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text: Halloween happenings By Amy Robinson October 9, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Fall is here, and with it, all kinds of Halloween fun. If you feel like scaring yourself silly, you can check out several haunted locales -- from schoolhouses to former institutions and even the great outdoors. If your fun leans more towards the fright-free side, though, there are some corn mazes you can visit, which all have additional activities, too.Here are the ongoing Halloween-related events gazz has been informed of, listed in order of distance from Charleston:The Haunted Barn7 p.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 9 and 7 to 10 p.m. Oct. 17, 24 and 31. Tickets $11, fast pass (gets you in the next group entering the haunt) $22, all night pass $35 and season fast pass $55. The Haunted Barn, 426 Beauregard St. Call 304-389-1203 or visit www.thehauntedbarn.us.Scareview Grave Schoul7 p.m. to midnight Fridays and Saturdays through October, plus Oct. 31. Admission $10 or $8 with a canned food donation (proceeds benefit West Side Volunteer Fire Department and local food banks). Old Fairview Elementary School, corner of Virginia Heights and Coal River Road, St. Albans. Call 304-727-4750 or visit www.facebook.com/scarview.Historic Oak Hill School House7 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 7 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday Oct. 19-30. Wednesdays are "no scare" nights, where children can walk through without being scared by the actors. Adults $10, children 12 and under $8, no scare Wednesday for ages 8 and under $5. Old Oak Hill Elementary School, 140 School St., Oak Hill. Find it on Facebook under "The Haunting of the Historic Oak Hill School House."Haunted Parkersburg 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 2, plus Oct. 31. Adults $10, students and seniors $8, children 13 and under $5. (Not recommended for ages 6 and under.) A two-hour, roughly two-mile walking ghost tour of the city. Departs from The Blennerhassett Hotel, 4th and Market streets. Call 304-428-7978 or visit www.hauntedparkersburg.wix.com.Fright Nights at The Resort at Glade Springs6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays in October. Scary Tales Haunted Trail and 3D Haunted House $15 (with line skip privileges $25), Zombie Hunt laser tag $10, Hayride of Horror $10 or all three for $30. Lights Out Haunted Trail (guided only by a glow stick) from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Oct. 31. 255 Resort Dr., Daniels. Call 855-281-4276 or visit www.frightnightswv.com.The Asylum: AberrationDark to 10 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and dark to midnight Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 2. Tickets $20, VIP $30 (gives front-of-line privileges). Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, 71 Asylum Dr., Weston. Call 304-269-5070 or visit www.theasylumwv.com. Plan to arrive before 8 p.m. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and 9 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; once capacity is reached, the gates will be closed for the night. Ages 13 and under must be accompanied by an adult. Trans-Allegheny also offers flashlight tours, paranormal tours (day and night), ghost hunts and historic tours. A fall festival is Sunday, and the annual Asylum Ball is Oct 26. Admission to these is separate from Abberation. Visit www.talawv.com for dates and more.Dungeon of Horrors7 p.m. to midnight Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Nov. 2, plus Oct. 31. Tickets $25. West Virginia Penitentiary, 818 Jefferson Ave., Moundsville. Call 304-845-6200 or visit www.wvpentours.com.The penitentiary also offers twilight tours and Thriller Thursdays, where you can explore by flashlight, as well as overnight ghost adventures. Age restrictions apply. Visit the website for more information or to purchase tickets.Gritt's Farm10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through Oct. 31. Admission for ages 9-60 $8, seniors 61 and up and children 3-8 $6, children 2 and under free. 356 Gritt Road, Buffalo. Call 304-937-2565 or visit www.facebook.com/GrittsFarm. 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The Preventive Efficacy of Carvedilol on Cardiac Dysfunction in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified December 2007 by Suzuka Hospital.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
Suzuka Hospital
Nagoya University
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First received: January 22, 2008
Last updated: February 4, 2008
Last verified: December 2007
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Detailed Description:
Purpose This cardiac dysfunction in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy is associated with minor cardiac damage as indicated by elevation of plasma cardiac troponin I (cTnI). The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the administration of Carvedilol can suppress the minor cardiac damage and prevent deterioration of cardiac function.
|Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Cardiomyopathies
|Drug: Carvedilol
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Carvedilol for the Prevention of Minor Cardiac Damage and Cardiac Function in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy
MedlinePlus related topics: Muscular Dystrophy
Drug Information available for: Carvedilol Carvedilol hydrochloride
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Muscular Dystrophy Becker Muscular Dystrophy Duchenne Muscular DystrophyU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Suzuka Hospital:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- The suppression of minor cardiac damage indicated as elevation of plasma cTnI [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Left ventricular function deterioration assessed by echocardiography In-hospital mortality for cardiac dysfunction In-hospital mortality for any cause Overall mortality [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|December 2007
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Carvedilol
Drug: Carvedilol
Other Name: Artist, Daich-Sankyo Co.Ltd
|No Intervention: Control
Detailed Description:
The life span in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy has been extending due to the development of artificial respiratory devices. According to that, the ratio of cardiac dysfunction as a cause of death has been increasing. This cardiac dysfunction was associated with minor cardiac damage as indicated by elevation of plasma cardiac troponin I (cTnI). Furthermore, and the detection rate of cTnI plasma as revealed to be correlated with the deterioration speed of LV dysfunction assessed by serial echocardiography measurements. Accordingly, if this minor cardiac damage is suppressed, it is postulated that the progression of cardiac dysfunction can be stopped. In the cases with ventricular arrhythmia and tachycardia, we found plasma cTnI became undetectable after administration of beta-blocker. Accordingly, we investigate whether administration of beta-blocker, carvedilol can persistently suppress the minor cardiac damage and lead to suppress the deterioration of LV function. Note that his study preventive study for preserved to moderate LV dysfunction and is not intended to the beta-blocker treatment for severe LV dysfunction. Because we assume that the mechanism of elevation of cTnI is different; spontaneous in preserved to mild LV dysfunction in patients but LV wall stress in severe LV dysfunction in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|8 Years to 45 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Male patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy are required to meet the following criteria:
- Aged 8 to 45 years
- Positive plasma cardiac troponin I (0.06ng/mL) at least 4 blood measurement in every 3 month.
- Left ventricular ejection fraction >30% by echocardiography assessment
- Written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients with the following conditions will be excluded from the study:
- Left ventricular ejection fraction <30%
- No plasma cTnI elevation
- beta-blocker is already administered without measurement of plasma cTnI
- Contraindication against treatment with β blockers
- Any other serious disease that could potentially complicate the management and follow-up protocols
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00606775
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00606775
|Contact: Takao Nishizawa, MD,PhD
|Contact: Fumihiko Yasuma, MD,PhD
|Suzuka Hospial
|Suzuka, Mie, Japan, 513-8501
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|Sub-Investigator: Fumihiko Yasuma, MD, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Toshimitsu Mori, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Motoko Sakai, MD, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Satoshi Kuru, MD, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Seigo Kimura, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Takuya Tamura, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Kentaro Sahashi, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Rei Shibata, MD, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Taiki Ohashi, MD
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Suzuka Hospital
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|Principal Investigator:
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|Department of Cardiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine
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Keywords provided by Suzuka Hospital:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Sato Y, Yamada T, Taniguchi R, Nagai K, Makiyama T, Okada H, Kataoka K, Ito H, Matsumori A, Sasayama S, Takatsu Y. Persistently increased serum concentrations of cardiac troponin t in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy are predictive of adverse outcomes. Circulation. 2001 Jan 23;103(3):369-74.
Yasuma F, Konagaya M, Sakai M, Kuru S, Kawamura T. A new lease on life for patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in Japan. Am J Med. 2004 Sep 1;117(5):363.
Hunsaker RH, Fulkerson PK, Barry FJ, Lewis RP, Leier CV, Unverferth DV. Cardiac function in Duchenne's muscular dystrophy. Results of 10-year follow-up study and noninvasive tests. Am J Med. 1982 Aug;73(2):235-8.
Jefferies JL, Eidem BW, Belmont JW, Craigen WJ, Ware SM, Fernbach SD, Neish SR, Smith EO, Towbin JA. Genetic predictors and remodeling of dilated cardiomyopathy in muscular dystrophy. Circulation. 2005 Nov 1;112(18):2799-804. Epub 2005 Oct 24.
|Responsible Party:
|Takao Nishizawa, Department of Cardiology, Nagoya Universtiy Graduate School of Medicine
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00606775 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|January 22, 2008
|Last Updated:
|February 4, 2008
Keywords provided by Suzuka Hospital:
Adrenergic beta-Antagonists
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Troponin I
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Muscular Dystrophies
Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne
Heart Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Muscular Disorders, Atrophic
Muscular Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Genetic Diseases, X-Linked
Adrenergic beta-Antagonists
Adrenergic Antagonists
Adrenergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antihypertensive Agents
Vasodilator Agents
Adrenergic alpha-1 Receptor Antagonists
Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists
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SurgeonGeneral is an addon designed to simplify healing assignments in a raid situation. It's easy to use interface allows you to give all your healers assignments and then report those assignments to /raid and/or the custom channel of your choosing. It supports multiple phases for complex fights.
Reporting is done in the following format:
Healing Assignments: Boss Name
Healer: Phase1 ~ Phase2 ~ Phase3 ...
CharName1: Assignment
CharName2: Assignment
CharName3: Assignment
CharName10: Assignment
Boss Name will only be displayed if there is an entry in this text field. Healer: Phase1 ~ Phase2 ... will only be displayed if the fight is set use more than 1 phase, and will use the phase names supplied by the user.
Slash Commands
- /sg
- Opens the configuration screen and allows you to enter in your player names/assignments
Button Controls
- Auto Fill
- Scans your raid for healers and populates the addon with their names. If a player it out of inspection range, you will be notified.
- Report to Raid
- Allows the reporting of assignments to /raid when the Report button it clicked.
- Report to Custom Channel
- Allows the reporting of assignments to a custom chat channel when the Report button is clicked. Enter your channel name in the box below.
- Raid Name
- Use this dropdown to select a raid instance.
- Boss Name
- Use this dropdown to select a specific boss within a raid instance.
- Copy/Paste/Save
- Copy will copy the current assignments, phase names, and phase enable checkboxes.
- Paste will paste the copied information into the boxes for the selected boss encounter. This information is not permanent, yet...
- Save will save the current assignments, phase names, and phase enable checkboxes permanently. ''Healer names are not saved as they would mostly vary too much to be worth saving.''
- Class Icons
- Class icons will be displayed to the left of a healer's name. These class icons will only show if the healer is in your party or raid group. You can click and drag the class icon to swap healer names or healer assignments (depending on your selection of Swap Behavior under Interface Options). Holding Shift while dragging will always swap healer names.
Support for Main Tanks
Starting with version 1.4 you may use substitutions for MainTank assignments configured in CTRaid/oRA2. To use these substitutions, enter %MT# in any of the assignment fields, where x is the Main Tank number. Example: %MT3 for Main Tank 3
You may also you the scroll wheel on your mouse while over any of the assignment fields to increment/decrement the Main Tank target. Example: Field contains %MT2, scroll up and %MT2 becomes %MT3, scroll down and it becomes %MT1.
Interface Options
- Verbose
- Displays extra information during certain actions, used mainly for debugging purposes.
- Condense
- Condenses the reporting of assignments so that two players with the same assignment will be shown on a single line in the format: <pre> CharName1, CharName2: Assignment </pre>
- Reset
- Resets the configuration window to be centered on the screen. Useful in case you dragged it off screen and can't see it anymore.
- Tooltip Scale (Added in 1.6.0)
- This slider adjusts the scale (size) of the tooltip provided when mousing over the LibDataBroker widget.
- Swap Sytle (Added in 1.6.5)
- Swap Names: When dragging class icons, healer names will be swapped, assignments will not change.
- Swap Assignments: When dragging class icons, healer names will not be adjusted. The healers' assignments will be swapped.
Minimap Support
Minimap icon/launcher support is not planned. However, keep reading.
LibDataBroker Support
There is support for a LibDataBroker object/launcher. You will need to use an addon such as Fortress to enable it.
- Left Click
- Opens/Closes the main configuration screen.
- Right Click
- Reports the current assignments to the designated raid/custom channel. This is very useful for spamming assignments mid-encounter.
Surgeon General Listen Client
(Added in 1.7.0) Surgeon General also supports a "listen client" that raid healers can install to view the most recent assignments in a tooltip with improved formatting. Assignments are broadcasted to all listen clients in the raid regardless of the report channel checkboxes. This addon is available for download here: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/surgeongeneral-listen-client.aspx
Version Numbering
As of WoW 4.0.x version numbering has been changed to correlate with World of Warcraft's game version.
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#2 ShyComment Posted Aug 21, 2009
I forgot to say I love the addon and the listener client. Makes healing in our raid heaps easier without having to deal with the Warlocks (or whoever) making unhelpful comments. :)
#1 ShyComment Posted Aug 21, 2009
I hope this is not silly but it would be nice to have the facility to assign pally beacons as well. Currently. I use slash in their target to do this but it is a bit confusing when I want a raid healer to keep an eye on a tank as well. I use slash for that also. (i.e. "Healer: Target/Beacon" as well as "Healer: Raid/SecondaryTarget"). The Pally healers usually know I mean a beacon rather than a secondary target but it is becoming a little more confusing now that I am using Pallies on raid with beacon on tanks more and more.
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Remember that story from a couple of weeks ago when Alicia Keys and husband Swizz Beatz accidentally went into the wrong Hamptons house and made themselves at home in the kitchen?
The "Girl on Fire" singer finally explained the hilarious incident to "omg! Insider" host Kevin Frazier.
"We were going to a friend's house so we put the address into navigation," Keys recalled. "The friend had mentioned that it was going to be very late so she left us a way to get in. It just so happened it was the same thing [at this other house]. We went in there and she described exactly what it ended up being, dogs barking and [having to] find a room."
According to the New York Post's Page Six, which first reported the incident, the owner of the Hamptons home was upstairs in her bedroom when she heard a commotion in the kitchen. Thinking it was her daughter and pals, she went downstairs to see what was going on, only to find Alicia and Swizz partying instead!
"We realized we were at the wrong place when the woman came out and said, 'I don't who you are or what you're doing and why you're here,'" Keys, 32, shared. "It was really an honest mistake!"
All parties involved saw the humor in the situation and went their separate ways. In other words, it looks like the gossip item was just a little bit blown out of proportion!
If we had to have a faux home intruder, Alicia and Swizz would definitely be at the top of our list.
Be sure to tune in to "omg! Insider" tonight to hear more from Alicia about her new movie with Jennifer Hudson, "The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete"!


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What makes a midyear desirable? Is it the styling, the available power, or the smorgasbord of factory options? Or, do the memories of one inspire a would-be owner?
Memory is what motivated Rip Parent--in particular, recollections of a Marlboro Maroon C2. "I had a friend who had an L88 in that color, and that car headed for the racetrack immediately," he says of the midyear that most inspired him. It wasn't until 2003 that Parent found this one--or, more precisely, his wife did. "She's a physical therapist, and she had a patient who was a former GM engineer," he says. "They got to talking, and he said, 'Why don't you go ahead and get one?'"
Parent says that GM alum pointed out that second-generation Corvettes could be had for well below six figures, if you looked for the right car. Parent continues: "She started looking in the paper that day, found one two days later, then went down and put a deposit on it--without telling me!" The '67 coupe she found was originally a "plain" L75 327/four-speed. Of its three previous owners, the third had restored and updated it in the early '90s, after buying it from the widow of owner number two (who'd stored it for many years).
That standard 327 had been updated with Keith Black pistons, a Crane Energizer camshaft, and a Weiand Stealth intake topped by a Holley 750-cfm double pumper. Thus equipped, it put out more than the factory-rated 300 horsepower--and more than the optional L79's 350.
"The reason I say it's around 370," says Parent, "is, I'm president of a Corvette club [Sting Rays Corvette Club, www.stingrayscorvetteclub.com]. There's an awful lot of guys in it running around with 350-horse engines, and I haven't lost to any of them!"
One update that Parent added after he got his '67: a Tremec five-speed, which replaced the original Muncie M-20 thanks to some help from a friend who's a Chevy mechanic. "He came over, and we did it in four hours in one night--threw the whole thing in," says Parent of the gearbox swap.
That transmission change added to the '67's driveability in a big way. "This car's very reliable," Parent says. "We take it everywhere. In fact, since the photo shoot, we took it over to the west coast of Florida, up to the Venice car show. We also headed up to Savannah a few months ago, for another car show at Tybee Island. At both shows, it got First Place--Best of Show."
He adds that they also made a run up to NASCAR bigwig Rick Hendrick's place in Charlotte, North Carolina, with fellow club members. "One of the guys sold his car to Hendrick, and the club was invited to his shop, so we took it through there. We take it everywhere!"
Plus, Parent adds, it gets around 21 miles a gallon while doing around 70 on the highway--something else that gives him bragging rights in his club. "We'll take a trip, and the guys with the stock four-speed transmissions and normal gearing get around 13-15 miles a gallon," he says, while noting that there's at least one other Tremec-equipped Sting Ray in the club's exclusively midyear membership.
Does the thought of a second-generation Corvette inspire you to look for one? "If you're handy, you've got the means and so forth, and you want to find a project car, that's great," advises Parent. "If you're not handy, find something that's already done. Pay a few extra bucks, so you don't have to deal with things."
And you (or your spouse) may just find one in that color you've always dreamed about.
Spec Sheet
'67 Coupe
|Rip Parent; Parkland, FL
|L75 cast-iron, bored 0.030-inch
|Stock cast-iron with Edelbrock Performer valves/springs
|332 ci
|Crane hydraulic roller with Energizer roller lifters
|Keith Black forged aluminum
|Stock cast-iron
|Keith Black forged aluminum
|Intake Manifold
|Weiand Stealth cast-aluminum
|Holley 750-cfm four barrel with mechanical secondaries
|Fuel Pump
|Reproduction GM Delco mechanical
|GM HEI electronic
|Exhaust System
|Headers with RPO N14 side-mount exhausts
|Tremec TK0500 five-speed manual with Centerforce clutch
|460-in/lb Grand Touring springs and AC Delco tubular shocks (front); composite transverse leaf spring with adjustable struts and 5/8-in sway bar (rear)
|Restored stock four-wheel discs with power assist
|Corvette America reproduction RPO N89 bolt-on cast aluminum, 15x6 in
|BFGoodrich Radial T/A "redlines," 215/70R15
|Current Mileage
|Approximately 75,000


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The Definitive Latitude 64 Thread Primer
By Jeronimo
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I decided to take a minute to share my observations about variations among latitude molds. I can't stop myself from purchasing just about every latitude disc I get my hands on and as a result I've been privy to some interesting experiences with contrasts in characteristics from run to run of various Latitude molds. It can seriously be a bitch to buy a disc expecting one thing and ending up with something entirely different; it is for that purpose that I wrote this up. Here are my impressions, feel free to disagree:
There are two types of Halo's that I'm seeing out there. There is the flat and typically very hard run and there is the soft with moderate dome run.
The flat and hard ones I've thrown by and large are slightly understable when thrown at their nominal speed. The soft and domey ones are significantly more stable by contrast when new. This effect wears off with time because of "flash" that is present at the base of the rim. You can speed up this process by lightly sanding the flash off of the disc. Personally I throw both because there really is very little difference among the runs once the flash is out of the equation.
All of my Gold Line Halo's behave very similarly to how my Opto's perform. Gold Line does wear in faster than Opto does so you will notice a loss of stability faster with a GL Halo than you would an OL, so be aware. The only noticeable exception to this rule is GL Halo's that are roughly 166 or lower in weight. They are much less stable than their heavier counterparts. This isn't necessarily a bad thing as they can fly a loooooong way in the right conditions (tail winds for example). I have two heavily used 166g Halo's, one in GL and one in OL plastic, and the Opto Halo does not vary as much by weight as the Gold does.
First run Blitz's, a.k.a. the "slitz" were just a bit more over stable than current bubble lettered Blitz's. Personally I prefer the newer ones as I have an easier time getting them out there. The first run batch is probably the one I would reach for in pretty hefty winds but I would feel confident throwing the most recent run into a headwind. What's nice about the Blitz, if you can get past the unique grip, is that although it is overstable it still pushes forward as it fades out. In my picture the blue Blitz with the bubble letters is the current run and the "Slitz" is the first run Blitz (that I modified because the disc was originally named the Slitz). Notice there is a little bit of a parting line height difference and a noticeable dome difference.
First run Riot's were amazing, although many people bitched about the rounded rim, the flight on these babies was AWESOME. 2nd run Riot's are not so amazing. You can tell which is which through parting line comparisons; newer not-so-awesome Riots have a significantly higher parting line than the originals.
Originals had a stable flight with moderate fade. Newer Riots have noticeably less stability at high speed, less glide, and fade out at the end of the flight very strongly. This has lead me to writing off the Riot mold as a driver of choice in my own bag. I'm hopeful the mold will revert with a 3rd run back to its former glory. This hasn't happened yet, or if it has I have not experienced it.
Two words: Parting Line. Look for it, know it, make it work for you. There are three decisive variations of the Striker mold out there today. You have your 1st runs which are characterized by a very flat top and typically a "snowflake" pattern visible in the plastic. This run flies a lot like an eagle. With significant snap these Strikers will exhibit high speed turn and slowly but surely work their way out of it to a pretty hefty fade before grounding out. Then there's the freak batch that came out with a significantly higher parting line height and is more stable than a Firebird. This batch appears to have been very minimal as it is dificult to find many of them today. Finally we have the current mold of the Strikers, very domey, very stable, very nice. These guys fly very much like the 1st run flats but exibit a little bit more carry due to their much larger domes. I would almost go so far as to say that the regular domey run of Strikers are more stable than their flat first run cousins at high speed.
In the first picture we have the flat 1st run Striker on the left next to a current run Striker. In the second picture we have a SUPER overstable Striker on the left next to a current run Striker.
Remember, the higher the parting line the more overstable it's going to fly for you. The only other thing to look out for is dome, the more domey the Stiker the longer it's going to glide for you.
Gold Line Strikers fly a lot like 1st run opto's but fairly quickly beat into a very straight stable to understable fairway driver with less fade than they originally had. There are flat and slightly domey iterations of the Gold Line's but I see minor differences between them. The flatter Gold Lines have an edge in stability over the domey's. In the picture below you can see that the red flat Striker has a little bit higher of a parting line than the domey silver one. This would be the reason for the slightly more stable flight.
Tridents and XXX's:
Tridents and XXX's are another contender in the bout for biggest increase in flight plate dome from one run to another. 1st run's are characterized by very flat flight plates and they more or less fly as described by Latitude. Tridents are great at flying straight ahead and then cutting SHARPLY towards the direction they fade out in. They are the best disc I have come across for making shots shaped like an "L". Tridents with a huge dome are a totally different beast though, they are probably one of the most overstable discs I've ever encountered. I didn't include any pictures for these because they are such a unique slot in my bag that I don't own all that many of them. I don't own a super domey version of either the XXX or the Trident so I can't give a visual example but trust me, it's immediately apparent when you see them.
See Striker. If any other mold, other than the Striker, has seen HUGE variation it's the Vision. Again, parting line height is the indicator here. The higher the parting line the more stable the Vision is going to be. Stable Visions can be really fun discs to throw as they glide very well and flex well. Early runs were the most UNDERstable and later runs showed a HUGE increase in stability. The latest runs I've thrown are much closer to their original extremely understable flight path.
The higher the parting line, the more stable the flight.
All Gold Line's I've handled tend to fall somewhere between the super flippy 1st runs and the stable mid runs. Gold Line Visions are very nice discs in my opinion; they are a good balance of the variation found in the opto's. That said, they're still Visions and with some torque they will flip... A lot.
1st run Opto Cores were flatter and they felt awesome. They flew like a Buzzz with a little less high speed stability. Later runs of the Core have shown a small dome, that covers a diameter of about 4", popping up in the center of the disc. Numerous people claim that this adversely affected the flight path of the Core by making it significantly less stable compared to what it was. In effect, this run of Core's with the smaller central domes fly in an "S" pattern as opposed to a straighter line. For those who like logic problems, I would say the 1st run Core is to the 2nd run Core what the Teebird is to the Eagle. This leads to the most recent iteration I've discovered. If you can find for yourself a newer Core that is roughly 177g or more, with a more gradual dome to it, you will have found what I consider the best of the crop of Cores. The dome on these Cores starts at the edge of the rim, rather than the raised 4" diameter dome found in the center of the 2nd run Cores, resulting in a very domey disc but in a good way (like a San Marino Roc). These latest gradually rising domed Cores are by far my favorite right now. 1st runs feel awesome in the hand but they tend to break in to a longer understable mid, these heavy domey ones have nearly a perfect level of stability that allows you to really launch them without turning them over. They're very straight and finish with a good forward fighting fade, and thanks to the dome they stay in the air quite a while.
1st run next to mid-run with 4" dome followed by image of 1st run next to 177g+ current run
1st run Gold Line Cores were also very flat and as such flew stable to understable, breaking into quite an understable mid. In contrast, newer runs of Gold Line Cores have that strange small 4" diameter dome in the center of them but they fly slightly overstable, a big difference compared to 1st runs.
If you look closely you can see where the 4-5" dome initiates as indicated by a sort of dark circle
Cores perplex me now that we have the addition of the Fuse to the Latitude midrange line up. They fly similar enough to have a lot of overlap but the Core is a little longer and faster than a Fuse. If a more stable but not too over stable mid range is in fact in the pipes, that might reduce the function of the Core in my bag. These heavy gradual domed ones fly fantastic though, so it will be tough to say.
The last disc of their line up that I'll tackle is the Spike. It's gone through three generations and each is easily identifiable. The first runs have a centralized stamp and are a little on the soft side. Then the Zero Line "HARD" version was unveiled but quickly discontinued. The "HARD" runs were stamped as such and you can see it on the lower left Spike although it is hard to make out. The current run is the blue Spike in the picture and as you can see it shares the stamp style of the HARD run but the plastic is a happy medium between the stiffness of the originals and the HARD runs. I honestly could never tell any difference in flight.
The final informative piece I'll include at this time is a flight chart I concocted of how the current run Latitude molds fly for me. This little graph is based off of a FLAT release, with a power level that is sufficient to throw a Halo or Flow 400' in no wind. Under those conditions this is how they fly for me:


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A MOTORCYCLIST has died and another seriously injured after a horrific collision with a horse on the A31 near Ringwood on Wednesday night.
A spokesperson for Hampshire Police said at 11pm on Wednesday: "A motorcyclist has died following a serious road traffic collision on the A31 westbound near Ringwood shortly after 6.15pm on Wednesday, January 22.
"Two motorcyclists were in collision with a horse and came off their bikes.
"The men were taken by ambulance to hospital. One of the men has subsequently died of his injuries and the other is in a serious condition.
"The road is currently closed while police investigate the collision and diversions are in place.
"The circumstances of the collision and how the horse came to be on the road are under investigation.
"Anyone who witnessed the incident should contact Eastleigh Roads Policing Unit by calling 101."
The man's next of kin have been informed of his death.
The horse also died as a result of the collision.
- Calls for further safety talks on A31 after biker dies and another left seriously injured
- UPDATE: Drivers stuck for hours on A31 slam Hampshire Police over severe gridlock
- Another escaped horse seen on the A31
A Highways Agency spokesman said: "Our sympathies are with the family and friends of those involved in the incident that took place on the A31 near Ringwood last night.
"An investigation into the cause of the incident is being carried out by Hampshire Police and, as such, it would be inappropriate for the Highways Agency to comment on the cause."
"As a result of a review of signage on the A31 between Picket Post and Ashley Heath near Ringwood, we are currently designing signs to enhance awareness and provide better information. We are on schedule to make these improvements by the end of 2014 at the latest."
Colin Draper, from the Verderers of the New Forest, the organisation that works to protect and administer the area's agricultural communing practices, said police and agisters were investigating what happened.
"We now that there was a pony involved and it appears to have got onto the carriageway from the forest.
"We're obviously very anxious to know how it got there, but at the moment we just don't know."
Desmond Swayne, MP for New Forest West, said: "I'm very concerned to hear that another person has died on that stretch of road and it must have been a ghastly experience for those stuck there.
"I hope that there's a full analysis of exactly what happened."
The incident took place on the westbound part of the dual carriageway, just half a mile from the Picket Post services.
At one time least a dozen emergency vehicles were seen heading the scene.
Hundreds of motorists are trapped on the major road as a result of the road closure.
Police officers were seen searching the undergrowth along the road as motorists got out of their cars whilst stuck in the gridlock.
The incident caused huge delays for motorists heading from Southampton on to Bournemouth, who were advised to find another route home.
There were also huge tailbacks across the New Forest getting into Lyndhurst at Emery Down.
The crash happened just after 6pm, an hour after the escaped horse had already brought traffic to a standstill.
Police earlier created a route through the debris caused by the crash between the two motorcycles and a horse in a bid to free the drivers who had been trapped on the A31 since 5.30pm.
The A31 was closed and the M27 was closed as far back at junction 2 to allow for better diversion routes for motorists.
Those trapped on the A31 were warned that the road would be closed for several more hours, fearing a long night stuck in their cars, but slowly motorists are being guided past the crash site.
A motorist, who has been stuck in his car for more than three hours, said: "Police have now created a route through the debris left by two motorcyclists that appeared to have crashed.
"Drivers are having to drive carefully through scattered parts of the bikes using both lanes, with police using flash lights to direct the traffic.
"The two bikes, one yellow and one red, are lying on their sides, on opposite sides of the road on the westbound side of the dual carriageway, with a great deal of small sections of the machines scattered everywhere."
One motorist reported trapped cars were doing "U turns and going wrong way as no police instructions."
He added: "Accident clearly awful but @hantspolice making situ (situation) worse."
Vera Jardine said: "My daughter amongst lots of other travellers, has now been sat in the dark, no drink, no food, no facilities alone in her car for a total of 5 and a half hours so far and still has not moved.
"I realise the severity of the accident but surely something could have been done far earlier.
"Fortunately she is fit and healthy. I fear for the fragile and young in a similar dilemma.
"Just heard from her again. Still hasn't moved. First stopped about 5.45 pm."
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Class 4A No. 3 Northrop survived Bryson Scott foul trouble and a Wayne team that was feisty out of the gate in a 72-52 Bruins victory.
The game was much closer than the score indicated, particularly in the first half with Northrop holding just a three-point edge at halftime.
"Wayne did a great job in the first half," Northrop coach Barak Coolman said. "We weathered the storm, fixed some things at halftime, challenged them and they responded."
With an electric student section crowd – something not often seen at Wayne – the Generals had plenty of energy from the opening tip. The Mitchell trio of Justin, Jescus and Levi scored all 20 of Wayne's points in the first quarter, with the score tied after one in addition to Scott on the bench with two fouls.
The Generals (3-1, 0-1 SAC) were able to force Scott to pick up his third foul just over two minutes into the second quarter.
"In the first half, we shot the ball well, we ran our plays right and defensively we did a good job," Wayne coach Aaron Rehrer said. "But we did not rebound the ball well all game."
With Scott on the bench, brother Brenton and his teammates went to work. Brenton went for 5 of his 19 points in a short span right after Bryson picked up his third foul, while Antonio Richmond hit a big 3-pointer late in the first half to give the Bruins the edge.
"We are experienced, but we also have new guys in new positions," Coolman said. "Don't be fooled, Bryson, Brenton and (junior guard Jacoby Claypool) are the only ones who have been involved in a heated conference game."
The Generals went cold from the field in the second half while Northrop heated up. With Bryson back in the lineup, the Bruins increased their lead to nine by the end of the third quarter, then scored the first eight points of the fourth to put the game away.
"In the second we just didn't execute our zone offense, we had five guys who weren't on the same page," Rehrer said. "We didn't shoot well and we just ran out of gas."
Northrop (4-0, 1-0) made halftime adjustments and pushed its advantages in the second half, hitting the boards hard and making the extra pass for several easy buckets inside.
"I feel like we were able to wear (Wayne) out," Coolman said. "We have been through this before … we are going to everyone's best punch."
Despite foul trouble, Bryson finished with a game-high 23 points.
Wayne was led by the Mitchell brothers, with Justin scoring 19 while Jescus and Levi adding 11 each.
For the Generals, it was half confidence boost, half reality check on Friday.
"I told our kids that Northrop has won four titles in last two years if you look at Holiday Tournaments and the postseason," Rehrer said. "They play hard all the time. We just cannot go out there and not run plays correctly and not execute."
Meanwhile, the Bruins open the SAC slate with a solid victory.
"Our conference is extremely competitive with great coaches and great teams," Coolman said. "If you can win on the road, you're going to help your cause."


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The Lotus F1 Team heads to Melbourne cautiously optimistic after a promising pre-season test programme in which Lotus were fastest.
The team rolled out the new E20 at Jerez for the first test session of the year, on February 7. Kimi Raikkonen kicked off the programme with 75 laps, without major issues. He reported he was happy with the balance of the car, and demonstrated this by setting the fastest lap of the day. Welcome back Kimi.
Two days later, Romain Grosjean at the wheel. In sunny conditions, he completed 95 laps setting the second fastest time of the day and claimed it "a great start to the year".
After the four-day Jerez test the team headed to Barcelona with new chassis No.2. Quickly, it was clear there was an issue. The test was immediately suspended. Back at Enstone, the problem was traced to the mounting of the upper front wishbone rear arm. A new component was designed, and that was the last of the team's problems – but it cost them a week's testing and, with such limited time available to the teams, there were deep concerns that this lost time could prove critical.
Back in Barcelona on March 1, Romain drove the modified E20-01 and set the fastest time of the day, which helped the team restore its confidence. "My crew told me that that the problems would make us stronger, and this is true," he said. The following day he completed a mammoth 124 laps – almost 600km – including a race distance simulation. He ended the day fastest by over half a second.
Kimi's track time the following day was curtailed due to power steering issues in the morning and rain in the afternoon. After 43 laps he was 10th fastest. But the next day he completed the team's winter test programme in style, knocking out 121 laps and claiming the P1 spot.
The team is now fully pumped up for Melbourne and, in a season as long as this, anything can happen but they're perfectly prepared.
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Guards Chasson Randle and Aaron Bright sparked a second-half rally that helped energize Stanford. They said it all started on defense.
Randle scored 24 points, Bright added 16, and Stanford beat Cal State Fullerton 81-68 in its home opener Monday night.
Dwight Powell had 14 points and 12 rebounds for the Cardinal (2-0), which opened the season with a victory over USF on Friday.
"We got after them on the defensive end," Randle said. "The guys created turnovers, and we turned those into points."
The Titans committed 25 turnovers to Stanford's 15. The Cardinal was 21 of 27 from the foul line (.778). It also helped that Stanford shot just over 55 percent from the field in the second half.
"We were more aggressive offensively and defensively," Bright said. "We got to the line and took advantage of that."
D.J. Seeley and Sammy Yeager scored 16 points each for the Titans.
Jared Brandon scored 13 points and Kwame Vaughn 11. Yeager had nine rebounds.
Brandon's jumper just over four minutes into the second half put the Titans ahead 43-39. Stanford came back to tie the score at 48 on a Powell basket with 13:44 remaining. Bright scored the next five points, all on free throws, to put the Cardinal ahead to stay.
Freshman Christian Sanders and Andy Brown combined for 12 points during a run that gave Stanford a double-digit lead with nine minutes remaining. The Cardinal lead grew to 24 points.
"That's where I thought the spark came from," Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins said. "They gave us energy and made plays."
Gabriel Harris hit a layup with seven seconds left in the half to lift Stanford into a 31-31 tie at intermission.
Oregon 80, Portland St. 69: Freshman guard Dominic Artis of Oakland scored 16 points to lead host Oregon over Portland State. Artis, who played three seasons at Salesian High-Richmond, was 6 for 13 from the field and made four of Oregon's nine 3-pointers.
Indiana 87, North Dakota St. 61: Cody Zeller scored 22 points to lead No. 1 Indiana (2-0) past visiting North Dakota State (1-1).
AP poll: UConn (1-0) moved into the Top 25 at No. 23, on the strength of its 66-62 win over Michigan State in Friday's Armed Services Classic. Led by Indiana and Louisville, the first seven teams in the initial regular-season poll were the same as the preseason Top 25.
AP poll: Baylor is again the unanimous No. 1 choice in The Associated Press women's poll. The Lady Bears received all the first-place votes after routing Lamar.
The top five teams remained unchanged with UConn, Duke, Stanford and Maryland following Baylor.
Stanford: Preseason All-American Chiney Ogwumike won Pac-12 player of the week honors. Ogwumike averaged 22.5 points and 12.0 rebounds in Stanford's victories over Fresno State and Santa Clara.


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Gov. Tim Pawlenty and DFL legislators have reached a deal over funding for a health insurance program for the poor.
The deal will preserve coverage for most current General Assistance Medical Care recipients, but will shift costs onto medical providers.
GAMC provides health insurance for more than 30,000 of the state's poorest residents. The program was scheduled to end on March 31, after Pawlenty cut its funding last year to balance the state budget.
The new plan will extend GAMC for two months. Starting June 1, a new system, funded with block grants, will replace it.
Instead of paying providers for each service provided, the new plan will provide hospital-based coordinated care systems with capped block grants to provide health care to eligible residents. Most former GAMC recipients will be eligible under the new plan.
"The hope will be this will be a more efficient, comprehensive, and continuous care," Pawlenty said in a press conference this afternoon.
DFL legislators said they're glad to have reached an agreement, but said the plan will hurt medical providers. Sen. Linda Berglin, DFL-Minneapolis, said the plan cuts the program's funding by 77 percent.
"The health care providers are taking a huge cut," said Rep. Thomas Huntley, DFL-Duluth. "That makes the state budget look good, but some hospitals may collapse, and other hospitals may just raise their rates to everybody else to make up for the loss of this money, and that will be put on your insurance bill."
The state's General Fund will provide $71 million in capped block grants to hospital-based Coordinating Care Organizations in the current 2010-2011 budget, and $131 million in 2012-2013.
The plan also establishes a separate method to reimburse CCOs for prescription drug costs. The deal caps drug reimbursements at $45 million from the General Fund in the 2010-2011 fiscal years, and $83 million in the 2012-2013 fiscal years.
GAMC recipient Robert Fischer expressed relief that he won't lose his coverage. Fischer, who is 51, has sleep apnea, depression, and a degenerative back condition. His only income is $203 a month from the state's General Assistance program.
"From what I've heard, I'm very, very happy," Fischer said.
Negotiators have been working on a solution for GAMC for about nine months. The plan was set to expire later this month.
"We knew when we began this endeavor nine months ago that we were going to be putting together legislation that was going to be less than lovely," said Rep. Erin Murphy, DFL-St. Paul. "We were working very hard to protect the safety net for those who get their care in GAMC, and we've protected that commitment."
Murphy added, "I think the safety net is a little thinner. It may be a little bit more like a lifeboat."
The state had planned to transfer many current GAMC enrollees into another state health insurance program, called MinnesotaCare, once the program ended.
But many recipients say they would not be able to afford MinnesotaCare's monthly premiums and higher co-payments.


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I usually use a medium wizard for upshots and a soft or SS for putts.
All of my wizards are stable to overstable, the only one that is even starting to flip up past flat is the oldest medium of the bunch.
Those of you that throw wizards, do you think I should continue to work the medium wizard until it gets super flippy for anyhzer drives/approaches, or would a softer wizard be better to beat up enough to be flippy?
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I don't know if you remember a few weeks ago I shared about my experience with Virgin Mobile, and how affordable it is. Just now when I clicked over to PromotionCode.org, one of the first things I noticed on the front page was mention of Virgin Mobile codes. I already think the service is affordable, but you can find codes to save even more? SWEET!! The one I'm seeing right now is 60 free minutes when you activate your phone online. 60 free minutes on top of an already affordable plan? I'll take it!!
I like that you can search on this site by free shipping codes, by store, by category or by a general search. The front page seems to be where the newest codes are listed, so I'm sure that changes daily. Have a code you know is active but don't see on the site? You can add one in to share with others!! Find a code not working? There's a way to report non-working codes as well. As with many sites, you can see the success and fail rates of each code- which is nice. I get so frustrated when I try to use a code I find on a site and it won't work even though I've followed the rules and terms!
Sign up to get email alerts when new codes are added for certain stores- not just a general email when any updates or added, or tons of emails daily to overwhelm your inbox. You can also choose to be updated on a weekly basis instead of daily- so if there are things you may want to purchase but aren't in a rush to buy, opt to receive emails for certain stores of YOUR choosing and check off the "weekly" option, and just get updates once a week! This almost makes PromotionCode.org a personalized deal finding site- plus you can ignore the stores and codes that don't interest you if you opt to receive the daily or weekly newsletter updates. I'm signing up for the Virgin Mobile updates a I write this so I can maximize my cell phone dollars spent!!
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Machu Picchu
6th Grade, Research and Inquiry Activities
2. You are about to take a four-day expedition. Your goal is to reach the lost city of Machu Picchu. Click on Virtual Inca Trail.
3. Read about Day 1. On a separate sheet of paper, write the number one followed by two or three sentences briefly recording some of the things you saw and did.
4. Click More to go on to Day 2, and read about it. On your paper, write the number two, and write a few sentences telling about your experiences.
5. Continue your expedition by clicking More. Write about days three and four.
6. Once you have reached Machu Picchu, you may click on any picture to enlarge it. To return to the picture gallery, click the Back button at the top of the screen.
7. Select your favorite picture of Machu Picchu. Look at it closely. On a separate sheet of paper, write a paragraph describing your feelings about your trip and what you saw at the end.
For additional information on Machu Picchu go to http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/latinamerica/south/satable.html


text: Sen. Lindsey Graham stands with Manchin over Rand Paul ad By Paul J. Nyden October 9, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is running television ads attacking Democratic senators who voted against his amendment to legislation on Sept. 21 that would have cut off foreign aid to Egypt, Pakistan and Libya.Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va, and Bill Nelson, D-Fla., are Paul's first two targets."While they tear down and burn the American flag in Egypt and shout 'Death to America,' Joe Manchin votes to provide U.S. taxpayer aid to Egypt," Paul's 60-second ad states."While radical Islamists burn our embassy and kill our ambassador in Libya, Joe Manchin votes to send more taxpayer money to Libya."The advertisements fail to point out Paul's legislation received just nine favorable votes, while 81 senators -- including 30 Republicans -- voted against it.The ad ends by stating, "Joe Manchin works with Barack Obama to send billions of our taxpayer dollars to countries where radicals storm our embassies, burn our flag and kill our diplomats."Manchin said many senators thought Paul's amendment may have been "well-intentioned but severely flawed."Manchin believes it would also have "jeopardized our greatest Middle Eastern ally, Israel. "When we voted in September, I promised to work across the aisle to correct the problems and stop giving aid to countries that don't share our values and won't defend our interests -- and I am determined to get the right policy in place," Manchin said.On Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., joined Manchin in a telephone conference call about the controversial ads. "A lot of debate goes on about foreign aid," Graham said. "Foreign relations are not a Democrat or Republican issue, but a American issue."I very much would like to have a Republican president and a Republican-controlled Senate. But when it comes to foreign policy and the matters of war, I think we need to be bipartisan," Graham said."Most Americans are war weary. We are broke. We are $16 trillion in debt. If I thought we could withdraw from the Middle East and we would be safe, I would do it. But we don't have easy choices available to us." Graham, who has traveled widely in the Middle East, said the U.S. already has criteria in place that could, under certain circumstances, terminate aid to countries like Egypt, Pakistan and Libya -- the three countries Paul's ad focuses on."Al-Qaida, the Taliban and radical Islamists would like nothing more than to have America withdraw from the region." Graham then focused on the negative impacts from withdrawing all U.S. aid."If we stopped our assistance to Egypt at this point, that would destroy the Camp David accords -- the worst thing we could have done to the state of Israel. This new government in Egypt is a work in progress. We cannot write off the largest nation in the Arab world."Graham believes the people who recently killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya need to be brought to justice."But they do not represent the Libyan government. Most people in Libya want to move forward, not backward," Graham said. "People in Libya want to go a different way. We have to help them."Graham believes Pakistan is a very complex country."The Pakistanis allow us to ship supplies into Afghanistan and are working better with us killing terrorists on the Pakistani border. "The Rand Paul amendment would have required us to withdraw assistance to these three countries that are critically important to our national security."Several other Republicans spoke out in strong opposition to Paul's amendment last month, including Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz, and Bob Corker, R-Tenn.McCain said cutting off all assistance to Libya "would abandon our friends to our terrorist enemies, destroy America's moral standing in the world, and do egregious harm to our national interests."Corker believes "we need to reform foreign aid in a way that leads to greater accountability, but Sen. Paul's amendment is not the answer."If terrorists in any country that we are aiding trespass at one of our embassies or consulates, this amendment forces the aid to be withdrawn, even if the country is cooperating with us and working as an ally." Reach Paul J. Nyden at email@example.com or 304-348-5164. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 2 Plans for all-ages venue rise in old bakery building 3 Body found in Kanawha River, near South Charleston 4 Judge gives water crisis settlement preliminary approval 5 Capito quiet on newest ACA repeal proposal; Manchin opposes KCHD to offer emergency preparedness app Previous Story Homeland workers made $900,000 in OT over 6 years Next Story


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Dennis Mahar wrote:this failure of Alex,
has David declare,
About the only two who are "seeing" this correctly, are *Pye and Alex.
PS - Sorry, Alex .. on the above .. *ladies before gentlemen :-)
Discussion of the nature of Ultimate Reality and the path to Enlightenment
Dennis Mahar wrote:this failure of Alex,
has David declare,
I don't really know why you would say 'weirdly' when 'predictably' might be a better word (from your and from other's perspectives).Pye wrote: Weirdly, Alex, this rolls around to you, and why I sometimes find it angular to talk to you. I'm thinking you are caught up in language systems as systems; types of thought as types, and that you don't want to do anything with philosophy. As much healthy skepticism as you apply, your focus is more on the how of speech, its fascinating forms and slipperies, and not on the world it's seeking to abstract. This makes you so much more about speakers, persons, and speech ways - your "angle-in." :) True as the private circumstances of those speaking-selves are, they are also conscious-of something, and trying to look at it together; trying to get you to look, I'm thinking, for all your years posting here . . . . :) It's probably what others have estimated in you as a misdirected gaze. S'not that you can't think. S'where you have restricted your gaze . . . . :)
But the real core here, and the thing you can really focus on is that I am articulating a defense of Jewish and Christian humanism
Second point. Critique, fine. No problem. But critique leveled without actually dealing with (and I am truthful here) 95% of all the statements I have made!
Alex writes: But the real core here, and the thing you can really focus on is that I am articulating a defense of Jewish and Christian humanism.
Alex: But one other thing which it would be fair to take into.consideration: this is a monomaniacal forum. It is expressed in this sense. It condones driving and singular ideation! It is NOT a.'philosophy' forum in the sense that you desire, that is only pretention, a vain declaration. In relation to the forum (not you) I.have defined an approach and a.response that yet has been extremely varied and even creative. It is not fair to insinuate that I somehow rupture on-going.conversations or these 'other things that people want to talk about'. It.seems to me that 'everyone' only speaks about their area of interest...or fixation.
Are you.similarly.fixatied, Pye? Or are you a 9-5 philosopher?
Pye: So this morning, the little space I've had to write has been taken up on some same-old. Perhaps in the next opportunity, I can get back to some of the existential things that are really the present impetus.
Alex: What you have done with your time is your problem, not mine! The way I see it---and you are very free to do this mind you---you yourself subverted potential communication. As to 'opportunities': we make our own opportunities.
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With this in mind: since I first logged on here---into this environment of 'philosophy' but moreover of religion---I noticed principally the 'violence'. The attacks. The ridicule. The establishment of hierarchies with the very clearly established sense of 'we have and represent knowledge; you others, and you who don't agree, are lower level beings'
Because if we were honest we would all realize what 'in truth' we are doing and stop playing games. Then people might actually build bridges.
But what I am essentially doing, or trying to do, is to use language and ideas defensively.
I am articulating a defense of Jewish and Christian humanism. If there is a crime being committed here by me, this is the crime!
if it doesn't ring, and if there is no value-ringing, I am inclined to see it as 'destructiveness-in-operation'.
Max Nordau wrote:The emancipated Jew is insecure in his relations with his fellow-beings, timid with strangers, suspicious even toward the secret feeling of his friends. His best powers are exhausted in the suppression, or at least in the difficult concealment of his own real character (...) he has never the satisfaction of showing himself as he is in all his thoughts and sentiments. He becomes an inner cripple, and externally unreal, and thereby always ridiculous and hateful to all higher feeling men, as is everything that is unreal. All the better Jews in Western Europe groan under this, or seek for alleviation. [- from: Address at the First Zionist Congress (Basle, August 29, 1897)]
MN wrote: "If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly."
MN wrote: "The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind."
"Nordau was an example of a fully assimilated and acculturated European Jew. He was married to a Protestant Christian woman and, despite his Hungarian background, he felt affiliated to German culture, writing in an autobiographical sketch, 'When I reached the age of fifteen, I left the Jewish way of life and the study of the Torah... Judaism remained a mere memory and since then I have always felt as a German and as a German only'."
Talking Ass wrote:The issue and question of the Jewish contribution (or poison?) really does seem a subtext here.
Dennis wrote:
The situation with Alex is fundamentally stupid.
He thinks emptiness means annihilation of Self.
Of course, it means Self lacks inherent existence.
Non-inherency is a useful thing to realize, but it does nothing to mitigate these original circumstances of individual rising and passing (a self)
Dennis writes:
If you don't exist from your own side,
depend for your existence.


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Calf management specialist Sam Leadley of Attica Veterinary Associates in New York recently spent two weeks in the United Kingdom.
Starting in Scotland and progressing south through much of the dairy farming countryside of England, he visited dairy farms and talked with producer groups about calf and heifer management.
Follow the journey at Leadley's Calves with Sam blog.
The blog entries touch on producer challenges like calf growth problems at weaning, challenges with frozen colostrum and other colostrum-management issues.


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This image of Comet Gerradd was taken after the comet had rounded the Sun and passed Earth, heading back to the outermost reaches of the Solar System. At this point in its journey around the sun, the comet was moving across the night sky so fast that anything longer than a 3-minute exposure resulted in the appearance of a "green streak". The bright star in this photo is Talitha, the "front paw" of the Great Bear, Ursa Major.
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Inflazyme Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of innovative therapies for the treatment of respiratory and inflammatory diseases. Our core focus is medicinal chemistry based, orally active, small molecules aimed at treating unmet medical needs.We are passionate about our science creating new medicines. Through scientific and business excellence, we will provide important therapies to transform the lives of patients with respiratory and inflammatory diseases worldwide.Our most advanced product, IPL512,602, is on track to enter phase IIb clinical studies by Q1'06 for the treatment of persistent asthma. Our second product, IPL455,903 (also known as HT-0712), is scheduled to enter Phase IIa clinical studies by Q1'06. This product is partnered with Helicon Therapeutics, Inc., a New York biotechnology company specializing in learning and memory disorders.Inflazyme is focused on developing first or best-in-class therapies for large and growing markets. Our portfolio consists of five programs from internal discovery efforts.
LSAIDsTWe have developed separate, chemically distinct series of leukocyte selective anti-inflammatory drugs (LSAIDsT). The IPL5 and the IPL12 series are the most advanced. Based on demonstrated efficacy in pre-clinical models of inflammation, three products from the IPL5 series have entered clinical studies: IPL512,602 (Ph IIa), IPL550,260 (Ph I) and IPL576,092 (Ph I). They are all considered safe and well tolerated.IPL512,602 has been tested in 154 healthy volunteers and in 86 asthma patients. The drug is suitable as a once, daily oral therapy for the treatment of persistent asthma. In a Phase IIa study, IPL512,602 demonstrated significant activity against several important markers of asthma control, notably airway hyper-reactivity, reduced need for rescue medication, and improvements in quality of life measures and symptom control. In August 2005, we obtained confirmation from the FDA that patient reported outcomes such as quality of life measures and symptom scores can be used as primary endpoints in Phase III registration studies.A compound from the IPL12 series is currently in pre-clinical studies for respiratory diseases.
Phosphodiesterase EnzymesWe have developed orally active inhibitors of Phosphodiesterases (PDEs). PDEs are a family of enzymes that metabolize the intracellular messengers cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP. We have designed and synthesized focused libraries of selective PDE4 inhibitors based on a medicinal natural product isolated in-house from a plant native to British Columbia.IPL455,903 has completed oral, single and multiple dose, double-blinded, placebo controlled Phase I studies in healthy young and elderly subjects. The doses evaluated ranged up to 135mg per subject per day for 14 days. The product was considered safe and well tolerated. Importantly, there was no evidence of nausea and vomiting (also referred to as emesis), a common side effect that, in the past, has inhibited the successful development of this class of drugs.Our research team is working to identify a new PDE4 inhibitor for respiratory and inflammatory indications based on our active, non-emetic pharmacophore from the IPL455,903 series. The aim is to identify compounds which demonstrate certain advantages over other PDE4 inhibitors.
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Some pretty amazing footage. I do think some of the behavior of the free diver borders on harassment of these animals. I think we can take away some of the mystery and paranoia about great whites without having to pull on their tails or ride them.
The guy has a lot of guts - no question about it. On the other hand he convincingly proves that great whites are not as aggressive as portrayed even by expert shark operators who organize cage dives.
Personally, i am against cage dives as such activity only perpetuates the myth of the ferocious man-eater that has to be kept at bay. I would like to see more free-divers swimming with whites - not necessarily touching or riding them.
Obviously, whoever swims freely with whites has to be comfortable being in the water with large sharks. Free-diving with whites is certainly not for the faint-hearted (neither is parachuting or climbing vertical walls - I would die of fear if I had to do either!!) but it is not just for dare-devils.
As a free-diver you will never see a great white biting the cage bars, the teethy mouth wide open ("Jaws" .....) - an almost stereotype image that one sees over and over again.
I believe Mike Rutzen is doing the whites a big favor by simply swimming with them. And he does it very gracefully.
This is an amazing video. Shows a lot of interaction which you can't film from a cage.


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Prognostic Value of Transforming Growth Factor-Beta 1 in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
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|Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
|Other: CSF collection
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Prognostic Value of Transforming Growth Factor-Beta 1 in Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
- TGF beta-1 levels [ Time Frame: Time of Surgery ]
- Mini-mental status exam [ Time Frame: Pre-operative, 3 and 12 months post-operatively ]
- Modified barthel index [ Time Frame: Pre-operative, 3 and 12 months post-operatively ]
- Tinetti mobility assessment [ Time Frame: Pre-operative, 3 and 12 months post-operatively ]
- Programmable shunt setting [ Time Frame: Pre-operative, 3 and 12 months post-operatively ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples Without DNA
|Study Start Date:
|January 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Patients diagnosed with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Other: CSF collection
CSF collection at time of VPS insertion
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The goal of this research is to investigate a potential CSF biomarker of NPH as a new tool for both the diagnosis of NPH and prognosis of VPS placement. Transforming growth factor-b1 (TGF-b1) is a signaling molecule involved in three fundamental activities; suppression of cell proliferation, immunosuppression, and deposition of extracellular matrix through promotion of synthesis and inhibition of degradation.8 Previously, TGF-b1 had been implicated in the development of communicating hydrocephalus secondary to pre-term infant intraventricular hemorrhage9 and adult aneurysmal sub-arachnoid hemorrhage.10, 11 Recently, an investigation demonstrated elevated levels of TGF-b1 in patients with shunt-responsive NPH compared to non-NPH patients.12
The specific aims of this research proposal are to:
- Correlate CSF levels of TGF-b1 with the clinical response of patients diagnosed with NPH to VPS placement.
- Correlate CSF levels of TGF-b1 with optimal VPS pressure settings.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients not diagnosed with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00600795
|United States, Tennessee
|Vanderbilt University Medical Center
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37232
|Principal Investigator:
|Noel Tulipan, M.D.
|Vanderbilt University Medical Center
|Responsible Party:
|Vanderbilt University Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00600795 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|January 7, 2008
|Last Updated:
|March 30, 2017
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hydrocephalus, Normal Pressure
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Mitosis Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. --Eric Hoffer
In every line of work, people look for a way to distinguish themselves. Most of the time that just means doing a good job. However, if you are a stock-market pundit, the way to stand out is to make big, loud, dramatic market calls -- and then hope you'll be proven correct.
If you're lucky and hit the timing just right, you can live off the attention for a long time. There are still pundits who wallow in the glory of calling the market crash 35 years ago, in 1987. They may not have made another good call since then, but they can always dredge that up to bolster their credentials and garner more attention from the folks in the media.
Because these calls receive so much attention, pundits just can't resist the temptation to keep making them. In fact, most would be lost if they couldn't constantly call tops and bottoms. The see that as their primary mission, and they go about it relentlessly.
The media also does a lousy job of holding market "experts" accountable for their bad calls, so there really isn't much risk to playing this game. You just keep on repeating the dramatic prediction, and if you wait long enough, it will come at least partially true. The poor timing -- and, therefore, the fact that the call is still a money-loser -- is totally ignored. You simply point out that your prediction came true, and the reports will proclaim you are a market savant.
Since dramatic predictions have so little downside for pundits, we tend to be flooded with them. When stocks are in an uptrend, every day we hear that the big fall is right around the corner, and we'd better start selling right now and take cover.
Yet these pundits almost never time it right. In all the years I've been trading, I can't think of a single time when a big market-timing call really made me money. I've avoided major downtrends, not because I heeded some market timer's dramatic advice, but because I paid attention to the way my stocks were acting and sold them.
True, these endless predictions are entertaining, and they can give us some context in which to trade. But they're usually worthless in helping us actually navigate the market in a profitable way, and they tend to make us impatient. Market players work so hard to stay in front of the next turn that they forget about making money in the present. Right now there are many people sitting on the sidelines, and missing out on big gains, because they are so focused on ensuring they won't have any long positions at the exact moment the market finally makes a top. Far too often, we sell stocks not because they did something wrong, but because we are fearful that we aren't timing the overall market correctly.
In short, the place to look for advice is not in these pundits, but in your own portfolio: Ride winners when you have them, escape stocks that are acting poorly and have begun to break down technically. Your stocks are the only real measure of success, and if you listen to them and handle them accordingly, you will do well.
We're seeing very flat action in the early going, and we are in a news vacuum as we await earnings season to kick off in earnest next week. Thankfully there is no major political or macroeconomic news, so we can actually focus on individual names.


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i based it off the 1974 unis
i put the "pacers" font in the line though
also, i changed the navy blue to the royal...like some of you guys were expecting
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i based it off the 1974 unis
i put the "pacers" font in the line though
also, i changed the navy blue to the royal...like some of you guys were expecting
I actually really like that.
I wouldn't mind having a uniform like that - have you made a road version yet?
ill have different versions so you guys can tell which one you like the best
ill have it up pretty soon
that is pretty cool
Pretty nice. If we can't get something resembling the Flo-Jo's, that'd be great.
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
Great job.
It is nice. It seems to be a combination of the 1974 and the late 80's/early 90's jersey.
"If I have the ball, I will shoot it, you have to believe that," - Stephen Jackson
here is away version #1
kinda has that mavericks look
i dont know if thats a good thing
please give me suggestions!!!!
i will try anything
I don't really like the road design too much - I'd probably rather have yellow numbers and get rid of one of the blues.
ill get another version right up
any suggestions on color scheme?
away version #2
i like this one better
i stayed with the royal blue/yellow/white color scheme
ill get in the other ones tomorrow (sunday 5/15)
Nice work, man.
This space for rent.
I really, really like this year's retro road jerseys. But then I'm a fan of our 80s uniforms and I think I'm in the minority there.
Maybe they'll take the Pacers Digest logo and run with it ...
Now only if there was a way to let DW and LB see this or whoever it is that is working this issue.
away version #3
just made the stripe yellow
away version #4
i still prefer your second away version
Proud owner of 'Dutch Pacers'
Nice work. Maybe you have a career in designing unis. I'm with Deeman, I like your #2 away option. I do think it would be cool to use the black and gold jerseys as alt.
I actually liek the first away version