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That's a different program about Northern Ireland waterways.
Regards, Nick
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 21:18:50 +0100, IWAI forum Donal Flynn wrote, in
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> Ok just looked up the rte guide and I don't see it tomorrow on BBC 2 but I'm sure I read on the forum that it was inlast 48hrs, I'll have a peep!
Great show. Well done to all concerned. Lots of boaters involved in the making too. Well done to Joe Treacy and his son Ben,to Dick Warner,The Connon family and Larry Masterson producer ,a member of the Gortmore Boat Club.
I nearly fell when Dick mentioned Effin Bridge. So now it's in print and film.
I can't wait to see the next show.
I'm sure it'll be on the RTE player for anyone unlucky to miss it.
Hi Billy
Not sure about repeated, but it will certainly be available on the RTE player for a month, or so.
I was pleasantly surprised to find this is actually well thought out and works very well. It's easier to use than an old fashioned VCR. I approached it warily, a week or so back, to try and find an episode of "Room for Improvement" that I'd missed.
Much to my surprise, I found it easily (despite calling it the wrong name!) and played it without hiccup.
What I don't know yet, is whether it's possible to download from the player and save for future viewing. An experiment I'm going to try, once "Waterways" becomes available!
I know! Isn't it great?
They'll have to demolish it and build something completely different there, if they ever want to lose the "Effin Bridge" name now!
Something to be proud of, naming part of the national infrastructure!
I remember having to hold my sides laughing when the name was first applied and hoping it would catch on.
Seems I've got my wish...
Let me add my congrats to Dick and the makers of the Rambler programme. Very enjoyable and well put together, though not alltogether in keeping with my memories of June 9th.....LOL
Before Rambler finally escaped, she made a number of trips over to Spencer on the offchance that 'Effin Bridge might be persuaded to lift. I recall my eldest, Katie, remarking on its return from one such trip, how ironic it was that a boat named Rambler, should be having so much difficulty rambling anywhere...!!!!
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Plane crashes in Burlington; pilot killed
David Gamble of Greensboro may have tried to avoid residential buildings
A Greensboro pilot was killed after a small plane crashed into a park near a residential area early Wednesday morning, Burlington police said.
David Gamble, 57, died in the crash just before 6 a.m. at a softball field at the Mayco Bigelow Community Center, also known as North Park Community Center, on Sharpe Road near the intersection of Melrose Drive.
Gamble was the only person on board the plane. No one on the ground was hurt.
A Pilatus PC-12 apparently crashed off the end of the runway at Burlington-Alamance Regional Airport, FAA officials said. The crash site is about 5 miles northeast of the airport.
The plane belonged to LabCorp, which has an office in Burlington, and was headed to Morristown, N.J. to deliver interoffice mail, police said.
LabCorp said the following in a statement:
"This is a tragedy for the whole LabCorp family. Our hearts are heavy today, and we are grieving along with the family and friends of this valued employee. We are reaching out to the family to offer our support and will continue to do so. We are cooperating with authorities to fully understand what occurred."
The crash path begins at the treeline of a cemetery behind the community center and ends at the softball field. The debris field is within a half-mile span, police said. As much as 400 gallons of jet fuel may have spilled in the crash site, police said.
Based on the crash path, it appears that the pilot tried avoid residential buildings, police said.
A section of Sharpe Road has been closed as the investigation and cleanup continue.

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American Indians in Oklahoma
History of the Five Tribes
(Seal courtesy of the Cherokee Nation.)
Oklahoma's largest tribe of American Indians, the Cherokee Nation, with approximately 240,000 people, was one of the tribes removed to Oklahoma in the 1830s by the United States government. The Cherokee homeland is in the southeastern portion of the country. Before contact with the Europeans, Cherokee people owned little land and were a hunter-gatherer warfare tribe. Their families, unlike Anglo-American families, were matrilineal, which means tracing the mother's family rather than the father's family. Once removed to Oklahoma, the Cherokee began to adapt and expand their nation. This includes becoming the first tribe to have a written syllabary for their language. They also created higher education institutions for both men and women. During allotment by the Dawes Commission they lost most of their land and wealth, leading to impoverished tribal members. After World War II many Cherokee returned to their homelands from combat overseas and began to revitalize and rebuild their nation. Today the Cherokee Nation continues to grow and expand their economic and cultural independence led by their headquarters in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
(Seal courtesy of the Chickasaw Nation.)
The Chickasaw people's original homelands are in Kentucky and Tennessee. They were forced to sell their land with the Treaty of Washington in 1834 and moved to present-day Oklahoma. They, unlike the other Five Tribes, oversaw much of their own removal and did not experience the hardships of other tribes. The Chickasaw tried to buy land from the Choctaws but were denied until the United States government forced the Choctaws to sell. In 1837 the Choctaws and the Chickasaw signed the Treaty of Doaksville allowing the Chickasaw to lease part of the Choctaw Nation for $530,000 and representation on the Choctaw Council. Once in Oklahoma, the Chickasaw struggled to maintain their cultural heritage and not merge with the Choctaws.
During the Civil War the Chickasaw Nation declared its independence and formally joined the Confederate States of America. After the war the Chickasaw Nation began to focus on opening schools and expanding their economic reach. In 1987 Governor Bill Anoatubby was elected and led the Chickasaw Nation in a push for economic and political stability. The Chickasaw Nation's headquarters is located in Ada, Oklahoma.
(Seal courtesy of the Choctaw Nation.)
The Choctaw Nation's homelands were in Mississippi before they moved to the southeast part of Oklahoma with the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek 1830. More than 5,000 Choctaw were removed to present-day Oklahoma and began to rebuild their community and government. They began to build schools of higher learning such as the Wheelock Academy. Later, railroad companies began pushing for the opening of their lands, at least a part of it, so they could build a track through it. During the Civil War, the Choctaw Nation was one of the tribes who allied with the Confederacy and had to sign over parts of their land and government as punishment after the war. Today the Choctaw Nation is headquartered in Durant, Oklahoma, and they continue to revitalize and rebuild their culture and language.
(Seal courtesy of the Muscogee Nation.)
The homelands of the Mvskoke (Creek) people are located in and around Alabama as evidenced in the mounds built during the influence of the Mississippian culture. With the contact of European explorers, such as Hernando De Soto, epidemic disease killed thousands. During the Civil War, the Creek were an ally of the Confederacy. Currently the capitol of the Creek Nation is located in Okmulgee, Oklahoma.
(Seal courtesy of the Seminole Nation.)
The Seminole people at one time were a part of the Creek Nation in Georgia and Alabama but separated and moved to northern Florida. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, most but not all of the tribe was forcibly removed from their homelands and relocated to present-day Oklahoma. They were placed within the Muscogee (Creek Nation) initially, but later signed a treaty establishing themselves as the Seminole Nation. During the Civil War, most Seminole sided with the Confederacy.
Today the headquarters are in Seminole, Oklahoma, and the tribe continues to revitalize their culture and the Muskogee language.


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I've been having an issue with a lab that I'm doing for school and my professor specifically wants us to use the .compareTo() method for the following code:
The input that I'm doing is:import java.util.*; public class lab20 { static Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in); public static void main(String[] args) { String[] names = new String[20]; int size = 0; System.out.print("Enter a name, last name first(Enter 'END' to quit): "); String name = in.nextLine(); while (!name.equals("END") && names.length <= 20) { names[size] = name; System.out.print("Enter another name: "); name = in.nextLine(); size++; } for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) System.out.println(names[i]); sort(names, size); System.out.println(); for (int i = 0; i <size; i++) System.out.println(names[i]); } public static void sort (String[] names, int size) { int i = 0; int minPos; String temp; for (i = 0; i < size; i++) { minPos = minimunPosition(names, i, size); temp = names[i]; names[i] = names[minPos]; names[minPos] = temp; } } public static int minimunPosition(String[] names, int i, int size) { int minPos = i; int k; for (k = i+1; k < size; k++) { if (names[k].compareTo(names[minPos]) == -1) minPos = k; } return minPos; } }
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the output is the same as above without the END, obviously. I've tried using 1 instead of -1 as the return value of compareTo() but it's stays the same. I've changed the if statement to (name[k].charAt(0) < name[minPos].charAt(0)) but my professor said he'd take off points because he specifically want's me to use the compareTo(). Any help is greatly appreciated.


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The switch to the 3-4 defense has claimed its first victim in Cleveland.
The Browns announced Tuesday that they have released defensive end Frostee Rucker after one year in Cleveland, a move that's been rumored since Ray Horton was hired as the defensive coordinator. Rucker signed a five-year deal with the Browns last offseason, pocketing a $5 million signing bonus and $8 million in guaranteed money for his brief stay with the team. He was due a $2 million roster bonus later this week, so the Browns had no reason to see if there was some way to make it work with Rucker in the new scheme.
Rucker had four sacks, 48 tackles and a forced fumble in 16 starts for the Browns. He's been a solid run defender for several years, which should help him land work with a team that plays a 4-3 front and needs an end.
The Browns get some money back under the cap by releasing Rucker now, although his signing bonus means that there will be a bit of dead money on the cap in Cleveland this year. He likely won't be the only member of the team to get a pink slip as the new regime starts building things their way.


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Sprint Car Tire Management
Tire grooving and maintenance for sprint car dirt tires
One of the first questions I ask race teams when I work with them is, "What is the most important adjustment on the car?" As you would expect, the variety of answers runs a full spectrum. The answer that ranks at or near the top with each of these impromptu surveys, right behind the driver, is tires. Tires are a critical component of any race car's ability to perform at or near its peak. The only physical interface between the car and the racetrack is the tires.
From the perspective of the Saturday night racer, tires, while important, may be only one of many different components that require a high level of dedicated attention. In addition, many Saturday night racers may not have a great deal of time to dedicate to the many factors competing for their time, especially when considering all of the other requirements to get the car to the track on a regular basis. The concept of tire management may not be something that gets any more attention than, say, engine maintenance or making sure the food gets loaded into the hauler for tonight's race. For many racers on a budget, just making sure they even have tires is more of a key factor than making sure the tires they have are in peak condition. While this attitude may not lead to many track championships, it is an understandable and reasonable mindset.
Within this discourse, we will be looking at dirt tires and focusing on Sprint cars. The fact of the matter is that cars racing on dirt have different types of issues from the cars that race on pavement. The type of tire, the compound, the size, and the brand to use are concerns the dirt racer may share with his or her pavement peers. The big difference is that this decision must be made at each corner of the car and not from an aggregate perspective, as it is with the pavement car. Many racing associations have specifications that may mandate the selection of all tires, or maybe just the right-rear tire. Even within the specification, there are many things still open for the racer to adjust and develop.
Many racers may wish for all the new tires they could use. Yes, it would be nice to have new tires each race, but even in that scenario you still have to manage the use of the tires and determine the setup parameters of the tire and wheel combination. Even the solution with the highest cost requires a given level of work. In fact, the work load is even higher when the resources are richer.
Usually, in the forms of racing where this is the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), such as NASCAR, IRL, and F1, the level of work does not diminish, it actually increases. There are other teams with the same SOP, and they are trying to get the most out of the tires, too-no different from the Saturday night racer. The only difference is they have teams of dedicated tire professionals who focus solely on tires and tire management.
It does not take a rocket scientist to determine that new tires are better than old ones. Short of getting new tires for every heat race and main event, what can you do to preserve tires and keep the level of performance as high as possible?
The first step is to keep detailed notes. This is your first line of information gathering. You might be asking, how do I take notes, and what is important to document? Those are good questions. You can purchase a multitude of preprinted setup sheets from a variety of racing vendors. In fact, many of them are free! The issue is not so much the format but the fact that you are keeping notes. You most likely will develop a format that works for you over time, but in the beginning you need to keep track of a few things from a tire management perspective that may include but are not limited to the following: * Brand and compound number of tire* Tire age: The number of laps the tires have on them-You should be able to document the number of laps each tire in your inventory may have accumulated to date. If you race on a number of tracks of different sizes, you need to delineate the laps that were on a 11/42- and a 11/44-mile track. (Note: All tires have a serial number, a manufacturing date, or other unique identifier molded into the tire that will help you single them out. You can also mark each tire with your own identifying numbers and/or letters)* Individual tire setup-Tire width-Wheel width-The corner of the car on which the tire was mounted-Air pressure (cold and hot)-Circumference of the tire, pre- and post-race-Tire grooving (size of groove, pattern, and depth)* General condition of the tire, pre- and post-race-Are the edges sharp?-Is the tire feathered or blistered?-Tire temperatures after each run
Creating a note sheet with each of the parameters you are tracking in a fill-in-the-blank type of format makes this data much easier to keep track of and much quicker to record. The easier and quicker it is to develop or execute, the more likely you can get the crew to accomplish the task. Racers are no different from other people in general. If it takes a great deal of effort to accomplish a given task, then the possibility is greater that the task will not be done. Make this task as easy as possible. You may even want to designate a person on your team who always has this responsibility, or rotate this job from race to race to develop your team. These note pages go into a master notebook you can refer to for future setup information.
This is something you can implement to develop the discipline required to keep track of the information. I have worked with several teams that keep this type of data, and it has helped them understand how the tires are performing. It also helps them keep a better level of control over the number of tires kept in their inventory. They know which ones to sell and which ones they should keep, and they know when new tires are required.
Asking questions is another way to glean information. Your first resource is the manufacturer. Ask for suggested setups and check this information against your notes. Use this information to further improve your individual racing data bank, which includes wheel widths for a given tire and the recommended air pressure settings. Ask what the recommended tire temperatures are for the best performance and tire life. On the same thought, ask what temperatures are too high and, inversely, what temperatures are too low. The majority of the tire manufacturers have Web sites that explain and answer all of these questions.
Goodyear and Hoosier both have great Web sites for the dissemination of this type of information. Your next resource should be the dealers who are selling you tires. They want you to do well with their tires so that you continue buying more as the need arises. Look at what the other teams around you are doing. I am not suggesting stealing setup information. Rather, I am encouraging you to ask and learn. In general, racers are a helpful group until you start kicking their butts on the track-then, in their minds, you don't need help anymore.
Next, you have to learn to read your tires. They are telling you a story after each run; you just have to learn how to listen to what they are saying. The first thing you should be doing after every race is monitoring the air pressure. How much did the pressure rise from the setting at the start of the race? How much did the tire pressure grow in the trophy dash compared to the heat races and the main event?
Tires intended for Sprint cars running on dirt undergo some special preparation prior to hitting the track. The one preparation process that is unique although not limited to Sprint cars is grooving. It places a greater number of cutting edges into the tires to aid in gaining grip from the dirt surfaces on which they race.
The tires may come with a tread design, but the manufacturer cannot make a tire that will work on any track on any given night. This is an area where racers will be required to develop some extra knowledge to create a groove pattern that works for them. Many racers have developed groove patterns that work with wet, sticky tracks and groove patterns that help develop grip on dry, slick tracks.
The intent of grooving a tire is to increase the amount of square edges making contact with the track as the tire rotates, consequently developing more grip. Unfortunately, the tire doesn't usually travel with the track in a forward motion. Rather, when a Sprint car is sideways, as it so often is when entering or exiting a corner, it travels at various angles to the direction of travel. With the attitude the car assumes as it is being rotated through the corner, the tire is traveling as much sideways as it is forward. It is easy to see why many racers have developed groove patterns that run at angles to the tire's direction of rotation.
The grooving process is something that any racer can learn, and there are a good number of tools on the market that make it a very simple process. They range from a simple sharp razor-blade type of tool to heated knives. The heated knives or grooving irons are the logical choice for this process because they are faster and give you a greater level of control.
Weir Schankel, of Van Alstine Manufacturing, a maker of grooving tools, states, "The racers are asking for a tool that is easy to use and gives a professional result. Durability and adjustability are what the racer is demanding." Sprint car racers are using blades that range in width from 0.125, to 0.187, to 0.250 inch. The power required to run most grooving irons is no greater than what would be required to run a 31/48-inch electric drill motor. So you will not need to have a large-capacity generator to run a grooving iron at the track.
There are many tools on the market that will help you manage tires. These tools include air pressure gauges, tire tapes, and other tools for measuring the parameters that are important for good tire management. Measuring the outside circumference of the tires is critical. The difference in the diameter of the tires at each axle is called stagger, which helps turn the car. As the cars only turn left, and Sprint cars do not have differentials, the difference in the diameter of the right rear and the left rear helps turn the car. It is critical that you have a good way to get a quality measurement of this dimension.
There are multiple tools you can use for measuring a tire's temperature. Infrared tire pyrometers are very simple to use. You just point the gun at the surface you want to measure, pull the trigger, and the temperature shows up on a digital display on the gun. It is that simple. Tire pyrometers that use a probe that you actually press into the surface of the tire offer a digital display on the handheld unit that shows the temperature.
Of course, there is the old standby, which consists of just placing your hand on the tire and feeling the temperature. This is not a method I recommend, as it is just not that accurate, at least from a recording perspective, and there are limits. The threshold of human pain from heat is 140 degrees F. A higher temperature could burn your hand. (Tires can get as hot as 285 degrees F.)
Tire management is a rather basic process. The tools are not all that complex, and results can be incredibly profitable for you as a racer. Proper tire management could be the difference between winning and just being a participant. Tires will remain very important to the racer. Tire management is more than just buying new tires. You have to learn to manage this resource after the purchase so that you get the maximum value and speed from this important part of the race car.


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That's what it will run you to pick up a DVD copy of the epic WEC 48 pay-per-view event that featured Jose Aldo vs. Urijah Faber headlining a card that many MMA observers consider among the most entertaining of all time.
And unlike the live event, which had no branding, the DVD, which hits retailers' shelves today, has two: both the Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Extreme Cagefighting.
"UFC presents WEC: Aldo vs. Faber" marks the WEC's first-ever DVD release. The disc features all 11 of the April fight card's bouts and is available in both DVD and Blu-ray format.
In addition to the ultimately one-sided main event, "Aldo vs. Faber" featured several action-packed fights including a rematch between Benson Henderson and Donald Cerrone, impressive performances by Manny Gamburyan and Shane Roller, and a rematch between Scott Jorgensen and Antonio Banuelos.
Of course, the card also featured most MMA fans' current leader for "Fight of the Year" with Leonard Garcia vs. Chan Sung Jung.
"UFC presents WEC: Aldo vs. Faber" can be purchased online at Amazon.com for $12.99, while the title will also be carried by most major retailers, including Best Buy, Target and Wal-Mart.
While "Aldo vs. Faber" marks the WEC's first DVD release, according to company officials, it won't be the last. Pairing with Image Entertainment, Inc., the WEC has a "long-term" distribution deal in place and will release select fight cards on DVD and Blu-Ray.
For complete coverage of "WEC 48: Aldo vs. Faber," check out the MMA Events section of MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
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Kaletra and Viread in Antiretroviral Naïve Patients
|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: NCT00679926
Recruitment Status : Terminated (Lack of enrollment)
First Posted : May 19, 2008
Last Update Posted : October 10, 2012
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Lopinavir/ritonavir and tenofovir
|Phase 4
This study is a phase IV prospective, open-label, controlled treatment protocol consisting of once daily Kaletra dosed at 800mg lopinavir with 200mg ritonavir in four combination tablets plus Viread dosed as 300 mg tenofovir DF. This will be a single site, multi-investigator, study for 48 weeks. Consecutive eligible patients will be enrolled into the study to reach the enrollment goal of 30 patients. Eligible patients will be identified and screened during routine initial or follow-up visits at the Internal Medicine Specialty Services Clinic. This clinic serves as the HIV/AIDS specialty care clinic and is a subdivision of the Department of Internal Medicine, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine. The study site currently serves >700 persons living with HIV in northeast Oklahoma with four to five antiretroviral naïve patients seen each week.
Patients meeting all inclusion criteria will receive routine standard of care for our program as prescribed by the DHHS guidelines. Patients will have a Complete Blood Count (CBC), Complete Metabolic Profile (CMP), fasting lipid profile, CD4 count, HIV-1 RNA level, and other prescribed or indicated laboratory preformed at baseline and throughout the study as described in the Visits and Evaluations section of this protocol. All of the aforementioned laboratory tests will be performed at the Diagnostic Laboratories of Oklahoma, a division of Quest Diagnostics. Any antiretroviral resistance testing will be performed at Virologic Labs, Inc. Adherence will be assessed at discontinuation of the study and when indicated for evaluation of virologic failure by Memory Electronic Monitoring Systems caps and pharmacy refill data. Patients will be monitored at each study visit for tolerability and adverse events. Patients who develop a study related Grade 1 or 2 Adverse Events (Aes) may continue the study. Those who develop Grade 3 or 4 AEs will have study medications discontinued. Patients with asymptomatic elevations of triglyceride or Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels may be treated with appropriate lipid lowering therapy at the investigators discretion.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|6 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase IV Open Label Investigation of the Efficacy and Durability of Once Daily Antiretroviral Therapy With Kaletra and Viread in Antiretroviral Naïve Patients.
|Study Start Date :
|May 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|July 2011
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Patients taking lopinavir/ritonavir and tenofovir once daily.
Drug: Lopinavir/ritonavir and tenofovir
Four tablets of lopinavir/ritonavir and one tablet of tenofovir given once daily
Other Names:
- To assess the efficacy of once daily antiretroviral therapy with Viread 300mg and Kaletra 800mg/200mg in suppressing HIV RNA levels to <50 copies/ml in antiretroviral naïve patients. [ Time Frame: 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40, and 48 weeks ]
- Proportion of patients with <400copies/ml [ Time Frame: 4,8, and 12 weeks ]
- Review virologic response to assess rate of viral decline. [ Time Frame: weeks 4, 8, 12, 16, and 24 ]
- Proportion of patients with <50 copies/ml HIV-1 RNA [ Time Frame: at weeks 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40, and 48 ]
- Change from baseline CD4 counts [ Time Frame: at weeks 4, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 40, and 48 ]
- Time to virologic failure. [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- Tolerability and adverse events. [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Change from baseline fasting total cholesterol and fasting triglyceride levels. [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Characterize adherence rates for this therapeutic regimen by the use of Medication Electronic Monitoring Systems (MEMS) caps. [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Characterize adherence rates for this therapeutic regimen by use of pharmacy refill records. [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Assess genotypic changes in patients with virologic failure. [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
- Assess lopinavir trough levels in patients failing to obtain virologic suppression. [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ]
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:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Male or female patients >18 years of age with documented HIV-1 infection
- Naïve to antiretroviral therapy
- Able and willing to provide written informed consent
- No CD4 restriction
- HIV-1 RNA levels >5000 c/mL
Female patients must meet these additional criteria
- Non-childbearing potential
- Negative serum pregnancy test at screen
- Willingness to abstain from sexual intercourse or use double barrier contraception
Exclusion Criteria:
Presence of any of the following:
- Aminotransferases >3xULN
- Hemoglobin concentration <8.0g/dl
- Absolute neutrophil count <800 cells/cubic mm
- Platelet count <50,000 cells/cubic mm
- Acute illness, or an acute illness ≤7 days
- Presence of Opportunistic Infection, or an OI within 30 days of screening
- Acute or chronic active Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Creatinine Clearance <50 mL/min
- Pregnant or breast-feeding women
- Presence of any illness, physical or behavioral conditions (i.e., substance abuse, excluding cannabis) that will impair the patient's ability participate
- Patient who, in the opinion of the investigator, will be unlikely to complete the study protocol and adhere to the study drug regimens
- Concurrent use of medications that may potentially interact with study medications including: astemizole, terfenadine, rifampin, dihydroergotamine, ergonovine, ergotamine, methylergonovine, cisapride, St. John's wort, lovastatin, simvastatin, pimozide, midazolam, triazolam, adefovir, cidofovir, acyclovir, ganciclovir, and valganciclovir.
- Patient suffers from a serious medical condition that may in the opinion of the investigator compromise his or her safety.
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): NCT00679926
|United States, Oklahoma
|OSU Internal Medicine Specialty Clinic
|Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, 74127
|Principal Investigator:
|Damon Baker, D.O.
|Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
|Responsible Party:
|Johnny Stephens, Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
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|Other Study ID Numbers:
Baker - 001
|First Posted:
|May 19, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 10, 2012
|Last Verified:
|October 2012
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HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
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Marlins name Hill president, Jennings GM
MIAMI -- The Marlins on Sunday announced a new structure for their front office, naming Michael Hill president of baseball operations and Dan Jennings general manager.
Jennings has been with the club for 12 seasons, as the organization's vice president of player development and assistant GM.
"I have tremendous respect for his baseball mind and know he'll make a great addition to Michael's team," owner Jeffrey Loria said in a statement.
Hill, who has been with the team 11 seasons, entered the game 20 years ago, when he was drafted by the Rangers.
"He has ascended quickly through the ranks, thankfully with us for more than a decade," Loria said in the statement. "Michael is an amazing guy who has earned this well-deserved recognition."
The Marlins on Friday dismissed Larry Beinfest as president of baseball operations. The club also let go of Jim Fleming, who was a special assistant to the president of baseball operations.
Titles aside, Hill made it clear that the front office will be working as a team.
Hill and Jennings have a long history together, each coming up in the Tampa Bay system.
Jennings recalls the days when Hill worked out of a closet, and the two of them staying up to 2 a.m. at times putting together a plan to build a Minor League system.
"We will work together," Hill said. "I'm the senior-most person in baseball operations, but we don't do anything here by ourselves. We will work together to make sure we do everything to win as many games as we possibly can."
Loria met with Hill for more than an hour on Friday to discuss the future. Jennings had been out of the country, scouting in Venezuela, until Friday night. He was at Marlins Park on Saturday, watching the Marlins' 2-1 victory over the Tigers in 10 innings.
Per the statement, there will be no further changes to the senior executive team.
"It has always been our policy not to communicate publicly about people's careers until final decisions have been reached," Loria said. "For that reason, I wanted to wait until the end of the season to make these announcements. I hope this statement clarifies the situation and allows us to get back to the important work of improving our team for the 2014 season."
Jennings has developed a close friendship with Loria through the years, and he thanked him for all he's done for himself and his family.
"Let me say this, and I'd like to put this out there," Jennings said. "There has been no one in this game that has treated me better than Jeffrey Loria. My family and myself, he's taken care of us. He's been giving. He's given advice. He's taken care of me and my family financially."
Hill added that Loria has always been part of the decision-making process, and that will remain the same.
"This is a question we've been asked a lot," Hill said. "He's a part of the process. It's part of my job and Dan's job and the people we work with to formulate the plan. That will be how we move forward. As any owner, he has the right to ask questions, and we try to educate him on whatever it is we want to do. I don't think that's any different from how things operate anywhere else.
"From that standpoint, we're good. We've spent a lot of time the past few days talking about everything, because his goal -- as is everyone else's goal -- is to return to excellence."
With the Marlins wrapping up their fourth straight losing season, carrying a 61-100 record into the contest with the Tigers, Hill spoke about a new beginning.
The franchise has enjoyed success in the past with limited resources. They were World Series champions in 2003, and enjoyed winning seasons from 2003 to 2009.
"The first thing we're going to do is re-evaluate where we are and formulate a plan that puts us in position where we go, 'OK, we have these things as our strengths, we have these things coming that can help us soon,'" Jennings said. "What we're going to have to do is assess what our weaknesses are."
Because the Marlins aren't expected to dramatically raise payroll for 2014 -- it will stay roughly $37 million -- they may be looking to deal some of their young talent to bring in missing pieces.
Perhaps the biggest asset the Marlins have is slugger Giancarlo Stanton, who will be entering arbitration for the first time.
The Marlins are planning to build around Stanton, but it is unclear if they will be able to sign the slugger to a long-term contract.
"The big man is a big part of our future," Hill said. "D.J. started to discuss some of the challenges that we face as we move forward. The pieces, as we have said, we feel some of them are here who will help us return to our glory and win a championship here.
"It is our job to surround those people with more talent. That's what we need to do. We need to get better, plain and simple. We need to get better. It's sort of interesting that the season is ending today, because we're just getting started. ... We need to focus on getting better and winning more games, and Giancarlo is going to be part of that."
Upgrading an offense that ranks last in the Majors in runs, batting average and home runs is going to be a priority.
"I think we're going to try to change a few things. We're looking at a 100-loss season," Hill said. "We need to get better. Bottom line is, we need to win more ballgames. I think the future is bright here.
"We knew this year was a season of transition. People who have had an opportunity to see this team play, they see the talent. They see the young pitching, the position players. We do have work that we need to do, because we aren't where we want to be. We don't want to lose 100 games. We want to get better. The process starts today to make things better."


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Connects the touch interface to the logic board.
Before opening your iPod, ensure that the hold switch is in the locked position. The orange bar should be visible, indicating hold is active.
Insert an opening pick as far as possible into the seam between the plastic front and the metal rear panel, on the right edge of the iPod.
Use the opening pick to pry up against the plastic front panel and release five retaining tabs (seen in the third photo).
Slide the pick along the edge of the iPod and continue prying to release the rest of the retaining tabs.
After all five tabs along the right side are free, the case should open easily.
Is that wide opening pick shown in the photo available? Or should I be able to get my iPod 3G open with just the narrow opening tool? So far I've been unsuccessful.
Hi David, an opening tool can definitely work, but we've found that the opening picks tend to be a bit easier. You can find those in our store. The clips are definitely really tough and, like Matthew mentioned, using multiple picks might help. Getting the pick in the seam is the hardest part, then once it's in you should be able to work it in farther, or add another pick to eventually release the clips.
I had to use about 10 guitar picks. The case "clips" are amazingly tight. I'd get one in just barely, then I'd add another in the now-opened slot. Then another. I'd space them about 1 or 1.5cm apart on two sides. Work into a corner and it will release. (I'm going on memory. I bought packs of the cheapest guitar picks. I have both thin and medium. I think I used medium, but I can't remember.)
so much easier to open with an xacto blade and handle. the blade has a more defined edge that helps to move the plastic front cover. then a pick can help do the rest.only took 2 mins. using xacto blade and handle
also not mentioned is reattachment of hard drive plug to board . not a normal plug as the others.need to be sure it is attached before closing up ipod. replacement battery was thicker than origional and allowed hd to not sit level
After trying fruitlessly with a variety of plastic tools, I remembered I owned an iSesamo. Got in in 20 seconds.
I second the idea of using an Exacto handle with a flat chisel blade to start the opening on the right side. Then I could insert the pick and work it around to undo all the clips. I could get a lot more purchase on the edge and make a gap for the pick. It took some pressure as it's been 20 years since this unit was built, an iPod Special U2 black edition.
Open the case like a book with the dock connector at the top, and lay the rear panel next to the front half of the iPod.
Remember to fold the backplate up the correct direction, otherwise you might break this cable.
Use a plastic tool or your fingernails to carefully disconnect the orange headphone jack cable. Be sure to pull straight up on the connector, not the cable itself.
Be more than careful with the headphone jack, because I thought I was until I broke mine (I still don't figure how I did this). Those are hard to find after and if you do, it may cost you something around 20-30$
Yeah, I just did the same. Oops.
Yikes - yes, be SUPER careful - just damaged mine too (snapped some of the soldered connections between ribbon and plug). I only use my iPod with a dock in my car, so hoping I will get away with this.
Arrgh...I should have paid closer attention the red warnings above. I ended up pushing up on the ribbon part rather than the actual socket. Thereby completing separating the connector from the ribbon cable. I got way too excited when I finally got the case loose after an hour of trying that I rushed through this part. Now I have to see if I can replace this part.
Blech - despite these thoughtful warnings I snapped that plug right off the ribbon! So please, be careful. I found a replacement headphone jack (used) on eBay for 20 bucks. What a not-fun way to spend 20 bucks!
Yep - did the same. Bugger. Is it possible to carefully fix? Solder or glue or are there replacement parts? I do actually have another iPod but I was hoping to end up with two working versions rather than one just for parts.
Well, that reminds me to view the comments first before attempting any of the repair steps. Did the same thing. iFixit should put that suggestion at the top of every repair guide. "Review Comments First, Save $20".
This step appears to be optional for a battery replacement - or, at least, I could not persuade the connector off the logic board without applying more force than I was prepared to given all these warnings. So I just carried on, and replaced the battery without ever removing the headphone jack connector.
Lift up the hard drive with one hand and carefully disconnect the hard drive ribbon from the logic board.
Lift the hard drive out of the iPod.
Carefully disconnect the white battery connector from the logic board. Be sure to pull only on the connector itself and not on the cables.
When putting the iPod back together, be careful the battery wires are inside of the tab. If they are outside of the tab the would get pinched between the case and the tab and likely damaged.
Use a spudger to carefully disconnect the orange touch wheel cable from the front panel.
Lift the touch wheel cable out of the iPod.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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Fungal meningitis cases in Michigan climb to 164; death total at 10
Some 478 cases of fungal meningitis have been reported by federal health officials in the nation with 164 of those in Michigan.
The death toll nationwide has reached 34, including 10 in Michigan, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Michigan leads the nation in the number of cases and deaths. Nineteen states have reported fungal meningitis cases.
The Michigan cases include 64 people with meningitis, 91 with an epidural abscess, one stroke and eight joint infections, according to the Michigan Department of Community Health on Friday.
One of the 10 Michigan deaths was from stroke following the occurrence of fungal meningitis, officials said. Three additional Michigan resident deaths are being counted as Indiana cases because that's where treatment occurred.
The dead include four residents of Livingston County, two in Washtenaw County and one each in Ingham, Charlevoix, Genesee and Wayne counties. Those who died ranged in age from 50 to 88. One victim was a male with the rest being women.
The outbreak was tied to methylprednisolone acetate steroid injections used to treat pain that were made by the specialty pharmacy, the New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Mass.
The CDC said it was still receiving reports of infections more than seven weeks after the September recall of more than 17,000 vials of injections of the steroid made by the NECC. However, the pattern now reflects an uptick in infections at the site where patients received the injection.Those infections include epidural abscesses, phlegmon (soft tissue infection), discitis (infection of disc space between vertebrae), vertebral osteomyelitis (a bone infection) or arachnoiditis (swelling of one of the spinal cord membranes), the CDC said.
The infections are being found in both people who have already been diagnosed with fungal meningitis and people who haven't been. The CDC said there may not be new infections in those people, but because the fungus tied to the outbreak -- Exserohilum rostratum -- is slow-growing, the infections may have been building up.
"This isn't something new happening, but something that's coming to light after a much longer incubation period," Dr. J. Todd Weber, incident manager for response to the fungal meningitis outbreak and chief of prevention and response at the CDC's division of healthcare quality promotion,
Last week, House lawmakers questioned Dr. Margaret Hamburg, chief of the Food and Drug Administration along with one of the owners of the New England Compounding Center, Barry Cadden, about the current outbreak. They asked about the company's history of repeat violations and earlier FDA inspections of the firm that found non-sterile practices.
Hamburg called for more oversight of compounding pharmacies, which are regulated by state health departments, while Cadden pleaded the Fifth Amendment and did not answer the committee's questions.
Contact Jerry Wolffe at 248-745-4612 or email@example.com or follow him on Twitter @JerryWolffe1 or on Facebook.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Drivers heading out for the Independence Day holiday face the highest gasoline prices since 2008 thanks to Iraq tensions, but $5-a-gallon record-breaking prices are out of the question.
Crude prices haven't even gained more than $1 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange since turmoil in Iraq hit the headlines in the first half of June.
"North American oil prices have advanced by just a few pennies since Iraqi violence put a question mark around the future stability of supply, but U.S. consumers will still see the most expensive July 4th gasoline prices in six years," according to analysts at GasBuddy.com.
Despite the fact that U.S. oil production is as high as it's been since October 1986 and gasoline should be well supplied in all states during the holiday, "fear about what could happen if Iraqi exports fall prey to violence has altered the calculus for summer oil prices," said GasBuddy chief oil analyst Tom Kloza.
Nymex crude futures
Fuel prices have also climbed, modestly — with the average price for regular gasoline up just about 2 cents since then as of Monday's $3.676 a gallon, according to AAA.
"The big news to us is that gas prices were heading down before the fall of Mosul," said Michael Green, a spokesman for AAA. "Gas prices typically fall in June, but we didn't see that this year due to the renewed conflict in Iraq. Most consumers are paying about 15-20 cents per gallon more than they would have been paying otherwise."
AAA had predicted about a month ago that national average gasoline prices could decline 10 to 15 cents a gallon in June, as refineries complete maintenance and raise output for the summer driving season. But the "unexpected events in Iraq," prevented that from happening, the leisure travel and motorist group said in its monthly gas price report.
The average price of gas in June was $3.67 a gallon — the most expensive for June since 2011 and the highest average for any month since March of last year, according to AAA.
Iraqi influence
The U.S. isn't as dependent on Middle Eastern oil as it was even as recently as three years ago, according to GasBuddy.com, a source for real-time local gas prices.
Still, "the global market could be nervous about Iraq from now through the peak weeks of the Atlantic hurricane season," and the "potential loss of all or part of the 2.6 million-barrels-per-day of Iraqi oil that moves to consuming countries may keep prices higher than they might be under more peaceful circumstances," GasBuddy.com analysts said.
That makes sense, given that 66% of the price for a gallon of gasoline is crude oil.
Ryan Mossman, vice president and general manager of FuelQuest's Fuel Services, expects gasoline prices to "curb to levels more in line with this time of year over the coming weeks unless the conflict in Iraq moves to southern Iraq, where the majority of the countries' fuel supply lies."
During the past three years, he said, retail gasoline prices have declined during the period between Memorial Day and June 25, pointing out a 2.3% fall in 2013 and declines of more than 7% each for that period in 2012 and 2013.
This year, however, they climbed 1%, said Mossman.
$5 talk
Higher-than-usual prices, however, don't translate into record high prices.
An article in the New York Post that ran in late June suggested that Wall Street sees the possibility of $5-a-gallon gasoline this summer.
That's "not likely" — even if the world sees a total loss of Iraqi exports, said GasBuddy's Kloza.
"The closest we ever came to $5 a gallon gasoline was October 2012, when a cluster of California refining problems sent prices [in that state] to about $4.67 a gallon," he said. "Pump prices spent little time there and dropped by more than $1 a gallon by year's end."
" For the U.S. to see $5-a-gallon gasoline or higher, U.S. crude prices would have to top $175 a barrel. "
If the market lost the 2.6 million barrels a day of Iraqi oil exports, the world would see global oil prices move above $125 a barrel or maybe even $135 a barrel, but those prices would be limited to continents other than North America, he said.
For the U.S. to see $5-a-gallon gasoline or higher, U.S. crude prices would have to top $175 a barrel, according to Kloza, who points out that with U.S. crude at a discount to world crude, the U.S. is a "bit insulated."
For now, he said the national price for a gallon of regular gasoline this week and for the holiday weekend is likely to average in the $3.67 to $3.70 neighborhood.
And that's not likely to faze holiday travelers.
AAA forecasts that 41 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more by car during the holiday weekend despite the high gas prices. That's up 1.9% from the number who traveled last year and up nearly 14% from those who traveled during the Memorial Day weekend.


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Daniel Libeskind's "The Art of Memory" Lecture Excerpts
POSTED ON: May 3, 2013
World-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind (AR'70) returned to his alma mater to deliver a free, public lecture in the Great Hall on "The Art of Memory." Co-sponsored by The Cooper Union Hillel as a Holocaust Remembrance Event, the designer of the Jewish Museum Berlin, as well as the master planner of the new World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan, among many other major buildings, delivered an entirely extemporaneous lecture about his work to a rapt audience. Some excerpts, with their accompanying illustrations, are below.
The Early Years
I grew up in Poland and my parents were Holocaust survivors. Think about it: the city where I was born, Lodz [originally] had millions of Jews. When I grew up in the 1950s there were no Jews in Poland. None of the members of my family, outside of my parents, [were there.] It was a vacuum. It was something so palpable that it formed my notion of what the world is like what it was like and what it could be like.
The Jewish Museum Berlin Design
[From above] you see three rows that intersect in seemingly irrational ways but they are actually very well calculated. One row to the right leads to a dead end. There is nothing more to be said about the connection of Berlin to Jews. It's the Holocaust. It's the dead end of the city. It's the dead end of Germany. It's the dead end of humanity. The other row, oblique to it going to a square of 49 pillars, is a Garden of Exile. Not only the exile of Jews from Berlin but exile of the city from itself. And the longest line, the line of hope, is to the main staircase. It doesn't end in a grand space, in luminosity, or come to some conclusion. It ends in a question mark, I think that's important because we have no answers. There are no answers to "why" and "how."
The Holocaust Tower
Eventually you end up in a place that has no exhibit. No heating in the winter. No cooling in the summer. It is the Holocaust Tower. And when I thought about it, not just as an architect but as a Jew [I asked myself]: is there any light in the Holocaust tower? For the longest time, and this building took many years to construct, I thought, there should be no light. And then by accident I read an account by one of the survivors of Auschwitz. When she was closed in the cattle cars, she looked through a crack and she stuck to that crack. She said it was the only thing that connected to her to the world. And she believed that somehow her survival had to do with hanging on to the light. And I decided to make this cut in this sharp-pointed tower. [This affects] the visitor in a very unexpected way. Right outside this tower there is a school. You can hear the voices of children playing, but you are locked away. [It] does not simulate an event but just gives you a consciousness of what it might mean to be at an end.
Berlin's Future
Just recently I was able to complete another project across the street [from the Jewish Museum Berlin.] There was a need for an educational institution. And I inscribed in it, in five different languages words of Maimonides, one of my favorite philosophers, written about a thousand years ago: "Hear the truth, whoever speaks it." That's, I think, the model [for] Berlin, which is a great city, a city that struggles with history, struggles with how to move into the future with that weight of the past that will never diminish, but on the contrary, in my view, will grow.
The Master Plan for Rebuilding Ground Zero
I did not design two big buildings. I tried to distribute the density across as many buildings as possible in order to make the buildings lower. Not just because they are safer but the streets become better. There is more light. There is more pleasure in walking the streets. I did not want to put the [main] buildings close to Wall Street. (That's where the developers wanted them.) I thought, put them towards the Hudson River. Create a social space at the center framed by museums and by a performing arts center and not just concentrate on grand, private dreams. It's important to remember it is not only a stand-alone site. It is a site connected to TriBeCa, to Wall Street and to Battery Park. It's very critical to take care of how to connect the site not just visually but infrastructurally. It's relatively easy trying to design the buildings that stand on the street. It's what's under those buildings that is the key to the plan. That's the infrastructure: the cores of the buildings, the security, the support system of New York City.
A Flash of Inspiration
I was in One Liberty Plaza during the final round of the competition. It was a rainy, miserable November day. It was depressing. And somebody from the Port Authority said, does anybody want to go into the site? All the architects said, "No it is much better to be here. You can see the site much clearer from up here looking down." But Nina [my wife] and I went down in galoshes with those cheap umbrellas. And my life changed when I descended some 75 feet to this bedrock. I felt the presence of people. [I felt] the presence of death. Also, the presence of where New York comes from. It comes from this bedrock. It was at that moment that I knew what the project should be about. It should be about all the values that we hold self-evident: about freedom, about liberty, about the symbols that need to inform the site.
The Holding Wall
So this holding wall, this great dam that holds the waters of the Hudson from penetrating into the entire subway system is a major part of the [9/11 Memorial] museum. I consider it a great accomplishment that all the infrastructure appears below the footprints. [Above them] it's just a space that goes all the way up from the footprints. And you will see the footprints from the bottom, in a museum. It's a special space. It's a sacred space. It's a space that tells you something that no words can tell you. But only by being there next to this raw wall: a wall which is, to my knowledge, the only foundation wall which is alive and has been exposed. Because usually foundation spaces are covered if they are alive. They are exposed if they are dead. In Rome and in Athens you will see foundations of buildings because the buildings are no longer there. But to expose a foundation is a feat of engineering and I was happy to work with the engineers of the Port Authority to make it possible.
The Design of Liberty
I thought that the buildings, even though they stand in a grid, should echo the torch of liberty. And I think they will. [You will get the] sense that the buildings don't throw shadows onto the memorial. They stay on the periphery and create that center of public space. That's very important to me because I was an immigrant to New York, with my sister and my parents. We didn't speak the language. We had dreams that America is something incredible. And coming by the Statue of Liberty early in the morning, in August on a ship, that was something that has stayed with me forever. That sense of the impossible that is possible in America. That New York and America provide not just the rhetoric of liberty but true freedom and liberty. And that's what the site is about.
On Cooper Union
I was very lucky to be a student at Cooper Union. What a privilege it was to be a student here. Nothing could compare to it because it was a school that had ethical principles. Beyond teaching technology and how to put a building together it gave me the freedom to pose the question: why is anything built in the first place? I think that is a question that is underestimated. Most people expect solutions from architecture but questions from everything else. Questions in philosophy. Questions in literature. Questions in art. … But when it comes to architecture it seems to be immune to questions. And yet it is a highly questionable field. [And yet] every building in every city is a question mark. Will it survive? Is it good? Is life worth living in that way? So this school did a lot for me. To inspire me. I was travelling by subway from the Bronx. It took me about an hour with my portfolio and my balsa wood models. Coming here was like a nirvana. I have nothing but accolades for this school.


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Jolly jolly are the days;
'Neath the elms;
'Neath the elms of dear old Yale."
H. Baldwin (1871)
Yale's campus is graced with hundreds of trees, from the stately elms on Old Campus to the mature oaks that line Hillhouse Avenue. These trees are an integral part of the University's beauty, history and tradition, and in some cases as old as the Colleges where they grew.
Unfortunately these historic trees must sometimes be removed from their prominent place on campus. When trees are cut, we gather the wood and use it to make wooden bowls and premium collector pens that preserve the memory and grandeur of these iconic trees.
This is a unique opportunity to own a piece of University history that will give beauty and distinction to your home or office. These pieces also make excellent gifts. Each bowl is one of a kind and individually numbered. The premium pens are of limited edition.


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WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. government believes Egypt can return to a democratic path, noting some assistance is vital to U.S. security interests, a spokeswoman said.
U.N. Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman arrived in Cairo to meet with interim leaders this week. World attention has focused on Egypt as political confrontations turned deadly in the aftermath of the July military ouster of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
Feltman said in a statement Wednesday he "was not in Cairo to make statements on Egypt but to listen to the Egyptians." He said the general sense in the United Nations was that all political leaders in Egypt share a responsibility to end the violence.
The United Nations said more than 500 people were killed in political violence in Egypt in the past several days.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi's political backers, said the July 3 ouster was a military coup. The European Union announced Wednesday it was suspending military aid to Egypt given the severity of the violence.
U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said during her regular press conference Washington has withdrawn some military support in response to the violence but was moving forward with its strategic interests in mind.
"We have seen our aid to Egypt as something that is vital for our own national security purposes, for regional stability," she said Wednesday.
She stressed, however, Washington felt the Egyptian people could put the country back on the path to a long-term, stable democracy.


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Radio's Bob Rivers says famed teen burglar may have stolen his plane
A Seattle radio host says he believes the theft and crash landing of his airplane last fall was the work of Colton Harris-Moore.
"The thief broke into a locked hangar, apparently found some keys in the hangar, stole the plane during our morning show," Bob Rivers said Thursday morning on his radio show on KZOK-FM.
"All indications are that Colton Harris-Moore is the prime suspect," he said.
Rivers' single-engine Cessna was stolen from San Juan County and crashed November 12 on Yakama Nation tribal land.
When emergency crews arrived, the pilot was no where to be found.
Rivers told investigators he thought the plane was still in its hangar when they called to find out why it was on the reservation.
The radio host said he started taking lessons in 2002 to overcome his fear of flying. Rivers said he became an instrument-rated pilot and bought an airplane.
"I was furious that something like this could happen," he said. "It's a burglar with a James Bond complex, and they need to catch him."
Investigators could not immediately be reached for comment.
Harris-Moore, 18, is suspected in about 50 burglary cases since he slipped away from a halfway house in April 2008, and authorities suspect him in several other airplane thefts.
His mother said she doesn't see anything wrong with what her son is accused of doing.
"I hope to hell he stole those airplanes - I would be so proud," Pam Kohler said in an interview on Tuesday.
Over the weekend, someone took blankets, shoes and food from a home near the site where a stolen Cessna crash-landed in Granite Falls on an apparent path toward Harris-Moore's hometown on Camano Island. SWAT teams were called out after a shot was fired from the woods, but whoever was responsible got away.
Police believe Harris-Moore also recently took thousands of dollars from safes and ATMs at businesses in the Orcas Island hamlet of Eastsound.
The teen has exploited the fact that the police do not have the manpower to mount an all-out hunt in a property crime case. Sheriff's offices on some of the islands do not even have tracking dogs.
Frustrated residents wonder how hard it is to find a 6-foot-5, 200-pound teenager in the confines of an island, while red-faced cops bristle at what they see as attempts to romanticize the fugitive.
A Harris-Moore fan club has emerged on Facebook, and a Seattle man, started selling T-shirts bearing Harris-Moore's picture and the words "Momma Tried."
The teen escaped from a Renton juvenile security facility in April 2008 and has been on the lam ever since, suspected in a string of break-ins and thefts.
Investigators believe Harris-Moore is responsible for 13 recent burglaries in San Juan County, including the theft of two boats.
Rivers said his Cessna was totaled in the crash.


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'Angry Birds Star Wars' Is More Addictive Fun Fans Want [REVIEW]
Last month, Rovio announced a major partnership with Lucasfilm to create Angry Birds Star Wars. The game, out this week, represents a hybrid of the two powerful brands, and provides enjoyable gameplay for fans of both franchises.
For those unsure about the union, "I find your lack of faith disturbing." Rovio has shown in Angry Birds Star Wars that it can create a fun, challenging game that doesn't besmirch our favorite characters. Instead, laugh at images of Stormtroopers as pigs and Chewbacca as a giant, furry bird.
Creative Twists on Classic Gameplay
Angry Birds Star Wars doesn't deviate from the main concept behind the series. The slingshot is back, and you've got to propel birds towards their swine foe to knock them over and destroy their fortresses. This is Rovio's bread and butter, but it seems like each iteration of the game has been more creative, and asks more from players; Angry Birds Space added depth to the gameplay by including physics challenges, such as zero-gravity and planetary orbit.
Likewise, Angry Birds Star Wars creates new challenges by adding Star Wars-inspired powers to all of the birds, based on which character they portray. Red Bird, a.ka. Luke Skywalker, can swing a lightsaber to destroy objects he's about smash into, or to take out an enemy. The bird version of Obi-Wan Kenobi can use The Force to push over obstacles while flying. Unsurprisingly, both of these powers are extremely fun to use (a lightsaber will always add entertainment value to whatever you're doing).
The entire main cast of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is represented in bird form; each has their own power to master. Similarly, many of the films' settings are portrayed in the game by beautifully drawn backgrounds. The levels that take place on Tantooine feature the planet's two suns setting on the horizon.
Angry Birds also reenact classic Star Wars movie moments in cutscenes that appear between every few levels. While they may be corny, the scenes will bring a smile to any player's face, especially when encountering the Jawas or bounty hunter Greedo rendered as birds or pigs.
There are many other touches to Angry Birds Star Wars that clearly demonstrate the game's developers are passionate Star Wars superfans. For example, there are classic sounds that make nerd hearts flutter, such as the blaster noise that goes off whenever players hit a level's high score. The sound editing also incorporates the film's score with some cartoony remixes.
While Angry Birds Star Wars is playable on mobile, tablet and PC, it's a better fit for larger screens. Players won't be able to enjoy the tiny details of the world, not to mention the art and cinematics, as much when screen size is smaller. Targeting Angry Birds' powers to small, specific spots also proves more difficult.
This is a must-download for fans of either franchise, and Rovio has made it available on virtually every platform at launch. Angry Birds Star Wars is out now for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows Phone, Mac, PC and Windows 8, for either $0.99 or $2.99.


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Six Generations of Women Gather With 111-Year-Old Grandma
It's rare to see five generations of a family get together, so when six generations can hang out it has to be documented. That's exactly what happened when Mollie Wood turned 111-years-old at the end of April.
Mollie Wood raised three children with her husband in West Virginia, and now she has lived long enough to meet her 7-week-old great, great, great granddaughter Braylin Marie Higgins generations later. Six generations of mothers and daughters gathered with Wood to celebrate her 111th birthday and the longevity of the women in their family.
According to her family, Wood stayed sharp until she turned 109. And she's not the only woman with staying power. Her daughter Louise Minter, who is 88, still cleans houses, more than thirty years after retiring from her full-time job. Her 70-year-old granddaughter, Bette Goodson, teaches yoga and Pilates classes three nights a week.
When asked to explain the longevity of the women in her family, Wood's great granddaughter, 39-year-old Marlo Shifflett, said, "We're ornery. I think that's a lot of it. We're too ornery to stop!"
Little Braylin Marie will have quite a story to tell when she gets older and can show off the pictures of her family. Not many children can say they've met their great, great, great grandmother.


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Doctors and parents came out in force Tuesday to urge the Palo Alto Board of Education to require schools to stock medication that can save a child from dying from a sudden allergic reaction.
About a dozen people including several physicians whose children attend Palo Alto elementary schools said schools should keep the drug Epinephrine, designed for use even by untrained personnel in the form of simple, pre-dosed "EpiPens," on hand in case of allergic reactions to incidents like bee stings or food, such as peanuts.
"I implore you to adopt this proposal," said Stanford University physician Heather Henri, the mother of a first-grader at Walter Hays Elementary School. Henri said there's been a "rapid escalation in the incidence of severe food allergies."
She and Palo Alto Medical Foundation physician Angela Wong, a Duveneck Elementary School parent, presented signatures of more than 200 local doctors in support of schools keeping a "universal stock" of EpiPens.
Currently schools keep only prescribed EpiPens for specific children with asthma or other known allergies, to be used in cases of a serious allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis, which can be fatal.
But Wong said that 25 percent of life-threatening allergic reactions that occur in schools are the result of undiagnosed allergies, in which cases school personnel must wait for emergency medical assistance or break the law by using an EpiPen prescribed for another child.
"Waiting for emergency services to arrive at a school is not a safe plan because Epinephrine needs to be injected as early as possible from onset of reaction," said the doctors' petition submitted by Wong. "Delay can, and does, result in death."
In November, President Barack Obama signed into law the School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Law, which offers financial incentives for schools to maintain supplies of the medication.
California legislation that would require schools to stock EpiPens, sponsored by State Senate Republican Leader Bob Huff of Diamond Bar, was met with resistance from unions representing teachers and other school employees in hearings earlier this month.
Currently five states Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada and Virginia require schools to stock EpiPens.
At Tuesday's school board meeting, Duveneck parent Amy Kacher brought two different versions of EpiPens and held them up for board members to see. She described in detail the symptoms of an anaphylactic reaction, from itchy throat on the playground to medical emergency.
"Let's get these pens into our schools," Kacher said. "Please don't let a myriad of meetings and conversations drag this on and on."
Parent Clara Dye, president of the Duveneck PTA, simulated how an untrained person would use an EpiPen by following audible instructions embedded in the device.
Parent Kathy Howe, whose children do not have known allergies, urged the board to take initiative on the EpiPen issue.
"We should have non student-specific EpiPens in our classrooms and with yard duties (playground supervisors) and have people empowered to use them," Howe said. "It's important that we are a leader in this area."
Superintendent Kevin Skelly, who said the Palo Alto school district is "looking at (the EpiPen issue) strongly," appeared to be impressed by the testimonies.
Prior to hearing the parents and doctors speak, Skelly noted that no other school district in Santa Clara County currently stocks non student-specific EpiPens and that the Los Angeles Unified School District recently rejected a proposal to do so.
"We want to hear why did Los Angeles, for example, decide not to do that. What are the upsides and downsides of that? We are aware of this issue and we are looking at this as a concern."
Following the speakers, Skelly suggested he would prepare an update on the issue for a future board meeting.
"The points made tonight were compelling and helpful, particularly those of you involved in the medical field who deal with allergies all the time" he said.
In an emergency, he noted, it could be quicker for school personnel to take an EpiPen off the shelf rather than sort through plastic bags full of student prescriptions to find the right one.
"In the next week or so we'll send out an email asking for your help in drawing up protocols, with the board's direction. We could certainly use the tremendous wisdom that's in this room on this topic."
Skelly suggested that the doctors take their case to the county to have a broader impact.
"You in the medical community could push on the Santa Clara County Health Department and others that help us set guidelines," he said.


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Gag Grouper Recreational Harvest Opening in Florida's Gulf State Waters; Closing in 4-County Region
Gag grouper will be open for recreational harvest in most Gulf of Mexico state and federal waters July 1. The same day, however, the season will close in state waters off the coast of Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson and Taylor counties.
The gag grouper recreational harvest season in Gulf of Mexico state and federal waters, not including Franklin, Jefferson, Wakulla, Taylor and Monroe counties, will end Oct. 31. State waters off Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson and Taylor counties opened April 1 and close June 30. They will not be open during the July-through-October season everywhere else. Monroe County is also excluded from the July-through-October season because it is included in the Atlantic rules for gag grouper.
Gag grouper caught in state and federal waters during the July-through-October season may be taken ashore in Franklin, Wakulla, Jefferson and Taylor counties, but boats with gag grouper aboard may not stop in and must have gear stowed while traveling through state waters in that region.
The four-county region includes all waters of Apalachicola Bay and Indian Pass, including those in Gulf County, and all waters of the Steinhatchee River, including those in Dixie County. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) manages marine fish from the shore to nine nautical miles in the Gulf of Mexico.
The FWC is working with Florida's anglers to rebuild gag grouper populations in the Gulf of Mexico to strong, sustainable levels. The Commission established these seasons at its February meeting. The regional season was set for 2012 only and was established to provide fishing opportunities for private, recreational anglers when gag grouper are closer to shore and can be safely accessed by smaller boats.
The gag grouper recreational harvest minimum size and bag limits are 22 inches and two gag grouper per person. No more than four of any species of grouper may be kept.
To learn more about these management changes, visit MyFWC.com/Fishing and click on "Saltwater," "Recreational Regulations" and "Gulf Grouper" for frequently asked questions and answers about the changes.


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Senate committee hearings and official FBI documents further illustrate the mindset of our elected officials as they classify homeschoolers, gun rights activists and anti-abortionists as threats against the existing social and political order; by default creating an entire nation of radicals and revolutionaries – where everyone is a suspect… equally guilty until proven otherwise.
How has our government shown that they will deal with these people? The same way as every other totalitarian regime throughout history – marginalize their activities then lock them up. Prisons are being built; internment camps constructed and laws passed that deal severely with anyone who dares to step out of line or ask too many questions.
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I have been trying to find the worst algorithm in terms of it's Big-O function. By worst I mean n! is worse than n^2, n^n is worse than n!, etc. Essentially the worst algorithm would be the one with the fastest growing expression inside the Big-O notation.
I am aware that with the definition of Big-O if an algorithm is O(n^2), then it is also O(n!), so to be more precise I am really looking for the worst algorithm in terms of Big-Theta, because Big-Theta provides a more tight bound (I believe the tightest possible bound in terms of asymptotic analysis). I used Big-O in the title and explanation because I am not sure how many people are familiar with Big-Theta vs. Big-O.
I don't care at all from what branch of computing the algorithm is from (computational geometry, graph theory, etc.).
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Trisagion is from the Greek tris- (three) and hagios (holy). It is pronounced "tree-sah-yon." Literally, trisagion means "thrice holy."
English translations of the Trisagion
- English
Holy God, Holy Strong One, Holy Immortal One, Have mercy on us.
Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, Have mercy on us.
Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, Have mercy on us.
Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy and Immortal, Have mercy on us.
- Arabic
Quddouson Allââh, Quddouson ul-qawee, Quddouson ulladhee la yamout, Irhamna
Svjatyj Bozhe, Svjatyj Krepkij, Svjatyj Bezsmertnyj, Pomiluj nas.
- Finnish
Pyhä Jumala, Pyhä Väkevä, Pyhä Kuolematon, armahda meitä.
- French
Saint Dieu, Saint Fort, Saint Immortel, aie pitié de nous.
- Greek
Agios O Theos, Agios Eeskhiros, Agios Athanatos, Eleison imas.
- Latin
Sanctus Deus, Sanctus Fortis, Sanctus Immortalis, Miserere nobis.
- Romanian
Sfinte Dumnezeule, Sfinte Tare, Sfinte Fără de moarte, Miluieşte-ne pe noi.
- Spanish
Santo Dios, Santo Fuerte, Santo Inmortal, ten piedad de nosotros.
Santo Dios, Santo Poderoso, Santo Inmortal, ten piedad de nosotros.
- Syriac / Aramaic
Qadishat Aloho, Qadishat Haylthono, Qadishat lo MoyouTHo, eTHraHam al'ain.
Trisagion Prayer
The Trisagion Prayers are a set of ancient prayers that begin each service of the Daily Cycle. They are also commonly used to begin one's private prayers.
+Glory to Thee, our God, Glory to Thee.
O Heavenly King, Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, Who art everywhere present and fillest all things, the Treasury of good things and Giver of life: Come, and abide in us, and cleanse us from every stain, and save our souls, O Good One.
+Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal: have mercy on us. (3 times)
+Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
All-Holy Trinity, have mercy on us. Lord, cleanse us from our sins. Master, pardon our iniquities. Holy God, visit and heal our infirmities for Thy name's sake.
Lord, have mercy. (3 times)
+Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages.
Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
For Thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.
External links
- A Note: The Translation of the Trisagion (PDF)
- Chapter X.—Concerning the Trisagium ('the Thrice Holy') by St. John of Damascus in his Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, trans. by Rev. S. D. F. Salmond


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ATV completes final automated docking
In a flawless demonstration of technology and skill, ESA's fifth and final ATV, Georges Lemaître, docked with the International Space Station today, fixing itself firmly for a six-month resupply and reboost mission.
The fully automated docking came at 13:30 GMT (15:30 CEST), just a few moments after the cargo vessel's extended probe made contact with the cone on the aft of Russia's Zvezda module.
After contact, a series of hooks latched and closed, making a firm mechanical connection with the Station. Later, data and electrical connections were created, allowing ATV to draw power from the orbital outpost and for the Station computers to talk directly to ATV.
The sequence came at the end of several hours of automated manoeuvres, during which ATV powered itself through a series of waypoints starting some 40 km behind and just below the Station.
ATV navigates itself
"From 39 km to just 250 m from the Station, ATV navigated itself using relative satnav signals, in which both the Station and ATV compare their positions using GPS," says Jean-Michel Bois, leading the ESA operations team at the ATV Control Centre in Toulouse, France. Mission operations are run jointly with France's CNES space agency.
"For the final 250 m, ATV navigated using a 'videometer' and 'telegoniometer', which use laser pulses to calculate the distance and orientation to the Station."
The entire process was completed flawlessly, carefully monitored by the ground team and ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and cosmonaut Sasha Skvortsov on the Station.
"European cargo spaceship Georges Lemaître has successfully docked to the ISS and the crew sends their congratulations to all the brilliant engineering teams on the ground and in ATV Control Center in Toulouse and in Moscow and to those who have contributed over the last 20 years to the development of one of the most advanced resupply vessels that circles our planet," said ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst on board the ISS.
"While this is the last of the ATV flights, the know-how and technology will soon fly again as early as 2017 to power NASA's Orion spacecraft with the European Service Module, paving the way for the next generation of space exploration."
The crew will open the hatch and enter briefly over the next day, installing a fan to freshen the internal air before ATV is made ready for daily use.
One of ATV's most crucial capabilities – using its thrusters to reboost the Station's altitude – will be tested in just two days, with a test burn scheduled for 14 August.
Teams perform magnificently
"The final arrival of Europe's ATV space freighter was almost anticlimactic, as the vessel's made-in-Europe docking technology performed perfectly for the fifth and final time," said Massimo Cislaghi, ATV-5 mission manager.
"Most importantly, the crew in space and the ESA, CNES and industry teams on ground performed magnificently, and it is thanks to their dedication over the life of this project that ATVs have won a reputation for being some of the most reliable and dependable space vessels ever flown."
Named after the Belgian scientist who formulated the Big Bang Theory, ATV Georges Lemaître lifted off at 23:47 GMT on 29 July (01:47 CEST 30 July) on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
The vehicle is carrying 6602 kg of freight, including 2680 kg of dry cargo and 3922 kg of water, propellants and gases.
The cargo includes complex scientific hardware, such as the electromagnetic levitator for experiments to improve industrial casting processes. The unit will allow finer metal castings and more precise measurements than can be obtained on Earth, where readings are affected by gravity.


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Microsoft has fixed 26 security flaws, at least five of which are critical, in its software. At least one of the holes is being actively exploited by hackers to compromise Windows computers.
The latest Patch Tuesday update from the company addresses these vulnerabilities, which are present in workstations and servers running Redmond operating systems.
Most pressing of the critical batch is MS12-060, which is a fault in Windows Common Control that is being exploited in the wild. Victims merely have to open booby-trapped RTF files and Office documents, or visit a maliciously constructed web page, to fall foul of an attack. The files could be sent as email attachments.
Other critical flaws exist in the Remote Administration Protocol (RAP) of Windows Networking; Internet Explorer versions 6 to 9; the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) server in Windows XP; and a module in the Outlook Web Access (OWA) component of Microsoft Exchange Server.
Microsoft's latest security bulletin can be found here. As usual, an easy-to-understand overview from the Internet Storm Centre can be found here.
In other patching news, Adobe also released two new versions of its Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader products. A patch for Adobe Flash Player addresses a zero-day vulnerability that has been used in targeted attacks. These assaults have involved tricking victims into opening Word documents with an embedded ActiveX Flash object.
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07 HAH Suspension Question
Quick questions for HAH owners. I have 3500 miles on my 2007 and I drove it to Toronto on business and back over the past couple days. Sunday night as I crossed into Canada I came across some wicked thunderstorms with heavy rain for about 100 miles.
When I got to the hotel and got out, just taking my weight off the seat (no jokes here) I heard squeaking. So, I investigated a little bit and sure enough there was a lot of squeaking spring noises coming from the front left corner.
The following morning it was still there and I stopped by a dealer in Toronto and the service rep was clueless. Said he never heard that before but that there was no way they could take a look at it that day - thanks Honda.
Anyway, 500 miles later and dry weather and the noises are gone. I figure it got VERY wet under there as the rain was very heavy, however, even my '92 Accord with 120K miles has never done that so I am curious if anyone else has had this issue???
Thanks in advance.
PS. 3500 + miles on the car since purchased new in late April 08. 30.4 MPG overall with roughly 50/50 miles city and highway (I live in hilly New England). The Toronto trip consistently at 75 - 80MPH I did 34.5MPG according to the dash display. Can't beat that within this class!!
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