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Effects of Psilocybin in Advanced-Stage Cancer Patients With Anxiety
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Psychiatric Research Study For Cancer Patients
The Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center is conducting a study designed to measure the effectiveness of the novel psychoactive medication psilocybin on the reduction of anxiety, depression, and physical pain.
|Drug: Psilocybin (drug)
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Effects of Psilocybin in Advanced-Stage Cancer Patients With Anxiety
- Anxiety [ Time Frame: 6 months ]
|Study Start Date:
|April 2004
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Each subject functions as their own control (one placebo session/one active drug session)
Drug: Psilocybin (drug)
One placebo session (niacin) and one active drug session (.2 mg/kg). Treatment sessions are six hours.
Other Name: psilocybin
Detailed Description:
The significance of this study is that it is addressing the important issues of psychological and spiritual well being of people who have advanced cancer. In 2001, the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council issued a report (Improving Palliative Care for Cancer: Summary and Recommendations) that specifically recommended research be conducted using novel agents and methods. Psilocybin is a novel agent which produces a profound alteration in your state of consciousness. It is the main active ingredient found in "magic mushrooms".
Our specific aim is to learn whether this psychoactive drug, psilocybin, might be effective in reducing anxiety, depression and physical pain, and therefore improving your quality of life. This pilot study will start with 12 people ages 18-70. For each participant there will be two overnight admissions to the hospital. In one session you will be given a placebo and in the other you will get the active medication, but no one will know which drug is administered when. This is called a double blind study. You will be asked to fill out questionnaires about how you feel, your pain levels and your moods. There will also be at least two psychotherapy meetings before the study sessions, so that you are fully aware of what to expect and to have all your questions answered.
We cannot take you in the study if you have central nervous system (CNS) cancers, kidney disease, diabetes, abnormal liver function tests, epilepsy, cardiovascular disease including untreated high blood pressure (BP greater than 140/90), and pregnancy. The psychiatric exclusions are: you or an immediate family member with a history of a major psychiatric disorder, a current substance abuse problem, or an anxiety or a mood disorder within 1 year prior to the onset of symptoms of your current illness.
We also cannot take you in the study if you are taking certain medications, such as: anti-seizure, insulin and oral hypoglycemics, and cardiovascular drugs (except anti-hypertensive medications). Some antidepressant (SSRIs) medications cannot be taken within the two weeks prior to the session (except for Prozac, which cannot be taken in the last 5 weeks prior to the session).
You will get a MRI of the brain prior to admission (if you haven't had one in the prior two months), at the study's expense, to be sure there is no CNS involvement. You can provide us, or the study will pay for, lab work from the prior 2 weeks (CBC, liver function and renal function). The history and physical, neurological exam, EKG, and a urine pregnancy test (if you are a woman with child-bearing potential), will be done on admission by the house staff doctors.
You will be allowed to take your own medications while in the hospital, and will be encouraged to bring to the hospital personal photos, small memorabilia, and some of your favorite music that can be played during the sessions.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Have advanced-stage cancer and anxiety.
- Be between the ages of 18 - 70.
Note: The location for the two treatment sessions is Los Angeles, California. Treatment sessions are scheduled three to six weeks apart, and they include one overnight hospital stay both times.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not have cancer that affects the central nervous system or brain function.
- Have no history of major psychiatric disorder.
- Have no kidney disease, abnormal liver functions, epilepsy, or cardiovascular disease, including untreated hypertension.
- Not be taking insulin, oral hypoglycemic, anti-seizure, or cardiovascular medications (except anti-hypertensive drugs).
- May take PRN benzodiazepines up to 3 days before the session.
- No Prozac for the previous 5 weeks.
- No medications the day of and the day after treatment sessions, except may take ongoing adjuvant chemotherapy as prescribed, prescribed or over-the-counter non-narcotic pain medication at any time, and narcotic pain medications up to eight hours before administration of psilocybin and six hours after administration.
- No alcohol consumption the day before, the day of, and the day after a session.
- Female subjects of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test and agree to use an effective form of birth control.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00302744
|United States, California
|Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
|Torrance, California, United States, 90509
|Principal Investigator:
|Charles S. Grob, MD
|University of California, Los Angeles
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00302744 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|March 10, 2006
|Last Updated:
|January 28, 2013
Keywords provided by Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute:
Quality of Life
Los Angeles
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Anxiety Disorders
Mental Disorders
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Psychotropic Drugs
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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Survivors of one of the most brutal sieges in history shared memories of air raids, bombings and starvation at an event in the Northeast.
Boris Vershvovsky was 16 when German soldiers surrounded his hometown of Leningrad on Sept. 8, 1941, to begin one of the most brutal sieges in history. Known as the Leningrad Blockade or the Siege of Leningrad, the Germans blocked off the entire city from the outside world for 900 days. Vershvovsky, now 88, vividly remembers the air raids, bombings, sirens and starvation.
"There was no electricity, no water, no heat, no plumbing; you can't imagine what it was like," he recalled on Monday evening at the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia's Tabas House in the Northeast. He and other survivors who had been children at the time gathered there with friends and family members to mark the 70th anniversary of the lifting of the blockade.
The Nazis had intended the siege to be the linchpin to conquering the rest of the Soviet Union. Even for a populace that had grown accustomed to the privations of war, severing the city's contact with the rest of the country resulted in unprecedented, life-threatening hardship. There were precious few deliveries of food, medicine, clothing or supplies of any kind. As many as 1.5 million people were estimated to have died before the Russian army finally ended the siege on Jan. 27, 1944.
"Those who survived were very strong, disciplined, special people," said Vershvovsky, whose father died in a battle with German soldiers. "People were starving, everything was freezing, food was limited."
Vershvovsky, who emigrated from St. Petersburg (as Leningrad is known today) in 1992, recalled that his daily food ration was 125 grams, or about 4 ounces, of bread. To prevent starvation, his mother, a factory worker, gave him skin from animals that was used to make glue.
Without toilets, he continued, people had to get rid of their waste in their backyards. His job, like many teenagers, was to stand guard under the roof of a building.
Although seven decades have passed since this grim chapter of history ended, Vershvovsky says that it is still important to gather with survivors to remember the past and acknowledge their survival. Celebrations commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of the blockade took place around the globe on Monday, including a parade in St. Petersburg. Vershvovsky has been attending the Philadelphia memorial every year since it began a decade ago.
Another blockade survivor, 98-year-old Rachel-Lyudmila Merlina, is the driving force behind the celebration at Tabas House, where she also lives. An electrical engineer who worked as a nurse during the siege to aid wounded soldiers, the 5-foot tall Merlina suffered from dystrophy, scurvy, frostbite, bleeding gums and hunger.
"Hitler was hoping he would destroy the city in 10 days, but it didn't happen," she said, addressing the group in Russian.
Several survivors, including Alexandr Pernavskiy, 87, who served in the Baltic Sea Navy, shared memories and read poetry. Pernavskiy, who was 14 at the time of the siege, says his father died from starvation in March 1942.
"It is important for us to remember what happened," said Pernavskiy, who also volunteers as the local president of the Alliance of Veterans of War and Labor, Inc. "We are a family of survivors; it was a fight for freedom against fascists."
Rabbi Lev Furman, a former dissident born in Leningrad after World War II, shared the story of his parents' survival and led the group in the Kaddish. He recalled those who perished during the siege and those who died in the past year.
Like many from the former Soviet Union, Merlina and her family left St. Petersburg in 1992. She settled in Northeast Philadelphia where she now leads an active social life, takes yoga at the Klein JCC and writes for the Russian-language newspaper, Jewish Life.
Her daughter, HIAS Pennsylvania's special projects coordinator Marina Merlin (who dropped the "a" in her last name when she immigrated), said the annual blockade commemoration is always emotional for her mom, but she continues organizing it "to remember the people who didn't survive, to pray to God that they were saved and to bring this memory to their children and grandchildren.
"You cannot find a family in Russia that doesn't have someone missed, killed, or wounded during World War II. This was the tragic piece of history that can be compared to the Holocaust.
"There are very few people left on this earth who survived the blockade," she continued. "As January 27th approaches, it always hurts; the wounds never heal."

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Lagares' all-around effort leads Mets in series opener
Gee's solid outing, sharp defense sink rival Braves
NEW YORK -- Terry Collins swears by it: Juan Lagares has considerable power. You might not be able to tell by his 6-foot-1, 215-pound frame or his one home run every 100 or so plate appearances, but sooner or later, the Mets manager says, Lagares will start to show the sort of pop he does regularly in batting practice.
Lagares flashed some of that power in the Mets' 3-2 win Tuesday night over the Braves with a two-run home run that ultimately stood as the difference in the game at Citi Field. The long ball, combined with yet another highlight-reel catch in center -- this one a diving grab on a sinking liner to end the third inning -- provided another tantalizing glimpse of what the Mets think Lagares could become.
"He's got enough juice to do some damage," Collins said. "And yet he's still got enough, let the ball get deep with two strikes and still put it in play and be dangerous. But in order to play in this league you've got to be able to pull some balls, and with his power I think he can hit some home runs. I'm not going to put a number on him, but he's got more power than he's shown."
Then Collins paused briefly from raving about Lagares -- about how the coaches want him to focus on pulling the ball more, like he did Tuesday, and how he is always willing to listen and learn and implement -- to collect his thoughts.
Then he kept raving.
"Once again," Collins continued, "when he hits -- that's extra. He made some plays today. That play [in the third], that's what he's getting paid for. And so when he comes up with big hits like he does today, that's what you see and think, 'If he ever gets it, he's going to be some kind of player.'"
Lagares' homer, which came with no outs in the fourth and moments after Travis d'Arnaud's double, was the result of a full-count changeup down and in. Lagares turned on the 82-mph offering from Braves lefty Alex Wood and put it in the left-field seats.
"I think if I throw a good located changeup there, I don't think he does that," Wood said. "I think that's without question. But anytime you throw a changeup in a count where you know he's swinging and you leave it right down the middle at about 82, this is the big leagues and they're going to make you pay."
It was Lagares' fourth blast of the season and second in three games. He later put a charge into a Wood fastball in a similar location, momentarily thrilling the Queens crowd of 22,406 before it died on the warning track.
The Mets parlayed Lagares' big day with four double plays and an impressive showing from right-hander Dillon Gee for their second win in a row.
Gee hasn't had an easy time since returning from the disabled list a month and a half ago, posting a 5.71 ERA in seven second-half starts. But against the Braves -- a team he has historically dominated -- he turned in one of his better starts of the summer, limiting Atlanta to two runs in 6 2/3 innings.
Gee worked quickly early and slowed late. The Braves didn't record a hit through the first 3 2/3, then eventually put seven runners on before Gee exited with two outs in the seventh after Tommy La Stella's RBI single. Gee scattered six hits and two walks while striking out just one, the first time he fanned that few since May 10.
Back-to-back, two-out doubles from Freddie Freeman and Justin Upton served as the only other blemish on Gee's ledger.
Collins said it was the sharpest Gee has been of late, "no question."
"It's funny it looked that way," Gee said. "I think I struggled throwing my breaking ball in some of those innings. The changeup was a good pitch for me tonight, I was able to throw that behind in the count, get ahead with it and throw it when I needed to. A couple key double plays was nice, definitely needed those. It was a good team win tonight."
New York hasn't had a ton of those lately, and this one came with David Wright (neck) and Daniel Murphy (calf) nursing injuries on the bench. The Mets were also without relievers Josh Edgin and Vic Black for undisclosed reasons.
But Lagares provided enough theatrics to go around, his third-inning grab in particular drawing praise from Gee.
"He kind of played himself into we expect that from him now," Gee said. "That's Lagares, man."
Tim Healey is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- They're here. It's their year. And on Sunday, for the first time in the history of the Gay Pride parade, more of them than ever before were texting their wedding planners.
Get used to it.
The Pride parade came into existence 43 years ago as a reaction to the Stonewall incident, during which New York cops beat up several patrons in a gay bar. This year's event took its marching orders from the U.S. Supreme Court, which handed down a historic ruling just four days before the parade, essentially overturning Proposition 8 and making same-sex marriage legal in California. By Friday, a parade down the matrimonial aisle began as soon as the 9th Circuit Court stayed its original order, allowing weddings to commence.
The day produced a perfect clear blue sky, and yet as the parade followed its traditional course up Market Street to Civic Center Plaza, it formed a dazzling rainbow, made up of a million and a half celebrants, according to the San Francisco police. It felt like a giant wedding reception, and though there were plenty of crazy uncles there, it was conducted with remarkable restraint. "It's a lot of people," said police spokesman Sgt. Dennis Toomer, "but everyone is pretty happy and just having a good time."
Probably happiest of all were the two newlywed couples whose legal challenge of Prop. 8 made the party possible. The couples -- Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, of Berkeley; and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo, of Burbank -- received thunderous applause from the crowd as they floated the unlikely dreamscape in a pair of convertibles. Scurrying alongside the cars were attendants carrying cartoon-style signs that read, "Prop. 8-Kapow!"
California Attorney General Kamala Harris, whose refusal to defend Prop. 8 was what ultimately led to it being overturned, rode down Market in a cabernet-colored classic Buick convertible. "This is a culmination of all the parades before it," said Harris. These "parades were always full of hope, and full of vision, and full of fight and commitment."
She trailed Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who presided over the first wave of gay marriages at City Hall as mayor in 2006 and was greeted by the adoring crowd as both hero and hunky heartthrob.
Daft punks
A different sort of parade started hours earlier at BART stations throughout the Bay Area, where half-an-hour lines formed at ticket kiosks. At the Fremont station, a woman wearing shorts and a Mohawk haircut played "Get Lucky" by Daft Punk on a boom box, and suddenly the whole line began singing in unison. Some danced. Everybody got goose bumps. Every car into the city was packed with excited, sweating people, some with face paint that was running from the sauna-like conditions. It seemed likely that BART easily doubled its typical Sunday ridership. A spokeswoman for the agency tweeted that Sunday's ridership numbers wouldn't be available until Monday, when the transit agency's workers were scheduled to go on strike.
The event had all the customary trappings of a parade: Companies such as Safeway and Kaiser Permanente sponsored floats as an expression of goodwill, while others seemed intent on attracting new customers. McMillan Electric put in service a flatbed truck it dubbed "Court of the Wild Kingdom," with a cross-dressing go-go dancer in rainbow lamé, beneath a golden crown. They were trailing along behind Empress Marlene XXV, a statuesque drag queen of a certain age, who had ridden in the parade four times, but never before as a grand marshal.
"I love the parade because it's so magnificent," said the Empress. She didn't care much for the emphasis on gay marriage, however. "There are better places to fight at politics than the Gay Pride parade," she said. "But the marriage act that just came down makes this year very special. There are people at City Hall right now getting married."
Remarkably, there were almost no serious protesters along the parade route. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy denied one final attempt to reverse Wednesday's decision on Sunday morning, and with that, the Prop. 8 backers appeared to fold their tents. There was one guy spewing invective at passersby from a bullhorn, while wearing a T-shirt that said, "Jesus Like You," but his dismay with the gay lifestyle seemed to be of long standing. He instructed sinners to "read your bible," then as he finished screaming about the pit of hell to which they were all about to descend, he concluded with, "I love you all."
There was lots of love to go around.
'Like' the parade
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, marched for the first time, according to parade organizers, although he managed to melt into the middle of about a hundred dancing Facebookers who seemed to "Like" the parade. The Wall Street Journal reported up to 700 Zuck employees -- 15 percent of the staff -- attended the festivities, and photos of them were all over social media. As half-naked men in gold lame hotpants -- seemingly borne aloft by angel's wings but actually walking on stilts -- passed by a bewildered Jeff and Andrea Vlahovich, the couple stood at the curb next to a pair of large suitcases on wheels. They had just landed following a 15-hour flight from their home in Sydney, Australia, which, coincidentally, is home of the world's largest Gay Pride parade. Their hotel was just two blocks away but on the wrong side of Market.
"We had no idea this would be going on," Jeff said. "But it looks pretty great."
"There's a really good vibe here," Andrea concluded. "Everybody seems so happy. I wonder why."
One person who wouldn't be around to explain it to them was the new Archbishop of the San Francisco diocese, who had departed for a conference with the Pope at Vatican City earlier in the week. Before leaving, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who had campaigned for Prop. 8, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the Supreme Court's ruling changes "the basic understanding of marriage from a child-centered institution to one that sees it as a temporary, revocable commitment which prioritizes the romantic happiness of adults over building a loving, lasting family."
Megan Callaghan, 22, a San Francisco native who just moved back to the city after attending college in Oregon, was wearing a lime green tulle tutu, purple roller blades, a rainbow bikini top and pink angel wings. She described herself as a "skate fairy." Callaghan was excited about the parade's marital zeitgeist. "It means for the first time I'll have the opportunity to marry somebody of my same sex in the city I grew up in." She said she didn't have anybody in mind yet, then added, "There's definitely nothing like this in Oregon."
On Sunday, there was nothing like it anywhere.
Staff writer Mark Emmons and The Associated Press contributed to this story. Contact Bruce Newman at 408-920-5004. Follow him on Twitter at BruceNewmanTwit.


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Nexvet is seizing a major market opportunity in veterinary medicine by using its proprietary technology, PETisation™, to use human antibody drugs as templates for creating animal-specific versions in a single step. The strategic advantage behind PETisation™ is its utilization of a ready supply of target antibody drugs with proven effectiveness in humans, to rapidly provide a portfolio of veterinary drugs. Already supported by clinical evidence, Nexvet is poised to complete a number of further key studies in 2012/2013, and recently signed a licensing deal with a major Japanese animal health company for a canine anti-inflammatory product.
Antibody drugs are experiencing rapid growth in human healthcare due to their high specificity and efficacy. High profile "blockbuster" examples include Roche's Herceptin® and Avastin® for treating various cancers, and Abbott's Humira® for treating inflammatory disorders. These three drugs alone generate more than US$15 billion in annual sales, illustrating the revolution that is taking place in human medicine and paving the way for a similar phenomenon in animal health.
The global animal health market is estimated to be worth approximately $20 billion, with a five percent compound annual growth rate. The companion animal segment has experienced significant growth as both pet owner populations and average spend on companion animals increases year-on-year. The opportunity for superseding existing treatments with new, more effective antibody drugs is steadily growing, and PETisation™ positions Nexvet as a leader in the rapid development of effective antibody drugs for the animal health market.
The new funds will be used to drive Nexvet's clinical programs, including initiation of new trials and completion of existing studies in the lead programs for canine pain and inflammatory conditions and in some cancer settings. In addition, the funds will further Nexvet's business development activities, including discussions with a number of international organisations.
Nexvet CEO Mark Heffernan commented "Closing this investment round complements the Company's recent signing of Japanese pharmaceutical company Meiji Seika Pharma as a partner for an antibody to treat canine inflammatory conditions. The investment will allow the Company to deliver on a rapid growth phase, accelerating our product development. The introduction of TTCF onto the share register brings not only capital, but high-quality experience and expertise to the Nexvet team".
TTCF representative Dr. Andrew O'Brien, who will be joining the Nexvet Board, said "Nexvet is a good example of an Australian company developing an innovative technology that allows it to capture an emerging global market opportunity with growing demand. The Nexvet portfolio promises to significantly contribute to the diversity and effectiveness of the drugs available in a number of key indications in the companion animal health market. These factors combined with the strong track record of the team positions Nexvet well for delivering on value-accretive milestones over the next 12 months and beyond."
Nexvet will be providing a number of updates in upcoming months on achieved milestones as the seed funding drives its clinical work and business development.
About Nexvet
Nexvet Biopharma is developing safe, more effective and specific medicines for companion animals, (cats, dogs and horses). The Nexvet portfolio focuses on inflammatory disease, pain and cancer. The portfolio is composed of species-equivalent versions of biologicals shown to be successful in treating human indications, converted by Nexvet's proprietary PETisation™ technology.
PETisation™ converts biologics to species-specific analogues through a simple, rapid one-step process with a high success rate. For decades animal health companies have used drugs based on human health products with typically little optimization for the animal targets. Nexvet will address this shortcoming by introducing new highly optimized products in areas of greatest market need.
The area of biologics has undergone massive growth in human medicine, and is responsible for many of the most effective drugs on the market. Biologics are drugs based on natural proteins with typically good efficacy, high specificity and an excellent side-effect profile. To date, innovation and competition in biologics in the $20 billion global veterinary pharmaceuticals market has been limited. Nexvet's team has international track records in developing human biologics combined with veterinary expertise. Nexvet's expertise in biologics R&D confers a strong competitive advantage and has generated an extensive intellectual property position, making Nexvet an attractive licensing partner and/or acquisition target.
Nexvet is based in Melbourne, Australia, with partners and investors located around the world. Nexvet has also received support from the Australian Government under its Commercialization Australia scheme. If you would like to know more about Nexvet, please visit the website at www.nexvet.com and via the contacts below.
About the Trans Tasman Commercialisation Fund
The Trans Tasman Commercialisation Fund (TTCF) is an A$30 million open end fund that brings together universities, governments and a capital provider mutual benefit. It invests in opportunities and/or projects whose main purpose is to commercialise technology arising from a collaborating member university. The technology can be in any sector, including life sciences, information & communications technology or engineering/cleantech. TTCF has recently made successful exits from HaloIPT and Ruga Corporation. Please see www.ttcf.com.au
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Question for the Money Doctors
Question submitted on Feb 22, 2013.
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If you are referring to "Save Wisely, Spend Happily: Real Stories About Money & How to Thrive from Trusted Advisors" below is a link to buy it at Amazon. If this is not the book please specify the author or publisher or complete title.
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RESERVE Bank governor Glenn Stevens has denied that the bank's handling of Australia's worst corruption scandal shows it was ''asleep at the wheel'' but has conceded - for the second time - it would have been ''prudent'' for police to have been told of corruption concerns when they emerged in 2007.
Mr Stevens has also told a parliamentary committee that a failure in governance may have contributed to the alleged bribe paying of two Reserve banknote companies, Note Printing Australia and Securency.
''Clearly, in the end, if these [alleged criminal] matters occurred … it wasn't good enough. There is no way around that,'' Mr Stevens said.
But he also said that he believed the RBA-appointed boards of both allegedly corrupt companies acted ''reasonably'' given what they knew at the time of the alleged bribery, which police say took place between 1999 and 2006.
In his most significant concessions to date, Mr Stevens' former deputy, Ric Battellino, told the hearing that public sector agencies and private companies needed to lower the bar when assessing if they should pass misconduct allegations to police.
The RBA has been harshly criticised by federal MPs and anti-corruption experts for failing to alert police to a 2007 memo written by whistleblower and senior banknote executive Brian Hood, which detailed corruption and suspected bribe paying involving Note Printing Australia.
Instead of alerting police, the RBA relied on advice from a corporate firm, Freehills, which found no breach of the law. The RBA only called in the police in 2009, after revelations about the corruption were revealed by Fairfax Media. Both companies were charged last year.
Mr Battellino said that reporting corruption allegations to police was ''a costless and easy thing to do'' but that it had not occurred to him when allegations first surfaced in 2007.
''The bar at the level we should call in the federal police should be lowered a long way,'' he told the joint parliamentary committee on the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity.
Mr Battellino also conceded that it would have been preferable if he and Mr Stevens had provided more information about the RBA's knowledge and handling of the corruption scandal in other parliamentary hearings over the past three years.
Both men have also been criticised by MPs for not telling previous hearings of Federal Parliament's economics committee about the explosive Hood memo.
Mr Battellino said that it wasn't ideal that the RBA had provided information in a ''piecemeal'' fashion until the all-day hearing held before the economics committee in October.
''Looking back it would have been good to put it on the table,'' he said.
Mr Stevens denied an accusation from Greens leader Senator Christine Milne that the RBA may have been ''asleep at the wheel'' in not acting on corruption warning signs when they first emerged.


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Porter batting lefty Martinez second against righties
HOUSTON -- Astros manager Bo Porter had outfielder Fernando Martinez hitting second in the batting order Monday for the second game in a row, moving Justin Maxwell -- who had hit second in the 12 games prior to Sunday -- down in the order. He batted seventh Monday.
Porter said he likes to have a left-handed bat in the No. 2 spot against right-handed pitchers. That's because Jose Altuve has been getting on base at such a high clip (.425), and a left-handed stick has a huge hole on the right side of the infield when Altuve is being held on first base.
"Then you have an opportunity to have a lefty who has an opportunity to hook that hole, so you can go from first to third more," he said. "And we're getting Justin into position -- he can drive in runs. That's more so against right-handed pitchers than it would be against left-handed pitchers."
The two spot fits Martinez well because he pulls the ball and is a good fastball hitter. He began the year on the disabled list, but homered on his first swing of the season Sunday, shooting an opposite-field jack into the Crawford Boxes.
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Jennifer Wells first met Vice President Al Gore at a political event in 1998, when he was gearing up to run for president against George W. Bush. Like many people in the audience in San Rafael on Wednesday, she was disappointed at the outcome of that election.
"I think if Gore got into office he could have continued the good that Clinton did," she said.
Wells, 51, of Novato, was not the only supporter in the packed auditorium at Dominican University of California, where Gore spoke for the third time since 2007. From the outset it was clear Gore had found a friendly audience in Marin, where he is celebrated as much for his recent environmental advocacy as he is for his political career.
"He's been an influential figure over the last 15 years, particularly after he became an environmental spokesman, and I wanted to hear what he had to say," Susan Blanchard, 60 of Mill Valley, said before the talk.
Gore appeared at Dominican as part of a national tour for his book, "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change." He based his talk loosely around those drivers — economic globalization, digital communications, a re-balancing of international power, advances in biotechnology and materials science, climate change and "rapid unsustainable growth."
In his introduction, he hinted that he and much of the audience likely saw eye-to-eye.
"I just think of Marin County as the epicenter of the rebellion," he said in his introduction, prompting an outburst of laughter and applause. "That's a Star Wars metaphor for some of you who don't pick it up right away."
In a wide-ranging discussion, Gore railed against interest groups he said have "hacked" both democracy and capitalism, making it harder for policymakers to act in the public's best interest. For example, he said fossil fuel-based companies have injected themselves into the climate change debate, fueling skepticism about global warming.
"They took a page out of the tobacco industry's playbook," he said.
Gore made little in the way of specific policy prescriptions as he discussed everything from the invention of the phonetic alphabet to genetically modified goats. But he said the book is a call to engage in public life.
"I hope that you will read it with your hearts and minds open to the possibility that you personally can be an active agent for positive change in making the future what it should be," he said.
Gore fielded a handful of questions, but none addressed the recent sale of his network, Current TV, to Al Jazeera. Gore has been accused of hypocrisy because Al Jazeera is financed by oil-rich Qatar.
"It does seem a little odd," Blanchard said before the talk.
Chase Clow, a Dominican professor who teaches a class on classic works of environmental writing, said it is unfair to fault Gore for the sale.
"We're not in the future yet that we need to be in, where we can ignore the wealth and resources that come from the oil industries," she said. "We have to get out of an oil-based economy, but right now we are in an oil-based economy."
The audience was mostly left glowing after the talk.
"It was a brilliant lecture, said David Kunhardt, chief financial officer for SolEd Benefit Corp., which helps schools and municipalities with energy efficiency and solar energy.
"It was very enlightening," said Frank Ramirez, the father of a Dominican student and a staffer for Gov. Jerry Brown. "There's a lot of substance behind him (Gore). There's a lot of quality behind him and I appreciate that. He's not fake."
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POLICE are appealing for information after a 25-year-old man was the victim of an unprovoked assault in a Burnley nightclub.
In the early hours of January 19, at Posh Nightclub on Ormerod Street, a man was knocked unconscious in an unprovoked attack.
The victim suffered a fractured cheekbone and eye socket.
Officers are trying to trace the man responsible and are appealing for anyone who may have seen what happened to contact them.
DC Hayden Sibley said, "We are making a number of enquiries to try and trace the person responsible and as part of that, I would appeal to anyone who was in the club and saw what happened to get in touch with us.
"The victim on the night was wearing a white t-shirt with a grey cardigan over the top and dark jeans, and the assault happened as he crossed the dance floor to find his friends – if anyone was there and saw what happened, please call police on 101."
Anyone with any information about this incident should contact Lancashire Police on 101 quoting log number LC-20131125-1380.


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In honor of the one-year anniversary of starting Miriam's Advice Well and our advice columnist's second pregnancy, Miriam decides to share her thoughts about how to talk to pregnant women.
Dear Readers,
In honor of my birthday (today!), the one-year anniversary of starting Miriam's Advice Well and my second pregnancy, I thought I'd share my thoughts about how to talk to pregnant women. If you're also pregnant, a close personal friend, or my parents, feel free to sit back smugly and appreciate how much more sensitive you are than the strangers, barely-acqaintances and bus riders I'm about to lambast.
Speaking of smugness, when I was pregnant with my daughter, a friend sent me this youtube video. It made me laugh for sure, but I thought then and think now, "I'm not smug, I'm uncomfortable, I'm tired and I miss my real clothes." However, after rewatching the video, I have another theory: Pregnant women speak in cliches because they're sick of answering the same questions over and over. We come across as self-righteous because it's more comfortable to say something trite than to tell the lady who works at the sunglasses store that, "Actually, my back hurts and I just want to go to sleep, but, as a consolation prize, I guess I'll get new sunglasses."
In the spirit of actually giving advice, here are my tips for talking to the pregnant among us:
- This should go without saying, but some people still haven't gotten the message: Never, ever ask a woman if she's pregnant or imply that she might be unless she tells you she is.
- Don't ask, "How are you feeling?" unless you really want to know gory details about pregnancy or expect to hear something trite (see above).
- Better yet, just don't ask, "How are you feeling?" I recently attempted to deflect a conversation away from my pregnancy by immediately replying, "Fine, thanks, how are you?" only to find out that the person I was talking to had recently been diagnosed with Parkinson's. Just don't ask and I won't be tempted to ask back.
- Avoid comments about appearance in general. When you're pregnant, there's a short distance from, "You look great!" to, "You look great considering there's a watermelon-sized alien growing inside you!" If you wouldn't have made comments about how I look before I was pregnant, please don't make them now. (Other pregnant women, close personal friends and my parents are the exceptions here as well.)
- If the woman in question is someone you already know, talk to her how you talked to her pre-pregnancy. If she's not someone you know, then you really shouldn't be talking about her personal business anyway.
- Avoid phrases like: "It must be nice to eat whatever you want," "You're glowing," and anything involving a friend's difficult labor.
Lest I come across as totally bitter (because really I'm not, I'm just here to entertain and maybe enlighten a little!), I also want to take this opportunity to thank my amazing family and friends for supporting me, both when I'm cranky and pregnant and when I'm just one or the other. On my daughter's first birthday, I thought that the party should be for my husband and me instead of for her. After all, her survival through that first year was thanks to us. Though I have a few more birthdays under my own (ever expanding) belt, now that I'm a parent, I appreciate my own parents in new and wonderful ways. So, on my birthday, I want to say thank you to them — for giving me life, for being endlessly supportive and for teaching me what it means to love unconditionally.
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Changes For The Future
For the past year this space was occupied by John Gibson's "From the Driver's Seat" column. With the 2009 USAR Pro Cup season winding down, John is no longer with us here at Circle Track. As he's off to pursue other opportunities, we wish him the best of luck both on and off the track.
From here on out we will be dedicating this space, the last editorial page in each issue, to a new monthly column that will investigate emerging technologies, trends, and issues facing the world of motorsports. No one segment of our industry will be excluded from tracks to teams to tech, we'll tackle it here.
We will also be inviting guest columnists in to offer their viewpoints and opinions on these subjects. These columnists will be industry experts with their own unique view of racing and its future. The first full "Takin' the Green" column will hit the pages of Circle Track in the February issue. So be on the lookout for it.
However, in the meantime, we want to draw your attention to the Circle Track website. We've made some significant improvements to the site and added a new section called Multimedia under the main navigation bar. This Multimedia section of www.circletrack.com has been added as an interactive section of our website that will enhance your online car racing experience.
The cornerstone of the new Multimedia section can be found under the Racing Calculators tab. Several issues ago, Bob Bolles's "Track Tech Q&A" column offered up a Microsoft Excel computer program that would calculate Metric Four Link Roll Center to any Circle Track reader who sent him an email. Well, Bob's email box is still jammed full with all of the requests. We're talking hundreds upon hundreds of emails. The response was so great, in fact, that we decided to put the calculator up on the internet in our new Multimedia section.
So, now you can head on over to the website and click on the Multimedia tab and then on the Racing Calculators tab and download the calculator at your convenience.
But that's not the best news. Bob has four other calculators that we are going to make available on the website-free of charge. There's a Final Gear Ratio Caluclator, one that will calculate your Torsion Bar Rate, an invaluable Tire Temperature/Pressure Calculator, and the ever important Tire Stagger Calculator. These four calculators will be available (say it again) free of charge in the Multimedia section of the website by the time you read this.
If that's not enough, in the Multimedia section of the site you will also find fun and educational racing videos from our various oval track project car builds as well as downloadable Circle Track themed wallpapers for your computer.
And incidentally if you're interested in having your own racing video on www.circletrack.com you can! Just send us a DVD with the video on it along with your name and mailing address. You will be required to sign a release and the disk will become the property of Source Interlink Media. Videos must be produced by the racer's family, friends, or team. Videos produced by production companies are not eligible and publication of any video is at the sole discretion of the Circle Track staff.
If you have any questions regarding getting your own racing video on Circle Track's website just email Editor Rob at firstname.lastname@example.com. Now fire up that computer and head on over to www.circletrack.com and enjoy the new upgrades.


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Though Ms. Rose wears a slinky slip as beguilingly as Ms. Taylor did, its her take-charge energy and unembarrassed directness that make this Maggie such a stimulating presence. When she exclaims, Maggie the cat is alive!, you can only nod in admiring agreement.
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|reviewer: F. Strickland from Atlanta, GA
|This play was simply awesome anyone that is looking for a great night out. I recommend this play as the one to see and have dinner at one of the nearby restaurants. My guest and I perferred a brazillian near 48th.
I would not carry my children below the age of 12 due to some of the language and sex indications, But I would take my mother.
The cast was really in character and demonstrated the effects of being there with them in each performance. We really enjoyed this as Brick avoided Maggie, the noisy brother and his wife.
We had perfect seating in the orch level on the fourth row seats D 103 etc. I would take others to see this play as the opportunity arises. I live in Atlanta hope to see that it makes it South to the Fox.
This play was so real!
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Great Performances,
|reviewer: Bonita Butner from Kansas City, MO
|Phylicia Rashad was wonderful as Big Mama! Her range of emotions was extraordinary. Tennessee Williams writes stories that are very complex and all of the actors provided nuanced performances that supported the script. Bravo!
My only suggestion, TURN ON THE AIR! The theatre was very warm with a full house.
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Great Performances, Disrespectful Audience,
|reviewer: Anonymous from Hartsdale, New York
|Cat On A Hot Tin RoofSaturday 8pm, May3, 2008A well acted drama by "all performers." Boris Kodjoe played the role of Brick. There was obvious chemistry between the characters Big Daddy and Brick. Brick showed strong disdain for himself and of Maggie. Maggie was on fire spilling her emotions for all to hear and see. Unfortunately, the audience in the the back orchestra where we were sitting was a huge disappointment. At times the women in front of us were talking above Maggie in the first act. After asking for quiet during intermission we were greeted with the response "we paid our price for these tickets just like you.'' Sad to see this behavior. It is disrespectful to the audience and the actors.
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Audiance Out of Control,
|reviewer: David del Gaizo from New York, New York
|The play was wonderful and the acting superb, however, it was nearly impossible to hear half of what was being said (and I was sitting in 5th row orch.) for all the eating, talking, texting, and audience seating throughout the first act and long after both intermissions. Perhaps it would help if the management made a pre-curtain announcement instructing the audience in theatre etiquette. Unless something is done to rectify this situation it's not worth the $100.00 ticket price.
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Brick Speak Up - Count Stovall as Big Daddy - NOT GOOD,
|reviewer: Theater Lover from New York, New York
|Ditto as other comments. We were in Orchestra seating on April 10th and could barely hear Brick. I saw Debbie Allen in the balcony - the pitch of his voice is too low. This is theater not a movie set - she should have corrected this by now. Further Count Stovall messed up his lines so much it drove Howard to start laughing. Not funny at over $100 per ticket. If you can't see it with James Earl Jones, lower your expectations. Everyone else seemed to be overacting to compensate for Stovall - perhaps Jones' stage presence was that missed? The gem was Maggie The Cat. Overall - not so impressed and expected to be!
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Sacred Heart Prep junior Bradley Knox also had a good effort as he toured the picturesque flat layout in Carmel Valley with a 1-over 72.
Under normal circumstances, both scores would have been good enough to win league or section titles. Wednesday's tournament, however, was the CIF/CGA Boys Golf Championships -- also known as the state championships.
The scores by Buchanan and Knox were good, but not good enough to bring home individual honors on the short course that played 6,449 yards and featured 10 man-made lakes.
Top honors went to Jack Chung of Sunny Hills in Southern California. He shot a 5-under 66 to become the 2013 state champion. Miguel Delgado of Branson (Marin County) was runner-up with a 68 to earn top honors from Northern California.
Buchanan, in his first state tourney, was one of four golfers at 71 while tying for eighth. Knox, also in his first state finals, was in a group of five at 72, tying for 12th. The top finisher from the Central Coast Section was Seb Crampton of R.L. Stevenson with a 1-under 70. He helped his team win the state title with a 368 total. Sunny Hills was second at 370.
Crampton was the only CCS golfer ahead of Buchanan while Knox had only three ahead of him.
Buchanan, who has a scholarship to Southern Methodist University in the fall, capped his prep career with four birdies, 10 pars and four bogeys.
Starting on the 10th hole, Buchanan had four straight pars before getting a birdie on the 502-yard par-5 14th. He gave it right back with a bogey on the 15th, a 519-yard par-5. He picked up another birdie on the 146-yard par-3 17th to finish his first nine at 1-under.
A birdie on the 540-yard par-5 first hole put Buchanan at 2-under. He stayed that way until a bogey on the fourth hole, a 403-yard par 4. He gave back strokes on the sixth and seventh holes, both par-4s, before getting back to even with a birdie on the 541-yard par-5 ninth.
"It was a nice finish to my high school golf career and it felt good to birdie the par-5 ninth hole, which was my last hole today," Buchanan said. "It is definitely bittersweet to be leaving Menlo. I have really enjoyed my teammates and I am looking forward to playing for SMU in the fall."
Buchanan next will play in the 102nd California State Amateur on June 15 at Monterey Peninsula Country Club in Pebble Beach.
Knox also started on 10, just two groups ahead of Buchanan. He finished with six birdies, six pars, five bogeys and a damaging double-bogey six on the 408-yard par-4 16th that put him at 3-over for his first nine holes.
A bogey on the first hole put him at 4-over before Knox rallied with birdies on three straight holes to get to 1-over. A bogey on No. 6, a 349-yard par-4 was followed with a birdie on No. 8, a 216-yard par-3. Knox finished with a 2-under 33 on his second nine.


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YORKSHIRE'S white horse is in for a make over ready for the summer.
The White Horse of Kilburn is getting a spruce up this month from The Kilburn White Horse Association - the charity that looks after the landmark on Sutton Bank in the North York Moors.
Supporters have arranged for the horse to be repainted with the help of local businesses.
Helen Bielby, the association's vice chairman, said the charity has to work very hard to raise funds to keep the well known Yorkshire icon alive.
Richmondshire industrial maintenance company Instore Solutions Ltd have stepped up to do the work over three days from Friday, June 20, and Sunday, June 22, and much of the paint has been donated by Batley based PPG Architectural Coatings UK Limited.
The figure dates from the 1850s, and is the largest and more northerly in England.


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Last week's grain stocks report shock wave is still rumbling through the swine industry. One of the first responses several production systems have made to the lowered feed grain price has been to make plans to increase sales weight as rapidly as possible in anticipation of a summer drop in weight.
With cheaper feed prices coming next year (we're all counting on closer to normal crop yields in the U.S.) many production systems are targeting a return to higher slaughter weights with several also targeting investments in new production flows. Several large sow units are being constructed in the US this summer with the first pigs anticipated to begin hitting the market in late summer of 2014.


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Hurricane Ike Update From TPWD: Texas Game Wardens Deploy, Some State Parks Closing
12:18 p.m. CDT — Update 1
Below is information sent by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the Governor's Press Office earlier today. The governor's office is coordinating official communication about Ike for the State of Texas, including TPWD activities. The following information is provided as a service and convenience for TPWD's audience. For complete information, see the Texas governor's web site at http://governor.state.tx.us/, or news media may phone the press office at (512) 463-1826.
Regarding Texas State Parks, several coastal parks are evacuating campers and closing today due to Ike, as noted below. Other parks outside the area affected by the storm are preparing to accept people evacuating from areas hit by the storm. Evacuees from storm-damaged areas may tent camp at no cost in Texas State Parks, and they may stay in cabins or screen shelters at discounted rates. The latest information is available through the Texas State Parks reservation center at (512) 389-8900 or on the TPWD Web site (tpwd.texas.gov). The public can also phone individual state parks to see whether a park is closed or accepting evacuees.
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- Galveston Island State Park has begun a mandatory evacuation of their campers and plans to have the park closed by 5 p.m. today until further notice. The park is already experiencing high tides on the beach with bay side water currently backing up to the roads. The county is expected to implement a mandatory evacuation for the west side of the island beginning tomorrow.
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Outline a basic head shape (with ears and horns, if you want) on poster board, making sure it's big enough to cover your own face. Cut it out.
Hold the mask up to your face and mark where your eyes are. (You may need help with this.) Put the mask down and cut out the eyes.
For features such as a nose, cut out the overall shape from a piece of colored paper. Then fold the paper and cut slits or scalloped edges. Open your paper and glue it to the mask. (You may need to experiment to get the shapes you like.)
Flatten the tube and glue construction paper around it - or paint it instead. Then glue the tube to the back of the mask, leaving a few inches at the bottom for a handle.
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Experience conservation in action at Manly SEA LIFE Sanctuary aquarium and learn more about our breed, rescue and protect program. We successfully breed some incredible local species, we are passionate about rescue, nursing animals back to health and releasing them back into the wild.
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Freebie sig for the first UD rogue who PMs me with name/guild etc.
Freebie sig for the first UD rogue who PMs me with name/guild etc.
Nintendo FC: 1864-9765-3980 --- Grass type fanatic...
You're going to get something good /evil laugh.Originally Posted by Shoxxsome
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A masterpiece, if I do say so myself.
Btw there is also a computer sub-forum these days which is for hardware and software. So perhaps someone could combine all tutorials, galleries, etc in one topic.
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Updated that background a little, there must be a gal (or guy?) who wants a sig with hearts and rainbows ...
You guys are amazing. Great art work you have come up with.
I'd love something done for muy Troll Hunter.
If he could be in Tier10 armour and in the awsome troll firing pose that would be very cool. For a background i'd love either Icecrown Citadel or just a styleistic view using the colours (blues and whites) would be fantastic.
If possible i would love Camelstoe and Edge of Existence somewhere in the images using a Gothic style font. I really like these images and anything near these would be wonderful
Those sizes are perfect too.
I've decided to take 2-3 PM requests out of boredom, now these may take a while to do so don't PM me, post in this thread then PM other people.
And for people wanting to make signatures themselves, another tutorial of my latest style (will be doing a video tutorial of one of them PMs I get aswell)
I'll be taking the first 2 or 3 requests, I'll PM you back if you're one of em.
Originally Posted by Caiti
I would love to make a request!
Name - Noxe
Race - Human (male)
Class - Paladin, retribution.
Guild - Ordo Domus - US - Exodar
In full Tier 10 Heroic gear. I kinda want him without a weapon, with a serious look (maybe a kneeling pose), really want the helm though. If he does have a weapon, make it Glorenzelg, High-Blade of the Silver Hand.
Either a background the resembles ICC or something similar that kinda matches the theme of T10 heroic, or something with both a light and darker tone to it.
Text should be something simple. Name and guild etc. Also if there is any way you can fit some flavor text into it( "The Light's Fury") Without making it too cluttered that would be amazing. If not, I wouldn't care though.
Thanks guys, some really good looking productions here. Also, My armory is in my sig.
*Edit: An Avatar with the face cutout and just the name if it is not too much would be awesome as well. Sorry if I am asking too much.
{NAME} Krenden
{RACE} Orc
{CLASS} Rogue
{GENDER} Male
{GEAR} Full Orc Rogue Relentless without helm showing, Relentless Glads tabard, Relentless Longblades with mongoose x2
{POSE} In 'Combat Ready Stance'
{LOOKS} Dark skin, young, full face with red eyes, slight stubble and black shoulder length hair with 2 braids coming down onto the chest (like Thrall)
{DETAILS} Would like a side on view of the Orc on the right hand side of the signature facing left in 'Combat Ready Stance'. Backround should be an orangy/reddy Bloodlust theme or shady rogue theme, whichever fits
{TEXT} Krenden in clear font on the left hand side
Also would like the artist to create an avatar for me with the sig..just a close up of the face or something
Thanks heaps!
Hey guys, Just want to start by saying awesome work on sigs, just amazing.
I would like to request one if one of you guys can spare the time
Name - Zariya
Race - Orc (female)
Server - Hellfire EU
Guild - Devils Own
Class - Warrior (Fury for pve, Arms for pvp)
Wondering if you someone could do a sig where it shows t10 warr set on the left and relentless pvp set on the right?
fury weps shadowedge and cryptmaker, arms wep shadowedge.
Just a lil image I was going for :P
Thanks in advance, any sig attempts will be appreciated, and once again great job on the sigs so far!
Name - ChugadamsOriginally Posted by Caiti
Race - Undead Male
Gear - Mage Tier 9
I'd like for it to be from mid-chest up, with a dark blue/silver/white background, possibly with the animation of a /roar. You can throw the name Chugadams anywhere you see fit.
Originally Posted by Camelstoe
I hope it's to your liking. I wasn't content with chucking a pic of icecrown in the back, so I went with the blue/white thing you mentioned. I personally think it came out better than expected. Tell me what you think!
Hi i would like someone to create a banner for my guild site. We are called "Devils Own" (Thaurissan - US), Horde and the colors red and black would need to be incorporated somehow. Also a horde flag if possible. Sorry if i cant describe something a bit more clearer, but i dont actually have any set ideas, just what i would like the banner to include.
PM Request:
Name: Oosaioo
Race: Gnome
Class: Mage
First, I would like to say you all are doing fantastic work on the sigs! I would like a simple sig in full tier 10 gear in a casting stance. I'm not trying to complicate things I would prefer the artist to have free reign on design.
Thank you,
Oh that's excellent, thanks so much. One small thing though its Existence and not Existance.Originally Posted by LRCollier
But happy with it all the same.
I'd also like to make a request! Something similar to the priest sig on your tutorial link would be sick :xOriginally Posted by Caiti
Name - Makrinos
Race - Gnome (male)
Guild - there is no cow level
Class - Warlock
Gear - Full 277 Warlock T10
Name: Luny
Class: Rogue
Race: Female Night Elf
Gear: If it's possible I would like the tier 10 set (Shadowblade's battlegear) And if that doesn't work, the tier 9 rogue set (Triumphant Garona's battlegear) Without the helm showing. And 2 Bloodvenom Blade.
pose: The combat stance.
Appereance: No markings, short hair with a pony tail, light blue hair.
I want her to stand in combat stance to the right, and the text to the right. It doesn't matter what font, but I want the text to be light blue. And I want the background to be dark and gloomy, perhaps with some smoke.
Thank you! And I gotta say, fantastic work all of you!
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Name: Lector
Class: Undead
Gender: Male
Gear: Full Warlock Item-LvL 251 Tier10, just without the helmet! Weapon is not important (continue reading and you know why)
Pose: For my pose i would like the final stance of casting on target
Details: It should say Lector bottom left, background colour red/brownish bloodlust like
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A challenging case: Primary hyperparathyroidism in a dog
Ultrasonographic examinations helped identify the source of this dog's persistent hypercalcemia.
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Five months before the wellness examination, the dog had been presented to a veterinary emergency clinic for evaluation of lethargy of one day's duration. The dog's vital signs were normal. An electrocardiogram (ECG) had been obtained, and the results were normal. A serum chemistry profile had revealed that the total calcium concentration was 3.1 mmol/L (reference range = 2.2 to 3 mmol/L). The albumin concentration was normal. The parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentration had been measured because of the increased calcium concentration, and it was normal (3.9 pmol/L; reference range = 3 to 17 pmol/L). The patient had been discharged 48 hours after receiving intravenous fluid therapy and supportive care.PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AND LABORATORY FINDINGS
A physical examination at Forest Hill Animal Clinic revealed mild dander, a dry coat, and ceruminous debris in both ears. Complete blood count (CBC) results were normal, and results of a heartworm antigen test were negative.
Further testing revealed a total calcium concentration of 3.5 mmol/L, with an ionized calcium concentration of 1.82 mmol/L (reference range = 1.25 to 1.45 mmol/L), a PTH concentration of 4 pmol/L, a nonmeasurable parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP) concentration, and a normal vitamin D concentration (120 nmol/L; reference range = 60 to 215 nmol/L).
The owner indicated that the dog had not been exposed to toxins, including vitamin D supplements or creams. The dog was then referred to a referral center in Toronto for further evaluation of persistent hypercalcemia.
Results of another CBC and serum chemistry profile revealed a total calcium concentration of 3.5 mmol/L. The dog's free T4 concentration was normal (31.9 pmol/L; reference range = 16 to 45 pmol/L). A urinalysis revealed a specific gravity of 1.005, 10 to 20 calcium oxalate crystals/hpf, and bacteriuria. Aerobic bacterial culture of the urine was positive for Escherichia coli, which was sensitive to enrofloxacin.
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Happy Father's Day to all of the dads and dads-to-be out there! Thank you for all you do to enrich our lives, to uplift us, to push us to the next level of greatness and for just being generally awesome! It's no easy feat being a dad and we appreciate it!
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COUNCIL leader John Kent has called on the government to scrap proposals to increase the Dartford Crossing toll charge by 25 percent.
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SEMLEY freestyle skier Lloyd Wallace saw his Winter Olympic hopes dashed by Team GB chiefs.
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With only four athletes per nation permitted Olympic places he was in 31st position but with other countries releasing places, Great Britain was offered a spot at Sochi Wallace said: "I'm proud to have achieved that. If I was skiing for Brazil or Jamaica I would be going to Sochi. However, the British Olympic Association (BOA) have tough standards for aerials and I haven't quite met those.
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"I would like to give a big thanks to my coach Mich Roth and my parents, without whom none of that would have happened. Now it's back to Bath University and preparing for World Juniors in March."
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Hello there, allow me to share a little bit of background. I've been meditating for maybe a year now, and although I'm certainly no master, I am at a comfortable level that I know well; I haven't experienced a huge amount of progress in the last couple months, but there has a definite improving of concentration, insight, etc. over time.
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I cannot locate any change in my life or practice that would have led to this. Can anyone offer some suggestions or clarification about the possible causes of a derailment of the meditation practice? I've made the confusion my meditation object and contemplated its impermanence and the evidence it presents for non-self, etc. but it's still quite the roadblock. Any advice, tips, or possible things I may be doing to bring this about?
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May 16th, 2013 08:16 PM #1Senior Member
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What Do You Think?
These are my top tens from my signature and a few other name I like. Just wondering what people's opinions were.
- Finian "Fin"
- Zephyr/Zephyrus
- Calix
- Quill
- Dashiell "Dash"
- Holden
- Johnston
- Scorpio
- Tobias "Toby"
- Wesley
- Draco
- Edgar
- Galileo
- Lysander
- Vale
- Atlas
- Mercury
Artemas | Colby | Zephyr | Johnston | Tobias | Devin | Dustin
Sappho | Anna-Claire | Harper | Brielle | Rosemary | Skylar | Leocadia
Nova | Harley | Phoenix | Hayden | Fallon | Ridley | Quincy
May 17th, 2013 01:36 AM #3
I added Ara Lilias to our 'to consider' list earlier today and I think I may have done it subconciously after seeing your signature.
These are lovely names that I think would make fantastic firsts or middles. A few of your names were a bit intense for me, but sound good just the same.
I want to like Calix but all I hear with it is 'cow licks'--like the tuft of hair that refuses to cooperate.
Lelia - I prefer this to Leila.
Like Calix, I want to like Decima it's too similar to the word 'decimate' for my liking.
Interesting names!
May 17th, 2013 02:17 AM #5Senior Member
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Finian "Fin" - nms
Zephyr/Zephyrus - prefer Zephyr and love it
Calix - nms
Quill - kinda cool
Dashiell "Dash" - nms
Holden - nms at all
Johnston - no
Scorpio - cool but nms
Tobias "Toby" - love
Wesley - nms
Draco - love
Edgar - love
Galileo - love it
Lysander - have it as a middle name
Vale - nms
Atlas - Same as Mercury
Mercury - love it its on my list
Era - interesting
Lilias "Lily" - interesting but nms
Saffron - love for either gender
Verena - nms
Amethyst - same as Indigo
Indigo - love on my list
Brielle - never liked this
Tanaquil "Quil" - sounds like medication nms
Gemini - interesting but nms
Leila - nms
Hallie - nms
Luna - this never appealed to me on a girl I like it for a boy
Lyra - cute
Artemis - love for either at the moment I like it for a boy more
Freya - never was fond of this
Decima - nms
Galatea - ok prefer Gaia or GalaxyCurrent Favorite Names♀ Gotham | Hessian | Salem
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May 17th, 2013 03:16 AM #7
Finian "Fin" - I like it. Very approachable.
Zephyr/Zephyrus - I don't love it as much as others seem to, but it's a nice name.
Calix - Is it pronounced Kay-licks? In theory, I like it, but as someone else said, it makes me think of "cow licks"
Quill - Love it.
Dashiell "Dash" - Love it.
Holden - It's only meh for me.
Johnston - I don't see the appeal.
Scorpio - It's very soap opera-ish.
Tobias "Toby" - I like this one.
Wesley - It's a perfectly fine name. I prefer the nn Wes, though.
Draco - I like Drake well enough, but Draco still conjurs images of Tom Felton sneering at Daniel Radcliffe.
Edgar - Not my favorite "Ed" name. I don't care for the sound.
Galileo - Better as a middle, though Leo would make a fine nn.
Lysander - Eh.
Vale - Eh.
Atlas - I like it. I may be in the minority, but I think it's a usable name.
Mercury - Too mercurial.
Era - Equal Right Amendment?
Lilias "Lily" - I don't care for it.
Saffron - This is nice, pretty.
Verena - Not a fan.
Amethyst - Pretty, but nms.
Leila - Not bad.
Indigo - Okay. Indi is a cute nn.
Brielle - Too cutesy.
Tanaquil "Quil" - Sounds like a precription medication.
Gemini - Leave it to the zodiac.
Leila - Not bad.
Hallie - Okay.
Luna - Cute. Quriky but recognizable.
Lyra - Pretty.
Artemis - LOVE.
Freya - Like it.
Decima - Reminds me of "deciminate"
Galatea - Very prettyGideon ~ Ezekiel ~ Abel ~ Emmett ~ Declan ~ Silas ~ Ezra ~ Flynn ~ Jasper ~ Elliot
Maisie ~ Willa ~ Naomi ~ Vivienne ~ Evangeline ~ Gemma ~ Amaryllis ~ Lux ~ Remi ~ Sophie
Shiloh ~ River ~ Sage ~ Rowan
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May 17th, 2013 06:49 PM #9Senior Member
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From your boys list I really like:
Finian "Fin"
Zephyr - I like it, I'm not very brave though so I would use it in the middle name slot, but it's an awesome name!
Holden - Love this one, it was on my list but my dh didn't like it
Tobias "Toby"
From your girls list I really like:
Luna - Love it!
Lilias "Lily"


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