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So Emma Goldman's Still a Threat?Culture Watch
That anarchist agitator is stirring up trouble once again, even though she passed away in 1940. No doubt Emma Goldman would have been more than pleased. Her ancient arguments, it seems, have put fear into the hearts of officials at the University of California at Berkeley. The university's associate vice chancellor for research, Robert Price, was quoted in the New York Times as saying that statements of Goldman's used by the archivist of the university's Emma Goldman Papers Project for fund raising were making a "political point," which he argues was "inappropriate in an official university solicitation."
The quotes Mr. Price deleted from the fund raising appeal which are posted on the archive's website have Goldman saying in 1915, on the eve of World War I, that "in the face of this approaching disaster," people "not yet overcome by war madness" should "raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to this crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them." In a second quote from 1902, the anarchist leader says that free speech in America was so threatened that people would "soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next-door neighbors should hear that free-born citizens dare not speak in the open."
What evidently upset Berkeley administrators was that the appeal might be viewed
as a political statement by the university, one that was clearly opposed to
American policy in Iraq, especially on the issue of whether the country should
go to war. How Mr. Price thought that anyone would take notice or even find
out about the appeal is itself strange--especially since his censorship has
made it page one news.
Responding to the charge that the appeal was political, archivist historian Candace Falk shrewdly noted that the quotes were Goldman's views, and not that of the University of California. Ms. Falk acknowledged, however, that she had selected these quotes because they resonated in the present day.
Seemingly, what we have here is a case of political correctness run amok--the very kind of politically correct thought control and censorship usually endorsed by the political left. Now, that endorsement of political correctness has come back to haunt the left, which finds that some of the sentiments they favor worry administrators who are concerned with offending the Bush administration and perhaps endangering Berkeley's federal funding.
Ms. Falk, like her hero Goldman, knows how to generate publicity. Her fund raising letter was to be sent to a list of 3,000 potential donors; now quite a few more people know about it, and the project is likely to receive more donations than they ever thought possible.
The argument of Mr. Price's office, that the letter was an inappropriate political statement, rings false. One look at the project's Web site and it becomes clear that the papers exist not just to preserve the archive of a major historical figure in America's past, but also to endorse Goldman as a hero and role model for today. The testimonials on the site are from well known left-wing activists, including Howard Zinn, Gloria Steinem, Cora Weiss, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and others. Mr. Zinn talks about the project's intent to "bring the word, the spirit of Emma Goldman to ever larger numbers of Americans"; Ms. Weiss about how "women need role models on how to be effective advocates, and how to make a perfect blintz" (at least Ms. Weiss, like Goldman, has a good sense of humor), and Ms. vanden Heuvel notes that Goldman¹s writings were "filled with acute often prescient, observations." Berkeley¹s vice chancellor hardly could have been surprised at the use to which Ms. Falk put Goldman's words. They were meant to get anti-war sympathizers and radicals to contribute to the archive.
Of course, the one area that the Goldman Papers Project almost completely ignores is Goldman's strident and forceful anti-Bolshevism. The high-school curriculum they present includes the topics of "immigration, freedom of expression, women's rights, anti-militarism and the art and literature of social change." Anti-Communism, a major cause in Goldman's latter years, is absent. The introduction does acknowledge that Goldman left Soviet Russia "in disgust and disappointment," furious over the Bolsheviks' betrayal "of the ideals of the revolution." That nod to her views of communism hardly does justice to the forcefulness of her beliefs. As Goldman wrote, "how we used to dream of the wonderful thing come true in Russia. But like all dreams there is an awakening which is hard to bear even for the strongest of us."
Indeed, when my cousin, the American Jewish anarchist Jacob Abrams, was released from prison for violation of the Espionage and Sedition Act in America and deported to the Soviet Union, Goldman wrote a friend that, "Abrams and friends are all right where they are, believe me. Certainly better than their alternative [the Soviet Union] get me?" Abrams and his fellow prisoners, Goldman wrote, "will not be very grateful for having been taken out of Atlanta [penitentiary] and sent to the Russian Penitentiary." One suspects that the people the Goldman Project hope to raise funds from would not respond positively to any emphasis on Goldman¹s disillusionment -- or her fierce opposition to so many leftists shibboleths.
As for Saddam Hussein, one suspects that even Emma Goldman an opponent of Lenin and Trotsky and Mussolini and Hitler might herself have had second thoughts about the brutal tyranny Saddam has brought to Iraq, and the threat to world peace that his regime poses in the nuclear age. She might even have awoken from the dream of pacifism and seen the need for military action, hard as such a step might have been for her to bear. 1915, after all, is hardly similar to 2003.


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More time for Jamison and Hickson...
I was debating dropping Hickson from my fantasy team. Good thing I didn't.
Seems like a lot of the players that people on here suggest that we trade for/sign, end up having season ending injuries.
This is a tough break for Cleveland. He is really their only attractive trade chip, and now he's out for the year? Ouch. When it rains, it pours. I'd feel worse for them if they hadn't had a nice run the past 5 or 6 years.
Lets trade for Leron James, Wade, Bosh, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, Garnett, Joe Johnson, Josh Smith , Iggy, Brandon Jennings, Amare.
yes please
pf smith/hansbrough
c hibbert/mcroberts
....where do we sign?
In 49 states it's just basketball, but this is Indiana!
I think he meant so they would get hurt...... I think.
I'm not perfect and neither are you.
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the esteem of Elohim,
Ephisians 4: 32 And be kind towards one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as Elohim also forgave you in Messiah.


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The Right SwitchLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
In front of you are three light switches. Only one does anything, and it turns on the light downstairs. From here you can't see the light, and it makes no sound. You must determine which switch operates the light, BUT you can only go check it once. How do you figure out which switch is for the light?
HintPatience is a virtue.
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In general, a floodplain is the flat area located adjacent to the main stream channel. When stream banks overflow during or after a storm, the floodplain provides natural storage for the excess water. In Fairfax County, the 100-year frequency storm is used to determine the limits of the floodplain.
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Updated with more detail on the plan President Obama purchased.
HONOLULU – President Barack Obama tested out buying health insurance for himself over the weekend, with the White House saying the president signed up for coverage offered through the Affordable Care Act.
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Mr. Obama didn't experience the health exchanges for himself, though. While the president was in Hawaii, his staff completed the enrollment process for him in Washington, D.C., during the weekend. The complicated nature of the president's case required an in-person sign-up, the senior administration official said, noting that Mr. Obama's personal information is not readily available in many of the government databases used to verify identities.
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"So, which one of you guys is going to come in second?" - Larry Bird before the 3 point contest. He won.
I would try to pry Jefferson away by sending some expirers. I would love a nice young core of Flynn, Granger, Jefferson and Hibbert.
"So, which one of you guys is going to come in second?" - Larry Bird before the 3 point contest. He won.
Like this:
"From what I understand, John Locke killed the lady in the parachute because Ben Linus was hiding the heroin from Charlie so he could use it for fuel in the Dharma Project's old VW microbus that Hurley drives around, but Desmond wants that fuel to power his yacht so he can sail away and find Penny before she marries Moe Sizlak and become part owner in Springfield's leading neighborhood dive bar and is compelled to pay protection money to Fat Tony the mobster so he won't hurt chief Wiggum's son Ralph."
Actually, I just made that completely up, so the "from what I understand" is inappropriate here.
And I won't be here to see the day
It all dries up and blows away
I'd hang around just to see
But they never had much use for me
In Levelland. (James McMurtry)
yeah but they would want a center back to complement Love, that is the reason why I think that they want Hibbert
@WhatTheFFacts: Studies show that sarcasm enhances the ability of the human mind to solve complex problems!
"So, which one of you guys is going to come in second?" - Larry Bird before the 3 point contest. He won.
I wonder if they are interested in Hans...although him having a weird condition may be a reason that they won't be.
But I get the impression that Larry would be very hesistant to trade Hans.
Actually english is my 3rd language so this is definitely appreciated.
No! Not even one-for-one, let alone the extra deadweight Minnesota would have to send to make it work.Originally Posted by dcpacerfan
Stick to the Flynn and picks type deal, please.
And I won't be here to see the day
It all dries up and blows away
I'd hang around just to see
But they never had much use for me
In Levelland. (James McMurtry)
And I won't be here to see the day
It all dries up and blows away
I'd hang around just to see
But they never had much use for me
In Levelland. (James McMurtry)
Hibbert is too good to back up Love. Unless Minnesota thinks they're going to win a championship within the span of Hibbert's rookie contract it makes no sense. He will command too much for any team to be able to afford him as a backup when his rookie contract expires.
how does Minne turn down Flynn for #10, then offer Flynn, 16, & 23 for the #10 and fodder, doesn't make sense.
Minnesota has enough cap space to take Granger without taking any salaries.
An example would be here:
"So, which one of you guys is going to come in second?" - Larry Bird before the 3 point contest. He won.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning. - Catherine Aird
I remember a few years ago, someone headlined "Felton for Ford" but later we found out that the package was for Felton and Mohammad for Ford, Foster and Rush
We would have to know what the complete package is
"So, which one of you guys is going to come in second?" - Larry Bird before the 3 point contest. He won.
I'm very excited for this. The Pacers are looking to move down, and adding Flynn along with those two firsts for the #10 and another piece or two would be perfect for us. I'd be very interested in finding out what the complete deal is, but it's sounding like the deal might be fairly likely.
Who else do you think the Wolves would want from the Pacers? Either Murphy or Rush makes sense to me but if they add Murphy what else would we get back?
It's worth noting that Flynn started the Wolves' first 81 games this season. The only game he sat out was the final game of the year. In addition, his rookie numbers were very respectable: 13.5 points, 2.4 rebounds, 4.4 assists, and 28.9 minutes per game.
There is clearly a lot of game tape for Bird & Co to evaluate.
Unless Minny is asking for Granger &/or Big Roy, I would do this deal because, in this draft, I think (#16 + #23) > #10 from the Pacers' perspective because good prospects will be available at those spots for a team short on talent. And Flynn could/should be a solid PG for many years.
Make the trade, then dump O'B, please.
Oh man as long as this trade doesn't involve us trading Granger we would be absolutely bonkers not to take this...assuming someone doesn't drop to 10 and we wait until draft day.
Flynn gives us a point guard of the future and he is a leader, something that this team sorely lacks, he's willing to step up and take command as well as be vocal, you can see him being the leader and center of a team for as long as he is a part of the pacers.
16 and 23 gives us two players that we can take and build towards the future, which is probably better than taking one player at ten, the last time we had two first round picks we got one borderline starter (hibbert) and one role player (rush), as long as we can pull one starter out of 16-23, assuming we are trading hibbert, we 2 for 1 starter level players unless there is contention about Flynn starting for us?
Rush is a role player and won't ever be good, so I doubt they are trading for Rush, considering they are thinking of a backcourt of the future in rubio/brewer/wes johnson
Even if this is Hibbert I don't see us not doing this since we can probably get a better overall player at 16/23, at least one that can play extended minutes at the five and isn't a liability on Pick and Roll/ defense in general. If we can pick up a Patterson or Whiteside or Alabi or some of the other high big men that this draft is flooded with, we easily replace Hibbert.
If this is not Hibbert/not Granger I don't understand what the wait is.
This is all predicated on someone like Aminu not falling to us on the day of the draft- if we lose the chance to draft someone of his level assuming they slip, then this trade looks a bit worse for us.
Thing is, the Flynn makes almost 3 million so it would have to be contracts in that range.
Folks mentioned Ford/#10 for Sessions #16, #23 w/ maybe Gomes a filler, now you add Jonny Flynn to that equation. I think that ups the anti for the Pacers I think.
My gut feeling is Rush/Hibbert #10 for Flynn #16, #23. that's just my gut. I think they then move Jefferson or Love for help elsewhere. I never thought Jefferson was a true center anyways.
Pacers get their young PG in Flynn and can address other areas. Maybe Henry or George at #16 to replace Rush, and perhaps Orton or Whiteside at #23?
I guess it comes down to what Bird (and O'Brien) think about Hibbert.
Though this is a dream scenario if we can keep Hibbert. I'm not huge on Rush, so Flynn w/ Granger and Hibbert, Take the BPA at #16 whether guard like Henry or George or PF like Udoh, Patterson, or Sanders.
Also, keep in mind that the #10 pick is (more often than not) more valuable than the #16 and #23
- 2009: Jennings > James Johnson + Caspi
- 2008: Lopez > Speights + Kosta Koufos
Thats just the past 2 years
"So, which one of you guys is going to come in second?" - Larry Bird before the 3 point contest. He won.
Or something else.
Not worth giving up Rush and Hibbert..
Put anyone on the table except Hibbert and Granger, so long as it's reasonable..(although I'd like to keep Rush, Price, and DJones)
By the way, Mike Wells has responded to a Wolves fan on twitter.
That basically was his response to Hansbrough or Price being apart of the rumored deal.@ondeckdean tyler is working way back from concussion/inner ear infection and price is out at least 3 more months after knee surgery
I mention this b/c he's not disputing the Flynn, #16 and #23 option in contrast to his earlier tweet of #10 for Flynn being turned down
There have been rumors flying around about a trade between the Minnesota Timberwolves, and the Indiana Pacers for the last fifteen minutes. The proposed deal would be:
Johnny Flynn
#16 Overall Pick
#23 Overall Pick
#10 Overall Pick
and other pieces
The questions many people are wondering are who are the other pieces heading to Minnesota? There are a couple guys I think could be involved, Brandon Rush and Troy Murphy.
Why do this deal for the Timberwolves
Rush would be another young piece for the Wolves, who could go in and compete for a starting job. I think Rush would fit in well with the young Minnesota team, and could add something that they haven't had on that team really since Mike Miller left....shooting.
Murphy on the other hand would add more of a veteran big man, who both rebounds and spreads the floor. Not only would he fit in well for this season in Minnesota, but if they don't want to sign him long-term he is a very large expiring contract next offseason.
Why do this deal for the Pacers
The Pacers are in desperate need for a point guard, and they find themselves getting one in Johnny Flynn. Sure, he's not the ideal option, but he's a good passer, very explosive off the dribble, has a lot of experience (with Syracuse and a year with the T-Wolves), and understand how to play the game of basketball. One big knock on his game is the fact that he doesn't understand how to treat the ball like it's gold every single time down the court. You'll see him get a little careless and make some turnovers every now and then, but down the stretch last season he was able to cut down on those.
The two other pieces that we're hearing about in this deal, the #16 and #23 picks also come into play for the Pacers. Assuming teams don't get all caught up with Butler guard/forward Gordon Hayward, he could fall right into the Pacers' laps. Hayward is a player who the hometown fans love, and so does Larry Bird. He would bring some shooting, along with being the replacement for Mike Dunleavy. The picks enable the Pacers to draft both positions of need, both wing/point guard, and power forward, and still have two second round picks to deal with as well.
Overall this is a good deal for both teams, and while it's still a rumor at this point in time, talks seem to be heating up. I'll have a much more in-depth write-up if this deal does indeed go down.
That's my article I just wrote up about this, and decided to just post it in here rather than in a new thread.
Yeah, I can see why I made that mistake. My bad. /green
Really? I can't see Hibbert getting anything more than six to eight million dollars a year under the current scale, which seems like the norm for backups (gortat, sheed, bass, splitter assuming he comes over or McDyess since they both will probably have a same style of contract). We'll also see what kind of money Darko will be signed to by the Timberwolves over this offseason.
2007: Hawes = Nick Young/Wilson Chandler
2006: Saer Sene < Carney/Boone
2005: Bynum > Graham/Garcia
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) Lexi Thompson moved into position for her second LPGA Tour title, shooting a 5-under 66 on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead in the LPGA Malaysia.
The 18-year-old American, the 2011 Navistar LPGA Classic winner, had five birdies in her bogey-free round to reach 17-under 196 at Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club. She opened with rounds of 67 and 63.
South Korea's Ilhee Lee was second after a 70.
Norway's Suzann Pettersen and China's Shanshan Feng were third at 11 under. Pettersen, coming off consecutive victories in the Safeway Classic and Evian Championship, had a 67. Feng, the Reignwood LPGA Classic winner last week in China, shot 70.
VILAMOURA, Portugal (AP) Scotland's Scott Jamieson matched the European Tour record with an 11-under 60 to pull within two strokes of leader Paul Waring after the third round of the Portugal Masters.
The 18th player to shoot 60 on the tour, Jamieson settled for par on the final hole when his 15-foot birdie chip grazed the edge of the hole and stayed out. After opening with rounds of 66 and 73 to make the cut by a stroke, he had 11 birdies in the bogey-free round.
Waring, from England, had a 67 to reach 16 under.
Jamieson was 14 under along with Ireland's Simon Thornton, Wales' Jamie Donaldson and South Africa's Hennie Otto. Thornton shot 65, Donaldson had a 66, and Otto a 69.
CARY, N.C. (AP) Russ Cochran shot his second straight 6-under 66 to take a two-stroke lead after the second round of the Champions Tour's SAS Championship.
The 54-year-old left-hander, the 2010 winner at Prestonwood Country Club, birdied five of the first six holes, dropped a stroke on the par-5 seventh and added birdies on Nos. 15 and 17. He won the Principal Charity Classic in Iowa in June for his fourth victory on the 50-and-over tour.
Defending champion Bernhard Langer, Kirk Triplett and David Frost were tied for second. They each shot their second straight 67. Triplett is coming off a successful title defense two weeks ago in the First Tee Open at Pebble Beach.


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The pilgrimage offers the chance the spend an hour touring the cathedral by candlelight, in the company of a guide providing a meditative approach, which will be followed by a fifteen minute period of private prayer.
Pilgrims will be able to discuss their evening with each other afterwards over tea and coffee.
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PTA Position Statement on Mass Media
A founding purpose the National PTA is to promote safety for children and youth by working to set a standard for the care and protection of children and youth. National PTA realizes the technological advances that have an impact on the welfare of children and their families.
The National PTA urges its members at all levels to monitor, support and advocate for laws, regulations and programs that:
- Offers the right of free speech by individuals and the need to uphold freedom of the press.
- Urges parents to be involved with, and monitor the television programs, movies, interactive video games, concerts, music, and print materials their children select.
- Opposes using children and/or their personal information to gather data to be used as a marketing tool.
- Supports efforts by parents, broadcast media, content providers, and the FCC to support, monitor, and improve the quality of children's programming and productions.
- Urges rating systems for recorded music, television programming, movies and interactive video games to alert parents as to objectionable content contained in such.
- Actively seek the vigorous enforcement of current obscenity laws, laws precluding the use of children in pornography and the prohibiting the distribution of pornographic materials to children.
- Firmly opposes the exploitation and/or use of children in suggestive and seductive commercials.
- Will work to increase awareness of the impact of television, video games, music and movie violence on the children of this nation and encourage development of programs to assist families and children in using critical viewing skills.
- Supports efforts to encourage broadcasters of network and cable stations to refrain from showing adult films and programming during hours when children are at home and during the early evening.
- This position statement was written to update and combine resolutions and position statements concerning "Mass Media". The original resolutions and position statements will be archived in the Historical Records as reference on this issue.
Mass Media, Rating Systems for Records, Tapes and Cassettes; Reaffirmation of 1973 and 1977 Resolutions on Obscene and Pornographic Materials; Children, Adolescents and the Media, Television Viewing Skills Development and Improvement of the Quality of TV Programs for Children


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The Rilpivirine Cerebrospinal-fluid (CSF) Study
This study has been completed.
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This is a phase I pharmacokinetic study of HIV positive patients stable on antiretroviral therapy who will switch treatment when enrolled from nevirapine to rilpivirine. On day 60 of the study the participants will attend clinic where they will have blood collected followed by a lumbar puncture where cerebrospinal fluid will be collected to measure drug concentration. The participants will then restart their original regime with nevirapine.
|Drug: Rilpivirine
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|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
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|A Phase I Pharmacokinetic Study to Assess the Cerebrospinal-fluid (CSF) Exposure of Rilpivirine in HIV-infected Subjects Switching From TDF/FTC/Nevirapine to TDF/FTC/Rilpivirine
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Further study details as provided by Imperial College London:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- CSF:Plasma Ratio of Rilpivirine Levels [ Time Frame: Day 60 ]The levels of rilpivirine will be measured in the cerebral spinal fluid and plasma after 60 days of exposure
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Number of Subjects With HIV Viral Load Above 50 Copies Per mL [ Time Frame: Day 3,14, 28, 60, 80-100 ]Plasma viral load will be measured at all study visits to assess if viral load is above the lower limit of detection (50 copies mL)
|Study Start Date:
|March 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Rilpivirine and Truvada
TDF/FTC (Truvada™) one tablet once plus Rilpivirine 25 mg daily
Drug: Rilpivirine
Rilpivirine 26mg
Other Name: Edurant
Detailed Description:
To investigate the following parameters in HIV-infected patients switching antiretroviral therapy from TDF/FTC/nevirapine to TDF/FTC/rilpivirine for 60 days:
- CSF exposure and CSF : plasma ratio of rilpivirine
- Safety and tolerability of switching antiretroviral therapy from TDF/FTC/nevirapine to TDF/FTC/rilpivirine
- Changes in cerebral metabolites measured via 1-H MRS after switching antiretroviral therapy to TDF/FTC/rilpivirine
- Seminal fluid exposure of rilpivirine
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-1 infected males subjects
- signed informed consent
- willing to switch therapy as per study protocol
- no previous exposure to rilpivirine
- plasma HIV RNA < 50 copies/mL at screening and on at least one other occasion over the last 3 months
- currently receiving a stable antiretroviral regimen comprising of TDF/FTC with nevirapine with nevirapine dosed either 200 mg twice daily or 400 mg once daily with no antiretroviral drug switches for at least 3 months
- no clinically-significant resistance documented on any prior HIV-1 genotypic resistance testing
- subjects in good health upon medical history, physical exam, and laboratory testing
- BMI above or equal to 18 and below 32
- Male subjects who are heterosexually active must use two forms of barrier contraception (e.g., condom and diaphragm) during heterosexual intercourse, from screening through completion of the study.
- Have local screening laboratory results (haematology and chemistry that fall within the normal range of the central laboratory's reference ranges unless the results have been determined by the Investigator to have no clinical significance
- No contraindications to having a lumbar puncture examination found on MRI of the brain
Exclusion Criteria:
- current alcohol abuse or drug dependence
- positive urine drug of abuse screening
- active opportunistic infection or significant co-morbidities
- current disallowed concomitant medication (as listed in section 4.1.3)
- contraindication to MR examination or lumbar puncture examination
- recent head injury (in last 30 days) or chronic ongoing neurological diseases
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: NCT01562886
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01562886
|United Kingdom
|Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
|London, United Kingdom, W2 1NY
Sponsors and Collaborators
Imperial College London
Janssen-Cilag Ltd.
|Principal Investigator:
|Alan Winston, MBChB MD
|Imperial College London
More Information
Keywords provided by Imperial College London:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Imperial College London
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01562886 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2011-004026-98 ( EudraCT Number )
|Study First Received:
|March 22, 2012
|Results First Received:
|May 19, 2014
|Last Updated:
|May 19, 2014
Keywords provided by Imperial College London:
Rilpivirine CSF pharmacokinetics
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Anti-HIV Agents
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Inge en route to camp, may have value as reserve
BRADENTON, Fla. -- The big parade of Pirates on the official reporting day for position players consisted of Neil Walker, Starling Marte and non-roster outfielder Brad Hawpe, who on Thursday were the only newcomers into the clubhouse.
The only absentee not checking in was Brandon Inge, who signed a Minor League contract only on Wednesday and was en route by car from Michigan.
Inge has already been told not to come with unrealistic expectations by manager Clint Hurdle, who nevertheless sounded like there will be a definite role for the 35-year-old veteran infielder who can also catch.
"When I talked to him, I was very transparent, let him know the opportunity to break camp as a starter is [unlikely], unless there are injuries," Hurdle said. "But to come in and be able to help off the bench, the value in the National League of double-switching, and to give us that experience if somebody does go down and we have to go to a Plan B. There's a lot to like, with the intangibles as well as the tangibles. He's been a very good component on winning teams."
Additionally, pitcher Stolmy Pimentel is still trying to obtain his visa in his native Dominican Republic.
Otherwise, all hands were on deck as batterymen went through their third workout. The first full-squad drills will electrify Pirate City on Friday.
The club will have seven days of workouts leading up to next Friday's Black and Gold game, the only intrasquad game on the slate. Grapefruit League play will commence the following day, with a 1:05 p.m. ET game in Port Charlotte,Fla., against the Rays.


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Federal Court Activity
Over the past decade, individuals, NGOs, trade associations, communities and even whole nations are increasingly using the federal courts as a venue to address climate change. While some claimants bring suit to enforce or clarify existing laws and regulations, others seek relief from the detrimental effects of increased carbon dioxide emissions. Still others challenge the very legitimacy of climate change law and regulation. How the courts handle these cases can and will continue to fundamentally impact industry, government, law, policy, and the environment.
The following exemplifies the most relevant case law impacting climate change activities of the last decade. Taken together, they illustrate the main challenges plaintiffs have used to bring suit, the core legal defenses that opponents have presented, and the ways in which the federal judiciary is approaching climate change litigation
Click on the links below to view case summaries within each respective area of litigation.
Clean Air Act/Pre-emption Cases
In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. The Court made clear that the Environmental Protection Agency could regulate Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act, if the Administrator made a determination that greenhouse gas emissions were a danger to human health. In 2009, EPA did just that, and found that greenhouse gases (along with six other air pollutants) threatened the health and welfare of present and future generations. Prior to these findings, parties brought legal challenges questioning whether the Clean Air Act applied to greenhouse gas emissions at all. More recently, challengers questioned whether actions taken by EPA to regulate emissions were outside of their legal authority. Still others have challenged whether federal action (via EPA and the Clean Air Act) preempts states from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. The following cases illustrate these arguments and the associated court holding.
Common Law Nuisance Claims
Perhaps the most difficult challenge confronting plaintiffs in climate change litigation is the problem of demonstrating that the emission of GHGs to the atmosphere by a particular activity or facility will give rise to specific impacts on a local area or population. Proving causation, a causal link between the defendants activities and the plaintiffs harm, seems to be a daunting challenge. In the last decade, parties have used a tort (a civil wrong) called nuisance (a legal inconvenience resulting in damage) to challenge defendant corporations whose activities result in large amounts of GHGs being released into the atmosphere, which allegedly lead to global warming events that result in damages. The following cases illustrate how plaintiffs have you used the federal common law nuisance and how the courts have responded.
National Environmental Policy Act Cases
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) established a U.S. national policy promoting environmental improvementt. Of significance, NEPA set up procedural requirements for all federal government agencies to prepare Environmental Assessments (EAs) and Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) whenever environmental effects of a federal project cross a certain threshold. EAs and EISs contain statements of the environmental effects of proposed federal agency actions. The following cases illustrate challenges against government agencies who have allegedly failed to sufficiently analyze or disclose information about the implications of their projects and programs as they relate to climate change.
Clean Water Act Cases
Oceans readily absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants and other human activities. In turn, the CO2 causes seawater to become more acidic, lowering its pH level. This process, known as ocean acidification, impairs the ability of marine animals to build the protective shells and skeletons they need to survive. Certain provisions of the Clean Water Act require EPA to protect waters from pollution, such as ocean acidification. In the following cases, challengers have alleged that the Environmental Protection Agency, in failing to recognize the impacts of ocean acidification on waters, have violated the Clean Water Act.
Renewable Fuels Standards Cases
EPA's 2012 Renewable fuels standards require gasoline producers and importers to displace a certain percentage of their total gasoline production with the purchase of cellulosic biofuels.The following case is a challenge brought against the EPA for its 2012 Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) volume mandate. Specifically, it challenges the reasonableness of EPA's decision to require refiners to blend domestic fuel with cellulosic ethanol or pay a penalty.
Public Trust Doctrine Cases
The Public Trust Doctrine imposes a legal duty on the U.S. Government to hold vital natural resources in 'trust' for present and future generations, including protecting the trust asset from damage or loss. In the following cases, plaintiffs claimed that the atmosphere, including the air, is one of the crucial assets protected by the Public Trust Doctrine, and that defendant federal agencies have allowed, facilitated, and contributed to the waste of trust assets, including the atmosphere, by allowing it to become polluted with high levels of human-caused CO2.
Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) aims to protect species and the ecosystems upon which they depend. It is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Commerce Department's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Under the ESA, species may be listed as either endangered or threatened. "Endangered" means a species is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range. "Threatened" means a species is likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future.
The Obama Administration has repeatedly stated that the ESA is not an adequate or proper legal mechanism to regulate GHGs. However, the effects of climate change are far reaching. On March 1, 2013, the D.C. Circuit upheld the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) decision to list polar bears as a threatened species under the ESA after the agency determined that climate change threatens the bear's habitat and range. In particular the polar bear's primary habitat, sea ice, is rapidly decreasing as a result of climate change.


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November 22 2007 03:25PM
There's been very little attention to the return of Ryan Smyth, other than this article from the Edmonton Journal.
The OilersNation wanted to make sure that the mullet man's return didn't go unnoticed. Smyth coming back again to town is like seeing an ex-girlfriend for the second time after you've broken up. She's still looking good (6 goals, 7 assists for 13 points in 20 games) and you can't quite believe it's over. You aren't quite as upset as the first time you saw her out on the town, but it still hurts.
As the people who brought you bring94home.com last year, we're proud represent the thousands of fans that Ryan has still in town. We never should have been traded Smytty, and the team and the city will never be the same without him.
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Marc Gasol to launch health challenge for kids in Memphis
Summer-long competition between Marc's team of kids and team of kids in Los Angeles led by Pau Gasol of the Los Angeles Lakers to see who can live a healthier summer. Coach of Losing team will be forced to shave beard.
In conjunction with the upcoming launch of the Gasol Foundation, dedicated to empowering young people to live healthier lives, Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol hosted a pep rally with local middle schoolers at the Porter Goodwill Branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis.
At the kickoff event, Marc encouraged the kids to spend their summer engaging in healthy activities and lead his team's first event of the summer.
The competition, called "The Healthy Competition 2013," running from June 10-Aug. 2, will pit Marc's team against his brother Pau's team in Los Angeles to see which team can live a healthier summer.
"The Healthy Competition" program will encourage students to eat healthy and engage in increased physical activity throughout the summer.
Each team will be gifted Nike FuelBands (retail $149) to track their daily activity and monitor their team's overall progress. The winning team, announced on Aug. 2, will receive a special prize and the losing coach will have to shave his beard.
ABOUT THE GASOL FOUNDATION: - Created in 2013, the Gasol Foundation is dedicated to empowering young people to live healthier lives. Through events and ongoing programs, the Foundation will work to reduce childhood obesity through three core areas of development: increased physical activity in school, increased physical activity in communities and healthy affordable food. The Gasol Foundation aims to create a world where all children will enter adulthood physically and mentally equipped to live successful, healthy and productive lives. Created by brothers, philanthropists and NBA athletes Marc and Pau Gasol, the Gasol Foundation is focusing its initial emphasis on school-age children in their respective NBA cities, Memphis and Los Angeles.


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By creating a new and innovative way to look at massive amounts of patient data worldwide, one man hopes he can change the way public health crises are managed, as Cynthia Graber reports.
Imagine you are a foreign aid worker trying to persuade a senior politician in a developing world country to introduce a pneumococcus vaccination programme. It's not just a case of stressing how the bacterium causes diseases including pneumonia, meningitis, and sinusitis, and kills over a million children under the age of five every year worldwide. The politician has to decide how to allocate scant resources. How does the death toll compare with malaria and AIDS? Aren't road traffic accidents a bigger problem? Has vaccination been a success in neighbouring countries?
These statistics exist, but you don't have the relevant reports and academic papers to hand. And even when you do have the information, a list of numbers may not the best way to express the strength of your case.
By creating new and innovative visual displays out of oceans of data, Christopher Murray hopes his tool can change this situation for the better. Called GBD Compare, users can rapidly determine which diseases are most harmful to children in Africa, or view how the developing and developed worlds compare in terms of heart disease, all with a few clicks of a computer mouse.
The data viz tool processes data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) report, which compiles statistics, charts and graphs on causes of death and disease. "The thing that's really neat about the visualisations is they allow people to see the problem in context – in the context of all the other problems, how it's changing over time, how it compares to other countries," says Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics Evaluation (IMHE), based in Seattle.
When Murray shows this tool to people outside the academic world of public health, Murray says, they immediately get it. "That just totally changes who you can engage in a thoughtful discussion about what are the key health problems and where they're going," he says.
The new tool has the enthusiastic backing of no less an advocate than Bill Gates, and, just three months after its launch, it's already leading to changes in health policies.
Hands-on help
Murray's interest in international public health was sparked at age 10, in 1973, when his father, then a cardiologist at the University of Minnesota, decided to take a sabbatical year and volunteer in Africa. The family raised donations, flew to the UK, bought a couple of Land Rovers, and, recalls Murray, drove out across the Sahara to eastern Niger to take over a hospital that had been built but never opened.
"We all had jobs," says Murray. "Mine was – being at the bottom of the totem pole there – in charge of the pharmacy." While his father met with patients and wrote prescriptions, the young Murray organised and stored the pills and dished the appropriate ones out. That year overseas was "extraordinarily influential on everyone in the family," says Murray. His parents repeatedly returned to volunteer in Africa, and both his siblings now work in health. Murray went on to study medicine and health economics, eventually working for the World Health Organization (WHO) and heading Harvard University's Initiative for Global Health.
In 1991, the World Bank sought his help in creating a comprehensive policy document on international health problems. The result of Murray's partnership with Alan Lopez at the WHO was the first GBD. The GBD released official health statistics on the burden of disease, beginning with 1990 data on 50 causes of death across seven international regions. A decade later, the team once again compiled health data for the WHO, along with legions of maps, charts, and graphs, based primarily on what the authors thought would be useful.
The latest version of the GBD is both bigger and better. For one thing it includes more than a billion pieces of information covering 291 causes of injury, disease, and death, for 187 countries, measured in 1990, 2000 and 2010 (published in a traditional form in a series of studies in the Lancet in December).
More radically, the team (now overseen by the IHME, which Murray founded in 2007 and still heads) has now made the information accessible to a wider audience by presenting it in visually engaging ways on an interactive website. Launched in March, their visualisation tool shows causes of disease, injury and death within a rectangular pie chart made up of blocks whose sizes are proportional to the numbers they represent.
Categories are highlighted in different coloured blocks, which are sub-divided into specific causes in different shades, according to whether they are on the increase or decrease. Red signifies communicable diseases, such as malaria or diarrhoea, as well as maternal, neo-natal and nutritional disorders. Blue is for non-communicable diseases, including cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, while injuries are represented in green.
Users can select the entire developing world, for example, and pull the lever from 1990 to 2010 to see that communicable diseases overall have decreased as a percentage of mortality. They can view metrics across the whole world, regions or individual countries, focus in on specific time frames and ages, or look at outcomes for men or women only. Other visualisations allow comparisons and rankings of causes of death, disease and injury in different countries.
Raw power
Projects on this scale have only recently become possible thanks to the enormous increase in data, greater computing power, and new ways of doing statistical analyses, according to Peter Speyer, data director at IMHE. "The technology was not advanced enough even five years ago to have an easy way to visualise all this data," he says.
The initial spark of inspiration came in the autumn of 2010 when Kyle Foreman, then working as a research fellow at the IMHE as part of his Masters degree in public health at the University of Washington, got fed up with boring charts. Foreman taught himself D3, the program the team still uses to create the visualisation, and made a prototype for internal use.
"It didn't take long before we realised just how powerful these tools are," says Murray. "That's when we realised that we needed to invest in doing this in a way that everyone could use."
The effort to collect and interpret the data was immense. Speyer says that in addition to the nearly 500 official authors from 50 countries, the IMHE worked with thousands of organisations around the world to access the data.
Despite that, it's not perfect. The results are only as good as the data collected on the ground, and Murray has heard occasional criticisms. "There are always people saying, 'No, you haven't done a fair job for blindness, or you haven't got cholesterol right in Indonesia because you missed my favorite study'," he says.
That's an easy fix, he says. If and when new data becomes available, his team can integrate it. There are also plans for more general updates at least once a year. Some problems, however, can't be solved by larger data sets. For instance, some scientists claim that malaria is over-diagnosed in hospital deaths in Africa. "That's a tough one to deal with," adds Murray. "You have all the data on one side and expert opinions on the other. The bottom line is, we won't really know until more studies are done."
The tool is already leading to policy changes. Researchers in the UK teamed up with Murray to produce a report on how it compared with 19 other wealthy countries, in both 1990 and 2010. Published in March in The Lancet, the study demonstrates the UK has successfully reduced cancer deaths, but lags behind in addressing cardiovascular disease and tackling the increasing rates of alcohol- and drug-related illnesses.
Collective forces
"From a policy perspective, that's extremely important," says Sir Michael Richards, director for reducing premature mortality at National Health Service England. "Instead of saying how fantastic it is that we've improved, this says that we've still got a lot to do if we want to be among the best in the world."
Chinese scientists have also worked with the IMHE to compare health statistics in their country today with those from 20 years ago, and to other major economies in the G20. In a study published in the Lancet earlier this month, the team found that while China has made rapid improvements in reducing infant mortality and improving life expectancy, it is facing a growth in diseases related to poor diets, high blood pressure, tobacco use, and environmental and household air pollution.
The tool has proven so useful that other countries are now working with the IMHE to collect and analyse their own health outcomes on the regional level within each country. Murray says Indonesia's minister of health and office of the President are "very excited about the visualisations" and want to drill down into local results with a larger team of Indonesian researchers. China, Australia, Brazil and the UK are also interested in more detailed, within-country versions, and the government of Saudi Arabia has begun a new collaboration with the IMHE to track the health of its citizens and inform future policy decisions.
For now, the website is designed with policy makers in mind – government officials and scientists. Some curious non-experts may feel a little overwhelmed by the volume of information available. For these people, the team is considering adding a simpler layer that will be even more accessible for the general public, "taking away all the complicated controls, the great degree of detail, and just hammering home key points," says Speyer. The goal, he continues, is to "make it more intuitive and more fun," to encourage even more people to engage with the data.
Bill Gates, whose foundation funds both the IMHE and the GBD, raved about the site during a speech to mark its launch at his foundation's headquarters in Seattle, calling it "one of the best efforts that has been done" in data visualisation.
He went on to stress how important it is in the work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which seeks to improve healthcare and reduce extreme poverty internationally, by, for example trying to convince the governments of countries including India to adopt the pneumococcus vaccine.
"When you have a tool like this, you can even drill down and see the various studies that have been built up to support this information," said Gates. "This is going to help us tell that story and get better health policies more rapidly than we've been able to do in the past."
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Kolene Corp., founded in downtown Detroit in 1939 by John Shoemaker, celebrates its 75th anniversary in March 2014.
Kolene Corp., founded in downtown Detroit in 1939 by John Shoemaker, celebrates its 75th anniversary in March 2014.
Built on a strong foundation of solving difficult manufacturing cleaning challenges, Kolene has a diverse portfolio of process technologies. The combination of chemistry, equipment, and service allows Kolene to supply turn-key metal cleaning systems to a wide variety of manufacturers. Industries served by Kolene – both domestic and international – include specialty steel mills, aerospace, defense, transportation, foundries, and general manufacturing.
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Bautista homers in fifth straight game
TORONTO -- Jose Bautista has moved within one of the Blue Jays' franchise record for most consecutive games with a home run.
Bautista homered during the sixth inning of Sunday afternoon's 4-3 victory over the Yankees. It marked the fifth straight game in which Bautista homered, and history is now within his sights.
Jose Cruz Jr. holds the all-time Toronto record with home runs in six consecutive games from Sept. 29 - Oct. 5, 2001. Bautista will have a chance to tie that on Tuesday night against the Rays.
"That's so hard to do what he's doing," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "He is in a nice little groove. I think he is waiting his at-bats out for a pitch to hit.
"He's using that left-center-field gap pretty good -- that shows you he's on the ball, he's not spinning off it. That's where he runs into trouble. He's a good hitter. It's tough to hit [homers in five games] in a row, but he's a guy that can do that."
Six of Bautista's last eight hits have gone over the wall. He's one shy of hitting 30 home runs for the first time since 2011, and needs three more to become the fifth player in franchise history with 200 homers.
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Another Way to Cut Down on Cell Radiation: Handset Attachments
We told you earlier about how cell phones are now labeled as "carcinogenic" by the WHO, but there are ways to cut down your risk. If you don't want to use the speakerphone or an in-car Bluetooth device, you can always pick up one of these Moshi Moshi Pop Phone ($30) attachments and make like someone from the '90s with a giant mobile phone.
This attachment works with any 3.5mm jack (like the iPhone), but can be used on most mobile devices with an appropriate adapter. Since it keeps your toxic cell phone away from your skull, you're less likely to absorb harmful radiation. Bonus — you can even use for your VoIP calls (i.e. Skype and Google Video Chat) and plug it right into your computer. I'd love to see someone pulling this thing out of their bag. If you do get one, post a pic of you using it on our Facebook page!


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Control Made Seamless
The AC 800M Provides Seamless Execution of Advanced and Process Control Strategies as Well as Safety, Electrical, Quality Control and Power Management Applications
Achieving seamless integration of the many different control disciplines required to run a modern processing facility has in many ways never been easier. If one is lucky enough to start from scratch, today's most capable controller platforms are both open and scalable, and can natively address a broad range of disciplines that traditionally required separate systems, often from different suppliers. And if legacy systems are a necessary part of the application mix, those same multi-functional controllers offer an unprecedented ability to seamlessly communicate over a broad range of digital protocols.
In the case of ABB, the System 800xA's flagship controller, the AC 800M, provides the ability to integrate a broad range of networks, fieldbuses, serial protocols and input/output (I/O) subsystems. It provides seamless execution of advanced and process control strategies as well as safety, electrical, quality control and power management applications. The platform's extensive portfolio of communications modules also enables seamless integration of legacy controllers from ABB and other companies, as well as "non-traditional" automation devices, such as intelligent electrical devices (IEDs) via the IEC 61850 standard.
This flexible, unified field network architecture supports improved visibility and enhanced device diagnostics as well as distributed applications such as control in the field. Significant benefits can be achieved including improved process integrity, higher availability, and open and scalable information integration across the plant
Twelve Buses, One Controller
At the level of field instrumentation, a variety of standards-based fieldbus and, more recently, wireless networks provides an efficient means of gathering both process and diagnostic data from intelligent field devices. Once within the control system network, this data can be used for control and visualization as well as for condition monitoring, asset optimization or other non-control applications. From an architectural standpoint, it is important that one's control system offer the flexibility to communicate over any of the standard fieldbus and wireless protocols, allowing ultimate freedom of choice depending on a particular application's technical and business requirements.
From a practical standpoint, too, various instruments and field devices may communicate over a more limited range of standard protocols either because of their specialized nature or even country of origin. Further, there is an enormous opportunity today to integrate intelligent devices that have not traditionally been part of the process automation mix.
Setting the capabilities curve on this particular measure is ABB's System 800xA AC 800M controller, which can mix and match incoming information from any combination of up to 12 direct fieldbus connections. These module options include those for serial communications, Modbus TCP, Profibus DP, Profinet, Foundation Fieldbus, EtherNet/IP and IEC 61850 as well as ABB's own Masterbus 300, S100 I/O, Trio I/O, Satt I/O, INSUM and DriveBus protocols. Intrinsically safe I/O, SIL-rated I/O, and modular packaging options allow maximum flexibility in terms of I/O deployment.
Supporting this broad range of fieldbus options delivers significant value to the end users in the form of both capital expenditure savings (wiring, footprint and weight) and operational expenditure savings (heating and cooling, design flexibility and implementation of asset management and maintenance strategies). These protocols enable integration of data and devices from almost any compliant source. Further, the controller architecture is designed to allow individual controllers to see information from nearly anywhere on the entire network; there's no need for the individual controller-dedicated I/O structures of the past.
System 800xA also leverages the WirelessHART communication standard to wirelessly capture process variables and diagnostic data. WirelessHART data can be used within any System 800xA control or monitoring application, and for advanced asset optimization and maintenance strategies. System 800xA's WirelessHART integration, combined with ABB Instrumentation WirelessHART adapters and wireless consulting services offerings, delivers the complete package necessary to help users implement solutions tailored to their needs.
ABB's longer term vision of field networking acknowledges the convergence of field networks on the same Ethernet standards, including Foundation HSE, Profinet and IEC 61850. Since all of these protocols utilize the same Ethernet physical layer—whether copper, fiber or wireless–these different protocols can exist simultaneously on the same physical network infrastructure.
Leverage OPC for Controller Integration
One step up from the field, at the application level, consider an architecture that leverages the full suite of OPC standards—from OPC DA (Data Acquisition) to AE (Alarms & Events) to HDA (History Data Access)—to provide a consistent means of integrating third-party process controllers, including programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and other devices. New developments in OPC UA (Unifed Architecture) also are perfectly suited due to the object oriented, hierarchical structure of System 800xA
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There's more to this French sea haven than a film fest, as gay travelers know
Last week, we profiled the French Riviera gay hub of Nice, but smaller, neighboring Cannes may be even more famous. Renowned for its legendary film festival each spring, Cannes curves gently around a sheltered bay, its glamorous hotels and swanky beach bars strung like jewels along La Croisette promenade, it has an increasingly visible LGBT community (Cannes Rainbow promotes gay tourism to the area).
This city of about 80,000 is perfect for strolling and window shopping, rife as it is with antiques and food markets as well as luxury boutiques and department stores.
To get your blood flowing, climb the steep, narrow streets to Suquet hill for majestic views of the harbor, and then walk back down through Old Town, perhaps stopping at a sidewalk café for lunch.
Set aside a half-day for taking a passenger ferry across the harbor to the Lerins Islands, the most famous of which is Île Sainte-Marguerite, home to the famed 17th-century Fort Royal, the cliff-top fortress (now a museum) in which the legendary Man in the Iron Mask was imprisoned in the 1600s. The island is also home to the excellent (seasonal) open-air restaurant, La Guerite, which serves superb seafood, including the addictively delicious tiny fried fishes, called blanchaille.
Wine is, of course, important to French culture, and rosé is the most commonly produced wine in Provence — locals consume it happily at virtually every meal. If you're looking to pick up a bottle or two, check out the outstanding La Cave Bianchi wine shop in Cannes. The town also has some favorite gay restaurants, including breezy Restaurant le Vegaluna along the beach; see-and-be-seen Le Sparkling et son Club, which is also fun for pre-clubbing cocktails; and Barbarella, a romantic spot with sidewalk seating in at Old Town.
For gay nightlife in Cannes, the intimate and rather ancient Zanzibar tavern makes a nice starting point, perhaps before heading to the city's top gay venue, trendy Le Night Disco. Also, the nightclub and casino Palm Beach Cannes occasionally hosts gay parties and is always very LGBT-welcoming.
You'll find a nice mix of swanky seaside hotels and affordable gay B&Bs throughout the region. Movie stars in Cannes regularly nest at the stunning Carlton Inter-Continental Hotel — many suites are named for luminaries from Sean Penn to Elton John. The gay-popular Hôtel 3.14 lies just around the corner and is notable for its over-the-top quirky rooms — floors have fun, if bizarre, themes like American pop art and Moroccan chic. The rooftop pool is a wonderful place to while away an afternoon.
Picasso's stomping grounds
You don't have to plant yourself in only the two biggest cities in the region to have a gay ol' time. Between Cannes and Nice, you can visit a pair of lovely communities, Vallauris Golfe-Juan and Antibes, whose Roman fortifications overlook the largest pleasure-boat harbor in Europe. A walk through Old Town's narrow lanes leads to the exceptional Picasso Museum, outside of which a small sculpture garden looks over the sea. Around the corner you'll find the city's famous city market, which hums with activity and sells everything from fresh peaches to stuffed rabbits.
Vallauris Golfe-Juan, where Picasso lived for many years, has boasted a reputation for pottery-making that dates back 2,000 years. It's home to several art museums, including the amusingly offbeat Museum of Kitsch, a celebration of jade-hued ceramic poodles and tropical-fish ashtrays. More esteemed attractions include the Castle Museum complex, which comprises three distinct art museums, including the National Picasso Museum "War and Peace" (with massive murals by Picasso).
Finally, there's Espace Jean Marais, a gallery celebrating the sculpture (and film career) of the celebrated gay actor Marais, once the lover and muse of Jean Cocteau.
In the leafy, inviting Juan les Pins section of Antibes, the gay-friendly Hôtel Juana and Hôtel Belles Rives — which have the same owners and are within walking distance of each other — make excellent bases for exploring the entire Riviera. Hotel Belles Rives, in which F. Scott Fitzgerald lived while writing Tender is the Night, is the more historic and atmospheric of the two, and it's home to the exceptional restaurant, La Passagere. Up in the hilly Vence, the gay-owned La Maison du Frêne is an exquisitely decorated B&B whose stunning rooms are hung with bold, playful contemporary art — it's a perfect hideaway for a romantic vacation.
Two nearby interior villages of note include the medieval town of Vence, whose delightful village center is home to Chapelle du Rosaire, which contains stained-glass by Henri Matisse, and nearby Saint-Paul de Vence, a walled, medieval hilltop town whose cobblestone alleys are lined with art galleries, open-air cafes, and fashionable boutiques. Be sure to walk through the cemetery in which artist Marc Chagall is buried — he lived here late in life, as did the gay American novelist James Baldwin. Down the hill, check out the Maeght Foundation museum, whose grounds and galleries are filled with dramatic, large-scale contemporary art installations and sculptures.
— Andrew Collins
This article appeared in the Dallas Voice print edition September 23, 2011.


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jamsisjams wrote:According to Innova's speed chart, the Viper is right on the cusp between mid-range and fairway driver.Thatdirtykid wrote:viper was/is a driver. just about as slow as they come. I believe they have been thrown to or at least almost 500'
Still, I can see a 500' throw from someone with good form and such.
i am refering more to its shape than its speed necessarily. And it seems to be slightly under rated in speed on innovas chart, i would put it in similar flight/speed to an X clone, or a notch slower than a Banshee


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Although Andrew Carnegie's Music Hall officially opened on May 5, 1891, the very first notes played within its four walls emanated from a piano played by Franz Rummel, who performed in the lower-level Recital Hall (located where Zankel Hall sits today) a little more than a month earlier, on April 1.
The total cost of the land and construction was $1 million. Excavation began in June 1889, and the cornerstone was laid on May 13, 1890.
William Burnet Tuthill was the architect for Carnegie Hall, the first and only concert hall he designed.
Carnegie Hall's architect William Burnett Tuthill, an amateur cellist, studied European concert halls famous for their acoustics, and consulted with architect Dankmar Adler, of the Chicago firm Adler and Sullivan, a noted acoustical authority. Drawing on his findings (and in some cases his own intuition), he eliminated common theatrical features like heavy curtains, frescoed walls, and chandeliers that could impair good sound distribution. Carnegie Hall's smooth interior, elliptical shape, slightly extended stage, and domed ceiling help project soft and loud tones alike to any location in the hall with equal clarity and richness.
More than 46,000 events have taken place in Carnegie Hall's three auditoriums since 1891.
Since our records are not 100% complete, and we do not
always have access to accurate biographical data on performers, the question of
youngest or oldest to appear at Carnegie Hall will most likely remain forever
unanswered. Drawing upon the information
we do have, we can say that on April 19, 1900, four-year-old Lolita Val de
Cabrera Gainsborg played piano in Carnegie Chamber Music Hall (today's Weill
Recital Hall). On May 21, 1991, five-year-old David Gil played piano on the Cavalcade
of Stars benefit concert in the main hall (today's Stern Auditorium
/ Perelman Stage). On April 20, 2014, five-year-old Jivan Ramesh played cello in Weill Recital Hall as part of a student's competition winners recital. Pianist Eubie Blake was just weeks shy of his 98th birthday when he performed on the January 20, 1981, event One Night Stand: A Keyboard Concert. These performers are
among the youngest and oldest that we know of.
The New York Philharmonic has given more than 5,000 concerts at Carnegie Hall. The individual artist with the most performances is conductor Walter Damrosch, who appeared on nearly 850 concerts.
The origin of the joke will probably always remain a mystery, but the best explanation we've heard comes from the wife of violinist Mischa Elman. One day, after a rehearsal that hadn't pleased Elman, the couple was leaving Carnegie Hall by the backstage entrance when they were approached by two tourists looking for the hall's entrance. Seeing his violin case, they asked, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" Without looking up and continuing on his way, Elman simply replied, "Practice."
Although the Carnegie family pronounces their name CarNEgie (as befits their Scottish roots), the concert hall has always been known as CARnegie Hall.
Bill Haley and his Comets appeared in a variety benefit concert on May 6, 1955.
Jazz in its earliest form came to Carnegie Hall on May 2, 1912, with a performance by James Reese Europe and his Clef Club Orchestra. W. C. Handy presented an important early concert on April 27, 1928, featuring Fats Waller on piano and organ.
On February 13, 1893, African American soprano Sissieretta Jones performed in the main hall (today's Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage), having previously appeared in the lower-level Recital Hall (today's Zankel Hall) on June 15, 1892. In April and May 1892, pianist WT Talbert gave two recitals in the Chamber Music Hall (today's Weill Recital Hall). While little is known about Talbert, we believe he may have been Thad Talbert, brother-in-law to Mary Burnett Talbert, a founder of the NAACP. Sharing his recital programs were Tillie Jones Thomas, soprano; Deseria Plato, mezzo-soprano; George Boardley, tenor; Walter Craig, violinist; and Henry T. Burleigh, noted composer, pianist, and baritone.
Hip-hop pioneers Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Melle Mel performed on a benefit concert on October 31, 1985, for the political documentary film, A Matter of Struggle.


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Correction: Spaceport-Will They Come? story
In a story Sept. 22 about Spaceport America, The Associated Press reported erroneously the cost of the project to taxpayers. The cost was $209 million, not $209 billion. Full story
In a story Sept. 22 about Spaceport America, The Associated Press reported erroneously the cost of the project to taxpayers. The cost was $209 million, not $209 billion. Full story
Lagging development, along with competition from Florida and Texas, is raising new questions about the viability of New Mexico's $209 million taxpayer-funded Spaceport America. Full story
The private spaceflight company Armadillo Aerospace is taking a close look at the results from its latest rocket test in the New Mexico desert — a flight that hit a snag while testing a new launch and balloon parachute technologies. Full story
Billed as the nation's first dedicated commercial spaceport, New Mexico's Spaceport America is becoming a desirable location to experiment with new types of reusable booster systems. Full story
SPACE.com reporter Clara Moskowitz visited Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, N.M., a site that's billed as the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport. Here's what she saw during her October 2011 visit. Full story
Spaceport America, the world's first purpose-built commercial spaceport, is taking shape in southern New Mexico, not only as an outbound and incoming hub for tourists who ascend to and return from suborbital heights, but also as a high-tech haven for experimental craft that push new ways to access s Full story
Spaceport America's terminal and runway leave a futuristic mark on the New Mexico desert.
This picture provides a view of the parachute ballute deployment on Armadillo Aerospace's STIG-A III rocket, launched from Spaceport America on Jan. 28.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011, in Spaceport America / Elephant Butte, NM (Matthew Rivera / msnbc.com)
Guests stand oustside the new Spaceport America hanger Monday, Oct. 17, 2011 in Upham, N.M. British billionaire Richard Branson dedicated the newly completed terminal Monday where his Virgin Galactic is slated to begin his commercial space tourism venture from the remote patch of desert in Sierra Co