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PHOENIX, July 17 (UPI) -- Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio and one of his investigators said Tuesday they think President Barack Obama's birth certificate was altered.
"We have worked hard at this, we wanted to clear the president of the United States, but it hasn't happened like that," Arpaio said.
KNXV-TV, Phoenix, reported county investigator Mike Zullo said he believes someone had tampered with Obama's birth document in Honolulu and the Maricopa County investigative team can prove it has been manipulated.
Zullo said the investigation brings into question the citizenship of anyone with a birth certificate from Hawaii.
"It's time for this charade to stop," Zullo said, adding he wants the U.S. Congress to investigate as well.
Arpaio said he believes Obama's birth certificate, released last year, is a "computer-generated forgery," the TV station said.
The sheriff, who said he took up the investigation at the behest of 250 state residents, said he's not suggesting Obama was involved or challenging his legal status, but he believes a crime occurred.
In an attempt to lay to rest allegations that Obama was not born in Hawaii, the White House last year released the president's certificate of live birth.


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Father Tom Sweetser, S.J., says it's not in his capacity to reform the entire U.S. church, but he knows he's making a difference in the scores of parishes where he has consulted. It is what he is able to do.
Similarly, in the wake of one wretched sexual abuse revelation after another, some of the most influential Catholics in the United States have come together to do what they are able to do. Where Sweetser is a David, they are collectively a Goliath. The National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management (NLRCM) formed out of an intial meeting in 2004.
Today the board includes figures as varied as Victoria Reggie Kennedy, widow of Sen. Edward Kennedy; Father Edward Malloy, C.S.C., president emeritus, University of Notre Dame; Geoffrey Boisi, former Wall Street investment banker; retired Lt. Gen. James Dubik; and Dr. Charles Geschke, chairman of the board of Adobe Systems. The organization works collaboratively with other Catholic groups to improve management protocols in parishes, dioceses, and nonprofits.
NLRCM's annual conferences at Wharton College in Philadelphia resonate long after the conferences end. In 2008, for example, Larry Bossidy, retired CEO and chairman of Honeywell International, told a crowd of politicians, bishops, and nonprofit presidents that it was crucial for parishes to be conducting exit interviews with Catholics who stopped coming to Mass. Articles are still being written endorsing that obvious yet neglected business technique.
Bossidy also advised empowering laity to raise money in every parish. "At the root of most parish problems is insufficient money," he said. Undercapitalized, as a business major might say. He also recommended every parish and diocese contribute to a national Catholic public relations campaign to remind people of the good that the church does. Even the church needs to market itself.
Even at this lofty height there has been tension—a healthy tension, some would say—more on the methods than the need for business reform. The NLRCM defuses some of the criticism by frequently assuring that their mission is to offer only management, not theological, advice.
In addition to its annual meetings, the NLRCM has generated publications, a consulting service, the ChurchEpedia ("an encyclopedia of temporal best practices in church management, finance, and human resources"), and the Standards of Excellence initiative. It may be the Standards of Excellence that has proved the most immediately effective in Catholic parishes, dioceses, and nonprofits.
Canon lawyers helped the NLRCM adapt the standards from already existent standards developed by the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations. As an "ethics and accountability code," they offer guiding principles based on universal values and best practices around eight areas of parish life:
• Mission statement and ministry program
• Governance and advisory bodies
• Conflict of interest
• Human resources
• Financial and legal
• Openness
• Fundraising
• Public life and policy
The Diocese of Gary, Indiana piloted the Standards of Excellence in 2007. A June 2010 Notre Dame study found they had already led to improvement in five of those eight areas.
This article appeared in the July 2011 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 76, No. 7, pages 12-17).
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Nicolas Hipperson is no fan of football or hockey. "I hate both of them," he says with dead certainty. But ask Hipperson, the chef at Raincity Grill, what sport fans can snack on during the Super Bowl this Sunday, that's another story. He's into it. He might not know a fullback from a quarterback, or for that matter, a cross check from a bodycheck, but when it comes to feeding sports fans, he's got opinions.
Arancini, he says, is something a guy fan could make. "Essentially, arancini is overcooked risotto, formed into a ball and fried," he says. Easy as that. "They're crunchy, salty and good for watching any sports."
And most importantly, chased by a swig of beer, they're perfection.
Being a couch-potato sport fan isn't as easy as one might think. Food affects mood. You don't want to fill up on Cheezies and Ruffles with ridges. Too many and you might be needing a nap. You want to be alert, energetic to respond to the fumbles and the touchdowns. You need real food but not too much.
Given that this is Super Bowl weekend, and with the NHL back in working order, too, there might be some sport-fan bonding going on and good food can be a super-glue for bonding. So here are some recipe ideas from some Vancouver chefs to snack your way through the tough weekend coming up.
Fried Chicken Wings with Nahm Jim Jiao
From chef Angus An of Maenam Restaurant:
12 chicken wings
1 cup (250 ml) cornstarch
Salt and white pepper
Chili powder
Season the chicken wings with salt and white pepper. Toss them in cornstarch until a thick coating is achieved. Fry in deep fryer at 350 F until golden brown and crispy (about 7 minutes). Season to taste with sugar, salt and chili powder.
Nahm Jim Jiao
¼ cup (60 ml) toasted ground rice
¼ cup (60 ml) deep-fried shallots (available at T&T supermarkets)
¼ cup (60 ml) finely sliced pak chi farang (Vietnamese coriander, available at most Asian supermarkets)
¼ cup (60 ml) tamarind water (available at most Asian supermarkets)
¼ cup (60 ml) lime juice
¼ cup (60 ml) fish sauce
¼ cup (60 ml) finely sliced shallots
Large pinch of chili powder
Large pinch of sugar
This calls for toasted ground rice which you can make yourself by soaking Thai sticky rice in water overnight, then drying in a piloted oven, or one on a very low heat, over another night. When dry, toast in the oven until golden and grind into a powder.
Combine all ingredients. Adjust seasoning to taste. Should be equally sour, salty, sweet and spicy.
Makes 2 servings
Spiced Italian Eggplant and Tomato Dip
From Chef Alvin Pillay of The New Oxford pub:
1 cup (250 mL) extra virgin olive oil
2 large Italian eggplants, diced small
1 yellow onion, julienned
6 cloves garlic, minced
5 vine-ripened tomatoes, diced small
1/8 tsp. (.5 mL) ground fennel
1/8 tsp. (.5 mL) ground cumin
Dried chili flakes
¼ bunch flatleaf Italian parsley, chiffonade (ribbon) cut
6 large leaves basil, chiffonade cut
Juice of 1 lemon
Kosher salt
Freshly cracked black pepper
Heat olive oil in a large, heavy bottomed sauté pan. Add the eggplant and fry until golden brown. Season with salt.
Add the onions, garlic, and tomatoes. Continue to fry on high heat while constantly stirring.
Add the spices, measured to taste. Reduce the heat to low and cook for 20 minutes. Adjust the seasonings, add the fresh herbs and lemon juice. Cool to room temperature before serving.
Plate the dip alongside fresh-cut vegetables like Belgian endive, fennel, cucumbers and kale chips, flatbread or crackers.
Makes 4 servings
Goat Cheese Arancini
From chef Nicolas Hipperson of Raincity Grill, who says this can be served with a ready-made ranch dressing or blue cheese dressing:
3 tbsp. (45 ml) olive oil
2 tbsp. (30 ml) garlic, minced
½ cup (125 ml) onion, diced
2 cups (500 ml) arborio rice
½ cup (125 ml) white wine
6 cups (1.5 L) chicken stock, warm
2 tbsp. (30 ml) unsalted butter
½ cup (125 ml) Parmesan, finely grated
7 oz. (200 g) goat cheese
4 eggs, beaten with 45 ml (3 tbsp.) water
1 cup (250 ml) all-purpose flour
2 cups (500 ml) panko crumbs
6 cups (1.5 L) canola oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Cooking the risotto
In a large fry pan heat olive oil over medium heat. Add garlic and onion and slightly sauté until translucent. Add rice and toss in oil to coat each and every grain, stirring constantly. Continue to cook to give the grains of rice a light toast. Add the white wine and while continuing to stir, cook over medium heat until the wine has reduced. It is important to not stop stirring. Begin to add a 113 g (4 oz.) ladle of stock, one ladle at a time, waiting for the stock to be reduced each time before adding the next ladle. Continue this process until rice is cooked through (approx. 20 minutes). Once the risotto is cooked, finish with a seasoning of salt and pepper to taste and a generous handful of Parmesan cheese.
Transfer cooked risotto to a baking sheet and allow to cool.
Forming the arancini
Once the risotto is cool, take a small handful and form it into a ball slightly smaller than a golf ball. Take a small piece of the goat cheese and press into the centre of the ball, reforming the rice back around to hide the cheese. Repeat this process until all of the rice is used. Place finished balls on a baking sheet in a single layer.
In separate bowls, lay out in this order: flour, eggs with water mixture, and panko. Dredge each ball in flour, then coat in the egg wash, then coat in the panko breadcrumbs. Once all your arancini balls are breaded, store in the fridge until ready to fry.
Fill a deep pot, about 10 inches (25 cm), ¾ full of canola oil. Heat to about 375 F. If you have a deep fryer at home, fill it with oil and heat to 375 F. Cook in batches of 4 to 6 balls, depending on the size of your pot. Cook until golden brown and cheese is melted in the middle.
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The shooting story you probably didn't hear about; Rabid gun control enthusiasts ignore a bigger picture
Steve Watson
Dec 17, 2012
News of a shooting in Oregon earlier this week was eclipsed with news of an even more tragic one this past weekend. However, one important detail you will not hear in the mainstream media coverage is the fact that both could have been as devastating as each other had it not been for an armed citizen who stepped in and saved lives at a mall close to Portland.
As reported by local news station KGW News Channel 8 Friday, 22-year-old Nick Meli stepped in to prevent masked shooter Jacob Tyler Roberts from killing scores of people at the Clackamas Town Center Mall.
Meli, who has a concealed carry permit, positioned himself behind a pillar.
"He was working on his rifle," said Meli. "He kept pulling the charging handle and hitting the side."
The break in gunfire allowed Meli to pull out his own gun, but he never took his eyes off the shooter.
"As I was going down to pull, I saw someone in the back of the Charlotte move, and I knew if I fired and missed, I could hit them," he said.
Meli took cover inside a nearby store. He never pulled the trigger. He stands by that decision.
"I'm not beating myself up cause I didn't shoot him," said Meli. "I know after he saw me, I think the last shot he fired was the one he used on himself."
The shooter killed two victims, and seriously injured a teenage girl, but upon seeing an armed citizen ready to shoot back, Roberts ended the killing there by taking his own life.
As the KGW report notes, even police in Oregon have failed to acknowledge Meli's role, with the Sheriff crediting only local officers and deputies with "hunting down" the shooter. In reality, the shooter was already dead when police found him.
This kind of incident occurs with regularity, yet is rarely if ever given airtime by the corporate media.
If teachers at Sandy Hook had been authorized to be armed, they too could have stepped in in this fashion.
The National Safety Council, notes that guns are used some 2.5 million times a year in self defense against criminals, meaning that firearms are utilized to protect innocent lives in 80 times more cases than they are used to end lives.
Indeed, in some states, many teachers already are armed. As KMOV St. Louis news reports, St. Louis County Police Chief Tim Fitch will visit schools this week to discuss increasing security, including putting guns in elementary schools.
Fitch acknowledges that most high schools and some middle schools, including those in West County, already have armed school resource officers.
Of course, the best way to prevent such events from ever occurring is through diligence and common sense, as highlighted by the fact that two planned school shootings in Oklahoma and Indiana were prevented by students, staff and police in the same week as the tragic events in Connecticut.
It is plainly obvious that the debate to be had over such shootings is multifaceted. All kinds of aspects play into it, including culture, environment and in an alarming number of cases, the role of pharmaceutical medications.
It is more complex than simply crowing about nullifying the Second Amendment, a ridiculously simplistic and unrealistic argument which grows ever more tiresome every time it is trotted out by the vultures intent on seizing on tragedy to play politics.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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Koolhaas, Rem
Koolhaas, Rem (Remmet Lucas Koolhaas), 1944–, Dutch architect, b. Rotterdam. He began his career as a journalist and screenwriter, moving to London in the late 1960s to study architecture. Koolhaas is widely viewed as the most intellectually challenging, audacious, and influential architectural thinker of his generation; until the 1990s he was primarily known as a theorist. He founded (1975) and heads the Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). His cutting-edge work defies categorization; it is innovatively functional and often uses inexpensive everyday materials. Among his completed commissions are the Netherlands Dance Theater, The Hague (1987); the vast Euralille urban complex, Lille, France (1994); the Dutch Embassy, Berlin (2003); the McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago (2003); and the arklike Casa de Música, Oporto, Portugal (2005). His most acclaimed projects are the Central Library in Seattle (2004), featuring an irregularly angled and cantilevered glass-and-steel exterior and, in the interior, a soaring reading room and spiral of bookshelves, and the CCTV Headquarters, Beijing (2011), whose two tapering, inward sloping 50-story steel-and-glass towers are joined at the top by an angled 13-story bridge, creating a large five-sided empty space in the center. Koolhaas is the author of Delirious New York (1978, repr. 1994), about the city's architecture and density; S, M, L, XL (1994), about OMA's projects; and several other books. He received the Pritzker Prize in 2000.
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The Morenci Kiwanis Club's annual Wishing Tree project is underway again, with trees located at Stair Public Library, United Bank and Trust and First Federal Bank.
Stars hanging from the trees list clothing needs and a gift idea for area children who could use some extra help during the holiday season.
People are invited to take a star, shop for some of the items listed and return the purchased goods to United Bank and Trust or the library.
Gifts will be delivered to families in the area, along with a box of food. Community members are also urged to drop off non-perishable food items to help with the effort.
The Morenci High School Volunteer Club will organize a food collection at the high school for students. Dollar General will also accept donations of food purchased at that location.
HATS AND MITTENS—The Village Inn restaurant staff is bringing back their hat and mittens tree to collect winter gear for children. Warm socks are also needed.


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Eric Radford remembers going to the video store as a kid in tiny Balmertown, the farthest north one can travel by road in Ontario. A group of kids stood smoking outside and Radford had to push his way through them as they taunted and teased him.
Meagan Duhamel comes from Lively, Ont., where both her parents worked two jobs — her mom's work day stretched from 8 a.m. to midnight — to finance her figure skating.
Radford moved away from home when he was 13, Duhamel at 14. Their paths would eventually cross years later in Montreal where the two teamed up after neither qualified for the Vancouver Olympics.
The two-time Canadian pairs champions will be gunning for gold this week at the Four Continents championships in Osaka, Japan, a final tune-up for the world championships next month in London, Ont.
"I think we were just a fork in the road," Duhamel said of teaming up with Radford. "We were either going to quit or we were going to give it one last go."
For Radford, that road started in his northern Ontario hometown that's a 28-hour drive from Toronto and home to 1,000 people and one arena. The 28-year-old fell in love with skating while watching Nancy Kerrigan's free skate during the 1992 Albertville Olympics.
"I became enthralled with skating, I used to try to do skating moves in my living room, try and do jumps and stuff," Radford said.
But skating was a girl's sport, and his classmates let him know it.
"A lot of name-calling," Radford said. "Whenever there was a group and I was by myself, they'd always make fun of me. It was really hard. I just couldn't understand, I thought, 'All I'm doing is skating, it's not a big deal. Why does everybody have to hate me?'"
Radford came face-to-face with one of his bullies at a wedding two summers ago.
"I hated him so much, he said. "But he actually came up to me and said, 'Eric, I just want to apologize for back in Grade 7 and 8, when I used to make fun of you. I was young and stupid. I watch you all the time on TV now, and I'm always cheering for you and I think it's amazing what you've done.'
"I was like, 'Wow, thank you very much, it means a lot to have you say that.' Even though it was so long ago, it was really nice to kind of have that vindication."
The 27-year-old Duhamel literally grew up next door to an ice rink in Lively. Her sister and her aunt both skated. Her dad, brother and cousins all played hockey.
When she turned 14, she asked to move to Barrie for better coaching and more ice time at the Mariposa School of Skating.
"I remember begging my mom to let me move. For one month, I cried and I begged and I screamed and I threw a fit like a little brat," Duhamel said. "I couldn't understand why my mom wouldn't let me, because I was like, 'If I want to be the best, I need to go skate and train with the best.'"
For the first few years, she boarded with skating families — a different one every year.
"The first year was really hard," she said. "I remember calling my parents one night crying and my dad drove through the night at midnight and when I woke up in the morning he had breakfast with me and then drove back home to go to work."
The cost of her skating took a toll on her family. Her mom worked in the accounts receivable department at a hospital during the day and at a seniors home at night. Her dad was a salesman who spent his nights at the rink refereeing hockey.
The two say their parents practically raised them over the phone. Radford moved alone to Kenora, Ont., at 14, Winnipeg at 15, Montreal at 15 and Toronto at 16 — a different high school every year.
"That was a challenge," he said. "Skating was my platform and my base. I always had the rink to go to, and if I was sad off the ice, skating always made me happy. If I was homesick I had skating there to keep me busy and always stay focused on. It was a sport that I loved, but it also got me through those really hard times."
Duhamel eventually moved to Montreal in 2007, and Radford two years later.
Their coaches suggested they team up after the 2010 Olympic trials, where Duhamel was third with Craig Buntin — who's now retired — and Radford was eighth with Anne-Marie Giroux.
"That first day we tried to skate together was awful. We couldn't do anything. It was so bad," Duhamel said. "Our coaches were like, 'This is good, it's going to work.' We were like, 'What are you thinking?' But we put our trust in them, and it turned out that they did know what they were talking about.
"We weren't ready to give up on our Olympic dream. Everything ended up falling into place the way you always dream things will fall into place."
Duhamel and Radford finished fifth at last year's world championships. They edged Kirsten Moore-Towers and Dylan Moscovitch for gold at the Canadian championships last month, and while domestic scores tend to be inflated, their 206.63 points would have earned them gold at last year's worlds in Nice, France.
"That long program, internationally, still would have scored over 130 points and it would still would put us on a podium," Duhamel said.
Russian teams dominate pairs skating, led by Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov. Yuko Kavaguti and Alexander Smirnov and Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov are also medal contenders at any international event. Then there's four-time world champions Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany.
Pang Qing and Tong Jian should be the Canadians' stiffest challenge at this week's Four Continents event, which begins Thursday with the short dance. The Chinese team was third at the Grand Prix final in December, while Duhamel and Radford were fourth.
"Definitely our goal is to win Four Continents," Duhamel said.
Canada's world and Olympic ice dance champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir will battle American rivals Meryl Davis and Charlie White. Davis and White narrowly beat the Canadians for gold at the Grand Prix Final.
Kaetlyn Osmond, 17, is the lone Canadian in women's singles. Two-time world champion Patrick Chan is skipping the Four Continents to focus on the world championships.


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Among actions taken by FINRA recently were censure and $500,000 in fines against Merrill Lynch for failing to file required reports, and a joint action with the SEC and the exchanges against Hold Brothers. Also, the SEC brought charges against Tyco International over more than $10.5 million in illicit profits connected to fake commissions and other payments to foreign officials, as well as acting on a number of other cases, including one of insider trading that reached Brazil.
Merrill Lynch Fined $500,000 Over Failure to File Reports
FINRA announced that it has censured and fined Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. $500,000 for supervisory failures that allowed widespread deficiencies in filing hundreds of required reports, including customer complaints, arbitration claims, and related U4 and U5 filings, and for its failure to file the required reports. In concluding the settlement, Merrill neither admitted nor denied the charges, but consented to the entry of FINRA's findings.
The violations, undetected for several years, may have hampered investors' ability to assess some brokers' backgrounds via BrokerCheck. They also may have compromised firms' hiring background checks, reduced the ability of securities regulators to review brokers' transfer applications and hindered FINRA from promptly investigating certain disclosure items.
FINRA's rules specify that when a securities firm hires a broker, it must ensure that broker's U4 is updated and kept current. The firm must also record updates involving that broker, such as regulatory actions, customer complaints, settlements and felony charges, and convictions. Firms must also notify FINRA within 30 days of termination of a registered person's association with them by filing a U5, and must notify FINRA within 30 days if a U5 is found to be incomplete or inaccurate.
However, according to FINRA's findings, that was not the case at Merrill. Instead, from 2007 to 2011, Merrill Lynch failed to file or timely file more than 650 required reports, including customer complaints and customer settlements. From 2005 to 2011, Merrill Lynch failed to report or timely report customer complaints, and related Forms U4 and Forms U5 between 23% and 63% of the time.
Findings also state that Merrill Lynch failed to adequately train and supervise personnel responsible for customer complaint tracking and reporting, and did not have systems in place to identify the high volume of customer complaints that were not being acknowledged or reported as required. That meant Merrill Lynch failed to acknowledge nearly 300 customer complaints in a timely manner.
Merrill Lynch failed to file or timely file approximately 300 non-NASD/FINRA arbitrations and criminal and civil complaints that it received for approximately three years. From July 2007 to June 2009, and again from October 2009 to February 2010, Merrill Lynch failed to make these filings 100% of the time. From 2007 through 2010, Merrill Lynch failed to file related Forms U4 and U5 between 28% and 79% of the time.
Hold Brothers Fined Over $5.9 Million on Multiple Charges
FINRA, along with NYSE Arca Inc., The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC, NASDAQ OMX BX, Inc., and BATS Exchange Inc., announced that they have censured and fined Hold Brothers On-Line Investment Services, LLC $3.4 million for manipulative trading activities, anti-money laundering (AML), and other violations. Hold Brothers neither admitted nor denied the charges, but consented to the entry of FINRA's findings to conclude the settlement.
In a related case, the SEC also announced a settlement with Hold Brothers, fining the firm more than $2.5 million and including bars for three senior managers associated with the firm.
Hold Brothers, headquartered in New York, is a self-clearing broker-dealer that primarily operates as a day-trading firm by facilitating direct market access to customers and to its proprietary traders. From Jan. 1, 2009 through Dec. 31, 2011, Hold Brothers' largest account, Demostrate LLC, and an affiliate, Trade Alpha, were day-trading firms wholly owned and funded by Hold Brothers' principals.
Demostrate and Trade Alpha engaged traders and trading groups in various foreign countries, primarily China, to trade its capital. FINRA found that Demostrate and Trade Alpha were controlled by, or under common control with, Hold Brothers.
Demostrate and Trade Alpha used sponsored access relationships with Hold Brothers to connect to U.S. securities exchanges to manipulate the prices of multiple securities. FINRA uncovered hundreds of instances where the foreign day traders used spoofing and layering activities to make the trading algorithms of unwitting market participants provide the traders with favorable execution pricing not otherwise available to them without the day traders' illicit activities.
Spoofing manipulates markets by placing one or more non-bona fide orders, usually inside the existing National Best Bid or Offer (NBBO), to trigger one or more market participants to join or improve the NBBO. Once that occurs, the non-bona fide order is canceled and an order is entered instead on the opposite side of the market.
Layering is the placement of multiple non-bona fide limit orders on one side of the market at various price levels at or away from the NBBO to create the appearance of a change in supply and demand levels to artificially move the price of the security. An order is then executed on the opposite side of the market at the artificially created price, and the non-bona fide orders are immediately canceled.
FINRA also found thousands of instances where Demostrate or Trade Alpha traders engaged in prearranged trades and wash sales.
Hold Brothers also failed to establish and maintain a supervisory system and written procedures reasonably designed to supervise the firm's trading activities. FINRA found that numerous "red flags" indicating suspicious trading were neither detected nor investigated, including broad categories of significant suspicious trading that involving patterns of spoofing, layering, prearranged trading and wash trading.
FINRA also found Hold Brothers' AML policies, procedures and internal controls inadequate; they failed to detect suspicious transactions and did not trigger reporting of the suspicious transactions as required by the Bank Secrecy Act.
Hold Brothers also failed to tailor its AML program to its business, as required. Between 2009 and 2011, the firm averaged about 400,000 trades per day, approximately 90% of which was placed through the Demostrate account. Despite this high volume, Hold Brothers' AML procedures only provided for manual monitoring to detect suspicious trading activity in the accounts.
FINRA also found numerous instances when Hold Brothers' compliance department determined that Trade Alpha or Demostrate traders had engaged in suspicious or manipulative trading. These instances were not escalated to the firm's AML compliance officer and the firm never considered filing a suspicious activity report relating to the activity.
As part of the disciplinary action, FINRA and the exchanges also ordered Hold Brothers to retain an independent consultant to conduct a comprehensive review of the adequacy of the firm's policies, systems and procedures, and training related to AML, trading, day trading, compliance with SEC Rule 15c3-5, and the use of foreign traders.
Tyco Charged on Illicit Payments, Settles for over $26 Million
The SEC has charged Tyco International Ltd. with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) when subsidiaries arranged illicit payments to foreign officials in more than a dozen countries.
Tyco agreed to pay a total of more than $26 million to settle the SEC's charges and to resolve criminal proceedings announced by the U.S. Department of Justice. In the parallel criminal proceedings, the Justice Department entered into a non-prosecution agreement with Tyco in which the company will pay a penalty of approximately $13.68 million.
According to SEC allegations, subsidiaries of the Swiss-based global manufacturer used payments of fake "commissions" or third-party agents to funnel money improperly to obtain lucrative contracts. Overall, Tyco illicitly brought in more than $10.5 million as a result.
The SEC alleges that Tyco subsidiaries operated 12 illicit payment schemes globally, beginning before 2006 and continuing until 2009. The most profitable scheme was in Germany, where agents of a Tyco subsidiary paid third parties to secure contracts or avoid penalties or fines in several countries. These payments were falsely recorded as "commissions" in Tyco's books and records when they were in fact bribes to pay off government customers. Tyco's resulting benefit was more than $4.6 million.
According to the SEC's complaint, Tyco's China subsidiary signed a contract with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security for $770,000, but reportedly paid approximately $3,700, which it recorded as a "commission," to the "site project team" of a state-owned corporation to get the contract.
Tyco's French subsidiary recorded payments to individuals from 2005 to 2009 for "business introduction services." However, one of those individuals was a security officer at a government-owned mining company in Mauritania, and many of the earlier payments were deposited in the official's personal bank account in France. In Thailand, Tyco's subsidiary had a contract to install a CCTV system in the Thai Parliament House in 2006, and paid more than $50,000 to a Thai entity that acted as a consultant. The invoice for the payment refers to "renovation work," but Tyco is unable to ascertain what, if any, work was actually done.
The SEC alleges that in Turkey, Tyco's subsidiary retained a New York City-based sales agent who made illicit payments involving the sale of microwave equipment in September 2006 to an entity controlled by the Turkish government. Employees at Tyco's subsidiary knew the agent was paying foreign government customers to obtain orders. One internal email stated, "Hell, everyone knows you have to bribe somebody to do business in Turkey. Nevertheless, I'll play it dumb if [the sales agent] should call." Tyco brought in $44,513 as a result.
In determining the settlement, the SEC said it had considered Tyco's extensive efforts to identify and remediate its wrongdoing.
SEC Freezes Assets in Burger King Stock Insider Trading by Brazilian
In a continuing investigation, the SEC has obtained an emergency court order to freeze the assets of a stockbroker and Brazilian citizen, Waldyr Da Silva Prado Neto, who, while working in the U.S., used nonpublic information from a customer to engage in insider trading ahead of Burger King's announcement that it was being acquired by a New York private equity firm.
The SEC obtained the asset freeze in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to prevent Prado from transferring his assets outside of U.S. jurisdiction. Prado recently abandoned his most current job at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, put his Miami home up for sale and began transferring all of his assets out of the country.
The SEC alleges that Prado, who was working for Wells Fargo in Miami, learned about the impending acquisition from a brokerage customer who invested at least $50 million in a fund managed by private equity firm 3G Capital Partners Ltd. and used to acquire Burger King in 2010.
According to the SEC's complaint, Prado was the representative on the account used by the customer to transfer his investment to 3G Capital. The customer had been with Prado for more than 10 years and often shared his confidential financial information, with the understanding that it was to remain confidential.
Prado had repeated contact with the customer by phone and email as well as in person in Brazil from May 17 to Sept. 1, 2010, the period during which Prado traded Burger King securities. Prado misused the confidential information to illegally trade in Burger King stock for $175,000 in illicit profits, and tipped others living in Brazil and elsewhere who also traded on the nonpublic information.
The SEC alleges that Prado began his illegal trading while on a business trip to Brazil, during which he sent an e-mail to a friend that—translated from Portuguese—read, "I'm in Brazil with information that cannot be sent by email. You can't miss it…." On the phone that night, Prado told his friend he heard 3G Capital was going to take Burger King private. The friend, a hedge fund manager in Miami, warned Prado that he should not trade on this information and should not encourage any of his customers to trade either.
According to the SEC's complaint, Prado went on to tip at least four of his customers who eventually traded in Burger King stock based on nonpublic information about the impending acquisition.
For example, just minutes after Prado sent the May 17 email to his friend in Miami, he sent another to one of those customers which, again translated from Portuguese, read, "… if you are around call me at the hotel … I have some info … You have to hear this." A 10-minute phone conversation followed, and the customer purchased out-of-the-money Burger King call options during the next two days.
In August 2010, Prado was on another business trip to Brazil, and the same customer sent Prado an email which translated to, "[i]s the sandwich deal going to happen?" Prado replied, "Vai sim," which means, "Yes it's going to happen." He continued, "[e]verything is 100% under control. I was embarrassed to ask about timing. The last 'vol' got in the way." Following these emails, the customer—identified as Tippee A in the SEC's complaint—made additional purchases in Burger King call options. The customer's total insider trading profits amounted to more than $1.68 million.
SEC Charges Three with Insider Trading
H. Thomas Davis, Jr., a former member of the board of directors at a North Carolina-based insurance company, has been charged by the SEC, along with two others, with illegally tipping inside information about an impending merger.
The SEC alleges that Davis, who has a home in Wilmington, N.C., breached his fiduciary duty to Mercer Insurance Group and its shareholders when he shared confidential details about the company's negotiations to be acquired by United Fire. Davis tipped his friend and business associate Mark W. Baggett with the nonpublic information, and Baggett later tipped his golfing partner Kenneth F. Wrangell. Baggett and Wrangell, who both live in Wilmington, made more than $83,000 in illicit profits when they traded on that confidential information illegally.
When contacted by SEC investigators about his suspicious trading, Wrangell promptly offered significant cooperation. He provided truthful details acknowledging his own trading and entered into a cooperation agreement that resulted in direct evidence being quickly developed against Baggett and Davis. This cooperation enabled the SEC to swiftly reach settlements with all three individuals to recover ill-gotten monetary gains.
All three have neither admitted nor denied the allegations, and their settlements are still subject to court approval.
The SEC's complaints against Davis and Wrangell were filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and the complaint against Baggett was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
According to the complaints, Davis was privy to Mercer's negotiations in the latter part of 2010 to be acquired by United Fire. In October and November, Davis tipped Baggett with nonpublic information about the impending merger, enabling Baggett to stockpile 4,426 shares of Mercer as they moved toward the acquisition date. Baggett also tipped Wrangell with advance details about the merger, and Wrangell subsequently purchased 4,500 shares of Mercer stock.
After the markets closed on Nov. 30, Mercer and United Fire publicly announced the merger agreement. Mercer stock rose nearly 50% the next day, and Baggett and Wrangell immediately sold their holdings for illicit profits of $41,584.45 and $42,521.55, respectively.
In settling the SEC's charges, Davis agreed to be jointly and severally liable for disgorgement of Baggett's insider trading profits of $41,584.45 plus prejudgment interest, as well as to pay a penalty of $41,584.45. Davis also agreed to be barred from serving as an officer or director of a publicly traded company. Baggett agreed to pay disgorgement and a penalty in amounts that will be determined by the court.
Wrangell agreed to fully disgorge his ill-gotten gains of $42,521.55 plus prejudgment interest. Due to his extensive cooperation, the additional penalty that Wrangell is required to pay on top of that disgorgement amount has been reduced to $11,380.39.
Bank Executives Charged With Understating Millions in Losses
Three former bank executives in Nebraska have been charged by the SEC with participating in a scheme to understate millions of dollars in losses and mislead investors and federal regulators at the height of the financial crisis. One of the executives and his son also are charged with insider trading.
The SEC alleges that Gilbert G. Lundstrom, CEO and chairman of the board at Lincoln, Neb.-based TierOne Bank, along with President and COO James A. Laphen and Chief Credit Officer Don A. Langford, played a role in TierOne understating its loan-related losses as well as losses on real estate repossessed by the bank.
TierOne had expanded into riskier types of lending in Las Vegas and other high-growth geographic areas in Arizona and Florida, and was experiencing a significant rise in high-risk problem loans. TierOne's primary banking regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS), directed TierOne to maintain higher capital ratios because of this. To appear to comply, Lundstrom, Laphen and Langford disregarded information showing that the collateral securing certain TierOne loans and real estate repossessed by the bank was overvalued due to the bank's reliance on stale and inadequately discounted appraisals. The losses were understated by millions of dollars in multiple SEC filings.
According to the SEC's complaints filed in U.S. District Court for Nebraska, TierOne's losses did not become publicly known until late 2009, after OTS told TierOne to get new appraisals for its impaired loans. TierOne then disclosed loan losses of more than $130 million that would have made the bank miss required capital ratios as far back as Q4 2008, had they been booked properly. After the losses became known, TierOne's stock price dropped more than 70%, and the bank filed for bankruptcy shortly after it was shut down by OTS in June 2010.
Regarding insider trading, the SEC alleges that Gilbert Lundstrom tipped his son in 2009 with confidential details about a proposed asset sale between TierOne and Great Western Bank. Based on this, Trevor Lundstrom bought nearly 210,000 TierOne shares between June and September 2009 in anticipation of the asset sale. Following a Sept. 4 public announcement about the transaction, Lundstrom sold his TierOne holdings for $225,921 in illicit profits.
Gilbert Lundstrom, who lives in Lincoln, agreed to pay a $500,921 penalty and Laphen, who resides in Omaha, agreed to pay a $225,000 penalty. They also consented to permanent officer and director bars. Trevor Lundstrom, who lives in Birmingham, Ala., settled his insider trading charges without admitting or denying the SEC's allegations. He agreed to pay disgorgement of $225,921 plus prejudgment interest and a $225,921 penalty. The settlements are subject to court approval. Langford, who lives in Gibsonia, Pa., has not settled the charges, and the SEC's case continues against him.


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Published in February 1912 two years before the Panama Canal opened, this stunning relief map-painting illustrates the Panama railroad, locks, breakwater, and other details of the region. One of the largest engineering projects ever undertaken, the canal had an enormous impact on shipping, creating a passage between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Prior to the canal's opening, ships had to travel the long and treacherous route around the tip of South America.
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text: Photograph: Tim Koehler of the Eau Claire Municipal Band'The Cymbal Player' and Other Poetry by Martin Elster The Society March 4, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments The Cymbal Player As bows and fingers quiver strings, as lungs and lips whip up the air, as notes soar on great falcon wings, one player, seated in his chair like a finch hid in a maple tree, as if the creature wouldn't dare trill out above the symphony (perhaps in fear of being caught by a raptor high above the lea), begins to rise like an afterthought amid the pianissimos and, like a hunter's rifle shot as bright as ninety-nine rainbows of overtones, he spreads, then hits two plates together. The ether glows like sunlight through the woods. He sits back down. And yet the clang still rings and darts and dances, flutters, flits and, for the merest moment, clings, then fades away like all brief things. The Purple Sun Holy cow! We're holding hands, reaching across our fenceless lands and even (an outlandish notion!) across unfathomed sheets of ocean. Go and snigger, go and smirk, spread rumors that I've gone berserk, yet there's no harm in fantasizing, hoping when we see the rising in the west of a purple sun, a grander age will have begun. A falcon pounces on a pigeon, a zealot murders for "religion," a hunter fells the heartiest moose, and there are rapists on the loose. An asteroid could wipe out life as neatly as a nutjob's knife will slit the throat of a supporter of peace and harmony and order. Yet when we see that purple sun a grander age will have begun and we shall clasp each other's hands across all borders and all lands. Oh, we shall hold each other's hands across our vast and fenceless lands. We people are Earth's mayhem masters. While quakes and floods and such disasters come like plagues of rabid rats to terrorize us, autocrats faster than a lightning flash turn hope to ash, fling bombs that smash the edifices of our dreams, stifle our panic-stricken screams and deafen dolphin, dog, and deer. But if we hold out on this sphere, we'll see a purple coin appear; we'll watch it climb the sky and crest the cool-blue mountains in the west and (shall I say it?) link our hands across all borders and all lands and even (an outlandish notion!) across unfathomed sheets of ocean, beaming, laughing, lost in the glee of being a community. Martin Elster, author of There's a Dog in the Heavens!, is also a composer and serves as percussionist for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. His poems have appeared in such journals as Astropoetica, The Flea, The Martian Wave, The Rotary Dial, and in the anthologies Taking Turns: Sonnets from Eratosphere, The 2012 Rhysling Anthology, and New Sun Rising: Stories for Japan. Martin's poem, "Walking With the Birds and the Bones Through Fairview Cemetery" received first place in the Thomas Gray Anniversary Poetry Competition 2014, and "Talcott Mountain" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Chimaera. NOTE: The Society considers this page, where your poetry resides, to be your residence as well, where you may invite family, friends, and others to visit. Feel free to treat this page as your home and remove anyone here who disrespects you. Simply send an email to email@example.com. Put "Remove Comment" in the subject line and list which comments you would like removed. The Society does not endorse any views expressed in individual poems or comments and reserves the right to remove any comments to maintain the decorum of this website and the integrity of the Society. Please see our Comments Policy here. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) 24 Responses James A. Tweedie March 4, 2018 Re The Cymbal Player: It manages to be both audibly and autobiographically descriptive at the same time. Its effect is as lovely as music. And what an intriguing rhyme scheme: ababcb/cdcded/efefgf/gg (or the final three g's could be interpreted as a return to "a," bringing the scheme full circle–which is, of course, the shape of a cymbal! ) Is this rhyming pattern (and the three-line stanzas) original or are there other examples? Reply C.B. Anderson March 4, 2018 The rhyme scheme here is basically terza rima. There are different ways to end it, but, yes, in this case, the ending returns to the beginning, which is a nice touch, not required by the form, and separated by such a distance that the reader can see it but probably not hear it. Reply James A. Tweedie March 4, 2018 Thank you, C.B. for the the reference to terza rima. There is so much to learn. Perhaps I shall seek out other new forms and try them out. martin March 5, 2018 Hi C.B., I don't often break a word between lines with hyphens. The one time I did, some fellow poets advised me to change it, so I found two shorter words so I wouldn't need the hyphen. I actually like that poem better. But I have seen many poets us hyphens use that way so, as you said, there is precedent for it. The way you are using it in the your excerpt works fine, partly because the meter is dimeter, so there is a natural flow from one line to the next, without a pause, as there is in, for example, trimeter or pentameter. Speaking of initial caps, I used to use them consistently, but a few years ago decided to type my poems in a more modern style. In terms of appearance on the page, I think initial caps visually balance the end rhymes, especially when they are full rhymes (as apposed to slants). martin March 5, 2018 Hi James, Many thanks for your kind words about "The Cymbal Player." I'm happy you enjoyed it. Hearing that it sounds musical to your ears is great to hear! Thanks for asking about the rhyme scheme which, as C.B Anderson mentioned, is terza rima. I love your analogy of the rhymes coming full circle and the roundness of a cymbal. Reply Steven Shaffer March 4, 2018 I liked them both. I'm interested in your thought process re: lower case throughout for The Cymbal Player — fan of e e cummings? Reply C.B. Anderson March 4, 2018 Steven, You will have to wait for the author's own explanation, but I have pondered this matter a lot. Nowadays I almost always use caps at the head of a line, but it's just a convention that does nothing for the poem but reinforce the sense of formalism and tradition. I most often use lower-case line headings when I enjamb a word at the end of a line, with a hyphen to link the word fragment to the fragment beginning the next line. For example, in the first stanza of my poem "Faith and Fortitude": We shy at worms and are afraid of septic germs, while in our thoughts, however tox- ic, we are staid- ly orthodox. The Argonauts of ancient Greece, impatient for the Golden Fleece, against all odds would wade ashore with pagan gods. Thus avoiding, in the first stanza, the awkward non-words of "Ic" and "Ly." Many formalist poets would likely shun the practice of splitting words and counsel against it, but sometimes one needs a word with the right meaning and the required end rhyme, even if the rhyme is embedded in a longer word. I won't apologize for this bizarre practice, because it has been done before by poets of considerable renown and because my own transgressive poem has been published twice. None of this has anything to do with e e cummings. Reply martin March 5, 2018 Hi Steven, Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate it. You asked why I use lower case throughout for the "Cymbal Player." I love E.E. cummings. But, actually, if you look at my poem carefully, you will notice that it's composed of 4 sentences, each on starting with a capital letter. None of those sentences begins at the beginning of a line, so no line starts with a capital! The first sentence is 13 1/2 lines long. The rest of the poem has 3 shorter sentences. In other words, I use standard punctuation. Nothing unusual. Reply Andrew Ramirez March 6, 2018 Bravo! Michael Dashiell March 5, 2018 2 excellent, high quality poems. Reply martin March 5, 2018 Thanks, Michael! Reply David Paul Behrens March 5, 2018 The sun may very well be purple by the time mankind comes to its senses and we all live in peace and harmony. Interesting poem. Well done. Reply martin March 5, 2018 Hi David, "The sun may very well be purple by the time mankind comes to its senses and we all live in peace and harmony. Interesting poem. Well done." Thanks for stopping by, and I'm glad you found the poem interesting. Your interpretation is bang on and perfectly elucidates what I was going for. One other detail that may be worth noting is that no one ever sees the sun rising in the west, another clue (in the poem) that we may have a very long wait, indeed, before the beings on this planet become noticeably healthier, more in balance, and by and large happy. And isn't happiness basically what life is for? If not, then what? Thanks again, David. Reply James A. Tweedie March 5, 2018 Not to take away from the apocalyptic image, but twice I have watched the sun set in the east. Each time I was standing on a high mountain ridge at the end of a hot summer day. Because of an atmospheric inversion layer, the image of the sun setting in the west was reflected to the east where, as a mirror image, it appeared to be setting in both directions simultaneously. Two creepy, unearthly, and yet profoundly spiritual experiences I will never forget. martin March 5, 2018 Thanks, everyone, for your thought-provoking comments and discussion. Reply martin March 5, 2018 I would have loved to see that sunrise, James. It must have been a remarkable sight. Thanks for sharing that memory. So maybe the sun can, in a way, rise in the west (or set in the east). Reply martin March 5, 2018 I would have loved to see that sunrise, James. It must have been a remarkable sight. Thanks for sharing that memory. So maybe the sun can, in a way, rise in the west (or set in the east). The atmosphere can do lots of tricks with light! Reply Dave Whippman March 7, 2018 I like "The Cymbal Player." It's quite a complicated form to work in and you managed very well, giving us an intriguing piece. Reply martin March 8, 2018 Thanks, David. I'm pleased that you found the "The Cymbal Player" intriguing. I also appreciate you mentioning the form. Reply Charles Southerland March 8, 2018 Nice work, Martin. Reply martin March 8, 2018 Hi Charlie, It's nice to see you here. Thanks for stopping by! Best, Martin Reply martin March 8, 2018 Thanks very much, Andrew. Reply David Hollywood March 9, 2018 I really enjoyed the build up, tension and anticipation and then the retreat and disappearance of The Cymbal Player. Very affecting. Thank you. Reply martin March 10, 2018 David H. — Thanks for stopping by and letting me know you enjoyed the poem. Much appreciated. Reply Leave a Reply to Steven Shaffer Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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How Colin Kaepernick helped sports books set a record
- Total for the state was %2498.9 million
- Previous record was %2494.5 million in 2006
- Colin Kaepernick credited for helping inflate the handle
RENO, Nevada — Super Bowl bettors, fueled in part by ex-Nevada football star Colin Kaepernick's starring role with the San Francisco 49ers, wagered a record $98.9 million on Sunday's game, the state reported Monday.
That far surpassed the previous record of $94.5 million put down for the 2006 Super Bowl, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
"It was outstanding, way beyond anything we've ever seen," said Steve Mikkelson, Race & Sports Book manager at the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in south Reno.
Of the total wagered this year, the state's 183 sports books won $7.2 million on a wide range of betting options, including as many as two dozen "proposition" bets -- wagers not tied to the game's score -- related to Kaepernick, including how many yards thrown and in which quarter, and other elements of the game won by the Baltimore Ravens 34-31.
"We ended up with 28 to 30 prop bets on Kaepernick alone," Mikkelson said. "And they bet them all, every single one. It was just unbelievable, more than I've ever seen for any one player."
Kaepernick, quarterback at the Nevada, Reno from 2007-10, "definitely drove" the prop bets, said Michael Lawton, senior research analyst at the Gaming Control Board.
As for the record bets, he said, "I spoke with several operators, and they cited East Coast versus West Coast, high publicity, good teams, and Kaepernick. And there were a lot more prop bets this year with the way you can create them with his skill sets."
Added Jimmy Vaccaro of William Hill sportsbooks on the Kaepernick props: "We are not going to beat many of the Kaepernick props. No doubt about it. The kid lived up to his billing. People put their money on him, and they got rewarded for it.
"It wasn't a fluke, make no mistake about it. Needless to say, he's going to be a factor in what we do. He delivered the goods for people who bet on him. Everyone played all the overs on him, and they were right."
This marked the ninth year out of the past 10 in which the state's sports books tallied up a net win on Super Bowl betting, keeping 7.3% of the total wagers, according to Monday's report.
The 2008 Super Bowl was the sole exception with sports books losing $2.6 million on $92.1 million wagered on the game won by the New York Giants 17-14 over the New England Patriots.
Bill O'Driscoll also writes for the Reno Gazette Journal in Reno, Nevada.


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Join the Eclipse application developer community!
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The Eclipse Application Developer Day 2009 (EADD) is a one day event focusing on building applications using the Eclipse platform. EADD will provide the opportunity to learn more about the platform and how it is being used in every day applications. Both experienced Eclipse developers and those just getting started will benefit from the information sharing and networking at the event.
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Second annual LGBT Night Out coming to Dodger Stadium on August 22
The Los Angeles Dodgers announced today the second annual LGBT Night Out at Dodger Stadium will be held on Friday, August 22 (vs. NY Mets, 7:10 p.m.). This special event was designed by the Dodgers in partnership with Tom Whitman and Flip Events. Fans can purchase tickets for LGBT Night Out at Dodger Stadium by visiting www.dodgers.com/out. Groups of 20 or more will receive special recognition opportunities.
"Baseball recently showed the importance of inclusion at the All-Star Game with the hiring of former Dodger Billy Bean as its ambassador," said Dodger Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Lon Rosen. "We look forward to once again welcoming and recognizing the LGBT community of Los Angeles to Dodger Stadium. They are an integral part of this great city of ours and the Dodger community."
LGBT Night Out at Dodger Stadium will feature a special performance of the national anthem by Mary Lambert, as well as a celebrity first pitch and more. August 22 also includes Friday Night Fireworks with music by DJ Manny Lehman. Fans are invited on to the field immediately following the game for the fireworks show.
"The Dodgers are continuing to stand on the right side of history, by reaching out to all of the communities of Los Angeles, including the LGBT community and their straight allies," said Whitman, Senior Vice President of Flip. "Major sports franchises are not often in front of equality issues, but the Dodgers have always been trailblazers, from the days of Jackie Robinson through today. LGBT Night Out will be a fun, celebratory night for all fans who believe in diversity, inclusion and great baseball."
For more information, please visit www.dodgers.com/out.


text: Johnnie Walker Red Label, with its distinctive and exuberant flavour was created to be drunk as a long drink – a favourite choice for celebrating every day. It was originally known as Extra Special Old Highland Whisky, and was introduced as Red Label in 1909 to suit a new generation of whisky drinkers. Now this adventurous blend can be found in more than 200 countries. It's always been a drink that captures a truly international spirit, and as it has proved over the decades, it is the world's favourite whisky. The world's best selling whisky is still going strong. Red Label is a powerful combination of spicy, smoky malts, such as Talisker, and lingering, lighter grains. Its robust qualities are what make it so good for drinking long. The global success of Red Label is just one reason why it is now considered to be the classic taste of blended Scotch whisky.


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SAN JOSE, Calif. - A San Jose detective assigned to the sex crimes unit is facing charges that he solicited and received explicit photos from a juvenile girl he met online.
Tony Fregger, 33, who worked for the police department's Sexual Assaults Investigation Unit from March 2010 to March of this year, turned himself in Thursday night, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
He is being charged with possessing sexually explicit photos of a minor and communicating with a minor for the purpose of obtaining sexually explicit photos. Both are felony charges that could result in time behind bars.
"When dealing with minors, there's a clear line of what's legal and what's illegal," said prosecutor David Ezgar, who works in the sexual assaults division of the district attorney's office. "Requesting illegal photos from someone under 18 crosses the line."
Ezgar said the crime is especially egregious given Fregger's assignment on the force.
"Mr. Fregger's job was investigating sex crimes involving minors; now he's being charged with committing one," he said. "He's facing felony charges for jumping over that line."
According to a statement of probable cause, Fregger first contacted the victim in 2010. On Jan. 26 of the following year, they had a Facebook exchange that revealed the minor's age.
"I'm 17 and my birthdays (sic) in February," she wrote, although her true age was 16.
According to the document, Fregger replied, "You' 17!? Oh man, I thought u were like 21! Lol!"
Prosecutors said Fregger "requested and received sexually explicit photographs of the teen from Jan. 26, 2011 through Feb. 20, 2011."
While details of what triggered the investigation were not available, Fregger's computer was seized May 10, and the explicit photographs were found in a folder bearing the victim's name.
Ezgar said there is no evidence that they had a physical relationship, and Fregger was not currently involved with the victim. He said there is no indication other juveniles may have been targeted.
San Jose police deferred comment to the district attorney's office.
Fregger, who was hired by the San Jose Police Department in 2005, has an address in San Jose. His bail was set at $75,000, and he will be arraigned July 22, Ezgar said.
"We expect better conduct from police officers -- we expect them to enforce the law, not break it," Ezgar said. "At the same time, San Jose police did an outstanding job of investigating and presenting this case."


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This is probably the most requested dish at my restaurant, davidburke & donatella. You can, of course, adjust the heat in this dish to your own palate. I really like it to have a powerful note. It is another terrific dish for entertaining as the rice, basil, and tomatoes can all be made in advance. The rice can be kept warm over hot water or it can be reheated in a microwave. The lobster can be cut up in advance, and then all that is left to do is to put it all together, which should take no more than twenty minutes.
- Yield
- Serves 6
- Lobster:
- 2 cups Wondra flour
- 1/4 cup chili powder
- 2 tablespoons cayenne pepper
- 2 tablespoons coarse salt plus more to taste
- 3 2-pound live lobsters
- 1 cup peanut oil
- 8 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon hot red pepper flakes
- 1 cup lobster or chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1/2 loosely packed cup fresh basil leaves
- 1/2 cup julienned Oven-Dried Tomatoes
- Freshly ground black pepper
- Lemon Rice (recipe follows)
- Fried Basil (recipe follows)
- Lemon Rice:
- 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil plus 2 optional tablespoons
- 1/2 cup finely diced onions
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 3 cups converted rice
- 4 cups chicken stock or water
- 1 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons coarse salt plus more to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper plus more to taste
- 1 large zucchini, trimmed, seeded, and diced, optional
- Fried Basil:
- 4 cups vegetable oil
- 1 large bunch fresh basil, leaves only, well washed and dried
- Lobster:
- Combine the Wondra flour, chili powder, cayenne, and salt in a plastic bag. Set aside.
- Cut the live lobsters in half. Remove the claws and break the claws open to expose as much meat as possible. Remove the meat from the lobsters and place it into the seasoned flour. Shake to coat well. Remove the lobster from the flour and shake off any excess.
- Preheat the oven to 475 degrees.
- Heat the oil in a large sauté pan over high heat until smoking. Add the lobster pieces, cut side down, a few at a time, if necessary, and sear them for about 4 minutes, or until they are golden brown. Transfer the lobster to a baking sheet, and when all of the lobster is seared, place the baking sheet in the preheated oven and bake for 10 minutes.
- While the lobster is baking, prepare the sauce. Return the sauté pan to medium heat and add the garlic and red pepper flakes. Sauté for about 3 minutes, or until the garlic is golden brown but not burning. Add the stock and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Whisk in the butter and remove the pan from the heat. Whisk in the lemon juice, basil leaves, and the tomato julienne. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Remove the lobster from the oven. Place a mound of Lemon Rice in the center of each of six plates. Place equal portions of the lobster over the rice. Spoon the sauce over the top of each mound and garnish with Fried Basil.
- Serve immediately.
- Lemon Rice:
- Heat the oil in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add the onions and allow them to sweat their liquid for 4 minutes. Add the garlic and sweat for an additional 3 minutes. Stir in the rice and sauté it for 1 minute. Add the stock (or water), lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
- Raise the heat and bring the stock to a boil. Boil for about 15 minutes, or until the liquid has reduced to about 1 1/2 cups. Lower the heat and tightly cover the rice. (If you don't have a tight-fitting lid, cover the rice with aluminum foil.) Simmer for 30 minutes, or until the rice has absorbed all of the liquid. Remove the pan from the heat and allow the rice to steam for 15 minutes. Do not uncover the pan. When ready to serve, fluff the rice with a fork.
- If using the zucchini, while the rice is resting heat the optional 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. Add the zucchini and sauté for 4 minutes, or just until slightly softened. Season with salt and pepper to taste. When ready to serve the rice, add the zucchini and fluff it into the rice.
- Fried Basil:
- Heat the oil to 350 degrees on a candy thermometer in a large saucepan over high heat.
- Standing as far back from the pot as possible and wearing an oven mitt, drop the basil leaves into the hot oil. The oil may bubble and splatter. Fry for about 1 minute, or until the leaves are crisp. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the leaves to a double layer of paper towels to drain.
Nutritional analysis provided by TasteBook, using the USDA Nutrition Database
From David's Burke's New American Classics by David Burke and Judith Choate Copyright (c) 2006 by David Burke Published by Knopf.
David Burke is the coauthor, with Carmel Berman Reingold, of Cooking with David Burke. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, was trained in France, and was the first American to be awarded the prestigious Meilleurs Ouvriers de France Diplome d'Honneur. His other awards include Japan's Nippon Award of Excellence, the Robert Mondavi Award of Excellence, and the Culinary Institute's August Escoffier Award. He is the executive chef and co-owner of davidburke & donatella, and executive chef and sole owner of David Burke at Bloomingdale's, both in New York City. He lives in Fort Lee, New Jersey.


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By: John Kaster
Abstract: Listen to the replay and read the chat log of the live broadcast of Delphi Hour #12 with Nick Hodges
Listen to the audio replay or download the MP3.
This is a log of the chat room during the live audio chat from October 11, 2006 on the Delphi Hour with Nick Hodges, Delphi Product Manager.
Note: This log is only the chat room transcript. There is much additional information covered in the audio replay that is not available in this chat log. For all upcoming live chats, see EventCentral.
aohlsson: If you'd like to chat with us live, please use Skype to call us (the.delphi.hour)
jkaster inserts the following link: https://www.borlanduniversity.com/site/catalog/catCourseDetailsShow.asp?BrowseBy=29&GQS=10,,,,Developer%20Tools%20Group%20(IDE)%20Catalogjkaster: ECO seminar information
jkaster: comiac: "how is your 40 pages document of comments going nick?" - the information is being absorbed and discussed internally
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jkaster: each of those pages now has a "Partners" link for the productsjkaster: comiac: "will the i and t's done before the end of this year?" - no comment, sorry
aohlsson: holger: "Any conference news you can share?" - Targeting Q1 at this time. We're looking at hotels etc. We'll keep you posted.
jkaster inserts the following link: https://bdn.borland.com/article/33713jkaster: EKON X / EuroDevCon 2006 Opening Keynote - Frankfurt Germany - Sept. 26, 2006 - by David Intersimone
jkaster: Nick's phone number if you want to talk to him about Delphi: +1 831 431 1665
jkaster: molofsson: "How do I apply for Highlander beta participation?" - nick:send me an email and tell me why you think you should be included
jkaster: aikimark: "anyone interested in seeing my notes and supporting files for my presentation at next week's RTP-DIG meeting? (comments welcome)" - david: I would love to see them. (Thanks for the links)
jkaster: bobdawon: "Nick--Building a picture of the 'mainstream' Delphi user? Any generalizations/percentages?" - david: we do have some good pictures based on previous surveys. Nick: one gross generalization is a Delphi user is a Win32 developer with a wide variety of applications who keeps an eye on .NET
jkaster inserts the following link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/jkaster: CamStudio screen recording software
jkaster inserts the following link: https://code.google.com/p/castaliadelphiparser/jkaster: Castalia Lexer and Parser for Delphi code
jkaster inserts the following link: https://code.google.com/hosting/search?q=label:Delphi
jkaster: comiac: "do you know about this : https://code.google.com/p/castaliadelphiparser/" - thanks much!
jkaster inserts the following link: https://code.google.com/p/delphinuke/jkaster: Delphi Nuke, which supports Turbo Delphi.NET Explorer
jkaster: aikimark: "just heard about an editor you bought in the 90s (Blush? Blur?). Was that incorporated into the codebase or what?" - david: We did buy Brief, and we have those keybindings in the IDE editor
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Joshua Yeldham
Self-portrait: Morning Bay
- Medium
- instrument, cane, shells and oil on carved board
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'All the elements in my Self-portrait: Morning Bay could be seen as representations of who I am: the owl, the mangrove tree, the instrument and the figures resting on the tree branch,' says Joshua Yeldham.
Yeldham's work explores a spiritual connection to landscape. He now works on the Hawkesbury River.
In this self-portrait, Yeldham says that: 'the instrument describes a connection between science and nature, the melody that science played, surprisingly, in my own life when my wife and I were trying to have children through IVF. The owl, the tree and the instrument have been incredibly potent energies in my work over time, but they also change and shift in their meaning, just as the mangrove tree seeks stability in the mud.
'In the figures there is a sense of myself as a developed creative force, but also a version of my young self, holding a brass bell, which is my link to the melodic, the creative: a very vulnerable form. On either side are two mysterious forms, which are probably my children. I didn't consciously set out to include them in a self-portrait. But maybe they are so powerful that they decided for me!'
Born in Sydney in 1970, Yeldham has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design in the US. He is represented in the Wynne Prize for the fourth time this year and has also been in the Sulman Prize twice.


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I need help in calling the Java Chat Server out. I already created a java
based chat room, a very simple chat room. However, it works well in the local
area network where let say my computer will act as the server, where I will
use the function in jdk to run the server file. However, how I'm going to
run the server if I wish to put the chat room in internet? I can't online
all the day, right? I really need help in doing that for my project. Hope
anyone who knows can help me!
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vendors' presentation on Classroom Response Systems (aka clickers) – Thursday, April 11, 11 AM, Miller Center B-31
Mark your calendars: Thursday, April 11, 11AM-1PM, Miller Center B-31
and/or http://media4.stcloudstate.edu/scsu
Miller Center B-31 is a classroom in the basement of Miller Center. Ask at HelpDesk for directions.
We invite the campus community to a presentation by three vendors of Classroom Response System (CRS), AKA "clickers":
- Top Hat Monocle,
- Turning Technologies,
- iClikers
We need your feedback to select one of these vendors as the SCSU-supported classroom response system (i.e., "clickers") provider on our campus.
The vendors were presented with a list of questions (https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?p=281). Please email firstname.lastname@example.com, if you have additional questions and/or come to the vendors' presentation on Thursday, April 11, 11AM-1PM at Miler Center B-31.
You can also participate online by login as a guest in the following Adobe Connect session:
For more information, follow us on
Twitter: @scsutechinstruc #clickers
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NYT's Friedman discusses solutions to world's climate, energy, and population problems
How can the next administration lead the way in offering solutions to the climate, energy and population problems facing our world? During today's E&ETV Event Coverage, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman discusses his new book, "Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America." Friedman explains how and why the United States should be the leader in an energy technology revolution and discusses the positive economic impacts that could come as a result.


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ROCKFORD — Sean Muserallo, who most recently has been working at a South Carolina television station, will co-anchor the weekday evening newscasts at WREX-13 beginning April 22.
He replaces Eric Wilson, who was let go in January after 19 years at the station. Matt Groves is holding the post in the interim.
Muserallo will co-anchor the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. broadcasts with Kristin Crowley, who has been an anchor at WREX since April 2013.
Muserallo has been at WYFF in Greenville for more than six years. He has been a reporter and anchor. He is married, and he and his wife, Emily, have a daughter, Beatty, 2.
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Birds of America is a 1998 collection of short stories by award-winning author Lorrie Moore.
== Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People ==
- And so they drove on. The night before, a whole day could have shape and design. But when it was upon you, it could vanish tragically to air.
- Abby began to think that all the beauty and ugliness and turbulence one found scattered through nature, one could also find in people themselves, all collected there, all together in a single place. No matter what terror or loveliness the earth could produce- wind, seas- a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world- no flower or stone- as a single hello from a human being.
== Community Life ==
- But she had no memory of how to be brave. Here, it seemed, she had no memories at all. Nothing triggered them. And once in a while, when shegave voice to the fleeting edge of one, it seemed like something she was making up.
== Agnes of Iowa ==
- As a vacuum cleaner can start to pull up the actual thread of a carpet, her brains had been sucked dry by too much yoga.
- "Where?" The woman scowled, bewildered.
"Iowa," Agnes repeated loudly.
The woman in black touched Agnes's wrist and leaned in confidentially. She moved her mouth in a concerned and exaggerated way, like a facial exercise. "No, dear," she said. "Here we say O-hi-o."
- "The United States- how can you live in that country?" the man had asked. Agnes had shrugged. "A lot of my stuff is there," she'd said, and it was then that she first felt all the dark love and shame that came from the pure accident of home, the deep and arbitary place that happened to be yours.
- Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.
== Beautiful Grade ==
- Every songwriter in their smallest song seems to possess some monumental grief clarified and dignified by melody, Bill thinks. His own sadnesses, on the other hand, slosh about in his life in a low-key way, formless and self-consuming.
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Petra Names New E-Commerce Manager
Petra Industries this week announced that it has named Mark Conley its new E-Commerce Regional Sales Manager for the West Coast.
"With so much knowledge of the business and experience in customer relations, Mark will be an incredible asset to the Petra sales team," John Grothe, Executive Vice President of E-Commerce, said in a statement.
"Mark will be in charge of a large market segment, and we know that he has the talent and experience necessary to be successful in this role."
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Presumptive Mitochondrial Disorder (CFS:M)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01471652
Recruitment Status : Withdrawn (PI left the institution)
First Posted : November 15, 2011
Last Update Posted : April 13, 2015
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The pathogenesis of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is poorly understood and no effective therapy has been developed. Recent studies suggest that a preceding viral infection causes mitochondrial dysfunction of the brain and skeletal muscle of genetically susceptible individuals. There is no specific laboratory test to identify patients with CFS. However, certain clinical manifestations are similar to those seen in mitochondrial disorders. Both patients with mitochondrial disorders and CFS manifest elevated serum lactate levels after exercise, and demonstrate elevated brain cerebrospinal fluid levels and decreased brain glutathione levels on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.
Therapy consisting of daily conditioning exercise, dietary recommendations, and nutraceutical supplements (ENT) has been show to be beneficial in treating patients with mitochondrial disorders. Similar therapy has been instituted in individual patients with CFS and has been shown to also improve their clinical conditions.
A placebo-controlled trial will be undertaken in 24 CFS patients aged 25-55. Patients fulfilling the CDC criteria for CFS will participate in this 6 month study. Other medical causes for fatigue will be excluded. Half the patients will receive treatment consisting of daily conditioning exercise plus nutraceutical supplements (ENT), that has been shown to be beneficial for patients with mitochondrial dysfunction, while the other half will receive daily conditioning exercise and placebo tablets. Response to ENT will be evaluated by maximum oxygen consumption (VO2max) and circulating lactate levels during & after treadmill exercise, a 6-minute walk test, and a fatigue questionnaire. In addition, whether ENT corrects the elevated brain cerebrospinal fluid levels and decreased brain glutathione levels will be measured. To ensure compliance to therapy patients will be monitored frequently. The objective of this study is to assess the safety and efficacy of ENT and whether ENT leads to sustained improvement of CFS patients compared to their baseline status, and compared to an exercised group of patients not receiving supplements.
|Condition or disease
|Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
|Drug: Nutraceutical supplements Drug: Placebo
|Phase 2
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalitis (ME), is clinically characterized as a multisystem illness exhibiting debilitating fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, disturbed sleep, and impaired memory and concentration. Its diagnosis is non-specific and symptom based, with no real biomarkers yet identified. The etiology and pathophysiology of CFS remain obscure. There is a long-standing hypothesis that individuals with CFS have normal metabolism and their fatigue is psychological, with energy being wasted through the processes of anxiety, stress, and depression. The more CFS is investigated, however, the clearer it becomes that this is incorrect, and that it is probably a metabolic dysfunction resulting in insufficient energy production. A number of studies have suggested that there may be a genetic contribution to CFS. In addition, a severe viral illness frequently predisposes the onset of CFS, while a number of pathogens have been linked to CFS (2, 3, 6). Although some patients develop CFS after an acute infection such as mononucleosis, some investigators believe it arises from the reactivation of a latent virus in the host, both resulting in a chronic low-level activation of the immune system.
As more data are acquired, we and others believe that CFS is actually a metabolic mitochondrial dysfunction resulting in insufficient energy production. Mounting evidence indicates that viral infections in genetically susceptible individuals can cause changes in mitochondrial function. Many features observed in CFS are similar to those seen in genetic mitochondrial disorders. Firstly, some muscle biopsies in patients with CFS have shown both abnormal mitochondrial degeneration and severe deletions of mitochondrial DNA genes. Mitochondrial dysfunction increases the production of free radicals and reactive oxygen species (ROS), which cause oxidative damage, believed to contribute to CFS pathogenesis. Carnitine is required for metabolic reactions including mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation. A deficiency of serum acylcarnitine has been observed in CFS patients, suggesting that there is increased utilization of carnitine in CFS, thereby decreasing energy production. In mitochondrial disorders, utilization of pyruvate is decreased, resulting in higher circulating and muscle levels of lactate, as well as decreased oxidative phosphorylation and energy production. Brain ventricular cerebrospinal lactate is elevated, and brain glutathione is decreased, in both mitochondrial disorders and CFS. In CFS patients cerebrospinal lactate is increased by approximately 300% compared to that found in generalized anxiety disorder and healthy individuals. Using brain NMR spectroscopy, the distinction between CFS and psychological disorders can be demonstrated.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|0 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Correction of Mitochondrial Dysfunction by Conditioning Exercise and Nutraceutical Therapy.
|Study Start Date :
|March 2012
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2013
Active Comparator: Nutraceuticals
Subjects will receive a combination of 4 nutraceuticals (CoEnzyme Q10, acetyl-L-carnitine, alpha-lipoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)) and a multivitamin.
Drug: Nutraceutical supplements
|Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Drug: Placebo
Capsule form to imitate the following nutraceuticals:
- Change in rate of fatigue status and other CFS symptoms [ Time Frame: 0, 3, and 6 months ]Rate of decrease in fatigue and other CFS symptoms, as measured by SF-36 and The Fatigue Assessment Instrument.
- Change in brain lactate and glutathione levels [ Time Frame: 0 and 6 months ]Patients will undergo nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain prior to starting therapy (baseline) and repeat it after 6 months of therapy.
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:
|25 Years to 55 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Subjects must meet the criteria for CFS of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which requires persistent, unexplained fatigue for at least 6 months, concurrent with four of the following:
- impaired memory/concentration
- sore throat, new headaches
- unrefreshing sleep, muscle pain
- multi-joint pain
- tender lymph nodes
- post-exertional malaise
As well, due to the frequency of visits subjects must currently reside in the greater New York area.
Exclusion Criteria:
- shortness of breath
- heart disease
- high blood pressure
- other severe chronic illnesses
- clinical depression
- generalized anxiety disorder
- insomnia
- inflammatory arthritis
- anemia
- hypothyroidism
- other conditions associated with significant fatigue
- history of alcohol, tobacco, or drug abuse
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): NCT01471652
|United States, New York
|Columbia University Department of Clinical Genetics
|New York, New York, United States, 10032
|Principal Investigator:
|Alfred E Slonim, MD
|Columbia University
|Responsible Party:
|Columbia University
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|First Posted:
|November 15, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 13, 2015
|Last Verified:
|April 2015
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chronic fatigue syndrome
post viral infection
muscle pain
unrefreshing sleep
fuzzy thought
poor memory
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Pathologic Processes
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Motorcyclist seeks hit-and-run driver who nearly killed him
John Bishop was struck just doors away from his house
A motorcyclist is asking the public to help find the driver who hit him and left the scene.
John Bishop was just released from a hospital after the crash that nearly killed him. Bishop was just a few houses away from his home in Ottawa when a minivan struck him earlier this month.
The next thing I knew, my head hit the pavement, the bike went over the top and I slid about 40-50 feet down the road.
He's still recovering from broken ribs, a punctured lung, a wrist fractured in several places and other injuries. He said what he really wants is the name of the driver who was involved in the wreck.
"She never even stopped after I went down to see if I was OK," Bishop said.
His fiance, Jamie, has launched a campaign for information about the woman who left.
"Knowing she hit him, she didn't even stop and just left him there to die," she said.
Bishop said he's learned that vehicle is likely a 2005 to 2008 red Dodge Caravan with a pinstripe. The woman who was driving it was white with dark hair.
Bishop and Jamie are motorcycle enthusiasts and as riding weather approaches, Bishop said he hopes his injuries will serve as an example to drivers about the importance of sharing the road with motorcyclists.
"Not every motorcycle is loud like a Harley," he said. "You're not gonna hear them coming. Sometimes, in a split second, they can be in your view and in your path."
Jamie said motorcyclists keep their eyes out for cars, and they hope car drivers will do the same.
The couple wanted to stress the importance of wearing safety gear, even for a ride around the block.
Anyone with information about the woman or vehicle that hit Bishop is asked to call the Ottawa Police Department or contact them online.


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Why are there plugins "missing" in the final release?
Where can I get plugins still in development?
Some plugins are still in development. For NetBeans 6.1, these were for instance Prolog, Jalopy, and Groovy/Grails plug-ins. You will not find them in the default Update Centers in the Plugin Manager (Tools | Plugins).
You can add a development update center to your IDE to get additional plugins. Note that these plug-ins do not go through the same QA process as the plug-ins on the stable and beta update centers, so use them at your own risk.
Additional update centers
- To install the development update center
- Select Tools | Plugins from the menu and go to the Settings tab. Click Add. Enter the following:
- Name: NetBeans dev (or any name of your choice)
- URL: http://deadlock.netbeans.org/hudson/job/nbms-and-javadoc/lastStableBuild/artifact/nbbuild/nbms/updates.xml.gz
- To install the Community Plug-in Portal update center:
- Go to http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=1616 and download the plugin.
- Then select to Tools | Plugins from the menu and go to the Downloaded Tab, click Add Plugins to install the downloaded nbm file
- or
- Select Tools | Plugins from the menu and go to the Settings tab. click Add. Enter the following:
- Name: dev (or any name of your choice)
- URL: http://plugins.netbeans.org/nbpluginportal/files/nbms/pluginportal-update-center.xml
Click on Reload Catalog to refresh the available plug-ins. From now on you get access to up to several hundreds more plug-ins in the Available Plugins tab.
Of course these plug-ins also vary in quality so be cautious.