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One of the most important things we need to ask of our state representatives in Jefferson City is an unyielding commitment to creating good, high-paying jobs in the state of Missouri. Job creation will be key to lasting economic growth.
This should be an issue politicians from both parties can rally around. Despite that, the Missouri legislature has failed to pass even a single jobs bill since the last election. They haven't done anything to encourage economic development. Too many of our representatives in Jeff City would rather play politics than get anything serious done.
I know we can do better. We need to take smart, innovative steps to attract private sector jobs to the 15th House District. We also need investments in infrastructure, research and development, education and public safety that will put folks to work and benefit the people of Missouri.
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Opponents have little money to combat the multimillion-dollar advertising campaigns of a powerful mix of business, gambling and union interests. And Cuomo had sidelined much of the expected opposition.He assured Native American tribes that they wouldn't face competition to their five casinos now operating under federal law. Cuomo also assured no competition to horse racing centers with video slot machines and gave them a chance to pursue casinos. The Board of Elections also moved the casino referendum to the advantageous top ballot position. If voters reject casino gambling, the law will automatically approve more video slot machine centers. Supporters say casinos will recapture more than $1 billion a year now spent at casinos out of state. "Proposal No. 1 would start to bring that money back to New York and create over 10,000 good-paying new jobs in New York state," states one of the statewide TV ads paid for by the NY Jobs Now Committee and featuring a hard-hatted everyman. The key may be in the referendum's wording. The Cuomo administration rewrote the referendum from the straightforward form submitted by the attorney general's office. The Board of Elections added disputed promises that casinos would bring more school aid, jobs and tax breaks, without mentioning the opponents' concerns about crime, addiction or the declining casino market that has forced some states to subsidize casinos. An October Siena College poll tested the impact of the rewording. Voters statewide were split on casino gambling in general. But when shown the promises in the rewording, approval reached 55 percent for the first time. State Conservative Party Chairman Michael Long called the casino effort "the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on the taxpayers of the state of New York," while The New York Times called the rewording "advocacy, pure and simple." The critical wording was unsuccessfully challenged in court by Brooklyn lawyer Eric Snyder. The state Board of Elections won on a technicality that Snyder didn't file his lawsuit by the Aug. 19 deadline, although the state didn't post the rosy wording until Aug. 21. Powerful Republican Sen. John DeFrancisco is pushing a bill to prohibit rewording.
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Forests May Foretell Warming Trend
By WILLIAM K. STEVENS
Published: February 18, 1994
Trees in the uncut parts of the world's tropical forests are apparently dying and being replaced more rapidly than in the past, according to a new analysis. The authors of the study said the most likely cause was a worldwide increase in carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere from smokestacks and vehicles.
The faster turnover of trees may in turn cause a further increase in carbon dioxide, which traps heat in the atmosphere and could lead to global warming, the study reported. The authors said it might also accelerate the loss of tropical species.
In a study unusual in its scope, two botanists at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis analyzed data from tree inventories conducted by many scientists over the last 40 years in Southeast Asia, Australia, Africa and Central and South America. They found a significant increase in the annual turnover rate of trees since at least 1960 in the tropics of both hemispheres, with a marked acceleration in the 1980's.
The report of the botanists, Dr. Oliver L. Phillips and Dr. Alwyn H. Gentry, appears in today's issue of the journal Science. Role of Carbon Dioxide
Carbon dioxide accelerates the growth and, in a mature forest, hastens the death of many plants. As trees mature faster and die sooner, Dr. Phillips said, they may be creating more gaps in the forest to be filled by light-seeking trees and woody vines, called lianas, that are adapted to disturbed areas. These, he said, grow even faster than the trees they replace, and because they are faster-growing, they are less dense. As a result, they absorb less carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than is released to it by the dead trees that are now lying on the forest floor.
If that is happening, "the bottom line would be a net decrease in the carbon-sequestering ability of the worldwide tropical forest as a whole," Dr. Phillips said.
Many climatologists fear that a buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could result in a serious and even catastrophic warming of the global climate some time in the next century. Efforts to limit carbon dioxide emissions under a multinational treaty that takes effect next month are based on the assumption that tropical forests absorb more carbon dioxide than the Phillips-Gentry findings suggest.
But if the forests' ability to remove carbon dioxide from the air is less than has been thought, then whatever warming occurs would presumably be worse than expected. Thus, more stringent measures to control carbon dioxide emissions would apparently be required.
On the question of species loss, Dr. Phillips said it was possible that disturbance-thriving plants that succeeded the more rapidly dying tropical trees were expanding their reach and would eventually crowd out some shade-tolerant species. If this happened on a large scale, he said, it would worsen the loss of tropical species that many scientists believe is already under way because of the destruction of rain-forest habitat.
Many conservation biologists are alarmed by the erosion of biological diversity in the tropics, where most of the world's species live, because they fear that it foretells a spasm of extinctions to rank with those of the remote geologic past.
Today's paper is being published posthumously in the case of Dr. Gentry, one of the world's most noted field botanists, who was killed in a plane crash in Ecuador last August. "We wrote it together before he died," Dr. Phillips said. Dr. Gentry also established 7 of the 40 sample forest plots included in the study. The data from the 40 plots are the work of two generations of tropical botanists -- Filling in the Gaps
The cause and effects of the more rapid turnover in tropical trees are somewhat speculative, Dr. Phillips acknowledged. But other scientists praised the data on tree turnover, the central part of the paper, as a major step forward in learning about physical links between climate and the world's plant and animal life, a highly important area about which comparatively little is known.
While scientists simply do not know much about how the earth's living things affect climate and vice versa, the Phillips-Gentry paper shows "a compelling link between the two" and "brings us very much closer to understanding that linkage," said Dr. Stuart L. Pimm, an ecologist at the University of Tennessee. A commentary on the paper by Dr. Pimm and Andrew M. Sugden, the editor of Trends in Ecology and Evolution published by Elsevier Trends Journals in Cambridge, England, also appears in Science.
To an ecologist, measuring the rate at which trees grow and die "is like taking the temperature" of an ecosystem, said Dr. Pimm, who described the increased turnover rate discerned by Dr. Phillips and Dr. Gentry as "the metaphorical equivalent of a fever."


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Murder charges dropped for one suspect in Apache Flats shooting
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Charges against one of two men charged in a fatal shooting in Jefferson City have been dismissed.
Rafael Fuentes, 23, of California, Mo., was charged with second-degree murder after the Dec. 18 shooting death of Francisco Navarro in Apache Flats.
Prosecutor Mark Richardson said Thursday the charges against Fuentes were dropped because evidence in the case showed that a single shooter acted alone in the death.
The Cole County Sheriff's Office said Navarro was the passenger in a truck when a fight broke out over a loud muffler. Navarro reportedly got out of the truck to stop the fight. That's when authorities said Jose Hurtado, 22, of California, Mo., pulled out a gun and shot Navarro. Hurtado is also charged with second-degree murder.
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Finishing fourth at an Olympic Games is usually a woeful and cruel result for an athlete.
There is no podium spot for it. No reward. No bonus. No revelry allowed.
Unless you are Canadian shot putter Dylan Armstrong, a beefy 6-foot-4 guy who missed bronze by a centimetre three years ago at the Beijing Summer Games.
Granted, Canadians were celebrating because they'd never seen a shot putter from home soil of Armstrong's ilk. For once, all eyes strayed from the track to the field to watch grunting athletes hoist their petards. And here was a 310-pound Kamloops, B.C., native, larger than life, sitting in second place until the fifth and final round.
While the Canadian hubbub was still resounding at home, Armstrong's coach, Anatoli Bondarchuk, got him right out of bed and set him back to work.
Armstrong didn't mind. He never stops moving. And he hasn't been the same since that near-miss in Beijing. "It changed his life," said his mother, Judy, president of the track club in Kamloops, where her son started his career.
The fourth-place finish cemented Armstrong's resolve. He's out to win a medal at the coming world championships in South Korea, and then the 2012 Olympics in London.
That Kamloops gave birth to a world-class athlete shouldn't be a surprise. The city of more than 90,000 people holds the trademark to the phrase: "Canada's tournament capital." Armstrong's mother was part of a town delegation that went to France and landed the 2010 world masters indoor championships, the first time the event had been held outside Europe. In early August, Kamloops will stage the Western Canada Summer Games.
Judy enrolled Dylan in the local track and field club when he was only 9 because he was so active. "Let's put it this way," she said, "he spent a lot of time at the park."
He wouldn't sit still for five minutes. He didn't seem like the type who wanted to "play ball and count dandelions," his mother said. Way too static for him. He tried every sport, and right from the beginning, he loved shot put, although he strayed away from it with later interests.
At the annual junior development championships, Armstrong would enter 10 events. At a cost of $5 an event, his mother happily wrote the cheque, hoping all the running and jumping would tire him out.
Armstrong said in his early days, he loved the high jump, but he stopped seeing improvement in it as he grew. When he gravitated toward the hammer throw, he became the top junior in the world in 1999. But then he began to plateau. Shot put it was. He didn't make the switch until he was 24.
In 2005, Armstrong's career changed after the club got an e-mail from Bondarchuk, a legendary Soviet coach who had produced countless champions for 20 years. Bondarchuk had been an Olympic hammer throw champ himself in 1972.
His daughter and her husband had moved to Calgary, and Bondarchuk wanted to move closer to her. And he'd noticed the Kamloops track club's website.
Judy Armstrong perused his résumé, in which he said track had been his life and still is, and forwarded it to the club's coach, Derek Evely (who is now preparing British athletes for the London Games).
"Do you know who this is?" Evely said excitedly to her. Bondarchuk was hired. At the club, they call him Dr. B.
"Double excellent," he would say, in his halting English, to an athlete who succeeded particularly well at a task.
With his blend of science, technique and a program of "special exercises" (forget much of that heavy weightlifting, specifically target the muscles needed for the sport), Bondarchuk has transformed Armstrong into an Olympic-medal threat.
"Four times excellent," Dr. B would say of the guy from Kamloops who never takes a day off.


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Marlin 30/30
What is the effective range of a 3030.
Is $300 too much for a used Marlin?
Depends on the condition and where you are. I'd rather spend about $250, but really, what's $50 nowadays, half a tank of gas? Yeah, I'd spend $300 if it's a very nice one. Recently bought a Marlin .44 mag for $300 and am very pleased with it. Effective range they tell me with LeveRevolution ammo is 200-250 yds. Luck.
I appreciate the info. I just need to find a Wal-Mart that sells 'em. The ones in my are don't. But then I live in the only dry city in Texas, methinks.
WOW! A WalMart in Texas that DOESN'T sell guns? I didn't think it possible...here in Hillary country most WalMarts still sell guns - until you get closer to the city, where you really NEED guns! I think the Marlin is a real nice gun for the price, although that price has gone up almost $75 in the last year or so. The 30-30 is a good gun to reload for also - fairly cheap and good accuracy potential with standard components. Good luck!
The irony was not lost on me. Maybe I'll buy one at Bed, Bath, And Beyond... or Starbucks.
The dicks sporting goods in Enfield CT sells them for 350 with some sort of scope.
Only a few of the Walmarts "close" to me (Cleveland, TX area) still sell guns. All carry ammo however.
If the 336 is is in nice shape $300 sounds reasonable.
RL- C'mon over to Virginia. My CCW took 3 DAYS.
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|Men's Basketball Semifinals - Day 4
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., March 9, 2012 -- Adrien Coleman scored 16 points to lead six players in double figures as Bethune-Cookman defeated Hampton, 81-72 in the semifinal round of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Men's Basketball Tournament at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
The No. 4 Wildcats (18-16) will play the winner of the semifinal match between No. 2 Norfolk State and No. 11 Florida A&M in the championship game on Saturday. The game will be televised live on ESPN2 at 1 p.m.
The No. 8 defending tournament champion Pirates (12-21) took the early lead, 20-11 in the first 10 minutes. But Bethune-Cookman regrouped and put together a 17-7 run that tied the game at 27.
From there, the Wildcats caught fire as Paul Scotland and Kevin Dukes began to find the range from beyond the arc. Bethune-Cookman seized control and led 39-31 at the break.
"We picked up our defense; that was the key,†explained Bethune-Cookman Interim head coach Gravelle Craig. "We wanted to make them take tough shots. Pellum is a good jump shooter so we wanted to play him tough.â€
Added Hampton head coach Ed "Buck†Joyner, "We got off to a good start but they withstood our early push and then they began to make shots. They took control and we began missing opportunities.â€
In the second half, the Wildcats displayed poise and confidence as Coleman, Ricky Johnson and Garrius Holloman took turns scoring against the Pirates. It resulted in a 55-38 lead at the 12:11 mark, the largest of the game.
Darrion Pellum, an All-MEAC selection, and Christopher Tolson, who were key members of the Pirates team that played in the NCAAs last year, did all they could to bring the Pirates back, but in the end they were no match for the balanced attack of the Wildcats, who shot 8 of 16 from 3-point range and outrebounded their opponent, 33-22.
"We knew it was going to be a battle,†said Holloman. "We came to this point last year, so as a senior, I want to get past this point and be in a position to go to the NCAAs.†Bethune-Cookman was the top seed last year and got knocked out in the first round.
The proud Pirates were not done despite the sterling play of the Wildcats. They got within six on three occasions, but each time Bethune-Cookman repelled their comeback attempts with a key basket or free throws.
"We wanted to avoid an early out like last year,†said Craig, who was an assistant coach with the team last year. "We wanted to play hard, play smart and maintain our poise.â€
Pellum led all scorers with 24, Tolson added 16 and Mike Tuitt chipped in with 11 in a losing cause.
In addition to Coleman, the Wildcats got 15 from Javoris Bryant, 12 from Ricky Johnson, 11 from Kevin Dukes and 10 from Holloman.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., March 9, 2012 -- Kyle O'Quinn tallied 13 points and eight rebounds, and No. 2 seed Norfolk State parlayed a strong defensive effort and good bench play into a 58-46 win over No. 11 seed Florida A&M on Friday night in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Men's Basketball Tournament semifinal game at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
The win propels the Spartans (24-9) into Saturday's 1 p.m. championship game against fourth-seeded Bethune-Cookman. The game will be televised live on ESPN2.
NSU held the upstart Rattlers (10-23) to 34-percent shooting and forced FAMU into 19 turnovers.
The Spartans started strong, scoring the game's first seven points. But FAMU, playing its third game in four days, answered with a 9-0 run to take its first lead of the game, 9-7. That was the first of six lead-changes in a tight first half in which the two teams combined to make just 18 of 50 field goals. A layup by O'Quinn with 30 seconds left in the first half gave NSU a 23-22 lead going into the half.
The Rattlers took their final lead of the game after an Amin Stevens fast-break layup put them ahead 29-28 with 15:39 left. But O'Quinn scored inside and then Rob Johnson scored on back-to-back possessions on a 3-pointer and a mid-range jumper to finish off a 7-0 spurt that put NSU ahead by six. Johnson would later push the lead to eight, 39-31, on a fast-break dunk with 8:31 left in the game.
FAMU closed to within four, 39-35, on another Stevens layup a minute later. But O'Quinn and Quasim Pugh each hit a pair of free throws on NSU's next two possessions, and the lead didn't dip below six again.
After struggling from the floor in the first half, the Spartans connected on 42-percent in the second half. They also hit 12-of-18 from the foul line in the final 20 minutes to keep FAMU at bay.
Johnson scored 12 points and grabbed five rebounds off the Spartan bench, and Pugh matched his season high with 10 points while handing out a career-high four assists. NSU got 28 points from its bench.
Stevens led all players with 20 points and 11 rebounds for the Rattlers. He was the only FAMU player who scored more than five points.
The Spartans will be making their second-ever MEAC Tournament championship appearance on Saturday, and first since losing to Morgan State in the 2009 final. NSU and Bethune-Cookman are both seeking their first-ever NCAA Division I Tournament berth.


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Super Castlevania IV
Review by Ratking
"A hidden gem of a game, that is still good today!"
I am a huge fan of the Castlevania series, and this game was one of the main reasons I bought the Super Nintendo. This game was distinctly one of the highest rating in the series, and I expected much from of it. It matched those hopes, but however it did not go above and beyond. Don't get me wrong, this is not a great game, but is also not as good as the Dracula Curse game that came before it, and some of the others to come after.
STORY (4/10): You are Simon Belmont. You are out to kill Dracula. You go through forests and such to reach his mansion. You go through the mansion. You fight Dracula. Not too many twists in this story, don't you think?
GRAPHICS (8/10): First thing first, I can't stand how huge Simon Belmont is. Besides Koranot, Simon towers over his opponent, which is unlike many of his past games. However he is very well detailed, and so are his enemies, especially the masters (c'mon, does anyone hate Koranot). The backgrounds to this game is luscious, and for the time the graphics are pretty damn stunning. The only problem is Simon Belmonts size, and it is very annoying.
SOUND (8/10): Not bad music at all. It has traditional sounds for a Castlevania game throughout, and is an entertaining game to listen to. However, like most Castlevania games, there really isn't much to the sound effects. The whip is basically all there is, and unless you love the sound of the whip (which you probably won't), the sound effects are not to good.
GAMEPLAY (8/10): This game has over 10 long levels. There are many enemies, and various obstacles along the way. Hopefully you will not be stuck at the same level too long. The bosses are all beatable, and fun to discover the best methods to beat them. You can still find subweapons and their double and triple shots to dispose of the many various enemies. Their is a password system to save your progress which is very helpful. The control is very smooth, but the jumping is a little jerky, and the whip can whip in all directions, which makes it awfully easy to dispose of enemies (plus it feels different from the vintage Castlevanias).
REPLAYABILITY (5/10): Basically the same replayability as all the early Castlevanias. It takes a while to beat it, and once you beat it you'll put it away for a while, until you decide it's time to beat it again. It is a never ending cycle, though it does lead to mediocre replay value.
DIFFICULTY (6/10): It is not as tough as other Castlevania games, but that has much to do with the new controls for the whip. However this game is no walkthrough, and not something to be takin jokingly. All in all, a pretty good degree of difficulty.
OVERALL (7/10): A pretty good Castlevania game, but is it perfect. Not at all. The whip controls make it a little easy, and Simon is just so huge. There also is not near as much replayability as Legacy of Darkness, and the sound effects could have been improved upon. However I highly recommend buying this game if you just got a Super Nintendo, and want a fun game to play.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.5 - Good
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Discussion in '[Classifieds] For Sale' started by ColorBlind, Mar 22, 2011.
Seven Film Winding Cranks for Mamiya C330. New Old Stock.
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Can I persuade you to sell me one (1) Film Winding Crank for a Mamiya C330?
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Hey everyone I am going to make my mom a simply birthday cake she does not like fondant at all so i am making a chocolate fudge cake with white chocolate buttercream icing. It will be a small 9" layer circle cake. Does anyone have some simply but also elegant type cakes they have done or seen? I looked but I run into a lot of way bigger cakes most end up having fondant. Any advice on what i should do would be great.. thanks
this is the way I am going to do the wording, anything anyone thinks will go good with that?
I would put a simple band of fondant or you could even use a real ribbon on the bottom of the cake and maybe a large flower like a lilly or rose either out of gumpaste or silk would be nice also!
And I think that is it! Just keep it simple!
What I see is an oval cake with ivory buttercream, super smooth with no top border. Make your design in her favorite color and then make the bottom border with small flowers such as daisies and blossoms. They could be the same color or a variety if colors. The centers can be the buttercream icing as on the cake or the top design. A few quick leaves would be good space fillers and a bit of color splash.


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Of course, a commercial sensibility only gets a performer so far -- and while Rie Rie is certainly accessible, it's not quite up to big-league standards. The production, by a quartet of dial-twisters such as Playalitical and 800 da Jewell, is a bit thin and not particularly distinctive; "Killarado," for instance, recalls Dre from way back in the day. Rie Rie's caustic flow helps, but her rhymes hardly epitomize freshness. On "I Be Doin' Dat," she boasts about her "hostile originality," only to toss out lines like "Give my niggas love" and "Meet you at da club."
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Madonna, too old to flash her nipple? That's like telling Angus Young of AC/DC to put on long pants. The 53-year-old Material Girl graced fans in Istanbul, Turkey, with a brief peep show while performing "Human Nature" Thursday night, according to media reports and video of the incident.
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I will be making a wedding cake that consists of 4 tiers plus 4 sheet cakes. The cake will be embellished with white chocolate shells, fondant pearls, and RI coral. Also I will be doing a small 8" grooms cake made to look like a poker table. On top of that I will be doing 600 chocolate covered strawberries!! Oh and I will also be serving the cake.
With all that being said do you think I should just add it all up into one per serving price or should I give a seperate price for the grooms cake, strawberries, and serving cost?
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I would price them separately as they are separate items...
price for wedding cake
for groom's cake
for strawberries
for serving the cake
I would price them seperately.
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$XXX.XX Wedding cake decorations
$XXX.XX Sheet cake's
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$XXX.XX CC Strawberries
$XXX.XX Serving cake
This would be the best way so you are not under pricing yourself. That is ALLOT of work! Congrats on getting a order that big!
I agree break it down as mentioned above. Expecially because if you give them a per/serving price overall then they may say ok, lets only do 3 tiers instead of 4 and 3 sheet cakes. Well i bet your strawberries and hourly rate to serve are higher so you would be loosing money then.
This way if they decide the price is over their budget they can look and see where they want to cut back.
Yep, price them seperately....and that is one small poker table cake!


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Citicoline Treatment of Methamphetamine Dependence
This study has been completed.
Perry Renshaw
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: July 29, 2009
Last updated: February 9, 2015
Last verified: February 2015
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The purpose of the study is to determine if citicoline (a nutritional supplement) is effective in helping people reduce their dependence on methamphetamine. The investigators will use neuroimaging to look at the structure and chemical make up of the brain at the start of the study and after 8-9 weeks of treatment of citicoline or placebo.
|Methamphetamine Dependence
|Drug: Citicoline Drug: Placebo
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Citicoline Treatment of Methamphetamine Dependence
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Methamphetamine
Drug Information available for: Methamphetamine hydrochloride MetamfetamineU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Perry Renshaw, University of Utah:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Methamphetamine Dependent Subjects Treated With Citicoline vs Placebo [ Time Frame: 8 weeks, assessed twice weekly starting week1 ]Total Amount of Methamphetamine consumed by the participants after 8-9 weeks of treatment. Methamphetamine was assessed twice weekly.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Testing if Citicoline Administration Will be Associated With Significant Improvements in Neuropsychological Performance. [ Time Frame: Neuropsychological testing will occur at week 0 and week 8/9 ]Cognitive measurement tests will be employed.
- Testing if Neuroimaging Measures Will Show Significant Improvements in Brain Chemical and Structural Parameters After 8-9 Weeks of Citicoline Treatment in Methamphetamine Dependent Subjects. [ Time Frame: Neuroimaging will occur at week 0 and week 8/9 ]Phosphorus-31 ((31)P) magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) was used to evaluate changes in mitochondrial high energy phosphates, including phosphocreatine (PCr) and β-nucleoside triphosphate (β-NTP, primarily ATP in brain) levels.
- Testing if Improvements in Cognitive Function as Well as Brain Chemical and Structural Parameters Will be Associated With Greater Reductions in Drug Use. [ Time Frame: Throughout the course of the study ]Self report drug use and mood will be evaluated at each study visit throughout the course of the study. Also, urine samples will be collected twice a week for drugs of abuse testing.
|Study Start Date:
|January 2010
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Citicoline
In a double-blind randomization design, subjects with methamphetamine dependence will be treated with citicoline or placebo for 8-9 weeks.
Drug: Citicoline
Subjects will be given 1g citicoline twice daily for a total of 8-9 weeks.
Other Name: CDP-Choline
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
In a double-blind randomization design, subjects with methamphetamine dependence will be treated with citicoline or placebo for 8-9 weeks.
Drug: Placebo
Subjects will be given 1 capsule of placebo twice daily for 8-9 weeks. They will be taking the same quantity as the citicoline group.
Detailed Description:
This is a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study, in which we will systematically evaluate the therapeutic effects of citicoline, which may both increase dopamine and normalize cognitive and structural deficits in the brains of methamphetamine dependent subjects. Methamphetamine dependent subjects will undergo baseline and repeat cognitive assessments after 8-9 weeks of placebo or oral citicoline as a nutritional supplement. We will also evaluate the chemical and structural changes in brain regions identified by magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), diffusion tension imaging (DTI) and cortical thickness, which in turn are expected to recover after 8-9 weeks of citicoline treatment. Specific brain regions of interest include the prefrontal cortices, temporal cortex, and the caudate/putamen all of which are known to be involved in the pathophysiology of methamphetamine dependence.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 45 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Methamphetamine Dependent Subject Eligibility:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects who use methamphetamine as their preferred drug of abuse.
- Subjects must be between the ages of 18 and 45 years.
- Subjects must have recent methamphetamine use (within 6 months of screening).
- Subjects must have an established residence and phone.
- Subjects must be able to give informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Significant current or past medical, neurological, or psychiatric co-morbidity including cardiovascular, renal, and endocrine disorder, as identified by medical history.
- Pregnant subjects - due to the unknown effects of MRI on a fetus. In addition, women of childbearing potential who will not practice a medically accepted method of contraception will be excluded. Female subjects who are of child-bearing potential will have to pass a urine pregnancy test before each visit.
- Subjects who, in the investigator's judgment, pose a current serious homicidal or suicidal risk.
- Subjects who will not likely be able to comply with the study protocol.
- Subjects who have any contraindication to an MR scan.
- Hypersensitivity to any of the study drugs or excipients
- Subjects with current DSM-IV diagnosis of a major mental illness. Major illness will be defined as Major Depression, Manic Depression, Schizophrenia, Dissociative Disorder, other psychotic illnesses, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Reactive Attachment Disorder, and Panic Disorder.
- Predominant alcohol or other substance dependence as preferred drug of abuse.
- Positive HIV test result.
- An individual having any pending legal or criminal charge or action, or who has pending or a reasonable potential for court involvement, or a person who is incarcerated or is in detention, or who is pending or having completed a competency evaluation or commitment procedure.
Healthy Control Subject Eligibility:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects must be between the ages of 18 and 45 years.
- Subjects must be able to give informed consent.
- To have an established residence and phone.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Significant medical, neurological, or psychiatric disorders
- Pregnant subjects - due to the unknown effects of MRI on a fetus. In addition, women of childbearing potential who will not practice a medically accepted method of contraception will be excluded. Female subjects who are of child-bearing potential will have to pass a urine pregnancy test before each visit.
- Subjects who have any contraindication to an MR scan.
- Subjects unable to comply with protocol.
- Positive HIV test result.
- Positive urine drug screen.
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: NCT00950352
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00950352
|United States, Utah
|The Brain Institute of the University of Utah
|Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 84108
Sponsors and Collaborators
Perry Renshaw
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
|Principal Investigator:
|Perry F Renshaw, MD, PhD, MBA
|University of Utah
More Information
Additional Information:
Keywords provided by Perry Renshaw, University of Utah:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Perry Renshaw, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Utah
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00950352 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|July 29, 2009
|Results First Received:
|January 12, 2015
|Last Updated:
|February 9, 2015
Keywords provided by Perry Renshaw, University of Utah:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Cytidine Diphosphate Choline
Lipotropic Agents
Hypolipidemic Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Gastrointestinal Agents
Lipid Regulating Agents
Nootropic Agents
Central Nervous System Stimulants
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Autonomic Agents
Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Dopamine Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Adrenergic Agents
Adrenergic Uptake Inhibitors
Neurotransmitter Uptake Inhibitors
Membrane Transport Modulators
Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors
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In the discussion thread: Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting Picketed By Utah Coal Miners (UMW) [View all]
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Hey, just to let you know, I am married to a UMWA union coal miner from the Deer Creek Coal and it is very sad what is happening with the contract negotiations--but there is a lot more to this story.
There is a terrific article about the miners struggles in this month's miner worker journal, the link to it is here and the article begins on page 6:
You can also peruse the website of this local union at:
The local newspaper in the area also wrote a very informative article regarding the miners planned picket of Berkshire Hathaways Stockholders meeting and published the day after they miners left on the trip. You can see that article here:
A post here mentions they are not talking about vacation days, bonus structure, or perks. Well they aren't talking anything!
Energy West Mining, a subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy, officially states they are "committed to a fair solution" what a joke--they have said in every negotiation meeting they will discuss nothing but health care and UNTIL the union is willing to accept the cuts--from 100% to 70/30%--they won't even talk about pay raises, etc. UMWA coal miners have given up many pay raises over the past years to be able to maintain their 100% health care coverage, with the International contract being settled just last year giving the miner's covered under it 100% health coverage still. Deer Creek's union miners are asking for the same contract the rest of the UMWA miners have, really is that too much to ask?
Since the contract expired in Jan. Energy West Mining has allowed the miners to continue working under the expired contract but have taken away all the "time sensitive" aspects of the contract--sick pay, vacation pay, etc., making it impossible for the miners to have a day off, unless they have been there long enough to have earned what is referred to as "graduated vacation time" and they can only use that time with the miner manager's permission--that's the reason most all the miners picketing at Berkshire Hathaways Stockholders Meeting were retirees of the mine.
They have also stated there will be absolutely no holiday pay, and even went so far as to idle the mine on April 1 (the 1st holiday of the year for UMWA coal miners) and did not pay anyone the 8 hours holiday pay the contract entitled them to on their paychecks. At Deer Creek they have implemented the "weekend/holiday schedule" which is in the expired contract and would have required a few of the miners to work April 1 and receive 1 2/3 pays for the day, but idling the mine made sure they couldn't get the pay they were entitled to either.
Then there is the other stuff going on too, they have even went so far as to hire armed guards to patrol the mine site, as well as other intimadation factors such as sending out a copy of MidAmerican Energy's "code of ethics" that states they cannot engage in any conduct which might embarrass the company in any way or they will be terminated from their jobs thereby ensuring their silence on this whole issue--because in this area there are no other jobs available.
But just to add a little more about this, the IBEW Local 57 Union (whose workers work for PacifiCorp also a subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy and runs the power plants which the Deer Creek coal supplies) is also in contact negotiations with this company--their contract expired the end of Jan. BUT they have already been given 2 written proposal to vote on--also taking away their health care coverage and trying to cut them down to 70/30 and the IBEW union workers have voted it down both times. (But they received all their sick and vacation days for this year, and also Presidents day was their first paid holiday under their expired contract and they received the day off and pay!) UMWA officials from Deer Creek can't even get a written proposal worked up to put in front of the miners for a vote--and they say they are bargaining in good faith? Come on, get real!
But to add insult to injury at least for me, is the fact as I was searching on the internet Saturday to see if our miners got any media coverage with this picket I ran across some articles one stating Berkshire Hathaway is now the 5th most valuable company in the world, another stating Buffett offered David Sokol, former CEO of MidAmerican Energy, an additional 12.5 million dollar compensation just years before it was found out he was allegedly making improper stock trades. But even with all of this money they apparently have they maintain the union miners have to accept the health care cuts so they can remain competitive!!!
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I got back in town a day before I'd planned to
I smiled and said I'll sure surprise my wife
I don't think I'll call,I'll just get on home
I didn't know the cold hard facts of life
I passed a little wine store on the corner
I pictured pink champagne by candle light
Stopped the car right then,got out and hurried in
My mind not on the cold hard facts of life
A stranger stood there laughing at the counter
He said I'll have two bottles of your best
Her husband's out of town and there's a party
He winked as if to say you know the rest
I left the store two steps behind the stranger
It wasn't till he turned,into my drive that I learned
I was witnessing the cold hard facts of life
I drove around the block till I was dizzy
Each time the noise came louder from within
And then I saw our bottle there beside me
I drank a fifth of courage and walked in
Man you should have seen their frantic faces
As she screamed and cried please put away that knife
I think I'll go to hell,or I'll rot here in this cell
But who taught who the cold hard facts of life
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Cloud Confusion: The 'Fluffy White Thing' And The Potential Within
A recently conducted national survey has revealed that the layman American consumer is not precisely aware of what cloud computing in actual is and how, in essence, does it function. The research survey, initiated by Citrix and carried out by Wakefield Research, incorporated responses from more than 1000 American adult consumers.
A significant percentage from amongst the surveyed lot was convinced that cloud technology is linked with weather, has kinship with heaven, is closely related to happenings in the outer galaxy and even has something to do with toilet paper (huh?).
One has to admit that the survey, at some points, was evidently crafted to bring some humorous specks to the main. Consider, for example, the inquiry that posed what the cloud is, about 29% declared it being a 'fluffy white thing' (a real cloud) or a close variant; a mere 16% were able to read between the lines and correlate to computer network, remote storage, data sharing and the internet.
The utterly encouraging part is that despite the evident lack of sound knowledge (and a strongly felt presence of absurd beliefs) about cloud computing, the majority of participants, 68% to be exact, frequently recognized the potential inherent to cloud computing endorsement – lowering the cost of the operations was agreed upon by about 35% of the respondents, small business promotion and growth was marked by about 32% of those interviewed. Furthermore, about 35% expressed their belief that customer relations can be bolstered by cloud adaptation.
In addition, about 60% of the respondents thought they are yet to use cloud computing. Clearly they are unaware of the fact that whether knowingly or not, 95% of those surveyed actually made use of cloud computing in one form or the other. The breakdown includes using online banking, purchasing stuff online, being socially connected, enjoying online games, saving photos online and file sharing – powered at the core by cloud computing technology.
Participants of the survey are quite sure about the changes that cloud endorsement would bring about at ventures. A hefty 59% are confident that workplace of the future would reside on the cloud in its entirety. The associated fun side of cloud computing has captivated a mammoth percentage of Americans. An estimated 40% found the ability to use the cloud as a primary work-from-home tool an enriched experience. A startling 33% found direct access to their digital content in the middle of a sunbath truly fascinating.
The question remains whether it truly is important for the general public to understand the dynamics behind cloud computing? Well, it sure does. The cloud is expected to reshape on-job responsibilities of a significant proportion of those working in the US. And this holds true nor only for IT professionals but for a broad spectrum of employment genres. The cloud continues to add novel facets to sales, operations, finance and marketing.
By Humayun Shahid


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Four-vehicle crash near Horsford
PUBLISHED: 17:10 16 September 2012
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Four vehicles were involved in an accident and one car ended up in a field, after a collision near Horsford this morning.
A Norfolk police spokesman said that the crash happened at about 9.45am on the B1149.
One woman driver was taken to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital with non-serious injuries, and another female also received slight injuries.
Fire crews from Sprowston and Carrow attended and provided services on scene, making the vehicle and scene safe.
Anyone with information should call the road policing department on 101.


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Here is a list of events and goings-on in the world of genealogy blogging. Here's what is happening in the coming week:
GeneaBloggers Radio
Another episode of GeneaBloggers Radio will be broadcast this evening, Friday, September 23, 2011 starting at 10PM Eastern, 9PM Central, 8PM Mountain and 7PM Pacific! Tonight's show episode is entitled: Genealogists Bore Their Families – What You Can Do About It.
Daze of the Week!
Some of you may have noticed that in each Genealogy Blogging Beat we now feature national holidays and some of the more offbeat holidays. Here are some dates next week to look out for so you can plan your blog posts for next week:
- September 23: Autumnal Equinox, Native American Day (US)
- September 24: National Punctuation Day (US)
- September 25: Gold Star Mothers' Day (US), National Comic Book Day (US)
- September 26: Johnny Appleseed Day (US)
- September 27: Ancestor Appreciation Day, Google's Birthday
- September 28: Rosh Hoshanah (begins at sundown)
- September 29: Confucius Day, VFW Day (US)
- September 30: Chewing Gum Day, Blasphemy Day
Happy Blogiversary!
If your blog anniversary is coming up soon, make sure it gets on our GeneaBloggers calendar! Remember to send your blog anniversary info to GeneaBloggers.
Genealogy Webinars This Week
For more information on genealogy webinars check out GeneaWebinars.
Genealogy Conferences This Week
View upcoming genealogy conferences in the United States and across the globe at the group of calendars at GeneaBloggers. If you know of an upcoming expo or conference that should be on the GeneaBloggers conference calendar, send it to us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Appearances By GeneaBloggers Members
For a listing of speaking engagements by genealogy bloggers, along with their profiles and available presentations, visit GeneaSpeak.
GeneaBloggers Group on Facebook
The Facebook Group for GeneaBloggers has been disabled – you can read more about the issues involved here. Please go to the Facebook page for GeneaBloggers (http://www.facebook.com/Geneabloggers) and click LIKE in order to follow the latest news and events related to GeneaBloggers on Facebook.
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and History
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy & History by Amy Coffin is a series of weekly blogging prompts (one for each week of 2011) that invite genealogists and others to record memories and insights about their own lives for future descendants. You do not have to be a blogger to participate. If you do not have a genealogy blog, write down your memories on your computer, or simply record them on paper and keep them with your files.
- Week 39: Least Favorite Foods. What was your least favorite food from your childhood? Did your parents make you eat it anyway? Do you still dislike the same food today? How have your tastes changed since your youth?
We'll list a new challenge each Saturday which should be completed by the following Friday.
GeneaBloggers Calendar
And don't forget to check out other upcoming events at the Geneabloggers Calendar. This is the same Google calendar that has been in existence for quite some time. And if you subscribe to the calendar you'll receive email reminders of events.
© 2011 copyright, Thomas MacEntee