text: Children's Health Discovery Health Measles Medicinal Treatment Medicine Risk Science Vaccinations Vaccine Half of Measles Patients Unvaccinated, Most Willingly By: Discovery Staff Posted: Mar 18, 2016 Image by Wikipedia Half of those who contracted measles over the past 15 years were unvaccinated, and in most of those cases the patient (or their legal guardian) refused the vaccination, reports a new study published online earlier this week by the "Journal of the American Medical Association." The research team, led by Dr. Saad B. Omer, reviewed published reports of measles outbreaks in the United States since 2000 — the year the disease was eliminated from the population — as well as all outbreaks of whooping cough (pertussis) since 1997, when that disease was at its lowest point. The goal was to evaluate the association between vaccination and the epidemiology of these diseases, both of which are preventable. The authors analyzed a study of national measles data reported to the CDC from 1985 through 1992, which found "unvaccinated children who had a vaccine exemption were 35 times more likely to contract measles compared with vaccinated children. The epidemic curve of measles determined that the resurgence started a year earlier among children with exemptions compared with vaccinated children." Worst Health Crises of 2015 In much of the world people are unvaccinated for the simple reason that vaccines are unavailable or cost too much money. That was not the case in the United States. In fact most of those who contracted measles were offered free or inexpensive vaccines, but they (or their parents) refused them despite having no medical reason to do so. Although vaccine prices have risen in recent years, insurance companies have been required under the Affordable Care Act to completely cover childhood vaccinations since 2011. Reasons the researchers found for vaccine refusal included personal belief exemptions; specific cultural norms (for example in Amish communities); and religious exemptions. Less often a vaccine could not be provided because of medical or logistical reasons, including that the patient was sick at the time the medication was to be given, or the patient could not physically make it to his or her appointment. Vaccination Could Save Your Next Vacation Some parents refuse to have their children vaccinated because of false health concerns raised by anti-vaccination activists such as actress Jenny McCarthy, who in turn based their concerns largely on a since-retracted study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield which seemed to show a link between vaccines and the onset of autism in young children. Following an investigation Dr. Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of BMJ (formerly known as the British Medical Journal) stated that Wakefield's study could not be replicated and "was based not on bad science but on a deliberate fraud." Wakefield was stripped of his medical license and recently appeared as a guest speaker on a cruise focusing on conspiracy theories, presenting alongside experts on crop circles, UFOs and government mind control theories. There are small but real risks involved in vaccinations, as there are with any drug or medical procedure. They are not hidden, and information on them easily available from doctors or online. The risks of harmful side effects are far less dangerous than the risks of catching the disease. Measles is a highly contagious viral disease that can be very serious — and in some cases fatal — and those who refuse vaccines jeopardize not only their own health but also that of others.


text: Master's Thesis from the year 2003 in the subject Business economics - Economic Policy, University of Manchester (Manchester School of Management), 103 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The importance of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for international free trade today has enticed China to join the WTO in December 2001. The significance of WTO membership for China cannot be underestimated, inevitably speeding up much-needed economic reform in the country. The gradual transition from a planned- to a market-economy is expected to continue in the future. The severity of the impacts for the economy will depend on how successful China is in providing policies that will assist the nation in the major adjustment problems that it faces in the future. The expected, actual, and needed implications for China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) resulting from WTO membership will be investigated in detail; in the process, the significance of SOEs to the Chinese economy will be highlighted. SOEs are mostly ill- prepared for a post-WTO China, and the dismal state of these companies has already led to the decline of market share in the past decade. For the future, the retreat of the state is likely to continue. The main implications for SOEs from China's WTO membership are seen in the areas of competitiveness, corporate governance, privatisation, mergers and acquisitions, property rights, unemployment, and attracting and retaining qualified personnel. This dissertation offers one of the most detailed insights into the challenges facing China's SOEs and the implications of China's WTO membership for these companies, while also highlighting the areas that require future attention. The understanding of the role and meaning of SOEs for the Chinese economy is of immense importance for foreign investors wanting to invest in the country, already cooperating with China's SOEs, or looking into the possibility of such.

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text: Aliaga Petkim v Galatasaray live streaming Live Streaming Sport Staff in Basketball 29 Apr 2012 0 share Share Tweet Email Share RedditJaka Lakovic (credit:livestreamingsport.com) Aliaga Petkim and Galatasaray conclude campaign in Turkish League regular season.Watch and bet on live streaming of Aliaga Petkim v Galatasaray at bet365 > live streaming > basketball from 13:00 GMT on SundayThe final round of the Turkish Basketball League continues today with Aliaga Petkim hosting Galatasaray.Aliaga is currently ranked in seventh place with a 14-15 record. The club is coming off a 77-101 defeat to Banvit BK. American import Ryan Toolson is Aliaga's top player, averaging over 17 points this season. Other scoring options for head coach Burak Biyiktay are Umit Sonkol, Ersin Goerkem, Brian Ovale and Branislav Ratkovica. Galatasaray, meanwhile, leads the table with a 24-5 record, just ahead of Banvit on points difference. They are coming off an 85-81 double overtime victory over Erdemir. Jaka Lakovic is Galatasaray's top gun. He should get support from Americans Jamon Gordon and Preston Shumpert. In their first meeting this season, Galatasaray blasted Aliaga 90-72.


text: HasChorus: A set of Haskell (http://haskell.org/) modules written on top of Haskore (http://haskell.org/haskore/) to make it easier to sequence simple, repetitive music. HasChorus is available via: http://meltin.net/hacks/haskell/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HasChorus *has* a bunch of useful modules: HasChords.lhs: Build (diatonic) chords from scales and scale degrees. HasDrums.lhs: Sequence drums in a similar manner to a drum machine. HasEasyMusic.lhs: Allow simple specification of simple music sequences. HasGroove.lhs: Modify Haskore performances via normal distributions. HasPatterns.lhs: Sequence patterns by playing chords in different ways. HasScales.lhs: Build scales and pick notes by scale degree. HasSounds.lhs: Some boring ways of playing some instruments. HaskoreExtras.lhs: Some useful functions that aren't in Haskore. BubbleSort.lhs: An implementation of bubble sort. Used by HasGroove.lhs. Normal.lhs: Generate normal distributions. Used by HasGroove.lhs. TwelveBar.lhs: An example song. Many of the modules can be used without requiring all of the others. The dependencies look something like: HasEasyMusic -> HasChords -> HasScales HasDrums -> HaskoreExtras HasSounds -> HasPatterns HasGroove -> BubbleSort, Normal TwelveBar -> HasChorus -> *EVERTHING ELSE* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HasChorus has been tested under: * Hugs: Currently I use Hugs 98, February 2000. I use -h1000000 so that HasGroove doesn't melt down... :-) * GHC: 4.08 (previously under 4.07) under x86 Linux. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I use HasChorus to sequence up simple backing tracks for my own compositions. Enjoy... peace & happiness, martin Martin Schwenke <email@example.com> p.s. Several people who have expressed interest in this project during the last few years have received this announcement via a BCC. They haven't been secretly subscribed to the Haskell mailing list. :-)


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Lending Club Passes $200 Million in Personal Loan Originations
Milestone reached just nine months after $100 million mark; most recent monthly loan origination exceeds $13 million
Redwood City, CA — January 19, 2010 — Lending Club ( http://www.lendingclub.com ), the world's leading platform for investing in and obtaining personal loans, today announced that it has passed $200 million in total loan originations.
Lending Club reached $100 million in loan originations in March 2010, after 33 months of business, and has doubled that total just nine months later, with the most recent monthly loan originations exceeding $13 million. Since 2007, investors on the platform have received more than $16 million in interest and borrowers have saved as much as $5 million in annual interest on the more than 21,000 loans issued.
"We had a huge year in 2010, setting new loan origination records quarter after quarter," said Lending Club CEO Renaud Laplanche. "Borrowers and investors alike have recognized the value of our platform, and we look forward to continued growth in borrowers and investors."
More than 63 percent of Lending Club personal loans have been obtained by consumers seeking to get rid of higher interest debt or to pay off their high-interest credit cards. Rates on unsecured loans through Lending Club start at 6.78 percent APR for creditworthy borrowers, well below the average starting APR of 13.15 percent offered on credit cards to similar borrowers. This difference can mean hundreds or possibly even thousands of dollars in savings as people pay off their debt. Â Personal loans through Lending Club are available in amounts of up to $25,000 with flexible terms and can also be used to fund major purchases including vacations, home improvements, small business expansions, and weddings.
Since inception in 2007, Lending Club Notes have delivered a net annualized return of 9.68 percent. Lending Club investors can fund fractions of hundreds of individual loans to build a portfolio of notes. As borrowers pay back loans each month, investors collect principal and interest, net of Lending Club's service fee that can be reinvested in new notes.
"Lending Club represents a step forward in connecting the source of capital to the use of capital, and it's clear that the concept has resonated," said Laplanche. "The financial turmoil of the past few years has driven Americans to seek new alternatives for their borrowing and investing needs, and our simple, transparent process has proven to be a winning formula for everyone involved."
About Lending Club
Lending Club is an online platform that enables the issuance of and investment in consumer loans. Lending Club brings together investors and creditworthy borrowers -- eliminating the cost and complexity of traditional bank lending -- to offer borrowers better rates and investors better returns. Lending Club was recently recognized as one of the 20 "Breakthrough Ideas for 2009" by Harvard Business Review, has been nominated for "Top 100 Innovators" by The Industry Standard, is on the JMP Hot 100 list, and the Always On Global 250 Top Private Companies list. In addition Lending Club won the Webby Award in 2008 for the "Best Banking Website". Founded in 2006, Lending Club is headquartered in Redwood City, CA. More information is available at: http://www.lendingclub.com .
Additional information about Lending Club is available in the prospectus for Lending Club's notes, which can be obtained on Lending Club's website at https://www.lendingclub.com/info/prospectus.action
Total interest paid to investors calculated as of January 18, 2011.
Based on Lending Club two week average interest rate of 11.05% for 36 month loans as of January 12, 2011 vs. 13.67% for "all accounts assessed interest" as reported in the FRB G19 release of January 7, 2011 on all loans issued since inception.
Rate based upon A1 (best) credit grade. APRs range from 6.78% to 25.41%. All loans are issued by WebBank, an FDIC insured Utah chartered industrial bank located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Borrowers must be US citizens or permanent residents and at least 18 years old. Valid bank account and social security numbers are required. All loans are subject to credit approval . Loans are not issued in IA, ID, IN, ME, MS, ND, NE, or TN.
Source for average starting credit card APR for consumers with "Good to Excellent Credit" calculated using headline rates on Credit Cards offered to borrowers with "Good to Excellent Credit" at www.creditcards.com as of 9/30/10.
NAR calculated as of January 18, 2011, and is based on the return of the entire platform since inception, your returns may vary. Currently only residents of the following states may invest in notes: CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, KY (accredited investors only), LA, ME, MN, MO, MS, MT, NH, NV, NY, RI, SC, SD, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV, or WY.
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Jon Stewart kicked off this week's "Daily Show" by shedding light on some truly odd reactions that some folks had about the passing of Nelson Mandela — including at least one prominent Republican.
Newt Gingrich and Ted Cruz, to their credit, offered sincere notes of gratitude for the South African leader's life work on their respective Facebook pages. What they did not expect, however, were the swift and racist reactions they saw from several of their fans. Example: "This clench-first gorilla [sic] warrior does not deserve respect from informed Americans," one user wrote on Gingrich's Facebook.
Stewart was hardly surprised by the outpouring of bile. "Of course, that's why the Internet was invented," he said. "To say hateful things with greater efficiency, reach and freedom to keep people from finding out how truly disgusting you are in your home. 'I would never say those things, it was Dr. Awesomeballs69!'"
Racist Facebook fans are one thing, but Stewart could not let an actual Republican leader off the hook so easily. Rick Santorum, appearing on "The O'Reilly Factor," somehow equated apartheid, South Africa's former system of segregation that Mandela helped end, to the Affordable Care Act.
"The systemic subjugation of a race of people is different than the establishment of subsidized insurance exchanges," Stewart helpfully explained before channeling his inner Julie Andrews with a "Sound of Music" parody: "Obamacaaare is not apartheeeeeid!"
Check out the clip above to see Stewart lay into the reactions to Mandela's death.
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Jay Z's Tidal has announced that in association with Roc Nation, the music streaming service will be making a $1.5 million donation to various social justice groups and charities, including Black Lives Matter. The company made the announcement on Friday, February 5, in honor of what would've been Trayvon Martin's 21st birthday.
The funds being used for the donation come from the profits of the first Tidal X: 1020 show that was held in Brooklyn, New York, last fall. The sold-out charity concert featured performances from Jay Z, Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Usher, Lil Wayne, Nick Jonas and more. While the concert was initially billed as a celebration of Tidal hitting the 1 million subscriber mark, the streaming service describes the event as "the first of a series of philanthropic music events curated by Tidal in order to raise awareness, funds, conscious engagement and dynamic action for transformative and positive social impact."
The New World Foundation, an organization that funds various civil rights and social movements, will be tasked with administering Tidal's grant to Black Lives Matter and the other chosen activist groups and charities. Donations will be distributed to the recipients this month.
This act of charity marks the biggest commitment to social justice that Tidal has made to date. You can see a list featuring some of the recipients of Tidal's charitable donation below.
Opportunity Agenda
Hands Up United
Community Coalition (California)
Dream Defenders (Florida)
Black Youth Project (Illinois)
The Baltimore Justice Fund
Ohio Students Association/Organizing Collaborative
Empowerment Development Corporation (Maryland)
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Lose Weight By Eating Chili
I've always said that spicy type foods can help you lose weight. I LOVE chili! If I could, I'd eat chili everyday…of course Colleen wouldn't appreciate each morning! HA! So if you want to check out the other ways to lose some weight…
You don't have to go on a diet to shed unwanted flab — each of these tricks will take off one pound in less than a month:
- Eat chili — People who gobble spicy foods are thinner than those who prefer a bland diet. Adding just half a chopped jalapeno pepper to your dinner will literally burn the fat off your body.
- Chew gum — Research done at the Mayo Clinic proves that chewing sugar-free gum will take off a pound a month.
- Dance — Boogie for half an hour four times a week and that unwanted poundage will just shuffle off out the door.
- Clean your house — Household chores – sweeping, making the beds and the rest of the drill – is as effective a weight-loss strategy as hitting the gym for a grueling aerobic workout.
- Feast on protein — Eating 200 calories of protein – the amount contained in a small can of tuna – will jump start your metabolism and take off the pounds.
- Don't eat in front of the TV — A study by the journal Appetite found that people who dine with the tube on consume far more calories than people who don't.


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- Giving a good answer to this question (from the F# perspective) is not really possible. F# provides a number of mechanisms that you can use to mainpulate with types and you would choose one of them depending on the use.
- I can _theoretically_ understand what you mean by "first-class types", but that is a view from a different perspective than the one used in F# - so F# has several concepts that might fit, but no single concept will work in all cases.
- * .NET Reflection (demonstrated by other answers) lets you generate real .NET types that have properties, methods etc. This is used mainly by mocking libraries (for testing) or by compilers of dynamic languages, but it is not needed for normal end-user programming.
- * F# type providers (see [MSDN][1]) let you generate type before compilation of the main program. The types can be used to access databases or other data (XML, CSV, JSON) or external data sources. The [F# Data library][2] should be a good example.
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Milan's Cycle as an Accurate Leading Indicator for the Italian Business Cycle
A coincident business cycle indicator for the Milan area is built on the basis of a monthly industrial survey carried out by Assolombarda, the largest territorial entrepreneurial association in Italy. The indicator is extracted from three time series concerning the production level and the internal and foreign order book as declared by some 250 Assolombarda associates. This indicator is potentially very valuable in itself, being Milan one of the most dynamic economic systems in Italy and Europe, but it becomes much more interesting when compared to the Italian business cycle as extracted form the Italian industrial production index. Indeed, notwithstanding the deep differences in the nature of the data, the indicator for Milan has an extremely high coherence with the Italian cycle and the former leads the latter by approximately 4-5 months. Furthermore there is a direct relation between the amplitude of the cycle and the leading time of the Milan indicator.
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today discussed the disparities in energy production on federal vs. non-federal lands, and looked specifically at the adverse impacts President Obama's policies are having on domestic energy development and job creation. President Obama often touts that overall energy production has increased under his administration, yet data reveal this increase is largely a result of production on state and private lands where the federal government plays little or no role.
"Where production on state and private lands is up, we see the energy industry creating thousands of high-paying jobs and revitalizing local economies. But where most of the oil and gas remains untouched beneath the ground or under the sea floor due to federal access restrictions, the job potential remains largely unrealized. Under one energy policy vision, we see state and local regulations ensuring that energy production is done safely and that public health is protected. In the other, we see one excuse after another for preventing energy production entirely or subjecting it to years of unnecessary delays," said full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI).
U.S. Energy Information Administration Administrator Adam Sieminski testified regarding the agency's recent analysis on the country's oil and gas reserves and production. Recent EIA data show U.S oil production is at its highest levels since 1998, with the vast majority of production occurring on state and private lands. When asked by Chairman Upton about the potential to achieve North American energy independence, Sieminski conceded that "self sufficiency" was possible. Watch here:
State agency officials and private stakeholders testified about the energy renaissance occurring in states like North Dakota and Texas, where private sector investment and new technologies are driving production growth on state and private lands. The witnesses contrasted these states' pro-growth policies with the federal government's regulatory regime that is blocking important opportunities for energy production and job creation in places like Alaska.
Lynn Helms, Director of North Dakota's Department of Mineral Resources, explained the transformative impact energy production is having on the state's overall economy. "Production from the Bakken Development has moved North Dakota from number eight to number two among US states in daily production," said Helms. "Workforce has now exceeded 35,000 new workers and is not expected to peak until 2020 at approximately 65,000 or more than 10 new hires per day."
Federal regulators often cite "multiple use" mandates as the reason for blocking production on federal lands. Helms refuted this excuse, explaining that many North Dakota farms and ranches are used for energy production as well as other activities. Watch here:
Dan Sullivan, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, described the great potential of Alaska's rich energy resources, most of which are currently off-limits due President Obama's polices. "The United States is uniquely positioned to seize the strategic opportunity and benefits that will come from more fully developing our own natural resources. But obstacles remain, the most significant being a regulatory system that is out of balance, resulting in significant delays and costs which ultimately undermine U.S. interests," said Sullivan. "The most dramatic example of federal regulatory delay in Alaska involves Shell Oil Company's attempts to explore for oil in the federal waters off the coast of Alaska. Despite having spent close to $5 billion, including billions of dollars in lease payments to the federal government, and over five years of preparation work, Shell has yet to drill one exploration well in the federal waters off the coast of Alaska."
"The difference between North Dakota and other states has nothing to do with geology and everything to do with policy. The good news is that we can change that policy. I believe that the more we learn, the more we need to allow the North Dakota model to apply in Alaska as well as the rest of the country," said Chairman Whitfield.
Small businesses owner Thomas Clements, Owner of Oilfield CNC Machining, explained the impacts of the president's prohibitive policies for offshore drilling. Last month, President Obama announced a new plan that will block 85 percent of America's offshore areas from production for the next five years. Clements said, "More resources mean more opportunity for people like me to help produce energy domestically. One study found that opening up the offshore areas could create 1.2 million jobs and produce $70 billion in new wages. It isn't just that large companies would hire more people, small business owners like me would have more work and would be able to employ more workers to produce more energy in America."


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It's been a dream season for Dallas Stars centre Mike Ribeiro.
He's loving life in Texas, playing on a winning team, and putting up career numbers.
"I'm not really doing anything different this year; I'm playing with really good players and maybe that's why things have been going so well for me," Ribeiro said yesterday.
"I had a better off-season, better focus on my training than the year before.
"But I'm playing with a lot of confidence, I'm getting a lot of confidence from the coaching staff and the team, which makes me feel comfortable when I'm out there."
Heading into tonight's contest against the Edmonton Oilers, Ribeiro leads the Stars in scoring with 16 goals and 17 assists in 30 games. A year ago he finished with 18 goals.
"He's competing on both sides of the puck this year," said Stars head coach Dave Tippett.
"What competing on both sides of the puck does for him -- he's always been a great offensive player -- is that he's finally realizing the more he has the puck, the better off he is.
"He can either wait for it to come to him or he can go get it. And now he's doing both."
Ribeiro, 27, was an offensive star when the Montreal Canadiens selected him with their second pick - 45th overall - in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft.
Yet despite registering 167 points - which included 67 goals - in his final year of junior, Ribeiro never could duplicate those scoring exploits with the Canadiens.
He spent six seasons in the Canadiens organization with his best year being a 20-goal campaign in 2003-2004.
Following the lockout, expectations were high for the Montreal native, but after scoring 16 goals that year, the Canadiens decided to trade him to Dallas with a sixth-round pick for former Oiler defenceman Janne Niinimaa and a fifth rounder.
"I knew I was capable of doing this, but it has a lot to do with who you're playing and who you're line- mates are," Ribeiro said.
"I always knew that I could play here in the NHL, and do well and help the team win.
"Last year it took me a while to adjust. It was my first trade and I really didn't know what to expect. But this year I'm more comfortable around the guys."
As a French-Canadian, there were high expectations for Ribeiro playing at home. The spotlight was pretty intense.
But in Dallas with the Cowboys and the Mavericks taking a lot of the sporting spotlight away from the Stars, Ribeiro can have more of a life away from the rink.
"It's the same pressure of winning, in Dallas, but the outside pressure, media-wise, there is not as much as there was in Montreal," he said.
"I loved Montreal, it was great, but when you see the other side, it's nice too. You still have the pressure to win, but you don't have that outside pressure."
Due to his success, Ribeiro is getting a lot more attention than he has in the past.
So far, he's handling the pressure very well. And if things keep going the way they are, he could double the goal output from his best season in Montreal.
"I don't want to look too far ahead," he said.
"I just want to focus on the next game. I don't want to look and see where I might be after 80 games.
"I'm just going to think about (tonight's) game, work hard and try to create some chances to score.
"If you work hard, you're going to get some chances."


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The musical instrument known today as the recorder has existed since the Medieval Period and was called the English Flute in the 16th through the 18th centuries. With the introduction of the modern flute, the recorder was mostly forgotten until the late 20th century. In recent times, it has once again gained popularity as a true member of the flute family and is no longer considered just a child's whistle toy.
The introduction of synthesized musical instruments happened the 1970s. The technology of computers, and the software which allowed instruments to interface with the computer, Musical Interface Digital Instrument (MIDI), came out in 1983. This technology is based on mathematics, and as such, there are some issues with intervals, the distance in pitch between notes. Although various audio plug-ins are available to correct these issues, it can be a bit overwhelming trying to find the right one for the individual instrument. A test page is available to ensure the correct temperament is available in a user's specific MIDI program.
MIDI files can be played back on the synthesizer or sound module connected with MIDI cables to the computer. They can also be created in a software program by recording while playing. Many musicians and composers have created MIDI files for the recorder and uploaded them for use by others. Styles range from Medieval to modern pop and jazz , and everything in between. They can be downloaded for no charge, and some sites also provide the printable sheet music.
With the abundance of MP3 players and portable music devices, many musicians want to be able to put their own MIDI files on these devices. The software to convert MIDI files to .wav files is available for purchase and download. While there are some sites offering free downloads of similar types of programs, they are not recommended. These types of sites often have programs that contain hidden spyware and viruses.
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Comparison of Insulin Detemir Given Once or Twice Daily in Type 1 Diabetes (ADAPT)
This study has been completed.
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First Posted: July 8, 2005
Last Update Posted: June 2, 2017
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This trial is conducted in Europe. The aim of this research study is to compare the efficacy (reduction in HbA1c and in blood glucose levels) of insulin detemir once daily injection compared to insulin detemir twice daily injection administered as basal insulin for the treatment of type 1 diabetes and to verify the safety of use (number and severity of episodes of hypoglycemia, body weight and side effects).
|Diabetes Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
|Drug: insulin detemir Drug: insulin aspart
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Comparison of Efficacy and Safety of Insulin Detemir Once or Twice Daily in a Basal-Bolus Regimen With Insulin Aspart in Patients With Type 1 Diabetes
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Mean HbA1c [ Time Frame: after 4 months of insulin detemir treatment ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- HbA1c
- Adverse events
- Insulin dose requirements during initial 4 months of treatment and during 3 months extension
- Weight
- Blood glucose
- Hypoglycaemia
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|June 2005
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2006
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|October 2006 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Type 1 diabetes for more than 1 year
- Subject treated by any kind of insulin regimen and whatever the number of injections
- HbA1c = 7.5% and = 10%
Exclusion Criteria:
- Type 2 diabetes
- Treatment by oral anti-diabetic drugs
- Severe medical conditions
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00117780
|Novo Nordisk Investigational Site
|Aalst, Belgium, 9300
|Novo Nordisk Investigational Site
|Lille, France, 59037
|Novo Nordisk Investigational Site
|Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 2763
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Le Floch JP, Lévy M, Mosnier-Pudar H, Nobels F, Laroche S, Gonbert S, Eschwege E, Fontaine P; Assessment of Detemir Administration in Progressive Treat-to-Target Trial (ADAPT) Study Group. Comparison of once- versus twice-daily administration of insulin detemir, used with mealtime insulin aspart, in basal-bolus therapy for type 1 diabetes: assessment of detemir administration in a progressive treat-to-target trial (ADAPT). Diabetes Care. 2009 Jan;32(1):32-7. doi: 10.2337/dc08-0332. Epub 2008 Oct 22.
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|Novo Nordisk A/S
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00117780 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
2005-001522-88 ( EudraCT Number )
|First Submitted:
|June 30, 2005
|First Posted:
|July 8, 2005
|Last Update Posted:
|June 2, 2017
|Last Verified:
|May 2017
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Insulin, Globin Zinc
Insulin Aspart
Insulin Detemir
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Edinson Volquez was shellacked in what may have been his final appearance as a Padre. That and other Padres-related news from around the Web:
- Volquez threw just two-thirds of an inning Friday, but still managed to give up six runs, putting the Padres in a deep hole. But behind Jedd Gyorko and Will Venable, the Padres rallied to capture their largest come-from-behind victory of the season.
- Kyle Blanks is set to begin a rehab assignment today. Also from Friday's notes: Carlos Quentin will test his knee today, Huston Street is on a roll and Sean O'Sullivan was outrighted.
- Tonight's matchup with the Cubs features Eric Stults taking on strikeout artist Jeff Samardzija.
- If you missed it Friday, you can check out the replay of beat writer Bill Center's weekly Padres chat.
- Tyson Ross has the tools and the desire. Can he combine them into becoming a dominant pitcher?
- Pitching reinforcements will constitute the majority of the Padres' September call-ups.


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At the rate that the BlackBerry A10 has been leaking lately, it won't be long before there's nothing left for BlackBerry to even announce at the device's official unveiling. After posing for a photo, appearing in a leaked video, and then having some of its renders outed, the A10 is back in the news again today thanks to some images that show off the phone's battery cover.
Vietnamese site Tinh te has posted a large gallery of photos that offer a clear look at what's said to be the rear cover for the BlackBerry A10, complete with AT&T branding. The A10's battery cover is covered in a pattern similar to the battery door on the Q10 and sports a BlackBerry logo smack dab in the center as well as a camera cutout in the upper left corner. Included with this latest leak are photos that compare the A10's battery door with the covers from the Q10 and Z10, which help to give us a better idea of just how large the phone will be.
The BlackBerry A10 is rumored to be the largest BlackBerry 10 device to date, with the unit expected to feature a 5-inch 720p display. To compare, the BlackBerry Z10's screen measures in at 4.2 inches, so the A10 could help BlackBerry gain some attention from fans of the phone/tablet hybrid product category. The BlackBerry A10 is reportedly slated for a launch this fall, and while today's leak shows a cover that belongs to an AT&T variant, we've also heard that a Sprint version of the A10 is in the pipeline.
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Pride of place in any royal wardrobe has to be the crown and St Monans Sea Queen has a stunning new sparkler.
And while it may be new, the crown very much complements a proud tradition.
Over several winters during the early 1980s a very gifted resident of St Monans, Maureen Lishman, used designs by a fellow villager, Kenneth Smith to create the stunning set of cloaks/capes for the St Monans Sea Queen and her two attendants, as well as a tabard for the Page Boy.
Completing the theme was a banner with the village crest and a crown.
The people of St Monans value these precious, now vintage, items of costume more than ever now – though the collection is no longer complete with the original crown and banner somehow being lost over the years.
This year a new Sea Queen attendant mentioned that her mother had volunteered to make a new crown – and that is where the 2014 story starts!
And for months Nadia Wood's mother, Yvonne Sutherland, has spent her spare time creating a really gorgeous, modern crown – yet an item that still complements Mrs Lishman's original beautifully embroidered and appliquéd cloaks.
The crown has been designed and hand-crafted by Yvonne to share the nautical theme and colours of the long Sea Queen cape which is only worn once the new Sea Queen is crowned.
While travelling on the Reaper to her 'coronation' she wears a shorter cloak.
The SeaQueen committee has been really impressed with Yvonne's workmanship.
Each element on the crown – whether it is a pearl, an ocean-coloured Swarovski crystal or silver fish – each has been attached by hand with silver wire with the whole creation reminiscent of an underwater scene of fish swimming among decorative seaweed.
The 2014 Sea Queen, Caitlan Duncan, was excited and proud to be the first to wear the new crown, and the attendants also received speciially-made hair decorations.
Committee chairman Peter Copland thanked Yvonne for her generous and unique gift.
He added, "We hope it will encourage our Sea Queens, now and in the future, to wear this unique crown with pride and to enjoy their big day.
"It should add to the memories of pageantry and fun for years to come."


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A set of 8 soup bowls, each measuring approximately 8" in diameter and 1" deep. They are backstamped "Wedgwood Etruria England" and "Marshall Field & Company Chicago". T are two other stamped marks, one which may be a decorator's mark. The other, "A5959", identifies the pattern as "Japanese Thorn". "Wedgwood" is also incised, as is a date code ending with the letter "A", indicating the bowls were manufactured in 1898. (The "Wedgwood Etruria England" mark was in use from 1892 through 1908, after which ENGLAND was replaced by MADE IN ENGLAND.) I don't know whether the bowls were marked with the Marshall Field name because they were retailed by that prestigious department store or because they were used in Field's restaurant, The Walnut Room. The bowls are in very nice condition. Some have light crazing and occasionaly glaze wear on the rims. A few have a tiny dark spot or two. And, t may be a miniscule flea bit on the edge of a couple. None of these hard-to-notice conditions detract from the attractiveness of the setting and they are mentioned only for the sake of accuracy. The winning bidder will be proud to place these on his or her table. Their net weight is just over 5 lbs. and packaged weight will be 6 lbs. Please use the shipping calculator below to determine postage to your zip code. Please email any questions prior... read more


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10 Adorable Real Life Easter Bunnies
The Easter Bunny is once again hippity-hopping his way toward our brightly-colored baskets. And while we may never be able to find the logic in a rabbit that lays eggs, (?!?!) we CAN say with certainty that the adorable cotton tails in these videos are sweeter than a Cadbury Creme Egg…and far less likely to melt in your purse.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada continued their domination of the ice hockey world junior championships, dumping Sweden 5-1 to claim a fifth straight title on Monday.
The Swedes, who lost the gold medal to Canada in overtime a year ago, fell into an early hole when P.K. Subban converted a power-play chance 38 seconds into the opening period to give the Canadians the lead which they never relinquished.
Angelo Esposito accounted for the scoring in the second period while Cody Hodgson added a power-play tally 33 seconds into the third to make it 3-0.
Joakim Andersson spoiled Dustin Tokarski's shutout bid midway through the third but Jordan Eberle and Hodgson hit back with empty net goals to seal the victory, triggering wild celebrations among a tournament record crowd of 20,380 that included Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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MA in Leadership and Management
If you want to develop your understanding of strategic leadership and management, and transfer this learning into pragmatic and productive knowledge, skills and abilities, this is the programme for you. The Postgraduate Diploma/MA programme covers a wide range of leadership and management contexts and perspectives. It will appeal to those who already work, or want to work, in the public, private or voluntary sector. The programme welcomes home, European and International students, to generate a rich cultural diversity in the learning group and enable students to grasp key issues around globalisation and business ethics.
Most students will register for and complete the MA programme. Applicants who enrol for the Postgraduate Diploma can progress to the MA dissertation on successful completion of module assignments.
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Benefits of the programme
•In a collaborative learning and teaching environment, you can experience debate on strategic issues of relevance and engage in discussion on putting theory into practice.
•Through module assignments, you can research and explore topics of particular interest. If you are already in employment, you can use the written assignments to explore, for example, implementing HR strategies within your organisation.
•A key part of the programme is the action learning set. Here, in a group of up to eight learners, you will work in a mutually supportive yet challenging environment.
The programme brings the opportunity to stimulate learning and development in the spirit of collaborative working.
What will I study?
The programme comprises five modules. Completion of the first four leads to the Postgraduate Diploma award, with completion of the research appreciation and dissertation module leading to the Master of Arts award. The modules are:
Module 1: Strategic Leadership, Culture & Ethics
This module explores the key issues around strategic leadership, culture and ethics in organisation and business environments. This will involve reviewing relevant theory, models and concepts and their practical application to business today.
Module 2: Leading Organisational Development
This module explores issues pertaining to effective leadership of organisational development including innovation, change management, and human resources issues of understanding and empowerment including innovative practices. Case studies are used to develop skills in understanding the complexity of real-life issues and the synthesis of information.
Module 3: Managing the Business Environment
This module explores internal and external relatedness in the business environment. It examines issues pertaining to the identification and management of key business stakeholders and the management of resources including human, finance and marketing. It considers the ethical issues involved in relations with internal and external stakeholders and identifies socially and environmentally sustainable business practice.
Module 4: Managing Business Integration
This module explores issues pertaining to problem-solving, decision-making and project management. It will provide analytical and consultancy tools for analysing practices and processes within business settings in order to make recommendations for implementation.
Module 5: Research Methods & Dissertation
The dissertation is the final part of the programme, successful completion of which leads to the award of MA in Leadership & Management. The dissertation aims to provide you with an opportunity to undertake independent research, through supported individual study, into one aspect of the foregoing studies from the postgraduate programme. It is intended that the study will build on elements of learning derived from one or more aspects of previous modules. Students will undertake desk-based or action research, with the aim of facilitating an appreciation of quantitative or qualitative (or a combined methodology) approaches to research in leadership and management. It is envisaged that the constitution of the leadership learning sets, formed during the programme induction, will be re-formed for this module.
What resources will I have access to?
York St John University has an excellent range of management texts and access to electronic journals. There are PCs/networked terminals available in learning resource rooms, housed in the main library. An excellent range of student support and welfare services are also available.
What qualifications do I need to apply?
Home students will be able to enter the programme directly in accordance with normal entry requirements for MA programmes. International students whose first language is not English will be required to achieve IELTS 6 or above with no less than Band 6 in the writing skills.
At Postgraduate Diploma level (study level M) students are required to:
•Possess a professional business qualification equivalent to the Graduate Diploma
•Possess a first degree, achieved at Class 2:2 or above, from an approved University or Institution
•Possess an equivalent qualification
Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL)
Where Postgraduate Diploma applicants do not meet the stated entry requirements above, the YSJ APEL policy may be utilised for entry to the programme where necessary and appropriate. The programme is expected to use this system to allow entry for post-experience professionals who are over 21 and who have been in management for at least two years. This is likely to
involve a submission of evidence of professional competence, an assignment to the Head of Programme and an interview as part of the recruitment process.
For entry at Master of Arts level (level M) students are required to:
•Possess a first degree, achieved at Class 2:2 or above, from an approved University or Institution
•Possess a Graduate or Postgraduate Diploma from a recognised institution
•An international qualification equivalent to the above
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The Apartments Damiani was renovated in 2010. There is a roof garden on the top floor, with swimming pool and sun terrace.
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Berkeley, California (Thursday, May 10, 2007) - What if advertisements told us what was good about ourselves, instead of what was wrong with us?
Beginning May 10 and running through Friday, August 10, the public is invited to view artwork that strives to promote health and creativity and to counteract the substance abuse, racism, violence and socially destructive media imagery that is present in so much of mass media today.
The exhibition presents the work of 12 artists whose work has been used in Health Through Art (HTA) mass media campaigns designed to challenge media stereotypes and counteract the "blight of advertisements." HTA works to replace advertisements and their stereotypes with positive messages that encourage healthy choices for individuals and the community. The artists submitted their art through schools, community or cultural centers and other arts organizations.
They range in age from nine to sixty years old, and come from many areas of Alameda County. Each of the submitted pieces has become part of HTA's 17-year long campaign to challenge messages conveyed through mainstream media about racism, violence and substance abuse. They have been reproduced on BART interiors, bus benches, bus shelters, and neighborhood billboards.
The 1947 Center Street Gallery is a public space located in the lobby of the City office building at 1947 Center Street, located between Milvia Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way. This gallery space is a project of the City of Berkeley's Public Art Program and is funded through the City's 1.5% for Art.
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Increasing downtown residential housing is a new focus of the Washington Core Restructuring Committee.
Bridgette (Epple) Kelch, executive director of Downtown Washington Inc. and a member of Core Restructuring, spoke to the committee last week about the need for more housing in the downtown area, utilizing the second and third floors of existing buildings and new construction.
Kelch said the downtown group has been reviewing the city's comprehensive plan to determine which projects it could help come to fruition.
"As part of the city's comprehensive plan process, public input was sought, and it was exciting to see how many times downtown was mentioned," she said. "Our economic restructuring committee decided to tackle increasing downtown residential living, but it's a big project and we will need help, so that's where Core Restructuring comes in."
Kelch said after her presentation, core committee members expressed interest in working with the downtown group on the housing project.
Increasing residential living downtown is a win-win for businesses, she said, because it will help keep and attract merchants and boost property values.
Infill Map
To gain a better understanding of what's available for possible residential downtown, Kelch said Downtown Washington Inc. is developing a list or map of infill properties — parcels currently vacant or being used for parking — and identifying who owns them.
"I think people might be shocked to see just how many empty lots there are downtown," she said.
Kelch said a meeting could then be held with those property owners to learn what their long-term plans are and determine if there is any interest to develop the property for housing or possibly sell it to be developed by someone else.
Kelch said "gap financing" or some type of incentive program may be needed to spur development.
As an example, she said a Community Development Corporation (CDC) could be formed where local banks join together and each put in a certain amount of money to loan out to a developer so the risk is spread among several banks, rather than just one.
Another possibility is a Community Improvement District (CID) where sales tax is captured in that specific district and then used toward improvements.
"A CID would be a huge undertaking and would have to go to a vote, but these are all incentives we could look at and determine if they could work," she said. "First, we need to identify all of the available properties and owners, and see if there is any interest to develop the lots."
Upper Floor Uses
The downtown group also is working to compile a list of how the second and third floors of downtown buildings are being used.
"Some are used for storage, others are simply vacant and in need of major repair, while some are being rented out," Kelch said. "And with some upper floors we have no idea what's going on with them."
Again a meeting could be held with building owners to discuss possibilities for their upper levels, she said, and examples provided of what could be done in terms of residential housing.
Kelch noted the downtown organization itself is a landlord, renting out the second and third floors of the Farmers' Market building on Main Street.
"I have a waiting list for people interested in renting out those apartments," she said. "These are professionals who want to live downtown, but there just isn't enough housing for them now. It's like that saying, 'If you build it, they will come.'
"We feel people will move to downtown if we have the housing," she added.
Kelch noted that Downtown Washington Inc. and Historic Washington Foundation board members participated in a daylong training with state Main Street officials in January to review board roles and responsibilities and set goals for 2014.
Board members also reviewed the city's comprehensive plan at that time to determine which projects it could work on.
The strategic planning session covered all of the Main Street Four Point Approach committees — Design, Organization, Economic Restructuring and Promotion.


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I might add that this really has nothing to do with Bush's policies. It's that he doesn't legitimately hold the office of president... it's the fact that he doesn't give a damn if he was legitimately elected or not. It goes beyond partisan politics. Many people in this group are rather angry at the recent behavior (or lack thereof) of Al Gore and the rest of the Democratic party. The system is corrupt and the only way to fix it is for the citizens to take back their own country.
posted by caveday at 10:54 PM on May 20, 2001
posted by wantwit at 12:23 AM on May 21, 2001
If it is indeed the best system in the world (debatable), it only got that way from efforts to try to "fix" it.
Sheesh- isn't that the freakin' point of democracy and the free market- that when working properly, there's a continued impetus to change things for the better? What, would you rather the Founding Fathers just said, "Ah, da King's tyrrany is the best system in the world, why try to 'fix' it, who are we to complain?" and never authored the Constitution?
A democracy is by definition a system of government in which informed and impassioned citizenry constantly act to improve their lives and their government. It's not a form of government in which we sit in idle complacency...
posted by hincandenza at 3:30 AM on May 21, 2001
posted by TacoConsumer at 6:49 AM on May 21, 2001
I'm curious how fixing voter irregularities would make the democracy weaker.
The goal here is to tell the government the people want funding for enforcement of laws, that even today, are not being enforced. When you have people who are marked 'criminal' who aren't and can't vote, it is not right. When you have a disparaging number of minority voters who are declined to vote, through a system of loopholes and bad machinery. When you have votes going to the wrong people because the little stick didn't punch out the little hole next to the number of the right person, its even more disturbing.
Whether you think George W Bush or Al Gore would have won the fact of the matter is, is that many, many people did not get to vote. I personally know more people that I count on my fingers and toes that were not able to vote when they went to their polling place. They were disinfranchised voters. But nobody cared, because they weren't in a hotbed state.
The other thing people want to go to is a true representative democracy, which means one vote for one person. That would involve eliminating the electoral college. This is something that has been discussed over and over again, not this year, but in years past.
Florida has already approved a law to replace their equipment and overhaul how they do business in voting, we just need the rest of the nation to do the same. Florida wasn't the only state with problems, just the only one in the spotlight.
(by the by, I don't like the scanning system either. I would think there should be touch screens with pictures and such, to make it even easier. it would be expensive, though)
posted by benjh at 7:21 AM on May 21, 2001
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Russian Restaurant Wins Burger Ranch
The winner of the Burger Ranch fast-food chain tender is a Cyprus-registered corporation, G.M.R. WorldWide Hospitality Limited.
The winner of the Burger Ranch fast-food chain tender is a Cyprus-registered corporation, G.M.R. WorldWide Hospitality Limited. The company submitted a NIS 17 million bid, plus VAT, for all the shares, or for Burger Ranch's assets and operations, according to a request submitted to the Tel Aviv District court yesterday by temporary liquidator Shaul Bergerson and receiver Shlomo Nass.
WorldWide Hospitality operates over 160 restaurants in Russia and has promised to keep Burger Ranch operating.
The court was asked to approve the sale, and District Court President Judge Uri Goren is expected to rule today after a hearing. If approved, the agreement will take effect from Sunday, September 28. Bergerson and Nass say approval is needed urgently so that management can be transferred to the new owners as soon as possible. They say that would minimize the damage to those injured by the chain's collapse and enable them to receive at least some of the money owed them. Bergerson and Nass explained that the offer was the best they had received and said they preferred to sell the shares, and not just the operations and assets.
Thirteen groups bought the tender documents, though only five made bids after examining Burger Ranch's books.
The winning bid from G.M.R. Worldwide Hospitality was raised from NIS 16 million to NIS 17 million, NIS 13 million of the sum in cash and the rest in biannual payments over two years.
The low bid was for NIS 3.5 million from the Assaf Greenberg group, and it came with a number of strings attached.
American firm HJ.INC bid NIS 5.18 million. It raised it later to NIS 16.18 million, but never provided the required guarantees.
Another bid came in at only NIS 4.5 million.
Burger King, or A. Orgad Holdings Ltd., offered NIS 16 million, but later raised it to NIS 20 million during the negotiations. However, only half of this was to be in cash, and the rest spread out over five years.
The receiver and liquidator entered into negotiations with the three highest bidders, and marathon meetings were conducted with the three groups in order to improve their offers.
In the end, the winner was chosen over Burger King because it offered more cash. In addition, WorldWide Hospitality struck Nass and Bergerson as being more professional as well as having considerable experience in fast food.
Also, a purchase by Burger King would have required approval by the Antitrust Commissioner, while the winning offer will probably only require perfunctory antitrust approval as G.M.R. WorldWide Hospitality has no Israeli business operations, whereas Burger King's purchase of its former competitor would be problematic.
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"This time around we wanted to make a tougher-edged record," says guitarist Peter Buck of R.E.M.'s soon-to-be-released album, Document. "Lifes Rich Pageant was kind of like the Bryan Adams records – I really liked the record, but it was very direct in a lot of ways. This time we wanted to make a loose, weird, semi-live-in-the-studio album. We wanted to have a little tougher stance."
R.E.M. spent the month of April recording the LP in Nashville's Sound Emporium studio with producer Scott Litt, whose previous credits include work with the and dBs and Katrina and the Waves; the following month the group did overdubs and mixing at the Master Control studio, in Burbank, California.
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: R.E.M., Document
The eleven songs on the album include "The One I Love" (the first single), "Exhuming McCarthy," "Odd Fellows Local 151," "It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)," "Fireplace" and "Welcome to the Occupation." There's also a cover of the Wire song "Strange," which Buck says sounds like "Jonathan Richman does Wire."
"'Exhuming McCarthy,'" Buck says, "is about exactly what it sounds like – it's the Eighties, and McCarthy's coming back, so why not dig him up?" "It's the End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)" is "either my favorite song on the record or my least favorite," says Buck. "I'm still deciding." And "Odd Fellows Local 151" is, lead singer Michael Stipe says, "a debunking of the myth making of Fables of the Reconstruction."
Los Lobos saxophonist Steve Berlin made a guest appearance on "Exhuming McCarthy" and "Fireplace." R.E.M. also used a Fairlight synthesizer player on a few tracks, but Buck reports that most of those high-tech contributions were erased.
Current plans call for R.E.M. to release three videos for Document. New York artist Robert Longo directed "The One I Love," and Jim Herbert, director of photography for the rock documentary Athens, Georgia Inside-Out, is being considered to direct another. The candidate for the third video is none other than Michael Stipe. In addition, R.E.M. recently recorded an acoustic set at McCabe's Guitar Shop, which doubles as a music club, in Santa Monica, California, and the band may use some of the songs as B sides for its singles.
Following a ten-day tour of Europe in September, R.E.M. will start a two-month American tour in October. As for whether all of this activity will bring about large-scale commercial success for R.E.M., Buck says, "With virtually every record we turn in to the record company we hear outside opinion that 'this is the one that's going to break you guys.' I think at this late date it would be really delusional to even think that's going to happen. Then again, I don't really care. I think we're doing really well, we're selling around four, five or six hundred thousand records each time without a hit single, and I'm more concerned with making a good record that will stand up five or six years from now.
"There are a few things on this album that could do well on Top Forty radio," Buck adds, "but then again I can't imagine it happening, knowing us. So I don't know if I have any commercial expectations for this one at all. I assume it will sell some, somebody's got to buy it. I know my mom will buy three or four. I don't see this as the record that's going to blast apart the chart. Although you never know. Weirder things have happened."
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Giving Sheridan a little taste of the world, it was Sheridan College's sixth annual Festival of Cultures Friday night. Held in the Golden Dome, it was a culinary delight as students and the community sat down together to enjoy.
Sheridan College has announced that former Wyoming Governor, Jim Geringer will be this year's graduation speaker during the May 11 commencement exercise. Geringer served as the 30th Governor of Wyoming from 1995-2003, following 12 years in the State Legislature.
The Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce sponsored a workshop for business bookkeepers yesterday entitled "Breaking Down Financial Statements to Beneft Your Businesses." Managers and owners of businesses in every industry gathered in the Sheridan College Watt Agricultural building to hear Bruce Brow
The Wyoming Supreme Court this week ruled in favor of Sheridan Firefighters Local Number 276 in regard to their lawsuit against the City of Sheridan for breach of their collective bargaining agreement.
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Guillaume Bertrand/Reuters, official caption in the New York Times reads "scuffles were reported between rock-throwing students and riot police firing tear-gas in the outlying neighborhoods of Nanterre and Mantes-la-Jolie." 19th of Coctober, 2010.
It's October 2010 and the protests against the pension reforms in France are turning violent. The visual representation of these manifestations, or manif in short, makes for rich material. In above photograph, the viewer (the person looking at the photograph) is situated behind the police cordon. This perspective is greatly affecting the reading of the image. The ideological implication here is that the police, or what Louis Althusser has called the Repressive State Apparatus, is protecting you, the viewer, from the 'rock-throwing students'. The telephoto lens chosen by the news agency photographer is further signifying that the trouble makers should be kept at a distance and that the only buffer between you and them is the state apparatus. The focus, quite literally, is on the youths who are the source of violence and rioting. The rock one of the students is throwing can actually be seen flying through the air. It is a photograph that makes a clear distinction between two sides: the rioting youths on one side, the viewer on the other side, and the police in between.
Susan Meiselas, Muchachos await the counterattack by the National Guard, Matagalpa, Nicaragua, 1978-79.
Another aspect is quite striking in this photograph: all the subjects in the distance are masked. An immediate association might be with the masked faced of a guerrilla fighter, such as in Susan Meiselas' iconic photographic series 'Nicaragua'. The masked face of the students in the distance has important implications: as the identity of the students is unknown, their struggle too, is further disassociated from the viewer him or herself. The face mask, bandanna or the hoodie also further exoticises the students' struggle. The viewer does not know who these people are and what they protest against. Is it really the pension reform? Particularly the hoodie evokes strong connotations of the banlieue and the 'ethnic riots' in France in 2008. The caption specifically refers to the Parisian suburbs Nanterre and Mantes-la-Jolie – suburbs that have large ethnic minorities and not coincidentally on the very periphery of the city. Again, the subject matter is located at a distance in relation to the viewer.
A typical representation of British 'hoodies' appearing in The Sun newspaper.
But the 'hoodie' is not a phenomenon specific to the Parisian suburbs or France in general. In the United Kingdom, the hoodie emerged in parallel to an unprecedented rise in surveillance technologies after the murder or James Bulger in 1993. The CCTV camera has become an omnipresent part of public (and sometimes private) life in Britain. The 'hoodie' simply preempts his surveillance by covering his face. The 'hoodie' is quite simply the logical consequence of a Big Brother society. As France is following Britain's lead in terms of surveillance capabilities, the emergence of the 'hoodie' in the French suburbs came as a natural progression. Rather than signifying the violent struggle associated with guerrilla warfare, the face masks of the 'rock-throwing students' signifies the evolution of surveillance technologies in France.
Students hurl projectiles during May 1968 student protest in Paris.
As French students go on the barricades in October 2010, the inevitable comparison to the May 1968 protests will be made. There are a great number of similarities in how these events are photographically represented: the stone throwing student, the overturned and burning cars, the graffiti and banners contextualizing the desires of a generation. But the above photograph also greatly differs from the representation of students in 2010. Most importantly with regards to the emergence of a surveillance society, none of the students seek to cover their identity. Also, the vantage point of the camera is far more empathetic to the students hurling projectiles at the police, who are not even part of the photograph itself. I am of course using this comparison in order to exemplify a point here: that the representation of protest does give clues as to what type of a society this protest is occurring in. The black and white photograph taken in May 1968 is one of the most iconic representations of that event. I hesitate to guess that if a single iconic image will emerge from the ongoing protests in France, it will depict a masked man shot with a telephoto lens.
For more on this topic, please read Susie Linfield's book The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence. Other recommendations can be found in our online bookshop.


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Sunday, July 4, 2010
Little Firecracker
Posted by Sisters at Sunday, July 04, 2010
Labels: 4th of July, Babies, firsts, holiday weekend, Patriotic, summer
3 comments:
- kathy said...
I could squeeze that little firecracker until he popped!!! such a cutie..
- July 4, 2010 at 2:40 PM
- Kelley said...
He is so cute! He and my Mady would be quite the pair.
- July 4, 2010 at 5:49 PM
- The Lapinski Family said...
I love all of the expressions on his face ... My favorite picture is the last one!
- July 4, 2010 at 6:17 PM
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