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The theme of the 2012 ARA conference and expo was Ag Retail Top Guns: Preparing Your Business for the Future, and presenters shared their unique views on how to better fit that model. This year's conference featured nine speakers over the two-day conference. Here are some highlights of each speaker's presentation.
After opening remarks from Daren Coppock, the conference began with Carl Casale, president and CEO of CHS Inc. His presentation, "Navigating a Dynamic World," offered his perspective on multiple issues impacting the ag retailer today. One of the main drivers influencing agriculture around the world, Casale said, was energy. Gasoline demand is expected to peak in the United States in 2015. Domestic exploration of energy resources in the U.S. will continue to increase and the U.S. may become an exporter of fuels. The U.S. is becoming more energy self-sufficient, but the world is thirsty for fuel especially as the middle class in China is increasing.
Attendees were reminded about the need to nearly double the world's food supply by 2050 to meet the increasing population. In light of this demand, Casale provided outlooks on corn, soybeans and wheat. He projected that the U.S. share of the global corn market will decline. However, where corn is grown within the U.S. will shift. He cited North Dakota as an example. He said it was possible within five years that North Dakota could grow more corn than wheat.
In soybeans, he said China would drive global soybean demand and it will be for the actual soybeans and not the oil. In the wheat market, Casale said Russia would be the big player in the world. He said Russia and areas around the Black Sea will lead wheat exports, which will also lead to increased volatility in this market.
The key point of Casale's presentation was getting retailers to see their businesses as relevant. "You can either be respected or liked; relevant or independent," he said. He explained that being relevant is more important by sharing the example of K-Mart. Nearly everyone recognizes the name, but not many would probably care if it went away. That lack of caring shows that K-Mart is no longer relevant. He said ag retailers need to evaluate if they are relevant to their customers. He told retailers to ask themselves these questions.
- Do they have the right people in place selling the right products?
- Does their competitor have an edge over them?
- Do you add value?
- Do customers have more technology than you?
- Are you relevant to bankers?
Following Casale's overview of global factors and issues impacting ag retailers, Charlie Stenholm, former Texas congressman and senior policy adviser with OFW Law, shared his views on the state of agriculture. In his presentation, "Post-Election Analysis and the Impact on Agriculture," he started with concerns about the fiscal cliff. He told the audience that he thought the country would go over the cliff and that both political parties were ignoring the real problems. He said that despite going over the cliff, the country would survive and the plunge wouldn't be fatal.
He stressed that the political parties are becoming more polarized and that he wouldn't be surprised to see our two-party political system turn into a three- or four-party political system.
He mentioned that 20 of the 46 members on the House Agriculture Committee will be new starting in 2013 and they don't know ag. Stenholm called upon ag retailers to reach out to their representatives, especially the new ones that need to understand agriculture's issues.
He called attention to the Renewable Fuel Standard and reminded the industry that it cannot produce food, feed and fiber without gasoline. The RFS needs to be improved, not eliminated, he said. From his experience in Texas and working with Big Oil, Stenholm said he thought Big Ag and Big Oil need to work together more since they both depend upon each other now. He criticized using the words "alternative energy." Instead, he suggested replacing those words with "supplemental energy" since more energy is being produced in different ways.
In the GMO vs. organic debate, he sides with whatever means feeds people because, "Hungry people don't stay peaceful."
Stenholm commented on immigration, saying the United States need to develop a working policy that is relevant across the border with both Canada and Mexico.
Wrapping up the Wednesday morning session, John Foley, former Blue Angel pilot, spoke to the group about his experience becoming the lead solo of the Blue Angels. He shared multiple videos showing just how close Blue Angel planes fly next to each other and that the pilots must have discipline, trust and focus. He discussed how the Blue Angels have a culture of excellence that the agriculture industry could also aim to have.
What he learned becoming a Blue Angel was that the top 1 percent all do things similarly. By understanding what they do, we can all learn. According to Foley, this 1 percent has regular meetings for education and networking, provides training and education and has deep celebration.
Getting people to buy into the same idea requires commitment. He said people perform to their own belief level, which means that in order to improve their performance, they have to elevate their own beliefs. What holds people back are their limiting beliefs. He suggested that these limiting beliefs become liberating beliefs.
One of the videos Foley shared was a glimpse inside the briefing room of the Blue Angels before they gave a performance. The video showed how all of the team members took the time to visualize their performance before they ever stepped into the plane. He explained the phrase, "Glad to be here," as something all of the team members said in their meetings to remind them of being grateful even after evaluating and critiquing a performance.
Foley shared his experience in 1992 of meeting a Russian team of pilots. Despite their attempts to outdo each other while flying, in the end Foley remembered that everything is based on relationships. After taking Foley in his jet, the lead Russian pilot ended their visit by giving Foley a picture of his family. In that moment, Foley said it reminded him that people are the same everywhere. They want relationships built on trust.
Foley used that experience to explain to retailers that they need to remember that their business is based on building relationships that are based in trust. Verbal contracts reinforce that trust and show that you will do what you say you will. Then deliver on your promise, he said. Parting words of advice he gave included: Remain open to criticism, recognize your mistakes and always look to improve.
In one of the afternoon breakout sessions Nov. 28, Karen Grabow, senior vice president of business development services at Land O'Lakes Inc., presented "Developing Your Flight Crew," which was about recruiting and retaining good employees. She explained the human resources maturity model and how the role and function of HR departments has been growing and changing over the past several decades.
Grabow asked participants to identify three key roles within the company that were the most important. She provided the example of Disney World. Of all of the employees that work there, the sweepers have the most accessible role and one of the most important roles in the company because they interact most with the customers and often provide the most important information and help take care of people. Disney provides these workers with the most training of all of the company's employees.
Attendees were asked to identify what positions within their own companies held similar key roles. Top answers included the receptionist, sales people, bookkeeper, manager, applicator and feed truck driver.
Posting a job has become more of an outmoded way to hire someone, Grabow said. She said networking through social media is becoming more relevant in the job hunt today than ever before. She recommended cultivating relationships outside of the industry. She said retailers need to be constantly meeting people and evaluating if they could be potential candidates to be hired.
Other highlights of the breakout session included standardizing the selection and interview process for potential employees, considering a more diverse workplace, performance management accountability and best practices and managing poor performers.
Bill Keogh, AgKnowlogy, during the other breakout session talked about "how do we achieve sustainable growth" by an ag retailer. His point was to understand the customer and do what will build on customer satisfaction. "We know a lot more about the acre than the man," he said referring to farmers and their land. There is a huge focus on being technical in this age of precision ag rather than understanding the customer more deeply.
Companies have to have a strategic focus to visualize how service is delivered now and look at what the customer is doing that the ag retailer could support. There has to be a key customer account plan, Keogh said. Share of business is driven by customer experience. "Share of business is a report card on how well you meet needs," he added.
Also during this session, the R-7 Tool precision data tool from Winfield Solutions was explained. This was a complete switch from the man to the acre topic in the afternoon. The R-7 refers to explaining the value and use of data about right genetics, right soil type, right plant population, right cropping system, right traits, right plant nutrition and right crop production.
The R-7 Tool takes Answer Plots data and cuts, slices and dices it for use by ag retail agronomists salespersons and farmers. Additional data such as soil maps, yield maps and satellite imagery are added into the tool.
One of the morning speakers of Nov. 29, included John May, president of agricultural solutions and chief information officer with John Deere. In his presentation, "Agriculture Industry Trends and Developments," May offered insight into the ag industry's fundamentals. He said global grain production and consumption will continue to increase steadily. The U.S. farm balance sheet is expected to remain very positive and strong, but the business climate will be complex and dynamic as the macroeconomic outlook is fragile due to EU debt, the U.S. fiscal situation and China and Brazil. In addition, increasingly interrelated markets will continue to lead to market volatility and concerns over food security.
Macro trends that May said the industry needed to watch included the global food demand challenge as the world's population continues to rise, increasingly sophisticated management expectations and the acceleration of technology advancement in agriculture. He acknowledged that technology has helped producers manage the cycle of farming better than ever before.
May shared the concept behind John Deere's FarmSight, which combines machine optimization, logistics optimization and ag decision support. The concept is an overarching idea that encompasses all capable precision technology being combined to offer an ag professional a wide platform for managing his farm. May showed a video that demonstrated John Deere's vision of the FarmSight concept. He stressed that FarmSight is not a suite of products but a strategy for the company to build its products around in the coming years.
In the late-morning breakout on Nov. 29, David Asbridge, president and senior economist with NPK Fertilizer Advisory Service, provided an outlook for crop production in 2013 and the likely demand of fertilizer based on acres and nutrients withdrawn during last year's drought. He said he sees a "continuation of what we saw this year" in terms of different crop planted acres but there are a "lot of caveats" to consider before seed will be in the ground.
Nitrogen supply was a main emphasis of a large portion of his presentation. Fall anhydrous ammonia sales were less than other years because of dry soils. The outlook is for "price strength" of ammonia in the spring. First quarter 2013 imports of urea could be a record. UAN availability should be good because of imports, too. The top five companies involved in nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing and distribution controlled about 77 percent of all sales in 2012.
Alexey Pally, fertilizer derivatives broker with FIS Fertilizer Swaps Desk in the U.S., explained the swaps system for use by ag retailers in fertilizer purchases and providing risk management for pricing.
The other conference-ending breakout option was titled "Making Your Ship Battle-Ready." Presenters were Susan Summers and Kelly Farrell with Farrell Growth Group. Their human resources focus is to benchmark to determine how a company stacks up to peer companies and industry averages. They shared that although benchmarking can seem intimidating, it's a good tool for retailers to use as a scorecard to compare themselves against the rest of the industry.
During this breakout session, Summers and Farrell demonstrated benchmarking by examining the financials of two fictitious retail companies. The two companies represented a high market share company where customers paid a premium and a low market share company that had an aggressive broker competitor.
Key takeaways Summer and Farrell shared included: a company can have low margins but still be very profitable, profit depends on how you spend gross margin dollars and the real value is looking at trends over a number of years. In addition, interpreting the data is key because generalizing often does not provide a clear picture of comparison between companies and the industry.
During the session, attendees were asked to determine what costs they might be able to manage better. Answers shared included the cost of interest paid, advertising, compliance, fixed assets, consulting fees and commercial insurance, among others.
In wrapping up their session, Summer and Farrell said storm clouds would remain on the ag retail industry's horizon. Volatility will remain, interest rates will eventually have to increase, inflation is probably going to rise eventually and planning will be essential to ag retailers' success.


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Another great contributor to the awesome music cannon we humans have has died. The Bee Gees were great. I adore the two songs above.
"Robin Gibb, one of three brothers who made up the disco group the Bee Gees behind "Saturday Night Fever" and other now-iconic sounds from the 1970s, died on Sunday, according to a statement on his website." – CNN
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One of my favorite music blogs has been retired today. Music Thing was a great read for all things interesting in pro-audio and I will surely miss it.
"The things I learned doing Music Thing (the internet stuff more than the guitars shaped like guns) have now helped me get a job where I'm in charge of the online output of The Times newspaper, managing 40+ people and a history going back to 1785. I spend all day on the web, talking and thinking about traffic, developers, links and readers. It's no longer what I want to do at home, so this will be the last Music Thing post." – musicthing.blogspot.com
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In Black Water Rising, Attica Locke delivered one of the most stunning and sure-handed fiction debuts in recent memory, garnering effusive critical praise, several award nominations, and passionate reader response. Now Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a riveting thriller that intertwines two murders separated across more than a century.
Caren Gray manages Belle Vie, a sprawling antebellum plantation that sits between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where the past and the present coexist uneasily. The estate's owners have turned the place into an eerie tourist attraction, complete with full-dress re-enactments and carefully restored slave quarters. Outside the gates, a corporation with ambitious plans has been busy snapping up land from struggling families who have been growing sugar cane for generations, and now replacing local employees with illegal laborers. Tensions mount when the body of a female migrant worker is found in a shallow grave on the edge of the property, her throat cut clean.
As the investigation gets under way, the list of suspects grows. But when fresh evidence comes to light and the sheriff's department zeros in on a person of interest, Caren has a bad feeling that the police are chasing the wrong leads. Putting herself at risk, she ventures into dangerous territory as she unearths startling new facts about a very old mystery - the long-ago disappearance of a former slave - that has unsettling ties to the current murder. In pursuit of the truth about Belle Vie's history and her own, Caren discovers secrets about both cases - ones that an increasingly desperate killer will stop at nothing to keep buried.
Taut, hauntingly resonant, and beautifully written, The Cutting Season is at once a thoughtful meditation on how America reckons its past with its future, and a high-octane pause resister that unfolds with tremendous skill and vision. With her rare gift for depicting human nature in all its complexities, Attica Locke demonstrates once again that she is "destined for literary stardom" (Dallas Morning News).
©2012 Attica Locke (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers
Audible has changed my life! Dry , itchy eyes were destroying one of my greatest pleasures - reading. Now I am experiencing books again!
"Mystery + Atmosphere = A Definite Winner!"
"For a lot of people .... it's complicated," says Caren Grey, a Southern African-American woman who manages the sugar plantation in Louisiana where her ancestors were slaves and then free laborers. For years, the place has been a living-history museum, complete with slave quarters and school tours and Gone-with-the-Wind weddings.
The fields are still worked, mostly by Latinos (some illegal) employed by a giant agribusiness, and one of these laborers has been murdered in the sugarcane. There are family problems, racial realities, and political shenanigans (all with historical context) that Caren must deal with in trying to figure out the layers of this mystery in the present and another death (parallel in several ways) that emerges from the distant past.
The suspense is palpable -- sometimes even spooky -- as is the sense of geographical and historical atmosphere. The characters live and breathe, and I cared greatly about their outcomes. Despite a somewhat improbable ending to this puzzle, I think Locke is a very promising young author, and I look forward to more from her. The narrator is just perfect for this listen.
I found "The Cutting Season" to be an entertaining and often moving look into the main character's (and all of our) very complicated relationship with America's past and present and the changes which inevitably come.
"Too bad, disappointing...."
This is probably a reasonably good book. Unfortunately, the audio version was made difficult to listen to because of the quirks of the narrator. Couldn't wait to finish -- actually I did finish only because I'm so cheap. I spent the credit on this thing, I thought I should listen to the end -- which means, of course, I paid for it twice. Once in cash, the second time in wasted time.
This is one of those that when you start to notice the puffing, the strange phrasing and way-too-dramatic cadence the narrator employed, it's all you can focus on. Parts of the book grabbed me, and I listened intently for short periods, but then once the literary crisis was over, my mind reverted to concentrating on the weird narration again.
It could be that the producers wanted this kind of narration -- that's possible. Quincy Tyler Bernstine uses the cant of the professional storyteller, you know, the elderly crone who sits by the fireside and spins ethnic tales of old, folklore, using a sing-song cadence. That kind of narration might work if it comes in eight minute segments, when you're sitting on the library floor with all the other nice little boys and girls. But to listen to it for over 12 hours is painful, not to mention seriously annoying.
Very disappointing. I thought the blurb about the book sounded interesting. Maybe it was, in the printed version. But now I know to stay away from this narrator in the future.
"Didn't live up to rave reviews"
It failed my test for novels, especially murder mysteries, namely that it keep me curious and the characters have to seem real enough that I care what happens to them. Also the reviews kept talking about atmosphere--well the author kept talking about atmosphere too but Rebecca this is not.
There was never much question about the story-- you knew who did it and why and the big political behind-the-scenes stuff was right out in full view and the only real mystery was why the main character was so excited about her child's father's wedding to someone else. Maybe it was explained and I missed it. My mind wandered a lot.
The most annoying thing was the reader. Not always, but often she made this little gasp just before starting a sentence. You'd think the sound engineer could have caught it. It's the kind of thing that really grates on the nerves after about the 40th pre-sentence gasp.
This was pretty expensive. I was disappointed.
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"Great Read"
If you enjoyed The Help you will have to read this. Caren Gray, an African American woman along with her daughter (Morgan) returns to Caren's home of her youth, Belle Vie. Belle Vie is antebellum Louisiana plantation preserved as both historical location — even down to its slave cabins — and high-end banquet site
Caren returns to her childhood home (where her mother was a cook) and childhood friends (the heirs to Belle Vie) as the banquet manager. She is surrounded with her family legacy where her ancestors were slaves.
When the body of a young woman is found on the edge of Belle Vie property mysteries of the past and present collide.
While being concern for her and Morgan's safety on 18 acres of isolated land, Caren must face her personal issues (baby daddy, first boy crush and, what to do with her life), solve a murder from the past and present.
"Annoying narrator, good story"
Quincy Tyler Bernstine's voice is a little too squeaky for me. It took me awhile to get used to it enough that I didn't want to constantly turn the book off.
I got this book because I heard an interview with the author on NPR. I love it when you can get the background story of a book straight from the author. Attica Locke explained how she was addressing the issue of a successful black woman moving up to the big house and the guilt that comes with her success.
The story was a bit contrived, but well told. I rolled my eyes a couple of times, but never lost interest.
There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – Emily Dickinson
The opening of the book was lush and held out much promise for an engrossing southern novel. However, the characters and the story didn't live up to this beginning. I did enjoy the descriptions of a "living" plantation, Belle Vie, in this day and age. That part was fascinating. The main character, Caren, however, seemed unlikeable and I just didn't care much about her. She makes some really stupid decisions. The relationship she has with her ex –husband just doesn't ring true to me. In fact, all her relationships seem washed out or bland.
In the end, the solution to the mystery just seems to pop up out of nowhere. Or did I miss something?
Overall, I was underwhelmed.
"History intertwined well without being sole focus"
3.75 stars. I really liked this book. I think the author did a good job intertwining the slave/plantation history without making the book solely about that. It took me a while to get into it but once I did I didn't want to stop. I also liked that she steered clear of some overused story lines . I'd definitely read another by this author.
A book lover with varied interests: history, political and technical and economic thrillers, mysteries, crime dramas, futuristic fantasy.
"A Worthy Atmospheric Mystery"
Attica Locke's "The Cutting Season" is one of those rare books which enfolds the reader into the everyday life of Belle Vie Plantation. The protagonist was a hardworking single mother whose ancestral roots traced back several generations on Belle Vie. The author weaves an intricate story line, revealing a familial mystery spanning several generations. Though it seems that previous relatives possessed clues, it took the intelligence, curiosity, and bravery of Caryn Gray to solve the puzzle. Locke's style cajoles even the most reluctant reader into understanding and appreciating her modern-day life at Belle Vie Plantation. This is a story of connections among diverse individuals to a shared past. It is also a story illustrating the importance of knowing when it's time to move on leaving the past behind. Caryn Gray aptly demonstrates the key to overcoming trauma – acknowledging personal mistakes , picking up what's left, and moving on. The protagonist earned our confidence and respect, which assures us that wherever she ends up, she will succeed. The narrator, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, instilled a New Orleans flavor and was largely responsible for making this reader feel at home.
I'm a bibliophile since early childhood. Love speculative fiction, odd premises, mystery novels that teach about different places and times.
"The Past Doesn't Go Away Nor is it Past"
This is an interesting book from several angles. I do believe I'm not really in a position to judge it correctly. I am neither black or southern, and I would think you would need to be both for it to honestly make sense.
The past mystery is quite wonderful, and makes historic sense. And is in it's own way, agonizing. The current one is less so in both regards. But either way, it's a good read.
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
"Good Mystery !"
This was a good unique mystery. I enjoyed it. The author is very good at describing the atmosphere. As you listen, you can visualize almost every aspect of the story. The narrator voiced all of the characters very well and it was easy to tell who was speaking. Perfect book for a rainy day.
"A much slower pace..."
I've been listening to this book while walking the dog – and I freely admit there were times when I felt the author could have moved the pace along a bit.But then, this is the South, and the wonderful voice of the narrator combined with the unexpected ending has kept me listening to the end. This is not city crime, and its a definite break from my normal high body count preferences.
I'm not advocating this as the perfect listen if you chose to walk your dog in unlit country places at night: it isn't, you'll start imagining footsteps behind you! And I'm not certain I would have read the paper version of the book, but I thought the combination of Ms Locke's writing & Quincy Tyler Bernstine's reading worked well together, and I will probably look for other work by both.
"Unfolds Slowly and Beautifully"
I loved this audio edition- it's an atmospheric story that unfolds slowly but had me totally hooked, and the beautiful narration made the book even more appealing. It may not be a big book but it's one that stays with you and makes you want more. An absolute gem.
I enjoyed Attica Locke's first book 'Black Water Rising' and will be watching out for more!
"Sadly dull and unengaging"
I'm afraid to say that although this book came highly recommended I found it to be dull and unengaging. It is beautifully read (I think the reading is actually described as a 'performance' which is probably not unfair) but the story itself is plodding in the extreme. The heat of the Deep South seems to have rendered the plotting soporific along with mots of the characters,
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This wooden club is from northern New South Wales, southern Queensland area of Australia. The club is carved from a single piece of wood. It has a straight handle with a pointed base. The diameter of the club increases towards the top to form the club's head. The head then tapers to a point. The club was collected by Alexander Morrison in the late 19th or early 20th Century. It was acquired by the Australian Museum in 1982.
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SWINDON is leading the way in England for vaccination against a disease which kills more than 1,000 women a year in the UK.
Across the borough 96.2 per cent of girls aged between 12 and 13 years have been vaccinated against the human papilloma virus (HPV) in the past year, which protects against the most common cause of cervical cancer.
The take-up rate is the highest in England according to official statistics released by Public Health England and surpasses the national average of 86.1 per cent.
Last year 985 female students received injections.
As part of a systematic and thorough programme, all Year 8 girls in Swindon schools are offered, via their parents or carer, immunisation from a nurse at school. Those absent on vaccination days or who prefer not to receive the injections at school, are systematically contacted and offered the jab at a clinic.
The immunisation initiative is managed by the school nursing service, which is run by the local authority as part of its responsibilities to improve public health.
The vaccine is given as a series of three injections within a six-month period. Apart from mild soreness at the injection site, there are very few side effects.
Alison Bunce, immunisation coordinator for schools, said her team was delighted to have topped the UK table but remained determined to ensure all girls in Swindon were vaccinated against cervical cancer.
"We have a fantastic school nursing service and we receive tremendous support from the schools who work very hard to get all the consent forms back from pupils," she said. "We also chase up the girls who have missed an appointment. It's that tenacity to make sure they are immunised that showed results.
"We make sure that they all complete the immunisation and we always go back into schools for ad hoc catch-ups with the girls.
"The system we have here works and this year we've maintained our target but we won't sit back and relax. The goal is to make sure that as many girls as possible are protected against the virus."
HPV is a common virus which can infect both men and women, and is spread through sexual intercourse.
Most people who are sexually active will have HPV at some time during their life. Many will not experience any symptoms and remain unaware that they have HPV.
The body's immune system is usually able to get rid of an HPV infection, and for most people infections come and go without causing any problems.
But two types of the virus cause 70 per cent of cervical cancer cases, and another two strains cause 90 per cent of cases of genital warts. The vaccine protects against all four.
Coun Brian Mattock, cabinet member for health and adult social care, said: "This is an excellent result and testament to the persistence of the entire school nursing service team, and the support they receive from Swindon schools. "Without the support of the schools the uptake would not have been as high."
The programme has been in operation for five years, and while Swindon has previously achieved the best immunisation rate in the South West, this is the first time it has topped the national table.
Around 3,100 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer in the UK each year. Overall, just two out of every 100 cancers diagnosed in women are cervical. But it is the most common cancer in women under 35 years old.
Teenage girls remain eligible to receive the course of vaccinations up to 18 years old. Those who have not yet received the vaccination should call 01793 465676 to book an appointment.


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In the Kreon department there will be single packed figure assortments with characters from all over the Star Trek universe like Nero, Gorn, Grasia, Lieutenant Sprog, Keenser, Klingons, Andorians, Borg Drones, Chang, Gul Dukat, Locutus, Worf, Quark, the Salt Vampire, and more. A special two-pack matches a Federation specialist with Kirk in his spacesuit (and a light up feature!), while Star Trek fighter pods will be appearing in Toys R Us stores as well.
For all of the cool upcoming Star Trek items from Hasbro check out our Toy Fair gallery HERE.
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The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, in carrying out the duties of his office, is authorized to employ personnel at daily rates of compensation; no individual so employed shall be paid at a daily rate of compensation which is in excess of the per diem equivalent of the highest gross rate of annual compensation which may be paid to employees of a standing committee of the Senate; and payments under authority of this section shall be made from the account, within the contingent fund of the Senate, for the "Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate", upon vouchers approved by the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate.
Source(Pub. L. 98–367, title I, § 6,July 17, 1984, 98 Stat. 475.)
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I am a graphic designer but I do not have any business experience so I need help can you guys tell me how can I start a logo designing, Website designing business online.
the graphics industry I really did not understand much but nonetheless wish you success
The first thing you need to know is where to get clients, sales is the life blood of your business.workers, do you need more? can you do everything by yourself?payments, what are your payments terms, billings?copyrights, does the client get all the rights on those logos?
That's just the start bro!
Have you tried Microlancer? It's a site in beta that allows designers to offer their services. Clients visit that site and look for designers like yourself and buy your services.
sign up for the freelancer on a odesk.com
I think you should create your account at odesk because there you will get many clients.
Begin by having a strong portfolio. You could offer to do work for free as long as the client agrees to allow you to publish the design you made for them on your portfolio.
as long as the client agrees to allow you to publish the design you made them on your portfolio.
How could a client BAR/KEEP you from posting the work you have done(your own work) in your own portfolio?
By extension, why would you need a client to build a portfolio of work you have done for free?
By further extension, if you build your business model of free work, would a client ever offer to pay you ( since they can argue that you gave you work to other for free, why not them?
or simply expect the next guy who is giving away stuff)
if the way to run a biz was simply to do the cheapest ( or free work) there would be no Ferraris and if it was all about performance there would have never have been any Yugos
build a business.. any business by:
also, since you are branding others don't forget to brand yourself
I'm sure it's possible since they technically own the logo and are a legit business they may copyright it. Hence leaving you in the section of copyright infringement if you use it, it could possibly depend if you do it for free or are on a contract that you have to abide to.
The client doesn't need to build the portfolio, you do. Why would you want to show off a bunch of un-used designs? What does that show? That you can design but nobody wants to buy it? I don't think that shows much success if you ask me.
As in building off of free work, how do you think Nike got their logo? Someone did it for free, then as a thank you they gave the designer stock. Of course not all companies will be like that but you never know. You don't have to tell people you did the design for free, they should never ask you what someone has paid for a design, that's more of bad business manners.
I'm not telling people to volunteer for people but if you are just getting started and you do a good job on one job then i'm sure the person will come back and pay you for something else, I have somebody I do designs for right now that I've done a free design for and now they pay me for any other work.
You should have the nice profile. you can offer to your customers as a work for free untill they agrees from your work or allow you to publish their design on your profile.sign up for the freelancer on a odesk.com where you can get the more clients.
I'm sure it's possible since they technically own the logo and are a legit business they may copyright it. Hence leaving you in the section of copyright infringement if you use it,
Actually, that's wrong. It's copyright infringement IF you use the logo as a brand for yourself. If you are the designer , then the image of the logo isnt being used as a logo but as a sample of your work as is thus perfectly legal to present. The only exception is if you agree to do "white box" work.. but I will touch on that in a second.
It even completely withing your legal right to do re-brandings of well-known companies, as proof of concept, and place/show them them (strictly) in your portfolio.
The client doesn't need to build the portfolio, you do.
Designers don't need clients t build portfolios. A portfolio is a sample of you creative achievements not a list of bedfellows ( tho doping names is nice, but any name-worthy company doesnt accept 'volunteered work', so that's not areal option either)
SUB POINTS:* Many GREAT designers don't even show the logo the client bought, as clients often have poor taste or give poor directions. Some show several design options ( with a an optional highlight for the clients final choice). This serves to show case the designer creative process and not who your previous clients have been. It also serves to mitigate bad client choices.
Why would you want to show off a bunch of un-used designs?
Because what you need to show is design that attracts (good) attention. Your best designs, used or not. To a prospective PAYING client ( and that what you ultimately want to be able to have paying clients and profit from your talents) it really doesnt matter much if your last 15 logos were used by someone as much as if the logos in your portfolio are STUNNING in CONCEPT, DESIGN and EXECUTION!!!
Also remember that mediocre logos dilute the impact of your portfolio. So if you had 5 stunning logos. and 10 mediocre ones that came out of client interactions (paid or not) , you really have a portfolio that is only a third as strong. Either way you could build a great portfolio with or w/o clients.. that is unless you are not creative enough to give yourself assignments.
Another thing: I am NOT condoning this and remember that consequence would be dire if you are found out but for the sake of example: a designer could 'steal' 10 (obviously not high profile) logos that are in use somewhere and claim them as their own.. the reason for this is that prospect dont/cant check references ..."hey did so and so create your logo back in 2005?" and worse still former clients other than maybe sending you a "blurb" for your testimonials will not field dozen of calls per month vouching for you and your work even if ( or especially if) you did free work for them. So, again, the only thing you gain is a placebo effect for your confidence.
Yet another issue is that you may end up setting a business precedence. "you are the free logo guy". Trust me, once that gets establish it will be difficult if not impossible to merely say ... "I was but now am the $65/hr logo guy." "oh", you say, "but my prospects wont tell others that I did this for free"... the truth is that the first thing they will say. People are self-centric and life is all about THEM: if your work is mediocre it excuses them , if your work is outstanding it show cases how savvy they are that they got such excellent work for nothing or nearly nothing. Your clients are in bussiness for themselves and not there to serve as your agents and publicists.
Yet another side effect of the same behaviour is that you CAN do outstanding work, but nothing beats "free". So the quality of your work will be overshadowed by its price , and your strategy will backfire.
The only thing 'donated' logos serves to show is that you have worked with others, that's it. And, without a testimonial, that doesnt even serve to say whether you worked well with others or not.. just merely that you did. Tho it may not apply directly to having a business, some clients will discard 'free work experience' altogether. Like when an agency reviews/declines a good portfolio, based on 'no REAL agency experience'
Ok, I promised I would elaborate on this. There is a term: "white box". This means you do the work but AGREE before hand not to take the credit ( kinda like ghost writing, only worse). But in order for that to be legally binding you have to know you are accepting "white box" before hand. Honestly, anyhow, I would avoid white-box work that doesnt come with AT LEAST 5 figure compensation.
In short don't forget YOU ARE BUSINESS TOO! The TRUE goal of a business is not just to have a clientele but to have profitable transactions.
One last aside:
As in building off of free work, how do you think Nike got their logo? Someone did it for free, then as a thank you they gave the designer stock. The stock was how the designer was compensated. Not all pay will be cash. Batter works, sometimes too.
All am saying is that the ROI on 'free work' is not the best path. If you cant apply it to other business models it it shouldn't be for you either. For fun , the next time a 'new and un established' restaurant opens in your town go there tell them you want to eat for free, but that you will let THEM tell people you came there to eat and that maybe some of those people will like the food enough to chose to pay... eventually.


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The problematic use of "drones" to prosecute the U.S. war on terror is very much in the news again. On February 7, during a hearing that was repeatedly interrupted by protesters, senators questioned John Brennan, President Obama's CIA director-designate, about the administration's heavy reliance on "targeted killings" by unmanned aircraft. A prominent line of questioning by senators concerned the government's exercise of due process under U.S. law, or the lack thereof, when targeting American citizens overseas. Exhibit A: the CIA's takedown of Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric, in September 2011.
"Now that the drone program is so public…people don't know what this one citizen was doing," noted Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the committee chairman, in one exchange with Brennan. "This man was not upstanding by a longshot. I've read enough to know that he was a real problem." The circumspect Brennan acknowledged that a "relationship" existed between al-Awlaki and the foiled attempt by al-Qaeda terrorists in October 2010 to destroy cargo airplanes using plastic explosives hidden in printer cartridges. Sen. Ron Wyden asked Brennan if the President should offer a U.S. citizen the opportunity to surrender before taking him out. "Any American who joins al-Qaeda will know full well that [he has] joined an organization that is at war with the United States, and the U.S. will do everything possible to destroy that organization," Brennan said. "They can surrender any time and turn themselves in."
Brennan's Senate confirmation hearing followed the exquisitely timed discovery three days earlier of a confidential Justice Department "white paper" that purports to set forth a legal framework for using lethal force in a foreign country against a U.S. citizen identified as working for al-Qaeda. The American Civil Liberties Union website links to a copy of the white paper, which has "NBC News" stamped throughout, lest we overlook which network landed this scoop. The Justice document echoes Brennan's comments. "[I]n defined circumstances, a targeted killing of a U.S. citizen who has joined al-Qaeda or its associated forces would be lawful under U.S. and international law," the white paper states. " … Were the target of a lethal operation a U.S. citizen who may have rights under the due process clause and the Fourth Amendment, that individual's citizenship would not immunize him from a lethal operation."
The news cascade in the U.S. overshadowed a January 24 press conference in London at which Ben Emmerson, a British human rights lawyer and the United Nations' special rapporteur for counterterrorism and human rights, announced the start of a formal inquiry into civilian casualties resulting from UAV strikes. In an opening statement, Emmerson said the legal theory for targeted killings annunciated in the U.S., that Western democracies are engaged in a global conflict against a stateless enemy, "is heavily disputed by the majority of international lawyers outside the United States of America."
Emmerson said his team of experts will focus on 25 case studies from Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and Palestine to determine whether there is "plausible" evidence of unlawful killings. He has been quoted in press reports as saying that he will follow the evidence wherever it takes him, which raises the prospect that President Obama, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, could also be accused of being a war criminal. Emmerson plans to submit his report to the UN General Assembly in October.
None of this bodes well for a domestic UAV market in the U.S. that is clambering to get off the ground. The reputation of unmanned aircraft for damnable deeds in faraway places precedes their arrival in domestic airspace for peaceable purposes. The cover of the February 11 issue of Time magazine features a "photo illustration" of a wasp-like General Atomics Predator hanging menacingly over a residential dwelling, suggesting that now we all face the possibility of being visited by a Hellfire missile. "Drones are an enormously powerful, disruptive technology that rewrites rules wherever it goes," Lev Grossman wrote in the cover story. "Now the drones are coming home to roost."
matt (not verified)
February 8, 2013 - 3:39pm
Amazing how the same Congress who pushed for FAA authorization of drones in US domestic airspace are now finally having second thoughts.
Chad Trautvetter
February 11, 2013 - 10:28am
Exactly! This is the problem with Congress writing regulations for and/or strongarming the FAA, instead of letting FAA do its job. Congress should also back off the FAA in regards to protable electronic device usage on aircraft, too–I'd rather have the FAA take a conservative approach to PEDs on aircraft than to have an accident caused by signal interference from PEDs.
Jay (not verified)
February 26, 2013 - 6:47pm
Let's see now. The U.S. government started, trains, transports, arms, equips and finances Al Qaeda and then tells us that it is a terrorist group that is at war with the United States government while referencing Al Qaeda for an excuse to kill Americans without a trial.
Does anyone else see a problem here?


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Officer-involved shooting prompts 3 1/2-hour manhunt
Updated 11:32 pm, Friday, November 9, 2012
After a 31/2-hour search Friday, police caught a man who reportedly had pointed a gun at an officer.
That prompted the officer to fire at the man, who then fled into a South Side neighborhood.
The shooting spurred a two-hour lockdown of two schools — Briscoe Elementary and Harris Middle.
Police blocked off South Flores and Nogalitos streets from East Cevallos Street and Lone Star Boulevard as they searched the area.
They found the man, in his late 20s, in a vacant house in the 200 block of Rehmann Street at 6:30 p.m., SAPD spokeswoman Sandy Gutierrez said.
His name wasn't to be released until he was charged by a magistrate.
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The incident began about 3 p.m. when the patrol officer on South Flores Street near East Fest Street saw two men he believed looked suspicious.
One appeared to be walking strangely, police said. When the officer drove up to the men, he said he saw one of them trying to pull a shotgun from his pants.
The officer said he heard a shot and saw a puff of smoke and thought the man had shot himself in the foot, Gutierrez said.
Both men took off running. The officer chased the man with the gun and he reportedly turned and pointed the shotgun at the officer, so he fired at him, police said.
The SWAT team and the K-9 unit helped search the area. They found a shotgun near where the man was found.
Gutierrez said the man had no gunshot wounds but did suffer some sort of injury. He was being checked out by EMS, but paramedics didn't think he would need to be hospitalized, Gutierrez said.
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York man gets 8 years in DUI wreck death
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YORK, S.C. (AP) -- A 20-year-old York man has been sentenced to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty to felony driving under the influence in the death of his girlfriend last year.
James Kyle Rose said he smoked marijuana, drank beer and then was speeding in her car when it wrecked on state Highway 49.
Eighteen-year-old Clarissa Disbrow died and two other people were seriously injured in the wreck July 24.
Rose also pleaded guilty to two counts of driving under the influence resulting in injury and driving under suspension.
Circuit Judge Paul Burch also ordered Rose to serve five years of probation and to obtain substance abuse and job counseling. He also was ordered to pay $6,000 to the victims' families.
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When Arnold Caviar bought Liberty Fruit Co. Inc. from his family 30 years ago, it came with just three straight trucks for hauling and a pickup truck.
His three children each got their name on one of the straight trucks.
"Are those different drivers?" someone asked him.
"Well, in some ways, they are," he said.
Fast-forward 30 years, and not much has changed. Allison, 34, is a secretary. Cory, 39, is the IT director. Allen, 41, is president.
Caviar, 70, is proud his children joined him.
Other things did change. The company is now a $100 million-a-year Midwest produce giant, distributing to a nine-state area from Kansas City, Kan.
As the company grew, Caviar named more things after people he loves. Diversifying against the ups and downs of produce sales, he began a repacking brand, Mary's Pride, named after his mother. He developed another branch, which does value-added produce and custom packaging. It's called Carol's Cuts, named after his wife.
"I had to do something so she wouldn't get jealous of other companies with things named after their wives," Caviar said.
For 15 or 16 hours, six or seven days a week, Caviar would do it all. He'd unload trucks, or clean the dock at 2 a.m. Carol pitched in a few days weekly while she was watching their children and helped out more when the kids grew older.
"You've got to work for what you get," Caviar said. "I feel like I've put in my dues."
That base of honest work remains with the company. Caviar demands integrity, chief operating officer Scott Danner said.
"He won't put up with liars," Danner said. "If you lie, you're out."
"I've worked for corporations," Danner said, "and there you did anything you could to get to the goal. Arnold has instilled that we want to get to the goal, but we're getting there the right way."
Caviar backs up his words with dollars. He and the company give regularly to charities, such as Operation Breakthrough, Little Sisters of the Poor and especially Children's Mercy Hospital.
Liberty Fruit has hosted a charity golf tournament for 12 years, with most funds given to the hospital. It's earned a million dollars for Children's Mercy.
Perhaps Caviar's greatest accomplishment? Turning the family business into a business family of 300.
If you ask Caviar why, when other Midwest produce companies have failed and he — a thousand miles away from produce-growing coasts — has succeeded, he credits his workers.
"It's not the Caviar business," he said, "It's the company business. People know the way I think. It's everyone, from the highest manager all the way down."
From two bonuses a year to an annual picnic at the company, Caviar said he treats his employees the way he wants to be treated, and they do the same thing back.
"It's dedication, it's love, it's taking care of your employees," Caviar said. "We do that. All the employees know that."
But it's a two-way street. If the company gets jammed with work, the employees are willing to put in 14 hours a day to take care of it. They say they'll put in the hours anytime its needed for Caviar.
"Do they want to go home to their families? Absolutely," he said. "But if you get in a bind, they'll take care of you."
"Eight years ago," Caviar said, "I made one of the best decisions I've ever made in hiring Scott Danner."
When Caviar hired Danner, he wanted to start stepping back from the company, bit by bit. Now that he's 70, he wants to step back more, but it's not easy.
"You can't step back totally," he said, "especially when you've worked that hard."
The company still has his business strategy to build around. It's not difficult to remember.
"Our whole thing is service, number one. Quality, number two. And price, number three," he said. "We're big on quality. It's proven to be the right decision throughout the years."
And spending money to make money?
"I'm all about that," he said.
Liberty Fruit spent money to buy an old produce warehouse in 1994, where it now sits, and then spent more money to refurbish it. Then in 2007, it added a 9,000-square-foot processing plant expansion, which made it 13,000 square feet. In 2009, a 30,000-square-foot repacking and storage expansion paved the way for the company to grow to 162,000 square feet.
And, thanks to being a family business, decisions are quick.
"The big expansion was basically an hour's discussion between Arnold, his son Allen and me," Danner said.
The company isn't sinking into complacency, however. Caviar and Danner mention the possibility of a second 30,000-square-foot expansion.
And then there's Caviar's granddaughter, 9-year-old Morgan, to name something after.
He suggests "Morgan's Munchies."


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Lupus Research Institute Launches Industry Council to Accelerate New Treatments for Lupus
NEW YORK, NY. June 10 – The Lupus Research Institute (LRI) launched the LRI Industry Council, a collaborative initiative founded with 13 leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies involved in lupus drug development. The LRI formed the new group to facilitate active collaboration among companies, research leaders, and patient advocates to overcome common obstacles in developing new treatments for lupus.
The need for safer and more effective treatments is critical. Treatment options for lupus are few, and most have serious side effects. Research funded by the LRI and others has identified many promising areas for new drug development currently being pursued by industry. But the complexity and unpredictability of the disease poses many challenges to testing new drugs. Common difficulties in designing effective clinical trials include measuring responses to treatment and recruiting volunteers as well as identifying those compounds that may work best for specific sub-sets of patients.
"In the past, companies have wrestled with these issues independently which can impede progress," noted Council Co-Chair and LRI Scientific Advisor Dr. Peter Lipsky. "The LRI is affording companies the opportunity to work together to find solutions to their common challenges so each can move forward with drug development more quickly and efficiently."
Co-chair Dr. Daniel Wallace of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center commented, "The new Council is already working on several ways to streamline and accelerate clinical trials aiming to bring lupus patients the safer and more effective treatments they need and deserve."
Founding Members:
Biogen Idec
EMD Serono, Inc.
Genentech, A Member of the Roche Group
GlaxoSmithKline plc
Janssen Research & Development, LLC
Eli Lilly and Company
Sanofi U.S.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.


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My husband is finishing his second week of chemo and has developed sores on his tongue. His doctor has him using Magic Mouthwash 4x/day and also rinsing with warm salt water. Does anyone have any other ideas? It is starting to impact his eating. We'll try ice chips this week. He is on oxaliplatin every other week, so he seems to be tolerating cold things this week. Any ideas you have would be greatly appreciated!


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Study in Intensive Care Patients to Investigate the Clinical Effect of Repetitive Orally Inhaled Doses of AP301 on Alveolar Liquid Clearance in Acute Lung Injury
This study has been completed.
Apeptico Forschung und Entwicklung GmbH
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First received: June 20, 2012
Last updated: August 28, 2014
Last verified: August 2014
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The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of orally inhaled AP301 on alveolar liquid clearance in ALI (acute lung injury) patients with the purpose to assess the treatment associated changes of extravascular lung water (EVLW) within 7 days of treatment.
|Acute Lung Injury
|Drug: AP301 Drug: Saline solution
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Proof of Concept Study in Male and Female Intensive Care Patients to Investigate the Clinical Effect of Repetitive Orally Inhaled Doses of AP301 on Alveolar Liquid Clearance in Acute Lung Injury
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Respiratory Distress Syndrome, InfantU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Apeptico Forschung und Entwicklung GmbH:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- change in extravascular lung water within 7 days of treatment [ Time Frame: change from baseline - day 7 ]EVWL (measured with PiCCO® technique) until day 7 of treatment (AUC)
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Oxygenation index [ Time Frame: baseline - day 7 ]Oxygenation index (PaO2 / FiO2 ratio) until day 7 of treatment
- ventilator plateau pressure [ Time Frame: baseline - day 7 ]Ventilator plateau pressure until day 7 of treatment
- Murray Lung Injury Score [ Time Frame: baseline - day 7 ]
- Ventilation parameters / lung function [ Time Frame: baseline - day 7 ]
- Presence/absence/severity and duration of adverse effects - number and severity of adverse events (AEs), serious adverse events (SAEs) and suspected unexpected serious adverse events (SUSARs)) [ Time Frame: baseline - day 7 ]
|Study Start Date:
|July 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: AP301
Treatment group
Drug: AP301
AP301 25 mg powder for reconstitution for solution for inhalation
Orally delivered doses of 87.6 mg AP301 are inhaled every 12 hours (± 30 min), for a total of 7 days.
Placebo Comparator: saline solution
Placebo group
Drug: Saline solution
Placebo solution (0.9% physiologic NaCl) is inhaled every 12 hours (± 30 min), for a total of 7 days.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- age ≥ 18
- intubated and mechanically ventilated male and female patients of the Intensive Care Units of the Department of Anesthesia, General Intensive Care and Pain Control
- meets the criteria of ALI (as defined by the American-European Consensus Conference on ALI/ ARDS):
- Onset of ALI within 48 hours
- Bilateral infiltrates seen on frontal chest radiograph
- PCWP ≤ 18 mm Hg or no clinical evidence of left atrial hypertension
- paO2/ FiO2 ratio ≤ 300 mm Hg
- EVLW in PiCCO® at screening ≥ 8 ml/PBW
- Meeting criteria for extensive hemodynamic monitoring according to investigators discretion
- ICU Patients being mechanically ventilated and are stable in this condition for at least 8 hours
- Negative pregnancy test and adequate contraception in female patients of childbearing potential
- Informed consent:
- For patients that are temporarily unable to consent (e.g. comatose patients) a subsequent informed consent has to be provided.
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of clinically relevant allergies or idiosyncrasies to AP301 or any other inactive ingredient(s) of the investigational product
- Brainstem death at screening
- Current evidence of septic shock as defined by the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (Presence of acute organ dysfunction secondary to infection plus hypotension with systolic blood pressure < 90 mm Hg or mean arterial pressure (MAP) < 70 mm Hg for not less than one hour which cannot be reversed with fluid resuscitation)
- Neutrophil count <0.3 x 109 L
- Patients under immunosuppression: high dose steroids (> 80 mg Prednisolone /d; > 300 mg hydrocortisone / d), cancer treatment (chemotherapy or biological) or therapy with other immunosuppressive agents for organ transplantation within 2 weeks
- BMI < 18.5 or > 35
- Cardiogenic pulmonary edema diagnosed by echocardiography or pulmonary artery catheter
- Pregnancy / lactation or intention to fall pregnant during the time course of the study
- Women of childbearing potential as well as men of procreative capacity who are not using adequate contraception
- Participation in other interventional drug trials
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01627613
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01627613
|Department of Anesthesia, General Intensive Care and Pain Control,Medical University of Vienna
|Vienna, Austria, 1090
Sponsors and Collaborators
Apeptico Forschung und Entwicklung GmbH
|Principal Investigator:
|Roman Ullrich, Prof.
|Medical University of Vienna
More Information
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Apeptico Forschung und Entwicklung GmbH
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01627613 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2012-001863-64 ( EudraCT Number )
|Study First Received:
|June 20, 2012
|Last Updated:
|August 28, 2014
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Wounds and Injuries
Lung Injury
Acute Lung Injury
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Thoracic Injuries
Respiration Disorders
Pharmaceutical Solutions
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I have been busy moderating it and deleting the bad stuff as it comes up and today just decided to make it a read only encyclopedia. Now no one can edit it except me. I will still take suggestions and articles by e-mail which I will then review and then submit to one or more bhikkhus for review and then if it is acceptable, it can still make it on the site as another article.
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Hi guys,
Long being a convert of the film, when I finally had a little bit of money to spare and the time to read it, I bought a "first edition" copy of Fight Club from a seller on eBay.
Even though a new edition was freely available in my local bookshop, I did this because I wanted one specifically free of imagery from the successive film.
Now, I'm not under the illusion that what I bought was a first print of the first edition (probably a third print or something). However, when it arrived, I had to ask myself something I never had to before, i.e. "Is there such a thing as a counterfeit book?"
If you take a look at the photos I've taken of it at the link below (it's not a link to malware, I promise - just to a picasa web album) you can see that the pages look as though they were cut with a child's scissors. And even worse, the widths of the pages are all messed up, meaning that I can't even easily flick through my long-awaited copy of Fight Club.
Of those of you who have this edition, could you tell me if this is normal?
I'm thinking I should return it. Please let me know what you think guys.


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Ear infections
If I put any thing in my ears at all I get an ear infection. Even if I use earphones to listen to the radio that doesn`t go right in to the ear I still get an ear infection. I would love to be able to use earphnes. Can you explain what might be going on to cause the ear infection and if there is any thing that I can do to prevent it?
This question has been forwarded by Women's Health: An outer ear infection, or an infection that develops in the ear canal, occurs when the skin of the canal is disrupted and allows the entry of bacteria. Therefore, putting anything into the ear canal, such as Q-tips, can potentially cause infection if used too roughly thereby traumatizing the skin. Swimmers often get this sort of infection as well, because the constant water exposure can macerate the skin which also can allow the entry of bacteria. Headphones that do not enter the ear canal should not cause an infection, unless you wear them excessively and perhaps thereby cause too much moisture and the build up of debris. Your best bet is to consult an ENT physician when you have an "infection"; an evaluation at that time should provide an appropriate diagnosis and avenue of therapy.
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