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PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. - More doctors are offering the Essure procedure as an affordable method of permanent birth control.
Sandra Diaz believes her family is perfect the way it is. She and her husband are happy with their 13-year-old and 13-month-old daughters, leading her to find a permanent method of birth control.
Dr. Victoria Garcia suggested the Essure procedure.
"The idea is to provide a seal with the coils and with the scarring so that the egg and the sperm don't meet," said Garcia.
Using a tiny camera, soft, flexible coils are inserted into the openings of the fallopian tubes. Patients are given a local anesthesia and sedatives during the procedure. The coils act as an egg blocker.
"It's very easy, like having a pap smear," said Diaz. "She went in and inserted the coils and I had mild cramping but very tolerable."
The Essure procedures doesn't require incisions and patients recover quickly.
Three months after the procedure, a confirmation test using a special dye confirmed the fallopian tubes were completely blocked.
"The eggs can't travel down the fallopian tubes, so the egg and the sperm can't do the tango, so no more babies," said Garcia.
Diaz said the procedure was the best one for her.
"There's no down time. I can get back to work, go back to my schedule with my kids," she said. "I absolutely love it."
More than 500,000 women have undergone the Essure procedure, which is covered by most insurance companies.
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A Study of DPP-IV Inhibitor in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
This study has been completed.
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First received: May 24, 2005
Last updated: November 1, 2016
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This study will assess the efficacy, safety and tolerability of DPP-IV Inhibitor in patients with type 2 diabetes receiving a stable dose of metformin. The anticipated time on study treatment is 3-12 months and the target sample size is 100-500 individuals.
|Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
|Drug: DPP-IV Inhibitor Drug: Metformin Drug: Placebo
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Randomized, Double-blind Study of the Effect of the DPP-IV Inhibitor on HbA1c and Safety in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Treated With a Stable Dose of Metformin
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Absolute change from baseline in HbAlc\n [ Time Frame: Week 16 ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Absolute change in FPG and absolute/relative change in insulin sensitivity, beta-cell-function, and lipid profile, response rate\n [ Time Frame: Week 16 ]
- AEs, vital signs, laboratory tests, body weight, waist/hip ratio, ECG\n [ Time Frame: Throughout study ]
|Study Start Date:
|May 2005
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2006
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|October 2006 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
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- adult patients 18-75 years of age;
- type 2 diabetes;
- stable metformin therapy for >=3 months before screening.
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- women who are pregnant, breast-feeding, or not using an adequate contraceptive method;
- type 1 diabetes;
- any anti-hyperglycemic medication other than metformin in the last 3 months.
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Heyward gets night off against Blue Jays
TORONTO -- Jason Heyward did not start Monday night in Toronto for the first time since coming back May 17 from his appendectomy in April.
"It's simple," manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "He's played every single inning of every single game since he's been back."
The Braves played their fourth in a stretch of 20 consecutive games on Monday against the Blue Jays.
"Every chance we can, give somebody a breather," Gonzalez said.
Since returning from his injury, Heyward has played in nine straight games, and has been able to find his way on base more consistently, even if the hits aren't there. The 23-year-old has a .381 on-base percentage since returning.
"He's looked really really good," Gonzalez said.
Resting Heyward gave the Braves a chance to get Reed Johnson into a game against lefty Mark Buehrle. Reed had only seen one at-bat since Heyward's return.
Johnson is batting .346 vs. lefties, compared to .250 against right-handers. He was 13-for-37 entering Monday with four doubles in his career against the Blue Jays starter.
Evan Peaslee is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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CDI expands export product portfolio with AMF
Building on its successful powdered milk and butter export business, California Dairies, Inc. (CDI) has diversified its butterfat export offerings with the addition of anhydrous milkfat (AMF).
The production of AMF is natural extension of CDI's butter portfolio and meets the needs of its international customers for butterfat in a different form. AMF is 99.8% pure butter oil. Packaged for commercial use as a food ingredient, AMF has an extended shelf life and is an excellent form for storage and transportation of butterfat.
"Expanding CDI's product portfolio to include AMF is a natural fit and increases our presence in the global marketplace," said Andrei Mikhalevsky, CDI CEO. "Keeping the world healthy by delivering dairy ingredients and products of real benefit will grow market share and create value for CDI member-owners."
Visit www.californiadairies.com.
Two appointed to Dairy Council of California
Darrin Monteiro, representing the dairy processing cooperative California Dairies Inc., and producer Pat Van Dam of Two B Dairy, have been appointed to the Dairy Council of California board by Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
As director of member relations for California Dairies Inc., Hanford resident Monteiro works directly with the more than 400 dairy producer members of the second-largest dairy processing cooperative in the United States. He also represents California Dairies Inc. at industry meetings and events.
Prior to joining California Dairies Inc., Monteiro worked at the USDA's Farm Service Agency, where he completed the FSA's managerial program certifying him to run any FSA office in the country. Before that, he worked on his family's Fresno County-area farm. Monteiro graduated from Fresno State University with a degree in Agriculture Business.
Producer Van Dam has been involved in the dairy business her entire life and currently owns Two B Dairy in Ontario, Calif., which she and her husband Bert have run since 1989. Along with Van Dam's appointment to the Dairy Council of California board, she serves on the California Milk Advisory Board and the boards of California Beef and FSA. She is also the current president of the San Bernardino County Farm Bureau.
To learn more about Dairy Council of California and the nutrition education initiatives its board of directors are overseeing, visit HealthyEating.org.
California Feed Inspection Advisory Board applicants sought
The California Department of Food and Agriculture announced three vacancies on the Feed Inspection Advisory Board. The board makes regulatory and enforcement recommendations to the department to help ensure that commercial feed inspections contribute to a clean and wholesome supply of milk, meat, and eggs.
Two vacancies are for commercial feed industry representatives, and one vacancy is for a public member. The commercial feed industry representative applicants should hold a current California Commercial Feed License. The term of office for board members is up to three years. Members receive no compensation, but are entitled to payment of necessary traveling expenses in accordance with the rules of the Department of Personnel Administration.
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USDA releases drought aid for California conservation efforts
USDA will make $20 million available for agricultural water conservation efforts throughout California to combat the effects of drought, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Feb. 4. Interested landowners and managers have until March 3 to apply for available funds.
The funding, through the Natural Resources Conservation Service's Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), is designed to help agricultural operators use water more efficiently, stabilize fallowed cropland, and protect their livelihoods for the future. Funds are available statewide to install a number of conservation practices including irrigation efficiency, cover crops, rehabilitation of existing spring developments, protection of grazing lands, and other supporting components.
Funds will be divided between two specific funding pools: cropland and grazing lands. Cropland with a reduced water allocation of at least 85% will receive the highest priority. In order to be considered eligible for EQIP, the applicant must have a vested interest in agricultural production and meet other program eligibility requirements. For additional information, eligible landowners are encouraged to contact their local NRCS Service Center. Service center locations and more information on the drought initiative can be found at www.ca.nrcs.usda.gov.
Texas: 'Battleground to Breaking Ground' ag workshop set
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, in cooperation with the Texas AgrAbility Program and USDA, will present a free agriculture workshop on Feb. 15 in Dallas for current and former members of the military.
The workshop, designed for active duty and veteran military with and without disabilities, will be from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center, 17360 Coit Road in Dallas. The workshop is also open to women interested in agribusiness, as well as beginning farmers and ranchers, coordinators said.
"From Battleground to Breaking Ground: A Transformational Journey" gives military veterans interested in farming or ranching the opportunity to get information on aspects of starting, developing and funding an agriculture-based business, according to coordinators. It was developed with input from AgriLife Extension, AgrAbility, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, the National Farmer Veteran Coalition, Farm Service Agency, Texas Department of Agriculture and others.
The program begins with registration and a continental breakfast from 8-8:30 a.m., followed by a short welcome. Presentations start at 9 a.m., and include a talk by a veteran currently involved in production agriculture. Other presentations will address resource networking, the Texas AgrAbility Program, agriculture business startup, resources available for funding an agricultural enterprise, business plan development, and possibilities for farming and ranching with a disability.
Attendees must RSVP at http://txagrability.tamu.edu or download the registration form from the website and send to: Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Attn: Erin Pilosi or Dr. Cheryl Grenwelge, 2147 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2251.
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Since I will be having contact with Bhante Rahula, where can I obtain a robe to offer him for the Kathina ceremony in October (I think it's October anyway, but I don't know the exact date). If it matters at all, he's Sri Lankan. I haven't set anything up with him, I'm just wondering, if I get this opportunity. I suppose I could also offer other requisites, as he may specify?


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I bought this phone a few years ago, to jump on the 'touch screen' bandwagon. When I bought it, it was a rather popular phone due to the fact you could change the back of the phone to suit your colour mood and it had 'widgets' which are what we know as apps.
I first thought that the widgets would be really useful because you could download them have have them drag onto the home screen to use whenever you pleased. However, I found that it was difficult to use them as they would constantly move around and could be easily dragged to other places on the screen when switching between screens. I also found that logging into the social networking apps was difficult and they would often be unresponsive.
The touch screen would often be either too sensitive or not responsive at all, and this was often frustrating when trying to scroll. Using the internet was not something enjoyable as you often accidentally clicked on something when simply trying to look through the pages.
I did not like the fact that when the screen was tilted to the side the screen would not adjust and stay upright. I would also have preferred a QWERTY keyboard as they are so much easier to type on than the traditional alphabetical phone keyboard.
The phones pre-installed applications were quite useful, but included just the standard calculator, notes, etc...
The camera on the phone was average and images and videos were easily filmed.
One thing I did like was that you could personalise the way you unlocked your phone with either using a code or drawing a chosen letter on the home screen.
The phone is pretty average, you can see that they tried hard to make it unique in terms of widgets and applications but otherwise it's rather simple and not that technically forward. I don't really drop my phones much but I'm pretty sure nothing happened when I dropped it and its still in nearly new condition.
I bought the phone a ways back, and it's certainly suffered at my hands. I've dropped it many times, even into water a few times and its still functioning plenty. I love the simplicity and strength, and the way it really is life proof. The only let downs really with the appearance are the random red rim around the camera lens and the yellow side buttons. But I'm sure that to some people the array of colours is appealing. I've never had a glitch or problem with it, and it is perfectly fast. It comes with music recognition, convertors, and a built in dictionary among other things which has proven to be very useful. The camera leaves a little to be desired, but does the job well.
Overall, as a well featured, speedy, glitch-less nicely shaped phone with a nice battery life, I think it's certainly a good option for anyone who's looking for a very good yet cheap phone.
I purchased this phone for myself 1.5 years ago and I guarantee you not to purchase this phone right now. Genio Touch was great for the first few month but there has been a number of issue i went through with this device.
Touch Screen:
Touch screen isn't as sensitive as the IPhone or Samsung Galaxy. You need to press hard to open the applications and it got frustrated when I had to press hard to slide down or up.
Keyboard was pretty bearable. The size was similar to any other keyboard such as the Blackberry but the texting was a issue i had with the phone. I'm not sure if this was the issue with the sin card or the service I used but it kept sending multiple text so I had to phone the provider monthly to complaint to them which made me get tired of this phone. Some issues that there is a lack of spaces between the keyboard, so if you have a big hand ... i don't recommend you buying this phone.
Camera isn't great as the recent phones that came out it only has 2mp camera. Whenever i took a photo of me..awkward... or anything else I had to photoshop it to make it either brighter or for quality of the picture.
You can access the internet when you're around location with wireless internet but there is huge restriction! You can't watch videos on Youtube!!! But it allows you to access Facebook so you could add some picture that actually ended out looking great...
It has a great bluetooth thought, i never had any issue sending pictures to my friend's phone. The price is very cheap right now so i believe it's a reasonable price to pay.
Considering the price, Samsung GT S3650 Corby might be considering not so bad. It's light, easy user interface and i really like the choice of colors (very bright). As for the inside, the touch screen is responsive, ( this is my first touch screen phone, and apparently i do not really like it). The screen unlock key (button and touch) are slow and take a long time if you are on the music player. The phone is really slow if you have lots of music/images/videos and the web browser is slow, crashes a lot and doesn't have tabbed browsing. The camera is unreliable for capturing your memories, also very slow. You cannot customize the look, since you cannot download third party theme. You can only change the wallpaper. There's no 3G, Wi-Fi or GPS support, very disappointing. You might like this phone if you cannot buy anything better than this. Simply put, its affordable. So you may not expect too much from it.
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Well just before Christmas time 2 years ago, this phone came out, and looked really good on the adverts. so just after Christmas, I bought one. At first, it was an okay phone. But now, gosh, no idea what happened. I use predictive text, but simple words like 'and' come up with 'Ame' and 'Cod' before and. And 'but' comes up with 'Buu' and 'Att' first, making it really difficult and slow to text. Also, you cannot turn the phone sideways and get a full qwerty keyboard, which dissapointed me. The camera is okay, could be better, could be worse, but the memory is terrible! I have a memory card, but it only holds around 200 texts in both inbox and outbox, before it makes me delete them. The Facebook app is really slow, not really worth using at all to be honest. Also, I swear the battery life has got worse. It used to last, hmm around 3 days before needing charging, now I need to charge it about once every two days, and my usage is pretty much the same as what it's always been.
Now I'm not sure if it's because of my sim card, or because the phone is old, or simply the phone itself, but it's sometimes very hard to send texts, it will say 'sending' for ages and ages, before I just have to cancel, and try and re-send. Usually messages take around 7 seconds to send, which I think is a rather long time. In fact, some times I don't receive texts at all, and I don't realise this until somebody says 'you never replied' or some such, so I'll turn my phone on and off again, and then those messages may or may not come through, but then usually the texting will go back to normal again, but this happens often now. Another point is that certain times when I go to delete messages, they simply won't delete. The 'delete' sign comes up for ages and ages so I wonder why it's taking so long and cancel, and all the messages are still there.
On the very rare occasion, the alarm won't go off. I check every night that the settings are right and such, but very rarely, it just doesn't go off at all.
It comes with a choice of about 4 or 5 message tones, and my gosh are they annoying! You can't have your own message tone, it has to be one of those choices, and they're all terrible, in my opinion.
The phone's dictionary has some words in it that don't really seem to be words at all, more just letters.
If I ever need to turn my phone off, when I turn it back on, it will every so often reset the date and time, and they're will be a totally random time, and a date from god knows when. Weird.
Say if you get your phone out in even light rain, and it gets a few drops of rain on the screen, the whole touch screen messes up and it doesn't work until you dry it again.
My last point will be that in the past, when I try to save a phone contact, you press save, and nothing happens. Nothing at all, it still stays on the 'add contact' screen and simply won't save, which is slightly annoying.
This was the first proper phone I ever purchased. I bought it at around 60 pound when it first came out on pay as you go. The phone is pretty much aimed at the younger generation having the phone come with an array of colouful phone backs which i love as it really made the phone pop and stand out making the phone itself look quite fashionable to carry round. The colorful phone backs came in hot pink, orange, yellow, black and white. The phone also comes with the charger and headphones. However i was slightly disapointed that the phone didn't come with a wire to connect it to the computer and i had to go out and purchase one myself when you would expect to receive one with it.
The phone itself is a touch screen phone and at first i found it difficult to get used to but eventually i got the hang of it. One of the biggest drawbacks of the phone had to be the lock system which was rather poor. To unlock the phone all you have to do is hold and swipe along the screen. Because of this you can unlock the phone in your pocket and i found it would sometimes ring random people in my pocket which was rather annoying.
As the phone was aimed at teenagers and young adults it came with a lot of interesting apps like facebook, bebo, myspace, twitter etc.. I really like this being a social fanatic as they were really easy to use. As well as this the phone came with loads of other useful apps like birthday reminder, a radio, gps and loads more which i loved as it made the phone so much more fun.
The phone altogether was really easy to use. The sound quality and camera quality were also really good. One thing however is that the phone can scratch rather easily so be careful when using it.
Overall it was a good phone but not the best of the best.
I discovered this phone whilst shopping for a new one, I bought it and had to take it back, becaus eit is terrible! The camera is unsatisfactory and the sound isn't very good! If any was thinking of buying this I would urge them to reconsider! I don't think it is worth the money at all! For someone who's looking for a simple, easy mobile simply for texting and answering the phone, this is perfect. Because all the other software on it is crap! Also, it is w=quite old, girly and not very big. Some people prefer smaller phones, but personally I like them big. I wouldn't recommend this particular samsung to anyone, but I would say get a different samsung phone, like the tocco/tocco lite. It is quite a cute phone, coming in different colors, such as Yellow and white etc. I hope you find this information useful .
This phone has to be my all time favourite phone and due to my clumsiness I have had a few...
Like with most people I was wary when it came to touch screen phones. This one however I found very easy to use. Although the phone wasn't at the top of the touch screen list I found this to be more reliable. Battery life is amazing could go for days without charging (obviously I am more of a texter than a talker)
I wanted something that was practical easy to use and nice to look at this had the lot. When I bought the phone it came with 3 back covers a pink one black one and black with pink pattern although there are many other colours available for it, Charger USB cable instruction manual guarantee and in ear headphones. Volume on the phone went loud enough so that you could hear it in the bottom of your hand bag and the vibration on the phone was strong enough to feel in the loudest pub. I honestly do not know what I ever did without it. The speed of the internet wasn't bad either little slow sometimes but got you there.
The graphics on the phone we ample enough but obviously this is the Genio not the IPhone so best not to set the standard too high as this could cause disappointment. The camera on the phone takes a great pic but the memory on the phone itself could do with been increased. I bought memory card that slots into the side when the back cover is taken off just to allow me enough room for my music and the pictures that had been taken.
This is a very stylish phone that with me has really stood the test of time considering the thing has spent most of the time on the floor than it has in my hand, perfect first timer touch screen phone and cheap enough too
I've had this phone for about a year and a half now, and I'll admit my main reason for buying into a contract for it was the perk I got from the Carphone Warehouse... *cough* free PS3 *cough*...
That aside, I was sceptical about touch screen phones. I'd heard all too many stories of some of the pixels or whatever in the screen going wrong and preventing hassle free calling/texting. However I was pleasantly surprised with the Genio - it is easy to use and navigate for first time touch screeners. I thought it was quite a sleek design too, it's quite light and fits easily into pockets - a word of warning to those with large handbags though, put this phone in there and it WILL become assimilated into the mounds of needless junk you inevitably accumulate in there (mine does).
After a few more months my clumsiness had well and truly kicked in, and the phone had been dropped against most hard floor surfaces. The screen has remained pretty scratch free, and the rest of it has a couple of dents and chips but it has done remarkably well! This phone does break into pieces when dropped onto a particularly hard surface though, so try not to do this when out and about or you'll find yourself on your hands and needs scrambling about for all the bits. It can also reset itself when this happens, whcih can be rather annoying if you're like me and use your phone as a watch and calendar and suddenly find it's gone back to midnight on the 1st January... however I would rather this than screen cracking and other such phone booboos.
Room for improvement - after a lot of use this phone is now losing it's sound quality when in a voice call - I have mine turned up to full volume and this can still sometimes be too quiet. Also, the loudspeaker function leaves a lot to be desired.
The Genio Touch phone may not be the top of the line and not the most popular but unlike some of the newer phones this mobile is good quality and will last you for more than a couple of months. I have had mine for over a year and there have been no problems what so ever it is durable and easy to use. I particularly like the font on the phone which give it a much more attractive and modern feel. Definitely worth the money! when i first bought the phone I was intrigued by its attractive touch screen which are very popular but also the back cover that allows you to change the back panel to another design which the phone comes already with two other designs which makes it feel even more flexible to your own tastes and wants. This is a fantastic phone which i would highly recommend in my experience.
So, I have had this phone for just over a year now. I never really like it that much.
This was the first touch screen phone i had owned, so at first i was really impressed. But after using other peoples HTC and IPhones i realised how slow this actually was. Even some of the other touch screen phone at about the same price (eg LG TOCO) were more responsive than this.
I am a student, so simply buying a new phone was out of the question. So i battled on with this, figured that it was due to the price, the fact that it was a budget phone. I felt that i shouldnt comple for the price.
Annother major annoyance i have found with this phone is the predictive text. The phone built in dictonary had a habbit of making up its own words. Usually containing numbers, random punctuation and capital letters here and there. It makes sending a quick text quite hard, as you have to keep changing things to the right word. I have reset my phone to factory setting about 5 time now to fix this. This works for about a week or so, then the crazy words come back.
There are a few good points about thisphone i feel i should mention.
I found that the battery life is amazing. I can go about a week without charging at all.
Also, the interchangable back is cool. adds a personal touch to the phone
I wanted a phone that was simple and easy to use, stylish and up to date without being a ridiculous price which would suit my personality. I can honestly say this phone caught my eye straight away with its quirkiness and unique look.
Genio touch is brilliant, I tend to get bored of phones quickly and buy a new one every 4-5 months but I've had this one for about 1 year and a half, and I must say I'm not bored at all! Its very stylish and the different coloured cases on the back means you can swap them whatever mood your in, just gives the phone that extra detail.
The touch screen I find incredibly easy to use, sometimes a little off and might not be as accurate as it could be, especially if you type quickly like myself it tends to freeze.
Downside is to do with the side buttons. If you press the camera button on the side which is right below the hold button (which you use to lock the phone) if you press the camera one accidently and then the hold button it tends to lock the phone so you cant use it for about five minutes. Would be better if the buttons were separated as this can cause annoyance.
The layout menu is wonderful, you can also slide the main background back and forth to view different scenes or pictures. Nice icons goes well with the style and easy to find everything your looking for. Clear sound and high enough volume. Nice ring, message and alarm tones. I don't find the internet useful as it is very slow and comes up with errors regularly. Charges very quickly takes mine about an hour but may vary between people.
In the box you get 3 different coloured cases out of (yellow, orange, pink, white, white with patterns and black) my favourite is the white with patterns. You also get a charger, a usb cable, headphones and of course the phone! I paid about £50 for mine from Currys.
Overall if your looking for a stylish little phone, which is easy to use and not needing to use the internet on a daily basis. Then this is a fantastic little phone for you!
The phone was easy to use, with an okay camera. The screen was a good size and very clear. The touch screen was a bit slow, but the "buttons" were big enough to use easily when sending a text. Mine came with an interchangeable back in varying colours, which was nice to change depending on my mood, and had an ergonomic shape, which fit into the palm of your hand well, making it easier to text. It has a micro SD card inlet, which is good for boosting the memory of the phone.
It didn't need charging often, the batter would last a few days with normal use.
Internet access was possible with the phone, but the web pages would come up very small, and from what I tried, I couldn't find a way to easily zoom in and out and use the Internet properly without giving up.
There's a side bar that pops out on the home page with widgets, like clocks, calendars, music player radio and so on. At times this got a bit annoying as widgets would turn up and then wouldn't go back into the side bar. When turning the phone off and on again, the widgets that I chose to display on my home screen were jumbled up and spread across the 3 page scrolling screen.
The phone has some good features, but all in all it is best for use for making phone calls and sending texts, but not much more, it is a no frills phone. And is quite good for a starter phone.
I'm inseparable to this phone, i've had it nearly a year and it's definitely one of the best buys I've ever made.
It's got everything i needed, looks good, works well, socila networking and its very cheap compared to other phone of it's type.
This is one of the most stylish phones out there, I think. (not including smart phones) It's got an awesome sleek design and i personally love the way you can change the colour of the backs. At the minute mines white, but I've had yellow, black and all sorts of different patterns and designs. I also love the large touchscreen front which really adds to the aesthetics of the product.
The main feature of this product that i love is the ease of getting onto social networking site such as facebook i use it all the time to keeping touch with people wherever i am and is such an improvement on other social networking apps. It also has all the other necessities on a phone that i think have gone from some of the newer phones such as Calculators and timer. The only feature it doesn't have is ready to play games, this may be a bit childish but what happened to good old snake or tetris on your phone!
Ease of Use
this phone is really easy to especially as you've had a Samsung beforehand as it follows the same format as all Samsungs which is incredibly simple with easy to understand heading so you know where everything is and it doesn't take a life-time to find some features like it does on some phones.
Touch screen sensitivity
The touch screen can be very unpredictable sometimes its working fine other time it will never work or work so badly that there isn't any point in using it ( i just turn it on and off again) This is probably the biggest major flaw in the phone. But if you can live with this it's easy to use and good quality
Overall this is a very good, stylish phone with great social networking feature and easy to use, it a very popular phone because of this and its relatively cheap price compared to other phones
I got this phone for free on a cheap contract on Virgin Mobile. It was my first touchscreen phone so I loved it at first, it was pretty easy to use, was very customizable, had a slot for Micro SD which was useful for storing photos & music. The camera was good quality also, though not quite to the standard of some phones around at the time. The selection of applications was good, although it was surprising to find no games or more abstract applications than the regular ones that would be normally found on a phone. I also enjoyed the main screen to play about with widgets, and also the gestures you can do to unlock the phone to specific pages. However, at some times (often when in hot/humid conditions but not always) the touch screen becomes almost impossible, unresponsive and sometimes choosing options on the other side of the screen to what has been pressed.
Altogether a good phone, except at those annoying times!


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Athletic Training
Choosing a College
When choosing a college to attend, what questions would be good to ask about their Athletic Training program.
You ask a very important question because there are so many programs to choose from! Currently, there are 367 accredited athletic training education programs in the United States. All accredited programs meet a rigorous set of program standards established by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (http://caate.occutrain.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/CAATE-Post-Professional-Residency-Standards-2012.pdf) and have the same core mission of producing graduates who are prepared to pass the Board of Certification's exam and earn the ATC credential. With that said, different programs have very different ways that they meet this mission with very different audiences that they cater to.
The easiest way to organize the long list of programs is by the degree that they offer. While they all prepare students to earn their ATC credential, most programs (344) offer a bachelor's degree while a small number (23) offer a masters degree. The bachelor's degree programs are the most common route to the ATC credential and make the most sense for the majority of students. The "entry level" masters programs are designed for students who have already earned a bachelor's degree in another field of study. They are often a good choice for students who discover their interest in athletic training while already in college or who are varsity athletes in college and are unable to complete the clinical demands of athletic training concurrently with their athletic team practices and games.
Programs can further be divided by the kinds of schools where they are offered. Interestingly, most athletic training education programs are offered at smaller universities and only a small number of truly "big schools" offer athletic training. School size IS NOT an indicator of quality, but it often does tell you about personality. When choosing a school, choose one that fits what you need, not what others tell you is a good school. If you are independent, self-reliant, flexible and seeking diverse opportunities then maybe a large school is a good choice. If you are more comfortable out of the spotlight, or with smaller numbers of peers and patients with less pressure or if need more personal attention and hand-on guidance, then maybe a smaller, more intimate school is the right choice. I often tell prospective students that if they want someone to hold their hand and guide them along the path to their future as a professional, then a smaller school is a wonderful choice. If they don't want their hand held, but instead want the door held open to more diverse and impactful opportunities, then a big school might fit the bill. The truth is that you can get to anywhere from either type of program, but choosing the one that is the best "personality fit" for you will help you to be happy while on the path to your future.
As for questions to ask:
There is no national ranking of programs to guide you. Therefore, you need to gauge both the QUALITY and the FIT of the school you visit. You CAN'T do this accurately from a website. You REALLY should plan to visit the schools on your final list and talk directly to someone from the program. If the program faculties don't meet with prospective students, then that tells you something useful. My top 5 things to ask about are...
1. How do their graduates' performance on the certification exam. The statistic you want is their first-attempt passing rate (not overall passing rate). The most recently distributed exam data indicate a national average of around 43% of candidates passing on their first attempt. Most years the range is closer to 50 - 60%. There are lots of programs who routinely have passing rates above 80%.
2. What are the kinds of students who succeed in the program and the characteristics of those who don't. Your goal here is to learn about the feel, culture and personality of the program. Who does the program self-identify as their targeted student demographic? For example, our program at Ohio State caters to high-ability students who want "big-time" opportunities and who want a launching pad to bigger opportunities as a professional. My students get personalized attention, but that is not their primary need or want. Other programs cater more to the students who want and need lots of personalized attention, but are not necessarily looking for the fast paced or high pressure world that my students seek.
3. What are the program attrition rates? (drop-outs) How many students start as pre-AT majors? How many apply for program admission and how many are accepted. Of those who start the professional phase, how many graduate from the AT program? ALL programs lose students who change majors or leave school for various reasons unrelated to program quality. Therefore, attrition by itself doesn't mean much. However, in my experience, the VAST majority of these students who leave an AT program change majors before they actually start the program or in the first semester once they start the program. If the program is losing seniors or has a lot (>10-15%) of attrition of students after they have begun the professional part of the program, then you need to ask yourself why.
4. .Ask about the number of students the program graduates annually and about program placements after graduation. AT programs do not generally place their students into jobs directly, so don't expect the university to find you a job. However, you should take a look at where the programs graduates go. Most students (~2/3) graduating from bachelors degree programs go directly to graduate school. How many received a graduate assistantship to do so? Where are their graduates working 5 years after graduation?
5. Ask about what your experience will be like. What will the course load be? When do you get to start supervised clinical care and how do the rotations work? What are the expectations about clinical hours and your out-of-class time commitment? Do the students travel with the athletics teams? Is there a student club for AT students? Most school has students start clinicals in the sophomore or junior year and very few start you with patients when you are a freshman. You should expect a big time commitment that includes somewhere around 15 - 20 hours in the classroom in addition to a similar amount of time in supervised clinical practice each week. Being an AT major really is a full-time experience.
Good luck in finding your school. Pick the one that is the right fit over the one that has the big reputation.
Mark A Merrick, PhD, ATC
Associate Professor
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
The Ohio State University


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Gluten-free Diet in Gluten-genetically Predisposed Subjects
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Undetected or untreated CD may cause severe complications later in life, such as autoimmune disorders.
It is recommended for subjects with autoimmune diseases or at risk for CD to be screened for CD and to repeat serological screening about every three years to detect cases of clinically silent, late-onset CD.
Celiac disease (CD) auto-antibodies against tissue transglutaminase (anti-tTG) are produced in the intestinal mucosa even when not measurable in serum. By using the phage display libraries technique it is possible to investigate in vivo (intestinal biopsy) early antibody responses in autoimmune disease. In particularly, this technique demonstrated that the humoral response against tissue transglutaminase occurs at the intestinal mucosal level, and that the human VH5 gene is the commonly used variable region by the celiac patients to build the anti-tTG. The intestinal mucosa production of IgA anti-tTG could be important in the diagnostic work-up of early-stage CD, when mucosal histology is not yet diagnostic.
The investigators propose to 1) first degree relatives of CD patients, 2) subjects with autoimmune disease, 3) symptomatic subjects (genetically predisposed to gluten intolerance) tested negative for CD related autoantibodies and with apparently normal intestinal mucosa a prospective study to uncover early-stage of gluten intolerance by measuring the mucosal VH5 restricted gene family anti-tTG clones in two biopsies: before and after one year of gluten free-diet (GFD).
Aims of this clinical trial are:
- to measure by means of phage display libraries the gluten dependent humoral immune response (anti-tTG) of the intestinal mucosa in subjects with high risk of untreated CD, without CD-related intestinal lesions.
- to demonstrate the mucosal gluten-dependent immune response before and after 12 months of gluten-free diet
- to demonstrate that dietary intervention might modify the clinical condition (e.g improvements of the gastrointestinal complaints or extra-gastrointestinal symptoms) of the enrolled patients and the improvement of the intestinal inflammation with the disappearance of the mucosal anti-tTG.
- to evaluate the specificity of the double staining technique for detecting IgA antitransglutaminase mucosal deposit with the phage display antibodies assay
|Genetic Predisposition to Disease Celiac Disease
|Dietary Supplement: Gluten-free diet
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
|Official Title:
|Usefulness of Gluten-free Diet in Gluten-genetically Predisposed Subjects Positive to Intestinal-mucosa Anti-transglutaminase Antibodies
- Intestinal mucosal gluten-dependent immune response before and after a gluten-free diet [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Actual Study Start Date:
|May 2007
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Gluten-free diet
Gluten-free diet
Dietary Supplement: Gluten-free diet
Gluten-free diet
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- first degree relatives of CD patients
- subjects with autoimmune disease tested negative for serum anti-tTG but positive for CD related HLA DQ2 or DQ8
- symptomatic subjects (genetically predisposed to gluten intolerance) tested negative for CD related autoantibodies and with apparently normal intestinal mucosa.
Exclusion criteria:
- None
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00677495
|IRCCS Burlo Garofolo
|Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy, 34137
|Principal Investigator:
|Fabiana Ziberna
|IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
|Principal Investigator:
|Serena Vatta
|IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
|Principal Investigator:
|Stefano Martelossi, MD
|IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
|Principal Investigator:
|Roberto Marzari
|University of Trieste
|Principal Investigator:
|Fiorella Florian
|University of Trieste
|Principal Investigator:
|Vincenzo Villanacci, MD
|Azienda Ospedaliera Spedali Civili di Brescia
|Principal Investigator:
|Daniele Sblattero
|Department of Medical Sciences, University of Eastern Pidmont, Novara, Italy
|Study Chair:
|Alessandro Ventura, MD
|IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
|Study Director:
|Tarcisio Not, MD
|IRCCS Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy
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|Responsible Party:
|Luca Ronfani, MD, IRCCS Burlo Garofolo
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|NCT00677495 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|May 12, 2008
|Last Updated:
|March 8, 2017
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Keywords provided by Luca Ronfani, IRCCS Burlo Garofolo:
Gluten-free diet
Celiac Disease
Genetic predisposition
Phage display library
Autoimmune diseases
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Celiac Disease
Disease Susceptibility
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Malabsorption Syndromes
Intestinal Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Metabolic Diseases
Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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It's dark outside, and the scene is ripe for a fight. Two men—one tall, slender and middle-aged; the other short, gruff and 73—appear ready to duke it out. Well, at least the older man—a Texan named Jim Lightner, who sports a brown cowboy hat and a thick mustache—seems ready.
That is, until he sees that I'm recording the whole scene with a camera.
"Could you turn that camera off?" he asks.
"NO!" yells the other man, a California transplant named Gershon Siegel, before I can respond. "This guy's gonna hit me and I'm gonna sue his ass."
Siegel turns back to Lightner, daring him to fight.
"I'm gonna take that house of yours," Siegel says. "Go ahead, hit me."
Bystanders tell Siegel to back off, that he's arguing with the wrong neighbor. Lightner glares at him.
"Sorry, Jimbo," Siegel says, mockingly offering a hand. "Let's shake hands and say goodnight. Kiss and make up?"
Lightner refuses and slowly walks away.
We're in Eldorado, just outside of the township's community center, where a board meeting of the Eldorado Community Improvement Association is underway.
Earlier, during the meeting's public comment period, Lightner thanked the ECIA board for taking action against allowing hens as pets. He mentioned not being able to keep his six-month-old puppy outside because of coyotes. Lightner admitted he couldn't prove that his neighbors' backyard chickens attracted the coyotes, but said he knew coyotes frequented his property.
"If the varmints don't go away," he said, "I have two choices. I can try to rope those coyotes away, but I'm not good. Or I can get a .308 or a 12-gauge, and I can take care of the varmints myself. In doing so, I violate the covenants and I violate probably the county ordinances. I don't want to do that."
Lightner says Siegel insulted him on his way outside. Siegel says he just called him "Jimbo."
This isn't Eldorado—at least, not the Eldorado that many have come to know and love.
Located roughly 15 miles south of Santa Fe, Eldorado's 6,000 residents make it the largest unincorporated community in New Mexico. The ECIA, a homeowner's association governed by an elected board of directors, runs the township.
"It's quiet. It's neighborly," says Ed Moreno, the ECIA board president. "It's safe, and the ambiance is hard to beat. You can see practically every mountain range in north-central New Mexico."
Eldorado's road entrance—two adobe-style signs with large lettering reading "Eldorado at Santa Fe"—suggests a gated community. Shopping centers, an elementary school and a quaint fire station line the road. Many of the homes, situated on lots of at least an acre, feature suburban amenities like satellite dishes, basketball hoops and nice cars in the driveways. According to the 2010 US Census, Eldorado is 94 percent white; 12 percent of residents consider themselves Hispanic. The median household income is $82,000—double that of Santa Fe—and the median age is 55.
It's a serene, peaceful setting that many residents don't want disturbed.
"The real reason I bought a piece of property in Eldorado was the covenants as they were written, period," a body shop owner said while testifying against pet chickens at an ECIA board meeting last fall. "I specifically moved to Eldorado because I did not want to see trailers, cars up on blocks, shacks, crap next to people's homes—it's ridiculous."
But Eldorado hasn't been quite so tranquil lately. Conflict has been brewing among the township's residents, and last month, it exploded into a lawsuit that has brought discord and rancor to Eldorado's once-peaceful ranks. Neighbors have leveled allegations of trespassing, physical assaults and stalking against neighbors, and the quarrel has become so divisive that even the ECIA board recently voted not to publicly discuss it anymore.
"It's really become Helldorado," Susan Billings, one of the lawsuit's defendants, tells SFR.
The subject of the quarrel? Chickens.
Although he's a transplant, Siegel says he's lived in Eldorado longer than anywhere else. He grew up in Ohio and lived in the San Francisco Bay Area before moving to the township 22 years ago.
He fits the California typecast: eccentric, colorful and prone to delivering hyperbole. For 12 years, he published the Eldorado Sun, the township's community newspaper. People have kept chickens as long as Eldorado has been a community, he says, and the ECIA has historically granted them variances. But in recent months, the question of whether to allow chickens has boiled to a high point.
Siegel, who owns hens but isn't named in the lawsuit, refers to it as "Eldorado's Final Solution." Jan Deligans, a former ECIA board member and supporter of chickens as pets, dubs the defendants the Chicken Seven.
It all comes down to one question: Should residents be able to keep hens in their yards?
On one side are those who, for various reasons ranging from coyotes to property values, oppose hens in Eldorado. (Residents on both sides agree that roosters shouldn't be allowed.) On the other side are the chicken advocates, who either keep hens themselves or support their neighbors' right to do so. (There's no exact statistic for how many Eldorado residents keep hens, but most people interviewed for this story estimated that it's around 30-40 households.) Both sides cite the same ECIA covenant, which reads: "No animals, birds or poultry shall be kept or maintained on any lot, except recognized household pets."
The anti-chicken contingent points to the first half of the covenant as proof that chickens, as poultry, are verboten. Their opponents claim the second half—"except recognized household pets"—is ambiguous, and point to a growing nationwide movement to raise pet hens. As evidence, they cite the fact that pet store giant Petco sells chicken supplies and the $100,000 chicken coops featured in luxury store Neiman Marcus' catalog.
But almost everyone agrees that the real debate is much bigger than chickens.
For the chicken advocates, it's about sustainability—and, in some cases, about just being left alone. For those opposed to chicken-raising, it's about the future of Eldorado as a quiet, upper-middle-class community that follows its own rules.
And both are willing to fight for it.
I meet Siegel for the first time at the home of Greg Colello and Rose Winston, two chicken owners named as defendants in the lawsuit. Dusk is quickly turning to night, and Winston has already put their four hens inside an insulated coop that's warmed by a heating lamp. As we walk to the part of the backyard where the hens prowl during the day, Winston asks if I want her to take the hens out. That's OK, I tell her, another time.
We go back to the house, and Colello points to my left foot. I've stepped in something. I look down to find chicken shit and hay caked into my bootsoles.
"You got the full experience," he says, instructing me to stomp my boot in the snow and use the ledge to scrape off the poop.
Colello, a short, skinny man who sometimes mumbles when he talks, shows me his hens the next day. He's wearing the same shirt, which is black, has two green eyes and reads "Ask Me About My Monster." The hens—Sadie, Leona, Greta and Urchin—cuckle quietly in the crisp winter air.
"I don't know, honestly, which one is which," he says.
Colello's son, Elan, built the chicken coop a few weeks ago as part of an experiment in sustainable living. Colello didn't like having the hens at first, but eventually, they grew on him.
Around the same time, Elan decided to run for the ECIA board.
"They were having trouble finding board members," he says. "I grew up frustrated with the disregard that ECIA had for teenagers in the community."
Elan, now 30, recalls the association halting projects like movie theaters and skate parks; serving on the board was a chance to change that mentality.
Elan began his board term in May 2010, and supported allowing goats and hens in Eldorado as pets. Hens, he says, add to a sustainable lifestyle: They eat table scraps that would otherwise be thrown away, as well as insects, a protein source with a very low carbon footprint. They lay fresh eggs, and their poop fertilizes the soil.
But Greg Colello concedes that owning chickens isn't all "peaches and cream." When he first got hens, his female pit bull "took out four of them right off the bat" because he and Winston didn't do a proper job with fencing. Building the coop alone cost him $800.
Nate Downey, an Eldorado resident who writes a monthly permaculture column for the Santa Fe New Mexican, says raising hens is part of the answer to global climate change. Supporting local farmers is "a great idea, but that's not enough," he says. I tell Downey that one Eldorado resident cited one of his columns, which describes him chopping off a chicken's head, as "exactly what I don't want any of my neighbors in Eldorado doing in their backyard"—but he isn't concerned.
"It's a spiritual act to eat what you have grown," he says. "[It is] an infringement on our personal freedoms to have people like that ruling the roost." (Pun clearly intended.)
"If we don't realize we need to eat local meat, we won't be a species," he adds.
Many Eldorado residents, however, call the sustainability argument bogus and say the pro-chicken contingent is merely a vocal minority obsessed with getting its way.
"In my mind, the behavior's like what you would find with a small child who says, 'I'm going to keep kicking and screaming in the middle of a restaurant,'" says Eldorado resident John Whitbeck.
"I sat through a July meeting in which Gershon [Siegel] shouted 'Nazism!' and 'fascism!' and 'It's time to lawyer up!'" Mary Cassidy, a resident active with the anti-chicken group Action Eldorado, adds. "Typically, that's the way that it's been: emotional."
Whitbeck says many chicken advocates ignore the more practical ways to be sustainable, like riding the free bus to Santa Fe instead of driving; supporting existing local farms; or creating a designated henhouse for the community, much like Eldorado's designated horse stable. (The ECIA discussed the henhouse idea, according Deligans, but never got as far as an actual proposal.)
Others say parsing the ECIA covenants to fit chickens under "recognized household pets" is ludicrous.
"You can go down to the food market and buy fried chicken, but you don't buy fried dogs and fried cats," says Raymond Nichols, another Action Eldorado member. "There is a difference."
Fried or not, Nichols acknowledges that the debate is about more than chickens.
"We're looking to maintain a reasonable, peaceful setting, and we're trying to maintain property values by virtue of the covenants," he says. He's not worried about chickens per se, he adds, but rather the "slippery slope" that allowing pet hens may create.
"If you can twist this covenant, you can twist the next one, and that's what I'm afraid of this group doing," he says.
Lightner, who speaks with a soft Texas accent, says it's an ideological issue between two groups, each advocating for a different way of life.
"The chickens are just the camel's nose in the tent," he says. "The goats and the pigs are coming behind them because [chicken advocates] want a self-contained community. And there are those that don't want that in Eldorado—I happen to be one of them."
Richard Taub, a University of Chicago sociology professor who has a second home in Santa Fe and friends in Eldorado, has his own theory to explain the situation. Though he hasn't done formal research on Eldorado's chicken dilemma, he says it sounds like a classic case of status anxiety.
Taub explains it like this: Eldorado is a bedroom suburb for those who want to have a large home and lot but can't afford that style of living in downtown Santa Fe—and they're self-conscious about it. Thus, it's important for many Eldorado residents to maintain a sense of their standards, Taub says.
"People who really want to say, 'We are really middle class, upper middle class'—the idea that there are chickens in our community undermines that conception of ourselves," he says.
At least one aspect of Eldorado's status anxiety is very real: declining property values. The median home in Eldorado dropped from $364,000 in 2008 to $305,000 in 2012, according to statistics from the Santa Fe Association of Realtors.
"We have been really dealing with a lousy housing market," Taub says. "Anything that makes that more fragile is very scary to a lot of people."
But realtor Fred Raznick says he's never seen evidence of pet chickens impacting property values. In other words, it's the economy, not chickens.
Even so, to Claudia Daigle—one of Eldorado's most outspoken anti-chicken crusaders—there's a more insidious agenda at work.
Daigle, who's been at the forefront of anti-hen groups like Protecting Our Covenants and Action Eldorado, runs a chicken-centered blog called Eldorado Gadfly. "This is not about allowing neighbors to have a couple of chickens," she posted last June. "This is about turning Eldorado into a farming and ranching community made up of 'mini-farms,' a new term and a new idea that big ag is pushing. Mini-Farm Subdivisions."
Daigle notes that Moreno has worked as a facilitator and mediator with the Keystone Center—a Colorado-based nonprofit that works to solve policy issues, including agricultural sustainability, between institutions. Calling his sustainability-related work a conflict of interest, she demanded (unsuccessfully) that he recuse himself from all chicken-related votes.
Last spring, Elan Colello filed a restraining order against Daigle for allegedly stalking him; that case was dismissed after Daigle denied the charges and accused Colello of trying to silence her (she missed a chicken forum because of the restraining order).
That fall, after Daigle started petitions to recall both Moreno and Deligans from the board, matters escalated. In a now-infamous incident, a woman allegedly assaulted Daigle while she was collecting recall signatures in the parking lot of Eldorado's Agora Shopping Center. But perhaps Daigle's most memorable involvement in the chicken issue was her blog post last May that urged residents to send photos of their neighbors' hens to her or to ECIA compliance director Mark Young.
"It is not about being mean," she wrote, "it is simply about protecting our community and our quality of life and enforcing our covenants."
Devi Borton, a short brunette, later testified at a board meeting that a photo of her chickens was posted online and sent to the ECIA.
"The coop is not visible from the road," she said, visibly upset. "This person came walking onto our property; there was no car. This was someone my neighbor did not recognize—and we have children. Our neighbors have children. I'm very disturbed by that."
Throughout the chicken debate, Moreno—who, incidentally, has a background in mediation—has often found himself caught in the middle. Early last year, he held public forums to find common ground, but that only inflamed and emboldened both sides.
"I haven't been bothered by chickens per se," Nichols says. "But this sustainability group—plus our ECIA president—chose to make a big deal out of it, so those of us who want to protect the covenants felt it was time to dig our heels in."
Eventually, the chicken issue got so contentious that the board decided to put the question directly to voters.
They borrowed an official ballot box from Santa Fe County, and on Oct. 1, 2012, both pro- and anti-chicken observers monitored the tally. On the ballot were two questions, each of which would amend the covenants. One allowed for Eldorado residents to keep a limited number of hens, while the other specifically banned them. For an amendment to pass, a majority of the 2,777 eligible lot owners needed to vote for one of them.
Despite attracting the biggest turnout for a local election in Eldorado's history, it still wasn't enough to change the covenant. In the end, 999 homeowners voted for banning chickens, while 805 voted to allow them.
Anti-chicken activists saw it as an affirmation. But pro-chickeners took the vote to mean that the covenants were still ambiguous. Moreno actually agrees with them on this.
"'Recognized,' 'household' and 'pet' are all ambiguous," he says. "We could be talking about this forever and never solve it, because it's not a language question. It's a values question."
Rather than ending the debate, then, the vote prompted Deligans and another board member to propose guidelines for chicken owners, further polarizing the two sides.
At an October 2012 ECIA board meeting, Richard Goldstein, a retired lawyer from Florida with an emphatic demeanor and piercing eyes, went to the podium and addressed Moreno directly.
"Ed, I am disappointed in your lack of leadership," Goldstein, who was wearing a Special Forces shirt that commemorated his service in the Vietnam War, began. He followed with a jab at Deligans, accusing her of having a conflict of interest and not knowing anything about fiduciary duties. Moreno interrupted, telling Goldstein to refrain from making personal remarks.
"No, sir," Goldstein stubbornly retorted. "No, sir."
He went on to address the guidelines proposal.
"I want you to know in no uncertain terms that you will be in court if you do that," Goldstein told the board members. "And you will be in court not as an ECIA member, but individually. Because I'll bring that lawsuit."
For him, the issue seemed personal.
"I don't care about dogs and cats," he said. "I'm allergic to cats and we don't have dogs. But we don't want chickens in this community. And if you have any doubt—"
Just then, Siegel interrupted Goldstein from the audience: "YOU don't want —"
Moreno pounded his gavel: "Gershon. That's the last thing we need."
Goldstein continued: "And if you have any doubt that I have the staying power to do that? Your gross income to this community is $900,000 a year. That's not as much as I made in the last decade each and every year that I practiced trial law. Ed, I'd like you to get back on the bus and drive us into sanity. You have that choice tonight. Make a resolution that there'll be no guidelines on chickens."
Goldstein ended with a threat: "Just ride the bus, or be run over by it."
The crowd erupted into applause.
Goldstein says he wanted the board to understand the consequences of going forward with guidelines for hen owners.
"I believe when you make a decision, you get to enjoy the benefits or the consequences of it," he says. "I wanted to make sure that they understood I was serious—and I was."
Goldstein says he just wants Eldorado's board to follow the proper procedures. In other words, if chicken advocates still have issue with the covenants after the vote, let a judge decide. If the judge decides to allow chickens, so be it.
"In a civilized society, when we have arguments, we don't go on Main Street at high noon and draw weapons at each other," he says. "We go to a neutral party that has no stake in the fight and let him or her make a decision."
In November, the board passed a resolution prohibiting any chicken guidelines and barring itself from publicly discussing the chicken issue.
Effectively, the ECIA had interpreted the covenants to mean that no chickens are allowed.
"We have to adhere to our fiduciary responsibility," Moreno says. "That means you don't make rash decisions. It means you take a fairly conservative course so as to not get yourself in a lot of trouble."
Then, last month, the ECIA filed a lawsuit against seven hen owners, accusing them of threatening "the health, safety and welfare of the other residents." If they continue owning chickens, the suit alleges, they'll cause the ECIA "irreparable injury."
"It was the most prudent thing, which was for [the ECIA board] to step out of Richard Goldstein's fire and allow the court system to handle what they didn't have the courage to handle," Siegel says. "They were spineless. They thought they were dodging the bullets when the guy was firing blanks."
Goldstein, however, says the lawsuits weren't a threat. They were a promise.
Today, the Chicken Seven are preparing for their defense. Last month, Deligans helped establish a nonprofit called Hensforth to help fundraise their legal fees.
ECIA lawyer John Hays says he's not sure how much the lawsuit, which will be paid for with homeowner fees, will cost the community. He adds that it could take up to 18 months to get to trial.
The ECIA can point to some precedent on the anti-chicken side. In 2002, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled in favor of banning chickens based on a similar "no poultry" except "household pets" covenant.
For some observers, though, homeowner associations are the real culprit. For the past six years, state Rep. Mimi Stewart, D-Bernalillo, has carried bills to regulate homeowner associations. She says issues like these are "a basic rights issue of wanting to have your own home and property and do whatever you want in it."
"It's dealing with the worst of people, if you ask me," Stewart tells SFR. "People in control of other people that [shouldn't] necessarily…be in control of other people."
Stewart says she'll likely introduce the bill again this year.
While the chicken issue may have brought unwanted publicity, at least some aspects of life in Eldorado remain largely unaffected: Home sales there rose from 99 in 2010 to 126 in 2012.
"Eldorado is a very healthy community," Raznick, who last year helped sell roughly three dozen properties there, tells SFR.
But both sides claim the chicken issue highlights a community at its worst.
"I've lived in Atlanta, Raleigh, Corpus Christi, Austin, Amarillo—I've never seen anything like this, over anything," Lightner says.
Siegel, ironically enough, agrees.
"I've never seen hysteria around something so stupid," he says.
On a cold January night, I'm attending an Eldorado town hall meeting hosted by state Rep. Stephen Easley, D-Santa Fe, and state Sen. Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe.
Throughout the evening, the lawmakers engage with a tightly packed crowd about the big topics of the day: gun control, education reform and tax reform.
When climate change comes up, though, Siegel interjects to draw a parallel.
"Can you address the climate change tipping point we're at now, the drama that's being played—we got climate deniers, climate change deniers—and the drama that's going on in Eldorado over chickens versus anti-chicken—"
Commotion rises before he can finish. Many shout "No!" and roll their eyes. One resident jokes about his question being stolen.
"Let me just give that an emphatic no," Easley says.
Later in the evening, I approach Easley to ask him whether he has a stance on chickens. Having lived in Eldorado long enough to know it's a minefield, he replies:
"Let me just say on the record: No comment."
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His argument is that the sexual organs are designed for procreation and should be used solely for that purpose. So any form of sex that is not for procreation is out.
This is, to my mind, an extreme and unrealistic position. The Dalai Lama says it is based on certain medieval Indian scholars (Vasubandhu, Asanga – but I have never seen the passages myself). It certainly has no basis in the Suttas.
But in AN V 192 Buddha makes distinction between bramins:
And ... what is bramin one who remains within the boundary? ... Why doesn't he couple with a woman out of season? Because his bramin wife does not serve for sensual pleasure, amusement, and sensual delight, but only for procreation. (...)
And ... what is bramin one who has crossed the boundary? ... His bramin wife serves for sensual plasure, amusement, and sensual delight, as well for procreation.
Do not mention Sutta AN VII, 22 : Ananda,
(translation: Bhikkhu Bodhi)as long the Vajjis do not decree anything that has not been decreed or abolish anything that has already been decreed but undertake and follow the ancient Vajji principles as they have been decreed, only growth is to be expected for them, not decline.
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Thanksgiving is a family occasion. It's a time to enjoy being together, but it also reminds us of families that can't be together, whether because of absence to work or war. But also those families that have been broken by divorce, domestic violence, estrangement or people who have lost their loved ones. Thanksgiving can be a time of joy, or it can be a painful reminder of families that are not getting together this year, or any year for that matter.
This can be especially hard in communities that have themselves been broken over time, whether by violence, drugs and poverty, or by the steady and continuing neglect of their most vulnerable members. And yet it is precisely in these communities where we often find people with great reserves of gratitude. I have always been struck in my reporting, both here and overseas, by the resilience of disadvantaged communities and people who have been struck by hardships that might sink the well-to-do, the privileged.
On a positive note, meeting the challenge to make Thanksgiving work creates opportunities and incentives to breach an estrangement, or to bury a hatchet with an ex-spouse or a frayed relationship with an old friend or family member. It's an opportunity to re-examine our lives, our priorities and our sense of gratitude.
For those who are enjoying this Thanksgiving weekend with family, that is something to be truly thankful for. And for those that can't, it reminds us of the opportunities we all have to look around and find ways to reach out to those who are alone, who may have lost what is dearest to them, and find a sense of shared gratitude.
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I'm curious how many people actually left Gren alone, by not tearing his arm off.
It seems a vast majority took the opportunity the moment it appeared!
Granted yes he was being a very big pain in the ass, flinging you around like a rag-doll and what have you. It wasn't entirely unprovoked, a lot of Fables are tired of being treated like dirt. Gren just decided to take a go at him even if it is indirectly his fault.
That doesn't justify it but it's not hard to see why he did it.
Personally I couldn't bring myself to do it.
Gren had already taken quite a nasty beating, he wouldn't dare strike back again, tearing his arm off served no purpose except to create more unjustified brutality.
He even curls up in a ball and is crying afterwards how can that not show you the guy was done, he was not gonna push his luck any further.
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A conceptual study on improvements to an unincorporated hamlet in Oakland Township was tabled for further review by the township's Board of Trustees after residents aired a number of grievances with the plan.
The Goodison Sub Area Plan is a reactivated version of a proposal first discussed three decades ago. If eventually pursued, it intends to improve pedestrian access and safety, as well as placing emphasis on implementing green-energy infrastructure.
But at Tuesday night's meeting, the trustees unanimously voted to send the proposal back to the Planning Commission with a list of revisions each would like to see addressed before the board decides to vote on it.
"There's no hurry to pass this tonight or next month," Supervisor Terry Gonser said. "I don't see any sense of urgency to pass this in the next month or two."
To some extent, the supervisor's leisurely approach is appropriate: According to Township Manager Jim Creech, there's no deadline on when a plan needs to be voted on.
Some of the plans include extending sidewalks from Collins Road to Bear Creek Park Entry, adding a median to Orion Road to improve vehicle flow and construction of a pedestrian walkway from Paint Creek Cider Mill's parking area to the Paint Creek Trail.
Trustee Judy Keyes opposed the plan, even at one point suggesting the planner of the study should be replaced due to an apparent lack of input from stakeholders in the study's footprint.
Keyes' biggest qualm with the planner, Grand Rapids-based Williams & Works, was its only client on the east side of the state is the township.
"The west side of the state is not here in Oakland County," she said. "We have many planning companies that are here locally, connected with the county."
Treasurer Jeanne Langlois suggested the drawings in the study of the proposed renovations was the biggest source of strife for residents.
Langlois said the road work, such as the Orion Road median structure, and the property infringements on businesses should be taken out.
But, "there's been a lot of work put into (the study)," she said. "I feel we should maintain this document."
The study has been in the works two years at a cost of roughly $45,000.
Residents appeared to support the decision to ask for revisions, some even siding with Keyes remarks as to why the plan was moving forward in the first place.
Jan Olson, of Goodison, said "I don't believe these are practical ideas," adding she especially opposed the plan to include "island" structures along Orion road to improve vehicle flow.
Olson said the most important aspect of the area that needed attention was the Paint Creek millrace, which has been dry for years.
Colleen Barkham, township parks and recreation commissioner, said "I cringe when there are changes...to this hamlet."
"With that change comes an increase in traffic," Barkham, a lifelong resident of the township said.
But Barkham said there are a number of aspects of the plan she finds commendable such as the emphasis on green infrastructure.
She echoed remarks that the plan is in the early stages of development and approving it does not cement any proposal.
"The Goodison Sub Area Plan creates a vision for Goodison that respects its historic character," she said. "Accepting this plan doesn't mean you agree with every suggestion."
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"Our results in 2012 were stellar in many ways, and I'm very pleased with how well our product resonated with customers," said Glenn Murphy, chairman and CEO of Gap Inc. "We enter 2013 focused on leveraging our global brands to gain more market share and continuing to increase shareholder value."
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