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Unrelated Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Augmented With ALDHbr Umbilical Cord Blood Cells
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00692926
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : June 6, 2008
Last Update Posted : June 29, 2017
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|Condition or disease
|MDS Anemia, Aplastic Inborn Errors of Metabolism Congenital Marrow Failure Congenital Immunodeficiency Syndrome
|Biological: ALDHbr Umbilical Cord Blood Cells
|Phase 1
The main purpose of this study is to test whether transplantation of umbilical cord blood cells can be safely supplemented with transfusion of a portion of these cells that have been grown in a special system (designed to increase the number of cells transplanted) in the laboratory prior to the transplant. This system is currently in the early phases of testing in a FDA-IND-sponsored clinical trial. If the patient consents to participate in this study, approximately 1/5th (20%) of the cord blood unit selected for the transplant will be treated per protocol. The first 3 patients will receive ALDHbr sorted cells but not primed in culture. This is to test the safety of the ALDHbr cells. The treated cells will be given to the patient on the day of transplant approximately 4 hours after the standard or conventional transplant which will be given from the 80% fraction of the cord blood unit. A total of 26 evaluable patients are to be enrolled as outlined below (protocol has been amended to allow this enrollment):
- 10 evaluable patients who received ALDHbr freshly sorted cells (20% portion)
- 10 evaluable patients who received ALDHbr sorted and cytokine primed cells (20% portion)
- 3 evaluable patients who received a conventional cord blood unit and a cord blood unit that has been ALDHbr sorted (sort of the UCB unit will be done on Day -1 due to the time it takes to actually perform the sort)
- 3 evaluable patients who received a conventional cord blood unit and a cord blood unit that has been ALDHbr sorted and cytokine primed (sort and priming will be done on day -5 as described later in the protocol)
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|37 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Pilot Trial of Unrelated Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Augmented With Ex Vivo CytokinePrimed ALDHbr Umbilical Cord Blood Cells
|Study Start Date :
|October 2005
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 2012
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|July 2012
20% primed UCB
20% of UCB is ALDHbr sorted and primed and give on transplant day after conventional graft
Biological: ALDHbr Umbilical Cord Blood Cells
ALDHbr sorted Umbilical Cord Blood Cells
20% un-primed
20% of UCB is ALDHbr freshly sorted and give on transplant day 4-8 hrs after conventional graft
Biological: ALDHbr Umbilical Cord Blood Cells
ALDHbr sorted Umbilical Cord Blood Cells
Double- 1 unit primed
patient receives 1 conventional UCB unit and 1 unit that has been ALDHbr sorted and primed
Biological: ALDHbr Umbilical Cord Blood Cells
ALDHbr sorted Umbilical Cord Blood Cells
Double- 1 unit unprimed
Patient receives 1 UCB unit and a second UCB unit that has been freshly ALDHbr sorted
Biological: ALDHbr Umbilical Cord Blood Cells
ALDHbr sorted Umbilical Cord Blood Cells
- To assess the safety of infusing ex vivo cytokine-primed ALDHbr cells isolated from banked unrelated umbilical cord blood (CB) into patients also receiving a standard unmanipulated unrelated CB transplant delivering >2.5x10e7 nucleated cells per kg. [ Time Frame: Prospective ]
- To describe the biological effect of ex vivo cytokine-primed ALDHbr cells in these patients on neutrophil and platelet engraftment and immune reconstitution. [ Time Frame: prospective ]
- To describe the clinical outcomes in these patients: - incidence of infections -Non relapse mortality -incidence of acute and chronic graft-vs-host disease -overall survival at 180 days [ Time Frame: prospective ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 55 Years (Child, Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
-Hematologic Malignancy: High risk ALL in first complete remission ALL or ANLL in second or subsequent remission ANLL in relapse MDS CML in any chronic phase or accelerated phase Severe aplastic anemia refractory to medical therapy The subject is negative for CNS disease at time of enrollment.
- Inborn errors of metabolism Hurler Syndrome (MPS I) Hurler-Scheie Syndrome Hunter Syndrome (MPS II) Sanfilippo Syndrome (MPS III) Morquio Syndrome (MPS IV) Maroteaux-Lamy Syndrome (MPS VI) Krabbe Disease (Globoid Leukodystrophy) Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) Adrenoleukodystrophy(ALD and AMN) Sandhoff Disease Tay Sachs Disease The subject does NOT have uncontrolled seizures, apnea, evidence of aspiration pneumonia or evidence of brain stem involvement on MRI scans
- Congenital marrow failure Amegakaryocytic thrombocytopenia TAR Kostmann's Syndrome Schwachman-Diamond Syndrome Blackfan-Diamond Anemia
- Congenital immunodeficiency syndromes requiring myeloablative therapy Wiscott Aldrich Syndrome LAD CGD FEL/HLH CVID/CID
- SUBJECT'S DONOR Subject does NOT have a 6/6 or 5/6 antigen matched related bone marrow donor. Suitably matched cord blood unit with adequate cell dose is available. Unit must be in a dual compartment bag.
PERFORMANCE STATUS and ORGAN FUNCTION
- <55 years of age at time of enrollment.
- Lansky score between 60% and 100%, or a Karnofsky score between 50% and 100%
- Adequate function of other organ systems
- Creatinine < 2.0 mg/dl and creatinine clearance > 50 cc/min/m2
- Hepatic transaminases (ALT/AST) < 4 x normal, bilirubin < 2.0 mg/dl
- Normal cardiac function by echocardiogram or radionuclide scan
- Pulmonary function tests demonstrating FVC, CVC, and FEV1 of >60% of predicted for age. For adult patients DLCO > 60% of predicted. If patient cannot perform PFTs, clearance by the pediatric or adult pulmonologist will be required
- No uncontrolled infections at the time of cytoreduction
- NOT pregnant or lactating (must have a current negative pregnancy test)
- HIV negative
- Subject is not concurrently involved in any other clinical trial that affects engraftment or immune reconstitution (e.g. other hematopoietic growth factors).
- Subject does not have any co-morbid condition, which in the view of the Principal Investigators, renders the patient at too high a risk from treatment complications and regimen related morbidity/mortality.
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): NCT00692926
|United States, North Carolina
|Duke University Medical Center
|Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27705
|Principal Investigator:
|Joanne Kurtzberg, MD
|Duke University
|Responsible Party:
|Joanne Kurtzberg, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
7177 ( Other Identifier: Legacy IRB number )
|First Posted:
|June 6, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|June 29, 2017
|Last Verified:
|June 2017
Umbilical Cord Blood
Hematological malignancy
severe aplastic anemia
inborn error of metabolism
congenital marrow failure or congenital immunodeficiency syndrome
Hurler's Disease
Tay Sach's
Hunter's Syndrome
Anemia, Aplastic
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Pathologic Processes
Hematologic Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Metabolic Diseases
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Every organization is looking to improve talent and enhance operating success. Using a recently released report from The Conference Board, Leveling the Playing Field – Attracting, Engaging and Advancing People with Disabilities, as an outline, this webcast will explore how making changes to improve opportunities for those with disabilities will also improve employee experience overall, and contribute positively to company performance. We will also review a measurement structure that can be used in most organizations and discuss the challenge of self-disclosure. In addition, several examples of employer best practices in this area will be discussed.
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SCHOENBERG, ARNOLD: Serenade, variations Op 31, Bach Orchestrations
Serenade Op 24 is one of the great small ensemble pieces (including mandolin, guitar and occasional bass Voice), fantastically rhythmical and gripping. This is a fine performance of great composition, and a clear well defined recording. Opus 31, for Orchestra Plus three fascinating orchestrations of Bach compositions. Conducted by Schoenberg specialist Robert Craft, who also supplies exemplary sleeve notes.
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Interview on David Fleming, music and hippos!
by Shaun Chamberlin on August 21st, 2016
Last week the wonderful Brianne Goodspeed of Chelsea Green Publishing interviewed me on my late mentor David Fleming and the astonishing gift he left to the world.
His sudden death in 2010 left behind his great unpublished work—Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It—a masterpiece more than thirty years in the making.
In it, Fleming examines the consequences of an economy that destroys the very foundations—ecological, economic, and cultural—upon which it is built. But his core focus is on what could follow its inevitable demise: his compelling, grounded vision for a cohesive society that provides a satisfying, culturally-rich context for lives well lived, in an economy not reliant on the impossible promise of eternal economic growth. A society worth living in. Worth fighting for. Worth contributing to.
And since his death, I have edited out a paperback version—Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy—to concisely present his rare insights and uniquely enjoyable writing style in a more conventional read-it-front-to-back format. Chelsea Green are simultaneously launching both on September 8th, but since I have just received my first copies, I believe some bookshops may have them already…
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Break Up the Banks Says TARP's Barofsky
In this special Crisis Plus 5 series of the Big Interview, Neil Barofsky, Former Treasury Dept. Inspector General tells the Wall Street Journal's Simon Constable why banks are still a danger to the financial system, what could bring on the next crisis and why TARP missed its mark.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... the the the ... I ... eight years since the financial crisis and flighty years since the potential Fraley of the big banks ... friends of the U S economy ... are we any safer ... the question welcome to the big interview I'm Simon Constable for my Topco noob Ross he joins us on the Sentinel fan so the question thank you Brian much for ... being a son congratulations on your new job though of all from ... one of it the things that we ... we we learn was the important thing was that we needed financial reform banking reform because the banks are too big to fail the so called zombie banks ... a weenie SAIF up ... I think were marginally safer I mean if you look at where we were in ... two thousand and eight compared where we are in twenty thirteen ... an absolute sense ... of you know were generally in a better place there's been some regulatory reform which has helped around the edges ... but that's not the same city would come nearly far enough or that we are say ... aam you we have a financial crisis the Inn was driven in large part ... by a handful of financial institutions that were deemed to be ... too big too interconnected to fail ... and the bottom line is that despite the rounds of the goods were for the thousands of pages of regulations ... those banks are now bigger more powerful more interconnected and therefore more dangerous ... than they were going into the crisis so ... the the the thing from Wall Street is that they say if we have to be big to compete on an international scale nonbanking has a global business so if if the US thinks these banks are too big to fail ... I we dismantle Omnicom compete on the world stage twenty say the bus ... I mean either that lets be terribly persuasive argument a means of convenient argument it's an argument that's been a very convenient yet been made over and over again this this global competitiveness is funny to look back to the history of regulatory reform ... is raised every single time ... this will destroy the American industry go back the reforms after the Great Depression ... ALM so it's kind of recycled argument in to get her set number of times his argument ... it becomes less effective ... you know I look back to you before we have that the giant mega banks in this country back to the Glass Steagall being ... revoked you looking at Goldman Sachs in the nineties which was just a small percentage of itself ... but the leading investment bank in the world ... to without the complex meaner and meaner and better ... they dominated the world stage so I think that a lot of the stuff that can be done aam by the John in a global super banks ... could be done by banks are still big ... but not so big that they threatened to bring down the entire economy so should the government should shoot the fire was up to restrict the sizes of these banks ... absolutely I think that you know I think there's a number of different ... menu items that we can do to have a safer system ... of restricting the size and the activities of these banks ... will be helpful in making them safer and less Marissa financial system ... but that would be bad I want banks to ... succeed at what the remnants of these big banks to be large enough to be competitive certainly and and have great profits in the week and have a system where they threaten the entire financial system to make a few bad decisions ... you said that ... when there will be another crisis will be among the attack of the kilo zombie banks would like to call it which is this what we had last time was economy summing different is in the retirement crisis ... it's hard to know exactly where it's going to be and I knew that I could be you know make a billion dollars and its effect Michael Lewis's ... next book the other Next Big shorter something like that ... of what will we do know is we're vulnerabilities ... and when you have a large financial institutions that are so interconnected ... that are still operating with him improve capital but still too thin storyline and way too much borrowed money ... still so interconnected that if one fails to tear down a number of the others ... yet what the actual shock is almost become site beside the point when it comes the issue Financial Stability whatever days in the euro um Eurozone trigger crisis to be something here relates to blows ... we're not really sure of because the size opacity of the of the banks ... the prom is that one starts to go down ... you have the danger that see that domino effect the songs that it is and isn't meant ... that the banks to look after themselves some asset and then decide who they extend credit to you have risk offices that say though both make me obesity is a good risk when we can now put an end to it so content with them ... but yes I mean isn't aam we we won with Hana and then you know it it's it's the things you have to change them we tanks that the credit times shouldn't they be looking up the baton of a tax plan the government's short of her well that's really where we wanna get ... it done and by increased does it serve those weird things but when more regulation we can get so one of less regulation Gill right now there's a tremendous amount of regulation ... on and it's necessary as the banks are still some dangers ... you go to a point where one will bring down the system ... you don't need all these belt and suspenders because they can be free to make bad decisions and to make that decision ... they fail to bet so sad Korean structural and wants the next bank what happen now or Chili's those bad decisions ... are going to require a bell out ... as we saw in two thousand and eight when when you have just concentrate financial system one goes in the stock to go ... it's not just the banks that separates the whole economy in this case the global economy ... more when hearing that ... the banking system recovered and so it looks like a good data and the idea of banning of the bank's was to save the economy as a as a whole ... but if I could point to plenty of pace of its a look ... the U S economy is still ... very weak home record number of people on food stamps come visit to deceive people trade down from ... Wal-Mart to tote also asked to come for to go to Walmart to meet its wealth of a ... forty seven I was that was this was a failure of calm because the U S economy didn't bounce back ... as absolute felony top and then the rescue of the financial system is always justified explained that also means Washington ... has been something to help the broader economy to help middle-class ... and they were completely left behind in the way the bailout was carried out ... was the focus this attention almost exclusively in the interests of a handful of large financial situations ... and every other presided over a rear watches recovery under way out of this ... so it created ... heel through a lot of governments of ... treasure of bailouts liquidity ... options trillions until it's out guarantees ... in created the perfect place ... for ... record profits and seven large financial system since the crisis but they ignored everyone else and it was a well meaning trickle down theory of but they never paid attention anyone so ... how ... does this mean big does family mean we won't do this again or will we do this again because one of her from you is that the banks are still massive I'm an even bigger them a while ... this still a risk to the economy if they go down ... and and you know but but ... top was a failure so do we do it again I'll what do we cut the bank's final ... all the half to do it again ... sooner or later because I would get to do something that has been proven to be a failure ... again ... will they have to do a Bela of some farms in less than before the next crisis ... you have some these reforms are making their way through Congress in some different ways of breaking up large financial stations ... and and that reform is the same fabric so that we wanted to do it again ... but that seems kind of unlikely and if that happens when I have another crisis in the question be what we do in the ashes of the next crisis ... I'm uh hundred percent confident ... that in the aftermath of the next crisis ... would end up breaking up the bank's I think that ... there's been enough education the public of members of Congress of policy makers ... that this is a broken model the people warning ... that this well though what we've done and Dodd Frank ... hasn't gone far enough that we don't do beforehand ... on the question when the bell at happens to be a very tricky political question ... we're not been able to do it as early as we did last time it's can be farther down the line ... was or wasn't too big to fail ... that's true and that bill you will create a cataclysm and we're going to have to do something ... the hope is that next I will do with more accountability ... will do with more attention focused ... on the broader economy the middle class ... upper middle class and those in the boom in the bottom ... of court I love love of our economy has been absolute hammer and punished ... up by the financial crisis and continue to do so ... another crisis comes it's can push a lot more people over the edge ... of the very notion the middle classes countries to come under severe threat to Dax had a fun spirit would stop what happens to close relationship between Washington and Wall Street's am I just Washington and and and businesses something new for to criticize ... do we stop about do we say you've gotta go take a beach vacation for a few months before you can ... be able to aim ... 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UN direct companies or industries they were never formally regulated ... um I think it's more of a called troll issue you have to get to get the very heart of it ... aam you have to change the incentives within the regulatory structure ... aam you know I was there I was told point-blank that because I was being too aggressive with Wall Street and towards the government rightly ... that I was the top are my ability ... to earn a career ... later on I was going for my ability to support my family ... on an Alice you know that was a warning that was that have a degree of truth and um ... you know that's the way the incentives were due on Friday but it is not the end of the community is as follows a twenty feel like it you but it's tough in line ... at the time I did I think upon further reflection ... I don't think it was so much a threat as sort of a ... reminder that just the way Washington works ... aam and that's me is that for probably the chains that are being away watch the work that she's the incentives of the regulators ... so there were awarded in advance and make more money and have a better position when their aggressive in the regulation ... aam not be the counter which sometimes ... people are awarded both by pulling punches and going with the flow be ... getting it back all true issue which is the best start of recognition in the very tops these agencies ... of that type of reforming Messrs with its seasonal support it ... and going for the health of all things if you could do one thing ... today when you when you when you meet the size now ... and you could just change change something ... about the way we have things Women Wall Street Washington will with that one thing they apply to banks ... to break up the banks of the biggest banks ... tells me that's ... it's it's a it's a sledgehammer approach ... it is ... you know in in a review of a messy at times in a house in short-term impact ... I don't have sort of attacks that are negative for sure ... but the long-term ... aam benefit for the general public for our financial system for the economy ... to me would outweigh all the short-term cross to be the ... simplest way to get to ... a safer financial system that can grow and benefit everyone ... thank you Brian much Dan Neil Groep's cake for my Topco I'm Simon Qassam on now was the big interview ...


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When I was looking at the Gaussian Copula Example @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(probability_theory)
I realized the Gaussian Copula is stated as follow \begin{equation} C^{Gauss}_\Sigma (u) = \frac{1}{\sqrt\det{\Sigma}} \exp{\Bigg ( -\frac{1}{2} \begin{pmatrix} \Phi^{-1}(u_1) \\ \dots \\ \Phi^{-1}(u_d)\end{pmatrix}^T. (\Sigma^{-1} - I).\begin{pmatrix} \Phi^{-1}(u_1) \\ \dots \\ \Phi^{-1}(u_d)\end{pmatrix} \Bigg) } \end{equation} where $\Sigma$ is the correlation matrix, $\Phi^{-1}$ is the inverse cumulative distribution function of a standard normal and $I$ is the identity matrix.
The question is, why is there an identity matrix in the exponential form?
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Revolution 2020 is the story of three childhood friends: Gopal, Raghav, and Aarthi. The story is setup in the holy-city of Varanasi. Gopal and Raghav are schoolmates from the childhood and share the same bench in school. Aarthi is also from the same class. Gopal loves Aarthi from the school days.
The story's narrator is Gopal. I am not going to tell you the entire story and be a suspense spoiler.
Gopal comes from a filmy-Indian-middle-class background. Raghav is from an almost well to do family, where as Aarathi comes from a kind of bureaucratic and political family. Three of them have their own ambitions in life. Gopal wants to be a rich man, Raghav wants to change the world, Aarthi wants to become an air hostess.
After the failure in getting through JEE and AIEEE exams, Gopal is forced by his father to repeat the exams next year. But Raghav secures a good rank and joins the top college in Varanasi. Aarthi falls in love with Raghav.
What happens when Gopal returns to Varanasi after his one year stint at cracking the entrance exams is the main part of the story. Apart from losing his love, he couldn't find a seat in engineering to fulfill his father's dream.
How Gopal chooses corruption as an aid to become a successful person while Raghav tries to change the world(read as India) with his revolutionary ideals is what the middle pages of the book are all about.
In the ending, things kind of change though, and you will be left to yourself to wonder who is right and who is wrong. Except for a faint hint in the end, Chetan doesn't really judge what Gopal does is good or bad.
Following the tradition of the latest Bollywood movies, you can find few swearing words which start with letters b and a and f. I leave it your imagination to figure out those words. I really wonder whether Chetan added those words in the drafts after those movies are released or those words were there from the beginning.
Few of my favorite sentences:
I am reproducing few of the sentences I have underlined while I was reading the book.
People come to my city to feel the presence of god, but I could feel her presence everywhere.
Ease of cremation is one solid advantage of being in Varanasi. The death industry drives the city.
Stupid people go to colleges. Smart people own them.
We don't fix cases, we fix the people in the cases.
What I din't like? (And may be you don't like too)
You will miss the witty observations for which Chetan is known for. Two States has a lot of lol-moments for the reader. But in this book, even though there are few sentences which make you lol, the obvious fun factor is missing when you compare this to his previous books.
The story becomes too predictive in few places and you might as well skip through paragraphs at times.
I guess, in some places, the character development is not handled well. There were not enough reasons shown to us by the author previously in the book to make us believe the characters' actions. The actions come as a surprise, but they don't convince us to believe.
The first hundred pages don't really add much to the entire theme of the book. It could have been easily conveyed in less pages without really degrading the overall effect of the story.
I would have liked the book more if it had handled the 'revolution part' in more detail instead of focusing more material on the triangular-love-story. May be Bollywood needs it.
So what do I have to say finally?
I usually hate giving a rating based on five stars. It's really useless to rate a book like that.
If you are a Chetan Bhagat's fan, I am sure you will definitely like this book. But I am not sure whether you will like it better than any of his previous books.
Even if you are a fan of Chetan Bhagat, you will be disappointed if you expect a lot of revolutionary stuff from the book. It is a regular love story with a modern backdrop and written in a typical Chetan Bhagat style. The book's title could have been anything else, for Revolution 2020 is not the major theme in the book.
Four books after his bestseller debut novel, Five Point Someone, I guess Chetan is unable to re-create the same magic like he did with his first book.
I think Revolution 2020 is a good book, but not as revolutionary as one might guess from the book's title and book's back-cover summary. Of course, I don't expect in people changing the world just by reading books. But from the book's title and pre-release interviews and promotions on the Internet, it is reasonable for an average reader to expect more ground breaking stuff than a regular two-boys-love-the-same-girl-love-story sprinkled with corruption in India.
It's a really good read if you like reading light fiction.
If you like reading books to pamper your literary senses, definitely this book is not for you.
If you haven't read Chetan's books before, I would say you better start with Five Point Someone.
If you are too lazy to read books, then wait, I am sure this book has everything in it to be a Bolloywood movie.
Buy from Flipkart – REVOLUTION 2020 (English)


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Madeleines are tiny, buttery cakes that are traditionally baked in scallop-shell molds and eaten as a cookie. The first time I made madeleines was 12 years ago. I was obsessed with all things Williams-Sonoma at the time and purchased 2 madeleine pans after being seduced by the photos in their catalog. I used the vanilla madeleine recipe that came with the pans.
Since then I have tried different variations from honey to chocolate. But as a lemon lover, these lemon madeleines are hard to resist. Sometimes I use meyer lemons which have a more subtle lemon taste.
Meyer Lemon Madeleines
(makes 12)
2 large eggs
1⁄3 cup granulated sugar
1⁄4 tsp salt
1⁄2 tsp vanilla extract
1⁄2 cup all-purpose flour, sifted after measuring
1 tsp grated meyer lemon zest
4 tbsp (1⁄2 stick) unsalted butter, melted & cooled
powdered sugar (optional)
Preheat oven to 375°F. Generously butter and flour the 12 molds in a madeleine pan.
In the bowl of a standing mixer, combine eggs, granulated sugar and salt. Beat on medium speed until thick and mousse like, about 5 minutes. Mix in vanilla extract.
Using a rubber spatula, gently fold in the sifted flour. Fold in the meyer lemon zest and half the melted butter. Then fold in the remaining butter.
Fill each mold approximately 2/3 to 3/4 full. Bake the madeleines until the tops spring back when lightly touched, 9 to 11 minutes.
Cool in pan for 2 minutes. Carefully remove madeleines from pan and allow them cool completely on cooling rack. Sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.
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Some serious business going on here: a Facetime-enabled visioconference operated while walking (seen in Geneva, Switzerland). Verbal and non-verbal communication in the context of a heated debate on a subject I could not parse because of my lack of knowledge of this language.
Why do I blog this? Such situation is nonetheless utterly fascinating as a curious rituals happening these days (with or without a selfie-stick). The "private bubble" located in the public sphere in a new way with different instruments.


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Morgan Stanley
The expected pact, announced by the bank in a regulatory filing Tuesday, would mark the first enforcement case the Securities and Exchange Commission has brought against Morgan Stanley for its actions during the financial crisis. It still needs to be approved by the SEC's commissioners, the firm said in its annual report filed with regulators.
The deal in principle, reached on Jan. 30, would resolve allegations related to the firm's sale of certain residential mortgage-backed securities in 2007. Under the agreement, Morgan Stanley wouldn't admit or deny the SEC's findings. The timing of the SEC's final decision on the settlement isn't certain.
Overall, Morgan Stanley said in the filing that it racked up $1.95 billion in litigation expenses last year, which includes the SEC case as well as a recently announced agreement to settle a $1.25 billion dispute with the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency. The legal costs nearly quadrupled from the $513 million in 2012, and were up even more sharply from the $151 million in 2011.
A long-running investigation into Morgan Stanley's sale of a more complex type of mortgage deal, called a collateralized debt obligation, hasn't to date resulted in any enforcement action with the SEC.
Read the full article at WSJ.com.
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When the American won the third and last of his Claret Jugs on this course in 2006 he famously used the club just once in 72 holes.
He pulled it out of the bag twice in his first two holes on day two and it cost him three shots.
Woods was so wide off the first - playing downwind today - he pulled his ball into the knee-high rough alongside the 18th fairway, could not find the green with either his second or third shots and two-putted from 15 feet.
Undeterred he reached for driver again and this time drilled it into the right rough, flew the green with his approach and failed to get up and down.
Having taken an iron off the third he proceeded to miss that green as well but managed to salvage par by chipping to two feet.
By that time overnight leader Rory McIlroy had surrendered his position at the top of the leaderboard after also overshooting the first green and only getting his recovery to within 15 feet.
He avoided repeating Woods' error with a regulation par at the next, having yesterday stressed that he wanted to play himself steadily into his round.
Francesco Molinari did hold top spot after three birdies and a bogey in his opening five holes but he came crashing down by hitting his tee shot out of bounds at the eighth to record a double-bogey six to drop to four under.
That left the lead held by compatriot Matteo Manassero through seven holes, South Africa's George Coetzee, who carded a 69 in the morning to get to five under, and Sergio Garcia after an eventful start.
The Spaniard bogeyed the first after pulling a drive on to the 18th but responded impressively with an eagle at the par-four second - the same hole he pitched in a nine-iron in 2006 - when his approach from the semi-rough dropped into the cup to lift him to five under.
He gave back a shot after three-putting from 40 feet at the third but returned to five under with a birdie at the par-five fifth after getting up and down from a bunker.
McIlroy then reclaimed the lead with a birdie on the downwind par-five fifth hole - narrowly missing from 40 feet for eagle - and went two ahead with another birdie on the sixth.


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The masters: Six local bands
Members: George Turner (guitar), accompanied by upright bass and drums, or Hammond Organ and drums.
Type of music: jazz, Latin, funk, originals
Formed: 1995
Favorite local bands: Robert Jospé and Inner Rhythm, John D'earth
Musical beginnings: Played in Virginia Tech Jazz Orchestra in the late '80s, studied with jazz guitar master Paul Bollenback
Where do you play locally?: Zocalo, Orbit, Bashir's
Biggest show: Opened for guitarist Bill Frissell at Old Cabell Hall.
Most recent albums: Slip, Don't Fall (2000), The Way You Look Tonight with vocalist Lori Derr (2003)
Plans: To release a new CD of recordings of my trio with Greg Nossaman (organ) and Phil Riddl (drums), featuring new original compositions.
Website: georgeturnerjazz.com
Small Town Workers
Members: Mike Meadows (vox/guitar), Devin Malone (guitar/vox), Geoff Sprung (bass/vox), Whit Sellers (drums)
Type of music: Rock
Formed: 2000
Favorite local band: Years
Musical beginnings: AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, then moved on to a bunch of folk-rock bands. Mash it all together, and you have the ideal STW mix-tape.
Where do you play locally?: Outback Lodge & Starr Hill
Biggest show: Umm, probably 2,000 people at JMU
Most recent album: The Right of Way (Upstart Records, 2003)
Plans: Keeping our parents off our backs about going back to school. Oh– and rocking. Intensely.
Website: smalltownworkers.com
Members: Stephen Barling (vox/guitar) and Brandon Collins (cello)
Type of music: Original acoustic schlock. (The Hook: cello heavy intelli-pop)
Formed: 1996
Favorite local band: Plutonium
Musical beginnings: Grade school-trained guitarist meets devolving CHS cello prodigy. Good times ensue.
Where do you play locally?: Miller's every Sunday, "Acoustigeddon" downstairs at Tokyo Rose once a month.
Biggest show: We headlined, er... were featured prominently, er... opened for the Hogwaller Ramblers at Fridays After Five once or twice. That counts, right?
Most recent album: Puberty and Justice for All
Plans: Wake up almost every day. Subvert the wacko post-9/11 mind-control grid, and bend it to our sinister wills. Receive sensual massages from Rush Limbaugh live on Fox news– preferably with Sean Hannity working the hot oils. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Website: barlingcollins.com
King Wilkie
Members: Reid Burgess (vox/mandolin), Ted Pitney (guitar), John McDonald (vox/guitar), Abe Spear (banjo), Nick Reeb (fiddle), and Drew Breaky (bass).
Type of music: Bluegrass
Formed: 2002
Favorite local band: "The Chapman stick guy" (Greg Howard)
Musical beginnings: First show at Miller's
Where do you play locally?: Starr Hill
Biggest show: The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville with Jerry Lee Lewis
Most recent album: Broke on Rebel Records
Plans: To keep touring incessantly
Website: kingwilkie.com
Matthew Willner
Members: Sumthing: Darrell Rose (Afrikan percussion), Houston Ross (bass), Charles Cowen (drums), Matthew Willner (guitar, synths, and devices). Snug: Nate Schnieder (guitar), Charles Cowen (drums), Stuart Holme- (bass), W.O. "Budd" Bryant (bass), Matthew Willner (guitar, bass, percussion, and vocals). Solo gigs using loopers, synths, bass, and nylon string guitar.
Type of music: Sumthing: Heavy psychedelic multicultural jazz-funk fusion. (The Hook: Funky, jam-heavy instrumentals) Snug: Raw Party funk.
Formed: Snug has been playing for about four months. While officially Sumthing is only a couple of months old, I [Matthew Willner] have played with Houston and Charles for over 10 years and Darrell for about four years.
Favorite local band: B.C. Barling & Collins
Musical beginnings: I started playing guitar in the summer of 1989. I started the two funk bands Full Flavor and Plutonium in winter 1994. Plutonium with Houston Ross (bass/vox) and John Gilmore (drums) still occasionally plays its brand of exploratory funk.
Where do you play, locally: Orbit, West Main, & Miller's.
Biggest show: Full Flavor and Plutonium double bill at Trax in 1996. But my favorite was Kite Day this year with Sumthing on Brown's Mountain.
Most recent album: He'll flip you and underground self produced thang.
Plans: Work on both bands, get Sumthing on the festival circuit and record a new solo album this summer.
Name: All of Fifteen
Members of group: 3
Type of music: Rock
When formed: 1998
Favorite local bands not your own: Small Town Workers, Bella Morte
Musical beginnings: In 1998 three guys got together to play music and write songs on a cold winter evening. We played some good shows and some bad shows those first few years and traveled to the Midwest a few times, Pennsylvania a few times, and DC and Richmond a lot. We started moving towards more concrete songwriting in the vein of Jawbox and Shudder to Think. Not being afraid to push the songs to be a little longer, and allow more freedom for improvisation has been a big revelation musically.
Where do you play locally?: Tokyo Rose, Outback Lodge
Biggest show: In terms of numbers, our biggest show was probably opening for Earth to Andy a few years ago at Starr Hill. We've played a lot of basements, so I think our favorite show was during late August 2003. We played in Baltimore as part of our northeast tour. There were probably only 100 people, but everyone was connected so well. We kicked out the jams hard– leaning into the amplifiers and sweat dripping into the microphones. That show is pretty much the benchmark for any show we play now. It was utterly transcendental.
Most recent albums: Bang! EP (2002), Away Game LP (2001)
Plans for the future: Recording a new record this summer, drinking beer, playing more shows out of state, rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing.
Website: allof15.com


text: Get Playful this St. Patty's Day Over time, St. Patrick's Day has become one of the most beloved celebrations of the year. The quirky customs and legends of Ireland have been adopted worldwide as people come together to have fun and renew their luck for the year. Awaken your inner leprechaun with these fun ways to celebrate. The merchants at PointShop Mall can help you get ready for the greenest party of the year! Perks for Pets They're always there for you. They love you like no other. Our pets can be one of the best parts of our daily lives. But, in the rush of the everyday, we need to make time to show them how much we love them as well. We've shopped the mall to find the best ways to spoil your furry baby this winter.


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Snicker (2007) is a playful 1940s-style brush-lettered sans serif, inspired by hand-lettered titles in Fleischer Brothers' Superman cartoon series. Although I used that as a starting point, there was much room for interpretation, and many characters had to be invented. Currently, Snicker has only one weight, Bold, but I hope one day to add more weights and create a more versatile family. Snicker was designed along side of and released with another Fleischer Brothers-inspired design, Kinescope.
Snicker Specimen. Complete showing of the font and usage examples. 3 pages. 82 KB PDF.
Snicker User Guide. Full details on using Snicker's features. 1 MB PDF.
Weights & Styles
- Ligatures.
- Case-sensitive forms.*
- Automatic, arbitrary fractions.*
- Automatic ordinals.*
- Extended language support for most Latin-based Western and Central European languages.
* Requires an application with support for OpenType advanced typography, such as Adobe Creative Suite and QuarkXPress. Check your application's user guide.
See the Snicker Specimen and the Snicker User Guide (below) for complete information.


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As part of a program i have a function that takes in a word and saves it into a 2d array. Before it saves the word it checks to make sure there is room in the array. If the number of words in the array is equal to the current size of the row dimension then more space needs to be allocated. The problem occurs after the new bigger 2d array is created and i want to assign the address of this array to the original pointer to the smaller array.
The parameters to the procedure are
word = a string holding the new word to be saved
results = a 2d array holding all previously saved words
numWords = the number of words currently in the array
maxWords = the maximum number of words for which there is space. i.e the size of the row parameter to results.
RMAX_LEN is #define - ed earlier in the program to 60
Any help is appreciated.
And the compiler errorCode:void saveWord(string &word, char results[][RMAX_LEN], int &numWords, int &maxWords) { unsigned int i(0), j(0); //First check there is room for another word if(numWords == maxWords){ //put the address of the array of char* in tempResults char **tempResults= new char*[maxWords*2]; //Each element of temp results holds a pointer to a char array for(i = 0; i < (maxWords*2); i++){ tempResults[i] = new char[RMAX_LEN]; } //Copy all entries in results into the new array for(i = 0; i < maxWords; i++){ for(j = 0; j < RMAX_LEN; j++){ tempResults[i][j] = results[i][j]; }// End of for } //End of for maxWords *= 2; //change maxwords to reflect new buffer size for(i = 0; i < maxWords; i++){ //Free up old reserved space delete [] results[i]; } delete [] results; results = tempResults; //results now points to new array } //Then copy in the word j = (unsigned int)word.length(); for(i = 0; i < j; i++){ results[numWords][i] = word[i]; } //End of for results[numWords][i] = '\0'; numWords++; }// End of saveWord
Thanks,Code:bash-3.00$ g++ pa1.cpp pa1.cpp: In function `void saveWord(std::string&, char (*)[60], int&, int&)': pa1.cpp:119: error: cannot convert `char**' to `char (*)[60]' in assignment bash-3.00$
By the way, is my method of creating the new array the most desirable method or is there a better one?


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Watch Why Don't We Perform "8 Letters" on 'The Late Late Show'
It is the title-track to the band's debut album!
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Why Don't We hit the stage on The Late Late Show with James Corden Tuesday night (September 11). The band performed the title-track to their debut album, "8 Letters," live for James Corden's audience members.
Related: Watch Why Don't We's "8 Letters" Music Video
Jack Avery, Corbyn Besson, Zach Herron, Jonah Marais, and Daniel Seavey formed together in 2016. The recent televised performance marked Why Don't We's late-night debut following their successful album launch just last month.
Why Don't We's "8 Letters" debuted on the Billboard 200 in the top 10. The guys will kick off their North American tour in the spring of 2019.
Watch Why Don't We perform "8 Letters" on The Late Late Show below.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The minions have overtaken "The Lone Ranger."
Studio estimates Friday show "Despicable Me 2" is trampling the Johnny Depp western at the holiday box office. The animated Universal sequel has collected three times more than the Disney cowboy caper since both films debuted Wednesday.
"Despicable Me 2" earned $59.5 million so far, while "The Lone Ranger" took in $19.5 million in ticket sales.
Moviegoers opted for the minions over the masked man by more than 2 to 1 on Independence Day. The family film dominated with $24.5 million Thursday, compared with Ranger's $9.86 million.
Poor reviews for "The Lone Ranger" may have translated to sluggish ticket sales. Chicago Sun-Times critic Richard Roeper called the $250 million Western "slick trash."
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico and BP is vilified on a daily basis by bloggers, activists, and policymakers, issues relating to the future of energy are making headlines across the U.S. Around the world, governments are responding to the threat of global warming with a range of policy responses designed to curtail emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. As the public and private sectors begin to explore the transition to a low-carbon company, executives are wondering about the challenges and promises of such a transition. Join experts who understand the issues and have an incumbent's point of view on the future of energy.
Getting to a low-carbon economy will require that we:
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I know that vaccines have become, for some people, a controversial issue over the past decade or so — no thanks to the British doctor-researcher (now banned from the practice of medicine) who cooked his data and launched a worldwide scare, wrongly associating immunizations with autism. This connection has since been disproven, but it sowed the seeds of concern in a whole generation of parents, some of whom now refuse to immunize their children.
The problem with this is that these parents are not just making a decision for their own child – they are making decisions for all of the children with whom their child comes into contact.
Take pertussis, often called whooping cough because of the long-lasting, characteristic sounding "whoooop" made by coughing children with the infection. It's highly preventable through a series of three vaccines given to babies at 2, 4, and 6 months, and then included in the every-10-year tetanus-diptheria-pertussis booster (the Tdap). But this year, as happens periodically, California has been enduring an outbreak of pertussis, with more than 910 documented cases so far in 2010, and 600-plus more cases under review. And there have been five confirmed deaths of babies under the age of 3 months due to the disease.
The thing is this: Babies start their immunization series at 2 months, but they are not actually completely immune to the disease until they complete the series at age 6 months. That means that they continue to be susceptible during that first six months of their lives.
So when parents decide they don't want to "risk" giving their child a pertussis vaccine, that unimmunized child may end up getting pertussis, maybe at age 4 or 6 or older. While the ill child may be miserable, an older child with pertussis usually weathers the disease without complications. However, the ill child will be coughing and spewing droplets for weeks – and these droplets in the air can infect any baby who breathes them in – at the grocery store, at the mall, on the playground, wherever the ill child may go while still coughing.
So the decision not to immunize your own child, then, could spell illness, disability, or even death for other children.
Part of the beauty of our immunization program is that its intent is to allow us to protect ourselves, our children, our friends and neighbors, and other members of our community whom we may happen across.
It's important to get all the facts about vaccines before you say yes or no to them – ask your family doctor or pediatrician to explain the risks and benefits. Think hard about how you would feel if your baby became deathly ill because that little unimmunized guy in the produce aisle coughed. And think about how you would feel if you read about the deaths of babies in the newspaper, knowing that that little unimmunized guy coughing his way through the produce aisle was your child.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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Tuesday's forecast: Bundle up for bitter cold in East
The main weather story Tuesday will be the bitter, unseasonably cold air that's forecast for much of the central and eastern part of the country. High temperatures will only be in the single digits and teens in the northern Plains and Great Lakes, while most of the rest of the Midwest and Northeast will remain in the 20s and 30s.
Snow flurries in the northern Plains and Great Lakes will only add to the wintry feel.
Most of the South will be on the cool side, except for Florida. Some freezing rain in the morning will make for difficult travel in southern Texas. The rain will spread along the Gulf Coast towards Louisiana during the day.
The West will be mild and dry, except for some snow showers in the northern Rockies and afternoon showers along the Pacific Northwest coast.
Weather history for March 4: In 1909, President Taft was inaugurated in a furious winter storm that dumped 9.8 inches of wet
snow on Washington. In 1983, the temperature hit 100 degrees in Brownsville, Texas, the city's earliest 100-degree reading on record.
In 1996, the temperature fell to a record low of -19 degrees in Marquette, Mich.


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"OSCAR(r) COUNTDOWN 2005" CO-HOSTS ARE NAMED
Billy Bush, Jann Carl, Chris Connelly and Shaun Robinson have been set to co-host the Academy's arrivals show, "Oscar Countdown 2005," preceding the 77th Academy Awards(r) airing on SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27 on the ABC Television Network. This is the sixth Oscar Night(r) association for Connelly, and the second for Bush, Carl and Robinson. All four correspondents will conduct final interviews with the nominees to determine their last-minute frame of mind as they walk down the red carpet.
Bush is co-anchor of "Access Hollywood." He joined the program in December 2001 as the east coast correspondent and became the co-anchor in June of 2004.
Carl is in her tenth season serving as the weekend anchor and correspondent for "Entertainment Tonight." Prior to that she was an anchor for KTLA's "News at Ten" and a co-host on KABC's "Eye on LA."
Connelly is a correspondent for ESPN and a contributing correspondent for "20/20." Prior to ESPN he was an on-air correspondent and editorial director of MTV News.
Robinson is the weekend co-anchor and correspondent for "Access Hollywood." Prior to joining "Access Hollywood" in 1999, she was the morning anchor/reporter for the Fox-affiliated Miami television station, WVSN.
The pre-show will be produced by Dennis Doty and executive-produced by Gil Cates. It will air at 8:00 p.m., ET / 5:00 p.m., PT on the ABC Television Network, and will segue directly into the 77th Academy Awards presentation at 8:30 p.m., ET / 5:30 p.m., PT.
The Oscars are televised live by the ABC Television Network from the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland.(r) Information about the 77th Academy Awards can be accessed at www. oscar.com.


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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Report Reveals Dramatic Increase in Cyber Threats and Sabotage on Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources
Report, Co-Sponsored by McAfee, Further Identifies Challenges Facing the Energy Smart Grid
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), a federal contractor to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in conjunction with McAfee, today revealed the findings from a report entitled "Technology Security Assessment for Capabilities and Applicability in Energy Sector Industrial Control Systems: McAfee Application Control, Change Control, Integrity Control."
"When early critical infrastructure systems were created, neither security nor misuse of the interconnected network was considered"
For the first time, the report fully examines the current challenges facing critical infrastructure and key resources as well as identifying specific risks and vulnerabilities in the evolving cyber threat landscape. It analyzes the value and effectiveness of carefully integrated security solutions necessary to support the national security mission to secure industrial control system environments. In addition, the big challenge for critical infrastructure and energy sector owners and operators, as identified by the report, is how to effectively secure their control systems within their governance and technical domains in an active and capable advanced persistent threat environment.
"When early critical infrastructure systems were created, neither security nor misuse of the interconnected network was considered," said Philip A. Craig Jr, Senior Cyber Security Research Scientist, a researcher within the National Security Directorate at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. "Today, we are still focused on enhancing the security of control systems. Outdated security methods that use a maze of disparate, multi-vendor, and stacked security tools will only delay a cyber attack, providing numerous opportunities for a more advanced and modern cyber adversary to attack cyber security postures throughout critical infrastructure."
In the report, PNNL and the DOE have identified the following vulnerabilities to control systems environments:
- Increased Exposure: Communication networks linking smart grid devices and systems will create many more access points to these devices, resulting in an increased exposure to potential attacks.
- Interconnectivity: Communication networks will be more interconnected, further exposing the system to possible failures and attacks.
- Complexity: The electric system will become significantly more complex as more subsystems are linked together.
- Common Computing Technologies: Smart grid systems will increasingly use common, commercially available computing technologies and will be subject to their weaknesses.
- Increased Automation: Communication networks will generate, gather, and use data in new and innovative ways as smart grid technologies will automate many functions. Improper use of this data presents new risks to national security and our economy.
The report also examines how emerging vulnerabilities of control systems continue to accelerate. Today's cyber attack has evolved into a sophisticated and carefully designed digital-weapon tasked for a specific intent, such as the Stuxnet and Duqu virus.
"Infrastructures that control systems affecting our everyday lives, such as smart grids, are rising in adoption yet still lack the proper security needed to prevent sophisticated cyber attacks," said Dr. Phyllis Scheck, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Global Public Sector, McAfee. "Achieving security by design is essential in securing critical infrastructure. Cybersecurity must be embedded into the systems and networks at the very beginning of the design process so that it becomes an integral part of the systems functioning."
In addition to control systems, the report also examines the impact of new technologies impacting the energy sector. As information and communication technology advances and becomes integrated into power system operations and planning functions, smart grids are created, which yield greater visibility into the state of the system and advancements in control to enhance system efficiencies. Despite the significant benefits of the dynamic nature of the power grid, it was not designed with cyber security in mind.
The report cites the following solutions in an effort to prevent vulnerability and mitigate attacks to control systems:
- Dynamic Whitelisting – Provides the ability to deny unauthorized applications and code on servers, corporate desktops, and fixed-function devices.
- Memory Protection – Unauthorized execution is denied and vulnerabilities are blocked and reported.
- File Integrity Monitoring – Any file change, addition, deletion, renaming, attribute changes, ACL modification, and owner modification is reported. This includes network shares.
- Write Protection – Writing to hard disks are only authorized to the operating system, application configuration, and log files. All others are denied.
- Read Protection – Read are only authorized for specified files, directories, volumes and scripts. All others are denied
The Department of Energy's key objective to secure the critical infrastructure and key resources includes our nation's electric generation, transmission, distribution resources, as well as key oil and natural gas assets. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory seeks to continue to improve the value of security technologies as they are implemented in these critical infrastructure and key resources areas.
For a copy of the report, visit http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/rp-energy-sector-industrial-control.pdf.
About Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Interdisciplinary teams at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory address many of America's most pressing issues in energy, the environment and national security through advances in basic and applied science. PNNL employs 4,700 staff, has an annual budget of nearly $1.1 billion, and has been managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by Ohio-based Battelle since the laboratory's inception in 1965. For more, visit the PNNL's News Center, or follow PNNL on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
About McAfee, Inc.
McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), is the world's largest dedicated security technology company. McAfee delivers proactive and proven solutions and services that help secure systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world, allowing users to safely connect to the Internet, browse and shop the Web more securely. Backed by its unrivaled Global Threat Intelligence, McAfee creates innovative products that empower home users, businesses, the public sector and service providers by enabling them to prove compliance with regulations, protect data, prevent disruptions, identify vulnerabilities, and continuously monitor and improve their security. McAfee is relentlessly focused on constantly finding new ways to keep our customers safe. http://www.mcafee.com
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Decision on review of compliance
Decision III/2
The Meeting,
Recalling Article 11, paragraph 2, of the Convention, and decision II/4 on the review of compliance,
Determined to promote and improve compliance with the Convention,
Having reviewed the structure and functions of the Implementation Committee, bearing in mind the possible involvement of the public,
Recognizing the importance of rigorous reporting by Parties of their compliance with the Convention, and noting the first review of the implementation of the Convention as referred to in its decision III/1,
Recalling that Parties may make submissions to the Committee regarding their own compliance, in accordance with paragraph 4 (b) of the appendix to decision II/4,
1. Encourages Parties to bring issues concerning their own compliance before the Committee;
2. Decides that the structure and functions of the Committee and the procedures for review of compliance shall be those set out in the appendix to this decision, amending and replacing the appendix to decision II/4;
3. Resolves that the procedure for the review of compliance shall apply to the Convention and any amendments to it;
4. Encourages the application of the procedure for the review of compliance to the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment and to any future protocols to the Convention, in accordance with their relevant provisions;
5. Decides to keep under review and develop if necessary the structure and functions of the Committee at the fourth meeting of the Parties in the light of experience gained by the Committee in the interim, including with public involvement, and in this context requests the Committee to prepare any necessary proposals for the fourth meeting of the Parties;
6. Recommends that further measures should be taken to strengthen reporting, and in this respect welcomes decision III/9 on the work plan; and
7. Welcomes the reports of the first five meetings of the Implementation Committee and requests the Committee to consider developing criteria for dealing with information other than submissions from Parties and proposals on membership of the Committee when considering matters under the Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment.
1. (a) The Committee shall consist of eight Parties to the Convention. Each of the eight Parties shall appoint a member of the Committee. At their second meeting, the Parties elected four Parties to the Committee for two terms and four Parties for one term. At each session thereafter, the Meeting of the Parties shall elect four new Parties for two terms. Outgoing Parties may be re-elected once, unless in a given case the Meeting of the Parties decides otherwise. The Committee shall elect its own Chair and Vice-Chair;
(b) For the purposes of this paragraph "term(s)" means the period that begins at the end of one meeting of the Parties and ends at the end of the next meeting of the Parties.
2. The Committee shall, unless it decides otherwise, meet at least once a year. The secretariat shall arrange for and service its meetings. The agenda for each meeting shall be made publicly available before the meeting.
3. Its meetings shall be open to other Parties and the public, unless the Committee decides otherwise. Parts of meetings dealing with specific submissions relating to compliance shall not be open to other Parties or to the public, unless the Committee and the Party whose compliance is in question agree otherwise.
Objective and functions of the Committee
4. The objective of the Committee shall be to assist Parties to comply fully with their obligations under the Convention, and to this end it shall:
(a) Consider any submission made in accordance with paragraph 5 below or any other possible non-compliance by a Party with its obligations that the Committee decides to consider in accordance with paragraph 6, with a view to securing a constructive solution;
(b) Review periodically, in accordance with guidelines or criteria formulated by the Meeting of the Parties, compliance by the Parties with their obligations under the Convention on the basis of the information provided in their reports;
(c) Prepare the reports referred to in paragraph 11 with a view to providing any appropriate assistance to the Party or Parties concerned, for example by clarifying and assisting in the resolution of questions; providing advice and recommendations relating to procedural, technical or administrative matters; and providing advice on the compilation and communication of information; and
(d) Prepare, at the request of the Meeting of the Parties, and based on relevant experience acquired in the performance of its functions under subparagraphs (a), (b) and (c) above, a report on compliance with or implementation of specified obligations in the provisions of the Convention.
Submission by Parties
5. A submission may be brought before the Committee by:
(a) One or more Parties to the Convention that have concerns about another Party´s compliance with its obligations under that instrument. Such a submission shall relate specifically to those concerns and shall be addressed in writing by the focal point of the Party in question to the secretariat and supported by corroborating information. The secretariat shall, within two weeks of receiving a submission, send a copy of it to the focal point of the Party whose compliance is at issue. Any reply and information in support thereof shall be submitted to the secretariat and to the focal points of the Parties involved within three months or such longer period as the Parties involved agree. The secretariat shall transmit the submission and the reply, as well as all corroborating and supporting information, to the Committee, which shall consider the matter as soon as possible; or
(b) A Party that concludes that, despite its best endeavours, it is or will be unable to comply fully with its obligations under the Convention. Such a submission shall be addressed in writing to the secretariat and explain, in particular, the specific circumstances that the Party considers to be the cause of its non-compliance. The secretariat shall transmit the submission to the Committee, which shall consider it as soon as possible.
Committee initiative
6. Where the Committee becomes aware of possible non-compliance by a Party with its obligations, it may request the Party concerned to furnish necessary information about the matter. Any reply and information in support shall be provided to the Committee within three months or such longer period as the circumstances of a particular case may require. The Committee shall consider the matter as soon as possible in the light of any reply that the Party may provide.
Information gathering
7. To assist the performance of its functions under paragraph 4 above, the Committee may:
(a) Request further information on matters under its consideration, through the secretariat;
(b) Undertake, at the invitation of the Party of origin and/or the affected Party, information gathering in the territory of that Party;
(c) Consider any information forwarded by the secretariat concerning compliance with the Convention; and
(d) As appropriate, seek the services of scientific experts and other technical advice or consult other relevant sources.
8. The Committee shall ensure the confidentiality of information that has been provided to it in confidence, inter alia, with regard to the reports of its meetings.
Entitlement to participate
9. A Party in respect of which a submission is made or which makes a submission shall be entitled to participate in, or be present during, the consideration by the Committee of that submission, but shall not take part in the preparation and adoption of any report or recommendations of the Committee. The Committee shall decide on the content of any report or recommendations by consensus, send a copy of the draft report or recommendations to the Parties concerned, and shall take into account any representations from such Parties in the finalization of the report.
10. A member of the Committee that represents a Party in respect of which a submission is made or which makes a submission shall be entitled to participate in the consideration by the Committee of that submission but shall not participate in, or be present during, the preparation and adoption of any part of a report or recommendation of the Committee that relates to that submission.
Committee reports to the Meeting of the Parties
11. The Committee shall report on its activities at each meeting of the Parties through the secretariat and make such recommendations as it considers appropriate, taking into account the circumstances of the matter, regarding compliance with the Convention. Each report shall be finalized by the Committee not later than ten weeks in advance of the session of the Meeting of the Parties at which it is to be considered. Every effort shall be made to adopt the report by consensus. Where this is not possible the report shall reflect the views of all the Committee members. Committee reports shall be available to the public.
Competence of Committee members
12. If as a result of the operation of paragraph 10 the size of the Committee is reduced to five members or less, the Committee shall forthwith refer the matter in question to the Meeting of the Parties.
Consideration by the Meeting of the Parties
13. The Meeting of the Parties may, upon consideration of a report and any recommendations of the Committee, decide upon appropriate general measures to bring about compliance with the Convention and measures to assist an individual Party´s compliance. The Parties shall make every effort to reach a decision by consensus. If all efforts at consensus have been exhausted, and no agreement reached, the decision shall, as a last resort, be adopted by a three-fourths majority vote of the Parties present and voting at the meeting.
Relationship to settlement of disputes and the inquiry procedure
14. The present compliance procedure, as a non-adversarial and assistance-oriented procedure, shall be without prejudice to the settlement of disputes provisions in Article 15 of the Convention.
15. Where a matter is being considered under an inquiry procedure under Article 3, paragraph 7, of the Convention, that matter may not be the subject of a submission under this decision.


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Old-Fashioned Summers, Wine Trail Harvests, and Year-Round Fun
History and the good old days live on in this region, between friendly towns and villages, and all along the scenic country roads that lead to fun attractions. Here, you'll find New York's largest state park, museums dedicated to heritage and humor, and delightful lakes to dip into for your favorite summertime pleasures.
But, with heavy lake effect snowfall, some of the best autumn colors in the state and wineries that celebrate the grapes grown along Lake Erie, you'll find much to amuse and delight you, both indoors and out, all year long.
DAY ONE: At the Resort . . . and Out and About in
Holiday Valley Resort is a year-round destination, with something for everyone. There is shopping year round and you can ski and snowboard their exciting terrains in winter when lake effect storms drop inches of snow. In the summer try mountain biking; tubing; play 18 holes of golf; challenge yourself on the zip lines, tree platforms and bridges of the four-acre Aerial Park. Maybe you'd prefer to pamper yourself in at the Falling Waters Spa, or soak up the rays by the pool? Check the seasonal schedule for Festivals, Ski Racing Championships, live dinner theater events, Mudslide Trail Runs and more!
If you're staying for a while (and why wouldn't you?), historic Ellicottville offers four blocks of fun, from shopping to places to dine and have a cocktail or a craft beer. Take a scenic drive - just a couple miles east of the village there are two places where you can drop a few steps back in time. At The Birdwalk Restaurant and Antiques Shop, enjoy 'made from scratch' meals in a restaurant that was originally a 1840s farm; today, many of the antiques that adorn the rooms are for sale. The Ellicottville Country Store and Antiques Shop carries unique gift items, as you might imagine, plus there's an Antiques Gallery upstairs with several dealer booths to explore. Leave enough time for browsing, and have some breakfast (try their famous Eggs Benedict) or lunch in the diner next door.
Speaking of lunch or dinner, you could also enjoy your meal with handcrafted beers - and take a brewery tour too - at the Ellicottville Brewing Company. Check their calendar for special events and festivals too.
Less than ten miles north of Ellicottville, Griffis Sculpture Park is an artistic, outdoor wonderland of towering and low-to-the-ground metal creations, and it's definitely worth a visit. You never know what you'll see as you round the next meadow or forest trail.
DAY TWO: Seneca Allegany Casino & Hotel and Allegany State Park
Feeling lucky? Casino Player gaming magazine named the Seneca Allegany Casino & Hotel one of the Top Three "Native Northeast" casinos in ten categories: First Place for Best Rooms, Best Suites and Best Comps; and additional awards in other categories, such as Best Overall Gaming Resort.
Known for its primitive, forested valleys, wildlife, autumn leaves and glorious landscape, Allegany State Park is the largest in New York. It's a year-round destination for all things outdoors: it boasts some of the best trails for skiing, snowmobiling, cross country skiing and mountain biking in the entire northeast, but the pleasures don't end there. You can swim, kayak, go horseback riding, fish, hunt, watch birds, picnic and more. Camping is popular, with hundreds of campsites and cabins, year-round vacation cottages, and even group camps. Most park activities are accessible to disabled visitors.
DAY THREE: Jamestown, Chautauqua and Cassadaga
Ready for some laughs with your history? You'll chuckle all the way through your day while viewing sets, costumes, props and more from the I Love Lucy show. Visit The Tropicana Room, and view Lucy and Desi memorabilia at the Museum, including never-before-seen footage. You'll find all this, and more, at the Lucy Desi Center for Comedy in Lucy's hometown, Jamestown.
The chief pilot and owner of Sky Sail Balloons was trained in Albuquerque New Mexico, the undisputed world capital of ballooning - and all the pilots in command are FAA Certified Commercial Balloon Pilots - so go up, up and away and enjoy the views!
Long Point State Park on Chautauqua Lake is beloved by fishermen because the muskies are noted for both their "fight" and their size (often more than 30 inches). Swimming, boating and, in winter time, cross-country skiing, snowmobiling and ice fishing are more good reasons to visit. The Athenaeum Hotel at Chautauqua Institution offers fine dining and a 200-foot long porch - with rocking chairs - where you can complete your study of Chautauqua Lake's peaceful summertime beauty. Or, book a three-hour cruise aboard The Chautauqua Belle: if your timing is right, you may even enjoy one of their concert cruises or another special event. Lunch or cocktail hour cruises on the water? Yes, they have those, too.
A visit to the Lily Dale Assembly in Cassadaga might give you some answers. Get a private reading from a registered medium (available year-round), attend summer lectures or classes, or just enjoy a stroll around this peaceful community near Cassadaga Lake.
DAY FOUR: Wine Country!
If you were to begin your day in Silver Creek, and drive straight to Ripley, it wouldn't even take an hour. But, lingering along the way to sample local wines, enjoy the vineyards and lakefronts views, and perhaps even have a bite to eat? That's a definite day trip - or a weekend getaway! No matter how long you meander, you'll gain a deep appreciation for the growers and winemakers along the southern shore of Lake Erie. There are 30,000 acres of grapes and 24 wineries in Lake Erie Wine Country, which runs from the Pennsylvania border to Silver Creek. You could even take a bike tour (or hire a limousine driver), and do check the schedule for special events and festivals held throughout the year, too. Want to learn more? Add a stop at Westfield's Grape Discovery Center en route.


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While all of Brandon's family was in town over Christmas break we got together at the new Nu Skin building and took family pictures.
This picture is cute but it makes me want to get one with all of my kids smiling. I know it's possible! It might just take some work.
With three new babies since November and another one coming in less than a month, this family is not getting any smaller!!! It's hard to get together and do things but I am so grateful to Brandon's dad for still trying and making lots of things happen. I love getting together.
Ross and Karen with their 15 grandchildren. The grandkids are close to outnumbering the adults!!


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The 2009 season of the FIA GT series kicked off this week at the Paul Ricard Circuit debuting the new Nissan GT-R GT1, Ford GT1, Audi R8 LMS, Alpina B6 GT3 and Ferrari 430 Scuderia.
There's been news of a GT-R coming to GT1 for some time, but this past week finally made it true thanks in part to both Nissan's motorsport division, NISMO and Gigawave Motorsport. Though news of Godzilla's GT1 debut was impressive, it wasn't the only new entry in the field. Matech Racing also brought out its new Ford GT1, which, along with the GT-R GT1, is first to meet the FIA's new 2010 regulations. Two days and 49 cars attended the test day event at the Paul Ricard Circuit in France including a multitude of GT1 Corvette C6.Rs, Saleen S7Rs, Maserati MC12s as well as GT3 Porsche RSRs and Ferrari F430s.
During the vehicle reveal press conference, Hans Reiter of Reiter Engineering, best known for their Lamborghini Gallardo GT3, gave the press this little jewel of info;
"As some of you may know, Lamborghini has recently released a new version of the Murciélago, SV version, 670 hp, 6.7 litre, and this will be our car for the GT1 World Championship. Unfortunately, the car is not ready yet as the car was only launched in March, but should be ready for the second part of the season."
Look for the first race of the FIA GT series to kick off at Silverstone next month which will feature the FIA GT Championship, FIA GT3 European Championship, GT4 European Cup and finally, the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo.
FIA GT Press Release:
The 2009 season of the FIA GT Championship got underway with the official media launch, which took place at the Paul Ricard HTTT circuit, within two days of official testing. Cars from the FIA GT Championship, the FIA GT3 European Championship and the GT4 European Cup were entered for the test days, with a total of 49 cars expected to take part over the two days. A press conference was followed by the unveiling of the first two cars built according to the 2010 GT1 technical regulations : the Nissan GT-R and the Ford GT1.
During the launch press conference, Stephane Ratel, CEO of SRO Motorsports Group, promoter of both the FIA GT Championship and the FIA GT3 European Championship, outlined the changes for the 2009 season. Despite the difficult economic times, an FIA GT calendar reduced to eight events, the removal of development tyres, along with a generous team assistance package, have helped to assure full-season grids of 42 cars – with 12 brands represented – for the FIA GT3 European Championship, as well as an entry list of 25 cars for the FIA GT Championship, including full-season entrants and race-by-race competitors.
Ratel then continued with a comprehensive update on the GT1 World project. The plans made over recent years reached a new level today, not only with the unveiling of the first two cars built according to the 2010 GT1 technical regulations, and with the announcement of a third, but with a full presentation of the planned Championship and the status with the FIA.
The 2010 GT1 World project aims to set up a World Championship title for independent teams, based on the FIA balance of Performance system which has proved so successful in keeping close competition and balanced costs in the GT1 and GT3 categories. A truly global programme aims at 12 events in 12 countries, on five continents. Letters of intent have been received from circuits in Argentina, Australia, Great Britain, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Romania, Russia, Bulgaria, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates. The single GT1 class would consist of six brands, a maximum of 24 cars, two cars per team and two teams per brand. Only full-season entries would be eligible, as is currently the case in GT3. The teams would receive substantial support for the long-distance events. With a general format of two one-hour races per event, a qualifying race and a Championship race, there would be one winner per weekend. However, the continuation of the 24-hour race at Spa would maintain the endurance nature of the cars.
As for the cars, the 2010 technical regulations have been drafted in collaboration with the ACO and approved by the FIA World Motor Sport Council in December, to be applied in the FIA Championships and in the ACO series. The 2010 GT1 cars can be developed by the manufacturers or independent tuners. A compromise between the cost-effective approach successfully developed with GT3, the detailed technical regulations of GT2 and the need to have distinctive cars, 2010 GT1 cars can be specifically built, an evolution of existing GT3 cars or a 2010 GT2 car with a performance kit.
Gabriele Cadringher, representing the FIA, confirmed the situation : "The FIA does not give World titles easily. There have been months of discussions with Stephane, but the contract with the FIA is now ready, and all the conditions have been laid down to move to this new stage. The conditions which need to be fulfilled include ten races on three continents minimum, which looks like being the case, four different brands represented, which I don't think will be a problem, and 18 cars at least on the grid, which is up to Stephane. We think that Stephane has all the chances to get this. We will monitor him, and give him help on the technical and sporting side. And we would like to wish him good luck; we look forward to good races in the future."
At the end of the press conference, Mr Sanada, the president of NISMO, and Henry Barczynski of Gigawave Motorsport, NISMO's partner team, unveiled the Nissan GT-R, while Martin Bartek of Matech Concepts unveiled the Ford GT1.
"It is a wonderful experience to work with Nissan. It's going to be a tremendous year and I know we will learn a lot from them, and next year, we are aiming to win the Championship !" explained Henry Barczynski.
Martin Bartek commented : "When I met Stephane about the GT1 project in late 2007, the goal we set and agreed at that time was to build a spectacular GT1 car but with the running budget of a GT3 equivalent car. This is what I think we have managed to achieve in one-year's development time. We have built two cars, one which will be entered by ourselves, and the second which will be entered by MarcVDS Racing."
Afterwards, Hans Reiter confirmed that he would also be building a new generation GT1 car : "As some of you may know, Lamborghini has recently released a new version of the Murciélago, SV version, 670 hp, 6.7 litre, and this will be our car for the GT1 World Championship. Unfortunately, the car is not ready yet as the car was only launched in March, but should be ready for the second part of the season," he explained.
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A North Carolina business executive who authorities say became disoriented and tried to open a cabin door on a US Airways Express commuter jet from Maine to Philadelphia was released on $500 bail at his arraignment in Boston on Friday.
Prosecutors had requested $1,500 bail at the arraignment Friday of 40-year-old Michael J. Ensalaco, of Mooresville, N.C.
Massachusetts State Police held Ensalaco overnight on a charge of interfering with a flight crew after the pilot diverted the flight to Boston on Thursday.
His lawyer said at the arraignment in East Boston District Court that his client suffers from a neurological disorder that causes disassociation and confusion. The lawyer says he expects charges to eventually be dropped because of the medical condition.
"The prosecutor this morning did tell the judge that it appears to be a medical problem, which is the right thing to do," Ensalaco's attorney, Michael Natola, told The Associated Press.
He suffers from a type of seizure disorder "in which he has disassociation, confusion, and doesn't remember what he does," Natola said.
Passengers who witnessed the incident and Ensalaco's attorney say the man was looking for the bathroom and was not aggressive.
"He was opening the cabin door, so we were like, 'What are you doing?'" Lauren Moore told New England Cable News. "The flight attendant rushed over and said, 'What are you doing? Please sit down.' and he sat the man down."
Ensalaco was taken to the back of the aircraft where he sat for the remainder of the flight unrestrained, his attorney said.
Friends and family members say Ensalaco is a married father of five.
His attorney said Ensalaco runs a North Carolina division of a Massachusetts business.