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Get an overview of this hotelSuburban hotel with free airport shuttle and restaurant
Popular property highlights
Situated in the business district, this hotel is within 3 mi (5 km) of Daniel Webster College, Holman Stadium, and Florence Hyde Speare Memorial Museum. Anheuser-Busch Brewery and Merrimack Premium Outlets are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Hotel Features
A restaurant, an indoor pool, and a health club are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free airport shuttle are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a coffee shop/café, and a spa tub are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 230 rooms offer free WiFi and free wired Internet, flat-screen TVs with digital channels, and comforts like pillowtop beds and premium bedding. Other amenities available to guests include room service, hydromassage showerheads, and coffee makers.
Guest Highlights
- Good location
- Breakfast and onsite restaurant
- Convenient parking
- Helpful staff
- Clean guestrooms
- Overall room comfort
Crowne Plaza Nashua
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
In addition to an indoor pool, Crowne Plaza Nashua provides a health club, a spa tub, and a sauna. The hotel offers a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 3.5-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 11000 square feet (1022 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers multilingual staff, gift shops/newsstands, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests at scheduled times. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Crowne Plaza Nashua is a smoke-free property.
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Free parking nearby
- Free WiFi
- 24-hour business center
- Wedding services
- Smoke-free property
- Express check-out
- Television in common areas
- Health club
- Sauna
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Conference space
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
- Total number of rooms - 230
- Number of floors - 7
- Hair salon
- ATM/banking
- Free airport transportation
- Indoor pool
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Multilingual staff
- Coffee shop or café
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Meeting rooms 4
- Conference space size (feet) - 11000
- Free self parking
- Conference space size (meters) - 1022
- Number of meeting rooms - 13
- Spa tub
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Microwave (on request)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Free parking nearby
Room Amenities
- Premium bedding
- Pillowtop mattress
- Hydromassage showerhead
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Daily housekeeping
- Microwave (on request)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Shower/tub combination
- Digital TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Premium TV channels
- Coffee/tea maker
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Desk
- Room service (limited hours)
- Free wired Internet
- Free newspaper
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 10 AM.
Speakers Corner - This restaurant serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available. Happy hour is offered.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a health club and a sauna.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Snowboarding nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Snow tubing nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Ski lessons available nearby
- Ski equipment rental shops nearby
Spa Services
- Manicures and pedicures
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time ends at 3 AM
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 20.0 per day.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 9 and USD 19 per person (approximately)
- Refrigerator fee: USD 5.00 per day
- In-room microwave fee: USD 5.00 per day
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 20.0 per day
Hotel Name
- Crowne Plaza Nashua Hotel
- Crowne Plaza Hotel Nashua
- Crowne Plaza Nashua
- Nashua Crowne Plaza
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This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details 72 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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AWACS: NATO's 'Eyes In The Sky'
NATO operates a fleet of Boeing E-3A 'Sentry' Airborne Warning & Control System (AWACS) aircraft, which provide the Alliance with an immediately available airborne command and control (C2), air and maritime surveillance and battle-space management capability. NATO Air Base (NAB) Geilenkirchen, Germany, is home to 16 AWACS aircraft.
- NATO operates a fleet of Boeing E-3A 'Sentry' Airborne Warning & Control System (AWACS) aircraft equipped with long-range radar and passive sensors capable of detecting air and surface contacts over large distances.
- The NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force (NAEW&C Force) is one of the few military assets that is actually owned and operated by NATO.
- It conducts a wide range of missions such as air policing, support to counter-terrorism, evacuation operations, embargo, initial entry and crisis response.
- Under normal circumstances, the aircraft operates for about eight hours, at 30,000 feet (9,150 metres) and covers a surveillance area of more than 120,000 square miles (310,798 square kilometres).
- The fleet is involved in the reassurance measures following the Russia-Ukraine crisis, and in the tailored assurance measures for Turkey against the background of the Syrian crisis.
- NATO AWACS aircraft are also providing surveillance and situational awareness to the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, thereby making the skies safer.
- AWACS played an important role in NATO operations such as in the United States after 9/11, in Libya and in Afghanistan. It also provided air support to secure NATO summits or international sporting events.
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Role and responsibilities
The NE-3A is a modified Boeing 707 equipped with long-range radar and passive sensors capable of detecting air and surface contacts over large distances. Information collected by AWACS can be transmitted directly from the aircraft to other users on land, at sea or in the air.
The NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force (NAEW&C Force) is the Alliance's largest collaborative venture and is an example of what NATO member countries can achieve by pooling resources and working together in a truly multinational environment.
The NAEW&C Force performs a unique and valuable role for the Alliance by conducting a wide range of missions such as air policing, support to counter-terrorism, consequence management, non-combatant evacuation operations (NEO), embargo, initial entry, crisis response and demonstrative force operations.
In recent years, the Force has been deployed on increasingly complex and demanding tactical missions, including:
- support to maritime operations;
- close air support (CAS);
- airspace management;
- combat search and rescue (CSAR);
- disaster relief; and
- counter-piracy.
Critical asset for crisis management
Since it commenced flight operations in 1982, the NAEW&C Force has proven to be a key asset in crisis-management and peace-support operations.
Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, aircraft from the NATO E-3A Component (NAB Geilenkirchen) deployed to eastern Turkey to help reinforce NATO's southern flank during the war. Operation Anchor Guard included monitoring air and sea traffic in the eastern Mediterranean and providing airborne surveillance along the Iraqi-Turkish border. The mission was conducted from August 1990 to March 1991.
For most of the 1990s, aircraft from both the NATO and United Kingdom's AEW&C fleets operated extensively in the Balkans, supporting United Nations resolutions and Alliance missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo during Operations Deliberate Force and Allied Force. AWACS aircraft from the French Air Force (Armée de l'air) and the US Air Force also helped achieve the objectives of these missions.
In early 2001, the Force also supported NATO's defensive deployment to south-eastern Turkey during Operation Display Deterrence.
In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001, NATO E-3A aircraft were deployed to the mainland US to help defend North America against further attacks during Operation Eagle Assist. This represented the first time in Alliance history that NATO assets were deployed in support of the defence of one of its member nations.
Since 2007, the NAEW&C Force has been used successfully in support of NATO's counter-terrorism activities in the Mediterranean Sea during Operation Active Endeavour.
Since January 2011, aircraft from NAB Geilenkirchen have been deploying to Afghanistan to support the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) by providing air surveillance coverage as part of Operation Afghan Assist. In Afghanistan AWACS aircraft conducted air surveillance, tactical battle management functions such as support and control of friendly aircraft involved in close air support, battlefield air interdiction, combat search and rescue, reconnaissance, and tactical air transport.
During Operation Unified Protector, the NAEW&C Force also performed the crucial function of commanding and controlling all Alliance air assets operating over Libya. This included the issuing of real-time tactical orders and taskings to NATO fighter aircraft, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft, air-to-air refuellers or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). NATO E-3A aircraft also supported Allied ships and submarines enforcing the maritime arms embargo against Libya by providing an aerial maritime surveillance capability.
On 25 September 2014, the last NATO AWACS aircraft returned to its home base in Geilenkirchen from Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan. NATO had decided that AWACS aircraft would not be required for the Resolute Support Mission standing up on 1 January 2015 as the new mission focused on training, advising and assisting Afghan forces.
On 1 December 2015, NATO foreign ministers took steps to further the Alliance's adaptation to security challenges from the south and agreed on tailored assurance measures for Turkey that are meant to contribute to de-escalation in the region. This support will include AWACS surveillance flights; increased naval presence in the eastern Mediterranean; Standing Naval Forces port calls; participation in exercises; enhanced air policing; and maritime patrol aircraft flights.
On 11 February 2016, NATO defence ministers decided in principle that NATO AWACS surveillance planes will backfill national AWACS capabilities in support of the international coalition to counter ISIL. This decision was made in response to request from the United States. NATO military planners are currently working out the details.
Also on 11 February 2016, a significant milestone was reached when a NATO AWACS aircraft completed the 1,000th mission in support of NATO reassurance measures. These measures are a series of land, sea and air activities in, on and around the territory of NATO Allies in Central and Eastern Europe, designed to reassure their populations and deter potential aggression. They are taken in response to Russia's aggressive actions to NATO's east.
In April 2016, the Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD) provided direction and guidance to NATO's Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (AFSC) project group regarding how NATO should step into the AFSC concept stage for this potential follow-on to the AWACS capability.
In July 2016, Allies agreed in principle to enhance the Alliance's contribution to the efforts of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL by providing direct NATO AWACS support to increase the Coalition's situational awareness.
The first NATO AWACS flight in support of the Coalition fighting ISIL took place on 20 October 2016. The aircraft support the Coalition's overall air picture by providing surveillance and situational awareness, thereby making the skies safer.
NATO's AWACS aircraft do not coordinate Coalition air strikes or provide command and control for fighter aircraft. AWACS aircraft only fly over international airspace or over Turkey. AWACS can detect aircraft hundreds of kilometres away so they can monitor airspace in Iraq and Syria from inside Turkey. This is an important contribution to the counter-ISIL effort and a clear signal of NATO's determination to help fight terrorism.
As it stands, NATO's E-3 AWACS fleet is expected to retire around 2025. In July 2016, Allies agreed to continue modernising NATO AWACS to extend the life of the E-3 fleet until 2035, after which additional lifetime extensions are no longer practical. The Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (AFSC) initiative has been established by NATO to investigate possibilities for a follow-on to the E-3 AWACS fleet, with a view to avoiding a potential capability gap in 2035. Based on high-level military requirements, Allies decided to collectively begin defining options for future NATO surveillance and control capabilities.
On 16 February 2017, defence ministers launched the next stage of AFSC, under which NATO will study technical concepts for a follow-on capability for NATO's AWACS. These studies will help inform potential development and procurement programmes to provide a follow-on capability and avoid any gap. AFSC is working to maintain NATO's information advantage when AWACS retires around the year 2035. AFSC contributes to addressing challenges from NATO's southern neighbourhood, and will support Alliance defence and deterrence against any threat.
In May 2017, Allies agreed to increase their support to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIL with more AWACS flying hours helping to improve airspace management for the Coalition.
Protecting NATO populations
As a consequence of the 9/11 attacks, NATO governments requested the air surveillance and control capability offered by the NAEW&C Force to assist with security for major public occasions.
These high-visibility events have included the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Greece, the 2006 World Cup Football Championship in Germany, the 2012 European Football Championship in Poland as well as important meetings held by other international organisations such as the 2010 Nobel Prize award ceremony in Sweden , the 2013 Dutch royal handover in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague, the Netherlands.
Further, the NAEW&C fleets have consistently provided support to NATO summit meetings.
Working mechanism
Multinational cooperation is the key characteristic of the NAEW&C Programme Management Organisation (NAPMO). Currently, the 16 full NAPMO nations are: Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey and the United States.
The United Kingdom exercises limited participation as a NAPMO member, but its fleet of E-3D aircraft is an integral part of the NAEW&C Force. France has an observer role and maintains continual coordination to ensure its E-3F aircraft remain interoperable with the other E-3 fleets. France also often assists in coordinated operations with the NAEW&C Force.
The NAEW&C Force Headquarters is co-located with NAB Geilenkirchen and exercises operational control over the Force, consisting of two operational units:
- the E-3A Component based at NAB Geilenkirchen, which operates the 16 NATO-owned NE-3A aircraft (the squadrons are manned by integrated international crews from 15 nations); and
- the E-3D Component based at Royal Air Force (RAF) Waddington, United Kingdom, which operates its six Boeing E-3D aircraft (the component is manned by RAF personnel only).
The Force also maintains three forward-operating bases (FOBs) at Konya in Turkey, Aktion in Greece, Trapani in Italy, and a forward-operating location (FOL) at Ørland, Norway.
The AWACS programme, including execution of modernisation projects, is managed on a day-to-day basis by the NAEW&C Programme Management Agency (NAPMA), which is located in Brunssum, the Netherlands. The agency is staffed by military officers seconded to the agency and by civilian officials from the nations participating in the programme. In 2011, the NAPMA General Manager was assigned by the NAPMO nations as the Technical Airworthiness Authority (TAA) for the NE-3A fleet. Supported by a dedicated engineering office, the TAA shares responsibilities for airworthiness certification, together with the NAEW&C Force Commander, who is responsible operations and support of the fleet.
How the NAEW&C Force works
All AWACS aircraft undergo continuous modifications for modernisation and for operations and support. An NE-3A aircraft modified under the NATO Mid-Term Programme has a standard crew of 16, while the original E-3D requires a standard crew of 18. Whatever the variant, the flight and mission crews are highly-trained men and women whose expertise covers all areas of flight operations, including battle space management, weapons control, surveillance control, data link management and the technical aspects of communications, data systems and mission radar.
Under normal circumstances, the aircraft can operate for about eight hours (and longer with air-to-air refuelling) at 30,000 feet (9,150 metres).
The active surveillance sensors are located in the radar dome ("rotodome"), which makes the NE-3A such a uniquely recognisable aircraft. This structure rotates once every ten seconds and provides the NE-3A with 360-degree radar coverage that can detect aircraft out to a distance of more than 215 nautical miles (400 kilometres).
One aircraft flying at 30,000 feet has a surveillance area coverage of more than 120,000 square miles and three aircraft operating in overlapping, coordinated orbits can provide unbroken radar coverage of the whole of Central Europe.
The aircraft is able to track and identify potentially hostile aircraft operating at low altitudes, as well as provide fighter control of Allied aircraft. It can simultaneously track and identify maritime contacts, and provide coordination support to Allied surface forces.
AWACS programme overview
During the 1960s, it became clear that military aircraft could no longer fly high enough to avoid surface-to-air missiles. To survive in an increasingly lethal air defence environment, aircraft were forced down to levels little higher than tree-top. By the 1970s, the requirement to detect high-speed combat aircraft with low-level penetration capability made it necessary to augment NATO's system of ground-based radars with new means.
The NATO military authorities determined that an Airborne Early Warning (AEW) capability would provide the key to meeting the challenge. The operational requirement for the NATO AEW system stressed the need to detect small, high-speed intruder aircraft at long range. The need to detect maritime surface targets (such as ships and boats) was also specified because of the geographical regions where the AEW aircraft would have to operate. The inherent mobility and flexibility of the system, especially for control function, were also foreseen by NATO planners as providing air, maritime, and land force commanders with an enhanced command and control (C2) capability. The creation of a NATO AEW Force was therefore designed to make a significant contribution to the Alliance's deterrent posture.
In December 1978, the NATO Defence Planning Committee approved the joint acquisition of 18 aircraft based on the US Air Force (USAF) Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), to be operated as an Alliance-owned Airborne Early Warning System. In addition to the delivery of the 18 E-3A aircraft between February 1982 and May 1985, the NAEW&C programme included the upgrade of 40 NATO Air Defence Ground Environment (NADGE) sites and the establishment of a main operating base (MOB) at Geilenkirchen, Germany, along with three FOBs and an FOL.
Originally designed as an elevated radar platform, the NATO E-3A has constantly evolved to address the realities of geopolitical change and NATO's new mission over the last 30 years. In emphasising the control aspect of the AEW&C, the NE-3A has become an essential part of air battle management and has continued to remain operationally relevant through successive modernisation programmes involving state-of-the-art engineering and manufacturing developments. From the Initial NAEW&C Acquisition Programme through the Near-Term Programme and on through the Mid-Term Programme, the NAPMO nations have collectively spent/committed, for acquisition and follow-on support, in excess of US$6.8 billion – prohibitively expensive for any single country, but realisable through the collective contribution of the NAPMO nations.
Today, NATO is moving forward with a new and improved method of planning and conducting operations. To support the dynamic NATO transformation process, NAPMO is committed to adopt new business approaches and enter into cooperative programmes. The purpose is to expedite the fielding of operational capabilities in response to emerging requirements at a cost that takes into consideration today's economic realities. In that sense, efforts are underway for the next phase of NAEW&C enhancements, which will allow the Force to continue fulfilling its operational mandate well into the future.
To be completed by 2018, the Follow-on Upgrade Programme (FUP) primarily aims to enhance the identification system (Mode 5/Enhanced Mode S) and replace the analogue cockpit with modern, digital technology (known as a "glass" cockpit). Communication systems which use Internet Protocol (IP) are also being developed and fielded to support text communications with other command and control (C2) assets.
NATO AWACS will continue to be modernised and extended in service until 2035. By 2035, the Alliance needs to have a follow-on capability to the E-3 AWACS. Based on high-level military requirements, Allies decided in July 2016 to collectively start the process of defining options for future NATO surveillance and control capabilities and defence ministers agreed in February 2017 to launch the next stage of the Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (AFSC) initiative, under which NATO will study technical concepts for a follow-on capability for NATO's AWACS.


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Founded in 1973 and located on Napa Valley's famed Silverado Trail, Conn Creek is a boutique winery focused on crafting the highest quality Cabernet Sauvignon. Conn Creek's expertise is derived from its unique sourcing, as one of the only wineries to source Cabernet Sauvignon grapes from nearly all of the Napa Valley's distinct sub-appellations. The sourcing acts as a spice rack for our flagship Anthology Cabernet Sauvignon. Conn Creek also produces, in very limited quantities, single appellation Cabernet Sauvignons as part of our AVA Series, choosing the standout appellations of each vintage. In the Napa Valley Series, an approachable Napa Cabernet Sauvignon, as well as limited limited-release Cabernet Franc, Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc round out the portfolio.
Conn Creek has received international acclaim for our one-of-a-kind education intensive Barrel Blending Experience®. Guests are invited to taste Cabernet Sauvignon from the barrel from many of Napa Valley's appellations, from Calistoga to Carneros, before becoming "winemaker for a day" and blending their own bottle to take home. The Barrel Blending Experience® is offered by appointment Thursdays-Tuesdays.
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Within the Napa Valley appellation, 14 regions have emerged that possess distinctive microclimates and terrains, imprinting recognizable characteristics on the grapes grown within them. These regions are identified as American Viticultural Areas. Conn Creek Winery's AVA Series tasting provides guests with the unique opportunity to compare, side by side, the differences these regions impart through 100% based Cabernet Sauvignon.Wine Education: Conn Creek Winery prides itself on providing a detailed education about our vineyard sources and winemaking techniques with every tasting experience.
Wine clubs are a great way to stay connected to your favorite wineries.
To join the wine club, visit www.conncreek.com or call 707-963-9100.
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Once a year the rarest new Napa Valley wines become available under one roof at Premiere Napa Valley. Wineries throughout the Napa Valley are given one task to participate: create a one-of-a-kind wine for this event to be purchased by one lucky bidder. This event is only open to select members of the wine trade and the successful bidder is the sole owner of this unique wine.
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Non Extensive PTB
An impression on my X-Ray Results shows non extensive PTB. What does it means?
When a person has active tuberculosis (TB) disease of the lung, the TB disease can damage parts of the lung. Some of the abnormal areas caused by the infection can be described as infiltrates (areas of patchy haziness), nodules (small round densities), or cavities. If a person does not receive treatment for TB of the lung, the TB germs can spread in the same lung or to the other lung and cause more disease.
Radiologist and clinicians sometimes classify the amount of abnormal areas of lung as non-extensive, moderate, or extensive disease. Non-extensive disease involves smaller areas of the lung, usually less than one-third of the total lung area. Extensive disease usually involves larger areas and can include both lungs. Once a person has received treatment for TB, these abnormal areas usually improve or become stable (not get worse). Your CXR showed non-extensive disease, so not too much of your lung is abnormal. Since classifications can vary, you may want to ask your doctor to show you the abnormal areas on your CXR. Your doctor will want to follow your CXR with your treatment.
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Pharmacokinetics (PK) and Safety of 2 Different Doses of Lopinavir/Ritonavir in in HIV/Tuberculosis (TB) Co-infected Patients Receiving Rifampicin Containing Anti-tuberculosis Therapy
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To assess safety, efficacy and impact of Lopinavir/ritonavir 400/100mg bid or Lopinavir/ritonavir 600/150mg bid in combination with rifampicin-containing anti-TB therapy.
|HIV Infections Tuberculosis
|Drug: LPV/r
|Phase 2
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
|Official Title:
|A Pilot Study of the Pharmacokinetics and Safety of Lopinavir/Ritonavir 400/100mg Bid Versus Lopinavir/Ritonavir 600/150 mg BID Combined With Nucleoside Analogue Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors in HIV/TB Co-infected Patients Receiving Rifampicin Containing Anti-tuberculosis Therapy
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Drug Information available for: Ritonavir LopinavirU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- plasma concentration level [ Time Frame: 12 hours ]Percentage of plasma concentration level above an acceptable lower limit (lopinavir Cmin > 1 mg/L) at steady-state.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- toxicity [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]Toxicity of combined treatment for TB and HIV infections - the established DAIDS/ACTG toxicity grading scale of clinical and laboratory toxicities will be used.
- CD4 [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]CD4 response (mean CD4 rise from baseline)
- HIV RNA [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]HIV RNA response (% < 50 copies/ml at week 12, 24 and 48)
- genotypic resistant [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]The emergence of NRTI and/or lopinavir genotypic resistant and its clinically
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|Study Completion Date:
|December 2015
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|December 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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boosted LPV/r 400/100 mg BID + 2 NRTI
Drug: LPV/r
LPV/r 400/100 mg BID + 2 NRTI for arm 1 (total 48 weeks) LPV/r 600/150 mg BID + 2 NRTI for arm 2 (total 48 weeks)
Experimental: 2
boosted LPV/r 600/150 mg BID + 2 NRTI
Drug: LPV/r
LPV/r 400/100 mg BID + 2 NRTI for arm 1 (total 48 weeks) LPV/r 600/150 mg BID + 2 NRTI for arm 2 (total 48 weeks)
Detailed Description:
Fixed dose combination of d4T+3TC+NVP (GPOvir) is widely used in Thai HIV infected since June 2002. The prevalence of NNRTI resistance has increased since 2005. Tuberculosis can develop following NNRTI-based regimen failure or after introduction of a new salvage regimen with a boosted PI (immune recovery syndrome). Although, Efavirenz based HAART is preferred in TB/HIV with rifampicin containing antituberculosis. However, Efavirenz could not be used in case of NNRTI failure, intolerance or toxicity. It remains unknown how to optimally treat HIV /TB in populations in which rifampicin has to be used. Moreover, Rifabutin which is recommended when use concomitant with boosted PI4, 5, is not feasible in Thailand and other developing countries due to cost, toxicity and dosing considerations. If ritonavir-boosted LPV demonstrates suitable pharmacokinetics, and is well tolerated, this regimen might prove extremely useful and could be widely implemented. LPV/r is potent and widely available boosted PI in National Health System in Thailand. We therefore believe that there is a strong rationale and impetus for the study of LPV/r 400/100 mg bid versus LPV/r 600/150 mg bid as a boosted-PI combination that in the presence of RMP, is able to produce a satisfactory PK profile associated with adequate antiretroviral potency, tolerability and efficacy .
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Confirmed HIV positive after voluntary counseling and testing
- Aged >18-60years of age
- ARV naïve and NNRTI failure ( PI naive)
- CD4+ cell count of <350 cells/mm3 at the time of diagnosed TB
- ALT <5 times ULN
- Serum creatinine <1.4 mg/dl
- Hemoglobin >8 mg/L
- TB is diagnosed and planned to receive stable doses of rifampicin-containing anti-TB therapy for at least a 2 week period after initiation of ART
- No other active OI (CDC class C event), except oral candidiasis or disseminated MAC
- Able to provide written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Current use of steroid (except short course steroid for IRIS) and other immunosuppressive agents.
- Current use of any prohibited medications related to drug pharmacokinetics.
- Patients with current alcohol or illicit substance use that in the opinion of the site Principal Investigator would conflict with any aspect of the conduct of the trial.
- Unlikely to be able to remain in follow-up for the protocol defined period.
- Patients with proven or suspected acute hepatitis. Patients with chronic viral hepatitis are eligible provided ALT, AST < 5 x ULN.
- Karnofsky performance score <30%
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01138202
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01138202
|HIV-NAT Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center
|Bangkok, Thailand, 10330
Sponsors and Collaborators
The HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration
Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health Thailand
|Principal Investigator:
|Anchalee Avihingsanon, MD
|The HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration
More Information
Additional Information:
Keywords provided by The HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|The HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01138202 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 4, 2010
|Last Updated:
|February 19, 2016
Keywords provided by The HIV Netherlands Australia Thailand Research Collaboration:
rifampicin containing anti-tuberculosis therapy
Pharmacokinetics and safety of Lopinavir/ritonavir with rifampicin containing anti-tuberculosis therapy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Mycobacterium Infections
Actinomycetales Infections
Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections
Bacterial Infections
Antitubercular Agents
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Antibiotics, Antitubercular
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This family-friendly Alcudia resort is located by the sea, within 2 mi (3 km) of S'Albufereta, Auditori d'Alcudia, and Pollentia Monographic Museum. San Jaume Church and Plaza de Toros are also within 2 mi (3 km).
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Along with 3 restaurants, this resort has 2 indoor pools and 4 outdoor pools. Self parking is free. Additionally, a full-service spa, 3 poolside bars, and 5 bars/lounges are onsite.
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All-inclusive room rates at PortBlue Club Pollentia Resort are available. These rates are higher because they include onsite food and beverages in the room rate (some restrictions may apply).
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Some rates at PortBlue Club Pollentia Resort are all-inclusive. These rates include onsite meals and beverages, and may include taxes and gratuities. Additional charges may apply for meals at some restaurants, special dinners and dishes, certain beverages, and other amenities.
PortBlue Club Pollentia Resort features a full-service spa, 4 outdoor swimming pools, and 2 indoor swimming pools along with outdoor tennis courts and a sauna. Dining is available at one of the resort's 3 restaurants. The property also offers a snack bar/deli and a grocery/convenience store. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include 3 poolside bars and 5 bars/lounges. Public areas are equipped with wireless Internet access (surcharge).
Event facilities measuring 7158 square feet (665 square meters) include a conference center. This family-friendly resort also offers a children's pool, a fitness center, and spa services. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- 24-hour front desk
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Children's club (free)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 532
- Number of floors - 2
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Number of bars/lounges - 5
- Number of poolside bars - 3
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Concierge services
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Arcade/game room
- Gift shops or newsstand
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Number of indoor pools - 2
- Number of outdoor pools - 4
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Shopping on site
- Hair salon
- Airport transportation
- Children's club
- Luggage storage
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
- ATM/banking
- Meeting rooms 5
- Multilingual staff
- Terrace
- Conference space size (feet) - 7158
- Conference space size (meters) - 665
- Free self parking
- Outdoor tennis courts - 6
- Year Built 1986
- Sauna
- Spa services on site
- Children's pool
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Grocery/convenience store
- Pool umbrellas
- Garden
- Porter/bellhop
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Conference center
- Steam room
Available in all rooms: Wireless internet access ( EUR 9.90 per night )
Available in some public areas: Wireless internet access ( EUR 9.90 per night )
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Refrigerator
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Satellite TV service
- In-room safe (surcharge)
- Sofa bed
- Access via exterior corridors
- Ceiling fan
- Phone
- Flat-panel TV
- WiFi (surcharge)
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- In-room massage available
- Turndown service
- Bidet
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Desk
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7:30 AM and 10 AM.
Denario - This buffet restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Ancora - This buffet restaurant serves breakfast and dinner.
Grill Aquarius - This restaurant serves lunch only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Nearby Things to Do
4 outdoor swimming pools and 2 indoor swimming pools are on site. In addition to a children's pool, other recreational amenities include outdoor tennis courts, a sauna, and a fitness center.
Guests under 13 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool or health club.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Snorkeling nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Basketball on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Miniature golf on site
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Mountain biking on site
- Pilates classes on site
- Racquetball/squash on site
- Scooter/moped rentals on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Tennis lessons on site
- Volleyball on site
- Water skiing on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Golf lessons available nearby
Spa Services
The onsite spa has massage/treatment rooms. Services include massages, facials, body scrubs, and body treatments. The spa is equipped with a sauna, a spa tub, a steam room, and Turkish bath/hammam.
The spa is open daily. Guests under 16 years old are not allowed in the spa.
- Steam room in spa
- Minimum age to access spa is 16
- Sauna in spa
- Spa tub in spa
- Massages
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body scrubs
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
- Accessible bathroom
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Check-in time ends at 8 PM
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
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Check-out time is noon
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 1.65 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 16 years of age.
- Resort fee
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 14 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: EUR 9.90 per night (rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: EUR 9.90 per night (rates may vary)
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 92.00 per person (roundtrip)
- Late check-out fee: EUR 25
- In-room safe fee: EUR 2.14 per day
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- Club Pollentia
- Club Pollentia Resort
- Club Resort Pollentia
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- Pollentia Club Resort
- Pollentia Club Resort Alcudia
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- Pollentia Club Resort Alcudia, Majorca
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- PortBlue Club Pollentia Resort & Spa Alcudia Majorca
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Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2500, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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SAN PABLO -- As the buzzer sounds to announce the substitution, a handful of Mission College basketball supporters chant: "Gabbi! Gabbi! Gabbi!"
Most of the 50 or so onlookers in the dingy, yellow-tinted gym briefly look up from their chili-cheese nachos and smartphones, and then back down. A few whisper and point at No. 42, marveling at her size.
It was the debut of Gabrielle Ludwig, and at 6 feet 8, 220 pounds, with tattoos on her arms and legs, she stands out in the Contra Costa College gym. At 50, the Fremont resident is about three decades older than her Santa Clara community college teammates and opponents -- and much taller.
What many at the 19th annual Comet Classic did not know was Ludwig had only been a woman since July, when she had a sex change operation. They didn't know the long path traveled by the father and Desert Storm veteran, and how she may be the first transsexual athlete to play college sports as both genders.
While her coach, athletic director and supporters applaud Ludwig's addition to the team, opponents and their followers question whether it's fair.
As a young man, Ludwig briefly played at an East Coast community college and in pregame warm-ups before the Dec. 1 tournament championship game, she displayed a natural shooting touch.
"In time," said Corey Cafferata, her coach, "she will be the most dangerous player in the state."
Ludwig declined to comment for this story, but spoke to a USA Today reporter.
"If the example I can set for the kids who are transgenders in high school, for the people who hate transgender people and for those learning to deal with transgenders, transsexuals, if they see me as a normal person and we are not the boogeyman and love life and raise kids just like you," said Ludwig, a scientist at Roche Molecular Diagnostics in Pleasanton, "maybe some of this mystery of who these people are will be taken away and there can be more blending into society. People are afraid of what they don't know. I am willing to put myself out there. It was not like that before. It was just about playing basketball. It's about more because I see an injustice."
Birth certificate
Coach Cafferata knows how to persevere and overcome challenges.
The diabetic, who injects himself with five insulin shots a day, took over the Mission College women's basketball team in 2009, a program that had folded three times in seven years and was enduring a 90-game losing streak. He has led the team to two straight playoff seasons.
It was at a team fundraiser in August when Cafferata learned of Ludwig's interest in playing basketball again. She had briefly played for Nassau Community College as Robert John Ludwig in 1980 but was not sure if she was eligible as a woman.
With the help of athletic director Mike Perez and Cafferata, Ludwig enrolled and the trio learned California Community College Athletic Association bylaws had a clear policy that gender was determined by birth certificate.
To change one's birth certificate in California, one must petition the court and show medical confirmation of a sex change. On Nov. 30, an Alameda County Superior Court judge declared Gabrielle Monika Ludwig a woman and ordered her a new female birth certificate.
She could not only play women's basketball, she got her full two years of eligibility reinstated because her 1980 season counted only to her male basketball tenure.
For the athletic association, which oversees 14 state conferences, Ludwig was not the first transsexual player to suit up.
Two years ago, a Cosumnes River College woman, formerly a man, played a season for the Sacramento-area women's basketball team with little fanfare.
Dale Murray, commissioner for the Coast Conference, which oversees Mission College and other South Bay community colleges, said he was alerted of Ludwig's efforts to play in August and has seen little controversy.
"She just happens to be a bit taller than everyone else," he said. "What if she was born a female and 6-foot-5? She's a little older than other community college players, so that's probably to her disadvantage."
Logan McKechnie, an attorney and commissioner of the Central Valley Conference, said competitive fairness has nothing to do with her eligibility, but it's a tough question.
"That's an awfully large women and I'm not sure how to answer that because all sports have unique individuals in them. Is it fair that all professional sports athletes have to face Peyton Manning each year?" he said. "I don't think, frankly, fairness enters into it."
Helen Carroll, sports project director for the San Francisco-based National Center for Lesbian Rights, helped the NCAA craft recent amendments to its eligibility bylaws for transgender and transsexual athletes to incorporate testosterone treatments.
"I just see it as a squad with a low post player over 6 feet," said the former national championship University of North Carolina-Asheville women's basketball coach. "There are hundreds of female basketball players that tall. My opinion is that people making comments about it being unfair don't understand the transgender athlete."
Is it fair?
Competitive fairness was a hot topic during Ludwig's debut.
With 7:59 left in the first half, Ludwig checked into the game to the elation of Mission College supporters.
Ricardo Thompson, 45, of Silver Lake, follows the team around the state to watch his niece Alexis Madayag-Thompson. The guard is deaf and draws inspiration from her transsexual teammate.
"I think it's great. It revolutionizes sports a little bit to open-mindedness," Thompson said.
Girlfriend Maryann Pondevida, 42, of La Palma, said Ludwig has rights like all the other players.
"If she's cleared to play, what's the problem?"
Three rows down in the stands, Ray Galli, 58, of Folsom, watched the game with a friend whose daughter played on the opposing team.
"It ain't right," Galli said. "For one, she's 50 years old, and No. 2 ... come on, these girls out here are young. Start your own league if you want to do that."
Galli said he would pull his daughter off a team if Ludwig tried to join it.
"I don't want to see a 50-year-old man in the locker room," Galli said. "I mean, you're born a guy, right? I'm not sure if all the parts are there or what.
"I don't support gay rights, but I'm not going to condemn them, it's their own choice," Galli said. "But this isn't about personal rights, this is a team."
In about seven minutes of action that night, Ludwig made three free throws, while missing all five shots from the field. A foot above than the tallest competitor, she grabbed three rebounds in her team's 69-62 loss.
"Obviously, she's a very good player and she's going to be a force as things go on," said Tom Powers, College of the Siskiyous head coach for 30 years, after the game.
Is it fair for her to play?
"That's a hard question. It's one of those things; if she wasn't good or tall, would it be such a big deal?" Powers said. "She's definitely changed things."
The Mission College women's team plays its next game at home Dec. 8 against Lassen Community College.
Ludwig was the biggest player 5-foot-5 sophomore Siskiyous guard and captain Shyanna Ashworth had ever played against.
"She's real physical. We knew what we were going to get," she said after the game. The team had its 6-foot-4 coach pretend to be Ludwig in practice to prepare.
When asked if it was fair for Ludwig to play, Ashworth smiled and paused for a few seconds.
"I'm not sure it's the fairest thing. No judgment," Ashworth said. "I do give it to her for taking this on. It's a lot."
More to come
While exceedingly rare, Ludwig's quest is not unprecedented.
In 1977, Renée Richards, born a man, sued the U.S. Tennis Association to allow her to play as a woman.
She won the case.
Richards, who underwent sex reassignment surgery two years earlier, played for four years, ranking as high as 20th overall and making the cover of Sports Illustrated.
South African middle distance runner Caster Semenya grabbed headlines during the London Summer Olympics after years of competitors claiming she was a man and protesting her participation in women's events. She won a silver medal in London.
Ludwig's coach said he only expects controversy if Ludwig becomes a star.
"If she plays like she played (in her first game), nobody will give a hoot because she wasn't a factor," Cafferata said. "If she starts going 20 points, 20 rebounds, playing 30 minutes a game, that's when it's going to happen."
Two years ago, the NCAA received 35 inquiries from potential transgender and transsexual student-athletes. Because of privacy laws, there are no firm statistics.
"I do think we'll see more of that," Carroll said, "especially as transgender athletes know they will be invited to play on those teams."
As for Ludwig's potential?
"I think at 6-foot-8, if she does some work," Cafferata said, "I don't see why the WNBA wouldn't draft her and give her a shot."
There is no requirement, a league spokesman said, for a WNBA player to be born female.
Contact Matthias Gafni at 925-952-5026. Follow him at Twitter.com/mgafni.
While Gabrielle Ludwig's California junior college association uses a birth certificate as the determining factor of gender for athletic eligibility, the NCAA loosened its requirements in August 2011.
The new policies state:
A trans male (female to male) student-athlete who has received a medical exception for treatment with testosterone for gender transition may compete on a men's team but is no longer eligible to compete on a women's team without changing the team status to a mixed team. A mixed team is eligible only for men's championships.
A trans female (male to female) student-athlete being treated with testosterone suppression medication for gender transition may continue to compete on a men's team but may not compete on a women's team without changing it to a mixed team status until completing one calendar year of documented testosterone-suppression treatment.
"As a core value, the NCAA believes in and is committed to diversity, inclusion and gender equity among its student-athletes, coaches and administrators," NCAA Director of Inclusion Karen Morrison wrote in a memo to the NCAA membership. "Since participation in athletics provides student-athletes a unique and positively powerful experience, the goals of these policies are to create opportunity for transgender student-athletes to participate in accordance with their gender identity while maintaining the relative balance of competitive equity within sports teams."


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The football on Crosby's 51-yard would-be game-tying field goal "came off a little weird," and the Green Bay Packers last-second party killing moment failed to materialize. The Colts had a 30-27 win for their ailing coach, a game ball to present him, and the NFL story of the year so far.
"Everything up until the hit felt good," Crosby said. "and then it just came off a little weird, the way I caught it, I guess. I haven't hit a ball like that in all of warmups. I haven't hit a ball that moved like that in a long time, so it's weird. We are going to have to look at the films and evaluate it."
Packers coaches said Monday that Crosby's rhythm was off on the kick causing him to hook it.
Watch the replay of Crosby's final kick. The ball comes off his foot, then veers drastically left, like someone had reached up and batted it away in midair. Weird indeed.Colts quarterback Andrew Luck set season highs in completions (31), attempts (55) and yards (362) and became the first Colts rookie to throw at least one touchdown in his first four games since Bert Jones in 1973. Yes, even the great Peyton Manning didn't accomplish this feat.
Reggie Wayne, Luck's target 20 times (13 completes for 212 yards), said Luck's performance through four games is even more impressive considering what he's been digesting on offense.
"The thing about it is that they're throwing so much at him," Wayne said. "I really believe if we were a simple offense, he would be doing wonders, but they're throwing so much at him. He's taking it all in, taking it in stride. He knows what's going on.
"…Especially as a receiver, you want to be there for him," Wayne said. "You want to back him up and you want to make him look good no matter where he throws the ball. You want to give your body up to go and get it. He's going to be special, he really is."Wayne set a career-high with his 212 receiving yards and brought his total yards from scrimmage with the Colts to 12,214, moving him past Edgerrin James (12,065) in second place in team history. Marvin Harrison is the leader with 14,608.
Wayne has 36 catches for 506 yards (14.1 per catch), the highest four-game total of his career.
Luck's admiration for his favorite target is obvious.
"I told him after the game he's the best football player I've ever played with," Luck said. "His leadership at halftime, on the field, before the last drive, I think I learned a lot from him from watching him operate. I'm very fortunate and blessed to be on a team with him."
Some thought Colts owner Jim Irsay and general manager Ryan Grigson paid too much to bring Wayne back. He appears to have been worth every penny so far.
His touchdown catch with 35 seconds left for the game-winner could go down as the season's top highlight.
"Andrew threw me he ball and I saw that end zone right there, got a grip on the ball, stuck it in there and tried to hurry up and sneak it back," Wayne said. "It worked out for us. I wasn't sure at first how close it was, but when I saw it on the replay, it kind of shocked myself a little bit."
Luck said Monday he was just as impressed by Wayne's play in retrospect.
"From watching the film, you realize those were a lot of big situations that he comes up in," Luck said. "It's not that hard to throw the ball in the vicinity of a receiver and he goes out and makes an amazing catch. He made everybody look good."Lost in the excitement of the win was the knee injury that send outside linebacker Rob Mathis to the sidelines. Mathis mouthed to the crowd "I'll be right back!" as he left the field, but he did not return.
Colts interim coach Bruce Arians said Monday that the team was still awaiting MRI testing to see the status of Mathis as well as defensive tackle Fili Moala.
On Monday, the Colts waived tight end Dominique Jones and placed guard Seth Olsen on injured reserve, designated to return. They also signed wide receiver Kris Adams to the practice squad.


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There is a great divide in popular music that can be traced back to 1972. It's not the fading of artists like Chuck Berry and the rise of new stars like Michael Jackson. It isn't even the forced nostalgia of Don McLean bringing us back to the day the music died. Instead, it's a legal divide, one that strikes to the heart of copyright royalty issues and could have a great impact on streaming music services like Pandora.
See, songs recorded before 1972 are not currently protected under federal copyright, unlike those recorded after that date. This means that Pandora, and other companies like it, do not have to pay royalties for classic tunes from Buddy Holley and pre-jumpsuited Elvis. Of course, these services are already paying a great deal of money for the right to use more recent songs, so any change to the current paradigm would have a huge impact on their cost structures.
That is why a bill proposed by George Holding (R-NC) and John Conyers (D-Mich.) that would require digital streaming services to pay performance royalties on these older songs is such a big deal. The fact that it targets the newer, high-tech services is a bone of contention for industry insiders, who feel that this would exacerbate the divide between traditional over-air radio stations (which would not be required to pay royalties) and the new kids on the block.
It also brings up a larger question of copyright extension and the public domain. Entertainment giants like Disney have fought to extend copyright protection on some of their most popular and lucrative pieces of intellectual property, and musicians and songwriters would certainly love to have a longer period to milk royalties out of their creations before the tunes hit the public domain. The legislation is pending, so it remains to be seen if there is enough support in Congress to support it and open a Pandora's Box of copyright debate.
For more on copyright and trademarks, check out the following:
Choosing a trademark that won't buy you a lawsuit
Prince and the Copyright Revolution (Part 3)
Copyright decision over 'Raging Bull' could give copyright plaintiffs a second wind


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FRAMINGHAM, Mass. TJX Companies announced plans to bring Marshalls to Canada. The company anticipates that the first Canadian Marshalls stores will open in the spring of 2011. Marshalls will become TJX Canada's fourth off-price retail division, along with its other banners Winners, HomeSense and STYLESENSE.
Carol Meyrowitz, president and CEO of The TJX Companies, stated, "I am delighted to announce that we are bringing our Marshalls chain to TJX Canada, where we have our highest financial returns, with the planned opening of six stores in 2011. Canada has been a very successful market for TJX since we first entered in 1990, and we are excited to continue growing our Canadian business. We believe Marshalls will offer Canadians yet another avenue to great brands, great fashions and excellent values for the entire family. This is another example of our emphasis on international expansion, and we believe that Marshalls will be extremely well received in Canada. Ultimately, we estimate the Canadian market can support 90 to 100 stores."
Marshalls in Canada will be managed by TJX Canada, the operating group managing Winners, acquired in 1990, HomeSense, launched in 2001, and STYLESENSE, launched in 2008. Operations, distribution and management will be leveraged from the existing organization. The company said it is not yet ready to announce specific locations for the initial stores.


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DuPont Pioneer agronomists caution that many different stresses to the corn plant throughout the growing season can contribute to lower stalk quality at harvest time. Cool spring weather patterns, drought stress, reduced sunlight, insect and disease pressure and hail damage have each taken a toll on plant health this year.
With the wet, cool spring plants may have developed shallower root systems. This likely caused a reduction in nutrient uptake due to lack of root development. Cooler temperatures early on in the season also caused reduced plant lignin necessary for stalk strength.
The growing environment has a critical effect on the ability of the plant to provide sufficient photosynthate to the developing ear. With many cloudy days during the growing season, solar radiation and photosynthesis were reduced causing a reduction of sugars to meet the plant's demand. If photosynthesis is unable to supply the demands of the developing kernels, the plant redirects root and stalk carbohydrates to the ear. Prolonged cloudy conditions during ear fill often result in severely depleted stalk reserves and stalk rot organisms can invade weakened and dying plant tissues.
Drought stress was another issue growers saw this summer. Water relations within the plant and CO2 and oxygen exchange were directly affected. In addition, if leaf rolling occured during drought, the effective leaf surface for collection of sunlight is reduced.
Growers should monitor their fields as harvest approaches, to identify stalk quality problems and prepare to harvest before field losses can occur. Weak stalks can be detected by pinching the stalk at the first or second elongated internode above the ground. If the stalk collapses, advanced stages of stalk rot are indicated.
For additional information related to stalk quality this fall, contact your Pioneer sales professional or visit pioneer.com.


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Breaking Ground: 20th-Century Latin American Art
When: Opens Sept. 13. Noon-6 p.m. Wednesday-Monday and until 9 p.m. Friday, through Nov. 4
Where: Norton Simon Museum, 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena
Tickets: $10
Information: 626-449-6840; www.nortonsimon.org
Here are a few other museum exhibits and events celebrating Latin Heritage month:
Autry National Center of the American West
4700 Western Heritage Way, Los Angeles, 323-667-2000, www.theautry.org
La Cena Salon Series: The Urban Landscape Conversation, tapas and cocktails with artist John Valadez, musician Alice "Bag" Aremendariz, professor of Chicano studies Eric Avila, playwright and author Josefina Lopez and actor Richard Montoya. 6-9 p.m. Sept. 18, $50, reservations required.
Mata Ortiz pottery and Zapotec rug show and sale, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.Sept. 21-22 , free admission.
Fowler Museum at University of California, Los Angeles
UCLA, north campus, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, 310-825-4361, www.fowler.ucla.edu
"Chupicuaro: The Natalie Wood Gift of Ancient Mexican Ceramics" exhibit of Mesoamerican art.
"New World Wunderkammer: A Project by Amalia Mesa-Bains" exhibit of installation works by Chicana artist Mesa-Bains exploring themes of memory, struggle, loss and wonder.
"The Peruvian Four-Selvaged Cloth: Ancient Threads/New Directions" woven textile exhibit.
Noon-5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday and until 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13-Jan. 26, free.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 323-857-6000, www.lacma.org
"Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa - Art and Film" exhibit on the Mexican filmmaker and his influence on movies and art in the post-revolutionary era.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 22-Feb. 2, $15 adults, $10 seniors and students and free for children under 18.
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA)
628 Alamitos Ave, Long Beach, 562-437-1689, www.molaa.com
"Luces y Sombras: Fourteen Travelers in Mexico" exhibit of photographs exploring the relationships between Mexican and American artists.
"Disrupted Nature" exhibit looking at nature and landscapes in art, as well as exploring social and environmental issues.
"Astrovandalistas AEfect Lab: Disrupting Technologies" exhibit that blends art and technology with a focus on communication.
11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday and until 9 p.m. Friday, through Dec. 1, $9 adults, $6 seniors and students and free for children under 12, free to all every Sunday and 5-9 p.m. the fourth Friday of the month.
Vincent Price Art Museum
East Los Angeles College, 1301 Avenida Cesar Chavez, Monterey Park, 323-265-8841, www.vincentprice.elac.edu
"Hoy Space: Jaime Zacarias" exhibit of work by the South Los Angeles graffiti-inspired artist, whose blends surrealism, Chicano culture and pop imagery.
"Santa Ana Condition: John Valadez" retrospective exhibit of work by the Los Angeles realist painter and muralist noted for capturing views of Chicano life, opens Sept. 21.
Noon-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and second Saturday of the month, until 7 p.m. Thursdays, both exhibits through Dec. 7, free.
When it comes to Mexican and Latin American art, most people tend to think of large murals and folkloric figures. But there is so much more.
The Norton Simon Museum is toasting Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month with "Breaking Ground: 20th-Century Latin American Art," an exhibit of work by artists from 1931-1985 in which they explore the various forms of modernism. The exhibit opens Sept. 13.
The show includes paintings, lithography, photography and more by artists such as Diego Rivera, Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Angel Bracho of Mexico, Roberto Matta from Chile, Antonio Frasconi of Uruguay and Gego (also known as Gertrud Goldschmidt) from Venezuela.
"There is a really recognizable style that developed in Mexico in the 1930s," said Lynn LaBate, head of education at the Norton Simon Museum and the curator of "Breaking Ground." "This was due to the minister of education who had this idea of using art to create a Mexican national identity and the Mexican government paid artists to create murals that celebrated Mexican history and culture and to bring to life the ideals of the revolution, which is to trace the idea of Mexico as a united culture."
LaBate notes that many artists were not interested in the political agenda, so they explored universal themes,as well as a range of artistic styles. The Norton Simon exhibit features works culled from the venue's collection that show the influence of a wealth of art movements, including surrealism and existentialism, along with less-known work by important artists.
"It's an opportunity to present what is an alternative view of what is the most commonly held perception of Latin America art as being folkloric or primitive. This work is about formal issues and it's about composition," LaBate said.
"Breaking Ground" looks at the artists' exploration of the figure/ground relationship, which is demonstrated through figurative and abstract works. The show, too, demonstrates how the pieces as a whole forge a connection with Los Angeles at its center. Among the highlights are photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
"He was one of the first artists to take Mexican art and not frame it in that folkloric or picturesque type of framework," LaBate said. "He really looked beyond that and his work really deals with issues of form and composition."
For example, Bravo's image, "Remembrance of Azompan," shows a young girl standing in front of a wall. She is dressed simply and blends into the wall like a chameleon. Bravo plays with art tradition by depicting the foreground in dark tones and the background in light tones. This draws the eye to his exploration of texture, pattern and form.
Lithographer Rufino Tamayo used his work to reflect Mexican cultural identity, not politics. He incorporated ideas from Mexican muralism, 20th century American art and European figurative art of the 1950s into his work. His abstract piece, "Variations of a Man No. 3," reflects man's place in the cosmos. The figure is positioned in such a way to give the print a spiritual quality, while its linear aspects refer to ancient petroglyphs.
At "Breaking Ground," many works that are rarely shown will be on display, as well as pieces exclusive to the Norton Simon's collection, such as Diego Rivera's "Blue Boy with the Banana." In the 1920s, Rivera painted pictures of docile, round-faced children for visitors to Mexico, but this work, created for German art dealer Galka Scheyer, is angular and the boy's clothing is unkempt.
"This is one not often on public view and something that you would not be able to see at the Museum of Latin American Art (in Long Beach)" LaBate said.
LaBate, who studied in Peru and Mexico, discovered that art was intrinsically linked to everyday life, as she saw it everywhere she went.
"One of the reasons I wanted to bring this group together is that they celebrate Los Angeles as an art nexus," she said. "We have artists from Venezuela, Uruguay, Chile and Mexico. We have photographers, lithographers, painters, and a master of woodcuts, and the works show that Latin American artists were citizens of the world. They spoke the language of the day, which was modernism, and they are interwoven into the fabric of art history. They are also interwoven into the fabric of Los Angeles in art history."


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Recent shifts in U.S. oil supply and demand patterns are testing the limits of the Nation's oil storage and transportation network. Upstream, a revolution in tight oil1 production, fostered by hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques, has raised logistical challenges commensurate with the new sources of oil supply it has unlocked. Downstream, shifts in demand patterns and refining economics are opening a new chapter in supply logistics. Refinery closures in the Delaware Valley and the Caribbean mean that East Coast markets -- no longer as large as they once were, but still the Nation's largest - may become more reliant on product supply brought in from longer distances. On both counts, changing needs would significantly alter the web of pipelines, storage tanks and terminal facilities on which the oil industry and the Nation depend to link supply centers and end-users. But the overhaul of the midstream segment of the oil industry goes beyond expanding the infrastructure. The very nature of midstream services, their function in the Nation's supply dynamics, is being redefined.
As far as logistical assets are concerned, the mismatch between distribution needs and current infrastructure is becoming hard to miss. On the upstream front, the crude oil production boom in the Bakken calls for improved market access to that new source of supply. Depressed prices for new crude grades reflect infrastructure constraints. Inventory builds have caused stranded Bakken crude to trade at a sagging discount to benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI). Growth in Canadian production is also causing both heavy, sour West Canadian Select and light, sweet Canadian Syncrude to trade at deep discounts to WTI. Meanwhile, WTI's own discount to coastal and imported crude oil is again widening after announced delays in the Seaway pipeline reversal.
Downstream, East Coast and Caribbean refinery closures, if made permanent, would also require a midstream response. On paper, refining capacity in the more competitive Gulf Coast and Midwest hubs appears more than adequate to make up for lost East Coast refining capacity. But the Colonial pipeline, which connects Gulf Coast refineries to the Central Atlantic, is already running near capacity levels, so bringing incremental Gulf Coast product volumes to East Coast markets could be a challenge. And while refineries in Ohio and elsewhere in the Midwest could theoretically substitute for those in the Philadelphia area in supplying western Pennsylvania and upstate New York, here too lack of pipeline capacity is a problem. So is the limited ability of Delaware Valley terminals to receive more product imports in the short term, and the lack of connectivity between those terminals and product pipelines running west from Philadelphia.
Midstream companies are already seizing some of the opportunities provided by both the surge in crude production in the mid-continent and refinery closures on the East Coast. Longer supply lines to East Coast markets will not only require upgraded transportation logistics, but also raise demand for storage, as higher inventory levels will be needed to manage seasonal demand peaks and disruption risks. Storage operators have announced several plans to significantly expand East Coast and Caribbean tank farms. Shrinking refining capacity there seems to go hand in hand with rising terminal capacity, not least because some of the idled refineries are being converted to storage. In the Bakken, crude oil aggregators, transportation providers, and marketers are in high demand. Despite steep capital costs and often cumbersome permitting processes, they are responding with a flurry of infrastructure projects to resolve the bottlenecks.
Perhaps not coincidentally, these expansion plans occur even as the midstream services industry is itself going through a period of restructuring. Once-ancillary segments of a vertically integrated oil industry, U.S. transportation and storage companies are increasingly becoming their own masters. Starting in the late 1990s, the emergence of the U.S. "super majors" saw large oil companies combine upstream assets and turn over refining assets seen as nonessential to a new crop of independent refiners, some of which went on with their own wave of consolidation. Those independent refiners have in turn been spinning off storage and transportation assets, often as separate Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs), adding to the ranks of more established midstream companies such as Buckeye Partners, L.P., first incorporated as a Standard Oil subsidiary in 1886. An example of those new, stand-alone midstream entities is Nustar Energy L.P. (NuStar), first spun off as Shamrock Logistics L.P. by refiner Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corporation (UDS) in 2001, and later renamed Valero L.P. after Valero Energy Corporation bought UDS. Sunoco Logistics, spun off by Sunoco in 2002 to own, buy and operate crude and product pipelines, terminals and storage facilities, and crude acquisition and marketing assets, is another example, as is Tesoro Logistics L.P., the transportation arm of Tesoro Corporation.
Unlike the shrinking East Coast refining industry, midstream services are undergoing a growth spurt, fuelled by both organic expansion and acquisitions. Logistics companies are snapping up discarded refining assets. Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. last year bought the Yorktown, VA refinery, now a 6.6 million-barrel crude, product, and LPG terminal. HOVENSA said it would convert its St. Croix, USVI refinery into an oil storage terminal. Much of Sunoco's East Coast logistical assets were handed over to Sunoco Logistics, making the sale of the refineries with which they had once been associated all the more problematic.
Even as they are breaking loose from once vertically integrated oil companies, midstream companies are consolidating horizontally, expanding their geographic reach and enhancing their assets' internal "connectivity." Both NuStar and Buckeye have acquired major Caribbean tank farms. The latter bought Bahamas Oil Refining Company International (BORCO), an over 21 million-barrel crude, fuel oil, and light product terminal in 2011. Buckeye plans to boost BORCO's capacity by about a third, with room for further capacity expansion if needed. The former bought a 13 million barrel terminal in St. Eustatius, Netherlands (in the former Netherlands Antilles), in 2005, which it plans to expand by almost 12 million barrels. NuStar's other international assets include tank farms in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Turkey.
Buckeye last week said it would also buy a four million-barrel marine terminal from Chevron at Perth Amboy, NJ in the New York Harbor area, which would effectively let it connect its nearby Linden, NJ, tank farm with BORCO and, after completion of a new pipeline link between Perth Amboy and Linden, move waterborne light products, such as gasoline or diesel, onto its existing pipeline network running from Linden to Pennsylvania and upstate New York, which it also plans to expand.
This mix of market changes and corporate restructuring is redefining the role of midstream services in the global supply architecture. Each midstream MLP's strategy is different, but many seem to follow a multi-pronged business model. This business model comprises a throughput-based transportation segment (the collection of pipeline fees based on transported volumes), a capacity-based storage or "facility" segment (where customers pay for storage capacity whether or not they fully utilize it), and sometimes a third business line, which is somewhat akin to arbitrage and used to hedge business risks. The contribution to earnings from this third business line varies substantially by company and reporting period.
Whereas midstream companies had often been limited to a supporting role in the oil industry, large emerging midstream independents with a global footprint could increasingly pursue strategies of their own and may become more active, direct participants in the physical and paper markets. It is too early to say how the restructuring of the logistics segment of the oil industry from integrated cost centers to independent profit centers will affect product markets. But it is probably safe to expect significant changes in supply dynamics and even, potentially, product pricing from the fast growth of this newly independent sector.


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Action Math Baseball Photo Gallery
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Students learn mathematics skills through baseball statistics in a way that is fun and engaging, and use statistics from current Pirates Players, as well as player cards they create, to compete against one another in simulated baseball games.
The program promotes higher order science, technology, engineering and math skills (STEM).
Applications are now available for the 2017 Action Math Baseball program, a curriculum-based program suitable for in-school and after-school programs. The program begins with a teacher training in January and concludes with the Action Math Baseball "World Series" at PNC Park in May. For more information, please download the application below.
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text: Link Ink: Kirby Krackle's New Single, 'Doctor Who' Opening Evolution and Arrietty in the Queen's English by Caleb Goellner July 5, 2011 Music: The title track from Kirby Krackle's upcoming album, Super Powered Love is now available for download via outlets like iTunes. The album itself is also available for pre-order as its Comic-Con release approaches... Read More Filed Under: Arrietty, Batman, Doctor Who, DoctorWho, Excel Saga, ExcelSaga, FireFall, Kirby Krackle, KirbyKrackle, koushi Rikudo, KoushiRikudo, Lego, Minimates, One Piece, OnePiece, Our Love Is Real, OurLoveIsReal, Sam Humphries, SamHumphries, Sanji, steven sanders, StevenSanders, Studio Ghibli, StudioGhibli, Super Powered Love, SuperPoweredLove Category: Culture, Link Ink EMAIL SHARE TWEET Pin it! REDDIT Share on Tumblr!


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To Ange, Mike and the Socceroos...
An online video of Tony Abbott wishing the Socceroos well is taken down after the PM got captain Mile Jedinak's name completely wrong.PT0M55S http://www.theage.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-3a3rd 620 349 June 14, 2014
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been accused of being many things, but a Socceroos fan is not one of them.
Draped in a Socceroos scarf, Mr Abbott has called skipper Mile Jedinak "Mike" as he wished Australia well in a YouTube message just hours before they take the field in their opening World Cup clash against Chile in Cuiaba, Brazil on Friday (Saturday AEST).
Mile Jedinak: the Crystal Palace captain is far from unknown. Photo: AFP
He did however, manage to get coach Ange Postecoglou's name right.
"Ange, Mike and the Socceroos, in this World Cup you have the opportunity to make the world game our national game," Mr Abbott said.
"Throughout this cup we'll burn the midnight oil as you take the field in our name.
"We stand with you as you wear our colours into the world's greatest team sporting event.
"We're behind you, we're willing you on to victory and we know you'll seize the moment."
While striker Tim Cahill would be the most high profile Socceroo in the current squad, Jedinak, as the captain of English Premier League side Crystal Palace, is far from unknown.
This is just the latest in a long line of gaffes for Mr Abbott, who just this week embarrassingly called Canada "Canadia".
The YouTube video was later pulled before Australia's match against Chile.
AAP, with theage.com.au


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The Falcons (4-5, 2-2 DVAL) opened up a 28-point lead at halftime en route to an easy win over the host Warriors (2-7, 1-3) on homecoming.
Quarterback Dmitri Salido rushed for three touchdowns in the first half, including a 4-yard score late in the second quarter that gave College Park a 34-6 lead at the break. The Falcons then score 27 unanswered points in the third quarter to seal the victory.
Salido finished the first half with 116 yards on 15 carries, and Timmy Jackson had four carries for 62 yards, including a 47-yard touchdown run. Matt DeSilva added 52 yards on seven carries in the first half.
The lone score for Ygnacio Valley came in the second quarter, as quarterback Jamari Pope had a 75-yard touchdown run to cut college Park's lead to 27-6. Pope finished the first half with 121 yards on 12 carries.


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Morrissey Tickets
The Morrissey tour 2017 is coming closer by the day, and devotees of the Mancunian maestro are buzzing with anticipation at the prospect. If you've been to Salford Lads Club, had your pic taken and hit Affleck's Palace to buy some hipster threads, you'll know all about these latest Morrissey concerts. Maybe you'll buy tickets and even wear a fake hearing aid like the man himself when you head to the gig. It's time to queue up - in your mind at least - to buy Morrissey tour tickets for Mozzer's latest trek across the USA. The former Smiths frontman's American tour begins on November 10 in Chicago, before snaking off across the American west, coming to rest in Oakland, California on December 1. The November-December tour sold out almost immediately, and the double-decker bus (or ten ton truck) will soon be rolling into your town. Described by NME as "one of the most influential artists ever", Steven Patrick Morrissey, an unlikely product of Manchester's macho streets, captured the world's imagination with his camp rebellion as singer of The Smiths. While the rest of England basked in the shallow noise created by Wham! and Michael Jackson's moonwalk, Morrissey industriously churned out a line of classics like an industrial revolution era factory worker with a vengeance. The Smiths represented a new level of cerebral rock, with frequent political statements to accompany singles like "This Charming Man" and "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now". Expect the Morrissey schedule to be peppered with hits like these and more when you see Morrissey live in L.A., Chicago's Congress Theater or anywhere else on this tour.
Whenever the mayhem and hedonism of the Madchester era is discussed, it's impossible not to mention Morrisssey. The drama king who as a teenager lived on a steady diet of TV soaps, bequiffed 50s rockers and female singing stars from Swinging London had a voice - a unique voice that earned him the highest accolades. The irony is that Morrissey was never part of the Madchester scene; if anything he transcended it. Morrissey tickets are not tickets to nostalgia. They're tickets to concerts that lay bare the horrid reality of neurosis and joy, the manic ride of youth. If you know anything about this man, you'll want to see him live. Morrissey live on tour is a phenomenon that won't be around forever. He's the one who has spoken out against world figures like George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher and the Royal Family. More recently, he joined ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr in forbidding British Prime Minister David Cameron from liking the Smiths, stating that his overt vegetarianism is in clear opposition to Cameron's stag-hunting activities. Buy tickets to Morrissey here and be transported into the kitchen sink drama and reservoir sunsets of the man with the Irish blood and English heart.


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Longest celebration award goes to: William Gay pic.twitter.com/lD4Mq6W0zY— The Sports Quotient (@SportsQuotient) December 13, 2015
The greatest highlight from today's NFL Sunday games was William Gay's "excessive celebration" against the Bengals. A flag was tossed and things took a turn for the amazing. Can you get double flagged for celebrating too hard?
You may remember his teammate Antonio Brown captured our hearts last week when he went full Super Mario Bros during his celebration:
Great work out there, team.


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Topic: Update on trial at NIH
I just returned home from my 4th checkup since my initial treatment in April on the GI-TIL trial at National Institute of Health. I have officially reached the partial response rate of 30.06% and am now considered a success and the first one to be successful!!!! I seem to be averaging about a 7% shrinkage rate on my tumors each month without any treatment other than the initial treatment in April. I feel amazing and am so happy this has been working! I just wanted to update with the news! God Bless...Melinda