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DETROIT (AP) -- The family of a former U.S. Marine detained in Iran on espionage charges is making more appeals for his freedom one year after his death sentence was overturned.
Sarah Hekmati says her family sent a letter Tuesday to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for the release of her brother Amir. Iran's Supreme Court ordered a retrial for him last March, and he's been detained for 555 days.
Iran accuses Hekmati of spying but his family and U.S. officials deny it. Sarah Hekmati says he "went through all the appropriate channels" for the 2011 trip to visit his grandmothers.
The family says he was on a hunger strike last year to protest solitary confinement.
Hekmati was born in Arizona and raised in Michigan, where his sister and parents live.


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I was by the Old DH/county line on Tuesday and did not find a Lee/DH marked. There is a large stone Brevard county over on the current US-1 which may have also been the DH. Possibly more interesting was Dixie Lane which runs east-west about a mile north of the county line. We followed it to its end but I figured it really was somebody's lane but when I looked at DeLorne it was labeled Old US Hwy 1.
I am certainly behind but I did get Tuesday's journal up earlier today. It's here:
Nice write up of the trip in your blog Denny. I particularly like the pics of the brick road section and that you had an opportunity to drive it this time.
We spent some time in the Hendersonville, NC library yesterday, trying to go through some old maps and historic descriptions of the area but we didn't learn too much. There was a nice history of the Old Buncombe Turnpike, which ran from Hot springs, NC down into South Carolina, and was essentially the same route the Dixie Highway later followed, but no mention of the Dixie was made. The librarian told me that there are boxes of unsorted materials that include maps and area histories that he has yet to go through. Maybe he'll find something of interest. In the meantime I am keeping my eyes open on ebay for relevant Green Book and Blue Book tour guides of that area.


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So, about a month ago I was doing towel drills and popped something in the muscle of my throwing shoulder, on the back side of my shoulder. It was in the center of the meaty muscle right underneath the bone of my shoulder. It didn't quite snap, but it felt close to that, and it immediately hurt pretty bad. Every time I would extend my elbow (do a forearm chop from a stand still) it would kind of burn with pain and I could feel it twinge.
So I laid off for about 5 days and felt back to normal. But since then I've had the thing start to burn again twice, both times the morning after back to back days of playing. I'm guessing it's just a muscle strain that never fully healed(?) Besides resting it, what should I do to help it heal? It bothers me that it keeps popping up after heavy use. It feels like a deep bruise or something.


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B. Alan Wallace compares the Theravada meditative practice of "attending to the emblem of consciousness" to the practice in Mahamudra and Dzogchen of "maintaining the mind upon non-conceptuality", which is also aimed at focusing on the nature of consciousness. - B. Alan Wallace, The bridge of quiescence: experiencing Tibetan Buddhist meditation. Carus Publishing Company, 1998, page 257.
Anybody know what this "emblem of consciousness" is? I've never heard of this term.


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Program: The degree requires minimum of 24 hours of course work beyond the M.A., followed by the Doctoral Competency Exam, which has a written and an oral component. The Written Component takes the form a Competency Essay, written over the course of seven days, in response to a question based on the texts on the preparatory reading list and selected by the student from a set of choices developed by the examiners. The Oral Competency Examination Committee is comprised of the three faculty on the student's dissertation committee and two other faculty agreed upon by the student and the student's advisor in consultation with the graduate director and the department chair. The oral exam lasts two hours. The examination committee will ask the student about the competency essay, as well as texts on the preparatory reading list. Within one week following successful completion of the oral examination, the dissertation committee will meet with the student to discuss and give final approval to the prospectus. If the student performs acceptably, she/he achieves two goals simultaneously: passing the Doctoral Competency Exam, and having the dissertation prospectus approved by the dissertation committee. The student then files the (now approved) copy of the dissertation prospectus with the College of Arts & Sciences and proceeds to write the dissertation. Completed dissertations are assessed by the committee and are formally accepted after a public defense.
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Every week in the print edition, we profile the Pet of the Week; this is not that. This is an act of self-preservation.
Some very evil lesbians, who know what a soft touch I am with needy puppies, have tried to get me to adopt a fourth dog. I once had four dogs at once, but none were puppies and none over 30 lbs.; I currently have a 40+ lb. 9-month-old Lab named Gulliver who is as much work as two dogs alone. (Here's more proof they are evil: They stole the name Gulliver for their new dog less than a month after I did.)
So why does all this matter? Because these women have another rescue they are taking care of named Buddy, and they can't keep him. If they don't adopt him out soon, they will trick me into taking him and we can't have that. So one of you needs to step up.
Here's the deal: Buddy is about 10 months old, probably a Chow- or hound-and-Shar Pei mix who was discovered in a neighbor's front yard suffering from dehydration, starvation and injuries from a fight with a larger dog. He's something of a miracle baby. His recovery is progressing: He's already added 6 lbs. to his skinny frame. He's probably as big as he's gonna get. And by Monday, he's have all his vaccinations and lose his testicles. In other words, the perfect boyfriend.
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Hunting for the Truth
The Wachiperi of Queros have lived in the Peruvian rain forest for a thousand years. For most of their history they have had only limited contact with outside groups, whether other indigenous people or the Incas and Spaniards.
That all changed in the 1950s. The often surprising ways the Wachiperi dealt with that change and how it altered their relationship with the forest that had nurtured them for a millennium is revealed in research conducted by Rodolfo Tello, anthropology '10.
Tello, who works to mitigate the impact of development projects on Latin Americans through his job at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C., spent years studying the Wachiperi, both as a doctoral student in anthropology at American University's College of Arts and Sciences and as coordinator of indigenous affairs for a sustainable development project.
He found that for the Wachiperi, close contact with members of Western society had immediate benefits: machetes for cutting brush, shotguns for hunting. But that contact soon proved catastrophic. Communicable disease, especially smallpox, wiped out 65 percent of the population. The community now numbers only about 60 members, Tello notes in the book he adapted from his dissertation, Hunting Practices of the Wachiperi: Demystifying Indigenous Environmental Behavior. The survivors resettled in a Baptist mission, forced for the first time to live near outsiders. Suddenly people who had relied primarily on subsistence hunting were also trading, working as hired labor, logging, fishing, and farming.
"That contrasts with traditional views that provide a more static view of the environmental behavior of indigenous people—that similar causes produce similar effects," says Tello. "It's not like that. In reality, it's a more dynamic process."
Hunting practices, and how the Wachiperi adapted to this new era, provided Tello the key to understanding their community. Hunting among the Wachiperi has always been a male-dominated activity (although women do the butchering and cooking). And hunting has always been more than a means of survival; it is also a social activity, a chance for male bonding.
Hunting has ceremonial dimensions as well. Feathers are gathered for ceremonies, for instance. And animal products also have medicinal properties. Their fat, for example, can help relieve stiff joints.
Especially post-contact, Tello notes, the Wachiperi, so long dependent on the bounty of the land, have sometimes been poor stewards of the environment. Having shotguns made it easier to kill game, and shining flashlights to hunt at night created more opportunities. But animals soon became scarce and hunters had to trek for hours to find prey. Pursuing other economic options, such as agriculture, proved easier and more reliable.
Similarly, fishing became more productive, at least temporarily, through two means: the use of poison and dynamite. "The poison also killed the small fish and even the eggs sometimes," Tello says, "so it affected the reproduction of the fish in the river." As the number of fish subsequently dwindled, the practice was limited.
"When they started fishing with dynamite, that was even more intense because that killed everything," says Tello. "Eventually they realized that fish didn't replenish as they did before. Slowly that created a greater awareness of scarcity of resources to the point that, today, they even protect the fishing areas. People from nearby settlements, nonindigenous, come to the river to fish with dynamite sometimes, but the Wachiperi have now taken a more defensive approach to fishing," proving again the dynamic nature of how indigenous people interact with their environment.
In July 2008, the Wachiperi community began managing a government conservation area in their region. With funding and technical help from an environmental organization, conservation efforts and ecotourism became part of their economic mix.
Other far-reaching changes have come as well. Some members of the community have earned college degrees and returned as professionals and government employees. Others operate twenty-first–century businesses, such as an Internet café. Indeed, Tello communicates with some members of the Wachiperi via email.
But less hunting by the Wachiperi as they pursue other activities has not meant more local wildlife, Tello notes in Hunting Practices of the Wachiperi.
"On the contrary, many species have become scarcer over time," he writes. The cause: more settlers, more logging, more commercial hunting by the newcomers, and agricultural expansion.
The Wachiperi face other threats, Tello fears. Greater dependence on the outside world in pursuit of consumer-goods, chronic health problems that come with a changed diet, the loss of their culture—all are potential hazards.
Still, Tello remains optimistic. He concludes in Hunting Practices, "In the long term . . . the self-determined focus on sustainability, education, community organization, and recovery of cultural traditions is likely to place the Wachiperi in a better position than similar groups lacking these characteristics, especially if they create social spaces to reflect on the direction of their socioeconomic changes and develop mechanisms to mitigate their potentially harmful effects."


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The victim of a robbery and shooting Monday morning in Oak Lawn is now listed in fair condition at Parkland hospital, spokeswoman Charise Thomason told Instant Tea on Tuesday morning.
Doug Tull, 49, remains in the intensive care unit of the hospital, Thomason said.
Tull underwent surgery after being shot in the stomach during a robbery at about 1 a.m. Monday near Shelby and Brown streets. According to Dallas police reports, Tull was walking toward the gay bar Pekers on Oak Lawn Avenue. Tull's home address is in the 2600 block of Throckmorton Street.
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Dendritic Cell Activating Scaffold in Melanoma
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This research study is a Phase I clinical trial. Phase I clinical trials test the safety of investigational melanoma vaccines. Phase I studies also try to define the appropriate dose of the investigational vaccine, in this case WDVAX, to use for further studies. "Investigational" means that the vaccine is still being studied and that research doctors are trying to find out more about it. It also means that the FDA has not yet approved WDVAX for any use in patients, including people with Melanoma.
The purpose of this study is to determine if it is possible to make a vaccine against melanoma by using your own melanoma tumor cells and combining them with other proteins which activate the immune system. We hope that by combining the cells and the proteins in this way that the vaccine will cause your own immune system to react against your melanoma tumor cells. The purpose of this study is also to determine the safest way to give this vaccine with the least amount of side effects.
Each vaccine will contain your own tumor cells which have been killed by a freezing and thawing process which destroys the cells but keeps the proteins from the melanoma cells. This is called a "tumor lysate" Your tumor lysate is combined with other proteins which activate the immune system. The other proteins are called GM-CSF and CpG. All of this is held together to form a "tablet" or "scaffold" which is about the size of a regular aspirin tablet. The material that holds the protein together is called PLGA. PLGA is the same material that doctors use for "dissolvable stitches" If you have ever had a problem with these types of stitches in the past, be sure to let your study doctor know about this.
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|A Phase I Trial of a Dendritic Cell Activating Scaffold Incorporating Autologous Melanoma Cell Lysate (WDVAX) in Metastatic Melanoma Patients
- Feasibility of WDVAX for Metastatic Melanoma [ Time Frame: 2 years ]To determine the feasibility of preparing dendritic cells activating scaffolds (WDVAX) incorporating autologous melanoma cell lysates in patients with metastatic melanoma
- Safety and Biologic Activity of WDVAX [ Time Frame: 2 years ]To determine the safety and biologic activity of vaccination with dendritic cell activation scaffolds (WDVAX) incorporating autologous melanoma cell lysates in patients with metastatic melanoma
- Immune Response [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- Tumor Response [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
- Survival [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
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- Histologically or cytologically confirmed Stage IV melanoma
- Life expectancy of 6 months or greater
- At least four weeks since treatment
- Recovered from any acute toxicity associated with prior therapy
- At least 8 weeks since treatment with any check point blockade agent
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- Known allergy or adverse reaction to PLG
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- Receiving other investigational study agents
- Active autoimmune disease requiring treatment for suppression of inflammation
- Uncontrolled intercurrent illness
- History of a different malignancy unless disease-free for at least 5 years or diagnosed and treated cervical cancer in situ, basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin
- HIV positive
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Neuroendocrine Tumors
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Nevi and Melanomas
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Hello all,
I'm a 30-year old married American (Cambridge, Ma.) ESL teacher living and working in Bangkok, Thailand. I've been a student of Buddhism since age 16 when I started attending a Shambhala meditation center in Newton, Ma. and reading all the books people do when they discover the dhamma. I sat many retreats long and short throughout my early twenties, and after a few false starts getting through school, earned a BA in Comparative Religion from Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. Prof. David Barnhill was an inspiration as was a Sri Lankan Prof., Shelini Harris, who encouraged my idea to go to Sri Lanka after graduating. I taught English as a volunteer to child monks in Chilaw and did much Tsunami relief work while there (I was very lucky to be in a safe place that day, just out of reach). After that I moved to Thailand for more ESL opportunities and training courses (did the CELTA and the SIT TESOL here).
Now I'm married (to a Thai) and have lived here for almost 4 years now. I only occasionally visit temples and rarely meditate. Recently I've been feeling the effects of this lack...after this period of a few years it's been extremely difficult to get comfortable with my mind again...
I'm looking forward to reading and posting on this forum. I'm interested in all aspects of the dhamma. What I mostly do nowadays is listen to talks by Thannisaro (a wonderful and clear teacher) and just try to relax into things a bit more - with an emphasis on direct, personal experience of the truth rather than reading more books (I've read enough, lord knows).
Living in Bangkok sometimes does NOT help, with pollution, crowds, consumerism, sex, and the like on all sides. Needless to say, it's quite the arena for practice.
Alright. Thanks.


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Google OneBox for Premier League (and Other Sports Results)
Football* fans from the UK should rejoice: Google added an OneBox that shows scores and upcoming matches when you search for the name of a team (Arsenal, Manchester United etc). Apparently, Google shows the OneBox only for the US and the UK sites.
EPL Talk wonders if Google pays a fee to display this information, but I wouldn't worry about that. "By law, publishers must pay a license fee to the Football DataCo Limited company that in turns shares the money with the clubs in the Premier League and Football League."
It's interesting to notice that Google SMS and Google's mobile search engine show scores and schedules from NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL, NCAA and from many football championships: Primera División, Serie A, Bundesliga, Ligue 1 etc.
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Get an overview of this hotel4-star hotel with winery and full-service spa
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Situated in Etoges, this spa hotel is within a 5-minute walk of Church of Etoges and Champagne Ruffin et Fils. Chateau de Montmort and Champagne Perrot-Batteux et Filles Winery are also within 9 mi (15 km).
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This hotel features an attached winery, a full-service spa, and a restaurant. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include a bar/lounge, coffee/tea in a common area, and massage/treatment rooms.
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A winery is attached to this Etoges hotel. Le Château d Etoges features a full-service spa. 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.
Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a business center and a meeting room. 3 meeting rooms are available. This business-friendly hotel also offers a terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and a garden. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- Total number of rooms - 28
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
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- Express check-in
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- Fireplace in lobby
- Full-service spa
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- Winery attached
- Number of meeting rooms - 3
- Free self parking
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- Family Hotel
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Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
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Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
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Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7:30 AM and 10:00 AM.
L ORANGERIE - Overlooking the garden, this fine-dining restaurant specializes in French cuisine and serves dinner only. A children's menu is available. Reservations are required. Open daily.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Playground on site
- Rowing or canoeing on site
Spa Services
SPA du Chateau d Etoges has 2 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy. The spa is equipped with a mud bath, a sauna, a spa tub, and Turkish bath/hammam.
Guests under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa.
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- Massages
- Number of treatment rooms 2
- Couples treatment rooms
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Body treatments
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Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3:30 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
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Check-out time is noon
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for EUR 35 per night.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for EUR 25 per night.
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 20 per pet, per night
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 19 for adults and EUR 8 for children (approximately)
- Pet fee: EUR 20 per pet, per night
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 25 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: EUR 35 per night
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- Château d Hotel Etoges
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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.
National Rating
This property has received its official star rating from the French Tourism Development Agency, ATOUT France.


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Doug Knoepke can't complain about 2011.
"All in all, it's been a very profitable year for our dairy," says Knoepke, who runs a 650-cow operation in Durand, Wis. The weather conditions for crops have been excellent. "And the milk prices speak for themselves," he adds.
Knoepke acknowledges that he is in a favorable position because he grows his own forage, specifically alfalfa and corn silage. He's better off in that regard than farmers who have to ship in forage at high prices.
While 2011 will be remembered as a year of high feed prices and drought in many parts of the U.S., high milk prices really stole the show. All-time record high milk prices this past summer eased the financial and psychological pain that producers endured in 2009 and into 2010. The crater created in 2009 was so deep that producers needed a really good year to climb out, and by most accounts 2011 did not disappoint.
Milk prices worth celebrating
In August, the all-milk price — a weighted average of the prices dairy processors pay for all Grade A and Grade B milk D — hit $22 per hundredweight, an all-time record.
For many producers, the pay price was even higher.
Lloyd Holterman, dairy producer from Watertown, Wis., says the check he received in September for August milk was just short of $25 per hundredweight. (That was his gross price before deductions.) It was the highest price he has received in 30 years of farming.
Holterman produces his own haylage and corn silage, but does have to buy corn and soybean meal. While facing high feed costs, an interesting phenomenon occurred:
"The more we paid for corn, the more money we made," he said. The milk price kept offsetting rises in the corn price.
All in all, he said, it was an excellent year.
Everett Williams, a dairy producer from Madison, Ga., also saw prices around $25 in August and September. (Again, that was a gross price from his co-op before deductions.)
It was a very good year for Williams, as well.
To deal with the feed-cost issue, Williams maximized the quality of the forage he raised and used more by-product feeds such as wet brewers grains and citrus pulp.
Simply a "better" year
California producers may have a slightly less rosy view of 2011 because many of them have to buy their feed at high cost.
Michael Marsh, CEO of the Western United Dairymen in Modesto, Calif., says 2011 has been a better year for California producers than 2010. "Milk prices have recovered nicely, but feed costs continue to hinder profitability," he says.
"California pool receipts will near the record revenue producers received in 2007, but a softening of prices in the fourth quarter are likely to keep that record out of reach," he adds.
The latest cost-of-production data from the California Department of Food and Agriculture through the second quarter indicate a cost of $16.79 to produce a hundredweight of milk, Marsh points out. "Nearly 58 percent of that cost, or $9.71, was the cost of feed alone."
Labor remains a challenge
One of the biggest challenges that Georgia's Everett Williams faces is procuring quality labor. Producers in Georgia must now use E-verify when hiring new workers, and that has limited the number of immigrant workers they can choose from.
The schizophrenic immigration policy of the U.S. government has made it difficult for producers across the United States. It's difficult to find American-born citizens who are willing to do the work, while many immigrants are willing and also have a great work ethic. Sometimes it appears the government understands this, sometimes not. The biggest disappointment of the year may be that nothing was done in the U.S. Congress to pass meaningful immigration reform.
Hopeful signs
At year's end, there are two other hopeful signs:
• Exports are booming. It looks like the U.S. dairy industry will export 13 to 14 percent of its production this year, which will be a record. And, the sky is the limit. As a story on page 14 of this month's issue describes, opportunities abound in Japan and other countries if the U.S. dedicates itself to becoming a long-term, consistent supplier.
• Farmland prices are booming. Federal Reserve banks in the Midwest are documenting a 25 percent increase in farmland values compared to the same time a year ago. The underlying sentiment is that farming will be a huge growth industry as the world population expands by another 2 billion people by the year 2050.


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As a long time Lowrider and member of Southern California's Our Style Car Club, Rafael Nieves knows what it takes to bring home trophies and garner second looks when cruising the streets of his hometown of Lakewood, California. When it came time to build his latest project, he came upon a convertible 1968 Chevy Impala at the Long Beach Swap Meet one Sunday morning, and instantly knew he had found his next project.
A deal was made with the seller in exchange for cash and the keys to Rafael's 1983 Chevy El Camino for the ragtop sixty eight. Once Rafael brought it home, it was time to come up with a plan. The first order of business was to get the body cleaned up and prepped for paint. Rafael had Javier from JM in Paramount California prep the body for paint. Javier sprayed the '68 with a Candy Green hue from top to bottom. The frame was also sprayed in Candy Green after Rafael had it reinforced, making for a very complementary combination. After the Impala was sprayed by Javier, Curley from Curley's Pinstriping in Paramount, California added his touch throughout the car; including the striping and leafing on both sides of the body and the leafed "Our Style" logo in the engine compartment. Mario from Riverside, California added some murals on the underside of the hood and trunk.
When it came time to upgrade the suspension, Rafael decided against cutting up the classic Impala for hydraulics, so he opted to have Javier from JM install an air bag suspension setup that allows him to adjust the ride height at a flip of a switch. The air tanks for the setup that are mounted in the trunk have been chrome plated to add to the overall custom look of the six eight's trunk.
Rafael decided to pull the Impala's power plant and add a 1968 GMC 327 to the engine bay but before he did that, he had the engine block painted to match the color of the car and added a slew of chrome accessories like the air cleaner, valve covers, and brake booster. Rafael added chrome inner fender skins to the engine bay to combine the large amount of chrome under the hood. The final addition to the engine bay was the custom ceramic coated exhaust system. In keeping with the chrome paint and pinstripe combination, Rafael had the suspension pieces of the Impala chromed and the gas tank painted Candy Green and pinstriped as well. The Impala was fitted with 14-inch wire wheels that are pinstriped and matched to the color scheme with "Our Style" wheel chips.
When it came time to upgrade the interior and the rag top, Rafael took on both tasks himself, covering the interior in black vinyl and green tweed while dressing up the trunk in the same combination. Rafael redid the top in a black fabric that matches the interior. Rafael also installed the Audio system in the Impala. He added Kenwood, MTX, and Punch audio components throughout the Impala for a crisp clean sound.
With most projects, the final addition to the project is the car club plaque. This was the case with Rafael's Impala. He put the "Our Style" plaque up and hit the streets and the shows with his club. Since building the Impala, he has won numerous awards at the shows he's entered, including the very competitive Imperials show, Lexanifest, and the Old Memories show.
Rafael would like to thank his wife and two sons for their support of his Lowriding, and would also like to thank Javier from JM and Curley from Curley's Pinstriping for all of their help and guidance during the two years it took to build the Impala. Rafael once again succeeded in building a head turning show winner.
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"Dirty Money Green"
Owner: Rafael Nieves
Vehicle: 1968 Chevy Impala
Club: Our Style Car Club
City/State: Lakewood, CA
Paint: Candy Green by JM of Paramount, CA. Pinstriping by Curly's Pinstriping Paramount, CA. Murals by Mario of Riverside, CA.
Interior: Owner covered the interior in Black & Green Tweed & Vinyl.
Suspension: JM of Paramount, CA., installed a custom Air Bag set up.
Wheels: 14×7 Wire Wheels.
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tiltbillings wrote:It is a lie that it is a self-existant thingie that is part ofthe universe, and it "becomes" because we bring it about.
I did not say you were; rather, I am just trying to get at the nature of such things as justice and compassion.kirk5a wrote:tiltbillings wrote:It is a lie that it is a self-existant thingie that is part ofthe universe, and it "becomes" because we bring it about.
Who is advocating that compassion is a "self-existant thingie that is part of the universe" ? Not me.
Well, yes, but I think Death said a bit more than that in his last statement.I thought Death's point was that it is a lie period. A useful fiction we believe in, and so there it is. Like Texas. A mere convention.
tiltbillings wrote:Actually, it might be interesting to consider the OP in terms of the Buddha's teachings.
Kim O'Hara wrote:Hi, kirk5a,
I'm with Tilt on this - perhaps because I also have read the book and can put the quote in context. Your approach seems to be too literal ... one might ask where a single molecule of Fantasy or Fable is to be found when a text is ground down to its tiniest components
In fact, Death is suggesting that abstractions like Justice and Compassion are real (and have real effects in the real world) but only become real through us - people - and that a reductionist (literalist) approach will not only fail to find them but will (therefore) deny their very existence; further, that if the reductionist approach dominates a culture, those abstractions will cease to exist, and that would be a disaster.
It's rather a lot of heavy philosophy to fit into a brief conversation in a fantasy novel but, as I said, Pratchett is a clever bloke.
kirk5a wrote:Hi Kim. Thanks for the expansion on that. It still says though, that compassion is an "abstraction."
kirk5a wrote:Even if everyone was a die-hard reductionist, they would find, to their consternation, that compassion arose from time to time anyway.
No hijacking at all. This is very much the conversation I was looking for, and I greatly appreciate your insightful comments. Good stuff.Kim O'Hara wrote:Hmmm - I'll split that into two parts which don't necessarily have a lot to do with each other.
(Apologies to Tilt - didn't mean to hijack the thread!)
Except, that is not what being said. Actually, it might help for you to read through this thread with some care before commenting.alan wrote:It is a kind of perverse anti-philosophy that states that ideas are our creations and therefore they have no merit. This is a Nihilist perspective, which the Buddha refuted.
And where are they?alan wrote:I'm going to argue that justice and compassion are not abstractions, but are necessary attributes without which we could never have evolved.
Then what are they? Built in thingies to prevent ourselves from killing ourselves?alan wrote:I don't think it is a question of "where".
And it certainly is a mixed bag; however, where is compassion and where is justice?alan wrote:Oh, tilt. I'm sure you are aware that we are the product of the evolution of our brains.
So, compassion and justice are evolutionary prcesses? But what does that actually mean? Where do they exist? How do they exist?alan wrote:We would never have survived the evolutionary process without inborn senses of compassion and "justice".
As for your quote: I don't get it. What is the meaning behind it? Is it supposed to be profound?
alan wrote:Oh, tilt. I'm sure you are aware that we are the product of the evolution of our brains.
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There were several times during the 439 days that passed between the time he took his last meaningful snap for the Colts and when he signed his new contract with the Broncos that Peyton Manning couldn't help but wonder if his career might be over.
After spending all of 2011 on the sideline because of neck injuries, Manning had to consider the possibility of not playing.
"I can't say it wasn't," Manning said last week in a private conversation with The Denver Post.
For all of his devotion to football and the art of quarterbacking, Manning knew that he wouldn't play again until he was healthy. As he went through a second, third and fourth procedure last year, all in hopes of fixing the pain in his neck, Manning demanded straight answers from his doctors.
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"If the doctors said, 'Hey, you shouldn't go out there,' that's it. That's the end of it," Manning said. "That's a short conversation. I've kind of asked them to say that. It's just not the case."
So it was with that confidence that Manning embarked on a 10-day free- agency odyssey that started and ended in Denver, where he signed a five-year contract last week that could be worth $96 million. For now, Manning will make $18 million in guaranteed salary in 2012 and will take another physical next March before collecting any more cash.
In one of their meetings, Broncos boss John Elway bluntly asked if Manning would be able to return to the type of quarterback that made him a four-time NFL MVP.
"There is no doubt in my mind," Manning replied.
With that, Elway was sold, and he, head coach John Fox and general manager Brian Xanders moved ahead with the franchise's biggest offseason move since Elway arrived in Denver nearly 30 years ago.
"It is tremendous," Elway said. "The way I look at my life, all that other stuff happened as a player. Now, in my second career, my second life, this is without doubt the biggest (event) of this career."
Though Manning is confident he will once again feel like the Manning of old, he admits he isn't there yet. Not even close.
"It's been awful. It's been real scary. Where I am now compared to where I've been, it's just a long, long way. It's been hard," he said. "I think I handled it really good. I've got a sense of peace about it and prayed about it a lot. When you've only known one way for 20 years, the more it comes back to what it feels like it's supposed to feel, the better I feel."
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Manning had his first neck procedure in the offseason before the 2010 season but returned to play every snap that season. In May 2011, two months into the NFL lockout, he had a second surgery, this time to repair a bulging disc, and spent the duration of the lockout rehabbing from that procedure. Still hoping to play in 2011, he signed a five-year extension with the Colts in late July that included a $20 million signing bonus, even though he had yet to pass a physical.
Manning was activated off the Colts' "physically unable to perform" list but made it through only a pair of practices before pain forced him back into the training room. As the Colts prepared to play their first game since 1997 without him, Manning had a third, more serious, spinal fusion surgery. Manning confirmed to The Post that he had a fourth, albeit minor, procedure late last year.
Manning said he doesn't think there was a mistake made with his initial surgery in 2010, or that his neck injuries are related to the genetic spinal condition that ended older brother Cooper's football career as a teenager. Peyton and Eli Manning were tested for spinal stenosis in the 1990s.
"I remember them just saying ... 'you all aren't picture-perfect by any means, you aren't in any danger by any means,' " Manning said. "You can draw some correlation to there. But mine's kind of all in my right side. It's 20 years of throwing."
Doctors from the Broncos, Titans and 49ers, the finalists for Manning's services, examined his full medical history, as well as his neck, as a part of a full physical. All cleared him to play.
"That's what they tell me. The nice thing is that the doctors of three different teams have told me essentially the same thing. None of them blinked. Either they're all idiots ... ," Manning said, chuckling as his sentence trailed off.
Manning left his agent, Tom Condon, behind as he traversed the country during the free-agent process. Manning wanted his journey to be all about football. That's why he stayed at Brandon Stokley's house in Castle Rock when he visited the Broncos and Ken Wisenhunt's house during his visit to Arizona, and why he spent hours watching film and "talking ball" with the staffs from Denver, Arizona, Miami, Tennessee and San Francisco. There was no bad experience, and he grew attached to the coaches he met at each stop.
But ultimately Manning had to choose, and when he did, it came down to two things: Where did he feel most comfortable, and where did he believe he could win?
"A tremendous obligation"
Manning clutched his new orange Broncos jersey as he stood in a hallway at Dove Valley, in front of a row of recent Broncos team pictures. Just a few yards away hangs a larger-than-life picture of Elway clutching the Broncos' first Super Bowl trophy.
Manning has won one Super Bowl and lost one, and he and Elway have bonded over the intense thrill of being crowned champion and the immense disappointment of losing a Super Bowl. Elway lost three before he won his two in the 1997 and 1998 seasons. Manning won his first shot, in 2006, but lost his second in 2009.
How badly does Manning want a second championship?
"Two, three, four would be great too. I'd like as many as we can. The goal is to win," Manning said, laughing. "I know that I like being in the arena, I like knocking on the door every year. The closer you get, the harder it is sometimes when it doesn't happen. I know what that feels like, like John has. I know what it feels like to lose too."
For Manning, the best part of signing with the Broncos is that he once again has a football home. Manning stayed in Denver last week and has made himself at home at Dove Valley.
He has a locker set up, a new wardrobe of blue-and-orange workout gear, and has spent his days doing his rehab work with head trainer Steve "Greek" Antonopulos and strength coach Luke Richesson. He's also put in face time with free-agent players visiting Denver.
"I can't tell you how it's been weighing on me, this whole decision. But now I'm going to play with a tremendous obligation to them," Manning said. "To (Elway), to Fox, to Mr. Bowlen. I don't know the fans well, but I've always played that way. You're playing because of what they did for you."
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Manning's transition period
Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning knows he wants to get on the field with his new teammates as soon as possible, but he also knows he may have to brush up on the league's new collective bargaining agreement first.
"I'm going to have to get up to speed on the rules," Manning said. "I know we don't have nearly as much time as we used to. It's like free agency. It was never an issue for me before. I didn't know the rules there either. ... I've got a lot to study."
Manning was scheduled to spend five days at the Broncos' Dove Valley complex after being introduced Tuesday. After returning to his family this week to start the process of moving to Denver, Manning will soon be back at Dove Valley.
And, under the new CBA:
Manning can organize workouts on his own with his new teammates until April 16. Those workouts cannot take place at the Broncos' Dove Valley complex and cannot be supervised by any member of the coaching staff.
Manning cannot use the practice fields at Dove Valley under the supervision or instruction of the coaching staff until May 2.
He can throw with the team's medical and training staff as part of his recovery from neck surgery. But those throwing sessions cannot include any Broncos receivers under contract with the team, until April 16.
Manning can get a playbook for "voluntary study," but the playbook must have been available to any other player on the roster as well. However, with any playbook the Broncos would have given to Manning, the team cannot include any additional coaching materials, and the coaches cannot answer any of his questions until April 16.
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One side calls them "weapons of war" that have no place on America's streets. The other side says the term "assault weapons" is simply a menacing moniker designed to stir up anti-gun passions.
President Barack Obama jumped into the center of the fiery debate when he called on Congress to ban those weapons and their high-capacity magazines in the wake of December's elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn.
The debate begins with a simple question that has no simple answer: Just what is an assault weapon?
Lacking a rigid definition, lawmakers have struggled for years to come up with a set of criteria that sweeps in the rapid-fire, military-style rifles used in some of the nation's most sensational mass murders while leaving out popular hunting rifles that allow a sportsman to quickly fire a half-dozen bullets at a deer dashing through the forest. But there are M-16 look-alikes that are far less dangerous than a common pistol, as well as hunting rifles that can do nearly the damage of Connecticut school shooter Adam Lanza's Bushmaster.
In 1989, California lawmakers -- horrified by a mass shooting at a Stockton schoolyard -- adopted the first assault-weapons ban in the country. They simply named the guns that would be banned, and gunmakers responded by changing their names and model numbers. Since then, California and other states, as well as the proponents of a new federal ban, have incorporated a list of military-style characteristics that seem to make the most popular assault weapons especially deadly.
The seven states with assault-weapons laws have much different standards. Hawaii's and Maryland's, for example, deal only with pistols. In California, a semi-automatic rifle is deemed to be an assault weapon if it has a detachable ammunition magazine plus one of several specific features such as a pistol grip, flash suppressor or grenade launcher. Connecticut's law requires at least two of those features, which means the menacing-looking Bushmaster that killed 20 children and seven adults last month was legal. In California, it's banned.
The National Rifle Association argues that people unfamiliar with guns don't understand even some of their most basic workings. They note correctly that some journalists use the terms "semi-automatic" and "automatic" interchangeably.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation -- a firearms trade association based, coincidentally, in Newtown, Conn. -- says "the term 'assault weapon' was conjured up by anti-gun legislators to scare voters into thinking these firearms are something out of a horror movie." In fact, the term was introduced by the gun industry itself to boost interest in new lines of firearms.
Today, the AR-15-style Bushmaster and similar guns banned in California are among the most popular semi-automatic rifles in America.
"These are weapons that will shred your venison before you eat it, or go through the walls of your apartment when you're trying to defend yourself,'' said Jonathan Lowy, director of the Legal Action Project at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, arguing that they're "made for mass killing, but not useful for law-abiding citizens."
Yet gun groups say the Bushmaster works no differently than most semi-automatic firearms, and is lighter, easier to handle and hits its targets harder. Some gun owners like its looks: Bushmaster ads have boasted that owning one renews your "man card."
Some gun control advocates argue that more effort should be placed on banning high-capacity magazines than arguing about what makes an assault weapon.
California's law limits detachable magazines to 10 rounds, as did the 1994 federal ban. New York this week lowered its limit from 10 to seven. But the California, New York and federal bans failed to outlaw the huge number of high-capacity magazines already in circulation.
An independent study done in 2004 on behalf of the National Institute of Justice found the share of gun crimes involving assault weapons declined significantly in six cities during the 10-year federal ban -- particularly with assault pistols, which were used more commonly in crimes because they're more easily concealed. But the study also found that the decline in assault-weapon use was offset by the steady or rising use of other guns equipped with large-capacity magazines.
Other nations have grappled with the same issues. In 1996, a gunman using semi-automatic rifles in Australia killed 35 people and wounded 23. The country reacted by banning semi-automatic and automatic rifles and shotguns. It also enacted a mandatory buyback program for all such weapons.
A 2010 study by researchers from the Australian National University and Wilfrid Laurier University found that nation's firearm homicide rate fell by 59 percent and its firearm suicide rate fell by 65 percent in the decade after the law's enactment.


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An interview with Patricia Doyle
Northern Ballet Associate Artist and Co-Director of Hamlet
Are you excited about working on Hamlet with David Nixon (Artistic Director of Northern Ballet)?
Yes, I am. David has danced the role and I have seen many Hamlets. The first was in Stratford-Upon-Avon with my best friend from school. Her parents had taken us and I was 17 and didn't know the play at all. Michael Redgrave, who was playing Hamlet, was over 50, with a blonde wig and apparently blue eye shadow, but for me he was 18 and a student of philosophy. I fell in love with him and Hamlet at the same time.
David and I talked about the possibility of doing this some time ago but I never really thought it would come about as it is daring to do it. Such expectations!
What are the challenges of writing a scenario from a play that is so well known?
Hamlet is considered to be the greatest play written in the English language, if not the greatest play ever written. We talked about doing the ballet more traditionally but then we found ourselves talking about Fascism and Italy and then it became the German Occupation of France. We needed to work out how we could express the hierarchy and usurpation, as we wouldn't be in a Royal Court. We have watched a number of very informative films and very violent ones too, made at the time, as well as read books and contemporary accounts. All this has gone into the story but all the time reading it alongside the play. It is daunting as we won't have any of the words and the famous soliloquies but we must express these in dance and with emotion. We have a really good creative team as well and we are all committed to the idea.
Why do you think Hamlet will make such a good basis for a ballet?
Hamlet seems to tap into all people and doesn't lose its hold, in any age. Many of us wonder what it would be like if we just ended it, if we weren't there any more. For some reason most people know this speech and can even quote a bit of, "To be or not to be....". A lot of the poetry in this play seems to stay with audiences or readers. It is a universal experience hence so many continuing productions of it, here and all over the world.
Maybe in each new production we try to get inside the mind of this young man with all before him, destroyed by things outside his experience, a good kind young man who cannot bear the burden of all that happens to him. The play is so full of different emotions and in the ballet we have the chance to show some of his life before it all went so wrong and so quickly. We can see him happy with Ophelia, with his loving parents, with all his life before him. We can be free in this way as we can suggest whatever we want in dance and are not fixed by a script. We can interpret the story and this young man in another way, staying true to Shakespeare and his inspiration and imagination, but tell it another way and at the same time make it perhaps a little more contemporary by relating it to a fairly recent past.
What do you hope is the one thing audiences will take from Northern Ballet's Hamlet?
I would so love those who have never read or seen any version of the play to be inspired to see it or read it and weep for Hamlet.
You have recently been made an Associate Artist with Northern Ballet, what does that mean to you?
As my contribution alters from ballet to ballet, people don't really know what I actually do! I have been working for such a long time with Northern Ballet so I wanted to cement this professional relationship in a proper title. It is a system used often in the theatre with companies like the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. I am proud to have this title.
How do you work with David and the dancers to bring the scenario to life during rehearsals?
We refer to the scenario during rehearsals and try to let the dancers know for each rehearsal which part of it we will be working on, but it can get confusing for them especially if they don't refer to it themselves.
Often the scenario is also following a novel or story such as Peter Pan, and it is not difficult for the dancers to do some homework so they are in tune with this part of the story and the original material.
The scenario changes through the dancers interpretation and the choreography generally releases new thoughts on the story as it is being created.
We also flag up the research we have all been doing and especially David's and mine. So we can remind the dancers where it is coming from and add new bits of historical research as we find it.
In A Midsummer Night's Dream for instance we will constantly remind the dancers of the section in the play and what has just happened, in order to take them to the place we are working on. We also take them back to the original script of a play in sessions with me, before they go into the studio. But a lot comes from the dancers in the studio that allows the scenario to develop further, usually in character definition and not story necessarily.
Are there particular acting exercises you give them to do?
When I first worked with the company we used improvisation more, as we did in the theatre. Now we perhaps spend time on the research and discussion and less improvisation. We use exercises as they become necessary - to open up a scene for the story or the emotional content. And sometimes to help shape a scene from which the choreography develops.
How do Northern Ballet dancers measure up as actors?
They are extraordinarily committed and surprise me constantly as they find their own way into the scenario and the emotional life of their character. Each performance they develop emotionally as they grow into the choreography. Acting is part of the tradition of this Company and I feel they have a wonderful mixture of dance and acting that gives their work its own character. The older dancers pass on the acting expectations to the new younger ones too.
Do you get nervous on the opening night?
No I don't actually, if I know we have made what we wanted to. I believe our job is to take the dancers to the point where the work is theirs and they are confident and creative with it. They are an extraordinary company of dancers and somehow always pull off a confident performance on these occasions.
What's your favourite Northern Ballet production and why?
I think it must be A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is a witty and sophisticated production and follows Shakespeare in an imaginative way. It is unusual as a concept, cleverly using the world of ballet, but setting it back to the immediate post-war period. It revealed a wonderful sense of comedy in David and attention to detail normally seen in a play more than a ballet.
Is there a scenario you would really like to work on with David for Northern Ballet?
I wanted very much to work on Hamlet with him and we are. This is such an honour and I would never have thought I would be in this position of co - writing and co - directing a ballet of Hamlet.
We are interested in Pride and Prejudice and I hope we will do this one day. One idea we have talked about is a murder mystery thriller so that may come up sometime.


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Safety and Feasibility Study of Umbilical Cord Blood Cells for Infants With Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
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Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility and safety of collecting and infusing autologous umbilical cord blood (UCB) in newborn infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS).
Study Rationale and Hypotheses: The major goal of this study is to determine whether infusion of autologous UCB cells in neonates with hypoplastic left heart syndrome is feasible and safe. The rationale for the study and for the potential benefit of UCB is based upon the following hypotheses:
- Infants with HLHS have significant neural injury evidenced from both prenatal and early antenatal brain MRI findings and infusion of UCB cells may lessen neural injury. Although the exact mechanism is unknown, UCB cell infusion may ameliorate neural injury via paracrine and anti-inflammatory effects that enhance post injury repair and may promote endogenous functional compensation of other cortical areas resulting in significant clinical improvements.
- UCB cells may also enhance cardiac function, minimize scar formation, and reverse detrimental remodeling after cardiac injury.
|Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
|Biological: Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood
|Phase 1
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Autologous Cord Blood Cells for Patients With HLHS: Phase I Study of Feasibility and Safety
- Adverse event rates occurring in the pilot study population. The investigators will compare infusion outcomes of infants infused with frozen cells and infants infused with non-frozen cells. [ Time Frame: During Infusions (First 2 months of life) ]
- Feasibility and preliminary efficacy [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
Feasibility: volume of cord blood, cell viability, time to prepare/infuse fresh cells and frozen-thawed cells.
Preliminary efficacy: neurodevelopmental outcomes at 9 - 12 months, cardiac function as assessed clinically.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2011
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Single infusion of UCB
(autologous red blood cell and volume reduced cord blood cells)
Biological: Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood
Infants who meet study enrollment criteria for hypoplastic left heart syndrome in the neonatal period will receive 1 infusion of their own volume reduced cord blood cells. The dose for each infusion is 5x10e7 cells/kg.
Experimental: Three infusions of UCB
(autologous red blood cell and volume reduced cord blood cells)
Biological: Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood
Infants who meet study enrollment criteria for hypoplastic left heart syndrome in the neonatal period will receive 3 infusions of their own volume reduced cord blood cells. The first infusion will be a fresh, volume-reduced infusion and the subsequent infusions will be thawed and washed infusions. The dose for each infusion is 5x10e7 cells/kg.
Detailed Description:
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 2 Days (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Infants > 35 weeks gestational age.
- Diagnosis: Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome.
- Autologous umbilical cord blood available with a minimum total nucleated cell dose of 1 x 10e7 cells/kg.
- Parental Consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Chromosomal anomalies identified before the time of infusion.
- Chromosomal anomalies or congenital anomalies that would prohibit clinicians from initiating surgical repair of the congenital heart defect.
- Infant is determined by clinical staff to be non-viable and will not receive aggressive care. (No member on the study team will be involved in determining the viability of the neonate.)
Autologous umbilical cord blood unit has any of the following:
- Total nuclear cell count < 1 x 10e7.
- Positive maternal infectious serology (except CMV).
- Evidence of infectious contamination of the cord blood unit.
- Evidence of genetic disease.
- Unable to obtain parental consent.
- Mother < 18 years old.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01445041
|United States, North Carolina
|Duke University
|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710
|Principal Investigator:
|Charles M Cotten, MD MHS
|Duke University
|Responsible Party:
|Michael Cotten, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01445041 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|September 15, 2011
|Last Updated:
|March 20, 2017
Keywords provided by Michael Cotten, Duke University Medical Center:
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Autologous Umbilical Cord Blood
Newborn Infants
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Pathologic Processes
Heart Defects, Congenital
Cardiovascular Abnormalities
Cardiovascular Diseases
Heart Diseases
Congenital Abnormalities
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What is this medicine?SUCRALFATE (SOO kral fate) helps to treat ulcers of the intestine.
What should I tell my health care provider before I take this medicine?They need to know if you have any of these conditions:
How should I use this medicine?Take this medicine by mouth with a glass of water. Follow the directions on the prescription label. Shake well before using. Use a specially marked spoon or container to measure your medicine. Ask your pharmacist if you do not have one. Household spoons are not accurate. This medicine works best if you take it on an empty stomach, 1 hour before meals. Take your doses at regular intervals. Do not take your medicine more often than directed. Do not stop taking except on your doctor's advice.
Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. Special care may be needed.
What if I miss a dose?If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you can. If it is almost time for your next dose, take only that dose. Do not take double or extra doses.
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What should I watch for while using this medicine?Visit your doctor or health care professional for regular check ups. Let your doctor know if your symptoms do not improve or if you feel worse.
Antacids should not be taken within one half hour before or after this medicine.
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Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome):
Where should I keep my medicine?Keep out of the reach of children.
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CHENGDU, China China can't be said to have retail pharmacies in the American sense because, under current Chinese law, only hospitals can dispense prescription drugs. Still, the drug store industry there has mushroomed in tandem with the country's rapid economic development, with "yaofang" (that's Mandarin for "drug store") chains appearing in many major cities, such as the southwestern metropolis of Chengdu, where this photo of a Kangfu Long Pingjia store was taken.
For the most part, typical Chinese drug stores look a lot like their American counterparts, stocking a lots of domestic- and foreign-brand OTC drugs, personal care products and devices. Instead of pharmacies, stores often have sections for traditional Chinese medicine. Also absent are consumables, magazines, photo departments and many of the other products and services common in American retail pharmacies.
Despite the limitations imposed by their inability to dispense prescription drugs, Chinese drug stores seem to get along just fine by sticking to the basics, even as American retail pharmacies try to one-up each other with ever-expanding ranges of products and services. But China's drug store industry has a long way to go in terms of development and consolidation, and market pressures may force drug stores to do more to pull in customers. Already, nationwide chain Nepstar has started offering such services as kiosks that customers can use to pay their bills.


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|Date: Monday, February 11th, 2013
WKU's Engineering Department and the Kentucky Society of Professional Engineers will be hosting the Mammoth Cave chapter MATHCOUNTS competition on Saturday (Feb. 16).
More than 50 students from four schools are expected to participate in the middle school math competition at WKU, one of 13 sites across the state. The WKU competition will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Snell Hall and Engineering and Biological Sciences building. The event features individual competitions, team competitions and a countdown round among the top 10 individuals. The countdown round will begin about 12:30 p.m. in Snell Hall, room 1108.
WKU is a statewide sponsor of the MATHCOUNTS competition for the second consecutive year and will be awarding scholarships to the top three individual finishers at all 13 chapter competitions— a total of 39 scholarships. At each chapter competition, the first-place individual winner will receive a full, four-year in-state tuition scholarship; the second-place individual finishers will receive a four-year, $1,000 scholarship; and the third-place individual finishers will receive a four-year, $500 scholarship.
Contact: Engineering Department, (270) 745-2461.
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Tippy and his siblings were found in a back yard at about 6-7 weeks of age. This little guy he has an adorable white tip on the end of his tail and a cute little pink nose.
He loves treats and will climb up in a lap to get them. Tippy likes to cuddle but is reserved until he gets to know his humans. He is adventuresome and loves to play with wand type toys or bat a ball across the floor. He loves to jump and attack "DaBird" wand toy.
Tippy would do best being adopted with a littermate or an existing active cat to a home with older school aged children or adults.


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The Defense Department wants to hire thousands of new cyber experts to create a large force of skilled cyber warriors. But first, it has to address concerns about the experts the agency already has.
Many of those tasked with protecting networks — key cogs in the U.S. national security infrastructure — are undertrained and unqualified, creating dangerous vulnerabilities, experts both in and out of government are saying.
Agency officials said they were aware of the concerns and are rewriting all policy related to qualifications and certifications to make sure that the impending boom in cyber hiring puts capable experts in critical positions.
The concerns center on a series of requirements, many of which were put in place in August 2004 under DoD Directive 8570. The directive mandates that information assurance (IA) experts — those in a variety of primarily cyber defense positions — receive specific certifications. Those certifications, created by organizations outside DoD, are coming under fire as failing to test the capability of defenders.
One source indicated that an earlier, more difficult certification that required hands-on instruction was considered and then rejected when the directive was being finalized in favor of certifications that wouldn't require the training.
And because limitations in funding mean resources are allocated almost exclusively toward academic-based certifications, experts said that critical members of the cybersecurity work force are being put in important positions unprepared to do their jobs because money is not being spent on hands-on training.
"The current requirements aren't turning out people who are prepared," said Jeff Moulton, a senior cyber researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. "The school of hard knocks can teach quite a few lessons, but at DoD that can cost people's lives. Book training is simply not enough."
In a memorandum sent to Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter in late 2012, two dozen experts, including uniformed members of all three major branches of the military, expressed concern that DoD 8570 was hampering the agency. The names of the experts were not included in the memo, sent by an outside organization, because of concerns that they might suffer retribution for going around the chain of command and speaking out in a document sent directly to Carter.
"One of the biggest threats to the DoD networks is the inability of DoD security professionals to secure the networks," a U.S. Army chief warrant officer assigned to U.S. Army Cyber was quoted as saying. "Many of these security professionals have the required certifications but no understanding how to truly secure the DoD networks and make poor decisions resulting in vulnerable networks."
Others focused on the lack of hands-on training required, resulting in broad certifications that are required for many jobs but are not specific to any of them.
"How on earth can anyone truly believe that one certification can ensure that you have mastered the deep technical skills to be an intrusion analyst, infrastructure support, incident responder, auditor and manager?" the memorandum quoted a U.S. Army major. "Those are 5 different technical jobs and should require 5 different certifications."
In a joint interview with Deputy Chief Information Officer for Cybersecurity Richard Hale, DoD Chief Information Officer Teri Takai said the agency is aware of the concerns.
"We have never said that our policies and procedures, as it relates to IA certification and qualification, are completely up to date," she said. "One of our challenges is that it takes a while for us to update our policies."
Although Takai and Hale were not in their current positions when the original 8570 was issued, Takai said disagreement over the merit of certain external certifications is common.
"All the certification and qualification vendors that are out there don't see eye to eye," Takai said. "They believe theirs is best, better than anybody else's, and secondly many of them have training that goes with that, so now they don't become actually impartial in the way that they look at their certifications because there is a training component that is a business proposition for them."
Part of what makes the process of standardizing certifications difficult is that government has a hard time moving at the pace of cyber, where concepts and technology can be outdated in a matter of months. Although 8570 has seen some updates since 2004, it's still largely composed of concepts developed nearly a decade ago, a relative eon compared to the pace of technology.
While acknowledging that the agency can always improve its training approaches, Takai said some of those concerned may not recognize what is being done to fix the problem.
"I worry that some of the folks that are speaking up may not necessarily be aware of all of the actions that are happening here," she said. "You know how big we are, and actions that we take at a senior level don't always trickle down as fast as folks would like to see them on the ground. I'm not sure that's purely a cybersecurity issue."
Among the efforts underway is a complete redo of the certification policy designed to create job specific requirements.
"We're rewriting essentially all of the cyber workforce policy, so we are going to have an overarching cyber workforce policy that will include all of the cyber skills including cyber defenders, cyber attackers, malware analysts, all that stuff," Hale said. "Then we will rewrite specific manuals underneath each."
Hale said the goal is to have the new overarching policy in place by the end of the fiscal year. Drafts of several of the job-specific qualifications could be circulated within the year as well. The requirements will still employ outside certifications, as they are viewed as better at keeping up with changing needs, but some basic certifications will be put in place at the service academies for low-level requirements.
And while the policy will help with new hires once it's in place, DoD is also looking to reevaluate those already in positions to make sure they're adequately trained.
"Richard is working with them [U.S. Cyber Command] on how they even take the workforce that they have today and make sure that there's uniformity in the training," Takai said.
Figuring out the right kinds of qualifications and certifications quickly is vitally important, as DoD is finalizing plans to increase the cyber workforce by thousands of people, making the need for adequate training policies all the more acute.
Since the administration is pushing to put people in place as soon as possible, and the cyber workforce policy will take some time, Takai and Hale said they're looking to implement new ideas ahead of the formalization of the policy.
"We're not waiting on this," Hale said. "What we're doing is using the initial plus-up to force us to much more quickly write down what the jobs are, what the qualification standards are. Even before those become policy, or we publish a manual, we will be using those."
One of the areas that has been accused of lacking is hands-on time requirements. Requirements to reach information assurance technical (IAT) job levels 1-3, levels that can place cyber workers in critical positions to defend the DoD network, call for only experience with some hacking, but no job-specific practice.
"Our certification was designed to ensure that managers had a broad base of knowledge about many different domains," one of the designers of a certification required under 8570 was quoted as saying in the memo to Carter. "Yet our certification ended up as IAT 3. It was never designed for that purpose and now I have frustrated customers because they don't think our certification is good."
It's that kind of improperly employed certification that is hurting the force, said Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute.
"Right now we are spending huge amounts on training people as 'frequent flyers' — people who can talk about security but could not find the infection in a computer even if the economic well-being of the nation depends on it, which it does," Paller said. "Scenario-based training — like that for pilots and doctors — works."
Hale said hands-on experience is receiving a high priority in the new policy.
"Depending on the job, experientially based training and on-the-job experience are essential," he said. "We absolutely believe that."
Complicating the entire endeavor are the budgetary constraints that DoD finds itself under. Takai and Hale said they have been assured that cybersecurity spending will be protected in future budgets. But if training dollars remain flat, and the force increases tremendously, the ability to provide hands-on training for many people might be difficult.
"Yes, in fact, we're concerned about those same things, but we're trying to put the steps in place to try to keep it as organized as we can," Takai said.
But the problem is less about finding the money, and more about understanding what it takes to make an effective cyber expert, Moulton said.
"It's all good to throw money at a problem, but it never solves the problem," he said. "We need to make sure that we make smart investments and right investments."