text:
A Study Comparing Subcutaneous Mircera and Darbepoetin Alfa for Maintenance Treatment of Anemia in Kidney Transplant Recipients.
This study has been completed.
Hoffmann-La Roche
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First Posted: January 31, 2008
Last Update Posted: September 23, 2016
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Hoffmann-La Roche
- Full Text View
- Tabular View
- Study Results
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
This two arm study will compare the efficacy and safety of subcutaneous Mircera versus darbepoetin alfa for the maintenance of hemoglobin levels in kidney transplant recipients with chronic renal anemia. Patients currently receiving maintenance treatment with darbepoetin alfa will be randomized either to receive 4-weekly injections of Mircera with a starting dose (120, 200 or 360 micrograms subcutaneously) derived from the dose of darbepoetin alfa they were receiving in the 2 weeks preceding study start, or to stay on 2-weekly darbepoetin alfa therapy. The anticipated time on study treatment is 3-12 months, and the target sample size is 100-500 individuals.
|Drug: Darbepoetin alfa Drug: methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta [Mircera]
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|An Open Label Randomised Controlled Study to Compare the Efficacy, Safety and Tolerability of Once-monthly Administration of Subcutaneous Mircera Versus Darboepoetin Alfa for the Maintenance of Haemoglobin Levels in Renal Transplant Recipients With Chronic Renal Anaemia.
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Anemia Kidney Transplantation
Drug Information available for: Darbepoetin AlfaU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Hoffmann-La Roche:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- The Percentage of Participants Maintaining Average Haemoglobin (Hb) Concentration During the Efficacy Evaluation Period (EEP) Within the Target Range [ Time Frame: Weeks 16-28 ]Key outcomes will be assessed during the first 12 weeks following the 16 weeks dose titration period, i.e. during the Efficacy Evaluation Period (EEP). Assessments performed every four weeks, beginning at week 16 up to week 28. The reference haemoglobin is defined as the mean of the two assessments recorded during the SVP (weeks -4 and -2). For the purposes of efficacy assessment the target haemoglobin concentration range will be defined as ± 1 g/dL of the reference haemoglobin concentration AND within the range 10 - 12 g/dL.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Mean Change in Hb Concentration From Baseline to Efficacy Evaluation Period (EEP) [ Time Frame: Baseline to 28 weeks ]Reference haemoglobin at baseline is defined as the mean of the two assessments recorded at weeks -4 and -2. Additional assessments were then performed every 4 weeks at week 0 through week 28. Mean change was calculated as value at 28 weeks minus baseline.
- Percentage of Participants Maintaining Hb Concentration in 10-12 g/dL Range Throughout the Efficacy Evaluation Period (EEP) [ Time Frame: Weeks 16-28 ]
- Mean Time Spent in 10-12g/dL Range During the Efficacy Evaluation Period (EEP) [ Time Frame: Weeks 16-28 ]Efficacy Evaluation Period was the 12 weeks following 16 weeks of treatment in the Dose Titration Period.
- Percentage of Participants Needing Dose Adjustments [ Time Frame: Up to 28 weeks ]Assessment of the Dose Titration Period of 16 weeks of treatment and following 12 weeks, known as the Efficacy Evaluation Period (EEP).
- Incidence of RBC Transfusions [ Time Frame: Up to 28 weeks ]Assessment of the Dose Titration Period of 16 weeks of treatment and following 12 weeks, known as the Efficacy Evaluation Period (EEP).
|Study Start Date:
|December 2007
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: CERA Treatment Once Monthly
Drug: methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta [Mircera]
120, 200 or 360 micrograms sc 4-weekly (starting dose)
|Active Comparator: Darbepoetin Alfa Once Biweekly
Drug: Darbepoetin alfa
As prescribed
Information from the National Library of Medicine
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- adult patients, > or = 18 years of age;
- kidney transplant recipients with stage 3 or stage 4 chronic kidney disease;
- functioning graft of > 6 months and < 10 years after kidney transplantation, with no signs of acute rejection;
- stable maintenance subcutaneous darbepoetin alfa therapy every 2 weeks.
Exclusion Criteria:
- transfusion of red blood cells during previous 2 months;
- poorly controlled hypertension;
- significant acute or chronic bleeding;
- need for dialysis therapy expected in next 6 months.
Contacts and Locations
Information from the National Library of Medicine
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): NCT00605345
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00605345
|Badalona, Barcelona, Spain, 08915
|Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, 08907
|Santander, Cantabria, Spain, 39008
|Córdoba, Cordoba, Spain, 14004
|La Coruna, La Coruña, Spain, 15006
|Santiago de Compostela, La Coruña, Spain, 15706
|Barakaldo, Vizcaya, Spain, 48903
|Galdakao, Vizcaya, Spain, 48960
|Alicante, Spain, 03010
|Badajoz, Spain, 06080
|Barcelona, Spain, 08003
|Barcelona, Spain, 08025
|Barcelona, Spain, 08036
|Ciudad Real, Spain, 13005
|Granada, Spain, 18014
|Madrid, Spain, 28007
|Madrid, Spain, 28040
|Madrid, Spain, 28041
|Madrid, Spain, 28222
|Valencia, Spain, 46017
|Valladolid, Spain, 47005
Sponsors and Collaborators
Hoffmann-La Roche
|Study Director:
|Clinical Trials
|Hoffmann-La Roche
More Information
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Campistol JM, Carreño A, Morales JM, Pallardó L, Franco A, Navarro D, Grinyó JM, Montenegro J, Sánchez Fructuoso AI, Romero R, Guirado L, Arias M; TIVOLI Study Group. Once-monthly pegylated epoetin Beta versus darbepoetin alfa every two weeks in renal transplant recipients: a randomized trial. Transplantation. 2013 Jan 27;95(2):e6-e10. doi: DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e3182782f3a.
|Responsible Party:
|Hoffmann-La Roche
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00605345 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Submitted:
|January 18, 2008
|First Posted:
|January 31, 2008
|Results First Submitted:
|April 19, 2016
|Results First Posted:
|August 5, 2016
|Last Update Posted:
|September 23, 2016
|Last Verified:
|April 2016
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hematologic Diseases
Darbepoetin alfa


text:
Stay on top of all our E3 2013 coverage here.
Nintendo had plenty to show during its Electronic Entertainment Expo Nintendo Direct stream today, including our first looks at the new Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart 8, and Super Mario 3D World. Catch up on all the new Wii U and Nintendo 3DS videos below.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Confirmed: Leicester complete the signing of Demarai Gray from Birmingham
LEICESTER have completed the signing of Demarai Gray from Birmingham on a four-and-a-half year deal.
Demarai Gray has completed a move to Leicester
The England under-20 star joins for an undisclosed fee and is excited by the challenge at the KP Stadium.
Gray said: "It's been my dream to play in the Premier League since I started playing football so I'm very happy to join the Club.
"It's a great Club. The facilities are great and for a player like me it's an ideal place for me to improve. Meeting all the staff here, it seems like a nice family place, so I think that's perfect for me.
"You can see how well the team has been doing this year and I watch a lot of football so I can see that the way Leicester City play suits my style.
"I only hear good things about Leicester and I'm looking forward to starting."
Gray is in line to make his debut against Tottenham in the FA Cup next weekend.
BREAKING: #lcfc sign winger @Demarai7 from Birmingham City. #GrayLCFC pic.twitter.com/Oz61oDPjQy— Leicester City (@LCFC) January 4, 2016


text:
June 5, 1991
It's a well-known fact in our family that fancy restaurants and I don't get along well. Here's an old tale from an eating experience that happened 20 years ago.
By DAVID GREEN
I just wasn't thinking very clearly last December when I bought my wife a gift certificate to a hoity-toity restaurant in an unnamed Lenawee County community. What I wasn't clear about was realizing that I would have to go with her.
The certificate was due to expire later this moth, so we made our babysitting arrangements and took off last Sunday.
First came potential problem No 1: Was I dressed properly? I really didn't care, and I would have been delighted had they refused my entry. The question was answered upon our arrival when I spotted the guy in shorts and the "Hi, I'm Bart Simpson. Who the..." T-shirt. Comparatively speaking, I was dapper.
The hostess sat us at a table right next to another couple despite a nearly empty room. I don't understand why they do this, unless they think you want to eavesdrop on the neighbors conversation. That's just what I did in this case because it was so strange at times.
"What do you hear from your cousin Fred?"
"Fred is dead."
We ordered the buffet and bellied up to the salad bar to get this project underway. A little kid was standing near the door of an adjoining room talking about throwing up. I took a helping of creamed Brussels sprouts, thinking how it would take three days of eating to get your money's worth from this joint.
We went back to our table and overheard George's wife telling another couple how he eats a clove of garlic every day—peel the skin and fry it. I found a small, dark hair in my corn and peas mixture.
"I wonder if they have alligator filet here," someone said to her friend at a table in back of me. I thought I heard wrong, but she later asked the waitress about it.
I could never get more than two sips of water down before the meddling water boy rushed up to fill my glass.
Now George was telling how he had Part-timers Disease—he only forgets part of the time.
We were given our own private little loaf of bread. I sliced off the first piece and nimbly flipped it onto the floor. The water boy came and filled my glass until it ran over onto the floor. He apologized and said he only does that once a day. Lucky me, I was left with a drinking glass that couldn't have been moved without spilling. I should have had him sip it for me.
We finished our salads and made our move for the main entrée line. But first, Colleen stepped on her long skirt while rising from her chair and had to quickly sit back down.
We returned with full plates to hear George complaining about the children of the Dr. Ruth generation. I found a longer blonde hair in my creamed potatoes. I knew where it came from; almost all the help was tall and blond. It was that first black hair that had me concerned.
We were plenty bloated by the time we licked our plates clean. Colleen recently read that overeating robs your brain of blood and consequently murders brain cells by the tens of thousands. She didn't care. This was Christmas in June. We rose to leave and her napkin tumbled to the floor. Her brain was going fast; already she forgot about the napkin on her lap.
We'll have to come again soon. We could bring the kids and still get a little change back...from a hundred dollar bill.


text: Greetings, I recently bought this cute, little Minolta 14 flash unit. I know it's compatible with the X-700, but I can't seem to control the flash. Its amount of flash is always the same... How do I work it properly with my X-700? Also, I have a Minolta Hi-Matic G. I bought the 14 flash to go with it. I'm not entirely sure how to work it with that either. :\ Thanks guys. Have a nice day.


text:
I have obtained several articles and cannot connect the dots to my family - John CREIGHTON - from Tamlaght O'Crilly, Ireland to Ontario, Canada c 1830; family of his son James CREIGHTON and Ann nee ENGLISH emigrated to Alberta early 1900's from Dorchester, Ontario.
Willing to share info/articles re the following:
Obit - John Creighton born Nappan, NB in 1851; to Calgary from Chatham, NB in 1887
50th Anniversary – Arthur Creighton b Collington, Ont; to Edmonton 1911; former lineman with the 1922 edition of the Edmonton Eskimos; Mrs. Creighton (no maiden name) born Belfast, Ireland; to Canada 1908
Member of Blood Indian tribe – Percy Creighton ; Lethbridge, Alberta
Arthur Creighton – operated the Olds Drug Company – Alberta
Billy Creighton – homesteaded Rosebud area, Alberta; sold in 1922
John and Agnes Creighton from Alexander, Manitoba to Alberta; son Fin who died 1934; Elsie Margaret and Andrew Alexander died very young and buried in the cemetery at Alexander, MB; Dr. Jack Creighton of Nanton and Dr. Jim Creighton of Estevan, Sask went to the Boer War; daughter Agnes married Jack Lineham; a second article on the Tom and Janet Lineham – Janet (Nettie) Creighton married 1906 Okotoks, Alberta; she was the 6th child of 10 born to John and Jent Creighton early settler of the east Black Diamond area and homesteaded in Youngstown country.
Agnes Creighton 1890-1968/John Melville Lineham 1882-1952 married 1911 Youngstown, Alberta; daughter Elsie born 1912; son Jack born 1919; moved to Calgary 1935
Alec Creighton born Ontario 1881; to Alberta; wife Annie born Melita, Manitoba – maiden name McGregor; no family
Clarence and Lucy Creighton to Daysland, Alberta March 1929; 3 sons – Donald, Alex and Johnny
James and Nancy Creighton – James born Ontario 1884; Nancy nee Berry born Clementsport, NS 1884; Nancy worked in a shoe factory in Brockton, MA; 1918, she and her brother Chester to Daysland, Alberta to visit her sister, Mrs. Ray Bowlby; James and Nancy adopted a son James Jr.
Obit - William Creighton died 1940 Edmonton; native of Cobourg, Ont; settled at Yellow Grass, Sask 1899; 1911 to Edmonton; married in 1887 to Margaret Metheral at Dunedin, Ont; one daughter Mrs. T. A. Johnston W Vancouver; sons Kenneth of Camrose and Arthur of Edmonton; brother Arthur of Duncan BC; Tom of Flin Flon Man; Jack of Aldina, Sask; sisters Mary Creighton of N Vancouver; Jean Creighton of Boston, MA; Mrs. Francis Dobbs of Toronto; Mrs. Letita Doake of Zepher Ont and Mrs. M Gowan of Kitchener, Ont. Son J. D. Creighton killed in France in 1917.
Obit – William James Creighton died 1947; born Pinketton, Ont in 1871; to Manitoba when 12 years old living in Brandon, Man until 1915 when he moved to Nevis, Alberta
George Creighton (Bar C ranch) died 1915; brother Tom from Eastern Canada took over the ranch
Bashaw Alberta – mention of Rev. O Creighton
Wainwright & Districts Alberta – mention of John Creighton; owner of the Wainwright Hotel; grandson born at the hotel was Robert Creighton
Bill Creighton – from the Langham district, near Saskatoon to Alberta; worked in a blacksmith shop in Kindersley
More Replies:
Re: CREIGHTON CROCKETT ENGLISH
Cynthia Young 11/09/11
Re: CREIGHTON CROCKETT ENGLISH
Lynn 11/12/11
Re: CREIGHTON CROCKETT ENGLISH
Cynthia Young 11/12/11
- Re: CREIGHTON CROCKETT ENGLISH
- Re: CREIGHTON CROCKETT ENGLISH


text:
Post 'em if ya gots 'em! And if you don't gots one, go record something!
As always: any genre, any level of refinement or skill, any instruments. Anything goes. Thread open all weekend. Comments on others' submissions welcome.
Post 'em if ya gots 'em! And if you don't gots one, go record something!
As always: any genre, any level of refinement or skill, any instruments. Anything goes. Thread open all weekend. Comments on others' submissions welcome.
Here's mine: wrote this last month. This is the crude demo I did so the band could hear it--hoping it will become a band song, if they like it. As usual, '74 Hummingbird and vocal through AT2020 mikes into a Fostex VF80 8-track, with moderate amount of EQ and compression.
A Thousand Cannonballs
Michael Martin: Nice sketch. Have you read Tunesmith? Has some great tips for matching words to music.
Just an old Jimmy Rogers tune I've always enjoyed performing, and one that I get a lot of requests for.
As usual, just a simple one mic recording to my computer, but this time I'm using my new-fangled USB mic cable, attached to a Shure SM58.
T For Texas, T For Tennessee (Blue Yodel #1)
As is so often the case, I used my beloved "#1", my Guild JF4, and a Hohner Big River Harp (in A).
No yodels were harmed in the making of this recording...
TAH: Nice - I particularly liked the harmonica.
BTW I tried listening to this on a Nexus 7 tablet and it couldn't find the file or your website. EDIT: Works fine here - it was Melodyvine I was having the problems.
Here's an original piece I've been working on. It started as a hammer-on/pull-off exercise and grew from there. I like to think of it as a guitar version of "silly sally sells seashells down by the seashore." I call it Rolling C's - once you hear it that should make sense.
Recorded on my Silver Creek T-160 into the internal mics of a Zoom H4. EQ'd and sweetened with an impulse reverb in Cubase. I hope you enjoy.
I've enjoyed the forum for years but haven't posted anything on the VOM because I figured that my band's music was a bit fringe. Anyway, here goes...
On this song I get to fingerpick, strum rhythm and take a short solo. The song was recorded live at a videotaping session, the orchestration was overdubed and some video footage from a gig was added. Playing my Larrivee D-03 with an LR Baggs magnetic pickup through an SWR California Blonde amp.
Hey all,
This song is called Romance by Robert Schumann. It was written somewhere between 1810 and his death in 1856. I added an effect to give it a spooky feel. Other than that it's just a steel string acoustic. Enjoy!


text:
Denmark Court Records
Denmark Court Records
Court records offer information about how your ancestors lived. Three kinds of court records are kept in Denmark:
|You Can Use this Record to Find...
- Cases regarding land rights
- Inheritance (probate) cases
- Theft and murder cases
The records of the probate court and land records are explained in the "Probate Records" and "Land Records" sections.
Most court records start sometime in the 1600s, and they contain both criminal and civil action. Before the probate law of 1683, many probate records were part of the general court records.
Denmark is divided into civil districts called herred and birke.
Until 1805, cities comprised two court jurisdictions. The Bytinget is the city court. (The judge is called Byfogden.) The Rådstueretten is the city hall court. (The judge is called the Magistraten.)
In the 1700s, the city court [Bytinget] was the court of first instance (the court where a case starts) in general cases. City hall courts [Rådstueretten] handled matters of commerce, such as citizenship records. See the "Occupations" section.
The records kept by the herred, birke, and byting courts contain much genealogical information, especially regarding inheritance matters. However, they are usually hard to read and understand, and most of them are not indexed. Some indexes can be found in court records after 1801.
Another source is the Danish Chancery Court Records. Chauncery records were the records of the king's court and were a type of court record. They include requests made to the king, such as requests for confirmation (authorization) of wills, review of previous court's decisions, permission to marry a cousin, and authority for an underage heir to act as his own guardian.
Many Danish court records are available on microfilm. You find the records in the Family History Library Catalog under:


text:
What Liberals
In his essay, "Liberalism's Modest Proposals," Daniel Sarewitz makes the mistake of presupposing that "liberals" even exist.
Any attempt to assign attitudes to industrial and economic policy and income redistribution, according to some conservative-liberal-radical spectrum, ends up blunting analysis by assigning policy preferences to nonexistent political categories. It is interesting to note that Hayek published this conviction some 70 years ago.
I take issue with (Sarewitz's implicit) American predilection for thinking that good policy outcomes are subsequent to the adoption of "right views." This is a heritage of an America of religious sectarians, whose discourse is largely embodied in disputes over creed, rather than disputes over practice. Our current policy dilemmas are not caused by people having wrong ideas, as by structural contradictions in the current phase of advanced capitalism. Sarewitz imagines that you fix systemic problems by assigning moral responsibility to individuals who are saying/doing bad things, and whose "ideas" are "in the way." But this is not the way the world works.
The problems we have in getting the kind of energy policy that Sarewitz (and I, for that matter) would like to see are a matter of capital flows and of scaling, not of bad ideas by liberals. If every one of his nonexistent liberals, who want to price the developing world out of cheap energy, were to vanish from the planet tomorrow, we would still have the problem of capital flows and scaling. As to capital flows, we would need massive state intervention to bridge the gap between invention and innovation for substitute energy systems to replace the rapidly vanishing economy of cheap petroleum.
Even if we could find major coalitions of states willing to do that, there is not enough capital available in the world to accomplish even the beginning stages of such a transition without the kinds of taxation and central direction policies that are anathema to American and, only to a slightly lesser extent, European capital markets.
Finally, as to scaling, the substitution instances available to us for energy generation are all so capital-intensive, and the world population so large, that no life remotely like that enjoyed in North America today could ever be made global and universal. Joel Cohen made this point back in the 1990s in How Many People Can the Earth Support? and I have seen nothing since to make me think he got things wrong.
Mott T. Greene is John Magee Professor of Science and Values at the University of Puget Sound.


text:
Your Trusted Brand for Over 35 Years
Rich Rewards® Breakfast Blend Whole Bean Coffee
12 oz (340 grams)
Item# 01612
Super Sale Price:
$8.78 $9.75
12 oz (340 grams)
Item# 01612
Retail Price: $13.00
Super Sale Price: $8.78 $9.75
Your favorite Life Extension® products can be delivered to you automatically. Just look for the "AutoShip" button. Select AutoShip, and choose your preferred ship-out date. It's that easy!
Quick Navigation:
Coffee beans are packed with antioxidant polyphenols that are often lost during roasting. Rich Rewards® Breakfast Blend features organic Arabica beans and retains more of their nutrients with a patented, 100% natural HealthyRoast® process that still offers rich, gourmet flavor.
Benefits at a Glance
A potential part of improved longevity
Scientists have found that people living on the Greek island of Ikaria enjoy a longer, healthier life span and it may be due to the way they prepare their coffee.
Instead of heavily roasting the coffee and thus removing beneficial polyphenols, they boil it in a way that retains its unique compounds.1 Greek islanders who consumed this polyphenol-rich coffee were found to have healthy endothelial function that scientists suggested may play a role in their longevity.1
Retains more antioxidant polyphenols
Among the most beneficial coffee polyphenols is chlorogenic acid, a potent antioxidant which promotes optimal health.2-5 This inhibits glucose-6-phosphatase, an enzyme that stimulates creation of excess glucose in the liver, which can result in blood glucose elevation.
Rich Rewards® Breakfast Blend is made with a patented,6 100% natural process called HealthyRoast®. This process delivers a more complete nutritional profile of the coffee bean, retaining more antioxidant polyphenols. Specifically, it yields up to 87% more chlorogenic acid than conventional coffees.
Natural stomach-soothing compounds
Handpicked deep in the rainforests of Central America, Rich Rewards® Breakfast Blend uses 100% USDA certified organic Arabica coffee beans exclusively. Using ecologically sustainable coffee growing practices, they're Rainforest Alliance certified to be equally healthy for the environment. And it's roasted precisely in small batches with no additives or preservatives.
The gentle HealthyRoast® process also preserves the special, naturally occurring coffee compounds that soothe your stomach, instead of irritating it.
Whole bean coffee for ultimate freshness
Rich Rewards® Breakfast Blend comes packaged with whole beans for coffee lovers who like the freshness and aroma of grinding their own coffee.
Certified USDA organic Arabica coffee beans.
HealthyRoast® US Patent Nos. 6,723,368; 8,357,419
|Dosage and Use
Product reviews are provided for informational purposes only and reflect solely the views and opinions expressed by the contributors and not those of Life Extension. We do not verify or endorse any claims made in these reviews. Please read the full product reviews disclaimer.


text:
Before you head out to your New Year's Eve party, spend the day crafting your final party accessories -- a sparkly party hat, party blowers for the photo booth, and of course, the essential noisemakers for the final countdown. Have fun!
New Year's Eve Party Hats
New Year's Eve Noisemakers
New Year's Eve Party Blowers
Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more videos too!


text:
|Table 2: Nutrient intakes during the intervention.
|All values are means ± SEM. Intervention values do not contain the nutrient intake from the test minidrink. MUFA: monounsaturated fatty acids; PUFA: polyunsaturated fatty acids; SFA: saturated fatty acids; and STAEST: plant stanol ester.
Baseline values did not differ significantly between the groups for any of the variables.
Group by time interaction (repeated measured variance of analysis (general linear model)).
, significant change over time.
significantly different from baseline.
significantly different from control.


text:
WASHINGTON Should a presidential candidate be required to know the heads of Pakistan, India, Taiwan and Chechnya? Maybe so, maybe not. This much is certain: The way George W. Bush handled his pop quiz on foreign policy suggests he's still not ready for the tests ahead.
"Wait. Wait. Is this 50 questions?" a flustered Bush asked the Boston television reporter who posed four surprise questions. The Republican front-runner got one name right, admitted he didn't know the other three, and fumbled on the crisis in Pakistan.
And he looked badly doing it, glaring off camera after dressing down the interviewer with a convoluted rebuke his jaw clenched in anger or frustration.
The episode is unlikely to damage Bush's sky-high polls numbers or leave a long-lasting impact. But it does suggest that the two-term Texas governor has an Achilles' heel: Unexpected questions that lead to embarrassing answers, fueling charges that he is not ready to be president.
"If Bush's rap is going to be that he is weak on foreign policy not that foreign policy matters to voters this just adds to the buzz," said Republican consultant Tony Fabrizio, who worked for Elizabeth Dole's failed presidential campaign.
Bush should have been prepared for the sneak attack.
The interviewer, Andy Hiller of WHDH-TV, is known for asking aggressive questions and relishes his role of provocateur. Bush was not warned because his aides in Texas didn't know about Hiller's reputation and were not alerted by their Boston team.
However, the Austin camp had been preparing for this kind of confrontation since the spring, when a few foreign policy gaffes became fodder for Jay Leno and David Letterman. Bush called Greeks "Grecians," Kosovars "Kosovoians" and mistook Slovakia for Slovenia.
Knowing somebody would try to trip him up, Bush was prepared with a reply to any question he couldn't answer. Aides say it went something like this: "Americans don't expect their presidential candidates to be trivia experts; they want a leader who has a clear vision for America's future."
When it came time to deliver, Bush failed.
He let Hiller get under his skin, asking the interviewer to name the foreign minister of Mexico. When Hiller drew a blank, Bush launched into a pale imitation of the well-rehearsed reply.
"What I'm suggesting to you is, if you can't name the foreign minister of Mexico, therefore, you know, you're not capable of what you do. But the truth of the matter is you are, whether you can or not," Bush said.
He also said the president "has to have a vision for the world," but the damage was already done. Clinton rubbed salt in the wounds by telling reporters Friday that knowing names is not as important as "knowing what America should look like."
"That was our line," groused a top Bush official.
Spokeswoman Karen Hughes said she was pleased with her boss' performance "You saw a leader who was even keel." Others in Bush's camp said the governor is still learning to adapt to the change from Texas, where he was comfortable with the state's issues and press corps.
One adviser said Bush got miffed at Hiller, and lost his train of thought.
Republican officials not associated with the campaign said Bush shouldn't be faulted for not knowing the answers, but he should have been prepared to handle the situation better.
"This is a lesson that every good campaign learns," said Ari Fleischer, who also worked for Dole. "It's part of a healthy process where a nominee becomes battle-tested for all eventualities."
Reaction among Democrats was mixed.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security adviser under President Carter, said he could have answered only two of Hiller's questions. "Bush fumbled and stumbled, but quite honestly I don't think that anybody would think it is significant," he said.
Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley said the questions were "a little out of left field."
Bradley's rival, Vice President Al Gore, was less forgiving, noting that Bush said the Pakistani general who seized control in a coup had brought stability to the region. Bush also said the general has "just been elected," but quickly corrected himself.
Gore hopes to make the case that Bush is not up to the job, especially when it comes to foreign policy.
Bush's team hopes voters will give him the benefit of the doubt because his father, President Bush, was adept at foreign policy. One adviser called it the "apple not-falling-too-far-from-the-tree thing."
There is a threat that Bush will join legions of other candidates who developed unwanted reputations, exaggerated by the media and late-night television comics. Accurate or not, the perceptions harden with every episode that fits their political myths.
Gerald Ford is a klutz.
Bob Dole is mean.
Bill Clinton is loose with the truth.
Al Gore is boring and exaggerates his record.
John McCain has a bad temper.
Dan Quayle is stupid.
Quayle, who served as vice president under Bush's father, never recovered from a spelling gaffe. Should a presidential candidate be required to spell "potato"?
Maybe so, maybe not. But he better be ready to explain why he can't.
© 2017. All Rights Reserved. | Contact Us


text:
CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimisation tool. That removes unused and temporary files from your system - allowing it to run faster, more efficiently and giving you more hard disk space. The best part is that it's fast! (normally taking less that a second to run) and Free.
Cleans the following:
- Internet Explorer Cache, History, Cookies, Index.dat.
- Recycle Bin, Temporary files and Log files.
- Recently opened URLs and files.
- Third-party application temp files and recent file lists (MRUs).
- Including: Firefox, Opera, Media Player, eMule, Google Toolbar, Netscape, Office XP, Nero, Adobe Acrobat, WinRAR, WinAce, WinZip and more...
- Advanced Registry scanner and cleaner to remove unused and old entries.
- Including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Shared DLLs, Fonts, Help Files, Application Paths, Icons, Invalid Shortcuts and more... Backup for registry clean.
- Windows Startup tool.
- Application is now 100% Unicode, with support added for non-Unicode OSs.
- Fixed bug where some IE temp files were not being securely deleted.
- %LocalAppData% and %CommonAppData% variable support added to INI files allowing "Application Data" references to work on non-English versions of Windows.
- Fixed bug where "Run (in Stat Menu)" was being cleaned when deselected.
- Added Gutmann (35 pass) secure deletion.
- Fixed minor bugs with 98 and NT4.
- Fixed bug with update checker.
- Added "portable.dat" file to the portable version of CCleaner which forces it to save the settings to an INI file.
- Fixed bug in cookie scanning that could cause an exception.
- Fixed minor UI bugs relating to control and window focus.
- Improved exception handling with more useful information.
- Minor bugs fixes and tweaks.
View: What's New
Link: Home Page


text:
Product Description
Give dad the mug to help him say what he's really thinking. 'Ask your mother – I'm refuelling'.
This giant sized mug measures at approximately 13 centimetres tall and 11 centimetres diameter to fill dad with around 900 millilitres of whatever brew he desires. Perfect Father's Day gift!


text:
Note : Your Quotation Request will be directed to M2 Global Technology.
The 685-260520-010 from M2 Global Technology is a Directional Coupler with Frequency 2.6 to 5.2 GHz, Coupling 10 dB, Coupling Variation ±1.25 dB, Frequency Sensitivity ±0.75 dB, Directivity 20 dB. More details for 685-260520-010 can be seen below.
200 W Directional Coupler from 20 to 520 MHz
You can now find similar products from multiple companies on everything RF.


text:
La Cage Aux Folles. This is a big, splashy musical with lots of big, splashy song numbers. But unlike many such musicals, La Cage Aux Folles also has heart, humor and a good story to tell. In a time of intense mean-spiritedness and prejudice, it carries a message of tolerance and joy — and does so without preaching. Georges is a middle-aged homosexual who runs a transvestite club in St. Tropez. He lives in cozy, bourgeois domesticity with Albin, the club's temperamental star. Together the two men have raised Jean-Michel, the result of a long-ago one-night stand by Georges. Now a handsome young man, Jean-Michel is preparing to introduce his beloved to his parents. But this beloved is not only a woman, she's also the daughter of Edouardo Dindon, an extreme right-wing politician with designs on the presidency. Jean-Michel begs Georges and Albin not to reveal their homosexuality when the Dindons arrive for dinner. This results in a madly farcical flurry of scenes, and finally, after much yelling, celebration and cross-dressing — all punctuated with songs — a happy ending ensues. La Cage Aux Folles won a slew of awards when it opened on Broadway in 1983, and the 2004 revival won several more. Director Rod A. Lansberry's lavish production features a very strong cast, led by Michael E. Gold as Georges and Stephen Day as Albin, and all in all, it's a hell of a good time. Presented by the Arvada Center through December 23, 6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, 720-898-7200, www.arvadacenter.org. Reviewed November 22.
A Child's Christmas in Wales. Director Philip Sneed has captured some of the true, pure spirit of Christmas with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival's first winter production. Dylan Thomas's famous short story is a series of childhood memories. "I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find," he writes. "In goes my hand into that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays resting at the rim of the carol-singing sea, and out come Mrs. Prothero and the firemen." The show gives Thomas's gorgeous and amazing words their due, but "A Child's Christmas" is a short piece, and a staged reading wouldn't last even the 75 minutes that this production does. So Sneed and his cast added movement, mime, songs and words from other sources. Some of these embellishments work well, as when the family passes plates of food around the table in choreographed sequence, moving faster and faster, then slower and slower as fatigue and satiation set in. Some others feel shoehorned in, or a little too cute. But while the cast — which actually sings all the carols Thomas mentions at the end of the piece — is sometimes overly twinkly, overall this is a very pleasant contribution to the holiday season. Presented by the Colorado Shakespeare Festival through December 24, University Theatre-Mainstage, University of Colorado, Boulder, 303-492-0554, www.coloradoshakes.org. Reviewed December 13.
The 1940's Radio Christmas Carol. For a while, as radio manager Clifton Feddington pitches us questions, hustles his performers and generally works to keep things on track, you can't help wondering just why you're watching this show. Clearly, it's supposed to be a slice of life, as awkward, desultory and filled with non sequiturs as life itself often seems, but in the theater, even desultoriness needs to be animated by an underlying sense of purpose, or at least incipient purpose. The precursor to this show is The 1940's Radio Hour, which is held aloft by a wonderful sequence of 1940s songs. This play lacks music, relying on mild jokes and the interactions among radio personnel as they present their own version of A Christmas Carol, but we never really learn anything about these people. Still, there are several appealing performances, particularly that of Niccole Carner, who has a compelling presence and the most charming dimples imaginable. And while The 1940's Radio Christmas Carol isn't exactly a smash, it does create a sweetly Christmasy sense of peace and community. Presented by Bas Bleu Theatre Company through December 30, 401 Pine Street, Fort Collins, 1-970-498-8949, www.basbleu.org. Reviewed November 22.
A Child�s Christmas in Wales
The 1940's Radio Hour. There's not much dialogue in this sweetly nostalgic musical revue, just ballads, novelty songs, swinging little numbers and Christmas favorites interspersed with comic routines and inadvertently comic commercials. The setting is a shabby radio station in 1942, when America was united behind what was almost universally considered a just war, and radio was the country's voice. Soldiers stationed overseas listened to programs like these; folks at home sent their thoughts out to these young men over the airwaves. There are bits of story. You can see that lovely lead singer Ann has something going with drunken, Dean Martin-style crooner Johnny Cantone. Obviously up-and-coming youngster BJ Gibson is fascinated by perky little Connie, and she reciprocates. Biff is off to war after the show, and everyone's wondering if he'll come back. But these aren't story lines you follow, just evocative moments that bob to the surface and sink under again. The 1940's Radio Hour is an excellent showcase for the talents of the Boulder's Dinner Theater troupe. Neal Dunfee's fine orchestra, usually hidden from the audience, is right there on stage, and the players become part of the action. Pursing her improbably heart-shaped lips and chugging soda at every opportunity, Joanie Brosseau-Beyette is full of infectious excitement. Scott Beyette unleashes his inner comic in a couple of very funny routines, complete with mangled words and dropped pants. Wayne Kennedy gives another of his appealing, low-key performances as caretaker Pops; Alicia Dunfee is in her element as slow-thinking, gum-chewing, would-be sexpot Ginger. If you're dreading the sentimentality, forced humor or relentless cheeriness of the usual Christmas offerings, this melodic, quietly charming piece may be just what you need. Presented by Boulder's Dinner Theatre through January 26, 5501 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, 303-449-6000, www.theatreinboulder.com. Reviewed November 15.
If you like this story, consider signing up for our email newsletters.
You have successfully signed up for your selected newsletter(s) - please keep an eye on your mailbox, we're movin' in!
Plaid Tidings. Perhaps there's a kind of thespian hell, in which actors who are clearly capable of so much more are stuck forever in stale shows as punishment for being bad in some way. If so, this production definitely qualifies. The four performers, while very different from one another, are all talented. James E. Bullard is the boy next door, open-faced and lively; Alan Swadener comes across as charmingly awkward and possesses a very pleasant tenor. Scott Ahearn is energetic and highly versatile: He can tap and play the piano, and has a strong on-stage presence as well as a powerful voice. Joseph Torello comes across as shortsighted and bookish, and his bass notes are amazing. The men's voices marry so well, and their sense of rhythm and harmony is so pleasing, I'd have been quite happy to spend an evening listening to them singing Christmas carols and songs, particularly since the accompaniment consists solely of a piano and a bass, so the singers aren't overwhelmed by a large orchestra. But no. Instead, Sparky, Frankie, Jinx and Smudge have been brought back to earth after dying in a car accident, and although they offer up pieces of well-loved songs, these pieces are often welded together into arrangements that are pointless and annoying. Besides, the plot and the gags are so dumb, obtuse and white-bread, the audience participation sections so manipulative and the sentimentality of the show so calculated that it's simply impossible to lose yourself in the music. Presented by the Arvada Center through December 23, 6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, 720-898-7200, www.arvadacenter.org. Reviewed November 22.
Starship Troy: Fame. By 8 p.m. the place is jammed. The audience looks young, some as young as high--schoolers, others in college; there are couples, gay and straight, and a scattering of older folk. Starship Troy is one of Buntport's informal efforts to create cheap, fun, accessible theater. It is a dramatized cartoon, each episode lasting about 45 minutes. The premise: A dump truck orbits space on a mission to clean things up. Its addled crew includes all the usual Buntport suspects: Erik Edborg, who for some reason has dryer-duct tubing sticking out of his front and who cuddles a white stuffed animal; cynical Hannah Duggan; Erin Rollman as an expressionless android (watching Rollman trying to remain expressionless is a comic feast); half-ape Brian Colonna; and Evan Weissman as something, well, something epicene and highly sexualized. An audience member volunteers as Ensign McCoy, who — in a tribute to South Park's Kenny, and perhaps to the Goon Show's Bluebottle before him ("You have deaded me again!") — gets killed in every show. This is throwaway theater in the best sense. If a line thuds to earth, no matter; it's gone as soon as it's said. If a piece of business is pure brilliance — too bad! It'll never be seen again, either. But what the hell, there's always another episode. Presented by Buntport Theater every Tuesday and Wednesday through May, 717 Lipan Street, 720-946-1388, www.buntport.com. Reviewed November 15.
Titus Andronicus: the Musical. A wandering troupe of five actors decides to present Shakespeare's bloody and incoherent Titus Andronicus as a musical. The play has lots of plot: Saturninus wants to be king, but the people are leaning toward Titus, conqueror of the Goths, who's just returned to town with four prisoners: Goth queen Tamora and her three sons, one of whom he rapidly executes. Tamora marries Saturninus and proceeds to plot revenge on Titus — a revenge that includes having her two surviving sons kill Saturninus's brother, Bassianus, and rape and mutilate Titus's daughter Lavinia, Bassianus's love. There's more, including the framing of Titus's two innocent boys for murder; Tamora's affair with the villainous Aaron, which results in an illegitimate baby; Titus's attempt to save his sons from execution by cutting off his own hand; and a feast during which Tamora is served pies containing the flesh of her own children — that is, the sons who destroyed poor Lavinia. Buntport actually gets us through the entire plot, and it's all quite coherent — or at least as coherent as the original — with a board complete with caricatures and lightbulbs telling us which of the five actors is playing which of the several dozen characters at any given moment. They all speak and act with complete conviction, while also communicating their awareness of the absurdity of the entire situation, and their playfulness and exuberance make the production a delight. Presented by Buntport Theater through December 29, 717 Lipan Street, 720-946-1388, www.buntport.com. Reviewed December 13.
White Christmas. This production has its origins in Irving Berlin's patriotic music, post-World War II euphoria, and a cultural-artistic worldview that saw all military officers as bluff, benign father figures, and postulated that most of life's problems could be fixed by putting on a show in the barn. The 1954 film, despite Irving Berlin's wonderful songs and the star power of Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Vera Allen and Rosemary Clooney, is almost unwatchable today. This script is by Paul Blake of the St. Louis Municipal Opera and — surprisingly — David Ives, author of the verbally dexterous, hyper-clever set of one-acts called All in the Timing. Although the script tightens the movie's plot a bit, it remains silly and insubstantial: A couple of cynical song-and-dance guys fall in love with a pair of singing sisters; misunderstandings ensue and get resolved; everyone comes together at the end to help the men's beloved onetime Army commander, who's trying without success to keep a Vermont inn solvent, despite an unseasonal shortage of snow. This production is glitzy and practiced, and it doesn't achieve its desired effect until the end of the first act, when the cast joins forces for "Blue Skies," one of the most exuberant songs in the universe. Act two begins on an equal high with "I Love a Piano" — another breathtaking number, beautifully choreographed by Patti Colombo, in which male and female tappers join forces in a joyful and prolonged celebration of music and dance. If you're willing to put the reasoning part of your brain to sleep for a couple of hours and indulge in pink-tinged Christmas nostalgia, this is the show for you. Presented by the Denver Center Theatre Company and Denver Center Attractions through December 30, Buell Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 303-893-4100, www.denvercenter.org. Reviewed December 6.


text:
I would love to know why it is that everytime somebody asks a simple question on these forums there needs to be at least half of the answers saying how something ruins surfing or how the person is a "kook". Nobody asked about the point of surfing on this post so why bother saying music ruins the experience. I'm pretty sure that on different posts 90% of the people on this forum agreed to listening to music to pump them up before surfing, doing it in the water is not much different at all. Now if you don't have something related to the actual topic please gtfo this post.
Results 31 to 31 of 31
Thread: Surfing with music?


text:
MSFN is made available via donations, subscriptions and advertising revenue. The use of ad-blocking software hurts the site. Please disable ad-blocking software or set an exception for MSFN. Alternatively, register and become a site sponsor/subscriber and ads will be disabled automatically.
All Activity
This stream auto-updates
- Past hour
thematthill5 joined the community
Searching for a few utilities
Commodore replied to ~♥Aiko♥Chan♥~'s topic in Windows 9x/MEFor the battery monitor: NHC Notebook Hardware Control / Centrino Hardware Control - i don't remember if the older versions run over windows 9x http://www.pbus-167.com/ For the screensaver: nero burning rom Vulcano (opengl) ftp://ftp4.nero.com/vulcano.exe http://www.chip.de/downloads/Nero-Burning-Rom-Screensaver_13010136.html
POSReady 2009 updates ported to Windows XP SP3 ENU
heinoganda replied to glnz's topic in Windows XPA tip for the unofficial updates that are no longer findable, directly paste the following link in the address bar and insert the required KB number. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hotfix/kbhotfix?kbnum=KB NUMBER&kbln=en-US An example for KB916157: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hotfix/kbhotfix?kbnum=916157&kbln=en-US
Firefox Quantum
Tripredacus replied to Tripredacus's topic in Networks and the InternetI am seeing screen tearing when scrolling on pages, such as if I am fast enough in scrolling the page isn't rendered and the lower part of my browser window will be all black. I cannot get a screenshot of this behaviour. PS: I see the Noscript icon appears all by itself and so I guess all is well (so far) with this browser.
- Today
No MSFN forums with Opera Presto engine
Tripredacus replied to schwups's topic in Site & Forum IssuesYes you just have to change your browser's user agent. It doesn't always work tho, because some websites will then use tricks or methods specifically for that other type of device, and any such tricks obviously won't work on the wrong browser. It is worth a shot tho!
Is MSFN.org now practically unusable for win-98/Opera 12?
Commodore replied to Nomen's topic in Windows 9x/MEHi Schwups. It seems that we are the only one interested in this. Anyway, i would have found a workaround, using the opera content block. But i'm just not 100% sure if, for the board rules, i'm allowed to write it here. I ask permission to admin before. Can i report it? Thanks
POSReady 2009 updates ported to Windows XP SP3 ENU
Yellow Horror replied to glnz's topic in Windows XPNot to a graphic card, but to a specific motherboard chipset.
Searching for a few utilities
~♥Aiko♥Chan♥~ posted a topic in Windows 9x/MEDoes anyone know where I could find... A third party battery meter - something similar to this. The program does not properly work on ME after changing a setting. Screen brightness adjuster and maybe color as well - Windows ME lacks one A decent office utility (besides Openoffice, something more modern) Modern PDF reader Third party screensavers - Just for fun; I wanna show to my peers that Windows ME is never truly obsolete Thank you!
(failed) Ryzen and Fall of the Roman Empire... sort of...
MrMateczko replied to ragnargd's topic in Windows 9x/MECan't CSM be emulated in bootx64.efi kinda like PLOP boot manager?
No MSFN forums with Opera Presto engine
~♥Aiko♥Chan♥~ replied to schwups's topic in Site & Forum IssuesIsn't there a way to spoof the browser into fooling the webpage thinking the browser is a phone? I don't like the thought of viewing web pages using the mobile version but it maybe the only choice now.
The hotfix suggested are really worth thanks, maybe only the first one (KB948101v3) can be avoided cause it's only related to a specific MBchip (credit @Yellow Horrow). KB948101 - A USB keyboard does not work after you restart a Windows XP-based computer that has an NVIDIA 680i motherboard installed I would add this one KB922120v6 to see XP system in W7/8/10 net KB922120 - Network Map in Windows Vista does not display computers that are running Windows XP A great resource to retrieve hotfix, as support.microsoft often removes that files, is here (you can use search tab to find anything in any language)
When will there be a version for Windows 10 1709?
Nutrynion replied to bigslacker's topic in Aero Glass For Windows 8+I don't know. As much hope as I would like to have that we'll always have aero glass it seems to be fading. I'm getting used to just not having it however I still create my own theme and make it as much as rounded as possible with attention to detail and soothing aesthetics. I purchased WSB and extracted nearly every element from Sagorpirbd's 7 theme on Deviantart. Insert them into the Default Windows 10 Aero theme, extracted a few parts for the rounded corners (top/bottom) and voila. At least for me I like it. Then for the icons, I simply replaced the default Windows 10 imagres.dll with the Windows 7 imageres.dll and that was that. I still like those icons. It would be nice to have the aero glass but it is getting to be quite the pain. The one thing I have found you have to be careful of otherwise you will either not be able to load windows from logon or it will be black is that you have to pay extremely close attention to DPI values. Every element must be compatible with each level of dpi at least up to 250%. In terms of Aero glass, perhaps that may also be where some users are encountering issues, depending on DPI settings. I'll share a screen shot with as much in it I can to show.
When will there be a version for Windows 10 1709?
nytehwx replied to bigslacker's topic in Aero Glass For Windows 8+Hello everyone! I believe this might be my first or 2nd/3rd time posting here, but I was here since Windows 10 beta stage (then switched back to W7) for 2 years. Recently I'm back in W10 and tried to use the installer only to find out it didn't work because of MS and the new update. I tried the instructions joeberardis talked about but it didn't work for me at all. (replacing the .dll, download the zip, uninstall, use the scheduler as admin) I'm wondering if someone can be kind enough to walk me through the entire process with the files once more. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, as I've tried to follow every step, including deleting aeroglass from my regedit. Also I will like to get that Noel's theme if possible. Can someone be kind enough to give me a hand? Thank you.
My build of New Moon (temp. name) a.k.a. Pale Moon for XP
roytam1 replied to roytam1's topic in Windows XPbasilisk/moebius new build for XP! Test binary: Win32 http://o.rthost.cf/gpc/files1.rt/basilisk-55.0.0a1.win32-git-20171121-2c7948df3-xpmod.7z Win64 http://o.rthost.cf/gpc/files1.rt/basilisk-55.0.0a1.win64-git-20171121-2c7948df3-xpmod.7z diff: http://o.rthost.cf/gpc/files1.rt/moebius_restoreXP_20171113.7z source patch of ffvpx H264/HEVC/AAC/MP3 Addition: http://o.rthost.cf/gpc/files1.rt/moebius-ffvpx-h264-aac-hevc-mp3-addition.7z Official repo changes since my last build: - DevTools - gcli - screenshot - the vertical mode (822529aa6) - Merge pull request #166 from janekptacijarabaci/devtools_gcli_screenshot_1 (5810a403b) - DevTools - network - Copy as cURL (POST) (9036828c0) - CSP 3 - support for "worker-src" (973cea24f) - Don't enforce the arbitrary cipher suite profile. (a7b697388) - Fix freetype glyph metrics. (d092a1fe8) - Merge pull request #167 from janekptacijarabaci/devtools_network_curl_2 (12f836eaa) - The profile - resetting (doesn't work) (44386a127) - The profile - resetting - follow up (6b1e15959) - Ensure we process FIN flags on all-padding final frames. (42a21e0d4) - DOM - nsIContentPolicy - context (document) (3aae057a9) - Merge pull request #187 from janekptacijarabaci/dom_nsContentPolicy_context_1 (b642577f6) - Merge pull request #184 from janekptacijarabaci/profile_refresh_migrate_1 (37c004cb9) - Merge pull request #186 from JustOff/PR_Http2Session_FIN (8e4a08278) - Merge pull request #169 from janekptacijarabaci/csp_worker-src_1 (f4dc53287) - HTML - table - editor (contenteditable) (30ebac5c2) - Add more NS_BUILD_REFCNT_LOGGING in AtomicRefCountedWithFinalize. (a80fdd244) - DOM - PointerEvent - improvements (1755f4f75) - DOM - PointerEvent - improvements (tests / marionette) (2e70a3c51) - Implement "cookie-averse document objects". (da172983f) - Merge pull request #195 from janekptacijarabaci/dom_PointerEvent_improvements_1 (30b1721f3) - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/moebius (1ea04c544) - Merge pull request #191 from janekptacijarabaci/html_table_editor_contenteditable_1 (599676a6a) - Hard-code the version number for Mozilla's version checker for add-ons. (bd9692aeb) - Hard-code the version number for Mozilla's GMP service. (2d4d09315) - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/moebius (2c7948df3)
My build of New Moon (temp. name) a.k.a. Pale Moon for XP
roytam1 replied to roytam1's topic in Windows XPNew Build! 32bit https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.7.0a2.win32-git-20171121-e15e1197a-xpmod.7z 64bit https://o.rthost.cf/palemoon/palemoon-27.7.0a2.win64-git-20171121-e15e1197a-xpmod.7z Official repo changes since my last build: - [minor fix] Build - warnings (a49558e42) - DevTools - gcli - screenshot - the vertical mode (2b66fccbe) - Merge pull request #1465 from janekptacijarabaci/build_warnings_1 (917c86ca6) - Merge pull request #1467 from janekptacijarabaci/devtools_gcli_screenshot_1 (1ce42d280) - DevTools - network - Copy as cURL (POST) (cbc57c6c5) - Potential fix for missing locate_t on Mac OSX. (468257cac) - Fix Linux loading throbber to be properly encoded. (2b5597ff5) - Make sure the PNG set-option function is available. (abd5fc481) - Force a larger zlib inflate window. (623d24cdb) - Merge pull request #1473 from MoonchildProductions/osx-fix-1 (56b2a7318) - Change nsIDocumentLoaderFactory and nsIURIContentListener to take MIME types as an XPCOM string, not a char* (5952adeef) - Refactor nsContentDLF (83098db20) - Add text/json and text/vtt as text MIME types (2b145a4ed) - Merge pull request #1478 from JustOff/PR_char_nsACString (10f08b259) - Profiles - the refresh - migrate (7a6b077e4) - Merge pull request #1479 from JustOff/PR_add_text_json_vtt (d875128c0) - Merge pull request #1472 from janekptacijarabaci/devtools_network_curl_2 (aa9d16c92) - Profiles - the refresh - migrate (passwords) (c40ee8c60) - Remove the "ask every time" policy for acceptance of cookies. (b243a16d7) - Profiles - the refresh - migrate - improvements (a6f83d31d) - Merge pull request #1481 from janekptacijarabaci/profile_refresh_migrate_1 (db9f8a174) - Implement X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff. (2f965ebf1) - Handle custom URLs and add "My home page" for the New Tab URL. (aff0e2bf9) - Merge pull request #1484 from MoonchildProductions/newtaburl-enh1 (ea66708b4) - Merge pull request #1483 from JustOff/PR_XCTO_nosniff (fae3ec362) - Define Ci before using it. (ccbd72d00) - Implement "cookie-averse document objects". (1ccbaeb2c) - Expose cookieBehavior and cookieLifetimePolicy preference variants from nsICookieService. (e15e1197a)
mhtplsh joined the community
POSReady 2009 updates ported to Windows XP SP3 ENU
dencorso replied to glnz's topic in Windows XP+1. It's too bad we cannot. It's worse than FF Quantum (we've still got FF esr for half next year if not more and hopefully will remain having New Moon at least until POSReady 2009 EoS, if not longer), however, because we cannot forsake MSFN.
POSReady 2009 updates ported to Windows XP SP3 ENU
mixit replied to glnz's topic in Windows XP@glnz @dencorso The funny thing is that I don't even like to post references with that box thing (which, as I just discovered, is an iframe - ugh...), but since pasting a post link gets automatically converted to it, I just don't bother to change it every time, as the Link tool in the editor has its own idiosyncracies (at least in my case it forgets the clipboard contents, so I always have to go back and copy my text/URL again after having opened it - pretty annoying ). I really wish we could use BBCode here.
HOWTO: Install Office 2007 Equation Editor security update (KB4011276) on Office 2000/XP/2003
mixit replied to mixit's topic in Microsoft Office 97-2016If you have the same Compatibility Pack installed, you can and should apply the same updates on both machines. The system may be 64-bit but Office and the Compatibility Pack would still be 32-bit. Also, what @dencorso already told you:
Printer Software for HP Deskjet
caffeinepizza replied to HoppaLong's topic in Windows 9x/MEGeneric PCL HP driver should work with it, but you won't get any other features other than "basic printing" if it has any other features.
No MSFN forums with Opera Presto engine
jumper replied to schwups's topic in Site & Forum IssuesView->Style->Manage Modes... Uncheck Page style sheet Page should appear, but without any formatting. Using Opera 10.63, I saved the complete webpage as type .mht (mime-encoded html, like an email with attachments). The string "html{content:'ipsfocus42-november1';}" is from file: http://www.msfn.org/board/uploads/css_built_39/258adbb6e4f3e83cd3b355f84e3fa002_custom.css.10dc6ff2c45a645d7d18ddc234ce91e8.css?v=90cbeee145 Modified: Thursday, November 09, 2017 3:40:02 AM Size: 179 KB If xper can't fix the file, perhaps we can craft a custom style sheet and have Opera apply it to the site.
Printer Software for HP Deskjet
jumper replied to HoppaLong's topic in Windows 9x/MEHP printer utilities for previous 9x-compatible printers might work with the D4260 once drivers are installed. (I have the Deskjet 656c utilities installed on this very 98se system I'm posting from.) However, unless you are reporting that the W2K drivers did install on 98se and allow you to print at least a test page, then you already provided the answer to the underlying question: "...it's not compatible with 98SE." Minimum system requirements are a 128MB Pentium II with Windows 2000. All that said, if you are interested in creating a 9x driver/software pack for the D4260 you can try updating the last one from HP with driver files for the D4260 (and maybe wdmstub or wdmex).
- Yesterday
Printer Software for HP Deskjet
jaclaz replied to HoppaLong's topic in Windows 9x/MEHmmm. You must have a sorta of obsession with that particolar make/model jaclaz
Latest DivX codec for Windows 95C
jumper replied to assenort's topic in Windows 9x/MEVobSub 2.23 itself should run on 95, but might require a later version of DirectSound than you have installed. What versions of VobSub and DirectSound have your tried? And what exactly do you mean by "works under Win 95C"?
So much helpful information, that needs to be stitched
Printer Software for HP Deskjet
HoppaLong posted a topic in Windows 9x/MEIt seemed like my copy of 98SE on a laptop was doomed to sit on a closet shelf. Recently, a friend was cleaning out some bedroom closets in his home. He found a factory sealed box with a brand new printer! It's an HP Deskjet D4260. For some reason, it was never used. When he offered it to me, I immediately thought it would be nice to use my laptop with this printer. I've got the CD with all HP software, but it's not compatible with 98SE. Apparently, the drivers for Windows 2000 and 98SE are the same: http://www.fixya.com/support/t2548443-need_driver_win_98_hp_deskjet_d4260 The HP website does not list a software package for D4260 and 98SE. I've had terrible luck with KernelEx. I managed to use a couple of apps with KernelEx, but most attempts have failed. The drivers alone are not enough. Without software there is no way to align the print head or perform maintenance functions. Years ago I downloaded an app called X-Mouse Button Control. It worked with almost any mouse, providing many more features than conventional mouse apps. I haven't searched yet, but is there generic software that might work with a very basic printer like HP Deskjet D4260?
Firefox Quantum
Mcinwwl replied to Tripredacus's topic in Networks and the InternetAnd I don't. At home it's unnoticeable, but at work, where I run really slow PC, it's new, optimized way is a real improvement, and ability to kill freezing tab without the whole window is a miracle. Ok, it's windows 10 ugly, but aesthetics are a minor thing to me, and as long as they preserve good old menu bar, I can use it. I will only grieve about 'toggle animated GIFs' add-on, but it's not as common-use as it was when I installed it.


text:
Chairs ICT in Education for Sustainable Development
Back to top
UNESCO has 658 Chairs and 65 UNITWIN Networks established within the Programme that aim to be pertinent, forward-thinking and to impact socio-economic development effectively. These networks involve over 770 institutions in 127 countries.
The University of Crete holds the UNESCO Chair for ICTs in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).


text:
This sale has ended
Designer Dining for Dad
Gordon Ramsay, Waterford + Royal Doulton Glassware
This Father's Day treat your Dad, your hero, with something he will cherish and use for many years to come. In this collection, the functionality and direction of Gordon Ramsay's no-nonsense cooking style meets the quintessential English grace of Royal Doulton. And the result is a marriage of classic and contemporary, inviting timelessness and professional quality into the kitchen. Built to perform and built to last, each range is designed with the beginner cook and professional chef in mind. Add another festive element to your Fathers Day dinner table decoration with finely cut and impeccably crafted glassware by two of the worlds most revered crystal connoisseurs, Royal Doulton and Waterford, and revel in a dazzling selection of tumblers, wine glasses, decanters and more.


text:
A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
Poem: "A Sonnet for Spring" by Bob McKenty of Matawan, NJ
(Bob's Bio)
Ah! Spring is here. The rabbits quit their dens,
The dormant grass begins once more to grow.
The trees release their airborne allergens.
It's time to tune the Toro and to mow,
To fertilize and lime and thatch and seed
As-groveling on dirty, servile knees
You pluck the dreaded dandelion weed
And rub your itching eyes and start to sneeze.
Wherever grass encroaches, you must edge,
And don't forget to stir the compost heap
And trim the junipers' unruly hedge,
While forfeiting a needed hour of sleep.
Those poets penning praise to spring and tillage
Are domiciled in lofts in Greenwich Village.
About the author:
Bob McKenty has been writing humorous verse since he was seven years old, when rhyme was still fashionable. His poems have appeared in numerous periodicals, including The New York Times, Reader's Digest, and Light, the Quarterly of Light Verse, and in a number of anthologies (most recently The Poets of New Jersey) and a few text books. His book of baseball verses, Fair Game: Open Season on Baseball, was published in 2005 by Doggerel Daze (ddaze.com). Bob has had many speaking engagements as well.
Read about all the Spring Lyric finalists...
Old Sweet Songs: A Prairie Home Companion 1974-1976
Lovingly selected from the earliest archives of A Prairie Home Companion, this heirloom collection represents the music from earliest years of the now legendary show: 1974–1976. With songs and tunes from jazz pianist Butch Thompson, mandolin maestro Peter Ostroushko, Dakota Dave Hull and the first house band, The Powdermilk Biscuit Band (Adam Granger, Bob Douglas and Mary DuShane).


text:
New "Parity" For Substance Abuse To Match Physical Health Insurance Coverage Could Help Millions, Says Country's Largest Substance Abuse Treatment Provider, CRC Health Group
Nov 11, 2013, 09:16 ET from Robert Weiner Associates and CRC Health Group
CUPERTINO, Calif., Nov. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The new "parity" rules issued Friday by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for substance abuse to match physical health insurance could help millions, the country's largest substance abuse and behavioral treatment provider, CRC Health Group, said today. The regulations were jointly released by the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury.
Andy Eckert, CEO of CRC Health Group, congratulated Secretary Sebelius and the other departments and said, "Our mission is to help people with substance abuse problems. By issuing regulations to implement the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and by requiring enforcement of the bold actions the law provided, we've taken a major step forward to reach the twenty million Americans HHS says need but do not receive alcohol and substance abuse treatment. Only one in ten Americans who needs treatment now obtains it. It's time the nation recognizes that addiction is a chronic illness like cancer or diabetes and needs the same quality of treatment. "
Jerry Rhodes, Chief Operating Officer of CRC Health Group, added, "The regulations are very good news for all who work hard in the addiction treatment field and for everyone afflicted with substance abuse. The final regulations, which now provide that 'parity applies to intermediate levels of care received in residential treatment or intensive outpatient settings,' are far better than the interim regulations. HHS did a lot of homework and listened to the field. The Parity Coalition, NAPHS (National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems) were critical players in advocating for the inclusion of intermediate level of care."
Rhodes added, "President Obama and HHS stated that recent mass gun violence was a factor in pressing completion of the regulations to expand access to mental health and substance abuse treatment. The regulations will have a helpful impact on our national health."
Dr. Philip Herschman, CRC's Chief Clinical Officer, conducted a meeting of CRC's Clinical Advisory board, consisting of many of America's top addiction scientists and providers, and said today, "While the regulations are very good news, they are just a beginning. We have to see if the enforcement is carried out effectively to assure equal ability to obtain addiction services as physical health care. Both Parity and the ACA provide for mental health insurance coverage - including addiction treatment - in some form for upwards of 60 million Americans."
Dr. Herschman explained, "The intent was to end discriminatory practices by ensuring mental health coverage that mirrored services as they existed in general medicine such as inpatient, outpatient, emergency services, and medications. I am glad they upgraded from the interim rule that excluded a residential level of care; it was wrongly perceived as a step down from inpatient. Some major insurance companies had used this to 'red line' coverage for much-needed residential addiction treatment." Herschman added that "the ACA defines substance abuse as a chronic disease and does provide opportunities for better integration of treatment services with primary medical care, as well as earlier intervention opportunities, critical benefits of the reform."
Former U.S. Drug Czar (National Drug Policy Director), Four-Star Gen. Barry McCaffrey (ret), senior advisor to CRC Health Group, said, "While the regulations took a long time to get here, they give us a historic opportunity to reach the twenty million people who need treatment. When we first provided federal employee addiction services parity as an executive order under President Clinton in January 2001, while I was National Drug Policy Director, we said that we ultimately wanted to see private insurance carry the same equal benefits. Now, this hope has become a reality. I'm also pleased that the regulations apply to veterans," said McCaffrey, who before he was Drug Czar, was Commander of SouthCom (all US forces in Latin America) and led the successful Left Hook assault in Iraq.
The regulations cover both the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the 2010 Affordable Care Act. The Parity Act requires equal private insurance benefits for physical illnesses and substance addiction, while the ACA says that mental health and addiction services must be one of ten benefits in insurance plans.
In addition to insuring intermediate levels of care received in residential treatment or intensive outpatient settings, the regulations provide that co-pays, medical visits, medical facility stays, benefit levels, and coverage provisions must now be equally strong for both physical health and addiction. "Enforcement of the new parity will be a key element," Rhodes said.
Useful links:
CRC Health Group:
HHS release on new parity regulations (links to fact sheet and text of regulations in release):
Contact: Bob Weiner 301-283-0821 or 202-306-1200, email@example.com
SOURCE Robert Weiner Associates and CRC Health Group


text:
(NECN) – Following the death of South African leader Nelson Mandela, many are remembering his contributions to South Africa and the world.
Zine Magubane is a professor of sociology at Boston College and a South African native.
Legacy is a word that comes up when leaders pass away.
"I think his legacy can be summed up in four things; his commitment to freedom, his commitment to equality, his commitment to social justice, and his commitment to reconciliation," Magubane said.
Magubane was directly affected by Mandela's revolutionary actions, as she spent summers in South Africa as a child.
"For a significant part of my childhood, I also experienced the oppression of South Africa first-hand," she explained.
Magubane teaches on Mandela regularly in her classes at BC.
"All the students know him. His legacy is that strong. Even students who were born after apartheid had ended know what happened and look at him as a symbol of social justice and reconciliation," Magubane explained.


text:
Children's author Gene Luen Yang is making a personal appearance on March 21 at 7 p.m. at Hicklebee's, 1378 Lincoln Ave.
Yang won the Printz award for American Born Chinese and will be bringing his new, graphic two-pack Boxers & Saints.
The two books look at missionaries in China from both sides. The books are suitable for ages 12 and up.
For additional information call 408.292.8880.


text:
Why Malaga's only problem is its name!
Did you know that thousands of people of all ages come to study Spanish in Málaga every year? This may surprise you, but read on, and you'll find out why.
Málaga city has just one major problem – its name! "Málaga" unfortunately is also the name of the province that includes the resorts of Torremolinos, Fuengirola and Marbella and as a result many people think that Malaga is the just like them – you couldn't be more wrong – "chalk and cheese" doesn't do it justice. Luckily they are far enough away not to have any impact at all on life here in Malaga city.
Málaga is in fact one of the best destinations in Spain for studying Spanish and enjoying Spanish culture, and the facilities at the school in Málaga are second to none.


text:
I have a set of older XTR M970 shifters and a 2012 set of XT M785 Brakes. Im assuming that the older style I-Spec mounts will be compatible for mounting these. There doesn't seem to be much info around.
If anybody knows if its yay or nay could you let me know please.


text:
Faster Implied Volatilities via the Implicit Function Theorem
We present a faster, more accurate technique for estimating implied volatility using the standard partial derivatives of the Black-Scholes option-pricing formula. Beside Newton-Raphson and slower approximation methods, this technique is the first to provide an error tolerance, which is essential for practical application. All existing noniterative approximation methods do not provide error tolerances and have the potential for large errors. Copyright 2006, The Eastern Finance Association.
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large.
As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to look for a different version under "Related research" (further below) or search for a different version of it.
Volume (Year): 41 (2006)
Issue (Month): 4 (November)
Pages: 589-597
|Contact details of provider:
| Web page: http://www.easternfinance.org/
More information through EDIRC
|Order Information:
|Web: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/subs.asp?ref=0732-8516
No references listed on IDEAS
You can help add them by filling out this form.
This item is not listed on Wikipedia, on a reading list or among the top items on IDEAS.
When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:finrev:v:41:y:2006:i:4:p:589-597. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: (Wiley-Blackwell Digital Licensing)or (Christopher F. Baum)
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If references are entirely missing, you can add them using this form.
If the full references list an item that is present in RePEc, but the system did not link to it, you can help with this form.
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.


text:
Myanmar rallies for a 'document of the people'
Despite mass support, bid to amend constitution faces hurdles
Supporters of a bid to overhaul the constitution gather outside Yangon
ucanews.com correspondent, Yangon
June 4, 2014
In the return volley of a call-and-response chant, the crowd, fists punching the air, voiced their approval of the latest cause of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement.
This red-wearing, thousands-strong column, marching through eastern Yangon's industrial Thaketa township, turned out recently in support of amending the country's 2008 constitution. The charter supposedly garnered the backing of more than 92 percent of the populace in the days following the devastating Cylcone Nargis in May 2008, but this and similar rallies taking place across the country are designed to put paid to any suggestion that it is a document of the people.
Looking on in a threadbare shirt and a longyi, 70-year-old U Ohn Myint, a trader, nodded his approval.
"I like it," he said. "The present constitution is not good; to make it better is a good idea. But I won't take part. I'm too old."
For most of U Ohn Myint's lifetime, Myanmar has been ruled by a clique of generals, who only passed power to a nominally civilian government made up predominantly of retired army men in 2011. The 2008 document had locked in the military's future role in politics by awarding the army an automatic 25 percent of parliamentary seats, and creating a requirement that more than three quarters of parliamentarians must back any constitutional change.
It is this effective veto, secured by Article 436 of the charter, that the opposition has chosen to target first. Leading the charge is Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party, allying themselves with the popular 88 Generation Peace and Open Society group, a collective of former student activists. At present Aung San Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from taking the presidential seat in the 2015 elections, hence her budding role as chief agitator for the constitution's overhaul.
The marchers crowded into a sports field, and between rusted football goalposts, a common backdrop on this nationwide campaign, listened to speeches and music.
"We are doing this all over the country. It's important that everyone knows about what we are doing," said U Nyan Win, the NLD's spokesman. As well as the rallies, a signature campaign is also underway and petitions will be delivered to parliament.
"Any constitutional change must depend on the people, so we are collecting up the signatures to show that they support us," he said, estimating that total support for the campaign would be as high as 30 million, well over half the adult population.
With elections next year that could see the hugely popular NLD gain a majority, it might seem as if the movement is on the final straight. But for the crowd in eastern Yangon, many of them well over 40 years old, current events are viewed in the context of a long struggle that reaches back to before the country's independence from Britain in 1948.
Through a loudspeaker, they were asked to bow their heads and observe a short silence, paying homage to General Aung San—the nation's founding father—and his comrades in the independence movement, to the students who died protesting one-party rule in 1988, and to the monks killed when the so-called Saffron Revolution was crushed in 2007.
Khin Maung Naing, 50, has been an opposition supporter since the 1980s, when he took to the streets as a student. "It's been a long time," he admits. "But I see myself as opposing injustice."
While the campaign is first targeting the military's veto, that change is intended to usher in further changes to the constitution, which has a number of clauses giving the military special privilege. It also insists the president must not have family connections in foreign state — like Suu Kyi, whose two sons are British — and is widely opposed by Myanmar's ethnic minorities, who want a charter that enshrines federalism.
Environmental researcher Khin Maung Naing said that although the country now has a parliament actively debating laws, the military's secure seats undermine his faith in the legislature.
"Thirty percent are always absent from parliament," he said. "They are old, some are traveling abroad, they get sick or pass away … I don't believe what they say."
But at present, securing further constitutional amendments is a distant hope.
"They will change it when they [the military-backed government] are confident in profiting themselves," said Khin Maung Naing, before adding a note of optimism. "Whether they want to amend or not, when they hear the people's voice, they will feel embarrassed, so they might change it."
Such are the long odds of this effort. Amending Article 436 has received some support in the military-backed ruling party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), and may well be secured in amendments currently being considered.
But Yangon-based political analyst Yola Verbruggen said the circumstances meant that the generals and former generals were still firmly in charge of what happens next.
"They will make, or not make, changes if and when they see fit," she said. "If they make the desired amendments I strongly believe that it will be because they choose to do so, not because they are forced to."
A two-thirds requirement for amendments would be the likely result of a change, so the mathematics to make wholesale reforms before the election would still require the support of much of the USDP or the military.
"People have told me over the past year to focus on the 2020 elections because, they said, nothing significant will change in 2015. They might be right," Verbruggen said.
Suu Kyi is already 68, but at the grassroots, her cause does have support from many in the youth.
Aung Nyein Chan, 27, said that he, for one, was willing to continue the fight for years to come.
"I've had a strong feeling since school. The NLD policy is to protect and serve the people," he said.
"They will not change it this time," said the youthful shoe seller, proudly wearing the opposition's trademark red headband. "But I want them to change it in my children's lifetime, at least."
Philippines rushes to distribute old contraceptives
Court lifts ban after govt's food and drug agency declares they do not induce abortions
India's top court asks governments to check Delhi pollution
Pollutants in the New Delhi air is 15 times higher than the safe limit set by World Health Organization
Indonesian bishops unite in appeal to end divisions
Prelates wrap up annual gathering by stressing need for Catholics to take an active part in curing society's ills
Retired Taiwan Catholic charity CEO helps resolve disputes
Taiwan Catholic Mission Foundation also provides relief for social emergencies and assistance for the disadvantaged
Understanding the religious context of Bangladesh and Myanmar
Christianity here is beholden to both Catholic and Protestant missionaries for developing the local church


text:
Pictures of Kate Moss and Jamie Hince at Splendour in the Grass in Australia
Kate Moss Finds New Girlfriends at Splendour in the Grass
Kate Moss was at Splendour in the Grass in Queensland yesterday to watch her husband, Jamie Hince, take the stage with The Kills. Following his set, she ventured over to the shopping area, and she left with a bag full of goodies from Tree of Life. She and Jamie have been in Australia for one week as he tours down under. They're due for a weekend show in Japan, then are heading to the US for more dates. Kate made the rounds yesterday afternoon with pals like TV presenter Kylie Speer. Kanye West also performed last night while Coldplay take to the stage today.
Image Source: Getty


text:
Icy Atlantic to Stud in Panama
Grade II winner Icy Atlantic has been purchased by Raul Gonzales-Abreu to stand at his British Mist Stud Farm in Panama.
Grade II winner Icy Atlantic has been purchased by Raul Gonzales-Abreu to stand at his British Mist Stud Farm in Panama.
Presious Passion, who bounced back from a ninth-place finish in last year's Sunshine Millions Turf at Gulfstream Park to become a grade I winner, invades Santa Anita for the 2009 renewal Jan. 24.
It took a wild stretch run and the perfect head bob, but Harlequin Ranches' Spice Route earned his first victory on American soil, prevailing by the narrowest of margins over Soldier's Dancer in the $100,000 Tropical Turf Handicap (gr. IIIT) Dec. 6 at Calder Race Course.
Richard Thompson's Ballast has captured the Tropical Turf Handicap (gr. IIIT) the past two years, but his bid for a three-peat will not be easy, as the 7-year-old gelding will face an accomplished field of horses Dec. 6 in the $100,000 event at Calder Race Course.
The front end was the place to be as Amazing and Finallymadeit scored pacesetting victories in the richest races on the Florida Million program at Calder Race Course Nov. 8.
A full field of 11 has been entered for the $150,000 Cliff Hanger Stakes (gr. IIIT) on the evening of Oct. 10 at the Meadowlands, with graded stakes winner Icy Atlantic leading the charge for the 1 1/16-mile turf test.
Ol Memorial Stable and Clint Glasscock's Buffalo Man earned his second graded stakes score of the season Aug. 30 in the $150,000 Red Bank Stakes (gr. IIIT), as he split horses in deep stretch and inched clear for a narrow victory on the Monmouth Park turf.
Hotstufanthensome was claimed for $62,5000 by trainer Terri Pompay for Main Street Stable's in January. Since then the 8-year-old Awesome Again gelding was a well-beaten fifth in the Elkwood, won by a head in a 1 1/16-mile optional claiming July 3 at Monmouth and stalked the pace but came up just short in the Oceanport.
The centerpiece of Monmouth's meeting each year is the $1 million Haskell Invitational Presented by Vonage (gr. I), which has a bonus scheme tied into the Triple Crown races.
Peter Vegso homebred War Monger came from well off the pace, moved into contention around the final turn, and caught pacesetter Lucky J.H. in mid-stretch en route to a 1 1/4-length victory in the $500,000 Sunshine Millions Turf Jan. 26 at Gulfstream Park.
Presious Passion and Icy Atlantic are two of the top contenders in the Jan. 26 event at Gulfstream Park.
It will be interesting to see how the horses-for-courses angle plays out at Monmouth Park, where it has often been an advantage to have either a race or a work over the track. In this year's Breeders' Cup World Championships, there is one trainer who will be coming to the Jersey Shore well prepared.
Icy Atlantic sets the new turf course record in his Red Bank Stakes (gr. IIIT) victory at Monmouth Park Sept. 1.
After undergoing minor surgery to correct a breathing problem, the New York-bred Gimme Credit appears ready to go for trainer Tim Hills in the $150,000 Red Bank Stakes (gr. IIIT) on the Monmouth Park turf Sept. 1.
Michael Moran had a decision to make this week: Run his talented 4-year-old gelding, Silent Roar, in the Fourstardave Handicap (gr. IIT) at Saratoga or the equally as enticing Oceanport Stakes (gr. IIIT) at Monmouth Aug. 5. Each were worth $150,000. Although entered in both, Moran ultimately chose to send the son of Unbridled Song out in the Oceanport. It turned out to be the right decision.
Topping Monmouth Park's undercard stakes on Haskell Invitational day Aug. 5 are the Oceanport and the Taylor Made Matchmaker, each a grade III stakes test on the turf worth $150,000.
James Scatuorchio's Icy Atlantic rallied from last to get up by a head on the outside for Ramon Dominguez in Saturday's $150,000 Arcadia Handicap (gr. IIT) at one mile on the Santa Anita turf.
Lava Man, who was on the verge of Horse of the Year honors last year, kicked off his 2007 campaign with a sparkling two-length win in the $500,000 Sunshine Millions San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino Turf Saturday at Santa Anita.
European invader Hurricane Run, a multiple group I winner, drew the seven post position and was made the 3-1 morning line favorite for the John Deere Breeders' Cup Turf (gr. IT).
Juddmonte Farms' favored Three Valleys, returning to action after an absence of 10 months, collared Hotstufanthensome mid-stretch and went on to win the Oceanport (gr. IIIT) on the Monmouth Park turf course Sunday.
Seven stakes, including two graded events, will be featured on the undercard Sunday as Monmouth Park makes Haskell Day 2006 a very special event.
Fishy Advice dictated the pace under Mario Pino and held his rivals safe through the stretch for a 3 1/4-length win in the $201,500 Caesar Rodney Stakes on a good Delaware Park turf.
Arthur I. Appleton's Icy Atlantic tops the $200,000 Caesar Rodney Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile turf test that drew 12 entries to Delaware Park Sunday.
Arthur I. Appleton's Icy Atlantic tops the field for the $200,000 Caesar Rodney Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile turf test that drew 12 entries to Delaware Park Sunday.
Graded stakes winner Fort Prado came from far back to tally a two-length victory in the $125,000 Tampa Bay Breeder's Cup on the turf at Tampa Bay Downs Saturday.
Racing said good-bye to Jerry Bailey - one of its all-time great riders - in Saturday's Sunshine Millions Cloverleaf Farms Turf at Gulfstream Park, but 48-1 outsider Miesque's Approval and jockey Eddie Castro played the spoilers.
Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey's final career ride is to be aboard Peter Vegso's 6-year-old Silver Tree in the $500,000 Cloverleaf Turf Farms Stakes, the highlight of the four Sunshine Millions races at Gulfstream Park Saturday.
Hotstufanthensome overcame a soft turf course, constant showers and an inquiry to win the $150,000 Cliff Hanger Stakes (gr. III) on Saturday night at the Meadowlands.
Grade II winner St Averil makes his first start for trainer H. Graham Motion in the $150,000 Cliff Hanger (gr. IIIT) Saturday night at the Meadowlands, the final graded stakes of the track's 2005 meet.
Willmott Stable's Eddington, a major contender in the 3-year-old division all season for trainer Mark Hennig, makes his grass course debut in the Calder Derby (gr. IIIT) at 1 1/8 miles Saturday.
Roused in upper stretch by Richard Migliore, Artie Schiller kicked away from pacesetting Icy Atlantic and thundered to victory in the $200,000 Jamaica Handicap (gr. IIT) for 3-year-olds in track-record time Sunday on Belmont Park turf.
Jockey Richard Migliore says Artie Schiller, a top 3-year-old turf horse he will ride in Sunday's $200,000 Jamaica Handicap at Belmont Park (gr. IIT), is one of only two horses he has ridden who have "no chinks in the armor."
Artie Schiller, arguably the second best 3-year-old turf horse in the nation behind Kitten's Joy, breezed five furlongs in 1:00 over Belmont Park's main track Tuesday in preparation for Sunday's grade II, $200,000 Jamaica at nine furlongs on turf.
Even-money favorite Artie Schiller avoided a troubled stretch run and streaked to a 4 1/4-length victory in the $150,000 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes (gr. IIT) for 3-year-olds on the Saratoga turf Monday.
Although he suffered his first turf defeat of the season in last month's Virginia Derby, Artie Schiller will be odds-on to get back in the winners' circle when he starts in Saratoga's $150,000 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Handicap (gr. IIT) Monday.
Icy Atlantic survived a stretch-long duel with Mustanfar by a nose, but the 9-5 favorite couldn't withstand a stewards' inquiry. Mustanfar was declared the winner of the $111,100 Lexington Stakes (gr. IIIT) for 3-year-olds at Belmont Park Sunday through disqualification.
Icy Atlantic and Commendation, who have faced the best 3-year-old turf horses in the East, will attract plenty of attention in the wagering when they square off against seven rivals in the $100,000 Lexington (gr. IIIT) Sunday at Belmont Park.
C. K. Woods' Timo, thanks to a well-timed ride from Richard Migliore, defeated Icy Atlantic by a nose in the $250,900 Kent Breeders' Cup (gr. IIIT) for 3-year-olds on the turf at Delaware Park Saturday.
Master David is entered in the $250,000 Kent Breeders' Cup (gr. IIIT) on the Delaware Park turf Saturday. The 1 1/8-mile Kent has attracted a field of nine 3-year-olds.
Arthur I. Appleton's homebred Icy Atlantic rolled to a 1 1/4-length and a quarter victory over Commendation in Monday's $100,00 Jersey Derby (gr. IIIT) at Monmouth Park.


text:
Spanish police seize $84 million in heroin
The Associated Press
MADRID, Spain — Spanish police say they have seized 700 pounds (315 kilograms) of heroin and arrested five people.
A police statement Friday said four Turks and one Romanian were arrested in an operation at a sports marina in the northeastern port of Sitges, close to Barcelona.
Police say the drugs seized Thursday had an estimated street value of euro54 million ($84 million). Police say it is the biggest heroin haul in Spain and one of the biggest in Europe.


text:
Frenchman Thierry Henry, the 33-year-old New York Red Bulls star, says he's graduated from merely hunting for goals to creating them, grown from being a player that just
looked to score to one that looks to lift his team, reports Brian Lewis.
"About scoring goals and being the go-to-player I -- not on a bad way, don't get me wrong -- I'm past that," Henry said. "I'm more now of the mind making the team play better, if you know what I mean; that's very important for me."
Henry frequently dropped into the midfield during last week's 3-2 loss to Chivas de Guadalajara in Mexico -- a game in which the Red Bulls led 2-0 at halftime before subbing liberally. "The game against Chivas, I played in the middle," Henry said. "It was important for me to make this team click, give a pace to the game. After that, Juan (Agudelo) can score four goals every game, Dane Richards or even Bouna (Coundoul) comes up on a corner and scores. Seriously, it's not my main concern anymore to be the go-to guy. ...
"You go through that at one point in your career where you want everything on you: It's me. Corner kick, free kick, it's me. Leave me everything, give me everything. Then you realize one of the most important things in the game is to be able to make the guys around you play better. That's way harder.


text: I have search high and low for an answer to this question...does anyone know the configuration of the so-called deluxe rooms in the garden wing at CR? The Disney site says there is a sitting area and bedroom..is this true? Is there are a separate space? Does anyone have pictures?? I would appreciate this information so much! TIA!


text:
Los Angeles, Sep 11 (IANS) Reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner fears being sent to a men's jail due to her involvement in a deadly car accident in February.
Talking about the incident for the first time, Caitlyn — who was Bruce Jenner back then and hadn't undergone gender transition — said she wasn't speeding when the accident happened.
She had so far not commented on the matter due to the ongoing litigation, reports aceshowbiz.com.
"A tragedy like this, you'll never get over it. You just learn to live with it the best you possibly can," she told TV show "Today" host Matt Lauer.
Addressing the possibility of landing behind bars and in a reference to her potential mugshot, Caitlyn said: "The media wants that picture, don't they?"
Her biggest fear, however, is going to a men's jail.
"That is the worst case scenario. I don't know. We'll see… The Men's County Jail… It is an enormous problem that they would put trans-women in Men's County Jail," she said.
But the "I Am Cait" star doesn't regret undergoing the transition.
"There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are," she added.