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A Comparison of Adefovir and Tenofovir for the Treatment of Lamivudine-Resistant Hepatitis B Virus in People With HIV
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
First received: April 8, 2002
Last updated: May 17, 2012
Last Verified: May 2012
History of Changes
Control of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection can be difficult in HIV infected people who have taken the antiviral lamivudine (3TC). These people may have HBV that has become resistant to 3TC. Adefovir dipivoxil (ADV) has shown promising anti-HBV activity in clinical trials; tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) is used to treat HIV and may also be effective against HBV. The purpose of this study is to find out if adding ADV or TDF to a highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimen that includes 3TC has an effect on HBV infection in patients coinfected with HIV and HBV. The tolerability and safety of these drugs will be examined.
HIV Infections
Hepatitis B
Drug : Adefovir dipivoxil
Drug : Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Phase II, Controlled Trial Comparing the Efficacy of Adefovir Dipivoxil and Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate for the Treatment of Lamivudine-Resistant Hepatitis B Virus in Subjects Who Are Co-Infected With HIV
Further study details as provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2005
Detailed Description:
HBV presents a worldwide health crisis and is difficult to treat when a patient's HBV strain
is no longer responsive to 3TC. Given the significant incidence of 3TC-resistant HBV in
patients receiving this drug as part of an antiretroviral regimen, other agents with anti-HBV
activity are needed. ADV has shown promising anti-HBV activity in preclinical assessments and
in Phase I, II, and III clinical trials. TDF, developed for the treatment of HIV infection,
has in vitro activity against HBV. This study will compare TDF/3TC combination therapy with
ADV/3TC combination therapy to determine which treatment regimen is more effective in
patients coinfected with HBV and HIV.
This study will include two populations of patients. Patients in Population A are on stable HAART that includes TDF and will either be in Group I (compensated liver disease) or Group II (decompensated liver disease). All patients in Population A will be randomly assigned to one of two arms: Arm 1 patients will receive 10 mg ADV daily and TDF placebo; Arm 2 patients will receive ADV placebo and 300 mg TDF. Patients in Population B are on stable HAART and have never taken TDF as part of their HAART. Population B patients will receive 300 mg TDF daily during the course of the study.
Study visits will occur every 4 weeks for the 96-week study period. Targeted clinical and medication assessments and blood work assessing clotting time, liver function, and blood chemistry will be conducted at each study visit. HIV and HBV DNA viral load will be tested every 12 weeks. CD4 cell counts will be tested at Weeks 24, 48, 72, and 96.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria for All Participants:
- HIV infected
- HBV infected
- Serum HBV DNA of 100,000 copies/ml or greater
- Positive for serum hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) within 12 weeks prior to study entry
- Agree to use acceptable methods of contraception
- Serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) of 50 ng/ml or less within 30 days of study entry. If AFP is greater than 50 ng/ml, the patient must have an imaging study of the liver showing no tumor within 30 days prior to study entry
- Uninterrupted stable HAART regimen at study entry for at least 12 continuous weeks prior to study entry
- HIV viral load of 10,000 copies/ml or less within 12 weeks of study entry
- Compensated liver disease
- Child-Pugh-Turcotte (CPT) score of less than 7
- Excess fluid in the space between the membranes lining the abdomen and abdominal organs (ascites)
- Gastrointestinal (variceal) bleeding
- Brain and nervous system damage as a result of liver disease
- Abnormal blood clotting time
- Decompensated liver disease
- CPT score of 7-12
- Prior HAART regimen
- Never taken TDF as part of HAART regimen
- Serum HBV DNA of 100,000 copies/ml or greater within 12 weeks of study entry
- HIV viral load of greater than 10,000 copies/ml within 12 weeks of study entry
- CPT score less than 13
- Serious kidney problems within the last 12 months
- Allergic or sensitive to ADV or TDF
- Active hepatitis C virus (HCV) disease or unknown HCV status within 24 weeks of study entry
- Any medical or mental illness that, in the opinion of the investigator, would interfere with the protocol
- Past or current alcohol or drug abuse that would affect the protocol
- Malignancy that, in the opinion of the investigator, would make the patient unsuitable for the study
- Certain anti-HBV drugs within 90 days of study entry or expected use of these agents during the course of the study
- Drugs that may damage the kidneys within 8 weeks prior to study screening or expected use of these agents during the course of the study
- Systemic corticosteroids within 90 days of study entry
- Current use of drugs containing pivalic acid
- Certain investigational anti-HIV agents
- Pregnant or breastfeeding
Inclusion Criteria for Population A:
Inclusion Criteria for Population A, Group I:
Exclusion Criteria for Population A, Group I:
Inclusion Criteria for Population A, Group II:
Inclusion Criteria for Population B:
Exclusion Criteria
Contacts and LocationsChoosing 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: NCT00033163
Locations Show More
|United States, California
|UC Davis Medical Center
|Sacramento, California, United States, 95814
|Univ. of California Davis Med. Ctr., ACTU
|Sacramento, California, United States
|Ucsf Aids Crs
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94110
|United States, Colorado
|University of Colorado Hospital CRS
|Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80262
|United States, Illinois
|Northwestern University CRS
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
|Cook County Hosp. CORE Ctr.
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|United States, Maryland
|Johns Hopkins Adult AIDS CRS
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287
|United States, New York
|Beth Israel Med. Ctr., ACTU
|New York, New York, United States, 10003
|NY Univ. HIV/AIDS CRS
|New York, New York, United States, 10016
|Cornell CRS
|New York, New York, United States, 10021
|Weill Med. College of Cornell Univ., The Cornell CTU
|New York, New York, United States
|United States, Ohio
|Univ. of Cincinnati CRS
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 452670405
|MetroHealth CRS
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 441091998
|United States, Tennessee
|Vanderbilt Therapeutics CRS
|Nashville, Tennessee, United States, 37203
|United States, Washington
|University of Washington AIDS CRS
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98104
Sponsors and CollaboratorsNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|Study Chair:
|Bruce Polsky, MD
|St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
|Study Chair:
|Marion Peters, MD
|University of California, San Francisco
More Information
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00033163 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|April 8, 2002
|Last Updated:
|May 17, 2012
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):Antiviral Agents
Hepatitis B
Drug Resistance, Microbial
DNA, Viral
Hepatitis B Virus
Adefovir dipivoxil
Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate
Treatment Experienced
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Adefovir dipivoxil
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on March 27, 2020
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I am very excited about buying reason soon and I have a few questions before I do, maybe you can help me out? I currently have a Mac and considering buying a laptop for when I'm away with work.
1) If I bought Reason, would I be able to use it on both computers or could I only use it on the machine I register it on?
2) If I am able to use it across both machines, would they both have to be Macs or could one be a Mac and the other Windows?
The questions are likely to continue but I thought here would be a good place to start.
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STMicroelectronics has released a new single-chip motion controller that engineers can use to design a variety of equipment with quieter, smaller, and lighter precision movement and position systems, the company said.
The new cSPIN controller includes similar features to controllers with a multi-chip architecture but with all the functionality on one chip, making it optimal for the design of equipment that requires precise movements, such as robotic systems and industrial automation, as well as security cameras and other camera-focusing mechanisms.
"The key benefit is the possibility to implement a high-performance stepper motor driver in a very simple, compact, and inexpensive way, while the state-of-the-art technology avoids the need for several ICs and many passive components," Vincenzo Marano, system and application manager for motor control at STMicroelectronics, told Design News.
Many current motion controllers include more than one processor, which generally provides more noise and complexity in equipment design, according to STMicroelectronics. Multi-chip controllers also often require additional motor-control software, as well as for designers to combine calculation, control, and interfacing functions after they've been developed on separate chips, adding an extra step to the equipment development process.
"Because of the integration of the motion engine, cSPIN needs few resources from the host controller (typically a microcontroller): no complex routines need to be implemented in the controller software allowing for faster development cycles and cost savings, especially in multi-motor applications," Marano told us.
CSPIN's single-chip design is more compact and low-weight than multi-chip controllers, and also allows for precise control over rotation speed, which is handy when designing repeatable motions that require accuracy, such as equipment that mixes liquids for medications, according to the company. "The most common stepper motor models provide 200 step per revolution, which, with this product, turns into more than 25,000 micro steps per revolution," Marano said. "Such a high resolution, together with a special control technique (voltage mode operation), also provides an exceptional motion smoothness."
Engineers also can develop equipment that is less noisy, which can reduce the environmental impact on people working in places like laboratories and hospitals. The controller's lightweight and compact design also lends itself to the development of systems that overall are lower cost and more efficient, eliminating the inclusion for shunt resistors and therefore reducing the possibility of energy waste, according to STMicroelectronics.
STMicroelectcronics has released two versions of the cSPIN controllers -- the L6480, which supports micro-stepping operation at up to 1/128 steps resolution, and the L6482, which includes the predictive control algorithm and the auto-adaptive decay mode.
The core features of cSPIN controllers include the following:
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- Integrated protection mechanisms: over-temperature, low bus voltage, over-current, motor-stall;
- 5Mbit/s SPI interface;
- Fully-programmable gate driving;
- Innovative voltage mode control with internal BEMF compensation (L6480);
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The Huttenhower Lab
My lab in the Biostatistics Department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health focuses on understanding the function of microbial communities, particularly that of the human microbiome in health and disease. This entails a combination of computational methods development for wrangling large data collections, as well as biological analyses and laboratory experiments to link the microbiome in human populations to specific microbiological mechanisms. In particular, we've worked extensively with the NIH Human Microbiome Project to help develop the first comprehensive map of the healthy Western adult microbiome, and there's plenty of work left to keep us busy understanding how human-associated microbial communities can be used as a means of diagnosis or therapeutic intervention on the continuum between health and disease.
Specific research areas we're working on include:
Computational models for functional genomics in microbial communities. These typically involve bioinformatic algorithm development to relate the microbes present in an environment to their biomolecular activities using metagenomic, metatranscriptomic, proteomic, or metabolomic data (or, when possible, all of the above). Model bacteria like E. coli have been very closely studied in isolation, but there are upwards of two pounds of bacteria in your gut right now, and we don't know what they're doing there. Or rather, we know that they're helping to digest your food, to keep your immune system in good shape, and probably to fight off metabolic disorders like diabetes and obesity - but we don't yet know how. Much of the same can be said of pathogens; every bacterial or viral infection creates its own "community" comprising a population of cells evolving within your body. If you're interested in the nuts and bolts, they include:
- How can we use large-scale data integration to predict protein function and biological networks in uncharacterized microbial populations? Sequence homology doesn't cut it in most microorganisms; horizontal gene transfer and sub/neo-functionalization wipe out a lot of the expected signal. And between 1/3 and 2/3 of the microbial genes we encounter in the wild are typically uncharacterized.
- How can we integrate data across species in a microbial community in order to predict the overall behavior of the system? This requires a different perspective on biological function, since there's a difference between what one bug in your gut is doing to survive and what they're all doing together to help eat your food.
- Where does "you" stop and your microbial community begin? There are more microbial cells in you than human cells, and they're just as beneficial to your health as your kidneys or lungs (unless they're pathogens, in which case they're not as nice). I'm interested in using large scale data mining to assemble a joint picture of microbe-microbe and host-microbe interactions as a single biological system.
- Can we develop experimental models in the lab that accurately reflect the behavior of microbial communities in the wild? It's very difficult to build something tractable in a dish that "acts like" a human-associated microbial community in the absence of a true host or animal model.
It's important to translate the human microbiome into actionable diagnostics and therapeutics as well. Bioinformatic models of microbiology and molecular biology typically inform our understanding of mechanism - exactly which bugs or molecules are carrying out specific biological processes. But we've still got a wide gap to bridge between these details and understanding the microbiome in large human populations, let alone whether it can be used to predict or mitigate disease risk. Areas of translational or epidemiological interest for the lab include:
- Gut microbiome structure and function in autoimmune disease, particularly the inflammatory bowel diseases Crohn's and colitis and in other immune disorders such as type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. Even though these conditions have highly disparate symptoms, they share both genetic and immunological links, and are increasingly understood to be microbiologically related as well.
- Computational methods for microbiome biomarker discovery, both cross-sectionally among populations and longitudinally over time. The first step in relating the healthy microbiome to disease is understanding exactly when a microbe or microbial gene is statistically, reproducibly different, and the second is determining whether that difference is a cause or an effect.
- Assessing potential interventions to the microbiome for maintaining or improving host health. If we can understand when or how the microbiome has "gone wrong" in disease, we can also begin to correct those malfunctions. Microbial (probiotic), dietary, and pharmaceutical (small molecule) stimuli have all been well-studied for their effects on the microbiome in animal models, and we hope they'll become increasingly viable for human health as well.
Finally, computational models for functional genomics in higher organisms, particularly for human health and populations are often not that different from those for microbial communities. Multicellular organisms (and human beings in particular) represent a unique opportunity for bioinformatic analysis. Paradoxically, although we tend to know more details about simple model organisms, the vast majority of the experimental data out there deals with metazoans. However, the same complexities that make us human - hundreds of distinct tissue types, combinatorial intra- and intercellular signaling, and development from a single cell to over ten trillion - make us look a lot more like a microbial community than a unicellular model organism in many cases. A selection of the challenges involved includes:
- Practical. Individual bacteria and most unicellular organisms have in the neighborhood of 5,000 genes, and as you scale up genome size to humans' ~25,000, data management and analysis become difficult.
- Experimental. You can't grow most organisms (or communities) in petri dishes, so there's just plain not as much detailed information available, and computational predictions are harder to validate in a meaningful way.
- Evolutionary. After genomes have been duplicated and rearranged across millions of years, how can you tell when sequence conservation equates functional conservation? What does it mean when one gene in a model organism is homologous to a whole set of human genes (especially if they're expressed in different tissue types or at different times)?
- Theoretical. How do you best search multiple aligned interaction networks for dense subgraphs? In other words, if you know (or at least guess) what every gene is doing in several related organisms, how do you pick out the interesting bits?
My work includes initial efforts to broaden our functional analysis techniques for higher organisms, with the particular goal of using computation to advance the state of genomic medicine and our mechanistic understanding of human disease. This includes not only making computational predictions in multicellular organisms, but also comparing and analyzing their commonalities and differences and using better studied model systems to enhance our knowledge of less well understood ones.
Like everyone else in academia, I work on plenty of other projects as well. I also love teaching, hosting an introductory bioinformatics course here at Harvard and, previously, working with the novel Integrated Science program at Princeton. Please feel free to contact the lab for more details about our work, our teaching and training activities, or for inquiries from prospective postdoctoral or visiting researchers.


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This has got to be the most convoluted way to unlink a Netflix account in the Samsung Smart Hub available on some newer Samsung TVs.
My parents just got a new TV and so I thought I would show them Netflix streaming on the fancy new TV by using my account. Unfortunately there was no way to log out of the application. If you're looking at switching to another user account, also equally difficult.
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TEEMING WITH LIFE: If you've ever sat through a welcome film at an aquarium or animal park or ocean-close institution, and you've watched various beasties trot and climb and swim, it's almost a certainty that you've heard a narrator intone the stirring words "teeming with life." It's almost mandatory that this short sentence appears in a film about nature or the wild, and the truth? It's the truth. The woods and the seas and lakes do tend to teem with life. But what then do we say of a place that's away from it all, where birds and whales and foxes and animalia flourish? And an island group where springtime is nesting time for an assortment of birds, including some rare? If other places use "teeming with life," we want to say that the Channel Islands National Park is "extra-teeming with life" come nesting season. It does seem that way, as you head out an Island Packers boat from Ventura, binocs out, dolphins making playful cameos near the bow of the boat.
WHAT YOU'RE KEEPING A WATCH FOR... Rare boobies, both blue-footed and brown. Western gulls. Double crested cormorants. Brown pelicans. And the "scarce" Ashy Storm Petrel, a "smaller visiting nester" to the islands. Plus? A host of other birds. It's a field day for feather fans as birds both rare and seen-around build nests and tend to their bitty progeny. Many people have been venturing out to see the blue-footed boobies and brown boobies, too, since they do stay nearer tp Baja, so Santa Barbara Channel cameos are far less frequent. Is this the season you eye something that super-extra-teems with life? Nesting doesn't last forever.
NOR DOES... whale season. You just may see a gray or a Minke on your way out to Anacapa Island or Santa Cruz Island, given that gray and Minke migrations intersect with nesting season on the islands. Imagine seeing one of the world's largest creatures and a wee little gull, all in a day. Trust Island Packers, the longtime Channel Islands run-company, to point out both.


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That is, if you believe the listings for said games on the ESRB's website (linked above; screenshot below). I do, as news pertaining to the addition of other games heading to digital distribution channels like Xbox Live Arcade and Nintendo's Virtual Console have been leaked via ESRB listings in the past.
Please, please let this be true! If it is, that means there will be FOUR Ninja Gaiden titles on the 3DS (there's (apparently...unless it has been cancelled) an original Ninja Gaiden title in development for the little handheld that could). FOUR!
If this is indeed true, will you be purchasing any of these? I know for sure I will buy Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos (one of my all time favourite games). Ninja Gaiden arcade is a probable, but not certain buy. Depends upon the price. I'm not a big fan of it but it's decent. I'll probably skip Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom, as I don't really like that entry in the series.
P.S. As of now, the first NES Ninja Gaiden title (simply titled Ninja Gaiden) is not listed for the 3DS. I don't know why, and I hope that changes, because it's an excellent game, and even though I own it on the NES and the Wii I will still purchase it for the 3DS. It's not as good as the sequel that was released a year later on the NES, but it's a very good game in its own right.


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I am exploring a semi-continuous latent growth model across 4 time points for two groups. In the semi-continuous growth model example in the Mplus User's Guide, the latent intercept factor mean for the binary portion is fixed at 0 and thresholds are estimated and equated. Because I want to freely estimate the latent intercept factor mean so that I can test for equality of this mean across groups, I reparameterized the model by fixing all thresholds at 0 and estimating the latent intercept mean. However, I am unsure as how to interpret the mean for the latent intercept factor.
Because the model is centered at the 1st time point, I thought that exp(M)/(1+exp(M) should equal the estimated probability for endorsing the 2nd category at the 1st time point, where M is the latent intercept mean. However, my calculation does not equal the estimated probability provided in the output.
Thank you!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 5:16 pm
In the binary part of the two-part model, random effects influence the outcome probability. The probability that you have computed is conditional on a person being at the mean of the random intercept. That is not the same as the (marginal) probability. To get the marginal probability you have to numerically integrate over the random intercept and that is what Mplus does to get the estimated probability.
Scott Weaver
posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 5:48 pm
Thank you for the information!
So does this mean that the interpretation of the random intercept for a growth process with binary indicators is analogous to interpretation of a random intercept for a growth process with continuous indicators? If not, what meaning or interpretation does the random intercept mean with binary indicators have? Or is there no substantively useful meaning or interpretation?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, August 18, 2006 - 6:17 pm
I think it has a meaningful substantive interpretation given that it directly influences the probability. It is similar to the interpretation of an intercept for a continuous outcome. The intercept mean isn't the logit that gives the mean probability, but for people at the intercept mean it is the logit behind the probability for those people. This same phenomenon has been written about in the binary growth literature, for instance in the context of population-averaged and subject-specific differences, e.g. in the GEE literature by Zeger and others. See also text books on it, including the standard multilevel books.
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So, I am just lame at updating my blog. Sorry, but I do have some great updates. First, I finished a couple of Halloween/Fall patterns that I got from Shakespeare's Peddler this summer. She was running a clearance sale and I picked up the following two patterns. I really like the moon pattern. The Fall Fling piece will be finished as a pinkeep. (Sorry, I didn't rotate the picture before I uploaded it.)
This past weekend we had a girls' day of sorts. This is a picture of me and my youngest nephew Leif (he came to visit for a while at the end of the day). My younger sister wanted to organize a scrapbooking day for several of our friends and in the process raise money for the church. Though we only had 6 people attend the event, it was a lot of fun. We started with scrapbooking. I'm not as excited as scrapbooking as I was in the past, so it didn't take me long to change gears. We all eventually switched to stitching.
Now, I am so excited about these next two projects. I started L'automne d'Anna a while ago, but have made quite a bit of progress this week. The piece reminds me of a child's coloring book page. It is also a lot bigger than I thought it would be, but I really like the colors.
Have you seen Theresa's new Jenny Bean samplers? She released the Halloween sampler at market and just finished the Christmas samplers. I love these. I started the Halloween sampler yesterday. I am stitching on it while I watch Ghost Whisperer each night. Hopefully I can finish it by Halloween. This one is a lot of fun to stitch because of the variety. The letters are not all the same style, so it doesn't get boring. You check out the Christmas sampler at Theresa's blog. I can't wait to get it next month.
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Wow! Is it October already?
These past few weeks have been crazy. First, though, I have a lot of finished projects to share. Theresa from Shakespeare's Peddler was on her way to market and I wanted to finish some of my stash so I would feel guilty buying some of the new wonderful things she would bring home. So, I went through my basket and pulled out all of the small Halloween and fall projects and started stitching. I even had a stitching day for the girls so we could all sit around and gossip and stitch all day. So, here are some of those projects...
This is a Trail Creek pattern that has been sitting around for awhile. I didn't buy the buttons, so I just went through my scrapbooking stash to find something appropriate. (Aren't you impress, Lisha?)
I got this pattern at a stitching retreat a year or two ago. It was very easy to stitch and quite cute. I think I will finish this as a no-sew cube.
Don't you just love biscornus? I found this pattern online and don't know why it has taken me so long to do this. I just think the spiders are perfect for the little witches. Cute, cute, cute.
And this is another Barbara-Anna biscornu. I think I purchased this pattern last year. I changed some of the threads because I don't have access to Anchor here in Hattiesburg. But it is still very cute.
And finally, Trilogy's Halloween Line-up. I bought this one quite a while ago and kept putting it at the back of the stack. It was a very fun stitch. I love the spiders on this one too.
I have restocked my stash a bit. I now have Shakespeare's Peddler Jenny Bean Halloween Sampler (love this one), including the fabric and limited edition threads. I just might start this on later this week. I also picked up Lizzie Kate ABC Christmas, Blackbird Designs Midnight Watch, and The Primitive Needle Witches Hallow. All three of these are very pretty. I don't know if I will stitch them this year or wait until later. We will just have to wait and see.
On a different note, this has been a very dramatic month. It seems like every week something was happening. Fortunately, mostly good things. Patrick's band performed at their first contests last weekend and made all superior at both. I also attended my 20 yr. HS reunion. It was nice to see everyone.
The boys are very excited about their Fall Break. They will be out of school Friday and next Monday and Tuesday. Fortunately, I don't have to be at work Thursday or Friday, so I have a bit of break myself. I need to catch up with some research and textbook writing though.
Have a great week...
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DAVIDSON, N.C. (Sept. 14, 2012) – Winners of its last four games, the ETSU men's soccer team looks to tie the program record for most consecutive victories when it travels to Alumni Stadium on Saturday for a meeting with the Davidson Wildcats at 7 p.m.
ETSU (4-1-0) is No. 8 in the latest NSCAA/Continental Tire South Region Poll, having spent the last two weeks in the regional rankings. The Bucs entered the poll after defeating UNC Greensboro, Presbyterian and then-No. 17 UAB in the same week.
Leading ETSU in the early going has been junior David Geno (Kingsport, Tenn.), who has scored three goals and tallied one assist through the first five games. Redshirt senior Colin Pugh (Dublin, Ireland) holds the team's assist lead, registering three helpers including Geno's game-winner to take down the Blazers.
ETSU's Last Outing
The Bucs played just one game last week, earning its first come-from-behind victory of the season by defeating Radford in double-overtime, 2-1. Redshirt junior transfer Luis Calzadilla (Caracas, Venezuela) scored both ETSU goals, equalizing the game with 10 minutes left in regulation and sending in the game-winning penalty midway through the second overtime. ETSU trailed, 1-0, at halftime.
Scouting the Wildcats
Davidson (2-2-1) enters Saturday as winners of its last two games, earning two victories last weekend in the Davidson adidas Classic. The Wildcats beat Richmond, 2-1, on Saturday, followed by a, 4-3, defeat of A-Sun member USC Upstate on Monday. Against the Spartans, Davidson took a 3-1 lead in the 51st minute, but conceded two goals through the remainder of the half to force overtime. In the extra session, USC Upstate was called for a handball in the box, giving the Wildcats a penalty kick for the win. Brian McGue converted the chance, as Davidson escaped after surrendering its two-goal lead.
Andrew Dilallo heads the Wildcats' goal scoring, netting three to this point in the 2012 campaign. McGue's game-winning penalty tied him for second on the team with Valeriy Sviderskly. Jake Keator leads the team in shots with 11, and shares the team-lead in assists with Peter Paras.
In their last meeting
The Bucs and Wildcats had their first all-time meeting last year at Summers-Taylor Stadium, with ETSU earning the, 3-2, win. Gabe Rivera put Davidson in front eight minutes after the first whistle, but Aaron Schoenfeld leveled the score four minutes later. In the second half, Itode Fubara (Ogbema, Nigeria) put the Buccaneers in front, but McGue scored six minutes later to equalize the score once again. With less than four minutes to play, Geno sent in the game-winner with a shot that deflected off a Wildcat defender and found its way into the back of the net.
Live stats for Saturday night's game will be provided by Stat Broadcast through ETSUBucs.com. Live video will also be available courtesy of DavidsonWildcats.com.
ETSU Notes
- ETSU's longest winning and unbeaten streaks in program history are five. The Bucs will be looking to tie that mark with a win against the Wildcats.
- ETSU can eclipse the school mark for most consecutive non-conference wins (4) with a win on Saturday.
- The Bucs picked up their first win of the season when trailing at the half or later last Saturday against Radford. ETSU was down 1-0 at halftime and came back to win via two goals from Luis Calzadilla.
- David Geno and Itode Fubara currently sit one assist behind Aaron Schoenfeld for most career assists (10).
- Saturday night's game is the first of four consecutive road matches for the Bucs, featuring Davidson, Kentucky, Winthrop and Furman.
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Who's winning? Here's how you'll be able to tell
The political fortunes of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney could be determined today in little-known counties with names like Loudoun, Lucas and Larimer.
After 17 months and more than $2 billion spent crisscrossing the nation in search of votes, the two presidential candidates, their staffs and an army of journalists and political junkies will huddle tonight over county maps and precinct reports to gauge the voters' verdict.
It won't be New York, Chicago or Los Angeles that decides the election. Instead, swing counties such as Virginia's Loudoun, Ohio's Lucas and Colorado's Larimer will play outsized roles in picking the next president. (More on those places below.)
STORY:Exit polling goes the way of changing media trends
Today, turnout among Democrats' and Republicans' base voters will begin to tell the tale of the 2012 election. Turnout was above 65% in 10 swing states in 2008 and 61.6% overall, slightly higher than 2004.
Then the TV networks and other news organizations will begin releasing the results of "exit polls" taken outside polling places, which will shed light on the choices made by men and women, whites and minorities, young and old, urban and rural. More so than in the past, that information is likely to spill out on Twitter and other social media outlets.
Once the polls close from east to west, the results from early voting — representing as much as two-thirds of the vote in some states — will become known. That will be followed by the gradual tabulation of Election Day votes, starting at 7 p.m. ET and continuing deep into the night.
All the clues will be important, because news organizations may be cautious in projecting state winners from a combination of exit polls, vote counts from key precincts, the number of votes outstanding and historical voting data. That's partially a result of the debacle of 2000, when TV networks prematurely proclaimed George W. Bush president long before that result became clear. In 2004, exit polls greatly overstated Democrat John Kerry's strength in his failed effort to unseat Bush.
Here's a guide to watching the returns tonight:
Exurbs rule
There was a reason the president kept returning to Prince William County, a Washington, D.C., exurb, in the campaign's waning days. Together with neighboring Loudoun County, both just beyond reliably Democratic Fairfax, it offers the keys to the Old Dominion.
"They're exurbs, and they're diverse. The big breakthrough for Obama (in 2008) came when he won those counties," says Larry Sabato, who directs the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Other keys: Henrico and Chesterfield counties, around Richmond, and military-dependent Virginia Beach, the state's most populous city. Romney must run strong there; in 2008 Obama held his own, even against war hero John McCain.
As for demographics, Sabato will look primarily at gender and race. Obama almost surely will win among women and Romney among men, but whoever enjoys the greater gender gap will win. And the president must get close to 40% of the white vote to hold on, Sabato says.
Virginia most closely mirrored the national election four years ago, giving Obama 52.6% of the vote (he won 52.9% nationally). If one candidate is declared the winner in Virginia fairly early in the evening, Sabato says, "that candidate is very likely to win the election, because that means either Romney or Obama is running well ahead of expectations."
Auto country
There's something different to watch here this year beyond the usual Democratic, Republican and bellwether counties: auto country.
Traditionally Democratic, the counties around Youngstown and Toledo could be even more so this year, and that would be welcome news for Obama. If the president polls 60% or more there, he could win the state, University of Akron political science professor David Cohen says.
Perhaps most telling will be Lucas County, which Cohen calls "ground zero" of the latest Ohio flap: Romney's last-minute ad implying that Chrysler, which runs a Jeep plant in Toledo, will ship jobs to China.
The state that most often determines the presidency also has several key swing counties: Look to Lake County east of Cleveland, where Obama visited Saturday, as well as Canton-based Stark County, both of which usually pick the winners.
Obama won the male vote here in 2008, exit polls showed — something he's unlikely to repeat, so he needs a healthy majority of women, Cohen says. He also needs to crush Romney by more than 2-to-1 in Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), while a strong showing by Romney in Hamilton County (Cincinnati) could indicate the state is going Republican.
A turnout battle
The African-American vote in North Carolina gave Obama one of his two most unlikely victories in 2008 (Indiana was the other). The question this year: Will blacks turn out in sufficient numbers to do it again?
Most polls suggest not, giving Romney one of his only clear swing-state advantages. Still, gains among Latino voters, plus the Obama campaign's vaunted get-out-the-vote effort, could make things close.
"Electing a black president made history. Re-electing a black president isn't the same thing," says David Rohde, a political science professor at Duke University.
He will look to the state's heavily minority counties such as Durham, where Duke is based, for signs that turnout is as strong or weaker than it was in 2008, when turnout increased over previous years by more than any other state.
Late night ahead?
If the election is close in the Sunshine State, as it usually is, the most important votes won't show up in either candidate's column as the results are tabulated.
They are the provisional ballots, those that election officials must certify later, and their number is expected to grow this year because of rules relating to address changes. Historically, Democrats have been twice as likely to cast provisional ballots.
"All eyes are going to be on them," University of Florida political science professor Daniel Smith says of the provisional votes. "And all the lawyers' eyes are going to be on them."
About half the state's voters have cast early ballots, and those should be tabulated fairly quickly after the polls close. Watch Hillsborough County in the Tampa Bay area for a clue to the election, Smith says — its ethnic and racial diversity tipped 53% of its voters for Obama in 2008.
Manchester is key
The biggest city in the state closes its polls at 7 p.m., ahead of some others, and usually tallies results quickly. So shortly after all state polls close at 8 p.m., its results should be known.
Andy Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, says Obama needs at least 53% in Manchester to capture the state. Anything less could be overwhelmed by the small, rural counties that will report much later and tilt Romney's way. "Just watch Manchester. That's going to give you a really good idea," Smith says. "It sets the tone for the entire state."
East meets west
Romney's late effort to steal the state from Obama's win column will hinge on turnout in two areas: east of the Susquehanna River in Philadelphia and its suburbs, where Obama should get a majority of at least 500,000, and northern and southwestern Pennsylvania, where Romney needs to pile up white, blue-collar votes.
But Pennsylvania also has eight swing counties in the east that could determine the election: Bucks, Montgomery, Chester and Delaware counties, which surround Philadelphia, will be watched closely, as will Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe and Berks, which include cities such as Allentown, Bethlehem and Reading.
Those counties have the largest number of independents, says Terry Madonna, director of the Center for Politics and Public Affairs at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. The candidate who captures most of those counties could win the state, he says, "because you're winning the voters in the middle."
Two key swing counties
For years, political prognosticators looked to Macomb County north of Detroit, home of the "Reagan Democrats," as the key to Michigan politics. Now it's got competition from neighboring Oakland County.
Oakland gave 57% of its votes to Obama in 2008 and Macomb 53%. If Obama can just break even or come close this year in Macomb while holding Oakland, "then obviously Republicans are in bad shape," says political analyst Ed Sarpolus. "There's no way that Romney can win losing Oakland County." Another place to watch is Kent County, home of Grand Rapids, where the strong Republican base has been eroding.
This is another state where Obama needs to win big among blacks and union workers to compensate for a likely loss among whites. If Romney can get 55% among whites, Sarpolus says, he could have a good night.
Watch the early vote
Some 70% of Colorado voters' ballots were cast before Election Day and will be counted quickly after the polls close. Ironically, however, this is one state where the result may hinge on the last votes to be counted — late postmarks, slow precincts, provisional ballots. It's that close.
Both parties have their base counties where they should perform well; who does better depends on turnout, which topped 70% in 2008. Then there are the swing counties: Jefferson and Arapahoe around Denver, and Larimer on the Wyoming border, which includes Fort Collins.
Obama won all three counties in 2008 with 54%-55% of the vote, but this is a closer election. "You've got to watch what happens in those swing counties," says Floyd Ciruli, a Colorado pollster and political analyst.
The president will win women, Latinos and young people, Ciruli says, but the margins will be telling.
North by northwest
Milwaukee, Madison and Green Bay won't decide this election. Instead, look to the north and northwest. That area has been the bellwether of late. It went for Obama in 2008 but swung back to elect Republican Scott Walker governor in 2010 and help him survive a recall this past June.
"When Democrats win statewide, they normally win a majority of the counties in that area," says Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette University Law School Poll. "If that area looks mostly blue, that's great news for Obama. If it looks mostly red, that's a real warning, and probably good news for Romney."
Another wild card is Paul Ryan, the GOP candidate for vice president. His base in Rock County is usually Democratic turf — Obama won it with 64% last time — but Ryan's name is on the ballot twice as he seeks to retain his seat in Congress should the Romney-Ryan ticket lose.
Ballot issues could help GOP
How this blue state nudged its way into the November discussion is a mystery to many. The answer might come from elsewhere on the ballot.
If Obama has trouble, it could indicate conservative enthusiasm for traditional marriage and tougher voter ID rules, questions that are being put to voters. "If they're passing, that's an early indication that it's a good night for Republicans," says Steven Schier, political science professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn.
Obama needs 60% or more in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area to compensate for Romney's advantage in the suburbs and exurbs, Schier says. "That's where Republicans really have to stop the Democrats," he says. Turnout in Minnesota in 2008 was 78%, the highest in the nation.
Shades of 2008?
The early vote will be tabulated quickly after polls close, giving the first sign of where things stand. By all indications, it should show a Democratic lead of as much as 10 points.
Heavy turnout in Iowa's college towns, such as Ames, Cedar Falls and Iowa City, could be driving that lead, but whether that turnout matches 2008 remains to be seen. "There's some concern that younger voters are not going to turn out for Obama the way they did in 2008," says Steffen Schmidt, a political science professor at Iowa State University.
Several other races in Iowa could provide hints for the presidential race: Watch the retention battle over Judge David Wiggins, a gay marriage proponent; Iowa Senate Democratic leader Mike Gronstal's difficult re-election, and Christie Vilsack's uphill challenge to Republican Rep. Steve King for indications of Democratic strength or weakness, Schmidt says.
Las Vegas area dominates
One county dominates the political landscape here: Clark, home to Las Vegas and 70% of the state's voters. Obama led there by 120,000 votes in 2008, representing his entire margin statewide, and anything close to that would signal victory again.
Then comes Washoe County, home to Reno, and one of only two other counties Obama won four years ago. Romney needs to win there, says David Damore, associate professor of political science at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
Much will be known right after the polls close, because early voters make up roughly two-thirds of the state's voters, and those results will come in fast. "If Romney's not up in the early voting in Washoe, it's really tough for a Republican," Damore says.
If the election is as close as polls suggest, it might come down to absentee ballots that are still in the mail and tens of thousands of "provisional" ballots that won't be counted until after Election Day. In Ohio, they can't even be reviewed for 10 days.
"Even without hanging chads, we could be into December before we know the results," Rohde says.
Contributing: Martha T. Moore


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You've probably heard of Lyme disease. It's the leading tick-borne disease in the United States, and is most common in the Northeast, the Pacific Northwest, and the northern midwestern states.
Lyme disease is caused by a type of bacteria found in animals like mice and deer. Ixodes ticks (also called black-legged or deer ticks) that feed on these animals can then spread the bacteria to people through tick bites.
You probably won't see it happening. Deer ticks are tiny, so it's very hard to see them. Immature ticks (called "nymphs") are about the size of a poppy seed. Adult ticks are about the size of a sesame seed.
It's easy to overlook a tick bite. Many people who get Lyme disease don't remember being bitten. The good news is that most tick bites don't lead to Lyme disease. But it still helps to know what to watch for.
Lyme disease can affect different body systems, such as the nervous system, joints, skin, and heart. The symptoms of Lyme disease are often described as happening in three stages. Not everyone with Lyme has all of these, though:
The rash sometimes has a characteristic "bull's-eye" appearance, with a central red spot surrounded by clear skin that is ringed by an expanding red rash. It also can appear as an expanding ring of solid redness. It's usually flat and painless, but sometimes can be warm to the touch, itchy, scaly, burning, or prickling. The rash may look and feel very different from one person to the next. It can be harder to see on people with darker skin tones, where it can look like a bruise. It gets bigger for a few days to weeks, then goes away on its own. A person also may have flu-like symptoms such as fever, tiredness, headache, and muscle aches.
Having such a wide range of symptoms can make Lyme disease hard for doctors to diagnose, although blood tests can look for signs of the body's reaction to Lyme disease.
If you think you may be at risk for Lyme disease or a tick has bitten you, contact your doctor. Although conditions other than Lyme disease can cause similar symptoms, it's always a good idea to discuss them with your doctor. That way you can get further evaluation and treatment if necessary, before the disease gets worse. This is especially true if you develop a red-ringed rash, lasting flu-like symptoms, joint pain or a swollen joint, or facial paralysis.
Lyme disease is usually treated with a 2- to 4-week course of antibiotics. Cases of Lyme disease that are diagnosed quickly and treated with antibiotics almost always have a good outcome. A person should be feeling back to normal within several weeks after beginning treatment.
Lyme disease is not contagious, so you can't catch it from another person. But you can get it more than once from ticks that live on deer, in the woods, or travel on your pets. So always be cautious, even if you've already had Lyme disease.
There's no sure way to avoid getting Lyme disease. But you can minimize your risk. Be aware of ticks when you're in high-risk areas. If you work outdoors or spend time gardening, fishing, hunting, or camping, take precautions:
If you use an insect repellent containing DEET, always follow the recommendations on the product's label and don't overapply it. Place DEET on shirt collars and sleeves and pant cuffs, and only use it directly on exposed areas of skin. Be sure to wash it off when you go back indoors.
No vaccine for Lyme disease is currently on the market in the United States.
You should know how to remove a tick just in case one lands on you or a friend. First, don't panic. The risk of Lyme disease after a tick bite is very low.
To be safe, though, you'll want to remove the tick as soon as possible. That's why a daily tick check is a good idea for people who live in high-risk areas.
If you find a tick:
Tick bites don't usually hurt — and that can make it hard to find a bite early because pain usually helps call attention to problems. So be on the lookout for ticks and rashes, and call your doctor if you think a tick bit you.
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you guys just want to trick me and find out where I am so you can come beat me up or pick on me or something. I am very insecure.
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Rome, Italy, May 14, 2012 / 12:03 pm (CNA).-
Recently leaked documents reveal the correspondence between four bishops of the Society of St. Pius X, which show disagreement over reconciliation efforts with the Vatican.
The breakaway society gave its assent on April 13 to a statement of doctrinal belief presented to it by the Holy See but with some suggested amendments to the text.
It will now be for Pope Benedict XVI to decide whether the traditionalist group's response is sufficient to permit them back into full communion with the Catholic Church.
Newly leaked correspondence from early April, however, shows discord among the bishops shortly before the superior of the society, Bernard Fellay, delivered his response Vatican's doctrinal Preamble which was issued to the group in 2011.
The documents consist of a first letter sent by three bishops – including Richard Williamson, known for his downplaying of the Holocaust – to Fellay dated April 7. The group claims that a "doctrinal agreement with present-day Rome is impossible," and that they therefore formally oppose "a practical agreement" with the Church.
Addressing the stance of some of the society's top leaders, who are more favorable to an agreement with the Holy See, the bishops said they are "leading the Society to the point of no return, to an irreversible profound division."
In a subsequent letter responding to the group, Fellay condemned "the lack of supernatural vision and of realism" of those criticizing him.
After affirming that Benedict XVI is the legitimate Pope and saying that that God speaks through the pontiff's words, Fellay asked, "If he expresses legitimate will towards us, which is good, and that is not against God's commandments, do we have the right to ignore or reject that extended hand?"
"The Pope has told us that the concern for fixing our situation for the good of the Church was at the heart of his Pontificate, and likewise that he was aware that for him and for us it would have been easier to maintain the status quo."
Fellay said that the society in general "would much prefer the status quo for now, but it is obvious that Rome no longer accepts that."
"There is a change in the attitude of the Church, backed by the gestures and the acts of Benedict XVI towards Tradition," he added.
In his letter, Fellay expressed regret that he did not have the support and advice of the bishops who wrote him "in order to endure such a delicate time of our history."
The Society has had a strained relationship with the Vatican since its founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebrve, consecrated four bishops against the orders of Pope John Paul II in 1988.
Archbishop Lefebrve founded the Society in 1970 as a response to what he described as errors that had crept into the Catholic Church following the Second Vatican Council.
In 2009, Pope Benedict remitted the excommunications of the Society's bishops and set talks in motion aimed at restoring "full communion." The Pope said at the time that to achieve full communion the members of the Society would have to show "true recognition of the Magisterium and the authority of the Pope and of the Second Vatican Council."
Society headquarters reacted to the leaking of the documents in May 11 statement, calling the move a "grave sin."
The full text of the letters can be found at:
Tags: Pope Benedict, Society of St. Pius X, Schism
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A Trial of 18F-AV-133 Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging to Differentiate Subjects With Parkinson's Disease (PD) From Other Movement Disorders
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01550484
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 12, 2012
Last Update Posted : February 10, 2017
- Study Details
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|Condition or disease
|Parkinson's Disease Primary Parkinsonism Lewy Body Parkinson's Disease
|Drug: 18F-AV-133
|Phase 2 Phase 3
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|170 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|Single (Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|An Open Label, Multicenter Study, Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of 18F-AV-133 PET Imaging to Identify Subjects With Dopaminergic Degeneration Among Subjects Presenting to a Movement Disorders Specialty Clinic With an Uncertain Diagnosis
|Study Start Date :
|April 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|March 2016
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|March 2016
- Drug: 18F-AV-133
222 MBq (6 mCi)
- Sensitivity of visual read of AV-133 PET scan vs. standard of truth [ Time Frame: 18 months ]
Sensitivity will be calculated as the percent of true positives which are correctly identified
An expert, consensus diagnosis of PD performed by a panel of movement disorders specialists will be used as the standard of truth.
- Specificity of visual read of AV-133 PET scan vs. standard of truth [ Time Frame: 18 months ]
Specificity will be calculated as the percent of true negatives which are correctly identified.
An expert, consensus diagnosis of PD performed by a panel of movement disorders specialists will be used as the standard of truth.
- Inter-rater reliability of the visual read [ Time Frame: 18 months ]Fleiss' kappa
- Intra-rater reliability of the visual read [ Time Frame: 18 months ]Intra-class kappa
- Probability of progressive motor skill impairment [ Time Frame: 18 months ]Compare rates of progressive impairment using PD rating scale in subjects with positive AV-133 PET scan vs. progressive impairment in subjects with negative AV-133 PET scan
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, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|40 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Males or females ≥ 40 years of age;
- Presenting (within the last 3 months) for an initial evaluation to a movement disorders specialist with signs or symptoms suggestive of a movement disorder;
- The subject's signs or symptoms were previously evaluated by a physician who was not a movement disorders specialist during the previous six months;
- Absence of an established clinical movement disorder diagnosis;
- Symptoms mild in intensity, this includes Hoehn & Yahr ≤ 2 (Exceptions are allowed for subjects who meet criteria for Hoehn & Yahr stage 3 due to early onset of postural instability and/or gait impairment out of proportion to his/her other Parkinson signs and symptoms);
- Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score ≥ 22;
- Can tolerate imaging visit procedures; and
- Provide written informed consent prior to study entry.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Have been referred to the movement disorders clinic primarily for the purpose of disease management (no diagnostic uncertainty exists on the part of the non-specialist or referring physician);
- Have a previous movement disorder diagnosis given by a movement disorders specialist prior to the time of enrollment;
- Have received a total of more than 90 days treatment with dopaminergic medications, including direct dopamine agonists or precursors (levodopa) or have received a total of more than 180 days treatment with MAO-B inhibitors, amantadine, anticholinergics or primidone or beta-blockers prescribed for treatment of tremor or signs of parkinsonism;
- Have had a sustained and clinically meaningful response to anti-parkinsonian medications;
- Are currently taking or have taken MAO-B inhibitors in the past 4 weeks;
- Have a known CNS structural lesion such as stroke or tumor that likely accounts for their symptoms;
- Have clinically meaningful cognitive impairment or dementia (mild cognitive problems as might be expected in the earliest stages of PD are not exclusionary);
- Have current clinically significant cardiovascular disease or clinically important abnormalities on screening ECG (including but not limited to QTc > 450 msec);
- Are currently taking medications that are known to cause QT-prolongation;
- Are currently taking medications with narrow therapeutic windows (e.g. warfarin or other anticoagulant therapies);
- Are currently taking tetrabenazine (TBZ), amphetamine type drugs;
- Have a current clinically significant endocrine or metabolic disease, pulmonary, renal or hepatic impairment, or cancer (excluding localized basal cell carcinoma and in situ prostate cancer) that would interfere with completion of the study;
- Have a recent history (within the past year) of alcohol or substance abuse or dependence;
- Are females of childbearing potential who are not surgically sterile, not refraining from sexual activity or not using reliable contraception. Females must not be pregnant (negative serum beta-hCG at the time of screening and negative urine beta-hCG on the day of imaging), must not be breastfeeding at screening, must avoid becoming pregnant and use adequate contraceptive methods for 14 days prior to and 24 hours after administration of 18F-AV-133 for injection;
- Have had prior intracranial surgery; and
- Are receiving any investigational medications, or have participated in a trial with investigational medications within the last 30 days.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01550484
|United States, Arizona
|Research Site
|Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, 85259
|Research Site
|Sun City, Arizona, United States, 85351
|United States, Connecticut
|Research Site
|New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06510
|United States, Kansas
|Research Site
|Kansas City, Kansas, United States, 66160
|United States, Louisiana
|Research Site
|Shreveport, Louisiana, United States, 71103
|United States, Maryland
|Research Site
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287
|United States, Massachusetts
|Research Site
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
|United States, Missouri
|Research Site
|St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
|United States, Nevada
|Research Site
|Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89106
|United States, Ohio
|Research Site
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Research Site
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107
|United States, Rhode Island
|Research Site
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02906
|United States, Texas
|Research Site
|Dallas, Texas, United States, 75390
|Research Site
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Australia, New South Wales
|Research Site
|Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2109
|Study Director:
|Chief Medical Officer
|Avid Radiopharmaceuticals
|Responsible Party:
|Avid Radiopharmaceuticals
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|March 12, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|February 10, 2017
|Last Verified:
|February 2017
Parkinson Disease
Movement Disorders
Parkinsonian Disorders
Basal Ganglia Diseases
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Neurodegenerative Diseases


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Trivial UTF-8 is a small library for doing UTF-8-based in- and output on a Lisp implementation that already supports Unicode -- meaning char-code and code-char deal with Unicode character codes.
The rationale for the existence of this library is that while Unicode-enabled implementations usually do provide some kind of interface to dealing with character encodings, these are typically not terribly flexible or uniform.
The Babel library solves a similar problem while understanding more encodings. Trivial UTF-8 was written before Babel existed, but for new projects you might be better off going with Babel. The one plus that Trivial UTF-8 has is that it doesn't depend on any other libraries.
Trivial-utf-8 is released under a BSD-style license (see source file). The latest release can be downloaded from http://common-lisp.net/project/trivial-utf-8/trivial-utf-8.tgz, or installed with asdf-install.
A darcs repository with the most recent changes can be checked out with:
> darcs get http://common-lisp.net/project/trivial-utf-8/darcs/trivial-utf-8
Or look at it online.
The trivial-utf-8-devel mailing list can be used for any questions, discussion, bug-reports, patches, or anything else relating to this library. Or mail the author/maintainer directly: Marijn Haverbeke.
function string-to-utf-8-bytes (string) => array of (unsigned-byte 8)
Convert a string into an array of unsigned bytes containing its utf-8 representation.
function utf-8-bytes-to-string (bytes) => string
Convert a byte array containing utf-8 encoded characters into the string it encodes.
function write-utf-8-bytes (string output &key null-terminate)
Write a string to a byte-stream, encoding it as utf-8.
function read-utf-8-string (input &key null-terminated stop-at-eof char-length byte-length)
Read utf-8 encoded data from a byte stream and
construct a string with the characters found. When
null-terminated is given it will stop reading at a null
stop-at-eof tells it to stop at the end of
file without raising an error, and the
char-length and
byte-length parameters can be used to specify the maximum
amount of characters or bytes to read.
function utf-8-byte-length (string) => integer
Calculate the amount of bytes needed to encode a string.
function utf-8-group-size (byte) => integer
Determine the amount of bytes that are part of the character starting with a given byte.
condition utf-8-decoding-error
A condition of this type is raised whenever an incorrectly encoded character is encountered.
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text: Curriculum The PiF programme is divided into a coursework stage and a research stage. Successful students of the programme will be awarded the degree of a Ph.D. in Finance. Coursework Stage The courses of of the coursework ensure that graduates have the necessary fundamental knowledge to pursue their own original research. The coursework stage lasts between two and four semesters during which candidates have to take two compulsory subjects (Asset Pricing and Corporate Finance) and six core electives. During the coursework stage PiF students submit a research proposal to their thesis committee. This proposal forms the basis for their own research. Research Stage During the research stage PiF students focus on writing their doctoral thesis, which consists of at least three scientific articles. In addition, they are expected to give two presentations in the internal PIF brown-bag seminar where they receive feedback from the faculty and their fellow students on their own research.


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NAME WAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED AT BLIZZCON 2013 AS World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor. See BlizzCon 2013 for more details.
Expansion 5 has now been officially announced as World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor, and was the expected expansion for World of Warcraft after Mists of Pandaria. As of mid-July 2013, there had been only the slightest indicators that Blizzard was starting work on this expansion, based on a datamined Expansion05 directory.[1]
See World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor and Portal:WoD, and the BlizzCon 2013 event details. See also BlizzCon 2013/Gallery and BlizzCon 2013/questions.
Warlords of Draenor EditThis section concerns content exclusive to Warlords of Draenor.
BlizzCon 2013 annouced the following details...
- The fifth World of Warcraft expansion will be called World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor.
- New continent of Draenor (7 zones, 1 PvP zone)
- Build and upgrade your Garrison
- A level 90 character upgrade—play immediately!
- New player character models
- 6 new Dungeons and 2 new Raids
- Heroic versions of 2 classic Dungeons
- New Challenge modes
- New Battlegrounds and World Bosses
- New Normal and Heroic Scenarios
- Level cap raised to 100
- New class talents and permanent ability bonuses
- Refined quest system with hundreds of new quests
Pre-BlizzCon 2013 Speculation Edit
This section is for historical reference and for citation purposes. It does not necessarily reflect the current state.
This article or section includes speculation, observations or opinions possibly supported by lore or by Blizzard officials. It should not be taken as representing official lore.
Warlords of Draenor? Edit
In early November 2013, right before BlizzCon 2013, Blizzard appeared to have trademarked the name Warlords of Draenor in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States.[2]
Dark Below? Edit
In mid-August 2013, MMO Champion reported that Blizzard trademarked the name "The Dark Below" which could be the name of the new expansion (MMO Champion has a pretty good track record on these things).[3] "The Dark Below" is a region of demons and other evil creatures according to the RPG's Manual of Monsters, [4] which gives hope to those who wanted or speculated a return of the Burning Legion.
Likely eliminating Diablo 3 from the running for using the name "The Dark Below", Blizzard launched a minimalist teaser site for Diablo 3 called "Reaper of Souls",[5] and the background image is called d3x_teaser-en-us.jpg.
Activision, co-owner of Blizzard also own Destiny and they used the title The Dark Below for the expansion for that.
Or not? Edit
Reddit has now muddied the waters by giving evidence that someone in Europe is attempting to trademark "The Dark Below" as Blizzard.[6] If Europe's system is like the US and the registrant is not confirmed until the application is accepted, we'll have to wait and see if this is for real in Europe also. Comparing the status of the EU application shows that as of 20-Aug-2013 it is merely "Filed"[7] and not yet "Registered".[8]
Possibilities Edit
One of the most called for expansions is the return of the Burning Legion [9], as Kil'Jaeden and Sargeras still need to be defeated, along with other bosses. Chris Metzen said in a conference that in the next expansion we will need Turalyon's and Alleria Windrunner's help and that the possibility of Illidan Stormrage returning will be large. He said he loves a "good redemption story."
One of the most hinted at expansion ideas is The Dark Below could be related to the underwater realm of Queen Azshara and the Old God, N'Zoth. The story of Ozumat has yet to be finished as well. There will be likely an ancient city involved called Ny'alotha mentioned by the Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron and hinted by more unique creatures. The box also refers to the ocean more in its whispers and refers to sleep, also including the Emerald Dream.
Another called for expansion is an exploration of the Emerald Dream,[9] and with it the Emerald Nightmare, such an expansion would probably also include Old Gods.
References Edit
- ^ chaud 2013-07-17. Tier 16 Monk Set, Moderator Recruitment, Blue Posts, 25 DK Mogu'shan Vaults. MMO Champion.
- ^ Boubouille 2013-11-01. Blizzard Trademarks "Warlords of Draenor" - WoW Expansion. MMO Champion.
- ^ Boubouille 2013-08-13. Blizzard Trademarks "The Dark Below" - WoW or D3 Expansion?. MMO Champion.
- ^ Manual of Monsters, p.191
- ^ bloodyen 2013-08-16. The Dark Below is Trademarked in Europe. Reddit.
- ^ Go to TMView "Find term", enter "tm:The AND tm:Dark AND tm:below AND sc:Filed", and click Search button; 1 result returned
- ^ Go to TMView "Find term", enter "tm:The AND tm:Dark AND tm:below AND sc:Registered", and click Search button; no results returned
- ^ a b Next Expansion after MoP! - Forums - World of Warcraft, Archive of old EU official forums thread (page does not render correctly, see source)
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The Tax Rebate for International productions (TRIP) concerns projects wholly or partly made in France and initiated by a non-French company.
The TRIP is selectively granted by the CNC – French National Center for Cinema, TV and the moving image - to the French Production services company.
The TRIP amounts up to 30% of the qualifying expenditures incurred in France, and can total a maximum of €30 million per project.
The projects have to include elements related to the French or European culture, heritage, and territory.
What are the eligible expenses?
The tax rebate amounts to 30% of the following pre-tax expenses:
- Salaries and wages paid to French or EU of writers, actors (up to the minimum set in collective bargaining agreements), direction and production staff (wages and incidentals) including the related social contributions.
- Expenditures incurred to specialized companies for technical goods and services.
- Transportation, travel and catering expenditures.
- Accomodation expenditures.
- Depreciation expenses.
Who is granted the tax rebate?
To be able to file a TRIP application, a company must meet the following two criteria:
- be subject to corporate income tax in France,
- act as the production services company for the sequences filmed or produced in France.
What are the eligible projects?
To qualify to the TRIP, a feature or TV production must meet all of the following criteria:
- it must be a work of fiction of live action or animation (whether singular or a series). Documentaries or commercials do not qualify.
- it must not receive any French State traditional financial support. Thus official co-productions with France do not qualify
- it must not be pornographic or promote violence
- it must have a minimum spending of €250 000 of qualifying expenditures in France or incur at least 50% of the production budget, whichever is lowest
- for live action, production must shoot at least 5 days in France
The approved works must include elements related to the French culture, heritage, and territory, accordingly to a cultural test specific to each genre (live action or animation).
Note that live-action works are included in the animation genre provided at least 15% of the shots, or on average one and a half shots per minute, are digitally processed (see long form documentation).
When collect the tax rebate?
At the end of each fiscal year, a statutory auditor certifies the yearly production accounts, which, along with the provisional qualification and the income tax return, is sent by the French PSC to the tax authorities.
A refund is issued by the French State to the extent the production tax credit exceeds the company's tax liability.
When is the starting date for considering eligible expenses?
Qualifying expenditures start at the date of reception of the application by the CNC.
> The Tax Rebate for International productions (TRIP): general description of the system (pdf)
Do not hesitate to contact the CNC for any questions relating to the qualification procedure or the regulatory framework, and Film France to receive information on production, notably for questions concerning shooting and making your project in France.
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sesolutions necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 1240 diseños de 375 diseñadores freelance.
SECURITY ELECTRICAL SOLUTIONS or SES
Security Electrical Solutions Pty Ltd are a specialsed commercial electrical systems installation, service and maintenance company operating prodominantly in Adelaide, South Australia.
We specialise in:
- Generally Medium to Large size commercial projects for Private Companies and State Government.
- CCTV/Surveillance Cameras (Focused more on IP/Network based systems)
- Swipe Card Access Control
- Monitored Security Alarms
- Video Intercom Systems
We also provide general electrical and communications services including:
- New Domestic, Commercial & Industrial Installations
- Telephone and Computer Network cabling
- Fibre Optic Cabling and Terminations
- Free-To-Air and SATELLITE/PAY TV distribution systems (Apartment buildings/multi outlets)
Our team is made up of A-Class Electricians, Security Technicians and Communications Technicians.
We generally work direct to builders or to large electrical contractors.
Due to the logo being potentinally used in the public eye, on building sites, temporary site fencing etc. the design should be easily recognised and remembered by builders, contractors, clients and the public.
A design that, after some exposure, will be remembered and directly referenced to us.
Possibly a design that could have numerous interpretations.
Our new logo is a tool which will be used/displayed on our Adelaide Office Headquarters, our company vehicles, our website, work uniforms, displayed outside many building sites we are involved with, company letter heads, WARNING stickers (for placing on siren boxes, windows, site perimeter walls/fences, installed equipment cabinets, camera housings etc.). We are after a design that simply sums up what we're all about, in particular focused on the 'Electronic Security' side of our business.
The designs should include a logo consisting of our whole company name and abbreviated company name being:
whole name: SECURITY ELECTRICAL SOLUTIONS PTY LTD
abbreviated: S E S
Currently the company colours are BLACK, RED, WHITE, which we are happy with however we're open to suggestion...
I have attached a sample of the logo i designed some time ago which i am looking to upgrade/superceed! FYI Only, please dont feel you need to incorporate the attached logo in your design at all.
Many thanks and looking foward you your submissions. Good Luck :)
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