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Vaccine Responses to Influenza A H1N1/09 Immunization in High-risk Patients
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University Hospital, Geneva
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First received: November 30, 2009
Last updated: February 26, 2010
Last verified: February 2009
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Detailed Description:
The objective of this study is to assess vaccine responses to novel adjuvanted influenza A(H1N1) vaccines in patients at high risks of influenza A(H1N1) complications.
|HIV Infection Rheumatic Disease Cancer Transplant Pediatrics
|Biological: Adjuvanted influenza A(H1N1) vaccines
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Prospective Cohort Study of the Influence of Age, Underlying Disease and Immunosuppression on Vaccine Responses to Influenza A H1N1/09 Immunization in High-risk Patients.
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MedlinePlus related topics: Flu Flu Shot
Drug Information available for: Influenza VaccinesU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Antibody responses (inhibition of hemagglutination) [ Time Frame: 4-6 weeks after immunization ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Antibody responses (neutralization) [ Time Frame: 4-6 weeks after immunization ]
- Vaccine safety : - Solicited adverse events - graft function before / after immunization - influence of immunization on underlying disease (HIV infection, autoimmune diseases) [ Time Frame: 4-6 weeks after immunization ]
- T cell responses [ Time Frame: 4-6 wks after immunization ]
|Study Start Date:
|November 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: High-risk patients ( 5 cohorts)
Biological: Adjuvanted influenza A(H1N1) vaccines
Immunization (1-2 doses)
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|Active Comparator: Healthy controls
Biological: Adjuvanted influenza A(H1N1) vaccines
Immunization (1-2 doses)
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Detailed Description:
This prospective, open-label, parallel-cohorts study will include up to 1250 patients and 250 controls to whom influenza A(H1N1) immunization was recommended.
Six cohort have been established, enrolling patients with HIV infection, rheumatic diseases, organ transplant, cancer, pediatric patients and healthy controls.
Subjects will be assessed for specific antibody responses (all), T cell responses (subset) and solicited vaccine adverse events. Vaccine safety evaluation will include the influence of immunization on underlying diseases (HIV infected patients, patients with auto-immune diseases) or graft function (transplant patients) - as appropriate.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|6 Months and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- medically recommended influenza A(H1N1) immunization
- signed informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- failure or refusal to provide sufficient blood for antibody determination
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01022905
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01022905
|University Hospitals of Geneva
|Geneva, Switzerland, 1211
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Siegrist CA, van Delden C, Bel M, Combescure C, Delhumeau C, Cavassini M, Clerc O, Meier S, Hadaya K, Soccal PM, Yerly S, Kaiser L, Hirschel B, Calmy A; H1N1 Study Group; Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS). Higher memory responses in HIV-infected and kidney transplanted patients than in healthy subjects following priming with the pandemic vaccine. PLoS One. 2012;7(7):e40428. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040428. Epub 2012 Jul 27.
Schäppi MG, Meier S, Bel M, Siegrist CA, Posfay-Barbe KM; H1N1 Study Group. Protective antibody responses to influenza A/H1N1/09 vaccination in children with celiac disease. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2012 Jun;54(6):817-9. doi: 10.1097/MPG.0b013e318248e7be.
Mohty B, Bel M, Vukicevic M, Nagy M, Levrat E, Meier S, Grillet S, Combescure C, Kaiser L, Chalandon Y, Passweg J, Siegrist CA, Roosnek E; Blood and Marrow Transplant Program; Geneva University Hospitals H1N1 study group. Graft-versus-host disease is the major determinant of humoral responses to the AS03-adjuvanted influenza A/09/H1N1 vaccine in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. Haematologica. 2011 Jun;96(6):896-904. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2011.040386. Epub 2011 Mar 21.
Meier S, Bel M, L'huillier A, Crisinel PA, Combescure C, Kaiser L, Grillet S, Pósfay-Barbe K, Siegrist CA; H1N1 Epidemiology Study Group of Geneva. Antibody responses to natural influenza A/H1N1/09 disease or following immunization with adjuvanted vaccines, in immunocompetent and immunocompromised children. Vaccine. 2011 Apr 27;29(19):3548-57. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.02.094. Epub 2011 Mar 17.
Gabay C, Bel M, Combescure C, Ribi C, Meier S, Posfay-Barbe K, Grillet S, Seebach JD, Kaiser L, Wunderli W, Guerne PA, Siegrist CA; H1N1 Study Group. Impact of synthetic and biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs on antibody responses to the AS03-adjuvanted pandemic influenza vaccine: a prospective, open-label, parallel-cohort, single-center study. Arthritis Rheum. 2011 Jun;63(6):1486-96. doi: 10.1002/art.30325.
|Responsible Party:
|Prof. Claire-Anne Siegrist, University Hospital, Geneva
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01022905 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 30, 2009
|Last Updated:
|February 26, 2010
Keywords provided by University Hospital, Geneva:
HIV infection
rheumatic disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Rheumatic Diseases
Collagen Diseases
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Connective Tissue Diseases
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Brazilian Peel Reviews
You get what you pay for!Don't get me wrong---I try to watch what I eat, drink plenty of water, and invest heftily in skin care products--yet I still have awful skin. I deal with both eczema and rosacea and my skin type changes quite frequently regardless of how hard I try to find a balance. I tried the Brazilian Peel because I was looking for a cheap alternative to a chemical peel performed at a doctor's office or a spa....read more The Brazilian Peel contains 30% glycolic acid complex which is the highest you can get in stores. I heard about how this eats away all the dead skin while it smoothes, plumps, firms, and brightens skin while minimizing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles if used every week for a month. You can buy them individually if you just want to try one, rather than investing in the four pack. I have sensitive skin, but I was able to use this. If you have ULTRA sensitive skin, I would probably skip on it. Follow the instructions in the package carefully. Make sure you wash your face and remove your makeup well (I like to use a Clarisonic system to get every last trace of makeup out of my pores). Pat your face dry. Then on the tip of the syringe, you want to twist the cap counterclockwise and pull it off. Make sure to have the syringe upside down while you're doing this. Then, push out the contents into the palm of your hand and use two fingers to mix the gels until you the mixture get warm. Quickly slather on the mix onto your face, starting on your forehead and make your way down. Make sure not to get it near your eye area (even if you don't get it in your eyes, it stings REALLY bad if you get too close), nostrils or mouth. It's safe to use over your eyebrows (where I get a lot of patchiness). You can also put this on your neck and upper bust. You want to use all of the product that was mixed in your hand. Some people with smaller faces like to push out half of the syringe only and put the cap on and save it for later. I highly advise against this because a little bit of one syringe can come in contact with a bit of the other syringe and that can cause a chemical reaction which can activate the product. OK. So wait about 10 minutes for the product to dry and wash it off with cool water. You can use this in the morning or night, but make sure you use sunscreen EVERY day as the glycolic acid complex IS an alpha hydroxy acid and can cause increased skin irritability when you go out into the sun. What I was left was very plump, firm, and brightened skin. I was surprised the stinging was minimal to none when it comes to having the peel on. I had a LOT of dry flaky skin all over my skin and this removed about 75% of it. I got a about another 10% off by using a soft buffing sponge. I was surprised with how much firmer my skin felt after using this. Although $23 per treatment (or $78 for a four pack) seems like a lot for most people, trust me--it's NOTHING compared to he hundreds or thousands of dollars that people spend for (quality) chemical peels. Although using the Brazilian Peel won't get you professional results, if you have good, decent or even slightly below decent skin quality (whereas i have poor skin quality), I'm sure you will get decent results with this. I'm young, so I don't really have any fine lines or wrinkles to see whether or not those improve over time, but I did notice an acne scar slightly lighten after just one use. I may consider giving another shot to the Brazilian Peel in a week or two to once again rejuvenate my skin. Since I can't afford a professional peel, I think the Brazilian Peel is as intense as I'm going to go. I know you can just buy glycolic acid and a neutralizer separately to make your own peel, but I'm not very confident when it comes to doing such a thing. — 5 years, 8 months agovolta | 566 reviews
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Brazilian PeelI had never tried a brazilian peel before so I wasn't sure quite what to expect. The only peel I've ever used is Dr. Gross's Chemical Peel, and have only used that once so I don't have much experience in the way of peels. The packaging for the product is very nice. I thought the syringe was kind of weird, but honestly fun to use. It was easy to open and apply and the directions were very easy to...read more read and understand. Once applied to the palm of your hand you mix with two fingers until it becomes warm, then quickly apply to your face evenly, staring with your forehead and working your way down to your neck. It is then left on for ten minutes. I felt my face start to get dry and tight towards the end but it wasn't uncomfortable at all, just felt a little weird. I rinsed it off with cold water afterwards and it turns into a slimy paste and comes right off your face. Afterwards my skin didn't feel dry or irritated at all. It felt smooth and seemed a bit more luminous than normal. Because I've never done a brazilian peel before I wasn't exactly sure what the results would be. I thought my skin seemed a bit more bright but I think I need to try this a few more times in order to notice a real difference in my skin. — 6 years, 5 months agoladyboarder9669 | 210 reviews
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at home perfectionSo, I am a sucker for any product that I can do at home which gets close to professional results. I finally got a chance to try this at the Nordstrom's cosmetic trend show as I have been reading about this peel for the last year or so. The woman applying the peel squirted both sides into her palm and mixed it together until it got warm and clear. When she applyed it to my skin it was warm to th...read moree touch, but not overly so. It tingled as we left it alone for the next ten minutes. It self neutralizes and just needs to be wiped off after the ten minutes. After we cleaned it off my skin felt soft and fresh. It didn't irritate my very sensitive skin which was a major plus. I didn't see too much of a change in my skin, but you are supposed to do these once a week for a month. Overall it was a nice product and a fun and cheaper alternative to the spa. — 5 years, 5 months agobeautybody | 128 reviews
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Didn't live up to the hypeI followed the instructions exactly and after rinsing my face, it looks exactly the same as before. I didn't notice any brightness and my acne scars look the same, however my skin is really soft and smooth. — 5 years, 6 months agoRoleModel | 157 reviews
Brazilian PeelWhen I first saw the Brazilian Peel products, I was a little skeptical because some of the home glycolic peel treatments are not really effective. I was pleasantly surprised, however, by this one. I used the one-month supply and to see some real changes, you have to invest a little time; things don't just happen overnight. It took about 3 weeks to see some real results but I cannot tell you how AW...read moreESOME my skin looked after the supply was over. My skin was bright, blemish-free and beautifully smooth. I received MANY compliments regarding how great my skin was and I had never been more happier with my skin. In a nutshell, it works. And it is awesome stuff. — 2 years, 8 months agokina_kelly | 1 reviews
Defective Product--Do not buyThis product is defective. Sephora quit selling it because of it. I bought a box from the company and they refuse to refund me so I filed a complaint with my state's consumer fraud division. Even though the product does not expire until 2015 it is dried up and hard and will not come out of the syringe. Don't lose $230 like I did. Terrible company! — 3 years, 10 months agoDebbieT. | 1 reviews
Did nothing.Mixed together in my hands and quickly put it on my face. Felt stinging for a second. Left it on for ten minutes and rinsed off. It did absolutely nothing. Didn't even make my skin softer. — 5 years, 7 months agoKristan_Hubbard | 27 reviews
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GYPSY OF THE MONTH: Kirsten Wyatt of 'A Christmas Story'
"I've carved my niche," says Kirsten Wyatt. Lots of actors can say that. But none has carved a niche quite like Wyatt's. She is (presumably) the only person ever to play an elf in three different Broadway shows.
This year she's the surly head elf in Higbee's department store during Ralphie's nightmarish trip to see Santa in A Christmas Story: The Musical. Wyatt was also an elf-but for the real Santa-in Broadway's last new Yule-musical before A Christmas Story, 2010's Elf. And she played a fairy-tale elf in Shrek.
Don't think for a minute she approached all these roles the same. The almost-5-foot-1 Wyatt explains her Method: "In Shrek I was the Shoemaker's Elf. I was displaced, I was a little lost, perhaps a little ditzy, and slightly disgruntled. My elf in Elf was very happy to be an elf. You're Santa's elf-that's like the top of elfdom! This one, she's not happy to be an elf at all. She prefers to drink rather than be an elf and push children upstairs."
Ralphie's encounter with Santa is one of the many classic setpieces from the 1983 movie that have been reproduced in the stage musical, which opens tonight at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. A Christmas Story's leg lamp, pink bunny suit, Christmas dinner in a Chinese restaurant, and the triple dog dare that results in a tongue frozen to a pole are there too. Wyatt was familiar with them all before she got cast in the show. "I have been a giant fan of A Christmas Story ever since I saw it as a little girl. I've seen the movie so many times that I can pretty much quote it word for word," says Wyatt, who first did A Christmas Story on stage last year when it toured (it had been produced in previous years at Kansas City Rep and Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre). "As an unofficial expert on the movie, I think we do justice to every single one of these iconic moments."
Wyatt even thinks the stage production improves on one scene: when Ralphie gets a C+ on his 'What I want for Christmas' essay. In the movie, Ralphie envisions his mother and teacher as a jester and witch, respectively, mocking him ("Honestly, that part always struck me as kind of weird," Wyatt says). In the play, the fantasy sequence becomes a huge nightclub-set dance number called-what else?-"You'll Shoot Your Eye Out."
Those big production numbers in A Christmas Story-there's one involving leg lamps, too, as well as a Wild West fantasy where Ralphie puts his coveted Red Ryder rifle to use-give Wyatt additional parts to play besides elf. She even has a speaking part as neighbor Mrs. Schwartz. Oh, yes, Wyatt can play someone other than an elf...though she's also played kids repeatedly as an adult. Her characters were children in her first two Broadway shows, Urinetown and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and she played a teenager in Grease (a decade after college).
All told Wyatt's been in eight Broadway shows. Originally a vacation swing in Urinetown, she eventually had a regular track in the ensemble that included the role of Little Becky Two Shoes, which she also played on the Urinetown tour for a few months after the show closed in New York in 2004. She returned to Broadway in 2006's The Pajama Game revival, filling in for various cast members on leave. Later that year she was part of the original company of High Fidelity.
She's also done innumerable regional productions, and had principal roles both in New York and regionally. She was Frenchy in the 2007 Broadway revival of Grease, and earlier this year portrayed Agnes Gooch in Goodspeed's Mame as well as Paulette in Legally Blonde at the Cape Playhouse. Her Gooch was honored with an Outstanding Performance award from the Connecticut Critics Circle. Other regional credits include My One and Only, both at Goodspeed in 2011 and years earlier at Rhode Island's Theatre by the Sea; The Boyfriend, directed by Julie Andrews, also at Goodspeed; Godspell and A Christmas Carol at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival; and High Society at the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco.
Clearly, comedy is Wyatt's forte-and she names such legendary TV comediennes as Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett and Megan Mullally as idols. But even more: Gracie Allen. Wyatt knew almost nothing about Allen other than she was the partner of George Burns when she caught a clip of them at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria (where Wyatt lives) and was intrigued. She started watching more and more clips of Allen and reading whatever she could find about her, and now adores the nasally television pioneer. "Maybe it's the voice," says the slightly squeaky Wyatt with a laugh.
Wyatt has appeared on TV herself, most memorably in a guest spot as an overeager publicist on the Nickelodeon sitcom The Naked Brothers Band. She's also had bit parts on such soap operas as As the World Turns and All My Children. Wyatt is now developing her own series, to air online, in which she will visit performers in their homes, chat and cook with them. Titled Broadway Bites, the show brings "my two favorite things together: food and theater," Wyatt says. She's filmed the first episode-featuring Dogfight star Lindsay Mendez, Wyatt's good friend since they were in Grease-and hopes to have it online by the end of the year. "I love to eat, I love to cook, and I love to perform," says Wyatt, who on her only day off the week before A Christmas Story's opening made turkey tetrazzini for dinner.
A West Virginia native, Wyatt grew up in a musical home-both her teachers taught music in local public schools-and she still lives in one, as her husband of nine years, Sean Nowell, is a jazz musician. Nowell plays everywhere from downtown clubs like Smalls and the 55 Bar to concert venues like BAM to Broadway pits-including, as an occasional sub, for Grease while his wife was up on stage. The tenor saxophonist's band, the Kung-Fu Masters, is set to release an album early next year.
Nowell and Wyatt met through friends, and the only other time they've worked together was before they were married, in a 2001 production of Beehive at Cincinnati Playhouse. After Wyatt was cast in Beehive, she informed the producers that her boyfriend knew the score because he'd done it at another theater, but they told her they generally hire local musicians. "Then 9/11 happened," Wyatt relates, "and a couple of days after, the music contractor called and said, 'Now's the time you have to be with the people you love'" and offered Nowell a job. Personally, it ended up serving as a "trial period," Wyatt says, as that was the first time she and Nowell lived together.
She'd already made her Broadway debut by that time. Just a few years out of college, Wyatt was the understudy for Lucy and Sally in the 1999 revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. She went on in both roles, fairly frequently as Sally (covering for Kristin Chenoweth, who earned a Tony and stardom for her performance). A couple of years earlier, Wyatt had had her first job in NYC singing and dancing in a Disney revue that was presented at the New Amsterdam Theatre prior to screenings of Disney's movie Hercules. One of her parts in that show was-foreshadowing-a dwarf.
A musical-theater graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Wyatt attended the prestigious school at the same time as such future Broadway performers as Leslie Kritzer, Shoshana Bean, Tyler Maynard, Lisa Howard, Kristy Cates and her best friend since freshman year, Eric Sciotto (currently in The Mystery of Edwin Drood). Wyatt had been pointed in CCM's direction by Rebecca Timms, the daughter of one of her childhood dance teachers who was then performing on Broadway in Cats. Yet when Wyatt first began thinking about college, she wasn't even sure she would pursue theater. "I was a very good student," she says, "and pretty practical. I remember when I was a junior in high school, my dad asked, 'What are you thinking [regarding college]?' and I said, 'Well, I love the theater thing, but maybe I should be a teacher or a doctor...' And he said, 'You know what? If you're going to go for it, now's the time to go for it.'"
Her parents had encouraged her early on as well. "We always had music in our house," says Wyatt, whose younger sister, Alissa, is now a voice teacher in Westchester County. Wyatt also was inspired by her grandparents, who lived in the same town (Clarksburg, W.Va.) and performed in community theater. She started taking dance classes in third grade, and was spending most days in the dance studio by high school. But amid NYC's talent pool, Wyatt says, "I'm not really a dancer dancer; I consider myself an actress who moves well." Growing up, she also performed in community theater and school plays.
Wyatt chuckles remembering her roles in high school: Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady and Lola in Damn Yankees-"things I would never play now, not in a million years." (She actually played Eliza again during college, at the Quisisana resort in Maine, where you worked on the hotel staff by day-Wyatt was a chambermaid-and entertained the guests at night.) That she doesn't get considered for such roles professionally doesn't bother Wyatt. "We have to embrace who we are," she states. "I am what I am, I like my type, I have a good time with it. I like to go where the work is."
After Grease closed in early January 2009, Wyatt had a bit of a hard time finding where that was: She didn't get hired for six months. "I wasn't auditioning well. I went through kind of a funk," she explains. "I sort of had to mourn Grease, mourn that role and that process. I was with it for two years, and I loved going to work every day. I felt it was a great ambassador for Broadway in a lot of ways, because we reached an audience that doesn't normally come to Broadway shows."
Though at other times Wyatt has made ends meet working as a waitress at the Jekyll & Hyde theme restaurant in Greenwich Village or temping for the homeless advocacy organization Project Renewal, she got by on unemployment during the post-Grease slump. It was worse psychically than financially. "I was going through a period of doubting myself and my talent and wondering if I really belonged in this business." Then, during the summer of 2009, she was cast as a replacement in Shrek. "It gave me the validation that I was needing."
Grease itself had been something of a savior for Wyatt, as it was her first job after High Fidelity flopped big on Broadway-probably Wyatt's first major professional disappointment. The film-to-stage adaptation got mixed reviews during its out-of-town tryout in Boston, then closed after just 10 performances in New York. The week before Christmas. Still, Wyatt describes High Fidelity as "to this day one of my favorite things I've ever been in. It was the first time I originated a role. It was this fantastic group of people who clicked. It was a great team: Will Chase, Jenn Colella, Tom Kitt, Amanda Green, David Lindsay-Abaire, Walter Bobbie. I had so much fun doing that show every night."
Six years later, however, Wyatt finds herself in a much more suitable place for the holidays. She's in a Christmas-themed show for the third year in a row, and while her elf on stage is grinchy, off stage Wyatt loves the holiday season. Her grandfather used to own a Christmas tree farm, so she still makes sure to have a live tree in her apartment. And she decorates it with ornaments she's acquired as souvenirs of her shows and travels. Her performance schedule doesn't allow her to visit her family, but they manage to celebrate together anyway. "Last year we Skyped Christmas," she says.
Photos of Kirsten, from top: as a department-store elf (the one squatting closest to Ralphie) in A Christmas Story, with (clockwise from left) Tia Altinay, Charissa Bertels, Jose Luaces, Eddie Korbich as Santa, Andrew Cristi, Lara Seibert and Johnny Rabe as Ralphie; left, performing "Ralphie to the Rescue!" in A Christmas Story, with (clockwise from left) Nick Gaswirth, Dan Lauria, Erin Dilly, Mark Ledbetter, John Bolton, Johnny Rabe and Zac Ballard; right, as Agnes Gooch in Mame with Judy Blazer (left) and Louise Pitre as Vera and Mame; with her husband, Sean Nowell; as the Shoemaker's Elf in Shrek; her second time as a Broadway elf, in Elf. [Christmas Story photos by Carol Rosegg; Mame photo by Diane Sobolewski]


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Risky Decision Making in Methamphetamine Users: The Role of Opioid Blockade
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Oregon Health and Science University
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P. Todd Korthuis, Oregon Health and Science University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: March 21, 2013
Last updated: April 24, 2015
Last verified: April 2015
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The purpose of this protocol is to learn more about impulsive decision making in people who use methamphetamines. The investigators would like to know if a medication called naltrexone changes how people make decisions. The investigators would also like to know whether changes in decision making can be observed by MRI (magnetic resonance imaging).
The research is conducted in Portland, OR.
|Methamphetamine Abuse HIV
|Drug: Extended release naltrexone Drug: Placebo
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
|Official Title:
|Risky Decision Making in Methamphetamine Users: The Role of Opioid Blockade
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MedlinePlus related topics: Methamphetamine
Drug Information available for: Methamphetamine hydrochloride Metamfetamine Naltrexone Naltrexone hydrochlorideU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by P. Todd Korthuis, Oregon Health and Science University:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Discounting Tasks [ Time Frame: 28 days ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Neural Mapping [ Time Frame: 28 days ]
- Methamphetamine use [ Time Frame: 28 days ]
- HIV risk behaviors [ Time Frame: 28 days ]
- Antiretroviral adherence [ Time Frame: 28 days ]
|Study Start Date:
|May 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2015
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Extended release naltrexone
One dose of intramuscular injection of 380mg extended-release naltrexone.
Drug: Extended release naltrexone
Other Name: Vivitrol
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
One dose of intramuscular injection of placebo.
|Drug: Placebo
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 55 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Summary Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)-IV Methamphetamine Dependence
- Deemed healthy enough to participate by study physician
- Age 18-55
- Right handed
- English-speaking
Summary Exclusion Criteria:
- Current opioid use in the last 30 days; opioid abuse or dependence within past 5 years
- Pregnancy
- MRI contraindications (e.g. metal in head).
The research is conducted in Portland, OR.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01822132
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01822132
|United States, Oregon
|Oregon Health & Science University
|Portland, Oregon, United States, 97239
|Portland VA Medical Center
|Portland, Oregon, United States, 97239
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Oregon Health and Science University
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
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|Philip T Korthuis, MD, MPH
|Oregon Health and Science University
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|P. Todd Korthuis, Associate Professor, Oregon Health and Science University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01822132 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
1R21DA033182-01A1 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|March 21, 2013
|Last Updated:
|April 24, 2015
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Narcotic Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Sensory System Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Central Nervous System Stimulants
Autonomic Agents
Dopamine Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Adrenergic Agents
Adrenergic Uptake Inhibitors
Neurotransmitter Uptake Inhibitors
Membrane Transport Modulators
Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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Nebraska senators debated a bill on the states long-term water management for a second time Monday before moving it forward, with amendments.
And now we know better.
Irrigators started limiting the water they could pull out of the ground from about 30 inches an acre per year to about 13 inches and they might need to get closer to eight inches, Carlson said.
We can do that, if we have the will to do it because our farmers, our irrigators, are smart enough; they know how to get along if they know what theyve got, he said.
Carlson said the task force should bring together everyone with an interest in water from across the state, including people who just need to turn on the tap and have good, clean, cold water.
Senators brought several amendments to reduce the fiscal impact of the bill from $3 million to $1 million and to address concerns that the task force didnt represent everyone in the state.
If were really going to spend this much money, then we better make sure everyone is represented, Sen. Burke Harr of Omaha said.
Sen. Heath Mello of Omaha offered an amendment that passed 33-0 to set the size of the task force at 11 members and include the Omaha area Metropolitian Utilities District on the task force.
The Omaha area includes about one-third of the states population. MUD needs to be included specifically, Mello said, because its unique and is undergoing what Mello called the largest water infrastructure project in the Nebraska by upgrading its water and natural gas structure for about $2 billion.
Sen. Steve Lathrop of Omaha said he would propose an amendment to the bill before the final reading, after repeating a concern he expressed during first round debate. The Nebraska Department of Natural Resources has the power to do what is proposed with the task force, but in the past 10 years it hasnt, Lathrop said.
Now the legislative branch is going to act. LB 517 would put members on the task force to represent both legislative and executive branches of Nebraskas government, but senator members wouldnt have a vote. Carlson said the voting members in the task force need to be experts and there are no senators with expertise in water issues.
Were housing this in the very branch of government that has failed to act and were making the legislators non-voting members and the rationale is this is going to be too complex for senators, Lathrop said.
He said that in his work as a lawyer, he would educate a jury on how to deal with a complex case and by the time they voted, they had become experts. He said he had more faith in the Legislature to learn and understand the issues and bring them to the floor. If they cant understand an issue, they wont get a bill passed, he said.
Carlson and Lathrop both agreed something has to be done about water management in the state.
Ultimately, our north star has to be sustainability, Lathrop said. ... Whatever it takes to maintain a sustainable water supply, because we do not want to find ourselves a generation from now where those folks who are in the basins cant irrigate any longer because we didnt put our eye on sustainability today.
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My zealous quest for a fulfilling life career has led me to an uncharacteristic pattern of shifting course paths in college from medicine, psychology, and even the political sciences! My search ultimately guided me to the rewarding profession of occupational therapy. Although my discovery of occupational therapy was purely accidental, I considered it destiny, as one would have it. A university billboard that was advertising allied health careers particularly drew my attention to occupational therapy because of the unique yet exciting perspective it offered. Occupational therapy cares about people across the ages with a philosophy richly embedded in both the arts and sciences, all of which I am passionate about. Occupational therapy simply made sense and was an excellent fit for what I envisioned my life profession to be—combining my God-given talents and creativity by compassionately helping people design and live productive lives. Occupational therapy is indeed the definitive Profession of Life!
Ang aking masigasig na paghahanap nang isang makabuluhang propesyon ay naghatid sa akin upang subukan ang iba't ibang kurso sa kolehiyo tulad ng medisina,sikolohiya, gayon na rin ang kaalamang pampolitiko. Ginantimpalaan ang aking paghahanap ng matagpuan ko ang makabuluhang propesyon ng Occupational Therapy. Bagama't isang aksidente lamang ang pagkakadiskubre ng propesyong ito, binibilang kong guhit ito ng tadhana para sa akin. Isang anunsyo sa pamantasan ang tumawag ng aking pansin sa Occupational Therapy dahil sa naiibang pananaw ng serbisyong ito. Pingagalagaan ng Occupational Therapy ang iba't ibang tao sa ano mang edad, sa pamamagitan ng pilosopiyang naka-ugat sa sining at agham--mga kaalamang malapit sa aking puso at kalooban. Naging makabuluhan ang Occupational Therapy para sa akin at akma sa mga paniniwala ko sa buhay. Isinasabuhay nang propesyong ito ang lahat ng mga talinong kaloob ng Dios sa akin sa pamamagitan ng makataong pagtulong nito sa bawa't isa upang magkaroon sila ng buhay na mabunga at kaaya-aya. Para sa akin ang propesyon ng Occupational Therapy ay tunay na propesyon ng Buhay!
My cultural background is East Indian. For part of my professional life I worked in India, developing and establishing occupational therapy departments to treat both children and adults. I have worked in this country for 41 years.
In spite of numerous odds against my professional advancement in the U.S. (for example, being male in a predominantly female profession my ethnic background, and differences in accent etc.) I consider my professional life a success story. I started my clinical practice as a staff therapist and advanced to managerial levels. In my teaching career, which spans 22 years, I started as an instructor and ended as a chairperson of an OT professional program. My involvement in the profession includes serving as accreditation evaluator for AOTA, a representative of AOTA's Representative Assembly, and as an item writer for the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT).
Currently my interest is in the diversity and cultural competency of the profession. As an individual and through my involvement in the Association of Asian/Pacific Occupational Therapists in America for the last 16 years, I have tried to help newly arrived therapists from Asian countries with their struggle with the certification examination and assimilation with the professional milieu here. In addition, I work with other multicultural and diversity groups to promote diversity and inclusion through education recruitment and so forth..
I should say that I am content with my chosen profession of Occupational Therapy. I would encourage anybody who is contemplating a career in health care to choose Occupational Therapy. I am ready to work with, and assist, any prospective candidates—especially those who have an Asian/Pacific background.
I was a physician from China, a country with more than 5,000 years of civilization, and yet occupational therapy is still mostly unknown by the public. I used to ask myself: "Does Chinese society need OT? What should be the role of an OT in the environment of strong Chinese traditional rehabilitation medicine?" I also remember that I got extremely frustrated when I was an intern in one of the best U.S. rehabilitation hospitals and I found out that some of the "classic techniques" for stroke patients that I had learned in OT school were not as effective as I thought. I doubted OT at that time. As a prospective student from a similar background, you may have the same concerns.
Now after continuously learning and practicing OT for more than 6 years, I can tell myself that I made the correct choice and I believe OT should have a great future in the modernizing Chinese society. The scope of OT is much larger than I could have imagined as a student. From school classrooms to nursing homes, from youth correction facilities to orphanage schools, from acute hospitals to outpatient hand therapy clinics, from day care centers to mental health facilities… I have experienced the amazing effects of OT on peoples' lives.
The success of OT in western cultures is based on its core value, which is really to help people to "live life to its fullest." This -person-oriented intervention is a bridge for individuals to achieve their goals in almost every aspect of life. OT can assist them in overcoming the barriers they e are facing, through knowledge, creativity, compassion, humanity and respect.
I believe the spirit of OT is greatly needed in current Chinese society, where rapid social and economic development can easily mislead people to the more "benefit-oriented" lifestyle and mentality. An economically developed society is not a successful society unless individual members can live life to its fullest. In fact, OT ideas and theories have been deeply rooted in the Chinese culture. I truly believe, in the near future, that OT will grow stronger in Chinese society and have a great impact on the development of traditional rehabilitation medicine. I feel lucky that I will witness this important transformation. And I also wish that you, the prospective Chinese OT student, will be a part of it too.
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Angeles Crest is a narrow, two-lane stretch of California Highway 2 in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles. It winds for 66 miles through Angeles National Forest and reaches an elevation of 7,000 feet with 1,000-foot drop-offs. The road has claimed many lives since it was built in 1949. And I was ripping through it in a full, unadulterated, NASCAR-engine-powered, carbon-fiber-bodied race car built for Le Mans—not LA county roads.
The owner and driver is Tom Secora, a quick-talking 40-year-old who doesn't look 30 and acts 20. When he isn't talking, he's laughing, and when he isn't laughing, he's driving. The car is a '00 Saleen widebody that competed for four seasons in the Speed Channel World Challenge GT series; Tom was a part of the construction team at HP Performance and worked on the crew for three seasons. The Saleen was driven by the late Paul Brown, so Tom had it shipped to Los Angeles for Paul's memorial (see sidebar).
The car shows its age through busted carbon fiber, a pitted front bumper, and bent spoiler. "Every mark on the car has a story," Tom says. The Saleen was all carbon fiber (except the roof), until the front clip met its doom when Paul T-boned a BMW at a race in 1999. Forward of the doors, it's now fiberglass. Saleen designed the body to handle the Mulsanne straight at Le Mans; at 160 mph, it makes 2,300 pounds of downforce and the wing adds another 500. It's powered by a NASCAR-style, 358ci Ford topped with Trick Flow R Heads, all from Tim Allen's Saleen race car from the late '90s. It has 12.5:1 compression and a 390-cfm carb, though the team used a 750 cheater carb that produced an extra 70 hp. It has a Quartermaster clutch and a flywheel so light it's practically not there, so it revs freely.
People don't mess with me too much, but I wouldn't race them anyway. I figured if I do anything stupid with this car, I'm going to jail.
When Tom contacted us, he was excited to return to this notorious stretch of road in a car that wasn't a rental, and wanted to take us for a ride in a race car on the street. He's from Nebraska, where the car registration laws are easy to deal with; the Saleen is registered as a '00 Mustang and didn't need much more than working lights to be legal. To make it streetable, he installed a passenger seat, two electric fans, late-model Mustang mufflers with electric cutouts behind the headers, street tires, and windshield glass. He raised the car 2 inches. "I really tried to leave the car at its original height, but it was so low it was bottoming out on the curvature of the road," Tom says with a chuckle. "This one is basically plucked off the track from its original state when it last raced. Don't worry, I don't want to get arrested and have this car taken away from me—I drive really timidly."
At the start of the ride, I snaked my way through the small passenger window into a space in the rollcage where Tom had mounted a thin, aluminum racing seat. Head pressed against the rollbar, elbow into the door, knees into the dash, I sucked in and squeezed the six-point harness closed, the whole time thinking if we were to roll, this rollcage would hurt. Tom fired it up, backed out, and idled onto the road. The car violently snapped me back into the seat as Tom tached out First gear and powershifted Second, straightening out a series of S-curves through the mountain terrain.
We made a few miles on LA highways and some stoplight driving after the mountains. "The clutch is either in or out," says Tom, who had to spin the tires hard leaving every stop. Tom uses a 50/50 mix of 110-octane and the highest-test pump gas he can find. With the mufflers and cutouts, the noise was like a loud muscle car in traffic, but through the mountains with the cutouts open it felt more race car.
The best way to describe riding shotgun is trapped. It gives you that sudden, pit-of-the-stomach anxiety. My eyes widened, guts clenched—it was like being on a rollercoaster about to take off and I just changed my mind. It's a tight interior, as the rollcage is not designed for a passenger seat, and with stiff suspension, stripped upholstery, and no windows, it shakes you to the core. Despite the used tires, miles of street driving, and no prep, the car always felt planted. I had to use muscles I didn't know I had to combat the lateral g's and keep upright in the seat. After 10 miles in the Saleen, I felt like I'd been working the railroad for a full day—hot, sweaty, and tired. A good race car won't scare you, it will exhaust you.
The smell of heat from a warm interior, burning oil, and burning race fuel always evokes memories of being a kid, fingers curled around a chain-link fence watching race cars fly by. It was no different for Tom, although his connection was stronger. "Just a lot of good times [with this car]. It really means a lot to me," Tom says in a small café at the bottom of Angeles Crest. "It's had a hard life and has been run on the edge. It's on vacation now. I'm just a care taker holding onto it until the next guy wants to preserve it."
Paul Brown
Tom Secora brought the car to LA for Paul Brown's funeral. Paul lost his battle with cancer in September 2012 at the age of 43. A memorial service was held at Paul Brown/TigerRacing in Covina, California, where many of Paul's other race cars were in attendance. Paul won the '11 GTS championship of the SCCA Pro Racing Pirelli World Challenge Series. "He liked to slide those Mustangs around," says Tom, who crewed for Paul when this Saleen was raced. "He was a driving-for-excitement guy. Crowd favorite wherever we went."


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Sean40474 wrote:peppermack wrote:So I am in love with my ESP cyclones. Do I need to get some in other plastics as well? i am playing so infrequently right now that I am throwing my ESP Cyclones most of the time off the Tee cause it is the only thing I can get up to speed right now and am consistent with. So some of you cyclone specialist give me the 411.
Depending on how often you throw your ESP Cyclones and how stable they are....I would consider throwing a X Cyclone. There are subtle differences between the two that I like. My X is a little less stable and I use it to throw uphills for that little extra turn.
Thanks for the input, that is what I was thinking and wanting! I think I will get a few X clones and maybe some more of booters Clones too


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porpoise wrote:Yes, but as I read the 4 tetrads, some attention remains with the breath throughout the practice, so full attention cannot be given to any of the four frames.
You aren't supposed to be paying attention to the frame, you're supposed to be paying attention to what's being framed. In anapanasati, you are dealing with the breath in one or another of those frames, which is why the "breathes in... breathes out..." persists throughout the instructions. It isn't a matter of partial attention to the breath and partial attention to satipatthana, it is a matter of framing the breath according to satipatthana and practicing in that way. That this is possible is why anapanasati fulfills satipatthana.


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Friday, August 25, 2006
Hello! Just out blog surfing. Awesome blog!ReplyDelete
Hi Kalyn,
Your so cal trip just keeps on giving! Thanks for the post and for those photos - which are really great, by the way.
See you for WHB soon!
Oh, I love thai food and the meals you had look positively scrumptious!ReplyDelete
Kalyn - Glad to hear you found a great Thai restaurant. I love Thai Basil! It's so fragrant.ReplyDelete
This post brought back some great memories! My brother-in-law and sister-in-law have just moved from Pasadena after 5 years there, and Saladang was a favorite spot every time we visited them. My mouth is watering in remembrance of the yellow curry I had there...yum!ReplyDelete
Mmmm--I love Thai food and that looks great!ReplyDelete
Brandon, thanks.
Christine, now I need to go to visit them again and go to more restaurants!
Ellie, it was so delicious.
Ed, I love Thai basil too. One of my favorite dishes at Thai Siam in salt Lake is minced chicken with peppers and Thai basil. Just awesome.
Jennifer, very fun that you've been there. I loved it. If I lived there I'd eat there all the time.
Sher, more proof that we have the same taste buds.
I'm so happy you're taking the time to comment on Kalyn's Kitchen! I love hearing from people who stop by, especially if you're sharing feedback or asking questions about a recipe I've posted here.
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A judge Friday afternoon found a Concord grandfather guilty of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment in the fatal 2010 mauling of his toddler grandson by three pit bulls — dogs a prosecutor said their owner knew to be vicious.
In a rare legal procedure, Contra Costa Superior Court Judge John Kennedy decided 55-year-old Steven Hayashi's verdict, after Hayashi waived his right to a jury trial. Hayashi faces up to 10 years in prison.
On July 22, 2010, Hayashi's 2-year-old step-grandson, Jacob Bisbee, walked into an unlocked garage after leaving him unsupervised with his 4-year-old brother and sleeping wife. The three pit bulls mauled the boy, who bled to death.
At issue was whether Hayashi should have foreseen the attack, with prosecutors saying Hayashi knew the dogs had killed two family pets and showed aggression toward Jacob. Hayashi's defense attorney argued that his client believed Jacob and his brother were left with an awake adult — Hayashi's wife — and that the dogs had never attacked a person before, only animals.
Hayashi, who has been out on bail, fidgeted in his seat and rubbed his hands through his hair as the judge walked through his deliberations Friday. Hayashi declined to comment outside court after the verdict, as he talked with a handful of family members who attended the hearing.
In explaining his decision, Kennedy said Hayashi did not check to see whether Jacob's father had left for work or whether the toddler's door was open, didn't confirm whether the children or his wife were awake and didn't lock the garage door before he left to play tennis.
Hayashi was told numerous times by his wife and other relatives to get rid of the dogs because they feared how they would react to the children, Kennedy said.
"But as he told his wife, the dogs were his, and the children were his step-grandchildren, and they should leave before the dogs," prosecutor Mary Knox told the judge in her opening statement.
On the day of the mauling, Hayashi's wife made the grisly discovery about 8:45 a.m. and called 9-1-1. The dispatcher could hear the dogs barking furiously in the background, Kennedy said.
"The likelihood one of the toddlers would get hurt by the dogs was high," Kennedy said.
Knox argued that Hayashi had plenty of advance warning about the danger he was placing the young boys in and said after court that Jacob's death was "a completely avoidable tragedy."
"It was completely preventable with the simplest child safety standards applied in the household," Knox said in the elevator outside court. "It was a very difficult subject, and there was not a witness who testified who was not moved to tears."
Hayashi's attorney, David Cohen, argued that the dogs had never hurt a person before the attack on Jacob, only animals.
"It's a tragedy all around … It's a tragedy that a young boy everybody loved died," Cohen said outside the courtroom.
Cohen said he hopes to keep Hayashi out on bail while they appeal the case. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 13.
"Hopefully, they conclude no additional jail time is necessary, with everything that Mr. Hayashi and his family went through," Cohen said.
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Kinney likely to miss rest of Spring Training
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Mariners reliever Josh Kinney says he's baffled by what caused the stress reaction in his back that will sideline him at least the next few weeks, but the veteran right-hander vowed to come back better than ever once the injury heals.
Kinney, 34, will miss most of the rest of Spring Training even in the best-case scenario. And he acknowledged Tuesday that there is no real timeline on how long the recovery might take.
The back of Kinney's left shoulder has bothered him since he drove himself from Missouri to Arizona for the start of camp a month ago. He didn't think much of it initially, but the soreness worsened despite continued work with trainers and a chiropractor.
Though he pitched well in his first three outings, things fell apart in his fourth appearance last week against the Brewers when he couldn't get through his scheduled inning of work. He finally went for an MRI that revealed a stress reaction, which is a precursor to a potential stress fracture in the upper rib.
"I'm just baffled," Kinney said. "I didn't fall, I didn't do anything. I don't even know how you get one of these, but I have one. It's odd, but these things happen. That's what [manager Eric] Wedge said, that's what the trainers said. It's just a freak thing and you get through it."
Kinney posted a 3.94 ERA in 35 appearances for the Mariners in the second half of last season. He figured prominently as a veteran right-hander in a young bullpen this spring, but now his immediate future is on hold.
"They told me a few weeks of doing nothing to see how it feels and let it recover," he said. "That's another question mark. There's no real set timetable on how long it takes to go away. I just have to see how it reacts. So right now I'm not doing anything except shoulder and elbow stuff to keep my [right] arm strong.
"I've been through a lot," said Kinney, who missed the entire 2007 season following right shoulder surgery after pitching in the 2006 World Series for the Cardinals. "This is not even a bump in the road. I'll heal up and be back better than ever."
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Since The Toby opened in 2009, we have held a Winter Nights film festival in January and February. This winter the theme for our Winter Nights 2012 series is Technicolor.
Design is generally a pretty subjective endeavor, so when starting a new project I like to do a little research into the subject in order to guide the generation of formal elements. Fortunately Technicolor offers a wealth of visual elements to play with, but the methods and appearance of color film varies a lot depending on the time. The earliest versions of color motion pictures involved three separate rolls of film—black, cyan, and magenta—that were layered together in order to produce the color projection. It's a very distinctive look, and is wholly different from the colors you see in The Godfather: Part II, the last American film made using Technicolor's dye transfer process. The early three-strip technique provided inspiration for the initial Winter Nights designs, involving a large and somewhat abstract W made from shaded cubes to reference a frigid, icy winter.
While working on this abstract and wintry version, we also pursued a more literal direction using film as the starting point. Keeping the W, this solution retains the grainy texture that characterizes many of those older movies. While each had its merits, ultimately we decided to go with the film-centric version for this year's series, and a final version was created that made very clear the series' relationship with film, as well as including the Technicolor theme in the graphic.
Using film stills in a campaign for Technicolor movies is a no-brainer, but this was not as straightforward as one might think. In the 1940s, Technicolor threw out a large volume of color negatives after the studios didn't reclaim them, and unless they've been re-mastered those movies are now only available in black and white. Fortunately, we were able to find some great color images from Charade and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The beauty of these movies speak for themselves when you see them, and in order to try imparting some of that drama and motion in print pieces, I relied on careful crops.
One particularly seductive image of Marilyn Monroe offers plenty of details to highlight—Marilyn's face, her eyes lightly closed, could be mistaken for being asleep when viewed alone. The diamond bracelet and thick gray fur are a glimpse of luxury, sensuality, and elegant excess. The full image, my favorite among Marilyn's publicity shots for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, shows the actress dressed in red, wrapped in fur, and draped in diamonds. Her open mouth, even more red than her dress, completes a frozen moment of ecstasy, and was the perfect image to use for our Winter Nights banner.


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TREVOR Rawlings was relieved to see his Corsham Town pick up a much-needed three points as they triumphed over local rivals Westbury United on Wednesday night.
Corsham had gone four games without a win but Ross Lye's first half penalty put them ahead against Sam Gooding's Westbury.
After an extended period of United pressure, Town hit back with two quick-fire goals to kill off any chance of a fightback.
First, a flowing team move ended with Jamal Chevolleau blasting home the hosts' second of the evening before, just two minutes later, a deflection off a Westbury defender put Corsham 3-0 up.
Tom Rooney got a goal back for Goodings' men late on but it was only a consolation as the bragging rights went to Rawlings' side.
"To be honest, it wasn't a good game at all but those three points were much needed – I was interested in the points and not the performance because we've had a few draws and defeats recently," said the Corsham manager.
"Ross' penalty put us ahead but we never really got going at all after that until a brilliant move and a great finish from Jamal, which was right into the top corner.
"I think that they had a few players out and we were definitely missing a few, so it was a good result."
Corsham are in the midst of an injury crisis and Rawlings is currently on the hunt for reinforcements to deal with a host of absentees.
Goalkeeper Scott Windle was injured in a collision during last weekend's disappointing 5-0 defeat to Sherborne Town while brother and captain Matt will be ruled out from playing for a year when he goes under the knife for a hand operation next month.
Ryan Tyrell is suspended, Nick Holton and Gary Blackwood are out with problems while Jamie Moss and Lye were also playing through the pain against Westbury.
"I've put seven days in for a keeper and I'm looking around as much as possible for other players at the moment because we just don't know who we're going to have," Rawlings said.
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Enjoy the pick of the week's science and technology stories from around the web, as selected by Bob Trevelyan, editor of The Browser.
Quantum computing with ions
Christopher Monroe & David Wineland | Scientific American | 9 October 2012
This article was originally published in 2008, but has been made available online again after one of its authors, David Wineland (pictured above), this week won the Nobel prize in Physics. The Nobel committee cited the article as relevant further reading. This is how Monroe and Wineland introduce their topic: "Computers may begin to look fundamentally different because their workings will be governed by quantum mechanics, the physical laws that explain the behaviour of atoms and subatomic particles. The great promise of quantum computers is that they may be able to perform certain crucial tasks considerably faster than conventional computers can."
Marooned in the moment
Amy Ellis Nutt | New Jersey Star-Ledger | 30 September 2012
Lonni Sue Johnson, 62, was an accomplished artist and musician. But when an encephalitis virus attacked her brain, she was left with both retrograde and anterograde amnesia – that's to say she was unable to recall old memories or create new ones. It's a very rare condition. This is a touching account of how she is now, and how her case is of great interest to cognitive scientists.
The patent, used as a sword
Charles Duhigg & Steve Lohr | New York Times | 7 October 2012
Patents are a vital protection for intellectual property. Without them, innovation would be discouraged. But has it come to the point where patents in the tech industry are being misused? In software, patents can be broad and vague, covering concepts rather than defined processes; they're being bought and sold like common commodities; and they're being used as weapons, sometimes cynically, as their owners attempt to kill off or coerce commercial rivals.
Can Marissa Meyer really have it all?
Lisa Miller | The Cut | 7 October 2012
A big, engaging profile of the new Yahoo boss and mother. "Mayer was fully girl and fully geek, a former ballet dancer who stayed up all night writing code. And one who seemed driven to make her own path when the men around her wouldn't oblige." At Yahoo, she faces "a foundering brand suffering from a dramatic talent drain and years of chaos on its board and in its upper ranks". How is she managing?
Online passwords: Keep it complicated
Oliver Burkeman | Guardian | 5 October 2012
We know the rules of password security. We don't follow them. Who can remember all that stuff? A recent security breach at Yahoo showed that thousands of users' passwords were either "password", "welcome", "123456" or "ninja". So here's a tip: Length beats complexity. And take comfort: "At the height of the cold war the secret unlocking code for America's nuclear missiles was 00000000."
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By Mandy Feder --
After the second day in her college business class, Nicole was spent.
"Is it a tough class?" I asked my daughter. "I don't know yet," she said. "The professor keeps pushing his political opinions on us. Even though I mostly agree with his views, he gets mad at anyone who voices a contrary opinion. Besides, this is a business class and I'm not learning what I signed up for," she said, exasperated.
People who cram their politics down others' throats are actually detrimental to their causes.
Civility and rationality are largely tossed aside in the throes of a political season.
Some people make attempts at jabs and puns. But those usually fall short.
It is my opinion that most people on the street cannot rival the humor of Saturday Night Live or other parody programming that is carefully crafted by professional writers.
An average person's unrelenting tirade typically becomes tiresome and irrelevant.
It is certainly the right of voters in the United States to engage in angry activism, if they so choose.
I don't care for people who become loud and confrontational in the first place, then toss in some unsolicited advice about what I should do behind the curtain, and I have checked out of the conversation prior to the second syllable of the first word passing through the speaker's lips.
For a couple months people who usually appear to be reasonable are transformed and believe they obtained some sort of election-time-omnipotence.
But I'm not judging. I think it far better to be passionate about politics than apathetic.
So how can we have meaningful political discussions without damaging relationships?
Some people think it requires abandoning personal beliefs, giving in, or keeping silent, in order to keep the peace.
A book that was written about three decades ago titled "Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In," by Roger Fisher and William Ury, contains some remarkable insight.
Right away it is recommended that people who are disagreeing should separate people from the issues.
People may tend to treat opposing viewpoints as personal attacks, as though it implies, "If you don't like what I'm voting for, you don't like me."
It doesn't have to be that way, though.
As I see it, the way people vote is usually based on a number of factors.
Economic standing and the impact on a voter's lifestyle will surely be factors. For instance, a proposition, measure or candidate could stand to promote or diminish the quality of that particular voter's day-to-day life. Lifestyle choices will also play a role in the choices people make when casting votes. A good example of this could be people who have children versus those who do not.
Young people probably have different priorities than seniors. Are you going to get in grandma's face, call her names and love her less because she doesn't want to pay a tax for a new park?
I think not.
And then there's geography -- importance placed on certain services, such as law enforcement, fire protection, public transportation and medical access or care, are often related to the region where the voter lives or works as opposed to moral values.
Some people vote based on upbringing and family beliefs.
Separating people from issues allows the benefit of addressing issues without damaging relationships. It also serves as a clarifier for the issue because emotion is absent.
Conflicts typically surface because people have different interpretations of the facts.
Conflicts can be avoided by attempting to understand the other person's point of view.
Listen to other people. Treat them with respect. Behave courteously and communicate directly.
Fisher and Ury recommend focusing on the parties' interests, not their positions.
"Your position is something you have decided upon. Your interests are what caused you to so decide," the authors wrote. Discuss interests, not positions.
Check yourself: Body language, tone of voice and be sure to avoid name-calling. Prevent acrimony to create conversation, perhaps even solutions, because after all, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," right?
Mandy Feder is the Managing Editor at Lake County Publishing. She can be reached at email@example.com or 263-5636 ext. 32. Follow on Twitter @mandyfeder1.


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Running change to March MOTU figure...
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Due to fan demand, Mattel will be making a running change with their Masters of he Universe Classics Moss Man, making sure that all future figures will have unflocked ears. Here's what they had to say on MattyCollector.com:
In addition to Moss Man, other figures to be offered exclusively via MattyCollector.com on March 15th include:MOTU Fans,
You overwhelmingly asked for the ears of Moss Man to be unflocked and we listened... we stopped production of the flocked ear version, made a change, and Moss Man will forevermore have unflocked ears. Now, all 2010 Club Eternia subscribers will automatically get the version with unflocked ears as their March figure!
But because we produced a small quantity of flocked ears before making what's called a "running change," we will sell both the flocked-ear and unflocked-ear versions as separate items on March 15th. That means there will be two separate product pages, one with flocked ears and one with unflocked ears, so you'll need to be careful that you order the one you want. Again, there's just a small quantity of the flocked-ear version available, and we're expecting them to go quickly.
Other than the flocking, the figures are identical. Both versions will have an evergreen fresh scent and an alternative 2002-inspired head designed by the Four Horsemen. Your chance at both happens right here at MattyCollector.com at 12:00 noon Eastern/9:00 am Pacific!
• MOTU Classics Stratos - To feature a new "The Original" burst on his package.
• Scarecrow – Batman Movie Masters
• DCU Classics Wave 12 Boxed Set – All seven figures you need to build the Collect and Connect 9" Darkseid, individually carded and packed into a single box.


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John C. Hutcheson Gallery: Cliff Tierney
Cliff Tierney
March 11-April 21
Lipscomb University Associate Professor of Art Cliff Tierney will present a selection of his works. Tierney has been teaching at Lipscomb for nearly 12 years. He teaches foundations courses in design, drawing and color theory where process and craftsmanship are the main components on which his instruction is focused. He is also a creative arts consultant for Evergreen Life Services, an organization that works with adults with intellectual disabilities.
Prior to teaching Tierney was an illustrator and designer for The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville and The Tennessean in Nashville. His current body of work consists of drawings related to the shapes and forms of man's desire to destroy and reconstruct. He also has exhibited an installation related to his maternal grandfather and the relationship that never manifested. Cliff has shown regionally and nationally over the past five years.
John C. Hutcheson Gallery
Located in the James D. Hughes Center
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Free admission