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The other day, I was reading a lovely post by Jamie at Steady Mom on raising strong-willed children and it made me think about the Goodness of Fit theory and why it matters.
What is Goodness of Fit?
Here is the official definition, taken from the book, Goodness of Fit: Clinical Applications, From Infancy through Adult Life:
"Goodness of Fit results when the properties of the environment and its expectations and demands are in accord with the organism's own capacities, characteristics and style of behaving. When consonance between organism and environment is present, optimal development in a progressive direction is possible."
Okay, now in everyday terms:
Most parents have this intuitive sense of providing the best environment for their child. For example, new parents set up the nursery before the baby comes and try to make it as lovely as possible. We read books, scores of books and get ourselves ready for the task of caring for a new child. We even go to classes, talk to other moms, get all the baby gear we think we need (and most of them we actually dont'!) So it doesn't seem like a topic we need to be reminded of, since it's something we are inclined to do without even trying.
What it isn't: Providing the "Perfect Environment"
The problem is that these days, it translates to exposing our infants to Baby Einstein, to Gymboree Classes, to strollers hooked with MP3 players and speakers for a much more soothing ride, ridiculous expensive shoes before they even learn to walk, and so much more. It's easy to laugh at these attempts, but in one way or another, most of us find it a hard inclination to overcome. And underneath the surface, all it means is that parents want what is best for their children.
But We Miss One Big Simple Point
One of the things this theory boils down to that I want to focus on today, is to nurture your child's nature. Your child has to be the starting point. Because your child, although impressionable, comes with his/her own innate "capacities, characteristics and style of behaving." The environment, meanwhile, is something that we can shape to an extent. And that environment includes US, mainly, our attitudes and expectations for our children.
My Experience
As a new mom, I remember many times that I've had to apologize for my little girl when I shouldn't have to. That she is somewhat cautious and reserved towards strangers. That she takes awhile time to feel safe and familiar in a new environment. That she is very attached to mom and finds comfort primarily when I am near her. But this is part of who she is, and by apologizing for her, I am invalidating her essence instead of celebrating the gift of who she is. Her cautious and reserved nature is a wonderful quality to have and when nourished rightly, will be a gift to many. Her cautious and reserved nature is much needed in this world of the hasty and the extroverted. Her cautious and reserved nature is not worse or better, just different from what we often extol.
And so I'm learning that as a mother, perhaps one of the most important tasks I have is to nurture my daughter's nature. To truly embrace her for who she is and give her the space to fully grow into the person she is supposed to be. Not who I want her to be. I am perhaps a pretty major chunk of that environment that will have to adjust attitudes and expectations every so often so that her natural God-given strengths can fully flourish.
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If you hadn't already heard, the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) shut down underground mobile service for 3 hours to successfully stop a protest. But first, a disclaimer: this article is about the protest, not the issue protested.
1. The reason for the demonstration does not matter. The 1st amendment protects "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Therefore, the topic of dispute is to be ignored and replaced with an attempt to change the Official Pie of America from apple to cherry.
2. The validity of the claims are also irrelevant, so whether cherry is actually more American than apple makes no difference.
But before we tackle the BIG question, let's start with the small ones – and there are several.
There has been talk about the Communications Act of 1934 and its relevance to this case, but the only section in question involves the use of a device to jam or interrupt radio signals. There was no such jamming device (raspberry or otherwise); the service itself was shut down. Now, one could argue that the phrase "willfully or maliciously interfering with the radio communications of any station" could mean deactivation, but it's in a section titled "Blocking and Jamming", sandwiched between two lines specifically involving toast – I mean radio signals.
Next, was it really a slip towards totalitarian control, or just a poor decision? The truth is, a subway platform has many lethal hazards: the third rail, thousands of tons of steel speeding through narrow tunnels, pamphleteers – it's a scary place. During the first fruit-filling protest in the underground, things got a little dangerous. There was a shoving match with police next to and inside of the train, and one guy climbed on top of a subway car.
So, if BART was trying to avoid injury and overstepped their limits, why the deception? BART originally claimed to have "asked wireless providers to temporarily interrupt service", but this comment was later "updated" to the current statement that BART made the interruption independently and informed the wireless providers of their actions. Personally, I try to never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity, and I think that the ACLU agrees when it declared that it would not sue BART after underground mobile phone service continued through the follow up August 15th pie demonstration even though BART made no promise to avoid repeating this incident.
Again, these are small potatoes: BART's been exposed, people are outraged, and there's an FCC investigation.
So here's the big question: Should the government shut down mobile services to stop a riot? Not a few people crowding up a platform, I'm talking about England, with over 100 counts of life-threatening arson , $325 million dollars worth of damage, and 5 deaths. Should the government have the right to cut communications to save lives and property, or is free speech an exercise in making omelets?


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Increased Reprogramming for Generating Pluripotent Stem Cells
Inventors: Teruhisa Kawamura, Jotaro Suzuki, Geoffrey M. Wahl & Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte
Potential Uses: Drug Discovery, Gene Expression, Research Tool, Stem Cells
Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell generation using two factors and p53 inactivation
The p53 pathway limits reprogramming efficiency. Reprogramming factors/stimuli produce a "reprogramming stress" in somatic cells that activates the p53 pathway. This stress is caused by proto-oncogene over-expression. Eliminating or inhibiting p53 significantly increases reprogramming.
Reprogramming somatic cells to induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells has been accomplished by expressing pluripotency factors and oncogenes, but 1) the low frequency and 2) the tendency to induce malignant transformation compromise the clinical utility of this powerful approach.
We have developed a method that increases the frequency of reprogramming and reduces the possibility of malignancy in the transformed cells. To do this, we reduce signaling to p53 (either by expressing a mutated version of one of its negative regulators, or by deleting or knocking down p53 or its target gene, p21) or we antagonize reprogramming-induced apoptosis. Quite notably, decreasing p53 protein levels enabled fibroblasts to give rise to iPS cells capable of generating germline-transmitting chimaeric mice using only Oct4 and Sox2. Furthermore, silencing of p53 significantly increased the reprogramming efficiency of human somatic cells. These results provide insights into reprogramming mechanisms and suggest new routes to more efficient reprogramming while minimizing the use of oncogenes.
Patent Status: U.S. Patent Application Filed March 2009
Publications: Teruhisa Kawamura, Jotaro Suzuki, Yunyuan V. Wang, Sergio Menendez, Laura Batlle Morera, Angel Raya, Geoffrey M. Wahl & Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte. Linking the p53 tumour suppressor pathway to somatic cell reprogramming. Nature: On line Aug 9, 2009 Supplement
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As a staunch vegetarian, I admit to thinking that any panic over reports last week of a bacon shortage in 2013 was misguided. As Matthew Yglesias writes in Slate, the bacon shortage reports were stoked by a press release from an "obscure foreign trade association," the National Pig Association of the United Kingdom. The press release bore a "provocative lede" — "A world shortage of pork and bacon next year is now unavoidable" — that was made for internet buzz and playing into "the rise of bacon worship in recent years."
This year has seen drought that has destroyed most of the global corn crop, so that corn prices have been higher. The price of meat is affected because feedlot operators have to pay more to feed their animals. It is not so much that there is a shortage of bacon, but that it will cost the customer more to bring some home.
Moreover, "bacon" in the UK means what people in the US would call "Canadian bacon," meat from the back cut of a pig (it is "back bacon" in Canada). Yglesias explains that what Americans and Canadians call "bacon" is called "streaky bacon" in the UK.
A Real Shortage of Olive Oil
Severe drought is the reason that not only corn, but that the wholesale price of extra virgin olive oil is predicted to increase by 62 percent. Some 600,000 tons have been wiped out in Spain, the world's largest producer of olive oil. Olive trees there were not only affected by drought but by an unexpected frost in the spring, which has led to the trees producing less fruit and olives that are not as juicy as usual. Spanish farmers have already been hard hit by lower prices last year when they had one of their best crops and there was a glut of olive oil.
Demand for the staple of the Mediterranean diet has grown around the world, though most countries have yet to catch up with the 14 liters a year consumed in Italy, the world's largest consumer of olive oil.
The reports about low supplies of corn and olive oil, and the flurry of worry stoked by that pig association's press release, show how food shortages strike us (pardon the expression) in the gut. In reality, for many of us, food shortages and higher food prices mean we may think twice before loading so many items into an already-full shopping cart; it's just as well not to eat bacon if you are, like many of us, watching your intake of cholesterol and calories.
Could We Run Out of Carbohydrates?
In Scientific American, David Biello writes that the world population is estimated to grow to 9 billion by 2050. 38 percent of the world is used for agriculture and there is little more left to add, plus
… we may be approaching or have already passed geophysical limits for fertilizer application to fields in places like the U.S. or China, as well as the potential to increase the amount of irrigated land to boost crop growth. Finally, we're already diverting more and more agricultural production away from stomachs and into fuel tanks, as exemplified by the U.S. practice of making ethanol from corn.
Biello considers a shortage far more basic than bacon, asking if we might face a shortage of carbohydrates. In the September 20 issue of Science, Steven Running, an ecological modeler from the University of Montana, says that we are approaching a planetary limit for photosynthesis, for plants to turn carbon dioxide and water into food with the aid of sunlight: we can only grow so many plants as there is only so much land available for agriculture. Therefore, the "obvious policy question must be whether the biosphere can support the 40 percent increase in global population projected for 2050 and beyond."
Of course, "carbohydrate shortage" does not make as a great a headline as "bacon shortage in 2013″ does. So when you hear reports in the U.S. media of a "bacon shortage" based on a press release from a British trade association, you should think at least twice, especially as reports of a bacon shortage obscure far more urgent issues about food shortages in developing countries where the world's poorest live, where "bacon worship" is no one's concern.
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We should be running out of Bacon! If there was no bacon, that would mean that no pigs would suffer on factory farms or lose their lives for a breakfast meal. I recently became a vegetarian and it is fine! I do not feel any deprivation from not eating meat and have discovered delicious ways to eat vegetables and stay healthy. DOWN WITH BACON!!!!!
Thanks for sharing :)
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Thank goodness!!! The smell of bacon wakes my kids up every morning. There's nothing better than Sunday mornin' brunch with blueberry pancakes and bacon.
Green Star to Aludra N.... I would send you a thousand stars if I could.You have my vote to rule the world also !
I can't even comprehend eating pork :( As an owner of a beautiful pet pig ( now deceased - RIP Arlo) Anyone who has had the experience of knowing a pig in its natural state, free to roam and eat natural food would know that they are one of the most intelligent, beautiful and loving animals.
poor pigs.
thanks for sharing
Oink! Bacon is suckish.
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COLD FEET | August 7th 2008
"A basin of melted calves-foot jelly was, I'm sure she thought, a cure for every woe" ~ Elizabeth Gaskell, "My Lady Ludlow" (1858)
From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, Summer 2008
Calves-foot jelly has two forms: sweet, common in 19th-century Britain and America (likely the version Gaskell mentions above); and savoury--called petcha, a standard of Ashkenazi Jewish cooking. Both dishes start with a long braise of split cow's feet. The latter adds garlic, onion, salt and pepper, and usually retains the meat that falls from the feet; the former adds sugar, Madeira wine, brandy, cinnamon and citrus, and discards the meat. In both cases the stock is chilled until it sets, and the fat that rises to the top is skimmed off.
The key component of both is collagen--a protein found mainly in connective tissue, in which feet abound. Collagen makes meat tough, but it also makes the same cut, after stewing, silky and rich. Smart cooks have long begged chicken feet from the butcher: they give chicken soup extra body. Hot, collagen imparts richness; chilled, it turns to gelatin.
Both forms of calves-foot jelly seem wrong now: the sweet because we rarely use meat in desserts, and the savoury because we associate gelatin's wobbliness with pudding. If the thought of eating meat jelly on toast makes you shiver, reflect on the soothing comfort of beef stew served from an iron cauldron, the silky elegance of golden consommé in a white china tureen, or the beard-sticking smackiness of a well-cooked trotter. All require gelatin--and all make better use of it than those horrible, fruit-studded, 1970s jellies. ~ JON FASMAN


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The book I read was a fantasy book (it might have been partially erotica, I don't know, but it had a bunch of reviews and most gave it 4-5 stars!) and I swear, it was written JUST the way I used to write eight years ago, a style I was comfortable writing then, but could never ever dream of writing now. I felt a bit better. Writing a book is a roller coaster: Love it, hate it, love it, hate it. I can't do this! I can do this!
Oh, gosh, I suck. See? It's impossible.
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Zevalin Plus BuCyE High-dose Therapy in B-cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
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In order to improve the clinical result of high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation for B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Zevalin will be added to the conditioning regimen. Investigators expect this radioimmunotherapy of Zevalin plus busulfan, cyclophosphamide and etoposide regimen will improve survival of relapsed or poor-risk B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Drug: Zevalin-BuCyE
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Non-Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Combining 90Y-ibritumomab Tiuxetan With High-dose Chemotherapy of BuCyE and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients With B-cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - an Open-labeled Phase II Study
- Event-free survival [ Time Frame: the time from stem cell infusion to failure or death from any cause ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Three year event-free survival rate would be reported.
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: from stem cell infusion to death of any cause or last follow-up ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Three year overall survival would be reported.
- Toxicity of the treatment combination [ Time Frame: any toxicity due to study treatment during study period ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]Adverse events would be assessed and graded according to the National Cancer Institute Common Toxicity Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI CTCAE), version 3.0. And the frequency of each grade would be reported as case number and proportion.
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|November 2005
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Drug: Zevalin-BuCyE
Title: Combining 90Y-Ibritumomab tiuxetan (Zevalin) with high-dose chemotherapy of BuCyE and autologous stem cell transplantation in patients with relapsed, refractory, or high-risk B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma - an open-labeled phase II study.
Study design: Prospective, multicenter, open-labeled, phase II trial.
Study objectives:
- Primary: event-free survival time following autologous stem cell transplantation with 90Y-Ibritumomab tiuxetan and BuCyE high-dose chemotherapy in patients with relapsed, refractory, or high-risk B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Secondary: overall survival response rate toxicity of the treatment combination
Z-BuCyE Regimen
- Day 21: rituximab, 250 mg/m2, I.V.
- Day 14: rituximab, 250 mg/m2, I.V. 90Y-Ibritumomab tiuxetan, 0.4 mCi/kg, I.V.
- Day 7, 6, 5: busulfan 3.2 mg/kg I.V.
- Day 5, 4: etoposide 200 mg/m2 I.V. every 12 hours
- Day 3, 2: Cytoxan 50 mg/kg I.V.
- Day 0: autologous stem cell infusion
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 64 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically confirmed B-cell NHL in chemotherapy-sensitive relapse, in partial response to 1st line chemotherapy, or in complete response after 1st line chemotherapy with high IPI score at diagnosis
- Age < 65 years old
- WHO performance status (PS) of 0-2
- ANC > 1,500/mm3, platelet > 100,000/mm3
- Cr < 2.0 mg% or Ccr > 50 mL/min
- Transaminase < 3X upper normal value
- Bilirubin < 2 mg/dL
- Life expectancy of at least 3 months
- Written informed consent
- Optimal harvest of autologous stem cells (CD34+ cells > 5 million/kg plus 2 million/kg for back-up)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Prior hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
- Prior RIT
- Prior external radiation to > 25% of active bone marrow
- CNS involvement of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Serious comorbid diseases
- HIV or HTLV-1 associated malignancy
- History of other malignant disease in the previous 5 years, except squamous cell or basal cell carcinoma of skin or stage I uterine cervical carcinoma or cervical carcinoma in situ
- Known hypersensitivity to murine antibodies/proteins
- Pregnant or breast feeding female patients, adults without effective contraception up to 12 months after RIT
- Persistent toxic side effects from prior therapy
- Prior biologic or immunotherapy less than 4 weeks prior to entry on this study
- Investigational drugs less than 4 weeks prior to entry on this study
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00336843
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|Asan Medical Center, Departement of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology
|Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 138-736
|Principal Investigator:
|Cheolwon Suh, MD, PhD
|Asan Medical Center
|Responsible Party:
|Chairman, IRB, Asan Medical Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00336843 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|June 13, 2006
|Last Updated:
|February 7, 2011
|Health Authority:
|Korea: Food and Drug Administration
Keywords provided by Asan Medical Center:
B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
autologous stem cell transplantation
BuCyE regimen
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lymphoma, B-Cell
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Immune System Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
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Preheat oven to 425�F. Mix flour and caraway seeds in large bowl. Make well in center of flour. Add milk, 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons oil and dill. Stir just until dry ingredients are evenly moistened. Gather dough into ball. Roll out dough on lightly floured surface to 3/4-inch thickness. Using 1 3/4-inch round cutter, cut out biscuits. Gather scraps and gently reroll dough on lightly floured surface. Cut out more biscuits. Arrange on 2 large baking sheets. Brush biscuit tops with remaining 2 tablespoons oil.
Bake biscuits until puffed and very pale golden on top and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 15 minutes. (Can be prepared 6 hours ahead. Cool completely, then wrap airtight in plastic.) Serve warm or at room temperature.
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The DX2547 is a very impressive looking Radio and Galaxy's first base station CB radio. The DX-2547 has all the features of top of the line CB base radios. Amenities like front legs that flip down, which tilt the radio for better viewing; Large Meter and 6 Digit Frequency counter add to the excellence of this Base station Radio.
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Dr. Sunil K. Nihalani graduated from the Gandhi Med Coll, Barkatullah Univ, Bhopal, Mp, India in 1991. He works in Lake Wales, FL and 1 other location and specializes in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. Dr. Nihalani is affiliated with Heart Of Florida Regional Medical Center, Lake Wales Medical Center and Winter Haven Hospital.
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It is the dark, brutal days of late antiquity. The Roman Empire is collapsing and the end of the world seems to be at hand. As civilization itself crumbles, you lead a fledgling barbarian kingdom which seeks to fill this vacuum of power and establish itself as the new master of Europe!
But it won't be easy. Ambitious rival kingdoms will stand in your way, and while the Romans may be weaker than they once were, they are still proud and formidable foes. However, external enemies are only one concern, and in these hard times even the land itself can be hostile...
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Dispute Resolution Nov. 30 Features Ohio State's Ellen Deason
Deason is the Joanne Wharton Murphy/Classes of 1965 and 1973 Professor in Law at Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law. She specializes in the fields of Dispute Resolution and Law and Science.
She has co-authored casebooks for Civil Procedure and Alternative Dispute Resolution and in 2005, was appointed Reporter for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws drafting committee for a Uniform Act on Misuse of Genetic Information in Employment and Insurance.
Deason served as a law clerk for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice Harry A. Blackmun of the U.S. Supreme Court. She also was a legal assistant to Arbitrator Howard M. Holtzman, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. Prior to attending law school, she worked as a marine biologist.
She holds a B.A. from Carleton College, an M.S. from Oregon State University School of Oceanography, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
The Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop is a collaboration between the two law schools to host lectures by distinguished scholars and practitioners in the field of dispute resolution. Some of the talks are held at the Quinnipiac Law School Faculty Commons and some are held in the Yale Law School Faculty Lounge. The talks are structured to allow time for questions and discussion. They are free and open to the public. For more information, please call Jennifer Brown, 203-582-3246, or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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November 30, 2007
Ellen Deason, Ohio State Law School
A Framework for Comparison: Building a Taxonomy of ADR System Analysis and Design
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February 29, 2008
Christopher Drahozal, University of Kansas School of Law
Is There a Flight from Arbitration?
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April 18, 2008
Jennifer Robbennolt, University of Illinois College of Law
Good Lawyers Should be Good Psychologists: Insights for Interviewing and Counseling Clients
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Analysis of the Results From Influenza Rapid Test A Positive and H1N1 Real Time RT-PCR
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The first outbreak of a new H1N1 influenza pandemic originated in the North America in April 2009. As of July 1, 2009, a total of 77,201 cases were accumulated in 103 countries around the world and the mortality rate of was about 0.43%. Alignment and analysis on gene sequences of the new H1N1 influenza virus found that it contains extremely homologous gene composition with that of the swine influenza viruses (swine flu) identified in Europe and North America in last century. Thus the virus strain was later renamed as a novel influenza H1N1. In general, the symptoms caused by the new influenza H1N1 infection was very similar to those resulted from seasonal influenza viral infection. Thus, it is difficult to distinguish the various influenza strains responsible for the infections only by clinical appearance. To compare the accuracy, specificity and sensitivity and speed in identifying the new influenza H1N1 in suspected cases, the investigators extracted RNA from influenza A-positive reactive specimens identified by a Influenza Rapid Test, for a Real-time PCR method to further detect the presence of swine H1 gene. In addition, the titer of H1N1 virus, the color development on the test stripe and clinical symptoms in patients were significantly associated. Finally, Real-time PCR products were subjected to sequence determination to explore potential new influenza pathogenicity, transmissibility and drug usage.
H1N1 Influenza Virus
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|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Analysis of the Results From Influenza Rapid Test A Positive and H1N1 Real Time RT-PCR
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|Study Start Date:
|August 2010
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|August 2011
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H1N1 Influenza
Inclusion Criteria:
- Influenza Rapid Test Influenza A(+) B(-)
- Influenza Rapid Test Influenza A(+) B(+)
- Influenza Rapid Test Influenza A(-) B(-) was negative control
Exclusion Criteria:
- Influenza Rapid Test Influenza A(-) B(+)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01277380
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|January 12, 2011
|Last Updated:
|January 13, 2011
|Health Authority:
|Taiwan: Department of Health
Keywords provided by Taipei Medical University WanFang Hospital:
H1N1 Influenza virus
swine flu
Real Time RT-PCR
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Influenza, Human
Orthomyxoviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Respiratory Tract Diseases
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Venus and Adonis (Modern)
301Sometime he scuds far off, and there he stares.
302Anon he starts at stirring of a feather.
303To bid the wind a base he now prepares,
304And where he run or fly they know not whether;
305_For through his mane and tail the high wind sings,
306_Fanning the hairs, who wave like feathered wings.
307He looks upon his love and neighs unto her;
308She answers him as if she knew his mind.
309Being proud, as females are, to see him woo her,
310She puts on outward strangeness, seems unkind,
311_Spurns at his love, and scorns the heat he feels,
312_Beating his kind embracements with her heels.
313Then, like a melancholy malcontent,
314He vails his tail that, like a falling plume,
315Cool shadow to his melting buttock lent.
316He stamps and bites the poor flies in his fume.
317_His love perceiving how he was enraged,
318_Grew kinder, and his fury was assuaged.
319His testy master goeth about to take him,
320When, lo, the unbacked breeder, full of fear,
321Jealous of catching, swiftly doth forsake him;
322With her the horse, and left Adonis there.
323_As they were mad, unto the wood they hie them,
324_Outstripping crows that strive to overfly them.


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The Young Lawyers Section (YLS) aims to provide young lawyers with the tools and opportunities for professional and personal success. The goals of the YLS are to: facilitate and offer increased networking opportunities among the Young Lawyers of Primerus, act as an avenue for the exchange of expert witness information and legal research, and develop the Young Lawyers into the future leaders of Primerus. The YLS believes that active involvement will help each of its members in their professional growth as well as give better service to their clients.
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What is Primerus and How Can it Help Young Lawyers- April 17, 2014
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Primerus President, Jack Buchanan, and Primerus Senior Vice President of Services, Chad Sluss
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Understanding Communication Style Differences – The Key to Business Development and Relationship Management - August 13, 2013
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Linda Hazelton, M.B.A. (Hazelton Marketing & Management – Dallas, TX)
Effective Networking for Lawyers - June 11, 2013
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Medicare Liens 2011: Information vs. Speculation- August 23, 2011
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Killer Marketing Strategies for Young Lawyers- January 18, 2011
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After a hiatus that seemed much too long, Theatre Time Productions has returned in a new venue with the intense drama "Twelve Angry Men." Founders and Executive Producers Judy and Kevin C. Vincent remain at the helm.
Onstage, a 1950s all male jury almost comes to blows while reaching a verdict for a minority teen accused of murder. Bigotries five decades ago were more visible but today's more subtle prejudices keep this production relevant.
The stark stage consists of twelve plain chairs and a plain long table. A extended shadow runs across the rear wall. Torrential rain is heard in the second act, increasing the tension. A simple water cooler is prominently located "downstage right". Kudos to John Palmieri for both lights and sound (Benny Bosio for props). The always charming Dawn Ryder continues as the Jackie-of-all-Trades
OK. What about the actors? The quintessential "everyman" is played by Michael Wolf. His dozens of projects have made him a welcome and easily recognizable figure onstage and off. In "12" he skillfully plays a loud, sneezing bigot whose hollow biases ultimately crush him.
Armand Catenaro (juror#8/associate producer) has the formidable and very well played task of halting a tidal wave of negativity. He succeeds with even tempered, persistent and undeniable logic. Bravo. As juror #7, Peter Vrankovic (associate producer) steps in for ailing Jim Thomas without missing a single, very intense beat.
Thomas J. Kane (juror #3) is anything but mellow. His rages onstage are brilliantly believable. Frank Freeman (juror #4), another multi production community veteran maintains cold reasoning as he ably plays a Wall Street businessman. Al Carbuto (juror#11) portrays the obligatory "foreigner" with pride and determination. Howard M. Speiller (juror#9) is the stereotypical "wounded old man." His fervor is anything but weak and trite.
Anthony Bisciello (juror #6) is a well played compassionate tough guy. Adam Bjelland carefully downplays his emotions as the rational "foreman" for his eleven angry peers. Jurors #5 (Danny Leonard Gutman), Keith Junas #12 and Eric Leeb #2 complete the angry men as they reveal their own passions and help bring the cauldron that is the jury room from seething simmer to brutal boil.
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Kevin L. Kempf, 40, of Sedalia, died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 at his home.
Born July 31, 1973 in Mena, Ark., he was the son of Orval and Ruby Eigsti Kempf , who survive of rural Hughesville. On March 21, 2002 in Hotchkiss, Colo., he married Lillian Garretson and she survives of the home.
Also surviving are two sons, Dallas Kempf and Devin Kempf both of the home; a daughter, Kensi Kempf of the home; two brothers, Ollie Kempf and Arlie Kempf both of Sarasota, Fla.; five sisters, Retha Kempf of Hughesville, Rosella Hostetler of Sedalia, Ruth Hostetler of Mena, Ark., Mirriel Packnett of Hughesville and Mary Kempf of Hughesville and also numerous cousins, aunts and uncles. He was preceded in death by a stillborn sister, Rebecca Kempf.
Mr. Kempf was a member of the Olive Hill AM Church, He worked as a chicken and dairy farmer all his life and also operated a lawn care service.
Funeral services will be Saturday, Feb. 1 at 10 a.m. at the Olive Hill AM Church in rural Sedalia. Burial in the Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m.. Friday at the Olive Hill AM School.
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PAWTUCKET — Looks like American League has a new big bopper to lose sleep over. Yet as teams start assembling scouting reports on newly-minted Red Sox acquisition Adrian Gonzalez, perhaps they would be wise to consult pitchers Rich Hill and Chad Paronto, both of whom toiled for Pawtucket last season.
CRANSTON — Woonsocket High head coach Carnell Henderson has been telling anyone who would listen that football season is a journey that often lasts from August until early December.
"Our kids came a long way from the first game we played Tolman back in September," Henderson said on Sunday afternoon following the Villa Novans' 28-14 victory over the Tigers in the Division II Super Bowl at Cranston Stadium. "We didn't capitalize on some things in the first game (a 6-0 Tolman victory). But that was early in the season. We showed how far we have come today."


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>Gears and Wears>iPod Classic Armband Recommendation
Anybody have a good recommendation for an armband for the iPod Classic (160 GB variety)?
The one I got at the Apple Store retains moisture like crazy, so that's not a great option, as that moisture is now corroding the inside of the iPod.
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There's something about Serbian women that says, "It's cold outside so we should bang… underneath my bear skin blanket." Or something like that.
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The Hop Abomination IPA from Dry Dock Brewing Company in Aurora, Colorado pours out a cloudy, burnt orange in color and is topped with a two finger, dense, off-white colored head that hangs around for a while before receding to a quarter inch film with a slightly larger collar. On the nose, big hops. Mostly pine, citrus rind and resin aromas that are slightly dank. In the mouth, good bitterness from the hops with enough of a malt backbone to lend some balance. Flavors of pine, citrus rind, sour orange, grapefruit, earth and a light toffee-caramel. Medium bodied. Moderate carbonation. Slightly slick mouthfeel. Thick sheets of lacing ring the glass. Good length in a mouth watering finish that has a wonderful, persistent bitterness right to the end.
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Michigan basketball media day: Bacari Alexander transcript
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Michigan basketball held its 2014 media day on Thursday afternoon at the Crisler Center and our lead basketball writer, Sam Sedlecky, was there to gather quotes and observe the hour-long open practice. Here's the transcript from assistant coach Bacari Alexander's media session. He answered questions about rebounding, losing Jordan Morgan and Jon Horford, how much he thinks about the Final Four loss to Kentucky, how to deal with so many new faces, and more.
Q: On rebounding with the current team
BA: Whenever you lose the collective prowess of a guy like Jordan Morgan who's a fifth-year senior, Mitch McGary who we felt could be a double-digit rebounder, Jon Horford, who grabbed his share. You know, when you look at that unit, you do have some initial concerns. I think what we discovered over in Italy, the combination of Mark Donnal, along with Ricky Doyle, what we tried to do is look at them as one player, and now you add Max Bielfeldt into the mix, and you set a kind of template for them to shoot for.
We mentioned before 15 rebounds being our goal as a unit, and if you add D.J. Wilson into that mix, who may see some time in that position as well, I think it gives them an opportunity to take some of the pressure off while we develop the skills of rebounding. There's a lot of nuances that go into being good on the glass in terms of knowing shooting angles, knowing the geometry where shots are being shot on the outer third of the floor, where they will likely bounce to, things of that nature. As they learn those things, we're discovering in practice they're becoming better rebounders, but until we go up against real competition, we really don't know.
Q: On Doyle/Donnal rebounding
BA: Yeah, the competition is really allowing them to sharpen each other's iron, if you will. Ricky Doyle walked in the door as a contact seeker. Mark Donnal learned how to be a contact seeker going against Jordan Morgan and Jon Horford banging, so I think it's something we welcome, it provides a great competitive environment which allows them both to improve, so I encourage it.
Q: Can D.J. Wilson be a shot-blocking force?
BA: Yeah, there's potential for all four of the guys, maybe not so much Max Bielfeldt, to be great rim protectors. D.J. Wilson has great length in terms of wingspan, so does Ricky Doyle. Mark Donnal has average wingspan, but he has experience, he blocked shots in high school, so that's something that we could explore. Right now with their inexperience, I think the game moves so fast for them that they don't necessarily process the opportunities to get those shot-blocking chances within the flow of the game. Once things kind of settle down, and the dust settles, I think they'll see those opportunities.
The first thing we've gotta teach them is that most shot blocks generally come from the weak side, it's not so much the primary defender. A lot of guys think because of their length, being the tallest guys on the floor in high school, think that they can block the guy's shot that they're guarding, which can ensue foul trouble.
Q: What did Jordan know without thinking about that these guys have to learn along the way?
BA: The rules of rebounding. Jordan Morgan, if you look back early in his career as a redshirt freshman, in those first maybe 6-10 games of the Big Ten, he was one of the tops in our league in offensive rebounding. So he understood when Tim Hardaway Jr. was shooting a shot on one side of the floor, how to get to the other and get an early weak-side wedge in air time as the ball was traveling from the fingertips to the basket. He understood maybe the importance of not dwelling on a missed chippy and retrieving that rebound for a stick back. He knew all of those different things as a fifth-year senior that these guys are learning on a daily basis.
Q: On dealing with extra motivation, how do you use or have you used that last shot from the Kentucky game?
BA: Not so much. I think when you look at the way that game ended, and how closely contested the shot was, it reminds us all that the game is a game of inches, and what we try to do with our veteran guys that are returning, like Caris in that particular situation, Zak, Derrick Walton, and Spike who were actually in the game, is we use that as a catalyst to understand the importance of valuing possessions. So when you look at that situation as a microcosm of a thought, valuing possessions is key. We shared a poem with the team the other day (titled) "It's Only One Possession", and I believe the author is Jeff Smith. We're just trying to build that foundation to get these guys to understand that the cumulative effect of winning possessions throughout the course of a 40-minute game is vital.
Q: How often does it cross your mind that you were two seconds away from, potentially, back-to-back Final Fours?
BA: Every day.
Q: You think about that shot every single day?
BA: Every day.
Q: The idea of how far you went two years in a row, now you got six new guys who have to kind of deal with a certain level of, not expectations, but a standard, that you don't want that dip, how do you deal with them, in expecting to keep it at that level, but not driving yourself too crazy?
BA: Well one of the things that's fun when you try to compartmentalize the game for young, inexperienced players, is you make sure they understand that they have to beat drills before they beat opponents. So what's gets measured gets done and we put them in a series of situations where we put measurements on it, whether it's shooting drills, defensive stop drills, rebounding drills, free throws, etc. that sets the stage for them to be able to maintain those expectations, but before you can get into what the expectation is, whether it be from your fan base or from inside the locker room, you have to put one foot in front of the other, so winning and beating drills before you beat opponents is at the epicenter of our teaching.
Q: How are they doing on beating drills at this point?
BA: I think they're doing a pretty good job. When you have so much inexperience, it can be sort of a seesaw approach. There's great days or great stretches of days and then sometimes there's that early pre-season fatigue that sets in where they're not so good, but this group of guys has shown a great deal of hunger and a great deal of concentration, and an expectation amongst themselves of not wanting to let that enthusiasm and momentum subside.
Q: What did you take away from Italy from your bigs?
BA: The number one thing that came out of Italy in my mind from the post position is getting those guys to understand we can't coach effort and strategy simultaneously, so playing as hard as you can and as long as you can was so key to both of those young guys because they hadn't seen game reps, and they did a marvelous job of that, I think as a result that's carried over into our practices, and it becomes an expectation. Now we can work on skill refinement, situations, things of that nature to allow them to at least be familiar with some of the scenarios that they'll see in upcoming scrimmages and games.
Q: On rebounding with guards, specifically Caris, Derrick, Zak
BA: Yeah, we'll rebound by committee, and one of the things that you might see early is big guys really learning to prioritize blocking their man out. OK, I may not get the carom, but my opponent isn't either, and now when you get your guards rebounding, it ignites the fast break and gets us into our transition game quicker.
Q: Thoughts on Zak Irvin from last year taking a sixth man role with no public complaints
BA: Our core values govern everything we do. Zak Irvin, and anyone else on our roster, understands that unity, passion, appreciation, integrity, diligence, is right at the core of our culture, and so it's very easy when you come into a program with such great examples being fed by his predecessors in Trey Burke, Tim Hardaway, Darius Morris, Zack Novak, Stu Douglass, Jordan Morgan – all these guys that are so selfless – how difficult is it really to complain when you see Jordan Morgan encouraging Mitch McGary, who became a starter in the NCAA Tournament, and handled that like a champ, only for him to come right behind that and be a sixth man for us. So it's those examples, that success, that leaves footprints that allows a guy like Zak Irvin to relish that role.
Q: Is it fair at all to say right now that Ricky (Doyle) might be a little bit more polished down low and Mark (Donnal) might be a little bit more polished outside?
BA: I think 'polish' wouldn't be the word that I'd use to describe the disparity between the two. With Ricky you're dealing with a guy that's inexperienced obviously, and Mark, being a redshirt freshman, he's inexperienced, but is a different level of inexperienced. What we've learned is that if one guy is ying, the other guy is yang. There's days where Mark Donnal is pretty dominant on the practice floor, there's days where Ricky Doyle is (dominant) on the practice floor. Right now it's a toss-up. It's a coin flip.
Q: On the length that the team has now compared to with Jordan Morgan and how that affects charges and blocking
BA: What we're trying to do is get them to those spots early in possessions. A lot of times, whether you talk about the block/charge call or the shot-blocking call, it takes great timing. A lot of times our guys, because of the stimulus of the game moving much faster than a high school level, they're a little tape-delayed on rotations. Oftentimes we get there and we may think about blocking a shot and it leads to a foul; other times we may get there thinking about taking a charge and it leads to a foul, so there's still some timing that has to be invested that has to get those guys to that level, but with the length, I think one of the things that you'll see defensively that we'll do is quite a bit is chart deflections. How much can we deflect a ball, disrupt people, pressure passes, and pressure shots to see if we can affect field goal percentages that way as well?