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What connection did Sen. Vinehout's husband have with the Blagojevich administration?
Douglas Kane, Kathleen's spouse, is an economist who has worked for 30 years on public policy issues. During a three month period in early 2007, he worked 283 hours under contract for the Illinois Governor's Office of Management and Budget on tax and budget issues. In late 2009, almost two years later, Governor Blagojevich engaged in illegal political activities for which he was subsequently indicted, convicted and sent to prison.


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I have 3x Hueys that I got in Korea and now that the flight stands are done I figured I should go ahead and do the choppers. In the past I've always done things with US markings, but that kind of pigeon holes you in what missions you can do. For years I had this Marine helicopter ferrying Army dudes around. (it was 1/48 scale and the dudes were 1/72, but we won't get into that. )
I want to keep them as generic as possible, but they do need something other than OD paint. I want to be able to use them as Army, Marine, Aussie, SVN, CIA etc. What decals should I use? Anyone else do this?


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The trend of gold loans has flooded the Indian market. Since gold is known as the only non-income producing asset. Hence in order to turn it productive, you can take loan against the gold owned and thus, utilize this commodity for a better purpose. Most of the times, life may put you through difficult circumstances, wherein you might need to arrange finance at a short notice. During these hard times, you have an option of applying for a loan but unfortunately, it takes some time to get your personal loan approved.
Hence in situations such as these, the option of applying for a gold loan is what you should consider on priority.
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In brief
Write for Rights is Amnesty International's annual global letter writing event that creates positive change for people who have, or are experiencing, human rights abuses.
Write for Rights events will be happening across Australia during November and December 2016. Remember, words change lives.
The issue in depth
Write for Rights is not just about letter writing. It's about taking some form of action for one or more of the cases – signing a petition, tweeting or emailing a country leader, or drawing a picture for someone detained. You can even hold your own event and encourage others to take part.
Last year Amnesty supporters in 182 countries completed over 3.7 million actions as part of Write for Rights. In Australia we contributed 111,000 of those. As a result:
Albert Woodfox in the US was finally released in February 2016 – 44 years after he was first placed in solitary confinement. More than 240,000 people called for his release.
In February 2016, the Burkina Faso government affirmed its commitment to eradicating early and forced marriage for the girls and young women of Burkina Faso. Over 500,000 supporters called for the protection of the girls.
Yecenia Armenta was released from prison in June 2016. She had been arbitrarily detained in 2012 by Mexican authorities and tortured into confessing to murdering her husband. Over 300,000 supporters called for her release.
Youth activists Fred Bauma and Yves Makawambala, who were imprisoned for promoting democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), were released in August 2016. Over 170,000 people stood up for Fred and Yves and demanded their release.
On his release, Fred said "I am happy to finally be free after more than 17 months of imprisonment. I thank Amnesty International and all those who fought in one way or the other for my release."
This year will be making a difference in the lives of:
- Fomusoh Ivo Feh, a student from Cameroon facing 20 years for an SMS.
- Indigenous peoples of the Peace River in Canada, struggling to save their ancestral lands.
- Ilham Tohti, a university professor in China, jailed for life for fighting discrimination.
- Shawkan, a journalist in Egypt, jailed for doing his job.
- Johan Teterissa, a teacher in Indonesia, tortured and jailed for waving a flag.
- Annie Alfred, a child from Malawi, hunted for her body parts.
- Máxima Acuña, a peasant farmer in northern Peru, attacked by police for speaking out.
- Eren Keskin, lawyer and former newspaper editor in Turkey, arrested over 100 times for speaking out.
How it works
It doesn't take much to pick up a pen, but it means a world of difference to someone needing your help. Phyoe Phyoe Aung, pictured, was released in April 2016 after almost 400,000 Amnesty supporters called for her release during Write for rights.Watch the video


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The problem with LulzSec and other 'hackers'
The term 'hackers' is used in various ways.
I use it here to describe those who illegally gain entry to computers via the internet, and manipulate programs or steal data. Technically, 'cracker' would be a better term, as it denotes a more sinister intent, but popular parlance makes no distinction. 'Hackers' can be the good guys.
A major organisation gets hacked, and there's a great outcry. There are times when I secretly enjoy the discomfort of some corporations or government bodies that have done things I don't like and now find their secret data in the hands of people they don't know and often can't touch.
That unworthy feeling doesn't last long, but there is a positive side.
In one way, hackers do a service for us all when they gain entry to the computers of organisations that should be hack-proof. They show time and again just how poorly protected the entire web is, including strategically critical areas of corporate, social and government activity interacting with it. They demonstrate how vulnerable the whole fabric of how we have come to operate in a modern society is to those outside a system - people who decide to exert power over it when and for how long they choose. They make their own rules, and they aren't usually the conventional ones.
They warn us to Be Afraid.
That's the message they probably don't mean to send, but it needs to get through to every one of us. Power remains in the hands of the accepted authorities mainly because, at this stage, it suits skilled hackers not to rock the boat too much. That sounds melodramatic, but the entire system of electronic interaction depends on how much confidence users have in it.
LulzSec leaders have been taken into custody. Look at their faces as they are carted off for interrogation. A lot of them are no more than kids; some indeed are juveniles by internationally accepted legal definitions of that term. Many of them are simply playing the ultimate computer game: fooling around and testing limits with real targets and real opponents, and they probably don't have world domination in mind (though we can't guarantee that either!).
LulzSec is only one of a deliberately anarchic aggregation of individuals who have particular goals in common. This does not mean they are organised as a group. Some (very few, I suspect) are vandals, and others have a genuine social conscience. They might want to use their talents for what they perceive to be the good of humanity. Some, I suspect, develop a social conscience purely to justify their fascination for and interference in digital networks and communication.
It's on that mind-boggling web of interaction, the internet, that we now depend so heavily, and dependence is not just for those of us with access to a computer and the net. Even if people don't have a web connection, their daily lives depend on the net. If the local bank or supermarket checkout system is down, things come to a grinding halt. It doesn't matter if it's government, a corporation, or someone paying their electricity bill. If you pay your bills online, you might check your bank balance tomorrow and find it's been cleaned out, but in the grand scheme of things, we as individuals don't count for all that much in this vast game of digital leapfrog.
Right now these kids have millions of usernames and passwords for all sorts of accounts on their computers. They trade them, sell them, and if they chose to, they could play merry hell with them, even if they did no more than release them into the cyberwild. Yet neural research shows that people up to age 25 have parts of the brain as yet undeveloped, so that they don't have the capacity or the experience to understand the nature of personal risk of their actions, let alone risk to the society that sustains them. Even those who want to do nothing more than play around with the big boxes or dice with authority can be trapped into illegal activity they never bargained on.
They represent just the tip of the greatest iceberg in the past hundred years, and the Titanic of modern society is heading at full steam straight in its direction. It is obvious that mature, highly-skilled professionals are in on the act as well, and these aren't nerdy kids just having fun. Their motives could be anything - pick a card. It's not motive that matters as much as effect. Some public utilities and facilities are appallingly insecure and vulnerable to penetration.
Even strong systems have fatal flaws, and these are being probed constantly via the net. Once access to the relevant program or data is achieved, it may not be that hard to sabotage it. By manipulating the program, the power grid of a major city or even a whole country could be taken down, the water supply for a region released, or the stock exchange turned to chaos.
Combine that with sheer accidental damage in the digital arena. Let's not forget that one old Georgian lady scavenging for scrap metal in April 2011 created spectacular chaos when she cut off the entire internet to Armenia by digging up and pilfering 20 metres of the fibre-optic cable. Now that's hacking (but with nothing more than a pick-axe and no intention to send a country into a tailspin)!
It's not just about individual hackers. Governments are in on the act as well, in pursuit of what they regard as national interest. They'd be stupid not to be working on it, if for no reason other than to protect themselves from cyber attack. Such an attack could come from individuals, hostile groups or the prying eyes of other governments eager to gain some sort of advantage - be it political, military, commercial or industrial. It would be the height of irresponsibility not to try to take counter-measures. Hacked information of all kinds streams across international borders, and is used by governments, groups and individuals for their own purposes.
But that's not the only reason governments have gathered their own professional hackers. If there is to be cyber-war at any level, then governments must feel the need to be in an attacking position and not just a defensive one. Don't get with the game, and you're pwned!
We know virtually for certain that at least one government has developed an attack mode for infiltrating computer systems they don't own. It's clear from the hacking of Iran's nuclear facility in January 2011 that they can do that. No-one is admitting anything, naturally, but ... hello, Blind Freddy.
So that feeling of poetic justice directed towards some government or nasty multi-national giant doesn't last long. The inherent destructiveness permitted by revelation of secrets or data sabotage can go well beyond the good it can do.
Let's be clear. Things like this are rarely black and white. I have applauded WikiLeaks for some of its revelations based on hacked data, and believe it has performed a great service for the world in some ways. There are shameful stories that need to be made public and WikiLeaks has done so. But sadly, its victory is both patchy and Pyrrhic. When power to release sensitive information goes outside recognised institutions and into the hands of those with no responsibility for the consequences, even when they have a belief in some higher purpose for their actions, then we are in the danger zone.
There are other aspects. How much does it cost to combat cyber crime or government hacking? Billions, maybe more. I haven't even mentioned the knock-on effects and the cost of those. Though unrelated to hacking, a fearful demonstration of knock-on effect is what started as a natural disaster in March 2011 for Japan, with the trillion-dollar cost to sort it out. Crippling targeted organisations can lead to incalculable cost for society in the long run.
The supreme irony is that hackers with moral purpose depend for their effectiveness on the highly organised and technologically dependent society that is their host, however selectively they attack it. They make it their right to choose their targets, and this is what must be contested, even when we might agree from our own moral high ground that they have attacked targets we enjoy seeing brought to public account.
They do not have moral authority for that. Even when they expose terrible human rights abuses, as they have, I may feel justice has been done, but my joy is short-lived. That sort of power is too dangerous in the hands of individuals or groups with no public accountability, no matter what their intentions. If they assume that right, then they must be prepared to accept the consequences.
World, we have a problem, and the ostriches are looking for the sand dunes. Make no mistake, if public confidence in the security of the net is shattered, it can all come tumbling down like the house of cards that it is.
Denis Wright is Adjunct Fellow in the Humanities, University of New England.
This post originally appeared on his blog - http://deniswright.blogspot.com.
Topics: science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, hacking, law-crime-and-justice, internet-technology, crime
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When I first started blogging I thought getting free political books to read and review was a perk. Then I realized that I really don't like political books. I kind of hate them, or at least most of them. There are a few that have held my attention, but after hours of following politics online and on the news, and then blogging about it, the last thing I want to do is curl up with a political book at the end of the day. Don't get me wrong, I love a good book. Give me a good mystery/thriller and I'll read it from cover to cover if I have the time. (Something in short supply these days.)
Sometimes the books I like involve politics, at least in the background, but they really aren't that partisan. I've read all of Vince Flynn's books. (May he rest in peace.) Same for Sue Grafton's alphabet series (which I love because it began in the 80's and decades later is still in the 80's), Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, and all of James Patterson's series', to name just a few. Maybe I should blog about the books I like for a change of pace.
I got to thinking about this after reading Larry O'Connor's piece in The Federalist about how conservatives have to stop ceding pop culture to the left. He didn't really say what to do about it. It's not like I'm going to get a cameo appearance on the Disney Channel's hit show Jessie like Michelle Obama. The only reason I know she'll be on next Friday is I saw the promo for it while my son was watching something else. I don't watch that much TV besides news, but when I do I tune into HGTV, USA, TNT or baseball. (Okay, don't tell anyone, but sometimes I watch Lifetime and Hallmark movies, too.) My problem is that when I watch TV I almost always have one eye on the computer or my phone, making sure I don't miss any breaking news. I never have that problem when I'm engrossed in a good book.
Anyway, I agree that we need to keep our eye on the culture. Conservative politicians should certainly take note, and find a way to insert themselves into pop culture in ways that don't end up with them becoming the punchline. It can't be that hard, can it? And I would love to see more conservatives writing bestselling mystery, thriller or crime novels. Now that's the kind of book I would love to read and review.
I'm not sure what the point of this post is, it's been a long week and it's only Wednesday, I guess it's just that we need to resist coming down with a full blown case of Beltway Hypnosis Syndrome. At least we can say we've been sufficiently inoculated.
*Just as a side note, I read blogger Doug Ross's crime novel Hard Boiled a few months ago. It's not that long – great for a day at the beach – and I enjoyed it. I hope he follows up with a sequel.


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I waited ever so patiently for my Jalie 3350 pattern to arrive last week and when it didn't, I sent PatternReview.com an email to check its status. They replied on Tuesday and said USPS tracking marked it as delivered last Saturday. The problem is, it didn't arrive. What do you do when the post office marks something as delivered that wasn't? I was so excited to get my pattern and it was killing me to have it 'lost' in the mail.
I didn't have to stew over it long, I didn't even have the chance to go down to the post office and inquire about my package because it arrived in the mail today. Yay!!! Such a relief!
I paid good money for that pattern and it's great to see it in the flesh. Ta - da!!! I had no idea the pattern would be soooo big. The cover looks to be a 9x12" piece of paper.
No squinting required!
This is a closeup of a picture of the actual pattern - on medium weight paper - not that flimsy one-time-use tissue paper. Boo ya!
And here is a great illustration of the twist neckline. This will make it easier to figure out how to alter the bust when I come to it. What a great design!
This pattern is a multi-size pattern from girls' 2-13 to womens' 4-22 and ALL sizes are included in this one pattern. Too bad I don't have like six sisters all in need of swimsuits.
I will be ordering my swimsuit fabric from SpandexHouse.com. I don't have a good source for swimsuit fabric in Charleston. I'm a hard sell when it comes to nylon spandex prints and solid colors. I've learned from experience that I like it to be a good medium weight and of superior quality, and I can get all of it from this supplier.
Did you know that you can order up to 10 free samples and Spandex House will ship them for free? Let me reiterate that....FREE SAMPLES, at no cost, not even for shipping! If you're like me you need to see, touch, put fabric up to your face before you're ready to commit. These samples are not tiny 3x3" squares. They are at least 3x8". And now for my contenders...
I love these carefree dots:
This one reminds me of "Starry Night"
And this floral on black could be pretty chic:
I also got some solid red milliskin matte samples. Be careful...I feel like their solid colors are totally different in person. I thought the reds would be darker. Before you buy, check the samples. Then you will be sure you TOTALLY LOVE your fabric.
Also, speaking of knits...
Last week I ran out of the Design Plus I use to hem my knits. I finished my Ella Moss T-Shirt without it. It was really hard to keep my hem from moving around under the presser foot and the finished product was not as professional-looking. I'm so glad it's back in my sewing room again!
What projects do you have planned? I would love to read about them in the comments below. Thanks for reading :)


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Welcoming Gillian Davies to the Boku Executive Team
A note from the CEO, Jon Prideaux:
I am delighted to announce that Gillian Davies will be joining Boku as its new CFO. While new to mobile payments, Gillian brings with her a wealth of experience as well as a fresh perspective that will serve Boku well as our global operations continue to expand.
Gillian is an internationally experienced Group Finance Director with an extremely strong track record with blue chip multinationals across a range of sectors including industrial, support services and marketing. She has more than a decade of CFO experience in the UK as Group Finance Director of 4imprint Group, an international direct marketer of promotional products.
The 4imprint Group evolved over her tenure, and has UK, US and European subsidiaries. At various times 4imprint has operated both web and field based selling models. Prior to that, Gillian held various finance roles in the pharmaceutical, chemicals and paper industries, having originally qualified as an Auditor with KPMG.
Gillian's official start date is today, January 23rd, while she is visiting our San Francisco office, and will be based in our London office after that. Welcome Gillian!


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Just receieved my Open Beta key code after trying non stop, was getting the same message since yesterday morning, 'Applications for the FINAL FANTASY XIV Open Beta Test have been temporarily suspended. Please wait until we are ready to accept new applications and then try again.' Tried 10 mins ago and got my key :D.
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Published: October 21, 1991
International A3-9
Israel will attend a peace conference on the Middle East, as its Cabinet gave final and unconditional approval to participation in a meeting that will put the nation in direct negotiations with most of its hostile neighbors for the first time since 1948. Page A1
A chance for a Mideast hostage swap was set into motion again when a U.N. office in Beirut said an American hostage in Lebanon is expected to be freed soon. Israel is also reportedly prepared to release Arab prisoners held by an Israeli client militia. A8
Iraq is balking at U.N. conditions for the sale of $1.6 billion in oil and the emergency purchase of food and medical supplies, saying the terms are overly intrusive. International relief organizations in Iraq report a rise in malnutrition, infant mortality and infectious diseases there. A8
Early vote hurts Turkish president A8
Corruption in Kenya limits aid given by Western countries, which are no longer confident that their assistance is reaching the people it is intended for. The increasing corruption under President Daniel arap Moi has also made businesses leery of investing in the country. A9
Mobutu ousts foe and renews chaos in Zaire A6
Part of Argentina is being choked by the clouds of fine ash sent aloft by the eruption of a Chilean volcano two months ago. Hundreds of thousands of sheep are starving to death and Patagonia -- a delicate ecosystem of arid steppe -- could turn into a desert wasteland. A1
Pope tells Brazil to protect its children A7
Cambodian refugees in Thailand will be moved by the Khmer Rouge into malarial, mine-strewn streches of the Cambodian jungle. The refugees and observers fear that the repopulation plan will be used to control voting in elections called under a U.N. peace plan. A3
Quake kills hundreds in Indian region bordering Nepal A5
Polish bishops try to regain their political role A7 National A10-14
A scientific version of the land rush could begin in genetic research if the Federal Government obtains patents on hundreds of human genes before knowing what role they play in the body. In the past, researchers have applied for such a patent only after determining the gene's role and its potential uses. A1
Lobbying on silicone breast implants reached a new intensity when 400 women with the implants came to Washington to argue against a ban. F.D.A officials are considering a ban on the implants for safety reasons, but they say they must also weigh the procedure's popularity. A1
David Duke won a place in a runoff for Louisiana's governor and said he was a new leader of the Republican Party's conservative mainstream. In Washington, Republicans disavowed the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and said he would receive no support from them. A1
A second look at Huey Long's death is being conducted by a scientist who exhumed the body of the man commonly thought to have assassinated the popular Louisiana boss. A10
A calamitous fire in Oakland Hills ruined hundreds of houses, forced panicked evacuations and turned day tothe blackest night for miles. Oakland Emergency Services said ten people had been killed by the fire on a day of record-breaking heat and gusting wind in northern California. A1
Manufacturing leaders are skeptical about the recovery. In interviews, officials from the nation's leading manufacturers said a modest 1 to 3 percent rise in production was too small to justify hiring new employees -- an essential step if the nation is to shake off the recession. D1
The Clarence Thomas hearings have had a lingering effect on the Senators who played a significant role in the televised spectacle. The offices of many Senators have been inundated with phone calls, letters and telegrams. A14
Senators comments on harassment could help rights bill A14
Drug ring paid Noriega millions, witnesses say A13 Regional B1-5
Geraldine Ferraro's campaign for the Senate generates tremendous feeling at fund-raisers in Washington and campaign stops in New York. But the reaction raises a question for the first woman to have run for Vice President: Is that excitement, or just nostalgia? A1
Bronx and Queens to vote again in two City Council primaries B2
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Upper Limb Evaluation in Non Ambulatory Patients With Neuromuscular Disorder (ULENAP)
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 November 2011 by Laurent Servais, M.D., Institut de Myologie, France.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
Institut de Myologie, France
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Laurent Servais, M.D., Institut de Myologie, France
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: October 9, 2009
Last updated: November 16, 2011
Last verified: November 2011
|Tracking Information
|First Received Date ICMJE
|October 9, 2009
|Last Updated Date
|November 16, 2011
|Start Date ICMJE
|January 2010
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|January 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Number of contact couples with the targets [ Time Frame: Month 0, Day 60, Month 6, Month 12 ]
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00993161 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Upper Limb Evaluation in Non Ambulatory Patients With Neuromuscular Disorder
|Official Title ICMJE
|Development and Evaluation of a Clinical Test in Order Quantify Muscular Function in Upper Limb of Non Ambulatory Patients With Neuromuscular Disorder
|Brief Summary
|The aim of this study is to evaluate different devices to quantify upper limb function (Motriplate) and strength (Myogrip, Myopinch) in non-ambulatory patients with neuromuscular disorder. Motriplate measures the ability of the patient to reproduce a repetitive movement of the wrist to push two 5cm*5cm targets during 30 seconds. One hundred patients aged 8-30 years and 60 controls will be evaluated during twelve months (M0, M6 and M12) with theses new tools, and results will be compared to other testing, such as wrist, grip and pinch strength, taping, MFM measurement, and self evaluation of hand ability.
|Detailed Description
|Not Provided
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Phase
|Not Provided
|Study Design ICMJE
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
|Condition ICMJE
|Neuromuscular Disorders
|Intervention ICMJE
|Device: Motriplate
Number of contact couples
|Study Arms
|Publications *
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Unknown status
|Estimated Enrollment ICMJE
|Estimated Completion Date
|January 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date
|January 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria
|8 Years to 30 Years (Child, Adult)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
|Not Provided
|IPD Sharing Statement
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|Laurent Servais, M.D., Institut de Myologie, France
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Institut de Myologie, France
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Investigators ICMJE
|Not Provided
|PRS Account
|Institut de Myologie, France
|Verification Date
|November 2011
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Today I have this album that I created as my yearly gift to my friend with her son's (my godson) pictures. He turned 3 in december…yes the one for whom I made the Spiderman Punch art Birthday card 🙂
The album today is inspired from this project over a month ago. It was a actually designed as a card… all I did was added some chipboard piece to make a sturdy base. You can find the original tutorial HERE.
The original has 10 pockets, I created one with 8 pockets. 10 would have been fine too, but technically I was going to do only 12 pics (6 pockets), but while working on the pictures, I found some other ones I wanted to put as well…so made a 8 pocket album.
The tags have pictures on both sides, so there are 16 pictures in total. I love how easily you can increase decrease pockets. 8 pockets made the pockets a little loose…so if I added embellishments, it would have taken the bulk. I did not add any tag holders…I think the tags were easy enough to pull out since there are only 8 tags.
Since it is mostly about the picture memories…I did not add any embellishments inside. also kept the outside simple.
I used My Favorite Things Stitched Banner Alphabets Dienamics for the word memories. I also added circles to give a camera lens look. The 3 is a wooden piece that I colored with Distress paint. All of it including the cameras on the paper are coated with glossy accents.
I like how it all turned out…hopefully my boy's parents like it as much 😀
this is all for today,
until next time,
Happy Krafting,
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Subtle gait changes in patients with REM sleep behavior disorder
Funding agencies: NIH, National Institute on Aging (NAI) (U01 AG006786, P50 AG016574, AG015866, R01 AG034676); the Robert H. and Clarice Smith and Abigail Van Buren Alzheimers Disease Research Program of the Mayo Foundation; Mangurian Foundation.
Relevant conflicts of interest/financial disclosures: E.M.M., B.P.B., T.J.H.C., J.H.H., K.B.: Nothing to report. V.S.P. receives research support from the NIH. B.F.B. has served as an investigator for clinical trials sponsored by Cephalon, Inc., Allon Pharmaceuticals and GE Healthcare; he receives royalties from the publication of a book entitled Behavioral Neurology of Dementia (Cambridge Medicine, 2009); he serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Tau Consortium; he has received honoraria from the American Academy of Neurology; he receives research support from the National Institute on Aging and the Mangurian Foundation. T.J.F receives support from the National Institute on Aging and the Mangurian Foundation. R.O.R. is supported by the NIH/NIA and the Driskill Foundation. M.M.M. receives support from the NIH/NIA and the Lewy Body Dementia Association. D.S.K. serves as Deputy Editor for Neurology; served on a Data Safety Monitoring Board for Lilly Pharmaceuticals; served as a consultant to TauRx, was an investigator in clinical trials sponsored by Baxter, Elan Pharmaceuticals, and Forest Pharmaceuticals in the past 2 years; and receives research support from the NIH. R.C.P. serves on scientific advisory boards for Pfizer, Inc., Janssen Alzheimer Immunotherapy, Elan Pharmaceuticals, and GE Healthcare; receives royalties from the publication of Mild Cognitive Impairment (Oxford University Press, 2003); and receives research support from the NIH/NIA.
Many people with rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) have an underlying synucleinopathy, the most common of which is Lewy body disease. Identifying additional abnormal clinical features may help in identifying those at greater risk of evolving to a more severe syndrome. Because gait disorders are common in the synucleinopathies, early abnormalities in gait in those with RBD could help in identifying those at increased risk of developing overt parkinsonism and/or cognitive impairment. We identified 42 probable RBD subjects and 492 controls using the Mayo Sleep Questionnaire and assessed gait velocity, cadence, and stride dynamics with an automated gait analysis system. Cases and controls were similar in age (79.9 ± 4.7 and 80.1 ± 4.7, P = 0.74), Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale Part III (UPDRS) score (3.3 ± 5.5 and 1.9 ± 4.1, P = 0.21) and Mini–Mental State Examination scores (27.2 ± 1.9 and 27.7 ± 1.6, P = 0.10). A diagnosis of probable RBD was associated with decreased velocity (−7.9 cm/s; 95% confidence interval [CI], −13.8 to −2.0; P < 0.01), cadence (−4.4 steps/min; 95% CI, −7.6 to −1.3; P < 0.01), significantly increased double limb support variability (30%; 95% CI, 6–60; P = 0.01), and greater stride time variability (29%; 95% CI, 2–63; P = 0.03) and swing time variability (46%; 95% CI, 15–84; P < 0.01). Probable RBD is associated with subtle gait changes prior to overt clinical parkinsonism. Diagnosis of probable RBD supplemented by gait analysis may help as a screening tool for disorders of α-synuclein. © 2013 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society


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It happens to me a lot. In my head I see the perfect girl but I get attracted by girls that are not in my perfect range, and attracted like crazy.
I think about it and her look isn't what I prefer, her attitude too but I'm still soo attracted. Maybe because she is hard to reach.
Do you know what factor could take us to that point? I wonder if other feel the same way I do. I want guy and girl opinion!
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