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Please note: I believe this is currently a discontinued product.
This is one of my favourite soaps, and one of my favourite Lush products.
13 (Unlucky For Dirt) was never one of the items that leapt out at you when you entered the store - the colour tended to be overshadowed by brighter products and the smell was easily overpowered. However, if you got to the stage of looking at it and smelling it, you realise quickly how nice it is.
The scent is very gentle - a lovely combination of herbiness and rose which doesn't overpower you (something I appreciate in a hand soap). However, there is still enough scent to be noticeable so you don't feel like you've bought a plain bar! It produces a good lather which is very soft and slightly moisturising so your hands aren't dried out too badly if you wash them a lot. Most important, of course, is the cleaning power! I use this soap in the sink in the bathroom and am very impressed with how it cleans my hands. I have pets, and often have muddy or dirty hands, and this soap takes any dirt or grease off easily.
The only small downside to this soap (other than being discontinued!) is that the soap scum left from it is a nightmare to remove from my sink! Whatever cleaning products I use it sticks like glue, requiring scraping off more than wiping. However, I am willing to overlook this based on its other excellent qualities!
I am a huge fan of the store Lush and am trying to sample all of their products. This includes their huge range of soaps - Lush are famous for their soaps and have often been known as the 'smelly soap shop'. One of their more unusual soaps is called 13 (Unlucky for Dirt).
This soap is a rich burnt orange colour, and can often be overlooked in favour of some of the more brightly coloured soaps. However, this would be a shame as it really is lovely. The soap is made with a base of rapeseed and coconut oil (not palm oil, which is bad for the environment). It does contain sodium lauryl sulfate to help it lather, which is worth keeping in mind if you prefer to avoid this ingredient. The soap is made with oregano and rose petal infusion, along with oregano oil and rose absolute. These soothe and comfort sore hands and the scent helps to mask unpleasant smells, so it's an ideal soap to keep in the kitchen. The soap contains honey and manuka honey, which also help moisturise and condition the skin.
Apparently the soap was originally created for nurses, as oil of oregano contains active key compounds, carvacrol and thymol, which can be effective against harmful micro-organisms. Hence the name 'unlucky for dirt'! However, it's my understanding that nurses and other healthcare workers have to use liquid soap, not solid, so I'm not sure that this product is any good for them! That's no reason to stop the rest of us using it, though.
I love the smell of this soap - it has the herbal, natural scent of oregano. After chopping onions and garlic, or any other kind of cooking, I wash my hands with this and they smell of oregano instead of what I was originally using. It's completely different from any other Lush soap, but that's why I like it!
My hands feel soft after using this soap, too, not dried out like a lot of soaps can (and like washing up liquid, which I often used to wash my hands after cooking in the past!). My small piece is lasting for ages, too, so it's good value.
Unfortunately the soap is no longer available from Lush, but it will hopefully reappear in Retro at some point in the future. If you can get hold of some, I definitely recommend it.
Lush Soap 13 Unlucky for Dirt
Just recently I had a tip off about a number of Lush products that were going to be discontinued and this was one so of course I just had to go and get a chunk before it disappeared for ever. It was quite an expensive visit as a few of my favourites are going to be gone after Christmas so I am gradually stocking up before then.
These are not sold wrapped in paper or plastic but are presented in huge truckles a bit like cheese but in all sorts of great scents and colours. The staff cut you off a chunk, then weigh it and wrap it in recyclable paper with a sticky label to remind you of what you have bought. They do look rather splendid in the shop and very tempting as you can pick up chunks to sniff and you can even try them in the shop if you would like.
The soap is of a dark red colour and seems to glow a little. At Lush they have really big pieces of soap and cut off a usually square-shaped chunk for you. Some a pre-cut and wrapped so you just have to pick them up.
The soap is supposed to be anti-bacterial and so is a good one to have in the kitchen or downstairs loo as this is the place I wash my hands when coming in from the garden.
A 100g piece of this soap costs £3.79, which I think is okay but nor the cheapest soap around I know. This is however a soap that smells good and is naturally antiseptic.
The smell is really quite special, not as sweet as some Lush products although it does contain Manuka honey from New Zealand which is naturally antibiotic and antiseptic, it also has oregano a great herb and then the wonderful scent of roses. This unusual combination creates a clean smelling yet slightly floral soap.It sort of reminds me of cough sweets as they are fruity yet have the herby sort of smell.
It isn't as soft and creamy feeling as some of Lush's soaps. This is a little more like the glycerin soaps you can buy elsewhere like Bomb Cosmetics but Lush don't do a glycerine transparent soap.
After using this I do feel really clean but also rather dry so it isn't a soap I really like for my whole body. I tend to use this a a hand washing soap. That is not to say that it isn't a body soap as my husband likes using this and it is quite a manly fresh uplifting scent. It will certainly remove any dirt and that includes muddy hands after being in the garden, it also leaves them smelling fresh and really clean smelling which I like as sometimes when I wash my hands after being in the garden my hands look clean but still smell of garden.
I think this would also be a good soap to use for someone with greasy skin. So if you suffer from a greasy back then get someone to give you a back scrub using this and I am convinced the ingredients will work to help that problem.
I also find it is great soap for a shower when you are hot if we ever get really hot weather as it leaves you smelling fresh and free from any residual sweaty smells. I also love using this on my feet when they are hot and sweaty and tired after a long day on my feet. This refreshes them and leaves them clean and fresh smelling and the oregano seems to make them feel cooler too as well as leaving a fresh slightly herbal scent
I really love the unusual scent in the soap and find it great for the purposes I have outlined about but I would say if you have very sensitive skin or very dry skin then it might not be a good one to buy. I would certainly avoid using it on your body if you have dry skin. For hands and feet it is really great though so don't discount it altogether.
The soap doesn't lather very much and certainly doesn't have that lovely soft luxurious feel that some of Lush's soaps have but it does clean well and leaves my hands smelling fresh and free of any lingering nasty cooking or gardening smells.
I find this is quite a solid soap and not one that dissolves when left and so it does last pretty well for me. My husband uses this and I also use it for my hands and feet and 100g will give us a month to six weeks of use and we bath twice daily and wash our hands many more times but not always at the sink where this is of course.
The ingredients
Oregano and Rose Petal Infusion ,Propylene Glycol, Rapeseed Oil, Sunflower Oil, Coconut Oil ,Water ,Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Honey ,Perfume, Sodium Hydroxide, Manuka Honey, Sodium Stearate, Oregano Oil, Rose Absolute, Geranium Oil, Sodium Chloride, Geraniol, Limonene, D&C Red No. 33, FD&C Red No. 4.
The two types of honey provide the natural anti bacterial properties, the coconut and other oils give the moisturizing elements of this soap. The scent comes from the rose and oregano, rose absolute and of course honey also provides its scent too.
It dies however have the less nice ingredient of Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and heaven knows what the colouring is, it is probably fine but I would suggest a check if you have any allergies.
I love the smell of this soap it is ne of those unisex smells that suits both sexes and it is also great for it natural anti bacterial properties and it not only is ant bacterial but also smells really clean. It kills all those nasty kitchen smells like onion and raw meat when you have been cooking. It is also great for washing hands after working in the garden or even doing house cleaning as it really gets rid of nasty odours and leaves your skin smelling fresh and clean. I do really recommend this as a thorough cleansing soap but you may need a hand cream or body lotion after using it as I find it a touch drying.
I am really sad that Lush are going to discontinue selling this in their shops as it does a great job of cleaning as I have described in my review with those limitations I mentioned.
Thanks for reading. This review may be posted on other sites under my same user name.
I've been to Lush again - this time I bought the ,,13 Unlucky For Dirt" soap which I will review now. :)
Shopper's appeal
I really like Lush! I remeber how I bought a Lush product for the first time. That was when I lived in London and was really sad and tired after my horrible telesales job. I walked through Victoria Station and wanted to buy myself a treat. I had seen lush from the escalators all the time but never went in - but that one time I did and fell in love with thescent of a blueish stone-shaped thing you were supposed to crumble into your bathtub.
Since then I've become a devotee to the brand and have been trying out new products all the time. I noticed the 13 Unlucky for Dirt soap because I thought the name sounded cool. When I smelt it in the shop, I feel in love with it and just had to buy it!
What does it looks like and what will it do?
The soap is of a dark red colour and seems to glow a little. At Lush they have really big pieces of soap and cut off a usually square-shaped chunk for you. Some a pre-cut and wrapped so you just have to pick them up.
The soap is supposed to be anti-bacterial and give your skin an intensive cleaning so dirt will really be unlucky! The mix of scent and ingredients promoted on the website sound promising, but I will mention them in the next bit. ;)
My experiences
The scent
The scent is really something special and not as sweet as most other Lush products. According to the website, the soap contains Manuka honey from New Zealand, oregano and the scent of roses. All this comes out really well and creates an interesting mix of very different scents. The scent reminded me of a German cough candy I really like, which contains cherries and menthol.
The scent really soothes you, especially when you have a cold or are just feeling a little lousy. ;)
The effect on my skin
My skin really did feel squirky clean after using the soap. It will remove any dirt and is also good if you have greasy skin. Despite the somewhat spicy scent it is also great for summer when you're sweaty and want to feel fresh again!
My skin coped well with the soap, but I wouldn't recommend the soap to people with really dry and sensitive skin as it might be a bit too strong and de-mosturizing.
The soap doesn't foam much, but it still feel really nice and leaves your skin clean and smooth.
If you are allergic or have really sensitive skin, check the ingredients before buying the product.
How long will it last?
This soap as, as most other Lush soaps, a nice endurance and I washed myself with it almost daily for over a month! So a 100g piece really gets you a long way and works out compared to my needs of shower gel I'd use otherwise.
The ingredients
Oregano and Rose Petal Infusion (Origanum vulgare and Rosa centifolia), Propylene Glycol, Rapeseed Oil,Sunflower Oil, Coconut Oil (Brassica napus; Helianthus annuus; Cocos nucifera), Water (Aqua), Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Honey (Mel), Perfume, Sodium Hydroxide, Manuka Honey (Mel), Sodium Stearate, Oregano Oil (Origanum vulgare), Rose Absolute (Rosa damascena), Geranium Oil (Pelargonium graveolens), Sodium Chloride, Geraniol, Limonene, D&C Red No. 33, FD&C Red No. 4.
The Price
A 100g piece of this soap costs £3.79, which I think is alright.
Another Lush product I really enjoyed! This defenitely was a change from the sweet soaps I usually get and I will defenitely buy it again. The scent was comforting and refreshing at the same time.
I would defenitely recommend it, but if you have very dry skin you'd better pick a more moisturizing soap (or put on body lotion after showering ;)).
A fab soap!
When it comes to soap I never thought Id consider paying more than a couple of quid for a bar because before I started using Lush soaps I thought well they all smell okay and do the same job so whats the point? Well my views on that changed somewhat when I tried my first Lush soap and Ive been going back to buy more and more ever since. My latest soapy purchase was this "Lush 13 Soap - Unlucky For Dirt" but I didnt actually buy this one for using in the shower. In my house we always have a bottle of handwash in place of the soap as everyone thinks its actually more hygenic that way (a bar of soap gets kind of washed after every use though in my opinion) so when our latest bottle ran out I urged my mom to try something different for a change from her nightmare shop (she is not a Lush fan :O!) and for once she took my advice. But was she pleased with the purchase?
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The whole reason we bought this soap instead of a handwash is because it is antibacterial. Now when I think of the antibacterial products Ive used in the past I think of the hideous chemical smell they all seem to have but I was sure Lush had added some ingredients to combat that so thats really the reason I wanted this - to see if Lush could do something different with a kind of product I dont normally like.
The bar we have actually looks nothing like the image alongside this review. Ours is a deep red and actually looks a lot like the Godmother soap that Lush make and personally I think mine is nicer than the picture. Everyones bar will be slightly different in colour and shape though as it is cut of a giant block in the store but hopefully it should smell the same and have the same effects.
Now Im not going to say this is the nicest smelling soap Ive ever used from Lush because it simply isnt however for an antibacterial soap this does smell great. You dont get much of a scent when it is in bar form but as soon as it comes into contact with the water the fragrance of roses hits you right away and for a non-floral person I loved it. I thought this would smell very "herby" as that is how it was described but the oregano scent is in the background and just compliments the rose rather than overpower it or offend the nose!
As I mentioned at the start I only use this on my hands so I cant comment on what its like for the rest of your body but it does a wonder on my hands. A lot of soaps tend to be really drying on my skin but this lathers up really well, very quickly and leaves me hands feeling squeeky clean without drying them out. I have to say since we started using this there has been little or no colds going round in our house so it actually must work for killing those pesky germs! And best of all my mom seems to be coming round to the idea that Lush might be alright after all.
Highly recommended as it makes a change for handwash. Thanks for reading.
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I was recently in the Swansea lush store shopping for a different soap that I could use everyday in the home and not such a girly smell for guests. Walking around the store I discovered that they have released a new soap called "13 Soap (Unlucky for dirt)" - and with a name so good like that I was more than happy to try out. When I picked it up in the store the smell was not so apparent next to some other soaps but I thought that this would be best for what I needed it for and for day to day use.
Once I had taken my purchase home and out of the wrapper the smell was then fantatsic - it is qute flowery and a herb smell (imagine a fresh garden and cuttings of flowers and herbs and that is the intense smell that you have from this soap) It is also a quite refreshing smell since I normally purchase mostly sweet soaps for myself and more masculine for my other half - but this can be used by males aswell as females. After I had used the soap in the bathroom and over an hour later went back into the bathroom and even though the sent was not overpowering you could still smell it faintly - it was lovely.
When you use the soap it lathers up very well and the moisture that it created for the skin is amazing and it does not make your skin dry after use at all. I have very sensitive skin and this did not irritate my skin at all - and my other half has normal/oily skin and it was the same for him - it did not irritate or dry out the skin.
The sales assistant also mentioned that it has anti-bacterial qualities so it is very good for washing hands after using the bathroom but also good for spots etc. So what I done was to cut the soap in half and used the one half for washing hands etc - and the second half I put in a closed soap dish for use for the face etc. This has worked great for our family and would not hesitate to buy this soap again.
I paid £3.50 for the Soap which although to be honest a little pricey I was willing to pay as the soap does last a very long time and this is the normal price for lush soaps at this moment (they all seem to be creeping up in price)
I would highly recommend this soap to anyone that wants a lovely smell for every day use.
I use Lush soaps all the time as they're so kind to my sensitive skin, so I'm always intrigued when a new one comes out. This one sounded so unusual I had to give it a try. According to the Lush Times paper, this one gets its name from a 1931 Hollywood film about a soap company. In the film the son advertised a soap that didn't exist but demand was so high his dad had to make it!
Lush developed this soap after been asked by nurses for soap made with oregano because, according the University of the West of England, oregano kills MRSA bacteria. It contains the following ingredients:
Oregano and Rose Petal Infusion (Origanum vulgare and Rosa centifolia), Propylene Glycol, Rapeseed Oil; Sunflower Oil; Coconut Oil (Brassica napus; Helianthus annuus; Cocos nucifera), Water (Aqua), Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Honey, Perfume, Sodium Hydroxide, Manuka Honey, Sodium Stearate, Oregano Oil (Origanum vulgare), Rose Absolute (Rosa damascena), Geranium Oil (Pelargonium graveolens), Sodium Chloride, Geraniol, *Limonene, Colour 18050
* Occurs naturally in Essential Oils
The colour is a lovely translucent burnt orange and looks quite attractive and tempting to use, always a good thing when trying to get my granddaughters to wash their hands properly! They are very taken with some of the Lush soaps I use and will spend ages washing their hands with some of the more colourful, deliciously scented ones.
This one doesn't foam up a lot when used, but does form enough of a froth to shower with. It's also quite gentle on sensitive skin, although it's not one of the really rich and moisturizing Lush soaps. For that reason I wouldn't want to use it frequently in the shower, as I do like a moisturizing soap.
Another thing that puts me off using it as a shower soap is the smell. Although I can detect the rose notes coming through, and the sweetness of the honey, the oregano smell is the dominant one. Now I do like the smell of oregano but I'm not sure I want to go around smelling of it all day. It's a lovely, complex scent, but not exactly feminine. However, as a hand soap it's excellent, especially knowing that the oregano could help kill MRSA. If I had to go in hospital I would certainly take this with me.
This soap currently sells at £3.50 per 100g. There is no use by date on the packaging but it does say 'best used fresh', which applies to all Lush products, as they are made from fresh ingredients. However, being a solid soap it does seem to last quite well, and I've still got some left after two weeks, smelling just as lovely as the day I bought it.


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WALES players are firmly behind manager Chris Coleman, according to Reading striker Simon Church.
Wales endured their third worst defeat in 83-years on Tuesday night as Serbia crushed them 6-1 in a humbling and humiliating World Cup qualification match that leaves Wales pointless in Group A.
This was the worst possible reaction to Friday's 2-0 reverse at home to Belgium and boss Coleman is receiving plenty of stick from Welsh supporters up and down the country.
However, Church is keen to point out that the players are behind Coleman.
"It's a hard transition. Everyone knows what has happened (the death of previous boss Gary Speed). It's tough for everyone. But the players are 100 per cent behind Chris Coleman and the staff and what they have done since they have come in," he said.
"We're all positive. Today just wasn't our day. It didn't click.
"The fans need to stick with us. We have the belief in the dressing room and we need everyone to believe. It's a setback. We thank every single one of them for coming over. It was great support.
"The result has happened and we can't do anything about it. Everyone is devastated and gutted. The dressing room has been quiet. No one has said anything."
Church insists Wales can still make some noise in Group A and can even still make it to the 2014 World Cup.
"We have to forget about it and look to next month," he said.
"We just didn't get going. We conceded some sloppy goals.
"Serbia are a good side, but we have to let it go and get ourselves back on track.
"I can't put my finger on what went wrong. There was a lot of things which went wrong. We didn't have the same spark as Friday.
"That has to be there to win games in this competition. We have to keep positive and get ready for next month.
"Of course we can still qualify. That's our belief. It's only two games and a few of the other results have gone our way.
"We're still in with a chance. We have to get ourselves ready and get a result against Scotland in the next game."
Church is aware of how poor the performance was and insists Coleman let them know too.
"That performance is not good enough. We all know that. Everyone can see it. In the last couple of games we haven't shown any hints of that sort of performance. It's a one-off," he said.
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The wait is finally over as two mech warriors land to battle one another for ultimate dominance.
Introducing the rebirth of the iconic Toy2R character - the Toyer. As Toy2R preprares for its 15th Anniversary, the company announces the release of Frank Kozik's Mech/Kaiju take on our Toyer character: The heroic Toyer Z and the darker Toyer Enemy.
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The Prince Edward Island Potato Board has introduced six videos featuring consumer testimonials.
The videos, dubbed "Tater Talk," are on the Charlottetown, Canada-based board's YouTube channel.
Recorded at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto in November, they depict consumers telling stories and discussing their reasons for buying Prince Edward Island potatoes, along with preparation methods.
"(It's) a way to capture all of these great stories, messages and compliments and to share them with not only our consumers, but with our industry," Kendra Mills, board marketing director, said in a news release.
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Game Time Start: 7:00 PM ET
Where: Verizon Center, Washington, DC
Officials: K. Mauer, N. Buchert, E. Lewis
Media Notes: Indiana Notes, Washington Notes
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Jeff Foster, that big ol' Ugg Boot in the sky, retired
Andray Blatche, voted off the island, out
Rashard Lewis, sore left knee/glue factory, out
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Eight Points, Nine Seconds PreviewReview: Jared Wade: Jeff Foster, a True Indiana Pacer Great, Retires
The second-longest-tenured Indiana Pacer of all time has retired from the
only team he has ever known. Yes, in a sad development, Jeff Foster has
called it quits at the age of 35 midway through his 13th season. He has
suffered from chronic back trouble for years, and after undergoing two
different corrective procedures this year, apparently with limited success,
he has decided that his body will no longer allow him to play the
relentless style of basketball Pacers fans have had the pleasure to watch
for the past 13 seasons.
"Its with deep regret that I have to conclude my basketball career," said
Foster. "Ive given my all to the Pacers and the community the last 13
years. I had hoped to be able to finish the season, but unfortunately my
back problems prevented that from occurring. I want to thank the Simon
family and the Pacers' organization for 13 memorable years."
According to the Pacers, Jeff ranks in the top 10 among all players to have
ever suited up for the NBA incarnation of the blue and gold in 11 different
statistical categories. With 764 games played as a Pacer, he's third in NBA
franchise history, behind only Rik Smits (867), and some guy named
Reggie (1,389). Perhaps most special of all, these three guys combined
to play precisely 0 games for another NBA franchise. In that respect, and
many others, Jeff Foster is a true Pacers legend. (The games played figures
are regular season totals. Throw in playoffs, and it is 817 for Jeff, 971 for
Rik, and 1,533 for Reggie).
This announcement really is a shame since Jeff had the game to keep playing
for several more seasons. He just doesnt have the body for it anymore.
Earlier this season in Boston, Foster jokingly told me that he knew he would
never pass Reggie Miller on the all-time games played list for the Pacers.
"[Tonight], I officially became the second-longest-tenured Pacer behind
Reggie," said Foster on January 6 after the first game he played this season.
"And I am not catching him. Ive got five more years to go [to catch up]
thats not happening."
At the time, it was a funny comment from a guy who is one of the classiest
men, and best financial planners, in the league. Now? In hindsight? It takes
on a different meaning. He seemed very sure that he was on the road to
recovery and eager to play alongside...CONTINUE READING AT 8p9s
Truth About It: JaVale McGee Leaves The Nest
I dont have many McGee stories, but heres one.
Last winter I was playing in a rec league at a high school about twenty minutes
from D.C. On Sunday nights, after participating in any number of NFL-watching
activities that would not be described as performance enhancing, we would
take the court in chafing mesh jerseys, our shouts and clanked jumpers echoing
all over the gym.
One evening, a few minutes before tip-off, JaVale McGee crept into the gym in
a dark grey sweatsuit, hood pulled up to shadow his face like the worlds most
conspicuous ninja. Theres just no hiding when youre 7-feet tall and move like
a jungle cat, a lesson McGee must thoroughly understand at this point. We
immediately spotted him, but attempted not to stare as he positioned himself
on a ludicrously ill-proportioned loose chair in the corner of the gym, the seat
so low as to bring his knees and shoulders almost level.
He was there to watch a friend, and a guy that might have been his trainer
both on our opposing team that night. His friend ostentatiously wore a Team
USA practice jersey with McGees number. During the game, McGee mostly
heckled his pals when they returned to the bench, and gave a brief shout when
I caught the trainer with a crossover.
If you wondered what JaVale McGee was getting into on school nights during
the season, theres your answer.
Any time McGee is on the court, it doesnt take long for your eye to begin
tracking the simultaneously spastic and graceful movement of the tallest
guy in the gym. His legend as a master of .GIF-worthy blooper is deserved,
but hes hardly a larger than life center on the lines of Dwight Howard. In the
locker room it was Nick Young or Andre Blatche who held court. I always
found McGee surly and distrustful he knew we were laughing.
And he didnt like it, because McGee and I genuinely believe this wants
to be good. In Washington, and given the deal they made to move him, I
suspect that the Wizards feel the same way, I began to wonder whether
McGee was fatally flawed somehow as stunted mentally (in a basketball
sense) as he was gifted physically.
Its hard to believe that as McGee goes to Denver, a 24-year old with his
size and coordination who ranks thirteenth in rebound rate and fourth in
block percentage, could be considered something of a rescue project.
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Cactus bucks increasing in Hotchkiss area
A curious condition that leaves mule deer bucks carrying velvet covered antlers year-round apparently has cropped up in the Hotchkiss/Crawford area.
State wildlife officials say reports about what are known as "cactus bucks" have increased over the past decade in parts of the North Fork Valley.
It isn't known why so many reports of cactus bucks have surfaced in the past few years in this one area since the condition, while infrequent, isn't entirely unknown in other parts of the West.
Studies of cactus bucks in Texas white-tail deer herds indicates the condition (known as cryptorchidism) has to do with a reduction or loss of testosterone, which affects antler growth and development.
Whether through injury or lack of proper testicular development, the production of testosterone is affected and normal antler development is halted.
Antlers grow in strange shapes, often attracting hunters eager for a unique trophy. In 2006, a hunter in Nevada killed a cactus mule deer buck that scored 304 points, which would have qualified as No. 17 in the Boone & Crockett Club's 12th edition record book for non-typical mule deer.
However, Jack Reneau of the Boone & Crockett Club said the organization does not record cactus bucks because the antlers are in velvet and are never shed.
The bucks in the North Fork Valley may be deformed because of hemorrhagic disease, said Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists.
The disease is transmitted by the bites of midges and can also affect white-tailed deer and pronghorns.
The Texas studies indicate cactus bucks, because they lack functioning testes, also lack the testosterone that causes velvet shedding and antler drop.
Instead, cactus bucks remain in velvet year-round and their antlers continue to grow indefinitely, often resulting in antlers with numerous abnormal points, from which the name cactus buck derives.
But why the disease seems more prevalent in this one part of Colorado isn't known.
Part of the research into the disease included capturing eight affected bucks and putting radio collars on them, said Brandon Diamond, Gunnison-area terrestrial biologist for Parks and Wildlife.
Diamond said blood samples were taken from each deer and the deer's physical condition was assessed.
"With the radio collars we'll be able to follow their movements, determine if they lose their antlers, and whether they re-grow normal antlers," Diamond said. "At the same time we'll also be able to evaluate their annual survival rates."
Because the disease affects hormonal levels in bucks and prevents them from breeding, there also is some concern as to how a prevalence of this disease may affect a herd's viability.
Biologists say midges are common around wet areas and it's possible bucks become infected when gathered around watering holes.
Affected bucks also may show other symptoms, including fever, lethargy, respiratory distress, loss of appetite and internal bleeding.
That said, biologists assured hunters the virus does not infect humans and there is no risk from handling or eating venison from these deer.


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Michael J. Musho Painting, Inc.
Michael J. Musho Painting, Inc. is a Florida for profit corporation based in Fort Myers. They registered with the Florida Department of State's Division of Corporations on Jun 9, 2004.
Visulate is a real estate brokerage based in Mims, Florida. We have assembled a directory of Florida companies as a research resource to assist in commercial real estate transactions. Visulate.com is an independent website and is not affiliated with, nor has it been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Michael J. Musho Painting, Inc.
Florida Sunbiz Corporation Details
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|Jun 9, 2004
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|Principal Address
17350 Wells Rd
Fort Myers
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The principal address for Michael J. Musho Painting, Inc. is in Lee County .
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Michael Musho
17350 Wells Rd
Fort Myers
(Lee County)
Michael Musho
Po Box 60104
Fort Myers
(Lee County)
Principal Location
Michael J. Musho Painting, Inc. is located at 17350 Wells Rd in Fort Myers.
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Fab Recap: What You Need to Know (So Far) About Award Season 2013
Fab Recap: What You Need to Know (So Far) About Award Season 2013
It's finally here — award season 2013! We haven't stopped yet, bringing you the best red-carpet looks, trends, and polls from the People's Choice and Critics' Choice Awards (and we're only getting started — the Golden Globes are in just a few hours!). Off the red carpet, we wished a very happy birthday to your 2012 breakout style star Nina Dobrev and the ever-chic Kate Middleton. Not to mention, we also interviewed Lanvin's Alber Elbaz, who gave us a hint about what styles we can expect at future award shows. Cap it all off with our signature shopping stories, the release of Jason Wu's new line, Miss Wu, and our picks for which Oscar-nominated style stars to keep an eye on, and it's been a busy, award-filled week!
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Playing the Regional Reports
We received several economic reports Monday for not only the U.S. but also a number of other countries and regions, including the eurozone, China, India, Brazil and Vietnam. It's a virtual food court of data from the Institute for Supply Management, HSBC and Markit Economics. Sifting through it confirms some things, raises some questions and points to a rebound.
According to Markit's Eurozone Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index reading for November, the current downturn in the region continued for its 16th month. While the rate of the decline eased in November, the index figure for the month fell to 46.2, well below the expansion/contraction line of 50. Manufacturing production contracted for the ninth consecutive month and new export orders declined for the 17th consecutive month. In other words, not much good is going on in the eurozone and it seems the current recession is likely to last for at least a little longer. ...448 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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There are plenty of devices streaming music via AirPlay. If you aren't willing to part with your non-AirPlay component, Bicom wants to add the capability via its playGo AP1.
The playGo AP1 is an AirPlay-enabled receiver that can stream music from any iOS device to your favorite speaker system. Users don't need AirPlay-enabled speakers or a receiver; the AP1 does all of the work — using your WiFi or Ethernet, of course. No apps are required.
Bicom says that the device support lossless audio, meaning you should be able to stream audiophile-quality music. Other features on the playGo AP1 include DLNA audio streaming and a USB port.
"We are absolutely thrilled with the playGo AP1 results. We love the ability to walk into our homes with our iPhone and effortlessly continue listening to the same song on our home stereo that had just been on our headphones," said Ekin Binal, lead product designer of playGo. "The fact that we do not lose sound clarity is also something that we appreciate."
Now, here comes the rub. To get the playGo AP1, you're going to have to help fund the product through Kickstarter. The company hopes to raise $150,000 by July 5, 2012, to help cushion some of the production costs and keep the overall price down.
If you want to get in on the ground floor, the company is offering a $199 early bird price, with plans to sell it $275 at retail. In the meantime, get a little peek at the playGo AP1 in the video below.


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For ConocoPhillips, Stand at the Ready
On a technical basis, I like ConocoPhillips (COP) -- and this is partly due to its general bullish pattern of higher highs and lows, as well as the fact that the stock is above its 200-day and 50-day simple moving averages. In addition, I'm seeing a Fibonacci price-cluster setup that includes multiple symmetry projections.
For those of you who are not yet familiar with "symmetry," my definition -- as it relates to the markets -- is similarity or equality when comparing price swings in the same direction. This is also known as a "measured move."...278 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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Nike MAG Back to the Future Shoe Press Pictures
More Pics of the Nike MAG "Marty McFly Shoe"
More Pics of the Nike MAG "Marty McFly Shoe"
The Nike MAGs went on sale via Ebay yesterday, and since there are only 1,500 pairs of Back to the Future-inspired shoes being auctioned off for charity, most of us will have to do with just looking longingly at photos of the futuristic kicks. Good thing there are more press photos to drool over! Check out some more close-ups in the gallery.
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Topic: How I miss you, my darling Anthony
Four years have gone by since you left me to struggle in this sad and lonely world without you. I don't think I'm getting much better at this struggle and I imagine that it will always be thus. I just get more used to this hollow feeling at the centre of my world.
In the last few days I have tried to remember some of the many happy times we spent together, instead of focusing on those terrible last days which I now find too unbearable to recall. Those happy times seem to be part of another world, almost like a dream.
This reminds me of a beautiful dream I had a few weeks ago when I was feeling very low. I suddenly saw you from behind and it was really you in every detail - your head, your hair, your back - such detail that I can never recall in real life. I called and called to you and suddenly I realised that you had heard me and I knew you were going to turn round. And you did..... and I saw your beautiful face once again and it was as though you were standing right in front of me. As you turned you looked at me and as you recognised me a wonderful, bright smile lit up your face. No words were spoken but for one brief moment it felt like you had come back to me and for that brief moment I felt a glimmer of happiness and it comforted me in the days and weeks that followed.
I miss you so much, darling, please try to find your way into my dreams again!
With all my love forever,
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so my thoughts, when thou are gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
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The Clippers owed the Golden State Warriors one from the other night.
Actually, they owed them two if you went back to Nov. 3.
The Clippers were no-shows to both games, but they got it right in their third try, hammering the Warriors from start to finish of a 115-89 blowout Saturday night at Staples Center.
They got mad, then got even by delivering a payback for two of their toughest losses to stomach this season.
"It was a business win for us, a business trip," power forward Blake Griffin said. "This is how we want to win games and we wanted to take care of it early, and that's what we did. We remembered. Wednesday's game was still pretty fresh in our minds."
Was it personal?
"No, no," point guard Chris Paul insisted.
The Clippers won their second in a row after losses last week to the Warriors in Oakland and the Nuggets in Denver ended their franchise-record 17-game winning streak. They also completed a grueling stretch of four games in five nights with a split.
What's more, the Clippers extended their home-court winning streak to 12 straight games, a franchise record they shared for one night with the 1978-79 San Diego Clippers.
They'll try to make it 13 in a row when they host the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday.
Griffin scored 14 points on 6-for-7 shooting in the first quarter, leading the Clippers to a commanding 35-12 lead by the end of the period. The Clippers shot a scalding 65.2 percent (15 of 23) and limited the Warriors to 18.2 percent shooting (4 of 22).
The rest of the game was simply exercise.
"You just want to come out and make a statement," backup forward Matt Barnes said. "They blew us out when they were at home (Wednesday) and got us earlier here, so the most important thing was to get a win. We want to play that way every night."
Paul scored a team-leading 27 points on 10-for-12 shooting and added nine assists for the Clippers (27-8). Griffin added 20 points on 8-for-12 shooting, plus five rebounds and seven assists and Eric Bledsoe scored 17 points on 8-for-13 shooting in a reserve role.
Klay Thompson scored 14 points for the Warriors (22-11), who trail the Clippers by four games.
Golden State coach Mark Jackson had enough of the schoolyard beatdown, glaring at the Clippers' bench after calling a timeout after Paul's lob pass from midcourt to DeAndre Jordan made it 94-56 with 4 minutes, 27 seconds left in the third quarter.
"They played like they wanted to send a message," Jackson said. "Give them credit."
Of glaring at the Clippers, Jackson said: "What you've got to do is let it soak in and remember it. That's all. Mark it down with permanent ink and we'll see. Nothing upset me. They earned the right to celebrate. It was just a good old-fashioned heavyweight championship stare-down."
Clippers coach Vinny Del Negro yanked his starters from the floor not long after Jackson's stare-down, turning the game over to his backups. Since their bench is one of the league's best, there was little drop-off in the Clippers' efficiency.
One night after building a 19-point lead and then barely hanging on to defeat the Lakers in the latest installment of the Hallway Series, the Pacific Division-leading Clippers were off and running again Saturday against the second-place Warriors.
Griffin appeared to be on a mission from the opening minutes. He dunked a flawless lob pass from Paul to give the Clippers a 77-47 lead in the opening minutes of the third quarter and then watched Paul swish a 3-pointer from the wing to make it 80-47 with 8:46 remaining in the quarter.
At times, it was difficult to remember which team played an emotional roller-coaster of a game against its biggest rival only 24 hours earlier and which team spent the previous two nights relaxing and recreating in Los Angeles in preparation for Saturday's game.
After a few minutes of indecision and sloppy play, the Clippers found their confidence and their rhythm and the Warriors looked like they never knew what hit them. The Warriors couldn't score and also couldn't keep the Clippers from scoring, a bad combination.
The Clippers led by as many as 39 points in the second half.
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I'll give 'em..
I'll give 'em $50 for it.
Oracle is killing Sun.com, the online home of Sun Microsystems and one of the oldest dot-com domain names. An entry on the Oracle's OTN Garage says that sun.com will be decommissioned on June 1. The closure comes after Sun's new owner, Oracle, moved most of the content on BigAdmin, OpenSolaris.com, and some sections of Sun …
I'll give 'em $50 for it.
If it's no longer being used I assume they are going to put it back in the pot - how much I wonder?
that domain name is older than me.....
Now you're making me feel really old :(
Thanks for the reminder of how old I am.
I hate you. I really do.
It's older than Megan Fox as well.
Surprising (to me) to see how many of those oldest name are still around. (intel, hp, ibm, amd to name a few). dec.com redirects to hp.com now..
Every web page, every HTML documentation page that points to some bit of the Java API, is now broken. Nice
Find any link on Google to docs.sun.com? Follow it, and you'll end up at some Oracle catch-all page, rather than the information you wanted, with no obvious way to find the new link (if Oracle even bothered to retain the information, that is.)
dec.com is vaguely still in use by HP.
Octopus.com is up for sale, auctioning having reached almost 50,000 dollars before the auction was suspended a couple of weeks ago because someone started a domain ownership dispute with ICANN.
Mentat.com is just not there, looks like it's owned by someone that's most likely waiting for a cash-in. That's the tragedy with most of the decent single-word domains in the world, some 'investor' (I use that word layered with the most sarcastic venom I possibly can) has usually bought them up, slapped a cheapass portal and some ads on them and a big banner "domain for sale". So now nobody can use them. Bastards.
They just have to dig a little deeper in their pocket for 'em. Hey-ho. First-come-first-served.
B'sides, you didn't really think they'd sit unallocated for long before some Joe Normal just happened to trip over 'em, did you?
For the day the Sun.com died?
Anyone noticed the fork "MariaDB"?
It's a community-driven fork of MySQL started by a group of users who were concerned about MySQL's well-being since Oracle now owns it.
The beauty of open source, if a company takes over the code base, and you don't like the direction they're taking the project, you're free to fork it and go it alone.
@Stuart Longland:
Or by the sound of things, fork the code and leave Oracle to go it alone.
Or by the *sound* of things, just... fork Oracle and go it alone.
To keep a domain registration costs under $20 per year so why kill the domain - just have a redirect to the Oracle home page. (Unless they are thinking of selling the domain name to the Sun newspaper (a low end rag in the UK).)
They've already done that - www.sun.com redirects to www.oracle.com/us/sun/index.html.
but is that Aussie Rupert, owner of said, red top rag lower than Larry?
Probably Oracle's desire to totally eliminate any traces of the-company-formerly-known-as-Sun from everything that is under their control. This is what usually happens when a company gets taken over, the management would probably say "to build loyalty". The small outfit that I joined just before it was taken over by Sun had to quickly eliminate all traces of its former name, by order from the top. But their former domain name is now registered to myself - it's not valuable, but just good to keep for sentimental reasons.
sun.com has been such a contstant. It's been my "test the connection" URL for 15 years.
I bet Oracle will keep the sun.com domain registered to them. They wouldn't want someone to buy it and use it for anything, they seem intent on completely wiping the Sun name from history.
I noticed "java.sun.com" started re-directing to an Oracle URL some time ago.
Many years ago there was a lovely supercomputer company called Thinking Machines. Sadly, along with most of the other supercomputer startups of the time, they didn't survive. But as they failed their assets were sold off. Sun got most of the hardware expertise, plus the compilers, some of which surfaced in a limited manner. The service division was sold off, and the last functioning component, which was the data mining software operation, still called Thinking Machines, was bought by Oracle. So curiously Oracle now owns essentially all of the old Thinking Machines.
Thinking Machines had domain names, tmc.com, thinkingmachines.com, and think.com. Oracle kept the last of these. It is now their K-12 education site. Nary a trace of the once glorious supercomputer company that made arguably the sexiest machines on the planet.
I always got a smile out of thinking how much incoming sun.com traffic was from proper UK geezers wanting to check out gorgeous Courtney from Croydon (34-26-32) and her in-depth knowledge of large-scale symmetric multiprocessing on SPARC...
Is it time to have historic URL listings, like the UK has for old buildings? That way, Oracle would have had to get the conservation officer in before they could change anything on the Sun website.
The internet wayback machine is housed on the Sun campus.
Which one, the Menlo Park one that Oracle have just sold to Facebook? Or Santa Clara?
Don't people get sentimental over the funniest little things...?
I include myself very much in the above ;-)
...doing buying a hardware and operating system company anyway?
Surely Sun/Solaris had more value as an independant company, rather than being aquired and then brand-obliterated by the fuktards at Oracle?
Actually I don't think Sun had much value, which is why they are no more, but I really don't know what Oracle are up to. They appear to have either cancelled or lost most of the products. They are clearly hell-bent on removing the brands from public view.
That leaves the workforce, I suppose. Presumably they thought that there were a lot of good engineers being wasted on daft ideas and that they could retain enough of them to make the whole exercise worthwhile just as a massive headhunting expedition.
'Nuff said.
Open source databases being openly guided/funded/staffed by another Fortune 500 corporation sounded like a loose end needing to be fixed.
When I worked there before sun, before assimilation,
This had to be the coolest domain attached to my 3 letter email
address. "im sorry Dave......"
I haven't checked, but I'm pretty sure there's a lot of XML that references sun.com. Oracle can expect browser bookmarks and the like to be changed eventually, but the XML will probably live forever.
Very sad to see Sun go.. It has been a great company, too bad it got taken over by a DBMS company.
Is the one for me - there is nothing that would be more exciting to me(1)(2) than to actually produce robots under that company name. About came unglued when 3com almost sold it to China. Sun is right up there.... spent more time looking through docs than I care to remember during my pizza box/Solaris x86 phase lol. It's hateful to see some of these old school brands fading away and crapola like Facebook/Twitter/Jobs rule the roost.
(1) The passenger transport I was on experienced drive trouble after hitting some NASA space trash just outside this system. It exploded and I was shoved into an iescapepod (as much as Steve would like it, his patents are not enforceable off this planet so ha HA!). I was found by my step-parents and ever since then I await rescue.....
(2). Yes I can be a total geek, however I have sex regularly so it hasn't been that big of a deal since I was a teenager. Helps if you marry a geek lol.
A lot of copies of Oracle were running on Sun hardware.
When Sun goes away a lot of IBM, HP, etc salesmen are going to be visiting those server customers and they are also going to be plugging a switch to DB2, SqlServer, etc as part of the deal.
Oracle didn't fancy that
In '97 I was sent a cease and desist from Sun for using the suffix "sunsite" in a community domain name.
I find a sick satisfaction that I personally outlived the corporate entity that threatened to destroy me.
What was really funny is that the contact was made via snail mail :)
OTN is a terrible place to find anything you need. Oracle = fail.
We have given up and are migrating about 80% of our Sun infrastructure at work (about 60 servers) to RHEL on Dell and the rest will move to it once existing maintenance contracts are up.
The RHEL/Dell combo s about 40% of the price and has the features we need, so goodbye and good riddance to ORACLE.
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As an Oracle DBA, having had to suffer the mess that is Oracle support these days, I still find it amusing to listen to the Solaris admins in my shop bitch about the mess that Sun support is now, since Oracle took it over!
Sad to see sun.com go, like almost all Unix geeks when you need to check a connection out to "da toobs" banging in "ping www.sun.com" was always at my fingertips!
That the acquisitions aren't over. I'll bet that some Seattle based software company might be interested in the database company that acquired/obliterated a decent OS/hardware company...
Does anyone have some kind of explanation for Oracle's hate of Sun brand? I mean it really is at pathological levels now.
The breaking of documentation etc. too. People at Oracle, World's second largest sw company can't do some kind of "clever redirect" while BBC News site does it all the time.
... screams from Java developers and server administrators when there XML parsers attempt to locate DTD and schema definitions that for some reason don't have system-local resolution.
In other words: I don't think that Oracle will close off the entire domain, just the usual user-visible parts.
I always thought the Sun logo was great - very clever.
No whalesong/boutique nonsense here!
And only *slightly* reminiscent of a swastika too :-)
Anyone know what the earliest continously registered domain name is?
dec.com: 1985
sun.com: 1986
ibm.com: 1986
apple.com: 1987
microsoft.com: 1991
Interesting one there: Apple always ahead of microsoft....
a little research came up with symbolics.com
domain was continously registered for 25 years before being sold off but
also there are a couple that predate dec.com:
>Anyone know what the earliest continously registered domain name is?
Looks to be BBN - which is now owned by Raytheon though they haven't killed the BBN references.
as if it wasnt painful enough to find relevant support documents allready.
with the move from sunsolve to the oracle support site pretty much every google result that pointed to docs.sun.com became useless since you had to login and search for the damn thing a second time only with an utterly inferior search-engine...
Well... even if you are the worlds third or so richest man, those funky carbon sails on those Americas cup boats don't pay for themselves y'know.


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|Cerebrovascular Accident
|Other: No intervention
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Stroke in Young Fabry Patients (sifap1): Frequency of Fabry Disease in an Unselected Group of Young Stroke Patients: an International, Multicentre Prevalence Study
- Prevalence of Fabry disease in the unselected group of young stroke patients [ Time Frame: baseline ]
- Classification of stroke subtype in patients identified to have Fabry disease acc. to TOAST criteria, modified Rankin scale, Barthel index and MRI criteria. [ Time Frame: baseline ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
|Study Start Date:
|January 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
all adult patients (18 - 55 years of age) with an acute cerebrovascular event of any etiology
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Observational study, only laboratory analysis and diagnostic interventions done; no drug tested
Other Name: only 1 observational group
Detailed Description:
To determine the frequency of Fabry disease in an unselected group of young patients (18 - 55 years of age) with acute cerebrovascular event (CVE)
Fabry disease and stroke:
Rolfs and co-workers have shown a high frequency of Fabry disease in a cohort of patients with cryptogenic stroke (4 % [28/721]) aged between 18 and 55 years. This corresponds to about 1.2 % in the general population of young stroke patients. Therefore the authors stated that Fabry disease must be considered in all cases of unexplained stroke in young patients, especially in cases with the combination of infarction in the vertebrobasilar artery system and proteinuria.
Cryptogenic strokes are cerebrovascular lesions of unknown origin. Clinical and laboratory data show that Fabry disease is itself a risk factor for accelerated atherosclerosis and cardiac and renal disease, which can lead to emboli and hypertension. The pilot-phase started April 2007; the official study started January 2008.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Adult patients (18 - 55 years of age) with an acute cerebrovascular event of any etiology defined as patients having an acute ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack less than 3 months before enrollment into the study
- MRI-scan evidence of associated corresponding brain infarction or hemorrhage, regardless of the duration of symptoms. Alternatively also patients with no signs of stroke in the MRI can be included if a stroke-experienced neurologist has done the initial diagnosis as ischemic stroke, transient ischemic attack or hemorrhage.
- Detailed MRI documentation at admission to entry to the study
- Diagnostic procedures for CVE according to the EUSI recommendations
- Written informed consent from patient or legal representative according to local regulations
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients being younger than 18 years or older than 55 years of age.
- Acute ischemic stroke or transient ischemic attack longer than 3 months before enrolment into the study
- Diagnosis of the CVE within the last 3 months has been done by a non-neurologist if there is no MRI-scan evidence of associated brain infarction or hemorrhage
- No detailed MRI documentation at admission to entry to the study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00414583
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|Principal Investigator:
|Arndt Rolfs, Prof., MD
|University of Rostock, Department of Neurology
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|December 19, 2006
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|May 18, 2016
Keywords provided by Prof. Dr. Arndt Rolfs, University of Rostock:
Cerebrovascular Accident
Cerebrovascular Accident, Acute
CVA (Cerebrovascular Accident)
Cerebral Stroke
Stroke, Acute
Cerebrovascular Stroke
Fabry Disease
Anderson-Fabry Disease
Fabry's Disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Fabry Disease
Cerebrovascular Disorders
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Lysosomal Storage Diseases, Nervous System
Brain Diseases, Metabolic, Inborn
Brain Diseases, Metabolic
Cerebral Small Vessel Diseases
Genetic Diseases, X-Linked
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Lysosomal Storage Diseases
Metabolic Diseases
Lipid Metabolism Disorders
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Lipid Metabolism, Inborn Errors
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International economic competitiveness was a major focus of President Obama's State of the Union address on Jan. 25. The topic was timely, as the CIC and the Center for Advanced Study in International Competitiveness (CASIC) prepare for its research summit in early April.
"Our goal is to generate breakthrough knowledge through interdisciplinary research and experimentation that will transform what we currently do and lead to greater progress and global prosperity," said Joseph Cheng, CASIC's principal investigator and a Professor and Director of the Illinois Global Business Initiative at the University of Illinois.
For its first major event, CASIC has convened top researchers, academics, business leaders and policy makers for a spring summit in the Chicago area. "Competing in the New Innovation-Driven Global Economy: Interdisciplinary Research, Experimentation, and Breakthrough Knowledge" will take place on April 1-2 in Oak Brook, Ill.
CASIC is a major collaborative research effort among seven CIC universities as founding partners: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, and Purdue University. Its mission is to provide research leadership in the study of complex international competitiveness issues that have both scholarly and practical significance, particularly those with public-policy implications.
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Taylor hits for cycle for Class A Brevard County
Outfielder Tyrone Taylor, the Brewers' No. 2 prospect, hit for the cycle Tuesday and Class A Advanced Brevard County defeated Clearwater, 20-0. It was the first cycle in the franchise's 21-year history.
Taylor needed just four at-bats to achieve the feat. He singled in the first inning, tripled in the third, doubled in the fourth and homered in the fifth. He finished the game 5-for-5 with five runs and a walk.
Taylor began the season sluggishly and entered this week hitting .198. But he has broken out in two games against Clearwater. He collected three hits (including a home run) Monday and is now hitting .263 with a .495 slugging percentage. He has three home runs and 11 doubles in 24 games this season.
Aiding Taylor in the Manatees' offensive outburst were fellow Top 20 prospects in shortstop Orlando Arcia and outfielders Victor Roache and Michael Reed. Arcia (No. 4) went 4-for-7 with two doubles and scored three runs. Roache (No. 7) added two hits and a stolen base, while Reed (No. 15) hit his first home run of the season and stole his 13th base.
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MILWAUKEE -- Brewers fans have been keeping a close eye on Triple-A righty Jimmy Nelson, who has compiled a 10-2 record and 1.46 ERA in 111 innings in Nashville this season. On Tuesday, Ron Roenicke confirmed that the team's front office has, too.
News of Nelson's performances have spread across social media with each start, especially recently as Nelson has had three straight scoreless performances of more than six innings. On Monday night, he went seven scoreless innings against Memphis, allowing four hits.
Roenicke was coy when asked about Nelson on Tuesday but confirmed that the team had had "a lot of dicussions" about promoting the prospect.
"Yeah, he's doing great," Roenicke said. "He's doing everything he can to make us want to bring him up, and that's why [there are] all the discussions."
Part of the delay is attributable to Milwaukee not having any glaring weaknesses in its current rotation, though there was a lot of buzz about Nelson replacing the struggling Marco Estrada last month. Estrada has been better in his last few starts, though he lasted only five innings against Philadelphia on Monday.
Nelson did make a spot start for Milwaukee this season, allowing five hits over 5 2/3 scoreless innings. He made four appearances, but only one start, for the Brewers last September.
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Farmers are notorious for not believing that they can learn from farmers in another state, but the spread of herbicide-resistant weeds is changing that mind set.
Turk Regennitter, general sales manager for Merschman Seeds with headquarters in West Point, Iowa, said the seed company has had a "large presence in the bootheel of Missouri where serious weed resistance has occurred. We watched the pigweed resistance grow from its infancy in that area to being a major problem in many states."
"We felt it was our obligation to our customers (in seven states) to forewarn them about what was coming and the changes that would be needed to be made to preserve any technology," Regennitter said.
When the seed company representatives started talking to farmers outside the bootheel, the reaction was "those guys down south don't really know how to farm like we do up here." But the reality is that farmers north and south have to grow soybeans using similar methods and products to counter glyphosate-resistant weeds in soybeans, the Merschman representatives have countered.
The similar control system is for a pre-emergence herbicide followed by a postemergence herbicide when escaped weeds are small, no larger than four inches. In the last couple years, it has become easier for Merschman Seeds to recommend the easiest and preferred answer because they have had an increasing number of LiberyLink soybeans, which allows the use of Liberty herbicide. LibertyLink soybeans are being sold by more than 100 seed brands nationwide, today.
The herbicide sprayed over LibertyLink soybeans will not damage the beans and is proven to kill the wide spectrum of glyphosate-resistant weeds. Regennitter noted that the company sells soybean seed in the maturity ranges of 1.8 to 5.4 with LibertyLink seed available in most of this maturity range.
Timing of a Roundup application was a minor concern until weed resistance started showing up, but any postemergence application, including glyphosate, is now only recommended to kill small weeds. Turk said, "Two-inch tall weeds is what we want our customers spraying."
Alan Hopkins, Bayer CropScience Midsouth area seed technology manager, said, "We strongly encourage growers to target young actively-growing weeds. This will provide the most consistent weed control performance. Achieving maximum weed control and using herbicides with multiple effective modes of action, including residual herbicides, will reduce the risk of weeds becoming resistant to Liberty herbicide."
As Hopkins noted, glyphosate was often applied when weeds were outside the recommended size, and those escaped weeds were part of the start of glyphosate weed resistance. With this in mind, Bayer CropScience wants to assure its seed and herbicide technology system is maintained as effective.
"Early timing is not only great for effective control of weeds, but also making sure that we don't put Liberty herbicide under unnecessary selection pressure by targeting weeds that are too large," he said.
Regennitter said, "I can remember when universities were first talking about chemical weed control as opposed to cultivation. They used the wording of economic threshold to talk about how many weeds could be left in a field. Today, the economic threshold is zero because you cannot have any weeds growing out there because they will eventually be resistant to the herbicides being sprayed. We've seen it happen."
Hopkins added, "Removing all the weeds while they are young and small will prevent competition and prevent the potential for yield loss, too.
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Saab's recent release of its Android-based IQon in-car infotainment system at the Geneva Motor Show has made a significant splash in the car computing community. Not only does it feature in-vehicle navigation and entertainment functions that we see in other systems, but Saab claims that it is the first truly application-based in-vehicle infotainment system. It boasts an impressive network of sensors that can track variables like vehicle speed and interior/exterior temperature, incorporating this information into a positively customizable driving experience. In addition, Saab is making all information available to third party developers, who can develop and sell applications on Saab's app store. Welcome to the world of what Saab is calling digital and automotive harmony—the interactive focal point for you, your Saab, and your life. See the teaser video and original post on engadget.
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How Ormsby got off lightly
Leeza Ormsby has written the playbook for Antipodeans on how to get off a drug charge lightly in the Balinese court system.
The New Zealand-born Sydneysider will, as a result of her 10-month sentence, be home by the end of the year, avoiding the decades-long nightmares faced by Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine.
The first thing Ormsby did right when she was arrested on February 12 was shut her mouth. She was caught about to enter a villa containing large portions of MDMA and hashish, bagged up and apparently ready to sell, as well as death penalty-worthy drug paraphernalia (digital scales). In her bag was a half-smoked hashish joint which seemed to link her to the drugs.
In her favour, there was no direct link between the two sets of drugs (at least none that the Balinese police investigation uncovered) and Ormsby had not even rented the Askara Villa, though she did have the key in her possession.
Her second wise move was to hire local lawyer Ary Soenardi. He has a good reputation from a drug defendant's points of view.
Last year he defended British-born Bali resident Julian Ponder over a massive haul of cocaine that was stopped at Bali airport. The courier caught with the drugs co-operated with police in a controlled delivery that led to Ponder's door, and alleged he was the mastermind.
But Soenardi's deep knowledge of the arts (some of them presumably dark) of the Indonesian judicial system got Ponder a mere six-year sentence for possession of a different batch of cocaine in his house. The hapless courier – British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford – was sentenced to the firing squad.
For Ormsby, Soenardy was on the scene on the very first night – he'd been contacted by her ex-boyfriend, Sydney DJ Marco ''Marcotix'' Mazzucco. Mazzucco was also questioned about the drugs but walked free that night.
Soenardi's advice to the petrified 37-year-old Ormsby would have been, once again: ''Shut up.''
No tell-all, Corby-style interviews with Channel Nine, protesting her innocence and questioning the Indonesian justice system, no incidental comments, paid or unpaid, to journalists of any kind.
To police, though, he would have told her to repeat one mantra: the joint in her bag was hers, the other drugs were not. Be polite and co-operative.
By the time it reached court, Ormsby's case was that she had been given the joint by a man she did not remember on the beach the day before, and she profoundly regretted smoking half of it with him. She knew nothing whatsoever about the other drugs and could not help police with that part of their investigation. She had learned a ''valuable life lesson''.
In the Indonesian system, being a drug addict is a mitigating factor. Ormsby outlined her drug history and pleaded addiction.
Being polite and apologetic is also often cited by judges as they hand out light sentences. She was polite and apologetic.
Her plea (and conviction) on the lighter charge, the sentence demand by prosecutors of just one year and three months' jail – and the ultimate sentence of just 10 months – is testament to the success of her approach.
Any Aussie or New Zealander stupid enough to be caught trafficking, consuming or distributing drugs in Bali in future would be well advised to study it.
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First post. Great forum. The technique threads have helped me quite a bit so far.
I started playing last spring, got about 4 months in before the winter break. Been playing again for about a month now, and I'm struggling to improve. Seems like everything I correct breaks something else in my form (plus lots of stuff just stays broken even when I try to fix it).
I finally took a camera out to a soccer field and made some drives to get an idea of where i'm going wrong, and WOW was it eye-opening. I'm able to point out a few things on my own by watching these, but I want to know what kind of tips you guys have.
All these drives went 200'-250', with one or two of them making 275'.
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After watching these, I went out and played a round and got one more video, but I have yet to upload it. I feel like it is an improvement over what you see here (got up to 300' a couple times), so I'll have that up later this evening. Thanks in advance, and again this is an excellent forum!