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How To Protect Your Children – How To Talk About Abuse
If your child ever discloses abuse to you, you have one main responsibility: "Listen for all you're worth, and be loving and supportive," says Johnson. Incidents reported by children are rarely false, experts agree. There's no template for this discussion; it depends heavily on the child's age, the possible suspect, and how long ago the potential abuse may have occurred. But you should follow certain guidelines. First, have the conversation in private. Be aware of your body language: Lean forward, make eye contact, and get close to his eye level to help your child feel more comfortable, says psychologist Julie Medlin, Ph.D., coauthor with Steven Knauts, Ph.D., of Avoiding Sexual Dangers: A Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Child.
Immediately reassure your child that you believe him and that he did the right thing by telling you. Keep your questions open-ended ("What did you do together?" "What happened next?"), avoiding detailed ones that are suggestive, such as "Did he put his mouth on your penis?"
Unfortunately, some parents deny the abuse ("Your Uncle John would never do such a thing!"), blame the child ("How could you let this happen?"), or become hysterical ("I'll kill him!"). Such responses can cause kids to shut down or alter their story out of fear. Instead, reiterate to your child that you are not upset with him and that it's not his fault.
If there's any good news here, it's this: "Sexually abused children who receive support and help can and do heal," says David Finkelhor, Ph.D., director of the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center. Research has shown that the majority of sexually abused kids grow up with no significant mental-health or behavioral problems, he adds. The factors that appear to help include social support, strong self-esteem, and a child's understanding that she was not to blame for the abuse. Child psychologists and psychiatrists with specialized training can help kids begin the process of overcoming the trauma. This is why it's so crucial for children to speak up. "Keeping the secret can subliminally reinforce feelings of shame that can be harmful later in life," says Houser.
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How To Protect Your Children – Recognize Red Flags
Only one in five kids who have been sexually abused will report it, says Robin Castle, child sexual abuse prevention manager at Prevent Child Abuse Vermont. (The majority of survivors wait until they're older to talk about it.) "It's very, very hard for a child to disclose, even under the best of circumstances," she explains. So you need to watch for warning signs. "If your child tells you that he doesn't want to be around a particular person or take part in certain outings, take him seriously," says Lee, who speaks from personal experience. As a child she was abused repeatedly by an uncle who told her no one would love her if they found out what she'd done. She kept quiet but tearfully dreaded annual gatherings at the family's summer cabin.
Some children may show physical signs such as unexplained urinary infections, redness, or swelling in the genital area. Other kids may have stomachaches, headaches, or sudden bedwetting. Behavioral signs can include angry outbursts, sleep problems, withdrawal, or a drop in grades. Sexual precociousness is another worrisome sign; perhaps the child starts making sexual comments or showing inappropriate sexual behaviors. Of course, none of these actions points specifically to sexual abuse, but they may warrant a consultation with a child psychologist or a pediatrician who's been trained in child abuse.
Above all else, keep this in mind: "If you suspect that your child—or any child—has been abused, the most important thing is to not investigate it on your own," insists Johnson. Extensive questioning may jeopardize an ensuing investigation. Instead, immediately report your suspicion to your state child-protection-services agency (find a state-by-state list at childwelfare.gov).
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How To Protect Your Children – Know Who's In Your Child's Life
Since we can't always be right there with our kids, we need to know that they are always in supervised situations with trustworthy adults. Today many youth organizations have policies such as the Boy Scouts of America's "two-deep leadership" rule, which requires at least two adults on all outings. If your child belongs to a group with this guideline, make him aware of it so he can tell you if it's not being used.
Similarly, check whether your child's day care, school, and after-school programs have an open-door policy, along with either an actual open door or a window into every room where kids spend time. (Many classrooms have at least a small window built into each door.) Ideally, this should be combined with regular, unexpected visits by supervisors. In fact, for any situation that's innately private (such as counseling), there should be a door with a window, so you always have the chance to observe, says Johnson.
If you use a nanny or another unsupervised caregiver, don't stop with a check of her background and references. Occasionally drop in unannounced. And make it clear that you don't want your child left in someone else's care without your permission, since it's possible that a friend or a family member of the caregiver could have sexual- behavior problems, says Johnson. This is particularly important if care takes place in a home where other grown-ups or older kids may be around.
Get to know the coaches, clergy, teachers, and other adults in your child's world and observe how they interact with her. Show up to practice, involve yourself in activities, and volunteer in the classroom. And if anything feels off, talk to other parents and compare notes. "Listen up when they express concerns or uncomfortable feelings, and strategize as a group about how you can ensure the safety of one another's kids," says Kristen Houser, vice president of communications and development for the anti-sexual violence coalition Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape, which founded the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.
It's also crucial to become acquainted with your children's friends. Pay special attention to friendships involving older kids, which can lead to vulnerable situations. More than a third of those who sexually abuse children are under the age of 18 themselves. In many instances, a child may not grasp that his actions toward another child are harmful, says Deborah Donovan Rice, executive director of Stop It Now!
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How to Protect Your Children – Protect Your Child From A Predator
With all the scandals we see on television today reminding us of the realities of sexual abuse. Sadly, the majority of children who've been victimized never tell on their own, so it's up to us to spot the warning signs.
By Jessica Snyder Sachs from Parents Magazine
When I was in fifth grade, I begged my parents to let me quit music lessons. But I didn't tell them why. I feared what might happen if they knew what the teacher had done to me after saying he loved me and leading me away to a dark bedroom.
Suffice it to say that when my own daughter started lessons at age 5, I plopped myself down in the same room with a book.
Fortunately, there's a much greater awareness about child sexual abuse than there was in my youth. In fact, there's a much greater awareness than there was just 12 months ago, before former Penn State University's football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was accused of sexually abusing ten boys over a 15-year period. (Sandusky was convicted in June of 45 counts of child sexual abuse.)
That horrifying case has sparked a national conversation about child sexual abuse, as well as a significant increase in calls to hotlines from people seeking support and guidance about preventing or stopping it. In just the first two weeks after the allegations surfaced, the national organization Stop It Now!, which works to prevent child sexual abuse, experienced a 130 percent increase in contacts.
What many parents now understand is that sexual abuse is quite common. One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18, according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Roughly 90 percent of offenders are relatives of their victim, or acquaintances such as neighbors, family friends, teachers, and coaches. "Child predators can appear to the outside world to be warm, caring, loving, and respectful," says Robin Sax, author of Predators and Child Molesters and a former Los Angeles prosecutor who specialized in sex crimes against children. "It is these very traits that allow them to continue their horrific acts."
That's one reason why the prevention strategies that many of us have heard before aren't very helpful. Expecting kids to sort out the difference between positive and negative touch can backfire, for instance, because sexual abuse doesn't always start out feeling "yucky." It doesn't necessarily hurt, nor does it have to involve touch. (Such is the case when adults show pornography to kids or get them to expose themselves for photos.) And suggesting your child "yell and tell" if a grown-up makes him feel uncomfortable can be a tall order. This is especially true when the offender is an authority figure who has worked hard to win your child's trust.
Unfortunately, children will often keep abuse secret because they feel confused, scared, or guilty. "An abuser typically shames his victim or threatens a child with what will happen if she tells," says Anne Lee, founder of Darkness to Light, a nonprofit in Charleston, South Carolina, dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse. It's important to encourage children to ask for help if anything makes them feel mixed up or confused, says Linda E. Johnson, executive director of Prevent Child Abuse Vermont, a chapter of Prevent Child Abuse America. But avoid using the word should. By saying "You should scream" or "You should run," it puts the burden on the child. (And if you happen to share this advice with a child who has already been abused, it gives the unintended message that he was responsible for protecting himself, she adds.)
So how can you best safeguard your children? The best prevention involves having somewhat difficult conversations with your child but making sure they're age-appropriate. (See "Preventing Abuse" on the next page.) Also, trust your gut. "Go with your instincts if anything bothers you about someone who spends time with your child," Sax says. That includes the neighbor or person from church who is overly eager to help you out by babysitting or just taking your kid off your hands. Having a bad vibe is not necessarily enough to make a crime report, but it's plenty to justify your not allowing that person access to your kid. "In a school setting, always report an uneasy feeling to administrators, because they are mandated reporters and are trained to decide whether the situation warrants further attention," she explains. You are not liable, as long as there is something suspicious that warrants the report.
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Obviously I read Twilight fanfics, and I like them most from other POV other than annoying Bella. Of course, there are always those amazing story lines with certain exceptions.
I have written a couple of little things, things that were some type of project for school, but I finally decided to actually start a true FanFic. It's called Another Beginning, and you can read the summary below. I just started it, and it may not be the best fluff in the world, but I just wanted to get into Ed's head, and add a little humor. I'm basically writing it for myself, to say "Yeah, I've written a story." Haha. I got my first review on it and I relized how encouraging it is. I will definitley start writting more of them.
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The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series
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The Gossip Girl Series
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Star Tamika Catchings might be getting all the attention, but it was a career playoff best performance from Australian Erin Phillips that helped the Indiana Fever collect their first WNBA championship in club history on Sunday night.
Catchings dropped a game-high 25 points to go along with eight assists, but Phillips led the rest of the team throughout the series and on the night with 18 points, after key forward Katie Douglas fell to injury during the deciding game of the Eastern Conference Finals.
An Olympian in 2008 with the Australian Opals, Phillips stepped up bang home three three-pointers and grab eight rebounds in a coming out series for the 27-year-old. After initially coming off the bench in the opening part of the regular season, Phillips more than doubled her regular season scoring output (6.1 ppg) in the Finals as a full-time starter and finished the four game series averaging 13.5 points per game, three rebounds and two assists.
Indiana was dominant in the first three games of the series and Phillips helped the Fever get off to a quick start in game four by scoring six early points and in doing so became the fourth Australian to win a WNBA championship after Lauren Jackson, Tully Bevilaqua and Penny Taylor.
The WNBA title was also a big moment in the career of Catchings; her CV was missing that fine detail. After having missed out of the 2009 championship after leading the series 2-1, Catchings finally added the title to list that already includes three Olympic gold medals and an NCAA championship at Tennessee in 1998. She was awarded the Finals MVP trophy.
Phillips was glad to have had a strong playoffs for the Fever after being snubbed for the Opals team in London earlier this year.
"It's a huge relief," Phillips told the ESPN website.
"It definitely was a very tough year for me personally with the national team.
"But the sacrifice that I made with them was to stay here and prepare to try to win a WNBA championship."
Coach sounded pretty happy too.
"I thought Erin Phillips had one hell of a series," Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve said.
"You've got to have somebody other than your star player stepping up.
"Phillips was consistently a player that made plays, and that's what the finals are about."
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Pasiphae's song certain magics move us to the quick a gestured expression rooted in desire burns through the haze of gentility and we aspire to slough all civilized restraints to assume the bindings of this wild place where nectar brewed inside the cave so sweet the risk the sting of sacrificial pain is gladly taken as price of wanton bliss tied to the horns of the moon of the womb of the bull the dilemma we straddle reaching for honey risking the toxic prick dark cavern of the mind home to visions shadowcast by flare the nectar'd sweetness the light bearing wax where desire hibernates in fissured cracks waiting for the wakening heat a nest of newborn wants writhes to be heeded let reason the subduer submit to passion contraptioned in the dark freeing the fire it can neither comprend nor tame to be expressed in the sacred tongue of profaned love by which we are bound together in our arts
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considering Dionysos ~~~the god that comes bringer of ecstasy I will play upon your pipe the wild reedy melody of rapture leaving reason to the city streets flensed by logic's lye we bed down in this glade upon the moss beneath the trees I will be laced by leaf and breeze and collared by a wreath of scented vine and though the day is fair there will be rains exchanged between us this moment put to collaborative arts and gestures erasing time a flourish of fingerprints upon the spine a sustained wag of the tongue between unsealed lips I sing my glorianas in the untamed language of living heat now at the pace of the snail laying her iridescent track along your body now lightning jolting you to electric quick back to the meteoric flash across the zodiac making the rounds constellation by constellation forces of nature in our palms and we command springs to swell and well from the caverns beneath we traverse thermal couplings link by link through every species undoing progress countermanding restraint excessive in our breech of civilized conduct teetering on the lip of fertile chaos mid the clashes and slams of collison molecules break and atoms scatter in distant aftermath to regather into new constructs of satyr and nymph as we finger the stops blow hot breath across the open holes at play and playing this sacred melody upon the pipe again and again
dryadica the thoughts thinking me throw a feint: a simple letter "i" a bone upon which they embroider with a multitude of fancy stitch until it glistens and gleams as an "I" the thinking thoughts dangle a fly on the chameleon's unfurled tongue disbelief suspended anything might happen among the words to come making us up as they pour forth from t'wixt our open lips from finger dances across the board thinking "tree" the word as much a part of Tree as root and trunk and fractaling branches and me the thought fall of leaves and needles fruit heavy on the boughs setting my ubiquitous omnipresent I high in the crown I caw I trill I warble from beneath in the shadow of foliage I coo I whip poor will in winter as wind I make rough love as vine I twine pressing my embrace I climb as snow I blanket the fallen seed as lightning as age I strike it down fallen amongst the seedlings shape shifting into fungus and moss I begin again to grow into arboreal song
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certain fascinations with dark parts kiss and tell time breaking through the barricades of skin and sin now comes the revolution stalking the streets making appearance in alleys and dead ends she's dressed for battle in time tattered gauze and lace this is her power her weapon the sheath where blades are laid to febrile rest in peace each and every abyss the dark parts of the withins framed by lips time was they headed for the cave the open mouth of darkness on hands and knees crawling wriggling in/ to darkness into the deep interior into an extension of the vocal register into vision the primal dance giving birth to the sweep of carbon black and ochre hand maiden to the seen grinder of pigment come to me, sweet beast against the storm outside against the dangers of hunger of being eaten and yet watch your step many the entrances and entries into the underworld home below as above to fathomed joys and unfathomable griefs of crystalline 'tites 'mites and towering columns that would glitter up the perpetual night save for the absence of see bearing light beneath my hair my scalp beneath my scalp my skull and within this chalice filled the fretworked understream of spirit the woven eddies and swirls the unseen fire lighting warming animating what comes to light as the dark parted woman within
rain brought and wrought
rain brought and wrought I am sloshing through these rain riven days listening to the melodies of spatter drip pelt the thunder rumble and crack the dusky whisper of the trees there is great beauty is all this mist the cascade of water outside my window created by the steep slope of the roof above the drubbing sound that pounds on this lower down porch roof I am tempted to raise the window and venture out likewise to be drubbed and pounded and cleansed for I have been sullied by . . . but wait my fingers grow mute because spleen and bile are not my forte tempered as I am toward the deep sweet heat of life garbed vested veiled in various frill and fancy of desire the needs and wanton wants pursued in pause and flicker between rain drops between sun motes caught in the thick of grass and dew a rainbow bed in bloom I have been summoned saved yet again by the grace of saplings beneath their mothers or far flung from their beginnings love made as much from earth as from the sun rooted deep between the deeds of worms mycelia and rhizomes as by rain and light


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Does anyone know if there is a repeated measures ANOVA function in the stats toolbox? anova1 is not the correct function and I am not sure if anovan can be used this way? I have one group of data that has been analysed several times, in SPSS or excel I would simply select 'repeated measures anova' but this is not appearing in MATLAB help - any ideas?
To provide a clearer example I have one group of temperature data (n=20) which is being measured at systemic time intervals (15 times). I have checked the old posts posts I can find via Google but cant quite seem to make sense of them.
I note that the Friedman test is availlable so I presume there is a parametric option?
Any/all help is greatly appreciated!!
> Does anyone know if there is a repeated measures ANOVA function in the
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Dan, there is no repeated measures function in the Statistics Toolbox. If
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I have not tried this myself, but I see it gets good ratings.
I am interested in this topic. Feel free to send e-mail to me if you want to
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The official iOS Beats Music application has recently been updated to version 2.0 and the biggest change is the native support for the streaming music subscription service for iPad users. So now, after a long while, iPad users can use the Beats Music service on their tablets, as well, as Beats Music has been previously available only for iPhone and iPod Touch users. here's the complete of all the new features:
Recently, the Beats Music app has also been updated with support for in-app subscription purchasing and the ability to find other Beats Music users you may already know through Twitter. At the moment, a monthly subscription to the service costs $9.99 for one user or $14.99 for up to five users. There's a special offer for AT&T subscribers, as they can try the group service for 90 days with an active phone plan.
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- The two perfectly lit trophy cases sit, appropriately enough, back to back.
One houses the 2006 Siemens Trophy; the other the hardware from 2007.
The national-championship trophies fit so perfectly inside Florida's well-heeled practice facility it's as if they -- not the spiral staircase that encircles them -- came first.
Last season the sparkling examples of Florida's basketball supremacy were the first thing the Gators saw when they came to practice each day.
That is, until the Gators were banned from their swanky digs, when Billy Donovan sent them packing to faceless high school gyms and told them to ditch their nice Nike gear at the door, too.
It was a comeuppance in comedown fashion, a full-throttle crash to Earth for a team that found itself walking on rarefied air it hadn't earned the right to inhale. Donovan played bad cop, nasty parent, mean teacher -- you name the adult figure of authority, and he tried on the hat.
And the Gators kept knocking it off.
"I was a little pissed at first," junior Dan Werner said. "I was like, 'What's he trying to prove?"'
More than anything, more than the sense of entitlement from those two trophies and false hope brought on by a fast start, that was the crux of Florida's problem last year: Billy Donovan talked and no one listened.
No one heard a man with three Final Fours to his credit when he said they weren't practicing hard enough. No one listened when a guy who coached seven NBA first-round draft picks suggested their defense was awful. No one believed the first coach to win back-to-back national titles in the last 15 years when he told them their offense wasn't nearly as good as they believed.
The Gators' ignorance was short-lived bliss and their ultimate downfall.
"It's what you buy into and that's where I was really disappointed in myself, that I wasn't able to get them to buy into what the truth was," Donovan said.
Are they all in this season?
That's the biggest question. Florida has some issues it can't control -- with Marreese Speights cashing in an early ticket to the NBA, the Gators are left with zero post experience, and a groin injury to Eloy Vargas has slowed his development, putting a ton of weight on Kenny Kadji's rookie shoulders -- but there are some things it can fix.
Namely, Florida can grow up.
Donovan could have been the slickest salesman in the world, but he would have had an easier time convincing his players to wear short shorts than trying on a little humility. The 2008 Gators waltzed onto a campus where college basketball players were rock stars; where Joakim Noah could wear a muumuu to class and people would defend, rather than ridicule, him; where the job was so good the head coach nixed the elevator ride to the NBA.
Forget that of the '07 Florida team, only two players returned; forget that the bulk of the roster was made up of newly minted college freshmen.
Dude, this was Florida, where football champions begat basketball champions begat football champions begat basketball champions.
"We figured we could just show up," point guard Jai Lucas said.
And for 21 glorious games it looked that easy. Florida rolled to an 18-3 start and a No. 19 ranking. The dynasty was intact, the freight train running smoothly, chugging directly back to the NCAA tournament.
Donovan didn't see it that way. He hated the way his players practiced, and was less thrilled with the way they acted before a game. They weren't focused or intense. For four years his practices were like turf wars -- David Lee pushed Noah; Anthony Roberson schooled Taurean Green; Matt Walsh took it to Corey Brewer.
These guys weren't disrespectful or uncoachable, but no matter what Donovan said it was like they were pointing to that W-L mark and yelling back "Scoreboard."
"It was, 'We got this, Coach'," Donovan said. "It was overconfidence. You want your kids to be confident, to have that swagger, but these kids had the swagger without doing the work. If you had asked them in mid-January if they were in the NCAA tournament, they'd say, 'Oh, definitely.' I knew we weren't in, not even close."
The dreaded thing about adults -- they're usually right.
The charming thing about kids -- they have to figure that out themselves.
Florida learned Donovan was more than just a demanding nut on Feb. 2 and again on Feb. 5. Arkansas pantsed the Gators 80-61, and three days later, Tennessee turned a 4-point halftime deficit into a 22-point victory.
The two losses triggered a downward spiral that continued all the way to a crash and burn 3-7 finish to the regular season and a quick bounce from the SEC tournament, courtesy of an 80-69 humbling at the hands of Alabama.
The guaranteed lock NCAA tournament berth? Gone, and with it Florida's streak of 10 consecutive NCAA runs.
Instead of sitting among their adoring fans on Selection Sunday, the Gators were on the practice court. Their news would come via phone call, not on television, when the NIT put out its bracket.
"That was horrible," sophomore Nick Calathes said. "As a kid you dream of watching the Selection Show, and we're practicing. Not only do we know we're not in, we didn't keep the streak alive."
Around that time Donovan memorably said he wasn't all that excited about his group of rookies becoming sophomores. He says now that the statement was taken out of context, that he was asked about the old cliché -- the best thing about freshmen is they become sophomores -- and he was just making the point that there's no guarantee a year older will make his team a year wiser.
"Why can Carmelo Anthony and Mike Bibby take a team to a certain level at a young age?" Donovan asked. "Some guys come in with a level of maturity right away. You tell Al Horford a stove is hot, he's not going to touch it. You tell Jo Noah and he has to burn himself before he believes it."
Last year the Gators were a bunch of stove-touchers.
Now it's time to see if they take Donovan at his word.
The players say they're wiser -- "We're way ahead of where we were last year," Walter Hodge said -- but is this mere lip service or actual maturity?
Donovan thinks it's legit. He became something of a convert at the end of last season, when his demoralized Gators roused themselves into NIT semifinalists. They practiced harder than they had all season, and their numbers showed the effort. Through the regular season and SEC tournament, Florida gave up 67.9 points per game.
In the NIT, opponents managed just 59.5 per game.
"I think the NIT says a lot about us," Calathes said. "We were heartbroken not to make the tournament, but we practiced hard every day. We finally realized how we needed to practice."
The carryover, the Gators say, is evident. Practices are harder now, with more value given to what once seemed mundane and unnecessary.
No one is saying, "We got this."
No one is saying much at all.
Nope, these Gators insist they are listening like children at the knee of a wise elder.
"My father always told me he knew best, and I didn't believe him," Werner said. "But he did. I guess Coach Donovan knows best, too."
Dana O'Neil covers college basketball for ESPN.com and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I have a question and I have not found any clear answers on this so I will ask. I was in Italy (Naples) summer 2009 and overstayed my 90 day tourist visa by 8 days. However I am planning on returning this Christmas to visit my Italian best friend who lives in Naples. When I left the Schengen zone at Naples' Capodichino Airport the immigration officer just put the normal exit stamp in my passport and didn't say anything to me. I know what a normal stamp looks like because I have been to Italy 7 times before. I traveled back to the states via London Gatwick Airport but didn't leave the airport so I didn't have to see an Immigation Officer ( I know that the UK has strict rules about overstayers) Since then I have got a new passport because the old one has expired but I realize that with computers they can look up my previous entries and exits to/from the Schengen Zone. My question is, has anyone overstayed a tourist visa by a relatively short time and returned to Italy ( or any other EU country) without any problems? Do you think they will refuse me entry into Italy? This overstay has me really worried that I will never be able to see my best friend again. I love him so much and not being able to hug him, see him really makes me sad Thank you for your advice and comments in advance.
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[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1539?page=comments#action_12424676 ] Daniel John Debrunner commented on DERBY-1539: ---------------------------------------------- I'm looking at this patch and need to study it more, but I think having the dependency manager take specific actions based upon the type of provider or dependent is not a good approach. I know the code does this already for TableDescriptors (at least) and it's fair you copied that approach, but I'd like to think about if it can be avoided. > As per the functional spec attached to DERBY-1330, a trigger should be dropped when a privilege required by the trigger is revoked. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: DERBY-1539 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-1539 > Project: Derby > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: SQL > Affects Versions: 10.2.0.0 > Reporter: Mamta A. Satoor > Assigned To: Mamta A. Satoor > Fix For: 10.2.0.0 > > Attachments: DERBY1539V1hashCodeEqualsDiff.txt, DERBY1539V1hashCodeEqualsStat.txt, DERBY1539V2diffDropTriggerOnRevoke.txt, DERBY1539V2statDropTriggerOnRevoke.txt, DERBY1539V3diffDropTriggerOnRevoke.txt, DERBY1539V3statDropTriggerOnRevoke.txt, DERBY1539V4diffDropTriggerOnRevoke.txt, DERBY1539V4diffDropTriggerOnRevokeRequiredPrivilege.txt, DERBY1539V4statDropTriggerOnRevokeRequiredPrivilege.txt > > > A trigger tracks its privileges requirements using Derby's Dependency Manager. If any one of those required privileges are revoked, the trigger should be dropped automatically. > I am just creating a new jira entry here so it is easier to track sub items of DERBY-1330. Will link this Jira entry to DERBY-1330. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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PARIS (Reuters) - French director and producer Claude Berri, whose films included the international hit "Jean de Florette," has died, the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday. He was 74.
Berri was hospitalized at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris at the weekend with a serious neurological condition.
"His engaging personality and immense talent will be missed by all of French cinema," Culture Minister Christine Albanel said in a statement.
Among Berri's most popular films were the adaptations of Marcel Pagnol's tragic tales of Provencal life, "Jean de Florette" and "Manon des Sources," which starred Gerard Depardieu, Yves Montand and Emmanuelle Beart.
He won an Oscar for his first short, "Le Poulet" and went on to make a series of pictures ranging from an adaptation of Emile Zola's "Germinal" to the gritty thriller "Tchao Pantin," (So Long, Stooge) starring the iconoclastic comedian Coluche.
In addition, he was a prolific producer, whose credits included major international productions like Roman Polanski's 1979 drama "Tess" as well as last year's "Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis," the most successful French film ever.
But he was also involved in lower-key successes, such as "La graine et le mulet," (The secret of the grain) directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, the story of an Arab immigrant who dreams of setting up a couscous restaurant and runs up against racism.
"He could work in every register and make us laugh or cry but above all he made his public think and ask questions, he educated the viewer," the Elysee Palace said.
French actress Josiane Balasko, who directed and starred in "Gazon Maudit" (Accursed Lawn), a dark comedy about lesbians produced by Berri, said he had done much to help directors.
"I am very sad about his death because he was one of the great producers who allowed directors to make their films by trying to dream as much as possible. He really gave them the means to achieve it," she told RTL radio.
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Fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) significantly increases with declining renal function, leading to reduced renal tubular phosphate reabsorption, decreased 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, and increased left ventricular hypertrophy. Elevated FGF23 is associated with increased mortality. FGF23 is synthesized in osteoblasts and osteocytes; however, the mechanisms by which it is regulated are not clear. Patients with chronic kidney disease have decreased renal acid excretion leading to metabolic acidosis, which has a direct effect on bone cell activity. We hypothesized that metabolic acidosis would directly increase bone cell FGF23 production. Using cultured neonatal mouse calvariae, we found that metabolic acidosis increased medium FGF23 protein levels as well as FGF23 RNA expression at 24 h and 48 h compared with incubation in neutral pH medium. To exclude that the increased FGF23 was secondary to metabolic acidosis-induced release of bone mineral phosphate, we cultured primary calvarial osteoblasts. In these cells, metabolic acidosis increased FGF23 RNA expression at 6 h compared with incubation in neutral pH medium. Thus metabolic acidosis directly increases FGF23 mRNA and protein in mouse bone. If these results are confirmed in humans with chronic kidney disease, therapeutic interventions to mitigate acidosis, such as bicarbonate administration, may also lower levels of FGF23, decrease left ventricular hypertrophy, and perhaps even decrease mortality.
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the level of the phosphaturic hormone fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF23) increases incrementally with declining renal function (29, 33), which results in decreased renal tubule inorganic phosphate (Pi) reabsorption (27, 33), a reduction of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25(OH)2D] (27, 33), and subsequent reduced intestinal Pi absorption (33). Elevated levels of FGF23 induce left ventricular hypertrophy (6) and are associated with a significant increase in mortality (12).
FGF23 is produced in osteocytes and osteoblasts (27); however, the mechanisms by which FGF23 is regulated are not clear. As patients progress from chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 1 to stage 5, there is a significant incremental increase in FGF23, and patients on dialysis have the highest levels of FGF23 (29). The increase in both Pi retention and serum Pi during CKD may increase serum FGF23 (31). However, Pi may not be a primary regulator of FGF23 since there is little correlation between serum Pi and serum FGF23 in patients without CKD (26). 1,25(OH)2D has also been shown to directly increase FGF23 production and has been suggested as a "counterregulatory" hormone (24). However, in CKD, where levels of 1,25(OH)2D are low (23), 1,25(OH)2D is unlikely to be the proximate stimulus for the elevated FGF23 serum levels. Parathyroid hormone (PTH), which is elevated in patients with CKD with secondary hyperparathyroidism (23), stimulates FGF23 expression in osteoblasts (21). However, a large scale study in humans with CKD suggests that levels of FGF23 increase before those of PTH (11).
Patients with CKD have decreased renal net acid excretion (22). Cellular metabolism generates continual acid production so that as kidney function declines, metabolic acidosis (MET) develops and increases in severity. During MET the excess acid is buffered by bone, resulting in a release of mineral calcium (Ca) and Pi (22). In mouse organ cultures, MET not only increases osteoclastic bone resorption but also decreases osteoblastic bone formation (19).
Since MET regulates osteoblast activity in the process of stimulating osteoclastic bone resorption (16) and osteoblasts also produce FGF23 (31), we tested the hypothesis that MET would directly increase FGF23 production. We used neonatal mouse calvariae in culture and primary osteoblasts to ask whether a physiological model of MET would increase FGF23, and, if so, is the increase secondary to a MET-induced increase in bone Pi release? We found that MET stimulated FGF23 production not only in cultured mouse calvariae, where MET stimulates bone resorption, but also in isolated osteoblasts, where there is no release of mineral Pi.
Organ culture of bone.
Calvariae were dissected from 4–6-day-old CD-1 mice (Charles River) and incubated in 2.8 ml of DMEM (Lonza) containing 15% heat-inactivated horse serum (Invitrogen), heparin (10 USP units/ml), and penicillin (100 U/ml) in 35-mm dishes (16). Medium was adjusted to neutral pH (NTL, pH ∼7.4) or physiologically acidic pH (MET, pH ∼7.1) by an addition of 2.4 N HCl to reduce [HCO3−], as a model of MET (16). The partial pressure of carbon dioxide (Pco2) was maintained at the physiological normal of ∼40 mmHg. To model respiratory acidosis, medium pH was adjusted by increasing Pco2 to ∼80 mmHg. All medium was preincubated at the appropriate Pco2 at 37°C. Immediately before two bones/dish were added, 1 ml of medium was removed to determine preincubation pH, Pco2, and total Ca and Pi concentration. Each determination presented for organ culture of calvariae represents the results from a pair of calvariae. At 24 h, medium was removed; again analyzed for pH, Pco2, Ca and Pi; and replaced with similar, fresh preincubated medium. After the second 24-h incubation, medium was analyzed for pH, Pco2, Ca, and Pi. Where indicated, an aliquot of medium was flash frozen in liquid N2 and stored at 70°C for subsequent measurement of FGF23. All animal protocols were approved by the University of Rochester Committee on Animal Resources.
Primary bone cell culture.
Primary bone cells, which are almost exclusively osteoblasts, were isolated from neonatal mouse calvariae (17). Bones were washed in phosphate-buffered saline containing 4 mM EDTA for 10 min at 37°C and then incubated in a HEPES buffer solution, consisting of 25 mM HEPES (pH 7.4), 70 mM NaCl, 30 mM KCl, 10 mM NaHCO3, 1.5 mM K2HPO4, 1 mM CaCl2, 60 mM sorbitol, 27.8 mM D(+)-glucose, and 1 mg/ml BSA and containing 2 mg/ml collagenase (Wako Pure Chemicals) and 90 μM Nα-tosyl-l-lysyl chloromethyl ketone for three sequential 20-min digestions at 37°C in a shaking water bath. After each digestion, released cells were collected and resuspended in the HEPES buffer with 1 mM MgSO4, and digests were pooled for plating on 60-mm Primaria plates (Falcon). Confluent, quiescent cells were then cultured in preequilibrated NTL or MET for 6 or 24 h.
pH, Pco2, Ca, and Pi.
Medium pH and Pco2 were determined with a blood-gas analyzer (ABL5, Radiometer), and the medium [HCO3−] was calculated. Initial experimental culture conditions for the ELISA experiments in Fig. 1 are presented in Table 1 and are representative of all of the experiments. Ca was measured by an ion-selective electrode (model 10, Nova Biomedical). Medium Pi was determined colorimetrically (Biovision) and was analyzed using a Benchmark Plus plate reader (Bio-Rad). Net ion flux was calculated as Vm([ion]f − [ion]i), where Vm is the medium volume and [ion]f and [ion]i are the final and initial medium concentrations, respectively, of Ca and Pi.
Medium FGF23-excreted protein.
Medium from calvarial cultures was collected at the end of 0–24-h or 24–48-h incubations and immediately frozen at −70°C. The level of FGF23 was determined using an enzyme-linked immunoassay kit for mouse FGF23 COOH-terminus (Immutopics) and analyzed using a Benchmark Plus plate reader.
RNA isolation and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction.
Total RNA was isolated from pairs of calvariae or primary CD-1 calvarial cells using an RNeasy kit (Qiagen) (8). Calvariae were collected in RNAlater solution (Ambion) after 24 or 48 h and stored at −20°C until RNA was isolated. Cells were incubated for 6 h or 24 h in a CO2 incubator. Cells were then washed with cold phosphate-buffered saline and lysed in RLT buffer according to the Qiagen protocol using a Qiashredder. RNA was prepared using the Qiagen RNeasy kit. RNA (1 μg) was reverse transcribed to first-strand cDNA using an iScript cDNA synthesis kit (Bio-Rad), and specific transcript levels were determined by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction using iQ SYBR-green in an iCycler thermocycler and analyzed with MyIQ optical system software (Bio-Rad). Primers were synthesized by Integrated DNA Technologies for mouse FGF23, forward: 5′-CCT TCT CCC AGT TCC TGG C-3′ and reverse: 5′-GGG CGA ACA GTG TAG AAA TGC-3′; and for RPL13A, forward: 5′-GGA TCC CTC CAC CCT ATG ACA-3′ and reverse: 5′-CTG GTA CTT CCA CCC GAC CTC-3′. Standard curves were generated for each primer. Relative FGF23 expression levels were normalized to RPL13A RNA levels using the comparative threshold cycle method (25).
Statistical analyses.
All tests of significance were calculated using analysis of variance with a Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons (Statistica, StatSoft). All values are expressed as means ± SE. P < 0.05 was considered significant.
Effect of MET on FGF23 protein and RNA in bone.
To determine whether MET stimulates bone FGF23 secretion, we incubated neonatal mouse calvariae in medium simulating physiological MET compared with incubation in medium at physiological NTL or incubation in medium simulating respiratory acidosis (RESP). As PTH has been shown to stimulate FGF23 production in bone (21), other calvariae incubated with 10−8 M PTH served as a positive control. To model MET, medium was acidified to a physiologically relevant pH by a reduction in bicarbonate concentration [HCO3−] at a constant Pco2, whereas the pH was reduced in RESP by increasing the Pco2 (Table 1). Only the physiological HCO3−/Pco2 buffer system was used in these experiments. After the initial 24-h incubation, there was a significant increase in medium FGF23 protein concentration in response to both MET and PTH, compared with NTL (Fig. 1, top) which continued to be significantly elevated in both MET and PTH for an additional 24 h of incubation (Fig. 1, bottom). RESP did not alter the level of FGF23 protein at either time point.
FGF23 RNA expression in the calvariae was measured in comparable experiments after 24- and 48-h incubations. FGF23 RNA expression was also increased at both 24 and 48 h in MET compared with NTL (Fig. 2, top and bottom, respectively), whereas PTH stimulated FGF23 RNA expression only after 48 h of culture (Fig. 2, bottom).
Net Ca and Pi efflux from calvariae in response to MET or PTH.
Net Ca efflux from calvariae was significantly increased with incubation in MET and with PTH at both 24 and 48 h in culture compared with NTL (Fig. 3, top and bottom, respectively), as we have previously reported (16). In response to both MET and PTH, there was also a significant increase in net Pi efflux from bone at both 24 h and 48 h compared with NTL (Fig. 4, top and bottom). MET induced a relatively greater Ca than Pi efflux from bone. This is consistent with our previous observation that the medium is in equilibrium with the mineral calcium carbonate (CaCO3) (3) and suggests that both CaCO3 and a CaPi mineral phase are released from bone in response to MET.
Direct stimulation of FGF23 by MET in osteoblasts.
To determine whether the MET-induced release of bone Pi was necessary for MET to increase FGF23, we used primary osteoblasts isolated from neonatal mouse calvariae (17). The absence of a mineral phase will eliminate any significant contribution of Pi to the response to MET. Osteoblasts were incubated in NTL or MET for 6 or 24 h. After 6 h of incubation in MET, there was a significant increase in FGF23 mRNA levels compared with incubation in NTL and to the baseline at 0 h (Fig. 5). However, after 24 h of incubation in MET, there was no significant difference in FGF23 compared with NTL.
Our results demonstrate that MET directly stimulates FGF23 in neonatal mouse calvariae and primary mouse osteoblasts. In response to MET, there was an increase in FGF23 protein secreted from the bones in organ culture as well as an increase in FGF23 RNA expression in both whole calvariae and cultured osteoblasts. Further evidence for the specificity of the response to MET is the lack of stimulation of FGF23 with an isohydric reduction of pH in RESP. Since the increased expression of FGF23 was also observed in the isolated osteoblasts, the response to MET was not secondary to Pi released from bone mineral. Given that we found significant stimulation of FGF23 RNA within 6-h incubation of primary osteoblasts in response to MET, it is possible that a significant response in the intact calvariae also occurred earlier than at 24 h. However, we do not observe a significant cell-mediated stimulation of Ca release before 24 h in the calvarial cultures, so this was the time point at which we examined an effect on FGF23. In addition, the level of FGF23 protein secreted from the osteoblasts into the culture medium at 6 h was too low to be measurable.
FGF23 is a bone-derived hormone that regulates renal Pi excretion and active vitamin D metabolism (27). FGF23 directly decreases renal tubular Pi reabsorption by decreasing the sodium phosphate cotransporters NaPi-2a and NaPi-2c, leading to hyperphosphaturia (27, 33). FGF23 lowers levels of 1,25(OH)2D by inhibiting renal CYP27B1, which catalyzes the hydroxylation of 25(OH)D to 1,25(OH)2D and by stimulating CYP24A1, which metabolizes 1,25(OH)2D to inactive hormones (27, 33). Through its effects to decrease serum levels of 1,25(OH)2D, FGF23 indirectly inhibits intestinal Pi absorption (27).
Although there is significant understanding of the systemic regulation of FGF23, the major factors regulating FGF23 synthesis in osteoblasts and osteocytes have yet to be definitively determined. During early CKD, there are changes in Pi, 1,25(OH)2D, and PTH, all of which have been suggested as regulators of serum FGF23 (27). Although dietary Pi increases serum FGF23 in mice (30) and 1,25(OH)2D (31) and PTH (21) stimulate FGF23 expression in osteocytes and/or osteoblasts, these effects are variable and may not be direct (31). In CKD, the elevation in serum Pi is correlated with an elevation of FGF23 (29) and the binding of intestinal Pi decreases FGF23 in these patients (5). However, extracellular Pi does not directly stimulate FGF23 mRNA levels in osteoblasts (24), and there is conflicting evidence as to whether dietary Pi directly regulates FGF23. In a rat model of progressive CKD, the administration of a Pi binder decreased urinary Pi excretion but had no effect on FGF23, PTH, or 1,25(OH)2D levels (28). A small study of healthy young men demonstrated that 5 days of a low Pi diet together with Pi binders decreased FGF23, whereas a high Pi diet increased FGF23 (7). In contrast, an epidemiologic study of elderly patients without CKD found that serum Pi did not correlate with FGF23 levels, although there was an association between FGF23 and PTH (26, 33).
While 1,25(OH)2D directly stimulates FGF23 expression in bone, FGF23 suppresses 1,25(OH)2D production, suggesting a closed regulatory feedback loop (31). As there is evidence to suggest there is production of 1,25(OH)2D by osteoblasts (1), we cannot rule out the possibility that local production of 1,25(OH)2D could mediate the response to MET. However, in patients with CKD (23), as well as animal models of CKD (36), circulating levels of 1,25(OH)2D are significantly reduced as kidney function decreases, yet their serum levels of FGF23 are elevated (33, 36), making it unlikely that 1,25(OH)2D induces the elevated FGF23 in this disease state. Indeed, the high levels of FGF23 during CKD may be the proximate cause of 1,25(OH)2D deficiency in CKD (10, 27). PTH has been shown to stimulate FGF23 in mouse bone and osteocytes in vivo and in mouse osteoblasts and osteocytes in vitro (14, 21, 34); thus we used the effect of PTH in the calvariae as a positive control for comparison with the response to MET. However, others have found no stimulation of FGF23 by PTH in normal or uremic rats (35) or in rat osteosarcoma cells (24) or rat calvariae (35). The difference in responses to PTH may be due to the different species or different model systems used.
The results presented here support the observation that PTH stimulates FGF23 in mouse calvariae (Fig. 1). FGF23 protein and RNA were stimulated by MET at 24 h, but PTH only increased FGF23 protein and not RNA at 24 h, suggesting that PTH induced preformed FGF23 protein release before there was stimulation of RNA, in contrast to MET. At 48 h, both MET and PTH induced an increase in both FGF23 RNA and protein. Even after the medium was concentrated, the levels of FGF23 in cultures of primary osteoblasts are too low to be reliably detected by an ELISA assay. Thus we cannot determine whether FGF23 protein increased before mRNA in the osteoblast cultures.
Although PTH increases FGF23, FGF23 inhibits PTH production (2), which should limit the ability of PTH to further increase FGF23. Perhaps most importantly, in early CKD, FGF23 appears to increase before there are measurable increases in Pi or PTH or decreases in 1,25(OH)2D (10, 11, 13, 29), making primary regulation by any of these parameters of mineral metabolism less likely.
In humans, the kidney must excrete the daily endogenous acid production or MET will develop (22). In patients with progressive CKD, acid production continues while excretion diminishes, leading to MET. During MET, bone buffers the increase in hydrogen ions through direct physicochemical dissolution (4) and also by inhibiting osteoblastic bone formation and stimulating osteoclastic bone resorption (19), leading to Ca and Pi release into the systemic circulation (22). The MET-induced increase in FGF23, shown in this study, would facilitate renal excretion of this additional Pi.
We and others have shown that MET increases osteoclastic bone resorption by a mechanism that is mediated through stimulation of osteoblastic prostaglandin E2 production (8, 18, 20, 32). This response is initiated by activation of Ca signaling in the osteoblast through a specific proton receptor (9, 15). We do not yet know whether the effect of MET to increase FGF23 uses the same signaling pathway or another novel mechanism.
The results of this study, in cultured mouse bone and isolated osteoblasts, suggest that the elevated levels of FGF23 in CKD may be due, at least in part, to MET directly stimulating osseous production of FGF23. Understanding the regulation of FGF23 in CKD is critically important as FGF23 has been shown to induce left ventricular hypertrophy (6), and there is a clear association between increased serum levels of FGF23 and mortality (12). If the results of this study, which were obtained in mouse bone, can be confirmed in humans, therapeutic interventions, including the provision of oral bicarbonate to mitigate the CKD-induced acidosis, have the potential to lower FGF23 levels, decrease left ventricular hypertrophy, and even lessen mortality.
This study was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grants AR-46289 and DK-75462 (both to D. A. Bushinsky) and a grant from the Renal Research Institute (to N. S. Krieger).
No conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise, are declared by the author(s).
N.S.K. and D.A.B. conception and design of research; N.S.K., C.D.C., and D.A.B. analyzed data; N.S.K. and D.A.B. interpreted results of experiments; N.S.K. prepared figures; N.S.K. drafted manuscript; N.S.K. and D.A.B. edited and revised manuscript; N.S.K. and D.A.B. approved final version of manuscript; C.D.C. and K.K.-S. performed experiments.
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