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1. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadJJLBG Jun 28, 2010 6:17 AM (in response to Fran22431)
Unfortunately the iPad is not currently by Adobe Digital Editions. Found out the hard way this morning...
Anyone at Adobe can tell us if there are plans to add support for the iPad?
2. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadkoklbr Aug 2, 2010 11:00 AM (in response to Fran22431)
I put in a request to Adobe that an app be created for Adobe Reader for the iPad/iPhone in June. Perhaps if others would also request this app, development would be faster. I too would like to be able to read ebooks from the library on my iPad, as well as those I have purchased from the Sony Reader store.
3. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadJJLBG Aug 2, 2010 7:26 PM (in response to koklbr)
Good point koklbr. I have submitted an enhancement request using their Feature Request form.
4. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPad13pam7 Jan 11, 2011 7:40 AM (in response to Fran22431)
I received an iPad for Christmas. Just spent time on the phone with Apple, who suggested I call Adobe and gave me thier number. Then Adobe said they couldn't recommend apps for the iPad. I'll request that Adobe create and app for ereading on the iPad.
5. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadmetilou Jan 11, 2011 8:48 AM (in response to 13pam7)
Hi, I had an Elonex e-reader which relied on Adobe for downloading and reading ebooks. I only ever managed to download and read ONE ebook and had loads of problems with Adobe. I bought an ipad a few months ago and download books through the ibook and Kindle apps with no problems at all. I would never, ever use Adobe again. I had nothing but problems and their technical support didn`t help at all.
6. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadJim Lester Jan 11, 2011 9:43 AM (in response to 13pam7)
Look at Bluefire Reader. It support Adobe DRM and specifically library books.
7. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadJJLBG Jan 11, 2011 11:49 AM (in response to Jim Lester)
I can vouch for this answer. I have tried the Bluefire reader on my iPad and was able to read my library books.
I came across it when I went looking for French books. Archambault (jelis.ca) uses Adobe Digital Editions and recommends the Bluefire reader.
8. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadwolfie2002 Mar 21, 2011 6:58 PM (in response to JJLBG)
Hi Jim
I just downloaded bluefire to my ipad but can't figure out how to get my library books into it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Was using Overdrive but it will not activate my adobe i.d. keep getting errors but it was easy to download books from the library
9. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadJim Lester Mar 21, 2011 7:42 PM (in response to wolfie2002)
See http://www.bluefirereader.com/help/libraryBooks.html for full details on this.
10. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadwolfie2002 Mar 21, 2011 8:25 PM (in response to Jim Lester)
Thanks so much. Figured it out with the link.
Thank you
11. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadsafaricat2 Apr 5, 2012 8:42 AM (in response to Fran22431)
Check out which program is supported by your local Library, my library uses Overdrive Media free download in App store.
12. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadsafaricat2 Apr 5, 2012 8:53 AM (in response to wolfie2002)
I was also having error messages when trying to authorize my Adobe ID I posted how I was able to get it activated here
This is copied from an email i received from Adobe regarding Bluefire. I haven't downloaded it as I was able to get Overdrive working
1. Download Bluefire Reader for Ipad.
2. Authorize with an Adobe ID
Authorization is a simple process where you're asked to enter an Adobe ID and password so that your copy of Bluefire Reader is able to read Adobe eBooks.
When Bluefire Reader launches for the first time, it asks if you'd like to authorize the application. If this is not the first time you're opening the application, you can authorize or de-authorize from the application's Info Screen. To bring up the Info Screen, select the Info button from the Main Toolbar of the application.
If the application has not yet been authorized, simply tap the Authorize button in the Info screen to start the process. You'll be prompted for your Adobe ID and password. If you don't already have an Adobe ID, tap the red button in the upper right-hand corner to get one.
3. Transferring eBooks
For iPad, you can use iTunes to transfer files between your computer and an app on your device that supports file sharing.
1. Connect your iPad to your computer.
2. In iTunes, select your device (below Devices), and click the Apps button.
3. Scroll down to the "File Sharing" section. Select the Bluefire Reader app from the list, and click Add.
4. In the window that appears, select a file to transfer, and click Choose. If you bought a DRM-protected Adobe eBook, it should be in a folder called "My Digital Editions" which is in your "My Documents" folder.
The file is then transferred to your device, and can be opened in the app you selected in step 3.
13. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadsparks.19 Apr 13, 2012 12:01 AM (in response to Fran22431)
I'd been stuck with downloading my ebooks for 3 days already. Kept having this error " ACS4 Authorization Error:-1001 An unexpected system error occurredvwhile trying to contact the Adobe servers."
It was working fine with my iPad 2(wifi) 1 wk ago. But after the recent overdrive updates, this error appear.
Does anyone has any idea how to resolve this?
14. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadsafaricat2 Apr 13, 2012 8:07 AM (in response to sparks.19)
I think there may have been issues with the Overdrive update and Adobe Authorization as I had the same problem with the ACS4 Error 1001. So I deactivated my acct and tried to re-activate and started getting the Adobe Authorization Error 256 message every time I tried to authorize and it was not working for 3 days. I did delete Overdrive from my iPad ( not recommended unless you have to) then reinstalled, then I synced my iPad to my computer. Still couldn't get it to authorize.
This is what I did and was able to get it working...
In settings (in Overdrive) at the top it should say Adobe Authorization, click authorize it should ask for your ID and password click authorize may take a minute, if that doesn't work I did the following.
In settings I turned off Auto play, Cellular download, automatic downloads and auto check messages. I then tapped clear deleted titles even though there weren't any, then I tapped check for messages.clicked ok when it said there were none. Then clicked Authorize, tried two times with everything off then when it didn't work I turned on all the settings I had turned off ,did the Authorization again and it worked. I was able to download the books from the library directly from my iPad.
I hope this helps, I know how frustrated I was when I couldn't get it to work!
15. Re: Public Library eBooks on the iPadFrustrated in AZ Apr 13, 2012 9:17 AM (in response to sparks.19)
Remember that Adobe Digital Editions does not support the iPad directly.
So, any issues you have will be related to some other software/hardware


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"Resosound" - Logo
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4 stars: really like it probably need minor tweaks, possibility of it still being considered with 5 stars
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|2008-08-02, 06:09
|Link #1
Graphic Designer
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Inside the mysterious painting
Sekidousai no Sekai
Greetings to all Animesuki forumers !!!!!
I. Introduction
I'm now starting a thread for my sig, avatar etc. artworks here. As you can see, i'm a complete amateur when it comes to image manipulation so you cannot expect much from me.
But still i will try my best to make it beautiful and bring out emotions especially my ideals from my creations . From time to time i will update this page.
If somehow you've to like some my works feel free to contact me, im willing to share my works with everyone and i'm open for comments and criticisms.
In the event that some of my artwork has offended anyone again feel free to contact me again, *** However this i warn you ppl.
some works i'm planning might be and will be a little bit extreme. As long as i don't break
the rules of the forum and i feel that my art is still within it's bounds, i will seriously defend it's existence (hopefully it would't come to this).
(date started: August 2, 2008)
Pretty much of everything here is a freebie unless me or someone else is already using them. and i would appreciate it if you inform me first before using them.
II. Avatars
Sekidousai @Inukami
Little Goodbye @Zegapain (This is my favourite avatar for now)
Sheryl Nome @Macross Frontier
Ranka @Macross Frontier
Bobby @Macross Frontier
Haruka 22 frames
Haruka semi static
Urusai @Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu
Haruka Attack! Pantsu!
Haruka Blink(no this one is not a copy and paste; i used my own timing here and a unique blink)
Chibi H.
III. Signatures
Macho (^^) @Inukami
Misaki Shizuno | Yehl | iAL (ieru?) @Zegapain
Ryoko Kaminagi @Zegapain
Haruka Rev.2.1 @Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu
Majou shoujo @Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu
Haruka Sefuku ^^ (freebie of the week)
HikaruxMisa @Macross - Super Dimensional Fortress
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IV. Miscelleaneous stuff
Ero-o-Meter™ ***created by mangalowres upon my request
Parody etc.
Spoiler for etc.:
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V. Sekidousai's Quick'n dirty™ guides
This is my guides section. I have compiled all of my Quick'n dirty™ guides here so that it will be easy to find.
History: I really wasn't planning on making any guides. It all started with mangalowres' Moe-Meter™ , He said he has trouble adding some transparency to it so then i decided to help him out and added transparency myself. After i posted his modified moe-meter i then i asked if he could make me an Ero-Meter™. And so he did but the problem again is that the sides aren't transparent, and so i made a Quick'n dirty™ guide to show him how to solve his problem ;p and also i have nothing better to do other than posting nonsense in AS forums.
Quick'n dirty™ Guide to Opening multiple Raw Images and Cropping
Software Used is Ulead GIF animator 5 free
Spoiler for Opening multiple Raw Images and Cropping combo guide:
Quick'n dirty™ Guide to resizing and boardering
Software used is Ulead GIF animator 5 free
Spoiler for Resize and Boardering combo:
Quick'n dirty™ Guide to transparencies using the magic wand tool
Software used is Ulead GIF animator 5 free
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|2008-08-02, 12:40
|Link #3
Graphic Designer
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Inside the mysterious painting
Thanks ^^;. i was thinking of using gallery or corner for my title, and that somewhat seemed a liitle bit overused so i thought deeply and came up with sekai. Why sekai? well pretty soon everyone will know why it's called Sekidousai's sekai ^^, it's too early to tell at this point,very soon it shall be revealed.
|2008-08-03, 02:33
|Link #4
is not amused
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Naval Base
Congrats on opening your thread. Love the title but you shouldn't have put the english translation to it.
Love this Haruka sig of yours, since it's free I'll use it for now.
Cookies for the opening thread.
|2008-08-04, 04:52
|Link #8
AS Mods Sandbag
Join Date: Jan 2008
Welcome too
I see that you use AS as your picture space, that will give you some problems later on since you can only upload a limited number of pictures.
I wanted to use Imageshack but they have problems right now and you can't register, so I switched to http://photobucket.com/ which is a good alternative.
Ah and nice pics
|2008-08-04, 11:20
|Link #11
Graphic Designer
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Inside the mysterious painting
NP problem Sacchin, but still it seems you haven't updated your link yet T_T.
Updates for today!!!
here is magical girl haruka
damn haruka, so MOE!!!!!!!!!!... i better stop for now... my eyes are seeing pink all over
|2008-08-04, 21:14
|Link #17
IT Support
Whoa! Looks like this forum just have another great sig makers! Congratulation of opening your thread!
I'd be looking forward for more of your sigs...
Now let me do what Ive always done when entering someone's lair :
Of course, all that comment that I have and/or will post in here is just my simple opinions. I'd be glad if it can be any help to you but if it's not then just feel free to ignore it...
|2008-08-05, 01:51
|Link #18
Graphic Designer
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Inside the mysterious painting
Thanks for the welcome Furuno. Glad that you've liked my sigs and of course your comments and opinions are welcome. I'll be glad to hear some opinion from you or rather everyone, so that i will know which areas i will have to improve. And as for the scrolling marquee, i'll see what i can do about it. to be honest, i'm not comfortable in animating sigs. it's too restrictive and you lose quality if you used gif, and i know there exceptions bu still i'd rather use flash for animation ^^.
Updated Haruka attack
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|2008-08-06, 18:14
|Link #19
AS Mods Sandbag
Join Date: Jan 2008
Hrr Hrr I can't hold back myself anymore
Ero-O-Meter was killed by that Avatar
But how did you solve the size problem, your avi should be oversized(kb)
How many colors did you use ? 256 or 128? Must have been hard work to fit it to the limitations here.
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#1 At Black Caucus dinner, Michelle Obama urges members to get out the vote09-24-2012, 01:12 PM
Wow! The Race Card AND the Slavery Card all in one speech!
Michelle Obama used a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation on Saturday night to urge delegates to register voters and encourage African Americans to turn out in November's election.
Speaking in Washington at the foundation's annual Phoenix dinner, the first lady likened turning out the vote to the civil rights struggles of previous eras.
"Make no mistake about it, this is the march of our time," Obama told the audience at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. "Marching door-to-door registering people to vote, marching everyone you know to the polls every single election." That effort, she said, "is the movement of our era — protecting that fundamental right, not just for this election but for the next generation and generations to come."
Obama did not refer explicitly to voter-ID laws that that have been passed or proposed in states such as Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida, but she warned against being dissuaded from voting.
"We cannot let anyone discourage us from casting our ballots," she said. "We cannot let anyone make us feel unwelcome in the voting booth. It is up to us to make sure that in every election, every voice is heard and every vote is counted. That means making sure our laws preserve that right."
Republicans have backed voter ID laws, which often require photo identification, arguing that they help prevent ballot fraud. Democrats and voter advocates say the measures could be used to keep some poor and minority voters away from the polls because it can be more burdensome for them to get the required IDs. Opponents have mounted several legal challenges to the laws.
This year's dinner issued honors to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.; film director George Lucas; Harvey Gantt, the first African American mayor of Charlotte; and Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.).
Earlier at the convention center, issues of faith dominated the final day of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual legislative conference.
Faith leaders discussed one of the most controversial issues facing them in the black community: President Obama's public support for same-sex marriage.
I just don't understand why minorities don't rise up in disgust at the insulting liberal belief that they're too stupid to get ID. I really don't get it.Good men sleep peaceably in their beds at night because
rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Real superheroes don't wear capes. They wear dog tags.
WOW! She does have what it takes to be a democrat nominee for President. Once she figures out how to get in references to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X she will be unstoppable.Liberals! The real fascists.
Obtaining a photo id costs money, whether it's a state id card or a driver's license. To require a photo id to vote is requiring a fee to vote. If someone does not have enough money to get an id card, he can't vote. I know it's not all that expensive to get one, but it still costs money.
I voted by presenting my registration card only for decades, in precincts on both sides of the state. In 2008, they started requiring me to show a photo id. I'm a middle class person who drives a car, so it's not a big deal for me to present a photo id.
I think that there is going to be a huge turnout in the minority vote-whether it's black americans or hispanic americans, the message being sent out from the media is that the republicans are trying to keep you from voting. Whether this is true or not is not the point, my point is that this is the message that people are getting.
09-24-2012, 02:12 PM"..........march of our time,"...........our era...............We cannot.......discourage us...........our ballots......We cannot............us feel..............up to us............our laws..........
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It's a good sales technique, getting over on the other side of the table for a moment. Makes the prospect understand that you see through his eyes.
But is it good leadership for the president and first lady? Nope.
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Everything costs money. Just because there's some sort of cost associated with voting does not make it some sort of poll tax that is intended to prevent people from voting. Gas costs money. A lot of money, these days. Isn't having to put gas in the car to get to the polls a "poll tax?" Bus fare costs money. Isn't requiring someone to pay bus fare to get to the polls a "poll tax?" Shoes cost money. Isn't requiring someone to wear shoes when they walk to the polling place a "poll tax?"
The claim is utterly absurd. This is ENTIRELY about Democrats ensuring that they can continue their voter fraud upon which they have depended for decades in order to "win" elections.
Olde-style, states' rights conservative. Ask if this concept confuses you.
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09-27-2012, 08:21 PMThe 21st century. The age of Smart phones and Stupid people.
It is said that branches draw their life from the vine. Each is separate yet all are one as they share one life giving stem . The Bible tells us we are called to a similar union in life, our lives with the life of God. We are incorporated into him; made sharers in his life. Apart from this union we can do nothing.
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Old Dominion 73, Missouri St. 67
Kent Bazemore scored 28 points as Old Dominion downed Missouri
State 73-67 on Saturday.
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before halftime, erasing a five-point deficit and capturing a 27-25
lead on a jumper by Bazemore with 1:29 left in the first half to
lead 30-27 at the break. The Big Blue surrendered their advantage
twice in the first four minutes of the second half before leading
permanently for the remainder by as many as nine.
Kyle Weems led with 15 points and Anthony Downing added 13 for
Missouri State (16-13), which dominated scoring in the paint,
outscoring Old Dominion 34-12.
Trian Iliadis added 14 points for the Big Blue.
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Partners release Alaska gas pipeline, LNG facilities cost estimate
The proposed 800-mile natural gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to a planned gas liquefaction plant and export terminal in south-central Alaska would be "a megaproject of unprecedented scale and challenge" costing $45-65 billion, said three ANS producers and TransCanada Corp.
It also would consume up to 1.7 million tons of steel, employ 15,000 workers at its construction peak, and establish a permanent workforce of more than 1,000 in Alaska by its completion in 5-6 years, according to ExxonMobil Corp., ConocoPhillips Co., BP PLC, and TransCanada. Permit delays and other obstacles could lengthen the time to completion and startup, they warned.
"This opportunity is challenged by its cost, scale, long lead times, and reliance on interdependent oil and gas operations with declining production," they said in an Oct. 1 letter to Gov. Sean Parnell (R).
"The facilities currently used for producing oil need to be available over the long term for producing the associated gas for an LNG project," the four Alaska pipeline project partners continued. "For these reasons, a healthy long-term oil business, underpinned by a competitive fiscal framework and LNG project fiscal terms that also address [Alaska Gasline Inducement Act] issues, is required to monetize North Slope natural gas resources."
Parnell, who received the letter on Oct. 3, said that it met a critical benchmark he laid out in his January state of the state address when he called on the companies to provide more specific numbers for the project and identify a timeline by the end of 2012's third quarter.
He said the companies also reached a third benchmark from his January address when he asked them to complete discussions with the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., the LNG facilities developer, on possibly consolidating their work. The APP partners said in their letter that a framework has been established between the two state-sponsored entities to share information, Parnell said.


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Daily News uncovers bizarre plot by San Francisco Giants' Melky Cabrera to use fake website and duck drug suspension
In a bizarre attempt to avoid a 50-game drug suspension, San Francisco Giants star Melky Cabrera created a fictitious website and a nonexistent product designed to prove he inadvertently took the banned substance that caused a positive test under Major League Baseball's drug program.
But instead of exonerating Cabrera of steroid use, the Internet stunt trapped him in a web of lies. Amid the information-gathering phase of his doping case last month, his cover story unraveled quickly, and what might have been a simple suspension has attracted further attention from federal investigators and MLB, the Daily News has learned.
Famed steroid cop Jeff Novitzky, a criminal investigative agent for the Food & Drug Administration, and agents from MLB's Department of Investigation have begun looking into Cabrera's associates and his entourage, including trainers, handlers and agents, as they search for the source of the synthetic testosterone that appeared in a sample of the All-Star Game MVP's urine.
The scheme began unfolding in July as Cabrera and his representatives scrambled to explain a spike in the former Yankee's testosterone levels. Cabrera associate Juan Nunez, described by the player's agents, Seth and Sam Levinson, as a "paid consultant" of their firm but not an "employee," is alleged to have paid $10,000 to acquire the phony website. The idea, apparently, was to lay a trail of digital breadcrumbs suggesting Cabrera had ordered a supplement that ended up causing the positive test, and to rely on a clause in the collectively bargained drug program that allows a player who has tested positive to attempt to prove he ingested a banned substance through no fault of his own.
"There was a product they said caused this positive," one source familiar with the case said of Cabrera's scheme. "Baseball figured out the ruse pretty quickly."
Nunez told The News Saturday that he was "accepting responsibility for what everyone else already knows," regarding the fake website, adding that the Levinsons were not involved in the website in any way. They also adamantly deny any knowledge of the scheme or having been involved with it.
"Sam and I absolutely had no knowledge or dealings with anyone at anytime associated with the website," Seth Levinson said in an email to The News. "I will state unequivocally and irrefutably that any payment made to the website does not come from ACES (their New York-based sports agency, Athletes' Career Enhanced and Secured Inc.)"
"I was the only one who had dealings with the website," Nunez said. "Neither Seth nor Sam had any dealings with the website, nor did anyone else in the firm."
According to a union source, "the MLBPA has not been presented with any evidence at this time that the Levinsons had any connection to the website."
The website was part of the presentation Cabrera and his representatives made to MLB and the players' union before the league officially charged him with a doping violation.
Cabrera was at that point hoping to repeat the success Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun found earlier this year in challenging the evidence in arbitration. Braun escaped a 50-game ban for elevated levels of testosterone by raising doubts about the collection and storage of the sample, setting a hopeful example for other players who test positive.
MLB's department of investigations quickly began asking questions about the website and the "product" — Where was the site operating from? Who owned it? What kind of product was it? — and quickly discovered that an existing website had been altered, adding an ad for the product, a topical cream, that didn't exist.
As the website alibi imploded, so did Cabrera's hopes of getting off and leading the Giants to the World Series. Once a candidate for the National League's MVP award, Cabrera is now serving the 50-game suspension and has exposed his associates to scrutiny from Novitzky, who uncovered the BALCO doping ring and Kirk Radomski's steroid distribution network, and other investigators.
According to Seth Levinson, the agents hired the Spanish-speaking Nunez to help them obtain and deal with their Dominican clients, including Cabrera. On Saturday, Levinson distanced himself and his brother from Nunez.
"Juan Nunez is NOT a salaried employee of ACES and does NOT receive the benefits that all ACES employees receive," Levinson said. "Most importantly, any and all calls, texts and emails that he sends come from his own PERSONAL devices (BlackBerry)."
According to sources familiar with the case, the Levinsons are not a target of a probe by the feds, who are believed to have become interested in the Cabrera case as a result of the website machinations.
While the particulars of the Cabrera case are unusual, the case fits a familiar pattern. From Barry Bonds' personal trainer, Greg Anderson, to A-Rod's cousin, to trainer Angel Presinal, many of baseball's recent doping scandals have been facilitated by individuals in a player's entourage who weren't accountable to team officials.
The Giants organization's steroid problems didn't stop with the departure of Bonds. The News reported in November 2010, that former Giant Jose Guillen had arranged for a shipment of nearly 50 preloaded syringes of human growth hormone to be sent to a San Francisco address in his wife's name.
According to a source close to the federal investigation of Guillen, Drug Enforcement Administration agents who were monitoring the activities of the suspected supplier intercepted the package when it was sent to the Giants' outfielder to the attention of his wife.
The DEA agents contacted baseball's DOI and have continued to keep an eye on whether anyone else in baseball might have been involved. Now, the feds' interest in how ballplayers are obtaining performance-enhancing drugs is rekindled, and baseball itself is prepared to find answers.
Major League Baseball declined to comment on the Cabrera case but at the owners' meetings in Denver last week, commissioner Bud Selig touched on the issue of those who facilitate drug use by players, telling owners they would be "shocked" when they hear what's been going on "when this all comes out."
"If you engage in this type of activity," one source said of the investigation, "you do it at great risk to your livelihood."
I wasn't involved in the end of the other Melky thread, don't know why it was locked. but try to avoid what caused that thread to get locked.


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How to get a Better Memory
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Memory is an intriguing machine in the human brain; it is a machine because it is working endlessly. Your mind holds some memories while deleting others and that is the sad story about human lives. Memories are important for human beings, there is a certain pleasure in thinking about things of the past, and it is romantic. What could you do to better your memory, so that you do not forget the small details of yester year and the terrific heartache from a decade ago? Interestingly, studies say that it takes eight minutes for us to commit something to our memory.
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This is a weird concept but none the less works out very well indeed. If you want to remember something then visualise it, make a story out of it in your mind and store it there. When you store this you tend to remember this image every time you are trying to remember it. You will find that by visualizing and remembering things you are also making it a fun thing!
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Do not Multitask
It is amazing how we manage to multitask but the truth is that it affects our thinking power. You know how most times you forget where you might have kept your keys? That is because you were multitasking while doing it, and therefore you did not pay attention to it. When you are doing one thing that is important stick to it, and therefore you should just do one thing at a time.
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Play Brain Games
Playing puzzles like Sudoku and crosswords can help to improve your memory to a great extent and it also delays the declining process of brain. It is believed that playing such puzzles synapses in the whole brain and this includes the memory areas. But studies have found that while doing such crossword puzzles you can remember more complex things may be, like the capital of a country, there is doubt whether this would help you to remember simple things like your car keys!
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Studies have shown that memory problems can be tackled with the help of certain memory enhancing foods. These include high levels of omega 3 fatty acids and low-glycemic carbs like oatmeal. The Memory Prescription says that foods such as legumes, nuts and fish work well and one should go low on meat since it has omega-6 fatty acids that contribute to the brain's inflammation which is a possible underlying mechanism for Alzheimer's.
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A New Skill
A Swedish study has shown that adults who have learned a new language has shown improved memory when it comes to learning people's names especially. Activities such as knitting, skiing and so on will have a great effect on the memory. Try and learn something new and you could bring about a positive effect on your memory.
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Turn Off the Music
Music is often a much sought after thing when it comes to most people. People tend to study with their playlist on and this is wrong. If you want to improve your memory when it comes to matters of studies then you should put off your music. Researchers have found that by listening to anything noisy which includes music while studying can distract you.
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Hit the Gym
Researchers at the University of California have found that exercises can have a good effect on your brain. Just 20 minutes of brisk walking in a day can have an impact so you can very well imagine what effect hitting the gym would have on your brain. Experts promise that this would juice up your memory for sure.
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Paying Pastors Is 'Church Welfare,' Says Christian Historian David Barton
Christian historian David Barton recently described a pastor's salary as "church welfare" and said ministers of the Gospel need to have alternative sources of income to protect themselves from undue influence.
In an interview with conservative political commentator Glenn Beck on Wednesday, Barton argued that pastors should be "bivocational" to prevent them from relying on a salary from the church which he referred to as "church welfare."
"What they (pastors) believe is that they can't survive without it. Now, I'm a big believer in the way Paul did it. Paul was bivocational. He had his own income so that he wasn't dependent on a church," explained Barton in the interview.
"Right now what happens is so many ministers depend on their church, and I'm sorry, I often call it church welfare. These are guys that get their check from the church and they don't want to mess with their check, don't want to jeopardize that," he noted.
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"It's time for more pastors to become bivocational so that nobody can tell them what to do with their money. They own their own money," said Barton.
"If the church money dries up, great, they are still ministers and they can still preach because they've got an income. So I'm really into that mold. And until we get out of the church welfare mold, the church takes care of me and I can't afford to lose my check from the church. It's going to be really tough to get the guys in a different direction."
During the interview, Barton discussed the effect of the recent rulings by the Supreme Court on gay marriage, arguing that the tax exempt status of churches could be used as a bargaining tool to get pastors to perform gay marriages.
On Wednesday, however, President Barack Obama promised that he would not force churches to perform gay marriages.
"On an issue as sensitive as this, knowing that Americans hold a wide range of views based on deeply held beliefs, maintaining our nation's commitment to religious freedom is also vital," Obama said in a Washington Examiner report.
"How religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions. Nothing about this decision — which applies only to civil marriages — changes that."
The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that same-sex couples are entitled to the same federal benefits that heterosexual couples receive. It also denied an appeal against a lower court ruling that overturned an amendment banning gay marriage in California, thus clearing the way for same-sex couples to marry in the state.


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(Boston, Mass. – Feb. 6, 2008) - Fred's Plumbing & Heating, Inc., a petroleum storage and distribution facility in Derby, Vt., will pay $21,250 in penalties and provide $14,000 for local oil spill equipment and response training following Clean Water Act Violations discovered by both the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Vermont Dept. of Environmental Conservation (VTDEC).
On February 27, 2007, approximately 5,000 gallons of gasoline was released from an above ground 25,000 gallon double-compartment storage tank at the company's plant located on Route 5 in Derby. VTDEC emergency responders observed that gasoline had flowed beyond the containment surrounding the tank and had contaminated soil and ground water on the property. Since then, VTDEC has continued to oversee cleanup activities, including monitoring a nearby stream and a neighboring drinking water well.
EPA determined that the company violated the Clean Water Act by failing to have an adequate "Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure" (SPCC) plan in place at its facility, as required by Oil Pollution Prevention requirements. Facilities storing oil above specific amounts are required to take certain measures to ensure that a tank failure or accidental spill does not lead to oil contamination of surface waters, such as rivers or streams, which could harm human and ecological health.
Both EPA and VTDEC found upon inspection of the Derby facility that in addition to failing to fully implement an adequate SPCC plan, the company failed to construct sufficiently impervious secondary containment for its oil storage containers, loading rack, and other fuel transfer areas.
"Oil spills can severely impact the environment, including surface waters and drinking water supplies," said Robert W. Varney, Regional Administrator of EPA's New England office. "EPA will continue to ensure that facilities handling oils follow established procedures to minimize risks of oil spills."
The penalties to resolve this Clean Water violation were lessened by the company's willingness to fund a "Supplemental Environmental Project," under which $14,000 will go to the Local Emergency Planning Committee ("LEPC") District #10, to boost local oil spill response capabilities. These funds will help the LEPC provide up-to-date oil spill training techniques and equipment for local responders. FP&H has been responsive to EPA's inspection and has agreed to comply with the SPCC regulations and update its SPCC plan.
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Lone Star College-CyFair's Art Society's Can-tastic Sculpture for Hunger Exhibition is a collaborative and interactive canned goods sculpture that will benefit the Houston Food Bank.
In this unique spring exhibition, the college's student Art Society is first attempting to recreate the house from Disney-Pixar's movie "Up" with donated canned goods collected across the campus, which will be donated to the Houston Food Bank when the exhibition closes.
"We hope viewers will be engaged to see how art can act as a positive influence in the community to help a great cause, especially one like hunger," said Renee Ciampi, professor of design and club sponsor.
Then in order to engage the community with this effort and to help develop the theme, gallery visitors can drop off canned goods as well use cans on hand to construct trees, fences and other neighborhood-type sculptures, said Ciampi. However, creativity to construct other kinds of sculptures not related to theme is also welcome.
"We just want to encourage people to have fun with the exhibition," said Ciampi. "We hope this interactive exhibition will raise awareness, while incorporating elements of fun, to inspire people to become actively involved in helping those who are less fortunate."
This sculpture exhibition will be on display in the Bosque Gallery Jan. 29 through Feb. 21.
An opening reception will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14 in the lobby of the Center for the Arts on the Barker Cypress campus at 9191 Barker Cypress.
For Bosque Gallery hours and information, call 281.290.3401 or go online to LoneStar.edu/bosquegallery.


text: Hi,My state has a program called "running start". Basically, you can go to college your Junior and Senior years of Highschool and finish 2 years of community college. It lets me get an A.A degree (associates degree). Is it a disadvantage to get two years done in community college (get a 4.0) then transfer to a good undergrad?


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Obama's Correct: "The occupation of the West Bank is tearing at the democratic fabric of the Jewish State."
by: David Harris-Gershon on September 24th, 2013 | 22 Comments »
At President Obama's United Nations General Assembly address today, much attention was paid to his overtures toward Iran. However, his pointed comments directed toward Israel – which placed resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on equal footing with Iran – were just as significant.
Obama made this equal footing clear from a foreign policy perspective when he said:
In the near term, America's diplomatic efforts will focus on two particular issues: Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons and the Arab- Israeli conflict.
When Obama came to the topic of Israel and Palestine, he first affirmed both peoples' right to exist in secure, self-determining states. Then, he turned the speech personal:
Earlier this year, in Jerusalem, I was inspired by young Israelis who stood up for the belief that peace was necessary, just and possible. And I believe there's a growing recognition within Israel that the occupation of the West Bank is tearing at the democratic fabric of the Jewish state.
On the same trip, I had the opportunity to meet with young Palestinians in Ramallah, whose ambition and incredible potential are matched by the pain they feel and having no firm place in the community of nations.
They are understandably cynical that real progress will ever be made, and they're frustrated by their families enduring the daily indignity of occupation. But they, too, recognize that two states is the only real path to peace. Because just as the Palestinian people must not be displaced, the state of Israel is here to stay.
Some conservatives were apoplectic at Obama's mention of the word 'occupation,' as if in uttering it, he had betrayed Israel in ways a true ally would not do.
However, it's the word Obama did not say that was actually significant. For as the President implored the world community to join the push for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, Obama failed to mention the one word that is an obstacle to such peace more than anything: settlements.
It was heartening to hear Obama's words today at the UNGA. However, they will remain just words if America continues to enable Israel's self-destructive drive to gobble up all of the West Bank. See, the United States is the only country capable of compelling Israel to stop expanding its settlements and the appropriation of Palestinian land – a land that has become so bifurcated and segmented already as to make the formation of a state nearly impossible.
It is the United States which, as Israel has continued its illegal settlement enterprise anchoring the occupation, has continued to give Israel $3 billion annually.
I applaud Obama's words today. But if Obama truly wants to achieve peace between Israel and Palestine, his administration will have to start by wielding the incredible influence it has over Israel in direct and clear ways.
Otherwise, Obama's speech will end up being just another speech.
David Harris-Gershon is author of the memoir What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?, now out from Oneworld Publications.
Follow him on Twitter @David_EHG.


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Clear clothes sizing campaignThursday, 30 June 2011
Ages ago I wrote about the horrors of maternity clothes shopping if you have a, ahem, vintage figure (see What would Betty Draper wear?). And I admitted to being rather more of a Joan.
Since having a baby, I have discovered all kinds of strange things. Dresses fit much better, and for some reason I can fit in size 14s (a skirt from GAP and a dress from Laura Ashley). But then in other shops I take in lots of stuff. My favorite black – very Joan – dress is from Monsoon and is an 18. WTF? I'm fairly sure my dimensions aren't shifting about on a daily basis.
Retrochick has noticed this too, and has started a campaign for clothes to be labeled clearly with measurements rather than the opaque mysteries of sizes. She brings together all the consumer survey stuff, and why making people who don't have beanpole-like measurements feel bad is, you know, bad.
So I'm adding my voice. I'm 5'9″. In 2009 I was 36-30-42. I'm currently 38-34-44 (baby-weight, people, baby-weight). There is NO WAY I can be both a size 14 and size 18. Bring back labels in inches, not sizes. Make trying clothes on fun again, not a game of sizeist Russian roulette.


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This Week in Alabama History
August 16 - August 22
Featured Event:
Dixie Bibb Graves takes her seat in the U.S. Senate to become Alabama's first female senator. Only the fourth woman to serve as a U.S. senator, Graves had been appointed by her husband, Gov. Bibb Graves, to succeed Hugo Black, who had been appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Other Events this Week
Spanish-American War hero Richmond Pearson Hobson is born in Greensboro. Hobson later represented Alabama in the U.S. Congress and was active in the prohibition movement. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1933 for heroism during the Spanish-American War and became a Rear Admiral in 1934. Hobson died in 1937.
With a unanimous vote by the legislature, Alabama becomes the first state to ratify the 16th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. When the amendment went into effect on February 25, 1913, it gave Congress the power to collect income taxes.
Civil rights worker Jonathan Daniels, a white Episcopal seminary student from New Hampshire, is shot and killed in Lowndes County. Special deputy sheriff Tom Coleman, an ardent segregationist, admitted to the shooting, but was acquitted by an all-white jury six weeks later.
Listen: Click the play button below to hear Archives Staff discuss this event on Alabama Public Radio.
Confederate heroine Emma Sansom dies in Texas. In 1863 sixteen-year-old Sansom helped Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest cross Black Creek near Gadsden as he pursued Union forces led by Col. A.D. Streight. Later in 1863, Sansom was awarded a gold medal by the Alabama legislature for her actions.


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Of the Office for Civil Rights
Fiscal Year 2006
C. Regulatory and Policy Development
On July 19, 2006, OCR issued correspondence to a large state department of education, addressing how disability civil rights requirements govern school references to student disabilities on report cards and transcripts. The correspondence, signed by Assistant Secretary Stephanie Monroe and written to a high-ranking official of one of the country's largest public education systems, articulates key civil rights principles relevant to disability references placed on such student-specific school reporting documents. In order to provide more comprehensive information to state officials, OCR's July 19, 2006, correspondence not only addressed the OCR-enforced requirements of Section 504 and Title II of the ADA, but also provided information about the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which is administered within the Department by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS).


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COAL CITY — Mrs. Shirley Elizabeth Lawton, 90, a longtime resident of Coal City, Ill., passed away peacefully Feb. 1, 2013, in Dixon, Mo.
Shirley was born Oct. 4, 1922, to Katherine and William Welter in Aurora, Ill. She was happily married for 53 years to the late Charles Lawton, a devoted and loving husband, father and grandfather.
She was the wonderful mother to Cheryl (William) Sorensen, Sheila (the late Steven) Lowery and Sharon (Chris) Liesman, as well as the fun-loving grandmother to William (Patricia) Sorensen, Charles Sorensen, Matthew (Andrea) Sorensen, Nichole Lowery, Thomas (Kari) Lowery, Rocky (Leslie) Liesman and Charlotte (Ron) Tutor. She was the great-grandmother to Ben, Luke, and Ella Sorensen, Grace and Amelia Tutor, and Roman Liesman.
Mrs. Lawton was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Lawton; a son-in-law, Steven Lowery; sisters Virginia Hettinger and Eleanor Schuett; and brothers-in-law Al Hettinger and Erv Schuett.
A funeral Mass will be held at Assumption Catholic Church in Coal City at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, followed by interment at Ward Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Assumption Catholic Church Building Fund, 245 S. Kankakee St., Coal City, Ill., 60416, or the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria, Va., 22312.
Shirley Elizabeth Lawton
COAL CITY — Mrs. Shirley Elizabeth Lawton, 90, a longtime resident of Coal City, Ill., passed away peacefully Feb. 1, 2013, in Dixon, Mo.


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The latest newsletter from Northwest Center Kids in Queen Anne (2919 First Ave. W.) proclaims, "We are out of crisis. Northwest Center Kids will have a place to go this fall."
At the start of this year, Northwest Center Kids was informed that its lease through Seattle Public Schools (SPS) would be terminated, leaving it with six months to find a new home for the all-abilities day care. Officials from Northwest Center repeatedly asked SPS for more time because it would need a facility to accommodate all of its students, many of whom have developmental and physical disabilities.
Students will now move to the Salvation Army in Greenwood (9501 Greenwood Ave. N.). The Salvation Army will lease its classroom space to Northwest Center Kids for "up to three years." This facility previously housed a child-care facility and is ready for move-in, the letter says.
Classes will continue in Queen Anne until Aug. 27, while the new facility is prepared for students. The center will close from Aug. 27 to 29 to move. Classes will start in Greenwood on Sept. 3.
"This solution will untangle the difficult situation in which both Northwest Center and Seattle Public Schools have been snarled," the newsletter said. "A school that has served children and families for 30 years is here to stay and needs the security of a continuous location, with no further concerns about displacement."
A 'win-win' situation
Northwest Center Kids is slowly moving into the space, though the lease officially begins Sept. 1, according to Lora Marini Baker, director of communications for The Salvation Army's Northwest Division.
The Greenwood facility is a community center, she said; it has meeting rooms, classrooms, a church and offices. Those spaces host a variety of community services. Until May 2013, a day-care program occupied the classroom spaces; the rooms have been empty since it closed.
The property director for The Salvation Army's Northwest Division reached out to Northwest Center Kids after hearing about its predicament on the radio, Marini Baker said.
The three-year lease restriction was a request from Northwest Center Kids, Marini Baker said.
"We're very excited to have them," she said. "That part has been empty for a year, so to have another nonprofit organization be able to use the space is a perfect solution for us. Northwest Center has a new space; we have a new renter — it's a win-win."
The Greenwood facility offers amenities like a fenced-in, outdoor play area and small garden, an indoor play area for days with bad weather, parks nearby, classrooms, a kitchen, break room and offices.
There are seven classrooms, which were recently renovated, the newsletter said. All of the classrooms are similar in size to the rooms at the Queen Anne facility, and there will be room for all of the program's current students.
The Greenwood facility is smaller than the current building in Queen Anne.
"We can maintain the quality and integrity of our programs in Greenwood," the newsletter said.
All Northwest Center Kids staff will move to the Greenwood facility, except the Early Intervention professionals, who will work remotely but closely with the facility, the newsletter said.
The faculty is still looking for a permanent home to move into once the three-year lease is up.
'Situation was not ideal'
SPS Capital and Facilities spokesperson Tom Redman said the district offered Northwest Center Kids multiple interim sites, including the Van Asselt Elementary School property on Beacon Hill, and had a few meetings.
Extending the timeframe had been part of the conversation in those meetings, Redman said; there isn't an official extension to Sept. 1, but SPS is able to extend the deadline until then. SPS has waited to officially extend the deadline until it could get concrete moving information from Northwest Center Kids.
The locations Northwest Center Kids was looking at were not shared with SPS, Redman said in an email.
The timeline for Cascade Parent Partnership — the Queen Anne building's new occupants — remains unchanged, Redman said; the group will move into the building by February 2015.
"We know that this situation was not ideal, but we are pleased that Northwest Center Kids was able to find a location and that we are maintaining our timeline to move Cascade Parent Partnership to North Queen Anne on time," Redman said.
The search for Northwest Center Kids' new home will prompt "re-energized emphasis on fundraising, collaboration with funders and community financial support…unprecedented in our history and is essential to securing a home of our own," according to the newsletter.
Northwest Center gets its funding from clothing donations, local businesses who use its services and government contracts.
"The permanent solution for Northwest Center Kids will need a new kind of support to get there," the newsletter said.
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Looking for George Updegraff, b. Mar 1838, Iowa
This George Updegraff was found in 1858 in Trenton Twp., Henry Co., Iowa. He had a daughter, Nancy Ellen, born in Arkansas in 1877. In 1900 he was living in Indian Territory, OK, close by his daughter, Nancy, who had married John Wesley Ray. In 1910 he was living with Nancy and John Wesley. That's the last I know. I need information about his life between 1858 and 1877. Who did he marry? Thank you.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011
The Rural Question
When I first started doing genealogy I would include the nearest town as the place of residence. For instance, a baby born on the family farm in San Joaquin County, California was written as occurring in Woodbridge, San Joaquin, California because that was the closest community to where they lived.
However, it dawned on me fairly quickly that this wasn't the right way to do things because the event never actually happened within the city limits of any town. So, from then on whenever an event on a family farm needed to be recorded, I would just put county and state (i.e. Isabella County, Michigan). More than anything, this was just a band-aid until I could come up with a permanent way of recording these events.
Now I'm cleaning up my family tree and this is a problem I'm once again faced with. Do I stick with what I've done, county and state, or do I go a different route? My concern since the beginning is that county and state just isn't enough information, and also that future generations won't know if I didn't know the town or if the event really did happen in a rural area. But what alternatives are there? The only one I can think of (and have used recently on a trial basis) is by putting "rural" or "farm" in place of a town, for instance: "Rural area, Marshall, Indiana."
How do you record events that did not happen within a community's jurisdiction? This inquiring mind wants to know.
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A lot of my family were farmers as well so I run into this issue too. I try to record the location as close as I can. If I only know the county and state, that's what I put. If it occurred on the family farm, I put that with the qualifier it was just outside whatever community if I know that's where it is.ReplyDelete
I have one ancestor whose wife's pension application states he passed just outside a particular town. That's how I recorded his death location.
When you find out, let me know. That way I'll know what to do about my own birthplace. My copy of my birth certificate has the name of the hospital crossed out and "en route to hospital" written in by my mom, another record has the city where the hospital was located. In fact, it was only en route if that can mean a sudden birth at home in nearby small town is "en route".ReplyDelete


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CPJ wrote an open letter
to President Bush today, calling on him to raise the issue of
Below are capsule reports on Shi and Hu.
Shi Tao,
IMPRISONED: November 24, 2004
Shi, the former editorial director at the Changsha-based
newspaper Dangdai Shang Bao, was detained near his home in
He was formally arrested and charged with "providing state
secrets to foreigners" by sending an e-mail on his Yahoo account to the
U.S.-based editor of the Web site Minzhu Luntan (Democracy Forum). In the
anonymous e-mail sent several months before his arrest, Shi transcribed his
notes from local propaganda department instructions to his newspaper, which
included directives on coverage of the Falun Gong and the upcoming 15th
anniversary of the military crackdown on demonstrators at
On April 27, 2005, the Changsha Intermediate People's Court found Shi guilty and sentenced him to a 10-year prison term. In June of that year, Hunan Province High People's Court rejected his appeal without granting a hearing.
Court documents in the case revealed that Yahoo had supplied
information to Chinese authorities that helped them identify Shi as the sender
of the e-mail. Yahoo's participation in the identification of Shi and other
jailed Internet writers and dissidents in
In November 2005, CPJ honored Shi in absentia with its
annual International Press Freedom Award for his courage in defending the
ideals of free expression. During a visit to CPJ's offices in
Hu Jia, freelance
IMPRISONED: December 27, 2007
Hu, 34, was charged with "incitement to subvert state power" based on six online commentaries and two interviews with foreign media in which he criticized the Communist Party. On April 3, 2008, he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.A prominent human rights activist, Hu had advocated for AIDS patients, defended the rights of farmers, and promoted environmental protection. His writings, which appeared on his blog, criticized the Communist Party's human rights record, called for democratic reform, and condemned government corruption. Hu's wife, human rights activist Zeng Jinyan, and infant daughter have been confined to their home under police surveillance, according to news reports.
(Reporting from Hong Kong)


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A Study of the Neurological Effects of Adding Raltegravir to HAART Regimen in Patients With HIV (HANDral)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01448486
Recruitment Status : Terminated (Funding withdrawn based on unacceptably slow recruitment rate.)
First Posted : October 7, 2011
Results First Posted : January 3, 2014
Last Update Posted : June 27, 2016
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HIV related cognitive impairment still occurs despite highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). HIV disease affects the brain in 20-40% of patients with advancing HIV disease leading to varying degrees of cognitive impairment, recently termed HIV associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND).
HAND may occur in patients who are virally suppressed in both blood and CSF. Patients with HIV Associated Neurological Disorders (HAND) who are virally suppressed in both their blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), whilst on a highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimen may have significant cognitive improvement with HAART intensification with the medication Raltegravir; compared to those who remain on their existing regimen.
This study will be a prospective, interventional, randomised and unblinded controlled clinical trial. The aim of this study will be to determine whether HAART intensification with the medication Raltegravir, leads to significant improvement in HIV associated neurological disorders (HAND).
Patients with the recent progression (within 6 months) of HAND (validated by neuropsychological assessment) on HAART who are virally suppressed (<50 copies per ml) in blood and CSF will be randomised to have their existing HAART regimen intensified with raltegravir 400mg twice daily, or not. The control arm will remain on their medication regimen as prescribed. The target is to enrol 110 patients into the control group, and 110 patients into the Raltegravir intensification group.
Patients will undergo baseline neuropsychological testing, MRI, blood tests, and cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) tests (via a lumbar puncture). The methods used to determine the effectiveness of adding Raltegravir, will include further neuropsychological testing at 6 months; and neuropsychological testing, MRI and CSF assessment at 12 months. Neuropsychological testing completed at 6 and 12 months will be completed by a "blind assessor", in that they will have no knowledge of which arm (treatment or control) the participant is enrolled in.
An evaluation (neuropsychological testing) will be performed should the patient deteriorate during the course of the study, as recognised by the patient's managing physician. The decision of the Antiretroviral medication regimen to be used in such a case will be determined by the managing physician. At the end of the study protocol (12 months) the patient's HAART therapy will be managed by their primary physician.
|Condition or disease
|Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND)
|Drug: Raltegravir
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|6 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial of the Efficacy of HAART Intensification With Raltegravir in HIV Virally Suppressed Patients With Cognitive Impairment
|Study Start Date :
|October 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|October 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 2013
No Intervention: Standard of Care HAART
Participants randomised to this arm will remain on their standard of care Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART).
Experimental: Raltegravir
Participants randomised to this arm will remain on their standard of care Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) with the addition of Raltegravir 400 mg twice daily (BID).
Drug: Raltegravir
Oral raltegravir, 400 mg tablet, twice daily for one year.
Other Name: Isentress
- Neurocognitive Function [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6 months and 12 months ]Change in overall neurocognitive performance, defined as a global neurocognitive z-score, over the study time-period (baseline, 6-months, 12-months). To derive this score, 1) raw scores obtained from a 5-domain brief neurocognitive battery were converted to age-corrected z-scores (M=0, SD=1) and 2) the set of individual subtest z-scores were averaged to generate a single composite (global) z-score for each subject. Lower (negative) scores therefore indicate greater levels of cognitive impairment.
- Cerebrospinal Fluid [ Time Frame: Baseline and 12 months ]To determine if there is improvement in CSF neopterin concentrations with the addition of Raltegravir.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV positive
- On HAART, with plasma HIV viral load < 50 copies/ml for previous 12 months or more
- Able to provide informed consent
- HAND diagnosis, with symptom progression within previous 6 months (while on existing HAART regimen)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Non-HIV related neurological disorders and active CNS opportunistic infection (as assessed by full blood count, electrolytes, creatinine, glucose, LFT's, cryptococcal antigen, VDRL, MRI brain scan and CSF fluid analysis for cell count, protein, glucose, culture, VDRL and cryptococcal antigen)
- Psychiatric disorders on the psychotic axis
- Current major depression
- Current substance use disorder, or severe substance use disorders within 12 months of study entry
- Active HCV (detectable HCV RNA)
- History of loss of consciousness > 1 hour
- Non-proficient in English
- Medications known to pharmacologically interact with ARV's
- Currently taking an Integrase Inhibitor
- Pregnancy (as assessed by the urine pregnancy test)
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): NCT01448486
|Australia, New South Wales
|St. Vincent's Hospital
|Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 2010
|Australia, Victoria
|The Alfred Hospital
|Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3181
|Principal Investigator:
|Bruce J Brew, MBBS, PhD
|St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
|Responsible Party:
|Bruce Brew, Professor, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01448486 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
IISP 37693 ( Other Grant/Funding Number: Merck Sharp & Dohme )
|First Posted:
|October 7, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|January 3, 2014
|Last Update Posted:
|June 27, 2016
|Last Verified:
|May 2016
Keywords provided by Bruce Brew, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney:
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HIV Associated Neurocognitive Disorders
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Infections
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Neurocognitive Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Slow Virus Diseases
Mental Disorders
Raltegravir Potassium
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
HIV Integrase Inhibitors
Integrase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action