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Shaykh Khalid Yasin exposing the "Dark Side Of The Most Developed Western World".
May 17, 2011
Shaykh Khalid Yasin : Dark Side Of The Most Developed Western World
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Where: Empire Polo Grounds, 81-800 Avenue 51, Indio.
When: Venue opens at 11 a.m. Friday-Sunday and again April 18-20.
Cost: Sold out.
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A Prospective, Observational Study of Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women Exposed to Truvada for PrEP Indication
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This is a prospective, observational study to describe pregnancy outcomes among HIV-1 uninfected pregnant women who are taking emtricitabine (FTC)/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) (Truvada®) for a pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) indication nested in the Antiretroviral Pregnancy Registry (APR).
Information on subjects is provided to the APR prospectively (prior to the outcome of the pregnancy being known) through their healthcare provider, with follow-up obtained from the healthcare provider following determination of the pregnancy outcome.
|HIV Infection
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Retrospective
|Official Title:
|A Prospective, Observational Study of Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women Exposed to Truvada for PrEP Indication Nested in the Antiretroviral Pregnancy Registry
- Presence or absence of congenital malformations among infants born to HIV-1 uninfected women on FTC/TDF for PrEP [ Time Frame: Year 1 ]
- Pregnancy outcomes in HIV-1 uninfected women who choose to continue or discontinue FTC/TDF for PrEP during their pregnancy as well as HIV-infected women treated with antiretrovirals [ Time Frame: Years 1, 2, and 3 ]
|Actual Study Start Date:
|January 1, 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|January 31, 2017
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 31, 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
FTC/TDF for PrEP
The study has one target prospective cohort defined as HIV-1 negative women who had been prescribed FTC/TDF for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP); with two strata: a) those who continue to take FTC/TDF for PrEP during their pregnancy, and b) those who decide to stop FTC/TDF for PrEP during pregnancy.
ARV population
The study has one comparison cohort defined as HIV-positive women who were on any antiretroviral (ARV) medication at the time the pregnancy was detected. This is a propensity score matched retrospective cohort selected from the prospective arm of the APR. This cohort is assembled retrospectively in order to appropriately match the subjects by calendar time and the correlates of exposure, with exposure being defined as being on FTC/TDF for PrEP vs being exposed to other ARVs.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Number of Subjects and Subject Selection: 400 HIV-1 uninfected women who are exposed to FTC/TDF for PrEP during pregnancy stratified into 200 who decide to continue and 200 who choose to discontinue FTC/TDF for PrEP. A propensity score-matched comparison group of equal size (400 women) of HIV-positive pregnant women taking antiretrovirals.
All evaluable subjects enrolled into the APR who fulfill the inclusion criteria for the target cohort will be selected. Every year at the time of building the annual report for this study, a propensity score matched comparison group will be selected on a 1:1 ratio among all pregnant women on antiretrovirals.
Key Inclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant women
- Part of the prospective arm of the APR Target Group Inclusion Criteria
- HIV-1 Negative
- Choosing to remain on FTC/TDF for PrEP during pregnancy or,
- Choosing to discontinue FTC/TDF for PrEP during pregnancy Comparison Group Inclusion Criteria
- HIV-1 Positive
- On antiretroviral therapy
Key Exclusion Criteria:
- This is an observational nested study and will monitor all reported exposures without intervention/exclusion.
Note: Other protocol defined Inclusion/Exclusion criteria may apply.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01865786
|United States, North Carolina
|Antiretroviral Pregnancy Registry
|Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, 28405
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|May 22, 2013
|Last Updated:
|February 22, 2017
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Antiretroviral Pregnancy Registry
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For most of your labour, you and your partner will be on your own - even if you choose to give birth in a hospital. Doctors and midwives will come in and out of your birth suite and so it is important before you go into labour that you know what type of labour you are hoping for. Writing a birth plan can help communicate your wishes for the birth, but there's a big difference between an effective plan and a long, instructive document that could cause conflict. Here's how to write a birth plan that works:
A birth plan's main purpose is to start a discussion between you, midwives, doctors, your partner and anyone else present at the birth - and it doesn't even have to be called a plan. "A birth plan can be a great idea, but the title isn't great, as often things won't go according to plan," says midwife Karen Cole. I think 'birth choices' or 'birth preferences' are better ways of describing it.
It can be helpful to write your birth plan with your partner, opening up a dialogue that might not otherwise happen. If there's something on your mind, it's the perfect time to bring it up. "Men and women have different ideas and expectations around the birth, but may not tell each other," confirms Karen. A birth plan is a great way of communicating with your partner. That way, they won't do things that drive you crazy.
A terse, instructional document may well aggravate doctors and midwives, so always be polite and ask for your wishes as preferences rather than a prescribed outcome. "Some doctors and midwives are reluctant to mention birth plans because people arrive in labour and hand it over, almost like a contract that can't be deviated from," says Karen. Try and keep it short, as midwives won't have to time to read pages and pages. And use bullet points if you feel you're not a good writer.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gwen Graham announced that she has filed to run for Congress in Florida's Second Congressional District, which runs across North Florida.
Graham is a Washington outsider, who first moved to Tallahassee when her father, Bob Graham, was elected as governor. She's raised her own family – a daughter and two sons in Tallahassee and works for the Leon County School District.
Graham is running because she wants to give the people of North Florida an independent voice in Congress – not one beholden to special interests or party politics.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Congress is a dysfunctional mess. They'd rather fight each other with the goal of scoring points on cable news instead of focusing on creating jobs and balancing the budget – in fact, Congress hasn't even passed a budget since Bobby Bowden was coach at FSU.
Growing up, my dad told me, citizenship requires us to do more than complain about our problems – we have to work together to fix them.
Our problems can't be blamed on only Republicans or only Democrats – we need more people in both parties committed to working together and finding real solutions.
I'm running for Congress to represent you with an independent voice in Washington. I will work with anyone, regardless of party affiliation, to create jobs, invest in education and balance our budget – with a plan that stands up for the middle class, keeps taxes low and protects Medicare and Social Security.
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It would have never crossed my mind to combine video games and urine, the two just don't seem to mix. British company Captive Media doesn't share my thoughts on the matter. They have developed a urine controlled video game that will be making it's debut at it's first professional ball game in Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Valley IronPigs Coca-Cola stadium is the first professional venue to have these games, but the Captive Media offices in Knoxville, Tenn. and Dallas, Texas already have them installed, along with about a dozen companies across Europe.
The demo shows us that to steer, or control the game you have to pee in a certain spot. Let's just hope this doesn't evolve into a touch screen game!
It's definitely an interesting concept. Personally speaking it's always been about get in take care of business and get out. To each their own, next time your at the ball game you can play with… well you get the idea.
According to the team, the first game will be an alpine skiing game but will be rotated in and out during the season. In a statement, Kurt Landes, the IronPigs' general manager, said "these games are sure to make a huge splash."
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I'm struggling with a call to a php script to save data to a mysql database. Basically I've created a loop to send (n) retrieved chunks of data to be saved. Each time only the last chunk is saved. However if I insert an alert() in onreadystatechange function I'm interrupting the script and all chunks get saved. Hence I deduct the loop is reiterating too quickly. Searching forums I've seen that by using setTimeout may help but not sure how to code this.
Can anyone help?
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Thanks. But as the number of requests is never a fixed number I can't get my head around how to do this without a loop.
If you use Login Ali's suggestion, and simply call the next iteration from the success callback of the previous iteration, it'll be the same as looping indefinitely. You'll probably need to keep some sort of counter of flag to store the status.
Perhaps using an array to store the things that needs to be queried, and simply popping the array every iteration until it's empty?
I'll try this, but as I'm very new to all this it may take some time to work out your suggestion. Here goes .....
Looks like you need to being using separate xmlhttp request objects for each iteration.
For the moment there are none, I basically want to save the next set of data retrieved from the page to the database. For the moment if I have more than one only the last set of data is saved to the database.
Where and how is xmlhttp defined?
It's defined at the beginning of the script:
//Browser Support Code
var xmlhttp = false; // The variable that makes Ajax possible!
//If javascript version is greater than 5
xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
//alert ("you are using IE");
} catch (e){
// If not, use the older active x object
// If you are using IE
xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
//alert ("you are using IE (2)");
} catch (E) {
// Else we must be using a non-IE browser
xmlhttp = false;
//alert ("you are using a non-IE brower");
//If you are using a non-IE brower, create a javascript instace of the object if (!xmlhttp && typeof XMLHttpRequest != 'undefined'){ xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); //alert ("You are not using Microsoft Internet Explorer"); }
Well… than the first thing that needs to be done is create a function to return a xmlhttp request instance, rather than having a single global instance. This is where a library such as; jQuery would come in handy considering all the cross browser compatibility stuff is being taken care of for you. All you would need to do is use the method ajax with the proper configuration options. However, since your not using jQuery or some other library that provides a normalized xmlhttp request object you will need to create your own function to return one. The reason this will need to be done is that each requests needs to be represented with a separate xmlhttp object. Therefore, should be a single function that returns that object taking into consideration cross browser compatibility.
Thanks oddz, appreciate your help.
jQuery just might be little too much for me at the moment. I've created a function to return XMLHttpRequest objects. However I've used the global xmlhttp instance throughout my script. I can't understand why doesn't var xmlhttp=getHTTPObject(); create my global instance but instead gives me 'xmlhttp is not defined'?
function getHTTPObject() {var xhr = false;if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();} else if (window.ActiveXObject) {xhr = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");}return xhr;}
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I'm going to let my girlfriend pick. She says Stubbs.
But I was thinking, no way. I'm goin with my man crush, OTHER lol.
Jonny 'Mother Effin' Gomes.
Chris Heisey
Paul Janish
Brandon Phillips
Joey Votto
Bronson Arroyo
Drew Stubbs
Jay Bruce
Aroldis Chapman
Scott Rolen
Mike Leake
I'm going to let my girlfriend pick. She says Stubbs.
But I was thinking, no way. I'm goin with my man crush, OTHER lol.
Jonny 'Mother Effin' Gomes.
Let's make some noise!
Votto is good looking in the Ted Bundy way, too intense, makes me uncomfortable.
Rolen is a manly man and consummate professional, he'd protect you.
Best looking Red of recent memory is Corey Patterson, waiting for his collaboration with Usher to drop.
There'd be banana hammocks everywhere.
"Strickland Propane... Taste the meat, not the heat." - Hank Hill
I wonder how many Reds players are aware of this poll?
Chapman. But where's Bailey?
There is no such thing as a pitching prospect.
My wife would vote other: Cozart.
My vote would be Stubbs or Heisey. Handsome dudes.
Yeah, Cozart needs to be added now. :o
Hide your power alleys; Hide your wife
Laynce Nix would won this poll hands down last year.
My way of judging it if said ballplayer was say Joey Votto, short order cook at Perkins or Drew Stubbs the bus driver, how much play would they get?
But with the Current group of guys. Cozart would deliver more than the mail.
If you can't be a good example... then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
Nothing tastes as good as being fit feels...
I've been thinking on this one for a while, and I decided it has to be Drew Stubbs. How else would he get so much playing time?
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I went Joey Votto. Dude's got my wife ready to leave at any moment...
Brandon Arroyo's "Affliction" wardrobe almost got me, but....lol....
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Over the last few years Interface has grown from a small organisation supporting medicine management projects on behalf of PCTs to one of the largest and most experienced suppliers of clinical services in the UK. This extensive knowledge base and expertise puts the company in an excellent position to support CCGs in developing new clinical services for their patient populations.
Mike Drakard founder and CEO of Interface commented, "I am delighted to welcome Michael to the board. Having worked with him for more than twenty years I know that that his expertise in the building of successful healthcare companies will help to accelerate the development and growth of Interface Clinical Services."
Michael Fort has also invested in Interface Clinical Services.
In 2010 Michael was BVCA Portfolio Company CEO of the Year and the Ernst & Young Turnaround Entrepreneur of the Year - North & Midlands.
About Interface Clinical Services
Interface Clinical Services has a large team of highly trained clinical pharmacists that use both standard and bespoke software to help primary care organisations be more effective. Interface has become one of the most successful support organisations within primary care, contracting with NHS trusts across the UK. They have also developed a range of specialist projects delivering innovative solutions to often complex clinical issues, new service pathways and increased efficiency for primary care clients.
About Michael Fort
Michael has been involved in many successful healthcare organisations including;
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HAYWARD — Police are investigating the death of an unidentified man whose body was found along Interstate 880 early Wednesday.
The man apparently fell from an overpass and was struck by a big-rig truck in the southbound I-880 lanes near the Industrial Parkway on-ramp, just before 4:45 a.m., California Highway Patrol Sgt. Leonard Tombac said.
Officers responded to the scene and pronounced the man dead. The man, possibly in his late 20s, has not yet been identified, Tombac said.
The incident shut down two southbound lanes of I-880 and the Industrial Parkway on-ramp for several hours so officers, assisted by the Hayward Police Department, could investigate.
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gandy wrote:so how does buddhism reconcile with this? you know there are bunch of people saying that they were seeing a tunnel of light felt a loving presence, some interpret..
gandy wrote:so how does buddhism reconcile with this?
In a wide-ranging investigation of Alexander's story and medical background, Esquire magazine reported (August 2013 issue) that prior to the publication of Proof of Heaven, Alexander had been terminated or suspended from multiple hospital positions, and had been the subject of several malpractice lawsuits, including at least two involving the alteration of medical records to cover up a medical error.[6][7] The magazine also found what it claimed were discrepancies with regard to Alexander's version of events in the book. Among the discrepancies, according to an account of the Esquire article in Forbes, was that "Alexander writes that he slipped into the coma as a result of severe bacterial meningitis and had no higher brain activity, while a doctor who cared for him says the coma was medically induced and the patient was conscious, though hallucinating."[6][7][8]
tiltbillings wrote:http://atheistforums.org/thread-21098.html
http://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.ph ... iew=unread
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ATI Eyefinity advanced multiple-display technology launches a new era of panoramic computing, helping to boost productivity and multitasking with innovative graphics display capabilities supporting massive desktop workspaces, creating ultra-immersive computing environments with superhigh resolution gaming and entertainment, and enabling easy configuration. High end editions will support up to six independent display outputs simultaneously.
In the past, multi-display systems catered to professionals in specific industries. Financial, energy, and medical are just some industries where multi-display systems are a necessity. Today, more and more graphic designers, CAD engineers and programmers are attaching more than one display to their workstation. A major benefit of a multi-display system is simple and universal - it enables increased productivity. This has been confirmed in industry studies which show that attaching more than one display device to a PC can signficantly increase user productivity.
Early multi-display solutions were non-ideal. Bulky CRT monitors claimed too much desk space; thinner LCD monitors were very expensive; and external multidisplay hardware were inconvenient and also very expensive. These issues are much less of a concern today. LCD monitors are very affordable and current generation GPUs can drive multiple display devices independently and simultaneously, without the need for external hardware. Despite the advancements in multi-display technology, AMD engineers still felt there was room for improvement, especially regarding the display interfaces. VGA carries analog signals and needs a dedicated DAC per display output, which consumes power and ASIC space. Dual-Link DVI is digital, but requires a dedicated clock source per display output and uses too many I/O pins from the GPU. It was clear that a superior display interface was needed.
In 2004, a group of PC companies collaborated to define and develop DisplayPort, a powerful and robust digital display interface. At that time, engineers working for the former ATI Technologies Inc. were already thinking about a more elegant solution to drive more than two display devices per GPU, and it was clear that DisplayPort was the interface of choice for this task. In contrast to other digital display interfaces, DisplayPort does not require a dedicated clock signal for each display output. In fact, the data link is fixed at 1.62Gbps or 2.7Gbps per lane, irrespective of the timing of the attached display device. The benefit of this design is that one reference clock source provides the clock signal needed to drive as many DisplayPort display devices as there are display pipelines in the GPU. In addition, with the same number of I/O pins used for Single-Link DVI, a full speed DisplayPort link can be driven which provides more bandwidth and translates to higher resolutions, refresh rates and color depths. All these benefits perfectly complement ATI Eyefinity Multi-Display Technology.
ATI Eyefinity Technology from AMD provides advanced multiple monitor technology delivering an immersive graphics and computing experience, supporting massive virtual workspaces and super-high resolution gaming environments. Legacy GPUs have supported up to two display outputs simultaneously and independently for more than a decade. Until now graphics solutions have supported more than two monitors by combining multiple GPUs on a single graphics card. With the introduction of AMD's next-generation graphics product series supporting DirectX 11, a single GPU now has the advanced capability of simultaneously supporting up to six independent display outputs.
ATI Eyefinity Technology is closely aligned with AMD's DisplayPort implementation providing the flexibility and upgradability modern user's demand. Up to two DVI, HDMI, or VGA display outputs can be combined with DisplayPort outputs for a total of up to six monitors, depending on the graphics card configuration. The initial AMD graphics products with ATI Eyefinity technology will support a maximum of three independent display outputs via a combination of two DVI, HDMI or VGA with one DisplayPort monitor. AMD has a future product planned to support up to six DisplayPort outputs. Wider display connectivity is possible by using display output adapters that support active translation from DisplayPort to DVI or VGA.
The DisplayPort 1.2 specification is currently being developed by the same group of companies who designed the original DisplayPort specification. Its feature set includes higher bandwidth, enhanced audio and multi-stream support. Multi-stream, commonly referred to as daisy-chaining, is the ability to address and drive multiple display devices through one connector. This technology, coupled with ATI Eyefinity Technology, will be a key enabler for multi-display technology, and AMD will be at the forefront of this transition.
i cant seem to know the problem with my set up why im getting a low scores on benchmark test with re5 using ati 5770 GPU.
scores with the same set-up: 1920 x 1200 with all settings were max out 8xAA was only 24.1fps with the single card and 42.1 fps with crossfire setup.
GPU: Sapphire ATI 5770 Vapor X crossfire config with 1 crossfire cable connected
Proci: thuban 1090t h50 water cooled
mobo: msi 790gx-65g
hdd: samsung 500gb 7200rpm 3.5
mem: ocz obsidian dd3 1600mhz 4GB ( 2by2Gb)
PSU: thermaltake litepower 600w
Monitor: Sony 32in bravia lcd TV
software: dx 11 cat 10.11 win 7
can somebody please help..could it be some components maybe bottleneck?


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Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection in Neonatal Intensive Care Units Throughout Turkey: Prospective Multicenter Study (TurkNICU-RSV Trial) (TurkNICU-RSV)
This study has been completed.
Ankara University
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Serdar Alan, Ankara University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: July 26, 2013
Last updated: January 13, 2015
Last verified: January 2015
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The principle purpose of this multicenter trial is to determine the definition, timing and the percentage of nosocomial RSV epidemics throughout Turkey. In addition, secondary purpose of the trial is to determine the prevention strategies of further spread of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
|Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections Infections, Epidemics
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Management of Hospitalized Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Infected Patients in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Control of Epidemics; TurkNICU-RSV Study: A Multicentric, Prospective Trial
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Respiratory Syncytial Virus InfectionsU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Serdar Alan, Ankara University:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Hospitalized Respiratory Syncytial Virus infected Newborn in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units, and its relation with possible epidemics. [ Time Frame: Patients will be followed during hospitalization, with expected average of 3 weeks ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Mortality [ Time Frame: Patients will be followed during hospitalization, with expected average of 3 weeks ]mortality related to RSV infection and epidemics
|Study Start Date:
|September 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Hospitalized Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infected Newborns
All admitted newborns to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) will be enrolled in the study
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 90 Days (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Hospitalized RSV infected newborn infants in the NICU.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Confirmed RSV infection with either RSV-strip test or polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
- Admission to the NICU or hospitalized in the NICU between 1 October 2013 and 01 April 2014.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Refused informed consent
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: NCT01915394
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01915394
|Ankara University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
|Ankara, Turkey, 06100
Sponsors and Collaborators
Ankara University
|Study Director:
|Omer Erdeve, MD
|Ankara University School of Medicine
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Oncel MY, Mutlu B, Kavurt S, Baş AY, Demirel N, Akyol M, Erdeve O, Dilmen U. Respiratory syncytial virus prophylaxis in preterm infants: a cost-effectiveness study from Turkey. Turk J Pediatr. 2012 Jul-Aug;54(4):344-51.
Dizdar EA, Aydemir C, Erdeve O, Sari FN, Oguz S, Uras N, Dilmen U. Respiratory syncytial virus outbreak defined by rapid screening in a neonatal intensive care unit. J Hosp Infect. 2010 Aug;75(4):292-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2010.01.013. Epub 2010 Mar 17.
|Responsible Party:
|Serdar Alan, MD, Ankara University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01915394 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|July 26, 2013
|Last Updated:
|January 13, 2015
Keywords provided by Serdar Alan, Ankara University:
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Newborn infants
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Communicable Diseases
Virus Diseases
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections
Pneumovirus Infections
Paramyxoviridae Infections
Mononegavirales Infections
RNA Virus Infections
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Former Brentford chairman Greg Dyke believes a new stadium can catapult the Bees' into the Championship – but feels they should already be there.
The League One club were granted permission to build a 20,000-capacity stadium at Lionel Road, near Kew Bridge, by Hounslow Council on December 5 – the same week former manager Uwe Rosler quit the club for Championship side Wigan Athletic.
Dyke, who left his role at Griffin Park in the summer to become chairman of the Football Association, admitted the news could transform his boyhood club.
He said: "Getting permission to build the ground is a big step forward.
"I remember going to the old Swansea ground and if you get it right, a new stadium can transform a club."
He added: "What a weird couple of days, securing a new stadium, but losing your manager.
"Uwe Rosler did a very good job. He's a really nice bloke who will be missed.
"In the end, managers come and go, but a ground is forever."
Brentford, who are challenging for automatic promotion again this season, moved quickly to promote sporting director Mark Warburton to manager – largely continuing where his predecessor left off.
Dyke said he sent his former colleague a good luck message and attended his first match in charge, a 1-0 victory over Oldham Athletic, courtesy of Jonathan Douglas' late winner.
He added: "I went to the game as I was around – we were a bit jammy.
"But if you keep up that sort of luck, you will do very well in this league."
The former BBC director-general spent seven years as Brentford chairman.
And Dyke admitted he would never get over last season's final day drama against Doncaster Rovers.
He said: "If Kevin O'Connor had taken that penalty, we would have gone up as he knew which way the keeper was going to dive.
"I mean, from ecstasy to agony, it was just desperate.
"Some mates were there and one said it was the most dramatic thing they had ever seen on a football field.
"I will never get over it – when we signed Trotta again this season, my youngest son text me saying 'tell me it isn't true' but he has done alright so far."
Now charged with the responsibility of heading up the Football Association, Dyke will always look back fondly on his tenure at Griffin Park.
He said: "An old mate phoned me up after my third game as chairman, when we knocked Sunderland out the cup, and said 'resign now, it won't get any better'.
"It lasted another seven years – I loved being chairman of Brentford, it was my club as a kid and I'm still a big fan."


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"The path to learning must be joyful."
— An educator in Western Australia who taught until he was 104 years old
Dr. Robert Woodruff teaches in both a physical and an online classroom for the Department of Education and Training. He is a recognized leader and mentor in the use of technology in teaching and learning. He is also well known for his expertise in videoconference and blended education delivery at all levels, including higher education.
Woodruff has worked in educational leadership roles in numerous countries including Papua New Guinea, the United States, Australia, Kenya, Switzerland, and Germany. Subsequently, he served as World Mission Education Coordinator for the Nazarene Church for 14 years. In this position, he developed videoconference methodologies for worldwide delivery of educational programs.
Woodruff received his bachelor's degree in advanced mathematics teaching from George Fox College (now University). He later pursued a master of divinity degree (Christian education and cross-cultural studies) from Western Evangelical Seminary. He earned a doctorate in leadership development from the Western Evangelical Seminary and a Ph.D. in educational program development and evaluation from Griffith University in Brisbane.
His research and writing in the use of technology in blended delivery has expanded the availability of quality education at the university level in the developing world. He also served as founding deputy vice chancellor (academic dean) and later chancellor of the Africa Nazarene University in Ongata Rongai, Kenya.
In each of his roles, he has mentored, developed, and expanded people's capacity to deliver quality teaching with minimal expense.


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Compared to last week's closing market, feeder cattle sold steady to 2.00 higher with much less volatility than in recent weeks. Stocker cattle and calves traded mostly steady to 3.00 higher with many areas of the Southeast as much as 10.00 higher in instances, especially on lightweights under 500 lbs.
Many early-week auction markets reported trends even higher than this, but they were merely catching-up with last week's sharp gains experienced after Tuesday. Demand continued good to start this week's trading session with favorable weather conditions promoting pasture growth and Corn Belt farmers getting started on this year's late corn planting. However, the early-week sunshine soon seemed like the shortest summer ever as yet another cold front moved across the country's mid-section on Wednesday.
Cold wind and rain fell south of Interstate 70 while the Northern Plains received snow and blizzard conditions on the first day of May with measurements up to and surpassing one foot deep. The onset of the storm's approach did not hamper feeder cattle demand as much as the recent spring storms as backgrounders and feeders have found that recovery is fairly quick this time of year. Plus, auction receipts are dwindling at a fast pace and buyers realize they need to fill orders now while there are still cattle available.
For the balance of the spring, many producers will be concentrated on getting their corn and soybeans in the ground while most available supplies of calves and yearlings will be turned-out on grass until the Summer Yearling Specials. The winter of 2012-2013 will simply not give up with snowplows needed to clear baseball fields and temperatures keeping folks from enjoying their typical spring activities.
Backyard grilling is one right of spring that is lacking and beef movement continues sluggish, however the Choice boxed beef cut-out value is near an all-time record high over 200.00. Fed cattle trading broke an all-time record with Northern Plains live sales reported in Nebraska on Wednesday from 130.00-131.00 which surpassed the previous record of 130.50 reported in March of 2012. Southern Plains sales were from 128.00- 129.00 with both regions trending steady to 1.00 higher, but the benchmark break was bitter-sweet as most pens are still posting losses.
Some packers were reportedly caught short-bought as they prepare for what they hope will be a banner Memorial Weekend to unofficially start the summer. This week's reported auction volume included 60 percent over 600 lbs and 44 percent heifers.


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Fatal Crash on Franconia Road
Fairfax County Police Department
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4100 Chain Bridge Road, Fairfax, Va. 22030
703-246-2253. TTY 703-204-2264. Fax 703-246-4253
News Release: 12/226/0034/drg(6)
August 13, 2012
Fatal Crash on Franconia Road
Franconia Police District – Crash reconstruction detectives are investigating a fatal crash that occurred on Franconia Road near the intersection of Gum Street on Monday, August 13 just before 3 a.m.
A Fairfax County police officer used the radio in his cruiser to notify the dispatcher that he had been involved in a crash. The preliminary investigation determined that the officer was traveling eastbound on Franconia Road approaching the intersection of Gum Street. A 2006 Infiniti was traveling westbound on Franconia Road also approaching the intersection of Gum Street. The Infiniti suddenly veered left and struck the police cruiser head-on. The Infiniti caught fire. The officer was initially trapped in his vehicle. He was eventually extricated and transported to a local hospital with serious, but non life-threatening injuries. The driver of the Infiniti, an adult male, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Detectives will attempt to determine if speed and alcohol were factors in this crash. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will attempt to positively identify the driver of the Infiniti.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Solvers by phone at 1-866-411-TIPS/8477, e-mail at www.fairfaxcrimesolvers.org or text "TIP187" plus your message to CRIMES/274637 or call Fairfax County Police at 703-691-2131.


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Am I Going to Catch 3DTV-itis?
Julie Govan is the Brand Manager at Crutchfield, and has been writing about consumer electronics since 1999. Her areas of expertise include home theater, surround sound, digital cameras, and HDTV. In her spare time, she also writes book reviews and fiction. She earned a B.A. in English from Davidson College, and went on to receive a master's degree in English literature from the University of Virginia.
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Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
I read this CNN article about 3DTV making people sick with much curiosity. I've heard speculation about this before, and found myself wondering how much hard science was behind the warnings.
So, in my limited 3-D viewing, here's what I've found. Watching a half hour of 3DTV does not make me feel sick in any way. Watching the 2.5-hour movie Avatar in 3-D on New Year's Day, with movie theater 3-D glasses on top of my regular glasses, gave me a mild headache by the end of the movie, which went away when I took the glasses off and reduced the pressure on my lower temples. (The experience was worth the headache, by the way. What an awesome spectacle.)
When I deconstruct this CNN article, what I take away from it is that some people can get dizzy (hey, that's a warning that should be posted on most homemade YouTube videos, too!) or a headache. There's a risk of seizures, but no one quoted in the article discussed this ever actually happening. (Perhaps the risk is the same as that associated with video games, roller park rides, and anything else with flashing images? Don't ask me; I'm not a medical expert.) And, although no one knows for sure yet, some of the experts are "concerned about serious consequences for children who watch 3-D television for long periods of time." Well, c'mon -- does it take an expert to worry about kids who spend hours zoned out in front of a screen?
Actually, it does. The American Academy of Pediatrics has been recommending limited TV viewing, no TVs in kids' bedrooms, and other measures associated with kids and TV for almost 20 years.This really shouldn't be news, that too much daily TV exposure is not ideal.
So, overall, while I won't be putting a 3DTV in the kids' bedrooms anytime soon, I think I'm not going to worry about the technology of 3-D movies and TV frying my brain. Instead, I'll spend my time worrying about the content of what I'm actually watching, and what I'm going to do now that Lost is winding to a close.


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Functional Communicative Profile of Children With Down Syndrome
This study has been completed.
University of Sao Paulo
Information provided by:
University of Sao Paulo
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First received: February 13, 2009
Last updated: NA
Last verified: February 2009
History: No changes posted
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Detailed Description:
The aim of this study was to verify the use of communicative functions by children with DS in two interaction conditions: interaction with therapist and interaction with parent.
|Down Syndrome
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Crossover
Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
|Official Title:
|Functional Communicative Profile of Children With Down Syndrome
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: Down syndrome
MedlinePlus related topics: Down SyndromeU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by University of Sao Paulo:
|Study Start Date:
|July 2006
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2007
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Research Group
15 children with Down syndrome, observed in two interaction conditions: playing with their therapist (A) and playing with their caregiver (B).
Detailed Description:
Parents and caregivers' engagement on therapeutic process of children with Down syndrome (DS) is important for language and communication development. The identification of the communicative skills presented by these children as well as the context influence in their performance as interlocutors, will contribute to the design of therapeutic interventions.
Pragmatics theories are helpful to language use studies, since it takes into account social and environmental aspects and considers adult-child interaction as a determinant factor for its occurrence.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|5 Years to 8 Years (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
15 children with Down syndrome aged from 5 to 8 years.
Inclusion Criteria:
- genetic diagnosis of Down syndrome
- good health conditions
- normal results on audiologic evaluation
- pediatric and ear, nose and throat periodic check ups.
- attend speech-language therapy at the Speech Language Pathology Laboratory in Syndromes and Sensorimotor Deficits (SLPL-SSD) of the School of Medicine of the University of São Paulo.
Exclusion Criteria:
- submission to long term hospitalizations due to heart diseases and major respiratory airway infections, that may interfere in the child's global development
- presence of visual or auditory important deficits
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: NCT00844259
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00844259
|University of Sao Paulo - School of Medicine - Department of Physiotherapy, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Occupational Therapy
|Sao Paulo, Brazil, 05360-160
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Sao Paulo
|Study Chair:
|Suelly CO Limongi, PhD
|University of Sao Paulo
|Principal Investigator:
|Eliza P Cunha, Ms student
|University of Sao Paulo
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Keywords provided by University of Sao Paulo:
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|Responsible Party:
|Suelly Cecilia Olivan Limongi, University of Sao Paulo
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00844259 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|February 13, 2009
|Last Updated:
|February 13, 2009
Keywords provided by University of Sao Paulo:
Down syndrome
Language Development
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Down Syndrome
Pathologic Processes
Intellectual Disability
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Abnormalities, Multiple
Congenital Abnormalities
Chromosome Disorders
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
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Re: CT and PET scan results!!!!!
I met with my radiologic onc today and he said he could not have asked for a better outcome. He explained about the PET scan. There were no numbers, just "mild uptake". He said every active cell has mild uptake: from brain, stomach, etc.... so the cancer cells are not much more active than "normal" cells right now. So that's a "YAY"!!! He agrees that I am not a candidate for surgery.
He also said that the cells will "wake up" one day and either start growing or spreading. But it's unknown when. 6 months? 2 years? Only God knows that one. So we will start treating this as a chronic illness. One that I will live with. And one that we will watch closely.
I need to start looking for a job since nothing is going on until Feb., March, later or earlier... love this part of my life!! But I'm going to plan for nothing happening and me being able to work...
On a down note, Tom and I split up. It's only been 4.5 months, but it seemed like longer. He was very supportive but he has issues I can't help him with and lately he was trying to decide if he wanted to work on having a relationship. And with his issues I was having my own problems with the relationship. So that's it. Quick and hopefully with all this good news lately a lot less painless. Still hard not to text him the good news this morning tho. He was a very important part of my life for a short time.
Other good news: COBRA extension was approved. So now I can breathe another sigh of relief! I don't have to worry about how to cover my medical bills!! YAY!!
"Don't just have minutes in the day; have moments in time."
Any opinions I give are based on personal experiences, and are not based on medical knowledge. I strongly suggest receiving medical care and opinions.


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2009 Barack and Michelle Obama dance their First dance as Mr. and Mrs. President of the United States, as Beyonce sings "At Last" from Etta James.
The 44th President of the United States Inaugural made history and it was the most watched event in the globe. Listen to the beautiful song and watch the First Couple as they dance to celebrate their historical presidential victory.
Lucia Rosan
American Guest House in Washington DC


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Can Hertz Get Gas From Tesla?
Hertz Global (HTZ) is in a free fall today after the rental car company warned that its full-year 2013 earnings and revenue would fall well short of expectations.
CEO Mark Frissora blamed it on weak volumes generated by the Hertz brand in the U.S. airport market, which is the company's biggest business.
But can Hertz get a boost from adding Tesla Motor's (TSLA) Model S sedan to its fleet of luxury rental cars?
At the moment, investor's aren't giving Hertz credit for much. At $22.21, the stock dropped nearly 14% in afternoon market action after nearly 40 million shares exchanged hands.
Early Thursday, Hertz cut per share profit projections by 10 cents and reduced its sales forecast by $500 million. It now expects to earn between $1.68 per share and $1.78 per share on revenue of $10.8 billion to $10.9 billion.
Hertz has expanded its selection of airport rental cars to include more high-end vehicles in some markets. On Wednesday, it added the Tesla Model S to its "dream car" unit in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Already on that list: the Tesla Roadster, the Aston Martin Vantage, the Lamborghini Gallardo and the Porsche 911.


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Strip-tillage is a form of conservation tillage that clears crop residues in a narrow zone of soil and loosens subsoil layers prior to planting. This tillage zone is typically 8 to 12 inches wide and 2 to 14 inches deep, depending on the implement that is used (fig. 1). Strip-tillage decreases both the volume of soil that is disturbed and the amount of dust that is typically generated in intercrop tillage, and it also reduces fuel, labor, and equipment costs when compared with traditional broadcast tillage. It also provides opportunities for band application of surface-incorporated herbicides and fertilizers at different depths prior to seeding. Because only a relatively small volume of soil is tilled using strip-tillage, it is often also called "zone" or "vertical" tillage. This tillage system requires a strip-tillage implement as well as several other key changes in an overall cropping system to be successful.
Where Is Strip-Tillage Used?
Strip-tillage systems were developed several decades ago and are now widely used in the coastal plains region of the southeastern United States for crops such as cotton, corn, and peanuts as a means to break up the naturally settling and consolidating subsoil layers that are routinely formed in this area. In these systems, the objective of strip-tillage is to loosen compacted subsoil zones while leaving the soil surface and crop residues relatively undisturbed (fig. 2). Strip-tillage also is used in irrigated row crop production systems in eastern Colorado and western Nebraska (Smith and Pearson 2004), for sweet corn and bean production in western Oregon (Luna and Staben 2003), rainfed corn and soybean production in the Midwest, and for a variety of row crops in Texas.
Strip-tillage was first introduced in California for melon production in 1998, for processing tomato production in cover crop surface mulches in 2001 (Mitchell et al. 2004) (fig. 3), and for cotton under clean-till conditions. Initially, PTO-powered rototiller-type implements were used with success for both direct-seeded melons and corn and for transplanted tomatoes in a number of research station and farmer field evaluations. Subsequently, ground-driven strip tillers were introduced for processing tomato production in both cover cropped and organic fields (Madden et al. 2004). More refinements and variations on the strip-till tomato theme with both rotary-powered and ground-driven strip-tillage equipment have been made in recent years.
Several thousand acres of both fresh market and processing tomatoes have been produced in recent years in western Fresno County using strip-tillage following triticale and barley cover crops. In these systems, cover crops break up tomato monocultures and are seeded and irrigated up generally in late October or early November, and terminated using glyphosate (a broad-spectrum postemergence herbicide) in February and March to avoid problems that can result from very high biomass cover crop surface residues. A variation on the ground-driven coulter or subsoiling shank strip-tillers that are used in California dairy cropping systems is a 3-row 60-inch strip-tiller used for sweeping furrows clean before transplanting processing tomatoes in a chopped cover crop (fig. 4).
BenefIts of Strip-Tillage
A range of economic and natural resource conservation benefits may result from strip-tillage systems. Because strip-tillage uses fewer intercrop tillage passes or operations strip-till than do traditional tillage systems, actual tillage, or "land preparation," costs strip-till are lower. In a 2002 farm evaluation of strip-tillage forage corn production near Modesto, California, which was the first documented experience with strip-till corn in California, costs for strip-tillage corn establishment were about 54 percent lower than costs of traditional preplant soil preparation. Not only are seedbed preparation costs lower with strip-tillage, but the actual requirements for farm labor and the time required for tillage between crops may also be lower, too. The success of strip-tilled corn to date, however, has relied on the use of Roundup Ready (RR) corn, which would include at least one application of glyphosate early in the season, sometimes followed by a second application midseason depending on weed pressure.
The growing attractiveness of strip-tillage systems for California dairymen rests on the ability of these systems to cut production costs and reduce the time between successive forage crops, allowing more opportunities for triple-cropping, the sequential production of three crops within a given calendar year. Reduced tillage between winter forage and corn has also provided more time after corn for spreading and incorporation of manure prior to planting winter forage, or for fall tillage prior to spring-planted crops such as cotton or tomatoes.
With recently implemented waste discharge regulations that limit field applications of dairy waste nutrients to 140 to 165 percent of expected crop removal (see CVRWQCB 2007), triple-cropping of forages may become an important cropping system for dairies with limited forage production acreage. This system permits the production of more forage on the same acreage in a given time. Shortened intervals between crops also facilitates the capture of nitrogen before it becomes subject to leaching.
Strip-tillage can dramatically reduce the amount of dust that is generated by tillage and soil preparation operations in dairy forage systems. From 2001 through 2004, PM10 (particulate matter < 10 microns in aerodynamic diameter) downwind emissions from tillage operations between crops were quantified in no-till and strip-till fields at two San Joaquin Valley (SJV) dairies relative to traditional tillage (Madden et al. 2008). PM10 emissions were reduced by 65 to 90 percent using strip-tillage for corn and no-till winter forage establishment (fig. 5).
Finally, strip-tillage systems also can preserve earthworms that burrow, decompose surface residues, cycle nutrients, and create macropores in the soil. Studies of strip-till corn production in Oregon have reported higher populations of the nightcrawler worm (Lumbricus terrestris), compared with traditional tillage systems (Luna and Staben 2003). A number of California producers have begun to report increases in anecic, or horizontal-burrowing, worms in strip-till corn and tomato systems.
Problems WIth Strip-Tillage
The greatest problems that have been encountered with strip-tillage in California dairy forage systems are the difficulties in achieving uniform crop stands and managing weeds. Work by Mike Petersen in Greeley, Colo., has shown that corn root growth can be reduced by roughly a third at 55 days after planting with a misalignment between the strip-tiller and the planter of as little as 4 inches (Reichenberger 2007). Assuring that the corn planter tracks or follows precisely in strip-tilled zones is essential and can be accomplished either by using the same global positioning system (GPS) for both strip-tillage and planting operations, or simply by having the planter hooked up to the strip-tiller and performing both operations together in one pass (fig. 6).
At ten San Joaquin Valley farms in 2007, we compared stand establishment following strip-tillage with plant stands achieved with traditional tillage (fig. 7). Forage corn producers using strip-tillage tend to seek populations of between 28,000 and 36,000 plants per acre. While there were slight differences in stands achieved in strip-tilled fields relative to traditional tilled fields, particularly at a site in Turlock where strip-tilling was done before pre-irrigating and at a site in Hanford where a higher seeding rate was used in the traditional till field, generally adequate stands have been achieved using strip-till.
Early season weed control is critical for successful strip-till production because the entire soil surface is not tilled. Weeds and weed seeds in the inter-row spaces that would otherwise be buried in a conventional broadcast tillage are not disturbed or displaced in a strip-tillage system, causing increased weed densities early in the season. However, buried weed seeds are also not brought to the surface strip-till. To date, weed management in San Joaquin Valley triple-crop systems has generally been accomplished by use of Roundup Ready corn varieties and by in-season application of glyphosate. Data from our experiments at 8 locations in the San Joaquin Valley in 2007 indicated that fewer weeds emerged in the strip-till than in the traditional tillage plots at several locations. All of these locations had Roundup Ready varieties of corn and glyphosate was applied once after corn emergence. The higher weed densities in strip-tillage plots were noticed in fields where the glyphosate application was delayed. Most of the weed population at these sites was comprised of volunteer cereals from preceding rotations and pigweeds (Amaranthus spp.). Preventing weed competition during the first few weeks of corn establishment is very important to avoid yield losses. In the current strip-till systems in the San Joaquin Valley, the norm is one application of glyphosate after corn planting. Thus, proper timing of this erbicide application is very important. Studies should be conducted to ascertain the effect of the timing of glyphosate application on forage yield under strip-tillage systems. Also, the use of preemergence herbicides and alternative weed management strategies also should be explored.
Over time, with less deep tillage in a strip-till system and as more residues cover the soil, fewer surface weeds may emerge in strip-tillage systems than emerge under traditional tillage. But the primary means for weed control in strip-till systems in these dairies are timely glyphosate applications with Roundup Ready corn and cultivation when weeds are small.
Timing of Strip-Tillage
Timing is a critical determinant of the success of strip-tillage systems. In general, strip-tillage is most effectively performed when the soil is dry enough to allow shattering of the subsoil profile, but not so dry as to produce large surface clods of soil that do not permit even and consistent seeding. Research at the USDA Agricultural Research Service Soil Dynamics Laboratory in Auburn, Alabama, has demonstrated that a wider area of soil is loosened when dry soil is strip-tilled than when wet soil is strip-tilled, but this must be balanced by the need to provide satisfactory seeding conditions (fig. 8). Timing of the strip-tillage operations ultimately depends on the specific implement that is available, whether the strip-tiller is hooked directly to the planter, and the need to seed at a certain time in order to achieve yield goals.
Strip-tillage is most effectively accomplished when the soil in the vertical zone that is to be tilled is relatively dry, but not so dry that the strip-till implement brings up large soil clods or bends under the high resistance that can exist in very dry conditions. Conversely, strip-tillage is best done when the soil is somewhat moist, but not so wet that compacted layers are not shattered or broken up. Thus, in forage corn production systems, strip-tillage would generally be done immediately following winter small grain chopping and before pre-irrigation for corn.
Dairy Forage Production and Strip-Tillage
For strip-tillage to become a sustainable management option in dairy forage production systems, several issues must be addressed and resolved. The distance between irrigation berms that are typically used to facilitate water movement across a field and the actual size of these berms should be determined and set out in advance to permit optimal seeding and harvesting of all crops in a forage rotation. When strip-tillage and no-tillage corn seeding was first introduced into San Joaquin Valley forage fields, farmers tended to avoid planting the berm areas because they did not think it would be successful. By not planting berm areas, however, a sizeable portion of the field remains unproductive. Strip-till and no-till corn farmers now use different strategies to address this problem. Planting or strip-tilling and then planting directly over the berms can be done if existing berms are relatively shallow or low. Another approach is to reconfigure fields with relatively narrow berms that permit GPS-enabled planting and the strip-till planting directly up to the base of the berm. The narrow berm is left unplanted, but planting is done on all but the top of the berms throughout a field.
Strategies that reduce or avoid the risk of soil compaction will be required for successful long-term conservation tillage dairy forage systems. By reducing the number of tractor traffic trips across a field, less compaction will occur. In addition, avoiding harvesting when the soil is wet, and subsoiling, or breaking up compacted subsoil layers by ripping, may reduce the risk of compaction.
Dairy Manure Application and Strip-Tillage
When strip-tillage is used in San Joaquin Valley dairies following winter forage chopping and before summer corn seeding, dairymen typically apply solid manure materials before seeding corn. Experience suggests that applying composted manure ahead of strip-tilling seems to be better than applying raw manure. Composted manure is lighter and more uniform in nitrogen content, is less odiferous, has less viable weed seed, and will be mixed more efficaciously into the surface soil with the strip-tiller. Spreading raw manure can leave large clumps on the soil surface that can present problems for seeding, in addition to adding large amounts of weed seed. Local air quality regulations governing manure applications may also apply.
Strip-Tillage Equipment
A variety of strip-tillage implements have been developed and are now used for different cropping systems in California. These implements tend to be either PTO-powered rotary tillers that have been used primarily in processing tomato fields or ground-driven coulter or subsoiling shank implements that have been most commonly and widely used in corn forage systems. Rotary strip-tillers are essentially modified rototillers that till only the areas into which seeding or transplanting is done (fig. 9). Herbicide and starter fertilizers also have been applied and incorporated with these rotary strip-tillers. Strip-tillage implements that are used in California dairy cropping systems for corn planting generally include a residue-cutting coulter or blade, a subsoiling shank, and a tool or mechanism for breaking up soil clods and creating smooth seedbed conditions (fig. 10).
While there are variations in the types of strip-tillers that are currently available in terms of the draught energy that is required to pull them, in general, about 30 horsepower is needed for each row unit or subsoiling shank. This horsepower requirement, however, depends on the design, weight, and other features of the strip-tiller, as well as on the desired depth of tillage. Soil water content is also a factor: more energy is needed in dry soil.
California Strip-Tillage: Current Status
The California Conservation Tillage Workgroup, a diverse group of more than 1,500 researchers, Extension educators, conservationists, farmers, and private sector partners has tracked an increase in the use of strip-tillage at the commercial scale in 2007 (Mitchell et al. 2007). More than 20 farm field demonstration evaluations of strip-tillage at San Joaquin Valley dairies were underway in 2007 by workgroup affiliates. Updates and additional information on these evaluations are available at the workgroup's Web site, http://groups.ucanr.org/ucct/.
CVRWQCB (Central Valley Region Water Quality Control Board). 2007. Order No. R5-2007-0036: Waste discharge requirements general order for existing milk cow dairies. CVRWQCB Board Decisions Web site, http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralvalley/board_decisions/adopted_orders/general_orders/r5-2007-0035.pdf.
Luna, J., and M. Staben. 2003. Using strip tillage in vegetable production systems in western Oregon. Oregon State University Extension Publication EM 8824. OSU Extension Service Web site, http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralvalley/board_decisions/adopted_orders/general_orders/r5-2007-0035.pdf.
Madden, N. M., J. P. Mitchell, W. T. Lanini, M. D. Cahn, E. V. Herrero, S. Park, S. R. Temple, and M. Van Horn. 2004. Evaluation of conservation tillage and cover crop systems for organic processing tomato production. HortTechnology 14(2): 243–250.
Madden, N. M., R. J. Southard, and J. P. Mitchell. 2008. Conservation tillage reduced PM10 emissions in forage rotations Atmospheric Environment 42:3795–3808.
Mitchell, J. P., L. E. Jackson, and E. M. Miyao. 2004. Minimum tillage vegetable corp production in California. University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Publication 8132. ANR CS Web site, http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/VegetableCropProductioninCalifornia/8132.aspx.
Mitchell, J. P., K. Klonsky, A. Shrestha, R. Fry, A. DuSault, J. Beyer, and R. Harben. 2007. Adoption of conservation tillage in California: Current status and future perspectives. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 47(12): 1383–1388.
Reichenberger, L. 2007. Planting on the strip: Precise row placement boosts root growth in strip-tillage. The Furrow (January): 7–8.
Smith, J. A., and C. H. Pearson. 2004. Tillage practices. In H. F. Schwartz, M. A. Brick, R. M. Harveson, and G. D. Franc, eds., Dry bean production and integrated pest management. 2nd ed. Fort Collins: Colorado State University Cooperative Extension Regional Bulletin 562A.


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U.S. corn futures are expected to start higher Friday in a rebound from a one-month low.
Traders predict corn for December delivery, the most actively traded contract, will open up 3 cents to 4 cents a bushel at the Chicago Board of Trade. In overnight electronic trading, the contract rose 3 3/4 cents, or 0.5%, to $7.04 3/4 a bushel.
Pushing the market higher are traders buying back previously sold positions following a steep break in prices. They are seen to be taking profits on the positions ahead of the weekend and amid a growing perception the market may not have much farther to fall in the short-term. December corn has already retreated 9.5% from a contract high set in late August.
"We seem poised for short-term stabilization and price recovery," said Duane Lowry, analyst for Early Market News, an agricultural advisory firm.
Corn futures have suffered heavy losses recently in a turnaround from a surge in prices in August. The market climbed last month on concerns the harvest will fall short of expectations and seemed to price in the fears when December corn reached a contract high of almost $7.80 a bushel.
Output is projected to drop from last year as the crop suffered damage from intense heat and dryness this summer. Yet, farmers are still expected to harvest the third-largest crop in history after high prices encouraged traders to plant a massive number of acres last spring.
Grain users, who remain uncertain about the size of the crop, are likely to increase their purchases to take advantage of the recent decline in prices, traders and analysts said. East Asian importers will likely buy several hundred thousand tons if December corn prices fall below $7.00 a bushel, according to a Singapore-based executive with a global commodities trading company. That would likely help prices recover. The U.S. is the world's largest exporter of corn.
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In both his life and even more importantly his death, D'Arcy proved himself to be a saint in the true biblical sense: a man who struggled with human concerns and fallibilities but through faith often transcended them.
Whether because of our short memories or out of a polite respect for the dead, this week's coverage glossed over the fact that D'Arcy was hardly universally beloved after coming to Fort Wayne from Boston in 1985. As successor to the popular William McManus, he changed members of the office staff and at time removed priests from parishes, sometimes without warning or explanation – a practice he told The News-Sentinel in 2005 had earned him the title of "hatchet man."
"There was an unsettledness among us about what was going on," the Rev. James Shafer of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church recalled years ago.
Hindsight indicates some of D'Arcy's "pruning" may have represented an attempt to address problems his predecessors didn't. In late 2003, he made the stunning public confession that priests in the diocese had apparently abused 33 people sexually – most of them minors – since 1950. Legal fees and settlements had cost the diocese about $1.3 million between 1985 and 2002 alone, he added.
The announcement was both courageous and consistent with D'Arcy's history. While in Boston, he had campaigned for tougher standards for admission to the priesthood as far back as 1979 and had raised concerns about a prominent Boston priests suspected of molesting boys the year before coming to Fort Wayne.
But depicting D'Arcy merely as a full-speed-ahead crusader bent on purging bad priests from the church would do him a disservice. I know from personal experience how the issue tormented him.
In late 2002 I wrote about two women's claims to have been molested by a priest as children. The son of one of the women said they had notified the diocese of the abuse in 1998 – a claim diocese officials denied. The family did eventually meet with church officials, but remained dissatisfied with the response and subsequent offers of help.
Even so, he nevertheless showed up at mass not long after my story was published and told parishioners that the allegations against their late priest "appear to be credible. Christ said, 'I am the way, the truth and the life.' The church is a place of truth, and you have the right to hear the truth." Later, he privately apologized to the first woman who had come forward.
Here's the point: Even though my sometimes-difficult interviews with D'Arcy concerning this and other cases of alleged priest abuse demonstrated his concern for the institution he had a sacred duty to lead and protect, his pastoral concern for the victim proved stronger than whatever desire he may have had to shield the church or its priests from scorn.
He demonstrated that courage in the face of possible political backlash several times during his tenure, such as in a 2002 interview with me in which he explicitly rejected the ordination of gays and in 2009 when he boycotted Barack Obama's appearance at the University of Notre Dame because of the president's outspoken support for contraception and abortion rights.
These and other decisions weren't necessarily the easy ones, pleasing as they did some people and angering others. But D'Arcy did his duty as he saw it, and it is a tribute to his character, integrity, judgment and personal charm that the controversies have faded so soon.
Appropriate, since D'Arcy's most important legacy will be not how he lived, but how he died.
His courage, grace and profound expression of faith in the face of a disease he knew was terminal offered a powerful message to those who view Christianity as nothing more lasting or profound than a recipe for holy or prosperous living. On the deathbed, such earthly concerns are exposed for what they are, or aren't.
D'Arcy demonstrated that, in the end, Christianity is about clinging in faith to a gracious God's promise that our human weaknesses and pain will be replaced by everlasting joy. That's what it's like to be a true saint, as D'Arcy was, and is.


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FOOTAGE of a prolific church thief has been released as part of a renewed attempt to find him.
The CCTV footage, at St Andrew's Church, Abberton, features a man trying to smash open a safe with a hammer and stealing religious artefacts.
More than a dozen churches in north Essex were raided in February and March.
During the theft he takes a statuette of the Christ Child with the Virgin Mary and a bronze ship's bell with the letters SMI engraved on it.
Similar thefts have been carried out over the past month at churches in Stow Maries, Wickham Bishops, Goldhanger, Purleigh and Stock.
Other thefts were also reported in Lexden, Shrub End, Stanway and Copford.
Extra police patrols are being carried out around areas with small rural churches and members of the public are urged to call 999 if they see any suspicious activity around churches.
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Dreampop duo Azure Ray came out of "indefinite hiatus" and played an alternately beautiful and somewhat frustrating hour-long set at the Hi-Dive on Monday night.
Unfortunately, too much of the set of beautifully composed ballads and swirling odes to heartbreak was lost to technical difficulties (a microphone stubbornly refused to stay active for a few songs) and an all-too-disinterested audience to really afford them a satisfactory welcome back.
Maybe a sabbatical of nearly seven years between releases is just a little too much for a fan base to take. Sadly, most of the hipsters crowding the Hi-Dive last night were only marginally engaged in Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink's breathy, sensuous vocal harmonies, laid so perfectly upon slight chord progressions and accompanied by drums, cello, bass, mandolin and often keyboards.
Their musical constructions, heavily rooted in the Beatles, never really sounded too derivative, since they came from a distinctively feminine perspective. Whether lamenting lost loves in songs like "Don't Leave My Mind" or "Signs in the Leaves," both from the new record "Drawing Down the Moon," or recapturing insomnia with their older hit "Sleep," the duo's strong, smooth vocals pressed the words harder and harder into the crowded space. Too often, though, they lost an ongoing war with audience discussions that seemed to waver between loud and drunk and straight out hollering.
After an hour of keeping up the struggle — and never losing any of the beauty of their shimmering sonics and poignant observations — the band ended their set, and gave way to setup for Tim Kasher's (now) headlining set. Kasher, whose indie cred rivals the likes of longtime friend Conor Oberst, previously performed in both Cursive and the Good Life. His current solo work, "The Game of Monagamy," is mired in ruminations about failed relationships — possibly related to his divorce years ago — and he spent much of his headlining set that night with it. The music seems to have found its root in the personalities of Paul Westerberg and David Bowie, though more than a little Bright Eyes influence bubbled to the surface from time to time.
Opening the night, Brooklyn maestro Tim Fite put on a strange, enticing set that combined hip hop, country, amateur video and humor to build a nearly unforgettable melange. Dressed in white overalls, with a mostly shaved head (save a shock of long hair that spews from the top center of his forehead) Fite cut a dorky figure onstage, but delivered a decidedly hip sermon. The hip hop numbers, which approached satire applied to the likes of Eminem, were solid, hilarious and strong. But his ballad based on a found notebook about "Rambo" is not to be missed. To see just a taste — think Wesley Willis meets Gene Ween, reciting comic book-bound banter about a mythical hero, written by a young teen in Brooklyn.
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'"It was unfortunate in once sense that I didn't make the playoffs. But on the other hand, while I was playing for the Islanders, we had a really young team and I got the chance to play a lot and get a lot of good, NHL experience under my belt. I think the frustrating thing playing with the Islanders is that we were usually out of the playoffs early on in the season. Here in Buffalo it's been a different story. We've had a shot each year to make it, yet we came up a little short."'
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