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McBride's grand slam lifts De La Rosa to 13th win
Rockies infielder turns game around in first start in two years
DENVER -- Slowly … real slowly … Jorge De La Rosa will get you at Coors Field. Or at least he'll hold the opposition until the bats come around.
On Wednesday night, the deliberate De La Rosa kept the game close until Matt McBride launched his first career grand slam, in the sixth inning, and the Rockies ended up cooling off the sizzling Royals, 5-2, in front of 28,834.
Wednesday's performance improved De La Rosa to 9-2 at home this year, and 44-14 in a park that's supposed to be somewhere between difficult and harrowing for hurlers.
"I like to pitch here," De La Rosa said. "It's exciting for me every time I pitch here."
De La Rosa (13-8) held the American League Central-leading Royals -- who lost for just the sixth time in the last 28 games -- to two runs and five hits, and fanned three, in eight innings. He kept the ball out of the air for the most part, and forced four ground-ball double plays to tie a franchise record for a single pitcher in a game. It's the sixth time a Rockies pitcher has done it.
De La Rosa, who can drive hitters crazy mussing his hair and adjusting his uniform between pitches (and that's with no runners on base), and doesn't care when hitters become impatient, has become a wonderful night of entertainment in Denver.
"He's been ridiculously good here," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said.
Royals manager Ned Yost, who managed De La Rosa with the Brewers several years back, said, "He always has it going here. He's effectively wild with his fastball and his changeup is killer."
The Royals led, 2-0, as Alex Gordon opened the second with his 14th homer of the season. Josh Willingham opened the fourth with a double and scored on Erik Kratz's sacrifice fly.
The Rockies needed De La Rosa to keep pace with Royals lefty Danny Duffy (8-11), who struck out six and gave up five hits in seven innings. Just one of the five runs off him was earned.
Nolan Arenado tripled to open the fourth and scored on Wilin Rosario's sacrifice fly to cut the difference to 2-1. It took a sixth-inning error on Royals third baseman Christian Colon -- a middle infielder by trade who has seen only spot duty at third in the Minors and Majors since being drafted fourth overall in 2010 -- for the Rockies to crack Duffy.
With two down, Arenado hit a hard grounder that Colon bobbled, and first baseman Billy Butler could not dig up Colon's throw. Rosario singled and Corey Dickerson drew a walk to set up McBride, who is in the Majors for the first time since 2012.
McBride, playing instead of Justin Morneau because Duffy had held lefty hitters to a .138 batting average previously, jumped on a 95 mph fastball and sent it into the left-field bleachers.
"It was a great feeling," McBride said. "I was excited that we got the lead right there, and just excited I was able to get my pitch, get the barrel to it and hit the ball hard."
De La Rosa spent the rest of his time on the mound snuffing out rallies. He walked Gordon to open the seventh before forcing Kratz's double-play grounder and forcing a Lorenzo Cain popup. Alcides Escobar singled to lead off the eighth, but De La Rosa made Nori Aoki fly out and worked Colon into a double play.
De La Rosa, who threw 103 pitches, asked to pitch the ninth. But Weiss went with LaTroy Hawkins, who has had precious few opportunities because the Rockies have had so few leads in a 50-76 season. The clean inning gave Hawkins his 19th save in 20 chances.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Hardball in the Rockies, and follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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SeekerNo1000003 wrote:This may be a trivial question, but something I've been curious about.
I once saw Buddhist monks swaying while studying texts, I believe.
In other religions, swaying may be a part of a given practice, such as praying.
What are the causes of this behavior? It seems involuntary. And what is its function?
My only guess is that swaying makes one more calm, and therefore may be a way to increase concentration...
If so, would such practice be encouraged? On the other hand, could it also be an obstacle?
For example, if it is used to enhance concentration, wouldn't one's ability to concentrate without the swaying,
actually diminish?
This reminds me of some children who rock or sway. Parents may discourage such
behavior...Not sure if the children's behavior here may be connected to what I have observed about swaying in general.
Anyway, insights regarding any of the questions above would be great!
It's a symptom of autism and/or asperger's syndrome. Rocking and swaying is what kids do when they didn't get enough affection from their mothers. You see the lamas doing this and it makes sense if they were taken from mom as small toddlers.

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A BURNLEY physio is hoping she doesn't require too much treatment – as she aims to complete a gruelling triathlon for charity.
Danielle Smith, 28, will swim 2.4 miles, cycle 112 miles, and run a 26.2- mile marathon when she takes part in the Ironman UK event, in Bolton, on July 20.
The former St Hilda's RC Girls' High School student, who now works at Burnley General Hospital, is hoping to raise £1,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Remarkably, Mrs Smith, 28, could not swim front crawl, and had never ridden a road bike, before she started training for the event.
She will continue to train in the Forest of Bowland and the shadow of Pendle Hill for up to 20 hours a week until the main event arrives in July.
Mrs Smith, of Westbourne Avenue, said: "I have to do it in 17 hours because that's the cut off point. I've done a marathon before and I'm doing a half-Ironman in May, and the Great North Swim in June, to prepare.
"Being a physio has definitely helped because I know how far to push myself.
"I danced for 10 years and was always the sporty type, but this is the hardest thing I'll have done."
Mrs Smith said she was inspired to raise money for Macmillan after her grandmother, and her husband's dad, both died of cancer.
She said: "My story of the madness which I am currently training hard for is nothing in comparison to what cancer sufferers endure on a daily basis. That is why I could not think of a better charity to do such a challenge for. " Burnley Rugby Union Football Club, where Mrs Smith's dad, Phil, was once chairman, held a fundraiser for Mrs Smith at its clubhouse, in Holden Road, Reedley, on Saturday.
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HOUSTON -- The challenge this year for shortstop Jed Lowrie will be trying to stay healthy for an entire season, something he's yet to do in his career. He missed 52 games in the middle of last season following a freak injury to his right ankle and leg in San Francisco, but still posted career-best numbers.
Lowrie has been working out, as he does this time each year, in Tampa, Fla., and plans to report to camp on Feb. 15, which is the day before the first full-squad workout. He said Wednesday his conditioning and previous injury rehabs are helping him recover.
"I feel like I come back from injuries strong," he said. "That is a good sign of how hard I've worked to get through those injuries and prepare myself for the following season."
Lowrie will be counted on to be one the leaders on a young team, a role he's willing to embrace.
"I definitely look at it that way," he said. "Getting to know Carlos [Pena] over the last five years of playing against him in Tampa and getting to know him in the offseason, he seems like he's a strong leader as well. Hopefully we can provide veteran leadership.
"My personal style, I like to lead by example. I have a strong work ethic and that's something I think more than anything else, guys can learn from that. I know that's the way I learned in Boston. We had a few vocal leaders on the team, but I learned from watching guys and how they prepared for the game and handled certain situations."


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Big game, big crowd, big win for Wildcats | Boys basketball
So many story lines…which to choose?
First, the obvious. The Oak Harbor High School boys basketball team opened the 3A District 1 tournament with a 54-49 upset over visiting Shorewood Wednesday, Feb. 6.
Oak Harbor (12-9) moves on to the semifinals to meet pre-tournament favorite and sixth-ranked Mountlake Terrace (19-2) at 6 p.m. at Jackson High School Saturday, Feb. 9. The game will be followed by the other semifinal contest between Glacier Peak (17-4) and Stanwood (16-5) at 8 p.m.
Terrace opened tournament play by ripping Marysville Getchell 68-38. Glacier Peak stopped Ferndale 64-40 and Stanwood thumped Shorecrest 63-34.
If Oak Harbor defeats Mountlake Terrace, it will secure a berth in the regional tournament and play for the district title at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, at Jackson.
During the regular season the Wildcats fell 65-53 at Mountlake Terrace.
If Oak Harbor loses the semifinal, it will need to win two straight in the consolation bracket to grab the third and final slot to regional. The first game would be in Oak Harbor at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, against the winner of Shorecrest (10-11) and Ferndale (8-13). The next game would precede the championship game at 6 p.m. Feb. 16 at Jackson.
The script of Oak Harbor's surprising win over Shorewood (14-7) had many plot lines.
•Déjà vu. The Wildcats also opened last year's district tournament with a win over the favored Thunderbirds.
•Revenge. The win avenged a heartbreaking 69-68 overtime loss to Shorewood earlier this season. In that game Oak Harbor overcame a 16-point second-half deficit only to lose on a buzzer beater.
•Josh Hawkinson. Some will want to put an asterisk next to Oak Harbor's win. The Thunderbirds played without the league's leading scorer, Hawkinson, who was ill. Hawkinson, a 6-9 Washington State University recruit, averages 19.6 points per game and canned 35, including the game winner, in the win over Oak Harbor earlier this year.
•Dayne Herron. Oak Harbor partially returned the Hawkinson-less Thunderbirds a favor when its own big man, Herron, missed much of the game while in foul trouble. Herron played only 12 minutes and only two in the second half. Herron, who averages 10 points per game, had only two points after scoring 18 against Shorewood in this year's first meeting.
•Dyllan Harris. The freshman, playing in place of the foul-plagued Herron, scored all nine of his points in the fourth quarter, including hitting the Wildcats' only field goals of the frame and draining five of six pressure-packed free throws. It was his second consecutive big finish. Harris hit all seven of his foul shots in the final two minutes of Oak Harbor's critical win over Marysville Getchell in the regular-season finale that wrapped up the home playoff game.
•Free throws. Harris wasn't the only one hitting crucial free throws. Oak Harbor has been a middling free-throw shooting team all year, but like Harris, the Wildcats were money at the end of the past two games. Going into the fourth quarter against the T-birds, the Wildcats were 9-for-17 from the line, then hit nine of 10 to close out the win. JoJo Webster and Drew Washington were each 2-for-2, Washington's coming with 14 seconds left to ice the win.
In the first meeting with Shorewood, the Wildcats missed two foul shots, including the front end of a one-and-one, in the final 16 seconds that most likely would have secured the win.
Oak Harbor finished Wednesday's win 18-for-27. Shorewood, which was 9-for-11 going into the fourth quarter, missed all three of its foul shots in the final period.
•Balance. Webster led Oak Harbor in scoring with 12 points, Chris Hailer had 11, Gabe Groenig 11, Harris nine and Washington nine.
•Hailer. With Herron missing large chunks of the game, Hailer picked up the slack with a monster game on the boards, hauling in 14 rebounds to finish with a double-double.
•Rebounding. Gabe Groenig, the team's blue-collar worker, and Washington complemented Hailer on the boards with eight each. Overall, Oak Harbor out rebounded the Thunderbirds 43-31.
•Home game. No one could remember the last time, if ever, Oak Harbor hosted a district tournament game.
•The crowd. The game pulled in the largest crowd in years, and the Oak Harbor students and band did their part, filling their half of the gym. The Wildcat rooters lifted their playing classmates with a continuous roar and spirited chants. And every erg of energy they could supply was needed because it was…
•Close. Oak Harbor zipped to a 6-0 lead and that would turn out to be the game's biggest margin. Shorewood would come back to tie seven times but never take the lead until it went up 44-43 with 5:30 left in the game.
Harris hit two free throws to put the Wildcats back into the lead. Taylor Freeman, who scored a game-high 17 points, countered for the T-birds and Shorewood took its final lead, 46-45, with 4:49 remaining.
Two buckets by Harris and two free throws by Webster made it 51-46 with 35.5 seconds left.
A three-ball by Zane Hopen brought Shorewood within two, 51-49, with 24 seconds left.
Harris made one of two free throws, then Webster recorded a block for a defensive stop. Washington followed with his free throws to wrap up the win.
Coach Mike Washington said, "It's survive and advance; we found a way to win. I can't believe it."
He added, "I want to thank the crowd. They were awesome, and we needed their help."


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The competition at Royal Grammar School, Worcester, also saw Division Two holders Droitwich 'B' defeated by Malvern, who enjoyed their first league win.
Much-changed Droitwich 'A' (45 all out) lost to Nomads 'A' (49-2) by four wickets as Richard Henry produced a fine three-over spell of 3-17.
In reply, Droitwich reduced the Bransford side to 10-2 but from then it was a formality.
Nomads 'B' (115-6) lost to Royal Grammar School (116- 2) with three balls left despite getting off to a flier through Paul Gardner (25 retired) and Jamie Oliver (17).
From 50-1 in four overs, Dom Badger (15) and Oliver Ranscombe (22) scored at a slower rate before a flurry of wickets in the last over.
The students finished runners- up last year with Dan Goodyear (26 retired) and Jack Taylor (20) survivors from the previous side.
Their match-winning partnership of 63 was added to by Elliot Bartlett (20 not out), Joe Watts (18) and Mark Jones (10no), aided by wayward bowling.
In Division Two, Malvern (102-5) beat Droitwich 'B' (76 all out) by 26 runs with four balls left.
Openers Ash Jones and Andy Cullen exited early but Anthony Arnold (28no) and Lewis Hill (33) rescued the innings with Steve Lake (14).
They passed the ton in the final over and Droitwich produced little with the bat in reply as Hill claimed 2-21.
Nomads 'C' (111-3) beat Bromsgrove (58 all out) by 53 runs. The villagers set a target of 111 through Patrick O'Driscoll (28no), Tim Robinson- Law (24) and 24 wides.
Tom Webb (11) and Josh Hawes (13) produced a final partnership before Nigel Dexter claimed 3-8 in reply.


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Authorities are investigating the second homicide in Boston this year, the early morning fatal shooting of a man in South Boston today, Boston police said.
Police said they rushed to 335 West Second St. around 2:51 a.m. and found the victim lying on the ground.
The man was rushed to Tufts Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.
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At age 51, Tihany is an acclaimed master of his true medium: restaurants. In the last decade Tihany has created some of the most popular and successful restaurants in the world. The New York Times has called him the premier restaurant designer of the '90s. Among his creations are New York City's most praised new restaurants, Sirio Maccioni's Le Cirque 2000 and Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Jean Georges. The list continues across the country and around the globe: Gundel in Budapest; Wolfgang Puck's Spago restaurants in Las Vegas, Mexico City, Palo Alto and Chicago; Bice in New York, Washington, Beverly Hills and Paris; Biba and Pignoli in Boston; the new 160 Blue in Chicago, and chef Thomas Keller's Bouchon in Napa Valley. Tihany also conceived the new Aureole restaurant in Las Vegas, and he is redesigning the new Sign of the Dove restaurant at the Metropolitan Life Building in Manhattan.
But Tihany, who speaks five languages--Hebrew, English, Hungarian, French and Italian--does not live by restaurants alone. His current projects include renovating the King David Hotel, in Jerusalem, the new Time Hotel in Manhattan, and the lobby, restaurant and lounge of the Fontainebleau Hilton in Miami Beach. He has designed silver-plated cigar ashtrays and intricate china for Villeroy and Boch, interiors for a Disney cruise ship, and a Martini glass for Bombay gin. The Moschino flagship store in Manhattan is his design. And he has created a sleek, modern cigar store--Freyboy--for Manhattan's newly renovated Grand Central Terminal.
His minimum fee for designing a restaurant interior is $250,000 (it can be several times that for larger projects), which isn't bad for a Transylvanian reared in Jerusalem, who never ate at a restaurant until he was 16 years old.
"I have a magic formula," he says. "I listen to my clients. I try to have a little less ego than they have. I don't have the need to put my stamp, my point of view, on everything. I don't need to prove myself on every job. My goal is to make my clients look as good as possible. I try to understand their personalities and reflect those personalities in the design. Very early in my career I decided that I didn't want to tie myself to a particular style. What I wanted to create was a sense of permanence, to make an impact with something that will last a long time--a very long time."
Tihany pauses. He takes a long, slow puff of his Cuesta-Rey. It is, he says, "a lovely cigar," a wonderful way to start the morning. He smiles--but then there always seems to be at least the start of a smile on his face. He is ever graceful, charming and knowledgeable, relaxed and easygoing, with a gentle, self-effacing humor. But beneath the smile and the charm lurks a not-so-hidden toughness, the attitude and demeanor of brilliance and fortitude. A former Israeli soldier, a veteran of 1967's Six-Day War, he grew up in a land continually under siege, and he learned early what it takes to endure and succeed.
Le Cirque 2000 and Jean Georges are opposites in design--and superb examples of Tihany's ability to sculpt a restaurant in the shape of the restaurateur. Jean Georges is cool, with neutral colors and large windows, a refined reflection of the Champagne-colored, mirrored glass and light-bronze windows of the Trump International Hotel and Tower, at whose base it sits. Le Cirque 2000 is a joyously evocative juxtaposition of subdued nineteenth-century New York elegance--dark woods and paneled walls and ceilings, gold leaf and mahogany in a landmark building--with the lunatic exuberance of a circus. Originally designed in 1882 by Stanford White, one of the signature architects of the Gilded Age, the Villard Houses now contain Le Cirque 2000. In five of the rooms, Tihany placed green couches, red and yellow leather chairs, colorful rugs, a silk circus tent--and a giant neon sculpture with a clock moving back and forth on a tightrope.
"I think it would have been impossible to reverse it," Tihany says, "to put Jean Georges in the Villard Houses and Le Cirque in the Trump building. Look at the two men. Sirio is an Italian from Montecatini who has been running successful restaurants for decades; Jean-Georges is Alsatian, half-French, half-German, a young, ambitious chef. Sirio would wear a fine tailored Italian suit; Jean-Georges walks around in Prada or Donna Karan. So for the Jean Georges restaurant, the idea was to match his image with the restaurant--spare, contemporary, clean, yet sexy. It's not a clinical-looking place at all. It has warmth, and it's very chic, like he is.
"Sirio may at first seem reserved and traditional, but deep inside he's a joyous, funny ringmaster," Tihany continues. "When we first saw the Villard Houses, we were aware of all the restrictions. It's a registered interior landmark. You can't touch anything. So Sirio and I had an open conversation--we've been dear friends for years, and I renovated the old Le Cirque for him on East 65th Street. I said, 'Sirio, we have two ways to go here. We can restore this to perfection and put in a period decor, and at best you're going to have a museum. Or we'll restore everything to perfection and we'll do the equivalent of parking a Ferrari right in the middle and bank on the tension between the old and the new making it work.' And without even hesitating for a minute, he said, 'Bring in the Ferrari. I want to have fun. I don't want it to be stark. I have three rings here, and I want to be the ringmaster.'"
Vongerichten and Maccioni say they are thrilled with what Tihany has wrought. "He's a great visionary," Maccioni says, "and with each restaurant he gets better and better. He is the easiest person to work with and the most reliable in producing exactly what I'm looking for."
Vongerichten says that Tihany "immediately understood my philosophy, who I am, my style. He has a restaurant of his own, and he knows what a restaurant needs. He didn't come in and say, 'This is what I'm going to do for you.' "
For Remi, the designer's own restaurant, which he opened more than a decade ago in Manhattan with co-owner Francesco Antonucci, Tihany created a strikingly long and narrow space of cherrywood, maple and mahogany, with a brightly colored 120-foot-long Venetian mural and wooden flying-buttress arches that curve gracefully, offering diners the illusion of floating under a bridge in a gondola on the Grand Canal. Remi, which in Italian means "oars," resembles more than anything a boat. It now has an offspring in Santa Monica, California.
"The secret of designing a restaurant is not to get people in there the first time but to get them to come back," Tihany says. He and Antonucci have certainly achieved that--Remi is grossing more than $8 million a year.
Owning a restaurant, Tihany says, has made him a better, more knowledgeable designer. "Most designers focus on the dining area, the appearance of the front of the restaurant," he says. "But in truth the relationship between the front and the back of the restaurant is the key to a restaurant's success. Function matters. Are the service stations in the right position? Are they big enough?"
Tihany's office is set up to begin gauging his clients' needs as soon as they enter. "To me, a comfortable chair in a restaurant is of paramount importance," he says. "So we sprinkle some prototypes here and there, and when we do presentations the clients sit in them and I watch to see whether they are comfortable. Afterward, I ask them how the chair was. And if they remember, the chair is wrong. If they say, 'What chair?,' that means they were totally comfortable."
The chairs, he says, illustrate the one factor he believes unites everything he does. "It's a feeling of comfort, of ease, of relaxation," he says. "When people are in a restaurant I design, I want them to smile."
The designs for the new Time Hotel and the renovated King David Hotel are as different from each other as are Le Cirque and Jean Georges, and yet they both have as their goal that comfort, that ease.
"The design of the Time Hotel has a very specific philosophical theme," says Tihany, a design that reflects the trend in boutique hotels like the all-white Delano, in Miami Beach, and the Vermeer-themed Paramount, in Manhattan, hotels that give their guests unique and thought-provoking esthetic experiences. "I found some interesting books on color theory, and out of those I created the concept for the hotel. The rooms are very neutral, except for one splash of color, usually in the bedspreads and the headboards--red or blue or green or yellow or orange. In the room is a booklet with excerpts from the books' essays that connect you to the color via literature and philosophy. There is a fruit dish with fruit that has the same color of the room, so you can taste the color. In the bathroom, the amenities--the soap and the scent--are also related to the color, so you can bathe in it and smell it." He envisions guests returning to the hotel and saying "they want to experience yellow, or live orange, or feel the tranquillity of blue. When they make a reservation they can request a specific color."
The King David, on the other hand, was a renovation of a once-majestic and formal hotel that had lost its luster. "The mission was to restore it to its old days of glory. People when they come to the King David expect to stay at a hotel that hosted the great statesmen of the world, presidents and prime ministers; they expect a certain magisterial feeling," Tihany says. "My mission was to recreate this perception, but at the same time ground the hotel in Jerusalem. Not only the physical location but the design itself pays homage to the city--the architecture, the colors, the history."
The King David project also has a special meaning to Tihany. "It's the project of a lifetime," he says. "It's like restoring the Wailing Wall. I grew up there, so to come back as an accomplished professional and work on something of such importance is a wonderful feeling."
Tihany first arrived in Jerusalem when he was three years old. He had been born in Transylvania, a region of western Romania, on January 1, 1948; his parents, Judith and Martin, had come from the same small town, had both been in Nazi concentration camps, and had met after the war.
"There are a variety of ways people who have survived the Holocaust deal with the fact that they are alive, that they have to carry that burden," Tihany says, recalling his childhood. "Some people are totally shut off. Some people make it their life's mission to continue talking about it, to carry the torch. My father, who died 10 years ago, was a lawyer, and he chose to practice reparation law. As a youngster, I couldn't understand why he was doing it. Every single day what he dealt with was the testimony of people about the darkest days of human history. I guess it was his only way of being able to live with the fact that he was alive and everybody else was dead. Every single day at the table when I was a child they were talking about the camps, about how you take a Jew and turn him into soap. Every single day of my young life the question was asked, why did God punish us to stay alive and have to carry this burden? And the answer was, because if we didn't live, there would be nobody to tell the story."
Tihany pauses. "Let me tell you a story," he says. "Both of my parents went through Auschwitz, Dachau. My mother was taken on death marches, carrying her mother on her back. She was 16 years old. A few years ago, my mother was visiting from Israel, and my son, Bram, went over to her one day and said, 'I would be really honored if you watched Schindler's List with me.' Now, after my father died my mother absolutely stopped talking about the camps. And she looked at me and looked at Bram and said it was OK. So we rented the movie. They were sitting, the two of them, holding hands through the movie for three hours. Nobody was saying anything. I was in the other room. My heart was in pieces. But you could see the torch being transferred. You could see that she had fulfilled her life. A burden had been removed. She had been there when they went into the showers. She finally understood why she had survived. It was so he could understand. That was one of the most incredible moments of my life."
He pauses again, and he is back in Jerusalem, in the 1950s. "We started from scratch," Tihany says. "We built our life from scratch."
After finishing high school, as happens with most Israelis, he was drafted into the military. He spent his term, which included the Six-Day War, in the air force. "It was difficult for me," he says, "all discipline-filled activities. I needed to breathe. So the day after my discharge I left to study architecture in Milan." Italian state-owned schools, with tuition of about $100 a year, were his best option.
He attended the School of Architecture and Planning at the Politecnico di Milano, working to help support himself. "I sold cotton jerseys, painted apartments and did all kinds of odd jobs, but finally I apprenticed with a design firm. I made blueprints and did drafting."
Three years later, in 1973, he became an associate. "When I finished school, I started thinking about coming to the United States. I had always dreamed about the United States. As a child in Israel, my two favorite magazines were Mad and Playboy. I used to find four-month-old copies. To me America was a dream. This was the place where I always knew one day I was going to go to and conquer."
Then, in 1976, the opportunity arose--Italian design was hot, and American companies were sending representatives to Italy to look for promising young designers to bring to the States. "One of them came to see the firm I was working with, and they asked if anybody wanted to go to America. And I said yes."
His first major New York job was designing an apartment across from St. Patrick's Cathedral for Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi arms dealer. The apartment was at the time the largest residential interior in New York. It had 110 rooms--137 doors, "with a waterfall over St. Pat's." The project took two and a half years and cost $8 million, an immense sum 20 years ago. It was, he says, "good training."
Tihany opened his own firm in 1978. Three years later, he was asked to design a restaurant--La Coupole on East 32d Street, modeled after the Parisian restaurant of the same name in Montparnasse. "I got hooked," he says. Now his firm has a staff of 10 in New York and four in a satellite office in Israel.
"I found that designing restaurants gave me the opportunity to marry all the disciplines," Tihany says. "It's a microcosmos--it has graphics, it has lighting, it has furniture, it has carpeting, it has drapery, it has china, it has silver. It gives me the opportunity to focus on one field but at the same time touch every other aspect of design."
Another of Tihany's loves is cigars. "I've been smoking cigars for almost 30 years," he says. "I started in Milan as a student. It was the fall of 1969, right after the Red Summer, the student rebellion. Smoking a cigar was a very sophisticated means of expression--it reminded everybody of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro."
His first cigars were not the best--"Toscani, the twisted ones. They were totally vile. They tasted as good as they looked. But the point at the time was not quality. It had to be a down-to-earth cheap cigar that the men in the factory smoked, otherwise you were not playing the proletarian part."
But as time went on and Tihany became more sophisticated, so did his choice of cigars. "As you grow you get interested in the quality things in life--better food, better clothing, better women,'' he says. "Everything you touch and everything you do becomes more sophisticated. You become high maintenance, and the cigars go up with it."
Now, he says, he smokes three a day. "I'm what you would consider a heavy smoker," he says. "In the morning I usually smoke Dominican cigars. I light my first one at about 11 a.m. It's preferably a Davidoff, which I like a lot--anywhere from a robusto to a corona. After lunch, I'll usually have a Cuban cigar--a Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 2 or even an Epicure No. 1, or a Partagas Serie D--they've been my longtime favorites. At night, if I have the time, I smoke a double corona--either a Hoyo or a Lusitania or a Romeo y Julieta Churchill--a big cigar. I don't like Cuban Cohibas--I'd much rather smoke a Hoyo. It's the taste. Hoyos are a bit more tightly packed, I think; they're a bit more robust in taste. The Cohibas are a bit mild for me."
"Cigar smoking," he says, "is a personal experience, a personal moment, a time of relaxation and reflection. I don't need to share the length of my cigar with other people, to sit in a room and discuss it with all the other people smoking cigars. I don't frequent the cigar clubs, because I don't find them interesting. Smoking a cigar is a time to reflect, a private time, a time to think, a time to work."
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To help you get the most out of Shakespeare, the narrator offers historical insights and background information, so you can enjoy the jokes, appreciate the references, and get a real sense of Shakespeare's world. This unabridged drama is also presented without commentary.
If school turned you off Shakespeare, find out what you've been missing all these years with this beautifully crafted audio presentation.
From the creators of SmartPass audio education study guides, voted third in a national poll to find the UK's favourite audiobook (2008). Winners of 3 Spoken Word Awards for Best Drama (2004), Best Original Audio and Best Publishing Initiative (2005).
©2007 SmartPass Ltd; (P)2007 SmartPass Ltd
"I Love the Commentary"
I'm a high school teacher and bought this to sue with my class. I don't find the commentary distracting but helpful. My students quickly figured out that when a particular voice was talking that was explanation. Also, there is a version of the play without any commentary in the file as well.
I work. I ski. I play. I write. I have a family. I garden. I coach. I volunteer. I sketch. I run. I read.
"Now I get it..."
The narration and explanations are helpful. I have always struggled through Shakespearean plays.
Don't fret.
This production also comes with a performance that is uninterrupted. Start on Chapter 6 of the audio book for it.
"Very well done"
This is a really great audio program. Very high quality sound, narration is very useful and I came away with more knowledge of Shakespeare's history, the circumstances behind writing the play, and an understanding of what the classical language is trying to say. Highly recommended if you are at all interested in Shakespeare.
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"Excellent for Yr 11 Study"
I bought this novel for my daughters Year 11 study, l cannot say how helpful this was, it made Macbeth interesting and exciting. She was one of the top students in Macbeth studies because of this audio novel where normally she struggles with English. Just Excellent also with the background on why this story was written, it made all the difference.
"Invaluable as a resource"
This format with the introduction and historical context was a great refresher before I went to see a performance in a local theater. The very thorough historical information and then actual play with seamless notes which was pleasant to listen and covered all of the archaic language references so any stumbling blocks to understanding were clarified and made listening to the play itself much more fufiling experience. Looking forward to listening to King Lear and other plays by the same publisher
I am a live storyteller who devours huge amounts of audio books to study classics and new books so I can tell new stories.
"My First SmartPass Shakespeare But Not My Last"
The three words I would use to sun up Macbeth is groundbreaking, breathtaking, and dramatic.
Macbeth has influenced much of popular culture from Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, House of Cards, Breaking Bad, and other books, movies, and TV shows because it delved into the dark side in a way that has not been equaled since.
I love Joan Walker guiding the commentary. She was passionate and knowledgeable. She helped make the story clear to me.
The Weird Sisters frightened me. Every time they appeared on stage, I cringed. They are duplicitous, but, truth be told, Macbeth did himself in with his own greed and ambition.
Macbeth is my first SmartPass audio play. I listened to it a week after I saw the play and I wish I had listened to it a week before I saw the play, because so much went over my head given the density of Shakespeare's language and the English accents of the actors. I will now listen to all available SmartPass audio plays before I see the real ones.
"Macbeth - well performed!"
This is an excellent rendition of Shakespeare's Macbeth. I listened to a short section of the first part -- with all of the explanations -- but soon decided I just wanted to hear the play without interruptions. It is nice to have both, nonetheless.
"The BEST I have ever listened to"
My daughter was taking a literature class and was required to read Macbeth. I had not read since high school ( many moons ago!) The is awesome. If you are needing to "understand" what is going on.... listen to this.
"Brilliantly explained"
I have never read the play.
The additional notes and comments really helped me to understand the difficult language. The fact that you can then listen without these, after gaining a better understanding adds to the experience
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No Limbs, No Limits
I first learned of Nick Vujicic and his amazing story when I and one of my classes were doing our weekly "YouTube" time. I hadn't forgotten his story, but it hadn't been on my mind in recent months. Yesterday morning, I was reminded of Nick's story by the feature story below on CBS Sunday Morning.
Nick was born without arms or legs, yet he has managed to become a New York Times' bestselling author, international speaker, and president and CEO the non-profit organization Life Without Limbs. He also loves to swim, surf, and play golf.
We all go through tough times in our lives, and we should never pretend they aren't real and difficult by comparing ourselves to others whose struggles are worse than ours. But just a little perspective goes a long way, especially when we see such a positive and moving story like Nick's. It's a perfect positive boost as we start a new work week!


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Withdrawal of Antifungal Treatment for Histoplasmosis in Patients After Improved Immune Response to Anti-HIV Drugs
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether stopping preventive histoplasmosis medications in patients who are currently receiving effective anti-HIV drugs will place them at risk for getting histoplasmosis again.
Histoplasmosis is a serious opportunistic (AIDS-related) infection that responds well to antifungal medications. Before anti-HIV drugs, patients with histoplasmosis required lifelong antifungal therapy. Patients who take anti-HIV drugs for a long time may see an improvement in their immune system functions. Improved immune function may eliminate the need for long-term preventive treatment with antifungal agents. Doctors want to see if the improved immune functions allow preventive treatment for histoplasmosis to be stopped. (This study has been changed to include histoplasmosis treatment with drugs other than itraconazole.)
|HIV Infections Histoplasmosis
|Study Type:
|Official Title:
|Discontinuation of Antifungal Therapy for Histoplasmosis Following Immunologic Response to Antiretroviral Therapy
|Estimated Enrollment:
Histoplasmosis is a serious opportunistic infection in persons with AIDS that demonstrates an excellent response to antifungal therapy. However, until the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), patients with histoplasmosis required lifelong suppressive antifungal therapy. It is thought that immune reconstitution as a result of HAART may diminish the need for chronic therapy. Histoplasmosis offers an opportunity to examine the concept of discontinuation of maintenance therapy as it is rapidly diagnosed and effectively treated with itraconazole [AS PER AMENDMENT 9/27/00: or other appropriate therapy for disseminated histoplasmosis] should relapse occur.
Patients discontinue antifungal maintenance therapy. Patients are seen for routine visits every 8 weeks and urine and serum specimens are collected for real time Histoplasma antigen testing and immunologic parameters. Patients with suspected recurrence, as determined by clinical or routine laboratory findings consistent with recurrent histoplasmosis, are reevaluated within 1 week of onset of these findings. Patients with suspected recurrence based on a serum or urine Histoplasma antigen rise of 2 units or more, in the absence of clinical or routine laboratory findings consistent with histoplasmosis, are reevaluated within 2 weeks. All patients with suspected recurrence have more frequent evaluations and additional laboratory tests. Those with negative studies resume bimonthly follow-up. All patients who develop proven (positive culture or positive fungal stain of tissues or body fluids) or probable relapse (clinical findings of relapse with an increase in antigen of 4.1 units or more, or no clinical findings but increases in antigen levels on repeated testing with the most recent antigen test demonstrating an increase in antigen of 4.1 units or more) or who experience persistent reduction of CD4 cell count to below 100/mm3 have antifungal induction therapy reinstituted. Patients remain on study for at least 12 months with regular follow-up/evaluations.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|13 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria
Patients may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are 13 years or older.
- Have consent of parent or guardian if under 18 years of age.
- Have HIV infection.
- Have 2 CD4 cell counts above 150 cells/mm3 (1 of which has been obtained within 6 months and the other within 30 days before entry). Note: The 2 CD4 counts used for eligibility must be from tests performed at least 1 week apart.
- Have received at least 1 year of treatment for histoplasmosis. (This study has been changed to include patients who have received histoplasmosis treatment with drugs other than itraconazole.)
- Are receiving treatment for histoplasmosis or have stopped treatment within 24 weeks of study entry.
- Have had histoplasmosis before but are free of any signs of histoplasmosis at entry into the study.
- Have a negative pregnancy test within 14 days of study entry.
- Have been on anti-HIV drugs for at least 24 successive weeks and have been on a stable anti-HIV drug combination for at least 8 weeks before entry.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients will not be eligible for this study if they:
- Have any recurrence of histoplasmosis within 4 weeks of study entry.
- Have received medications that affect the immune system including chemotherapy or corticosteroids within the last 2 months. (This study has been changed. Patients taking IL-2 are no longer excluded.)
- Have a systemic infection. Patients on stable preventive treatment for certain opportunistic (AIDS-related) infections for at least 3 months will be eligible.
- Require treatment for fungal infections with systemic antifungal medications.
- Have meningitis or brain or spinal cord damage thought to be caused by Histoplasma infection.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00006316
|United States, California
|Univ of Southern California / LA County USC Med Ctr
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 900331079
|University of California San Francisco
|San Francisco, California, United States, 941104206
|United States, Georgia
|Emory Univ
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30308
|United States, Illinois
|Cook County Hosp
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|United States, Indiana
|Indiana Univ Hosp
|Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 462025250
|Methodist Hosp of Indiana / Life Care Clinic
|Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202
|Wishard Hosp
|Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202
|United States, Nebraska
|Univ of Nebraska Med Ctr
|Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 681985130
|United States, New York
|Bellevue Hosp / New York Univ Med Ctr
|New York, New York, United States, 10016
|United States, Ohio
|Univ of Cincinnati
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 452670405
|Ohio State Univ Hosp Clinic
|Columbus, Ohio, United States, 432101228
|United States, South Carolina
|Julio Arroyo
|West Columbia, South Carolina, United States, 29169
|United States, Texas
|Univ of Texas, Southwestern Med Ctr of Dallas
|Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390
|Study Chair:
|Mitch Goldman
|Study Chair:
|Judy Aberg
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00006316 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 28, 2000
|Last Updated:
|July 30, 2008
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections
Antifungal Agents
Anti-HIV Agents
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Antifungal Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
14-alpha Demethylase Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Steroid Synthesis Inhibitors
Hormone Antagonists
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Cytochrome P-450 CYP2C9 Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
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Bucs welcome back Grilli, send Sanchez to Triple-A
Pirates plan to ease All-Star back into closer's role after nearly month on DL
PITTSBURGH -- Closer Jason Grilli was activated off the disabled list on Friday by the Pirates, who cleared his roster spot by optioning catcher Tony Sanchez to Indianapolis.
Both moves were anticipated. Grilli concluded his rehab from the strained left oblique that had landed him on the DL on April 26 with back-to-back simulated games Tuesday and Wednesday. Sanchez knew his fate when veteran catcher Russell Martin came off the DL on Thursday.
Before Friday's game against the Nationals, it seemed unlikely Grilli would be put in a high-leverage situation.
"I doubt under any circumstances Jason would get the ball in the ninth to close. I don't think that would be fair to him," manager Clint Hurdle said. "We'll give him the ball [in lower-pressure situations] a couple of times, and evaluate him after each time."
Grilli got a similar treatment last season, upon returning from a six-week absence with a forearm strain. He made two low-leverage appearances before returning to the end-of-the-relief line.
However, Mark Melancon was unavailable Friday night after needing 23 pitches to close out Thursday's 3-1 win over Washington, so Grilli had to get the call as closer.
The right-hander walked one, struck out one and got a big assist from Josh Harrison, who made a leaping catch to record the final out of the 4-3 victory.
Russell Martin remained "out" Thursday night as he served a one-game suspension, but he was in the Friday lineup, backed by another veteran, Chris Stewart.
Previously already earmarked to take over as the Bucs' No. 1 catcher in 2015, Sanchez solidified those prospects by batting .278 in 21 games, 19 of them starts, with 12 RBIs.
"Tony got great experience while he was here," Hurdle said. "He's been able to develop. He's done a very admirable, professional job while he's been here."
Grilli went on the DL soon after consecutive blown saves on April 19-20 against the Brewers. Prior to that, he had converted four straight saves.
While the fill-in closer, Melancon was successful on eight of 10 save opportunities.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Please take the publication date into consideration for any date references. ] [ Media Contact: TPWD News, firstname.lastname@example.com, 512-389-8030 ] [RM] May 10, 2004 Kids To Ride Free This Summer at Texas State Railroad RUSK, Texas -- Parents looking to offset higher gasoline prices expected at the pump during summer vacation months and rising entertainment costs should consider taking their youngsters to ride the Texas State Railroad through the Piney Woods. The historic East Texas steam railroad, which Texas lawmakers last year designated the Official Railroad of Texas, is launching a "Kids Ride Free" summer promotion Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. From May 29 through Sept. 5, paying adults will be able to treat children 12 years old and younger (as many as five kids per adult) to a free ride on the 123-year-old railroad operated as a state park by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Passengers board steam trains at vintage train depots in Rusk and Palestine state parks for the 50-mile, round-trip journey over 24 bridges through the hardwood creek bottoms. The trip takes 90 minutes to reach the opposite station, where visitors disembark to eat, browse the depot train stores and relax amid nature's splendor. Riders then re-board for the return trip. Gift shops in the Rusk and Palestine Train Stations prove popular with train enthusiasts who can choose from nostalgic items such as pocket watches and engineer caps to more modern collectibles like locomotive mugs and custom magnets. Adults can keep the kids' hunger pangs at bay during the stopover with sandwiches, drinks and baked goods by Palestine's famous Eilenberger's German bakery. Soft drinks, snacks and Blue Bell ice cream are available on the train as well. Park Manager Robert Crossman says the Texas State Railroad's new promotion should prove especially popular with young fans of the Thomas the Tank Engine storybook character who is amazed by their exposure to the real thing. The railroad experience, he says, can prove both entertaining and educational for young and old alike. "We offer a kid-friendly attraction that offers, weather permitting, a tour of the locomotive cab, where they can talk with the engineer, fireman and other members of the crew," Crossman said. "Most are in awe of the railroad experience, whether they are eight or 80." For the second summer in a row, the railroad will be operating a climate-controlled passenger coach on both the eastbound and westbound trains, according to Mark Price, the railroad's assistant superintendent. Concession operations, too, have been improved and expanded for the railroad whose annual ridership, Price said, topped 42,000 last year. Trains run Saturdays and Sundays until June when they will begin operating Thursdays through Sundays, remaining on a four-day schedule through the end of July. Regular train excursions revert to a weekend-only schedule in August and continue until the end of the season, Nov. 21. Trains depart both depots at 11 a.m., arriving back at the station at 3:30 p.m. Regular seating ticket prices for adults (persons 13 and older) are $11 one-way and $16 round-trip. Tickets for climate-controlled cars are $15 one-way and $22 round-trip for adults. Ticket offices open at 9 a.m. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling (800) 442-8951 (Texas only) or (903) 683-2561. Steam Engine Restoration Shop tours, murder mysteries, starlight excursions and other special events are held periodically throughout the year at the Texas State Railroad. Currently, the railroad's largest and smallest vintage steam engines are undergoing refurbishing at the shop in Rusk. The TSRR is the only steam railroad in the nation that runs two steam trains simultaneously each day of operation. One train, however, is being pulled by a 1947 diesel engine because of steam locomotive refurbishment projects currently under way. Convict labor built the original railroad in 1881 to serve the state-owned East Texas Penitentiary smelter in Rusk that produced cast iron for the state's 19th century needs and helps to maintain the 32 miles of track right of way. TPWD acquired the railroad in 1972 after the rail line was abandoned by a private company, reinstating passenger service in 1976. MEDIA DAY: The Texas State Railroad invites members of the media and their families to be TSRR's guests to enjoy a train ride and/or tour of the train restoration shop visit May 29. The train departs the Rusk depot at 11 a.m. and returns at 3:30 p.m. Please R.S.V.P. by calling the above numbers. -30-


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The Prince of Puerto Rico
On Dec. 16, 2012, in Naguabo, Puerto Rico, professional skateboarder Manny Santiago held the second annual Prince of Puerto Rico contest. Yariel Melendez was crowned the winner and took home $700 dollars, a trophy, a hat, a ring and a one-of-a-kind colorway of Santiago's "Mijo" shoe by Axion Footwear. Second place went to Robert Lopez Mont with Dovier Chinea coming in third.
Santiago said, "The contest itself was amazing. A lot of skaters came from all over the island and local people supported it. Skaters even camped out in the park the night before. Let's just say it was one of the most intense finals I've seen in a long time."
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It all happened when Santiago was planning a trip to Puerto Rico and it developed into a lot more. "Well at first it was just an Ammo trip, then I talked about doing a contest and it turned into a five demo tour ending with one of the biggest skate contests ever in Puerto Rico."
Santiago spread the word about the contest and his sponsors, using the internet, his social media channels, face time with the kids and even local media to help spread the word. Santiago credits Fico Rodriguez for a radio station appearance he made, "Actually Fico made that happen, he's been working on all this [promotion] a whole bunch. He got us on La Mega, the biggest radio station in Puerto Rico." Santiago also came bearing clever "Yo Ammo Puerto Rico" tees by Ammo Skateboards. In Spanish it reads "I love Puerto Rico." The shirts were a hit with the locals, "Everyone loved them. They're wanted everywhere -- Felix [Arguelles] is a genius," Santiago said.
With the help of his childhood friend and professional skateboarder Dave Bachinsky, they fixed up Este Skatepark, where the contest was held, in just a week. Santiago thought of the idea earlier this year during the summer. "I came down to judge the Fejah Cash Money Cup contest. I stayed an extra week because Fico was getting married. While I was there I heard about a contest on the east side of the island and knowing Rey Davila, a resident of Naguabo, I went because Rey is the coolest. On his side of the island I saw how much love and passion people had for what he was doing. All these kids there wanted to skate. I knew I'd be giving back by fixing their park so I asked him if I could hold the contest there too. The next thing you know we're spending 13-hour days [fixing] the park."
Even with that kind of effort the Ammo crew weren't sure they could get it done in time for the contest. "It was a lot of work and we were wondering if we could finish it in time." It all worked out though and Santiago is thankful for it. "This was our second contest and I was so happy to be doing it again. Thanks to everyone that helped make it happen." On the subject of giving back through the Prince of Puerto Rico contest, Santiago sounded pleased yet humble, "I'm just happy everyone was hyped, if anyone is in the situation that they can help they should."
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Effect of Stablor on Visceral Fat Loss in Patients With a Metabolic Syndrome
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Laboratoires Nutrition et Cardiometabolisme
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Last updated: March 6, 2014
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The purpose of the study is to evaluate the impact of the intake of a dietary supplement STABLOR™ on the change of the abdominal visceral fat mass in patients with a metabolic syndrome.
|Metabolic Syndrome
|Dietary Supplement: Stablor Dietary Supplement: Placebo
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized Double-blind Placebo Controlled Trial on the Effect of Stablor™ on the Abdominal Visceral Fat Mass Loss in Patients With a Metabolic Syndrome
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Further study details as provided by Laboratoires Nutrition et Cardiometabolisme:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Change in visceral fat area assessed by computerized tomodensitometry [ Time Frame: From baseline to Week 12 ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Changes in selected cardiometabolic risk factors : anthropometric and physical measurements, biomarkers [ Time Frame: from baseline to end of study ]
- Quality of life, psychological and behavioral changes [ Time Frame: From baseline to end of study ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2013
|Study Completion Date:
|February 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Stablor
dietary supplement Stablor
|Dietary Supplement: Stablor
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
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|Dietary Supplement: Placebo
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- With a Body Mass Index (BMI) more than or equal to 25 kg/m² and less than 40 kg/m²,
With a metabolic syndrome characterized by a a waist circumference of more than 94 cm for the males (90 cm for South-Asians, Chinese and Japanese) and more than 80 cm for the females, and at least 2 of the following criteria :
- Arterial Blood pressure > or = 130 mmHg (systolic) and/or more than or equal to 85 mmHg (diastolic) or stabilized with treatment for at least 6 months,
- Fasting glycemia > or = 1 g/L or 5.6 mmol/L or stabilized with treatment for at least 6 months and non-diabetic < 1.26 g/L,
- Triglycerides > or = 1.5 g/L or 1.71 mmol/L or stabilized with treatment for at least 6 months,
- HDL Cholesterol <0.40 g/L or 1.03 mmol/L (males) and <0,5 g/l or 1.29 mmol/L (females) or stabilized with treatment for at least 6 months.
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- Woman of childbearing potential without an efficient contraception method,
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|Institut des Nutraceutiques et des Aliments Fonctionnels (INAF)
|Laval, Quebec, Canada
|Institut CardioMetabolisme et Nutrition (ICAN)
|Paris, France
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Laboratoires Nutrition et Cardiometabolisme
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|Karine Clement, MD
|Institut CardioMetabolisme et Nutrition (ICAN)
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|NCT01755104 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 18, 2012
|Last Updated:
|March 6, 2014
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Metabolic Syndrome X
Pathologic Processes
Insulin Resistance
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
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A 24-year-old recent transplant from Humboldt County was stabbed to death in Santa Rosa, and officials said Friday they have yet to identify any suspects.
Michela Wooldridge was found dead Thursday after paramedics received a report at 5:21 a.m. from passing joggers that someone was lying in the driveway of a business in the 1200 block of Fourth Street in Santa Rosa, according to the Santa Rosa Police Department. Paramedics noticed Wooldridge had injuries consistent with stab wounds to her torso.
Santa Rosa Police Department Sgt. David Linscomb said Friday that Wooldridge was identified through fingerprint records. He said she's believed to have moved from Humboldt County to Santa Rosa a little more than one month ago. He said Wooldridge was homeless in Santa Rosa, which was determined by talking to other homeless residents in the area.
Police believe the assault occurred in the early morning hours, and determined Wooldridge was stabbed multiple times before succumbing to her wounds, according to a police press release. The motive for the assault is unknown at this time. There was nothing to indicate the crime was a robbery or sexual assault.
With no suspect, Linscomb said law enforcement officials are simply trying to piece together what happened.
"At this point, we're talking to people who may have known her," Linscomb said.
Yuba City resident Nick Azbill said Wooldridge is the mother of his nearly 3-year-old son, of whom he has custody. He said Wooldridge was living in Carlotta with her mother and had moved to Santa Rosa in mid-September to be closer to her son.
"She moved to Santa Rosa to a Christian women's shelter," Azbill said.
He said she left the center with some unidentified men in mid-October, and had texted him a few times from one of their phones. He said it's possible she fell in with the wrong crowd without even knowing it.
"She was very independent and outgoing," Azbill said.
Sonoma County Coroner's Office forensic assistant Esmeralda Mercado Shields said Wooldridge's father, who lives in Sonoma County, has been notified of her death. An autopsy was being performed Friday, and a toxicology report has been ordered.
The Sonoma County Alliance, through its "Take Back Our Community Program," is offering up to $2,500 in reward money for information leading to the arrest of a suspect in the case. Police are asking anyone with information to contact the Santa Rosa Police Department's Violent Crime Investigations Team at 543-3590.
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Lee's Community Build in D.C. – Part 1
Lee Pera and a group of tiny house builders attended a Tumbleweed workshop last year. This year, they broke ground on their tiny house community in Washington, D.C. Below is an update from Lee who will be guest blogging her tiny house community adventure with us regularly. If you're interested in starting a group build in your community, drop us an email and we'll work with you to connect with other tiny house enthusiasts, builders, and suppliers in your area.
We've been doing preparatory work this week meeting with other tiny house builders, scoping out materials and prices, looking at designs we like, and helping Brian out on the lot and garden beds. Making decisions usually stresses me out, and all the decisions that go into a tiny house have been overwhelming me, so it felt good to already decide on a couple things while looking at materials. For instance, I love the look of the interior of the Protohaus and have decided to go with bead board rather than the knotty pine that the Fencl tiny house plans call for (saving a significant amount of money as well). I have also decided I really like the look of cork flooring and many of its benefits and will most likely go with that for my flooring – whew…two decisions made effortlessly!
The biggest news this week is that I may end up downsizing even more. Originally I planned on building on a 22 ft-long x 8 ft-wide trailer, extending the Fencl out by 4 feet in length and one foot in width. But this week we were out for beers with our new tiny house friends Margaret and Zach – who are building an amazing tiny house in South Carolina – and Zach told us about an ad he had seen for a tiny house shell. It's a fabulous deal, but the main issue I had with it is that, while built on an 18-ft trailer, the shell is just 16 feet long and 7 feet 10 inches wide. Could I really lose 6 feet of interior space? That's a lot of room in a tiny house. Still, the price is less than what my trailer itself will cost, and the seller was excited that we even knew about tiny houses. Tony talked with the builder/seller and he seems to have done solid work, and Zach checked it out in person for us. It looks like I'll be buying the shell all built out! We will finish the roofing, siding and interior starting in June.
Next, Tony and I went to spend some time hanging out in the Fencl (18 ft long x 7 ft wide). After spending about an hour, moving about in the rooms, hanging out in the loft, scoping out storage, I think I can make a smaller unit work. It will require getting creative about storing my stuff (or getting rid of more), but I'm excited about the challenge. I like to think I adapt easily to wherever I live and the size will be fine, but if it's too small I can design and build a larger one over time. It will be useful to spend some time in one first to get an idea for what I really want and need in size and design. I'll post more photos of the shell soon.


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POLICE expect to charge a man who crashed into a taxi in Geelong on Christmas Day, killing its driver and injuring a family in another vehicle.
This collision, and five fatalities from Boxing Day road smashes in New South Wales, have lifted the national holiday road toll to 16, which includes five in Victoria.
Inspector Bernie Rankin said there would be a criminal investigation into the Geelong crash, and speed and alcohol were being investigated as possible causes.
The driver of the car that crashed into the taxi was interviewed for several hours after the incident and released.
The taxi driver, a member of the local Pakistani community and a father of five, died at the scene. Inspector Rankin said the family, which was in a vehicle waiting at traffic lights adjacent to the taxi, were lucky to have escaped serious injury.
A woman who may not have witnessed the crash but police believe spoke to the family at the scene is being urged to come forward to help with the investigation.
''We really need to speak to her, hoping she can clarify some things for us,'' he said.
Police are appealing for motorists to drive sensibly as they struggle to make sense of what they called a ''horrific'' start to the holiday road toll period.
Three people died on December 23 alone - the first day of the holiday road toll period - in separate incidents, including a man in Dandenong on Christmas Eve. Inspector Rankin said all were avoidable collisions.
''Unfortunately in our community there's a group of people that just don't listen,'' he said. ''If you drink don't even think about getting behind the wheel of the car. If you're going somewhere, it doesn't matter if you're a few minutes late; rest, have a break.''
Police have been left shaking their heads in recent days over what they describe as reckless behaviour.
A New South Wales teen had his car impounded on Wednesday after he was caught travelling more than 70km/h over the speed limit in Seymour.
The 17-year-old was clocked driving south on the Hume Highway at 181km/h in a 110km/h zone. The P-plater had his car impounded for 30 days and is expected to be charged with several offences including conduct endangering life.
Meanwhile, a 31-year-old Malvern East man will face court after he was caught speeding and drink-driving in Frankston South on Wednesday morning.
The man was driving on the Moorooduc Highway when Frankston Highway Patrol members caught him allegedly travelling at 124km/h in an 80km/h zone. A breath-test returned a result of 0.06.
Police are also urging a man photographed by a member of the public driving on the Eastern Freeway with both of his feet hanging out of the window on Christmas Eve to come forward and hand himself in. Police said the man faces charges of conduct endangering life.
Inspector Rankin said the stupidity of the driver ''astounds us''. ''The local police will be following this matter up and what I'd encourage the driver of this vehicle to do is he walk into his local police station and speak to us,'' he said.
The national road toll soared to 16 following a horror Boxing Day on NSW roads.
Five people died in four separate crashes, including an elderly couple who lost their lives when their four-wheel-drive rolled on the Hume Highway, injuring five other family members on board.
One passenger, a 67-year-old woman, was flown to Royal Melbourne hospital with possible spinal injuries.
Three men died in separate accidents, including one who was involved in a two-vehicle collision in Marsden Park, in Sydney's north-west.