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On December 7, Acclaimed expat literary series from the US comes again to Japan
OSAKA, JAPAN, November 3, 2008—The internationally acclaimed literary series Four Stories, which runs in Boston (USA), Osaka, and Tokyo, kicks off its winter 2008 season on December 7 in Osaka, with readings from the following globally published expat authors:
• Peter Mallett, Longtime Japan resident and essayist widely published in newspapers and magazines in Japan, the UK and US; former Arts Editor of Kansai Time Out; founder and former editor for the journal Artspace; and recipient of an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Bath Spa
• Wendy Jones Nakanishi, Professor of English Literature at Shikoku Gakuin University; author of essays from Kyoto Journal, Tales from a Small Planet, and more; and recipient of a PhD in English from Edinburgh University
• Tracy Slater, Writer who divides her time between Boston and Osaka; lecturer in writing at Boston University; author of essays from Best Women's Travel Writing 2008, Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Kansai Time Out, and more; columnist for the Asahi Weekly and Kansai Scene; and recipient of a PhD in English and American literature from Brandeis University
• Ted Taylor, writer and musician living in Kyoto, whose work has appeared in Kyoto Journal and more; and winner of the 1999 Kyoto International Cultural Association Essay Contest
Plus the Four Stories style of literary criticism: Ask the best question, win a free drink!
The Four Stories experience: like a 19th-Century salon, only 150 years later_same socializing, same witty banter, corsets optional.
Venue:Portugalia: Osaka's hippest Portuguese bar and grill
Sunday, December 7, 6-8pm (venue opens @ 5)
Nishi-Tenma 4-12-11, Umeda, Osaka [Just north of the American Consulate]
Admittance free and open to the public
More information, plus free MP3s and pictures from past events, @ fourstories.org
Four Stories in the Japanese Press:
The Japan Times (6/22/07): Four Stories is featured on the front page of the Japan Times' national section, which reports, "'Four Stories has helped make Osaka the new Kyoto'....Slater and Four Stories have shown that Osaka's image among some foreign literary critics as a cultural desert is no longer entirely accurate"; Kansai Scene (6/1/07): Four Stories Japan is "re-energizing the reading movement " in Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe: Being a Broad magazine (1/1/08) : spotlights Four Stories founder Tracy Slater and the literary series, writing, "The expat community is grateful" for Four Stories.
Four Stories in the US Press:
Improper Bostonian (8/1/08): "Best Literary Series"; Boston Globe (10/1/06) :"Four Stories is the city's hippest reading series" (3/19/06) "Everybody knows about Four Stories, everybody raves about Four Stories, and Four Stories is…the place to be"
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'SciGirls' aims to change the way girls think about science, engineering
Like a lot of American women, I grew up admiring Marie Curie, who won a Nobel Prize in physics in 1903 and another in chemistry in 1911.
Her pioneering achievements in radioactivity stood as proof to me that women could be scientists. But if you were smart enough to manipulate quadratic equations, you also could see the discouraging reality that women were scarce in the world's science labs and engineering workshops for most of the 20th century.
In fact, they still aren't represented by anything close to their numbers in the population. For complex reasons, girls tend to lose interest in studies of science some time after fourth grade.
Now comes "SciGirls," a sparkly Twin Cities Public Television creation with the ambitious goal of changing the way millions of "tween" girls think about science and engineering. The TV series and interactive website were spearheaded by some of the same TPT people who put together the long-running PBS science series DragonflyTV and Newton's Apple.
The weekly "SciGirls" series debuts today at 5:30 p.m. on TPT2 and on Feb. 13 nationwide (check local listings).
Girls in Eagan
Each half-hour episode of "SciGirls" follows a different group of middle-school girls seeking answers to practical questions.
The group in the premiere episode is from Eagan, where girls founded an after-school club they dubbed B.L.A.Z.E., Becoming Loyal And Zealous Explorers. Their question was whether more turtles could live in the wetland near their school. It led them to learn about wetlands protection regulations, turtle population studies and a host of related issues.
Other episodes shot in Minnesota feature a puppet engineering project at the University of St. Thomas, an exercise in selecting riding horses at a veterinary hospital in Woodbury, wind-farm construction in Eden Prairie, a food-science lesson and a recycling project in St. Paul.
The series is intended for national appeal, though. And other episodes are set in the Florida Keys, New York City, coastal California and the deserts of Utah.
The SciGirl strategy is not to concoct the segments in television studios but instead to feature real girls who are engaged in scientific activities, said the series producer, Kathy Shugrue.
"We believe that that there is a certain appeal in showing real girls who are not actors," she said. "The kids want to see girls who are like themselves."
The girls with the turtle project in Eagan "were a going concern by the time we found them," she said.
"We also are interested in the girls as girls," she said. "We didn't want to just show these kids as science girls. They have lots of different interests. They like sports and clothes and friends."
Invisible barriers
It remains to be seen whether that approach creates enough authenticity and appeal to break the invisible barriers separating women and science.
This has been a tough problem to understand, let alone to solve.
In elementary school, girls are as enthusiastic about science as boys, according to a National Science Foundation report. [PDF] Sixty-six percent of fourth-grade girls said in a survey that they like science, nearly the same as the percentage of boys.
But after that age, girls quickly drop away from science, technology, engineering and math — the cluster of studies called STEM.
"Girls begin to conclude that STEM is not for them," the report said. "These beliefs often begin early and influence choices they make throughout school."
Here are the consequences: Women make up 49 percent of the U.S. workforce but fill only 25 percent of the STEM jobs. In recent years, women have earned more than half of all bachelor's degrees awarded in the United States, but only about 21 percent of the degrees awarded in engineering and 25 percent in computer sciences.
Women earn about 45 percent of all doctoral degrees but less than one third of those awarded in chemistry, computer sciences, math, physics and engineering, according to a separate report [PDF] by the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Dept. of Education.
Women teaching math
In Minnesota, the interest gap has closed in recent years, said Mike Lindstrom, the executive director of SciMathMN, an education and business coalition which works to improve STEM education throughout the state.
That's especially true in math and in sciences like biology and medicine. One reason may be that more women are teaching those subjects.
"We have done a tremendous job in Minnesota in achieving balance in our teaching force," Lindstrom said. "Right now it is very balanced in terms of males vs. females standing in front of kids teaching math."
The gap hasn't closed nearly as much, though, in pre-engineering classes and some other areas of technology education, he said.
It isn't a lack of ability that is driving girls away from those studies.
Analysis of Minnesota students' most recent scores in tests conducted under the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study showed no significant differences based on gender, Lindstrom said.
"The good news this is telling us is that males and females are equally capable of handling this content. There seems to be no doubt about that," Lindstrom said. "So our next frontier is to find out why girls aren't signing up at the same rate and why they aren't going into these professions at the same rate."
Cars vs. other designs
There are plenty of theories but very little solid evidence to answer those questions.
One theory blames cultural stereotypes that lead to sometimes subtle bias.
Lindstrom, who taught technical education for years in the Anoka-Hennepin School District, said some teachers recently have gone out of their way to overcome what they worry is institutional bias.
"In a lot of those classes we were offering students projects that are typically appealing more to males than females," he said.
A design project in a technical classroom, for example, more often than not focused on something to do with cars, he said. Instead, one of the innovative Anoka teachers put together a mechanical challenge involving wheel-chair designs that could enable a handicapped person to reach the lowest drawers in the kitchen. The educational value was the same, but the appeal to girls was much stronger.
Not everyone buys the cultural bias claim though. Some psychologists offer a different explanation: that girls prefer working more with people than with computers, machines and electrical wires.
Psychologists at Vanderbilt University who have tracked more than 5,000 mathematically gifted students for 35 years found that girls showed more interest in "organic" subjects involving people and other living things, the New York Times reported.
"Despite their mathematical prowess, they were less likely than boys to go into physics or engineering," the Times said.
A similar conclusion comes from a study at the University of Kansas of the large gender gap in the computer industry. The researchers found that information-technology workers especially enjoyed manipulating objects and machines, whereas workers in other occupations preferred dealing with people.
"Once the researchers controlled for that personality variable, the gender gap shrank to statistical insignificance: women who preferred tinkering with inanimate objects were about as likely to go into computer careers as were men with similar personalities. There just happened to be fewer women than men with those preferences," the Times said.
A SciGirl named Izzie
Whatever the reason for the gap, America could be more innovative if more bright, creative girls pursued science careers. For that reason, Congress and the National Science Foundation have developed dozens of programs aimed at lowering any barriers to women in science.
It is just such an initiative that gave rise to SciGirls." Most of the funding comes from the National Science Foundation with additional support from ExxonMobil.
The program builds on a project that TPT started several years ago and also on DragonflyTV.
One of its unique features is Izzie, an animated "SciGirl," and her best friend, a boy named Jake. Izzie starts each episode finding herself in jams that only science can fix. She surfs to the SciGirl home page, jumps into a video of the real-life SciGirls and follows their story. She also hangs out on the website where girls can create personal pages, design their own avatars, upload projects and connect with friends.
"It's not quite Facebook, but ... we wanted to show the girls it is all about sharing your science with other girls," said Shugrue, the producer.
The creative team behind the series has a collective mountain of experience at kids' programming. The executive producer is Richard Hudson, creator of Newton's Apple and DragonflyTV. Shugrue co-created Fetch! for PBS Kids and produced Zoom at WGBH Boston. The Izzie animation is created by Soup2Nuts, producers of PBS Kids'WordGirl. And the website was developed by Big Bad Tomato Interactive, which has its mark on everything from Sesame Street to Disney fairies.
While their focus for this project is girls, I couldn't help but wonder if boys will be welcomed.
"We hope there is enough appeal in our story that boys will not be turned off, and we do have Jake (Izzie's sidekick)," Shugrue said. "We did testing and we did see that boys enjoy and watch it."
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MONDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- Children with greater exposure to bisphenol-A-glycidyl-methacrylate (bisGMA)-based dental composite exhibit impaired psychosocial functioning compared with children exposed to urethane dimethacrylate-based compomer, according to a study published online July 16 in Pediatrics.
Nancy N. Maserejian, Sc.D., of the New England Research Institutes in Watertown, Mass., and colleagues analyzed treatment-level data from 534 children aged 6 to 10 years who participated in the New England Children's Amalgam Trial. Psychosocial function was measured at follow-up for 434 of the participants and was compared for amalgams composed of bisGMA-based composite and those composed of urethane dimethacrylate-based polyacid-modified composite (compomer).
After a five-year follow-up period the researchers found that children with bisGMA-based composites had poorer scores than children with compomers on the emotional symptoms, clinical maladjustment, and personal adjustment global scales of the self-reported Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC-SR), with stronger associations seen for posterior-occlusal (chewing) surfaces, which were subject to more degradation. Children with greater exposure to bisGMA-based dental composite were more likely to exhibit at-risk or clinically significant scores on the parent-reported Child Behavior Checklist Total Problem Behaviors (16.3 versus 11.2 percent) and numerous BASC-SR syndromes. There were no associations observed with compomer or with amalgam exposure.
"These findings indicate that exposure to bisGMA-based dental composite resins may impair psychosocial health in children," the authors write. "With increasing level and duration of exposure to bisGMA-based composite over five years of follow-up, children reported more anxiety, depression, social stress, and interpersonal-relation problems, and were more likely to have clinical-range scores for parent-reported total problem behaviors."
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To minimize the error incurred by plant-to-plant variation, at least five plants should be completely measured to determine the leaf area factor for a given genotype. This method of estimation could be applied widely to leaf area measurements in maize and should make it possible to determine leaf areas in yield trials, breeding nurseries, and extensive field tests.Please view the pdf by using the Full Text (PDF) link under 'View' to the left.
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COMBAT OUTPOST WAZA KHWAH, Afghanistan — The last of the American soldiers packed up their gear, lowered their flag and flew away on Chinook helicopters Thursday, handing this small base to the 250 Afghan policemen left in the swirling dust below.
Just 25 miles from the Pakistani border, in one of Afghanistan's most volatile provinces, the handover marked the beginning of an experiment to see whether Afghan security forces are ready to fight the Taliban as U.S. troops begin to withdraw.
"Is there a risk it could all fall apart? Probably a small risk," said Col. Edward Bohnemann, the brigade commander in Paktika, where the base is located. "I look at it, honestly, as a huge win, saying, 'Hey, we've demonstrated the Afghan security forces are capable of taking this.' "
The decision to leave Waza Khwah, the largest base yet to be handed over to Afghan forces, represents the type of calculation that will become more common, and more difficult, as 33,000 U.S. troops begin to withdraw later this year amid a resilient Taliban insurgency. American commanders have accelerated the plan to transfer security responsibility to Afghan troops between now and 2014.
The Afghan battalion's performance in the coming months will be watched closely, and more such handovers are likely, Bohnemann said. "I think it's going to be replicated, duplicated across eastern Afghanistan at a much faster rate than people expected," he said.
The American soldiers who work with this battalion say they believe it can handle the threat. The officers in the Afghan border police unit have shown "they now outmatch the insurgency by a significant enough margin that we can change our relationship," said Lt. Col. Curtis Taylor, the battalion commander in this part of Paktika province.
That unit, the 7th battalion of the Afghan border police, is considered one of the best in the province. Over the past couple of years, the unit's American partners have dwindled from a several-hundred-strong battalion down to an artillery battery of about 80 soldiers who have rarely fired a shot in the four months they have been deployed at Waza Khwah. Those soldiers are moving to a base farther north in the province, where Taliban and Haqqani network fighters pose more lethal problems.
American soldiers will keep a locked compound on the base, known as the Alamo, that they will visit periodically to advise the battalion. They plan to fly Apache attack helicopters overhead as an occasional show of force and deliver some supplies as needed. Taylor said U.S. medevac helicopters will be available to the border police at their request.
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Follow the crowd, and you will never be followed by the crowd.
If there's one thing we try to do with ICCFA's conference programs, it's avoid following the crowd. In fact, we take a look at what other organizations have planned for their programs and specifically head in the opposite direction.
Does this always work? No, not always. We've had some hits and some misses. But we figure the hits are a lot more likely to make an impact than if we'd just recycled existing content.
Having just put to bed our 2010 Fall Management Conference program, I can say with great certainty that our program chairs, Darin Drabing and Fred Lappin, are not following the crowd. In fact, they've put together a conference that is unlike anything any group in our industry -- including the ICCFA -- has ever seen before.
Darin and Fred are bringing in instructors from the Wharton School of Business (yes, that Wharton School of Business) and an executive education program at Stanford University (yes, that Stanford University).
John Austin, Ph.D., and William Malek are the best of the best in high-level management education and are the top experts in the field of strategic planning and execution. Each is putting together a three-hour interactive, customized program for our attendees. If you want a taste of an elite MBA program that has been tailored to your needs without the usual prohibitive cost and time commitments, you won't want to miss this one.
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British Superbike Championship Resumes This Coming Weekend At Oulton Park
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Action from a British Superbike race earlier this season at Oulton Park.
Ryuichi Kiyonari returns to his favourite Oulton Park circuit intent
on an action replay of his winning ride there earlier in the year to
boost his chances of taking the MCE Insurance British Superbike crown
for a record fourth time.
But he can expect to have tough questions posed by his HM Plant Honda
team-mate Shane Byrne who is eager to end a four race run without a
win to strengthen his position at the top of the standings as he bids
to take the country's premier title for a third time.
The focus for them both is to consolidate their positions in the top
four as they look to the future and the end of season "Showdown for
the title" sequence of seven races for which only the leading six
riders in the points after the ninth round at Cadwell Park qualify.
Kiyonari returns to the Cheshire circuit, where so far he has enjoyed
no less than ten race victories, from a hectic trip back home to
Japan where he has worked hard on testing ahead of the Suzuka Eight
Hours race. He hopes that the additional time on the bike will have
helped him for his determined assault on the British crown.
He has come through a difficult period, which left him on the back
foot as he scored only seven points from four races, with renewed
confidence in his Fireblade with the turning point coming in the
second race at Knockhill where he took a fourth place, following that
with a fifth, and then a victory, last time out a little
fortuitously, at Snetterton.
Byrne, the winner of three races so far, looked likely to add to that
tally in the second race at Snetterton, but an aggressive last lap
move by Suzuki riding title rival John Hopkins saw the bikes bash
fairings with both riders losing ground. Byrne had to settle for
fourth as Kiyonari took full advantage to win for the second time in
the current campaign.
Hopkins will again be a major threat. He took his maiden victory in
BSB at this circuit back in May, enjoying his first visit to the top
step of the podium in some 11 years and repeated that form with a
second victory at Snetterton to stay in close contention, 19 points
down, on Byrne.
Tommy Hill will also be keen to make his mark at what is proving to
be his jinx circuit. Last year a crash there cost him any chance of
taking the British title, and earlier this year after setting pole
time at record pace he crashed heavily during morning warm-up,
seriously injuring his left shoulder and missing those races. Riding
Yamaha, Hill is third in the standings, 20 points up on Kiyonari, and
goes into these races keen to show what might have been but for those
Behind the top four there is a pack of nine riders separated by 59
points squabbling for a place between the end of season
"title-fighters" among them Tyco Honda's Peter Hickman who needs to
re-kindle the form he showed at Thruxton, where he took a career best
second place, if he is to progress. And returning to the
championship aboard the Sorrymate.com Honda will be former BSB and
current World Supersport rider James Ellison who takes over from Dan Linfoot.
And in the "back to basics" BSB-EVO class WFR Honda rider Glen
Richards is keen to return to winning ways to maintain his lead in
the standings although his team-mates Graeme Gowland and American
Jake Zemke, winners last time out, will be giving him a tough time.
Quotes from Honda riders ahead of Oulton Park:
Shane Byrne (HM Plant Honda): "Oulton Park is a track I have mixed
feelings about because I really like the track, but earlier in the
season we did struggle a bit there and at the time I was so happy to
have taken a third and fourth place. Let's not forget though that we
have made big steps forward since then so I am feeling pretty excited
about the races this weekend. After Snetterton I am really pumped to
go back out there and get back to winning."
Ryuichi Kiyonari (HM Plant Honda) said: "I need to be more aggressive
this weekend from the start. At Oulton Park you need a lot of
confidence to push hard so we again will work hard from free practice
to get it right. I feel happy with the bike and we have made
improvement since the last round at Oulton Park when we won. A lot of
people probably think I am one of the favourites for this weekend
because I have had good results there before; I want to win again for
our championship, but I think there will be a big fight as everyone
wants to win."
More, from a press release issued by Swan Yamaha:
The Swan Yamaha team return to Oulton Park this weekend as Tommy Hill and Michael Laverty bid to maintain their position in the top six in the overall MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship standings and score further podium credits for their title challenge.
The Championship returns to the Cheshire circuit for the second time this season and both riders are seeking a change in fortune compared to the previous visit back in May. At the round earlier in the year Hill had set the pace securing pole position but had his weekend ended prematurely with a crash in warm up which left him carrying a shoulder injury. Laverty was in contention for the win but suffered arm pump, which he has since had an operation to resolve and scored two fifth places. The Swan Yamaha pairing are now expecting a strong performance this weekend as they target a return to the podium.
Hill said: "After the nightmare of the second race at Snetterton I can't wait to get back out on track. We have to start where we left off this weekend and I am feeling confident as last time we were at Oulton Park we had a good set-up and everything was going good for us. We took the pole position inside the lap record but then I had the crash in warm-up and that put me two races behind everyone else so that makes it important to get back on the top step of the podium. Everyone is stepping up their game and so will we this weekend. It is so important now to get results and those all important podium credits."
Laverty said: "I am looking forward to Oulton Park and trying to get the Swan Yamaha back on the podium where it belongs after a tough weekend at Snetterton. We know we have the pace there and I was having a good race and was in a position to challenge for the win until I got arm pump so it is looking positive. Everyone has moved forward since we were there before but I think as a team we have too. We need to pull some results out of the bag this weekend and get back on the podium to score some of those important credits for the championship."
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Published: September 27th, 2010 | Tags: Barack Obama, Hines Ward, Pittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Hines Ward, who caught a TD pass in Sunday's win over Tamp Bay, is not ready to give up his day job. But he added a second job last week — one with a high-profile new boss. President Barack Obama named Ward to his Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Ward was sworn in on Sept. 21.
"He's a terrific person," Steelers owner Dan Rooney said of Ward. "This is a wonderful honor for him and a wonderful honor for our organization."
Rooney unfortunately couldn't be at the ceremony. Like Ward, he also works for President Obama. He is the U.S. ambassador to Ireland.
Ward's humanitarian goal is what he referred to as "enlightenment" of biracial kids. Ward — who was born in Seoul, South Korea, to a Korean mother and American father — has already given $1 million to this cause. With his foundation, he has returned to Korea each offseason since 2006 to mentor biracial children. He also brings Korean kids to stay with American families for a week during football season.
Ward is not letting this honor affect his day job. In Week 1, he made his 900th career reception and had 106 receiving yards in a win over Atlanta. His touchdown Sunday against the Buccaneers was the 60th of his career, tying former teammate Jerome Bettis for second on the Steelers' all-time list.
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Postpartum Deworming: Improving Breastfeeding and Optimizing Infant Growth
This study has been completed.
McGill University Health Center
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Dr. Theresa Gyorkos, McGill University Health Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: December 7, 2012
Last updated: August 28, 2017
Last verified: August 2017
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Women of reproductive age are considered a high-risk group for worm infections by the World Health Organization. Maternal infection and anemia contribute to infant malnutrition by affecting milk quality and quantity, and duration of exclusive breastfeeding. To date, no study has investigated the health benefits of postpartum deworming to infants or mothers. A randomized controlled trial will be conducted in Peru to investigate the effectiveness of integrating deworming into routine postpartum care. The primary measure of effect will be infant weight gain between birth and six months of age. Other infant and maternal health indicators will also be ascertained.
|Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic
|Drug: Albendazole Drug: Placebo
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Postpartum Deworming: Improving Breastfeeding and Optimizing Infant Growth
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Breastfeeding Postpartum Care
Drug Information available for: AlbendazoleU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Dr. Theresa Gyorkos, McGill University Health Center:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Mean (± standard deviation) weight gain (kg) [ Time Frame: Change between birth and six months of age ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Infant morbidity [ Time Frame: 1, 6, 12, 24 months following birth ]
- Maternal hemoglobin levels and anemia [ Time Frame: 1, 6, 12, 24 months following birth ]
- Breastfeeding practices [ Time Frame: 1, 6, 12, 24 months following birth ]The prevalence of current, exclusive, predominant and partial breastfeeding will be used to assess breastfeeding practices. In accordance with WHO criteria, infants will be considered as exclusively breastfed if they ingest only breast milk (excluding vitamins and medications); considered as predominantly breastfed if, in addition to breast milk, they also ingest water, juice, teas, vitamins or medications, and considered as partially breastfed if their primary nutrition source is other than breast milk.
- Maternal energy levels [ Time Frame: 1, 6, 12, 24 months following birth ]Maternal energy levels will be measured using an adapted 5-item version of the Fatigue Assessment Scale (FAS) (Michielsen et al. 2004). This scale assesses symptoms of physical and cognitive fatigue.
- Maternal STH infection [ Time Frame: 1 and 6 months following birth ]
- Breast milk quality [ Time Frame: 1 and 6 months following birth ]Mean concentrations of key breast milk quality indicators (i.e. macronutrients, immunological factors, vitamins, and minerals) will be used to assess breast milk quality.
- Breast milk quantity transferred from mother to infant [ Time Frame: 1 and 6 months following birth ]
|Actual Study Start Date:
|February 24, 2014
|Study Completion Date:
|September 16, 2016
|Primary Completion Date:
|February 13, 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Albendazole
single dose 400 mg tablet of albendazole
|Drug: Albendazole
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Placebo Manufactured by Hersil Laboratories in Lima, Peru
|Drug: Placebo
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Deliver at Hospital Iquitos
- Plan to reside in Iquitos or neighbouring area for the next 24 months
- Able to communicate in Spanish
Exclusion Criteria:
- Deliver multiples
- Delivery a stillborn or an infant with a serious congenital medical condition
- Transfered to another hospital prior to discharge
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: NCT01748929
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01748929
|Asociación Civil Selva Amazónica
|Iquitos, Peru
Sponsors and Collaborators
McGill University Health Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Theresa W Gyorkos, PhD
|McGill University Health Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Martin Casapia, MD, MPH
|Asociación Civil Selva Amazónica
More Information
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by Dr. Theresa Gyorkos, McGill University Health Center:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 25, 2017
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Mofid LS, Casapía M, Aguilar E, Silva H, Montresor A, Rahme E, Fraser WD, Marquis GS, Vercruysse J, Allen LH, Blouin B, Razuri H, Pezo L, Gyorkos TW. A Double-Blind Randomized Controlled Trial of Maternal Postpartum Deworming to Improve Infant Weight Gain in the Peruvian Amazon. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017 Jan 5;11(1):e0005098. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005098. eCollection 2017 Jan.
Mofid LS, Casapía M, Montresor A, Rahme E, Fraser WD, Marquis GS, Vercruysse J, Allen LH, Gyorkos TW. Maternal Deworming Research Study (MADRES) protocol: a double-blind, placebo-controlled randomised trial to determine the effectiveness of deworming in the immediate postpartum period. BMJ Open. 2015 Jun 17;5(6):e008560. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008560.
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. Theresa Gyorkos, Principal Investigator, McGill University Health Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01748929 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 7, 2012
|Last Updated:
|August 28, 2017
Keywords provided by Dr. Theresa Gyorkos, McGill University Health Center:
Global Health
Soil-Transmitted Helminths
Pregnant Women
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Intestinal Diseases
Parasitic Diseases
Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Antiparasitic Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Anticestodal Agents
Antiplatyhelmintic Agents
Antiprotozoal Agents
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents
Mitosis Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
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Observational Study on the Efficacy and Safety of NovoSeven® During "Real-life" Usage in Germany (WIRK)
This study has been completed.
Novo Nordisk A/S
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Novo Nordisk A/S
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: June 11, 2008
Last updated: December 6, 2016
Last verified: December 2016
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This NON INTERVENTIONAL OBSERVATIONAL STUDY is conducted in Europe. The primary aim is to observe the haemostatic efficacy of NovoSeven® treatment during routine practice in German clinics. The observational study observes patients with congenital haemophilia with inhibitors to coagulation factors VIII or IX, acquired haemophilia, congenital FVII deficiency, or Glanzmann's thrombasthenia who have received at least one dose of NovoSeven® for treatment of a bleeding episode or for the prevention of a bleeding when undergoing surgery or an invasive procedure.
|Congenital Bleeding Disorder Congenital FVII Deficiency Glanzmann's Disease Acquired Bleeding Disorder Acquired Haemophilia
|Drug: eptacog alfa (activated)
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Efficacy of NovoSeven® (Activated Recombinant Human Factor VII): Non-interventional Study in Patients With Congenital Haemophilia With Inhibitors, Acquired Haemophilia, Factor FVII Deficiency, and Glanzmann's Thrombasthenia
Resource links provided by NLM:
Genetics Home Reference related topics: Glanzmann thrombasthenia hemophilia
Drug Information available for: Eptacog alfa (activated) Recombinant FVIIa
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Hemophilia Acquired Hemophilia Glanzmann Thrombasthenia Thrombasthenia Hemophilia AU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Novo Nordisk A/S:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Proportion of acute bleeding episodes for which haemostasis (defined as stop or significant reduction of bleeding) will be achieved [ Time Frame: within 9 hours after initiation of treatment with NovoSeven® or of invasive procedures for which haemostasis will be maintained during the time period of haemostatic coverage with NovoSeven® ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Time proportion of acute bleeding treatments resulting in effective pain relief [ Time Frame: within 9 hours after initiation of treatment with NovoSeven® ]
- Proportion of patients experiencing one or more re-bleeds [ Time Frame: within 24 hours after begin of an acute bleeding episode that was successfully treated with NovoSeven® (stop or significant reduction of bleeding) ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2010
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Drug: eptacog alfa (activated)
Doses and frequency of injections to be prescribed by the physician as a result of the normal clinical evaluation
Other Names:
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
Patients with congenital haemophilia with inhibitors to coagulation factors VIII or IX, acquired haemophilia, congenital FVII deficiency, or Glanzmann's thrombasthenia who have received at least one dose of NovoSeven®.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Written informed consent obtained from patient or patient's legally acceptable representative in which he agrees that the patient's pseudonymised personal data will be transferred for use in a scientific evaluation and publication
Exclusion Criteria:
- Due to the non-interventional observational character of the study, there are no exclusion criteria.
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: NCT00697320
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00697320
|Novo Nordisk Investigational Site
|Mainz, Germany, 55127
Sponsors and Collaborators
Novo Nordisk A/S
|Study Director:
|Global Clinical Registry (GCR, 1452)
|Novo Nordisk A/S
More Information
Additional Information:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Novo Nordisk A/S
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00697320 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 11, 2008
|Last Updated:
|December 6, 2016
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Blood Coagulation Disorders
Hemostatic Disorders
Blood Coagulation Disorders, Inherited
Hemophilia A
Hemorrhagic Disorders
Pathologic Processes
Hematologic Diseases
Coagulation Protein Disorders
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Blood Platelet Disorders
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GEORGE PEW: My name is George Pew.
And I grew up on the ground around here. My family has been farming at Shedd since 1851.
MAN: After spending 160 years farming the Willamette Valley, George Pew's family thought they'd seen it all.
GEORGE PEW: Fifteen years ago, I would have said we were grass seed growers. And now we're trying to diversify.
MAN: It's the middle of an especially wet Oregon winter, not the best time to visualize the grass, white clover and radishes that George has in mind. But it turns out it's the perfect time to find a crop, if you want to call it that, that farmers had no idea they were raising.
GEORGE PEW: It almost feels like we're running a zoo out here.
MAN: Researchers made a surprising discovery. They found fish living in the middle of farmers' fields.
MAN: We didn't even have the fish in our mind because, you know, who would have thought maybe we were fish farmers and didn't know it.
MAN: Don Worth learned he shares his grass seed fields near Tangent with several varieties of young fish.
DON WORTH: I have never seen them. But then when I'm out here, that isn't what I'm looking for. That isn't our business.
MAN: The team of scientists from OSU had their suspicions because common ditches cross the fields. They're bone dry in the summer, but fill up with water in the winter. And they drain out to nearby streams.
WOMAN: This grass seed farm used to be part of a network of seasonal streams that all came together and — and flow into the Williamette River.
MAN: After all, a century-and-a-half ago, the Williamette River didn't follow one carved channel. Meandering braids spread out over miles, which created a watery network through dozens of side channels, which crisscrossed the Williamette Valley. White settlers changed all that. Farmers drained the land, filled in flood plains, pushed back the river and put some of the most fertile land in the country under the plow.
But a funny thing happened on the way to farming the valley — no one told the fish.
WOMAN: I was really excited, because I thought, you know, let's see if there's any fish out in those ditches. And lo and behold, there were. So it was pretty exciting.
MAN: A team of researchers from Oregon State convinced 40 farmers across 187 square miles to become their partners in science.
Kathyrn Boyer and Guillermo Giannico led the project. Teams fanned out.
MAN: Take a sample right — right here.
MAN: They suspected that these fields might well be thriving wildlife habitats, especially since the ditches are connected to nearby streams.
GUILLERMO GIANNICO: But what I didn't anticipate were the number of species we found. We — we just were finding one or two individuals that just indicated that some fish managed to survive there, but we were getting dozens and, in some cases, hundreds of individuals in each trap.
MAN: Hidden in that murky, rain-churned water, they found 13 kinds of fish, including stickleback, red shiners, Chinook, pike minnow and more. Many were juveniles. That means the fields, during the wet months, are, in essence, a fish hatchery.
WOMAN: We didn't actually see them spawning, but we did see juveniles. So juveniles couldn't swim up here in the — in the wintertime from the main stem. So they had to be raising young here.
MAN: 98 percent of the fish collected in the fields were native to Oregon.
MAN: There's a leech.
Oh, do you see one?
MAN: Yes.
MAN: In addition to all the fish, they found lots of fish food — bugs, invertebrates, tiny critters galore.
MAN: Oh, man, there's a lot of ostracods.
MAN: Oh, beautiful.
MAN: Every one's really small this year.
MAN: Yes.
MAN: These habitats haven't been sampled before.
MAN: That's looking good, man.
MAN: And it doesn't look like perfect habitat for fish or bugs, so we weren't sure that we would find very much at all. But we have found a variety of things that live here. And that's really great.
MAN: Everything they find, the snails, leeches and tiny crustaceans, all must be able to survive the dry summer months.
GEORGE PEW: So they need special adaptations to survive that dry period and then to be around the next year, when the water comes back.
WOMAN: It may not be the habitat that we had back before anybody was here, but it certainly beats a subdivision.
MAN: Many biologists write off agricultural land as hopelessly lost for wildlife. But this study proves fish can thrive. That means how farmers operate has broad implications.
MAN: We use a fair number of herbicides and pesticides. And there is some concern that they might show up in the water.
MAN: The study found pretty good water quality. Researchers especially praised farms like George Pew's, which stopped tilling the soil. Straw lies there, breaks down on its own and keeps the soil from washing down those ditches. It filters the water, too, that runs off those no till fields.
MAN: I think most of us realize knowledge is a good thing and it's better to know your problems so you can correct them rather than — than blundering along and causing problems that come back to bite you later.
WOMAN: It is kind of a wakeup call for them. And I think they're enthusiastic that, you know, that they've been working these lands for a long time and there're still fish out here.
GUILLERMO GIANNICO: I would say that in general, the picture is quite positive from — from a farming perspective.
MAN: You know, we entered with the confidence that it wasn't going to be as bad as some people thought. But it was better. I think we were surprised it was much better than we thought it would be.
MAN: As winter ends, the ditch fish follow the draining water and go back to the streams and rivers that feed the Willamette. Many farmers never imagined they may well be growing crops and providing a critical refuge for native Oregon fish.
MAN: That's — that's kind of a neat thing. Yes, we didn't use to run a fish hatchery, but now that the researchers have found the fish, I guess we're in business.
MAN: Wow!
MAN: Oh, yes.
MAN: Yes, I'm pretty sure that is.


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Robert Blake's New Show
|Photo by Ted Soqui
The Superior Court mall in Van Nuys is a bleak concrete sprawl that attracts many lost and troubled souls.
The Superior Court mall in Van Nuys is a bleak concrete sprawl that attracts many lost and troubled souls.Theres Hank Fisher, an itinerant singer with a weather-beaten face and wild eyes; each weekday he connects his guitar to a car battery and snarls out tunes by Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley and the Beatles. Hank tells me he was a volunteer in Eugene McCarthys quixotic 1968 presidential campaign and still chokes whenever he sings Phil Ochs brotherhood anthem "There but for Fortune." Then theres senior citizen Marvin Zalowitz, who, early each morning, takes white cardboard boxes with his thoughts printed on their sides and neatly pyramids them along the east concourse. "Out of sight out of mind is for HUMANOIDS ZOMBIES and FASCIST IMPERIALISM IS DEAD" reads one, while another proclaims, "The Bible is an Imperial Document."
"The word is out that Im a crazy guy," Marvin says, "and so nobody bothers me. Im against religion I also stand outside synagogues."
Other mall regulars keep to themselves inside the nearby library or just sit on the concourse and stare into space. The courthouse itself is somewhat loud and shabby on the lower floors where traffic fines are paid and arraignments held. Bathroom walls are heavily graffitied, with chunks of wood battered off the doorjambs. On the eighth floor, though, the halls are hushed and spotless, and on clear, windy days the panorama of the Valley and San Gabriels is breathtaking a view of Los Angeles as it once was, or at least, as it was supposed to be. There are quirks, though, even up here. The clock at the end of the hall is broken and, in Room 810, where the court reporters laptop screen defaults to a photograph of Stonehenge, the air conditioning is set too high.
This chilly room is where Robert Blakes trial finally began December 20, three and a half years after the murder of his wife, Bonnie Lee Bakley, and two and a half years after Blakes arrest. The rooms 40 open seats once wouldnt have seemed enough to accommodate all of the media and curious public, but over the years the case has moved from tabloid front page to the landfill of our collective unconscious. Last year Dominick Dunne had expressed an interest in reserving a press seat, but hasnt been heard from since.
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"Resuming on the Blake matter" is how judge Darlene Schempp tersely begins each session of the trial. She is a grandmotherly but sober figure presiding over two wildly contrasting counsels. Deputy District Attorney Shellie Samuels jumps to her feet to begin her presentations and witness interrogations. Shes focused, dresses in soft neutral colors and, with Streisand-ish sass, jokes with the jury.
"They told me to get my nails done!" she cracks as she places a document onto an overhead projector and her French manicure is shown on a screen. Samuels always seems in motion, shes loud and doesnt linger over rhetorical phrasing. The PowerPoint presentation that accompanied her argument was splashed with the kind of lurid graphics reminiscent of political attack ads.
Samuels does not conceal her disdain for Blake nor, for that matter, his lawyer, M. Gerald Schwartzbach, who became the defendants fourth after Thomas Meserau Jr. quit last February. The older Mill Valley attorney could not be more different from Samuels. Bespectacled, goateed and dressed in a black suit and bow tie, with his open coat exposing a white shirt, the short Schwartzbach cuts something of a penguin-like figure. He moves and speaks deliberately, in a low voice that often rustles outside the range of microphones and spectators, sometimes moving Samuels to complain she cant hear him. When forced to confer, the taller Samuels literally looks down on Schwartzbach, with her hands on hips or arms folded like a scolding teacher.
Samuels needed about an hour or so to tear through her opening argument early that first morning. Schwartzbach took the rest of the day and most of the following morning for his. For a moment it seemed as though he would never end his presentation along with his claims to be ignorant of technology. (At one point he asked a witness to show him how to insert the tape of a 911 call into a boom box.) Schwartzbachs slide show was simplistic and repetitious compared with that of Samuels, who interrupted with several objections.
For all Schwartzbachs apparent plodding, though, his strategy was clear. While Samuels laid out to jurors what her circumstantial evidence would show over the course of the trial, Schwartzbach presented his remarks as though they were a closing argument a summation of witnesses and evidence that had already been questioned and proven. It also became obvious that he planned to demolish the credibility of the LAPD and the two stuntmen, Gary McLarty and Duffy Hambleton, who claim Blake tried to hire them to kill Bakley, as well as to hammer on the fact that Blakes hands showed no gunshot residue after his wifes murder.
Schwartzbach, who declined to be interviewed, may look like a straight arrow, but his methods are often unorthodox. There was the time he coaxed a convicted murderer, who was facing the death penalty, into singing "Blue Suede Shoes" before the sentencing jury; in the early 1980s he helped pioneer the battered-wife defense, winning acquittal for a woman charged with murdering her San Francisco police-officer husband.
Robert Blake isnt the kind of person normally found on Schwartzbachs client list, which more often than not consists of the Bay Areas underdog poor he once toiled for indigent clients as a member of the Bayview-Hunters Point Community Defender and would later work at the law firm headed by the late Charles Garry, the Black Panther Party attorney. Schwartzbachs first high-profile case was the defense of Stephen Bingham, the young lawyer accused, in 1971, of smuggling into San Quentin Prison a gun that triggered an escape attempt and resulted in six deaths, including that of celebrated radical George Jackson. Bingham had fled the country but in 1984 turned himself in to stand trial and, with Schwartzbach as his lead attorney, was acquitted in 1986.
"I can only say Gerry was wonderful," Bingham says in a phone interview. "He and his co-counsel, Susan Rutberg, integrated me into the whole process, and I felt very much a part of it. He wants his clients to feel really involved."
Rutberg, now a law professor at Golden Gate University, had worked with Schwartzbach at Bayview-Hunters Point. Like Bingham, she emphasizes Schwartzbachs ability to completely immerse himself in a cases details.
"He examines evidence 16 different ways," she told me. "He lives and breathes the case."
Even those on the other side of the court praise him.
"I have absolute admiration for him," says Karyn Sinunu, a San Jose deputy D.A. "Hes reasonable and smart. Hes what a trial attorney should be. Some people dont live up to their reputation, but this guy does."
Although Sinunu has not faced Schwartzbach in court, she was part of the D.A. team handling a lengthy double-homicide case that became Santa Clara countys most expensive. It ended when Schwartzbach won the freedom of one wrongly convicted suspect, Buddy Nickerson, whod spent 19 years in prison.
But why would a lefty lawyer with Schwartzbachs credentials defend Blake?
"Hes not in the twilight of his career," says Bingham, now a staff attorney for Bay Area Legal Aid. "For a criminal-defense attorney to represent someone [like Blake] helps establish him as one of the premier defense attorneys in the country. What motivates many lawyers is upholding the integrity of the criminal justice system and the constitution. Its a tough case, and Gerry thrives on the tough cases."
Both Bingham and Sinunu say Blake, who has gone through three previous lawyers, has hired a formidable defender.
"Im glad Im not trying the case against him," Sinunu says.
"Scooby dooby doo . . . scooby dooby doo . . . " John Solari often breaks into this Sinatraic mantra during trial recesses as he paces the hallway or stares out the big windows at the San Fernando Valley. Solari, who speaks with a New York tough-guy accent, is the sometime actor with a criminal past who made news after Bakleys death when he revealed how hed suggested to Blake, at whose house he was living, that Blake allow him to arrange a hit on Bakley.
"Ill tell you one thing," Solari said about his proposed hit, "it woulda turned out different if Robert had turned to me. With my background? Italian, organized crime, 16 years in Attica?" Solari is about Blakes age and his mane of sandy hair and boxers nose give him a somewhat leonine appearance. He has been attending every preliminary hearing and trial date, traveling to court by bus.
"If Mesereau was Roberts lawyer this thing wouldve been over with by now," Solari told me. "But Roberts running everything hes a control freak."
Blake, who is under house arrest on $1.5 million bail, sits attentively but stonefaced in court, dressed in a dark suit. Hank Fisher, the mall singer, says sometimes Blake will slip away from his legal entourage for a smoke outside the courthouse the two have a running joke that goes back to the time Fisher loaned Blake his cigarette lighter.
Samuels first witness was Sean Stanek, the man whom Blake begged to call 911 after, Blake told him, he found Bakley bleeding in his car from a mugging. The 40-ish, goateed Stanek, a low-budget film director and production manager, no doubt reminded many in the audience of themselves or how they might have responded on the night of May 4, 2001, when Bakley was shot after she and Blake left Vitellos restaurant in Studio City. Most empathetically followed Staneks story of Good Samaritan instincts tempered by a feeling that the crisis was being dumped in his lap by Blake whod appeared on his doorstep shouting and ringing the doorbell, but who quickly took off for Vitellos, two doors away, instead of waiting by his wifes side.
Stanek shed the trials first light on the crime scene. When Stanek first looks at Bakley from the drivers window of Blakes car, she merely appears to be slumped back a bit. Then, when Stanek moves to the passengers side, hes shocked to discover her true state: "There was tons of blood," he recalled. The playback of 911 tapes revealed a confusing soundtrack of emergency personnel calmly talking to an agitated Stanek on the phone while Blake yells in the background to the accompaniment of a barking dog at which Stanek shouts "Get out!"
Some in the court, though, snickered at any mention of Staneks discomfort about the situation he found himself in. To them he was a guy sitting around a rented house he shared with roommates and who, when hes asked to assist an injured woman, is soon haunted by Hamlet-like doubts in his bathrobe, no less. (At first, Stanek said, he thought Blake had beaten up his wife.) Worse, Stanek later begged a detective to search his living room, suddenly believing Blake may have planted a gun in it. When he described why he gingerly crept up to the car and its motionless occupant, his explanation seemed cloying with sensitivity:
"I wanted to present myself as a stranger who was not dangerous."
This last statement and others like it had reporters continually shooting get-a-load-of-Alan-Alda glances to one another.
Stanek, who has also worked as an actor, put on an animated performance that first day of testimony, reliving those fateful moments by imitating Blakes voice (at one point yelling at the top of his lungs) and cutting off Samuels and Schwartzbach to make personal observations. When Schwartzbach asked him to clarify what he meant when he said Blake was "acting a certain way," Stanek replied, "Well, [the way] youre acting like a lawyer right now." Eventually, Schwartzbach dryly asked Stanek to allow him to finish asking his questions before answering, because "the reporter can only take down one of us at a time."
Afterwards Solari said he thought Stanek had been rehearsing his testimony.
"Hell be on Larry King tonight," he said dismissively.
Scooby dooby doo . . .
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The TracMe Locator Beacon (TLB)
How will search and rescue agencies know to start a search for me?
Why use a TracMe Locator Beacon?
Why is the TracMe Locator Beacon designed for one-time use?
How much does the TracMe Locator Beacon cost?
Are search and rescue agencies aware of the TracMe Locator Beacon?
What is the transmission range of the unit?
How does water affect the TracMe unit?
Can standard SAR authority (marine and land based) radio equipment pick up the transmission signal?
How is the TracMe Locator Beacon activated? Is it manually activated? If so, what if the person requiring assistance is unconscious?
Who will listen out or monitor the CB frequency?
Is a license required to use the TracMe Locator Beacon?
Will the TracMe Locator Beacon replace the function of the current 121.5 mHz or the 406 mHz distress beacons?
Click here for a glossary of abbreviations.
For Search and Rescue teams and professionals, click here to download the TracMe Locator Beacon Search Methods 1, 2, and 3.
The TracMe Locator Beacon (TLB)
A TracMe Locator Beacon is designed to be worn by an individual to assist SAR teams in the rapid location of the person should they become lost or hurt and unable to return to their destination – it is a beacon which specifically emits a signal to assist in locating a lost or incapacitated person - hence the term Locator Beacon.
A TracMe Locator Beacon may be used with any activity on land, air, or in waterways. Some situations require a satellite Personal Locator Beacon (satellite PLB, or EPERB – Electronic Positioning Emergency Radio Beacon) to be carried by law. A TracMe non-satellite Locator Beacon is NOT a substitute for satellite-based beacons in these situations.
The TracMe was created since not all people need or can afford a satellite-based PLB. On the other hand, there are some applications (such as where a government requires the use of an satellite PLB) where only a satellite PLB will do, and TracMe beacons DO NOT have a place in those applications. The mission of TracMe Beacons P/L is to save lives using TracMe and includes a commitment to the safety of its users, awareness by search and rescue agencies where it is introduced, and full and complete compliance with government agencies.
The TracMe Locator Beacon has been licensed by the United States Federal Communications Commission as an FRS (Family Radio Service frequency) device, and the Australian Communications and Media Authority. TracMe is fully trademarked and has been recognized by the U.S. Patent Office and International Patent Agency with a patent pending.
The TracMe™ Locator Beacon is fully compliant in name and technical function using its CB UHF Emergency Channel 5, 476.525 Australia, FRS Ch.1 462.5625 USA & Canada, PMR Ch.8, 446.09375 Europe.
Keep in mind that using your TracMe Locator Beacon really doesn't change what you already do to prepare your gear and yourself for a trip. It's your 11th essential and speeds up the time that you would be found in case you are lost.
What steps should be taken before activating a TracMe Locator Beacon?
Before you are lost or activate your TracMe Locator Beacon, your instructions include:
Why use a TracMe Locator Beacon?
TracMe uses a simple technology to close the gap of time between lost and found and between affordability/availability. Satellite-based beacons can cost from 5 to 7 times more than a TracMe and can be too expensive for most people to use.
The other important reason to use a TracMe Locator Beacon is to save hours and days of search and rescue staff/volunteer time. If a search and rescue team knows that you have a TracMe, they can determine your itinerary and whereabouts and quick narrow down the area of their search as well as find you sooner because of the "Help….Emergency" voice signal emitting from your TracMe Locator Beacon.
A TracMe Locator Beacon will quickly enable a search and rescue team to respond quickly to common lost and found situation such as members of scouting/camping groups who wander away and get lost. For day hikers, lost children or backpackers who have lost their way, or skiers/winter sports enthusiasts who can't see/navigate in a blizzard yet are near a resort or trail, a TracMe Locator Beacon can save precious hours. And most important, it can save lives, especially if someone is injured or in a bad weather situation which can threaten their health and safety. It's that gap of time and affordability which the TracMe team hopes to address in the safety of a user as well as a search and rescue team's time and resources spent in the recovery and rescue effort.
The TracMe Locator Beacon is designed for one-time use but not abuse. The search-and-rescue community has been concerned about the potential increase in satellite-based (satellite PLB) beacons by the general public and their potential for accidental notification and the significant cost borne to the agencies responding to accidental calls. The TracMe is designed for one-time use to discourage accidental activation or purposeful abuse. This also ensures that during its 10-year useable life, the TracMe is not taken outdoors with a partially discharged battery and is therefore always ready when needed after performing the Self-Test function before each trip.
Also keep in mind that the TracMe Locator Beacons have a free replacement policy. If you activate your TracMe in a legitimate search and rescue situation, we'll replace it for free and hope that you share your success story with us. We want you to know that your $150.00 gear investment will pay off for you when it really counts.
How much does the TracMe Locator Beacon cost?
The manufacturer's suggested retail price is $99.95.
Where can I buy a TracMe Locator Beacon?
TracMe Locator Beacons will be available in the Summer of 2007 in the United States and Australia with many outdoor and sports equipment retailers. TracMe.com will list retail outlets; logon for updates.
Yes. They are already aware of TracMe's Ch1 trail radio signal technology – the same FRS/GMRS frequency used in more than 100 million trail radios throughout the United States, Australia and elsewhere in the world (CB UHF Emergency Channel 5, 476.525 Australia, FRS Ch.1 462.5625 USA & Canada, PMR Ch.8, 446.09375 Europe). TracMe is notifying search and rescue groups through their professional associations, advertising and editorial channels. Our team has begun a free Field Demo Kit loan program so search and rescue teams can train using our equipment, can download online information from TracMe.com to demonstrate direction finding techniques using their own equipment, or use the techniques with common trail radios from TracMe's search and rescue resources section of TracMe.com.
What is the transmission range of the unit?
This depends on a number of things including the terrain, but mainly it depends on the antenna used on the rescue team's receiver. The standard antenna on an UHF CB, FRS or PMR radio will give approximately 1000 yds (1km) range on the ground in light forest, and around 4-8 ml (6-12km) from the air. Using a high gain directional antenna, as is used with direction finding equipment the range is generally extended by a factor of 2 or 3.
How does water affect the TracMe unit?
It is designed to float and is submersible to 3 feet/1meter. This ensures that the unit is not immediately lost if inadvertently dropped into water. In its activated state, the unit will float with the antenna pointing upward and will operate as long as it is not fully submerged.
Can standard SAR authority (marine and land based) radio equipment pick up the transmission signal?
Yes, the minimum equipment required to find the Tracme signal is a commonly used trail radio and hand held GPS. The TracMe Beacon has been designed for General Public use on CB UHF Emergency Channel 5, 476.525 Australia, FRS Ch.1 462.5625 USA & Canada, PMR Ch.8, 446.09375 Europe. See Scenarios & Demos.
How is the TracMe Locator Beacon activated? Is it manually activated? If so, what if the person requiring assistance is unconscious?
Activating the TracMe Beacon is a manual, one handed operation. Future development of the TracMe Beacon may allow remote activation if the person is unconscious.
Who will listen out or monitor the CB frequency?
The simple answer is that the frequency does not need to be monitored at all. It requires the person to be reported as missing first. TracMe's only function is to speed up the location process; the alerting function must still be done manually. This is what sets it aside from satellite PLBs as being suitable for use by the general public and minimizes false alarms.
Is a license required to use the TracMe Locator Beacon?
No licence is required for the TracMe Beacon, as the UHF CB frequencies in Australia, FRS in USA & Canada and PMR in Europe have been designated for license free use by the general public.
Will the TracMe Locator Beacon replace the function of the current 121.5 mHz or the 406 mHz distress beacons?
Absolutely NOT. These distress beacons (or satellite PLBs) operate by sending a signal to a satellite which relays this to a central search and rescue office. When activated, a satellite PLB will automatically instigate an international search and rescue effort. This makes satellite PLBs suitable mainly for use by shipping and aircraft, and unsuitable for use in general outdoor activities by the public. The way in which the TracMe Locator Beacon operates makes it far more affordable, and suitable for use by the general public. Because satellite PLBs need to transmit to a satellite they are 5 to 10 times more expensive than a TracMe Locator Beacon.
CB – Citizen's Band – a set radio frequencies used in a Citizen's Band radio. These radios were popular in the U.S. in the 1970s are widely used in the trucking/transportation industry there.
EPERB -- Electronic Positioning Emergency Radio Beacon. This signal links to a satellite.
satellite PLB – Emergency Positioning-Indicating Radio Beacon. This signal links to a satellite.
FCC – Federal Communications Commission – a regulatory agency of the United States Government.
FRS – Family Radio Service
gHz – gigahertz
GMRS - The General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) is a land-mobile UHF radio service in the United States available for short-distance two-way communications to facilitate the activities of an adult individual and his or her immediate family members, including a spouse, children, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, and in-laws. (Source: Wikipedia.)
GPS – global positioning system is a radio navigation system that allows land, sea, and airborne users to determine their exact location. Twenty-four satellites (21 active, 3 spare) are in orbit at 10,600 miles above the earth. The satellites are spaced so that from any point on earth, four satellites will be above the horizon. Each satellite contains a computer, an atomic clock, and a radio. With an understanding of its own orbit and the clock, the satellite continually broadcasts its changing position and time. (Once a day, each satellite checks its own sense of time and position with a ground station and makes any minor correction.) On the ground, any GPS receiver contains a computer that "triangulates" its own position by getting bearings from three of the four satellites. The result is provided in the form of a geographic position - longitude and latitude - to, for most receivers, within a few meters.
Km – Kilometer
M – meter
mHz – megahertz – the unique measurement level of a radio frequency. Similar to the different music radio frequency, there are assigned radio frequencies organized by government agencies for different types of radio communication.
MLB – Mountain Locator Beacon; it typically uses a 121.5 mHz frequency and beacons will transmit between 1 to 2 days.
MLU – Mountain Locator Unit; the same or similar to a mountain locator beacon. For more information, visit the Mountain Locator unit definition on Wikipedia.com.
PLB – Personal Locator Beacon
PLU – Personal Locator Unit
PMR - Private Mobile Radio
RDF – radio direction finding. There is a range of sensitivity and sophistication in radio direction finding equipment. More expensive equipment can possibly enable a faster search since the equipment can distinguish more detail in the strength and location of a radio frequency when it is tracked. There are RDF orienteering competitions with radio enthusiasts using a variety of RDF equipment to challenge tracking skills.
SAR – search and rescue. This community of people can be the first to respond but are often called after a law enforcement authority receives a call that someone is missing. Search and rescue teams are typically notified and mobilized to conduct a field search. In Australia and the U.S., law enforcement agencies notify full-time search and rescue teams (usually responding to urban areas); in more remote areas many are specially trained volunteers. All work to keep their skills at a professional level with regular technical training and certification programs.
UHF - The UHF (ultrahigh frequency) range of the radio spectrum is the band extending from 300 MHz to 3 GHz. The wavelengths corresponding to these limit frequencies are 1 meter and 10 centimeters. The UHF band is extensively used for satellite communication and broadcasting, in cellular telephone and paging systems, and by third-generation (3G) wireless services. Channels and subbands within the UHF portion of the radio spectrum are allocated by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). (Source for more information: WhatIs.com)


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GT86/BRZ debate quite how many folk seem unwilling to look past relatively modest stats and concentrate on, as Mr Harris so elegantly put it, enjoying performance "because of its nature and not just its quantity." If you don't get out of bed for less than 500hp and a sub four-second 0-62 then, like the Toyobaru, this MX-5, 200hp and screaming throttle bodied induction howl or not, probably isn't for you.
If, however, you're prepared to put the effort in and have been holding out, like many, for Mazda to finally get its arse into gear and deliver on the promise in the basic MX-5 package then it could be time to rejoice. Frankly after over two decades, a million-plus sales and – until recently – almost single-handedly carrying the torch for affordable RWD it's a wonder it's taken this long for the MX-5 to really show some attitude. And while plenty in the aftermarket will throw superchargers, turbos or good old-fashioned engine tuning at your MX-5, Mazda itself has been curiously lacking the willing to unlock the potential we all know is there, probably because it hasn't had to.
Thankfully Mazda UK has got its act together and, with the Jota team that prepares its GT and production race cars, created an MX-5 that nobody need make any excuses for, known as the GT Concept for now.
First things first – this isn't a new, officially endorsed hot MX-5. Not yet. We're still – STILL! - at the toe in the water stage as Mazda UK explores the possibilities for cashing in on the success of that GT4 car and demonstrating the MX-5 is more than just a cute little roadster.
But as the green, yellow, RED! shift lights cycle through and that low-rev monotone steadily builds and builds through an assertive, induction-led bark and finally a properly fierce and race-bred howl you just think how can they deny us this!
You'll like me when I'm angry
It runs about 35mm lower than standard and, having tried 18-inch wheels and found the car tramlined too much, is back on the standard 17s. Lower it may be but it's still beautifully compliant and very happy as a road set-up and lacks none of the standard car's fluency over bumpy, twisty B-roads. It may lose the production race car's fancy Sachs dampers but it shares that car's lively, predictable feel and doesn't tie it down too hard and lose the feedback and adjustability that makes the MX-5 so much fun. It just has a bit more poise and grip, a bit less pitch and roll and the capacity to handle that extra power.
It doesn't dance around on its tyres quite as much as a BRZ/GT86 but it's got bucketloads of flow and in no time at all you're happy to lean on it pretty damned hard, flicking that stubby little gear lever this way and that to keep those shift lights ablaze and giggling like an idiot at the noise.
True, it does encourage you to drive like a bit of an tool. But it's just so much fun and the base package so well sorted that you can't help yourself and there's just enough power to enhance the car without overwhelming the finer detail and turning it into a one-dimensional point and squirt device.
A Boxster is now, effectively, a £40K car but that'd get you in a basic Z4 or SLK with a turbo and aforementioned diesel-like power delivery. In spirit it's more a rival for the Elise though, entry to the Lotus coming a couple of grand less for the base 1.6.
A lot of money for an MX-5, true. But a whole lot of fun too.
MAZDA MX-5 GT Concept
Engine:1,999cc 4-cyl
Transmission: 6-speed manual, rear-wheel drive
Power (hp): 'over' 200@6,000rpm (standard: 160@7,000)
Torque (lb ft):143@4,800rpm (standard: 139@5,000)
0-62mph: TBC (standard: 7.9 sec)
Top speed: TBC (standard: 136mph)
MPG: TBC (standard: 36.2 combined)
CO2: TBC (standard: 181g/km)
Price: c. £30,000
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BROOKSVILLE — As promised and expected, lawyers for a Spring Hill woman convicted of beating and imprisoning her 17-year-old nephew in a bathroom have appealed her conviction and 12-year prison sentence to a higher court.
Tai-Ling Gigliotti's defense attorneys filed a motion Friday afternoon requesting a review from the Florida's 5th District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach.
Gigliotti, the 51-year-old widow of world-renowned clarinetist Anthony Gigliotti, was convicted May 10 of two charges of aggravated child abuse. She faced a minimum of eight years and a maximum of 60 years in prison.
Circuit Judge Jack Springstead settled on 12 years, roughly the amount of time Gigliotti cared for her nephew after bringing him from Taiwan to the United States. After her time in prison, Gigliotti will be placed on probation for three years.
But on Friday, Gigliotti's attorney Jimmy Brown filed four motions notifying the state of his intention to appeal her case. One of the motions asks the appeals court to consider Springstead's refusal to allow certain kinds of testimony and evidence about Gigliotti's nephew's behavior, among other things.
Citing a case from Maryland, Brown also asked the court to review his claim that state foster care officials and the nephew's foster parents failed to disclose before the trial a pattern of troublesome and even illegal behavior by the teen.
In the days before Gigliotti's sentencing hearing last month, Brown made a number of explosive allegations in a request for a mistrial, including that the nephew's first foster parent may have committed perjury by not revealing the teen had been accused of engaging in sex acts with a 14-year-old boy.
Springstead rejected those claims, saying that none of those allegations were relevant to the case.
Gigliotti was accused of beating her nephew and periodically locking him in a bathroom at their Spring Hill home for the better part of 15 months before he escaped in February 2009.
Prosecutors said that Gigliotti beat, bruised, starved and hog-tied the boy on the cold tile floor in the days before he managed to free himself and run to a neighbor's house.
At the end of a seven-day trial in early May, jurors sided with the prosecutors. A jury of six people, five of them mothers, reached a guilty verdict in a little more than three hours.
Gigliotti's attorneys have always maintained that her nephew's story was exaggerated and riddled with discrepancies.
Brown wasn't available for comment Friday.
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Haven't we had enough of Jane Austen? Apparently not, according to Screen Gems. However, instead of giving us another Joe Wright costume drama, the studio plans to update the Jane Austen novel Emma against a hip-hop backdrop.
That's right. They're not just re-making bad slasher films from the 80s. They're also remaking stuffy British literature as musical urban street dramas.
Chris Bender and J.C. Spink will produce the film, which is to be set in an inner-city high school. Tyger Williams, who is best known for 1993's Menace II Society, wrote the screenplay.
Emma was most recently brought to the big screen with Gwyneth Paltrow in the title role in 1996. It was also made into the contemporary high school comedy Clueless in 1995
To help breathe fresh, urban life into this version, the film will feature at least 15 hip-hop songs and is expected to also feature dance numbers that made in films like Stomp the Yard and You Got Served hits for Screen Gems.
According to Variety, the film's title will most likely be changed to Emme, which was inspired by Lil Mama's "Lipgloss" music video.
Personally, I think a new title like Emme is a little soft. If anyone out there at Screen Gems is listening, here are my suggestions…
Emizzle Movievizzle
Or, in the spirit of Clueless… Whatchoo Talkin' 'Bout, Willis?
This last suggestion would involve a rewrite in which Gary Coleman comes out of reality TV hell and stops selling Cadillacs when he learns he never earned his high school diploma. After enrolling back in his local stomping grounds, he becomes the spunky romantic muse to the kids in the yard. Oh, and Todd Bridges kills someone.
Sound Off: What do you think the new title of the urbanized Emma should be?


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Son Dambi showcased her beautiful figure and curves in a recent photo shoot. Singer Son Dambi recently completed a photo shoot for fashion brand H&T. The concept for this shoot was 'Year-End Party Look', and she showcased her sexy and 'uniquely Son Dambi' charm & appeals in a sexy black mini with a black coat to match. Son Dambi lived up to her title as 'Sexy Queen' as the dress highlighted her voluptuous figure and the design of the dress helped draw attention to her hips. Her hair and makeup was also bold. She donned smokey eye makeup and a tossled, wavy hairstyle. In one photo, the singer slightly cocked her head backwards and exuded self confidence while in another, she expressed her 'femme fatale' charms by seductively putting on her lipstick with her coat hanging off her shoulder. Source & Image : Dispatch via Nate
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People raving about Robert Griffin III hardly qualifies as news anymore. But Chris Cooley kind of took things to another level during an appearance on ESPN Radio this week.
"He's incredible," the veteran tight end said. "He's been incredible from the minute he set foot in our locker room. He does everything that you can see on the field. And he's the most explosive, exciting player that I've been around – and that, I think, a lot of people have seen, in terms of a quarterback.
"But what he does in the locker room and in the meeting rooms is what really blows me away. We've been able to grow offensively – as far as volume, what we do, presenting different game plans – more than I have in a season, ever. And he's a rookie. And he's the guy that runs it all.
"I mean, his work ethic, and his ability to make these things happen and make our gameplan go has been unreal. And then you put that together with his leadership skills, his relationship with the guys, the way everyone believes. It's awesome. I mean, people really, really believe in him. We believe we're gonna win football games. We have no doubt we can score. We have no doubt that we can beat teams. And it's been fun for me…"
Then Cooley talked about the injury concerns many folks have when Griffin takes off running.
"He went down real weird in the fourth quarter [Monday] night, bent his legs all up," Cooley said. "It doesn't even bother him. I mean, obviously you don't want to see your quarterback take hits like that, but the way he works and the way he's wired is just a little bit different than everyone else. I mean, literally, when you look at a guy that's made to do something, he's made to do what he's doing."
As for his own contributions to the Skins' offense, "I warmed the hell out of that bench last night," Cooley joked.


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À venir bientôt dans les magasins électroniques… (Battements de tambours)...le nouvel iPhone 5!!!
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