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West Witney moved into pole position in the Witney & District FA Premier Division with a 6-1 home win against Hailey.
A four-goal blitz in the first half all but sealed the win with Tony McLemen (2), Dave Craig, Kev Lewis, Ian Sparkes and Chris Hirons on target. Luke Manning replied.
West replaced Ducklington who beat second-placed Chipping Norton Town 3-1, with goals from Adam Clarke, Ryan Colleton and Damon Tolley. Michael Roberts got one back for Chippy.
Carterton Town A strolled to a 3-1 success away to Chadlington.
Jack Turner and Martin Plumbridge scored for the hosts, but goals from Jason Lonsdale (2) and Mike Bott secured the win for Town.
Minster Lovell picked up only their second victory of the season and boosted their hopes of Premier Division survival in the process with a surprise 3-2 success at Witney Royals.
Royals notched through Steve Brasier and a Gary Nicholson penalty, but goals from Jim Hearn, Simon Thompson and Chris Smith ensured Minster took the points. Hanborough drew 3-3 at home to Charlbury.
Dan Smith (2) and Neil Rose scored for the hosts, with Craig McCallum netting a hat-trickfor the visitors.
Second-placed Brize Nor-ton won 1-0 at Division 1 leaders Hailey Res, Pavel Bronk on target.
Bourton Rovers slipped to third after losing 2-1 at Eynsham SSC.
David Gainford scored for the hosts, but a brace from John Ayres won it for the visitors.
Promotion chasers Carterton Pumas crashed 2-1 against Spartan Rangers.
Frank Clarke and Rory Dunseath scored for the hosts, with Ryan Jones pulling one back for Pumas.
It's tight at the foot of the table after bottom side Hanborough Res picked up their first win of the season with a 3-1 victory at home to Freeland.
Adi Williams scored for Freeland, but Joey Burgess (2) and a Tom Kernahan strike gave Hanborough the points.
Kingham smashed five without reply past North Leigh in a 5-0 win over their hosts. Dom Hemming (2), Gareth Price, Kurtis Akins, and Daryll Middleton netted.
Division 2 leaders Combe continued their march towards promotion with a 5-1 thrashing of Ducklington Res.
Chris Betreen hit a hat-trick, with Simon Gale and Sam Hibberd adding the others.
Pete Long scored the consolation for Ducklington.
Lee Keys grabbed a brace on his debut for Carterton Rangers in their 3-2 win over Witney Wanderers, moving them second in the process.
Ben Pearce added the other with Andrew Thompson and Bernie Crumlish hitting back for Wanderers.
A Craig Isle penalty was the difference between the sides as Carterton Town B saw off Ducklington 1-0, maintaining their nine-point lead at the top of Division 3.
Spartan Rangers Res stayed in second following a 6-0 thrashing of Kingham Res.
Ben Allen, Ben Hardcastle, Jason King and Gavin McCor-mack were among the goal-scorers.
Division 4 leaders Tower Hill were held to a 3-3 draw by FC Hollybush Res.
Jamie Goodwin gave the hosts the lead before goals from Kevin Davies, Doug Mulvihill and a Dean Spivey strike put Hollybush seemingly in command at 3-1.
Tower Hill levelled through Jesse Lawrence and Luke James, but despite constant pressure they couldn't find a way past the visitors defence for the winner.
OTHER SCORERS Div 2: FC Hollybush 1 (J Hatt), Finstock 1 (T Gregory).
Div 3: Bourton Rov Res 0, Wootton 3 (C Bough 2, G Berry); Charlbury Res 2 (S Ball, J Hancock), Middle Barton 4 (M Kay 2, P Kay, C Yeomans); Chipping Norton Tn Res 3 (S Philpott 2, K Watts), Brize Norton Res 1 (R Duffy); Minster Lovell Res 0, Bampton Utd 6 (J Henry 3, L Hancock, B Liddle).
Div 4: Aston Res v Milton Res (abandoned); Eynsham SSC Res 2 (K Webb, D Mobey), Wychwood Forest 2 (B Powell, D Knight); Wootton Res 1 (P Biggam), Corinthians 2 (F Webb 2).


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Ben Hansborough is my type of player. Hard work and hustle. I like it.
Gerald Green is exponentially terrible. Just let Gibson cut directly to the rim and score on OB play. How does that happen?
How can you call that against Mahinmi?
everybody hates the French
Did I miss Jake making his way to the NBA? I said "Ugliest player in the NBA"...I think Jake is an NBA player but he is still in college and even he isn't that ugly.
Zeller is really struggling. Doesn't look like he should even be on the court.
Mahinmi!!! He has been a good bench player on a bench that isnt looking all that great
Just messing with you bud. I like Jake. Don't like the Amish beard!
Great tip by Ian to West here
Cleveland had 29 in the first and second, 12 in the 3rd
Ian with a solid quarter.
My 'out of state fan' game reports over the years
Pacers.com Guest Blog Post: Area 55 Conquers Staples Center -- (Honorary) Area 55 Family Invades Target Center 2014! -- Target Center Invasion 2015
Our D has been smothering the cavs... Ben is alot better defender than I thought he was initially... He is one of those real pesky defenders that makes things happen with his active hands and footwork.
"They want to be famous. We want to be champions. They want to be rappers and backup dancers. We want to play football." - T.J. Ward, Denver Broncos
Who gets lance's minutes in the fourth???
We've outscored them 37-12 since the 1:24 mark in the 2nd quarter.
We could win by 20 tonight and it will be overshadowed by Lance's injury. If that means NO D Gerald Green plays more, that will be a very bad thing.
In about 15 minutes of gameplay, we turned a 15 point deficit into a 10 point lead.
Look, I really hate saying "I told you so". But screw it, I'm gonna do this now.
Cleveland shot 1/8 this quarter and we're now up 10. We were never coasting in this game. They just kept hitting everything. Eventually, the law of averages hit them.
Finish the game with Ben and Hill at the '2'.Gerald Green has been awful.Paul George is bossing right now.West at his usual high levels of performance.
When young drives ho should only shoot, passing is a good idea for him.
Why has Sam Young only played 5 mins?? He should get the nod over Green most of the time.
At least Ben has not been a defensive sieve
Come on Green!
anyone listening to the radio? I bet Slick loves Ben.

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Anidulafungin Pharmacokinetics in Intensive Care Unit Patients (ANICK)
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|Invasive Candidiasis Candidemia
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|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
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|Anidulafungin Population Kinetics in the Intensive Care Population
- Pharmacokinetic population model for anidulafungin for the ICU population [ Time Frame: 1 year, after inclusion of 20 patients ]The populationmodel will be created with NONMEM. The concentrations in the bloodsamples will be the input source for this model.
- Time until clinical and microbiological response is reached [ Time Frame: 1 year, after inclusion of 20 patients ]Registration of time till response
- To determine the covariates that influence the kinetics of anidulafungin. [ Time Frame: 1 year, after inclusion of 20 patients ]With the help from modeling program NONMEM
- To determine the optimal dosage(scheme) for intensive care patients. [ Time Frame: 1 year, after inclusion of 20 patients ]Calculation of optimal dosage can be done by NONMEM.
- To determine which of the two ratios is the most predictive voor clinical outcome: AUC/MIC or Cmax/MIC. [ Time Frame: 1 year, after inclusion of 20 patients ]If the actual MIC is known, this can can be determined.
- Registration of side effects and adverse events [ Time Frame: 1 year, after inclusion of 20 patients ]To register safety od anidulafungin use on ICU
Biospecimen Retention: Samples Without DNA
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|September 2011
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|March 2012
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Due to multicentre, 2 groups of patient in 1 cohort
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Not a lot is known about the pharmacokinetic profile of anidulafungin in IC-patients. IC-patients are at high(er) risk for getting a systemic mould/yeast infection. Anidulafungin is a safe echinocandin with, so far, no reported interactions and few adverse effects. Due to this, anidulafungin is used more often on IC-wards. It is part of the national (Netherlands) IC sepsis protocol. The factors that influence the pharmacokinetics of anidulafungin in IC-patients has not been studied yet. Because these factors are unknown for this population, it is necessary for this research to be done.
Any patient with an (suspected) invasive candidiasis whom is treated with anidulafunging can be includen.
20 patients will be included from 2 different university hospital (10 each). Samples will be taken on different days and timepoints, troughlevels on all treatment days and on treatment day 3 and 7 more samples will be taken voor AUC calculations.
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|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient is admitted to the intensive care unit
- Patient has a central (venous) infusion line
- Patient is at least 18 years old
Patient receives treatment with anidulafungin
- that is initiated on the ICU or
- that is continued on the ICU and the patient has had no more than 2 days of treatment with anidulafungin
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- Documented history of sensitivity to medicinal products or excipients similar to those found in the anidulafungin preparation
- Patient receives treatment with anidulafungin that is continued on the ICU and the patient has had 3 or more days of treatment with anidulafungin
- A woman that is pregnant, wanting to become pregnant or nursing an infant
- < 48 hours (expected) treatment with anidulafungin on the ICU ward
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|September 19, 2011
Keywords provided by V.M. Middel-Baars, VU University Medical Center:
Intensive Care
Invasive candidiasis
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Candidiasis, Invasive
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
Pathologic Processes
Antifungal Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
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The Denver Broncos placed Ryan Clady on season-ending injured reserve after the Pro Bowl left tackle hurt his left foot last weekend.
Clady will soon undergo surgery to fix his foot.
To fill Clady's spot, the Broncos brought in veteran tackle Winston Justice.
Clady was hurt in the closing minutes Sunday when Giants defensive lineman Cullen Jenkins rolled up on him while the Broncos were trying to run out the clock in their 41-23 win. Clady has protected Peyton Manning's blindside since the four-time MVP arrived in Denver last season.
Chris Clark is expected to step in for Clady, who's never missed a start since being a first-round pick in 2008 out of Boise State.


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Do certain premium Plastics carry certain characteristics for discs?
For example star/ESP vs champion/z. Is star/ESP more flippy then champion/z? Or vice versa? Does one tend to be more or less stable? Which is known to to fade more or less?
OR am I looking way to much into it?
Just a question because with d and x plastic they loose their hss very fast and become less stable over time faster. Wondering what the characteristics are for the premium plastics are? I know ESP and star add grip. And champ and z are durable. So they hold the has longer. But does one tend to be more stable then the other?
Anyways you never hear much about this and I always wondered about it


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SAN JOSE -- Ask Raffi Torres how he turned into one of the NHL's most notoriously violent hitters, and he talks about being the third youngest of four brothers growing up in Toronto.
"The two older guys were bigger than me, and you always had to keep your guard up," Torres explained. "Physical presence is key out there."
Later, coaches along the way also put an emphasis on physical play.
"They told me that you need to play this way in order to be effective," Torres said, mentioning Peter Laviolette and Ken Hitchcock specifically. "You don't play that way, you're just another body."
But Torres took physical to dangerous levels. He now acknowledges he played the game too recklessly, a lesson hammered home when the NHL suspended him for 25 games last April for leaving his feet and nailing Chicago Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa in the head. That punishment was reduced to 21 games, but Torres -- a repeat offender -- got the point.
Still, getting that point and actually changing one's style on the ice are two different things. And Torres had help with making that change from Phoenix coach Dave Tippett and his staff.
"Yeah, we saw a lot of video, a lot of clips where I'm just as effective a player by taking the body and taking the puck at the same time, going out there and doing that job," Torres said.
He demonstrated that in his first game as a Shark on Sunday with an open-ice hit on Eric Nystrom that saw him redirect the puck in TJ Galiardi's direction. Galiardi capitalized on that with a spin-o-rama move leading to a goal in the 5-4 shootout loss to the Dallas Stars. He gets his next chance Tuesday night when the Sharks open a four-game trip in Columbus.
The hits are still there -- his seven Sunday led players on both teams -- but so far this season he has avoided NHL disciplinarians, who had suspended Torres twice before he hit Hossa and fined him two other times as well.
Torres has never accumulated a lot of penalties, but it's still surprising to note that he has only 13 this season -- fewer than less aggressive Sharks such as Patrick Marleau with 22 and Marty Havlat with 26. And five of Torres' 13 came in the obligatory fight with Jamal Mayers when Phoenix faced Chicago for the first time this season.
So is that part of the transition to a more controlled style of play?
"Yeah, absolutely," Torres said. "I've never really been a big penalty-minute guy, but I noticed they are really low this year. It's such a shortened season that you don't really want to be in the box, giving other teams the opportunity."
The Sharks don't want Torres to change his game entirely. They acquired him to be a physical presence, playing right up to the line of what's acceptable without crossing it.
Torres looks at it similarly.
"I still want to finish hits," he said, " but the last thing I want is another incident like last year."
Since then, Columbus has acquired an added offensive threat in forward Marian Gaborik and has legitimate playoff aspirations set back by a two-game losing streak.
"It can be a good test for us," Joe Pavelski said before leaving San Jose. "They've played hard and well all year to put themselves in this position. They're a different team, but it's still about what we do."
For more on the Sharks, see David Pollak's Working the Corners blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/sharks. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/PollakOnSharks.
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The Rev. Patrick O'Doherty is not concerned about Pope Benedict XVI's retirement and the upcoming search for the next pope.
The Rev. Patrick O'Doherty is not concerned about Pope Benedict XVI's retirement and the upcoming search for the next pope. During his lifetime, a half-dozen popes have held the office.
"Like the rest of us, popes come and go, priests come and go, presidents come and go. The creeds remain the same," said O'Doherty, pastor of Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Ocala.
"I think John Paul II looked out on the world, but this pope looked in," O'Doherty said. "He cleaned up the priesthood, supervised the terrible scandal within the church, strengthened the seminaries, and called us back to what we were ordained to do."
With his retirement set for Feb. 28, Pope Benedict XVI will leave behind seven years of such challenges. But for O'Doherty, Benedict's most valued legacy lies within his inspirational writings.
"I'm one of those rare individuals who, over five years, have read something from Benedict every day," O'Doherty said. "The book is called 'Benedictus.' Somebody dipped into his writings and included them in a yearlong theological teaching. He astounds me. Of all the popes in history, he's the clearest thinker."
The Rev. Patrick Sheedy of Blessed Trinity Catholic Church in Ocala sees Benedict's decision to retire as appropriately timed.
"I think it's wonderful that he came to that conclusion," Sheedy said. "He's been a very, very good pope. I didn't think he'd be a pope as long as he was. It surprised me all of the energy he's had."
Though some theologians consider Benedict to be conservative, both O'Doherty and Sheedy said they saw another side to him.
"He wasn't as conservative as people expected him to be," Sheedy said. "Working under John Paul II, that was his job, to oversee the orthodoxy of the faith, but once he came to be in charge, he was quite open. He had an open dialogue with Muslims and was trying to get a feel for Christians in Muslim countries. He was very good with technology and was using it wisely, even Twittering, or having someone do it for him. He was taking the development of the scientific and using it for the good. It has been a progressive period."
David G. Hackett, PhD., a religion professor at the University of Florida and a practicing Catholic, said the Vatican Council II spawned a more relaxed thinking, a "protestantization" within the church. A more conservative trend came about under both John Paul II and Benedict, Hackett said.
"Overall, the papacy of Benedict is a continuation of what John Paul II was doing," Hackett said. "I think the church of Benedict has been trying to consolidate the general rightward tilt. Cardinals that have been appointed by Benedict have reflected this more conservative bent. They're offering a very clear position on issues. The sex scandal, I don't think much is going to change as far as Rome is involved. The church has taken its position."
Considering that Benedict was elected at the age of 78 and is retiring at 85, Hackett believes a much younger pope might be chosen, possibly from outside Europe.
"There has been considerable growth in the Third World," Hackett said. "Voices coming from Asia and Africa have been heard and recognized. It would be interesting to see a pope come out of those areas. It would be clever if they have someone with a technological proficiency, someone who is a good communicator. The only problem that the church has is a marketing problem."
In an Internet news conference, Bishop John Noonan of the Orlando Diocese spoke of his personal connection with Pope Benedict XVI.
"I was one of the first bishops named by Benedict, so I felt a certain closeness to him," Noonan said. "I had the honor and privilege to meet with Pope Benedict in May of last year. He welcomed me in my new role as bishop of a diocese. We also discussed the life of the church in the Diocese of Orlando and spoke about vocations to the priesthood and religious life."
Noonan also praised Benedict for his wisdom, his humility and his courage in deciding to step down.
"This is a moment of faith, a historic moment for the church," Noonan said. "He's taken a very brave step to say, 'I can't be the pope anymore. I can't take the responsibility.' "
Even at his age, Benedict was able to handle all the duties that came with the position, Noonan said. He traveled all over the world. In Rome, he conducted meetings all day long, going from one visitor to another, he said.
"The man still feels he has a gift for the church, but he doesn't have to be very active. His gift can be as an inspiration to us," Noonan said. "Our call remains the same — unchanged for more than 2,000 years. We pray the College of Cardinals, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, will choose a worthy successor to meet the challenges present in today's world. The main goal of the church during the next year is to be renewed in faith, to bring Christ to others and to be sure the message of the gospel can be shared, as well."


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Poncho Sanchez Celebrates 30th Anniversary With Special Digital Release
Given all the ups and downs the music industry has experienced in the past three decades, it's remarkable to find anyone who still retains a sense of allegiance or loyalty. Master Conguero, Band Leader and Latin Jazz Legend Poncho Sanchez is the exception. Thirty years ago, his close friend, multi-instrumentalist jazz icon Cal Tjader recommended he sign with Carl Jefferson's Concord Records. Tjader told him that Jefferson was looking for new talent and he highly recommended Sanchez. Jefferson gave Poncho a one record deal with his Concord Picante imprint, and the rest is Latin Jazz history. Thirty years and 26 albums later, Sanchez, whose Live in Hollywood recording is set for digital release September 25, 2012 on Concord Picante, is still with the label; even though he had plenty of opportunity to leave in the late '90s. (There will be a physical release October 30, 2012.)
"When Carl died, Concord was in a big mess," says Sanchez. "They were going to lose the whole thing. People in the office were calling me and telling me they were trying to raise money. I knew they were in big trouble. I started getting phone calls from other labels interested in signing me. I was strong enough to say, 'I'm going to hang on and see what happens.' Concord hung on, and they have always let me do what I want to do. C'mon, man. Where do you get that privilege? They don't do that with everybody. It's like a family to me. I love them and here we are 30 years later."
Recorded over the summer at the Hollywood & Highland KKJZ Summer Concert Series, Live in Hollywood features Sanchez and his Latin Jazz Band at their best. The album opens as the live show did – with the swinging tune "Promenade." Sanchez follows the tune up with the first-ever "Poncho Sanchez Medley." He says it's a concept that he and his music director Francisco Torres have discussed for years.
"Francisco told me ten years ago that I should do a medley of my tunes," says Sanchez. "I said, 'Ah, my songs aren't that great; they're just alright.' I wanted to move on to new stuff and I didn't pay too much attention. Then he told me again that we should do a medley for the live album and I agreed. I thought it would be cool to start with 'Mi Negra' and 'Baila Baila' and with the last one we step it up a notch and go a little faster."
Now, Sanchez says he's working on another medley he'll include on his next album. "I say, 'What the hell. You ain't gonna stop me now!'"
In addition, Sanchez pays tribute to two of his biggest influences – keyboardist, composer and arranger Clare Fischer and Latin Jazz percussionist Mongo Santamaria. Fischer helped Sanchez get his first record deal with Discovery, the label for which he recorded before joining Concord in 1982.
"Clare was a harmonic genius," says Sanchez. "He wrote beautiful tunes and I knew these tunes when I was in junior high school. When I met him, I told him how much I loved 'Morning' and 'Pensativa' and 'I Remember Spring.' Then when we did our first record, at the last minute, we recorded 'Baile Mi Gente,' the first song I ever wrote, with Clare Fischer. We needed one more seven-minute song. I was done. I didn't have any more songs. Then, Clare said, 'Why don't we do "Morning?"' [Saxophonist/Flutist] Gary Foster said, 'Let's do "Morning" as a cha-cha.' He got the Flute out and I told him to try it on the Alto. That was the hit on the album and that's why I did it on Live in Hollywood. That's how that all came together."
Sanchez also delivers a high-energy rendition of "Afro Blue" that serves as a tribute to the late Santamaria, whom he considers a good friend and important influence. When Sanchez performed at the Hollywood & Highland concert, he introduced the song by talking about what an inspiration Santamaria was to him. While Sanchez's brief commentary didn't make it onto the album, the song still stands a worthy tribute.
"He was my hero in life," Sanchez says of Santamaria. "I opened that song up with a little thing by myself, which is a Rhumba I sing. It's an old Cuban street song. I did that off the top of my head. And then, boom, I set the time into 'Afro Blue.' He is my all time favorite Conga drummer. I even named my son Mongo."
The album closes with the vigorous "Son Son Charari," which Sanchez introduces by exclaiming, "Alright, it's time for a little salsa!"
"I wanted to end the night with a hot salsa number and there are a few more I could have done," says Sanchez. "I always liked 'Son Son Charari' and that song did very, very well in Puerto Rico. They used to play it on the radio all the time."
For Sanchez, who turned 60 this year and will receive A Lifetime Achievement Award from the Latin Recording Academy at a November 14, 2012 ceremony in Las Vegas. Being able to make a living playing music is a dream come true. As a teen, Sanchez first learned to play guitar from "the guy across the street" because he couldn't afford to buy an instrument and his friend would let him borrow his guitar. He then gravitated to percussion after his siblings introduced him to the music that was then called cha-cha music.
"I've been involved with this from the beginning but just as a listener when I was a young boy," he says. "I never dreamed it would happen that I would become a professional musician. You go with the flow and you go with your heart and what feels right, and now I know it feels right because this is how I made a living for my whole life. I'm not braggin' but I did pretty well for a guy from the neighborhood."


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Justin Bieber Chugs Beers in the Jungle [Pics]
Justin Bieber is having a grand old time in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Canadian phenom not only performed sold out Believe tour shows, but also got tipsy in the jungle.
Bieber posted photos to his Instagram account of his trip "into the wild," including one simply captioned, "Beers in the jungle." He also snapped an amazing photo of an elephant, which you can see below. And before you get up in arms about Biebs' boozing, don't worry: He's 19, and the legal drinking age in South Africa is 18!
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MINNEAPOLIS Target announced that it will offer discounts on more than 1,000 toys this holiday season, 250 of which are exclusive to Target.
"From Nerf Stampede and Sing-a-ma-jigs to exclusive Toy Story 3 gift packs, Target features the hottest toys and must-have brands that make great gifts for kids of all ages," said Casey Carl, VP merchandise manager, toys and sporting goods. "And, we also offer the classic toys and games like Barbie, Lego and Monopoly that are found on holiday lists year after year –– all at great prices."
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Adjuncts and Accreditation
This article in IHE is one of those peel-the-onion pieces in which the more you think about it, the more there is to discuss.
Apparently, a new report by the AAUP takes the regional accreditation agencies to task for failing to confront the trend towards adjunct faculty.
My first thought was, finally. Let's get some bright-line rules out there – you're allowed x percentage of adjuncts and no more – and those of us who are constantly arguing upstairs for resources can use that as a club. It brought back memories of the disappointment faculty felt at Proprietary U when the accrediting team didn't address faculty teaching loads, which were 50% higher than at nearby community colleges.
But then I thought about how a bright-line rule might actually work.
Say that the agencies get together and declare ex cathedra that no more than 50 percent of your faculty can be adjuncts. What would happen?
Colleges with adjunct percentages in the thirties or forties (hi!) would have a green light to go to 50.
Colleges with more than 50 would start playing myriad counting games. "We don't count non-credit (remedial) courses." "We count dual-enrollment as full-time, since they're full-time at their high schools." "We count lab assistants and college staff who teach as full-time, since they're full-time employees."
In conversations with colleagues at other colleges in my state, I've found that different colleges calculate their percentages in very different ways. My preferred method is by credit hour, as long as remedial classes are included. Some exclude non-credit classes. Some do headcounts, rather than credit-hour counts, which raises your adjunct percentage dramatically. Some create neither-fish-nor-fowl ranks that are full-time but low-paid and off the tenure track, and use those to inflate their full-time percentage. Some have 'visiting' full-time faculty. Some colleges don't have tenure systems at all, but they do have full-time faculty, so a measure like "percentage of tenure-track faculty" would give a very misleading picture.
Then there are the more basic issues. Say the agencies came up with one set of definitions, one method of counting, and the like. (For the sake of argument, let's stick with 50 percent as a magic number.) Then what?
Nationally, the last figure I saw for community colleges placed the share of credits taught by adjuncts at around two-thirds. If it had to come down to half, where would the money for that come from? Would the states suddenly see the error of their ways and pour millions into higher ed? (What a wonderful world that would be!) Maybe they'd start funding us at a level comparable to that of the public four-year schools? (Oh, happy day!) Or would we start cutting programs and raising tuition? And who, exactly, would that benefit?
More to the point, what is the point of accreditation? I've always understood it as a way of assuring prospective students that the institution is what it says it is, rather than some fly-by-night operation. To the extent that it's really about the students, I'm not entirely sure what a magic cutoff number for adjuncts has to do with it. Yes, I understand the argument that freeway flyers' situations suck, and that they were led to believe that the job market would be better than it is. I get that; hell, I've lived that. But why is that an accreditation issue? As long as the students are learning what they're supposed to learn, why is the employment status of the faculty at issue?
Before the inevitable flaming, let me clarify: I'm not saying that the trend towards all-adjuncts all the time is a good thing, or even an indifferent one. I object to it primarily on the grounds of fairness, and I consider it fair game for, say, unions. (For example, a few months ago I praised the Rutgers faculty union for accepting smaller raises to pay for more tenure-track positions.) But accrediting agencies aren't unions, and they aren't supposed to be.
From the public's perspective, I really don't think the drift towards adjuncts is the primary concern. They're concerned about cost and employability. To the extent that adjuncts help the former and have minimal impact on the latter, I don't see where most of the public would care. (Those who disagree are invited to campaign for tax increases to support higher ed. I'll be right there with you, and we'll lose together.) To pretend that it's just a matter of strongarming some obtuse administrators is simply to get it wrong. The trend towards adjuncts is a symptom of shifting public priorities (and, to a lesser degree, the near-impossibility of increasing the economic 'productivity' of teaching as measured in credit hours). Will the public suddenly support tax increases because the AAUP says so?
Uh, no.
Lobbying accreditation agencies to become advocates for a jobs program for academics is the wrong battle. It's well-intentioned and superficially attractive, but it's the wrong battle. Explain to the wider public, in terms it cares about, why instruction-on-the-cheap is bad. (While you're at it, you might want to take a crack at rehabbing the concept of progressive taxation, too. If you're gonna dream, dream big.) Until then, colleges will play the hand they're dealt, and accreditation agencies will reflect that. Harvard has infinite money, but it's also an outlier. Here in the mainstream of higher ed, failure to address underlying costs just means failure.
If the AAUP wants to measure the quality of education, it should measure quality of education. Using "% adjuncts" as a surrogate, partial measure of "quality" is misleading at best.
More Input obviously does not equal More Output.
How well is that union monopoly on labor working out in K-12?
I started out as an adjunct (a terminally degreed one). Initially, I was viewed as a "scab" or "rate buster" by my colleagues (especially after my sections started maxing out and I added several very popular elective offerings).
Net effect on the department: the students got more choices, a better eduation, and the rest of the faculty had to start "stepping up" in their own classrooms.
Where is this "anti-adjunct" sentiment really coming from? Concern for students? Not bloody likely.
[Back before human subjects boards were invented a lot of interesting behavioral research was done. One of my favorite studies involved reward systems for 5th graders involving candy and math quizzes. Give individual students individual rewards for individual performance, everyone's performance goes up. Give everyone the same reward based on aggregate performance, everyone's performance went down. Do our students *really* benefit from the "iron rice bowl" of unions+tenure?]
Count who's an adjunct by benefits. If they're not given (nor have actively declined) sick time, vacation, or health insurance, then they're adjuncts. If they are, they're not adjuncts.
I appreciate your experience and can sympathize! However, I would offer that what you describe is a curriculum committee issue, not an "adjunct" issue.
Before I started teaching as an adjunct I met with the curriculum committee to discuss how the course objectives for the classes I was about to teach were part of the knowledge "weave" within the programs the classes supported.
[Full Disclosure: out of the three adjunct/two full time professor jobs I have had, this "integrative" discussion was initiated by the department twice, and I had to request it three times.]
If your school doesn't do a very good job of rationalizing classes and objectives within programs, well . . . higher pay and fewer adjuncts isn't going to help. Expecting (demanding, even) more out of your faculty will.
Out here in California, there are NO adjunct K-12 teachers. As a consequence, funding for K-12 schools is somewhere around $10K/full-time student. Community colleges get less than $5k/full-time student.
The "union monopoly" is working pretty damn well, if you ask me.
I've only ever been on the fringe of accreditation, but I recall people writing massive papers at the division, even the department, level describing and defending their practice: self-studies, if I remember correctly. I do not see that bad consequences flow from requiring that self-study cover staffing issues: how is the department, the division, staffed -- tenure-track, full-time contingent, part-time contingent, both by head-count and credit-hour (departments exist where the tenure-track faculty teach two courses per semester and the adjuncts three!) -- and how does this staffing mix contribute to its success?
And if the accrediting agency finds weaknesses and requires the college to come up with a plan to remedy those weaknesses, surely that can be used by the college administration to scare up some money from somewhere. Remedial plans have to be funded to be real.
Sorry if your remarks were "Tongue in Cheek" or sarcastic; my comments assume they are to be taken at face value.
Umm yeah if by "working out great" you mean that we are paying a ton of money for a crappy education . . . oh you mean from the standpoint of the teachers' union! Oh well yes then it is working out exactly as all unions intend- driving the marginal cost of something well above its marginal value . . . which you can only do effectively if you have a monopoly (in this case, on labor).
You want to cut way back on the number of international students coming to the US for advanced education? Bring secondary schools down to same relative level as our K-12 schools.
It's already happening OBTW, even without "unionization." The more we squeeze competition out of the system, "the more we will pay for the less we will get."
You're absolutely right--but only if you buy into the argument that all public school K-12 students are "getting a crappy education."
But that's a subject for another discussion, no? And not on Dean Dad's blog.
Working on program accreditation over the past few years, I've witnessed some incredible shoe-string systems where the academic program only remains viable by exploiting a number of sessional instructors and demanding a wealth of unpaid overloads from the full-time staffers. My experience there has taught me to look at what percentage of courses in the regular program offering are being taught by sessionals or on overloads. When you can equate these course credits with so many full-time position equivalents (and we can be talking a LOT), it's a sign of weakness that the consultants should force home in their talks with deans, VPs and in the final reports.
The need to get accredited or keep your accreditation is a HUGE institutional motivator. My institution is considering creating a new administrative position for this purpose: one key rationale for changing our School of Business into a College with a Dean is that the accrediting agency is a "dean's club." When you consider how many non-faculty positions have been created due to accreditation--think of all the offices of assessment that have sprung up all over the country--you'll see whay the AAUP is trying to put pressure on accrediting agencies to act on behalf of all the faculty.
Dean Dad is right that this is a funding issue at heart. But don't accrediting agencies already look at the financial health of an institution and how effectively it is using its resources on behalf of its students? Why shouldn't looking at the working conditions of all the faculty be part of that project? Just because it's easy to come up with bad solutions doesn't mean there isn't a problem.
Second, public higher ed doesn't need any new taxes to be better supported. My little efforts to encourage the Harvards of the academic world to become philanthropists to the rest of the higher ed system in the U.S. may seem pie-in-the-sky. But growing endowments is one key avenue for public systems that have control over neither tuition nor state funding. It's really too bad the NYS legislature paid lip service to Spitzer's idea but didn't even try to fund it. And even worse that they've taken SUNY's few mega-tuition increases over the decades and dedicated them to other parts of the state budget. And a slap in the face that they give some $300M/yr. in direct aid to privates in NY.
So the lobbying/PR campaign Dean Dad sees as a political non-starter can be reframed away from new taxes and toward a more equitable and efficient distribution of existing taxes.
Now the invitation to Dean Dad: what Craig Smith and I have been trying to do is connect the dots--explore the relations between the training/credentialing system, the job search system, the academic staffing system, and the institution of tenure. Since you're basically identifying problems with the FACE campaign he's helping coordinate, I think it would be particularly important for you to explicitly join our conversation and look at the big picture together. What do you say?
In other words, it will fail to have the intended effect. Many adjuncts will be laid off, and no new jobs will be created.
Yes, the tenured faculty will whine and moan, but in the end, they work for the institution and will do what they're told.
It would be a mistake to assume that a teacher in a 25 or 30 student classroom is getting $250,000 to $300,000 in compensation, yet that is the premise when discussing unions versus cost per student in K-12. K-12 schools have many costs that a college does not, starting with transportation.
It is also a mistake to treat the per-student appropriation to a college as if it was the sole source of funds to educate that student. Not even close.
Our college budget works out to under $40,000 per employee, and f-t faculty make up less than 20% of the total number of employees. (That number must include work-study students, anyone on the payroll, since that number of employees is huge compared to the number I know for p-t faculty and f-t admins.)
Dean Dad: You might blog about how your college's budget is put together - suitably anonymized, of course. Fraction spent on faculty, support, fuel!, admin. How much of it is fixed costs (salary) and how much is variable?
I'd be interested
It was an "analogy;" perhaps more conceptually a metaphor but never mind.
The point is this: the attitude of "Adjunct Bad" vs. "FT (tenured) Good" is the invisible elephant in the room.
I mean, come on- this seems to be a major tenet of faith in the modern university. It is the underlying assumption of the AAUP article, Dean Dad's original post, and the responses of many of my colleagues in this thread.
I challenge that assumption. I know many adjuncts who provide a greater value/cost ratio to the students than many FT/tenured faculty; and vice versa.
I was (inaptly? ineptly?) trying to steer the discussion to exposing that tenet; and clarifying the fundamental issue of "under what circumstances are adjuncts good/bad?"
Anyhow, having worked both sides of the fence for a while I find the scapegoating of the modern university adjunct to be somewhat interesting.
Still confused, still a professor . . .
Fair points, and I would be the last to argue with some of them because there is good evidence that I was a better teacher than some of the faculty back when I was a TA. But teaching quality of individuals is not what has to be evaluated.
What has to be evaluated is how stable that teaching quality will be for the institution as a whole over time. Who will teach there next year? Who will select those adjuncts and help them fit into the curriculum at the college? Who will decide what the curriculum will be? Who will care about the long term viability of the college? Those are the concerns (or should be) of accreditation.
Also, concerning your early (9:05 AM) remark: The point of using "pay and benefits" rather than "tenure" has nothing to do with "quality"; it has everything to do with finding a metric for institutional commitment that is independent of the many different contractual schemes that exist across the US.
Also, if there is such a need for classes due to student enrollment, why doesn't tuition cover at least some of this?
Anyone paying their adjuncts $20,000 per 3SCH class?
In business, you staff FT at the minimum demand level, and use temps/on calls/part time employees to handle any demand above the minimum demand.
So, *even if* you are generally "anti adjunct" (as unions have to be, for obvious reasons), the rational actor would:
1. Calculate "worst case" scenario for enrollments;
2. Staff FT/TT at 80% of "worst case" scenario; then
3. Hire contract faculty to bring capacity up to 120% of worst case; then
4. Use adjuncts to staff up to the actual enrollment level
A "typical" (based on the future of the discipline and enrollments) department in, say, a business (growing) discipline would therefore have about 1/3 FT/TT, 1/3 contract instructors, and 1/3 adjuncts.
A "typical" department in a "not growing so much" discipline would need about a 25%, 25%, 50% mix.
Remember FT/TT faculty carry a whole bunch of long term liabilities on their backs . . .
*the higher the research focus of FT/TT faculty, the less effort they put into the classroom. Ditto for FT/T "service load" that includes building programs, interfacing with stakeholders, etc. Adjuncts, and contract instructors, are "paid for performance" in the classroom and therefore provide more value tot he students in the first place; the value/cost ratio of FT/TT vs. adjunct-contract is just flat out ridiculously different.
1. In the letter to the institution before the visit insert a couple of lines: We are increasingly concerned with the increase in the number of adjunct faculty in higher education and evaluation of their work. Please pay special attention to this in your self-study
2. A line in the final report: While we have granted accreditation to your institution, we are specifically concerned with the high proportion of adjunct faculty teaching introductory courses. If this situation is not changed by the time of our next visit you run the risk of a provisional or even a denial of accreditation.
Of course, things being what they are, accrediting agencies are poaching on each others territory to get more business so this has little chance of happening.
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The iPhone and Android phones are pecking away at BlackBerry market share like vultures on roadkill, especially within the walls of the enterprise.
New BlackBerry phones and an improved BlackBerry OS 7, along with a promising, consolidated platform in BBX, and even an Apple-esque leak about a new phone (code-named London) are not enough to satiate end users lured by new mobile apps, and swayed by a massive cultural shift. Even Windows Phone 7 is gaining some momentum, thanks to a compelling user experience and a healthy and growing list of apps.
Corporate IT is finally changing its stance on a BlackBerry-centric mobile world. Or as InformationWeek's Eric Zeman recently proclaimed: "iPhone Ousts BlackBerry From Boardroom, iPass Says."
It's time, therefore, to take a closer look at the contenders to replace the BlackBerry. For several weeks, I've been testing the iPhone 4S (AT&T), Google's Android (Gingerbread version) running on a Samsung Galaxy SII (a T-Mobile version and one from AT&T,) and Windows Phone 7.5 running on an HTC Radar 4G (T-Mobile) and the Nokia Lumia 800 (not available in the U.S. yet).
I tried to truly use each phone on a daily basis, rather than spend my time pouring over specs and trying every feature. In other words, this comparison focuses on the usability and practicality of each platform. In fact, there are many useful features that I found and couldn't find room for in this comparison. I hope readers will share some in our comments section as well.
I am, in fact, a BlackBerry user through and through. I've been using one for the past several years, occasionally testing some of the other platforms. I've recently switched my full-time smartphone allegiance to the iPhone 4S, thanks to a loosening of corporate IT policy at InformationWeek's parent company, TechWeb.
I tried my best to mimic phone experiences across all platforms. That's a bit harder than it would seem, given that many of the underlying services--notifications, location-based services, social network integration, and so on--differ. I set them all up to use WiFi, GPS, mobile networks, and a common set of applications.
Smartphone choice comes down to a handful of items: design, overall user experience, applications available, enterprise support and security, and a grab-bag of other features--including camera, cloud services, voice-activated services, and performance issues such as browser speed.
There's one more thing: Some buyers care greatly about notions of openness--the ability to run whatever apps they want, to use a phone on any network, to customize the phone without limitation. Other buyers just want the most simple, flawless experience, and don't wish to deviate from the pre-set choices. Neither is wrong, it's just a personal decision; and truth be told, some people don't even know that it's a choice they can make.
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You can't go wrong with any of these platforms, from an end user point of view. I chose the iPhone for now because it marries my personal and professional worlds in ways that no other platform can quite match. But Android is damn close, and with Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), it may indeed overtake iOS. In fact, if the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is an even better version of the Samsung Galaxy SII, I may wish I had waited to make my final choice. And in another year, as Nokia and other manufacturers keep making better hardware for Windows Phone 7, and as Microsoft continues to improve its OS with the Apollo release, I may regret my choice yet again.
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Ana Cetina always knew she wanted to be involved in the music industry, and so her choice to major in audio technology as an undergraduate at AU was no surprise.
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"When I first started at AU, I was not expecting to take more physics classes than was required for the major," Cetina '05 said. "I didn't think I would enjoy them."
A physics class with Theresa Larkin changed that, though.
"Her passion for physics was contagious and she made me realize how important it was to understand the science of sound as well as the artistic side to become a better audio engineer," Cetina said.
Cetina's first teaching experience was serving as a teacher's assistant in one of Larkin's physics classes during her last year at AU. Today, she teaches audio production classes in the Electronic Media and Film Department at Towson University. Cetina said the audio program at the school is evolving, and she takes "great pride in being a part of that refinement and progression for the benefit of our students."
While at AU, Cetina was able to get some "real world" experience working at the Greenberg Theatre for two years. She said that job influenced many of her future career decisions.
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After graduating from AU, Cetina earned an MFA in sound design from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has a decade of professional experience working as an audio engineer, sound designer, and mixer.
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Factory Five's Latest Kit Looks Like A '33 Ford But Handles Like An Indycar, And We Built One. Here's Part 1 Of The Buildup: How To Prep And Paint The Fiberglass Body.
You know of Factory Five Racing (FFR) as the creator of you-assemble-them roadsters (don't call them Cobras-Shelby gets really territorial), Daytona coupes, and the GTM supercar, but its new car is a whole other ball of wax.
FFR owner Dave Smith had always sworn he'd never create a street rod kit, since he hated the way the typical rod rode and handled. But when his director of R&D, Jim Schenck, came to him with a new idea for one, it was obvious what needed to be done. Schenck designed a tube-chassis car that handled like a son of a gun and wore a '33 Ford suit. In Smith's words, "Today, most guys get their parts from a variety of sources-say a frame here, a body there, a front end, and so on. Jim pitched me on the idea of using the FFR product template on the hot rod-not a donor car, but rather a complete kit with all-new parts save for running gear."
The Hot Rod kit costs $19,990 and comes with everything except an engine, a transmission, a rearend, wheels, tires, a battery, a fuel pump, and paint. And, of course, you have to assemble it. The option list includes a removable roof, a few different styles of fenders, and upgrades for suspension, brakes, and some other stuff. The frame is set up for a small-block or modular Ford, but with a little fabrication, you could probably stick anything under the hood. Factory Five estimates just under $40,000 to build a complete car, and that sounds about right. Obviously, the more you can do yourself (like paint and engine building), the more affordable it gets.
We got all excited about the concept of a cool street rod that actually handles and then got really giddy when we heard the specs on the car. A completed car weighs right around 2,100 pounds (without driver), so with any kind of power under the hood, this thing should really haul the mail. And doing it on a road course is just that much cooler.
We wanted to build one, and thankfully Factory Five agreed and shipped a kit to LK Motorsports in Hermosa Beach, California. On top of that, the company put the word out to good customers and fellow FFR fans on its message board, and we made a five-day party out of the assembly. You'll read about that next month, though. This month we're covering the bodywork and paint, which was finished prior to the buildup.
Our goal for the buildup was to do the whole thing in a week, but obviously the body and paint work take a lot longer than that, so a month or so before the build began, we sent the body parts off to Jeff "Batman" Miller at J. Miller Customs to do his paint and body magic. Miller's job was fairly straightforward: trim the as-delivered Factory Five body panels to fit, prep their surfaces for paint, and spray them in our two-tone gloss and matte-black paint scheme.
While the '33 body kit was a new experience for Miller, prepping Factory Five bodies was not. His bread and butter is working Factory Five Mk 3 roadster bodies into objects of desire. As the Mk 3 roadsters and the '33 coupe share the same fiberglass construction, the techniques needed to get the '33 body up and running were old hat to Miller.
Those techniques are similar for any fiberglass body: checking fits, knocking off the mold line joints, filling the inevitable pinholes, and then prepping all surfaces for paint. On this job, a hood bulge was added to clear the engine we were originally going to use (a blown Ford DOHC mod motor-we ended up using a tried and true Ford Racing 347), but the part we're presenting here is what the average customer does when building a Factory Five '33 coupe-or an Mk 3, for that matter.
If this prep work seems excessive, it isn't. Miller reports the Factory Five fiberglass work is quality stuff, and it's definitely superior to most. Panel alignments are good with only the occasional shift, and the fiberglass quality is high. Doors, lids, and hoods fit with minimal trimming, and the rest is simply surface preparation.
To put numbers to it, Miller says the Factory Five roadsters take about 90 hours of body shop work for prep and paint. Other brands more typically consume 130 hours. Those are roadster numbers; prepping the '33 coupe seems about the same but might take slightly longer because it has more body panels. This is especially true if choosing the optional roof panel and fenders.
Factory Five councils that $4,500 is a typical paint job tariff on its cars; toss in half that much for body prep and the numbers add up to a realistic $7,000 to $9,000 if you farm out body preparation and paintwork for a quality job. Most people do, as they don't have the tools, experience, or place for bodywork and the results are so, well, public.
On the other hand, the work is more tedious than brain straining, and fine results can be obtained by dedicated first timers. If education and craftsmanship are why you're building a kit, then tackling the bodywork makes sense.
Our job was typical and complicated only by the custom hood bulge and two-tone paint. Factory Five supplied the hood bulge to Miller, who 'glassed it into the stock hood using a bit of eyeball engineering to get it placed just so. This was done by cutting a hole in the hood sufficient for the bulge to fit into, then 'glassing the two together. Miller laid out the cut so the seam would be easiest to work with, about 3/4 inch out from the bulge proper. Another fitment job was a simple reworking of the trunk lid hinge brackets for more clearance. Other than that, only the most minor of edge filing was needed to perfect the fit of the various doors, lid, and hood.
The rest, as we said, is about 80 hours of sanding and painting as detailed in the photos. But once finished, the results are nothing less than transformational. Now that it looks so good, we can't wait to get the body onto the chassis. Come back for that story next month.


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Mom wasn't kidding when she said that breakfast was the most important part of the day. A new study confirms that eating a high-protein breakfast in particular helps stay satisfied longer and resist the urge to snack.
"Eating a protein-rich breakfast impacts the drive to eat later in the day, when people are more likely to consume high-fat or high-sugar snacks," Heather Leidy, an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology said. "These data suggest that eating a protein-rich breakfast is one potential strategy to prevent overeating and improve diet quality by replacing unhealthy snacks with high quality breakfast foods."
Considering that up to 60 percent of young adults consistently skip breakfast, Leidy's study could help push more to eat a protein-packed breakfast to start the day.
Science Daily reports that the study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, tracked 20 overweight or obese young women between the ages of 18 and 20. Leidy and her team found that those who ate a high-protein breakfast were more satisfied and showed decrease brain activity responsible for controlling food cravings.
High-protein breakfasts also helped participants resist evening snacking on high-fat or high-sugar foods more than for those who skipped breakfast or ate a normal-protein cereal breakfast.
Read more about the study here.
Of the many high-protein options available, one of the best is Greek yogurt. With 15 to 20 grams of protein in a typical 6-ounce serving, U.S. News & World Report made it clear that this popular Mediterranean variety has an edge over regular yogurt. See, "Greek Yogurt Vs. Regular Yogurt: Which Is More Healthful?"


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An Innovative Psychosocial Intervention for Adult-Child Caregivers of Parents With Alzheimer's Disease
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|Alzheimer Disease
|Behavioral: Information, counseling and support
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Investigator)
|Official Title:
|An Innovative Psychosocial Intervention for Adult-Child Caregivers of Parents With Alzheimer's Disease
- Changes in measures of depression, stress, and anxiety [ Time Frame: six and nine months from baseline ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2003
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|April 2008
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|April 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
multi-component psychosocial intervention
Behavioral: Information, counseling and support
individual-family consultation, support group, and ad hoc consultation
|No Intervention: 2
Detailed Description:
Caring for an elderly parent is a growing societal problem, and many studies have shown that caring for a person with dementia can have a negative impact on a caregiver's psychological and physical health, social life and career, and relationship with the patient. Stress and coping models proposed in the AD caregiving literature, and general stress and coping theories suggest that by improving caregivers' ability to cope and master the caregiving situation, it is possible to avoid or ameliorate the negative emotional consequences of caregiving.
Building upon the results of a pilot study, this study will formally test the efficacy of a psychosocial intervention, based on a concept of caregiving that builds on the interests, activities, and responsibilities of both the caregiver and patient in creating a care strategy. The intervention is designed to reduce the negative effects frequently experienced by adult children who care for a parent in the middle stage of Alzheimer's disease. Caregivers will learn to engage with their parents in activities that are within the patients' remaining functional and cognitive abilities. Caregivers will also be encouraged to teach activities to other family members and paid caregivers. The study will also evaluate a lower level of intervention, based on written materials.
It is expected that by increasing knowledge about AD and providing what may be a new conceptual approach to relating to a parent at this point in the disease process, 1) caregivers and patients may experience a higher level of satisfaction and gratification from their interactions, 2) caregivers will gain a sense of control and mastery over a difficult situation and thus feel more capable of coping and 3) the patient may maintain a higher level of functioning.
A randomized treatment/control design will be used, and adult-child caregivers who participate will be assigned to one of the two levels of intervention, each designed to reduce stress, anxiety and depression. The benefits of each intervention will be evaluated by looking at the change in scores on widely used measures of the anticipated outcomes among caregivers in each group, and their relative benefits will be tested by comparing scores of the caregivers in the two groups at two follow-up points, six and nine months after baseline.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|21 Years to 90 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Men or women between the ages of 21 and 90
- Adult-child caring for at least one parent who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in the moderate stage
- Person with Alzheimer's disease must be living at home or in a congregate residential setting that is like a home
- Caregiver must be willing to complete intake and follow-up questionnaires
- Caregiver must be willing to attend 2 workshops and 1 individual counseling session
Exclusion Criteria:
- Severe psychological or physical illness
- Unwillingness to participate in all aspects of the study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00409279
|Contact: Olanta Barton
|United States, New York
|Aging and Dementia Research Center, Silberstein Institute, NYU School of Medicine
|New York, New York, United States, 10016
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|Principal Investigator:
|Mary S. Mittelman, DrPH
|NYU School of Medicine
|Responsible Party:
|Joseph E. Gaugler, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, School of Nursing
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00409279 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
Project #195
|Study First Received:
|December 7, 2006
|Last Updated:
|February 28, 2008
Keywords provided by National Institute on Aging (NIA):
Parent / Adult-child interaction
Family caregivers
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Alzheimer Disease
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Neurocognitive Disorders
Mental Disorders
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Aemilius wrote:I am quite sure that the idea of purification belongs to the very early buddhism, as does confession. In the Udana Vagga there is a sutta where Shakyamuni refuses to teach because the company of bhikshus is not pure. Then Maudgalyayana looks with his supernormal vision and soon finds who the culprit is, and then takes him by the hand and leads him outside of the congregation. So the idea exists also in the Sutta Pitaka. Hirakawa Akira & Paul Groner have said that the whole Abhidharma is just about karma, in a very detailed manner.
How does confession purify oneself, and the Sangha? It has been taught somewhere in the Abhidharma that confession purifies because one feels ashamed and one vows to abide by the precepts. It is thus not an outside figure that purifies oneself but one's own contrition. It is often difficult to believe in this, and people want more theatrical things to be convinced of it. I myself believe that the mental state of confession purifies oneself.
I think that confession belongs to the original Dharma, because the purity of the Sangha is a prominent idea in early buddhism, and because it is achieved through confession etc. Whereas dedication of merit has acquired in the course of time certain aspects that seem to me unnecessary and even negative in character. People do not trust that good deeds are good deeds by themselves, why is that? Where does the fear of losing them come from?
Collecting merit is present in the Dhammapada in the idea that one should collect a treasure in one's youth, during one's mature life, that one can enjoy in one's old age.
The idea of purification definitely belongs in very early Buddhism. The Vinaya is too rarely studied by non-monastics, but in the vinaya the monks and nuns engage in a twice-monthly purification and confession practice called sojong.


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T7-T8 disc rupture with cord compression
I was diagnosed today with a T7-T8 moderate disc bulge with cord compression. I had the MRI because of R flank pain with RUQ pain for almost a year. I had a kidney stone which unfortunately required 3 surgeries in 5 months. My doc is not convinced that the pain is due to the disc because of the location of the pain. What nerves, organs, and parts of the body are/could be affected by the T7-T8 rupture? Could this be the cause of the flank and RUQ pain and the GERD that I have also been experiencing? I am so frustrated with being in pain for so long and not knowing what is causing it.
The pain from a T7-T8 disc herniation with cord compression would radiate to the RUQ. You may benefit from an epidural steroid injection, tramadol and gabapentin (or Lyrica). Consultation with a Pain Medicine specialist would be helpful. The herniated disc should not cause reflux.
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A missed penalty from Mark Byrne proved costly for Barnet as the Bees suffered a 1-0 defeat at promotion chasing Cheltenham Town.
After a goalless first half, Barnet were awarded a penalty on 63 minutes when Jake Hyde's header struck the arm of Darren Carter. However, Byrne's effort was saved by Scott Brown.
The Bees defended well but substitute Jeff Goulding curled a strike into the top corner to ensure the home side claimed the three points.
Barnet made just one change to their side as Edgar Davids returned from suspension in place of Jon Nurse.
The hosts started strongly a controlled possession in the early stages. Darren Carter had a shot easily saved by Graham Stack before Shaun Harrad fired tamely wide.
As so often this season, Ricky Holmes proved Barnet's main threat in the first half and he forced Brown into two stops at his near post.
The Bees continued to create the better opportunities and Byrne's curling strike from distance was well saved by Brown.
Barnet had plenty of shots from goal in the opening 45 minutes but many were from distance and Brown remained largely untested.
The best two chances of the half did go to the home side. Jake Taylor drilled a half-volley over the crossbar from ten yards before Harrad turned well but shot wide of the post.
In the closing minutes the Bees came close to going ahead. Davids received the ball outside the box, skipped past a challenge before his shot skipped narrowly wide of the post.
After their indifferent display in the opening period, the home side began the second half purposefully.
Taylor again shot over the bar and Stack produced a fine reflex full length dive to deny Chris Zebroski.
Barnet defended well throughout the contest and the centre-back pairing of Davids Stephens and Krystian Pearce dealt with countless crosses into the Bees box.
Their perseverance seemingly paid off as on 63 minutes, Barnet won a penalty.
A Byrne corner found Jake Hyde who headed towards goal only for the arm of Carter to block the effort.
Referee Andrew Madley pointed to the spot but Byrne's effort to the right of Brown was well saved by the keeper.
The miss boosted the Robins and the home supporters. Cheltenham pushed forward and nearly took the lead as Harrad's instinctive shot on goal deflected just wide.
Keith Lowe then missed from six yards before the hosts took the lead. Goulding, who had been introduced a substitute two minutes earlier, collected a pass in the box and curled a shot over Stack and into the net.
Town continued to push forward despite going ahead and former Barnet player Sam Deering forced Stack into a good stop with a strike from long range.
The Bees came agonisingly close to levelling the contest late on. Andy Yiadom engineered space to deliver a cross, he whipped the ball across the box and Clovis Kamdjo rose well but his headed struck the post.
In the dying seconds Barnet won a free-kick. Stack went forward and won a header but his effort went wide of the post and the referee blew the full time whistle.
Barnet are not in action next weekend and their next fixture is at home to Wimbledon on December 8.
Barnet: Stack; Fuller, Pearce, Stephens, Brown; Kamdjo, Davids, Byrne (Nurse 85); Yiadom, Holmes, Hyde.
Barnet substitutes: Lee, Nurse, Edgar, Cowler, Weston, Barker, Iro.
Cheltenham Town: Brown; Lowe, Bennett, Elliot, Jones; Taylor (Penn 77), Pack, Carter (Goulding 77), McGlashan (Deering 72), Zebroski, Harrard.
Cheltenham Town substitutes: Deering, Duffy, Goulding, Roberts, Penn, Andrew, Graham.
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MONTREAL — For many years – going back to Mathieu Schneider joining the team in 1987 – the Montreal Canadiens had a couple of Jewish players under contract.
But with the abrupt trade of star player Mike Cammalleri in mid-game Jan. 12, now there are none.
Cammalleri, the Habs' number 13, got a ticket back to the Calgary Flames, where the left-winger had come from in time for the Habs' 2009-10 season, between the second and third periods last Thursday night, when the slumping team lost yet again, this time to the Boston Bruins.
In return, the Canadiens got Flames left winger René Bourque.
Some were linking the trade to comments Cammalleri had made a day earlier about the team's performance so far this season.
In 2009, Cammalleri signed a five-year, $30-million contract with the Habs, but he was having a mediocre season leading up to the trade, scoring only nine times in the 38 games he played in.
According to Maccabi Canada's former president Gary Ulrich, Cammalleri was approached about a year ago by Maccabi officials in Toronto about possible involvement with the organization, but he was noncommittal.
"People in Toronto knew his family," Ulrich told The CJN.
Habs legend Jean Béliveau has been very supportive of Maccabi Canada, travelling twice to Israel with the Canadian team.
A native of Richmond Hill, Ont., Cammalleri, 29, has a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father.


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Well, my friend got busy so I'm searching for someone to help code the revamped version of the DGR site that is in the works. I know a few people in the past have offered to help, but I do not recall offhand who it was and when.
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-Automated review submission/update form with an "approve/reject" option for site admins.
-RSS feeds on the main page.
This would be a volunteer position as I am not in a position to offer money as payment, but there are other benefits available.
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Anime of Tomorrow
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The World God only Knows II (last thoughts)
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Final impression – too similar to season one 6/10
Spring 2011 (Alternate titles – Kami nomi zo Shiru Sekai II)
Keima the dating sim master, continues his mission to free troubled girls from possession by demonic spirits. The only way to accomplish this is to heal their hearts, which will drive the devils out. At this point, his demon-catching partner, Elsie will capture the wayward spirit in an oversized bottle to ensure it doesn't cause any more harm. However, things get tense when Elsie's colleague, Haqua arrives and she becomes jealous of Elsie's accomplishments. An evil spirit possesses Haqua and Keima might be out of his league to handle the situation without some serious backup.
The whole premise of illustrating the differences and similarities between real girls and dating game girls is still a satisfying trope, but it's not something I want to continually see different variations over and over. With only about a three month break between the previous season of The World God only Knows and this second season, it's hardly surprising that the second season feels rushed out and contrived. Little has changed and season two feels like a simple continuation of season one. While I definitely enjoyed the first season, the second season continues with more of the same and there is still no real conclusion (if you're interested in this anime's concept, I strongly suggest checking out season one first, before watching season two).


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mgoofy24 wrote:Please please please please pay your taxes, don't get caught up in conspiracy theories!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protes ... _arguments
http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/jsiegel/ ... omeTax.htm
Two "quick" reads.
Please believe that if you challenge the system, you're going to lose. I'm a law student, had to go to court a bunch for my federal income tax class... let me just say that tax protesters lose...
Smoke wrote:Secondly, not all tax protesters lose. There have been quite a few that have won. Food for thought, do you think they would actually teach you that you do not have to pay Federal Income tax? What do you think would happen if it was found out that you didn't have to?
ZAMson wrote:Income tax is unconstitutional; property, business, etc etc taxes, are constitutional. All current taxes EXCEPT for the income tax are constitutional
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We knew Michael Peevey was PG&E's biggest ally in fending off accountability for the deadly San Bruno explosion. We knew the president of the California Public Utility Commission placed his cozy relationship with the utility above any responsibility to the public. We've been calling for his head for three years.
But now, thanks to the Public Records Act, there's proof of where Peevey's loyalty lies. Emails between PUC officials and PG&E executives released Monday lay bare the extent of Peevey's attempts to protect PG&E.
The state Attorney General and the federal Department of Justice should immediately open investigations into the connection between Peevey and the utility. At a minimum, the conduct appears to violate the PUC's own rules. The public trust, already worn thin, is in tatters.
And if Gov. Jerry Brown persists in backing his outrageously unethical appointee, he might as well change the name to the Pro Utility Commission.
As PUC head, Peevey's job is to regulate PG&E. He should have thrown the book at the utility for negligence in the 2010 pipeline explosion in San Bruno that killed eight people, injured 66 and destroyed 38 homes. Instead, the emails show, he has been the utility's faithful friend.
If Brown fails to act, Attorney General Kamala Harris should demand that Peevey remove himself from consideration of any fine for PG&E. In fact, at this point, the only way a penalty will be credible is if the process starts over with an outside arbiter.
How solid is the evidence of Peevey's priorities? Take this email exchange with Brian Cherry, PG&E's vice president for regulatory relations.
Cherry sent Peevey a note outlining PG&E CEO Anthony Earley's plans to accept liability for the explosion. Peevey responds:
"One comment: PG&E's decision to issue a press release anticipating all this meant that the public got to read two big stories rather than one. I think this was inept."
Instead of riding herd on PG&E, Peevey was offering PR advice.
But our favorite was from PG&E executive Laura Doll to Peevey's chief of staff, Carol Brown, in the midst of April 2013 legal proceedings about a safety seminar the commission was planning. It said: "Love you. Thanks."
The emails show a PUC happy to intervene on the utility's behalf during the hearings on gas pipeline safety. They also show that the PUC shared PG&E's concerns that a potential $2.25 billion fine would hurt its bottom line.
U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, whose district includes San Bruno, on Monday joined the chorus of government officials including state Sen. Jerry Hill, the San Bruno City Council and the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors demanding Peevey's ouster. Others should speak out.
Brown has resisted pressure for years, but surely these revelations should move him. The PUC's credibility is shot, and the president is an embarrassment to the state -- and to the governor.
— San Jose Mercury News