reached superstardom by playing Tony Soprano in HBO's series "The Sopranos."
Gandolfini was in Italy to attend the 59th Taormina Film Festival in Sicily, according to TMZ.
He is survived by his wife, Deborah, his 10-month old daughter and teenaged son.
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This article was published 25/12/2012 (1701 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My aim is to make a ton of money in 2013. I heard that whatever you're doing when it turns to midnight of the new year, you will doing more of the next year. I was thinking of coming home from the neighbour's big bash at 11:45 p.m. and doing some computer work on the project that is going to make me the big bucks. My neighbour (also my best friend) says I should tape $100 bills on the top of my computer screen, too. Do you think this actually would help, or is it all a stupid superstition and I should stay at the party? -- Going For The Big Coin, Westwood
Dear Going: It's not complete hooey. Here's the deal with symbols/superstitions of this type: If the money taped to your computer elevates your energy and your drive to get this project done and to the market that brings in the big money, then it has worked. It doesn't work magically, but it works psychologically. By all means come home at 11:45 p.m. and put in some hard work on your project for an hour with C-notes taped all over your computer -- start the money year off with a blast of energy. Why not? If there's somebody worth kissing on New Year's Eve, you can bring your own mistletoe, and kiss early, or go back after 30 minutes at the computer!
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I went away to a sunspot in Mexico just before Christmas and met this guy at the beach. He was not one of the beach boys for hire for sex for the women. In fact, he was a student at a University in Mexico and we never had sex, though we had many dinners out. They were on me, of course, because I had much more money. Before I left, I gave him some money for school, although I realize he didn't say which school exactly. He didn't ask me for the money, but he confessed how tight things were going to be for him, and that he might not even be able to go to school. Before I left, he told me it was hard to communicate back and forth once I was in Canada, that telephoning is expensive and the family doesn't have their own phone or a computer at home. This is why I don't think he played me. I was invited to a party at his family's house and they are really poor money-wise, but very rich in the ways of family and the heart. The thing is I haven't been able to contact him since I left Mexico and I wonder if there is anything wrong. My employer actually laughed at me and said he "took me for a grand" but I don't believe this particular young man is like that. Should I book another flight down there for early February? Do you think it would be a good idea or bad? -- Hearing Nothing From Him, River Heights
Dear Hearing Nothing: Forgive my cynicism, but it is highly likely this fellow on the beach has a different way of operating from other guys, who get paid with dinners and money for sex with lonely women. Why was he so available to be down on the beach with you every day? He didn't ask you for the money -- we'll give him that -- but he did let you know how much he needed money. Here is a healthy way to look at the situation: You had a lovely holiday and you gave $1,000 to a man who may or may not have used it for university. Just let it go, and don't go back for more duping. He probably has another tourist on the hook for dinners-and-a-donation at this point. How about you give your next charity donation to a local place where you know for sure it will be used in the right way?
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I'm a 23-year-old female and still a virgin. I'm quiet, but still outgoing. As the years go by, I've become more and more self-conscious about my virginity. I'm now beginning to think something is wrong with me. What will a guy think of me when he finds out? Will he flee as fast as he can, because of my inexperience? How do I bring this topic up with someone when it's time? I've had a few boyfriends but as soon as one tells me his feelings, I get scared and run because I'm scared to admit my inexperience and don't want to be judged. How can I overcome these feeling so I don't end up that 40-year-old virgin? -- Tired of Running
Dear Tired: A 33-year old woman might be daunting for a guy, but a 23-year-old virgin might be kind of charming, especially a guy who has real feelings for you. You virginity is not something to "get rid of," but something to share with somebody special. It's not something you need to broadcast on the first date, but something you should mention, without apology when a new relationship has developed. Talk about it, in an amused kind of way, giving it a Victorian kind of spin. "Do you find this daunting, kind sir? Would you like time to think about it?" And here's an idea we'll try. Let's ask young men to write in and say what they would think of being the first to make love with a 23-year-old virgin -- a young woman they cared about? Is it too much responsibility? Would it be exciting, scary, an honour?
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Samantha Stosur is the last Australian remaining in the Sydney International draw after Casey Dellacqua made a swift first-round exit on Monday.
Dellacqua lost 6-4 6-1 to 42-year-old Japanese qualifier Kimiko Date-Krumm, the world No.112 and oldest singles player on the WTA Tour.
Stosur opens her campaign later on Monday against China's former Australian Open and Wimbledon semi-finalist Jie Zheng.
Former Sydney champion Li Na advanced to the second round earlier on Monday with a nervy straight-sets win over American Christina McHale.
The Chinese fourth seed won 7-6 (7-2) 7-5 in a marathon two-hour affair to set up a meeting with Japanese qualifier Ayumi Morita, who ousted Slovak Daniela Hantuchova 1-6 6-3 6-3.
Li, who reigned in Sydney in 2011 before reaching the Australian Open final and winning the French Open, looms large in Stosur's quarter of the draw.
Stosur's French Open conqueror Sara Errani is also through to the second round after thumping Czech qualifier Karolina Pliskova 6-1 6-3.
The little Italian third seed next faces Russian starlet Maria Kirilenko, a 7-5 6-2 first-round winner over Australian wildcard Olivia Rogowska.
One-time world No.1 Jelena Jankovic eliminated Austrian Tamira Paszek 6-2 7-6 (7-5) and will play unseeded Italian Roberta Vinci for a quarter-final berth.
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This is honestly a theoretical question so heat treatment is not an issue, I wouldn't want to find a custom smith and pay them to custom make a knife with white steel at hrc 56. I was referring to different steels offered in their usual (slightly differing hardness rating) states. As far as what I use the knife for, I am comfortable doing anything with a gyuto whether it be icing a cake or breaking down lamb racks. SS, PM, or carbon doesn't matter the question wasn't about knife recommendations, it was about "chippiness"...assuming totally hypothetically that heat treating was at manufactures recommended specs. That being said, I thourghly enjoy this exchange so far.
Jaspernowhere wrote:I'm not a sushi chef making maki all day, I'm a sous chef in a modern French-American restaurant doing everything from pastry to breaking down bone in primal cuts of meat to working sauté. I fully realize that heat treat is paramount, but that being said white #1 will never be as tough as cheap German steel. I'm not in the market for a cheap German wedge monster, I was wondering about more modern steels that could offer more durability than the white #1 that said itomae would be using. Thank you.
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NEW YORK -- The female newscaster of today does sexy in a very specific way. It is sleeveless sexy, an age-defying, loose-skin-defying means of telling the world that she worked out this morning and every morning, long before she went to hair and makeup and started broadcasting the nation's news, long before viewers even considered waking up.
The sleeveless sheath dress, now ubiquitous on cable and local news, and especially beloved by morning news programs, is as much a uniform for TV newswomen as androgyny was in the mid-'90s, when boxy blazers and short hair reigned. Only seven years ago, when Katie Couric took over the CBS Evening News, critics worried whether she might be scandalizing the nation by showing too much leg. Now, legs are the least of it. They've been joined by bare arms and dresses so form-fitting that Couric has said many of her colleagues look like they're going "clubbing." The seriousness of the news (OK, seriousness sometimes) has been completely decoupled from the seriousness of the attire of the women presenting it.
On Fox News, which has long pushed the sex appeal of its female talent further than other networks, it is typical to see a suited man next to a woman outfitted for lunch on some sunny Roman piazza. On Today, Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb are typically sleeveless, sitting before windows that showcase people bundled up against the Manhattan cold.
There's a reason why the women of TV news have embraced sleevelessness while treading carefully in matters like cleavage (sexy weather reporters aside). Bare arms read as a kind of smart-sexy, a look that women in positions of authority can pull off. Michelle Obama is responsible for this, as are socialites of the Manhattan cocktail circuit, for whom bare arms long ago became a currency of wealth and fitness. MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski and Chris Jansing are fans of the look, as is CBS' Gayle King, and CNN's Brooke Baldwin. Fit arms are about control, a state of poised strength you work at -- so much so that supermarket magazines have accused Madonna and Angelina Jolie of pushing their exercise regimes too far, featuring their ropy, veiny biceps right next to close-ups of some other unfortunate's cellulite. But if cellulite and cleavage can read as sloppy, toned arms are the very opposite; they're all about intention and control. Which is why newswomen get to show them off.
And yet. It's telling that we now expect sexy at all from our TV newswomen. We haven't always. Beauty, sure. When Diane Sawyer appeared in the '80s in an off-the-shoulder evening dress on the cover of Vanity Fair, the decision caused such a stir that she was moved to remind a reporter that "there were no tassels involved." But if you look back at images of newswomen from the '80s and '90s, they were notable for what they didn't show.
When MSNBC launched in 1996, Couric covered everything but her face, wearing a turtleneck under her beige blazer for the virgin broadcast. And women who've been on the air for decades tend not to go bare, either because they think it inappropriate to do so at their age or because they were schooled at a time when TV reporters didn't do such things. In either case, clothing confers dignity. You can't imagine Christiane Amanpour leveraging her erotic capital on the air.
It does, after all, matter when female voices of authority disrobe. Baring one's skin, whether it's décolletage or arms, remains an indicator of seriousness -- are you going to look at me, or are you going to listen to what I'm saying? Because, as The Washington Post pointed out last year in a story about the blazer disappearing from newswomen's wardrobes, male viewers appear unable to do both. A 2010 study found that the sexier the female anchor, the less men retain of what she says. They literally see instead of hear her. Rachel Maddow has said this is why she maintains a "conveyor belt of grey blazers," in order to look the same for every broadcast.
"Don't focus on what I'm wearing," Maddow says. "Focus on what's coming out of my face."
The more you think about sleevelessness, the more it reads as a fault line in a stressed and fragmented news industry. TV reporters have always straddled the line between news and entertainment -- the path from model or actress or pageant queen (Sawyer was one) to TV reporter is a well-trodden one. But for shows desperate not to lose eyeballs, skin becomes a competitive edge. Thus, the form-fitting sleeveless sheath has become a kind of uniform of Fox News women, favoured by Megyn Kelly, Gretchen Carlson, Martha MacCallum, Michelle Malkin and others. And thus, when Kelly, a high-profile Fox News anchor, was asked by GQ in 2010 what she thought of the network's shots of her behind a glass table, showing off her legs, Kelly replied casually, "Well, it's a visual business. People want to see the anchor."
Sleevelessness has become so commonplace, you barely notice it anymore. It's been adopted even by newswomen who are acutely aware of the symbolism of their clothing, as well as the collapsing distinction between news and entertainment. As co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, Brzezinski has on several occasions struck a blow against the trivialization of the news, most famously refusing to read a news item about Paris Hilton.
Still, just a few months ago, Brzezinski posed for a Vanity Fair image that threw her self-awareness into doubt. In the photo, naughtily reminiscent of Michelle Pfeiffer's piano-crawling scene from The Fabulous Baker Boys, the journalist wears a black sheath dress and poses provocatively on top of a table with one bare leg extended in the air. She gazes adoringly at co-anchor Joe Scarborough, who sits in a chair, fully suited, grinning at the camera. The message of her arms, not to mention those legs, is this: First and foremost, I am here to entertain you. Would you like me to sing or to dance?
-- Slate


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"This time, it's different."
How many times have we heard this before? Oh yes, the mainstreamers say, all those other decisions—Vietnam, Korea, the Bay of Pigs, Iraq II, etc.—were mistakes, and the United States should never have stuck its nose into those situations. But this time, it's different.
In the video below, Congressman Ron Paul explodes U.S. foreign policy in front of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who, having listened—or at least remained silent—during Paul's remarks, says, "Afghanistan is not Iraq." Then he pulls one of Dick Cheney's rabbits out of his hat: "September 11, 2001….."
This man works for the administration of Barack Obama, the candidate of "change." Before the election, I warned people not to expect any real change from Obama. "Oh, you're being pessimistic," I was told. "Yes, every other president in the past two generations has backed away from his campaign promises, but…….(drumroll, please)……this time, it's different."
So much for that.
Such lunacy will continue to the end of the world, so long as people allow themselves to be hypnotized by these mountebanks each time the olympiad rolls around. It could change, but I doubt it ever will. Human nature is flawed, and one of those flaws is gullibility. One of the evils of the State is that the gullible, who elect these clowns, bring down the rest of us with them. Maybe someday this will be different, but it doesn't seem likely.
Hat tip to LRC.
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