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Wow! Have you every come across an App that you just can't live without (other than Angry Birds of course)? I am absolutely in LOVE with the Sprout Pregnancy Essentials App for iphone. Oh, were to begin. It has it all. The 3D models that you can rotate, weekly color image that are anatomically accurate, weekly weigh in (ughh), weekly advice, pregnancy timeline, preparations for doctor's visits, pregnancy checklists, kick counter and contraction timer. Phew, did I get it all? Trust me, if you have thought about, this app has it.
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Kid can flat out play.
I love his game
That was ridiculous.
I just startled everyone around me when I said, "OOOOOOOOOHHHHH!! GOING TO PUT THIS ON FACEBOOK NOW!!"
That was amazing.
Kemba's done that a few times this year.
I really hope he stays his final year, Uconn would have a shot at the championship, but I doubt he will.
Via Jay Bilas:
Kemba Walker may have a lucrative career collecting mob debts. Kid is a leg breaker.
Jay Bills..Did Stuart Scott rub off on you?
Kemba Walker is the very definition of..
"OMG WTF ARE YOU DO---Good job Kemba!!"
Best season I've seen out of a Uconn men's player, ever, and I don't care what we do in the NCAA tournament (and the closest I think anyone will ever come to rivaling Taurasi's Junior year)
I'm still holding out my sliver of hope that he stays
Kemba, so hot right now, Kemba.

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Daily Wrap-up: Round 4, Humana ChallengeJanuary 22, 2012
Staff and wire reports
LA QUINTA, Calif. -- Mark Wilson's last day at the Humana Challenge in partnership with the Clinton Foundation started before sunrise and ended after sunset. In between, he finished his third round, got his kids ready for daycare at his in-laws' house, and then held off several hard-charging contenders amid the final round's growing dark and desert chill.
Yep, Wilson certainly earned the trophy he promptly broke.
Wilson made a 10-foot birdie putt on the final hole to win the Humana Challenge on Sunday, beating Robert Garrigus, John Mallinger and Johnson Wagner by two strokes in a dramatic dusk finish to the wind-delayed tournament.
Moments after Garrigus barely missed a 35-foot eagle putt that would have given him the lead, Wilson coolly made his birdie try in the disappearing light before celebrating his fifth career PGA TOUR victory with his wife, two sons and a surprisingly fragile trophy from the erstwhile Bob Hope Classic. Even on a day chock-full of uncommon obstacles, Wilson handled everything with style.
"Robert and I, going back and forth, we really enjoyed that," Wilson said. "It just came down to 18, and I didn't want to give him a chance to make that putt to tie me. ... That's what we play for. You want somebody to win it, not necessarily to lose it."
Wilson led by three strokes Sunday morning after finishing the final three holes of his third round at La Quinta Country Club, which got the most damage from Saturday's ferocious wind. After a quick trip back to his in-laws' place nearby, he quickly lost the lead on the low-scoring Palmer Private course, but played bogey-free over the final 15 holes.
Every other competitor dropped back -- including Garrigus, who fell out of the lead when he missed a 5 1/2-foot par putt on the 17th.
"We really couldn't see much," said Garrigus, who finished a third-round 61 earlier Sunday. "I could barely pick up the flag on 18. We had a great day, and it got pretty dark. I wish I could have read that putt a little better."
Wilson closed with a 3-under 69 to finish at 24 under, earning 500 FedExCup points and moving to No. 2 in the latest standings, while taking the $1,008,000 winner's share of the $5.6 million purse despite the growing dark and cold. While most everybody else pulled on sweaters for the final holes, the Wisconsin native stayed in his polo shirt out of superstition and familiarity.
"It's a feel thing," Wilson said. "I've been playing with short sleeves all day. I didn't just want to put it on and get a new feeling, because everything was going well."
After wind gusts topping 35 mph caused damage on all three courses and forced an early end to play Saturday, the final round stretched well past sunset in the Coachella Valley. The first three rounds were dominated by low scores, but Pat Perez made the biggest move of the final round with a 9-under 63.
Eight players were within two strokes of the lead when the final group neared the turn, but Wilson weathered every challenge with solid shot-making that added to his reputation as a fast starter. Wilson won twice in the first few weeks of last season, and each of his five career victories have come before mid-March.
"The only thing I can think of is the break in November and December," Wilson said. "I clear my mind of golf. I tend to remember the good things I did in the season before, and when I've come out the last two years, I've really had a clear mind focused on what I'm doing."
Wagner, who won the Sony Open in Hawaii last week, birdied two of his final three holes, hitting a 7-foot birdie putt on the 18th to finish at 22 under. Mallinger then pushed a 15-foot birdie putt inches wide on the 18th, barely missing the chance to move into a first-place tie.
Mallinger, a Southern California native who matched his best PGA TOUR finish, didn't blame the miss on the darkness.
"I've played golf for 20 years. I know how to read a putt," he said. "But it was fun."
Shot of the Day: Lee
In the final round of the Humana Challenge, Danny Lee holes his 141-yard tee shot on the par-3 17th hole.
The exciting finish in the gathering darkness capped a revitalizing week for the former Hope. The tournament signed its first title sponsor in four years and partnered with the foundation of former President Bill Clinton, who serves as its new host.
The revamped pro-am dropped its traditional fifth day of competition and boosted its purse, attracting the best professional field in several years. Attendance also increased sharply, with crowds gathering to watch Phil Mickelson and the celebrity competitors over the first three days -- including Clinton, whose round was interrupted by wind Saturday.
Wilson holed a bunker shot on the par-3 12th to reclaim sole possession of the lead at 22 under, pulling one stroke ahead of Mallinger and Garrigus. Mallinger caught up on the 14th with a short birdie putt, and Garrigus joined them moments later in the next group.
Wilson and Garrigus then both holed tough birdie putts on the 16th, but Garrigus' tee shot on the 17th landed on the fringe. He missed his par putt, dropping back to 22 under while Wilson grinded out a par.
Garrigus easily reached the 18th green in two, but his long eagle putt over a rise barely missed the hole, going 9 feet past. Garrigus played the tournament's first 17 holes at 6 over before going 28 under in the final 55.
DIVOTS: Wagner is 35 under for the past two weeks combined. ... Mickelson didn't help the final-round push for quick play when he spent several long minutes searching for his ball in the mountainside rocks on the 14th hole after an attempt to reach the green. A lone bighorn sheep intently watched Mickelson's search from a ridge above the course. Mickelson shot a 69 to tie for 49th at 10 under in his first Palm Springs appearance since 2007. ... Defending champion Jhonattan Vegas missed the cut, and 2010 champion Bill Haas -- who lost in a playoff last year -- tied for 64th at 8 under.
PGA West's Palmer Course: Round 4 EASIEST HOLE TOUGHEST HOLE The par-5 11th hole was the easiest with a Sunday scoring average of 4.280.
The par-4 9th hole was the toughest with a Sunday scoring average of 4.227.
About the winner • Wilson posted his lowest round ever on the PGA TOUR when he shot a 10-under-par 62 in the second round on Friday. His round included eight birdies and an eagle. • Wilson was just 1-under par on the par-3 holes, but was 8-under on the par-4s and 14-under on the par-5s. • Wilson played the back nine in 16-under-par this week with just two bogeys over those 36 holes. • Wilson had to play three holes at La Quinta CC on Sunday morning to complete his third round before returning to the Palmer Private Course for his final round on Sunday afternoon. • Wilsons best finish in three previous starts here was a T33 in 2007. • Wilson collects 500 FedExCup points and moves to No. 2 in the FedExCup point standings, 230 points behind Johnson Wagner (783 points).


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I was informed that when you receive a serial #D sports card and the serial number matched the players jersey number, it is a 1-of-a-kind or 1 of 1 or 1/1. How would you appraise it?
(11-13-2012 06:12 PM)durfeecoach1 Wrote: [ -> ]It's not a 1/1 but if you are a supercollector of that guy you'll probadly pay a little more. Not alot more. Depending on the serial number series there may be 4 or more serial numbers of the guys jersey number
If that guy told you it's one of a kind and it's a one of one then he's an ebay seller not a collector. Any collector would tell you it's not a one of one unless it says 1/1. There are loads of crappy sellers that sell cards they say are one of one because either it's his jersey number, first or last in series, or any freaky weird mathematical representation they can think of to say it's one of one so some sap can pay more for the card. Sell it as his jersey number but don't say it's a 1/1 it just makes you look stupid.
(11-13-2012 10:06 PM)chevy man 22 Wrote: [ -> ]that is what you call a Ebay 1/1 not a true 1/1
Some reason people think that a card #'d out of the players jersey number is supposed to be worth more or is special in some way.
Technically according to ebay every single numbered card is a 1/1 because there is only 1 of that specific number for instance ( # 150 ) etc... It's just a way for the scalpers to get more money by trying to fool those who are less knowledgeable.
(11-13-2012 10:13 PM)kenarm79 Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think I've ever heard of Ebay referencing s/n items as 1/1's. It's only been sellers trying to do that.
Actually people do put a higher premium on s/n cards that have the players number on it. It's the same reason why some cards are worth more than others. It's supply and demand. It also depends on what the card is worth to that individual. BV is just a guide, but people should go buy sell value because that's what really counts, lol.


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Man in ForestTrick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
There is a man in the forest and he has only one match (and the matchbox). He has with him an oil lamp (with oil in it), a gas lamp (with gas in it), and a fireplace full of kindling which is dry enough to burn. Night draws closer and he is afraid of the dark. Which one does he light first?
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Pittsburgh, PA (SportsNetwork.com) - The Pittsburgh Penguins have avoided arbitration with Nick Spaling, agreeing to terms Thursday with the restricted free agent forward on a two-year contract.
The deal has an average annual value of $2.2 million.
Spaling was acquired by the Penguins from the Nashville Predators along with Patric Hornqvist on June 28 in exchange for James Neal.
The 25-year-old Spaling played in 71 games last season and set career highs in goals (13), assists (19) and points (32).
A 2007 second-round pick of the Predators, Spaling has 40 goals and 84 points in 297 career games.


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Foreign Law
Foreign Law refers to the domestic law of any country other than the United States. When researching the law of a foreign nation, it is helpful to begin with a research guide or overview of the legal system. Use these starting points to find laws, legislative texts, and caselaw of individual countries. Example: Ley de concursos mercantiles, Diario Oficial de la Federacion [D.O.], 12 de Mayo de 2000 (Mex.).
- Reynolds & Flores Foreign Law Guide, is an excellent starting point for locating the statutes of another country. For each foreign country there is a brief introduction to the legal system, a list of codifications, gazettes and other sources of law and then a section listing sources of law by subject. There are citations to materials both in the original language and English translations where available.
- LLRX Comparative and the Foreign Law Guides is a collection of research guides for over 50 countries and regions written by law libraries.
- Inter-America Database is a Latin American law database developed by the National Law Center for InterAmerican Free Trade. InterAm access is limited to USD students, faculty, and staff through the LRC Research Databases page.
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I am very please to let you know the USA/Canada version of Fire Funmania is now available on Compact Disc. This follows the already released Digital version. Still to come is the Cassette and limited edition German/Europe 12″ and CD. Thanks again to Maurice Roy for his fantastic graphic design work and Andi Harriman for the photos. To see a full set of photos close up: click here.
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Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin is offering commodity marketing classes to dairy producers and agribusiness professionals. An informational session about the classes and the opportunity to meet the instructor will be held Thursday, Dec. 14, from 1 to 3 p.m. at Greenstone Farm Credit Services located at 1674 Eisenhower Road, DePere, Wis. This introductory class is free.
The class instruction that happens over the course of a marketing year will be presented by Carl Babler of the University of Wisconsin-Platteville who has been involved in the futures industry as a broker, educator and hedger for more than 35 years.
"Dairy producers and agribusiness professionals often share that marketing is one of their most difficult management tasks. In most cases, this difficulty stems from a lack of marketing education," states Eric Hillan, president of PDPW and a dairy producer. "Because it's hard to utilize this risk management tool without knowing the fundamentals, PDPW has been helping dairy producers and other industry colleagues learn more through the Commodity Marketing classes with Carl Babler. This is the fifth year PDPW has offered this popular series.
"The December 14 introductory class is free so individuals can get a taste of the six to seven follow-up classes, and then can decide after the first class if this educational opportunity is for them. As dairy producers, we've seen the best and worst of commodity prices, and no one knows where they will go from here. That's why it's important for us to gain an understanding of marketing and what we can do to position ourselves for success."
Choosing to enroll in the class will engage you in 6 to 7 additional classes for $450.00. This includes one to two people from your business, great for farm owners, farm managers, or herdspersons. The class will be limited to the first 30 dairies or industry businesses that register. No experience or prior marketing experience needed the class starts with the basics and moves rapidly along. Previous attendees surveyed have ranked this educational series a "5" on a scale of one to five. This commodity marketing class series is one of PDPW's most popular offerings.
Hillan adds that the commodity marketing series will include presentations on price and price behavior, developing an effective marketing plan, knowing how to analyze the market for market activity, understanding and utilizing the cash market, the futures market, the options market and a marketers and hedgers checklist as well as other topics to help individuals become confident in commodity marketing.
To register for the commodity marketing series, attend the introductory class on December 14, call PDPW at 1-800-947-7379 or signup online at www.pdpw.org.


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Choo not headed to DL yet
OAKLAND -- Outfielder Shin-Soo Choo is dealing with a sprained left ankle but is not going on the disabled list just yet. The Rangers, relieved that Choo is not dealing with a more serious high ankle sprain, are going to give him three days off and re-evaluate on Friday.
"These type of players, you want to give them every opportunity to play if the medical staff is hopeful that it won't be too long," Rangers assistant general manager Thad Levine said. "We're hoping this is an indication we're headed in the right direction as far as the injuries. We were overdue for some good news from the medical staff. We feel optimistic Choo will be on the field soon."
Choo had to leave Monday's game in the seventh inning when he landed on first base at a bad ankle with his foot while trying to beat out an infield hit. He is not expected to play either Tuesday or Wednesday against the Athletics and the Rangers are off on Thursday. They open a three-game series with the Mariners on Friday in Seattle.
"We're treating this as day to day and we'll see where he is leading into the Seattle series," Levine said.
The Rangers did make a roster move on Tuesday. Pitcher Hector Noesi was designated for assignment to make room for Nick Martinez, who started on Tuesday night. That also opens up a spot on the 40-man roster if the Rangers want to call up an outfielder from Triple-A Round Rock. With Jim Adduci and Engel Beltre on the disabled list, the Rangers don't have another healthy outfielder on the 40-man roster besides what's already at the Major League level.
Bryan Petersen is hitting .270 with five home runs and 19 RBIs at Round Rock. He has a .337 on-base percentage and a .581 slugging percentage. Brad Snyder is hitting .270 with five home runs, 12 RBIs, a .357 on-base percentage and a .514 slugging percentage. Both could be options if the Rangers need an outfielder. Both are left-handed hitters.
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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They may feel all at sea when they arrive, but thanks to a one charity, unemployed youngsters can quickly learn life skills on board a barge.
Topsail Charters, based in the Hythe Quay, Maldon, are offering dedicated programmes to those struggling to find work, in turn removing the barriers to employment.
In the first four-week 'Change Direction' course, led by youth charity UKSA and funded by Job Centre Plus, 19-year-old Luke Last has begun preparing for work through maritime and watersport activities.
This week, Luke, who has not had a job for two years, has assisted with the new sailing season by painting the barges and helping with general rigging maintenance.
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Pick up the phone and talk health care
We've been celebrating a big month for health care, and supporters across the country are capping it off with the National Women's Week of Action. Women are getting together for house parties, phone banks, and canvasses to talk to voters about how the Affordable Care Act is helping all of us get access to quality health care—and it's not too late for you to be a part of it.
The campaign's online call tool is an easy way to do your part. Whether you decide to meet up and phonebank with friends or make calls from your couch at home, it will put everything you need to talk to supporters about health care right at your fingertips.
It's so easy, in fact, that we're posing a challenge: Commit to talking about health care with five women over the phone before this Friday.
Five conversations won't take up too much of your time, and person-to-person interactions like this are what will make a difference this fall. It's up to all of us to make sure that everyone in our communities knows exactly what health care reform is doing for us—like making free preventive care available and preventing insurance companies from charging women more just because they're women.
So get on the phone today and help get the word out about health care reform.


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AFI Fest
What: The American Film Institute's annual celebration of international cinema from modern masters and emerging filmmakers.
When: Nov. 7-14.
Where: TCL Chinese Theatre, 6925 Hollywood Blvd.; Chinese 6 Theatres, 6801 Hollywood Blvd.; Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.; The Roosevelt Hotel, 7000 Hollywood Blvd.
Information: www.afifest.afi.com
"The Lunchbox" screens at 4 p.m. Nov. 13 at Chinese 6 Theatres.
In super-crowded Mumbai, there's a complicated system for delivering lunches to office workers. Meals are moved around the Indian city on trains, bikes, hanging from boards guys carry on their heads. The lunches may come from restaurants or can be lovingly homemade. Every day, millions of them find their way to the proper recipient's desk. Chaotic as it appears, the delivery system never fails.
"The Lunchbox" (screens again at 4 p.m. Nov. 13) is about what happened one time when it did. A tender tale of loneliness and the risky rewards of reaching out, Ritesh Batra's first feature has been wowing in South Asia and on the international film festival circuit.
While films with this subject matter are often gooey at their core, "The Lunchbox" offers fully realized, tough-minded characters who just happen to be spicing up their lives with touches of humor and hints of mystery.
Irrfan Khan, whom you may remember from "Life of Pi" and "Slumdog Millionaire," is an introverted widower on the cusp of retiring from the insurance company he's worked at for 35 years. One day he gets the wrong lunch, prepared by a neglected young housewife (Nimrat Kaur), and it's delicious. So he slips a mildly appreciative note in the licked-clean, aluminum cylinders. She writes back. Ever so delicately, both correspondents allow themselves to consider more fulfilling possibilities.
Veteran Khan's masterful underplaying and newcomer Kaur's unerring emotional intelligence make matters tasty without ever allowing them to get too sweet (nor sour, for that matter, when realistic personal fears threaten their handwritten semi-romance).
Neither food porn nor formulaic love story, "The Lunchbox" is a well-balanced reminder that both stomach and soul crave sustenance.
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Dear Members,
This Uposatha Day, please let me share with you all 'a love-song the Buddha did not rebuke'. It is in DN
21. Sakkapanha sutta (translation by Maurice Walshe). My dear friend Dr.Han Tun gave this story to me.
The Love-song the Buddha did not rebuke
[Presented by Dr.Han Tun, MD. @ SariputtaDhamma/JTN/Mult]
Thus have I heard. Once the Lord staying in Magadha, to the east of Raajagaha,
by a Brahmin village called Ambasa.n.daa, to the north of the village on Mount
Vediya, in the Indasaala Cave. And at that time Sakka, lord of the gods, felt a
strong desire to see the Lord. And Sakka thought 'Where is the Blessed Lord, the
fully-enlightened Buddha, now staying?' Then, perceiving where the Lord was,
Sakka said to the Thirty-Three Gods: 'Gentlemen, the Blessed Lord is staying in
Magadha...in the Indasaala Cave. How would it be if we were to go and visit the
Lord?' 'Very good, lord, and may good fortune go with you', replied the
Thirty-Three Gods.
Then Sakka said to Pa~ncasikha of the gandhabbas: 'The Blessed Lord is staying
in Magadha…in the Indasaala Cave. I propose to go to visit him.' 'Very good,
Lord', said Pancasikha and, taking his yellow beluva-wood lute, he followed in
attendance on Sakka.
And, just as swiftly as a strong man might stretch forth his flexed arm, or flex
it again, Sakka, surrounded by the Thirty-Three Gods and attended by
Pancasikha, vanished from the heaven of the Thirty-Three and appeared in
Magadha…on Mount Vediya. Then a tremendous light shone over Mount Vediya,
illuminating the village of Ambasandaa, so great was the power of the gods, so
that in the surrounding villages they were saying: 'Look, Mount Vediya is on
fire today, it's burning, it's in flames! What is the matter, that Mount Vediya
and Ambasandaa are lit up like this? and they were so terrified that their
hair stood on end.
Then Sakka said: 'Pancasikha, it is hard for the likes of us to get near the
Tathaagatas when they are enjoying the bliss of meditation, and therefore
withdrawn. But if you, Pancasikha, were first to attract the ear of the Blessed
Lord, then we might afterwards be able to approach and see the Blessed Lord, the
fully-enlightened Buddha.' 'Very good, Lord', said Pancasikha and, taking his
yellow beluva-wood lute, he approached the Indasaala Cave. Thinking: 'As far as
this is neither too far nor too near to the Lord, and he will hear my voice', he
stood to one side.
Then, to the strains of his lute, he sang these verses extolling the Buddha, the
Dhamma, the Arahants, and love:
(i) "Lady, your father Timbaruu greet,
Oh Sunshine fair, I give him honour due,
By whom was sired a maid as fair as you
Who are the cause of all my heart's delight.
(ii) "Delightful as the breeze to one who sweats,
Or as a cooling draught to one who thirsts,
Your radiant beauty is to me as dear
As the Dhamma is to Arahants.
(iii) "Just as medicine to him who's ill,
Or nourishment to one who's starving still.
Bring me, gracious lady, sweet release
With water cool from my consuming flames.
(iv) "The elephant, oppressed by summer heat,
Seeks out a lotus-pool upon which float
Petals and pollen of that flower,
So into your bosom sweet I'd plunge.
(v) "As an elephant, urged by the goad,
Pays no heed to pricks of lance and spear,
So I, unheeding, know not what I do,
Intoxicated by your beauteous form.
(vi) "By you my heart is tightly bound in bonds,
All my thoughts are quite transformed, and I
Can no longer find my former course:
I'm like a fish that's caught on baited hook.
(vii)-(viii) "Come, embrace me, maiden fair of thighs,
Seize and hold me with your lovely eyes,
Take me in your arms, it's all I ask!
My desire was slight at first, O maid
Of waving tresses, but it grew apace,
As grow the gifts that Arahants receive.
(ix)–(x) "Whatever merit I have gained by gifts
To those Noble Ones, may my reward
When it ripens, be your love, most fair!
(xi) "As the Sakyans' Son in jhaana rapt
Intent and mindful, seeks the deathless goal,
Thus intent I seek your love, my Sun!
(xii) "Just as that Sage would be rejoiced, if he
Were to gain supreme enlightenment,
So I'd rejoice to be made one with you.
(xiii) "If Sakka, Lord of Three-and-Thirty Gods
Were perchance to grant a boon to me,
It's you I'd crave, my love for you's so strong.
(xiv) "Your father, maid so wise, I venerate
Like a saal-tree fairly blossoming,
For his offspring's sake, so sweet and fair."
[Han: It seems inappropriate to sing a song that contains words like, "maiden
with fair thighs" (vaamuuru), in front of the Buddha. But the Buddha did not
rebuke it. Please see below.]
When he heard this, the Lord said: "Pancasikha, the sound of your strings
blends so well with your song, and your song with the strings, that neither
prevails excessively over the other. When did you compose these verses on the
Buddha, the Dhamma, the Arahants, and Love?"
"Lord, it was when the Blessed Lord was staying on the bank of the River
Neranjaraa, under the goat-herd's banyan tree prior to his enlightenment. At
that time I fell in love with the lady Bhaddaa, bright as the sun, the daughter
of King Timbaruu of the gandhabbas. But the lady was in love with somebody else.
It was Sikhaddi, the son of Maatali the charioteer, whom she favoured. And when
I found that I could not win the lady by any manner of means, I took my yellow
beluva-wood lute and went to the home of King Timbaruu of the gandhabbas, and
there I sang these verses: [Verses as above]
Love Buddha's dhamma,


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The so-called "shirt-sleeves" summit to begin between President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a glamorous estate in California on Friday will be the first of its kind in half a century, a chance for the two great powers to stave off what some fear to be inevitable tensions.
"It harkens back to Nixon and Kissinger and Mao Zedong and Zou Enlai sitting on overstuffed couches late into the night in Beijing discussing the state of the world," says the US State Department's former top Asia official, Kurt Campbell.
Those meetings in 1972 began the Chinese-American diplomatic relationship, a relationship that since then has been marked by mutual mistrust, not aided by the rigid formality of meetings between the two leaders.
Mr Campbell, who was present during meetings over the past few years between President Obama and President Xi's predecessor, Hu Jintao, said they were so orchestrated that it was impossible for either leader to stray from carefully negotiated agendas.
The meetings were either rushed encounters held on the sidelines of other major international gatherings, or formal summits attended by phalanxes of aides and officials, whose presence prevented any close dialogue between the two men.
The lack of pomp and circumstance attending this week's meeting is seen by some as evidence of self-confidence by President Xi. Historically Chinese leaders have considered the grandiosity of state visits to America as an important signal of international respect to domestic audiences.
Even the location is significant. The two will come face to face on Friday afternoon and through the day on Saturday at Sunnylands, a sprawling modernist architectural masterpiece built by the Annenberg family 190 kilometres inland from Los Angeles. It was here that Nixon licked his wounds after resigning the presidency. Since then the Annenberg family turned the home and its gardens and private golf course over to a trust in the hope it would be used for retreats such as this, a sort of Camp David on the Pacific.
The Australian Ambassador to the United States, Kim Beazley, said the informality was crucial.
"This will be a real working meeting, a lot is going to get done," he said, citing forensic talks over North Korea's increasing belligerence as perhaps the most important topic.
But officials from both sides have made it clear they do not want the meetings to devolve into a cataloguing of grievances, rather they want to begin the process of plotting a peaceful future accommodating America's established power and China's rising influence. In China this is discussed as "great power relations."
"When the Chinese talk about this new model of great power relations, the focus is to avoid this so-called historic inevitability of conflict between the two," said a senior White House official during a phone briefing this.
Dr Campbell said this week's meetings came at a crucial time - at the beginning of Xi's leadership and Obama's second term — when the men could forge a personal relationship that could inform action on the key issues between the world's two largest economies.
He said he expected President Obama to frankly and directly raise the issue of China's cyber attacks on the US military and technology sector, which he said had violated "the prime directive" of Chinese diplomacy, which was to avoid creating a coalition of opposition.
China wants a better relationship with America and it understands that a key driver of that relationship in the United States is the private sector, which has been subject to the same cyber attacks as the US military, said Dr Campbell.
He also expects the two will discuss increasing tensions between China and Japan over the islands known Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. Recently a senior US State Department official made it clear that the US would stand by its Japanese ally in the face of Chinese aggression.
But equally, said Dr Campbell, the US was aware that the Japanese Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe had been "provocative" over "historical" issues. (In April Abe appeared to engage in revisionism of Japan's war history, telling parliament, "The definition of what constitutes aggression has yet to be established in academia or in the international community. Things that happened between nations will look differently depending on which side you view them from."
As China's military presence rapidly grows across the Asia Pacific region, where the US has been reasserting its presence since President Obama
announced the US "pivot" four years ago, there are increased chances for the two nations' militaries to come into contact. Dr Campbell said he expected the two leaders to discuss potential protocols to be pursued in the event of incidents or accidents.
The personality of the two leaders is also thought to be significant.
Where Hu Jintao was known to be formal to the point of robotic, much has been made of President Xi's more relaxed presence. And unlike Chinese leaders before him Xi has some personal knowledge of America. In 1985
he visited Iowa during an agricultural exchange, visiting the home of Sarah Lande, who told Fairfax he was an engaging guest. He told her he dreamt of visiting America since reading Mark Twain. Obama is known to prefer direct informal meetings to the pageantry that is often associated with his office.
The director of the China Studies Center at Johns Hopkins University, David Lampton, said Xi could be the first Chinese leader to have an understanding of the United States beyond New York and Washington. He said a strong personal relationship between leaders was crucial to over coming suspicion between nations.
Other analysts have not been quite so positive about the meetings. Under the headline Xi's Not Ready, Michael Auslin, a member of the conservative Washington think tank AEI argued that as long as China was engaged in the theft of American intellectual property and defense secrets, and as long as it was maintaining ties with Syria, Iran, Sudan and North Korea, President Obama should not be engaging in such close talks with President Xi.
"Getting the personal treatment from the president of the United States is some of the most valuable political capital any foreign leader can receive, regardless of the concrete outcomes of the meeting, wrote Auslin earlier this week.
"The Chinese leadership must be delighted -- why should they modify their behaviour when Washington's China policy is all carrot and no stick?"


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Enchanting Rylee Giddings looks cute and content asleep on the sofa at her parents' Pewsey home.
But at 20 months old she is still unable to sit up unaided.
Her parents Zoe and Stuart of Stratton Road are being supported by staff at Devizes Opportunity Centre.
Mrs Giddings, 25, said: "Everyone at the opportunity centre is truly remarkable. We do not know what the future holds for Rylee but just going to the centre gives me the strength to carry on.
"I have a lot of support from my family and friends in Pewsey but sometimes you just need to talk to someone who truly understands what you are going through. All the children there have different needs but the parents understand what it is like to have a child who doesn't follow normal expectations."
Mr and Mrs Giddings, who both grew up in Pewsey, have two older children Tyler, four, and Skye, five, and did not suspect anything was wrong when Rylee was born at Great Western Hospital, Swindon.
Mrs Giddings said: "When Rylee was born she did not breathe for about five minutes but no-one seemed overly worried and we were allowed to go home the next day."
But soon Rylee started to suffer from acute reflux, which is when milk comes back up the oesophagus, and when she was about six weeks old she stopped breathing and was rushed to hospital by ambulance.
She underwent tests and was diagnosed as having microcephaly (small head circumference) and global development delay, which means everything from movement to communication is affected.
Rylee is also visually impaired and is not easily stimulated.
She sleeps much of the time and her parents and staff at the nursery have to work hard to keep her awake so they can try to interest her in new things.
Mrs Giddings said: "This will seem like a tiny thing to most people but the other day when we were at the nursery Rylee nudged a tray that was in front of her with her hand. This was a big step for us."
Mrs Giddings, whose husband is manager of Bathwick Tyres in Devizes, urged people to support the Gazette's appeal to raise £10,000 for the centre to help make up for a cut in its grant.
She said: "It is a fantastic place. We hope to do some fundraising ourselves.
"Not everyone in Pewsey knows about the opportunity centre and I only heard about it because I was a volunteer at Pewsey Children's Centre. It is great that the Gazette is publicising its work.
"It is good that all of the health professionals come into the centre and so if you have any worries you can ask them."
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I am an architect from Bulgaria, having recently completed Master in Sustainable Architecture at Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy.
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A broad range of issues and disciplinary fields: history of architecture, media and tools for representation, theoretical, and methodological aspects related to surveying and rendering the organization of space at different project scales (building, cities and regions).
Working in cooperation with other nationality in a project group, complete the analysis, survey, Final thesis project:" Multipurpose indoor arena at ex-scalo farini"-Milan, Italy
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U2 Working on Movie Musical
Now that U2 have pushed back the release of their new album and seem to have some time on their hands, two members of the band is undertaking another project.
According to NME, Bono and the Edge are working with 'Once' director John Carney on a new movie about his life. The semi-autobiographical tale centers on Carney's childhood, and will be told through music, as a boy grows up at a private school and, later, in the city.
The film, 'Sing Street,' will feature music by the two U2 members, who are no strangers to movie music. Earlier this year they won a Golden Globe for 'Ordinary Love,' a song U2 contributed to the Nelson Mandela biopic 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.'
Carney's breakthrough movie, 'Once,' also revolved around music, and starred the Frames' Glen Hansard. The super-popular movie snagged tons of awards and acclaim, and gave birth to the Swell Season, the group Hansard co-led with his 'Once' co-star Marketa Irglova.
U2 were all set to release a new record this year, debuting a song during the Super Bowl and even stopping by Jimmy Fallon's inaugural hosting gig on 'The Tonight Show.' But conflicting rumors say the album may now be pushed back to next year.
In the meantime, this looks like the only new music we'll have from U2 in a while, so enjoy.
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Individual wrote:Can you cite suttas where the Buddha said that compassion was a "male" quality and neediness was a "female" quality?
Buddha said in the DN: A man serves his wife in five ways. Thus being served, a woman returns her love in five ways. Man is to support and serve. A woman's love should be conditional. Thus, a man has unconditional love and a woman conditional love. This is the optimal way of nature or dhamma. If one holds a woman serves and gives unconditionality, the world will be lost. A woman loves a man when he does right.


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|Mixed, Ice, 5 pitches, 1000', Grade IV
|WI5 M5 [details]
|Michael Bearzi and Bill Myers, 1991
|Spring or Fall
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By Eli Helmuth
From: Ciales, PR
Mar 16, 2007
|Having just skied off the divide nearby Vanquished this morning and having spent the last couple of weeks in RMNP above treeline, it seems very unlikely that there is a shred of ice on the Vanquished Wall. Potentially with this warm spell, some new moisture, and a cold front?, things could come into shape up there. Otherwise, it is pretty dry and cold up high, not ideal for ice formation.
By Greg Sievers
From: Bozeman, MT
Apr 8, 2008
|For those ice/mixed junkies, I invite you to look at The Inquisition route on this wall also. You may enjoy it, as well as a number of FA options in this area. Git-r-dun.
By Dougald MacDonald
Jun 10, 2008
Jack Roberts led a long variation to the first pitch of Vanquished on June 9, 2008. It's the big left-facing corner/chimney just left of the normal start. Moderately difficult mixed ground leads to a poorly protected thin-ice step, followed by strenuous liebacking with hands on rock and feet on thin ice, followed by a weird and insecure groove. The pitch arcs back to the right after the chimney and ends at a fixed anchor on Vanquished, about 120 feet off the ground. Very difficult to rate. Jack said it was "like an awkward 5.9 crack that doesn't let up." This MIGHT be a good alternative to Vanquished's ephemeral first pitch when that's not in. Then again, it might not.
Note: Topher Donahue has informed me that he led this pitch "about 10 years ago."
Vanquished was in good shape over the weekend and yesterday, but today's heat might have killed a few key sections. In addition, we (I) destroyed most of the ice at the hard bulge atop the fourth pitch, and I doubt it will rebuild this year. Sorry!
Gear note: Hexes are very useful on Vanquished's icy cracks, including a large hex (10 or 11 BD) and several medium sizes.
See photos at themountainworld.blogspot.com.
By Ryan Jennings
May 28, 2010
|Kevin Cooper and I climbed a possible new variation to the first two pitches of this on 5/25/10. Our route was to the right and climbed two excellent pitches of WI5 M5 before ending below a splitter crack with a pin in it's base. We discussed continuing up the crack but opted to stay on ice and used the pin to pendulum into the money pitches of Vanquished. A few photos were added.
By Kevin Landolt
From: Fort Collins, Wyoming
Jul 29, 2010
|What an incredible route!


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D. Allan Bromley is the first Sterling Professor of the Sciences at Yale; from 1994 to 2000 he served as Yale's Dean of Engineering. He was the first Cabinet level Assistant to the President of the United States for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (1989-1993). He received the B.Sc. degree from Queen's University in Canada in 1948 and the Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1952. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and in 1988 was awarded the National Medal of Science. He has served as President of the AAAS, of IUPAP, and of APS and holds 32 honorary doctorates from universities in Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa and the United States. A distinguished nuclear physicist he is known as the father of modern heavy ion physics.
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I, for one, welcome our new Cyclone overlords.
Still bitter right now, but I am VCU fan for the time being...
Big Ten's 6-0 in the postseason so far
How bad is Texas...
Texas with only 2 points in the first 12:30.
EXPLODING for a total of 8 now with 5 and a half left!
Drexel has to be pissed watching Texas.
UAB fired Mike Davis today. "Poor ticket sales and attendance."
Texas heard you, TJ.
Yet they still lost. I'd still be pissed if I was Drexel.
Gates would have destroyed Drexel...
08 and Beyond
Maybe, but that doesn't make them less deserving of being there. Rick Barnes has to be one of the worst coaches in the country.
cant argue that, hes almost as bad as Calipari
08 and Beyond
btw IU is a 5 point favorite
08 and Beyond
Am I the only one that thinks that Leonard Hamilton looks like Bunny from The Wire?
Norfolk State is trying to pull off the first big upset of the tourney.
The refs really seem to have it out for the underdogs in this tourney. Horrible call.
My bracket'll be screwed but who cares, go Norfolk State!
Wow. Congrats Norfolk State!
Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
Dad and son just giddy as all hell, gotta love it
Wow, Missouri looked like one poorly coached team. Failed to adjust all game. Not an impressive way or what you would have expected for Frank Haith to end his first season.
mine took a hit there as well.
I doubt many ACC fans are surprised.


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A life-saving tool recently introduced to law enforcement agencies in Butte County proved its worth last month, when a man was found with multiple stab wounds to his neck, chest and back.
It was just before 3 a.m. on May 18 when Butte County Sheriff's Office detective Matt Rackley headed to the area of Wyandotte Avenue and Myers Street in Oroville where a stabbing had occurred.
Deputies were able to begin rendering aid to the victim while the scene was secured.
Rackley used a compression bandage taken from the trauma kit the Sheriff's Office had outfitted him with to stop the bleeding.
It is those types of life-threatening emergencies that front-line officers often encounter that prompted the Butte County Sheriff's Office to provide trauma kits to all of the county's law enforcement agencies.
About 200 trauma kits have been handed out to the approximately 378 officers in the county, according to officials.
On Friday, various members from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Butte County Probation Department, California State Parks and the Butte County Sheriff's Office received training and were given a kit.
The Sheriff's Office, which is providing the training to all the agencies, will continue to offer the pocket-size kit until the goal is met, Sheriff Kory Honea said.
So far, police departments in Oroville, Paradise and Gridley have the kits, as well as Butte College and Chico State police, the California Highway Patrol and city of Chico park rangers.
At the moment, officers who go on patrol are getting the kits, but the long-term goal is for every single law enforcement officer to have one, said Mickey Huber, a reserve deputy sheriff and SWAT team paramedic.
Huber and Dr. Corky Rey, who is also a SWAT team paramedic, presented the idea for the military-tested trauma kits to Honea. The men saw the value of the lightweight kits through their experience training with the SWAT team and seeing how they had been used in the military.
Honea liked the idea, but wanted to expand it to all law enforcement agencies in the county.
A key to survival is stopping the bleeding as soon as possible, Huber said during Friday's training. It doesn't make sense for an officer to have to wait for paramedics or the fire department.
During Friday's introduction to tactical medicine, the men and women were able to apply the various tourniquets, bandages and gauze to themselves and colleagues to learn how to use them out in the field.
In one exercise, the officers used gauze and a bandage on a green, foam square with a hole to simulate a wound.
Friday was a culmination of all the work and the plan developed by Huber and Rey, Honea said.
The Butte County Sheriff's Office used a $25,000 Homeland Security grant it applies for every year to pay for the program. Civic groups, like the Butte County District Attorney's Employees and the Oroville, Chico and Paradise Rotary clubs, also helped fund the kits, which cost about $90 each.
Law enforcement officers were reminded Friday to carry the kits in their pockets at all times.
Huber said he told the group, "Like your car has a spare tire, this is your spare tire, and just like your car doesn't work well with your spare tire at your house, this has to go with you."
The kits include a combat application tourniquet, a hemostatic bandage that helps with rapid blood clotting, a large emergency trauma dressing, a SWAT tourniquet and gloves.
They can be used in any type of trauma — car accidents, stabbings or shootings.
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Galveston Island State Park Redevelopment Public Meeting Set
AUSTIN – The second of three scheduled public meetings on the master plan design for redeveloping hurricane-damaged Galveston Island State Park will be held Tuesday, Dec. 7 on the Texas A&M Galveston campus.
The meeting will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the Lecture Theater & Foyer of the Ocean and Coastal Studies Building #3029 on the university campus at 200 Seawolf Parkway. For more information about the meeting, contact Galveston Island State Park superintendent Trey Goodman at (409) 737-1222.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will be presenting the initial master plan design concept for Galveston Island State Park and will provide an update on how public input was received and incorporated into the plan.
At the public meeting, members of the community will have an opportunity to view aerial maps and review preliminary design concepts developed by MESA Design Group and the Dallas firm's partners, and provide additional input. All Galveston area residents, business owners and anyone else with an interest in one of Texas' most popular state parks are invited to attend.
MESA and its team of consultants have been charged with creating a design that will transform the island park severely damaged in 2008 by Hurricane Ike into a premiere destination within the Texas state park system, in part by utilizing such sustainable elements as alternative energy sources and rainwater harvesting.
The public was given an opportunity recently to provide input into the redevelopment design plan through an online survey that ended Oct. 4. It was the first time TPWD had surveyed the public to gather input about what users would like to see included in state park design and development.
Barring any environmental or cultural resource issues, the Galveston Island State Park master plan is expected to be completed by next spring. The park development timetable calls for the submission of architectural drawings and the design plan by January of 2012. Depending on the availability of funds, the earliest construction would begin is spring of 2012, according to Tony Bettis, regional project manager for TPWD's Infrastructure Division.
Galveston Island State Park is open seven days a week and offers full services on the bay side and limited camping and day use facilities on the beach side until a master plan is developed, environmental assessment completed and permanent facilities rebuilt. To facilitate the reopening of the beach side, electrical power and water have been restored, and a structure has been moved in to serve as temporary headquarters. The original headquarters building and all other beachside facilities were destroyed by Hurricane Ike. Dozens of volunteers from The Friends of Galveston Island State Park and other interested individuals pitched in after the storm to clean up the park to help it reopen way ahead of schedule.
Galveston Island State Park occupies a sliver of land at the midway point of the barrier island about six miles southwest of the western tip of the popular sea wall. The bay side provides public access to about 600 acres of grasslands with coastal scrub and scattered oak mottes, as well as hundreds of additional acres of saltwater sloughs, wildlife-rich wetlands and tidal bayous.
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Brad Keselowski, who has struggled for weeks and fallen outside the top 10 in points, may have started a comeback Friday by winning the pole for Sunday's Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The defending Sprint Cup champion has not won a race this season and has slumped to 13th in the Cup standings. He has just one top-10 finish in his last 10 races.
But Keselowski paced the field during qualifying for the Camping World 301.
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His average speed of 135.922 around the 1-mile oval edged Jimmie Johnson (135.902) for the top spot as the top 10 drivers all broke the track record.
Kurt Busch was third, followed by Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch, Jeff Gordon, Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne and Jeff Burton.
Danica Patrick qualified 33rd.
Kahne is the defending winner of the July race at New Hampshire, while Hamlin won the last race there in September.
Teams battled a wet track during practice as weepers kept dampening the track and bringing out caution flags. The issue was not a problem during qualifying, however.
Johnson, meanwhile, was late getting onto the track for qualifying as his team had trouble getting his car through inspection.
The race is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Sunday. (TV: TNT)


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Study of the Pathophysiological Mechanisms Involved in Bleeding Events (LOWE)
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Lowe syndrome is associated with mutations in the OCRL1 gene, which encodes OCRL1, a phosphatidylinositol-4, 5-bisphosphate (PtdIns(4, 5)P (2))5-phosphatase. PtdIns(4, 5)P2, a substrate of OCRL1, is an important signaling molecule within the cell. An abnormal rate of hemorrhagic events was found in a retrospective clinical survey, suggesting platelet dysfunction.
The main objective of the study is to confirm the presence of platelet dysfunction in Lowe syndrome and to characterize this abnormality.
|Oculocerebrorenal Syndrome
|Other: Blood sample
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Diagnostic
|Official Title:
|Study of the Pathophysiological Mechanisms Involved in Bleeding Events Observed in Patients With Lowe Syndrome
- The platelet function will be evaluated by comparing the intensity of platelet responses obtained in patient and controls [ Time Frame: 18 months ]
The platelet function will be evaluated by comparing the intensity of platelet responses obtained in patient and controls. Various platelet responses will be studied:
- The measurement of platelet closure time by PFA100
- Aggregation, retraction, secretion and adhesion
- Characterization of abnormalities in platelet-signalling pathways [ Time Frame: 18 months ]Characterization of abnormalities in platelet-signalling pathways
|Study Start Date:
|February 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: 1
Other: Blood sample
Blood sample
Detailed Description:
Introduction: Lowe syndrome (LS), also known as oculocerebrorenal syndrome of Lowe (OCRL), is a rare X-linked condition characterized by congenital cataracts, defective renal tubule cell function, muscular hypotonia and variable degrees of mental retardation. Patients with LS require frequent surgery, some of which are associated with a severe haemorrhagic risk, such as scoliosis reduction, hip surgery, or eye surgery. In a recent retrospective clinical survey of French LS patients, we observed an abnormal rate of haemorrhagic events, some of which had dramatic outcomes. LS is caused BYMUTATIONS in the OCRL gene, which encodes OCRL, an inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase. The preferred OCRLsubstrate is the membrane phospholipid phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate (PtdIns(4,5)P2). OCRL also contains a Rho GTPase-activating protein(GAP)-like domain that participates in the regulation of Rho proteins (Rho, Rac, Cdc42), as GTPase-activating proteins or by mediating in protein-protein interactions. PtdIns(4,5)P2 and Rho-dependent signalling play a central role in many important cellular processes, including vesicular trafficking and cytoskeletal organization both of which are very important for platelet function. Thus, modulation of PtdIns(4,5)P2 levels and/or Rho-dependent signalling would be expected to impact platelet function.
Based on the clinical observation, we tested whether hemorrhagic symptom of 6 Lowe patients could be related to homeostasis abnormalities and we found that all the six patients had a prolonged closure time tested by PFA100 analyzer (Platelet Function Analyzer). These results were measured in absence of interfering factor such anemia, thrombopenia, or von Willebrand factor deficiency, thus suggesting platelet dysfunction.
Study justification:
The comprehension of the physiopathology implicated in the abnormal hemorrhagic risk is of major interest in term of prevention and clinical management in Lowe patients who requires frequent surgical care.
The main objective of the study is to confirm the presence of platelet dysfunction in Lowe syndrome and to characterize this abnormality. The secondary aims are to settle a functional test allowing the detection of patients with increasing hemorrhagic risk. Moreover, we could determinate whether platelet is an interesting cellular model, easily available, for further OCRL1 studies in Lowe patients.
We will investigate platelet activation response in 15 Lowe cases and 15 normal cases. The evaluation criteria will include the PFA100, THROMBOELASTOMETRY (ROTEM), aggregation, secretion, adhesion in a flux system and clot retraction. We will also compare molecular (phospho-proteins, phospholipid...) and structural modifications of the non activated platelet and of activating platelet.
The characterization of a platelet activation abnormality in Lowe patients could lead to major benefit for the patients with systematic homeostasis screening and special precautions rules before surgery, often required in this multisystemic condition. Moreover, this study could contribute to go further into PI(4,5)P2 signaling pathways and may provide clues to the interrelationship between these processes in normal metabolism and diseases states.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|6 Years to 45 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient with a clinical syndrome of Lowe (congenital cataracts, renal tubular dysfunction and neuromuscular damage) with a molecular defect in the gene known OCRL1.
- For the centre of Necker, patients should have a weight> 10 kg. For the centre of Toulouse site, patients should have a weight> 40 kg.
- No alteration of glomerular function (creatinine clearance> 30 ml/min/1.73m ²)
- No significant anemia (hematocrit> 25%, hemoglobin> 8 g / L)
- Every patient should have included a signed informed consent. For minor patients, the consent of parents or legal guardian must be obtained.
- Patients may be included only if they receive social security coverage or CMU
Exclusion Criteria:
- Weight less than 10 kg for the centre of Necker
- Weight less than 40 kg for the centre of Toulouse
- Major renal insufficiency (creatinine clearance <30 ml/min/1.73m ²)
- Profound anemia (hematocrit <25%, Hb <8g/dl)
- Patients taking drugs interfering with hemostasis in the eight days before the survey
- Patients with major behavior disorder making it difficult to achieve the blood sample, despite the nitrous oxide
- Patients with a other pathology of hemostasis (hemophilia, thrombotic disease)
- Participation in another clinical study requiring a blood sample within 4 weeks
- Contraindication to EMLA patch: confers Summary of Product Characteristics.
- Contraindication to KALINOX: confers Summary of Product Characteristics.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01314560
|Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, Genetic
|Paris, France, 75015
|Principal Investigator:
|Geneviève Baujat, MD, PhD
|Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Paris
|Responsible Party:
|Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01314560 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|March 11, 2011
|Last Updated:
|September 16, 2011
Keywords provided by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris:
Lowe syndrome
Bleeding Disorders
Platelet Function Tests
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Oculocerebrorenal Syndrome
Chromosome Deletion
WAGR Syndrome
Pathologic Processes
Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn
Brain Diseases, Metabolic
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Renal Tubular Transport, Inborn Errors
Kidney Diseases
Urologic Diseases
Abnormalities, Multiple
Congenital Abnormalities
Genetic Diseases, X-Linked
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Amino Acid Transport Disorders, Inborn
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Metabolic Diseases
Chromosome Aberrations
Wilms Tumor
Neoplasms, Complex and Mixed
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 25, 2017


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By Guest Blogger: Erik Braunitzer
Furniture makers like Vermont Woods Studios Furniture are doing their part to improve their carbon footprint. Extensive documentation on their website or even a quick phone conversation with Rebecca or Shannon puts families at ease knowing the company is serious about their environmental, health and safety mission.
But simply seeing furniture in a store with a green stamp of certification label isn't always helpful when you're not familiar with the background of the stamp. So it's important that we realize just how green furniture is made, along with the environmentally friendly materials that are used.
Furniture companies using wood and recycled materials generally have the smallest carbon footprint. Other materials would include concrete, plastic, aluminum, brick, glass, fiberglass and more. Now it's been said that there isn't one individual item or sustainable material, but a handful that share sustainable characteristics, including recyclables.
Furniture can also include the following:
· Paint
· Paint Strippers
· Stain
· Particle Board
Many of these substances are classified as volatile chemicals. Furniture made with these volatile chemicals can result in offgassing, which is evaporation at normal atmospheric pressure. Offgassing can be reduced or eliminated altogether by using stains, finishes or paints that are non toxic such as those made by Vermont Natural Coatings and AFM Safecoat.
Transportation is another part of the carbon footprint for furniture, as wood and other materials have to be extracted from the environment, shipped to distributors, transported to furniture makers, then sent off to the retail store and customers. The sustainability of a particular piece of furniture is dependent upon a couple of factors including:
· Durability– The longer the piece of furniture, the more sustainable it becomes.
· How it's useful– Multifunctional furniture saves money and yields greater sustainability.
Learning where to buy this type of furniture can be quite a daunting task, as it's not always portrayed clearly exactly what materials are used, and the percentage of each. In order to fully lead a responsible lifestyle, we should understand just how to look for green furniture. Here are a few tips:
Look for Sustainably Harvested Wood – Translates to the sustainability of ecosystems and natural forests.
Avoid Tropical Woods Like Mahogany and Teak - these woods are often illegally clearcut from the world's rapidly disappearing rainforests.
Ensure FSC Certification – for tropical woods, if no substitution can be made
Reclaimed Wood Furniture (RWF) – More or less, RWF is a recycled piece of furniture.
Non-Toxic Finishes – Keep your air clean and help protect your children from health issues.
Buy locally – Locally purchased items are always more sustainable as transportation costs are cut.
Clearly, Furniture making using sustainable materials is very important to the health of the overall environment. Similarly, it reduces waste and influences the vintage market. By following a few simple rules and clearly understanding how green furniture is made, you can make a difference in improving your carbon footprint. Next time you're in the market for a table or chair, be sure to inquire about sustainable practices before purchasing.
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have put their creative minds to something new — elegant serpent-themed jewelry! The power couple has teamed with a top British jeweler Asprey to come up with a series of designs for everything from earrings, pendants, bangles, rings to a silver spoon and egg cup. And, like so much of their life away from the cameras, the collection will benefit others. All the net proceeds will go to the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, to which the couple has already donated $1 million via the Jolie-Pitt Foundation in June 2008. For Jolie, 34, the inspiration for the collection was an obvious one. While she was expecting Shiloh in 2006, she was given a special gift — a protective snake ring. It was seen as a protector for mother and unborn child, and Jolie has come to view the motif as something of a family guardian. "Since then she has seen the snake symbol as a protective talisman for her family," a source at Asprey tells PEOPLE. The series started out as something for children — 16-month-old Vivienne has already been photographed wearing bangles with the snake motifs– but has developed into the limited edition "Protector Collection" of high end jewelry and other luxuries, which does still include children's items like a tooth box and silver egg cup. The collection becomes available tomorrow, November 17. —Simon Perry
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