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|Mental Disorders
|Procedure: Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit Procedure: Care in whole acute unit
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Effects of a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit in an Acute Psychiatric Department.
- Length of stay in Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) [ Time Frame: 3 days ]
- Symptoms of psychopathology [ Time Frame: 3 days ]assessed by Broset Violence Checklist (BVC), a six-item observer-rated scale scoring behaviours. Higher scores predict imminent violence in psychiatric inpatients
- Violent or threatening incidents [ Time Frame: 3 days ]recorded with the Staff Observation Aggression Scale-Revised (SOAS-R),
- Therapeutic steps and nurses' interventions [ Time Frame: 3 days ]coded daily on a 23-item checklist
|Study Start Date:
|October 2001
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit
|Procedure: Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit
|Active Comparator: Whole acute unit
Procedure: Care in whole acute unit
psychiatric acute care as usual
Detailed Description:
The main aim of the study is to compare the effects of using or not using a Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) in an acute psychiatric department.The acute ward of Østmarka psychiatric department, St. Olavs Hospital has a PICU separated from the rest of the ward. The PICU is separated with a locked door. Under two different conditions at different times all patients evaluated to be in need of PICU were admitted to the PICU. In the first condition the doors inside the PICU and between the rest of the acute ward and PICU were closed or locked. In the second condition the doors inside the PICU and the door between the PICU and the rest of the acute ward were either removed or held permanently open. In the second condition the patients thus were admitted to a PICU unit not using PICU principles.
The patients were evaluated with different rating scales at admittance, day three and at discharge from PICU.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- All patients admitted to Østmarka psychiatric department, St. Olavs Hospital in need of a PICU.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with dementia or mental retardation to an extensive degree.
- Patients not speaking Norwegian or English.
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): NCT00184119
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00184119
|Østmarka Psychiatric Department, St. Olavs Hospital
|Trondheim, Norway, 7441
|Study Chair:
|Olav M Linaker, Professor
|Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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|Responsible Party:
|Norwegian University of Science and Technology
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00184119 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Submitted:
|September 9, 2005
|First Posted:
|September 16, 2005
|Last Update Posted:
|March 13, 2017
|Last Verified:
|March 2017
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Keywords provided by Norwegian University of Science and Technology:
Emergency services, psychiatric
Intensive care units
Hospitals, psychiatric
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Mental Disorders
Psychotic Disorders
Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders


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Camp Katan is all about filling six weeks of summer days with exciting activities, friends and fun. We offer small groups, dedicated and caring professional staff, and varied enrichment activities. We encourage the campers to grow and have fun while making them feel safe and protected in an age-appropriate facility located in the heart of South Charlotte.
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The Russian Financial Crisis and its Consequences for Central Asia
This paper reviews the economic conditions in central Asia at the time of the Russian financial crisis of August 1998; the channels by which the crisis was transmitted to the central Asian region; and the policy responses. The paper concludes that, while real exchange rates of central Asian national currencies vis-à-vis the Russian ruble have returned to their pre-crisis levels following the nominal devaluations that ensued, other indicators of external competitiveness, such as unit labor cost indices, suggest the need for further surveillance in this area. Also, it is not yet clear if full exchange rate flexibility has been established in central Asia despite the protracted and costly exits from the nominal exchange rates in place at the time of the crisis. Finally, the debt-to-GDP ratios in central Asia, which grew rapidly between 1998 and 1999 in the context of large exchange rate adjustments, remain a challenge for the Tajik and Kyrgyz authorities, in particular.
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- Gonzalo Pastor & Tatiana Damjanovic, 2003.
"The Russian Financial Crisis and Its Consequences for Central Asia,"
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade,
Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(3), pages 79-104, May.
- Gonzalo Pastor & Tatiana Damjanovic, 2003. "The Russian Financial Crisis and Its Consequences for Central Asia," Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., vol. 39(3), pages 79-104, May.
- Gonzalo C Pastor Campos & Tatiana Damjanovic, 2001. "The Russian Financial Crisis and its Consequences for Central Asia," IMF Working Papers 01/169, International Monetary Fund.
- Barry J. Eichengreen & Inci Ötker & A. Javier Hamann & Esteban Jadresic & R. B. Johnston & Hugh Bredenkamp & Paul R Masson, 1998. "Exit Strategies; Policy Options for Countries Seeking Exchange Rate Flexibility," IMF Occasional Papers 168, International Monetary Fund.
- Islamov, Bakhtior, 1999. "Central Asian States: On the Way from Autarchic Dependence to Regionl and Global Interdependence," Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, vol. 40(2), pages 75-96, December.
- Natalia T. Tamirisa, 1999. "Exchange and Capital Controls as Barriers to Trade," IMF Staff Papers, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 46(1), pages 1-4.
- Natalia T. Tamirisa, 1998. "Exchange and Capital Controls as Barriers to Trade," IMF Working Papers 98/81, International Monetary Fund.
- Collins, Susan M., 1996. "On becoming more flexible: Exchange rate regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 51(1), pages 117-138, October.
- Helene Poirson Ward, 2001. "How Do Countries Choose their Exchange Rate Regime?," IMF Working Papers 01/46, International Monetary Fund.
- Holden, Paul & Holden, Merle & Suss, Esther C, 1979. "The Determinants of Exchange Rate Flexibility: An Empirical Investigation," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 61(3), pages 327-333, August. Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)


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'Give a Rottweiler Love, and He'll Turn Into a Poodle'
"I definitely lead a dog's life," quips Yovel Mendelovitch, 29, who rescues animals and raises 12 dogs (Amstaff, Rottweiler, pit bull, Argentine Dogo) in his own home in central Israel.
"That's what happens when your house becomes a shelter," he says, while being showered with kisses from Shushka, a massive pit bull exploited as a breeding dog for dog fighting, and Georgy. The latter, a spotted three-year-old Amstaff, was abandoned two years ago and was rehabilitated by Mendelovitch, who cured Georgy of anxiety fears.
In a tiny one-bedroom apartment, which includes a garden, Mendelovitch houses the dogs, five of whom live amicably together as a pack, freely wandering about the apartment and garden. The other seven live in spacious enclosures. Mendelovitch dreams of funding that will enable him to create a formal shelter.
"Ever since [4-year-old] Avivit Ganon died after an Amstaff fatally mauled her, a veritable witchhunt has been conducted against these animals," he says. "Many dog owners panic and abandon them, while others choose to breed them for dog fights or as guard dogs. The result - the dogs are abused while being trained to become cruel animals."
Eti Altman, founder and spokesperson of Let the Animals Live, adds that "many dogs are abandoned and undergo abuse, but our organization cannot hold them in enclosures because local residents break into the enclosures and steal the animals for dog fights."
The fate facing dogs defined by law as dangerous has turned Mendelovitch's home into the place for those seeking asylum for canines. "The telephone never stops ringing," says Mendelovitch. "I get calls in the middle of the night about abandoned dogs and I rush to bring them here."
"The dogs arrive here with traumas," he explains. "After they have been here for a while, I can identify their fears and begin to rehabilitate them, build their confidence, calm them down and give them much love and human warmth. After the dogs have been exposed over a period of time to a serene, secure, loving setting, they become as docile as poodles," he smiles.
Dogo, a huge Argentine Dogo, inhabits one of Mendelovitch's enclosures. One can still see the scars on his neck left by the collar his previous owner used. "This dog underwent horrible abuse," relates Mendelovitch. "He was cruelly tied with an iron wire closely wrapped around his neck.
"Initially, when I started feeding him, he would attack me," he recalls, smiling and displaying scratches and bites on his body. "However, now that he has become accustomed to his new living conditions and receives warmth and love, he has become pleasant and friendly."
Mendelovitch has gradually gathered around him several individuals who help with the expenses of caring for and feeding the dogs, and looking for resources for the private shelter. Sarit Garjy, who teaches animal care workshops at the Israel Prison Service, is one of Mendelovitch's volunteers, helping him care for the animals and find them loving homes.
"We advertise on the Internet, screening out hundreds of applicants. It is important for us that the rehabilitated dog find a warm home. We check out the people, visit their homes and ascertain that the dog will not be abused or abandoned again," she says. "You just can't pass laws and eliminate certain breeds," argues Mendelovitch. "You must allow people to raise these dogs, but, at the same time, you must monitor who is doing the breeding and what use is being made of the dogs. What is most important is to provide proper guidance for those who decide to raise one of these animals.
"Everything depends on who raises the dog," he emphasizes. "A German Shepherd has the potential of causing harm, but even a cat can cause injury and attack a baby. Regrettably, dogs are paying a heavy price and being put down because of the aggressiveness of dog-owners who don't know how to raise these animals."
During the entire interview, the five dogs who wander about the apartment rested comfortably on the laps of this writer and the Haaretz photographer, both of whom held their breath for several minutes until finally "surrendering" to the dogs, who demanded that we stroke their fur and then showered us with kisses.
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Dinosaurs! follows the evolution of these spectacular creatures from their earliest beginnings as little fellows who had to evade attacks from giant croc relatives to today's living dinosaurs.
THIS BOOK COMBINES THE TALENTS of two of the more imaginative (some might say "controversial") workers in dinosaur studies. Robert Bakker, whose curriculum includes stints at both Harvard and Yale, as well as the Tate Geological Museum in Casper, Wyoming, was the enfant terrible of the dinosaur renaissance in the 1970s, when his research, combined with similar studies by his colleagues, laid to rest the midcentury vision of dinosaurs as inept, maladapted failures. Rey's dinosaur reconstructions (digitally superimposed for this book onto scenic background photographs) are so brilliantly colored they are almost garish, and the figures are probably the most dynamically posed of any in the tradition of paleoart. Yet despite the bold effects, the results are surprisingly mainstream, in the best sense of the word. That is to say, few dinosaur paleontologists today would find the information and reconstructions in Dinosaurs! at all unreasonable (except perhaps for the imaginative colors). If you are looking for a short, colorful, easy-to-read overview of the new understanding of dinosaurian diversity, this book will serve as an excellent introduction for young readers.


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Guy Fieri's recent trip to Toronto included the most quintessential stop of all: Dinner with Drake. The heart-on-his sleeve rap & B-er was caught on Instagram — well, not really caught, since it came from an Instagram that is exclusively devoted to pictures of Drake, which is a little strange — getting cooking tips from the recently flambédDiners, Drive-ins & Dives host, in what is almost assuredly a segment from the upcoming show.
Some of the questions raised by this image that have yet to be answered: What restaurant were they at? (Fieri was rumoured to be visiting Hey Meatball, Caplansky's, the Lakeview Diner and the Stockyards.) Whose beard makes him look more like a tool? Did Guy Fieri make more vaguely sexual groans of pleasure around Drake than his average lady fan? Is this the most important rapper-chef collab since Snoop Dogg dropped in on Martha Stewart? Does Guy Fieri not wear his sunglasses backward at night? Is Drake following up his high school diploma with a George Brown culinary degree? Or has he been the secret behind Toronto's culinary renaissance this whole time? Has anyone ever seen Drake and Susur Lee in the same place at the same time?
We can only wonder, and assume that whatever the finished product up there was, Guy Fieri was ecstatically happy with the results. Unlike most of the critics who visit his restaurants.


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BSODs randomly. Now barely displays on boot.
About one week ago I got a couple BSOD's, PC worked fine before and didn't install anything new. They powered off the pc almost immediately after. Now, it takes roughly one minute after the loading screen to display anything on the monitor, and half the time nothing ever displays via HDMI. I'm going to assume these are related.
Here is my zipped BSOD files. Two were from a week ago and the last just happened last night.
Thank you for any help!
i5 3570k
750w PSU
1tb seagate hdd
12gb corsair RAM
Gigabyte 760 windforce
Gigabyte gaz77d3h mobo
Have tried -
Clean install of GPU drivers in safe mode, also tried beta drivers
Update mobo bios
Ran HDD error check
Checked cables for lose ends
|My System Specs
|19 Oct 2013
Two are just .tmp files, and last one gives us this result ....
Realtek RTL8192C Wireless USB driver .......
******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information. BugCheck 9F, {3, fffffa800bd58cd0, fffff8000489d3d8, fffffa8009b60b50} *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for RTL8192cu.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for RTL8192cu.sys Probably caused by : RTL8192cu.sys Followup: MachineOwner ---------
Also .... Etron USB 3.0 Extensible Hub Driver.
Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [ 16, 0] 0 0 fffffa800bd58cd0 00000000 fffff8800147ddb0-fffffa800bd201a0 Unable to load image EtronHub3.sys, Win32 error 0n2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for EtronHub3.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for EtronHub3.sys \Driver\EtronHub3 ndis!ndisSetDevicePowerOnComplete Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000002 >[ 16, 2] 0 e1 fffffa800bd20050 00000000 00000000-00000000 pending \Driver\RTL8192cu Args: 00041100 00000001 00000001 00000002 [ 16, 2] 0 e1 fffffa800bd6be10 00000000 00000000-00000000 pending \Driver\vwifibus Args: 00041100 00000001 00000001 00000002 [ 0, 0] 0 0 00000000 00000000 00000000-fffffa800f853e40 Args: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Let us know the results.
|My System Specs
|19 Oct 2013
Thank you for your help! It seems to have helped!
One thing that seems weird is that if vga and hdmi are connected at the same time, it doesnt display anything until the welcome message on hdmi. Maybe this is normal? Either way, thanks. I'll mark as solved unless something else comes up.
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|19 Oct 2013
Good to know that it is out of BSODs for now!
Not having that much experience about HDMI to say it as normal. Better you ask a question in General Discussion - Windows 7 Help Forums.
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The 2016 USAC membership fees are $100 plus $10 per person, and $200 for the NCQMA membership. USAC allows one alternate handler for FREE with each family membership, whereas NCQMA requires completion of a separate NCQMA membership application and a $25 fee for each alternate handler. NCQMA dues and any alternate handler fees must be paid separately this year via check or cash at NCQMA.
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Go to the following website and follow the directions, selecting NCQMA as your home track, to complete the online USAC membership. This will allow you to complete your 2016 USAC membership paperwork and pay your USAC dues. You will receive an automated email confirmation of your registration from USAC.
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Together for Adoption Canada 2017 Breakouts
Breakout Session 1 Options: Saturday morning (10:30-11:30 am)
1A - Adoption Basics by Tandela Swann
Are you, or someone you know, considering adding to your family through adoption? Do you find the process and steps confusing and daunting? This session will help to answer some of your questions around adoption, where and how to get started, and what to expect in the process. You will learn about the different options with respect to adoption, and the joys and challenges that present along the way in diverse adoption journeys.
1B - Fostering Basics by Sue O'Keefe
Join local Calgary foster family recruiter Sue O'Keeffe for an introduction to fostering. She will be well prepared to answer any questions you may have about what fostering involves, how to apply, what is required, how the process works and what supports are available to families who choose to foster.
1C - The Devastating Duo of Fear & Shame by Brian and Colleen Derksen
Fear and shame drive a lot of the behaviour we see in our children (and in ourselves) but it's often difficult to see past the behaviour to discern what's really going on. In this breakout, we'll discuss what it looks like when fear and shame drive behaviours, and we'll share a few strategies to help us become more effective at both recognizing and combating these two enemies of connection.
1D - Launching Your Church Ministry by Kristjen and Tamara Hull
Would you love to see a ministry in your church to care for the orphan and support adoptive and foster families? Come learn practical steps to launch a ministry and grow this ministry to a thriving and effective outreach to families in your community and church. From approaching your church board, to exploring the creative possibilities for your church ministry…we will cover it all in this informative session. We'll share resource ideas and help you get started.
1E - Dads panel: How to Be a Trust-Based Daddy by Brian Hargreaves, Terence Jellema, Alan Jones, and Jason Kovacs
Come and hear a panel of adoptive dads share the insights they have learned through parenting. What is unique and special about being a dad? How have they learned to support their wives in their parenting journeys? How has knowing themselves well helped when children inevitably push their buttons? Come to hear their stories and ask them questions to help you be better prepared to be a trust-based daddy.
Breakout Session 2 Options: Saturday (11:30 am -12:30 pm)
2A - What I Wish I Had Known About Adoption Before I adopted—Panel discussion
Hear from experienced adoptive parents about their experiences—good and bad—and what they learned from each. Specifically, we will ask them what insights they feel would have helped them if they had known sooner in their process. There will be an opportunity for you to ask questions, so come expecting to learn from those who have walked this road ahead of you.
2B - Helping your church volunteers be trauma informed by Pastor Randy Burtis
In this session, we will define what trauma is and explore its effect on children and discover what are the common behaviours we see in children who have been impacted by trauma. Armed with that awareness we will then dig into ways to be trauma-informed and how to support your volunteers as they partner with the parents in providing care for these children while they are participating in our church programs.
2C - Understanding Attachment: theirs and yours by Julie Lidstone
There are many factors that influence a child's development – many over which parents/caregivers have little control – but attachment security is one important factor parents/caregivers can influence. A secure attachment is important for our children as it provides a foundation for resiliency, well-being, and satisfying relationships. Research tells us that the best predictor of a child obtaining secure attachment is that his/her parents/caregivers have made sense of their own childhood. In this session, we will look at how to determine our own attachment style and how to make sense of our childhood experiences in order to guide our children toward secure attachment.
2D - Better Together: Building Connections in Canada for Family Restoration, Foster Care & Adoption
by Wendi Park
It's great when a person is passionate about caring for vulnerable kids, but it can also feel extremely isolating and overwhelming. Find your piece in the child welfare puzzle and get connected. This workshop will look at ways one can effectively build meaningful supports within the community and across Canada. We will address the challenges and the benefits of collaboration with government, social services, organizations and the community at large, as well as discuss healthy opportunities for your church to be relevant to your community child welfare needs.
2E - Self- Care for Mommas by Debra Delulio Jones
Based on her own personal experience, Debra will share with moms how to become empowered to give themselves their much-needed yeses to alleviate stress. She will discuss symptoms of Compassion Fatigue that can result from a difficult parenting journey. She will also address overcoming unhealthy thinking that prevents us from taking good care of ourselves (we are the temple of God in Christ). Come and learn, get permission to take good care of you so that you can take good care of your family.
2F - Screening of the Documentary - "Lost Kites"
In April of 2013, the LOST KITES team came together in Kona, Hawaii. They had recently completed two documentary projects and overseas volunteer service in Argentina, Panama, Rwanda, Uganda, India and Nepal with media advocacy non-profit, A Voice for the Voiceless. They had all witnessed the plight of children separated from their family, and wanted to do something about it. "I want to see what is the best way to help children without families – what is that?" Asked director, Samuel Rich. And so they set out on a 22 nation journey for two years, with a lean budget from crowdfunding and donations from family and friends. Statistics appeared daunting at the start, 8-10 million children living in orphanages, and 100 million on the streets, but the more the team traveled, the more hope for family began to emerge. 70+ interviews with social workers, advocates, doctors, and authors revealed strategies that the team is now sharing with the world in their film.
Breakout Session 3 Options: Saturday afternoon (1:30-2:30 pm)
3A Preparing Extended Family by Brian & Angela Hargreaves group
Join Brian and Angela Hargreaves for a look at helping your family and friends understand what it is to bring home your fostered or adopted child. We will explore different avenues of conversation for informing them that you and your new child need some time to cocoon or bond and how that looks. All foster and adopted children have experienced some sort of trauma even if they are newborn when you take them home. In this session, we would like to discuss the different ways you can help family ad friends understand how important it is that you bond with your new child. Experts recommend that you have one week of cocooning for every month that your child has not been with you—for family and friends that have never experienced fostering/adoption, that can be a difficult thing to understand. We will hep you understand cocooning and preparing your family and friends to support you in this.
3B - Safe Families by Sandee Harder
"Safe Families Canada is a movement of compassion involving collaboration between area churches, volunteers and Christian organizations in order to support at-risk children and parents in need. Safe Families is an opportunity for volunteers to have a powerful impact in the lives of others through practicing biblical hospitality and extending the love of Christ to people in need — all from their own home! Parents experiencing a temporary crisis can arrange for their children (newborn through 18 years old) to stay with Safe Families volunteers while they address the issues that led to the instability in their lives." Come and hear from Sandee Harder, who is leading a program to start Safe Families in Winnipeg.
3C - Transracial Parenting by Jason Kovacs
Transracial adoption brings with it many important questions and often unforeseen challenges. How should we think about the issue of race? How might this influence (or not influence) how I raise my children and interact with other people as a transracial family? In this workshop we'll answer these questions and more through the lens of the gospel story of our adoption by God through Jesus.
3D - Fostering & Adoption Culture Shaping by Joyce Rees
This breakout session is particularly geared for ministry leaders seeking to shape community participation in foster care and adoption. We'll talk spiritual formation to enable healthy heart response within the community, as well as pragmatics for best practices within your congregation. Bring your questions, experience, and ideas!
3E - Voices of Adoptees and Foster Kids - Panel Discussion
It is vitally important to remember that as foster and adoptive parents, we do not live in the "skin" of our children. Their perspectives and experiences are different and we need to get used to hearing their understanding of their journeys. We will have the privilege of interviewing a panel of adoptees to hear how their stories can help us parent our children most effectively, by learning from what was helpful and not helpful to them.
We are offering two pre-conference options at Together For Adoption 2017 during the day on Friday, May 12th. Please visit each pre-conference page to learn more about each.
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Introduction to Empowered to Connect Parenting with Brian and Colleen Derksen
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TBRI Advanced - Practicing the Skills with Debra and Alan Jones


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BRP Semi Auto Bolt Assembly less orignal bolt head and drilled striker / firing pin wedge.
Drill size .1660" (size 19)
Includes all parts except for the original bolt head and drilled firing pin wedge.
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I like the fact these can be "tuned" via washers for specific ammo. I had to do a little trimming too in the rear lower area for hammer clearance ...something that should be expected in this type of semi build.
Both of mine built using these BRP parts run about 99% using good surplus SA .308, about 97% with 8mm surplus ammo; with a rare light primer strike, maybe one per hundred, which is good enough for me for this type of semi converted belt fed.
Another "tuning" area often over looked can be booster sizes and recoil springs which also play a huge role in reliability with these.
Keep your build (receiver) straight, with barrel and rails bind free as well.
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Hello everyone. I'm new here to the forums as well as Sybase in general and just have a few questions.
I seem to be having a problem with some clients' ability to connect to our Sybase database. Currently they are configured through ODBC, with all the correct registry keys and whatnot. The problem is this: The first time a client tries to connect, it won't see the database. However, if we go in to the configure panel in the Data Sources (ODBC) utility, choose the database and 'test connect' the client will connect, and then from then on connect no problem.
I have no problem doing this, however, not for all 1000+ clients. So my question is, is there anyway to issue a command similiar to a tnsping for oracle from the command prompt, so I can put it into a batch and just have client machines run the batch?
I apologize if this is a silly question.
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It depends how your application connects. If its a local odbc source, then you have the option of pushing the odbc entries thro network, just like you push any other software. Talk to your network administrator.
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Research and analysis
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An analysis of 200 of the largest charities' annual reports and accounts.
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Research into whether large charities go beyond the minimum requirements to provide information that accounts fully and transparently for their performance during the year.
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Adrian Monk has journeyed into the realm of the cult science-fiction show Beyond Earth, where he meets fans just as obsessive-compulsive as he is. Monk is at their convention because there may be a killer lurking in the Beyond Earth community: someone in a starship uniform has very publicly gunned down the show's legendary creator, Conrad Stipe. Could a fan be that furious at him for selling out to an exploitative Hollywood producer? Or is there more going on behind the scenes in Stipe's life?
Crack another case with Monk.
©2007 Universal Studios Licensing LLLP. Monk © USA Cable Entertainment LLC. All rights reserved.; 2010 BBC Audio
"Seed's view"
Classic Mr. Monk. I think I lost some of the ending so will listen on cloud and re-download if necessary. Otherwise great story.
"Who changed the channel when its getting good!?"
I have always been a fan of the Monk TV series and continuing books. This story follows Monk like you would expect. One thing is that it goes into a more complicated plot than a TV series would have allowed.
Mr. Monk attend the Sci-Fi convention is classic. I also enjoyed revisiting the Monk brothers relationship.
Clear, Sweet, Comfortable.
The universe is going to get a serious cleaning.
I enjoyed the book but was very confused by the conclusion. At the height of the action at the conclusion, there seems to be a good 5 minutes missing from the story. There is a jump cut of Mr. Monk and Natalie at the security desk getting a look at the killer to Mr. Monk sweeping up glass and Natalie's car spontaneously moving from the street where it's parked to inside a building somewhere. I had to look up the book on Wikipedia just to figure out what happened. I wonder if anyone else's recording was similarly flawed. This is the single reason why I only gave the performance 3 stars. I would have rated it higher otherwise.
"OK Book"
The book was OK, but the end didn't make sense. Apparently, some pages were skipped because Natalie was in the building, in the car, then in the building again. And she mentioned driving through the window, which never happened - at least in the reading it didn't! Please be sure the entire book is read; otherwise, why are we buying them from Audible???
"Too much filler"
As other reviewers noted, part of the story near the end is left out. Other than that, I have two chief complaints: 1) There's WAY too much time taken up by Natalie's constant musings over things like her situation in life and what makes Monk the way he is . 2) Compared with the TV show, Monk is just too annoying in the book. His character annoys people in the TV show, but there is almost always a degree of humor in it. Few instances of Monk's being annoying in the book are amusing.
"Audio is missing a page or two."
CHAPTER 29. At the climax of the book, there are pages of text that were missed being read! I'm disappointed that the producers allowed for this error to be released.
"think some is missing"
The very end when they solve the mystery and arrest the perp is some of the information.
If you love the TV series, this book is a tremendous disappointment. None of the charm survives the heavy handed writing. Cliche after cliche...sloppy plotting. Monk is made into a silly character. No charm. No magic. Stupid mystery. I am glad I got it for $5. But that's still $4.99 more than it's worth.
Horrible waste of time.
"Another great Monk Book"
Mr. Monk in Outer Space follows the same familiar light hearted formula used in the other Monk books. The author does a great job of staying true to the television characters.
The narrator is excellent and enjoyable to listen to. Thus far Angela Brazil is the best narrator for the Monk series.
I hope more Monk books will follow.
In conclusion, if you are a fan of Monk or looking for a light and fluffy mystery - you'll like this.
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Best hotel I have stayed in, in London, lives up to its excellent reputation. Rooms are a good size, very nicely laid out and great design. Could not fault the room at all only wish my bedroom was like it. Service and staff also very good and attentive, again could not fault the great service. Very relaxed public areas, bars and lounge and not at all stuffy. Only one small gripe and that was the breakfast was average, service very good but the food, we had full English, was a little disappointing. For the price of it I would of expected better presentation. However would definately go back...make sure you ask for a room looking out and not looking into the central atrium.
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ANNAPOLIS – Boating deaths in Maryland last year were nearly double the average annual number recorded by the Department of Natural Resources in the past decade, and unusually warm weather could be a major reason for the jump.
From 2001 to 2010, the average number of deaths per year was about 12.7, according to data from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Last year, 24 people died.
Normally, most accidents, injuries and fatalities occur during the summer months, often peaking in July, when the water is warm and there are many more recreational boaters.
But accidents can occur at all times of the year, and last year's warmer than usual weather had mild temperatures as early as April, and stretching to the fall months.
Sgt. Art Windemuth, spokesman for the Natural Resources Police, said the most common factors in boating accidents are time of day, day of week and time of year.
These all tend to follow a similar pattern, he said.
"We can see that they coincide with warm, hot weather during the weekend and during the time of day when it's the best time to be out," Windemuth said.
These patterns emerge because recreational boaters make up the majority of those on the water.
"What usually kicks it off is Memorial Day," said Blair O'Connell, a boater from La Plata whose boat is docked in St. Mary's County.
O'Connell said he is usually out on the water during the period from Memorial Day to Labor Day, and that is when he sees the most boaters.
I'm usually out 10 to 12 weekends in the summer, he said.
Windemuth said last year's unusually warm weather, with less distinction between seasons, contributed to the jump in fatalities.
However, though the weather was mostly mild throughout the year, cold air and water temperatures were still a risk.
Several of the recorded fatalities occurred in December when water and air temperatures were in the 40s, making hypothermia a serious risk.
When we're dealing in the 30s and 40s, survival is measured in only a matter of minutes, Windemuth said.
"I think the most important thing to remember is we're a boating community," said Jim Stewart, the dockmaster at the Annapolis Landing Marina.
Stewart said though the milder temperatures tend to attract more people, Maryland is a state where boating is very common and there will always be some unfortunate accidents.
"Real boaters boat in all conditions," Stewart said.
Though the number of boating fatalities was up last year, overall boating accidents decreased about 15 percent from 219 in 2010 to 186 in 2011.
During the legislative session this year, the Department of Natural Resources supported several bills that would affect water activity and safety in Maryland, including a bill to require permits for large gatherings of boats, and a bill which would help increase the number of Natural Resources Police Officers.
The bill on marine gatherings passed in both houses.
The Natural Resources Police Officers bill, on the other hand, passed unanimously in the Senate, but failed to get out of the House of Delegates.
Windemuth said legislation submitted is targeted at protecting citizens and improving conditions on the waterways, but he said it's too soon to judge the effect any proposed or implemented bills could have on boating in Maryland.
"Only time will tell," Windemuth said.
Note: Accompanying graphic only includes the 20 deaths in 2011 that were investigated by the Department of Natural Resources. The other four were handled by other agencies.


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Implications of Child Undernutrition on the Social and Economic Development of Egypt, June 2013.
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The year 2012 was dramatic for WFP and for the people we serve. Amidst floods, droughts and war, WFP and its partners distributed 3.5 million metric tons of food assistance to 97.2 million people in 80 countries. Our...
The first State of School Feeding Worldwide report, produced by WFP provides a global picture of developments in school feeding, with maps, analysis, and research.
In 2011 and 2012, the EU (Member States and the European Commission) supported WFP operations in more than 30 countries with over €2 billion.
The nature and volume of its activities demonstrate WFP's leading role as a global practitioner in internationally defined safety nets.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the region most affected by the HIV epidemic, WFP's food and nutrition support is an essential part of HIV treatment and care.
Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life – from the womb to two years of age – can lead to irreversible damage to children's minds and bodies.
WFP is a frontline actor in the fight against hunger, and is working with governments across Asia to support country-led solutions to the impact of climate change and climate-related hunger.
The World Food Programme works with governments across Asia to design and manage large-scale, innovative programmes, focused on those who need them most. These programmes are often called 'safety nets'...
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The Bethesda Alumni Association will sponsor a chicken dinner fundraiser from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Feb. 28 to support the nationally ranked chess team.
The event will be held at the American Legion Post 184, 3003 Rowland Ave., with all proceeds going to offset the cost of the team's participation in the U.S. Chess National Championship in San Diego on April 4-6.
Cost will be $10 per plate to include fried chicken, rice, green beans, roll and lemonade. To purchase tickets beginning Monday, contact Walt Cason at 234-1314. Tickets may also be purchased on site on the day of the event.
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Activism saved my life. I got involved with a feminist group (of men and women working to really transform gender roles and patriarchy into a more just system). I got involved with a movement trying to end the racist Apartheid system in South Africa (you guys, it only ended in 1994!). I got involved with queer activism, with lefty groups, with all the rabble-rousers and radicals working to end the AIDS epidemic, to create a fairer economy, to win rights for immigrants, to end wars, and make the world more fun and sexy!
What I found in social justice movements was a whole life that has given me hope, inspiration, friendships, and my lover, Kate (of twenty-three years), whom I met at a queer conference. Social activism is all about optimism, even when you lose. The process of doing something about it all generates lots of adrenaline and serotonin that just make you feel better, like a sweaty dance to music you love.
Urvashi Vaid is one of the many writers, artists, and activists who contributed an original essay to It Gets Better: Coming Out, Overcoming Bullying, and Creating a Life Worth Living, which will be released on March 22. You can pre-order a copy at Amazon, through ItGetsBetter.org, or at your favorite local bookstore. It Gets Better event in Seattle at Town Hall on Tuesday March 29. Tickets and info here.


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"Beat the Invisible Enemy!"
Episode Summary: With Rukia's help", Chad fights the hollow despite not being able to see it. Ichigo eventually arrives and defeats the hollow, but unlike the previous hollows that simply dissolved and went to the Soul Society," the gates of Hell appear and capture the hollow. The spirit that inhabited the cockatiel is released to move on to the Soul Society.


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When Hollie Gazzard was horrifically murdered in February 2014, her family wanted something positive to come out of their tragic loss. Hollie's passion for hairdressing led her parents, Nick and Mandy, alongside her sister, Chloe, to form the Trust in order to give opportunities to others that she had been fortunate to have. An application was made to the Charity Commission in April that same year and the Hollie Gazzard Trust, a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) was created.
While Hollie's family are still devastated by her untimely death, and unable to change the events of that fateful day, they hope that the funds raised through HGT will help others find a better future and reach their potential. The Trust relies on the generosity of the individuals and companies that support it and hold a number of official fundraising initiatives each year.
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What is Pidgin and What is Creole?
Pidgins, Creoles and other Stigmatized Varieties
A pidgin is a reduced language used by groups with no language in common who need to communicate for trade or other purposes. A creole, by contrast, is a natural language developed from a mixture of different languages, like Haitian Creole, which is based on 18th-century French but absorbed elements of Portuguese, Spanish and West African languages. Semi-creole languages, which Mr. Holm also studied — Afrikaans is an example — share even more traits with their vocabulary-source languages.
The word pidgin seems to have had its origin in the inability of 19th century Chinese to articulate the word business. It came out as bigeon or bidgin, and since it is a short step from B to P, it finally flattened out as pidgin.
In 1782, in Information to Those Who Would Remove to America, our own Benjamin Franklin recorded this snippet of a more advanced Pidgin English: "Boccarorra [a form of buckra 'white man'] make de Black Man workee, make de horse workee, make de Ox workee, make ebery thing workee; only de Hog. He, de Hog, no workee; he eat, he drink, he walk about, he go to sleep when he please, he libb like a gentleman." J. L. Dillard, Black English, (Vintage Books 1973), p.89
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- RIP 12/29/15 John Holm, Pioneer in Linguistics, Dies at 72
Dr. Holm helped bring the study of creole and pidgin languages into the scholarly mainstream. He produced a landmark study, the two-volume "Pidgins and Creoles," which traced their socio-historical evolution and helped create one of the most exciting subfields of linguistics. He also insisted that pidgins and creoles be regarded as languages in their own right, not debased versions of source languages. "They are new languages, shaped by many of the same linguistic forces that shaped English and other 'proper' languages," he later wrote in "An Introduction to Pidgins and Creoles" (2000).
While hitchhiking through Mexico and Central America as a teenager, Mr. Holm heard black Nicaraguans along the Caribbean coast speaking a non-Spanish language that seemed oddly familiar. They called it "pirate English," a reference to its probable origin as a pidgin spoken on pirate and British Navy ships. Although Mr. Holm could barely understand what he was hearing, it planted the seed for what would become his life's work: the study of creole and pidgin languages spoken by millions of people around the world, especially the English-derived creoles of the Caribbean.
- Catalan is a language without a state (without an army or navy as John Holm once put it) spoken by some 6 million with first-language fluency.
World Creoles
Southern Bahamian: Transported African American Vernacular English or Transported Gullah?
(Stephanie Hackert and John Holm) published in vol. 15 (2009) of The College of the Bahamas Research Journal, pp. 12-21
Holm argued (wrongly) in the 1990s that proof of AAVE's creole origins lay in the creole speech of the southern Bahamian islands, populated almost entirely from the US mainland after the American Revolutionary War. It has since come to light that most of the immigrants came from Gullah-speaking areas of the US, suggesting that AAVE was from its beginnings the product of partial rather than full creolization.
Science: Linguist finds a Language in its Infancy 7/14/13
A Village Invents a Language All Its Own
Warlpiri rampaku, or Light Warlpiri, is a new language spoken only by people under 35 in Lajamanu, an isolated village of about 700 people in Australia's Northern Territory.Carmel O'Shannessy, a linguist at the University of Michigan, has been studying the young people's speech for more than a decade and has concluded that they speak neither a dialect nor the mixture of languages called a creole, but a new language with unique grammatical rules.
Everyone in Lajamanu also speaks "strong" Warlpiri, an aboriginal language unrelated to English and shared with about 4,000 people in several Australian villages. Many also speak Kriol, an English-based creole developed in the late 19th century and widely spoken in northern Australia among aboriginal people of many different native languages. Lajamanu parents are happy to have their children learn English for use in the wider world, but eager to preserve Warlpiri as the language of their culture.
Defining Creole
By John H. McWhorter
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Pp. 444. paper
The vocabulary of a pidgin comes mainly from one particular language (called the "lexifier"). The early "pre-pidgin" is quite restricted in use and variable in structure. But the later "stable pidgin" develops its own grammatical rules which are quite different from those of the lexifier. Once a stable pidgin has emerged, it is generally learned as a second language and used for communication among people who speak different languages. Examples are Nigerian Pidgin and Bislama (spoken in Vanuatu).
When children start learning a pidgin as their first language and it becomes the mother tongue of a community, it is called a creole. Like a pidgin, a creole is a distinct language which has taken most of its vocabulary from another language, the lexifier, but has its own unique grammatical rules. Unlike a pidgin, however, a creole is not restricted in use, and is like any other language in its full range of functions. Examples are Gullah, Jamaican Creole and Hawaii Creole English. Note that the words "pidgin" and "creole" are technical terms used by linguists, and not necessarily by speakers of the language. For example, speakers of Jamaican Creole call their language "patwa" (from patois) and speakers of Hawai'i Creole English call theirs "Pidgin."
Note that the words "pidgin" and "creole" are technical terms used by linguists, and not necessarily by speakers of the language. For example, speakers of Jamaican Creole call their language "patwa" (from patois) and speakers of Hawai'i Creole English call theirs "Pidgin."
A PIDGIN is a version of a language which is stripped of virtually everything except what is necessary to basic communication, meaning no, or all but no morphology, a relatively small lexicon, a preference for juxtaposition over subordination, etc.
Creoles are distinguished synchronically by, though being full languages, retaining signs of their pidgin ancestry, such as virtual absence of both inflection and tone, and highly transparent derivational processes. Creole is a latter-day descendant of something that began as a pidgin.
An Intertwined Language, where FULL, rather than REDUCED, subsystems of two or more languages come together in various combinations. Some intertwined languages are quite "set".Others are more fluid and vary more with the individual. Less focused varieties of this type include Isicamtho (Afrikaans/Zulu) and even the Spanglish thriving in the United States.
John McWhorter
John McWhorter is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
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Celebrities like Bill Cosby who is a known rapist and happens to have a PH.D. in education is considered an expert. Mr. Cosby is not a Linguist. He is not an expert on language, dialect speakers or ebonics. He doesn't respect dialect speakers or recognize Ebonics as a language.
Reporters who haven't bothered to find out who the experts are, interview a celebrity like Bill and quote him on this topic consequently the public stays misinformed and the national media interested in the notorious cult of celebrity, not the research of academic linguistic experts, is at fault and perpetuates linguistic myths promoting a Culture of Ignorance.


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Several minutes later Roger Brown crosses the same street in the opposite direction. He's been feeding the birds in the park. He saves stale bread for just this purpose, has been doing so for years, even though lately people are frowning as he scatters bits of bread in an arc limited only by his reach and his position, seated as he is on a once-upon-a-time forest green, now peeling and grayed wooden park bench that occasionally rewards him with splinters in the backsides of both his legs. "You know," a lady accosted him just last week, "that's terrible for the birds. It teaches them to depend on humans for food, and then they can't fend for themselves, so they beg." As she finished her little speech she glared at him with contempt and indignation. If she'd written her argument, that outraged look of hers would have been the proper place for an exclamation point, Roger reflected. After a beat too long, he offered her a mild, "That so?," and, looking deflated, she stalked away. And so it went. Things don't bother him the way they used to, when he was young. He admired the woman's conviction, but only from a great distance, and only somewhat, and he would have preferred that she step back several feet and leave him to his work, which, it seemed to him, benefited both the birds and himself, and how could that be a bad thing?
Now, crossing the street, Roger is surprised by an uncharacteristic gastric growl. He is hungry. Well! He hasn't been hungry for days, possibly weeks. He sees a Subway wrapper in the trash can on the corner and decides on the spot that he will buy a sandwich from Subway, which establishment he has never before patronized. Once in the restaurant, he hesitates before approaching the teen behind the counter. "I'd like a turkey sandwich, please?," he half-asks, half-declares. The teen looks nonplussed and shoots back an indecipherable stream of questions about condiments, this or that, this or that, that or this. Isn't it the store's job to decide how to make the sandwich? Still, Roger enjoys his meal, and is delicately patting at his mouth with a napkin when the door to the restroom opens. Out runs a girl, about six years old, he guesses, and behind her a beleaguered-looking man, likely her father. Fleetingly Roger wonders whether it's strictly proper for a father and daughter to occupy the same bathroom. Times have changed, he decides, and stores this scene to share with his wife on Sunday at his weekly visit to the cemetery in Queens.
Roger has saved most of his sandwich and tucks it under his arm as he exits Subway. He is on his way home, which route takes him past the trash can holding the Subway wrapper that prompted his uncharacteristic decision to dine out. Behind him he hears the girl and her father, the ones from the restaurant's bathroom, arguing. "But you said we'd have time to go to the playground!," she is wailing. Her dad's response is inaudible but fails to sway the child, who shrieks, "Then I'm going without you!" She runs past Roger. With mounting horror he understands that she means to run right across the street, despite the rushing traffic. He is neither young enough nor strong enough to tackle her, but suddenly he remembers his sandwich. The boy at the Subway counter had tried to convince him to purchase a "foot-long, because it's the same price as the six-inch," but Roger had balked at the excess. Then he'd remembered the birds, and given in. They'd like this bread. So the sandwich he now carries is a good eight inches long with a full complement of condiments, and instinctively, attempting to quell the father's frantic yelling, he throws his sandwich with a practiced birdfeeder's arm, throws it hard, too, right at the back of the kid's head. She stops just short of an oncoming yellow taxi. Its brakes squeal long and loud, and its driver sticks his middle finger out of the window and shouts, "F*cking idiot kid!"
The girl puts her hand up to her head and wheels around, crying at the sudden, throbbing pain, the unexpected venom of the cab driver, and the shock of it all. Her father rushes up to console her, but not before mouthing a "Thank you" to Roger, who has dropped to his knees in an effort to salvage the bread from his sandwich, which is lying dismantled and forlorn near a gutter.
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A baseball season defined by pitching excellence took another fascinating turn on Friday when Edwin Jackson of the Arizona Diamondbacks threw the majors' fourth no-hitter this season. It was, perhaps, the most improbable no-hitter in years.
Facing one of his former teams, the Tampa Bay Rays, Jackson allowed eight walks in a 1-0 victory at Tropicana Field. In an era marked by rigid adherence to pitch counts, Jackson threw 149 pitches, the most in the majors since 2005.
"Definitely that was a pretty controversial move, especially with me having thrown so many pitches," Jackson said on the Diamondbacks' postgame show, referring to Manager A. J. Hinch's decision to leave him in. "But I just told him, 'I'm not coming out.' "
The last pitcher to throw as many pitches in a game was Livan Hernandez, who threw 150 for Washington on June 3, 2005. The only other pitcher in the last 10 years to throw 149 pitches in a game was Arizona's Randy Johnson in 2002.
Jackson showed little sign of fatigue on Friday, pumping his fastball at 96 miles an hour in the ninth inning. He issued his eighth walk with two out in the ninth but then retired Jason Bartlett on a grounder to short to end the game.Continue reading the main story
In Chicago last July, Bartlett made the last out of Mark Buehrle's perfect game, also by bouncing to short. Oakland's Dallas Braden pitched another perfect game against the Rays on May 9, and Philadelphia's Roy Halladay matched the feat 20 days later against Florida.
Detroit's Armando Galarraga lost a perfect game with two out in the ninth inning on June 2 when the first-base umpire, Jim Joyce, missed a call.
Colorado's Ubaldo Jimenez threw the season's first no-hitter, in Atlanta on April 17. The record for no-hitters in a season is seven, set in 1990 and matched in 1991.
Jackson made the All-Star team for Detroit last season, but he has been erratic with the Diamondbacks, allowing 11 hits in consecutive starts early this season. Coming into Friday's game, he ranked in the top 10 in the National League in hits, walks, earned runs, losses and wild pitches.
When asked in spring training about his success with the Tigers, Jackson talked about improving his control.
"Just making them put the ball in play, being aggressive and staying aggressive," he said. "That just helped cut down my walks and everything, staying around the plate. It just came with experience. The more you get a chance to throw, the more you stay around the plate, the more chances you have to be successful."
But Jackson had trouble finding the plate early on Friday, walking two in the first inning, two in the second and three in the third. He also hit a batter and threw a wild pitch.
The last pitcher to allow eight walks in a no-hitter was A. J. Burnett, who walked nine for Florida at San Diego in 2001.
The Cardinals' Bud Smith threw a no-hitter against the Padres a few months later; the Rays became the first team since then to be no-hit twice in the same season.Continue reading the main story


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Delhi minor's rape: Rapists inserted candles, bottle to stop girl's bleeding
One of the accused, Manoj Kumar, 22, allegedly tried to slit her throat with a blade, a police officer told IANS.
Pradeep Ram, 19, who was nabbed Monday from Bihar, told police that despite the girl bleeding heavily after being raped by Manoj, Pradeep also raped her.
Pradeep told police when the girl started crying they decided to kill her to hush up the crime.
"Seeing the girl bleeding and crying, they decided to kill her. Pradeep tried to strangulate her but he was inebriated and could not kill her. After that Manoj tried to slit her throat with a razor blade," police said yesterday.
Manoj and Pradeep will be brought face to face after police conduct a test identification parade of the former.
Pradeep told police that Manoj had come to his rented accommodation in Ghaziabad around 3 pm on April 15 where they ate chicken and consumed alcohol.
"They both returned to Manoj's house in Gandhi Nagar in east Delhi. On their way they again bought alcohol and consumed it at Manoj's room," said the police official.
The duo, who would watch porn clips on their mobile, then decided to call prostitutes.
"When Manoj went out of his rented accommodation, he saw the girl playing. He lured her and brought her to his room. Both of them raped her," said the officer.
After the attempt to slit her throat, Manoj locked the girl inside his house and along with Pradeep went to New Delhi Railway station.
They both boarded the train for Chhapra in Bihar where Manoj took Pradeep to his in-law's place in Muzaffarpur.
Pradeep went to his maternal uncle's place in Lakhisarai from where he was nabbed.
The girl was abducted and kept hostage for two days without food and water in the room in which the attackers lived on the ground floor of a building in east Delhi's Gandhi Nagar. The girl's family stays in the same building.
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Monthly Archives: February 2010
February 14, 2010 - The Washington Post Magazine featured a major profile of President Patricia McGuire on Sunday, February 14, 2010. The cover story portrays President McGuire as a visionary and exemplary leader who, over the past 20 years, has led Trinity's transformation from a small college to a highly diverse, vibrant, multifaceted university that is a "model for urban higher education." Read the profile of President McGuire: accessible version online; a print version is also available. The article includes quotes from students, faculty, alumnae and higher education leaders. Continue reading
February 12, 2010 - The U.S. Senate has confirmed two Trinity alumnae, M. Patricia Smith '74 and Ellen Gloninger Murray '70, to serve in top posts in the administration of President Barack Obama. Smith was confirmed by the Senate on February 4 to serve as Solicitor of the U.S. Department of Labor, the third highest position in the department. Murray was confirmed on February 11 by the Senate to serve as Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Continue reading
February 5, 2010 - Dr. Robert Maguire, associate professor of international affairs, director of the Haiti Project at Trinity and chair of the Haiti Working Group at the U.S. Institute of Peace presented testimony before the Subcommittee on International Development, Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs and International Environmental Protection of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on February 4, 2010, about rebuilding Haiti in the wake of the tragic earthquake in January. Continue reading
February 4, 2010 - President Patricia McGuire authored an article for the January/February 2010 issue of Trusteeship magazine, published by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. In her article, "Measuring Success for the Real Majority in Higher Education Today," she calls attention to the fact that U.S. Department of Education studies reveal that almost 75 percent of college students today are "non-traditional." Yet, most conversation in government and policy circles still assumes nearly all students are full-time, traditional undergraduates. Continue reading
February 1, 2010 - Dr. Robert Maguire, associate professor of international affairs, director of the Haiti Project at Trinity and chair of the Haiti Working Group at the U.S. Institute of Peace, co-authored an op-ed about the future of Haiti that was published in the Los Angeles Times on January 31, 2010. In "To Rebuild Haiti, Start With Its Young People," Maguire and Robert Muggah propose a 700,000-strong national civic service corps to harness untapped labor rapidly and instill national pride and confidence. Maguire, a nationally and internationally recognized expert on Haiti, who has worked to improve the economic strength of the nation for more … Continue reading
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Raid Alpine S – N
- 6 day cycling challenge from Antibes to Lake Geneva.
- 740km route from North to South encompassing over 14,600m of ascent.
- Infamous climbs such as the Col de l'Iseran and Cime de la Bonette.
- Official route including registration plus certificate & medal for successful finishers.
- Comfortable 2 and 3* hotels with local cuisine geared to cyclists.
- All evening meals & wine included.
- 2 customised support vans with attentive, and proactive guides who love a laugh.
- Experienced and passionate service from Marmot Tours to enable you to achieve your goals.
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Just a quick note to say a big thanks once again for yet another fantastic Marmot trip. The organisation was impeccable as ever and we really enjoyed it. You guys are the best at what you do!
J O'Brien
The official Raid Alpine (S-N) is a classic road cycling challenge from the Cote D'Azure to the shores of Lake Geneva over some of the most legendary Alpine climbs including the two highest; the Col de l'Iseran and the Cime de la Bonette.
Originally set up by the Paris Audax club to run in this direction, the S – N served as a 'pre-amble' to the Raid Dolomites which starts in Thonon, the destination of this Raid. 'Amble' does no justice at all to this route which is anything but. As with its partner Raid from N – S, the joy of this 6 day route is getting to know the hidden corners of the Alps, and to appreciate its variety. The typical views of Alpine meadows and tan cows with bells are included but there are a host of other dramatic, beautiful and interesting things to see before you reach the Savoie-Alps just south of Lake Geneva.
The jury is still out as to whether this is a tougher direction to take on the Raid Alpine though it probably is a little harder at the start of the week. Of course we have had a few people go one way and then the other which solves that issue!
For a decade now we have been supporting cyclists in achieving their goals. We are passionate about our product being the best it can be, and we enable over 100 cyclists a year do the official Raid Alpine route. We provide two highly customised support vans per group, our guides are attentive and energetic, and we know that this is not just a cycling challenge – it is also a holiday, so we keep it fun. It is also about your goals and aspirations and we pride ourselves on our individual customer focus from your first enquiry to the last moment of your holiday.
If you want to visit the Alps, but do not want to do a Raid challenge, then the Classic Cols of the Alps, with its flexible itinerary, may be the cycling holiday for you.
It is important to us that you book the correct holiday so do download and read the Essential Information for all you need on how this holiday works, food, accommodation & travel… For the latest travel advice from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office including security and local laws, plus passport and visa information, check www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice.
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Day 0: Travel Out
We offer included transfers from Nice Airport to the hotel in Antibes (45 mins) at specified times.
Full travel advice (essential reading before booking your flights) can be found in our Essential Information document.
Meet your guides, assemble bikes and have a welcome briefing and great dinner.
Day 1: Antibes to Valberg (144kms with 3450m ascent)
You leave the urban sprawl of the coastal plain, past luxury apartments to the perfume capital: Grasse. After 35kms you reach St Vallier de Thiey where we take some quieter roads headed for the glorious Alpine foothills. This is shrubby Mediterranean landscape and undulates pleasingly, with a few small peaks to climb; the Col de Bleine (1439m) being the most noticeable. The fortified town of Entrevaux is worth a quick coffee stop before you take on the stunning cliff hugging road through the Gorge de Dalius. Your first taste of the big climbs comes with the Col de Valberg (1672m) up to our hotel.
Day 2: Valberg to Vars (138kms and 3440m ascent)
You take on some quintessential Alpine climbs in the route today, starting with the lush meadow 'feel' to the Col de la Couillole (1678m), and then followed by a truly epic climb from St Saveur de Tinee 53kms (!) to the highest road pass in Europe on the Cime de la Bonette (2802m). This ascent in itself is an incredible achievement and you will be rewarded suitably with the views! A lovely descent and gentle climb through a limestone gorge takes you to the last climb of the day: the Col de Vars (2109m).
Day 3: Vars to Cesana Torinese (107km and 2700m ascent)
Another beautiful gorge ride into the Queyras National Park, home to the infamous Col d'Izoard (2361m) with its monuments to Fausto Coppo and Louison Bobet. From the top you descend to Briancon, headed for the Italian border, the other side of the Col de Montgenevre (1854m). Its downhill all the way to Cesana, where we resist the urge to pause at our hotel, cycling on up the Col de Sestriere (2035m) for a carnet stamp. Roll thankfully back down to the 3* hotel and await your feast – we love this place!
Day 4: Cesana Torinese to Val d'Isere (125kms with 3091m ascent)
Enjoy a big breakfast this morning as you have plenty of digestion time on the long descent into Suza. The Col de Mont Cenis (2081m) is going to take you back into France, and its a tough climb from this side! Refuel in the cafe at the top before facing another classic – the 2nd highest col in Europe: the Col de l'Iseran (2764m). This is the most picturesque side to climb and the views are stunning. Thats you done for the day – roll down the hill to Val d'Isere and our waterside hotel.
Day 5: Val d'Isere to Megeve (114kms with 2450m ascent)
Descend first thing to Bourg St Maurice before your legs have to start working on the climb to the Cormet de Roseland (1968m). This is the heart of the Alps and very beautiful. You will hardly notice the Col du Pre (1740m) and will enjoy the technical descent to Beaufort. Still 950m of climbing to do with the Col de Saises (1633m) before cycling on to Megeve where we stay the night.
Day 6: Megeve to Thonon Les Bains (114kms with 2000m ascent)
Another descent this morning, with distant views of Mt Blanc. The busy Chamonix valley is a shock to the system but you are soon climbing again: the Col de Ramaz (1557m) is not particularly high but is rather steep – making it probably the most challenging climb on this Raid. Enjoy the Alpine meadow scenery around the Col de Jambaz (1027m) and Col de Terramont (1080m) before the last col of the day (and holiday!): the Col de Moises (1118m). The shores of Lake Geneva are in sight and its downhill all the way!
Day 7: Travel Back
We offer included transfers to Geneva airport.
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Cruise pavilion doubles in size at Arabian Travel Market
- Published by Ozgur Tore
The Middle East's cruise sector will be highly visible and well represented at this year's Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2014.
Relaxed visa requirements have also helped the cruise sector, especially when multiple ports of call are a part of the cruise agenda. GCC countries through bilateral agreements with other nations have allowed a new wave of visitors to apply for visa on arrival and the UAE is apparently considering a new multi-entry cruise visa. This is creating opportunities for local tour operators offering select activity packages to showcase their services at ATM and strong creative marketing campaigns have raised the profile of destinations such as Salalah and Musandam.
An extra hall has been added to this year's ATM to accommodate 23,500 square metres of floor space - an increase of almost 7% on 2013. The Cruise Pavilion has played its part, more than doubling in size to almost 200 square metres since last year. Exhibitors on the Cruise Pavilion include, Royal Caribbean, Al Marsa Musandam Diving & Cruises, Pullmantur Cruises from Spain and Pearl Marketing Reps from the UK and Cruise Arabia amongst others.
Complementing the cruise pavilion is a cruise seminar which will debate the latest industry issues such as product innovation, premium cabin developments and new destinations.
Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2014 takes place at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 5-8 May.