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HARWINTON >> Two fires have left two houses totaled in Harwinton, one of which claiming the lives of two dogs, according to Harwinton Fire Marshal Bill Baldwin.
No people were injured in either fire.
At 1:30 a.m. a chimney fire consumed the house at 50 Twenty Four Bumper Road in the town's west side, with the family, including a 2-year old and an 11-day-old baby getting out unscathed.
"The most probable cause for that was the wood and oil combination burning furnace," Baldwin said. "Everybody got out alright. The smoke detector saved them."
Baldwin said that the chimney fire turned into a structure fire and that the house was "pretty much totaled."
Twelve hours later, at 1:30 p.m, there was a fire at 145 County Line Road on the other side of town. Again, no one was injured, but two dogs died in the fire, according to Baldwin. The fire marshal's office is still investigating the cause of the fire, but the damage was significant.
Baldwin said that there is no reason to suspect the fires are related in any way.
"I think they both appear accidental," Deputy Chief Bill Rinko, of the Harwinton Fire Department said.
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Manchester United landed in Bangkok to their usual enthusiastic welcome this morning but against the backdrop of a concerning development in their pursuit of Thiago Alcantara.
It had been thought the Barcelona midfielder had opted to join United after deciding his hopes of securing a place in Spain's World Cup squad were best served away from the Nou Camp.
However, it is now being reported in Spain that Thiago has instead decided to link up with former boss Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich.
If confirmed the news will be a blow to new manager David Moyes, who had hoped to use Thaigo to bolster a midfield lacking the retired Paul Scholes and for whom the futures of Darren Fletcher and Anderson in particular are uncertain.
Not that these concerns could dampen the enthusiasm of those who turned out to greet United, both at the airport and team hotel this morning.
It is the scale and intensity of support for the club in this part of the world upon which so much of their huge commercial success is based and it would be no surprise to learn the opening game of United's five-match tour of the Far East and Australia, against Singha All Stars on Saturday, is a sell-out.
Moyes' first task, along with Ryan Giggs who has taken on a player-coach role this season, was to sign a book of good wishes for the Thai king, who is so revered in the country.
Although United's players were allowed some rest after their 12-hour flight, a closed-doors training session was planned for later in the day.
With Robin van Persie missing this leg of the tour, which moves on to Australia on Sunday before stops in Yokohama, Osaka and finally Hong Kong on July 29, Wayne Rooney will be the centre of attention.
Rooney's future remains open to doubt despite Moyes' latest insistence the England man will not be sold having returned to pre-season training in good shape – which, by his own admission, has not always been the case.
"The team here are telling me it is the best shape they have seen him in for five years," Moyes told talkSPORT. "I am taking that as a positive.
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- Balancing the Books
The Fate of the Mortgage Monsters
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Reviewed by Anthony Randazzo
When Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, a Democrat, began calling for the closure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last year, it signaled the beginning of the end of the two mortgage giants. But Frank, the former patron saint of the two so-called government-sponsored enterprises, has done nothing to start the process of shutting down the GSEs, and Congress is just now starting to address the issue.
In Guaranteed to Fail, a quartet of New York University professors from its Stern School of Business focus on the "debacle of mortgage finance" that Fannie and Freddie helped create, and offer a plan for reform. In clear language, and with plenty of data to support their arguments, the authors provide a concise but comprehensive history of the GSEs—which alone makes their book worth reading.
Guaranteed to Fail
by Viral V. Acharya, Matthew Richardson, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh and Lawrence J. White
Princeton University Press
232 pages, $24.95
They also demonstrate that Fannie and Freddie were indeed "guaranteed to fail" when they were launched as semi-private government-sponsored enterprises four decades ago. "If the government was Doctor Frankenstein," they write, "surely the GSEs were its monster. Born of a well-intentioned…goal of creating liquidity in the secondary mortgage market, these institutions morphed into typical profit-making firms with an important exception—the government served as the backstop for the majority of their risks." The lethal combination created moral hazard—risky behavior by institutions insulated from the consequences of that risk.
Government guarantees created an unstable mortgage market, underpricing risk and driving excessive investment in housing and mortgage-backed securities. The GSEs became a major cause of the housing bubble and subsequent economic collapse, with the resulting bailout costing taxpayers $150 billion so far—a tab likely to climb much higher.
It's surprising, then, that the NYU professors end up arguing for a hybrid mortgage-finance system anyway, where the government continues to provide the majority of guarantees. Their proposal includes winding down Fannie and Freddie, and replacing them with a government agency that will be set up to provide capital to private mortgage insurers. In this system, financial institutions that package mortgages as securities would have to purchase insurance from a private guarantor, but most of the capital supporting that insurance would come from the government.
The authors attempt to get around the inability of government to price risk properly by having the private mortgage insurers set the price of insurance, with the government agency collecting fees for its support, based on that price. To try to protect taxpayers, only mortgage-backed securities with sound underwriting standards would be eligible for government-supported insurance.
Now, as hybrid plans for reforming Fannie and Freddie go, this is one of the best. Far worse proposals include nationalizing mortgage lending completely, or allowing the big banks to take over all mortgage lending by regulatory fiat. But one big flaw is that their plan does not meet the authors' own goals for reform.
They define an efficient housing-finance system as one that does not engender moral hazard, corrects market failures, limits concentrated risk and allows the market to appropriately price risk. But it is in the nature of government guarantees to promote the underpricing of risk, since their fundamental goal is to encourage more investment than would otherwise occur.
While this system may spread risk around effectively, it would still not be priced correctly. There is no way private guarantors will offer the correct price for their risk knowing that as much as 75% of their capital is coming from Uncle Sam. Investors may have the incentive to perform more due diligence, since they would not be 100% guaranteed if the private guarantor became insolvent—and they would still have taxpayer support, which would distort their investment decisions.
The authors acknowledge this problem—which is one reason they propose that the guarantee system be wound down after 10 years. But this seems politically naive. Programs like this do not disappear easily in Washington, where many things can change, often for the worse.
If the political debate over housing finance reaches an impasse where a guarantee system is inevitable, then this proposal deserves a hearing. But there are better ways to reform the market for housing finance. Still, as diagnosis rather than prescription, Guaranteed to Fail succeeds as valuable reading.
ANTHONY RANDAZZO directs economic research for Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank.
Beyond the Data
Heeding gut feelings
Reviewed by Michael Santoli
Jason Apollo Voss believes most investors think too much. Or more to the point, he believes they think too much with only part of their brains, the left half. They rely too much on linear logic, extrapolate too freely the facts from the past into an unknowable future, and collect too much data without knowing which of it is salient to an investment decision.
A former manager of the Davis Appreciation growth mutual fund—where he compiled a strong record before retiring from professional investing in 2005—Voss offers here a guide for investors to mobilize the softer emotional and perceptive powers that reside in the so-called right brain.
Investing, he says, "is as much a soft, emotional, subjective, creative, feeling, substantive, organic, right-brained process, as it is a hard, factual, objective, analytical, thinking, structured, linear, left-brained process."
The Intuitive Investor
by Jason Apollo Voss
320 pages, $24.95
That's a lot of adjectives, which, taken together, promise grand and specific examples in evidence. The book does not always deliver on these promises. And to get to the useful parts, it's necessary to trudge through plenty of New Age riffs on our oneness with infinity and the efficacy of meditation. Not every investment book, for instance, would counsel, "The secret to understanding the universe is accepting paradox," and then footnote it like this: "Received via meditation on March 6, 2005 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA."
Time-pressed readers could limit themselves to a third of the book (a high batting average for a book that teaches): Chapters 1, 2, 5, 8 and 14. They admirably explain why investors need to understand their own temperaments, to be aware of the ways that adverse or favorable results affect one's decision-making—and to be sensitive to nonquantitative signals from management and the broader business climate.
"Because emotions distort the clear signals communicated by the intuitive, feeling self, it is important that you gain consciousness about your emotions. This allows you to short-circuit their operation." He goes on to offer exercises such as writing a brief autobiography and then scrutinizing it for emotional resonance. This gives a fair sense of Voss' habit of making airy assertions followed by rather mundane suggestions on how to achieve his ideal.
In the author's real-world illustrations of what he means, we can get some sense of the potential benefits that come from staying attuned to more subjective ways of discerning value. He writes of owning AIG shares while at Davis Appreciation, and having a bad feeling about CEO Hank Greenberg's eccentric Napoleon complex in running the company, which always suspiciously turned out flawless financial reports in those days. However, he concedes that he didn't give enough weight to his educated gut feeling about Greenberg, and his shareholders were the worse for it.
Voss also offers an updated spin on the Joe Kennedy observation that when shoe-shine boys start offering stock tips, it's time to get out of the market—inspired by an especially childish billboard he saw in San Francisco for a marginal dot-com business, this near the height of the Internet bubble. He mostly avoided tech stocks from that moment on in his fund.
In a particularly effective thought experiment, Voss asks readers to imagine that a cousin has asked for financial backing to buy a diner. The questions one would likely ask are mostly of the "soft" variety: Is this cousin a hard worker, trustworthy, capable of managing stress, adaptable to changing business conditions? Voss would not ask, he says, such questions as "What is the moving average price of coffee shops sold over the last 270 days?" or "Have the prices for coffee shops gone up dramatically over the last three weeks?"
The author's program should not be confused with the field of behavioral finance, which is the study of the hardwired cognitive tendencies in humans that lead to certain biases and blind spots in their economic behavior. Voss notes that the left brain is best at evaluating past facts. But there's no such thing as a future fact, so other tools are needed to make decisions about the investment future—hence, he aims for "higher refinement of the right brain."
Indeed, Voss is aiming at something like the opposite of behavioral finance—a way to exploit what elsewhere is called "emotional intelligence" in the service of sound investment strategies. Not all investment success comes by way of a spreadsheet.
MICHAEL SANTOLI, an associate editor of Barron's, writes the Streetwise column.
Bad Do-Gooders
Making markets emerge
Reviewed by Magatte Wade
Ann Bernstein, head of a think tank in South Africa called the Centre for Development and Enterprise, unapologetically argues in this useful book that business is the greatest force for good in the developing world. She also provides a valuable critique of the corporate-responsibility movement—which she sees as an obstacle to the good that business can do.
Bernstein exposes the hypocrisy of nongovernmental organizations, which are often hostile to capitalism and consumer goods, yet which are run and financed by people who have an abundance of both. For instance, she reports how International Rivers Network, a small Berkeley, Calif., NGO, managed to hijack a World Bank commission on dam-building, by making sure that the World Commission on Dams was dominated by NGOs that were against dams—rather than developing world representatives who, most likely, would have wanted the dams for electricity and flood control. Thus do the comfortable citizens of Berkeley deny poor Africans crucial services. And after showing how appeasing the NGOs only encourages them to increase their demands, Bernstein exhorts businesses to have the courage of their convictions and to avoid giving in. Wisely, she encourages companies to seek allies who understand their positive impact.
The Case for Business In Developing Economies
by Ann Bernstein
Penguin Global
412 pages, $34.95
Unfortunately, The Case for Business in Developing Economies focuses exclusively on the case for multinational corporations, rather than on business as broadly defined under free competition. I was hoping to read about the problems local entrepreneurs face setting up businesses in the developing world. Most African nations are dramatically overregulated, making it extremely difficult for indigenous entrepreneurs to create companies. Thus, the book fails to call attention to the most important way in which business can be re-branded as a positive influence in developing nations.
A key branding problem with business in Africa and elsewhere is that it all too often involves outsiders hiring natives to fill only the lowliest posts. What no one calls attention to is the fact that governments of developing nations make it prohibitively expensive to start legal businesses. The result: Only multinationals can afford the red tape.
There are exceptions. But most locally owned businesses in these countries of any significance are crony-capitalist enterprises in which a friend of the government obtains a monopolistic concession. These deals often lead the indigenous population to despise business—when, in fact, they should be despising their governments for preventing free competition from taking place.
A book that moved beyond a defense of corporations to illustrate the tenacity of entrepreneurs would have been more effective at amping up the reputation of capitalism.
Senegalese entrepreneur MAGATTE WADE, founder of Adina World Beverages, writes for the Huffington Post. She blogs at magatte.wordpress.com.
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Two-thirds of baby boomers who are within 10 years of retirement say that rising healthcare costs will have the greatest effect on their retirement outlook, according to a new report.
Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America, Minneapolis, published this finding in a summary of results from its 2012 Retirement & Politics Survey. The survey polled more than 1,200 baby boomers ages 55 to 65.
Two-thirds (67%) of these "transition boomers" list healthcare expenses as their top concern, with Republicans at 64%, Democrats at 69%, and independents at 66%. Social Security ranks second at 53% for all transition boomers, followed by tax payment changes (31%), rising national debt (26%), unemployment (19%) and education (4%).
The survey also finds that, among these six economic issues, Democrat transition boomers are more focused on Social Security (65% of Democrats versus 42% for Republicans, 50% for independents and 54% for those with no preference) and Republicans on rising national debt (38% of Republicans versus 15% for Democrats, 29% for independents and 19% for those with no preference) than their counterparts.
Nearly six in 10 (59%) of Republican transition boomers identify themselves as conservative or moderately conservative compared to 36% of Democrats. However, the survey notes, Democrat transition boomers are more likely to be balanced in their retirement savings approach, with 29% identifying themselves as balanced versus 18% for Republican boomers.
Regarding the effect the election will have on their approach to retirement savings, 29% of Republican transition boomers are likely to become more aggressive if Romney wins while 30% of Democrats would become more conservative. If President Obama is re-elected, 81% of Democrat transition Boomers anticipate no changes to their retirement approach while 42% of Republicans say they would become more conservative, the report states.
Transition boomers who do not identify with either major political party also report being more conservative or balanced in their retirement savings philosophy. Thirty-nine percent of independents and 29% of those with no preference identified themselves as conservative or moderately conservative, while 30% of independents and 34% with no preference identify themselves as balanced in their retirement savings approach.
The majority of this group of transition boomers also says the outcome of the election would not trigger a change in their retirement savings strategy.
Specifically, if President Obama is re-elected, 64% of independents and 75% of no-preference transition boomers say they would keep the same retirement savings strategy. If Romney wins, 61% of independents and 73% of no-preference transition boomers said they would keep the same retirement savings strategy.


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How the migration to SAM affects you
As anyone who works with grants knows, the federal government requires a lot of information to identify the individual agency they are working with. The acronyms DUNS, EIN, and CCR should be fairly familiar to you if you have ever filled out a federal grant application. These numbers are assigned to each agency as unique identifiers.
Beginning with the current federal funding cycle, the government has switched from multiple user systems to one single, consolidated process and data system referred to as SAM — System for Award Management. It is used by everyone doing business with the federal government and was developed to simplify and streamline interactions between the two. It's mostly a behind-the-scenes activity that has enabled the government to use a single system instead of several unconnected systems.
SAM doesn't just apply to grants but is a requirement of any entity that does business with the government, including prime contractors, those receiving loans, and corporations as well as local governments. So, as your agency's grant person, it will impact you both during the application process and during the management phase as well.
While this has simplified things for the government, it may have caused some confusion, too.
The SAM identifier takes the place of the Central Contractor Registration (CCR), the Federal Agency Registration and the Excluded Parties List System. In essence, one SAM equals one — and only one — user.
By now you should have migrated from CCR to the new system. This was not done automatically but required someone to go into the SAM system to create the new account.
If your police agency is a stand-alone entity with its own unique CCR or DUNS or Tax ID, your agency will take care of creating the SAM account. Most likely, this would be done by your Budget or Administrative divisions. Get in touch with them and find out if they have already submitted the SAM registration.
However, if your police agency is a department within a municipal government (city or county, etc.), you probably use the same identifying numbers that are assigned to the city. Therefore, this migration to SAM will have to be taken care of by that entity.
Here's where you may run into problems. Whoever creates the SAM account is automatically designated as the Entity Administrator (EA). This is part of the consolidation aspect of the program, which is the main idea behind it. This person is the main contact with SAM and controls everything done in it.
If you are used to using your city's DUNS and other numbers but using your police department's contact and address information for your grant applications, you won't be able to do that anymore. SAM and grants.gov are independent, but all information in an application in grants.gov must match whatever is in SAM. If it doesn't match, you can't submit. The same goes for submitting reports and requests for reimbursement.
The Entity Administrator has to "invite" other users to be included in the system. The EA has to select the activities you will be able to do in SAM, so you need to get in contact with your EA to set this up so that it meets your needs. Again, this is probably a function of the Budget or Administrative departments.
Since SAM has been required for the 2013 grant cycle, there may already be processes in place locally to address this. Just make sure you have coordinated this with the EA so you will be able to submit and manage grants for your agency.
SAM has to be updated annually to remain active. An email is sent to the Entity Administrator prior to the end date as a reminder. If it lapses, registration needs to be redone before you can access the system. This could impact you and your grants, so maintain contact with your Entity Administrator to ensure your SAM is active and current. You certainly don't want to try to submit an application or request reimbursement and find out your account is no longer active.
Registration in SAM is provided free of charge, but you may be contacted by a third party offering to assist you for cost. That's probably not necessary.
To get more information on SAM and how it affects you, go to www.sam.gov or www.fsd.gov (the Federal Service Desk) or you can call the FSD at 866-606-8220.
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The Pre-School 4 Year Old/ Advanced 4 Program at Bright Beginnings Academy is designed to meet the individual needs of your child. Our curriculum will make sure your child is confident and prepared for Kindergarten. Our program includes math, reading, crafts, free-play, gross motor, and fine motor activities and Hatch smart board that develops a child's intellectual skills.
We nurture each child's unique strengths and offer appropriate opportunities that fosters self-esteem, compassionate and kindness.
The 4 Year Old program at Bright Beginnings Academy adds more complex activities for slightly longer segments with each activity lasts 25 to 35 minutes.
You won't find this amount of depth of nurturing the whole child- intellectual, emotional and physical in typical Preschool programs.
PRIMARY GOALS OF 4 Yr Old/Advanced 4 PROGRAM
- Math skills recognition of numbers, matching of sets, understanding of various math concepts and simple problem solving
- Social and emotional development through cooperative play
- Language development through expanded vocabulary, advanced sentence structures, story sequencing and pre-reading
- Music and movement activities where children can sing and dance
- Arts and crafts projects with the group as well as individual works of art
- Fine motor activities that will allow children to properly grasp pencils, use scissors, print and draw
- Physical development including jumping, climbing, running and building activities
- Opportunities for science and outside exploration.
CIRCLE TIME - Calendar activities will be discussed (month, day, and year). This reinforces recognition of numerals, counting, before and after, number formation and more. Additional activities at this time are weather and seasons, flag, job assignments, and/or show and tell which encourages the pre-k children to practice public speaking in front of peers.
ARTS & CRAFTS - All activities are geared to improvement of fine motor skills thru use of crayons, markers, scissors, glue, paste, paint, beads, clay & and many other craft supplies. We use our curriculum as well as the seasons to dictate the craft ideas for the month.
SNACK – We serve a mid-morning snack and a mid-afternoon snack (for children whom stay a full day) consisting of juice, water or milk and wholesome snacks. Frequent Cooking projects are incorporated into our monthly curriculum which not only provides a tasty snack, but encourages measuring, following directions and good manners.
READING – We use the "Alpha Time" program for our reading readiness. The program consists of colorful, lovable puppets, storybooks and music that reinforce not only letter recognition but also sounds and letter formation. Children are grouped within their own classes according to levels of ability. Your children will fall in love with the "letter people" as they learn through play!
GROSS MOTOR PLAYGROUND/GYM – Weather permitting each class is scheduled times each morning and afternoon to enjoy our newly renovated safe playground. When weather is not permitting us to go out the children enjoy their gross motor play in our Gym/All purpose room. Free play and structured phys-ed activities are planned. This helps build and develops balance, hand-eye coordination, and spatial awareness. Good sportsmanship and learning to take turns and share is always encouraged and practiced.
MATH - Singapore Math is the bases for our pre-k Math curriculum. Our students will gain insight into building a solid mathematical foundation as they use techniques, strategies and activities that are age appropriate and challenging for each child's level of ability.
FREE PLAY - (Indoors) Children are encouraged to use their imagination through the morning and afternoon scheduled imaginative play times. This time involves the use of classroom toys, play centers, computers, and much more.
STORY TIME/LIBRARY TIME – Each day our staff will read a story to children. This not only develops a love for reading but also develops listening skills and comprehension with the use of discussion about the story.
"HATCH" SMART BOARD & GROUP ACTIVITY - Each class has scheduled times to use our "Media" room where the pre-k students experience a lively, hands-on lesson using our touch screen "Hatch Smart Board". Teachers plan activities using the over 2500 pre-programmed, customizable lessons offered by "Hatch" focusing on Language Arts, Math, Science or Social Studies.
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Lignite is available from BNSF-served surface mines in North Dakota. This lignite field is part of the Great Plains coal area. Heat values of the deposits in this area range from 6,500 to 7,000 BTU/lb. The lignite is primarily burned by local power plants, but can be used by any properly designed stokers, coal-fired units and cyclone furnaces.
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When you literally have to pull this bad boy out in order to clean your daughters' room!! We are
Monday, May 19, 2008
You Know It's Bad
When you literally have to pull this bad boy out in order to clean your daughters' room!! We are
Posted by Mom to 5...Daughter of the King at 3:06 PM
Labels: bunk beds, cleaning with a shop vac, family life, girls
4 comments:
- Dawn said...
ROFLOL!!! BTDT more times than I care to admit. Kaitlyn is the queen of hording and we get that much out of her room anually (and she has her own room, she can't even blame it on her sister!)
- May 19, 2008 at 4:44 PM
- Mommakitten said...
I want pale pink bunk beds :( Mommy please!!!
- May 19, 2008 at 7:59 PM
- erin richardson said...
Every home needs a shopvac. I decided this many moons ago when I discovered that a shopvac will pick up nails, chunks of wood, and the kitchen sink. Kids won't pick up their rooms? Mommy's just going to vacuum! Wave that bad boy around and just see what they do. *evil snickering*
- May 20, 2008 at 8:10 AM
- Melissa said...
Hey! You forgot the power washer! I swear Anna had put every type of make-up on her walls before we re-did it. What makes kids paint the walls with lipstick, chapstick, nail polish, Vaseline, and other lovely oil based products?
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Safety Study of PZ-128 in Subjects With Multiple Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01806077
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : March 7, 2013
Last Update Posted : April 21, 2016
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|Condition or disease
|Vascular Disease Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors Multiple
|Drug: PZ-128
|Phase 1
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|32 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|Single (Participant)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Demonstration of the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Pharmacodynamic Antiplatelet Effect of PZ-128 in Subjects With Multiple Coronary Artery Disease Risk Factors
|Study Start Date :
|April 2013
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|November 2014
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|November 2014
|Experimental: PZ-128
Drug: PZ-128
Sequential single-dose escalation; 1 to 2 hour continuous intravenous infusion
- Summary of Participants Experience with Safety and Tolerability [ Time Frame: 30 days after drug infusion ]Safety and tolerability of a single dose of PZ-128 as determined by adverse event reporting, clinical laboratory results, vital signs, physical examination, pulmonary function tests and electrocardiograms (ECGs).
- Pharmacokinetic profile of PZ-128 [ Time Frame: Assessments will be done up to 7 days post dosing ]
- Evaluate inhibition of ex vivo platelet function in response to multiple agonists [ Time Frame: Assessments will be done up to 7 days post dosing ]
- Correlate PZ-128 plasma levels with inhibition of platelet aggregation [ Time Frame: Assessments will be done up to 7 days post dosing ]
- Evaluate changes in clotting characteristics at each dose level of PZ-128 relative to baseline [ Time Frame: Assessments will be done up to 7 days post dosing ]
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- Male and female subjects between the ages of 18 to 75 with documented vascular disease (peripheral vascular disease, carotid artery disease or coronary artery disease) or 2 or more coronary artery risk factors.
- Women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test prior to enrollment and immediately before drug administration and agree to use two methods of effective barrier contraception, or a hormonal contraceptive to prevent pregnancy throughout the study.
- The subject is able to read and give written informed consent and has signed and dated an informed consent document and authorization permitting release of personal health information approved by the Investigator's Institutional Review Board (IRB).
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- The subject has participated in an investigational drug study within the last 30 days.
- The subject has a medical or surgical condition that may impair drug absorption or metabolism.
- Anticoagulants, P2Y12 inhibitors, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (no more than three times a week) or any other drug that the investigator deems to have potential interaction with platelets or PAR-1 receptor inhibition are prohibited from 2 weeks prior to study drug dosing through 2 weeks post dosing. Aspirin is allowed.
- The subject has previous history of anaphylaxis to drugs or any environmental stimuli including foods or hymenoptera (e.g., ants, bees, wasps) stings.
- Asthma requiring bronchodilator/inhaler therapy.
- Currently smoking ≥2 pack/day.
- Herbal supplements (i.e., Fish Oil/Omega-3, St. John's Wart, Ginseng, Garlic, Ginkgo, Saw Palmetto, Echinacea, Yohimbine, Licorice, and Black Cohosh) are prohibited from 1 week prior to dosing through 24 hours post dosing.
- Prior history or clinical suspicion of cerebral vascular malformations, intracranial tumor, transient ischemic attack, stroke, gastric ulcers and any form of bleeding disorder.
- Prior history of myocardial infarction within the last 3 months or unstable angina.
- Thrombocytopenia defined as a platelet count of <130,000/mm3 or low hematocrit defined as <30%.
- Renal function: serum creatinine >1.5 x ULN. However, subjects with an estimated creatinine clearance eGFR ≥60 mL/min, calculated using the Cockcroft-Gault formula, are eligible.
- Liver enzymes ≥ 3 x upper limit of normal.
- Alcohol consumption within 48 hrs prior to dosing, and for the duration of the in-house study period.
- Evidence of history of substance or alcohol abuse at screening, including positive urine test results for drugs or positive breath test for alcohol.
- Uncontrolled hypertension or hypotension defined as a sustained supine systolic pressure >160 mmHg or <100 mmHg; or a diastolic pressure >90 mmHg or < 50 mmHg.
- International normalized ratio (INR) >1.5
- Poor venous access (i.e., insufficient for intravenous drug delivery).
- History of hepatitis or HIV.
- The subject has undergone an invasive surgical procedure within the last 3 months, is anticipating one during the course of their study participation or is planning to have one within 1 month post dosing with the study drug.
- The subject has any condition which could interfere with or for which the treatment might interfere with the conduct of the study, or which would, in the opinion of the Investigator increase the risk of the subject's participation in the study. This would include, but is not limited to alcoholism, drug dependency or abuse, psychiatric disease, epilepsy or any unexplained blackouts, previous hypersensitivity to drugs, and severe asthma.
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): NCT01806077
|United States, Maryland
|Sinai Hospital of Baltimore (Sinai Center for Thrombosis Research)
|Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21215
|Principal Investigator:
|Paul A. Gurbel, MD
|Sinai Hospital of Baltimore (Sinai Center for Thrombosis Research)
|Study Director:
|Athan Kuliopulos, MD, PhD
|Tufts Medical Center (Hemostasis and Thrombosis Laboratory)
|Responsible Party:
|Tufts Medical Center
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|Other Study ID Numbers:
P50HL110789 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|March 7, 2013 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 21, 2016
|Last Verified:
|April 2016
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But in all of that, sometimes we overlook the stupidity that can surround a visit to the doctor, where neither side is at fault.
So I'd like to think my reader Cheryl for submitting this picture.
Her husband went to see his cardiologist. After the appointment he found that the helpful parking garage staff had filled in a pothole behind his truck, and roped it off.


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This is a quick character test to try out some manga style modelling in Curvy.
I build the head out of four Curvy Lathes as you can see below. Then I s-merged them and sculpted a little bit on top (not a lot - the basic shape was correct from the first shapes).
Curvy 2's auto-cap ends feature made the initial lathe drawing much simpler as I didn't have to line all the curves up.
The hair is a Lathe, s-merged on its own to increase resolution then I used the Widget Move tool with a small radius to pull out hair spikes.
The coat is a simple s-merge of three lathes for the body/arm/collar with some sculpting tools for detailing. This was really just thrown together to go with the head - but I think it works well as a quickie prop.
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Connectedness of efficient solutions is a powerful property in multiple objective combinatorial optimization since it allows the construction of the complete efficient set using neighborhood search techniques. In this paper we show that, however, most of the classical multiple objective combinatorial optimization problems do not possess the connectedness property in general, including, among others, knapsack problems (and even several special cases of knapsack problems) and linear assignment problems. We also extend already known non-connectedness results for several optimization problems on graphs like shortest path, spanning tree and minimum cost flow problems. Different concepts of connectedness are discussed in a formal setting, and numerical tests are performed for different variants of the knapsack problem to analyze the likelihood with which non-connected adjacency graphs occur in randomly generated problem instances.


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MythStreams is a plugin that plays streaming content full screen using the internal player.
It currently only has content provided by the BBC iPlayer (and this is only available to people in the UK). it uses an XML file which I host and is updated hourly, this way I can sanity check the scripts i use which export data from the iPlayer pages. Also I will add in extra providers as time goes on.
This plugin is based heavily on the Movie Times plugin, which was an awesome starting point. It will become less based on this as development continues.
All content is downloaded using mencoder and transcoded into an mpeg2 which mythtv plays. Its wasteful on resources and adds an extra dependancy, but is rock solid. If anyone wants to help out and get the internal player to play the streaming h264 files, then be my guest!
A video of an early version of the plugin at work is available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7eVgPMTa0g
Prerequisites: Mencoder (part of mplayer) Curl (in most distros)
To install:
wget http://www.bewhere.co.uk/mythstreams-1.tar.gz tar xzf mythstreams-1.tar.gz cd mythstreams qmake mythstreams.pro make make install cp scripts/playiplayer.sh /usr/local/bin/
Note: You may not have qmake installed. This is the QT make utility. It often comes in the qt-devel or qt4-devel package on various distributions. Install this if you're missing qmake... You may need to explicitly call qmake with its full path (on Fedora 8 this is: /usr/lib/qt4/bin/qmake)
Next you have to add the menu entries for the plugin:
cd /usr/local/share/mythtv vi library.xml
Add the following lines:
<button> <type>STREAM</type> <text>Myth Streams</text> <action>PLUGIN mythstreams</action> <depends>mythstreams</depends> </button>
vi media_settings.xml
Add the following lines:
<button> <type>SETTINGS_MYTHSTREAMS</type> <text>MythStreams Setting</text> <action>CONFIGPLUGIN mythstreams</action> <depends>mythstreams</depends> </button>


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This week we say goodbye to the Winklevii, Lulzsec prattles on, Bitcoin's exchange gets hacked, Apple releases Final Cut Pro X (ecks), ICANN opens the floodgates, Facebook gets musical with Spotify, the NY Post puts up a (weak) iPad paywall, Lytro reinvents the camera lens, Hulu and PopCap put themselves up for sale, and Weird Al strikes again.
Later we look at the Nokia N9 (and wonder what Nokia's up to), we ponder the future of Research In Motion, and we attend an old-school slut shaming hosted by TechCrunch's own Michael Arrington.
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The ship so nice they sank it twice, the RMS Titanic has resurfaced from the icy depths of the Atlantic only to be subjected to a second dunking, this time with a 3-D up-charge, under the stewardship of Capt. James Cameron, master and commander.
This week, Cameron's 1997 film — perhaps you've heard of it? — returns to theaters on both regular and IMAX-sized screens, just in time for this month's 100th anniversary of the doomed vessel's maiden and farewell 1912 voyage. How's the 3-D? It's fine. It's pretty good. More on that later, as this review, in keeping with the film, enters its third hour.
But it must be said: This is still a straight-up postproduction 3-D conversion job, the sort of thing Cameron himself bad-mouthed (deservedly) after his own"Avatar,"which was shot in ground-up and genuinely immersive 3-D, made such a splash. As a hunk of popular cinema,"Titanic"is superior to "Avatar." But as a 3-D hunk of popular cinema, "Avatar" wins because "Avatar" was shot in 3-D, not converted later.
When the panic-on-the-Titanic romance starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet first came out, I caught it twice, thereby qualifying me for permanent 14-year-old girlhood. The picture remains the worst-written blockbuster I happily paid to see a second time. (Friends of mine feel similarly about "Avatar," the only film that grossed more grosses than "Titanic.")
Now. Why is this? Given the banality of so much of what is actually spoken on screen during the 194 minutes of "Titanic," why does it work so well? Two reasons, I think.
One: Cameron is a genius at instilling narrative dread and designing a hokum-drenched fairy tale of a certain size. Line to line his scripts are laden with eye-rollers. But he knows how to sustain an audience's interest in the terrible things to come, be it a mass watery grave or genocidal slaughter on another planet.
Two: He knows when to shut up, or rather, shut his characters up, and simply dive into images. In "Titanic," the first dissolve from the underwater wreckage to the great ship's white-linen and polished brass finery remains a remarkable and potent transition. Sequences such as these go a long way toward making up for every single moment Billy Zane is on screen, elevating his terrible plutocratic-bully dialogue to stratospherically lousy heights of excess.
For those who have never seen "Titanic," it's about a Wisconsin lad (DiCaprio), short on funds but long on moxie, who saves the Zane character's fiancee (Winslet) from a suicide attempt and, ultimately, a life of suffocating riches. The poor boy and the rich girl fall in love. They consummate their love in the back seat of an automobile on board the boat. The boat hits the ice. And every time your eyes reset to rolling position, Cameron gives you another majestic panorama of wonder, or mass suffering, or nerve-racking, death-defying triumph amid desolation.
The movie can't compete with "A Night to Remember" (1958), which remains the truly essential film about the disaster. But it's not really trying to, despite the obvious overlaps. Cameron operates lower down on the shamelessness scale but also higher up in terms of using the latest cinematic technology to support, not overwhelm, the story at hand.
It's sweet to hang out with Leo and Kate 15 years later. So young, so young. But most actors, it turns out, age a lot more in 15 years than these two have. DiCaprio today sometimes seems boxed in by his own youthful countenance. By contrast Winslet, even then, had the maturity and the fire of a seasoned actress. For me the reason "Titanic" works has everything to do with the scene in which Winslet's Rose, floating among the corpses and the remains of the ship's furnishings, finally gets breath enough in her lungs to blow that warning whistle to attract the attention of a lifeboat. It's the hokiest brand of suspense, yet Winslet's suffering somehow never becomes risible.
The 3-D you can take or leave, frankly. Wearing those glasses cuts out a dubious percentage of the brightness and vibrancy of the picture's imagery. Cameron recently had this to say to one interviewer about doing to "Titanic" what others have done, in his view, more cravenly and less successfully: "My personal philosophy is that post-conversion should be used for one thing and one thing only — which is to take library titles that are favorites that are proven and convert them into 3-D — whether it's 'Jaws' or 'E.T.' or 'Indiana Jones,' 'Close Encounters' ... or 'Titanic.' Unless you have a time machine to go back and shoot it in 3-D, you have no other choice. The best alternative is if you want to release a movie in 3-D — make it in 3-D."
He's right. That is the best alternative. But I'd be more interested in Cameron's inventing that time machine.
'Titanic 3D' -- 3 1/2 stars
MPAA rating: PG-13 (for disaster-related peril and violence, nudity, sensuality and brief language)
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According to a Rasmussen poll posted last week, most Americans consider Iran an enemy of the United States, believe Iran's nuclear program is developing weapons, and they would support the United States helping Israel attack the Islamic country.
|A large number of Americans supported the Iraq invasion and were hostile to the opposition.
57% say Iran is an enemy. 66% say Iran's uranium enrichment program is developing nuclear weapons (53% state an Iranian nuke is very likely). 51% say if Israel attacks Iran, the United States should lend a helping hand.
Is it possible these numbers are correct? Should we trust Rasmussen and other corporate media polling operations?
If you doubt the numbers, consider the overwhelming support for the attack on Iraq. Before the invasion in March 2003 polls showed 47-60% of the U.S. public supported an invasion. A Gallup poll conducted after Bush made his neocon fabricated case against Iraq showed that an astounding 67% believed the neocon generated propaganda and outright lies. Following Colin Powell's dog and pony show at the United Nations claiming Iraq had biological weapons, only 27% opposed military action. Most Americans actually believed Saddam Hussein posed a direct threat to the United States.
The invasion launched by Bush's daddy enjoyed even larger support. 79% of polled Americans were in favor at the beginning of the Persian Gulf War, more accurately described as the Persian Gulf Turkey Shoot. The numbers during Bush Junior's invasion may be somewhat smaller because opposing information was available on the internet. The web did not exist in 1990.
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As Scott Horton pointed out on RT, there is absolutely no evidence Iran is manufacturing nuclear weapons and in fact does not have the capability to do so.
So, if we are to believe Rasmussen, why do Americans believe otherwise? Because millions of them get their news from the corporate media — and the corporate media is the lick-spittle handmaiden of the military-industrial complex and the global elite that have a vested interest in back-to-back wars of the sort we have endured since the establishment of the national security state.
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Of course, it is possible most Americans oppose attacking Iran or helping Israel to attack Iran. But that is irrelevant to the propaganda machine.
The numbers will be used to make the case for mass murder the same way the numbers were used during all previous illegal, immoral, and criminal invasions.
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I'm not saying it's that simple, but saying that there are people who have a thing for clowns and pokemonEnthralled wrote: I don't think so actually. I mean, we all saw a lot of Ronald McDonald but a lot of us don't have any interest in clowns.
Quite so, but I'm still interested, having buried my passions for scalie things, for so many years, how others have come to terms with not wanting the norm.Enthralled wrote: XP Sure, maybe a little bit of it was definitely encouraged from the outside world, but at the end of the day, we love these scaley things because that's who we are.
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Scarf print top: Tick....(Kim K. will be busting out of this one soon in a magazine near you)
Gorgeous 70s style handbag: BIG FAT TICK
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If you can't afford the real thing.....ZARA has done some pretty amazing approximations of this look...Saw it with my own two...
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Teacher: Ricky Tims--- Ricky's Block of the Month is from Alfred Lord Tennyson's famous poem, The Lady of Shalott, which inspired Ricky's beautiful Rhapsody quilt. The design is a quilt you will treasure and Ricky helps you make it with these videos lessons. The instructions do not contain the pattern.
Gina Perkes' Ruler Mastery Series is a 10-month program in which you will be creating a whole-cloth quilt sampler using a different ruler each month. You will develop ruler skills and learn new designs to add to your quilting arsenal. With Gina's program you can use your longarm machine or your domestic sewing machine and master your ruler technique. This classroom is Free.
Rulers are available for purchase in The Quilt Show store.
Join Alex Anderson in making a bold statement this summer. This is a super easy pieced and fused appliqué quilt (60" x 66"). The Flower Power by Swirly Girls pattern pairs beautifully with Alex's new fabric line "Mirage" and brings this modern geometric design to life. A kit is available and your delicious pack of fabrics include solids to give you a perfect colorplay between the flowers.
Teacher: Ann Myhre
Tips for creating the TQS Summer Project - "Zoo Nouveau." This quilt stresses skill building based on over fifteen different techniques.
Ann will walk you through the different sections of the quilt focusing on different techniques. Each video will give you tips for completing a section of the quilt.
Teacher: Dee Christopher
Learn Quilting Basics
Dee Christopher will walk you through the basics of beginning quiltmaking, from fabric selection and pinning accuracy to borders and binding. She'll even throw in a couple of classic blocks along the way.
Do you find that the mathematics of quilting make you run screaming from the room? Fear no more! Designer, teacher and lecturer Lynn Wilder has found a way to make quilting math palatable for all of us in her TQS classroom, Easy Patchwork Math.
In each class you'll learn how to make a different quilt block component using her easy-to-follow formulas. These different components can then be put together to make an infinite number of blocks.
Teacher: Lynette Anderson
Tips and Tricks for BOM 2015
Join Lynette, your BOM 2015 Quilt Designer, as she gives you great tips and tricks for making My Country House, a success.
Visit Lynette's website at: https://www.lynetteandersondesigns.com.au
This is the story of Ernest Haight a quilting pioneer from Nebraska.
Here is a series featuring the life and work of pioneering quilter and engineer, Ernest Haight. You will be amazed at the quilts and techniques and what years they were being used. This series is by the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Teacher: Cheryl Lynch
Learn how to create embellished folding fiber books.
Fiber books are a great way to save memories of a vacation trip, a favorite pastime or a memorable occasion. They consist of mini quilts joined together. Cheryl shares how to create the pages using applique, photos, digital images and embellishments and then how to turn them into a free standing book. It makes a great special display.
Teacher: Julie Cefalu
Tips and Tricks for BOM 2014
Join Julie, your BOM 2014 specialist, as she gives you great tips and tricks for making A-Z for Ewe and Me, by Janet Stone, a success. Visit Julie's website at www.TheCraftyQuilter.com.
Teacher: Lyric Kinard
Learn how to make a lovely pieced silk scarf.
Welcome to a wonderful new experience of working with deliciously lovely silks and velvets. Just a few simple tricks can make working with these slippery fabrics a much simpler experience. Enjoy the lessons! Lyric's website is www.lyrickinard.com
Teacher: Lea McComas Learn how to create a fabric portrait. Join fiber artist Lea McComas as she help to expands your creative quilting journey with classes focusing on the use of different techniques and mediums. Known primarily as an art quilter, Lea has gained international recognition for her thread work portraits.
Teacher: Helen Gibb
Learn to create beautiful embellished postcards.
Embellishments for quilting and crazy quilting are plentiful but have you considered the addition of a lovely fabric image, ribbons, trims and small ribbon flowers? Helen Gibb, an internationally renowned master of ribbonwork, has designed this special 1920s style postcard project with small ribbon flowers, bows, and lace that will also work for many of your other sewing projects.
Teacher: Ricky Tims
Gaelic Blessing Quilt
Ricky's variation of the Double Irish Chain is sure to make you smile because the border is integrated right into the patchwork! The central Celtic cross is an inspirational Irish icon. Ricky's quilting friend from Belfast says, "Most Celtic patterns are for smaller items like cushions or wall hangings. How wonderful to have a blessing on your bed!" Ricky promises that this easy-to-make, pseudo traditional quilt will find the luck of the Irish rubbing off on you. These are companion videos which support the complete instructions found in the Gaelic Blessing pattern. Both the pattern and kit are available at www.rickytims.com.
Teacher: Christine Barnes
Christine Barnes demystifies color in your quilts.
Join author and designer Christine Barnes (The Quilter's Color Club) as she demystifies color and shows you how to choose and combine fabrics—"magic fabrics"—to create special effects like luminosity, transparency, luster, and opalescence. Get acquainted with the basics (they are the building blocks of color) and put the concepts into practice with ten easy color studies. See how "the color makes the quilt" in a number of same-design, different-colorway examples. When it comes to color, there are rules and they work! Christine's website: https://www.christinebarnes.com
Teacher: Lauren Vlcek
A fabulous foundation for simple, successful quilt embellishments.
Join Lauren Vlcek as she guides you through a number of brilliant ways to embellish your quilt project, including raw edge appliqué, couching, basic hand stitching, and basic embroidery. NOTE TO STUDENTS***Companion Packs are now SOLD OUT!***
Teacher: Laura Wasilowski and Frieda Anderson
Learn Fusing Basics
Laura Wasilowski and Frieda Anderson from the Chicago School of Fusing teach you the basics of fusing. You'll learn how to transfer patterns to fabric, free cut fabric shapes, create woven collages, and much, much more. These techniques can be used to create two patterns, Birds and Flowers from Laura and Prairie Flowers from Frieda.
Teacher: Laura Nownes
Learn how to make a sampler quilt with Laura.
Learn how to make a sampler quilt with Laura Nownes. She will teach you everything you need to know to make a quilt top, from fabric selection to assembly. You will learn about nine-patches, pinwheels, sawtooth stars, log cabins, and quarter square triangles.
Teacher: Barbara Persing
Barb Persing's 4-Step Approach to Quilt Design
Barb Persing's series of classes based on her book "Listen to Your Quilt." Barb introduces four simple steps which will help you decide what type of quilting is best for your quilt.
Teacher: Michelle Jackson
The 2010 Niche Award-Winning Fiber Artist
Michelle Jackson – the 2010 Niche Award-Winning Fiber artist is going to teach you the basics of color. You'll learn about value, personality, pattern, texture, and scale in Color 101. 1. What is Color? 2. Value and Dominance 3. The Temperature of Color: Is it active or passive? 4. Fabulous Color Combinations 5. Pattern, Texture and Scale 6. The Personality of Color 7. The Color Shift 8. Adding Unique Color is as Easy as 1,2,3 Be sure to show us your progress by posting your classwork. Click the Submit entry button. For more information & to contact Michelle go to www.quiltfashions.com
Teacher: Sarah Vedeler
Monthly Lessons-BOM 2012
Join us on a new 12-month quilting journey as we bring you a fabulous quilt designed especially for TQS by Sarah Vedeler. Sedona Star is a spectacular medallion quilt that features a beautiful center star surrounded by a charming array of appliqué elements.
Teacher: Nancy Prince
Here is a technique you have wanted to learn and will start using right away.
Here is a technique you have wanted to learn and will start using right away. Top teacher Nancy Prince will walk you through the skills and thrills of thread painting. You are going to love the process and the projects you will create. For more great videos and to contact Nancy go to www.nancyprince.com
Teacher: Linda Taylor
Take the Steps to Longarm Success
You get the basics, the tips and techniques of long arm quilting from Quilting Star Linda V. Taylor. Linda is an award-winner, entrepreneur, and quilting legend and understands how to get you started with this amazing tool for quilting. Non-long arm quilters will also benefit from these lessons. Join the fun.
Teacher: Jeanie Sumrall-Ajero
From Camera to Quilt and a Fun Project at the End.
Start by taking the picture, then load it on the computer, print it on fabric and put it into your quilting project. Sound hard? Not with Jeanie's step by step instructions. Nothing fancy here, just a great introduction into a skill every quilter should know.
Teacher: Alex Anderson
Alex teaches Applique
Alex Anderson invites you into her sewing room for lessons on applique. Using the BOM quilt "Hugs & Kisses" she shows both machine and hand techniques for getting the look just right. If you have a BOM picture, put it in the BOM Show & Tell. If you want to show an applique picture for this class, click "Submit Entry" below.
Teacher: Jinny Beyer
How does Jinny Beyer use border prints in her quilting design?
Make your quilts more interesting and alive with border prints. There's a trick to it, so watch as Jinny shows the way. This lesson will instantly add variety and fun to your quilts.
Teacher: Patsy Thompson
A Super Series on the basics of Free Motion Quilting
You will soon find a new true love. Free Motion Quilting is fun. It's even more fun when you have a good idea of what you are doing. Patsy Thompson is an expert and a great teacher. Jump in with both feet, Free Motion Quilting is going to super charge your creativity.
Teacher: Jinny Beyer
How Does Jinny Get Design Ideas?
Join Jinny Beyer as she shares insight into what captures her attention, and how her discoveries often find expression in a new fabric collection. Whether on vacation, teaching, or at an event taking place in her own neighborhood, Jinny is always on the lookout for inspiration.


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World of Warcraft Nets 10 Million Subscribers
Released in November 2004, World of Warcraft has since spawned the massively successful Burning Crusade expansion pack, with another, titled Wrath of the Lich King, on the way. The company regularly updates the game with new technology and gameplay tweaks via regular patches, the latest of which was released today.
Formerly a subsidiary of Vivendi Games, Blizzard was a major factor in the merger of Vivendi Games and Activision, with the resulting entity known as Activision Blizzard. At the time, Blizzard CEO and co-founder Mike Morhaime (pictured above) noted his belief that Vivendi shareholders never gave the studio "proper credit" and mentioned plans to increase subscriber numbers in other markets, such as Russia, Eastern Europe and India.
The studio is also known to be working on an unannounced MMO in addition to the long-awaited StarCraft 2.
"It's very gratifying to see gamers around the world continuing to show such enthusiasm and support for World of Warcraft," Morhaime said of today's milestone. "We're always pleased to welcome new players to the game, and we're looking forward to sharing the next major content update with the entire community in the months ahead."


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A variety of assessment processes are used across the school according to the Section and year group applied to. These may include language assessments, cognitive ability tests, subject assessments (at secondary and high school levels), SEN assessments, an interview or a class tryout. Infant-aged children are assessed in the classroom during a class tryout session.
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Places in school are awarded to applicants based on their performance in assessments or tryouts, as well as other factors that include the strength of school reports, letters of recommendation (only applicable to years 7, 8 and 9 of British Secondary and the High School year groups), passing an interview when required, and the availability of places in the respective year group.
If a place is not immediately available, a successful candidate will be placed on a waiting list for a maximum of 12 months. If a place does not become available within 12 months, the applicant will then be required to take further assessments in order to be considered for the following academic year.
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Lesson from Pearl Harbor – Be Ready!
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日本一本二本三区免费Today marks the 75th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of the U.S. Naval fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii December 7, 1941. Not unlike today when we are aware we live in perilous times, people are scurrying around preparing for Christmas, just as they were on that day when 2400 or more U.S. citizens perished without notice. Even though we know years later those in harm's way had not been notified in time, some were ready, with or without notice. ?
During the heat of battle as the infamous U.S.S. Arizona was sinking in the narrow harbor only one heavy cruise ship the Phoenix escaped out to sea. Why? Because the crew was ready! I know this because my uncle served on the U.S.S. Phoenix that day and told us stories of the incessant bombing, of fires everywhere, and of the young sailors who had to be tossed overboard in the hope of their surviving in the water. But he also told us how he and his crew were ready. ?Despite being a peaceful Sunday, it seemed to others, they were on guard. They were prepared, and they acted decisively and swiftly to avoid disaster.


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The Newton baseball team gave Vincent Byams his first win Tuesday night, beating Archer 6-1 on the road.
The Rams (1-1) used a five-run sixth inning to break open a 1-1 tie for their first win of the season.
Pitching and improved defense kept the game tight, until the bats exploded in the sixth. Ryan McCranie tossed five innings, recording five strikeouts and giving up only one hit, along with one walk in picking up the win. After catching the previous night's game against Eastside, McCranie relied mostly on off-speed pitches and was able to get ahead of hitters consistently. Sherman Graves came on in the bottom of the sixth to close it out, giving up only one hit in his two innings.
"I am proud the team responded so well coming back from the previous night's loss," Byams said. "We got good all-around work out of Ryan with him getting ahead of hitters and then Sherman closing the door. The bats got going tonight. A.B. (Allen) Bowen had three hits and Tripp Lofton and Sherman each had two."
The Rams had a total of 10 hits on the night.
Scoreless for the first three innings, Loftin led off the top of the fourth with a base hit and got around to third before McCranie picked up an RBI with a ground-out to second. Graves followed with a double, but was left stranded as Archer was able to retire the next two Ram batters. In the bottom of the fourth, Archer led off with their first hit. McCranie struck out the next hitter and retired the next hitter on a ground-out. With two outs, A.B. made a diving stop at short and scrambled to make the throw to first, but Lofton was unable to dig out the low throw. The runner from third scored the only Archer run of the game on the play.
Bowen started the sixth with a single and advanced to second on a passed ball. Lofton followed with a bunt single. With one out, Graves singled in the two runs that proved to be the game winners. Zack Sullivan reached base on a fielder's choice retiring Lofton, but Daniel Croom tripled to score Sullivan.
Dez Billingsley followed with an RBI double and freshman Yorel James picked up his first hit and RBI to close out the scoring.
With a 6-1 lead, Sherman came on to finish the game on the mound, but found himself in immediate trouble. The first two Archer hitters reached base the hard way.
Sherman's hard fastball struck each of them. Getting over his initial wildness, he retired the next two hitters before yielding a walk to load the bases. However, Bowen was able to snag a grounder and flip to Guckenburger at second barely ahead of the runner to retire the side.
Bowen was the defensive standout of the game, also leaping high to snag two consecutive liners in the third.
Graves came back out for the seventh and had little trouble retiring Archer, yielding just one hit and recording his second strikeout. Newton evened its record at 1-1 and next plays at Alcovy on Friday


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|The remains of the wooden bulk carrier Australasia lie in 15 to 20 feet of water off Whitefish Dunes State Park in Lake Michigan, mostly buried beneath a sand bottom. Built in 1884 by the well-known shipbuilder Captain James Davidson in West Bay City, Michigan, the 285-foot long Australasia was the largest wooden vessel ever built at the time of her launch. During her twelve year career, the Australasia carried bulk cargoes across the Great Lakes so efficiently she earned a fortune for her owners at a time when wooden vessels were quickly becoming obsolete. The Australasia embodies the industrial revolution on the Great Lakes, an era when maximizing profits drove technological innovations and pushed the accepted limits of wooden hulls. The Australasia meets the registration requirements of criterion D of the property type bulk freighter as described in the Multiple Property Documentation Great Lakes Shipwrecks of Wisconsin (Cooper and Kriesa 1992). The Great Lakes wooden steam bulk cargo vessel Australasia, a work of an acknowledged master shipbuilder, has yielded important information on nineteenth-century wood bulk carrier construction. As much of the site remains buried, it holds the potential to yield significantly more information as different hull sections may be uncovered and is therefore eligible at the state level under Criterion D. The period of significance begins with the date of construction in 1884 and ends with the Australasia's loss in 1896.
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Siteimprove Opens in the Netherlands
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AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands. August 11, 2014 – Siteimprove, announced the opening of a new office in The Netherlands today, paving the way for improved service and availability within the region.
Located in central Amsterdam, the branch opens with an initial staff of five Dutch nationals.
Siteimprove is built on providing the best possible service for our customers, and opening this office is a natural extension of that, said Siteimprove CEO and founder Morten Ebbesen. Our customers in The Netherlands are now supported by a team uniquely positioned to understand and respond to their needs. As a result, the average Dutch citizen can soon expect to see improvements in their everyday lives. Siteimprove has always been a strong partner of government agencies, helping them find and fix broken elements of their websites, said Patrick Wittenberg, Sales Manager at Siteimprove BV. With so many public services being handled online today, improving the reliability and usability of those government websites will make a big difference for everyone. Private companies can also look forward to an increase in their website's performance.Our customers in the private sector can also expect more support from Siteimprove than ever before, and that translates to higher performing website, Wittenberg said. Studies show that mistakes on a website are more than just an embarrassment, they're damaging to customer and prospect relations.
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