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Safety And Efficacy Of Maraviroc In Patients For HIV Patients (Regulatory Post Marketing Commitment Plan)
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
ViiV Healthcare
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ViiV Healthcare
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: March 17, 2009
Last updated: August 16, 2017
Last verified: August 2017
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Detailed Description:
The objective of this surveillance is to collect information about 1) adverse drug reaction not expected from the LPD (unknown adverse drug reaction), 2) the incidence of adverse drug reactions in this surveillance, and 3)factors considered to affect the safety and/or efficacy of this drug.
|CCR5-tropic HIV-1 Infection
|Drug: CELSENTRI® Tablets
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Retrospective
|Official Title:
|Drug Use Investigation For Hiv Infection Patients Of Maraviroc (Regulatory Post Marketing Commitment Plan).
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS
Drug Information available for: MaravirocU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by ViiV Healthcare:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- The incidence of adverse drug reactions in this surveillance. [ Time Frame: 9 years (MAX) ]
- Adverse drug reaction not expected from the LPD (unknown adverse drug reaction). [ Time Frame: 9 years (MAX) ]
- Factors considered to affect the safety and/or efficacy of this drug. [ Time Frame: 9 years (MAX) ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Actual Study Start Date:
|March 31, 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|March 1, 2019
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|March 1, 2019 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Maraviroc Tablets
Patients administered.
Drug: CELSENTRI® Tablets
CELSENTRI ® Tablets 150mg, depending on the Investigator prescription. Frequency and duration are according to Package Insert as follows. "The usual adult dosage is 300 mg twice daily. Maraviroc must be used in combination with other anti-HIV drugs. The dosage may be adjusted according to co-administered medical products. Maraviroc can be taken with or without food".
Other Name: CELSENTRI® Tablets, maraviroc, Selzentry
Detailed Description:
All the patients whom an investigator prescribes the first CELSENTRI® Tablets should be registered consecutively until the number of subjects reaches target number in order to extract patients enrolled into the investigation at random.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Probability Sample
Study Population
The patients whom an investigator involving A4001093 prescribes the Maraviroc Tablets (CELSENTRI® Tablets).
Inclusion Criteria:
Patients need to be administered CELSENTRI® Tablets in order to be enrolled in the surveillance.
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients not administered CELSENTRI® Tablets.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00864474
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00864474
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ViiV Healthcare
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
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|Responsible Party:
|ViiV Healthcare
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|NCT00864474 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|March 17, 2009
|Last Updated:
|August 16, 2017
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
CCR5 Receptor Antagonists
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
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Safety Study of Using Stem Cells to Stimulate Development of New Blood Vessels in Peripheral Vascular Disease
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|Peripheral Vascular Diseases
|Drug: adult stem cells
|Phase 1
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|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Phase I Study of Stem Cell Mediated Angiogenesis for Limb Threatening Ischemia
- Adverse events recorded in the 12 week study period
- Serious Adverse events recorded for one year
- Changes in limb perfusion after treatment with stem cells will be assessed with arteriography, blood pressure recordings, oxygen measurements, and wound healing
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|Study Start Date:
|December 2004
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2007
Presently there are no effective medical therapies to enhance blood flow in the legs of patients with peripheral vascular disease. For patients with limb threatening ischemia the only option for relief of rest pain or gangrene is amputation.
There is evidence in animal and clinical studies that adult stem cells in the bone marrow, called endothelial progenitor cells, participate in the development of new blood vessels, a process called angiogenesis. In this investigation, patients with limb threatening ischemia will have their bone marrow harvested and the stem cells will then be removed and injected directly into the muscle of the diseased leg. The procedure will require about 4 hours and the subjects will be admitted to the Indiana University Medical Center overnight. The follow-up period is 12 weeks and the analysis will consist of examinations at 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, and 12 weeks. Adverse and serious adverse events will be recorded during this time period. Diagnostic studies will be obtained to measure blood flow in the treated leg during the follow up period and include transcutaneous (skin) oxygen measurements, pressure recordings in the leg, arteriography, magnetic resonance imaging, and wound healing.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|21 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Severe peripheral vascular disease not amenable to bypass or angioplasty
- Age >21 years old
- Normal renal function (creatinine < 1.6)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Congestive heart failure (ejection fraction [EF]<30%)
- History of cancer or myeloproliferative disorders
- Proliferative retinopathy
- Pregnancy
- Cognitively disabled
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00113243
|Contact: Michael P Murphy, MD
|(317) 630-8288
|Contact: Julie Lacy, RN
|United States, Indiana
|Indiana University School of Medicine
|Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202
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|Contact: Janet Klein, RN (317) 962-0287 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Sub-Investigator: Keith L March, MD,PhD
|Principal Investigator:
|Michael P Murphy, MD
|Indiana University School of Medicine
Additional Information:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00113243 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 6, 2005
|Last Updated:
|June 23, 2005
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Vascular Diseases
Peripheral Vascular Diseases
Peripheral Arterial Disease
Cardiovascular Diseases
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
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Vancouver interior designer Nancy Boultbee downsized from a house to surround herself with sea and sky.
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Large windows transform this room into a spa-like escape.
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A custom eating area makes the most of minimal square footage.
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A truly green home makes a stunning statement in Vancouver's Shaughnessy neighbourhood.
Natural materials, a hydroponic green roof, radiant floors and smart window placement are just a few of the features that reduce this home's ecological footprint. The owner, architect Clinton Cuddington, designed the house with various sections and areas with different setbacks so it doesn't feel too large. Parts of the rear façade are clad in yellow cedar trellising. The cantilevered roof shelters the balconies and shields the exterior walls from sun and rain.
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This high-traffic area is low-maintenance yet highly functional.
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Warm wood floors and white walls bounce natural light across the room.
Modular leather sofas flank a Niels Bendtsen glass coffee table in this sparsely furnished space. Vancouver architect Clinton Cuddington modified a prefab fireplace unit,
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A soft palette, tailored furniture and crisp lines combine for a tranquil space.
Alia Nicola of South Langley, B.C. won 'Best Decorating' in our 2009 Design Contest for her chic, newly-built home. Alia choose all finishes, fabrics and furniture, both indoors and out, to bring her dream home to life. In the great room, a tiered chandelier emphasizes the dramatic vaulted ceiling, adding a touch of luxury. The mirror-fronted cabinets below the TV reflect light around the room, giving it a sense of airiness. A roomy L-shaped sofa keeps it cosy.
An art wall adds pops of colour to a white bedroom.
A wall of personal photos introduces a subtle hint of green to a white palette in Alia's master bedroom. An upholstered bed frame and layered, silk-trimmed bedding also lend a luxurious feel to the room.
An expansive industrial conversion is an intriguingly artistic home base for a young Saskatchewan family.
This 3,700-square-foot warehouse is a carefully assembled mix of high urban style in the aorta of Canada's heartland — Regina. Vancouver's Bricault Design helped create the space — which was initially an empty shell — and turned it into an organized, contemporary, beautifully lit home.
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Lush metallic wallpaper placed across the ceiling helps to delineate the space while adding a feminine touch.
Modern hippie meets industrial chic in this Regina loft's dining room, where tart apple-green cabinets by Todd Ollenberger pop against an ash-and-steel table designed by Marc Bricault. Eames chairs are paired with vintage finds.
Organic shapes and flowing curves play off the striking minimalist style of this loft's bathroom.
The dining room wallpaper wraps around upstairs over the railing and into the principal bathroom, where a tall, sleek freestanding tub strikes a Japanese note. Dark matte floors hit the perfect balance with the high, angular ceiling.
Crisp windows without mouldings, clean lines and a light palette keep this 828-square-foot condo open.
With a bleached-hardwood floor and an architectural mantel and fireplace, this living room has a mix of modern furniture and vintage finds, like the candleholder above the fireplace. Leggy furniture emphasizes the airy feel.
Warm up white with understated hits of gold.
Delicate golden birds printed on the wallpaper, a metallic sheen on the French château-style bed frame and a brushed gold Moroccan-style pendant light fixture make this monochromatic bedroom glow. The dramatic mosaic bust in white gold is a bold touch in an otherwise restrained space.
Find more inspiration in our photo galleries of Rooms With Warm Metal Accents and Decorating With Gold.
A smart layout creates an ideal room for entertaining.
The living room in this Vancouver home is outfitted with standard, not condo-sized furniture. "I don't recommend having small-scale pieces in a condo or everything looks miniature," says owner and designer Karla Amadatsu. To create the illusion of space, she chose pieces with clean lines, like the dining area's rounded espresso table, that allow for better flow; it has a leaf and can be expanded for larger groups. The upholstered Parsons-syle chairs have low backs to keep sight lines open. A large Venetian mirror brightens the room and helps visually expand the space.
For more inspiration from western Canada, see our Photo Gallery: The Best Of The West.
A sleek table with drawers adds storage in a small condo entrance.
This artful display showcases a grouping of Mark and Samantha's favourite photos — the white frames create a formal, cohesive look. The elegant black console provides a spot to stash house keys and wallets.
A bona fide Torontonian and historic-home buff kindles a passion for the contemporary in Calgary.
In Rebecca Eckler's dining room, designer Sally Healy counterbalanced the dramatic vertical emphasis of the narrow, two-storey space with the bold 36″-diameter Cattelani & Smith pendant lights and a strong horizontal plane created by the square ashwood tables. Chenille-covered benches and metallic-and-patent-vinyl chairs provide richness. The linear stripe detailing on the green-grey silk sheers is echoed in the fluted cherry console.
For more inspiration from western Canada, see our Photo Gallery: The Best Of The West.
A stainless steel-tiled fireplace and Art Deco-inspired furnishings are an eye-catching pairing.
Luxe texture — striated velvet with leather piping on the club chairs, quilted wool on the armchair cushions, woven wood roman blinds — livens the understated palette of Rebecca's family room. The walnut wall unit (at right) opens on both sides, making the most of a minimal space.
For more inspiration from western Canada, see our Photo Gallery: The Best Of The West.
The Vancouver haven of The Cross' designer.
When consulting with clients, Peter always gives this advice: "Surround yourself with the things you love and buy the best you can afford." He applied that wisdom when he designed his first condo — complete with come-hither cushions, display-worthy artifacts and splurge-worthy artwork. "And every space should have great lighting," he insists. Enter the Bourgie lamp from Kartell, a modern accent atop of stack of books.
View more of Peter Wilds' style in our Stylemakers photo gallery and our August 2010 issue.
Glossy cabinetry, a huge mirror and a glass-topped dining table enhance the sense of space in this 625-square-foot condo.
Peter and his partner, Noam Gagnon, tore down the wall between the kitchen and living room. It meant giving up what little closed-off space they had, but being able to take in the Vancouver skyline while they cook makes it a valuable trade-off.
A Vancouverite channels the relaxed vibe of his cottage into a dream city retreat.
This chic beach house in the sky has an incredible panorama of Stanley Park, English Bay and the towering cityscape. In the living room, a TV is hung below the window, which puts the focus on the great view — it's also at an ideal viewing height when lying on the sofa. A weathered wood cabinet with louvered doors is a cottage classic that keeps clutter out of sight.
For more inspiration from western Canada, see our Photo Gallery: The Best Of The West.
Colour blocking delineates the kitchen in an open concept space.
Inspired by the building's 1960s swimming pool, Stephen used glossy turqouise subway tiles for the kitchen's backsplash. That hue, paired with grey and white walls, amps up the seaside vibe of the space.
Kaili Zevenbergen's tiny Vancouver studio features dramatic colours against a mostly white backdrop.
This 500-square-foot studio is punctuated by bold hues evoking a subtle Morroccan vibe. Kaili chose this large roll-arm sofa as the key furniture piece for the main living space. The weighty look of the sofa is balanced by smaller scale furniture like the leggy coffee table. A gold tray provides a hit of glam and offers a display surface for a pretty vignette.
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Oktoberfest at Historic Avenel
Robert A. (Tony) Dill is coming up on the first anniversary of a new career.
Esmond Eugene Cocke, who lives north of Bedford, was living on a 400-acre farm where his father was a share-cropper, raising corn, cattle and pigs, when Uncle Sam sent him a written invitation to participate in World War II.
It was 1943; Cocke was 18.
"They gave me a choice when I went in," he said. It would be a life-altering decision.
One of the current residents of the Elks National Home originally lived there for a couple of years as a teenager during World War II.
Sheridan Besosa was 13 and living in Puerto Rico when the United States entered the war.
Years ago when Susan Coryell lived in Northern Virginia, she started writing a novel about a haunted Revolutionary War era estate nearby.
But then she moved to Smith Mountain Lake.
Her address changed, but her desire to write didn't. Coryell decided to continue working on her novel, "A Red, Red Rose," but move the setting to a lake.
Christy Witt couldn't be any prouder of her daughter.
And thankful.
Morgan Witt, 10, has been keeping a sharp lookout for her 3-year-old brother Kaden this summer.
A couple of weeks ago, the Witt family was camping at Holliday Lake State Park. Morgan had gone for a walk down the trail in the woods and came back to camp carrying a baby frog. A little while later she and her brother went back down the trail to return the frog to the creek.
Jane Amnott, now 91, has had a very active life. Even now, she's still involved in the Keep Bedford Beautiful Committee (KBBC).
"I was there last night," she said when interviewed for this story.
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One of the first commercial ventures to be featured at Roanoke Valley's Explore Park in five years is getting its first hoof in the door.
Spiritrider Covered Wagon Rides is preparing for its opening on Memorial Day weekend.
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The Sedalia Center exists because of the vision of Bill and Annis McCabe.
The couple purchased the former school building from the county at an auction more than 20 years ago with the idea of turning it into an arts center in a rural setting. They shortly got it rolling, setting it up as a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization with a board of directors. It runs entirely on donations, the proceeds of festivals and volunteers — lots of volunteers.
They're big, loud and have bulging red eyes. There are millions of them and wildlife as well as pet dogs think they are delicious. A few people have even admitted to eating them.
The cicadas are here!
The Bedford Christian Free Clinic faces challenges as it prepares to mark its 20th anniversary on May 7.
"We have had a shortage of volunteers and it continues," commented Don Craighead, the clinic's executive director.
For information of events and activities at area churches, see the church news section in this week's paper. For information on monthly/weekly meeting times for groups see the meeting notice section.
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Clara Burnette isn't one to give up easily.
That's why after 13 months of work and 6,000 pieces of a puzzle, she finally got that last piece placed. She started the puzzle of Noah's Ark on Jan. 24, 2011, and finished Feb. 24, 2012.
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The Bedford Pregnancy Center is happy with its new home.
Located in a renovated house directly across East Main Street from The Bedford Columns, the Center is centrally located and easy to find. The Pregnancy Center actually moved in on Nov. 14, according to Lori Lewis, the Center's director but work remained to tailor the building to their specific needs. Supporters of the Pregnancy Center got a tour of the finished effort after a fundraising dinner, on March 24, which raised $40,000.
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President Barack Obama is congratulating University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban on another BCS championship, joking that "he and the Crimson Tide are beginning to make this a habit."
Alabama won its third championship during Obama's presidency on Monday night, defeating Notre Dame 42-14 in Miami.
Obama called Saban on Thursday afternoon and noted that it was the third time he'd made the congratulatory call to the coach.
The White House says Obama commended Saban "on the incredible organization he has built" and said he looks forward to congratulating the team in person at the White House.
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Students Score Advice at Sports Symposium
February 14, 2013
Pictured on front slider left to right: Ashley Alletto, Lauren Watts, Dr. Angela Pratt, Kristina Korolev.
Group photo of sports communication students and Dr. Angela Pratt at ISU Sports Management Symposium
Lauren Watts, '15, Watseka, Ill.
"Turn the lights on, and turn the lights off".
The conversation at the 3rd annual Illinois State University Sport Management Symposium stressed the importance of internships and consequently, the office lighting. Clair Peterson, Tournament Director of the John Deere Classic, said as an intern, you should always be the first to flip the lights in the morning and the last to flip them at night.
Another panelist, Phil Bedella, Vice President and General Manager of Comcast SportsNet, added that you must be so good at your job the organization cannot function without you.
Twelve Sports Communication students, accompanied by assistant professor of communication Dr. Angela Pratt, received this advice and wisdom from individuals who have seen sport evolve since the 1970s.
These panelists discussed the ever-changing environment of professional and collegiate sport in depth.
Brad Nagel, Manager of Fan Services for the Chicago Cubs, highlighted social media's revolutionary effects on fan-player interaction.
Sophomore Sports Communication major Kristina Korolev, '15, Toronto, Can., said, "It was so interesting to hear opinions from all sides of business about how the industry of sport has and will continue to transform."
Mr. Pat Williams, Senior Vice President of the Orlando Magic, concluded the event with his keynote speech. He touched on nine principles to achieving success in the industry, including mastering public speaking and the notion of being a "what-elser". That is, volunteer for everything!
"Pat Williams' speech was phenomenal," sophomore Ashley Alletto, '15, Downers Grove, Ill., said. "He was engaging and gave us advice to help jumpstart our careers."
To have a successful career in the sport industry, you cannot simply be a fan. You must be business savvy and flexible, because with the flip of a switch, everything can change.
The day's events concluded with an internship fair with local businesses including the Peoria Chiefs, Peoria Rivermen, Bloomington Flex, Normal Cornbelters, and Game Day USA.


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XPower Powerpack 1500 is a portable power system that can supply up to 1,500 watts of household electricity, enough to run almost any electronic product or appliance you might connect to your wall outlet at home. XPower Powerpack 1500 consists of a battery pack that stores electrical energy, state-of-the-art electronics that convert 12 volts from the battery pack to household power, an AC power panel that contains two standard outlets, and a DC power panel that is used to run 12V products. These components are packaged into a rugged cart with a removable waist handle that allows XPower Powerpack 1500 to be wheeled from room to room or outdoors over rough terrain. An excellent alternative to a generator, it features no noise, no fumes, no fuel, and no moving parts. With the accessories provided, recharge XPower Powerpack 1500 using utility power from your wall outlet, from your vehicle, or from a solar panel.
XPower Powerpack 1500 Features:
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When Jim Lampley was searching for inspiration for his new show, 'The Fight Game with Jim Lampley,' which debuts on HBO at midnight ET on Saturday, he found it in what might at first blush be considered an unusual place.
"The guy who will sit in the studio and produce the show as I tape it is Bill Wolff, whose other gig is to produce Rachel Maddow's nightly show on MSNBC," Lampley revealed during a recent conversation. "And I chose him specifically because I admire the culture of that show, I admire the way they deliver information, I admire her way of building up evidence after evidence to support a point without having to say, 'This is what you should believe,' and that's the kind of thing that I'll be trying to do with 'The Fight Game'."
Like Maddow's broadcast, 'The Fight Game' will be studio-based. Lampley will interview guests via satellite, and in keeping with the comparison, he regards it very much as a news show.
"What I've told the staff is that, even though we're only airing four times in 2012, every time we go on the air, I want it to look as if the show was buttoned within the last 24 hours, with all the information up to date within the last 24 hours, and this is about a newsy look at the boxing landscape both in and out the ring," he explained.
Like any cable news program, 'The Fight Game' will have an editorial bias, which in this case will be strongly toward the boxers who make fans come back constantly for more, the ones who step forward and engage rather than step back and away. To that end, a regular feature of the show will be 'The Gatti List,' named after the man who has become synonymous with such crowd-pleasing, edge-of-your-seat action, which will showcase the ten most exciting fighters in the sport, the fighters who, in Lampley's words, "are most worth your time, money and investment to buy a pay per view, go to the arena, or see the fight on TV because they hit, they get hit, they take the risk in pursuit of victory, which to me is at the heart of the entertainment value of boxing. I want to glorify that within the culture of the show."
If the four broadcasts in 2012 meet with approval, the total could rise to as many as 24 episodes a year in the future. Whether that happens or not remains to be seen, of course, with the debut yet to make its bow, but that the show exists even on a trial basis is testament, Lampley offers, to HBO "enhancing its commitment to boxing on the network, to rebuilding it and making it bigger."
That enhanced commitment manifests, Lampley argues, in the "Road Block" of programming on HBO Zone during pay-per-view Saturdays, as well as in the proliferation of vignettes such as 'Ring Life' and '2 Days' - and now, 'The Fight Game' - all of them combining to provide "different ways of illuminating the unique lives of boxers and the unique passions of boxing fans."


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Well, they certainly were right. It's a pretty good cake. Slightly chewy, not too sweet and perfect for those last minute cake craving. What I like about it, is that it only makes one serving (OK a large one, but if you're going to indulge, go big right??). The one thing I don't like about it, is that I now know there is a way to have cake in a small amount of time, when ever I want it. That can be seriously dangerous for me, LOL.
The first time I made it, I used apple sauce (I just can't justify using a whole egg in such a small amount of cake) and I used some coffee that DH had brewed that morning, instead of the milk and vanilla. It was really good. The second time I made it, I subbed in some almond extract, for the vanilla and used 2 Tbs whole wheat flour, for the white. I also popped it out onto a plate, drizzled it with chocolate syrup and sprinkled with powdered sugar. That one was even better than the first one, LOL. I think this would be the perfect little treat to snuggle up with your honey on Valentine's Day.
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George Clooney, 'The Artist' and Meryl Streep Are Among the 2012 Oscar Nominations [PHOTOS]
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Back to the Basics: Magnetic Flowmeters
Close to Being "Prince Flowmeter Charming," Magmeters Do It (Nearly) All
This article was printed in CONTROL's April 2009 edition.
By Walt Boyes
Ever since the invention in the 1790s of the Woltman-style mechanical turbine flowmeter, automation professionals have been looking for the one flowmeter that will work in every application. Unfortunately, there are 12 flow measurement technologies in common use for a very good reason. No single flow technology works well, or even acceptably, in all applications.
Of the more broadly based flow technologies, the one that works in the most applications, across most industries and with higher accuracy than even differential pressure is the electromagnetic flowmeter, or magmeter. According to Jesse Yoder at Flow Research, the total global market for flowmeters is roughly $4.7 billion, and magnetic flowmeters account for a little less than 20% of that total. There are a lot of magmeters shipped every year. Magmeters are used in every process industry vertical: water, wastewater, mining and minerals, utilities, food and pharmaceuticals. Magnetic flowmeters are designed for handling almost all water-based chemicals and slurries and are furnished with corrosion- and abrasion-resistant linings and even clean-in-place (CIP) designs for sanitary applications.
Magnetic flowmeters also are made in the widest size range of any flowmeter technology because they can be scaled up almost infinitely. The first use of the technology was in the huge sluices that drained the Zuider Zee in the Netherlands in the 1950s, and typically vendors supply a size range from ½ in. (12 mm) to 36 in. (914 mm), with several vendors supplying extended sizes up to 120 ins. (3048 mm). Several vendors sell sizes below ½ in. as well. How it is possible to scale up and down this broadly is directly related to the technology.
How a Magmeter Works
In 1831, Michael Faraday formulated the law of electromagnetic induction that bears his name. As used in an electromagnetic flowmeter, coils are placed parallel to flow and at right angles to a set of electrodes in the sides of the pipe, generating a standing magnetic field. The pipe itself must be non-magnetic and lined with non-magnetic material, such as plastic, rubber or Teflon. When the fluid (which must be conductive and free of voids) passes through the coils, a small voltage is induced on the electrodes, which is proportional to the deflection of the magnetic field. By Faraday's Law, this deflection is the sum of all of the velocity vectors impinging on the magnetic field.
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Modern magmeters operate on a switched DC field principle to zero out noise that can be induced from RFI, EMI and electrical noise actually in the process fluid. They follow a regimen of turning the field off, measuring the voltage that is still induced on the electrodes, then turning the field back on and subtracting the off-state voltage from the on-state voltage. They do this several times a second, which reduces zero drift to almost nothing.
What this means for automation professionals is that the voltage induced on the electrodes is directly proportional to the average velocity in the pipe, and is therefore significantly more accurate than any other velocity-based measurement principle that only looks at a point or line velocity. In fact, the magnetic flowmeter is generally considered the most accurate wide-application flowmeter in current use.
Magmeter accuracy is remarkable, approaching the accuracy of positive displacement flowmeters. They're often used for custody transfer when the flow is of relatively long duration. Typical accuracy of a magnetic flowmeter is 0.5% of measured value from 0.3 ft per sec to 33 ft. per sec (0.1 to 10 m per sec) velocity. Some vendors indicate even higher accuracies over portions of the flow range, up to 0.1% of indicated flow rate.
Where Magmeters Won't Work
Magmeters have such a wide application that it's easier to say where they will not work than to list all the applications in which they will.
They will not work when the pipe is not full (with the exception of several versions designed specifically for this application). If the pipe is not full, there will be significant error. One of the most common application failures of magnetic flowmeters is on a gravity-fed line discharging to atmosphere in a tank. Very often, at very low flows, the pipe is actually not full, and the flowmeter will read in error. If the pipe fill drops below the line of the electrodes, the meter will not read at all. Sometimes, applications like this are designed with a u-tube in the line, which is supposed to keep the pipe full at all times. And, sometimes this actually works.
They will not work when the pipe is full of entrained gas or air. This changes the computed volume of the pipe and changes the volumetric flow through the meter in an uncontrolled fashion that's proportional to the amount of bubbles (or void fraction) in the pipe.
They will not work well where the flow starts and stops repeatedly because there is a lag between the time the flow starts and the correct velocity is read by the meter. This means that (again with the exception of some units that are specifically designed to be very fast) magnetic flowmeters don't work well in short-duration batching operations.
They don't read out in mass flow units, but when combined with an ancillary density measurement device (often, for larger diameter pipes a gamma nuclear densitometer), they can produce a high-precision mass flow measurement. This combination of devices is used regularly in any water-based fluid flow situation where the pipe size is larger than 12 in. (nominally 300 mm). This application is commonly found in the mining industry and in dredging applications in harbors and rivers around the world.
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There are many fungicides and insecticides labeled for use in Iowa soybean. In this study, we evaluated common foliar fungicides and insecticides at six locations across Iowa in 2011 to determine yield responses to an R3 (beginning pod set) application timing (Fig. 1).
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The experimental design was a randomized complete block with at least four replications at each location. Details on variety and planting, application and harvest dates are listed in Table 1. Treatments (Table 2) consisted of an untreated control, fungicides alone, insecticides alone, fungicides and insecticides in combination and pesticide application based on aphid scouting (IPM). In applicable treatments, fungicides and insecticides were applied at growth stage R3 (beginning pod) at all six locations. Disease was assessed when soybeans were at the R6 growth stage (full seed set). Soybean aphid populations were observed between R3 and R6 but an IPM spray was only necessary at Sutherland. Total seed weight and moisture was measured, seed weight was adjusted to 13 percent and yield was calculated.
Yield varied across locations ranging from 39.4 to 75.9 bu/ac in the untreated control (Table 2). Differences were observed between pesticide treatments and the untreated control at the Sutherland and Ames locations (Table 2).
Foliar disease did not differ between fungicide and insecticide treatments and the untreated control at the Armstrong, Crawfordsville, Kanawha and Nashua locations. There were foliar disease differences between the fungicide treatments and the untreated control at the Ames location and insecticide treatments and the untreated control at the Sutherland location (Table 2). The two most predominant diseases found were Septoria brown spot and frogeye leaf spot.
Septoria brown spot did not move into the upper canopy before R6 at any of the six locations, thus it likely had minimal impact on yield. The average severity in the untreated control in the lower canopy was less than 3.5 percent at all locations except Nashua (7.5 percent) and Ames (6.6 percent). At both of these locations, fungicides reduced brown spot severity in the lower canopy, but again, disease probably had minimal impact on yield.
Frogeye leaf spot was found in a few locations, but was greater than 1 percent severity in the untreated control at only the Ames location (4.9 percent). All fungicides significantly reduced frogeye severity (averaged 1.1 percent). As expected, insecticides alone did not have any affect on frogeye leaf spot severity (averaged 5.2 percent severity). There were no significant differences in disease control between fungicide products.
Soybean aphids averaged 320 aphids per plant at the Sutherland location, which exceeded the economic threshold of 250 per plant. Aphids did not reach the threshold at any other location. At Sutherland, the IPM insecticide and insecticide+fungicide treatments were applied at the R4 growth stage on Aug. 3, which was 13 days after the R3 application. IPM treatments were not applied at the other five locations.
Seed moisture ranged from 8 to 11 percent depending on the location, but did not differ more than a few tenths of a percentage amongst treatments within any location.
The results of this experiment illustrate the benefits of foliar fungicide and insecticide applications for the management of foliar diseases and insects. There were very small amounts of foliar disease across the state of Iowa in 2011 due to high heat and low rainfall amounts in July and August. Also, this was a moderate soybean aphid year across much of the state. At the four locations with very low insect populations and disease severity, there were no significant yield responses to either insecticides or fungicides. However, at the Ames location, fungicides reduced frogeye leaf spot in the upper canopy and the largest yield responses to fungicides were at this location.
Also, only one of the six locations (Sutherland) reached the threshold level to spray aphids and this was the only location where all insecticides had significant responses to insecticides. Using foliar fungicides and insecticides is an effective way to prevent yield losses to foliar diseases and insect pests. Also, only applying pesticides when needed can reduce overall production costs and preserve product efficacy for when severe outbreaks do occur.


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HE went hoof to hoof with the best sprinters in the world - but nowhere was Hamish McGonagall more at home than dashing down the Knavesmire straight.
The nine-year-old, who was retired by trainer Tim Easterby last week, was a ten race winner for the Great Habton handler, amassing more than £419,000 in prize money in a 59 contest career.
"He has been an absolute superstar for us in recent years, being very consistent at the highest level of racing throughout his career," the master of Habton Grange said on his website.
It took time for the penny to drop. Hamish McGonagall didn't break his maiden until his sixth race - a maiden at Musselburgh - but it was York where he really shone and where he enjoyed his biggest success.
So it was perhaps fitting that his racing life finished at his favourite track - valiantly chasing down Jwala last August to finish a brave fourth in the Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes at the Welcome To Yorkshire Ebor Festival.
In all, he won four times at York, the biggest of those being the last when he beat Pabusar by a length and a half in the Listed John Smith's City Walls Stakes two years ago.
Three other handicaps fell his way in the Minster city for a horse that could never take the easy route to victory.
"What was more impressive was the fact that he always did it the hard way, from the front," added Easterby. "He was very consistent and finished in the first four a total of 40 times from those 59 runs. An absolute warrior, with the heart of a lion, and as tough as they come."
That meant taking on the very best in the sprinting division and Hamish McGonagall always embraced the challenge. In the Nunthorpe, he was so close, finishing second to Margot Did and third to Ortensia in successive years.
Anotherr tilt at York's great Group 1 dash was being primed again this term but Easterby said: "Although he still loves his racing as much as ever, his body is telling us it is time to retire him.
"Hamish McGonagall absolutely loved York, Musselburgh and Longchamp and had a huge following wherever he went. It is only fitting that he should end his career at York, a course that was very special to him.
"What a great servant to us and his owners he has been over the years."
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A RACEHORSE named after a rugby league star who raised nearly £500,000 for charity after being diagnosed with terminal cancer has won his debut race for Malton trainer Richard Fahey.
Steve Prescott is a two year-old owned by Dr Marwan Koukash, a successful businessman whose two passions have led him to buy a string of leading racehorses and the Salford Red Devils Rugby League club.
After the Dutch Art-sired colt stormed to victory in a five-furlong maiden race at Haydock last Saturday, Koukash said: "I have never been so thrilled in all my life."
He added: "Obviously everyone in Rugby League knows about Steve Prescott but I wanted to bring his name into racing."
Precott's wife Linzi and two sons were delighted by the idea, and were at Haydock on Saturday to see the horse's impressive debut. Koukash had said he wanted to give the family "something to cheer them up".
He has also pledged to donate all prize money to the Steve Prescott Foundation, which was founded by the Rugby League international when he was diagnosed with a rare form of stomach cancer, aged 32.
Prescott had helped St Helens win the Super League, and the Challenge Cup twice, before moving to the Hull Sharks, where he was a firm favourite among fans. He also represented both England and Ireland.
In 2006, two years after retiring from the sport, he was diagnosed with cancer and given months to live. He reacted by completing epic challenges to raise money for charity.
In 2010, Prescott was awarded an MBE for services to Rugby League and charity. He continued his fund-raising efforts until his death last November aged 39.
Koukash added of the star's namesake: "I wanted a horse fast enough and brave enough who was fit to carry his name."
Fahey said: "It's tremendous Marwan has named him after Steve, who was a wonderful rugby player and inspiration to so many people. He's a horse we like and hopefully he will raise awareness of – and money for – the Steve Prescott Foundation."


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We live pretty comfortably in our boring little tract house.
We have all the typical appliances, though they're not stainless steel. And some of them are so old they've driven repairmen into spasms of laughter.
We each have our own bedroom. They're small, but they're small. My house was built in the '50s, when people were shorter, I guess.
We have a bathroom with a floor cushioned by soft layers of wet towels.
What we don't have in this house is a pen or pencil.
I can go through the entire house, searching desperately in every room, while someone's waiting on the phone long-distance from Africa, and I still can't find a pen to write down a number.
I'm not sure why I can never locate a pen, unless they are mysteriously spirited away to the same place where all the spoons and forks go. They certainly are not in any of the numerous pen-holders located around our house. That would be cheating.
I go to the big-box retailer and buy entire packing crates full of pens, but they all vanish the day after I bring them home.
Not long ago, on the spur of the moment, I stopped at a psychic reader whose neon sign was advertised off the freeway.
"Where are all my pens?" I begged her to tell me. "I'm breaking down. I've got to know."
She asked me if I knew a pen with the first initial of "B," which was trying to contact me from the other side.
"Oh, yes," I said excitedly. "Bic! I had some Bic pens before I tragically lost them!"
She gazed into her crystal ball. Then she announced that she couldn't hear the spirit voices. Maybe a small cash donation of $400 could help her hear them again.
At that point, I decided maybe I could find my pens on my own. And I did find 17 of them, which had fallen inside the lining of my purse. No wonder the darn thing seemed so bulky.
But those replacements seemed to disappear as fast as the others. I began to wonder if my children were running a side business, selling my pens to their friends.
Recently, I've read about kids smoking all sorts of crazy things, but pens weren't among them.
The other day I was at the dollar store and my teenage son, Cheetah Boy, wanted to buy some pens. I told him he could, but then I realized he was buying the fancy gel pens — the kind I never get to use, because only the bosses at our company are allowed to write with them.
They're never stocked in the supply closet for mere ordinary writers like me to use. I mean, really, what would we need them for? And I'm too cheap to buy them myself.
This was going through my head as I stood there looking at the gel pens my son wanted me to buy — for him.
And, I thought, what the heck. Let's live large. They'll probably disappear in a couple of days anyway. And, someday, when we're orbiting Mars, we'll come across all those pens emerging from a black hole. Let's hope there's enough gravity to use ink in space.
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Eight blocks of South Surrey's 8 Avenue – between 192 and 200 Streets – are expected to remain closed through at least Friday, as crews work to repair damage triggered by Tuesday's heavy rains.
"It's a pretty major job," said Jeff Welch, the City of Surrey's south-end roads and drainage manager.
"We're going down basically 30 feet and having to build the road up 30 feet, so there's lots of gravel, there's lots of riprap, lots of stabilization that has to be done to make sure the road doesn't slip away."
Crews have been working since early Wednesday, after a portion of the shoulder on the road's south side washed out in the 19500-block of 8 Avenue around 5:30 a.m.
Welch said water running down the driveway of an abandoned lot just east of the affected area carried gravel that blocked the catch-basin.
"So the water had to bypass the catch-basin, and it found its easiest route down the hill," he said.
"Unfortunately, that easiest route meant it wiped out the whole shoulder of the road."
To repair the damage, crews have had to remove a section of the roadway itself in order to access the problem area. They have to build up "the toe" of the bank so it won't wash out further, then rebuild the road, Welch said.
The washout was the only one in Surrey, and Welch said it would have been impossible to predict.
While it likely wouldn't have caused drivers any grief if they had been on the road at the time, Welch said the washout would certainly have caught their attention.
"It would have scared them because it was really close to the road edge," he said.
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If you're in Brattleboro this weekend for the Harris Hill Ski Jumping events and you need an escape from the cold, why not head downtown and wander around Main Street? You'll find lots of little independent shops and art galleries to duck into– my favorite being Vermont Artisans Designs at 106 Main.
Owners Suzy and Greg Worden always have an eclectic mix of handcrafted artwork by some of the most talented artisans in Vermont and New England. You'll find paintings, sculpture, pottery, hand-painted silk, carefully turned salad bowls; exquisitely finished furniture, lamps and other wonderful items crafted by well-established and emerging artisans.
This month, Vermont Artisan Designs Gallery is featuring the portraits of Juan Jr. Ramirez, and paintings by a variety of artists including Deborah Lazar, Carol Gobin, Paul Stone, Jeanette Staley, Jim Murphy and Dane Tilghman.
If this weekend doesn't give you enough time to take in all the art Vermont Artisans has to offer, come back for Brattleboro's monthly Gallery Walk. It's held on the first Friday of each month. You'll see why Brattleboro was named the No. 11 Best Small Town in America by Smithsonian Magazine and has consistently been in the Top 25 Best Arts Towns with populations of 100,000 or fewer.
Enjoy your weekend in Brattleboro– inside and out!
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Thank you Chairman Cardin, Ranking Member Lugar, and members of the Committee. I am honored to join you to discuss the President's fiscal year 2013 budget request for USAID.
Two years ago, President Obama and Secretary Clinton called for elevating development as a key part of America's national security and foreign policy. Through both the Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development and the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, they made the case that the work USAID's development experts do around the globe was just as vital to America's global engagement as that of our military and diplomats.
The President's FY 2013 budget request enables USAID to meet the development challenges of our time. It allows us to respond to the dramatic political transformations in the Middle East and North Africa. It helps us focus on our national security priorities in frontline states like Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. And it strengthens economic prosperity, both at home and abroad.
This budget also allows us to transform the way we do development. It helps countries feed, treat and educate their people while strengthening their capacity to own those responsibilities for themselves. It helps our development partners increase stability and counter violent extremism. It supports those who struggle for self-determination and democracy and empowers women and girls. And it helps channel development assistance in new directions-toward private sector engagement, scientific research and innovative technologies.
I want to highlight how the investments we make in foreign assistance help our country respond to our current challenges, while delivering results that shape a safer and more prosperous future.
While foreign assistance represents less than one percent of our budget, we are committed to improving our efficiency and maximizing the value of every dollar. American households around the country are tightening their belts and making difficult tradeoffs. So must we.
Even as we face new challenges around the world, our budget represents a slight reduction from fiscal year 2012.
We've prioritized, focused and concentrated our investments across every portfolio. In global health, we propose to close out programs in Peru and Mexico as those countries take greater responsibility for the care of their own people.
We've eliminated Feed the Future programs in Kosovo, Serbia and Ukraine and reduced support to Europe, Eurasia, and Central Asia by $113 million to reflect shifting global priorities and progress over time by some countries toward market-based democracy.
And we're keeping our staffing and overall administrative costs at current levels, even in the midst of a major reform effort. It is through that effort that I spoke about last year-USAID Forward-that we've been able to deliver more effective and efficient results with our current staffing profile and operating budget.
Our budget prioritizes our USAID Forward suite of reforms.
That funding allows us to invest in innovative scientific research and new technologies. Last year, our support of the AIDS vaccine research through PEPFAR led to the isolation of 17 novel antibodies that may hold the key to fighting the pandemic. And we're working with local scientists at the Kenyan Agricultural Research Institutes to develop new drought-resistant seed varieties of sorghum, millet and beans, as well as a vitamin-A rich orange-fleshed sweet potato.
It helps us conduct evaluations so we know which of our development efforts are effective and which we need to scale back. The American Evaluation Association recently cited our evaluation policy as a model other federal agencies should follow.
It allows us to partner more effectively with faith-based organizations and private companies. In fact, the OECD recognized USAID as the best amongst peers in driving private sector partnerships and investment.
And through our procurement reform efforts, among the most far-reaching and ambitious across the federal government, we are aggressively seeking new ways to work with host country partners instead of through more costly consultants and contractors. This effort will make our investments more sustainable and hasten our exit from countries, while cutting costs.
For instance, in Afghanistan, we invested directly in the country's Ministry of Health instead of third parties. As a result, we were able to save more than $6 million.
That investment also strengthened the Afghan health ministry, which has expanded access to basic health services from nine percent of the country to 64 percent. Last year, we discovered the true power of those investments; Afghanistan has had the largest gains in life expectancy and largest drops in maternal and child mortality of any country over the last ten years.
In Senegal, we are working with the government-instead of foreign construction firms-to build middle schools at a cost of just $200,000 each. That helps strengthen the government's ability to educate its people, but it is also significantly more cost effective than enlisting a contractor.
When we do invest money in partner governments, we do so with great care. Our Agency has worked incredibly hard to develop assessments that make sure the money we invest in foreign governments is not lost due to poor financial management or corruption.
With your continued support of this effort, we can expand our investments in local systems while building the level of oversight, accountability and transparency that working with a new and more diverse set of partners requires.
The Working Capital Fund we've requested would give us a critical tool in that effort. The Fund would align USAID's acquisition and assistance to USAID's program funding levels through a fee-for-service model, so that our oversight and stewardship is in line with our program and funding responsibilities. The result will be improved procurement planning, more cost effective awards, and better oversight of contracts and grants.
We will continue to support the growth of democracies around the world, especially in the Middle East and North Africa where the transformative events of the Arab Spring are bringing down autocratic regimes and expanding freedom.
State and USAID have requested $770 million for a new Middle East and North Africa Incentive Fund to respond to the historical changes taking place across the region. The Fund will incentivize long-term economic, political and trade reforms-key pillars of stability-by supporting governments that demonstrate a commitment to undergo meaningful change and empower their people. State and USAID will continue to play a major role in helping the people of this region determine their own future.
In Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, USAID continues to work closely with interagency partners including the State and Defense departments, to move toward long-term stability, promote economic growth and support democratic reforms. Civilians are now in the lead in Iraq, helping that country emerge as a stable, sovereign, democratic partner. Our economic assistance seeks to expand economic opportunity and improve the quality of life throughout the country, with a particular focus on health, education and private sector development. With time, Iraq's domestic revenue will continue to take the place of our assistance.
In Afghanistan, we've done work to deliver results despite incredibly difficult circumstances. We established our Accountable Assistance for Afghanistan-or A3-initiative to reduce subcontracting layers, tighten financial controls, enhance project oversight and improve partner vetting. And with consistent feedback from Congress we are focusing on foundational investments in economic growth, reconciliation and reintegration and capacity building, as well as to support progress in governance, rule of law, counternarcotics, agriculture, health and education. We continue to focus on the sustainability of these investments so they ultimately become fiscally viable within the Afghan Government's own budget.
In Pakistan, our relationship is challenging and complex, but it is also critical. Our assistance continues to strengthen democratic institutions and foster stability during a difficult time. Crucial to those efforts are the efforts we make to provide electricity. Over the last two years, we've added as many as 1,000 megawatts to Pakistan's grid, providing power to 7 million households. We've also trained more than 70,000 businesswomen in finance and management and constructed 215 kilometers of new road in South Waziristan, expanding critical access to markets.
Thanks in large part to the bipartisan support we've had for investments in global health, we're on track to provide life-saving assistance to more people than ever before. Although this year's request of $7.9 billion for the Global Health Initiative is lower than FY 2012 levels, falling costs, increased investments by partner governments, and efficiencies we've generated by integrating efforts and strengthening health systems will empower us to reach even more people.
That includes PEPFAR, which will provide life-saving drugs to those around the world afflicted with HIV and expand prevention efforts in those countries where the pandemic continues to grow. We can expand access to treatment and lift a death sentence for six million people in total without additional funds.
We're also increasingly providing treatment for pregnant mothers with HIV/AIDS so we can ensure their children are born healthy. And because of breakthrough research released last year, we know that putting people on treatment actually helps prevention efforts-treatment is prevention. All of these efforts are accelerating progress towards President Obama's call for an AIDS-free generation.
Our request also includes $619 million for the President's Malaria Initiative, an effective way to fight child mortality. In country after country, we've shown that if we can increase the use of cheap bed nets and anti-malarial treatments, we can cut child death-from any cause, not just malaria-by as much as 30 percent. In Ethiopia, the drop in child mortality has been 50 percent.
Last year, we commissioned an external, independent evaluation of the Presidential Malaria Initiative's performances. That report praised the Initiative's effective leadership for providing "excellent and creative program management."
And we will continue to fund critical efforts in maternal and child health, voluntary family planning, nutrition, tuberculosis and neglected tropical diseases-cost-effective interventions that mean the difference between life and death.
Last year, the worst drought in 60 years put more than 13.3 million people in the Horn of Africa at risk. Thanks to the humanitarian response led by the United States-and the investments we made in the past to build resilience against crises just like these-millions were spared from the worst effects of the drought.
But as is well known, providing food aid in a time of crisis is seven to 10 times more costly than investing in better seeds, irrigation and fertilizers. If we can improve the productivity of poor farmers in partner countries, we can help them move beyond the need for food aid. And we can prevent the violence and insecurity that so often accompanies food shortages.
That's why we are requesting $1 billion to continue funding for Feed the Future, President Obama's landmark food security initiative. These investments will help countries develop their own agricultural economies, helping them grow and trade their way out of hunger and poverty, rather than relying on food aid.
The investments we're making are focused on country-owned strategies that can lift smallholder farmers-the majority of whom are women-out of poverty and into the productive economy. All told, the resources we're committing to Feed the Future will help millions of people break out of the ranks of the hungry and impoverished and improve the nutrition of millions of children.
We're also leveraging our dollars at every opportunity, partnering with countries that are investing in their own agricultural potential and helping companies like Walmart, General Mills and PepsiCo bring poor farmers into their supply chain.
These investments are working.
In Haiti-where we continue to make great strides thanks to strong congressional support-we piloted a program designed to increase rice yields in the areas surrounding Port-au-Prince. Even while using fewer seeds and less water and fertilizer, Haitian farmers saw their yields increase by almost 190 percent. The farmers also cut 10 days off their normal harvest and increased profit per acre. Today that program is being expanded to reach farmers throughout the country. These results complement our work to cut cholera deaths to below the international standard. And we worked with the Gates Foundation to help nearly 800,000 Haitians gain access to banking services through their mobile phones.
And in Kenya, Feed the Future has helped over 90,000 dairy farmers-more than a third of whom are women-increase their total income by a combined $14 million last year. This effort is critical, since we know that sustainable agricultural development will only be possible when women and men enjoy the same access to credit, land and new technologies.
Overall, since we began the initiative in 2008, our 20 target countries have increased their total agricultural production by an average of 5.8 percent. That's over eight times higher than the global average increase of 0.7 percent
We all know that a changing climate will hit poor countries hardest. Our programs are aimed at building resilience among the poorest of those populations.
By investing in adaptation efforts, we can help nations cope with these drastic changes. By investing in clean energy, we can help give countries new, efficient ways to expand and grow their economies. And by investing in sustainable landscapes, we can protect and grow rainforests and landscapes that sequester carbon and stop the spread of deserts and droughts.
That work goes hand in hand with our efforts to expand access to clean water to people hit hard by drought. In 2010 alone, those efforts helped more than 1.35 million people get access to clean water and 2 million people access to sanitation facilities. Increasingly, we're working with countries to build water infrastructure and with communities to build rain catchments and wells to sustainably provide clean water. We're currently in the process of finalizing a strategy for our water work designed to focus and concentrate the impact of our work in this crucial area.
Last year, we made some critical decisions about how we strengthen global education. Since 1995, USAID's top recipients have increased primary school enrollment by 15 percent. But even as record numbers of children enter classrooms, we have seen their quality of learning sharply drop. In some countries, 80 percent of schoolchildren can't read a single word at the end of second grade. That's not education; it's daycare.
The strategy we released last year will make sure that our assistance is focused on concrete, tangible outcomes like literacy. By 2015, we will help improve the reading skills of 100 million children.
Thanks to these smart investments, every American can be proud that their tax dollars go towards fighting hunger and easing suffering from famine and drought, expanding freedom for the oppressed and giving children the chance to live and thrive no matter where they're born.
But we shouldn't lose sight that these investments aren't just from the American people-as USAID's motto says-they're for the American people. By fighting hunger and disease, we fight the despair that can fuel violent extremism and conflict. By investing in growth and prosperity, we create stronger trade partners for our country's exports.
And above all, by extending freedom, opportunity and dignity to people throughout the world, we express our core American values and demonstrate American leadership.
Thank you.
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During the time of the Roman Empire the cult of Mercury was widely spread, especially among the Celtic and Germanic peoples. The Celts have their Gaulish Mercury, and the Germans identified him with their Wodan.
The attributes of Mercury are the caduceus (a staff with two intertwined snakes) and a purse (a symbol of his connection with commerce). He is portrayed similarly to Hermes: dressed in a wide cloak, wearing talaria (winged sandals) and petasus (winged hat).
Mercury is also known as Alipes ("with the winged feet").


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San Bernardino County authorities today released recordings of the Feb. 12 911 call that led to the death of murder suspect Christopher Jordan Dorner.
At the time, Dorner was wanted on suspicion of killing Riverside Police officer Michael Crain and an Irvine couple, Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence and the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department was leading a large-scale manhunt for him in the Big Bear Lake area.
Dorner was found hiding in a Big Bear Lake condo by its owners, Jim and Karen Reynolds, who are not identified by name on the newly-released materials. Dorner tied up the Reynolds couple and fled Big Bear Lake. In his escape attempt, he exchanged gunfire with pursuing California Fish and Wildlife wardens, carjacked motorist Rick Heltebrake and ultimately barricaded himself inside a Barton Flats cabin.
Dorner ambushed two sheriff's deputies from inside the cabin, killing deputy Jeremiah MacKay. SWAT deputies and officers from other agencies swarmed the area around the cabin, laying siege to Dorner and finally deploying pyrotechnic tear gas grenades. The cabin ignited and deputies heard a single gunshot from inside the building.
The Riverside County Coroner reported Dorner died from a single gunshot wound to the head.


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The Effect of the Hemobag® Ultrafiltration System on Blood Conservation and Coagulation After Cardiopulmonary Bypass
This study has been completed.
Maine Medical Center
Global Blood Resources, LLC
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Robert Kramer, MD, Maine Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 9, 2011
Last updated: March 23, 2016
Last verified: March 2016
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This proposal is designed to mitigate hemodilution (blood diluted with an electrolyte solution) and loss of plasma proteins responsible for normal blood clotting as well as platelets at the completion of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). The Hemobag® system is a device qualified by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Many cardiac centers, such as Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood NJ are using the Hemobag® system for Jehovah's witnesses and other patients who go to that center for bloodless cardiac surgery (cardiac surgery performed without the use of blood or blood products). The system is designed to filter excessive water from blood left in the heart lung machine (cardiopulmonary bypass) after it is separated from the patient during the performance of cardiac surgery. Consequently the likelihood of excessive post-operative bleeding and transfusion with allogeneic blood (blood bank blood from donors) is decreased.
|Blood Coagulation Disorders
|Device: method of returning residual CPB blood ( Hemobag®)
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|The Effect of the Hemobag® Ultrafiltration System on Blood Conservation and Coagulation After Cardiopulmonary Bypass
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Further study details as provided by Robert Kramer, MD, Maine Medical Center:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Chest catheter drainage [ Time Frame: Total amount for the first 24 hours postoperative ]Chest catheters are placed in the mediastinum and sometimes pleural space(s) to collect shed mediastinal blood in the first 24 hours post operative cardiac surgery
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Blood products transfused (RBC's, platelets, FFP) [ Time Frame: All blood products transfused during index admission, an expected average of 7 days, with the exception of preoperative transfusions. ]These blood components can be a metric of the success of achieving a satisfactory coagulation status.
- Acute kidney injury (AKI) [ Time Frame: All creatinines will be recorded and assessed during the entire index admission in order to compare postoperative to preoperative baseline creatinine, an expected average of 7 days. ]Using the AKIN definition (Acute Kidney Injury Network), serial postoperative creatinines will reflect the presence of AKI when compared with the baseline creatinine.
- Mortality [ Time Frame: 30 days postoperative ]Patients will be followed for 30 days post operative
- Stroke [ Time Frame: Index admission postoperative until the time of discharge, an expected average of 7 days. ]Any neurological defect according to Society of Thoracic Surgery (STS) definition
- Vasoactive drugs [ Time Frame: Any intravenous vasoactive drug being used at the 48 hour time point postoperative ]This metric is a surrogate for low output failure and /or vasoplegia depending upon whether inotropes or vasoconstrictors are used.
|Study Start Date:
|September 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Hemobag®
Hemobag® method of returning residual CPB blood (study group)
Device: method of returning residual CPB blood ( Hemobag®)
The Hemobag® is a collection reservoir used to facilitate ultrafiltration of the CPB circuit after the patient has been disconnected from CPB).
Other Name: Hemobag®
No Intervention: cell saver
Standard method of returning the residual pump volume to the patient as washed, centrifuged cells (control group)
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
All adult cardiac surgery patients (age 18 or older) Cardiopulmonary bypass
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients under age 18 Off pump surgery
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01435304
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01435304
|United States, Maine
|Maine Medical Center
|Portland, Maine, United States, 04102
Sponsors and Collaborators
Maine Medical Center
Global Blood Resources, LLC
|Principal Investigator:
|Robert Kramer, MD
|Maine Medical Center
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Robert Kramer, MD, Director of Research and Quality Improvement Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Maine Medical Center
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|NCT01435304 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|September 9, 2011
|Last Updated:
|March 23, 2016
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Blood Coagulation Disorders
Hemostatic Disorders
Hematologic Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Hemorrhagic Disorders
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017