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The flavor of the day is YA PNR for less than a buck! Prime members can rent some of these for FREE.
Ember (Death Collectors, Book 1) by Jessica Sorensen .99
What if you knew when someone was going to die?
For seventeen-year-old Ember, life is death. With a simple touch, she knows when someone will die. It's her curse and the reason she secludes herself from the world. The only person who knows her secret is her best friend Raven.
Then she meets Asher Morgan. He's gorgeous, mysterious, and is the only person Ember can't sense death from. So when he pushes into her life, she doesn't mind.
But when unexplained deaths start to haunt her town, Ember starts questioning why she can't sense Asher's death and what he may be hiding.
What Kills Me by Wayne Channing – .99
An ancient prophecy warns of a girl destined to cause the extinction of the vampire race.
So when 17-year-old Axelia falls into a sacred well filled with blood and emerges a vampire, the immortal empire believes she is this legendary destroyer. Hunted by soldiers and mercenaries, Axelia and her reluctant ally, the vampire bladesmith Lucas, must battle to survive.
How will she convince the empire that she is just an innocent teenager-turned bloodsucker and not a creature of destruction? And if she cannot, can a vampire who is afraid of bugs summon the courage to fight a nation of immortals?
Betrayal (The Descendants, #1) by Mayandree Michel – .99
At seventeen, Cordelia is an ordinary teen with an extraordinary and frightening secret. A secret that induces vivid dreams which she not only experiences true love, but crippling fear while barely escaping with her life each night.
After a life altering event, Cordelia has an unexpected encounter with Evan, the mysterious boy from her dreams, who reveals who and what she is – a descendant of the Greek gods. At that moment everything she knows of her world is a lie, and she must leave the present and go into the past to assume the role she was put on this earth for – safeguarding her ancient empire amidst evil forces that toil hastily to destroy it.
In a race against time, Cordelia must decide if she is truly a part of this dangerous world, or risk defying the gods, and ultimately lose the boy who has put a claim on her heart.
Sacrifice, the second book in the Descendants series, will release in Aug 2012.
Saltwater Witch (Book #1 of The Seaborn Trilogy) by Chris Howard – .99
An army of the drowned dead, family betrayal, an exiled witch who doesn't know she has power–or that enemies are lurking all around her, spying on her. Follow Kassandra as she discovers who and what she is in this moving underwater fantasy.
Kassandra comes from the sea, but she has no memory of saltwater, seagulls, or an incoming tide. She's never seen an ocean, never heard the thunder of surf. She's an exile, betrayed by her own family, sent as far from the sea as they could arrange–somewhere in the middle of Nebraska.
Everything changes the day she drowns in Red Bear Lake, and discovers she can't really drown. Not in the way everyone else can. Then a two-thousand year old king wakes inside her head and turns out to be a prodigy with mathematics. Kassandra cries for the first time in her life, and learns that her tears are doorways for calling things from the sea. With clues from summoned sea-demons and the voices in her head, Kassandra sets out to find out what the hell is going on…and discovers she's a prisoner, trapped between a murderous grandfather who controls an army of the drowned dead, river witches who spy on her through the plumbing, and Ms. Matrothy, the Girl's Department Director, who's been trying to kill her since she was four.
.Forbidden (Book 1, The Arotas Trilogy) by Amy Miles – .99
Roseline Enescue didn't ask to become an immortal, to have all of the guests at her wedding slaughtered, or be forced into marriage with a man whose lust for blood would one day ignite the vampire legend.
Willing to risk everything for a chance at a normal life, Roseline escapes to America, but her transition into the human world isn't easy. Mortal men flock after her while cutthroat girls plot her demise. Yet she remains relatively unfazed until she meets Gabriel Marston. As their lives entwine, Roseline realizes he is more than he seems. His ability to grind concrete into dust pales in comparison to the glowing cross tattoo that mysteriously appears on his forearms.
Despite the forbidden bond between them, Roseline can't help wondering what Gabriel is. He's not human. He's not immortal. So just what is he?

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Oz minister walks plank for dancing drunk in his smalls
Sported 'very brief' pants, reports suggest
An Oz state government minister was yesterday obliged to resign after it was revealed he'd thrown a few shapes to techno music in "very brief" underwear during a drunken late night party in his in his Parliament House office, the Guardian reports.
Matt Brown apparently strutted his stuff three months ago while he was New South Wales housing minister. Three days ago, he was sworn in as the state's police minister, but his tenure - as brief as his pants, evidently - was terminated by state premier Nathan Rees after reports of the debauch surfaced.
Brown initally assured Rees that "absolutely nothing untoward" had happened at the bash, but the latter told Fairfax Radio Network: "I subsequently put it to former minister Brown late last night that there are too many reports of you in your underwear for me to ignore."
Rees concluded: "He conceded he'd been in his underwear, and that gave me no option but to demand his resignation."
Brown, a former lawyer and university lecturer, had been a minister for nine years. He said of his downfall: "I'm a human being ... I made a mistake, and I'm going to cop the consequences of that mistake." ®


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Gemini's Xera flashlight uses an updated version of the LED and optics in the Xera 2-part system that did so well last year. It's even brighter now, and comes with a choice of lenses to focus the Cree XM-L U2 emitter. The light itself is a gem; it's let down by the mounting options though.
Gemini rate this light at 850 lumens and certainly you'll struggle to find a situation where full beam isn't enough light. I've taken this light offroad and along pitch dark lanes and never felt under-illuminated. The beam pattern is wide and round; enough so that I wouldn't use it full beam on roads or shared use paths, unless I was on my own. The big clicky button on the back turns the light on and off and also cycles through the power modes (low, medium, high, flashing); it's simple enough to hit the back to change down if you don't want to blind oncoming traffic, which I felt that I did need to do. You do have to go through flashing – which is very much a daylight running mode and not recommended for night use – to get back to low power. There's no side illumination for visibility around town, which is a pity as it's such an easy thing to add.
As I mentioned before the light comes with two optics for 16° and 14° spread but to be honest there's not enough difference to really warrant switching one for the other. If Gemini supplied it with the standard wide beam and a German-style road collator that focuses more light downwards, then that'd be much more helpful. Maybe next year...
Run times are broadly in line with what Gemini claim. We didn't quite get to an hour and a half on full, the light giving up after 1h17m; the lower settings were a similar story. 60% is plenty enough light for most night riding and at 20% the Xera will go all night, but the low setting is a bit too low. 30% would be better. There's no battery level indication, although the Gemini does at least knock itself down to flashing when the battery is nearly dead, rather than just cutting out.
One of the real benefits of this light is that it takes a standard 18650 Lithium Ion cell, so if you need more runtime you can just pack another cell in your seatpack, or as many as you need. Lezyne ones can be had for about £12 and they come in a neat waterproof case; you can pick up the cells a lot cheaper than that unbranded. The battery you get bundled with the Gemini is a high-capacity 3100mAh Panasonic one, so you'll need to adjust run times for lower capacity batteries. I got an hour on full beam out of a Lezyne one. You get a mains battery charger with the light, a full charge takes six hours or so.
All sounds good? Well, it is, until you want to actually attach the light to your bars, which is kind of an important part of the process.
There's two options for mounting in the box. the first is a neat looking o-ring clamp with a thumbscrew that you screw directly into the bottom of the light itself. All well and good, but no amount of tightening from me would make the light stay on the bracket, and I'm the go-to guy for jar opening round here. There's a rubber o-ring that holds the screw in that seems to be the issue. Take that out and it's better behaved, but then the screw falls out when you remove the bracket. Gemini are aware that the bracket has issues and they're working on an updated version.
The second clamp is a c-shaped clip that the light clips into, and an o-ring for attaching to the bars. That all works fine, but there's a mechanism for adjusting the left-right position of the beam and it's held together by a tiny self-tapping screw, tapping into the plastic clamp base. It was too loose, and a single attempt to tighten it stripped the thread out, rendering it useless. Well, until I stuck it back together with a healthy dollop of Araldite. There's no side-to-side adjustment now, but it works just fine; I was worried that the light would ping out over potholes but it's stayed put. If you'd just shelled out £105 of your own money, though, you'd be understandably annoyed at having to hack it back together again. The O-ring holds it in place fairly firmly but the light still wobbles over the rough stuff; I'd have preferred a proper quick release clamp. It's another case of a manufacturer majoring on the design of the light at the expense of time sorting the clamp out; not the first time we've seen it and we doubt it'll be the last.
The Xera flashlight is a very likeable light in spite of all the issues with mounting it; get those sorted and Gemini will have a real winner here. One last thing: it's a super-handy torch to have around the house. And all your friends will have torch envy.
Robust design, great beam, usable run-time and good value but mounting options let the flashlight down
If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road.cc Top Cashback page and get some top cashback while helping to support your favourite independent cycling website
road.cc test report
Make and model: Gemini Xera LED 800 Lumen Flashlight
Size tested: n/a
Tell us what the light is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The power of 850 lumens. Now available in your pocket.
Fit your XERA Flashlight into your pocket to take anywhere with you. With 850 lumens at your disposal, you may find yourself powering through wooded trails at night, or uncovering the labyrinth of caves.
The stunning white color emanates from a top-of-the-line CREE XM-L U2 LED emitter, which is currently the most sought-after, efficient, high-power LED on the market.
From dusk till dawn. A ten hour curfew.
Using a top-tier Panasonic 3100mAh rechargeable cell, you can have up to ten hours of play from dusk, till dawn. The Panasonic lithium ion battery is packed with leading-edge capacity, giving you the power you need for cordless enjoyment.
Select and choose your beam patterns.
The XERA Flashlight allows unprecedented versatility with interchangeable optic lenses. Select from a wide 16-degree flare, a narrow 14-degree spot or the pick the best of both with a reflector option. Both standard and narrow optic lenses are included in the XERA Flashlight bundle for your choosing. See the different beam shots below.
Handlebar mountable. Tool-free release.
Transform your flashlight into a high performance bike light. Take it with you and ride your local trails - get acquainted with the addiction of night riding. Use the XERA Flashlight to pick the best line down a rock garden, or as a safety road light as you commute from work - flash mode on.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the light?
Brightness 850 Lumens
Size and Weight 120g XERA Flashlight. 162g with Panasonic rechargeable battery.
Beam Angle 16° Standard Optic / 14° Narrow Optic. See beam shots.
Battery and Run Time Panasonic 3100mAh Lithium Ion Battery. See run times.
Modes Low / Med / High / Flash.
Material Hard Anodized Aluminum
Safety LED Overheat Protection and Battery Overcharge Protection.
The light is very nicely made, the clamp less so
big click for on and off, push to cycle modes. Easy
Clamping options really let this light down
well made and well sealed with long threads and tight o-rings
Battery life on full power isn't huge but you can carry as many batteries as you need
Super bright light for all kinds of riding
The light itself is great but it's let down by the clamp
£105 isn't much for a light this bright, and the torch itself is very nicely made.
Tell us how the light performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Well thanks to a decent helping of Araldite
Tell us what you particularly liked about the light
Quality light unit, bright beam
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the light
Clamping options
Did you enjoy using the light? Yes, in the end
Would you consider buying the light? Yes
Would you recommend the light to a friend? Yes, with the clamping caveat
About the tester
Age: 40 Height: 190cm Weight: 102kg
I usually ride: whatever I'm testing... My best bike is: Genesis Equilibrium with SRAM Apex
I've been riding for: 10-20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: commuting, sportives, general fitness riding, fixed/singlespeed, mtb, Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling, track
Dave is a founding father of road.cc and responsible for kicking the server when it breaks. In a previous life he was a graphic designer but he's also a three-time Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling world champion, and remains unbeaten through the bog. Dave rides all sorts of bikes but tends to prefer metal ones. He's getting old is why.


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LITTLE ROCK The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock is opening an inpatient psychiatric unit exclusively for women.
According to a release from the hospital, the women's unit at the UAMS Psychiatric Research Institute will treat women with severe mental health needs as well as those that have experienced or are experiencing issues with trauma, depression and anxiety.
The unit, which is scheduled to open March 8, will also include a 10-bed unit for the treatment of women who are pregnant or have recently given birth.
"Since our women's mental health program opened last year with patients from all over Arkansas and around the nation, we have made great strides toward helping women overcome some overwhelming problems," Dr. G. Richard Smith, director of the Psychiatric Research Institute and chairman of the UAMS Department of Psychiatry, said in the release.
Smith said the new women's unit "will allow us to better serve these patients and others in a comfortable, safe, and attractive environment where our staff and physicians all specialize in the treatment of women."


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VILLA RICA – Ada Henderson, 93, died Wednesday, January 19, 2011, at Wellstar Cobb Hospital, following an extended illness.
Funeral services are scheduled for Saturday, January 29, at 1 p.m., from the chapel of Memorial Park South Funeral Home with the Rev. Willie Goodman officiating. Burial will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Saturday, January 29, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Memorial Park Funeral Home South, Flowery Branch, is in charge of arrangements.
Ada Henderson
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By Marty Graham
CORONADO, California (Reuters) - Boasting two properties in an exclusive enclave just outside San Diego and an enviable designer wardrobe, the jailed boss of Mexico's teachers' union was just another multi-millionaire to her neighbors.
As Elba Esther Gordillo, once widely regarded as the most powerful woman in Mexico, languishes in a Mexico City jail on charges she embezzled around $200 million in union funds, her six bedroom, three-floor luxury villa on the Coronado Cays stands empty.
Gordillo, 68, has previously denied allegations of corruption. Her lawyer could not be reached for comment.
"All I knew was she was Mexican, and somebody said she was very influential, and I knew nothing more," said Karin Hoad, who owns the property next door to Gordillo's.
"Coronado Cays is very private. If you go there you'd think it's a movie set. You don't hear anything, you don't see anything," Hoad said by telephone from Costa Rica, where she runs a sanctuary for stray dogs.
Gordillo's home has a mooring dock outside the patio with access to San Diego Bay, and she owns another nearby plot in the same development. She was known to have a residence in the United States, though the value of her assets in San Diego came as a surprise to many in Mexico.
Her arrest on Tuesday comes after new President Enrique Pena Nieto has pledged to put an end to the corruption that has long plagued public life and the reputation of his ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.
Political analysts say Gordillo's detention serves as a warning shot to any politicians or union bosses involved in corruption, but has raised fears the PRI could be returning to a past trait of cracking down on dissent.
The fraud case against Gordillo, herself a former PRI stalwart, hinges in substantial part on the fact that she managed to purchase such expensive properties.
Her two Coronado properties are worth nearly $9 million between them, according to San Diego County's tax assessor, a far cry from Gordillo's humble beginnings in southern Mexico.
Gordillo has publicly denied the allegations of corruption leveled against her over the years in interviews, and said in 2002 her wealth came from an inheritance from a grandfather. Gordillo said last month she made her money through the "sweat" of her brow.
Gordillo's lawyers, family and supporters have kept a low profile since her arrest.
"I'm not going to speak to you because I have instructions from the relatives not to give any interviews until her legal situation is resolved, in order not to get in the way," her lawyer, Arturo German Rangel, previously told reporters in Mexico City.
Politicians close to Gordillo have declined to comment on her arrest. The New Alliance Party she helped found said in a statement it would not issue opinions on the judicial process. Gordillo's daughter has said she does not want to talk about it.
Mexico's Attorney General Jesus Murillo says Gordillo spent more than $3 million at a Neiman Marcus department store between 2008 and 2011 alone, citing evidence harvested by the government.
"She must have bought a lot of things, or very expensive things," Murillo said in a television interview. The upscale Neiman Marcus sells jewelry, designer clothes and fashion accessories.
A spokeswoman for Neiman Marcus declined to comment on any customer's buying habits but said the company was cooperating fully with the investigation.
Gordillo's spending far exceeded her salary as union head. She had a declared income of 1.3 million pesos ($102,000) a year between 2009 and 2012, according to Mexico's attorney general. That was a fraction of the sum prosecutors said she spent and deposited in banks during the period.
Prosecutors are focusing on funds they say were diverted from union accounts, and on how Gordillo managed to amass millions of dollars worth of property.
Two of Gordillo's Coronado Cays neighbors, who asked not to be named to keep a low profile given the scandal, said she was often seen with a security detail. This caused alarm.
"She shows up with her bodyguards in bulletproof vests and displaying semi-automatic weapons, you know that's a very real consideration," said one of three full-time residents in the cul-de-sac. "She has a driver, a maid, a chef, a personal assistant and her cleaning staff, and three or four bodyguards - they all show up and there's no more parking."
Hoad said she personally never saw any guns.
Gordillo's Coronado Cays properties are at the most expensive end of the island of Coronado, in an area where local housing association officials and building inspectors say more than half the homes are owned by foreign nationals including Mexicans.
She also owns several upscale apartments in Mexico City, the attorney general says.
Deeds reviewed by Reuters show Gordillo's two Coronado properties are registered to Comercializadora TTS, a company Murillo says was owned by her late mother. Gordillo's neighbor Hoad said the woman nicknamed "The Teacher" in Mexico had once offered to buy her home too.
"She apparently has children and grandchildren, and so her idea was to buy a couple of homes, so that the whole family could get together once or twice a year," Hoad said, adding that she only met Gordillo once.
Workers at the nearby Loew's Coronado Resort Sea Spa said Gordillo, a self-confessed fan of designer clothes with a vast handbag collection by the likes of Louis Vuitton and Hermes and a penchant for fine dining and artwork, was a good customer and tipped well.
The Coronado Cays, as locals call it, is a breezy enclave of about 1,500 luxury homes on a sliver of land called the Silver Strand that separates the Pacific Ocean from San Diego Bay.
Many of the properties in the gated, guarded community are second homes for jet-setters, residents say.
Having long complained of poor health, Gordillo was moved to a hospital in an another prison in Mexico's capital on Friday.
She faces up to 30 years in jail if convicted although she could move to house arrest when she turns 70.
The Cays is broken into 10 'villages' named for places in the West Indies, including Kingston and Trinidad Cay, where day laborers, landscapers and construction workers park their trucks next to Mercedes Benz, Range Rovers and Rolls Royces.
Gordillo herself had a black chauffeur-driven Hummer, her neighbors said. At times, friends of Gordillo would descend in a swarm of Hummers and take up all the parking, they said. There was no way to independently confirm this.
In Coronado, it is common for buyers to tear down the home they buy and build another, much larger one, from scratch, locals said. Gordillo has been doing just that with her second plot there.
The house Gordillo's corporation bought in 2010 for $4.08 million is under construction, with outside siding panels in place but the interior raw. At the rear, a swimming pool next to the bay sits empty with construction gear around it.
Right after the purchase, contractors tore down the 5,328 square foot house there and filed plans to build a 7,168 sq ft house with a 642 sq ft garage, 935 sq ft decks, an elevator and four fireplaces, according to the planning documents.
By the following January, builders had poured the footings, but Gordillo then ordered her contractor to apply for a permit to demolish the new construction.
Sweig General Contracting, which was working on the property, declined to comment
Gordillo's name appears on just one of more than 800 pages of planning documents filed with the city and seen by Reuters. The document authorizes a contractor to sign documents for her.
According to building permit records, about $13,000 was spent tearing out concrete footings and removing the utility connections that had just been put in. It is not clear how much of the estimated $872,000 of approved construction had been done before work stopped on Thursday morning.
(With reporting by Simon Gardner and Liz Diaz in Mexico City; Writing by Simon Gardner; Editing by Kieran Murray and Philip Barbara)


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There's a lot of news about Arsenal's speedy winger this morning, though, let's just say that very little of it falls into 'from the horse's mouth' category and you should take it all with a tankard of salt.
Until a few weeks ago it seemed that Theo Walcott would possibly end up at Liverpool leading the line alongside Suarez. Then Arsenal fans were given a glimmer of hope with Wenger stating that he wouldn't let the player go and that he would be with Arsenal til the end of the season at least.
Yesterday it seemed that the new frontrunners for Walcott were United who are hoping to rekindle the Van Persie/Walcott partnership that spawned so many goals last season.
Today the baton has been passed on to Chelsea. The Sun reckons that Benitez will test Arsenal's resolve with a £15 million bid for Walcott (who remember, can walk away for nothing at the end of the season) and that because he likes living in London he favours the westward move.
But what's this? It appears that Juve are happy to give Walcott the £95k a week has has asked for and we shouldn't forget City who have been making noises about Walcott for a while now.
And in all this time neither Arsene Wenger or Theo Walcott has said anything meaningful about his situation. Expect this one to (like its subject) run and run.
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Subaru is a Japanese niche-market auto brand set up in 1968 by parent firm Fuji Heavy Industries. The brand is known for all-wheel-drive (AWD) powertrains with a range of Boxer low-profile engines. Subaru also is known for wagons/SUVs that appeal to consumers with active sport-oriented lifestyles. In 2015, the car maker introduced redesigned Impreza, Legacy, Outback, WRX, and WRX STI models, while the Forester was last redone in 2014. Subaru's big news for 2017 is the redesigned Impreza, which wears new styling intended to set the tone for all future models from the company. The BRZ sports car and Forester crossover SUVs get mild updates, the Legacy lineup has a sportier-looking if not performing variant, and the Outback lineup is offered in a new luxury-themed Touring trim level. Subaru also enhances safety technologies nearly across the board.
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- Today around 1.5 million documents are managed with Alfresco
- A total of 250 users at various locations are now able to search a single repository to access documentation quickly and easily
- Improved versioning and storage controls has rationalised document management and enabled improved compliance against legal requirements
- A 'store once, always available to many' approach to content management has been made a reality
- Claims are now more efficiently managed, resulting in lower administration costs and improved customer satisfaction
VIS (Vátryggingafélag Íslands) Ltd is one of Iceland's leading providers of non-life insurance services, offering a broad range of insurance products for individuals, companies, institutions and local authorities.
Employing around 250 people and 30 service agents, the company serves around 82,000 domestic customers via an extensive branch network of 42 offices nationwide. Alongside a central claims service centre in Reykjavik, VIS also operates call centres in Reykjavik and Akureyri. Each year VIS employees service an average of 30,000 liability claims.
VIS offers a complete set of insurance services in various segments including property, marine, motor, liability, personal accident as well as reinsurance. Daily operations involved managing standard customer relations and claims, which was previously undertaken through manual processes.
With documents stored in multiple locations, including file systems and legacy applications, delays, gaps in data and poor knowledge transfer were endemic to the claims management process. This resulted in inefficiencies that were driving higher costs and generating additional and unnecessarily complex administration tasks for employees.
- VIS needed to implement a document management solution that would make it easier to:
- Deliver documentation via one user interface
- Centralise documentation into a single repository for easy retrieval by users across the organisation
- Enable indexing to support the fast search and retrieval of documents
- Utilise scanning and imaging to introduce paperless working
- Enable auditing of documentation in line with compliance requirements.
Streamlining document management would represent a key step in enabling VIS to automate and integrate its claims management, insurance and notification processes.
Having initially assessed SharePoint as a potential option, VIS ultimately took the decision to implement Alfresco Enterprise as the solution that best met its short and longer term organisational needs.
As an open source solution Alfresco delivered all the flexibility VIS required to enable fast integration with its other systems, including a bespoke event management system and Django, a web framework application.
Thanks to Alfresco's highly extensible character, VIS will be able to scale and evolve its document management in line with planned operational evolutions as the company continues its mission to streamline management of the entire customer lifecycle.
"In just three months we were able to customise the data model and APIs [application programming interface] contained in Alfresco exactly to our needs. Following this it took another three months to migrate documents stored in a variety of locations and create a single unified document repository," explains Andrew Taylor, Software Engineer.
VIS has been able to use Alfresco to apply common metadata that makes it easy to organise, search and track the 1.5 million documents now contained in its central repository. Furthermore, Alfresco has made enhanced compliance possible thanks to powerful integration with an event management system that for the first time enables VIS to audit the creation, modification and deletion of documents.
Using Alfresco, VIS has been able to:
- Simplify the task of acquiring, storing and accessing data
- Support the automation of more than 45 processes used for claim requests
- Enable employees to follow up and interact faster with colleagues, leading to the faster and improved management of claim cases.
The overall improvement of the claim management process has lead to enhanced customer satisfaction, while increased staff productivity has significantly lowered the overheads associated with claims management.


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I have recently installed Linux Mint Nadia on another drive and have been messing around with it for a couple days, or at least trying to. So far I have really loved the experiance. It is very beautiful and easy to customize to my preferences, and the software and features of it already avalible certainly helps with what I do on PC time (writing, music playing, GIMPing, screen recording*which is ultra awesome*), but I have not gotten very far because I have a few problems and questions. The problems keep me from installing almost anything. Here are some of them;
A lot of my installs (games, apps etc etc) either fail because of permissions, or because of architectect or missing file problems. I can't update as well. I have tried the solutions in the stickied threads and have just attempted this solution, but the later freezes and shuts off halfway through. If I attempt to update normally, I get the "failed to fetch" problem. Here is what it says no matter the solution I attempt;
Should I just wait until the server is back up to update?Failed to fetch http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/getdeb/ubuntu ... ce/Sources 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/getdeb/ubuntu ... 6/Packages 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/alecive/antigo ... ce/Sources 404 Not Found
Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/alecive/antigo ... 6/Packages 404 Not Found
Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
My DVD drive no longer recongizes. I can't play CDs, movies, install games or anything. When I log out and into Ubuntu 12.04 or Windows, it works perfectly fine.
I have a few things I want to install and test out in Mint, but I get a lot of various errors. The most common is permission errors, others include "architectect" errors and "missing files" errors. For example, one game I'm trying to install for my kid siblibgs is called 'KQ' and no matter the files I try to install here, I am always given errors like "Error: Wrong architectect 'amd64" or "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: liballegro4.2 (>= 2:4.2.2)'" or permission problems. Stuff in blue changes depending on what I'm trying to install. *please see note viewers
My resolution is WAY too big and I cannot see the bottom portion of the resolution screen to "accept" the proper change. Is there a terminal command I can run to fix this? I can't do anything with the current resolution. Forget it. I had to restart PC, install x11-xserver-utils package (three times, first two failed), restart and then typed; xrandr -s 1440x900 to change my output. I think my install of Mint might be broken...
How can I fix these problems?
Thank you!
*I am not having problems with KQ, that was just an example of the errors. If others are trying to get KQ to install, you will need this .DEB file. Do not APT-INSTALL, it doesn't work. Download 64 or 32, install it, and then get the files from here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+package/kq-data and https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+package/kq depending on your system time (OS bit type etc etc). Once you have the .deb file installed, install KQ.


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Two well-publicized satellite falls a month apart got me wondering: Is this the new normal? After all, there is plenty of junk in orbit, and it can't stay up there forever. And NASA, along with many other space agencies, now requires that satellites tumble back to Earth sooner rather than later once their useful lifetimes have ended so as to limit collisions in orbit. So how often are we going to be hearing about inbound satellites—and worrying about the ever so slim chance that they might kill us? A call to NASA's top orbital debris scientist clarified the issue and reassured me that we are not now witnessing the leading edge of a debris storm.
But first a brief recap. In September, NASA's defunct Upper Atmosphere Re-search Satellite, or UARS, came streaking back into Earth's atmosphere. UARS returned to Earth uncontrolled, meaning that NASA and the U.S. military could only guess where the pieces might land. Ultimately UARS did the world a favor and plunked itself down in the remote South Pacific, out of harm's way. Just a month later Germany's smaller ROSAT spacecraft followed suit, diving back to Earth over the Bay of Bengal. Again the fall proved benign.
Neither event, as it turns out, was all that rare. Pieces of space junk, whether derelict spacecraft, rocket bodies or other mission by-products, fall from orbit more or less daily. UARS turned so many heads because it "was the biggest NASA satellite to reenter uncontrolled in over 30 years," says Nicholas Johnson, NASA's chief scientist for orbital debris at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. And ROSAT came with a relatively high debris risk because of its construction.
But UARS-size objects belonging to other space-faring agencies fall from orbit roughly once a year; ROSAT-size junk is even more common. Humankind has survived decades of reentries without significant incident, thanks to the fact that most of Earth is ocean or sparsely populated land. "Reentries are very, very routine," Johnson says. And rules enacted since the launch of UARS are helping to ensure our safety. Engineers now "design for demise" when building spacecraft, swapping out materials that survive reentry.
Johnson and his colleagues keep a list of all NASA objects in orbit, including an estimate of when those objects will make the fiery plunge into the atmosphere. Two huge ones on the books are the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station. The plan with both is to use thrusters to drive the craft into the ocean when their time comes.


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ANT414 The Anthropology of Performance
This course introduces the anthropology of performance. Through cross-cultural examples, it explores the cultural conditions of aesthetic experience, the role of the audience, and how performance can create shared identity, voice protest, or promote ideology.
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Criminogenic Needs
Sometimes recycling is not a great idea!
Criminogenics is the study of specific needs that must be addressed in order to habilitate criminal offenders and achieve lower recidivism rates. Criminogenic studies show that offenders cycle through the current criminal justice/probation system at the rate of 70% - 90%!
The following diagram illustrates the extent to which ACCI's currciulm addresses the main criminogenic risk factors for offenders.
The following diagram illustrates the importance of an effective cognitive restructuring program that can successfully intervene in offenders' self-defeating thoughts and behaviors.
* Although the criminal justice system doesn't address core criminogenic needs, it still remains the most important deterrent against crime.
** This group does address core criminogenic needs. But recidivism rates remain high.
ACCI curriculum addresses the following dynamic risk factors (criminogenic needs) in the development of its cognitive life skills curriculum:
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Pope Leads Torch-lit Good Friday Procession
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is presiding over a torch-lit Way of the Cross procession at the Colosseum marking Good Friday in Rome.
The pope's resolve to focus the Catholic church's attention on those who suffer was reflected in meditations read aloud to commemorate Jesus' crucifixion.
Wearing a plain white cassock, Francis silently observed the nighttime procession as a male choir sang solemn hymns in the ancient Roman basilica.
Meditations prepared for the service reflected on victims of human trafficking, migrants who risk death trying to reach affluent nations, inmates in overcrowded prisons, the jobless and children whose health had been endangered by Italian mobsters illegally dumping toxic wastes in their neighborhoods and farmland.
In the streets near the Colosseum, tens of thousands of pilgrims, tourists and Romans clutched prayer books and candles.
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2001 The MIT Press
The first sensory input in life comes from the sense of touch while a baby is still in the womb, and touch continues to be the primary means of learning about the world throughout infancy and well into childhood. Touch is critical for children's growth, development and health, as well as for adults' physical and mental well-being. Yet, the American society is dangerously touch-deprived.
- Touch Hunger
- Touch as Communication
- Touch in Development
- Touch Deprivation
- Touch Messages to the Brain
- Touch Therapies
- Infant Massage
- Massage Therapy for Children, Adolescents and Adults
Touch and Massage in Early Child Development
2004 Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute, L.L.C
This book is a groundbreaking compilation of studies on the power of touch in growth and development. Today, a growing body of research around the world shows that human touch is a powerful contributor to infants' ability to thrive and grow. The studies in this book establish a powerful case for touch, and they remind us that in this high technology world, there is still room for low technology therapies that can increase health and happiness of infants and families around the world.
· Maternal Touch and Touch Perception
· Fetal Responses to Foot and Hand Massage of Pregnant Women
· Touch Perception in Neonates
· Maternal Touch Effects on Infant Behavior
· Touching During Mother-Infant Interactions
· Differences Across Cultural Groups in Mothers' Nonverbal Teaching Methods
· Therapeutic Applications of Touch in Pregnancy, Labor and Postbirth
· Pregnancy, Labor and Infant Massage
· Skin-to-Skin Care for Breastfeeding Difficulties Postbirth
· Touch In Premature Infants
· Tactile Stimulation of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Preterm Infants
· Preterm and Full-term Infant Massage in China
· Optimizing Growth and Bone Mass in Premature Infants: Are Diet and Physical Movement the Answers?
· Effects of Massage on Sleep, Relaxation and Well-Being
· Massage Therapy and Sleep-Wake Rhythms in the Neonate
· Massage, Relaxation and Well-being: A Possible Role for Oxytocin as an Integrative Principle?
· Massage Therapy for Orphans and Pediatric Problems
· Massage Therapy With Preterm Infants and Children With Chronic Illnesses
· Massage Therapy Effects on Illness Symptoms in Infants Living in Ecuadorian Orphanages
· Massage Therapy for Pediatric Problems
Touch Therapy
Churchill Livingstone · Harcourt Brace-2000
This book focuses on recent research on touch therapy in promoting wellness and healing. Research is reviewed on the effects of massage therapy on growth and development, stress reduction, pain relief, immune function and auto-immune disorders.
- Introduction
- Enhancing growth
- Pain reduction during painful procedures and chronic pain syndromes
- Enhancing attentiveness
- Alleviating depression and anxiety
- Auto-immune disorders
- Immune disorders
Massage Therapy Research
2006 Elsevier Health Sciences
This book examines the practical applications of important massage therapy research findings. Each chapter of this comprehensive resource provides a clear and authoritative review of what is reliably known about the effects of touch for a variety of clinical conditions such as depression, pain management, movement problems and functioning of the immune system. Coverage also includes the benefits of massage to specific populations such as pregnant women, neonates, infants, and adolescents. This book is suitable for massage therapists aromatherapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, physical therapists, and nurses, etc.
- Massage Therapy Research Methods
- Reducing Prematurity
- Enhancing Growth and Development
- Increasing Attentiveness
- Decreasing Depression and Aggression
- Improving Neuromuscular Function
- Movement Studies
- Pain Reduction
- Enhancing Immune Function
Complementary and Alternative Therapies Research
Tiffany Field
2009 American Psychological Association (APA)
This book describes the most common complementary and alternative therapies that have empirical support from peer-reviewed journals and provides guidance on which therapies have been most useful for which psychological and medical issues. In addition, Tiffany Field documents the positive emotional, behavioral, physiological, and biochemical effects of these therapies as well as proposed mechanisms of change. Information is provided on how complementary and alternative therapies can be used in conjunction with traditional therapies. Although focused primarily on adults the book offers data and guidance on pediatric populations as well. Information on the training and credentials of complementary and alternative therapy practitioners is provided as well as contact information for professional associations so psychotherapists can have confidence in making referrals. The information is easily accessible to graduate students and medical students as well as novice and seasoned clinicians and researchers.
· Combining Complementary Therapies with Psychotherapy
· Origins of Complementary and Alternative Therapies
· Massage Therapy, Acupressure, and Reflexology
· Acupuncture
· Tai Chi and Chi Gong
· Yoga and Pilates
· Exercise
· Music Therapy
· Aromatherapy
· Progressive Muscle Relaxation
· Imagery
· Hypnosis
· Biofeedback
· Meditation
· Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Pediatric Populations
1990 Harvard University Press
In this book Tiffany Field provides a readable account of our current knowledge about infant development. She looks at the emergence of sensorimotor and cognitive skills which plays an important role in social and emotional development in the months following birth as the infant experiences the world. She also reviews the literature on infants in nursery and daycare programs, countering negative assessments with studies that show an enhancement of infants' social interaction in good care settings. In the concluding chapter she pays particular attention to infants at risk because of disease, maternal drug use, prematurity and maternal depression and describes possible intervention strategies.
· Studying Infants
· Before and After Birth
· Motor Development and Learning
· Emotions, Interactions and Attachments
· Peer Interactions and Daycare
· Infants at Risk
The Amazing Infant
2006 Blackwell Publishers
Tiffany Field, world renowned infant development scholar, writes an engaging and comprehensive book that collects and reviews the latest findings in the field, exploring cutting edge research and contemporary theories about infant development. This is an engaging and accessible book that integrates research, theory and real life experiences and practices to provide a closer look at how infancy research is conducted. It features illustrative photos and data graphs covering research from recent years. It also draws on recent advances in neuroscience to examine the progress made in the areas of prenatal and cognitive development.
- How we conduct infancy research
- Being a fetus (Prenatal Growth and Development
- Coming into the world (The Perinatal Period)
- Being in tune with the world (The Early Senses)
- Body-Talk with Parents and Others (Social Development)
- Being Emotional and Temperamental (Emotional and Personality Development)
- Moving Around in the World and Making Objects Do Things and Things Happen (Motor and Cognitive Development)
- Finally Using Words (Language Development)
- Taking Turns with Peers (More Social Development)
Children A to Z
2009 Xlibris
Parents often feel the need to consult a reference book regarding problems their children are experiencing. In the book Children A to Z Tiffany Field has reviewed recent research on childhood issues from A to Z. This book is an encyclopedia-like book that reviews recent research on children's medical and behavioral problems. The volume Children A to Z is organized alphabetically for the reader's easy access and its entries are based on current research data.
· Accidents
· Aggression
· AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
· Allergies
· Anger
· Anxiety
· Apnea
· Asthma
· Attachment
· Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
And many more
2009 Xlibris
In this book Tiffany Field reviews studies on the heartbreak phenomenon as well as various therapies for heartbreak in addition to chapters on recovery, forgiveness and finding love again. Also included are several writing exercises for recovering and quotes from recommended books.
· Introduction
· Heartbreak Pain Scenarios-Our Stories
· The Heartbreak Phenomenon
· Rejection, Betrayal and Loss
· Social Emotional Pain
· Intrusive Thoughts
· Dreams and Insomnia
· Crying
· Loneliness, Depression, Anxiety and Anger
· Complicated Grief
· Psychological Therapies for Heartbreak
· Alternative Therapies for Heartbreak
· Chemical Therapies for Heartbreak
· Recovering
· Finding Love Again
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Welcome to AAAS Book Talks
AAAS Book Talks is a podcast featuring the editors of SB&F talking with children's and young adult science book authors and illustrators about what makes a good science book for children, what inspires them to write about science, and what new projects they are working on.
Sit back, relax, and listen to what some of the finest science book authors have to say about life as a science writer.
Introducing AAAS Video Book Talks, videos of our SB&F Prize winning authors discussing and reading from their Prize winning books. _______________________________________________________________________________
Episode 16
Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen, author and illustrator of the Magic School Bus Series.
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About the Author
Joanna Cole discovered in the fifth grade that she enjoyed explaining things and writing reports for school. She had a teacher who was a little like Ms. Frizzle. Her teacher loved her subject. Every week the teacher had a child do an experiment in front of the room, and Joanna always wanted to be that child. Grade school was very important to her — maybe that's why she ended up writing books for children as an adult.
After graduating from college, Joanna worked as an elementary-school teacher, a librarian, a children's book editor, and a writer. Her first book was Cockroaches. An article in the Wall Street Journal inspired her to do some research. She discovered that there had never been a children's book written about cockroaches before. So she thought, why not? Plus, she had ample time to study that creature in her low-budget New York apartment!
Since then Joanna has written both nonfiction and fiction books for children. In her science books, including The Magic School Bus books, she write about ideas, rather than just the facts. She tries to ask a question, such as how do scientists guess what dinosaurs were like? Then she tries to answer the question as she writes the book.
About the Illustrator
When Bruce Degen was a kid, he used to draw all the time. In sixth grade, he had a wonderful teacher who would let him stand in the back of the room and paint all the time. Once he didn't even have to take a spelling test!
Bruce went to a special high school for art, LaGuardia High School — you had to take a test to go there. He went to Cooper Union and got a bachelor's degree in art, and then he went to the Pratt Institute and got a Master of Fine Arts.
Bruce worked in a lot of art fields. He worked in advertising; he painted scenery for the opera; he was a painter and printmaker; he even taught art in high school and college. But he got to a point where he decided there was something missing — and what was missing was humor! When he was a kid, all the work that he did was funny. And he realized that the kind of art he always loved to draw was the kind you find in children's books. So he did something he had never gone to school for — he became an illustrator.
"The nice thing about books is that they go out into the world. When a kid, parent, or teacher tells you how much he or she likes your book, you realize that you've given something that has become part of someone else's life," remarks Bruce.
Episode 17
Loree Griffin Burns and Ellen Harasimowicz, author and photographer of The Hive Detectives
Loree's first career was as a research scientist (she holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry), and so it is not surprising that her writing celebrates the natural world and the people who study it. Her first book for young people, Tracking Trash: Flotsam, Jetsam, and the Science of Ocean Motion, was published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 2007 and received several honors, including a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book award, an ALA Notable Book designation, and an International Reading Association Children's Book Award. It was also a finalist for the 2008 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize.
To research her second book, The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catatstrophe, Loree and photographer Ellen Harasimowicz immersed themselves in the world of bees and beekeeping, visiting bee schools, local apiaries, university laboratories, and large-scale commercial beekeeping operations.
Loree lives in central Massachusetts with her husband and their three children and regularly visits schools, libraries, and book festivals to share her research, her books, and her passion for discovery.
About the Photographer
Ellen Harasimowicz is a freelance photographer from Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Scientific American, and Audubon Adventures among others. Ellen teamed up with children's author Loree Griffin Burns to illustrate The Hive Detectives: Chronicle of a Honey Bee Catastrophe published in May 2010 by Houghton Mifflin. The pair has a second book, this one about citizen science, in production with publisher Henry Holt.
Before photography became her passion, Ellen spent 15 years as a graphic designer. She has self-published several books through blurb.com after recent travels to Uganda, Rwanda, and Kenya. Her most recent self-published book is an eight-year photographic essay titled John Olson: Maine Lobsterman about an 88-year-old lobster fisherman in Cushing, Maine. He is also the nephew of Christina Olson, the subject of the renowned 1948 painting by Andrew Wyeth titled Christina's World.Ellen has a B.A. in psychology with a studio art minor from Mount Holyoke College.
Episode 18
Sean Connolly, author of The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science
Sean Connolly grew up just outside of Boston, where three of his uncles worked as printers. The Connolly household was full of books brought home from one printer or another—reference books, children's stories, first editions, textbooks for the Philippine school system, "duds" with upside-down covers—so it wasn't surprising that Sean would be at home with the written word in later life.
With so many museums, colleges, and universities on the doorstep, Sean could pursue all sorts of interests in his free time. It wasn't long before he found his way into the Educational Studies Program (ESP), which sees MIT students introducing middle- and high-school pupils to science and technology—all in a sense of fun and exploration.
Soon after graduating from Williams College, Sean had a chance meeting with a London publisher, leading to a career as an editor and then writer. The ESP motto, "Teach Anything, Learn Anything," continues to inspire Sean, who has written more than fifty books, mainly for young readers, on subjects ranging from Botticelli to World War II.
Sean's most recent books, The Book of Totally Irresponsible Science and The Book of Potentially Catastrophic Science, have enabled him to work with his three children, capturing each other's curiosity as they uncover the rich world of science.
Previous episodes:
Episode 15Robert Gardner, long time hands-on science book author and winner of the SB&F Prize Lifetime Achievement Award
Episode 14Molly Bang, author of Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life
Episode 13Pamela S. Turner and Andy Comins, author and photographer of The Frog Scientist
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(Reuters) - Societe Generale upgraded IBM Corp's stock to "hold" From "sell", saying the world's largest technology services company would be able to increase revenue as technology spending improves in the second half of 2012, especially in Europe.
IBM forecast better-than-expected full-year results on Tuesday after reporting a solid fourth quarter.
The company's shares were set to open 4 percent higher on Wednesday. It closed at $196.06 on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday.
SocGen raised it price target on the stock to $201 from $188. BMO Capital Markets also raised its price target on the stock by $13 to $233, praising IBM's efforts to cut costs and the solid performance in its mainframe business.
Mainframe computers are used primarily for bulk data processing and transaction processing.
IBM expects earnings of $16.70 per share for the full year. Analysts on average were expecting $16.57 per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
"IBM has delivered a solid performance overall in 2012 and is on track to reach its 2015 EPS target of $20 per share," SocGen analyst Richard Nguyen wrote in a note to clients.
Nguyen said IBM's gross margin continues to improve with double-digit growth in analytics, cloud computing and what it calls smarter planet, which aims to improve areas such as traffic, power grids and food production.
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There's a range of help available for students with mental health problems, including the university counselling service.
Mental health problems are as common among students as they are in the general population.
But it's not just students who have a diagnosed mental health condition that can benefit from counselling.
Alan Percy, head of counselling at the University of Oxford, says: "A lot of difficulties are not caused by medical problems, but by normal life problems, such as family or relationship issues, or anxiety about their work.
"While these problems are distressing, through counselling we can help students to understand them, and then suggest strategies for dealing with their feelings."
It's normal to feel down, anxious or stressed from time to time, but if these feelings affect your daily activities, including your studies, or don't go away after a couple of weeks, get help.
Signs of depression and anxiety include:
Some people also:
Telling someone how you feel, whether it's a friend, counsellor or doctor, may bring an immediate sense of relief.
It's a good idea to talk to someone you trust first, such as a friend, member of your family or a tutor.
This is especially important if your studies are being affected. Many mild mental health problems can be resolved this way.
Many colleges and most universities have a free and confidential in-house counselling service you can access, with professionally qualified counsellors and psychotherapists.
You can usually find out what they offer and how to make an appointment in the counselling service section of your university's website. This free service in universities is available to both undergraduates and postgraduates.
Many universities also have a mental health adviser who can help you access the support you need.
As well as counselling or therapy, you may also be entitled to "reasonable adjustments" such as extra time in exams, extensions on coursework, and specialist mental health mentor support.
Many student unions also offer student-led services. Although the students involved aren't qualified counsellors, you may prefer to talk about problems such as stress and depression with another student.
There are also online self-help services you may like to explore, such as NHS Choices' Moodzone and the Students Against Depression website.
For more serious or longer-lasting mental health symptoms, see your GP as you may need prescribed treatment or referral to a specialist.
If you have or develop a mental health condition that requires treatment, it's important to arrange continuity of care between your college doctor and your family GP.
A mental health adviser can support this communication. Your condition may worsen if moving between university and home results in a gap in treatment.
Counselling and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) offers an opportunity to explore the underlying issues of your unhappiness or any worries you have in a safe environment, including helping you develop ways of coping.
As well as university or college counselling services, you might be able to refer yourself for NHS counselling. Search for psychological therapy services to find out what's available in your area.
The University Mental Health Advisers Network (UMHAN) represents the network of mental health advisers working in higher education dedicated to providing practical support to students experiencing mental health difficulties.
At all UK universities, you have the opportunity to apply for a Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA).
Your mental health adviser can help you apply for a DSA, but you will need to provide evidence of a long-term mental health condition.
The DSA pays for:
Even if you decide not to apply for a DSA, the mental health adviser will still be able to let you know what support is available.
If you're feeling low or stressed, you may be tempted to drink more alcohol or relax by smoking cannabis.
Consider how this may make you feel in the longer term though, as your mood could slip, making you feel a lot worse.
Some cannabis users can have unpleasant experiences, including confusion, hallucinations, anxiety and paranoia.
There's also growing evidence that long-term cannabis use can double your risk of developing a serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia.
Ecstasy and amphetamines can also bring on schizophrenia, and amphetamines can induce other forms of psychosis.
Any underlying mental disorder could be worsened by drug and alcohol use.
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Zidovudine (Oral route)
Brand Names:
- Retrovir
Dosage Forms:
- Capsule
- Syrup
- Tablet
Warnings:Oral route(Capsule;Tablet;Syrup)
Zidovudine has been associated with hematologic toxicity, including neutropenia and severe anemia, particularly in patients with advanced HIV disease. Prolonged use of zidovudine has been associated with symptomatic myopathy. Lactic acidosis and severe hepatomegaly with steatosis, including fatal cases, have been reported. Suspend treatment if clinical or laboratory findings suggestive of lactic acidosis or pronounced hepatotoxicity occur .
Antiretroviral Agent
Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor
Uses of This Medicine:
Zidovudine (also known as AZT) is used in combination with other anti-virus medicines for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. HIV is the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Zidovudine is used to slow the progression of disease in patients infected with HIV who have advanced symptoms, early symptoms, or no symptoms at all. This medicine also is used to help prevent pregnant women who have HIV from passing the virus to their babies during pregnancy and at birth.
Zidovudine will not cure or prevent HIV infection or AIDS. It helps keep HIV from reproducing and appears to slow down the destruction of the immune system. This may help delay the development of problems usually related to AIDS or HIV disease. Zidovudine will not keep you from spreading HIV to other people. People who receive this medicine may continue to have the problems usually related to AIDS or HIV disease.
This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.
Before Using This Medicine:
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated pediatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of zidovudine in children.
Older adults—
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of this medicine in the elderly. However, elderly patients are more likely to have age-related liver, kidney, or heart problems which may require caution and an adjustment in the dose for patients receiving zidovudine.
|Pregnancy Category
|All Trimesters
|Animal studies have shown an adverse effect and there are no adequate studies in pregnant women OR no animal studies have been conducted and there are no adequate studies in pregnant women.
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Other medicines—
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
- Clarithromycin
- Dapsone
- Doxorubicin
- Doxorubicin Hydrochloride Liposome
- Flucytosine
- Orlistat
- Pyrazinamide
- Pyrimethamine
- Ribavirin
- Stavudine
- Vinblastine
- Vincristine
- Vincristine Sulfate Liposome
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines may cause an increased risk of certain side effects, but using both drugs may be the best treatment for you. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
- Acetaminophen
- Fluconazole
- Interferon Beta-1a
- Methadone
- Nelfinavir
- Probenecid
- Rifabutin
- Rifampin
- Rifapentine
- Tipranavir
- Valproic Acid
Other interactions—
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
Other medical problems—
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
- Blood or bone marrow problems (e.g., anemia, neutropenia) or
- Muscle problems or
- Obesity (overweight)—Use with caution. Zidovudine may make these conditions worse.
- Kidney disease or
- Liver disease (including hepatitis)—Use with caution. The effects may be increased because of slower removal of the medicine from the body.
- Low amounts of folic acid or vitamin B12 in the blood—Zidovudine may worsen anemia caused by a decrease of folic acid or vitamin B12.
Proper Use of This Medicine:
Take this medicine exactly as directed by your doctor. Do not take more of it, do not take it more often, and do not take it for a longer time than your doctor ordered. Also, do not stop taking this medicine without checking with your doctor first.
This medicine comes with a patient information sheet. Read and follow the instructions carefully. Ask your doctor if you have any questions.
Keep taking zidovudine for the full time of treatment, even if you begin to feel better. Only take medicine that your doctor has prescribed specifically for you. Do not share your medicine with other people.
For patients using zidovudine oral solution:
- Shake the oral solution before use. Use a specially marked measuring spoon or other device to measure each dose accurately. The average household teaspoon may not hold the right amount of liquid.
This medicine works best when there is a constant amount in the blood. To help keep the amount constant, do not miss any doses. If you need help in planning the best times to take your medicine, check with your doctor.
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
- For HIV infection:
- For oral dosage forms (capsules, solution, and tablets):
- Adults—600 milligrams (mg) a day in divided doses in combination with other anti-virus medicine.
- Children and infants 4 weeks of age and older—Dose is based on body weight or body size and must be determined by your child's doctor. The recommended dose is 18 to 24 milligrams (mg) per kilogram (kg) per day of body weight or 600 mg per day or 480 milligrams per square meter of body surface area (mg/m²) a day in divided doses.
- For oral dosage forms (capsules, solution, and tablets):
- To help prevent pregnant women from passing HIV to their babies during pregnancy and at birth:
- For oral dosage form (capsules):
- Pregnant women (after 14 weeks of pregnancy, up to the start of labor)—100 milligrams (mg) five times a day, 200 mg every eight hours, or 300 mg every twelve hours until the start of labor.
- For oral dosage form (solution):
- Pregnant women (after 14 weeks of pregnancy, up to the start of labor)—100 milligrams (mg) five times a day, 200 mg every eight hours, or 300 mg every twelve hours until the start of labor.
- Newborn infants—Dose is based on body weight and must be determined by your doctor. The usual dose is 2 milligrams (mg) per kilogram (kg) (0.9 mg per pound) of body weight every six hours starting within eight to twelve hours of birth and continuing through 6 weeks of age.
- For oral dosage form (capsules):
Missed dose—
If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not double doses.
Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light. Keep from freezing.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
Ask your healthcare professional how you should dispose of any medicine you do not use.
Precautions While Using This Medicine:
It is very important that your doctor check your or your child's progress at regular visits to make sure that this medicine is working properly. Blood tests may be needed to check for unwanted effects.
Zidovudine may cause blood problems. These problems may result in a greater chance of certain infections and slow healing. Therefore, you should be careful when using regular toothbrushes, dental floss, and toothpicks not to damage your gums. Check with your medical doctor or dentist if you have any questions about proper oral hygiene (mouth care) during treatment.
Zidovudine may cause some serious side effects, including bone marrow problems. Symptoms of bone marrow problems include fever, chills, or sore throat; pale skin; and unusual tiredness or weakness. These problems may require blood transfusions or temporarily stopping treatment with zidovudine. Check with your doctor if any new health problems or symptoms occur while you or your child are taking zidovudine.
HIV may be acquired from or spread to other people through infected body fluids, including blood, vaginal fluid, or semen. If you are infected, it is best to avoid any sexual activity involving an exchange of body fluids with other people. If you do have sex, always wear (or have your partner wear) a condom ("rubber"). Only use condoms made of latex, and use them every time you have vaginal, anal, or oral sex. The use of a spermicide (such as nonoxynol-9) may also help prevent the spread of HIV if it is not irritating to the vagina, rectum, or mouth. Spermicides have been shown to kill HIV in lab tests. Do not use oil-based jelly, cold cream, baby oil, or shortening as a lubricant—these products can cause the condom to break. Lubricants without oil, such as K-Y Jelly, are recommended. Women may wish to carry their own condoms. Birth control pills and diaphragms will help protect against pregnancy, but they will not prevent someone from giving or getting the AIDS virus. If you inject drugs, get help to stop. Do not share needles with anyone. In some cities, more than half of the drug users are infected, and sharing even one needle can spread the virus. If you have any questions about this, check with your doctor.
Two rare but serious reactions to this medicine are lactic acidosis (too much acid in the blood) and liver toxicity, which includes an enlarged liver. These are more common if you are female, very overweight (obese), or have been taking anti-HIV medicines for a long time. Call your doctor right away if you or your child have more than one of these symptoms: abdominal discomfort or cramping; dark urine; decreased appetite; diarrhea; general feeling of discomfort; light-colored stools; muscle cramping or pain; nausea; unusual tiredness or weakness; trouble breathing; vomiting; or yellow eyes or skin.
When you or your child start taking HIV medicines, your immune system may get stronger. If you have infections that are hidden in your body (e.g., pneumonia or tuberculosis), you may notice new symptoms when your body tries to fight them. If this occurs, tell your doctor right away.
This medicine may cause you or your child to have excess body fat. Tell your doctor right away if you notice changes in your body shape, including an increased amount of body fat in the neck or upper back, face, around the chest, or stomach area. You might also lose fat from your legs, arms, or face.
Do not take other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This includes prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicines and herbal or vitamin supplements.
Side Effects of This Medicine:
- More common
- Fever, chills, or sore throat
- pale skin
- unusual tiredness or weakness
- Rare
- Abdominal or stomach discomfort
- confusion
- convulsions (seizures)
- diarrhea
- fast, shallow breathing
- general feeling of discomfort
- loss of appetite
- mood or mental changes
- muscle pain, tenderness, weakness, or cramping
- nausea
- shortness of breath
- sleepiness
- More common
- Difficulty having a bowel movement (stool)
- general feeling of discomfort or illness
- headache (severe)
- lack or loss of strength
- muscle soreness
- trouble with sleeping
- vomiting
- weight loss
- Less common
- Bluish-brown colored bands on nails
- changes in skin color
- Incidence not known
- Acid or sour stomach
- belching
- burning, tingling, numbness, or pain in the hands, arms, feet, or legs
- heartburn
- indigestion
- muscle or bone pain
- sensation of pins and needles, stabbing pain
- stomach cramps
- stomach pain
- yellow eyes or skin
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
Some side effects may occur that usually do not need medical attention. These side effects may go away during treatment as your body adjusts to the medicine. Also, your health care professional may be able to tell you about ways to prevent or reduce some of these side effects. Check with your health care professional if any of the following side effects continue or are bothersome or if you have any questions about them:
Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A Virginia man accused of throwing pipe bombs at Montana troopers during a highway chase last fall was to go on trial Monday on seven counts of attempting to kill a law-enforcement officer.
A multistate manhunt for Laurence Alan Stewart II began Oct. 30 after Fredericksburg, Va., police said Stewart detonated pipe bombs at the home of his ex-fiancee and at two residences linked to Virginia deputies. Nobody was injured in those explosions.
Authorities spotted Stewart Nov. 1 in central Montana. He led authorities on a 40-mile chase while throwing pipe bombs at them, police said.
Five of the bombs detonated, while two did not. He was arrested outside of Belt without any injuries to police.
His trial in Great Falls will cover only the Montana charges. Stewart has pleaded not guilty.
He also faces charges in Virginia that include attempted capital murder of a law enforcement officer and attempted capital murder during the commission of an act of terror.
Nicole Kaminski, Stewart's former fiancee, said she was listening to the rain and wind of Hurricane Sandy outside her parents' Virginia home when she saw a blast of light and heard a rumble, the Great Falls Tribune reported Monday (http://gftrib.com/ZRtmkw).
She said she at first thought it was the storm, but discovered it was a pipe bomb lit inside the sandbags that had been placed on the doorstep to hold back potential floods.
Two other pipe bombs were aimed at the homes of two Stafford County deputies.
The first target was the former residence of a deputy. A homemade pipe bomb was thrown into the rear of the house, shattering windows and blowing a hole into the roof.
The two other explosions happened within two hours of the first.
Kaminski and Stewart met in law school in 2010 and broke up last June, a few months before the bombing. She described their relationship as increasingly tumultuous.
A restraining order was placed on Stewart that he allegedly continued to violate, and two separate warrants were issues for him on allegations of indecent exposure.
"He was my Prince Charming until he wasn't," Kaminski said. "He had this dark side in him. It got too much for him, and as much as I tried to carry him from the edge, there was a part of him that wanted it all to be over. He wanted to die."
Information from: Great Falls Tribune, http://www.greatfallstribune.com


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Dark Skies is a bore that even the most forgiving genre buffs will find difficult to defend or endure.
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Approaching the first half of the film fairly conventionally, Stewart then misses the opportunity to capitalize on shifting to more full-on genre mode.
While there are some scares along the way, Stewart foolishly gives away the whole kit and caboodle plot-wise with an opening quotation from Arthur C. Clarke.
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Subtle but dull alien invasion movie has scares, edgy stuff.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Dark Skies is an alien invasion movie that, while not great, is at least subtler and more character-oriented than many in the genre; the focus is on solving problems rather than killing monsters. But it still has plenty of scary scenes, including a few jump-shock moments and some nightmare-like imagery (including blood, guns, and death). Most of the movie's content issues surround a secondary character, an older teen who hangs around with the 13-year-old main character: He introduces bad language ("s--t," "p---y," etc.), porn (a very tame but still inappropriate videotape), and drugs (it's suggested that teens have smoked pot). Overall, the movie feels like a throwback to moody 1970s and 1980s-era films, but it doesn't have much substance.
Messages: Overall the movie has a rather hopeless message, but it does show a family working well to love and support one another, despite a few arguments and pitfalls.
Role models: The characters are realistically flawed and not particularly heroic or extraordinary, and none of them really learns any lessons, but the four family members do show love and support for one another.
Violence: Frequent scary scenes range from simple jump-shocks to more elaborate, creepy nightmare imagery (a child with no eyes and bloody sockets, etc.). One of the most shocking has a boy entering a kitchen to see his father holding a rifle, his mother dead, and the walls spattered with blood (it's a hallucination). In one sequence, hundreds of birds slam up against a window and a house, leaving little spots of blood. A grown man starts a fight with a teen boy; the boy's father intervenes, punching the man in the face. A woman bangs her head repeatedly against a glass door. A man's nose bleeds. Guns are fired. Scary creatures are briefly shown. Some arguing and yelling.
Sex: Young teens watch a so-called "adult video," wherein a man calls a woman a "bad girl," kisses her, and fondles her breast through her clothing (no nudity shown). A boy tries to repeat what he saw in the video, fondling a teen girl's breast. She yells at him but then gives him a little kiss anyway. A married couple kisses and is intimate with each other (no nudity shown).
Language: Most of the strong language is said by an older teen, a "bad influence" secondary character who hangs around with the main character. His language includes "s--t," "bitch," "jock," "t-tties," "ass," and "p---y." The main 13-year-old character says "don't be a d--k." The father says "hell" in front of his youngest son. In another scene, he whispers "what the f--k" under his breath (it's not audible). Other words include "damn" and "Jesus Christ" (as an exclamation).
Consumerism: Apple iPhones are used and shown throughout the movie.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: A "bad influence" teen invites the 13-year-old main character and two girls to smoke pot. He slams the paraphernalia on a table and says, "light 'em up." In the next shot, the teens are acting high, but viewers never actually see them smoking. A main adult character is seen smoking a cigarette, and other adults are shown drinking wine with dinner.
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