text: FARINELLA: Coachspeak is hard to understand This is one of those columns that, even before I started writing it, I knew I'm not going to get a lot of sympathy for what will be said in it. But I just have to vent. You know what it feels like to vent, don't you? Of course you do. So please, bear with me and I promise I'll wait until the next losing streak before I do it again. You see, I know it's not fashionable these days to question the wisdom and methodology of Bill Belichick as he prepares the Patriots for the defense of their Super Bowl championship. What can I say? The guy has won two Super Bowls in the past three years. He's a genius. Just ask anyone who writes for Sports Illustrated, ESPN.com, Pro Football Weekly, the New York Times (and wholly-owned subsidiaries), and any number of other national publications who make their fawning judgments from afar. To be honest, I can't argue with that assessment. Belichick is brilliant, organized and motivated, and at least for the time being, he has a rapport with his athletes that engenders respect and all-out effort. And as they say, the proof is in the pudding. I don't call him Coach Two Rings for nothing. But does his success justify a methodology which is inherently dishonest, and at the very least, unnecessarily paranoid? I refer, of course, to Belichick's distaste for full disclosure -- his refusal to offer accurate information about injuries to the public (as reported dutifully by ink-stained wretches such as myself), or his frequent forays into what the political pundits used to call ``disinformation'' during the Nixon White House. A classic example of the latter took place at Tuesday's press conference. Belichick was asked by a reporter generally regarded as friendly to his cause a couple of nondescript and harmless questions about quarterback Jim Miller, who had been inactive throughout the preseason as he recovered from offseason shoulder surgery. The questions, and the answers: Reporter: Is Jim Miller eligible for the reserve PUP (physically unable to perform) list? Belichick: Jim Miller? Yes. Reporter: Does he have a shot at practicing this week? Belichick: Yeah, I would say he has a shot. He's getting better. He's getting close. So, yeah, I would say he has a shot. Five hours later, Jim Miller was released -- one of the three players removed from the Patriots' roster so they could reach the 65-man limit. Now, I fully understand that coaches often resort to ``misdirection plays'' in their press conferences to guard information that they don't believe should be for public consumption -- or, more accurately, for the consumption of their opponents. It's part of the game and I don't really have a problem with a coach who doesn't answer a question because he's guarding his game plan. But Belichick obviously knew he was going to release Miller when the press conference took place. There was nothing about the timing of the transaction or the transaction itself that could have given aid and comfort to the Jets, Bills or Dolphins. So what possible reason could Belichick have had for answering the question as if Miller still had a future on this team, other than for the sheer pleasure of misleading the media? The disinformation campaign had already been kicked into a higher gear following Saturday night's preseason game against Carolina. Troy Brown, the all-purpose player of this training camp, was buried under a pile of Carolina tacklers on a first-quarter punt return and came up limping, never to return to the game. Reporters have repeatedly asked Belichick whether Brown is injured badly enough to miss more than Thursday night's preseason finale against Jacksonville, and all they get in return are smirks, shrugs and pronouncements that since he is not a doctor, Belichick has no idea how injured Brown is or when he will be better. ``I feel good about Troy,'' was about all Belichick would reveal on Tuesday. Of course, that's a crock. Professional football teams probably have the best medical care in the world. The Patriots have the diagnostic resources of Massachusetts General Hospital to back up their own on-site medical facilities, all of which put an average Joe's trip to the emergency room to shame. I don't doubt that at a moment's notice, Belichick has plenty of medical information at his fingertips about any and all of his injured players, and that he proceeds with his planning with all of it in mind. He can't come out and say, ``it's none of your business,'' however, because the NFL believes that injury information is, to some extent, the public's business after all. The league requires injury reports to be published by all 32 teams during the regular season to prevent illegal gamblers from attempting to gain inside information by nefarious means, and possibly gaining a measure of control over the outcome of games. So, Belichick only reports the bare minimum of what the NFL requires. Ankle, knee or thigh injuries become ``leg'' injuries, and so on. The team doesn't report which limb is injured, and injury-related information is deleted from biographies in the team's media guide. Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, sensing that more teams are turning to Belichick's ``Code of Silence'' approach to reporting injuries, issued a directive to all 32 teams a few weeks ago that will require at least a little more detail in the injury reports once the regular season begins. But you can bet the farm that Belichick will continue to issue reports that are as vague as the law allows. Again, that's all part of the game. It doesn't even pay to complain about it, because things aren't going to change until the regime changes in Foxboro -- and that won't be any time soon. What's really sad about it, however, is having to watch players like Troy Brown participate in the charade. Brown stood before reporters in the locker room Tuesday, grinning a nervous grin and mouthing pre-scripted ``non-denial denials'' about his condition. It was embarrassing. Again, would revealing the true nature of Brown's injury have a significant effect upon the AFC East race? All of the teams in the league see game films and have scouts who observe with their own eyes what has happened to a player. They learn more through traditional means of investigation than by anything that might appear in the Boston Globe, the Providence Journal, The Sun Chronicle or the Ahern School PTA Newsletter. But that's how it's done, and we have to live with it. Some teams choose to do things otherwise, and some of those won a lot of games and more championships just by doing what they did best and not giving a rat's behind what anyone else learned by reading the papers. But none of those teams have done it lately. The privilege of setting the rules goes to the team that's currently on top, and that's the Bill Belichick-led New England Patriots. So, in essence, I've vented for nothing. Things aren't going to change, and let's face it, it's better than the alternative -- which is an existence without the two Super Bowl trophies that now make their home in Foxboro. I just wish it was a more truthful existence. But you know what? I do feel better. Isn't that what venting is all about? 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By KEVIN KOELLING, Managing Editor
CANNELTON – The three media-club members who were active through last year in Cannelton earned several payoffs for their efforts.
A research-based Web site they produced on the Iditarod sled-dog race earned an Excellence in Media Award at the latest International Student Media Festival, as did two single photos and a photo essay submitted by members.
TELL CITY – Perry County commissioners agreed unanimously Monday to ban products that the county attorney said "folks, and particularly children, are using as a substitute for marijuana."
TELL CITY - William Tell Elementary School Principal Sara Maas "is on administrative leave at this time," according to Laura Noble, assistant to the superintendent for the Tell City-Troy Township School Corp.
As The News reported in May, Maas replaced Noble as principal as the current school year began.
Noble said the duration of Maas' leave is unknown, but is "pending further investigation and review."
TELL CITY – The Perry County Memorial Hospital Auxiliary will hold its annual Holiday Bazaar Raffle.
A handcrafted solid walnut blanket chest will be raffled off during a Nov. 4 drawing at the end of the bazaar at the hospital.
Tickets will be sold for $1 each or six for $5. Tickets can be purchased at the Perry County Memorial Hospital Gift Shop, or from any auxiliary member.
PERRY COUNTY – The Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk is approaching fast and more walkers are needed to support the cause.
The Alzheimer's Association invites the public to join the annual Tri-County Memory Walk, Saturday at Tell City Junior-Senior High School. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. and the walk will start at 9.
CANNELTON – The Cannelton Alumni Men's Basketball game is set for Saturday during the Cannelton Heritage Festival.
The first game starts at 11 a.m., and the second game will be at noon at the community center.
Registration includes a T-shirt. For more information, visit www.cannelton.org or contact Brandi Hess at 836-4329 or email@example.com
The Cannelton Heritage Festival will also host a cornhole tournament Saturday. The event will be located near the food booths on Washington Street. Registration and sign-in is from 1:3 to 2:30 p.m.
CANNELTON – The city of Cannelton will celebrate its annual fall Heritage Festival Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Washington Street in the city's downtown.
Perry County's premiere art festival will host dozens of artisans and craftsmen from the region. Demonstrations by Jeff Reinhardt, blacksmith artist from Floyd Knobs, will be demonstrating his metal work with his forge. Nita Claise, local artist, will be demonstrating her talent with her pottery wheel. Other demonstrations by weavers, carvers, and painters will also be available throughout the day.
Perry County Sheriff Bob Glenn, left, receives a Hometown Heroes Award from Cannelton Police Chief Eric Dickenson during an event last month at Oakwood Health Campus in Tell City.
TELL CITY – County Councilman Chet Mathena took issue Sept. 23 with the executive director of the Perry County Recycling Management District suggesting its workers are not county employees, so the council should have no say in whether they'll get raises in 2011.
CANNELTON – Members of Cannelton's Board of Public Works and Safety needed more information before approving a construction permit needed by Steve Billow to improve property at 317 Eighth St.
Billow wants to replace an existing house there that he said Friday is not reparable with a 28-by-48-foot home. He told the works board at their Sept. 13 meeting excavation at the site before he bought it and a natural creek caused mud to flow during rain storms.
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Matt "Mayhem" Biolos, shaper for Lost Surfboards, and our friends at Lib Tech have teamed up and we couldn't be more excited. Announced at this year's Sima Surf Expo, Lib Tech will release one of Matt's newer shapes, the Puddle Jumper, in their revolutionary waterboard construction for Spring. Also part of the collab are two retro fish snowboards.
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text: Updated from 4:05 p.m. EDTExpecting a white knight for Bear Stearns ( BSC)? Don't hold your breath. The vise-grip of JPMorgan Chase's ( JPM) buyout offer that Bear's shareholders find themselves ensnared by is not likely to loosen. The deal has a 98% chance of being wrapped in the coming weeks and months speculated a high-level executive at Bear, who spoke to TheStreet.com under condition of anonymity. The executive notes that there is a number of competing factions that have varying interests making the outcome of the deal still in doubt, but the official held out little hope that JPMorgan's bear hug is not permanent. Conference calls to discuss Bear's options have taken precedence over the day-to-day investment banking business that made the 85-year-old firm a storied franchise, the source says. On the heels of sinking as low as $2.84 after JPMorgan's $2-a-share offer Monday, Bear's stock spiked as much as 200% Tuesday but more recently was trading at $5.21. Reports suggest that Bear bondholders have been purchasing stock in the fixed-income centered investment shop in order to vote in favor of the deal and receive the backing of JPMorgan, while other parties are piling in with the hope that they can nix the offer or push for a juiced price. While it's unlikely that another suitor such as HSBC ( HBC) or private equity shop Kohlberg Kravis Roberts will swoop in, as the New York Post has reported, it's almost certain that a sweetened offer from JPMorgan, led by CEO Jamie Dimon, will be put on the table, the source says. The rationale for increasing the deal is that Dimon wants to appease angered investor groups and employees and score approval for the deal, rather than see it stalled in protracted talks. Bear's headquarters alone are said to be worth approximately $8 share and the Federal Reserve is posting a $30 billion backstop against mortgage securities held in Bear's Level 3 bucket, where many hard-to-value securities have been placed. So increasing the price comes at little risk to JPMorgan, the official notes. Calls to Bear and JPMorgan spokesmen were not returned. Bear's well-heeled executives, including former CEO Jimmy Cayne and current CEO Alan Schwartz, as well as rank-and-file investors, are facing billions in losses. For many, the losses mean the evaporation of retirement nest eggs and college tuition savings for their children. The stunning and swift deterioration in Bear Stearns' financial health, which teetered on bankruptcy, blindsided many Bear staffers, who could never have imagined they'd wakeup on Monday to a buyout offer that values a company once worth $20 billion at about $240 million. Just last Friday, Bear was worth $5.7 billion. Moments after the deal was consummated, JPMorgan executives reached out to a handful of top-flight talent at Bear in an attempt to placate concerns about job security. The possibility that the JPMorgan buyout might be set asunder or another suitor might emerge is a remote one. But what makes the prospect that much more daunting is the multitude of clauses -- widely reported and confirmed by the source -- and provisions that would see JPMorgan walking away like bandits.


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FEARS are growing for two former York students living in Gaza as the bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas militants continues.
Fadi and Heba Hania, who lived in Heworth for 18 months, are now 'terrified' in their home in Gaza, said John Bibby, a member of the York branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
"Last week, an Israeli bomb dropped just 50 metres away from their house," he said. "Since then I have not heard from them."
He said the Hanias, whose youngest of two sons was born at York Hospital during their time in the city, lived in Rafah in southern Gaza.
Fadi, who studied computer science at the University of York, was not involved in the firing of rockets into Israel, he said.
He revealed that another former York student, Alaa Murad, who studied at York St John University last year, was also in Gaza.
He said Alaa had written that it was under 'barbaric' sea, land and air attack, with more than 86 people killed, most of them innocent children and women, and more than 600 people injured.
Mr Bibby said that the 'Gaza Ark,' a social enterprise supported by many people from York, had alsp been targeted and destroyed in recent Israeli air-raids, wasting a lot of aid money from Britain and elsewhere.
He said the York branch of the campaign was now planning a demonstration in York city centre on Saturday to express concern at the attacks on Gaza.
Protesters will assemble at noon by the Constantine Statue at York Minster, and march on foot streets through the city at 12.20pm, returning to the starting point at 1pm for a rally and speeches.
Israel launched the offensive on July 8, saying it was in response to weeks of heavy rocket fire out of Hamas-ruled Gaza. Israel has said the goal of the military campaign is to restore quiet to its south, which has absorbed hundreds of rocket strikes, and that any ceasefire would have to include guarantees of an extended period of calm.
Hamas has said it will not accept "calm for calm" and has demanded an easing of an Israeli-Egyptian blockade that has ground Gaza's economy to a standstill.
The Health Ministry in Gaza has said that 185 people, including dozens of civilians, have been killed, and more than 1,000 wounded.


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Orchestral Masterpiece
This is really southing, as its all in the violin (they say the violin is most pleasant sound to the human ear).
Also the piano and Saxophone/Clarinet thing really nail it right on the head. Love what you did to incooperate the drums and high-hat into this, really adds some taste.
Still not much feel for video game but thats totally OK... because it attractes more views than something listed under classical... that's NG
Pretty job. 10/10,5/5,fav,download
The fact that you cannot tell what the saxophone/clarinet thing is just warms my heart, because it means I made an unknown thingy sound good :) [y'know now that i'm listening to it again I actually cannot tell what it is]
Thanks man, I really appreciate that you took the time to review and write an analysis!
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it does!
well here is the main problem with it, you used bad instruments for it! it is not sound so good once the horn or what ever that was came up!
LOL "Horn or whatever that was" you made me Lol.
Uh I'll try to fix that, I guess... not sure.. nevermind.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Not bad.
Much more upbeat than the original, but that's not such a bad thing. Sure, I liked this song when it was sad, but it seems to be just fine the way you've played with it. Not bad, not bad at all.
:D Upbeat = good.
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New Age Sentimental
I am new to newgrounds and was on for promotion of a blog I had been working on. But now I have an interest in sharing my own music here. I don't care to profit off from my own tunes. I just feel they should be put to use.
Much of the work here counts as new age music with a lot of relaxation sort of elements. This fits that genre. Very nice to hear this!!!
Thank you so much, I'll read that blog now.


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Five years ago enterprise startups hit the skids, stung by a perfect storm of commoditization, vendor consolidation, and the IT spending downturn. In the intervening years, however, the skies have cleared and, to paraphrase Ronald Regan, "It's morning again for enterprise startups."
InfoWorld has declared May the Month of Enterprise Startups. Each day this month, InfoWorld will profile a different startup company in the enterprise space. By the end of May, we hope to have catalogued some of the promising new technologies that will be working their way into your cube in the coming years.
The next two years will be critical for many of the early-stage enterprise companies, which have been out of favor with investors and customers for so long it's hard to remember their last heyday -- in the client/server-dominated 1990s. A mere handful of big winners emerged from that dark period: names like Salesforce.com, VMWare, and Red Hat. For many of their peers, which often lacked a complete solution or strong distribution capability, success meant getting acquired rather than thriving as a stand-alone company. Even as recently as this year, companies such as Webex and Tellme Networks have continued to capitulate to the lure of M&A.
The crop of enterprise startups that we'll profile this month could be different. For starters, venture capitalists have soured on enterprise deals in favor of consumer plays, so they aren't funding as many look-alike companies for every enterprise idea, as they did in the late 1990s. (Remember the B2B craze?) That leaves more competitive breathing room for those that do get funded.
Second, the open source movement has provided a rich array of cheap tools and platforms that enterprise startups can innovate on top of, enabling them to deliver more value-add to customers with less capital invested in plumbing. Third, the worldwide IT market has grown, especially globally, over the past five years -- and that means more customers and budget dollars (or Euros, Yen, and Yuan) to go around.
But most important, enterprise customers are back in innovation and experimentation mode, and more are open to working with startups than they were in the brutal 2002-2005 era of "consolidation."
The companies on our list cover the waterfront of enterprise needs: security, open source tools, analytics, e-commerce, storage -- you name it. A few areas in particular are worth highlighting. First, software as a service now has proven traction and demonstrated disruptive potential in enterprise environments. Second, the SMB market (small and medium-size customers) is finally getting tech savvy and begging for new, innovative IT products. But large vendors, used to selling to the Fortune 500, don't necessarily have the right products or perspective to meet SMB needs, despite their desire to do so.
Finally, Web 2.0 and global competition are creating top-down demand (from the boardroom and CEO on down) for IT innovation. Many of the enterprise Web 2.0 capabilities can be directly linked to profits, and therefore have measurable ROI -- better customer acquisition and retention, for example, or increased employee productivity through collaboration.
To be sure, today's crop of enterprise companies faces some major challenges. Commoditization rages on -- a Web analytics package that might have sold for $250,000 three years ago, for example, now can be had for free courtesy of Google. International competition from outsourcing services companies beginning to productize their solutions is another concern.
The big question is whether today's enterprise startups can string together enough pieces of differentiated functionality to be meaningful to enterprises -- and how many of them can develop into true, silo-spanning "platform companies." A recent Forrester study claimed that CIOs want to buy suites for Web 2.0 from large established vendors rather than small startups. The study cited the usual "integration" and "viability" concerns typically levied against early stage vendors, and advised Web 2.0 startups to "partner up" to successful penetrate enterprise accounts.
Perhaps that's right, but it may also be stale conventional wisdom, not what customers are actually saying or doing. Let's face it: Large incumbents almost never deliver the "next big thing" -- otherwise we'd still be running OS/2 and texting each other on our StarTACs.
Value creation isn't a smooth, polished process, either, but it's what enterprise customers need most these days. As a recent Gartner report pointed out, IT must think differently and focus on delivering new sources of value.
"The people who will make this happen are unlikely to be the staff you have already," the Gartner report said. "Your management team is likely a monoculture of middle-aged, middle managers from the aging baby boomer generation."
The same could be said of the incumbent, large vendor community. And that bodes well for the new crop of enterprises startups. So, for this month anyway, let's don our nose rings and let the disruptive innovation begin!


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Tammaz is the eighth month in the Farede calendar. In most years, it is equivalent to the real world period from July 7 to August 3. Feast of Fools occurs during this month (in Arad Doman and the Borderlands), the Genshai occurs on the 8th, and Mabriam's Day on the 18th.
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Influential advisers to large shareholders plan to protest against excessive exit packages for Leighton Holdings' former top executives at the contractor's annual meeting next month as some criticise its new Spanish chief executive for failing to address minority investors' concerns.
"The Spanish have been very unresponsive," said Aaron Bertinetti, a director of CGI Glass Lewis. He said Leighton's new CEO, Marcelino Fernandez Verdes, had recently dropped out of a conference call on corporate governance and remuneration with the proxy group and other Leighton executives.
"Marcelino was supposed to be on the call and didn't turn up; he cancelled five minutes before,'' Mr Bertinetti said.
"He clearly had no interest in engaging on these type of issues … but he's supposed to be the one reaching out to investors and stakeholders."
Ulysses Chioatto, head of research at ISS, said the proxy group did not typically discuss corporate governance issues with CEOs but had had "extensive, robust and in-depth" discussions with Leighton's chairman, Bob Humphris.
Proxy groups are reviewing Leighton's remuneration policies ahead of its annual meeting on May 19 and have not decided on voting recommendations.
However, they expect to criticise some aspects of the large exit packages approved by Mr Fernandez Verdes after he ousted former Leighton chief executive Hamish Tyrwhitt and former chief financial officer Peter Gregg.
Mr Tyrwhitt's cash package includes $2.5 million in fixed remuneration; $10.2 million in lieu of unvested equity options; $134,615 for "transitional services" between March 13 and March 28 after he was fired; up to $10,000 in legal costs associated with negotiating his termination package; and up to $5000 for "incidental" benefits that he retains from Leighton such as a mobile phone and iPad. It also includes an office with an executive assistant, IT and phone services, as well as mobile and home internet access for up to 12 months or until Mr Tyrwhitt finds a new full-time job.
Mr Gregg's cash package include $1.8 million in fixed remuneration; $8.2 million in lieu of unvested equity options; $96,923 for "transitional services" between March 13 and March 28; up to $10,000 in legal costs; and up to $5000 in incidental benefits from Leighton.
Two independent directors will remain on the board - Mr Humphris and engineer Michael Hutchinson, former director of Hastings Funds Management and Westpac Funds Management. Three of Leighton's independent directors - deputy chairman Paula Dwyer, Russell Higgins and Vicki McFadden - will resign or retire by Leighton's AGM.
Two Spaniards will join the board - engineer and former politician Pedro Lopez Jimenez and lawyer Jose Luis del Valle Perez, a director at Spain's Grupo ACS, the owner of Hochtief.


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"Not Roberta Williams, but not too bad"
I have always been and adventure game fan. Two people I would like to get an autograph from are Roberta Williams and Jane Jensan. Hell, Sierra could probably consider me a benefactor for the amount of games I bough from them. When it comes to Syberia, while its no Kings Quest or Gabriel Knight, its still a fairly decent Adventure game. However there is an issue or two.
Graphics - This game has some of the best graphics I've seen. Its obviously an in-house engine and since it only requires a 350mhz cpu, its a pretty damn good engine design at that. The water effects are amazing, and some of the cut scenes are awe inspiring. There is an issue with shadows and reflections, there are none! This would probably attest to the fact that it requires such a low processor speed. And furthermore, its hardly noticeable.
Sound- Music is pretty cool. But here is one of the game main flaws. While the voice of Kate, Oscar, and the other robots,(or should I say Automatons) are done very well, some of the other character voices are kind of...well, non-character fitting if you will. Could this be because Microids had issues with translating from French, or something similar? Its not a show stopper, but its something that could have been done better.
Story- The story, I think was done pretty well. As I read the back of the box, I almost wondered what was so good about the game. You are a lawyer going to settle a claim. I mean it didn't sound really interesting at first. But I wanted to play another Adventure game, and this was first decent one to come out since The longest Journey as I was told, so I got it. And let me tell you the story turns out to be very interesting. I was quite sad once I found who I was looking for, and the game was inevitably going to end. But thankfully, the ending hinted to a sequel, and The Adventure company has confirmed one.
One other thing to mention is that since the game is published by Adventure Company, which is a division of DreamCacher, the game was only $29.99 upon release!!! I mean, for a bran new game, you are not going to beat that.
Gameplay - The interface was very simple. Which is good I think. That's what I liked about all of Sierra's games. It does get a little tedious when you have to run from one end of the map to the other, but other than that the interface is fine.
Now here is what's keeping this game from a 9 or higher. Puzzles. There are plenty of puzzles, yes, but there aren't any rip-your-hair-out-and-pray-you-find-a-solution-on-some-message-board kind of puzzles. For those who don't know who Mrs. Williams or Mrs. Jansen are, let me elaborate on that.
In almost every adventure game made by one of those 2 goddess that I played, and furthermore any one from Sierra, each game has caused me at least once to literally not continue with the game until I found some clue on a message board, or here at gamefaqs. There was always at least one puzzle in the game that I couldn't for the life of me ever figure out without some sort of help. This almost happened in Syberia but not quite. Towards the end of the game is the famous bar puzzle. I did have a hard time figuring out. After replaying the dialog and listening more carefully, I realized I needed to get the mixture from someone. I then read on a message board that you had to call someone and it hit me. I was able to figure the rest out.
The game would have been perfect for an adventure game if it included another 1 or 2 of a similar puzzle. Maybe one for each town, maybe a logic puzzle to unlock the train controls each time it got re-wound up. A good example would be Onimusha, because every other treasure chest or so has a small logic style puzzle. Purhaps something similar to open up a door somewhere?
Some more advance Adventure gamers could actually say the game was way too easy. While it was on the easy side, it wasn't a breeze. You do have to use your brain. THe basic strategy is pick everything you can up(which any adventure veteran would do without hesitation) and use that object somewhere. I don't mind these at all, hell, there a part of every adventure game. But they are usually the warm ups to the bigger puzzles.
While the minor flaw of the game being a little easier than expected Syberia is still an excellent game and will leave you pre-ordering Syberia 2. Adventure game pro's may think it easy, but should still like it. And this is an excellent game for beginning adventures. Now try and tackle a Kings Quest or Gabriel Knight game(if you can find one for sale still).
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When the gates open Thursday night at Appalachian Power Park, the West Virginia Power will make its 2014 home debut for its 10th season in Charleston. Fans can expect to see a few new features at the ballpark today, and a season filled with special promotions and fireworks to celebrate the Power's milestone.
Adam Marco, director of marketing and media for the West Virginia Power, said the organization will not only celebrate the Power's nine-year history in Charleston. It will also pay homage to the other minor league teams that have come and gone over the past 105 years.
"Any baseball season is a chance to do some fun things," Marco said, "and this year is a nice compilation of paying tribute to Appalachian Power Park and remembering the history of Charleston baseball."
The first thing guests will notice when they arrive to the park is less time standing in line to enter the park and get their pre-game snacks and drinks. A new point-of-sale system was installed over the offseason that will speed up credit card transactions and help Power staff have a better indication of what concessions and souvenirs are most popular among fans.
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Marco also said several upgrades and renovations were done as part of routine maintenance throughout the offseason that fans wouldn't necessarily notice. A new "batter's eye," — a large wall beyond the center field fence that helps batters see the ball better — was installed, and the netting around the backstop that protects fans from foul balls was replaced.
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On the cost-reduction side, FPLP said it is reviewing operating costs in all of its business units. Cox also said the Free Press won't replace most of the two dozen employees who have retired since last summer, or have announced their intention to retire.
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FPLP saw its print advertising revenue drop by 10.9 per cent in the first quarter of the year. It also saw declines of 4.3 per cent in its classified advertising revenue and 5.8 per cent in print circulation revenue. However, commercial printing and digital revenue were up by 3.9 per cent and 8.7 per cent respectively, and flyer distribution revenue was unchanged.
Stern said revenue has rebounded in recent weeks: "May is looking good."
An unusually large volume of FPI shares -- 103,546 -- traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange Tuesday. The share price fell 34 cents, or 6.9 per cent, to close at $4.60.


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Hitting the road with Jonas Brothers, Kevin brings along his new bride and the couple has their own bus which is filled with 'family photos' and 'some new rugs.'
Pop star Kevin Jonas and his new bride Danielle Deleasa have taken their extended honeymoon on the road - the couple has their own bus for the Jonas Brothers' U.S. tour. The pair wed in December 2009 and the singer's wife is making the most of life on tour - she's perfecting her cookery skills.
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Katzenberg: A Front-Row Seat at the Movies
Few people know Hollywood better than Jeffrey Katzenberg, the onetime wunderkind who by the time he was in his thirties had already been an executive at Paramount Pictures (VIAB) and was running the motion picture studio at Walt Disney (DIS). After a much publicized falling out with then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner and a subsequent court settlement that made him a very wealthy man, Katzenberg started DreamWorks SKG (DWA) with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen. DreamWorks Animation was spun off from its parent in a 2004 IPO, and Katzenberg became CEO. On Oct. 27, after DreamWorks Animation reported earnings—beating Street estimates for the fourteenth out of the past 15 quarters—I talked with the man who, from The Little Mermaid to Shrek, has been behind some of the most acclaimed children's movies in history.
MARIA BARTIROMOYou've been a student of the entertainment business for years. Where is Hollywood headed?
JEFFREY KATZENBERGI think a real seismic shift is occurring. Anytime you're in the center of these shifts, it's maybe not the wisest thing to try and be predictive of where it all is going. But in the pastplus or minus—and I'm referring to the last 30 or 40 years—every time a new platform has come along, the motion picture industry as a whole has usually done a fantastic job of transitioning to it and ultimately gaining revenue. And many different platforms have come along, whether it was free TV or pay TV or VHS or DVDs. Clearly, the next major transformation is going to be from hard goods to digital. There's a lot of uncertainty and caution as to how best to get there. Moving from analog to digital has been disastrous for the music industry. Hopefully our industry has learned from the music business.
Are movies an endangered species?No. I think just the opposite. There's nothing like being in a movie theater with a couple of hundred other people, laughing or being scared or being moved to tears. Those are among the most wonderful social experiences we're all able to have with one another. All these other things are fine and good, but I don't think they are a replacement for movies. I was just in India a week ago, and people are watching movies on their cell phones. They have 450 million people who have cell phones, and [the business is] growing at the rate of 8 million a month. People want to see great stories, and while you have to adapt to these changes, I think they are opportunities, not liabilities.
Isn't the DVD business weakening?Yes, the market as a whole has been pretty challenged in the past 12 months. People are moving from purchase to rental, and there's been a tremendous spurt in the growth of both Netflix (NFLX) and Redbox. But our CG [computer-generated] animated movies are really different from the rest. We are primarily a mom purchase, more analogous to a toy than to a movie.
Shrek The Musical is scheduled to close in January after just over a yearlong run. There are reports that it will not break even. More important, The New York Times suggested that this first effort by DreamWorks Animation to compete with Disney on Broadway is essentially a defeat. Is the closing of Shrek a defeat?No. I think that is a little harsh. First of all, I have to say we couldn't be more proud of the show itself. We've had a respectable, albeit disappointing, run on Broadway. But we have tremendous opportunities to get value out of the asset in the coming years. We have a touring company that will begin in Chicago next summer. We actually filmed the show about 10 days or so ago. And at some point to be determined, we will release it as a DVD. We think there'll be some nice profits.
Will DreamWorks go back to Broadway?With the right creative group and the right property, for sure. [Broadway] has enormous potential.
Speaking of Disney, Bob Iger in a recent interview bemoaned the excesses of Hollywood spending, much as your famous 1991 memo to the industry did when you were at Disney. Is Hollywood addicted to over-the-top production and marketing costs?I would have to say I think we [at DreamWorks] are very strategic and thoughtful about where and how we spend our resources to market our films. Maybe we are so focused because we have only three movies a year. Bob is overseeing a $50 billion enterprise that's got so many moving parts, he sort of looks at it from 10,000 feet. I look at it from 10 inches.
I read a report that DreamWorks has banned the stars of the upcoming Shrek sequel from twittering about the movie. Is that true?Not true. Somebody twittered that, and it wasn't true.
So you're allowing the stars to twitter?They haven't asked. Let me just say, we have a great cast. They've been partners with us for a decade in this franchise and are free to support the movie in any way they think is good. I have that much trust in them.
You were one of President Obama's most ardent campaign supporters in Hollywood. How would you rate his performance, and has he disappointed you in any way?No, he has not. I think he inherited probably one of the most difficult and challenging agendas of any President in history—certainly in modern history. I think he continues to do a good job of facing unprecedented challenges. I don't know how he does it.


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Work for change, change for work
Someone close to me who I won't out for risk of him losing his job threw a sickie this week to go surfing.
So proud. We all work too hard, put in heaps of unpaid overtime and generally donate our pound of flesh to the man week in, week out. In my book, if you can't skive off once in a while when the waves are pumping, life's not worth living.
It also got me thinking it's about time I changed a few things about my life too.
I had been feeling stuck in a rut, always in the same routine, devoid of inspiration. My daily routine consisted of: get up at ridiculous o'clock, do an hour's work, go for a surf, come back and work until the end of the day, go to yoga, make dinner, go to bed extremely early.
OK, as far as routines go, but if you do the same thing every day, it can get pretty boring.
So, taking inspiration from my surfing buddy, I decided I'd try to change. I set out to do things differently over the course of a week. Here's what I tried:
They might seem like trivial things. And they are.
But what I found when I did these things was that it really upset my daily routine and made me far less productive. I felt that, rather than help energise me and give me a new purpose, changing my routine hadn't had a positive affect at all on my life.
My perspective is that I have developed my routine for a reason - it allows me to get as much done as I possibly can, and changing that meant sacrificing productivity.
So I started wondering, how hard is it to change our habits? In fact, can habits be a good thing? I sought out an expert in habits, University of NSW psychologist Dr Amy Reichelt, to find out more.
According to Reichelt, we carry out many responses and behaviours every day, such as making our breakfast a certain way or driving a particular route to work. After a lot of practice at these behaviours our brain automates these responses.
"This is a way of saving on cognitive load - we no longer have to think about carrying out a particular response, we just do it automatically, such as putting our foot on the brake at a red light. These kinds of responses are described as habitual and we stop being aware of how we are doing them," says Reichelt.
That makes a lot of sense to me. What's the point of putting a lot of effort into thinking about our breakfast?
But one of the things that struck me as I tried to change my routine was whether some habits are good and some habits are bad. Maybe it makes sense to have good habits, like always waking up at the same time, while other habits, such as falling asleep in front of the TV each night, are not so great.
Reichelt says habits aren't necessarily good or bad; it depends on the behavioural outcome.
"A good habit could be described as a part of your routine. So automatically picking up your gym kit in the morning so you can go to the gym after work has a positive outcome - you maintain your fitness.
"Bad habits such as craving a cigarette and then lighting up when you see someone else smoking have a negative impact on your health. Similarly, carrying out certain routines can be detrimental to our productivity. Checking Facebook routinely when you get into work can be seen as a habit that wastes time."
She says to break a habit, people must recognise the behaviour and then override their habitual response.
"This requires an additional cognitive load as you have to now stop yourself from doing something, and make an alternative, less-well-practised response."
No wonder I felt that trying to change my habitual routine had made me less productive. I had given my brain more to do than it was used to, no doubt slowing me down and subsequently increasing the pressure I was under.
The upshot of all this is that I've decided my daily work routine is probably just fine and maybe it was a mistake to try to change everything all at once.
A smarter thing might be to pick one thing to do differently and form a new habit around that. For instance, maybe I'll try to do some exercise at lunch and finish work a little later, rather than work for eight hours-plus straight.
That way, I'll be injecting a bit of difference into my life without upping the stress factor.
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Meet Lynsi Smigo, the girlfriend of Opie, a.k.a. Gregg Hughes, a radio personality on XM Radio. See her biography, photos and video here.
Lynsi recently filed a lawsuit against the New York Post for defamation. She claims they printed a false story which alleged Opie's girlfriend made a sex tape with everyone's favorite Jackass, Bam Margera. The story on ran on April 23, 2008, and sourced regular informant Chaunce Hayden, who said he heard the story from a former employee of the Opie and Anthony radio show. The Post has since retracted and accused Hayden of providing erroneous information. Lynsi is asking for $10 million.
As a biography, Lynsi Smigo is age 25 and the fiancee of the radio host known as Opie. The couple live together in New York. She graduated from Archbishop Ryan High School and attended Drexel University.
Lynsi and Hughes were engaged in September 2007. The story of the alleged Lynsi Smigo sex tape broke in April 2008. At the time, Hughes was said to be "livid". However, during an appearance on his radio show, both Margera and Opie vehemently denied the existence of any tape. They even offered up $100,000 each to the person who could show them the tape.
The lawsuit is currently pending in the New York State Supreme Court.
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Midlothian Bookworms Gingerboard House in Richmond Times Dispatch
Who says fun has to cost a lot? Children use their imagination to make their world come alive!
The Midlothian Bookworms (the Midlothian library staff) built a fully furnished gingerboard dollhouse entirely from recycled materials for the upcoming Fool For Art festival. Beginning with a cardboard box, file folders and packing tape, a two-story townhouse was created for little people adventures.
Everything in the fully furnished dollhouse is recycled, repurposed, or reused. Penny the doll sits on modular furniture created out of cosmetic boxes covered with fabric scraps. Her television is a Jell-O box and a newspaper advertisement. Handmade rugs are knitted from recycled yarn scraps. Penny and her dog Pupcake sleep on a canopy bed made from a perfume box covered with scrap fabric, a doily, and Popsicle sticks. A powder puff makes a lovely pillow.
The dollhouse was recently featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch Home and Garden section with other creative upcycling projects from college teams.
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It all began with a single notice handed out last month to Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers.
Addressed by Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa and dated Sept. 18, the notice stated that the ruling DPJ's policy research council will be abolished under the new administration and lawmaker-sponsored legislation would generally be prohibited so the Cabinet would be the only place policy is initiated.
The move, intended to unify the Cabinet's powers, reflects a clear departure from the dual policymaking process of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party, with the Cabinet in one corner and the ruling parties in the other — a relationship that led to cozy ties between politicians and bureaucrats.
But the DPJ notice also prompted opposition from within, as lawmakers argued the new regulation would keep party backbenchers from having a say in policymaking.
"Since each lawmaker represents a given district, our opinions need to be reflected (more strongly) in the policymaking process," one lawmaker reportedly said after attending the land ministry's first policy council meeting earlier this month. Such councils are now the only venues available for non-Cabinet member lawmakers to participate in policymaking.
The meeting, which lasted twice as long as initially planned, was packed and almost all of the 150 seats prepared by the ministry were filled.
Ozawa, however, was adamant about the new process.
"Policy decisions will be made by the Cabinet, with the opinion of lawmakers being heard in policy committees within each ministry," he told a recent news conference.
In these committees — open to all ruling bloc lawmakers — policy debates are to be conducted under the guidance of vice ministers and ministerial aides. Ministers will then take the committees' "proposals" and draw up legislation for Cabinet approval.
Ministries are already hosting policy committees ahead of the extraordinary Diet session that convenes next Monday.
Government-sponsored bills under LDP administrations needed approval from the party's Policy Research Council and various other committees before being rubber-stamped by the Cabinet.
These committees also served to groom future policy experts. However, under the old system, "zoku-giin," or politicians with vested interests, had a big say in making policy, at times watering down proposals. The system also caused Diet deliberations to become mere ceremony because the ruling camp had already made whatever amendments it sought in pending legislation and the opposition lacked the numbers to muster any further revisions.
Integrating policymaking within the Cabinet was a pledge the DPJ included in its campaign platform for the August Lower House election. Ozawa has also said he plans to revise the Diet law to strengthen debate among lawmakers by barring testimony by bureaucrats.
However, with less than 70 lawmakers in the administration, questions remain over how the remaining ruling-bloc politicians can take part in policymaking, and whether prohibiting lawmaker-sponsored legislation won't rob junior politicians of the opportunity to enhance their policymaking abilities.
During a recent news conference, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano told reporters it is unnecessary for party backbenchers to pose questions in Diet proceedings, and instead the many DPJ rookie lawmakers should focus on consolidating their support bases back home.
Hirano's comments reflect Ozawa's strong focus on next summer's Upper House election, in which the DPJ aims to secure a single-party majority and not be bound by its coalition with the Social Democratic Party and Kokumin Shinto (People's New Party).
"The work of a freshman is to win the next election," Ozawa has stressed repeatedly.
Jun Saito, a political science professor at Yale University, says this is a practical approach.
"Ozawa understands how the world of politics works. Rookies need to consolidate their electoral support base by canvassing their districts door to door. Ozawa's view is that unless lawmakers understand local residents' needs, they cannot formulate policies," he said.
Saito added that the real task of lawmaking begins after politicians establish a firm electoral support base.
"I think this makes sense, given the weak survival rates of the LDP's 'Koizumi Children,' " he said, referring to the many first-term lawmakers who rode to victory in the 2005 Lower House election under then Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's postal privatization crusade, only to see themselves ousted from the Diet in the Aug. 30 campaign.
But Ozawa's tactic runs counter to the recent rise in lawmaker-initiated legislation.
The 171st Diet session, the most recent, witnessed 29 new lawmaker-initiated bills in the Upper House alone — the most submitted in the past 20 Diet sessions.
SDP head Mizuho Fukushima, state minister in charge of consumer affairs and the point woman for efforts to curb the nation's low birthrate, said at an Oct. 14 news conference that although she generally agrees with the DPJ goal of unifying policymaking within the Cabinet, she believes drafting bipartisan legislation has merit and wants a system established so the opinions of all lawmakers can be heard.
"It's important to create policies from the bottom up," said Fukushima.
Koichi Nakano, a professor at Sophia University, said that although the new system is bound to invite controversy, for now it should only be observed to see how it unfolds.
"By concentrating authority with the ministers, vice ministers and ministerial aides, the new administration is making it clear who is responsible for making policies," he said.
"But nobody can tell if the new system will actually function unless it is put in motion.
"They'll have to learn by trial and error," Nakano said, noting that by scrapping the DPJ policy research council, rookie lawmakers will have no choice but to sit in on the ministries' policy committees to study how the system works and to enhance their skills.
Nakano also had this to say to the backbenchers .
"Frankly speaking, aspiring lawmakers should have a thorough understanding of various policies before being elected, not after entering the world of politics," he said.


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EU cookie law: UK government crumbles?
With just over a month until the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 is enforced, it was high time that an organisation with the weight to set a precedent got off the fence and took a serious position on the matter.
Who better than the UK's Government Digital Service?
I'm not sure I expected the UK government to be the one to lead the charge on cookie law compliance, and I'm certain I didn't expect them to be the ones to argue that web analytics are "essential", but that's exactly what they've done with their snappily titled Implementer Guide to Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulations (PECRs) for public sector websites.
So does it stand up to scrutiny? And more pressingly, does it get the rest of us out of a potentially difficult situation?
The 68 tracking technologies used by large news sites
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This post looks at which third-party tracking technologies the UK's largest news sites use.
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While most digital marketers are making at least some preparations for the implementations of the EU's e-Privacy Directive, the vast majority see it as a negative step for the web.
Econsultancy has surveyed more than 700 marketers for their opinions on the EU cookie laws, and to find out what preparations have been made for the May 26 deadline.
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(UPDATE, 18 April 2012: Our new report, The EU Cookie Law: A Guide to Compliance, explains the legislation as far as it affects UK online businesses, sets out some practical steps that you can take towards compliance, and includes examples of how websites can gain users' consent for setting cookies. Do check it out.)
EU cookie law: three approaches to compliance
We've covered the impending EU 'cookie law' a number of times on this blog, but we've yet to see many practical examples of implementation.
There are exceptions, such as the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) website, which has to set an example (though even this isn't enough to comply), but most are being kept under wraps.
This is because online businesses are not going to add any interruptive messaging to their sites until the last possible moment, and perhaps not before they've seen what their rivals are doing about it.
I've been speaking to 4Ps Marketing CTO Matt Stannard, who has kindly provided these mock ups of how some popular sites could choose to comply with the EU directive.
(UPDATE, 18 April 2012: Our new report, The EU Cookie Law: A Guide to Compliance, explains the legislation as far as it affects UK online businesses, sets out some practical steps that you can take towards compliance, and includes examples of how websites can gain users' consent for setting cookies. Do check it out.)
Google's privacy row with Apple highlights problems with EU cookie laws
Google is reportedly one of a number of advertisers that have been bypassing Apple's privacy settings to track the browsing habits of Safari users.
According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), code placed in display ads installed cookies in internet browsers without the user's permission.
Q&A: Foolproof's Meriel Lenfestey on the EU cookie law
Meriel Lenfestey is Director at Foolproof, and is currently working with financial clients on compliance with the EU cookie laws.
The EU cookie laws, and the potential effect they can have on online businesses, represents a major challenge. So how can they comply without harming the user experience and damaging their revenues?
I've been asking Meriel about what websites should be doing to prepare for the implementation of the cookie law, and how this will affect the user experience.
Cookie compliance: Econsultancy analyses the latest ICO guidance
I've been on record a number of times saying that I think the EC Directives relating to cookies are fundamentally flawed. We could make a parallel with the current UK/EU Euro 'situation' but let's not go there. In the UK the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has a duty to enforce these directives and, as they say, "This isn't going away. It's the law."
Yesterday the ICO released its updated guidance for UK website owners. You can download the PDF from the link in the news release.
Given the tough task of interpretation, guidance and enforcement that is the ICO's duty, I have to say that I think this document is a valiant and comprehensive effort given the task and I'd commend them for this. I would urge you to read it for the full details. It is clearly written and quite practical.
Below are some of my initial thoughts on reading this latest guidance.
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Manley is SEO Director at LBi, and he has been working with clients recently, preparing for the full implementation of the EU cookie directive.
This directive (here's the pdf if you have a few hours spare) was introduced in the name of privacy, but has serious implications for online businesses.
I've been asking Manley about what the directive will mean in practice for online businesses, and what they should be doing to prepare themselves...
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Those updates, of course, require that users provide "consent" for the placement of a cookie on their machines.
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In May 2000, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a number of guidelines designed to help companies stay in compliance with numerous consumer protection laws as they increased their presence on the then-nascent commercial internet.
The FTC's Dot Com Disclosures (PDF) document largely explained how existing laws around advertising and disclosure applied in the context of the internet, and provided some specific examples.
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Wondering how your business will address the new law that requires users to opt in to cookies? There's good news: you can procrastinate.
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Hi All Good day, A question concerning Cassandra-Cli. I have a Column Family named 11001500. I have inserted the CF with Hector, and it did not throw any exception concerning the name of the column. If I am issuing the command list 1105115; I incur the following error: [default@unknown] list 1105115; Syntax error at position 5: mismatched input '1105115' expecting Identifier * I presume we are not to name CFs as integers?* Or is there something I am missing from the bellow help content: [default@unknown] help list; list <cf>; list <cf>[<startKey>:]; list <cf>[<startKey>:<endKey>]; list <cf>[<startKey>:<endKey>] limit <limit>; List a range of rows, and all of their columns, in the specified column family. The order of rows returned is dependant on the Partitioner in use. Required Parameters: - cf: Name of the column family to list rows from. Optional Parameters: - endKey: Key to end the range at. The end key will be included in the result. Defaults to an empty byte array. - limit: Number of rows to return. Default is 100. - startKey: Key start the range from. The start key will be included in the result. Defaults to an empty byte array. Examples: list Standard1; list Super1[j:]; list Standard1[j:k] limit 40; Renato da Silveira Senior Developer www.indabamobile.co.za
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Ability to Cope With Type 1 Diabetes
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|Evaluation of Ongoing Management of Type 1 Diabetes
|Study Start Date:
|July 2004
|Study Completion Date:
|April 2010
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|February 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Coping with type 1 diabetes can be very difficult. Type 1 diabetes is a very unique chronic disease because it requires constant attention to several responsibilities such as daily glucose monitoring, multiple daily insulin doses, and strict diet and exercise. Several studies have shown that increased rates of poorer glucose control are a result of struggling to cope with type 1 diabetes. This may be due to the fact that many type 1 diabetics experience a feeling of exhaustion, or "burnout," after a certain period of time due to an overwhelming amount of responsibility.
In our study we would like to determine how children's ability to cope with diabetes affects glucose control. By completing several questionnaires, we can analyze different kinds of coping skills through a complex scoring system. These scores will then be analyzed in comparison to your glucose control using HbA1c.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|8 Years to 21 Years (Child, Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects must be type 1 diabetic
- English/spanish speaking
- The legal guardian must be present.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Non-cognitive or mentally ill
- Under the age of 8.0 years
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00206362
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Keywords provided by Rubina Heptulla, MD, Baylor College of Medicine:
Socioeconomic status
Type 1 diabetes mellitus
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1
Behavioral Symptoms
Diabetes Mellitus
Glucose Metabolism Disorders
Metabolic Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 16, 2017