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A Comparison Of Study Drug Blood Levels After One Dose Of GSK189075 In Subjects With Normal And Reduced Kidney Function
This study has been completed.
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First Posted: July 16, 2007
Last Update Posted: March 19, 2012
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This is an open-label study that will measure blood levels of different parts of a drug called GKS189075. People participating in this study will receive a single dose of 250mg GSK189075 by mouth. About 20 people with mild to moderate decrease in renal (kidney) function will be asked to participate in this study. They will be compared to about 20 healthy participants who are close to the same age and body size. People participating in this study will stay at a clinical research unit beginning 2 days before they receive their single dose of GSK189075 and will remain there until approximately one day after receiving the study drug. During this study urine will be collected beginning the day before receiving study drug until the day after, just prior to leaving the clinical research unit. Blood samples will also be collected at various times beginning immediately before until 24 hours after receiving the study drug.
|Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 Renal Insufficiency
|Drug: GSK189075
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|An Evaluation of the Pharmacokinetics of a Single Oral Dose of GSK189075 in Patients With Varying Degrees of Renal Insufficiency Compared to Volunteers With Normal Renal Function
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: type 2 diabetesU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by GlaxoSmithKline:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- drug & metabolite plasma levels [ Time Frame: at 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, & 24 hours after dosing ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- urine levels of Glucose & electrolytes, Drug & metabolites [ Time Frame: at 0-6, 6-12 & 12-24 hours after dosing ]
- ECG, labs, vital signs, adverse events [ Time Frame: each visit ]
- Plasma protein binding of GSK189074 and GSK279782 [ Time Frame: 2 hr ]
- GSK189074 and GSK279782 in 24 hour urine collection and corresponding renal clearance CLr. [ Time Frame: 24 hr ]
- urine glucose excreted. [ Time Frame: 6, 12, 24 hours ]
- Urinary creatinine clearance (CLcr). [ Time Frame: 6, 12, 24 hours ]
- Safety and tolerability parameters, including AEs and clinically relevant changes in vital signs (heart rate and blood pressure), ECGs, urine electrolytes, and clinical laboratory assessments (clinical chemistry, hematology, and urinalysis). [ Time Frame: 1, 2, 4, 12, 24 hours ]
|Study Start Date:
|July 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2008
|Primary Completion Date:
|March 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Mild renal impairmnent
Drug: GSK189075
single 250 mg dose of drug
|moderate renal impairment
Drug: GSK189075
single 250 mg dose of drug
|Normal renal function
Drug: GSK189075
single 250 mg dose of drug
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- A female is eligible to enter and participate in this study if she is of Non-child-bearing potential with a negative pregnancy test at screening or of Childbearing potential, has a negative serum pregnancy test at screening, is not lactating, and agrees to adequate contraception.
- Satisfactory medical evaluation based upon medical history, medication history, physical examination, and clinical laboratory data obtained at the Screening visit.
- Body weight > 50 kg. BMI within the range of 19 to 40 kg/m2.
- Signed and dated written informed consent prior to participation in any protocol-specific procedures, including screening procedures.
- The subject is able to understand and comply with protocol requirements, instructions, and protocol-stated restrictions.
- Additional Inclusion Criteria for Subjects with Renal Insufficiency: Subjects with renal insufficiency must be considered by the investigator to be clinically stable. Subjects must continue to meet this criterion of stable renal function upon check-in into the clinic
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of regular alcohol consumption averaging >7 drinks per week for women or >14 drinks per week for men within 6 months of Screening. One drink is equivalent to 12 g alcohol = 5 ounces (oz; 150 ml) of wine or 12 oz (360 ml) of beer or 1.5 oz (45 ml) of 80 proof distilled spirits.
- A positive drug or alcohol test at Screening or Check-in.
- Smokers will be allowed to enrol in the study; however, smoking that interferes with the collection/recording of ongoing study procedures will not be allowed. Smoking status will be recorded in the CRF.
- The subject has participated in a clinical trial and has received a drug or a new chemical entity within 30 days or 5 half-lives, or twice the duration of the biological effect of any drug (whichever is longer) prior to the first dose of study medication for the current study.
- The subject has donated more than 450mL blood within the 56 day period prior to the first scheduled administration of GSK189075.
- Known or suspected gastroparesis, gastric surgery within the 6 months prior to screening, or any other gastrointestinal condition that would likely interfere with absorption of GSK189075.
- Subjects with clinical laboratory values outside rages as specified in the protocols
- Any subject with either documented cirrhosis or a history consistent with a diagnosis of cirrhosis.
- Urinary tract or bladder infection within 4 weeks of the first scheduled administration of study drug.
- Positive hepatitis B surface antigen, or HIV at Screening. If negative test results have been documented within the last 2 months, it will not be necessary to repeat these tests. Subjects with positive results for hepatitis C antibodies may be eligible if they have normal liver enzymes and no history of hepatitis and are approved by the GSK medical monitor.
- Any history of myocardial infarction, cardiac syncope.
- A history of clinically significant cardiac arrhythmias (individual cases to be discussed with the GSK Medical Monitor).
- A history of unstable angina in the past 6 months.
- Cardiac conduction abnormalities denoted by ranges specified in the protocol
- Systolic blood pressure < 80 mmHg or > 180 mmHg
- Diastolic blood pressure < 60 mmHg or > 100 mmHg
- Use of prescription or non-prescription drugs (including high dose vitamins, herbal and dietary supplements [including St. John's Wort]) within 7 days prior to administration of the first dose of study medication, unless in the opinion of the investigator and Sponsor the medication will not interfere with the study procedures or compromise subject safety. Some allowable exceptions are found in the Permitted Medications section (Section 9.1).
Additional Exclusion Criteria for Subjects with Renal Insufficiency
- Patients on a new drug regimen (defined as starting a new drug or changing dosage regimen of a current drug within 7 days prior to administration of GSK189075). No restrictions will be placed on the use of insulin, 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D3 (Rocaltrol), erythropoietin, and calcium- or aluminum-containing phosphate binders.
- Subjects whose current medication therapy is not in agreement with the information provided in Sections 9.1, 9.2, or 9.3 of this protocol.
- Serum albumin less than 2.5 g/dL.
- Hemoglobin less than 8.5 g/dL. Additional Exclusion Criteria for Subjects with Normal Renal Function
- Any clinically relevant abnormality identified on the screening physical or laboratory examination. Any abnormalities of outside the normal reference range at Screening may be repeated once and must be reviewed with the GSK Medical Monitor prior to enrollment of a subject into the study.
- Hemoglobin or hematocrit below the reference range at Screening
Contacts and Locations
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To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00501462
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00501462
|United States, Florida
|GSK Investigational Site
|Orlando, Florida, United States, 32809
|United States, Minnesota
|GSK Investigational Site
|Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55404
|United States, Tennessee
|GSK Investigational Site
|Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, 37920
|United States, Texas
|GSK Investigational Site
|Austin, Texas, United States, 78752
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|NCT00501462 History of Changes
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|First Submitted:
|July 13, 2007
|First Posted:
|July 16, 2007
|Last Update Posted:
|March 19, 2012
|Last Verified:
|June 2011
Keywords provided by GlaxoSmithKline:
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
renal insufficiency
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Renal Insufficiency
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Kidney Diseases
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SINGAPORE, Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- China Yuchai International Limited (NYSE: CYD) ("China Yuchai" or the "Company"), announced today that natural gas engines produced by the Company's main operating subsidiary, Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Company Limited ("GYMCL"), have been penetrating the key Shaanxi Province market in North-West China since their introduction in early 2012. GYMCL's natural gas engines have enjoyed significant demand by municipal bus, tour coach and school bus operators in various Shaanxi municipalities including Yulin, Baoji, Yan'an, Tongchuan and Hanzhong.
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Fruit firm faces pickle over losses, growers, and sackings
Fruit company SPC-Ardmona awaits a cabinet decision over Government funding while it tries to win back the trust of growers and faces an industrial relations battle with sacked staff.
TRACEY BOWDEN, PRESENTER: Iconic Aussie food manufacturer SPC Ardmona is facing an uphill task trying to persuade the Federal Government to help it survive.
A decision is expected at Cabinet's first meeting of the year on the request from the company's owner, Coca-Cola Amatil, for $25 million towards modernising the plant. Despite the best efforts of the local member, a Coalition MP herself, the omens don't look good.
James Bennett reports.
SPC TV AD (1950s): Here's the sunny orchard where the peach trees grow. Don't they make your mouth water?
JAMES BENNETT, REPORTER: Founded in 1917, the Shepparton Preserving Company has for decades underpinned the whole economy in Victoria's Goulburn Valley.
But the company's market share has been gradually eroding. In 2002 it merged with Ardmona in a bid to stave off international competitors but it hasn't kept the wolves from the door. Two weeks ago SPC Ardmona told 73 of its maintenance workers they'd be sacked come April.
LIAM O'BRIEN, ASST. BRANCH SEC., AWU: These guys are the sacrificial lambs in the process.
JAMES BENNETT: They'd be among the estimated 1,000 job losses in the area should SPC Ardmona fail, according to a consultant's report prepared for the local council.
It finds the ultimate impact could be a $165 million hit to the region. It's a dim prospect and a powerful incentive for Shepparton's mayor to seek Government assistance.
JENNY HOULIHAN, MAYOR, GREATER SHEPPARTON COUNCIL: In the long term, there will be thousands more go unless SPCA continues.
JAMES BENNETT: But this Federal Government is not in the business of bailing out ailing industries.
TONY ABBOTT, PRIME MINISTER: You've got to get your house in order. You've got to get your house in order. Government support cannot substitute for strong management.
SHARMAN STONE, MBR FOR MURRAY: There are some decisions for funding we have to make and I believe this SPCA $25 million from the Federal Government is one of those essential decisions. It's a no-brainer.
JAMES BENNETT: The former Howard Government Workplace Participation Minister and local member is taking a different view to her leader.
Sharman Stone supports a multi-million-dollar rescue plan and has attacked colleagues opposed to it.
SHARMAN STONE: If we didn't have that 25 million from the Federal Government, you're looking at more than $27 million in welfare payments alone for the workers in the factory who would have to be sacked.
JAMES BENNETT: Clearly there are Cabinet colleagues who have very different views?
SHARMAN STONE: Well, apparently some do.
HOLDEN WORKER 1 (Dec. 13): It's just shattering. Absolutely shattering.
HOLDEN WORKER 2 (Dec. 13): Only one word: gutted. That'd be it.
JAMES BENNETT: As one industry after another hits the wall, the Shepparton community fears the Prime Minister and the Treasurer will cast SPC's woes in the same light as those of Holden and other manufacturers.
JENNY HOULIHAN: People have been able to see the difference, although that does send a message of negativity when the Government does say or give an impression that they may not be going to help.
JAMES BENNETT: SPC Ardmona saw the writing on the wall. Last autumn it told orchardists it was slashing the amount of fruit it wanted from them.
The impact was immediate. Their produce unwanted, healthy trees were torn from the ground.
TONY LATINA, COBRAM ORCHARDIST: That's heart-breaking. You can see the fallow ground here that we removed all the trees is still there...
By October, though, the company was again begging for those growers' fruit. Both Coles and Woolworths had signed new deals with SPC to use Australian produce in their own-brand products.
Wary of the company's U-turn and its long-term prospects, Tony Latina replaced his old trees with ones that will bear fruit ideal for the fresh-fruit market.
TONY LATINA: Unless something happens with the cannery that they get some sort of a Government grant, there's no certainty for growers to really invest again in planting canning varieties. I for myself, I won't be planning canning varieties unless I've got certainty.
JAMES BENNETT: Glen Wilson's engineering company is walking distance from SPC Ardmona's Shepparton factory.
GLEN WILSON, DRIVE FOR INDUSTRY: SPC was probably pretty instrumental in us setting up the workshop, just by demand for this sort of service in the area.
JAMES BENNETT: With 20 per cent of his business supplying parts and servicing for SPC, if the fruit company folds, job losses amongst his 10 staff are inevitable.
GLEN WILSON: I don't really want to think about that but it's a reality, yeah. Yeah. You know, we'd be doing everything we could not to but at the end of the day SPC Ardmona are one of our bigger customers and it would be a big loss to us.
JAMES BENNETT: SPC Ardmona's own mounting losses led to tense negotiations between the company and unions representing its maintenance workers leading up to Christmas. In a concession becoming more common in Australian manufacturing, workers offered to freeze their wages in return for keeping their jobs.
DAMIAN KING, BRANCH SEC., ETU: We put forward the two-year wage freeze and we put to it some improvements on the hours of work.
JAMES BENNETT: After meeting with the company yesterday, unions representing the sacked maintenance workers remain tight-lipped.
LIAM O'BRIEN: There's further discussions that are going to happen with our members next week about the road in which they want to take. So we're going to wait until then to see what their choices are.
JAMES BENNETT: SPC Ardmona denies the dispute is linked to its plea for help. The company wants to modernise its aging factory, moving away from traditional tins of fruit and expanding its plastic packaging and product range. Parent company Coca-Cola Amatil will invest $150 million if granted $50 million, half each from the State and Federal Governments.
PETER RYAN, ACTING VIC. PREMIER: We as a State, we are ready to be party to this discussion. We certainly are. The extent of contributions and the like: we'll talk to the Federal Government about that when they come to us as to the conclusions that they have reached.
JAMES BENNETT: For the Cabinet members deciding the company's fate later this month, Sharman Stone says the choice ought to be simple.
SHARMAN STONE: I think you would be able to stand back in a couple of years and say, "Thank heavens the Australian Government understood what was at stake there. It wasn't simply backing a crook company. It wasn't handing out industrial welfare. It was supporting a company to innovate and it was keeping the whole economy of northern Victoria in play."
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THE North-East will put the UK at the pinnacle of an £800m global science market after bosses confirmed it will play an instrumental role in developing a revolutionary material.
The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI), in Sedgefield, County Durham, is the new home for £14m work on graphene.
The Graphene Applications Innovation Centre will open later this year on CPI's existing base, providing support for companies working on the wonder carbon material.
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The North-East already has a strong reputation for developing graphene, which can conduct electricity a million times better than copper.
Applied Graphene Materials, near Redcar, aims to increase production to eight tonnes in the long-term, with Consett-based chemical firm Thomas Swan and Co previously signing a deal with Dublin's Trinity College to look at industrial scale production.
Nigel Perry, CPI chief executive, said: "Graphene is a very interesting material with great promise.
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Trevor Nunn returns to direct SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE in the intimate setting of the St James Theatre, having originally directed it five years ago to open the new small space at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. Trevor Nunn is one of the UK's leading theatre, film and television directors. He has been Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. His extensive repertoire includes the musicals Cats and Les Misérables, for which he won Tony Awards, and the Olivier Award-winning Summerfolk, The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida and The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
Ingmar Bergman's SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE was originally created for television and has acquired classic status inspiring many other films and directors. This adaptation for the stage by Joanna Murray-Smith (whose play HONOUR enjoyed a major success at the National Theatre and in the West End) is an emotionally powerful and compulsively visceral exploration of what happens when a marriage disintegrates.
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Wireless Network Systems are usually deployed in hostile environments where they en-countered a wide variety of malicious attacks. A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a wireless network composed of a large number of sensor nodes. In WSNs the scarcest resource is energy which includes low power, less storage space, low computation ability and short communication range. For this reason, algorithmic research in WSN mostly focuses on the study and design of energy aware algorithms for data computation. This problem becomes harder in the case of security, as most of the security algorithms are quite heavy. Although symmetric cryptography may be one of the approaches to solve the problem due to their small computation requirement.


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Do you have to maintain insurance after a DWI in the state of NC?
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It depends. Even someone convicted of a DWI can own a car. Whether they can drive is a separate issue. If the convicted person owns a car and surrenders the license plates to the DMV and the car is parked in a safe place (I don't know its value, but if it was damaged and there was no insurance then the owner would have to eat any loss) then the insurance can be cancelled if there is no outstanding car loan. If the insurance is cancelled and there is a car loan and the lender finds out, the lender will get forced place insurance and it will be very expensive and the owner will have to pay it. If there is someone else who is going to be using the car, the answer is no, the insurance cannot be cancelled.


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Northeastern Pennsylvania is the most Catholic part of the United States. According to local experts, 80 percent of the population in the area around Scranton and Wilkes Barre identifies itself as Catholic. The region voted 63%-37% for Barack Obama and the Democrats on Nov. 4.
That is noteworthy because the Bishop of Scranton on Oct. 5 had used the strongest possible language to warn all Catholics against voting for any politicians who support the right to abortions, clearly referring to the Democratic Party platform. The Scranton situation has parallels in many other dioceses where a bishop published condemnation of votes for pro-choice Democrats before the election, but the people went the other way.
Certainly, the bishops meeting in Washington the week after the election are asking themselves the meaning of this disconnection.
According to some of the anti-abortion faithful this year, a vote for Barack Obama was equivalent to abandoning the Catholic faith. However, most people and most bishops did not consider voting for Obama to amount to renunciation of the faith. In fact, the ordinary Magisterium of the U.S. Catholic Bishops protects personal choice as stated in the pastoral letter, Faithful Citizenship. This document certainly played a role in the disconnection between the outspoken anti-choice message of individual bishops and the decisions of Catholic America in favor of Obama.
Catholic bishops have not only the right but also the responsibility to speak out on public issues. Abortion is morally wrong for every Catholic without exception. If there is some Catholic out there who doesn't understand this, the bishops' statements can leave no doubt. What is not clear, however, is the link between opposing abortion as a moral evil and a vote in any U.S. election.
No elected politician can vote to outlaw all abortions because the U.S. Constitution overrides legislation. As illustrated by Republican presidents going back to Ronald Reagan, saying you are pro-life will not end all abortions. But providing a better social and economic climate reduces the rate of abortions, as happened under the administration of pro-choice Democrat Bill Clinton. Despite a pro-life Republican president over the past eight years, the Guttmacher Institute reports that the rate of abortion among low-income women is increasing. Based on those facts, many Catholics such as Prof. Douglas Kmiec suggested that the pro-life vote should go to Obama and the Democrats.
As Kmiec argued, it hasn't worked to vote Republican over the past 30 years in the hope for a Supreme Court that would vote to reverse Roe v. Wade. What's more, Kmiec argued, reversal of that Supreme Court decision would not end abortions. It would only return the issue to legislation in each state. Without Roe v. Wade's regulations, some states could vote in abortion-on-demand, making the situation even worse than it is now.
In my opinion, the way to end abortion is the same way that slavery was ended: by constitutional amendment. But Article V affords no role to the executive branch in proposing such a constitutional amendment. Ultimately, any amendment requires ratification by three-fourths of the states. In sum, it is not a federal government power, but one exercised locally after a long public process.
So why does the Bishop of Scranton or any other bishop focus on a presidential election when instructing the faithful about the need to work against abortion? I don't know. What seems clear to me, however, is that this strategy is deeply flawed and that most of the Catholic faithful in America have moved beyond the abortion issue in deciding their voting priorities every four years.
If you want abortion ended in this country, as I do, then it is time to wise up. Continuing to practice the same failed policy and expecting a different result is folly. Catholic America does not want bishops telling them they have to vote for Republicans on the single issue of abortion. Behind closed doors, I am sure that is what some bishops are telling other bishops and I expect to see all of them order a reexamination of the Pro-Life Movement.


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Scientists Stephanie Konfal and Mike Poland prepare battery connections wires for the Global Positioning Units at a helicopter staging area near Mount St. Helens, near Toutle, Wash., Monday, Sept. 27, 2004 . The GPS units will track movement within the mountain's crater. Seismic energy releases from the mountain have been increasing for days now, cranking up to a level not seen since 1986, when the volcano's last dome-building eruption occurred.
AP Photo SEATTLE, Wash. -- Mount St. Helens began rumbling more intensely Wednesday, prompting scientists to warn that a small or moderate eruption could happen in the next few days.
Earthquakes ranging from magnitude 2 to 2.5 were coming about four times a minute, possibly weakening the lava dome in the crater of the 8,364-foot mountain, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Scientists did not expect anything like the mountain's devastating eruption in 1980, which killed 57 people and coated towns 250 miles away with ash.
But a small or moderate blast could coat an area three miles around the volcano's crater with ash and rock, scientists said.
Few people live near the mountain, which is surrounded by a national forest. The closest structure is the Johnston Ridge Observatory, about five miles from the crater.
The Geological Survey raised the mountain's eruption advisory from Level 2 to Level 3 out of a possible 4 on Wednesday, prompting officials to begin notifying various state and federal agencies of a possible eruption. The USGS also has asked the National Weather Service to be ready to track an ash plume with its radar system.
In addition, scientists called off a plan to have two researchers study water rushing from the crater's north face for signs of magma. A plane was still able to fly over the crater Wednesday to collect gas samples.
"An aircraft can move the hell out of the way fast," said Jeff Wynn, the chief scientist at the survey's Cascade Volcano Observatory. "We don't want anyone in there on foot."
The USGS has been monitoring St. Helens closely since last Thursday, when swarms of tiny earthquakes were first recorded. On Sunday, scientists issued a notice of volcanic unrest, closing the crater and upper flanks of the volcano to hikers and climbers.
Scientists said they believe the seismic activity is being caused by pressure from a reservoir of molten rock a little more than a mile below the crater. That magma apparently rose from a depth of about six miles in 1998, but never reached the surface, Wynn said.
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So the holiday season is over and I'm wishing I took an extra week off work. It finally feels like summer's here, a bit too hot in my opinion. I think between 25-30 degrees is comfortable, anything over drains the life out of me. We don't have aircon at home so when it gets hot it gets HOT. I was like sweating writing this last night lol.
Recently, I have been trialing Neutrogena Oil-Free Eye Makeup Remover. This bottle works wonders! I've tried other higher end make up removers but the Neutrogena Oil-Free Eye Makeup Remover does pretty much the same thing.
According to Neutrogena "Oil-Free Eye Makeup Remover takes off even waterproof eye makeup without leaving an oily residue. Forget harsh tugging and pulling. This ultra-gentle dual phase formula activates when shaken to remove all eye makeup—even waterproof mascara—without any greasy residue. It is ophthalmologist tested, safe for contact lens wearers and oil free".
What I like about this makeup remover:
- Removes makeup easily, even waterproof
- Doesn't irritate (at least not for me)
- Packaging is secure and does not leak
The best way I found is to soak a cotton pad with the remover and place it against your eye, wait a few seconds then wipe off. The Neutrogena Oil-Free Eye Makeup Remover claims to be oil-free but I found that it does leave a very thin film of greasiness. Removing waterproof mascara will take about 2-3 wipes depending on how much mascara you pack on.
What's your favourite makeup remover?
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This is one of my favourites. I have purchased countless bottles.
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My first bottle, definitely buy more after I'm finish with this one.
I use this too!! I think it works wonders especially with waterproof mascara and lipsticks, but I agree…it does leave a film of grease after use and that annoys me that I have to wash my face afterwards!
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I'm fine with the greasiness because I always wash my face after I remove makeup. I only discovered the grease when I was trying to tidy up my makeup by removing the excess with the remover, then I tried to put eyeshadow back on top and realised I couldn't lol
my current hg makeup remover is the garnier one! (the one you have to mix together) its gentle enough for face and eyes 🙂
i sorta wanna try this one out now! revlon came out with a new(?) one… so many to try 😛
great review btw!
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Linny!! Which garnier one? I wanna try it too lol I still have a couple more makeup removers to try on my desk but hey more the better!!
i like how you can tell its me 😛
http://www.garnier.com.au/_en/_au/our_products/product.aspx?tpcode=OUR_PRODUCTS^PRD_SKINCARE^SENSITIVE_SKIN^SENSITIVE_SKIN_DISCOVER^SENSITIVE_SKIN_RTN1&prdcode=P10301 the 2 in 1 one 😀
the more the merrier 😉
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i dunno why the latter half of the url wasnt linked.. but c&p the whole thing in your browser 🙂
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Thanks Linny!! I'll wait til Priceline has a sale. How could I not know who you are? lol I'm waiting for the next post on your blog.
Im always on the look out for a great eye make up remover xxx Fab post xx Hope youve entered my nars giveaway xxx Its open internationally, lots of chances to win the Edie Andy Warhol set xxx Hope you get a chance to enter xxx
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This is a great eye makeup remover. I'm currently using the Sonia Kashuk one.
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I just googled the Sonia Kashuk makeup remover, omg the packaging is so pretty! Wow some awesome previews on it too. I can't wait to go to the US to stock up at target and sephora!!
I've just finished off my bottle of this, and I'm seriously itching to get another one! I'm currently using the My Beauty Diary Peach Soda Eye & Lip Makeup Remover. It was the pretty cute packaging that sucked me in (product wise, it's okay) … it gets me every time!
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Wow it is very cute packaging. Where did you get it from?
From memory, I think it was from Sasa online. However I've seen them sold on eBay as well 🙂
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This makeup remover is also one of my favourite removers. It worked quite well at removing waterproof mascara which for me was the most annoying to remove haha.
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I don't use mascara that often. Everytime I buy mascara, it ends up drying up. I did use it a few times to test this remover though as well as waterproof eyeliner.
Thanks for this review, I've been wanting to try a new eye makeup remover since the one I'm using right now isn't very good at all. I will try this one next 🙂
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love, love, LOVE this makeup remover! I've tried this along with the wipes version. Personally, I prefer the wipes mainly because digging for cotton balls is too much physical exertion while taking off my makeup…
I know, I've got issues. LOL great review though ~ I couldn't agree more
LOL Christine, you sound so lazy. There's wipe version? I wonder if we have them in Australia. I think I'll be visiting the US at the year so I'll ask you for product recommendations!
Unfortunately there's a lot of truth to that.. LOL I figured the less I have to do, the better.
But yes, there is a wipe version – I find it quite useful. They also have these travel packs which I LOVE because they're small enough so that I can carry them around in a clutch, they don't take up room at all (: yes, I'd love to compare products with you <3
This does wonders but I hate the icky grease afterwards! It says oil free but I can't deal with the texture after I have taken my make up off.
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Hey Anna! I know what you mean about the grease afterwards, I usually wash my face after I remove my eye makeup so it doesn't really bothers me.


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By Hope William Sykes
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1982, 309 pages, softcover.
The backbreaking labor of German-Russian immigrants in the sugar beet fields of Colorado is described with acute perception in Hope Sykes's Second Hoeing. First published in 1936, the novel was greeted in all quarters as an impressive and authoritative evocation of these recent immigrants and their struggle to realize the promise of their chosen country.
Hope Williams Sykes (1901-1973) devoted the greater part of her writing career to the portrayal of the German-Russian immigrants. Second Hoeing is her first novel.
"Second Hoeing takes on the stature of a powerful proletarian drama of the American soil, with children the main protagonists upon whom the bitter impact of economic struggle is spent." -- New York Times
"We are soon held by the vividness of the picture she draws and in a little while we find ourselves caring really intensely what becomes of them all." -- Saturday Review of Literature
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We have some great news to share: we've removed the limits on free Readability accounts. All users—free and paying—now get unlimited access to their Reading List, Favorites, Archives, and all our other features.
One detail that had set Readability apart from Instapaper and ReadItLater was that Readability offered a premium subscription service. Users could pay to remove the limitations imposed on the free service. Those funds were used to pay the developers as well as the publishers, bloggers, and authors who signed up with the service.
In fact, that whole subscription deal set Readability apart from just about everyone. None of the app-based aggregators (Flipboard, Zite) charged a fee, nor did any of the reading services (aside from Instapaper and the apps they sold). That always struck me as a little weird; I didn't see how anyone else was going to make a living at it.
But now the free service will be as functional as the paid and that means that there is little to differentiate Readability in terms of cost. Now they'll need to continue to work on offering the best features.
To be honest, I've never used Readability much. For what I needed, Instapaper and dotEpub worked just fine. Both already were free. One supported a bookmarked list of content that I could send to my ereader, and the other let me clean up an article so I could read it locally.


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Sandra Bullock has had a banner year. She's been in one minor hit (The Proposal), one mega-box office champ (The Blind Side) and is being heavily touted for a potential Oscar nod for her work in the latter. She garnered two Golden Globe nods for each and was just named 2009's Top Earning Star, beating out such able competition and Johnny Depp and George Clooney. So who cares if she was also responsible for one of the most reprehensible, incomprehensible movies of the last 12 months? While The Proposal pulled in over $300 million worldwide, and The Blind Side has done $200+ and growing, it doesn't matter that the miserable All About Steve bombed at about $34 million. What is of concern is how crappy the movie is, how awkward and irritating Bullock's crossword puzzle creator protagonist is, and how genuinely junky the whole pointless experience becomes over 90 noxious minutes.
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Similarly, director Phil Traill proves why the vast majority of his credits have been one-off work for various failed TV sitcoms and hour long dramas. He timing is off by about 27.5 frames a second and he never met a punchline he couldn't pull by a badly situated set-up. When Mary first meets Steve and basically throws herself at him sexually, it could have been a friendly, farcical comic moment. Instead, Traill turns it into something to be pitied, a clearly unstable woman making a libidinous fool of herself in front of a man who, at least initially, isn't beyond taking full advantage of her. Similarly, Church's egomaniacal media star constantly plays with Mary's emotions and personal safety. If it wasn't for the expositional arrival of some equally forced fringe dwelling stereotypes (DJ Qualls as a tentative tech head, Katy Mixon as a bubble headed bimbette) his actions would be almost criminal. Indeed, a lot of what happens in All About Steve is so unbelievable and unrealistic that when the third act stretches for some authenticity, the movie eventually bends, then breaks.
Of course, by that point, you've already made up your mind. You've either bought Bullock as the lamentable lonely hearts case marginalized by a world that just doesn't get her numerous insular eccentricities, or you want to kick the TV screen out of flat-out frustration. Perhaps within a different dynamic, beyond the out of her league lead who believes she is finally giving a "performance" vs. a well thought out Access Hollywood star turn, this might work. Maybe a less self-conscious actress could find her way around Barker's nut burger burlesque. That, of course, assumes that there are other elements outside the film's cinematic center worth caring about and that's just not true. All About Steve is a movie that needed to be smaller, to be less about the wacky madcap adventures of its grating, irritating lead and more about the many reasons for her sheltered, insecure demeanor. Instead of a big budget farce it should have been a low budget character piece. The parts are in place for something insight about the human spirit and the social reaction to same. Instead, we get a dithering, dopey waste of time disguised as a daring A-list turn.
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There are also two behind the scenes featurettes - one fake, one real - that provide both a comic (or what someone thought was comic) and serious backstage glimpse at the film's creation. The false offering features someone named Mena Micheletti running around like an idiot interviewing the cast and crew. She will try you patience. The other is a typical EPK, 'isn't this fun' attempt to sell the movie. It's intriguing, but superficial. All of these bonus features are offered in 1080p, by the way. The final extras - Fox Movie Channel Presents Life After Film School with Phil Traill - is in standard definition, and gives the director a chance to acquit himself. For the most part, he does. Toss in about five minutes of Blu-ray quality trailers and a digital copy of the film, and you've got more added content than All About Steve truly deserves.
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Oceanside City Councilwoman Esther Sanchez said last week that the San Diego Humane Society should "give us back our building" if the society is going to stop providing animal control services in Oceanside.
Sanchez on Friday urged the group to get out of the Oceanside building the city deeded more than 45 years ago to North County Humane Society, which merged with the San Diego group earlier this year.
"The public should demand that the Humane Society give us back our building. Then we can find another nonprofit and get on with animal control," she said.
Sanchez also said Oceanside residents should stop giving money to the Humane Society after its president, Mark Goldstein, put the city on notice Monday that it would not renew its animal control contract with the city when it expires Oct. 31.
In announcing the decision, Goldstein said Oceanside's animal-control services were interfering with the agency's other functions.
Goldstein said the city has no legal claim to the society's shelter on San Luis Rey Road, and he added that telling people to stop making donations only hurts the animals and people who depend on the Humane Society.
"How does that help animals, by telling people not to donate to the cause?" Goldstein asked.
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City Attorney John Mullen said the city in 1963 deeded the San Luis Road property to the North County Humane Society on condition that the society maintain it as an animal shelter.
The deed has been modified several times, adding to the size of the property, but the substance of the agreement remained essentially the same, Mullen said.
He said he's analyzing the deeds to see whether the city has any recourse.
"We're evaluating all of our options," Mullen said. He did not elaborate.
The San Diego Humane Society absorbed the North County Humane Society in January and turned the Oceanside shelter into what it calls its North Campus.
Goldstein said the Humane Society intends to continue operating the Oceanside site as an animal shelter. It has an animal control contract with Vista that has another year to run, and the society is expanding its other programs at the Oceanside site that are not related to animal control, he said.
"We're not walking away," Goldstein said. "We haven't even started."
The contract
Oceanside's contract with the Humane Society, under which it paid $788,760 a year for animal control services, expired June 30 but was renewed through Oct. 31, pending negotiation of a new contract.
Without an animal control contract with the Humane Society, Oceanside will have no way to pick up or care for stray animals after Oct. 31.
Goldstein promised to work with the city during what he said will be a six-month transition period.
Just what that means will be determined in talks between the city and the Humane Society, said Doug Eddow, the city real estate manager who was in charge of negotiating a new contract with the Humane Society until Goldstein announced there would be no new contract.
Ideally, the Humane Society will agree to continue providing full animal control services for the six months while the city figures out what to do next, Eddow said.
"My preference is maintain the status quo," he said.
Goldstein said, "We're there to help."
Sanchez said she figures the San Diego Humane Society never wanted to be in the animal control business and has planned, ever since it absorbed the North County Humane Society, to discontinue the service as soon as it could get out of the contract it inherited from the North County group.
"It certainly does look like it was by design," Sanchez said. "What they've done is bait-and-switch."
"Absolutely not true," Goldstein said.
Some complaints
Four former members of the San Diego Humane Society's board of directors ---- Nancy Vaughan, Mike Luther, Lori Walton and Jeff Lyle ---- joined the fray this week, saying in an open letter that the Humane Society "pulled a fast one on the city of Oceanside."
The former board members weren't in on the society's decision to stop providing animal control services to Oceanside, but said the action was shameful.
They wrote that Goldstein "has decided to take his resources and just walk away from the animals of Oceanside."
The Humane Society has also come under fire from some former volunteers who said it was euthanizing animals from its Oceanside shelter that could have been saved.
Goldstein said that's untrue, that no healthy or treatable animal that doesn't have behavior problems has been euthanized.
He said the complaints have been confined to a handful of disgruntled former volunteers from Oceanside.
Vista, which continues to have an animal control contract with the society, has gotten few complaints about the Humane Society, Assistant City Manager Patrick Johnson said.
"We're satisfied with their services," Johnson said.
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Orlando, Fla.Kingston Technology Co. Inc. released a 2-Gbyte microSD card with mini- and standard-size Secure Digital (SD) adapters to maximize microSD card compatibility and interoperability between mobile phones, digital cameras and portable media devices.
The larger 2-Gbyte capacity card with two adapters further increases the flexibility of the microSD platform.
"With microSD cards becoming an emerging standard in many multifunction handsets, Kingston decided to enhance the popular and very practical microSD dual adapter pack with the addition of a 2-Gbyte card," said Jean Wong, flash memory product manager, Kingston, in a statement. "The new 2-Gbyte microSD dual adapter bundle lets consumers do more with a single card investment and proves advantageous to retailers with fewer SKUs to stock."
Consisting of a 2-Gbyte microSD card; a microSD to miniSD card adapter; and a microSD to full-size SD card adapter, the 2-Gbyte microSD dual adapter pack, Kingston part number: (SDC/2GB-2ADP), is priced at $58 and is backed by a lifetime warranty and free 24/7 technical support for the 2-Gbyte microSD card.
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This truly is an encyclopedia of practical ideas for women's ministry leaders. What intrigued me the most about the title was "for the 21st Century." I thought it would be interesting to see what those outside this office would think a 21st century women's ministry would look. Contributors to this book were from Vineyard churches, a Christian church, an Evangelical Free church, and a Lutheran church.
The book does contain some great and practical ideas. There are nine sections. Section one is entitled Fellowship and Fun-
"…The church is to be built on relationships and community. The Bible says more than once that we are the body of Christ-we are all connected." "One of your jobs as a women's ministry director is to help women build deep lasting ties with other women in the church…learn to bear one another's burdens and to love one another with Christ's love…" "Help every woman in your church discover how we are mysteriously and wonderfully interconnected and interdependent."
This section has some great ideas for welcoming, icebreakers, and fellowship.
Section two is about serving others.
"The Bible never calls for us to be spectators, or worse, to be needy creatures who continually enjoy being served without ever returning the favor by serving others. In fact, the Bible makes it quite clear that each Christian has been given a gift and is expected to use that gift for the benefit of the body."
There are great service ideas from haircuts for those in jail or shelters to helping those in the congregation with home projects.
Section three covers spiritual growth.
"It's also helpful for women to spend time with other women who know and love Jesus. In every church, there are women who are wise and spiritually mature. These women are great examples to others. Spiritually mature women can encourage others, inspire others, instruct others, counsel others, and gently rebuke others where needed."
This section includes a mentoring program, ten-minute devotions to be used in a group (some good, some shallow, some out of context), and fifteen group prayer ideas (that I personally found hokey).
On Bible studies they state, "Bible studies are the core of every women's ministry." The Bible studies included in the manual are open-ended questions with no theological guidance for the leader.
Section five is called "Girls Movie Night Out." This section has more than 25 movie choices with discussion questions. For more formal gatherings, section six tackles celebrations and special events. "There are several events in this section that are designed to celebrate family relationships or a special time in someone's life" There are some great ideas for special events that include teens in celebrating with each other.
The chapter on outreach not only gives some clever outreach program ideas, but it offers help in practice sharing Christ. Before an outreach event, a few meetings are planned to help women practice sharing their faith.
Many women's ministries offer retreats.
"Retreats are wonderful opportunities for women to get away from their everyday responsibilities and to rest, have fun, and spend some concentrated time learning about God"
Here you will find basic retreat planning information, suggested schedules, discussion group ideas, and themes.
But, back to my interest in what others thought a 21st century women's ministry would look like in structure. The "Leader Helps" segment is full of information about purpose statements, building leadership teams, team communication, job descriptions, surveys, and financial forms. I chuckled to myself, because it was like reading our old WIC Manual…very similar actually. We are ahead of the game! Others think the 21st Century does want structure.
Until we can produce our own comprehensive manual, I would recommend this as a resource to those who could wisely use the ideas through our reformed/covenantal grid.


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wow i really enjoyed reading this! nice job! :D (sorry this is short, i have to go....)
over 5 years ago AAA said:
kªsey felix, page 2 of the comments: THAT'S THE POINT!!! HAVING A "LAST BATTLE TO END ALL BATTLES" IS RIDICULOUS! THE ENTIRE PIECE IS SATIRE!!! AND EVERY COUNTRY WRITING DOWN THE NAME OF THE COUNTRY TO ITS LEFT IS THE POINT! IT WOULD !OBVIOUSLY! STILL WORK OUT AND THE AUTHOR KNEW THIS, EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE WRITING! THAT'S THE POINT! IT'S HILARIOUS! Also, I kinda like the writing style with too many "ands" and lengthy sentences... It added an element of humor-for me at least.
over 5 years ago AAA said:
To Sarah Gerton and the viewing public: I liked the wordiness of "the sub-junior temporary part-time assistant journalist" because it made it even more humorous. Which the entire piece IS. Also, calling it the Wasted, Pointless War is COOLIO because it adds EMPHASIS and MORE HUMOR!!! WHICH I LOVE!! AWESOMENESS!!!
over 6 years ago Jaz Higgs said:
I like this, I found it odd but really cool :) well done
over 5 years ago clarisse sofia said:
I LOVE it and it was pretty amazing for me and my sister P.S we were reading it together but, at some parts of the really confused me and my sister we did not know what was happening so I got lost in some parts of that story my sister kinda got what it meant but I got sooo lost so please EDIT your book
over 6 years ago D.T. Brumwell said:
Interesting, at some parts of the story it got confusing not knowing whats actually happening but it was good.


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Verdi goes Vegas in a flashy new production of the opera \"Rigoletto\" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York that features neon lights, a Cadillac and a naked cabaret dancer. Tony award-winning director Michael Mayer has moved the original story from 16th century Italy to 1960s Sin City. His gamble appears to have paid off with audiences, although theater critics are not so sure. One of Giuseppe Verdi\'s masterpieces, the opera tells the tragic story of the deformed jester Rigoletto in the court of the Duke of Mantua, his beautiful daughter Gilda and a twisted love triangle involving the duke and a courtier. Mayer said the piece translated naturally to the Nevada desert, or, more specifically, to a hotel and casino in America\'s gambling capital. \"What is the cultural equivalent to the world of this opera? It\'s licentious, it\'s decadent, it\'s a world where women are basically play things and sexual objects,\" Mayer said. \"It\'s a place where there is a lot of glamour, a lot of money and power and sex and violence, a place where there is a culture of luck and belief in superstition. So, I thought of Las Vegas, of course.\" \"I believe it\'s really worth reimagining the great classics in a fresh way that can illuminate aspects of the story or the score or the characters in a way that the people can relate to in a contemporary way,\" he added. In this version, the duke appears at the start of the performance in a white dinner jacket that references Frank Sinatra, duke of the famous Rat Pack of entertainers who ruled the roost in Vegas in the 1950s. Among other modern features, Gilda is kidnapped and hidden in a sarcophagus, and a vintage Cadillac\'s trunk is eventually used to hide her dead body, accompanied by powerful neon lighting in the final scene. At the opening night performance on Monday there were frequent interruptions for applause, not to mention hoots of excitement at the start of the third act when the cabaret dancer strips half naked. But critics were not quite so taken with the experiment. The New York Times\' Anthony Tommasini said \"the production was a frustrating mix of inventive and half-baked thinking.\" Joe Dziemianowicz, from the Daily News, said \"the Met\'s much-hyped \'Rigoletto\' is a dazzler and a downer. It gleams with vivid neon and vibrant singing. It is clouded by lethargy. A jackpot, it\'s not.\" On February 16, \"Rigoletto\" will be broadcast live to 1,900 movie theaters in 64 countries around the world as part of the Met\'s program to broaden its audience. Last season the Met showed 11 operas in a total of 54 countries.
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BOSTON (CBS/AP) – Former House Speaker Sal DiMasi's corruption trial begins next month and taxpayers will pay for his defense.
DiMasi and friends Joseph McDonough and Richard Vitale are charged with scheming to rig lucrative state contracts for the Burlington software company Cognos in exchange for payments, with DiMasi allegedly pocketing $57,000.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that DiMasi can use court-appointed lawyers and named his current attorneys Thomas Kiley and William Cintolo to fill that role.
"The court finds that DiMasi is unable to continue to retain counsel privately and that exceptional circumstances justify the appointment of his previously retained counsel," U.S. District Court Chief Judge Mark Wolf wrote in his ruling.
His team would earn the standard $125 an hour for government-appointed lawyers. If the trial lasts two months, DiMasi's total legal bills could top $100,000.
WBZ-TV's Sera Congi reports
Earlier this month, another co-defendant, Joseph Lally, pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against DiMasi and the others as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.
The trial is scheduled to start on April 26.
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During the second week of the fall semester, the Office of Student Development coordinates a calendar of activities that are organized by various departments and programs on campus. 20-30 departments across campus usually participate in Welcome Week and offer a variety of activities that help welcome new and returning students to College of the Canyons. Activities range from information tables, open houses, to workshops.
Welcome Week 2016
August 29 - September 2, 2016
Welcome Week Calendar - Canyon Country Campus
Welcome Week Calendar - Valencia Campus


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Douglas McClarty
Getting Old - Poem by Douglas McClarty
Sit me down in a comfy chair
With a blanket round my bony legs
Just let me sleep, sometimes stare
For I'm getting old and very tired
Just want to sit with my thoughts
Make conversation short with me
And perhaps an occasional cup of tea.
See my grandchildren for a little while
They always manage to make me smile
Please don't feel pity or sorrow for me
For I had like you, days happy, carefree
Now I replay them while I rest and dream
The past is all all I have now, it would seem
For all my friends and love ones are so few
As far as visits go I'm now just last in the Que.
I sit in a home full of strangers, all like me
Just green bottles on the wall, I'm counting.
Topic(s) of this poem: Time
Comments about Getting Old by Douglas McClarty
Valsa George (5/28/2014 6:49:00 AM)
The humble aspirations of a man grown gracefully old.... no regrets!
Please don't feel pity or sorrow for me
For I had like you, days happy, carefree
An enviable attitude which most of the aged lack.... Enjoyed this poem on senility! (Report) Reply
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