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DNA, Blood and Skin Cell Repository for Research on ALS and Related Neurodegenerative Disorders at Mayo Clinic Florida
This study is enrolling participants by invitation only.
Mayo Clinic
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Kevin B. Boylan, Mayo Clinic
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: September 30, 2012
Last updated: March 21, 2017
Last verified: March 2017
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Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
This study is intended to obtain clinical information and establish a repository of DNA, RNA, peripheral blood monocyte, lymphocyte and skin tissue samples from people with ALS and related neurodegenerative motor neuron diseases, people with a family history of these conditions, and healthy people with no family history of these disorders. The samples will be used in future research to learn about how these disorders affect people, what causes these conditions, and how the investigators can tell when someone has this kind of disease. Future research may also include the generation of stem cells from stored blood cell and skin cell samples. Participants will not be paid for taking part in this study.
|Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Other
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|DNA, Blood and Skin Cell Repository for Research on ALS and Related Neurodegenerative Disorders at Mayo Clinic Florida
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
MedlinePlus related topics: Degenerative Nerve DiseasesU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Kevin B. Boylan, Mayo Clinic:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Repository sample collection [ Time Frame: once ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
This study will establish a repository of stored DNA, RNA, monocyte, lymphocyte and skin fibroblast samples from people with ALS and ALS-FTD, subjects with a family history of ALS who do not have ALS or ALS-FTD, and subjects with no personal history of ALS or dementia, to support future translational and basic research studies on ALS and related neurodegenerative disorders.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2019
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2019 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Eligible patients will be female or male, > or = 18 years of age. ALS and control subjects will meet eligibility criteria. Control subjects will be similar in age to ALS patients. No special classes of subjects are specifically sought or excluded from the protocol.
Inclusion Criteria:
ALS Patient
- Clinical diagnosis of possible, laboratory-supported probable, probable or definite ALS according to modified EL Escorial criteria, suspected ALS according to original El Escorial criteria, or diagnosis of a neurodegenerative disorder with evidence of ALS plus extramotor features
- > or = 18 years of age and willing to provide consent, or assent, if unable to consent
Subject with family history of ALS or other relevant neurodegenerative disease
- No personal history of ALS, ALS-FTD or other motor neuron disease
- Family history of ALS, ALS-FTD in a first, second or third degree blood relative
- > or = 18 years of age and willing to provide consent
- No personal or family history (first or second degree blood relative) of ALS, dementia, Parkinson disease or other relevant neurodegenerative disorder
- > or = 18 years of age and willing to provide consent
Exclusion Criteria:
ALS Subject and subject with family history of ALS/ALS-FTD or other neurodegenerative motor neuron disorder but no personal history of such conditions
- History of medical disorder that leaves in question whether neurological signs and symptoms potentially related to a neurodegenerative disease may be contributed to by an acquired condition
- Limited mental capacity rendering the subject unable to comply with skin punch biopsy or standard phlebotomy procedures
- For collection of skin punch biopsy, an increased risk of bleeding complications or allergy to local anesthetic administered at the time of skin biopsy
Healthy Control Subject
- Personal or family history of dementia or other neurodegenerative disease (Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, etc.)
- Limited mental capacity rendering the subject unable to provide written informed consent or comply with standard phlebotomy procedures
- For collection of skin punch biopsy, an increased risk of bleeding complications or allergy to local anesthetic administered at the time of skin biopsy
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01699451
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01699451
|United States, Florida
|Mayo Clinic Florida
|Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 32224
Sponsors and Collaborators
Mayo Clinic
|Principal Investigator:
|Kevin Boylan, MD
|Mayo Clinic Florida
More Information
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 19, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Kevin B. Boylan, PI, Mayo Clinic
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01699451 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|September 30, 2012
|Last Updated:
|March 21, 2017
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Motor Neuron Disease
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neuromuscular Diseases
Spinal Cord Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
TDP-43 Proteinopathies
Proteostasis Deficiencies
Metabolic Diseases
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Dan, On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 05:51:09PM +0100, Dan Holmsand wrote: > So, as soon as ipc-daemon has been run with a non-000 umask by a user > that is not "postgres" (e.g. manually or from a sysv start script > (currently my favourite way of running ipc-daemon and postgres)), > postgres fails to start, even after restarting ipc-daemon as a > service. Thanks for taking the time to track down the above issue. BTW, by "sysv start script" do you mean using the sysvinit package. If so, then how did you get around the following issues: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00669.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00677.html http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg00838.html Thanks, Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6
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NJSwede vs. the boar (true story)
GlacierGirl's story (http://www.wattflyer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74352) about the near gator attack reminded me of something that happened to me about 15 years ago. I didn't want to hijack his thread, so I'm posting it here.
Many years ago, I used to live in southern France. My former wife's parents had a nice house with a swimming pool and I was hanging out on a lazy Sunday. My ex and her parents were going to town and were going to be away for a few hours and I was left alone on a wonderful sunny Provencal afternoon. Time for a swim! But alas, I had no swimwear, so I decided to get in the pool, shall we say, the way God created me. After all, the pool area was completely surrounded by palm trees and the closest neighbor was a quarter mile away.
I was swimming in my birthday suit for a while but finally got tired of the pool and went to dry off in the sun. I must have dozed off, because the next thing I remember is a loud "OINK OINK!". And there, a few feet away from me, was a huge wild boar. As you probably know, those guys are pretty mean and can easily kill a person. So I started running, and running, the boar took me away from the pool area, into an open yard and close to some of the neighbors. I must have mustered super-human strengths, because after a couple of minutes, I had made a large loop around the yard and had put enough space between me and the boar that I was able to safely get into the house.
To this day, I don't know if anyone saw me. But I kind of hope they did. A very scared naked guy running from a boar must be quite a sight and it would be a waste if no one got to enjoy it! :)
I had a somewhat similar experience, but not in my birthday suit. I was fishing along one of the estuaries in the Banana River near Cape Canaveral back in the 90's. Mostly fishing along the bank, but occasionally would wade out in areas that were shallow in order to reach some deeper holes where the fish were.
One day I was out walking along the bank, and all of a sudden I came up on a whole group of wild boar rutting around the bank. Seems they're pretty prevalent out there as it's mostly preserve, no civilization build up. Well, let me tell you, I almost walked on water to get away from them when they charged! :eek:
I stayed out in the water for a lot longer than usual that day. :p>
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I got some good pic's today and yesterday for Laura.Winston and Benson are so gorgeous and their great cats.We're lucky to have them come in to our lives.Fun and loving cats.They get along with everyone!!Cats and people.
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The Highlanders will have to do without midfield back Matt Saunders for their Super 15 rugby match against the Stormers in Cape Town on Saturday morning (NZT).
He is returning home early after the sudden death of his father on Tuesday.
"At this sad time our thoughts are with Matt and the Saunders family," Highlanders general manager Roger Clark said today.
As a mark of respect the Highlanders will wear black armbands during the game.
Saunders is expected back in New Zealand tomorrow.
The Highlanders have made a bold start to their season, with three successive wins, including a huge upset over the Bulls last weekend, leaving them as the only unbeaten New Zealand team.
Highlanders team: Ben Smith, James Paterson, Kendrick Lynn, Shaun Treeby, Siale Piutau, Robbie Robinson, Jimmy Cowan, Nasi Manu, Alando Soakai, Adam Thomson, Josh Bekhuis,
Jarrad Hoeata, Chris King, Jason Rutledge, Jamie Mackintosh.
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SAN FRANCISCO Intel Corp. executives told equipment vendors on Tuesday (July 12) that new materials and greater investment will be needed to extend CMOS technology beyond the middle of the next decade.
"Evolutionary CMOS" technology is expected to extend to about 2013, C. Mike Garner, director of Intel's Materials Technology Operations, told the Semicon West conference here. Beyond that, Garner said "revolutionary CMOS" technologies will be needed to keep pace with ever-shrinking chip geometries.
Among the revolutionary materials could be nanowires and carbon nanotubes, he added, along with new photoresist approaches that could, for example, use self-assembly techniques to eliminate the line-edge roughness increasingly seen at 65-nm and lower geometries.
"Just to extend CMOS technology, we see the need for new materials," said Garner, adding higher-k materials to the list of requirements for at least the next several generations of CMOS.
So-called "nano-structured materials" such as 5-nm silicon nanowires hold promise, but Garner told chip makers that these materials don't always grow where needed or in the proper orientation. University research is focusing on providing greater uniformity, and Garner said catalyst materials are critical to this effort.
Beyond 2020, chip makers are looking to exotic materials to take over from CMOS. Garner said requirements beyond scalability and better performance will include compatibility with existing CMOS processes and architectures.
Intel is currently investing about $5 billion annually in research and development. Company executives acknowledge that more funds need to be invested in materials research. "We do expect to see an increase" in Intel's investment in materials research, Bob Bruck, the company's vice president of technology and manufacturing, said here.
Bruck did not elaborate on how much Intel currently spends on materials research or how big an increase he expected. He did say the chip giant is investing heavily in 65-nm and lower process technologies while pursuing cost-saving strategies like "flex fabs" that can be converted to new 300-mm production.
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Russell Joseph Brunet Jr., a native of Houma, LA, and a resident of Vacherie, LA, passed away on April 5, 2014 at the age of 63. He is survived by his wife, Cynthia Brunet; son James Brunet and wife Heather; daughter, Bridget Martinez and husband, Kenny; mother, Bertie Cortez Brunet; brother, Kenneth Brunet; sister, Yvette Bobb. He is also survived by six grandchildren, Jade Brunet, Brooke Martinez, Alexis Brunet, Kolston Martinez, Hadley Brunet and Jaxson Brunet; and past daughter-in-laws, Janee' and Vanessa Brunet. He was preceded in death by his father, Russell Joseph Brunet Sr. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran. He served as a Jefferson Parish police officer for 27 years and was an avid Harley Davidson rider. He was a devoted husband and father and enjoyed spending time with his
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To satisfy all you football hipsters, here's a list of six lesser known stars (some more famous than others) who would do us all a favour if they graced the Premier League with their presence next season.
Montpellier president Louis Nicollin has advised Rémy Cabella not to join Newcastle United because he will be "bored s**tless" in the city.
As you leave Uppark there is a 'wish tree'. We were all sorely tempted to put up a wish for scholarship rather than 'amusing' tea towels and branded chocolate.
On our annual visit to Montpellier last month for the Radio France music festival, we marvelled once again at how few English people seem to know about this superb festival of free jazz, classical, world and DJ gigs.
We arrived in Montpellier late afternoon on the Friday. Montpellier is the capital of the Languedoc-Roussillon region. It is the eighth largest city of the country and is also the fastest growing city in France in over the past twenty five years.
Although the coast of Languedoc-Roussillon isn't as obvious a holiday destination as the Cote d'Azur, it has just as much to offer with less crowds, even in peak season.
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OpenGL News Archives
APOCALYX v 0.8.9 lua-scriptable OpenGL API-based 3D engine enhances support for the OpenGL Shading Language
APOCALYX is a 3D engine written in C++ that uses the OpenGL API, OpenAL, Lua and other open source libraries. The new v0.8.9 adds improvements in checking the capabilities of 3D accelerators to allow more control on the effects based on shaders. Other features: full support of the OpenGL Shading Language, built-in AI algorithms (path finding, FSM, steering behaviors etc.), and a simple TTS . APOCALYX is open source, free for commercial use and comes with all documentation material and clear sources of fully functional demos.
Aug 31, 2006 | Read article... | Permalink
VMD v1.85 molecular visualization program adds stereoscopic display and OpenGL Shading Language-based rendering on MacOS X
VMD is an interactive molecular dynamics visualization and analysis package that uses the OpenGL API and OpenGL Shading Language for high performance display of macromolecular simulations. The new v1.8.5 adds support for stereoscopic display and OpenGL Shading Language-based rendering on MacOS X, new collaboration tools for chat, exchange of molecular views, and submission of jobs to remote supercomputers. Other updates include a new MultiSeq bioinformatics analysis environment plug-in, extended file format support, new structure building tools, and several new analysis plugins.
Aug 29, 2006 | Read article... | Permalink
FastVox volume renderer v2.0 (alpha) uses OpenGL Shading Language for accelerated GPU rendering
FastVox is a state of the art volume rendering API with outstanding image quality and hardware acceleration features taking advantage of the OpenGL API. The new v2.0 (alpha) uses OpenGL Shading Language pixel shaders for significant speed gains including: GPU-based Volume Rendering, Iso-Surface Rendering, Maximum Intensity Projection, and Multiplanar Reformation. All GPU code uses the OpenGL Shading Language. Available for Windows and Linux.
Aug 28, 2006 | Read article... | Permalink
BuGLe OpenGL API debugger adds framebuffer viewer
BuGLe is an open source tool for OpenGL API code debugging, implemented as a wrapper library that sits between your program and OpenGL. It allows a developer to view OpenGL state at any time. The latest version adds a framebuffer viewer.
Aug 28, 2006 | Read article... | Permalink
Luxinia v 0.94 lua-scriptable OpenGL API-based 3D game engine enhances shader support
Luxinia is a 3D engine written in C that uses the OpenGL API, Lua, GLFW and OpenAL. The new v0.94 adds improvements in stencil-shadows and shader system to allow more control of effects. The texture combiners can also be manually set for shaders on older generation-cards (ARB_texture_env_combine and related). The sky rendering demo makes heavy use of this feature to draw dynamic skies well even on older hardware. Luxinia is free for non-commercial use and comes with all documentation material and sources of the samples.
Aug 28, 2006 | Read article... | Permalink
Spinnn OpenGL API-based 3D action puzzle game
Spinnn is a 3D action puzzle game in which players move and spin falling game pieces and try to create horizontal lines. It supports both mouse and keyboard input and uses the OpenGL API for 3D graphics and animations.
Aug 25, 2006 | Read article... | Permalink
In the Groove dance action game now available for PCs using the OpenGL API for onscreen graphics
In the Groove is an action game designed to work with a USB-based dance pad. It has previously been available for PS2 but is now available for PC and Mac using OpenGL API-based graphics. To play the game, a user steps on the dance pad in time with what's happening on the screen. There are seven difficulty modes: Dance, Battle (play against another person or the computer), Marathon (play songs nonstop and try to survive ), Tutorial, Fitness (measure your calories), Training and a full Editor (for creating new steps).
Aug 25, 2006 | Read article... | Permalink
Wine v0.9.2 free implementation of Windows on Unix improves support for trhe OpenGL API
Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. The new v0.9.2 improves support for OpenGL API implementation on different platforms, improves NTLM support and adds XEmbed system tray support.
Aug 25, 2006 | Read article... | Permalink
Mesh Viewer lightweight OpenGL API-based viewer adds support for Qt 4 GUI
The Mesh Viewer is an easy to use lightweight application for displaying three dimensional models (triangular meshes) from a variety of file formats. It uses the OpenGL API to render the models. The new v0.3.1 adds support for the Qt 4 GUI library. It has been tested under Linux, Windows XP and Solaris.
Aug 24, 2006 | Read article... | Permalink
GRASS v6.1.0 open source GIS suite with OpenGL API-based visualization adds 3D vector and voxel display
The GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) geographic information system is an open-source project that includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery, along with the capability to produce sophisticated presentation graphics and hardcopy maps (think ESRI's ARcView but not costing $20k). The new v6.1.0 adds a new graphical GIS manager and menu system and enhances the OpenGL API-based NVIZ visualization tool to display 3D vector data and voxel volumes and create on-the-fly MPEG animations.
Aug 23, 2006 | Read article... | Permalink
Bryce 5.5 3D landscaping and animation software adds enhanced OpenGL API support
Bryce 5.5 3D landscaping and animation software adds enhanced OpenGL API support including the ability to see, in real-time, the texture maps applied to objects in your scene. It also supports display styles for texture shaded, wireframe, lit wireframe, hidden line, wire shaded, smooth shaded, wire textured shaded. DAZ Productions is offering Bryce 5.0 for free until September 6th, 2006. Once you have completed your installation, you will be prompted to register your copy at the DAZ3D.com website to receive your Bryce 5 serial number.
Aug 23, 2006 | Read article... | Permalink
Mac Pro can support multi-threaded OpenGL API processing
The new Mac Pro can support multi-threaded OpenGL API processing, using the systems multicore processor to divide up the work of processing graphics. By offloading OpenGL API calls to multiple threads, the Mac's CPUs, can process OpenGL much quicker by reducing the CPU's "bottlenecking" of OpenGL performance.
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Flux Studio (beta) modeling and animation for web3d content uses the OpenGL API for rendering
Flux Studio (beta) is a powerful modeling and animation application for creating real-time Web3D content and virtual environments under Windows and uses the OpenGL API for accelerated rendering. It is based on the industry standard and royalty free X3D format and supports advanced X3D constructs, such as Protos and Scripts. It also supports metadata, movie textures and content encryption. It is equally useful for beginners and professionals developers. Flux Studio download includes Flux Player and KML2X3D translator (Google Earth format to X3D).
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Virtual Reality Chat v1.2.0 adds shadows using shadow maps and the OpenGL Shading Language
VRC is a 3D chat application supporting the Internet Relay Chat protocol IRC under Windows and Linux. The new v1.2.0 adds dynamic shadows using the OpenGL Shading Language and an early version of voice chat. An article by the authors about VRC vegetation animation using the OpenGL Shading Language will appear in the upcoming ShaderX 5 book.
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BuGLE debugger adds initial support for OpenGL 2.1 and enhances texture viewer
BuGLe is an open source tool for OpenGL API code debugging, implemented as a wrapper library that sits between your program and OpenGL. It allows a developer to view OpenGL state at any time. The new release adds initial support for OpenGL 2.1 (e.g. non-square uniform matrices, GL_CURRENT_RASTER_SECONDARY_COLOR) and supports depth and luminance textures, and display of RGBA and UV values in texture viewer.
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- Detection of West Nile virus in the Mexican blood supplySergio A Sánchez-Guerrero
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Transfusion 46:111-7. 2006..The aim of this nationwide study was to determine the prevalence of WNV in blood donors in Mexico as a first step in preventing its transfusion-associated transmission...
- [Retrospective transfusional audit at the Centro Nacional de la Transfusión Sanguínea]Eduardo Juárez-Rangel
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Kilgore man sentenced to 35 years in prison for DWI
From Staff Reports
Nov. 22, 2011 at 11 p.m.
Keynon James Carpenter, 47, of Kilgore accepted a 35-year prison sentence this week for habitual drunken driving.
Carpenter entered a guilty plea Monday to driving while intoxicated March 12 when he was stopped by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper. Carpenter, who had at least two prior drunken driving convictions, had been in the Gregg County Jail on $12,000 bond since his arrest for DWI, driving with a suspended license, driving without financial responsibility and for failure to identify.
Carpenter was on parole for his 2009 drunken driving conviction.
Also Monday, a 37-year-old Marshall man accepted 30 years in prison for drunken driving and another 10-year term for bail jumping. The sentences must be served consecutively.
Christopher M. Thompson entered guilty pleas Monday to a June 2010 arrest for driving while intoxicated in Gregg County. A bail-jumping charge was added in January when Thompson failed to appear at a mandatory pre-trial hearing.


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The couple's five-tiered vanilla wedding cake was adorned with a custom-designed monogram, which first appeared in the duo's save-the-date letter. The logo was a prominent feature at the wedding, also found on sign-in cards, coffee cups—even the confetti that was tossed in the air as the couple left the party.
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I was convinced all the way through the pregnancy that the scan had estimated the dates incorrectly. The little fella was kicking before he was supposed to, bigger at various points than he should have been and it all felt a bit more advanced than it should have. So it came as no surprise to me that I found myself lying in bed on the 30th of December mulling over my lack of sleep when 'pop' the waters broke. I should say this was not the result of any of the techniques suggested, including the 'milkshake' one the midwife suggested to my horror, well I am a prude. It was just the time.
Being me, I obviously went into shock straight away. I couldn't stop my teeth chattering, I felt really odd and I kept needing to go to the loo etc etc. I started getting a few contractions but decided to wait until the morning before I did anything at all. The husband rolled over and went back to sleep, seasoned pro that he is. I lay there in the darkness feeling ever so slightly afraid. Third babies do that to you, you're not so concerned about the actual logistics of it all, but you know what may be about to happen so you blot it out. In short you're carefree about it whilst being absolutely terrified beyond belief.
Morning eventually came, well it was Fifi morning which is about 5:30 AM and I called my parents to come over and look after the kids whilst I went to the hospital. The drive to the hospital took forever, one of the longest drives of my entire life and that does include getting a coach to the Cevenne National Park in France. As we parked the car I breathed in the crisp, grey Stevenage air and thought what a life changing moment I was about to have.
After an inability to get into the ward where we had been summoned, mainly thanks to the reception staff who appear to be trained to ignore the bell, we spoke to a midwife. It was decided to take us into new swanky Midwife Led Unit. I was impressed and quite fancied having a stay there. Unfortunately it was not to be, I was told that unless contractions started they would induce me at 8pm and that I could sit on the ward if I wanted. Within half an hour of this diagnosis I found myself wandering around B & Q with the husband discussing tile trims and decking in a shallow attempt to distract us from the inevitable. We couldn't find Laura Ashley, I presume the Stevenage branch has closed. I remember thinking how grey the shop seemed, what a grey day it all was. Clearly nothing was going to start proper contractions, even the excitement of B & Q so we decided to drive the 30 miles home again.
At home I went to bed, tossing and turning I somehow managed to work my temperature up to 38.9 degrees. Or at least that's what the thermometer said. On reflection as this was exactly the temperature that Boy had the previous week I wonder if it was stuck in the memory rather than my temperature. Technology confuses me at the best of times. Still, another long, long drive to the hospital and we found ourselves again waiting to be let into the ward by a receptionist who must have been deaf and blind. I was then admitted to the labour ward.
In preference to sitting on the labour ward myself and the hubby walked round and round and round the hospital. Initially to try to get some food, although it became clear that on New Years Eve all food outlets would close before their advertised New Year Closing time. Helpful. We ended up feasting on those hard plastic sandwiches from a machine and some crisps. If this wouldn't kick start contractions it may kick start a tummy ache, much the same really.
The labour ward had three inmates; myself,some girl who appeared to have been there for days with her entire family including her late middle aged parents and another girl who seemed to have her mother and the father of the baby with her. They were all noisy and demanding. I sat in my cubicle curtains drawn, hubby next to me tweeting imagining that I was actually sitting on Holkham Beach or somewhere even vaguely nice. I read an entire copy of Red Magazine. No-one came to see me for about 4 hours. I eventually rang the bell and asked to be checked. It was hopeless. I told them that I didn't have front contractions with Boy, they didn't listen. I could tell. It was decided to induce me at 8pm, a time which coincides with visitor chuck out time…


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Stupid computers, can't they do anything right? Here somebody had the brilliant idea to take the lyrics from the theme to 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,' and put them through every language in Google Translate before translating it back to English. The results are pretty insane.
It's Tuesday, so you probably need a good cry. Here, watch this video. It's children from Sandy Hook Elementary performing 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' on 'Good Morning America.' The kids recorded the song, with folk musician Ingrid Michaelson, at the home of former Talking Heads members Tina Weymouth and Christ Frantz.
We sat through this whole thing video of a high-speed police pursuit in Inglewood, Calif., waiting for something horrible to happen, because it's the internet...
Here's a video because, hey, why not? You probably remember the business card scene from 'American Psycho,' with all the different shades of off-white. Here it is again, only they're comparing Pokemon cards.
Tommy Lee Jones was not amused by Will Ferrell's hijinks at last night's Golden Globes. And he was the only one. On the one hand, look at him -- he's ancient. Let him laugh or not laugh whenever he wants or doesn't want to. On the other hand, BWAHAHA he looks just like Grumpy Cat.
Jonason Pauley and Jesse Perrotta of Arizona spent two years making this masterpiece of stop motion animation. The least you could do is watch it.
Last night's Golden Globes were certainly filled with some memorable moments. The Tommy Lee Jones death stare, Taylor Swift's disapproving face, Adele's delightful acceptance speech. But today most people are talking about Jodie Foster's sort of rambling acceptance speech for the Cecil B DeMille lifetime achievement award.
Thinking about getting a parrot? You'd better kiss your dreams of being an amateur beatboxer goodbye! This video shows the results of working on your beatboxing around the house when you have a bird just waiting to mimic you.
You just don't see magic like this in the NBA. Mostly because a professional athlete would probably never lob the ball backwards over his head.
Fiat just keeps the Super Bowl 2013 commercials coming. We aren't certain on the setting for this one (probably California someplace), but we're glad we don't have to drive this highway every day.
It's not even the slightest bit of a secret that we love a good practical joke. We even kind of like the bad ones. Basically, as long as nobody winds up in a hospital, we're on board. So
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Expo animal composting demo about bone decay
By KEVIN WALKER
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EAST LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Ag Expo will feature a demonstration on composting animal remains as an alternative to burial, as it has in past years.
"This year's Ag Expo is going to be focused on what to do with the bones that are remaining," said Tom Guthrie, Michigan State University equine extension educator.
Once the bones are all that remain of a dead animal, those too must be disposed of. Partially decomposed bones can be applied to a field, buried or broken down further by chemicals. "This year's demonstration just takes it to the next step," Guthrie said.
He stated all farm operators know taking care of livestock mortality on a farm is just a reality. Composting is an alternative for farmers to use. It can be "more efficient than burial. Burial might not be as efficient as composting."
A dead horse can be decomposed in 30-60 days if it's done properly. Guthrie stated a dead animal can be completely decomposed except for the bones in as little as 30 days, with the right mixture of bulking agents.
These include sawdust, chopped straw, woodchips, leaves, spelt hulls, bean pods, grass clippings, shredded cardboard or newspaper, chopped cornstalks, fresh manure and other materials listed in the MSU bulletin E3168 Composting Dead Horses.
The right mixture of these agents will ensure enough air can get into the compost pile, but not too much air. "Bulking agent particle size is important because it affects the air spaces within the pile," the bulletin states. "If particle size is too fine, oxygen cannot move through the pile. Limited microbial activity and odor production result.
"Fine particles, however, are absorbent and help capture fluids released from tissues during composting. If particle size is too large and variable, there is too little interface between tissues and the carbon source. This limits microbial metabolism. Excessive coarseness allows too much air through the pile, which cools the pile.
"A non-uniform particle size range of 0.1-2 inches is recommended. Particles in this size range provide porosity, optimal surface area and absorption of odors and liquids. The compost pile should be a maximum of 5-6 feet tall to prevent compaction and the loss of air in the pile," it notes.
The bulletin provides the correct carbon-to-nitrogen ratio for a good compost pile, proper moisture content range, temperature range, oxygen concentration and pH. It also discusses other rules for making a compost pile to degrade animal tissue, including the floor of the pile, its placement relative to neighbors, water sources and similar matters.
The demonstration at this year's Ag Expo will show an animal that's already been decomposed in a compost pile, to demonstrate the effectiveness of the composting technique.
It will be conducted all three days at 11 a.m., off-site at the swine farm, by MSU animal sciences professor Dale Rozeboom.
Bulletin E3168 is available free of charge. Other materials on dead animal disposal in Michigan can be found online at www.msu.edu/~rozeboom/ catrn.html
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Social aggregation service Cliqset has launched two new tools for tracking your friends' activities on the bevy of social sites that make up the real-time web.
The company has released a desktop app for discovering shared items like status updates, photos or videos — and all the discussions related to those posts — across the dozens of sites Cliqset supports. Also announced Tuesday morning is Cliqset's new social app for Boxee which lets you chat with your friends while you're watching videos culled from around the web.
The Boxee app is cool, but the new desktop client is the bigger deal. It's a slick application that improves upon similar apps already on the market, and we'd recommend you take it for a spin if you're a social web power user.
Cliqset's new desktop app is a lot like Tweetdeck, the popular app for following activity on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. Like Tweetdeck and other aggregation apps like Seesmic Desktop, Cliqset's app is build with AIR, Adobe's platform based on Flash that runs on Mac, Windows and Linux.
But while Tweetdeck and other similar apps only pull status updates from Twitter and couple of other sites, Cliqset pulls all activities and updates from the bulk of the social web. You can see photos, videos, comments, likes, and ratings from Flickr, StumbleUpon, Picasa, Delicious and what have you — over 70 social websites are supported. You can cross-post to multiple services, filter posts by type and create custom groups to better track your friends. This brings Cliqset's app very close to the web-based experience the company offers on its website.
Note: the AIR apps from the likes of Tweetdeck, Seesmic and Yammer are more mature, and thus more stable, than the beta Cliqset is releasing Tuesday. Expect hiccups.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Cliqset relaunched its website as a full-fledged aggregation hub, complete with a user interface that auto-refreshes as new items are shared, new statuses are posted or new comments are made across any of the social sites you belong to. It's still in beta, but you can sign up for access. The site serves as a single point of entry into the real-time web, a model that's become increasingly attractive as more of our online social activity moves onto services that provide instant access to information. Twitter and Facebook are some familiar examples, but Google is also getting into the real-time game with its new Wave collaboration tool and recent enhancements to Google Docs which allow groups to instantly share document updates more easily.
Cliqset is doing more than jumping on the real-time bandwagon here, though.
Much of the data flowing across the social web gets broadcast in code that doesn't interact well with other services. This becomes a problem when a developer wants to create an app that pulls in data from multiple services. Cliqset's platform — which both its website and the new desktop client take advantage of — actually re-writes much of that code in the Activity Streams format, an emerging standard data format for exchanging updates on the social web. So, Cliqset's platform is actually picking up the streams of data from the social web and ensuring they're well-formed before making them available freely to anyone.
The company has another advantage working for it, but it's largely coincidental.
Much of the spotlight for real-time web aggregation in the past few months has been hogged, deservedly so, by FriendFeed. The service rocketed to popularity earlier this year before being purchased by Facebook. Facebook says it plans on keeping FriendFeed alive and humming as-is, but the service will most likely eventually be folded into Facebook's experience and cease to exist as a stand-alone site.
There's been much speculation about where fans of FriendFeed — who may or may not be fans of Facebook's proprietary authentication system or its protective data-sharing policies — will go once FriendFeed disappears or becomes a less friendly place to share one's social assets. Plaxo is one possible destination. Though we haven't seen it, Threadsy appears to have promise.
Cliqset remains a very strong contender, and this desktop app should win the service some new fans.
We're still waiting on native Cliqset apps for the iPhone and Android. When those arrive, which should be soon, we expect Cliqset to really take off.
- Cliqset Relaunches, Joins the Real-Time Streaming Club
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Guide to Baseball Novels: M
- McAllister, Troon. The Kid Who Batted 1.000. New York: Doubleday, 2002. A team of misfits battles its way to the pennant with the help of the title character, a player with extraordinary eyesight who can walk every time up.
An exceedingly old-fashioned novel; the central idea is in fact taken from a 1951 juvenile by Allison & Hill. It's a wisecracking tale akin to '70s romps like All G.O.D.'s Children and Screwballs, or earlier comic novels like A Pennant for the Kremlin. To its credit, it's self-consciously old-fashioned, and if you can endure lots of wry comedy and snappy dialogue, you might like it.
- McAlpine, Gordon. Joy in Mudville. New York: Dutton, 1989. Three unlikely Chicagoans--an orphan teenager, a mad scientist, and a taxi-dancer fleeing from Al Capone--head west to follow the flight of Babe Ruth's "called shot" home run ball in the 1932 World Series.
An appealing magical-realist novel, Joy in Mudville shows the influence of Kinsella, but is lighter and more lyrical than any of Kinsella's fantasies. The first reviewers also compared the book to the work of E.L. Doctorow; McAlpine blends celebrities and invented characters in a similar nostalgic mix, but his approach is more magical than Doctorow's. Unfortunately out of print, this book deserves a new edition.
- MacDonald, Shari. Diamonds. Sisters, OR: Palisades, 1996. New owner of a AA club falls in love with one of her players in this Christian series romance.
- McManus, James. Chin Music. New York: Crown, 1985. An amnesiac pitcher for the White Sox, beaned and mortally wounded during a World Series game, struggles to get home as the city of Chicago is destroyed around him in a nuclear holocaust.
Dense and verbally tricky, this novel connects violence, sex, mutual assured destruction, and retaliation for injuries in a postmodern moral fable. Too pathologically and graphically violent to succeed as entertainment, it is nevertheless a skillful mix of literary techniques.
- Malamud, Bernard. The Natural. New York: Farrar, 1952. A young prospect goes to Chicago to try out for the Cubs, is shot by a madwoman, recovers, joins the New York Knights years later and almost leads them to a pennant, resists throwing the decisive game, and loses it anyway.
Heavy and thick symbolic novel that just avoids congealing altogether. It is, as one should remember, a first novel by an author who went on to greatness. The Natural has had a tremendous impact on later baseball fiction, and remains a true archetype of the genre. Sometimes critiqued as unrealistic, which is beside the point: the baseball in the novel is not drawn from real life, but almost entirely from the stock situations in juvenile and pulp baseball stories that flourished in the first half of the 20th century. This (seriously) parodic relation to lowbrow fiction gives The Natural its postmodern texture. Filmed, with various sentimental embellishments, in 1984.
Criticism: Candelaria, Carino, Dodge, McGimpsey, O'Connor, Petty, Rutter, Schiavone, Sullivan, Turner, Vosevich, Wasserman, Westbrook.
- Maloney, Andrew. End of a Dynasty. Victoria, BC: Trafford, 2004. After three straight World Championships, the arrival of a selfish superstar portends the collapse of the Buffalo Pioneers.
Defies the usual formula by having its central team become truly awful.
- Manderino, John. The Man Who Once Played Catch With Nellie Fox. Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1998. A fortyish Chicago ex-minor-leaguer watches his life disintegrate, then picks up the pieces.
Moderately funny life's-losers novel; similar in setting and theme to Lorenz's Guys Like Us, but lacks that novel's edge and abandon.
- Mandino, Og. The Twelfth Angel. New York: Fawcett, 1993. Devastated by the deaths of his wife and son, a man takes up youth-league coaching and meets a half-pint bundle of inspiration among his charges.
Major entry in the small sub-genre of baseball glurge.
- Mayer, Robert. The Grace of Shortstops. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984. An eight-year-old rabbi's son in the Bronx follows the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers while unearthing secrets about his dying grandmother, his adulterous mother, his kidnapped cousin, his gunrunning father, and a tragic neighborhood bag lady.
The kidnapped-cousin subplot keeps one's attention, but the novel drags on after it is sewn up, and ends with spasms of melodrama and a truly bad pastiche of Molly Bloom's soliloquy from Ulysses.
- Merriken, E Dee. Dream Season. New York: iUniverse, 2005. In 1890, young Californian Walter Settle explores his ambition to play professional baseball.
Historical novel based on the life and career of the author's grandfather.
- Miller, John A. Coyote Moon. New York: Tom Doherty, 2003. Various oddball characters converge in the Mojave Desert and wait for the advent of something wonderful, which may be heralded by a brilliant rookie catcher for the Oakland A's.
Readable magical-realist fare.
- Miller, Matt. Milltown Yank. Scottdale, PA: Pinetree, 2002. In 1930, a hot prospect in the St. Louis organization plays his rookie minor-league season for the Cardinals' affiliate in Scottdale, Pennsylvania.
"I've written about what it was like to live in Western Pennsylvania during the 1930s. . . . Scottdale was a town that had a love affair with their minor league affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. In actuality, the town fathers thought so much of their team that they actually paid Branch Rickey a yearly fee to keep the team in town."
- Mills, Dorothy Seymour. Drawing Card: A Baseball Novel. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. Balked of a chance to play men's pro ball, a star pitcher plots her revenge.
Read Scott D. Peterson's review for the Sport Literature Association.
- Minor, Roy. Brush the Summer By. Baltimore: PublishAmerica, 2008. Max Murphy continues to fight sadistic teammates, the Mob, and the Klan.
- Minor, Roy. In the Fall. Pittsburgh: SterlingHouse, 1999. Max Murphy, young Cardinals prospect in the late 1950s, is disturbed by the racist culture of organized baseball.
- Miró Fernando, Román. Roberto Clemente: The Untold Story / en el Cielo lo que se juega es Béisbol. Orig. publ. 1992. Second Edition. Bayamón, PR: Liga Boricua Béisbol Adulto, 1993. Guided by the angelic spirit of departed Pittsburgh shortstop Arky Vaughan, the great Clemente learns that he must lay down his life for that of his son, in a Christ-like gesture.
This edition is bilingual, with an English version of the novel followed by a Spanish version.
- Mitchell, Bob. Once upon a Fastball. New York: Kensington, 2008. Baseball-obsessed history professor investigates a mysterious baseball left him by his mysteriously disappeared grandfather.
Energetically written, but sinks from the weight of relentless, minutely-detailed exposition.
- Moffie, Sam. Swap. n.p.: UEL Enterprises, 2007. "Inspired by the real-life wife-swapping incident involving two former New York Yankees, this hilarious tale shows readers how to cope with life's most unconventional choices."
- Molloy, Paul. A Pennant for the Kremlin. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964. Rich crank bequeaths the Chicago White Sox to the Soviet Union, and the Soviets send a cerebral commissar who manages the club to the World Series.
Dreadfully unfunny Cold War comedy, possibly a trial balloon for a movie treatment that Hollywood was too smart in the long run to buy.
- Monday, T.T. Double Switch. New York: Doubleday [Random House], 2016. Relief pitcher Johnny Adcock's detective investigations continue when he's led to a case by a stylist to the (baseball) stars.
- Monday, T.T. The Setup Man. New York: Doubleday [Random House], 2014. Relief pitcher with too much time on his hands, turned private eye, is led into a morass of evil after the death of a teammate/client.
Over-the-top genre crossover that plays more as parody noir in the Carl-Hiaasen vein than as serious hard-boiled thriller.
- Moon, Scot. Open Season. Pittsburgh: Dorrance, 1993. A star ballplayer has assorted troubles in the weird world of baseball in the 2000s.
- Morgenstein, Gary. The Man Who Wanted to Play Center Field for the New York Yankees. New York: Atheneum, 1983. Thirtysomething magazine writer dusts off his spikes in a stab at the title ambition.
A mix of wacky character business and overly fraught marital trouble somewhat detracts from the central theme, which is American male midlife wish-fulfillment in its purest form.
- Mosher, Howard Frank. Waiting for Teddy Williams. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Lad grows up in rural Vermont with dreams of pitching for the Red Sox in a World Series.
And does so. Sporadically interesting local-color farce that hits about .150 in its attempts at humor and pathos. See Waiting for Teddy Williams at lection.


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If the House passes the continuing resolution with an amendment and sends the papers to the Senate tonight, Senator Reid intends to move to table the House Amendment this evening. We could vote in the 9pm range, but of course that depends on House action. Senators will be notified of the timing of the next vote as the situation unfolds.
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1. The Gift Concierge created a table of treats to show some of the variety it can set up at events, during the 13th annual Bridal Faire held Sunday at Fortuna's River Lodge. For more faces and photos from this event, turn to Page D3.
2. Debbie Reynolds of the River Lodge gathers all the brides at the end of the 13th annual Bridal Faire for the drawing of the five grand prizes. The Sunday event was very well attended and squeals of delight were heard as the names of the winners were revealed.
3. Promises Bridal brought an assortment of dresses to display for brides to see the depth of their variety and offerings for weddings of all types during the 13th annual Bridal Faire held Sunday at the Fortuna River Lodge.
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Higginbotham not going to bat for trains
Hillsborough County Commission Chairman Al Higginbotham created a stir two weeks ago when he said he'd like to keep the issue of mass transit moving forward despite voter rejection of a proposed transit tax last month. He had been one of the leading critics of the transit tax initiative and its focus on trains, after all.
Rail advocates need not get too excited, however.
Higginbotham made clear he only wants to look at what the county can achieve using existing tax dollars, and has placed a discussion on Wednesday's County Commission agenda. He made clear Tuesday to Bay Buzz that he's mainly interested in buses. And he suggested that the discussion may be a bit of slap-down of Hillsborough Area Regional Transit officials, who oversee the bus system.
"This was never intended as a rail question," he said, even though his agenda item carries the description "Request the County Administrator and County Attorney research optional funding alternatives for local rail and transit."
Rather, Higginbotham said he has requested all analysis by HART of various proposals and payment options developed before the transit tax was put to voters and said he hasn't gotten a response. He has even submitted formal public records request to HART, which he said was made necessary due to a lack of response to a less formal request for information. He said he wants to see if they present any clues for pushing ahead with new bus service short of raising taxes.
Higginbotham said he also wants to get an explanation from HART about why it has spent little of the $40 million it got from the county three years ago for bus projects, including bus rapid transit lines. He said he may seek to recoup the money unless HART can come up with a plausible explanation for the delay in work and provide assurance that those projects will be under way soon.


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E.L. Doctorow reads from his new book, cracks literary jokes in Jewish Literature Live course.
By Menachem Wecker
"I feel as if I have hit the trifecta of introductions," said Faye Moskowitz, M.A. '79, professor of English.
"Some time ago, I introduced Grace Paley at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and several years later I introduced Philip Roth at Lisner Auditorium right here on this campus," said Ms. Moskowitz, "and tonight I have the extraordinary privilege of presenting to you an author who has been one of my heroes since I first read The Book of Daniel."
More than 200 people turned up for the April 7 event, in which renowned author E.L. Doctorow read from his newest book All the Time in the World and spoke about his artistic process in an event that was part of Ms. Moskowitz's course Jewish Literature Live. Students in the course had read Mr. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel.
GW President Steven Knapp welcomed the audience, including trustee David Bruce Smith, B.A. '79, who funds Ms. Moskowitz's course, and said he knows of no better example of a course that connects students and authors than Jewish Literature Live.
Ms. Moskowitz admitted she is pretty star struck herself by the caliber of the speakers who participate in the course.
"Do you wonder that I'm giddy?" Ms. Moskowitz said. "I was one of those Bobby soxers who swooned when Frank Sinatra appeared at the Michigan Theater in Detroit, and this feels like Sinatra all over."
"Like the biblical Daniel, he interprets our dreams and explicates our nightmares," Ms. Moskowitz said of Mr. Doctorow, "may he have all the time in the world."
"I've never been compared to Frank Sinatra," Mr. Doctorow admitted when he assumed the podium.
Mr. Doctorow began by offering sympathy to young writers in the audience who made the mistake of telling their parents they wanted to be writers, or wrote exceptional book reports, only to be introduced by parents to relatives, with a "mixture of derision and pride," as "the writer in the family."
The selection Mr. Doctorow read came from the short story A Writer in the Family, in which a teenager is asked by his aunt to write fake letters from his dead father to his grandmother so she can enjoy her final days thinking her son is still alive and well in Arizona.
Both Mr. Doctorow's talk and the selection he read from his book were sobering but frequently punctuated by humor.
"People carry many ideas around in their heads," he told one audience member, "and most of them should stay there actually."
He told another, "Public figures usually make fiction of themselves long before writers get to them."
His take on being an author? "It's not an entirely rational way to live, you understand?"
Another audience member asked him how real his stories are. "Does it sound true?" he demanded. "Then it is true."
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Councillors have called for a review of the lane structure and cutting back foliage at Kildwick roundabout.
The move comes after North Yorkshire county councillor Patrick Mulligan (Cons) reviewed the county's road accident statistics with members of Farnhill Parish Council.
He said the report, published at the end of last year, was already out of date as it contained accident figures for 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Coun Mulligan, who represents the Airedale ward, said the Kildwick roundabout was quite high on the list of accident blackspots, despite lining and surfacing improvements in 2011.
The parish council resolved to write a letter to the county's director of highways asking for a review of the lane structure and repainting of road signage at the roundabout.
"The lining and directions are very poor and it's unclear what lane you're supposed to be in," said Coun Patrick Mulligan.
Coun Gemma Harling, chairman of Farnhill Parish Council, said there had been a number of near-misses by drivers using the lane that exits at Kildwick "But the statistics don't allow for near-misses," she said.
The council will also ask if foliage on the roundabout could be cut back so all exit routes could be clearly visible.
Coun Harling said: "While it's very nice to have greenery in the middle of the roundabout, people can miss the Kildwick turn-off. They should also cut back the foliage to make it easier for people coming from the village to see all the exits on the roundabout.
"Some people think the foliage is good because it makes you slow down," said Coun Mulligan, but he agreed it could be difficult for drivers because they could not see the other exits.
A spokesman for North Yorkshire highways said: "Statistics show there have been three slight collisions since the improvement scheme was introduced over two years ago. Because of the random nature of the collisions we do not intend to introduce additional measures.
"The leg identified on the high-risk site list has had no accidents since the measures were implemented, which is obviously encouraging and there is no record of any collisions involving vehicles exiting the roundabout to Kildwick.
"We have investigated concerns regarding vegetation on the island but no remedial action was deemed necessary."


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How to Improve Your Digestive Health with Prolazyme
Can the Prolazyme supplement help? When it comes to better health generally, we should try to focus on good digestive health. Our digestive system has been ignored for far too long and the truth is that we need look after it. Why? It may not be immediately obvious, but our digestive health governs so much of the body's vital functions. When you are not getting enough of the right nutrition, you will soon find that you may suffer from a range of disorders. That is where a good probiotic supplement can come in.
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We suffer more from digestive health problems such as IBS and Crohn's Disease than ever before. Most doctors try to reason them away and blame stress. Understanding the nature of digestive health is crucially important. Looking at your body, it is vital to find out what part of the digestive system is malfunctioning and why it is doing so. Perhaps it is time we started to think of food as vital nutrition instead of just food.
What is Digestion All About?
What happens when the body digests food? When the body digests food, it draws out vital nutrients from the food we eat. There is one major problem with that these days. The food that we eat on a daily basis is not as rich in nutrients as it used to be. Modern day food often lacks vitamins, micro minerals and nutrients. Did you know that scientists are very concerned about modern day farming and food production methods? They know that a lot of our food is lacking in vital trace elements such as magnesium and even something something so basic as vitamin E.
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Adding inches to your waist during the menopause, or a man starting to store belly fat after the age of 50, are both concerninmg factors for doctors. Many are recommended a low fat diet, but that is not the only answer. If your so called health "low fat diet" is low in certain nutrients, you will continue to store belly fat.
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Most disease, almost 99.9 per cent, is a direct result of inflammation. If we look at our diet, we would soon notice that it comes from there. However, if our food is nutritionally poor, how can we help to help ourselves?
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What are the health benefits of the Prolazyme ingredients? A scientist taking a look at the key ingredients in Prolazyme will find that they start by reducing inflammation in the body. Once that has happened, more energy and nutrition can be extracted from the food that you eat.
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We have ignored vitamin E for a rather long time. A few years ago, we realized how important B12 and vitamin D both were to our overall health. Now it is time for the vitamin E revolution.
Where can you find vitamin E? . Naturally vitamin E is found in nuts, seeds and vegetable oils. You may heard that men suffering from poor prostate health are encouraged to eat more walnuts. We used to eat a lot more nuts and seeds, but our modern day diet is lacking in natural foods.
The problem with vitamin E is that you need at least 4 mg per day. It helps to reduce the damage done by free radicals (inflammation) and at the same time protects the tissues in the body. A lack of vitamin E can lead to anaemia which can in turn cause digestive disorders. Did you know that a lot of us are anaemic without knowing about it? Anaemia can lead to poor digestive health, excess gas and bloating are both common symptoms.
Lipase and Prolazyme
You are not very likely to find enough lipase in your diet. This is an enzyme which can mainly be found in none pasteurized milk. Today, you really need to take digestive probiotics to obtain lipase. It is a vital ingredient in probiotics for women and men. It helps to break down lipids (fats in food) and helps to metabolize key ingredients in food. Lipase also helps the body to make use of vital minerals, vitamins and micro nutrients.
If you do not have enough of this digestive enzyme in your diet, you may find that you suffer from constipation and feeling a bit fuzzy headed. After all, if you cannot digest your food properly, enough nutrition cannot reach the brain.
Bromelain can be found in the Prolazyme supplement. It can be bought as a stand alone supplement but it works better with the corrective digestive enzymes. If taken as a stand alone supplement, Bromelain can go to work a little bit too quickly. This means that you may not benefit from the positive effects of Bromelain.
When Bromelain is digested too quickly by the body, it is less likely to help to breakdown stored fats and blood fats. Instead it will go to work reducing inflammation in other parts of the body such as joints and arteries. But when you take a Bromelain supplement alongside other digestive probiotics, it will also help to break down fats stored around the belly area and the internal organs.
Bromelain can be naturally found in the core of the pineapple. But in order to benefit from it, you would need to at a lot of pineapple. It is one of those natural health compounds that can on occasion cause some physical problems. As a matter of fact, it is such a powerful natural enzyme that it can cause damage to your gums. The best way to benefit from Bromelain is to digest it as part of probiotic supplements.
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We All Need Magnesium
When you buy a good quality probiotic supplement, or multi-spread vitamin, you will find that it often contains magnesium. Our food used to be very rich in magnesium, but thanks to modern farming methods, it is now virtually non existent in food. Pesticides and animal feeds destroy magnesium. The other problem is that it is found in a very narrow range of foods.
Without magnesium our digestive system cannot turn our food into energy. When we don't get enough magnesium in our diet, our nervous and muscular symptoms may become compromised. The end result can be twitching and a low level of magnesium has strong association with an irregular heart beat. Quality probiotics supplements for women always contain magnesium as it is associated with common bowel disorders in women due to fluctuating hormone levels.
Men need a larger quantity of magnesium simply because they have more muscle mass. It is one of those micro minerals that we have neglected at our peril for a very long time.
Multi spread supplements such as Prolazyme have a vital role to play. Buying one supplement which contains all of the ingredients makes more sense. Stand alone supplements would be expensive and may not help you to improve your health as the right quality multi-spread supplement like Prolazyme.


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You will need to be patient when starting your online coffee machine business. Without the right amount of time and effort, your business will fail. Available herein certainly are a few brilliant techniques and concepts which can assist you in boosting your business.
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Finding new customers is a lot more costly than keeping old ones, which means pleasing customers is definitely the best way to increase profits. Giving the best support and satisfaction during transactions is your greatest asset in maintaining long-standing relationships with customers. Customers are delighted when they're offered discounts, free shipping or free gifts along with their purchases. Just ensure that the perks and promotions you offer are better than anything your customers can get from your rivals.
When you use upselling, you will be in a position to move an increased number of your coffee machine and services. Supplementary services or complementary coffee machine are both likely to be chosen by your customers if your upselling is persuasive. Upselling is a great promotional approach and can help you to have repeat customers. Customers will be turned off if you're too pushy, so make sure to use some restraint.
To be successful, an on-line store needs a steady influx of new customers. Gaining new customers is really the result of having a maintained website that stays current. Keep track of the activity happening on your website with traffic analysis tools. Using the right tools will help you to make the right business decisions.
The overall some part of existing electronic business markets are outfitted towards individuals who're neighborhood English speakers. They represent the largest customer base, so focusing on them first is an excellent idea. If you're successful in building a customer base among the English-speaking community, you can then put some effort toward gaining a foothold with customers who speak other languages. Make use of a budget to allocate resources towards English-speaking and non-English speaking advertising.
For a business to thrive, it needs to establish a strong base of repeat customers. A website with visual appeal and that is not hard to use is much more likely to get you repeat customers. Things that have been created to remind your customers that you will always be available to them, such as email newsletters, certainly are a great tactic to persuade customers to return for business. Regular promotions, that occur every month, can help produce a sense of loyalty to your brand and help with overall sales.


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Designer/artist Jim Gerdom has been busy this year. Recently, he released limited prints of his renditions of a 2007 Shelby GT and 2008 Shelby GT500 KR. Now he's offering copies of his latest artistic creations: a white 2007 Shelby GT500 (order #DF-1221) and a 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 (order ... Read more
Once you're done tinkering with your car and the garage has been cleaned, you might find the walls a bit more bare than usual. Hanging art is the next logical step in order to add color, or instigate a conversation or two when your buddies pop over for a visit. For aficionados of Ford's Shelby ... Read more
Artist Jim Gerdom recently added a print of the 1964 Thunderbolt and two late-model Mustangs to his lineup. photo courtesy Jim Gerdom One thing that all car guys and gals share is the desire to hang art, whether it's in the office, home, or right on the paint-splattered walls in your garage. ... Read more


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Penbryn is an organic, vegetarian, hard cheese that comes from Wales. This cheese has a lot of flavours, nutty, fruity, sweet and grassy. Penbryn is a round-shaped, cow's milk cheese similar to Gouda. The maturation period is two months and the cheese tastes of melted butter.
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K-1 Rules Collizion Bosnia - Line Up
K-1 Collizion Sarajevo, Bosnia - 03.07.2009
Haris Cutuk(BiH) vs Jan Aszolt(Hun)
Muamer Tufekcic(BiH) vs Zentai Mate(Hun)
Matias Baric (Cro) vs Sebastian Ciobanu (Rom)
Dragan Jovanovic(Srb) vs Domagoj Ostojic(Cro)
Wiesław Kwaśniewski (Pol) vs Catalin Morosanu(Rom)
Dusko Basrak(Srb) vs Koos Wessels (Ned)
James Philllips (Ger) vs Corneliu Rus (Rom)
Mirnes Imamovic (BIH) vs Stefan Leko (Ger)
Freddy Kemayo (Fra) vs. TBA
Petr Vondracek (Cze) vs Dzevad Poturak (BIH)
Special Guests : Mirco Crocop & Semmy Schilt
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Simoyin (344 posts)
Posted: 2009-06-05 at: 10:00
I wonder who Kemayo will face.
D-rop, Video editor (2420 posts)
Posted: 2009-06-05 at: 02:04
I wonder if the 'special guests' will fight as well ... or just be special guests.
Kim, Editor (1548 posts)
Posted: 2009-06-06 at: 10:11
Hope Stefan Leko comes back strong and confident.
marcelt (319 posts)
Posted: 2009-06-06 at: 01:10
fedbymum (92 posts)
Posted: 2009-06-06 at: 02:22
Daniel, Sweden reporter (2501 posts)
Posted: 2009-06-06 at: 03:09
was this event supposed to have Swedish fighters in it? if yes wich fighters?
fedbymum (92 posts)
Posted: 2009-06-07 at: 08:17
Not what I know of.
It`s more like that I wish there were more swedes in the tournaments at all.
Daniel, Sweden reporter (2501 posts)
Posted: 2009-06-10 at: 09:47
okay I get your point. From my point of view I think that the problem right now is that Sweden is lacking succefull HW fighters. Its a big absense after Kruth, Holm and Nordstrand. Im crossing my fingers that a new star will arrise soon..
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range D = 1..10000; range R = 1..100; dvar
int x[r in R] in D; subject to
{ c: forall(d in D) count(all(r in R) x[r], d) <= 1;
To me, using
c: forall(d in D) sum(r in R) (x[r] == d) <= 1;
Is completely equivalent here. Indeed, the semantic of "counting" and "summing" seem to be exactly the same. Which is more efficient between count and sum? How does the solving engine handle them at a lower level?
Both the versions of this model post 10000 constraints, and in general, the number of constraints raises as the domain of x gets larger.
However, there is what I think is a more efficient solution:
c: allDifferent(all(r in R) x[r]);
Again, my conjecture supposes that within CP/CPLEX the allDifferent constraint isn't simply translated into its equivalent formulation using sum/count, but I couldn't find any information about this details in the ILOG guide.
What if now we want to state that at most k variables in x should have the same value? The only thing that came into my mind is stating the constraint in the inefficient way using either sum or count:
c: forall(d in D) sum(r in R) (x[r] == d) <= k;
c: forall(d in D) count(all(r in R) x[r], d) <= k;
However, in the CP theory there exists a generalization of the allDifferent constraint known as Global Cardinality Constraint, or GCC (see for instance Decompositions of All Different, Global Cardinality and Related Constraints, p.421). The constraint GCC(x1..xn, l1..ln, u1..un) states that the value of xi should occur in x at least li and at most ui times. In this way, I could write something like
c: gcc(all(r in R), x[r], all(r in R) k[r], all(r in R) k[r]);
or even, having defined k as an integer
c: gcc(all(r in R), x[r], k, k);
Are global cardinality constraints somehow supported in OPL?