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Get an overview of this hotelBeachfront hotel with relaxing spa services
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Nestled on the beach, this Zion hotel is 1 mi (1.7 km) from Illinois Beach State Park and 2.8 mi (4.5 km) from Cancer Treatment Centers of America Midwestern Regional Medical Center. Greenshire Golf Course and Bonnie Brook Golf Course are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Hotel Features
At Illinois Beach Resort & Conf. Center, BW Premier Collection, relax by an indoor pool or hit the private sand beach where you can enjoy surfing/boogie boarding.
Room Amenities
All 92 rooms provide free WiFi, room service, and cable TV. Guests will also find coffee makers, video-game consoles, and hair dryers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Illinois Beach Resort & Conf. Center, BW Premier Collection
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Step outside to unwind on the sand beach. Summer fun is a breeze at Illinois Beach Resort & Conf. Center, BW Premier Collection with activities like surfing/boogie boarding, windsurfing, and kayaking.
The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. A computer station is located on site and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This beach hotel also offers a health club, a spa tub, and a sauna. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Illinois Beach Resort & Conf. Center, BW Premier Collection is a smoke-free property.
- Conference space size (meters) - 1394
- Number of meeting rooms - 12
- Conference center
- Billiards or pool table
- Conference space size (feet) - 15000
- Meeting rooms 12
- Sauna
- On private beach
- Television in common areas
- ATM/banking
- Indoor pool
- 24-hour front desk
- Arcade/game room
- Number of floors - 3
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Concierge services
- Conference space
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Health club
- Computer station
- Total number of rooms - 92
- Terrace
- Luggage storage
- Free long-term parking
- Free RV, bus, truck parking
- Free self parking
- Year Built 1956
- Smoke-free property
- Spa services on site
- Spa tub
- Free WiFi
- Restaurant
- Wedding services
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free long-term parking, Free self parking, Free RV, bus, truck parking
Room Amenities
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave (on request)
- Video-game console
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Designer toiletries
- Shower/tub combination
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Cable TV service
- Room service (limited hours)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
Cooked-to-order breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 11 AM.
Lakeside Restaurant - This beachfront restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
A private beach and a health club are featured at the hotel. An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a fitness center.
Children under 18 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool, health club, or fitness facility without adult supervision. Guests under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa tub.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Fitness classes on site
- Hiking/biking trails on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Beach volleyball on site
- Beach yoga on site
- Downhill skiing nearby
- Snowboarding nearby
- Snowmobiling nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Ski lessons available nearby
- Ski equipment rental shops nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Ecotours on site
- Fishing on site
- Kayaking on site
- Mountain biking on site
- Cross-country skiing on site
- Snowshoeing on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Volleyball on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Sledding on site
- Snow tubing nearby
- Ziplining nearby
- Boat tours nearby
Spa Services
- Body treatments
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Massages
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- In-room accessibility
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 21
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 3 children 16 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 20.00 per pet, per day, plus a deposit of USD 50.00 per stay
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between USD 4.95 and USD 15.95 for adults, USD 4.95 and USD 9.95 for children (approximately)
- Pet deposit: USD 50.00 per stay
- Pet fee: USD 20.00 per pet, per day
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
Hotel Name
- Illinois Beach
- Illinois Beach Resort
- Illinois Beach Hotel Zion
- Illinois Beach Resort And Conference Center Zion
- Illinois Beach Resort Conf. Center BW Premier Collection Zion
We should mention
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Up to 3 children 16 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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A while ago I was asked to stand in front of a group of people to articulately juggle moans about the current state of games journalism, advice on how to break into the career and some choice incandescent screams of 'The sky is falling. The sky is falling'. It went okay, more or less.
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Ewing, N.J. -- North Plainfield, N.J.-based Levin Management Corp. said Wednesday that Dollar Tree will open a store at Capitol Plaza, located in Ewing, N.J. The 13,810-sq.-ft. store is slated to open in the spring.
As well, a newly expanded Center for Allied Health & Nursing Education will celebrate its grand reopening at Capitol Plaza in March. The nursing school will be renamed Jersey College School of Nursing; it tripled its space to 30,000 sq. ft. in the shopping center, which is leased and managed by Levin.
Capitol Plaza's roster also includes anchor tenants Marshalls, Save-A-Lot, Harbor Freight Tools and Forman Mills. Other national and regional retailers include Ashley Stewart, Kicks USA, Foot Locker and GNC.


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I wish I could bring myself to do that, because I definitely think Ron Paul is the best man for the job.
Unfortunately in the current situation I feel too compelled to do my part to help remove the plague placed upon the American people 4 years ago by adding my vote to the person most likely to beat him.
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Led by Markakis' bat and glove, O's top Sale
CHICAGO -- Right fielder Nick Markakis ran, leaped and crashed into the wall, hitting the ground with a hard thud and robbing Conor Gillaspie of a go-ahead homer with a game-saving catch in the seventh inning. Then the 30-year-old Markakis -- after showing he had the ball -- nonchalantly got up, put his head down and trotted into the dugout alongside Adam Jones, as unassuming as possible.
But even the reserved Markakis couldn't shun the spotlight on Monday, as the longest-tenured Oriole took center stage in the first-place O's latest win. Led by Markakis' highlight-reel worthy grab and three-hit night -- he blasted a two-run homer as part of a five-run eighth inning -- the Orioles blew past the White Sox and their ace, Chris Sale, with an 8-2 series-opening victory.
"He's the rock," manager Buck Showalter said of Markakis, who became just the fourth left-handed hitter this season to put up a multihit effort off Sale. "He's as consistent a guy as you ever want to have. We've got a lot of guys who you know what you're getting when they walk through the door every day. Nick's one of those. I can't tell you how hard it is for a left-handed hitter to go up there and get two knocks off Chris Sale. You're going to get some things tested in your gut to hang in there."
The Orioles (71-52) -- who also got solo homers from J.J. Hardy and Nelson Cruz -- are doing their best to ensure that no one else in the American League East hangs around. Winner of eight of nine series coming in, Baltimore extended its divisional lead to 7 1/2 games with Monday's win.
"We go out there every day and play hard, one guy picks up the other, and we just feed off each other," said starter Bud Norris, who threw an impressive seven innings and was particularly dominant early. "It's a 25-man roster that's been getting the job done, and we are pretty excited about it."
Norris, who allowed just one baserunner and needed 64 pitches through six innings, got into some trouble in allowing a leadoff hit batsman and Alexei Ramirez's double. He got the next two outs, then Avisail Garcia singled into right field to plate two runs and bring Chicago within one. Gillaspie looked poised to give the Sox the lead, drilling a ball over the right-field fence, but he was denied by Markakis' wizardry.
"I didn't see a whole lot of it," Showalter said. "I saw the tail end of it and I said to myself, 'He caught that?' That was big. The score won't look like it, but obviously, that was a big play."
Markakis was also at the center of the offense, opening the game with a single, and singling and scoring on Steve Pearce's double in the fifth. The O's, who got on the board with Hardy's leadoff shot in the second inning, tallied three hits off Sale in the fifth in a frame that ended on Pearce's out call at the plate.
Sale, widely regarded as a strong candidate for the AL Cy Young Award, exited after six innings after the Orioles raising their batting average to .365 in two starts against him. The rest of baseball is batting .183 off him.
"They've proven that over the last couple of years, they can hit the ball out of the ballpark," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said of the Orioles. "They've got guys who can swing it. They're in first place for a reason. [Sale] wasn't necessarily on tonight, but they worked him over pretty good as far as getting him in situations. They have some guys that can hit some homers, and they did."
The O's scored five runs off the White Sox bullpen, including a bases-clearing double for Schoop and Markakis' blast off former Oriole Matt Lindstrom. Righty Brad Brach took over for Norris and tossed two scoreless frames to put the finishing touches on the win.
Brittany Ghiroli is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Britt's Bird Watch, and follow her on Facebook and Twitter @britt_ghiroli. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Earlier this month we took a look at the new Star Trek HeroClix: Tactics game by way of reviewing one of the upcoming countertop displays (see the review HERE). Bringing awesome Starfleet and Klingon ships from all eras of Trek to the miniature gaming table, Tactics lets you play fast-paced games utilizing the well-known (and easy to learn) basic rules and powers from standard HeroClix. And while the countertop booster set will provide you with entire fleets of ships to play and collect (28 in total), all you really need to get into the game is the Star Trek Tactics Starter Set, and thats what well be looking at today! Stay tuned for a surprise or two at the end of the review as well...
WizKids has been doing starter sets in HeroClix for a long time. With exclusive figures, maps, and the latest rules and information they are instantly popular with rookie and veteran players alike. Usually the figures are all members of one or two easily identifiable teams, with point costs that make out-of-the-box match ups easy. For Tactics, WizKids has followed this format to the letter, even throwing in some dice for the truly new players!
Everything you need to play Star Trek Tactics comes to you in a sleek clamshell package that effectively shows off the highlight of the set, the ships. With a J-hook backing, the starter set packs all of the rules and maps inside a decorative insert, while the dice are nestled behind the front panel and mostly out of sight. The front of the package has very little else going on (so you can focus on the ships) with just a wraparound insert at the bottom with the games logo. The front section is thick enough that you can see the ships really well from the sides too, and the insert has some pretty cool close-up photos of them (and other ships in the game) and a listing of the sets contents. Meanwhile, on the back panel are full size images of the ships in digital sculpts and another set breakdown. Its definitely a nice-looking presentation and should catch the eye of HeroClix players and Trek fans.
Unlike the blind-packed boosters, the Tactics starter set has four non-random ships. Representing the United Federation of Planets are the U.S.S. Enterprise-A under the command of Captain Kirk and the U.S.S. Rhode Island from the finale of Voyager. Opposing them are the Klingon Empire warships I.K.S. Rotarran and I.K.S. Bortas. Its an interesting mix of vessels chosen from the wide-spanning history of Star Trek. For example, the Enterprise-A dates back to 1986s film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home while the Rhode Island is chronologically one of the latest to appear (originating from the 25th Century in an alternate timeline), the I.K.S. Bortas served as flagship to Emperor Gowron in The Next Generation era, and the Rotarran was General Martoks flagship during the Dominion War as told in Deep Space 9.
The four ships in the Starter Set, along with all of the ones in the booster set weve seen thus far, are repaints of those included in last years Fleet Captains game (which came unpainted). As usual with Star Trek products, and indeed from the shows and movies, there are multiple ships in the same class which translates to shared sculpts. For instance, this sets U.S.S. Rhode Island shares a sculpt with the base sets U.S.S. Equinox (although to be entirely accurate the Rhode Island should have had the pointed nose of the Nova-class refit). At about two inches long, these ships have great sculpts with tons of detail, accurately representing their onscreen counterparts. While Ive commented on the other three sculpts before, the Enterprise-A has really nice, subtle concentric circle patterning on the saucer section along with details like the bridge, deflector dish, photon torpedo launchers, rear shuttlebay doors, etc. The other three are fantastic as well, with the patterns and textures of the Klingon vessels to the technological details (phaser strips, escape pods, sensors, etc.) on the Rhode Island.
If theres one way in which the Tactics ships surpass their sculpts its in the paint department. Hold up any one of these next to its Fleet Captains unpainted version and youll be blown away. Each vessel has the appropriate base color: bluish-grays for Starfleet and various green hues for the Klingons. Then the details are piled on, bringing each ship to life and highlighting all of the cool sculpted elements. The Rotarran layers different greens with a metallic base, adding gray to the wing-folding mechanisms and red to the bridge, the undersides of the wings, and the rear impulse engines. The Bortas is an overall pale green, but yellow and red are used liberally to define panels all over the ship and various engine components. The Enterprise-A has subtle accents including different shades of blue (on the inner and outer surfaces of the nacelles and deflector), red (nacelles, torpedo launchers, impulse engines), and yellow around the edge of the saucer. The Rhode Island is absolutely covered with splashes of color from the white escape pods to the orange sensors, brown phasers, red and blue on the nacelles, and more. Both Federation vessels have extremely tiny printed registries that are the icing on the cake.
As an independent but 100% compatible HeroClix game, Tactics mounts each ship on a standard HeroClix base with information on the top and progressing statistics and powers on a dial inside the bottom that clicks as you turn it. All of the symbols and powers are the same as youll find on any DC or Marvel (or other license) HeroClix figure, with the wing next to a ships flying speed value, the fist or reticule next to the attack, shield next to defense, and starburst next to damage. To the side of the dial window is a number for the ships range and a series of lightning bolts to designate how many opponents it can target in a ranged attack. In the starter set, youve got a perfect out of the box game with two 200 point teams: the Enterprise-A at 75 and the Rhode Island at 125 vs. the Bortas and Rotarran at 100 apiece. All of them have 8 range except for the Bortas with 10, and the Rhode Island is the only ship with two targets.
As noted, the powers in Tactics work exactly like they do in standard HeroClix and are represented by the same colored squares around numbers on a ships dial. Powers are nicely varied in Tactics overall, with each ships power set giving it a different feel. In the starter youve got the Bortas with a panoply of powers for close and ranged combat including Stealth + Penetrating/Psychic Blast, Flurry, Energy Explosion, Running Shot + Pulse Wave, Invulnerability, Willpower, and Leadership. The Rotarran focuses on fighting at range and keeping its enemies at bay with an even bigger rainbow of colors on its dial complete with Stealth, Force Blast, Energy Explosion, Penetrating/Psychic Blast, Pulse Wave, Super Senses, Energy Shield/Deflection, Outwit, and Perplex (plus the Indomitable symbol). The Rhode Island has two distinct parts to its dial. The first uses Phasing/Teleport to get to its targets, Incapacitate to tie them up, and Super Strength to do big damage while its covered defensively by Energy Shield/Deflection. All the while its boosting your team with Leadership. Later it switches to Plasticity + Incapacitate, Toughness for defense, and Probability Control. Kirks Enterprise starts with a bit of Running Shot, and then picks up some Energy Explosion. In defense it goes from Toughness to Regeneration and alternates Enhancement and Perplex to help out teammates. All four of these vessels have the new Federation or Klingon team abilities, and appropriate keywords like Flagship, Scientist, and Warrior. None of these ships have Special Powers or Traits, making them easy for new players to grasp and enjoy.
In terms of game materials, the starter set comes with the existing 2011 HeroClix Core Rulebook and Powers and Abilities card. The rulebook, available in various HeroClix products over the last year, lays out the basics of the game from how to read a dial to the different types of terrain, using action tokens, and everything else you need to play in a slim 24 page format. Meanwhile, the Powers and Abilities card defines the symbols youll find on the bases of characters and ships as well as all of their cool powers from Battle Fury to Willpower and everything in between. Each ship also comes with its accompanying card that gives you background info, keywords, and flavor text for all of its powers. With the two dice included in the starter set you can start playing right away. The only things youll need to bring in are objects, which you can download and print from the HeroClix Print and Play resource here (there are plenty that could work in a Star Trek setting).
Other than the ships, the coolest part of the Tactics starter set are the maps! Included are two full sized double-sided maps, two of which have special rules that make them even more interesting. First off theres the Deep Space Nine station! Fans of that show especially will love this map thats dominated by the structure in the middle; the center is hindering terrain while the three upper docking pylons are elevated. The special rules allow a ship that docks at three locations on the outer rim to control the stations defensive sails on the inner ring. Flip that over and youve got the Kobayashi Maru map representing the no-win scenario famously put to James T. Kirk at Starfleet Academy. This version has a 2x4 square blocking terrain vessel in the center and 20 blocking terrain mines scattered around the rest of the map.
On the other sheet is Wolf 359, the site of the fateful battle between the Federation and the Borg! Post-debacle, this map is littered with 13 patches of hindering terrain composed of the wreckage of Starfleet vessels. Hopefully one day WizKids will release the Borg in Tactics so we can recreate that famous battle. The last map is none other than the Mutara Nebula, home to the final confrontation between Kirk and Khan in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. With starting areas in opposite corners, the map features two hindering terrain sections on the sides while the center is blocking terrain surrounded by a halo of hindering. Special rules on this map let each player roll a die on his or her turn and consult the accompanying table with effects ranging from all ships getting to use Shape Change to preventing all damage from being reduced to less than 1!
Whether youve been playing HeroClix for years or youre interested in getting started now with Tactics, the starter set has everything you need to start playing. Fast-paced spaceship combat and great collectible ships mean Tactics will be popular with both players and collectors alike, and hopefully strong sales of the initial releases will lead to more (with more alien races represented!). Due to arrive in stores in early February, the starter will have an MSRP of $24.99 and will be sold alongside the countertop displays that you can use to build up your Federation and Klingon fleets. If there are more than one in your store you may want to check for bent nacelles on the Federation ships; otherwise they should all be pretty much identical.
OP Kit
But wait, theres more. In addition to the starter set and countertop display boosters, comic book and game stores can order a Star Trek Tactics Organized Play kit from WizKids. Designed to get players into stores, these kits have exclusive prizes not otherwise available: three copies of a limited edition ship and five copies of a new double-sided map. Weve got an exclusive preview of those!
The Star Trek Tactics OP Kit limited edition ship is none other than Warship Voyager! Plucked from the classic alternate timeline Voyager episode Living Witness, this ship represents the Kyrian Museum of Heritages somewhat inaccurate recreation of Janeways ship. Based on poor historical records 700 years old, the final product is a weapon-studded attack craft crewed by homicidal maniacs! The LE Warship Voyager uses the standard Voyager sculpt (sadly I dont have one yet to compare) with a new base and dial. The Voyager sculpt is top-notch with distinct hulls, an intricate surface pattern, phaser strips, portholes, deflector dish, bridge, and more. Its gray base color has all of the cool paint applications weve come to know in the Tactics line with plenty of yellow, white, red, and blue accenting everything from the shuttlebay to the nacelles and even the aeroshuttle on the ventral surface. At 125 points, the Warship Voyager costs less than the regular version (at 150) but has some really cool features. The Sharpshooter ability lets it shoot at adjacent ships and its Trait turns any hit with doubles by Warship Voyager or an adjacent friendly vessel into a critical hit! A warship in more than just name, this Voyager comes equipped with powers like Charge, Penetrating/Psychic Blast, Poison, Steal Energy, Outwit, both Close and Ranged Combat Expert, and more.
The OP kit map starts with the Borg Transwarp Hub from Voyager. Used by the assimilating aliens to crisscross the universe the Hub is a nightmarish tangle of blocking terrain and special transwarp pathways. When a ship moves into an orange numbered area (a conduit) its player rolls a die and can pop out of any other conduit with a matching number; a 1 lets you go anywhere but deals unavoidable damage. On the flipside is QonoS, homeworld of the Klingon Empire. A fairly straightforward-looking map with some large chunks of blocking terrain, its special rules allow each player to place debris tokens (representing the destroyed moon of Praxis) on the X squares. At the end of each players turn he or she rolls 2d6 and moves the debris that many squares, possibly damaging opponents ships on the way!
Check with your local comic book/game store to make sure theyve got the OP kit coming, because thats the only way youll be able to get this exclusive ship and map! The kits will be arriving alongside the Tactics starter set and countertop displays in early February. For more information check out heroclix.com.
Review and Photos by Scott Rubin
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Observational Study in UTERO - Placental 3D Doppler Examination: Interest for Pre-eclampsia Screening During Pregnancy (PLACENTA3D)
This study has been completed.
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
GE Medical Systems ultrasound (only technical support)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: June 29, 2009
Last updated: May 24, 2013
Last verified: May 2013
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Pre-eclampsia and intra uterine growth restriction (IUGR) represent major complications for pregnant women, with a high related maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. It is now widely admitted that these pathologies, which can concern up to 7% of pregnancies, are in relation with hypo-perfusion of the placenta because of an early deficient trophoblast invasion and uterine vascular remodelling.Advances in ultrasound imaging now permit non invasive 3D volume and Doppler signal quantification using automatic acquisitions.Quantitative comparison of volumes and Doppler parameters between control pregnancies and IUGR ought to confirm the theory of UTERO-placental hypo-perfusion. This technique might allow an earlier prediction for IUGR. The aim of this study is to evaluate the interest of 3D Doppler quantification as a new screening tool for pre eclampsia and IUGR.
|Pre-eclampsia Intra-uterine Growth Restriction Placental Insufficiency 3D Doppler Ultrasound.
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|The Evaluation of UTERO - Placental 3D Doppler Examination Potential Interest for Pre- Eclampsia Screening During Pregnancy. Observational Study in 100 Women at High Risk for Pre- Eclampsia and 70 Low Risk Women.
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: preeclampsiaU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Existence of pre eclampsia and/or IUGR [ Time Frame: at the end of the pregnancy ]
|Study Start Date:
|July 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|November 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Low risk women
Women without any personal risk.
High risk women
Women at high risk for pre-eclampsia with personal of pre-eclampsia and/or IUGR in a previous pregnancy, diabetes, auto-immune syndrome such as lupus, hypertension, renal insufficiency and anti-phospholipid.
Detailed Description:
One hundred high risk women and 70 low risk women will be included. Inclusion criteria for the high risk group are: personal history of pre eclampsia and/or IUGR in a previous pregnancy, diabetes, auto-immune syndrome such as LUPUS, hypertension, renal insufficiency, and anti-phospholipid syndrome.Patients (over 18 years old) will be included between 11 and 14(+6days) WG. Only singletons pregnancies will be included.3D Doppler standardized acquisitions of the UTERO-placental unit will be performed at each usual ultrasound examination of the pregnancy.Data will be analysed after delivery, in terms of quantified Doppler values, comparing two groups: pregnancies with pre eclampsia / IUGR (group with pathology) and normal pregnancies (control group).This is an observational study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
100 women high risk of pre-eclampsia and 70 women low risk women of pre-eclampsia
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age eligible for study up to 18 years
- Gestational age between 11 to 14 weeks for the first visit (first-trimester pregnancy).-Singleton pregnancy
- Consent to participate in the study
- Patients affiliated to social security
Group 1:
-Personal History of:
- Preeclampsia during a previous pregnancy: Blood pressure more than 140 mmHg systolic and/or 90 mmHg diastolic + proteinuria
- Diabetes
- IUGR during a previous pregnancy (birth weight < 10th centile)
- Hypertension
- Renal insufficiency
- Autoimmune Disease : Antiphospholipid syndrome
Group 2:Absence of all the Group 1 affiliation criteria.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Participating in the study
- Unability to understand the study
- Set back of patient consent.
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: NCT00930397
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00930397
|Hôpital LARIBOISIERE Service de gynécologie- obstétrique
|Paris, France, 75010
Sponsors and Collaborators
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
GE Medical Systems ultrasound (only technical support)
|Principal Investigator:
|Olivier MOREL, MD
|Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 20, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00930397 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 29, 2009
|Last Updated:
|May 24, 2013
Keywords provided by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris:
UTERO-placental unit vascularization
Hypertension, pregnancy- induced
3D Doppler Ultrasound
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Fetal Growth Retardation
Placental Insufficiency
Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced
Pregnancy Complications
Fetal Diseases
Growth Disorders
Pathologic Processes
Placenta Diseases
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The Faith Alive Series has scheduled its fall speakers 7:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at Los Altos Lutheran Church, 460 S. El Monte Ave.
The series invites individuals to share their stories of guidance, perseverance and encouragement following severe trauma or stress.
• Sept. 9 – Vincent "Skip" Vaccarello, president and CEO of Applied Weather Technology, will explain how he became a follower of Christ and the challenges he meets on a daily basis in the workplace and beyond.
• Oct. 14 – Bernet Rosner was taken from his Hungarian home to Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland with his parents and brother when he was only 12. Rosner will discuss how his years in Hebrew school helped him survive when the rest of his family perished.
• Nov. 11 – Kim Golter, founder, president and CEO of Jeremiah's Promise, a volunteer organization dedicated to helping young ladies after they turn 18 and are no longer eligible for foster homes, will review the challenges of his work.
The Los Altos Town Crier is the media sponsor for Faith Alive.
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At Microsoft Corp.'s (
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Microsoft CEO, co-founder, and tech icon Bill Gates
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Amid tough questions from the audience, Mr. Ballmer was candid in his assessment that Microsoft was a late-comer to the tablet game, but he told the audience in a fiery defense that he saw "nothing but a sea of upside" for
Windows 8 tablets
. He comments, "We're innovating on the seam between software and hardware. Maybe we should have done that earlier. [But] I feel pretty good about our [current] level of innovation."
Indeed, Microsoft has some defenders in odd places. Stephen "Steve" Wozniak, better known as the "Woz", was once a ferocious critic of Microsoft and evangelist for Apple, Inc. (
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Steve Ballmer dodged the share value question, remarking, "I understand your comment... [but Microsoft has] done a phenomenal job of driving product volumes... The stock market's kind of a funny thing."
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Microsoft's $10B USD profit sharing effort
which includes share buybacks and quarterly dividends.
Currently, Microsoft shares are trading at around their levels from a decade ago, having risen roughly 18 percent in 2012. In other words, despite the criticism, shareholders should be pleased to an extent that Microsoft outperformed the Standard & Poor's 500 average of an anemic 3 percent in gains.
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After homer, Pujols knows he still has work to do
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Albert Pujols was asked the fitting, predictable question after coming out of Saturday's game against the Rockies.
"Any sense of relief to get the first home run out of the way?"
The Angels' first baseman scoffed, demonstratively yet playfully.
"I don't think of that," Pujols said. "I hit seven home runs last spring and had my worst start to a season. I come down here just to get my quality at-bats and get in games and get my legs in shape and my timing on, and hopefully by Opening Day get it going. Obviously, you always want to have a good Spring Training. You always want to swing the bat well, but in the end, as long as you get your work, I think that's the most important thing."
Starting his second Cactus League game -- and first since Tuesday, with both coming as the designated hitter as he works through offseason knee surgery -- Pujols got a 2-0, inside-corner sinker from Rockies starter Juan Nicasio and turned on it, skying a towering homer over the left-field fence to notch his first hit of the spring.
But a mere Spring Training homer isn't a sign that Pujols' Hall of Fame-caliber timing is back.
It isn't -- and it probably won't be at peak form until the regular season is a few weeks old.
"Usually, to me, it's probably by the middle of April when I feel really good," Pujols said. "So the first couple of weeks of April, I try to fight and get my hits here and there."
Pujols went 0-for-3 in his debut, striking out and hitting two slow rollers. On Saturday, he struck out on a checked swing in his first plate appearance, homered in his second and grounded into a 5-2-3, bases-loaded double play in his third.
Once again, the opposing team agreed to allow the Angels a courtesy runner in case Pujols needed to run the bases.
The 32-year-old slugger isn't ready to run full speed just yet, but he continues to make progress. After the game, Pujols ran the bases for the first time in one of the back fields at the Tempe Diablo Stadium complex. He said his surgically repaired right knee has "no pain at all," but isn't sure when he'll play first base in a game.
"Right now, I'm just happy to get my at-bats," said Pujols, who's expected to be ready by Opening Day. "We have a pretty good game plan. I don't want to rush this thing. I'm taking some ground balls and that's what I need."
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My favorite synth of all time is the Ensoniq ESQ-1. This maybe only because I do not own a Sequential Circuits Prophet VS. You see there is something amazing about digital oscillators matched with analog filters. In my Eurorack system the best sounds I get are from my Ataraxic Translatron into Toppobrillo Multifilter. When the Prophet 12 came out I assumed it was an all analog affair. I watched a few videos months after its released and fell in love. When I discovered it was digital into analog filters I said, "ah yes of course!!". So now there is a Dave Smith Prophet 12 module and I am all for it. Give me an 808, ESQ-M and Prophet 12M and see you whenever.
"Introducing the Prophet 12 Module, the same great sound engine of the Prophet 12 keyboard with enough portability to fit in a backpack! At twelve voices, the Prophet 12 boasts the greatest polyphony of any instrument designed by Dave Smith. Each voice features four oscillators capable of generating classic and complex waveforms, a sub-oscillator, resonant analog low-pass and high-pass filters, and analog VCAs. The new Character section adds a variety of wave shaping and sound sculpting options, like Drive, Hack, Decimation, Girth, and Air. Additional features include a tuned feedback path, a four-tap stereo delay per voice, expanded arpeggiator functionality, deep modulation capabilities, and bi-timbral operation. The LFOs, delay, and arpeggiator can all be synced, either to the internal clock or an external MIDI clock." – davesmithinstruments
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Description Hi,
Here are four shots from a small engine i'm developing these days. The engine is called Alithia Engine (alithia means "truth" in greek although the pronounciation is slightly different). It is a complete rewrite of an engine with the same name i wrote three years ago which i started at November last year (although from about 13-Nov to a 26-June i did nothing ).
The engine is inspired by Cube 1's simplicity and like that engine it features an in-engine editor and a 2D grid based world format. The rendering methods however are different (although there might be some similarities - i haven't read Cube's code but from what i've seen when i fly high in the edit mode it seems to cast rays like my engine), but Alithia Engine is written with newer hardware in mind (in that it tries to keep calls low instead of having tight occlusion). Still it doesn't use anything more complex than OpenGL 1.x calls, which allows it to have playable performance even in my Aspire One .
Rendering works by casting rays (via ray marching) from the camera's position to 360 degrees around it in the 2D grid. Rays march in the grid cells until an occluder is found, where they stop. The grid is divided in clusters which contain the actual geometry in mesh-only display lists (one or more display lists per cluster - the geometry is sorted by texture) and they are marked as "visible" as each cell is visited. Then when all rays are cast, the visible clusters are checked for frustum inclusion using the axis-aligned bounding box of their geometry and if a cluster is inside the frustum, it is considered for rendering. Clusters contain a list with the entities in the cluster which are also considered for rendering (so occlusion works for both world and entities).
The "considered for rendering" part basically means that they are added in a geometry bucket system where each bucket has a texture reference and list of display lists (buckets contain both world and static entity geometry). They are rendered after the visible clusters have been found.
The world has a single big lightmap which covers the whole grid with one lumel per cell. The lightmap is always rendered with multitexturing for world and the lumel under each entity's center is chosen to tint the entity geometry by placing a light above the entity and using a dark ambient with the same color (this will be tweaked later to look better). Currently lights do not affect entities, but i might change that later. The same applies for shadows which are simple projected flat stencil shadows.
Currently the engine doesn't do much: you can walk around, edit world cells, put and move entities around, put and move lights, recalculate the lightmap, etc.
There is a scripting system which uses a Tcl-like scripting language of mine. It allows very dynamic scripting although the performance is a bit slow. However i don't mind that since most of the intensive tasks will be done via native code.
The scripting system is always active and there are both game and editing commands. The screenshot at the bottom left corner shows a small script i typed in the in-engine script evaluator which creates random lights inside the currently selected grid area.
This screenshot also shows the engine GUI system which supports floating resizeable windows, buttons, text editing fields and areas, popup menus and other controls. The texture browser, for example (shown at the right corner of the image) is a floating window with a custom control.
The image contents are: top-left shows a level design test i did in game mode. It took me about 20 minutes to do that (it has other areas outside that room but i only took one shot - i still can't save world files) top-right shows the ability to create arches, slopes, etc using vertex offsets in editor gui mode bottom-left shows the GUI in editor gui mode and the script evaluator with a script that registered two menu options bottom-right shows the object movement action in editor camera mode. When moving objects and lights (the little spheres - their radious is shown as another sphere when the mouse moves over them) around the editor draws guidelines to assist in placement
Generally the goal is to create a simple engine. I'm not placing must effort in optimizing - most of the time i just code whatever simplest method pops in my head and only optimize when things go slow. Also i only implement stuff "on demand" - for example i added "plane_t" etc structures only a few days ago. This makes Alithia Engine a very compact engine (currently it is about 10KLOC including empty lines and comments and about 2KLOC are from my scripting engine which is a separate project). An important aspect of the engine is that i want to have everything in my head .
Still it needs more work and the size will probably double once it is usable. But i thought i might share a few images here
The project is open source and you can find information here:
There isn't any binary download yet. Once you can Shoot Something, i'll put a binary in the site so people can check it out .
In the meanwhile you can download the code and try some custom textures. I need to upload some test data though since the link at the GitWeb site is broken :-/
When i submitted the image i forgot to mention that the videos at the site require QuickTime. I have also uploaded them in YouTube here (from older to newer):
I'm currently writing entity movement (collision, response, etc) and i'll upload a new video once i have it working
Awesome! I like how the world editor is in the game maker, really interesting way to go about the problem too.
[EDIT] the first screenshot shows lots of promise [/EDIT]
Improved the collision system and made the player be an entity himself so he can push other entities around and stand on them . Now i need to optimize the code a bit (doing too many unnecessary checks and the objects still do not "rest" - ie they check for collisions, movement, etc all the time even when they simply sit around).
Added some characters walking around the map. Nothing special, they just select some random spot to make their target and move there. Once they reach the place they select some other random one.


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Mandatory Drug Testing of TANF Applicants Ignores Big Picture
Oct 03, 2011
By Jenice R. Robinson
A conservative organization's report claiming Florida's recently enacted law mandating drug testing for TANF applicants will save the state money is based on questionable data and assumptions, makes sweeping generalizations about poor people, and ignores broader social issues.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation in June mandating that those who apply for and are eligible for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) pay $30 or more up front for drug testing before receiving benefits. Those who pass are reimbursed. According to the state, only 2.5 percent of those who took the test in July had positive results, a rate that is significantly lower than reported rates of drug use in the general population, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates. But to make a political point, the right-leaning Florida organization's report disregarded the 2.5 percent reported rate and concluded that those who applied for TANF benefits but didn't take the test use drugs.
"There are many problems with this report, including its assumption that those who didn't take the test use drugs. Its questionable data and broad assumptions leave the report lacking credibility and indicate the author's failure to understand what it means to be poor," said Elizabeth Lower-Basch, senior policy analyst at CLASP. "Those who apply for cash assistance do so because they are in dire circumstances and have no other source of income. Being poor means you may not have even $30 to spare for a test. Priorities such as feeding your children or making sure your electricity remains on take precedent over a drug test.
"If the purpose of drug testing is to deter needy people from receiving temporary assistance so they can get back on their feet, then the law is a dubious success," Lower-Basch said.
There is little evidence that drug use and abuse is prevalent among TANF recipients. In fact, the 2.5 percent rate at which applicants in Florida tested positive is substantially less (6.2 percentage points less) than CDC'sreported rate of illicit drug use in the general population.
Florida's drug testing law is a tangible example of a broader trend to impose mandatory drug testing for those who apply for public benefits such as TANF. During 2010 and the first half of 2011, 82 bills on drug testing TANF applicants and/or current beneficiaries were introduced in 31 states and Congress.
An Oklahoma state lawmaker filed a bill last year requiring TANF applicants be tested for drugs, but it failed to go anywhere. Now, based on the so-called success of the Florida law, the lawmaker says he will reintroduce it. In Ohio, a bill requiring applicants for TANF or Unemployment Insurance benefits to pass drug test was recently introduced. And South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has said she wants those receiving unemployment insurance benefits to pass a drug test.
"A looming question is what is the true motivation behind these policies?" Lower-Basch said. "If there is any concern for poor children, these one-dimensional policies should be considered a failure. This bill does nothing to ensure that any parents who may use drugs will receive any sort of treatment or support services. Meanwhile, their children will suffer due to lack of proper support. Further, this trend highlights our unfortunate tendency to blame poor people for being poor, even during this deep recession."


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Sideshow Collectibles has made an official announcement regarding this year's Comic-Con event and how will it be carried out. According to the announcement, Sideshow will be making Comic-Con a month-long online event in addition to their on-site presence at the show.
Weve got some very exciting news! For the millions of collectors who cant travel to San Diego this year, were now doing even more to bring the con experience to you! This year, Sideshow Collectibles will be expanding its web presence for the much-anticipated San Diego Comic-Con for the ENTIRE month of July!
Starting July 1st, well be showcasing many of our new product pre-orders, previews, special video features, and huge giveaways. Then, from July 21-25th, well bring the excitement of live event to your home along with some final big announcements. This means less stress for you, the collector, and better opportunities for us to showcase the cool new collectibles well be bringing to the Con!
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Idea Exchange: A photo collage makes for happy clients
Jan 01, 2013
While clients are waiting, they are able to look at photos of all the types of animals that we see. And I find myself looking at the wall with clients. I even help them find their pets. The collages make clients feel more connected to the clinic, and they help me to remember patients and their owners more easily.
I take all of the photos myself and upload them onto the Walmart photo website to make them into collages. It is easy and inexpensive, and clients love it.Amber Brannon, CVT
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Course now offered in Spanish covers SQF Code requirements for speaking processors and manufacturers
Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI), a division of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and one of the world's leading Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) recognized scheme holders, and Alchemy, the global leader of innovative technologies and services designed to align employees with quality and safety commitments, announced today the Spanish launch of a co-developed online course and exam for SQF stakeholders. This course and examination, now offered in Spanish, assures that international SQF stakeholders have demonstrated knowledge of the SQF Code, Edition 7.
"Alchemy has been an excellent training partner for SQFI. The online English version of the Implementing SQF Systems' course was a major success, so it was a natural decision to provide a Spanish version as well," said Robert Garfield, senior vice president of SQFI. "This version continues our commitment to help international food safety professionals learn the fundamentals of the SQF scheme, how to help ensure compliance at their facilities and provide safe products for consumers."
The course titled "Implementing SQF Systems" educates participants on the SQF Code, Edition 7, including:
· Preparing to implement an SQF System
· Implementing an SQF System
· Developing food quality and food safety plans based on HACCP principles
· Preparing for the SQF audit and certification
· Preparing GMPs or GAPs to control hazards, threats, and risks to food safety
"Our top priority is to provide tools that help encourage and facilitate strong safety cultures," said Jeff Eastman, CEO of Alchemy. "We enjoy partnering with SQF to develop programs, such as this course, that help to reinforce the importance of food safety throughout the industry."
The online version gives participants increased flexibility by allowing them to take the course from any computer within 30 days of registration, thus eliminating costly travel expenses and time away from work. Certificates of attendance can be printed upon completion, a feature unique to the online course.
Course registration for the Spanish version is an introductory $700 with payment by credit card through PayPal for both English and Spanish versions, and the examination is $75. To register online, visit www.sqfi.com/training-centers/online-courses.
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Alchemy is a global leader of innovative technologies and services designed to align employees with your quality and safety commitments. We partner with our customers to increase productivity, ensure regulatory compliance, foster safe working environments, and produce safe quality products. For more information, please go to http://www.alchemysystems.com.
About SQFI
The Safe Quality Food (SQF) program is recognized by retailers and foodservice providers around the world as a rigorous, credible food safety management system. It is the only certification system recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) that offers certificates for primary production, food manufacturing, distribution and agent/broker management. This enables suppliers to assure their customers that food has been produced, processed, prepared and handled according to the highest possible standards, at all levels of the supply chain. Additionally as a division of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), the SQF program incorporates continual retailer feedback about consumer concerns. This information is passed on to SQF certified suppliers, keeping them a step ahead of their competitors. http://www.sqfi.com.
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Food Marketing Institute (FMI) conducts programs in public affairs, food safety, research, education and industry relations on behalf of its nearly 1,250 food retail and wholesale member companies in the United States and around the world. FMI's U.S. members operate more than 25,000 retail food stores and almost 22,000 pharmacies with a combined annual sales volume of nearly $650 billion. FMI's retail membership is composed of large multi-store chains, regional firms and independent operators. Its international membership includes 126 companies from more than 65 countries. FMI's nearly 330 associate members include the supplier partners of its retail and wholesale members. http://www.fmi.org.


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So you guys are telling me that the JL will kill Osborn just because he knows their identities? Yeah that's real accurate
Osborn having Shield and the Hand and etc will be able to stop them systematically. Batman will be discovered and Shield will raid his place, sure he can win but then Sentry takes him down quick
Superman will be tough with Sentry losing then winning via the Void. Then all the heroes team ip to beat the Void and realize what they are doing is causing more deaths and what not. This will go almost like civil war with the JLl being the anti registration. They will only hold off the attacks at most.
They won't kill unless it's someone huge not just army people. Oh and I mentioned joker because Osborn is clearly smart enough to be director of shield while Joker cant. Lex is smarter, but not by such an amount that it will matter.
No. Just no.
Someone answer me this:
How many marvel characters did it take to stop Osborn?
Once I know that, I'll give you the same amount of DC characters to fight against Osborn.


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AU History and Music Student Pursues Passions
Zachary Kopin is making the most of his time at AU—both on and off campus. He is a bachelor's degree candidate in music, and a candidate for the combined BA/MA in history, with a resume full of high-level work experience, scholarly awards, publications, and community service. "I know it seems like I'm doing many different things, but when I'm working, I feel like I'm contributing," Kopin says. "There are some late nights, but at the end of it all, hopefully I'll know I've helped people."
Kopin started at AU as a music major, but quickly recognized his passion for history, and shifted his degree path to include both fields. Kopin feels that studying history will best prepare him for the world outside academia. "What you learn in school you need to be able to apply to life, and there are many lessons in history that enable you to do so," he says.
Of all of his endeavors, he is most excited about his current work with AU's Nuclear Studies Institute. Directed by history professor Peter Kuznick, the Nuclear Studies Institute offers classes, programs, and study abroad trips focused on different aspects of nuclear history, from the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to current efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons. As director of programming and outreach, Kopin is working to expand the Institute's web presence and program offerings, with hopes of adding more classes and hosting a symposium next school year.
"We're trying to make it into something that really reaches and affects people," he says. "I'm proud of the work, and I've had a lot of ownership over it. I feel like I've been able to make something from nothing."
Kopin has also worked with a wide range of history-centric organizations. Currently he serves as president of the AU student historical society, and he was a former teaching assistant in AU's Department of History, and a former research intern at both the Smithsonian's Wilson Center and the U.S. Navy's Naval History and Heritage Command. "I'm interested in how different people think," Kopin says. "The biggest lesson I've learned is that you should just apply to everything, even if you don't think you're going to get it. Ultimately, you need to trust your work. The worst thing you can do is limit yourself."
Kopin acknowledges that his professors' mentorship and guidance have been key in helping him reach his goals. "My professors have invested in me as an individual," Kopin says. "And because AU's class sizes are relatively small, I've been able to get to know pretty much everyone in the department, which is wonderful in terms of networking. It teaches you how to relate to people, and also how to relate to your professors on a human level."
Kopin also feels AU's size has been beneficial, giving him the opportunity to take on leadership roles, while still offering chances for collaboration with his classmates. "I think the school is exactly the right size," he says. "It presents enough opportunities for exploration and leadership. It's not too small to limit this, or too big to make it impossible for an individual to make an impact."
After graduation in 2015, he hopes to pursue a doctorate in history, and possibly an additional advanced degree in public policy. More than anything, he hopes he can continue to find ways to combine and pursue all of his interests—and continue working to benefit others.
"There's a quote by Harold Washington, a former mayor of Chicago, that I really try to live by," Kopin says. "He said, 'We have not just a right, but a responsibility to give the best that we have to our society.' If I keep using this to guide my work, then hopefully what I do really can make a difference."


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Children who took part in the Hilarious Books Experience at Calne Community Hub last week were inspired by a character with magical super powers.
The project, which aims to show children the fun side of reading, is run by former youth worker Lesley Taylor and is supported by the Calne Area Board.
The eight to 11-year-olds are taking part in a free five-week course full of drama and creative activities.
For their first session they choose a book to read together. Shrunk!, by Fleur Hitchcock, from Bradford on Avon, was the winner.
It tells the story of an 11-year-old who discovers he has the power to shrink things and accidentally shrinks the school bully and the planet Jupiter.
Ms Taylor contacted Ms Hitchcock with the news.
She said: "I told her on Twitter that they had chosen the book and she was very pleased. They liked the whole idea of this crazy power that he had and that powers always go wrong in these funny stories."
There will be another Hilarious Books Experience starting on February 25 for 11 to 14-year-olds.
To take part, or for more information about the Hilarious Books Experience, visit www.pageturners project.co.uk


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I was looking at two english translations for SN 56.11 dhammacakkappavatana sutta.
I then was looking at the pali, and am confused by the lack of "sorrow, lamentation, distress, suffering, despair" from the pali.
I checked the BJT (sri lankan) from ATI, The thai and burmese tipitaka via DPR, they all show about the same thing, with the "sorrow , lamentation..." missing between dukkho maranampi and dukkham appiyehi. I'm really confused. What's going on here?
Idaṃ kho pana bhikkhave, dukkhaṃ ariyasaccaṃ: jātipi dukkhā jarāpi dukkhā vyādhipi dukkho maraṇampi dukkhaṃ appiyehi sampayogo dukkho piyehi vippayogo dukkho yampicchaṃ na labhati tampi dukkhaṃ saṅkhittena pañcupādānakkhandhā dukkhā".
"Now this, monks, is the noble truth of stress:[1] Birth is stressful, aging is stressful, death is stressful; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair are stressful; association with the unbeloved is stressful, separation from the loved is stressful, not getting what is wanted is stressful. In short, the five clinging-aggregates are stressful.
Peter Harvey:
"Now this, bhikkhus, for the spiritually ennobled ones, is the true reality which is pain: birth is painful, aging is painful, illness is painful, death is painful; sorrow, lamentation, physical pain, unhappiness and distress are painful; union with what is disliked is painful; separation from what is liked is painful; not to get what one wants is painful; in brief, the five bundles of grasping-fuel are painful.
I also noticed missing from the Thai Pali is the vyādipi dukkho.


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The Ukrainian Meatball Hero ($12.50) is one of the four signature sandwiches at Veselka, and for good reason. That's not a classic baguette you're looking at—it's challah (for real!) rolled into the shape of a baguette, then baked and split open. The soft, eggy loaf is topped with four sizable meatballs, a scattering of sauerkraut and, the final touch, a generous ladle of mushroom gravy. The best is when gravy oozes out the side and onto the pile of fries (your pick: regular or sweet potato), so decadent and so right. It's a monster of a sandwich, a true fork and knife affair where the magic is not so much in the individual ingredients, but the combination of them all, served hot. Don't even try eating this with your hands.
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SANTA CRUZ -- It might not be a white Christmas, but it will be a wet one.
Last-minute holiday shoppers shouldn't leave home this weekend without an umbrella, as strong rains are expected with rainfall continuing through Christmas Day. The Grinch-like forecast calls for wet weather through the end of next week, with the downpours having begun Friday.
"It will rain," said Christine Riley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
The strongest bands of weather are expected to strike Saturday morning and Sunday evening. Gusty winds accompany both weather fronts, which are being spun off front a storm slowly making its way down the Pacific Coast from British Columbia.
It will also bringing cool, northern temperatures, though the arrival of cloud cover means the coldest nights are probably behind us. Temperatures are likely to range from the low 50s to the low to mid-40s.
While earlier forecasts called for a clear Christmas, that no longer appears to be the case. Forecasters said the best bet for a break is shortly after Santa Claus arrives.
"You might have the morning clear, depending on timing, but it looks at some point on Christmas Day, you'll see some rain," Riley said.
Riley said higher elevations could see several inches of rain, though less than what the county absorbed during a more significant series of storms earlier this month.
County Public Works Director John Presleigh said there were no significant problems on the roads Friday. While the county got a three-week break from rain, Presleigh said wet weather always needs to be monitored.
"We've got a series of storms lined up. That's always a concern," Presleigh said.
The driver of a Toyota Tacoma rolled his vehicle at southbound Highway 17 at the Fishhook just after 1 p.m. Friday, as the rains were in full swing. The driver was not hurt.
California Highway Patrol spokeswoman Sarah Jackson cautioned drivers to slow down during rainy weather, and to give themselves extra time to get to their destination.
She also said to be on the lookout due to impaired drivers during to holiday season.
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From Captain Kirk on "Star Trek" to Denny Crane on "Boston Legal," William Shatner has played the macho man role with no regrets.
At 75, Bill Shatner's still got it. No one who grew up with Shatner portraying James Tiberius Kirk on "Star Trek"—the television series or the movies—the eponymous police hero of "TJ Hooker" or even the longtime host of "Rescue 911" would have difficulty recognizing Bill Shatner today. Sure, there might be a bit more of him to recognize than when he was in his 30s playing Kirk and running around in spandex suits—assuming he wasn't naked from the waist up while kissing green-skinned alien women—but Bill Shatner is still an attractive man. Even when appearing in those goofy Priceline.com commercials where he can be found warbling songs, comparing women's high-heeled shoes or dressing up in a bellboy's outfit, there's a wink-wink, nudge-nudge flirtation with the viewer that says, "Bill Shatner's still got it. He may be poking fun at himself but, deep down, he is still James Kirk. He is still a man's man, he is still a guy's guy."
He is also exhausted. In the two weeks prior to this interview, Shatner had shuttled between his home in Los Angeles and Cannes to promote his latest films, the animated features The Wild and Over the Hedge, attended a charity event in Israel, worked on a film set in Canada, done an afternoon of voice work in New York and is now back in L.A. for a mix of work and personal business. Within 48 hours he'll be en route to the Caribbean—a vacation this time—and several weeks later he'll begin filming the third season of "Boston Legal."
The television series, David E. Kelley's highly successful spin-off from his previous law drama "The Practice," features Shatner and James Spader (sex, lies, and videotape; Secretary) as the unlikely Laurel and Hardy-ish miscreant attorneys Denny Crane and Alan Shore in the high-priced "Boston Legal" firm of Crane Poole & Schmidt.
The show, crafted each week by Kelley and co-executive producer Bill D'Elia, features an impressive cast of co-stars, including Candice Bergen, Rene Auberjonois, Mark Valley and Julie Bowen, and lets Shatner continue a character that started as a recurring spot on "The Practice," but took on a life of its own under the wickedly adept acting—or impossibly prescient casting—of Bill Shatner.
Denny Crane is a pompous, arrogant yet brilliant attorney who routinely lies, hits on women and forgets things...sometimes when it suits him, sometimes when it doesn't.
For the last two seasons, Denny Crane has contemplated the potential of having early-onset Alzheimer's (or early-stage mad cow disease), ruminated repeatedly on death and regularly offered up script lines that remind viewers that life is short, to stay focused on today and cram as much into the next 24 hours—wine, women, song and pink, Polarfleece flamingo costumes—as you can. To Denny Crane, appearances can't be stressed enough, winning is everything and if you leave a little roadkill behind you on the Alpha Dog Highway, well, circle of life and all that. And, really, Denny Crane might ask the jury, should these folks have even been allowed on the highway to begin with?
What's intriguing is that it's the same message that Shatner conveyed as James T. Kirk, perhaps a tad more subtly, 40 years ago. To be so strongly identified with two different-yet-same character roles—one macho, career-driven and the guy who always gets the alien girl and the other macho, nearing the end of a career and still lusting after and chasing the girl—and to play them with such believability that viewers and critics have trouble differentiating between the man and the character, means that either Shatner is a genuinely brilliant actor, largely underappreciated or overlooked by critics, or an actor lucky enough to have been hired for roles so close to his own persona that the two become inexorably entwined.
Shatner himself has no problem acknowledging that there's a blurry line between Denny Crane, the character, and Bill Shatner, the man and actor. Or at least the industry perception of Bill Shatner, the man and actor.
"David Kelley is a genius, I mean that literally, [and] David himself has said that by watching me work, he writes for me, and I, by watching him write, am able to perform it," says Shatner. "So there's an unusual, if not unique, arrival of two forces that seem to combine, a synthesis of two forces—a writer and actor—that's just very unusual."
As "Boston Legal" fans know, the running gag within the show is Denny Crane's constant—at times absurd—use of his own name to not only introduce himself but to finish a sentence, make a point or simply fill in a conversational gap. Simply muttering "Denny Crane" is a one-stop, two-word response to anything that either intrigues or confuses him. It buys him time, infuriates others and, when whispered into his ear by co-star Candice Bergen, the very hearing of his own name does quite obvious things to a character who's been known to espouse the virtues of multiple partners and Viagra.
It's the ultimate on-screen example of not only an ego-driven, self-loving boor wanting to hear his own voice, but to hear his own name as well and Shatner offers up the "Denny Crane" name gag as a great example of how he and Kelley feed off each other.
"[David] will see something I do and write to that. An example of that is using my name, Denny Crane. I began to use [the utterance of the name] 'Denny Crane' as an exclamation point, an everything, a flicker of a taste of what's in store. A probe for approval. Name the emotion and it's like a card, a 'how do you feel about this?' It's a litmus test. So [as] I began to do that, he began to write for it. It became something between us.
"I read," Shatner continues, "what he's written and see where he's pointing the character and try and invest the things he writes with a solidarity, an anchoring point, so that the buffoonery is serious and the serious parts are buffoonery...there is a continuity within my contribution to this thing."
Certainly, two of the things that Shatner's contributed to "Boston Legal" are additional Emmy and Golden Globe awards. Shatner took home the Emmy award last year for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series—he was nominated for the award again this year—and he also snagged the 2005 Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.
The role of Denny Crane was good to him previously as well; in 2004, while still guest-starring in "The Practice," Shatner won the Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for the role he was to keep making his own in "Boston Legal."
Shatner gives much of the award credit back to Kelley and D'Elia for the writing and direction, but also offers that he's having fun on the set, something he's rarely said about prior productions.
And, according to a few of his co-stars, he's right; the ensemble cast is having some fun. Mark Valley, the actor who plays the uptight, square-jawed (square, period) attorney Brad Chase, and Rene Auberjonois, the veteran actor who plays the oft-exasperated senior partner Paul Lewiston, both describe Shatner as a "professional" on the set, with the younger Valley referring to Shatner (and Shatner's role as Captain Kirk) as "iconic."
Shatner claims that at least part of the fun he's experiencing on-set is simply due to playing off co-star James Spader. While Kelley has written their characters as polar opposites in many ways—Spader's Alan Shore is a left-leaning Democrat, opposed to the death penalty who, often to his own dismay, takes on the problems of the little guy who can't always afford to pay; while Shatner's Crane is a money-motivated, beef-eating, gun-toting Republican who, when he can't catch a fish via normal means, shoots it—the two male characters share a common love of the law, beautiful women and closing the day out with a stiff drink and a fine cigar.
In what is now the traditional ending to each episode, Shore and Crane wander out to the spacious balcony off of Crane's office and, Scotch and cigar in hand, rehash the high points or lessons learned of the previous 60 minutes.
The wrapping up of each show this way, insists Shatner, just evolved naturally after the first episode aired. A lot of cigars have been lit since then, including a couple—or 10—that Shatner would like to forget.
"We were doing a scene on the balcony," says Shatner, "and the reason we choose long cigars and light them so that it looks like they're freshly lit is because a scene on the balcony could take all day, which means that once you light a cigar, you're stuck with it all day long.
"The further away it is from your face, the less inhalation you're doing. Now," Shatner continues, "James is always telling me, 'Don't inhale. I'm not inhaling, don't inhale.' I, on the other hand, can't get past the fact that puffing on that cigar and letting the cigar exhale from your face, your nose, your mouth, your ears is what somebody who loves a good cigar like I do does. You fully taste it. It's hard to cheat for me, [although] it's easy to be talking with a lit cigar in your hand and drinking and looking like you're smoking...and not draw.
"So I took that to its furthest. I thought, 'With these long cigars, it looks like you just lit them up. Why don't I cut those cigars in half and light half the cigar so it looks like I'd been smoking it for an hour?' So without thinking, early in the morning, we lit up one of those shorter cigars. I'm smoking one of the cigars that we have cut in half, so that it's now close to my mouth and nose and eyes. What I couldn't anticipate was [that] the scene went much, much longer than we expected. I counted 20 small cigar pieces at the end of the scene. I had smoked 20 cigars over a period of several hours, OK? I haven't been sick to my stomach since I was six. That's the truth! I've avoided vomiting like the plague, [and] I went home and I vomited. You know what aversion therapy is? I had aversion therapy for cigars for about six months. It made me sick to even smell one. I'm now back, I'm back off the wagon, but I gave myself aversion therapy and I won't do that again."
Actually, Shatner says, he still smokes a cigar or two when he's off the set, but says that he gets so many as gifts—and has so many problems trying to store them—that he pretty much smokes whatever's at hand.
"I prefer a full-bodied cigar to something subtle," muses Shatner. "The moisture factor in the cigar is critical for it to be a good smoke. If it's too dry, too hot, if it's too moist...it doesn't draw. So keeping the cigar in the exact right condition is critical; it's essential for the enjoyment of a cigar. So that can be a problem on a set."
Shatner discovered that it could also be a problem off the set, especially for someone like himself, who sometimes gets gifts of cigars. "One day, several years ago, I took a pile of the cigars that I had, and I had various humidors—which you've got to keep filling up, and I keep thinking, 'Is it distilled water? Why can't I use water from the tap?'—and I went to a local shop and I said, 'I'd like to rent a humidor.' And I put in thousands of dollars worth of cigars in their rented humidor. And then something happened in my life—it was a very traumatic moment—and I lost track, I lost the memory of having put the cigars there until about a year and a half later when I recalled, 'My God, that's right.'"
Shatner went back to the store, asked for his cigars and was told that, because he'd not frozen them before bringing them in, the cigars had become infested with bugs. As a result, the cigars had to be destroyed and the humidor fumigated. "And I thought," says Shatner, "'that's the worst excuse I've ever heard for stealing my cigars and smoking them because I wasn't around.' I don't know what the truth of the matter was...I'm still puzzled."
While Shatner doesn't elaborate on the traumatic moment in his life that caused him to forget his cigars for a while—one assumes that it may have been the 1999 alcohol- and valium-related drowning of his third wife, Narine, in the couple's pool—it's not hard to imagine Shatner losing track of at least a few things, if not his mind, while changing as many time zones and juggling as many work projects as the man seems wont to do.
In an A&E Biography segment that aired this year, "Boston Legal" co-star Candice Bergen lightheartedly described Shatner as "...an overactive child. He's the Energizer Bunny."
Bergen is referring, one assumes, to the septuagenarian Shatner's schedule, both on-camera and off. When he's not filming "Boston Legal," Shatner can be found on a horse—he and his fourth wife, Elizabeth Anderson Martin, breed award-winning American Saddlebreds—on a motorcycle, on another film set, in a recording studio or en route to yet another time zone.
At the very start of the interview, Shatner admits, grudgingly, to being jet-lagged, a normal, human, physical impairment that most certainly differentiates him from a certain character who beamed from one planet to another without much more than a nod to an engineer or a solemnly uttered "Beam me up, Scotty."
Shatner's eyes are red, he's terse and obviously anxious to use what little time he's got at home in Los Angeles to visit one of his daughters and a couple of grandkids. Family, Shatner will tell you, is hugely important to him these days. He talks adoringly of his wife, Elizabeth, easily chats about the successes and happy lives of his three daughters, and comes as close to a genuine smile as we'll experience during this interview when he's discussing his five grandchildren.
This closeness to family hasn't always been a major priority to the career-driven Shatner and, apparently, neither was closeness to co-workers. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Montreal, Canada, William Shatner learned very early on that being onstage and acting was great, but that being onstage as the lead—the applause, the attention, the admiration—was even better. "I played Prince Charming a few times and, well, Prince Charming...!" Shatner remembers, the implication being that it didn't get any better than getting to play the hero, have the majority of the script lines and get the girl.
It's a role—both on-camera and off—that Shatner has seemingly aspired to and fought for over his six-plus decades in show business. As a preteen and teenager in Canada, he appeared in theater productions and acted on-air for the Canadian Broadcasting Co. before being pressured by his father to go to business school and join the family apparel business. The young, camera-friendly Shatner earned the business degree but hated the idea of business unless it involved his love of acting and the negotiating of contracts, fees, royalties and the size and location of dressing rooms.
Shatner eventually joined the Stratford Shakespeare Festival under Sir Tyrone Guthrie and, following a role in a Guthrie production that took the troupe to New York, moved to the Big Apple with his first wife, actress Gloria Rand. Shatner managed to nab numerous television roles before, he says, a casting agent noticed that his cheekbones were similar enough to veteran actor Yul Brynner's to earn the young, still-unknown Shatner a role as the youngest brother in the big-screen production of The Brothers Karamazo.
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text: Coal supply estimates overoptimistic, report says By Ken Ward Jr. October 30, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Frequently touted projections that the United States has a more than 200-year supply of coal left are overly optimistic and hold the nation back from considering cleaner fuels, according to a new report from a group that backs a transition away from fossil energy.Colorado-based Clean Energy Action said federal government figures -- frequently cited by the industry and its political supporters -- overstate the amount of remaining U.S. coal that can be economically mined.The group's report notes that the Central Appalachian coalfields are playing out after more than a century of intensive mining activity, with depleted reserves being a major reason for the ongoing decline in the region's production.And in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, the group said, many of the largest mines have significantly less than 20 years of remaining coal. Proposed expansion areas often have coal that is buried more deeply than what is currently being mined, making them less economical, the report said."The point of this report is that the fundamental constraint on coal is not from natural gas prices or government regulations, but from the geology of coal," said Zane Selvans, a geologist and assistant director of research for Clean Energy Action.The report concluded, "The planning horizon for moving the United States largely past using coal for electricity production is something significantly less than 20 years.""Independent of decisions about future environmental regulations, utilities, utility regulators and investors should avoid making investments in aging coal infrastructure on coal cost and supply issues alone," the report said.In a statement, the National Mining Association dismissed the report as "a politically motivated analysis" authored by a group "with an anti-fossil fuel bias." "Objective analysis by the Energy Information Administration affirms the ready availability of more than a 200-year U.S. coal supply, and based on NMA analysis, this is a conservative estimate," said Luke Popovich, a spokesman for the industry group.During last year's presidential campaign, Republican candidate Mitt Romney frequently touted the nation's coal reserves in criticizing Obama administration policies he said hurt the industry."We have 250 years of coal -- why wouldn't we use it?" Romney said in speeches and campaign ads.But in a major report five years earlier, the National Academy of Sciences concluded that the best estimate it could confirm was that U.S. coal reserves would last less than half as long as Romney projected."The United States is endowed with a vast amount of coal," said the report, written by a panel of geologists, engineers and industry officials for the National Academy's National Research Council."Despite significant uncertainties in generating reliable estimates of the nation's coal resources and reserves, there are sufficient economically mineable reserves to meet anticipated needs through 2030," said the report, written at the request of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va."Further into the future, there is probably sufficient coal to meet the nation's needs for more than 100 years at current rates of consumption," the report said. "However, it is not possible to confirm the often-quoted suggestion that there is a sufficient supply of coal for the next 250 years." Reach Ken Ward Jr. at email@example.com or 304-348-1702. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Nitro police captain fired over off-duty confrontation caught on video 2 WV Gov. Justice appoints Foster's replacement to House 3 WVU notebook: Holgorsen says injured players 'close' 4 Vintage West Virginia: Putnam Village 5 Issues raised about costs of moving state agencies to WV Capitol grounds Ex-state deputy pleads not guilty to wreck charges Previous Story Boston celebrates World Series victory Next Story


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