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Russell's Four TDs Too Much for Allegheny on Homecomingby Howard Hewitt • October 7, 2006 Share:
Mike Russell's career-high four touchdowns, six catches, and 141 yards were too much for Allegheny (3-2). The Little Giants (4-1) head to Wittenberg next after a 41-27 Homecoming win.
Russell, a junior wide receiver, caught touchdown three passes from quarterback Dustin Huff and opened scoring on a 16-yard halfback pass from Billy King.
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"Huff was throwing the ball great in the first half," Russell said. "He was throwing the ball perfectly. And Billy's was right on the spot, anywhere else and their safety would have got to it."
The Little Giants needed Russell's amazing performance. After building a 28-7 halftime lead and then upping the count to 35-7 on an Andrew Rode 32-yard touchdown catch from Huff, the Gators showed some resiliency.
Quarterback Jimmy Savage hit on scoring passes of 11 and 9 yards to Jake Vite, then found standout back Mario Tarquinio for 16 yards to pull within a touchdown, 35-27.
Allegheny held the Little Giants to a three and out and looked to tie the game up. But after picking up a first down and 10 yards, Frank Knez intercepted a Savage pass to set up Wabash's final score, which would secure the win. Huff found Russell breaking open for the fourth time on the afternoon, and the junior speedster raced for a 36-yard score.
"Things just worked out," Russell said. "I try to catch the ball every time it's thrown to me and I try to make a play after that. It's amazing how everything worked out for me today."
The Gators actually won much of the statistical battle including time-of-possession and total offense, 477-376. Wabash rushed for 128 yards to Allegheny's 108. Savage threw for 400 yards on 38-of-58 passing to Huff's 255 on 19-of-27.
Wabash built its big halftime lead on Russell's first score then 25 and 39 yard Huff-to-Russell connections in the second quarter. Huff found Ray Green from 11 yards out to build the halftime margin.
Wabash's special teams had a big day blocking two kicks, recorded by Richard Roomes and Thomas Bell. The defense was led by Adi Pynenberg's 13 tackles. Matt Kraft added 10 stops with Richard Lehmann recording nine and Andy Deig notching seven. Chad Peterman and Wes Anderson each had six stops.
The Little Giants now head to Wittenberg for what could be a big NCAC showdown in Springfield next Saturday.
"This is good confidence builder for us," Russell said. "The second half was an awakening for us because it's not going to come automatically and it's not going to be easy. We need to play hard in the fourth quarter and we need to be ready."


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I'm ashamed to admit that I once lost my 4-year-old in JCPenney. One minute I was looking through the racks and Matilda was hiding in the middle of them, and the next I was hysterically asking the checkout woman to make everyone in the store help me find my little girl.
We found her just outside the front door, staring at her shoes, refusing to acknowledge the gathering crowd.
I threw my arms around her and sobbed with relief.
Unfortunately, the story does not end there. Matilda was confused and very worried about her weepy mommy. "It's okay," she said, her own eyes welling up and her voice shaking. "Look. I got you a present." And with half a dozen store employees looking on, my daughter reached into her pocket and pulled out a beaded bracelet, complete with sales tags, which she'd thoughtfully shoplifted for me while we were apart.
I guess I'd forgotten, in all the excitement, that we were still going through that little taking-things-that-don't-belong-to-us phase. Blushing, I handed the bracelet to one of the staffers who had dropped everything to help, muttered, "I'm very sorry," and "Thank you," scooped up Matilda, and hustled to the car.
The paralyzing fear of losing my child changed my perspective on her behavior that day. I was so grateful to see her safe and sound that my first instinct when I saw that bracelet in her hand wasn't "What a little thief" but "Aw, she stole that for me."
Sometimes it takes a little imagination (or a big dose of adrenaline) to be able to look at the bright side of bad behavior. But in many cases, the naughty, troublesome things our toddlers and preschoolers do demonstrate that they've hit a new ability or understanding and are showing it off -- inappropriately, but showing it off all the same. While you still have to take action when your child misbehaves, there are plenty of good reasons to take heart, whether she's getting aggressive at a playdate or lying through her teeth about who spilled the juice.
Misdirected Decorating
The bad behavior: Cara Dell'Apa, 3, is the queen of the misplaced masterpiece. She has painted the bathroom mirror with hand cream, colored the kitchen wall with markers, and experimented with the mixed-media collage potential of talcum powder ground by hand into an Oriental rug. She does these things with no ill will, just a curiosity that gets the better of her time and time again.
At 2, 3, and even 4, many kids are old enough to get a thrill out of creating something with art supplies (and I use the term loosely enough to include hand cream and talcum powder) but not mature enough to consistently remember and heed the rules about where such art projects are supposed to take place.
The bright side: Though she sometimes gets frustrated with her daughter's behavior, Lisette Dell'Apa of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, knows exactly where that kind of expression comes from: She herself is an interior decorator, constantly rearranging and redecorating her own house when she's not working on someone else's. "You can really see Cara's desire to create and accomplish something, but it's not like she can go rearrange the family room to satisfy it," Dell'Apa says. Her behavior shows that she already has energy and creativity in spades -- just like her mom.
How to handle it: Make sure she has plenty of mom-approved opportunities to color, paint, and get her fingers good and dirty in her everyday life. Dell'Apa chooses toys and playthings that allow Cara to explore textures and colors, including hands-on, nitty-gritty kitchen activities.
When you catch your preschooler coloring on the walls or furniture, be sure you get her to help clean up the mess she's made. Having to deal with the consequences of misplaced art is eventually enough to make most kids decide it isn't worth the trouble.
Jana Murphy, a mom of 3 and an aunt of 25, is the author of The Secret Lives of Toddlers.
Playing RoughThe bad behavior: Patty Middleton of Queensbury, New York, has two boys who are a year and a half apart, so she's been keeping the peace since Benjamin, 6, and Noah, 4, were in diapers. It's not just moms of siblings who see aggressive behavior: One day, your toddler plays happily alongside the next kid. But at the next playdate, despite all the patient parenting you've put in, he grabs, shoves, yanks, kicks, or bites his "friend" to get what he wants. Unfortunately, this turn for the worse is very common in kids between 20 months and 3 years old.
The bright side: Though it may feel like the end of the world the first time your child inflicts harm on another, being pushy on a playdate at this age is a normal and oddly effective way for little kids to get one another's attention. Pushing and shoving is just a step on the road from parallel play to what we, as adults, like to think of as "play."
Even though this kind of behavior needs to be defused and discouraged, those first tries at rough play are not signs of a bully in the making, says Tovah Klein, Ph.D., the director of the Center for Toddler Development at Barnard College in New York City. "You want your child to be able to go after what he wants and stick up for himself," she says, "and this is where it starts."
How to handle it: Even if you want your child to grow up to be a go-getter, you need to intervene and show him a better way to get what he wants. "For a while, we lived by the microwave timer," Middleton says. "We set it to teach the boys how long a turn was because they were constantly fighting over the same toys -- even if we had a duplicate."
The first times your toddler acts aggressively toward a playmate or sibling are when you have your best opportunities to curb rough behavior. Don't shame him for being aggressive, but do remove him from the situation, and say, "You want the toy? Then say, 'I need the toy.'" Then give him a few minutes to cool down before you let him try again. When he's older, you can point out how his actions make the other kid feel.
Being SneakyThe bad behavior: When Holly Fitzsimmons was 4, she made a classic mistake that cost her a much-wanted treat: "Holly asked if she could have a cookie, and I told her she couldn't," explains mom Sandy Fitzsimmons of San Jose, California. "The next thing I know, she's in the kitchen, calling out, 'Don't come in here, Mommy!'"
Needless to say, Mommy went into the kitchen to find Holly standing on a chair at the counter, cookie in hand. The little bandit was busted.
The bright side: In a perfect world, preschoolers would never steal, sneak, or lie. In reality, they do it all sooner or later. Sneakiness is hard to quantify, but research suggests that by age 5, almost 100 percent of children tell lies. For better or worse, deception is part of the human condition.
Your preschooler's first lie or attempt to put one over on you shows a significant cognitive leap: She's figured out that what you think and what she thinks are not the same. Believe it or not, this new understanding not only gives your child the ability to be deceptive, it also helps her begin to empathize with others as well.
How to handle it: The best way to deal with a lie is directly and with a matter-of-fact, can't-fool-me attitude. Announce without any long explanation that you know what she's saying is not true (this is how parents get a reputation for having eyes in the backs of their heads), then tell her how you expect her to help remedy the situation. For instance: "I know you spilled the dog's food. You are going to help clean it up right now."
Even though your child's first lies and attempts to fool you may be downright adorable, never laugh about it or retell the story in front of her. Toddlers and preschoolers seek attention any way they can get it. If telling a fib or swiping something does the trick, chances are your child will be happy to do it all over again.
Wrecking People's StuffThe bad behavior: In 10 years as a preschool teacher and many more invested in raising three boys of her own, Penny Luse of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has seen more than her share of toppled block towers. "Every year we have this problem," she says. "There's just something about a tower someone else has been working on that some kids can't resist." A destructive streak can extend far beyond block towers to include things like just-picked-up toys, alphabetically arranged CDs, and even the apples in the fruit bowl. Objects that are arranged "just so" seem to drive certain kids to distraction.
The bright side: From the time they realize they can wiggle their fingers and toes at will, children are fascinated to learn what they can and can't influence and control. Knocking things over and wreaking havoc on the neatly organized parts of your home is just another extension of that same desire to test their sphere of influence. As your child experiments, he's getting his first lessons in gravity and physics -- and also in how it makes other people feel when you wreck their stuff. Fortunately, almost all kids outgrow this phase, usually by first grade.
How to handle it: If your child is more interested in demolition than construction, make sure he knows that he's welcome to build his own creations just to knock them down. But other people's work is off-limits. It's often possible to see this kind of thing coming, and the best-case scenario is to step in before the disaster and redirect your child to something else. If you arrive on the scene too late, let him help rebuild or rearrange the mess he's made and encourage him to apologize to the thwarted builder. It's not always possible to put something back just the way it was, but cleaning up and making it right will help him begin to think about the effort that goes into constructing the things he so loves to destroy.
Being Mean to MommyThe bad behavior: My 4-year-old, Connor, goes to preschool three mornings a week. Most days when I pick him up, it's a happy reunion. Lately, though, he seems less than thrilled with my company. "How was your morning with your friends?" I asked as we walked to the car one day. "Did you have a good time?"
"It was fun," my normally affectionate little boy conceded, then turned on me to accuse, "It was fun until you came along and wrecked it."
The bright side: Rejection from your child can feel like an arrow through the heart. But it takes a significant amount of security for your preschooler to so blatantly push you away to see the kind of response he gets. He's sure you love him, and he's testing that attachment to see how far he can stretch it.
How to handle it: Don't overreact. Hurt as you may be, it won't help if your preschooler sees you reduced to tears or very angry because of his cold words. Don't try to make him take them back or even apologize for what he's said. Instead, simply tell your child that you're sorry he feels angry at you right now because you love him and always like spending time with him. Then let it drop. Your child will be reassured that you love him no matter what, and you'll have avoided an emotional showdown.
And that's definitely a plus, since you'll need that energy to keep reminding yourself why it's good that he's a little bit bad now and then.

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Will Pope Francis live up to his name?
Full disclosure: I am not Catholic.
But I do have a lot of Catholic friends. Really. I'll invite some over for my next cookout; you'll see.
But you needn't have nicked your shin on a kneeler more times than you can count to be interested in what's been going on in Rome for the last month.
On Wednesday, the 1.2 billion Roman Catholics of the world got themselves a new Papa. Pope Benedict XVI took the rare step of retiring last month rather than dealing with that money-laundering mess in the Vatican and the sex scandals and sex crimes on several continents.
Plus, the papal apartment is due to get new plumbing and electric – such disruptive renovations – so who could blame him for turning in his keys and name badge and taking refuge in Castel Gandolfo.
Anyway, the College of Cardinals (which, I've learned, is NOT an institution of higher learning for a species of bird found in North America) elected the archbishop of Argentina as pope. Until yesterday, he had one of those long South American names that are hard to remember and harder to pronounce, but now we all just call him Francis. Or Pope Francis I, for you sticklers.
Francis is the first pope from Argentina, which is making a lot of people happy. But what got my ears to perk up was his choice of name. He invoked my favorite saint, St. Francis of Assisi.
Pretty much everybody knows St. Francis shed his family's wealth to live and preach as a poor man. And of course he communed with and was a protector of animals. Statues of him usually show animals at his feet and a dove or other bird resting on one hand.
My favorite woman tells me that when she visited his birthplace and approached a similar, life-size statue, the dove perched still as stone on his hand lifted up abruptly and flew off. Turns out real birds find even the carved St. Francis a hospitable haven.
So, I have high hopes that this traditional, orthodox, elderly man will not only walk with the poor and get the high-living church hierarchy in line, but that he will focus attention on the well-being of animals everywhere.
It's a longshot, as I'm pretty sure the church doesn't even think us speechless beings have souls, never mind a place on the Vatican's global agenda. But I'm still hopeful.
At any rate, I'm counting on him not eating veal.


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Isaac wrote:I have to say, I think it's a sad comment on our society when a man saying loving things about his wife is regarded as a sissy, even by himself. What is this, the he-man woman-haters club?
Isaac, wrong, on two counts, none of us are he-men, (I suspect most of us are wannabes however) and no one hates women (that I'm aware of). Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Sorry if we gave you the wrong impression. In other words were closer to being masochists than misogynists.


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Quarterbacks are the most protected players in the NFL. The league revolves around them.
Running backs are the least protected players. Even helmet-to-helmet hits are legal against them.
In a read-option offense, a scheme rapidly gaining popularity in the league, a quarterback often looks like a running back, whether he actually has the ball or is simply pretending to hold it.
So what happens when an irresistible force — a defensive player hellbent on taking a free shot at the quarterback — meets an otherwise untouchable object?
We may find out early and often next month, as pro defenses have had a lot more time to prepare for offenses that last year seemed exotic. There's a belief among many people in NFL circles that running quarterbacks will pay the price this season, more than they did last fall, against defenses that are not going to be as tentative and under-prepared. That's a potential problem for the league.
"Every guy I've talked to is going to go after the quarterback," said Hall of Fame coach John Madden, co-chairman of the NFL's safety committee. "That's going to be their answer. If you watch what they did last year, a lot of guys played the quarterback. If he pitches, get off him. If he keeps it, tackle him. Now, they're just going to go after him whether he pitches or not."
When a quarterback tucks the ball and runs upfield, he becomes a running back and therefore loses the generous protection afforded quarterbacks in terms of when and how they can be hit. It's an ominous loophole.
NFL rules stipulate hitting the quarterback after the ball leaves his hands is unnecessary roughness, as long as the quarterback is either standing still or moving backward. However, sometimes a read-option quarterback continues to carry out the fake as if he has the ball.
"The key is the posture of the quarterback," said Dean Blandino, the league's vice president of officiating. "You can't take a free shot at him. But what we're seeing in some instances is the quarterback hands off and then carries out the fake like he has the ball, and he's presenting a running posture.
"In that instance, he's trying to deceive the defense, trying to draw the defense to him, and he doesn't have special protection in that situation. He can be hit until enough time has passed where he's clearly out of the play."
Blandino said the competition committee made it clear this off-season that it wanted officials to re-emphasize the protection policies to teams. Officials visited all 32 teams and showed video of the plays in question, and officials have talked about it with players and coaches at training camps.
"There's really no change in how we've officiated it and what the rules are," Blandino said. "But it has been a point of emphasis."
Madden said most opposing defenses didn't have sufficient time to prepare for read-option schemes last year, but he expects them to be far more efficient and aggressive in that department this season.
"They're not going to be caught on their heels this year," he said.
All around the league, defensive coaches went back to their college counterparts for tips on how to contain the new wave of mobile quarterbacks such as Washington's Robert Griffin III — coming off a major knee injury — Seattle's Russell Wilson and San Francisco's Colin Kaepernick.
"Obviously, [the read option] is very effective and has been, but some of these defensive coaches now, they're not sitting around looking out the window and having coffee," New York Giants Coach Tom Coughlin said. "They're into it. You've also stimulated an awful lot of that. And that's a good thing. The energy level on the defense end of the hall in most buildings has been perked up by what's happened."
Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin said in March that he expects defenses to catch up to read-option schemes quickly and make adjustments that will make offensive coaches think twice about putting their quarterbacks in that type of peril.
"I think the read option is the flavor of the month," Tomlin said. "We will see whether it's the flavor of the year. A few years ago, people were talking wildly about the Wildcat. There's a lot less discussion now. I think that there are coaches in rooms preparing themselves to defend it, coaches in rooms that are also preparing themselves to run it, and I think it is going to sort out on the grass."
In a divisional playoff loss to the 49ers last season, Green Bay had no defensive answers for Kaepernick, who ran for a playoff-record 181 yards and two touchdowns and threw for two scores in a 45-31 victory.
Packers linebacker Clay Matthews, for one, would take a different approach to that type of running by quarterbacks this season.
"I like to get after it. I like to just be going for it, getting after the quarterback," Matthews told ESPN recently. "With this, it's the complete opposite. You have to sit there and play patty cake with the tackle, making sure the quarterback doesn't escape the pocket. You have to read and make sure who's taking the ball, who's not. It's difficult for me to just kind of sit back, especially when Kaepernick was having such success throwing the ball that game too, which caught us by surprise."
In the wake of that humiliating loss to the 49ers, the Packers sent their defensive staff to College Station, Texas, to meet with Kevin Sumlin's staff at Texas A&M for an informal clinic on dealing with the read option.
When Packers Coach Mike McCarthy talked about that offense in March, he sounded as if he were issuing a challenge to opponents who dared to take the same approach as the 49ers.
"If I was playing against us, I'd make sure if we had that kind of quarterback that you would test the Green Bay Packers," he said. "Everybody's going to watch the last game. Let's not be naive to that. Time will answer that. It's like any scheme; you have to stop it."
Rob Chudzinski, first-year coach of the Cleveland Browns, used a version of the read option as offensive coordinator in Carolina, with Cam Newton at quarterback. That experience, Chudzinski said, now will benefit him on the defensive side.
"We feel very confident that from a defensive perspective we can come up with some schemes and we can get those schemes taught to take care of it," he said.
Re-training defensive players won't necessarily be easy, though.
"NFL defensive ends and outside linebackers are not used to having to sit there and read a mesh point between a quarterback and a running back," said NFL Network personnel expert Mike Mayock, referring to the moment of a handoff, or faked handoff, when it's unclear who is keeping the ball.
"The DeMarcus Wares of the world just want to come off the edge and create havoc," he said, referring to the Dallas Cowboys' star pass rusher, "and you can't do that. When you've done one thing for a lot of years — and maybe you haven't played against any option since you were in junior high — and now you're seeing something new. Last year it caught some teams by surprise."
If quarterbacks begin to absorb an increasing number of hits, the read-option strategy will go the way of leather helmets.
"If they allow the quarterback to take some pretty good shots, and all of a sudden he goes from being hit four times a game to 15 times a game, then coaches will be very leery of doing that," said Greg Cosell, analyst and senior producer at NFL Films.
Put simply by Arizona Cardinals Coach Bruce Arians: "If you put a quarterback in harm's way enough times, harm will come to him."
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Market analysis firm IDC has released its figures for tablet shipments during the second quarter of 2012 — and, unsurprisingly, Apple continues to be the dominant player, accounting for 68 percent of the market. Still, IDC is bullish on Apple's competitors, noting that the tablet market as a whole grew 66 percent over the same quarter a year ago, and four of the five top tablet vendors worldwide saw their unit shipments increase year over year.
Asus and Samsung in particular saw year-to-year percentage increases in sales that exceeded even Apple's sale's growth. Samsung shipped 117.6 percent more tables in the second quarter of this year than it did during the second quarter of last year; for Asus, that figure was 115.5 percent. But neither company's shares hold a candle to Apple, with Samsung's tablet shipment sales for the quarter amounting to 14 percent of Apple's, and Asus just 5 percent.
IDC's figures for market share have been criticized for mixing apples and oranges. First, they directly compare figures from Apple on iPads it has actually sold with figures and third-party estimates from other manufacturers on the number of tablet products that have shipped. The difference can be crucial, since products shipped to retailers may linger in inventory for some time, or even wind up getting returned to the manufacturer. IDC also counts so-called "media tablets" like the Barnes & Noble Nook and Nook Tablet alongside full-fledged like the iPad and the Motorola Xoom. Some would argue lower-end devices should be considered media players rather than tablets, while others argue virtually all flat, rectangular devices with a screen five inches or larger that don't have "phone" in the name should count as a tablet.
Nonetheless, even IDC's expansive view of the tablet market gives an idea of how dominant the iPad has been in the category. This chart, derived from the last year of IDC figures summarizing the tablet market, compares sales of Apple's iPad to reported and estimates shipments of essentially anything that's not an iPad:
The "Android et al" category includes both tablets running Android and Android-based devices like the Kindle Fire, as well as devices like BlackBerry PlayBook and the now-defunct HP TouchPad. According to IDC's figures, the only quarter in the last year where the non-iPad market managed to gain ground on the iPad was the fourth quarter of 2011. That bump is almost entirely due to the Amazon Kindle Fire, which IDC estimated shipped some 4.7 million units during the quarter — although Amazon has never disclosed actual sales figures.
IDC forecasts the iPad will see considerable competition during the second half of 2012, with the launch of the generally well-reviewed Google Nexus 7 expected to put a dent in iPad sales. Microsoft will also be entering the market with its new Surface tablets, while Amazon is expected to deliver a refresh to the Kindle Fire.


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Cecily Ackerly is an avid horseback rider, an enthusiastic dancer and an incorrigible flirt. The fearless 4-year-old is also a medical mystery whose life of feeding tubes, therapies and endless hospital visits sent Rachel Ackerly's world spinning into a whole new universe.
Which pretty much makes Cecily the best Mother's Day present ever.
"Having a special-needs child changes the way you live," the 37-year-old Ackerly said, watching her daughter toddle around the living room of the family's Cardiff home. "It's a miracle. She is one big, huge surprise."
The second of Rachel and Brien Ackerly's three children — Noah is 6, baby brother Cason just turned 1 — Cecily was diagnosed with a form of childhood epilepsy when she was seven months old. The Ackerlys were told she may not walk, but she walks and climbs and wrestles with her brothers. She still doesn't talk much, but she can communicate through sign language, touch and gestures.
Since that original diagnosis, doctors have determined that Cecily has an unknown genetic syndrome. What her parents know is that their preschool-attending, tricycle-riding, sibling-worshipping dynamo is the gift that shocks and delights them every single day. And in honor of the girl who gives them so much, Cecily's mother is giving back.
"A lot of the families in this situation feel very isolated," Ackerly said, settling into the couch next to Brien. "For us to show them compassion and care means a lot. We have been up at 3 a.m. for the past four years, and we know how that feels."
In 2010, Ackerly launched "Cecily's Closet," a nonprofit organization dedicated to brightening the lives of special-needs children and their families. Cecily's Closet produces and distributes free "Belly Bands," soft cloth wraps that help make life with a feeding tube more comfortable. The cecilyscloset.org website also features Ackerly's carefully curated resources guide, and it helps make recycled wheelchairs, walkers and other pieces of medical equipment available to parents.
But the brightest jewel in the Cecily's Closet treasure chest is the "Sweet Dream" room makeover. Inspired by the way her handy parents remade Cecily's room, Ackerly threw her considerable energy and the largesse of many volunteers into giving special-needs children an oasis to call their own. In the process, she gives their families an emotional reboot that goes way beyond new paint and refurbished furniture.
"Walking into her room is like a breath of fresh air. It's the only room in the house that is beautiful and tidy and has an atmosphere of happiness and hope," said Kathryn Turner of Vista, whose daughter Emmy (now 11) was one of the first "Sweet Dreams" recipients. "When I'm in there, I'm not thinking, 'She can't do this, she can't do that.' This isn't like a gift card to go eat in a restaurant. This is a very personal, private kind of gift. It effects me every day."
When Cecily was born in March of 2009, doctors pronounced her the picture of good health and sent Rachel, Brien and their new baby home. But Rachel was not so sure. She was a second-time mother now, and something felt off. Cecily wasn't really looking at her, and the strong mother-and-child bond she felt with Noah wasn't happening with her little girl.
At Cecily's two-week checkup, Ackerly's suspicions were confirmed. Doctors agreed that something wasn't right, and after months of evaluations and visits to specialists, a neurologist told Rachel and Brien that Cecily was suffering from infantile spasms. He thought it was probably a form of epilepsy, and the prognosis wasn't good.
For a few minutes in that room in Rady Children's Hospital, Ackerly's heart was in a very dark place. And then it went somewhere else.
"I remember thinking how bad it was and having a pity party for myself, which I hate to admit," she said. "But then I heard a helicopter and a call for a Code Blue, and I saw the trauma team taking off to another room and I thought, 'She's fine. She's not going to do everything that everyone else does, but I can pick her up and I can take her home.' And that's where the pity party ended."
Ask her how she takes care of three kids, works part time (she does marketing for the Websense data-security company) and runs Cecily's Closet, Ackerly is quick to give credit to the Team Cecily support system. To Brien's business skills and furniture-hauling acumen. To her parents, Mervyn and Cecily, who take care of the kids three days a week. To PaintGreen and artist Emily Dolton and the other businesses that donate makeover supplies and to the many volunteers who do the grunt work.
Ask Brien Ackerly how she does it, and he just looks at the tired woman on the other end of the couch and smiles.
"First and foremost, she has really strong parents. They never sit still. The whole family is always in motion," said the 37-year-old Brien, who is director of knowledge management for Scripps Health. "It's also that having kids has been so meaningful, and this is a way for her to create an even better environment for them. This is her opportunity to make connections and to be an advocate."
Oh, and there's one more thing.
"We're both deeply competitive," Brien added. "When people told us we couldn't start an organization with everything we had going on, that set a fire under us."
Since 2010, Cecily's Closet has completed 32 room makeovers and distributed more than 200 belly bands. The organization just received a grant from the UPS Store and won a "Community Champions Award" from Molina Healthcare Inc. And in August, Ackerly is launching "Mission of Giving — Sweet Dream Makeovers," an ambitious project that will have eight teams making over eight rooms in eight days.
It's a big load for one family with three kids, two working parents and one demanding nonprofit organization. But when you feel like every day is Mother's Day, Rachel Ackerly believes you should spread the wealth.
"This is something I can do. It's an outlet and a passion and I get so much out of it. Anytime you can help somebody, it makes you feel better. This is therapy for me. I could pay money to talk to someone, but I would rather do this."


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Teas for the sads
Hey guys,
I'm having a bit of a sad/frustrated/grumpy day. I decided to treat myself to a pot of my precious Pumpkin Chai but what do you brew when you just need to be soothed?
For a "down in the dumps day" my go to tea has always been Celestial Seasons Honey Vanilla Chai, but here lately its been Cafe' Vanilla from Della Terra teas.
Sorry you've had a bad day :( Blessings to you.
Over the last week, my world has been torn apart and flipped upside down with all the renovations happening at my house, so I've been going through a cycle of sad/anxious/angry/panicky. The teas I seem to be reaching for are my milk oolong, Glitter and Gold, a homeblend of green rooibos/lavender/chamomile/valerian with a drizzle of maple syrup, ice-brewed (shinobi-cha) Gyokuro, and Lapsang Souchong.
My go-to comfort tea has always been Constant Comment (probably because it was one of the first teas I ever had), but lately I've been reaching to other things. Harney and Sons Hot Cinnamon Spice with some cloves thrown in is really comforting to me when I'm down.
Pumpkin Chai or just some plain ol' peppermint are my go to pick me ups.
i take a green chai with soy milk and honey.
I usually go for something chocolate, mint, or chai. Most often minty.
Purple Peach or Coconut Grove, my go to for sad days.
I tend to bust out whatever "fancy" tea I have been hoarding for a rainy day! Today it is organic sparrow tongue oolong from Butiki teas!
Plain peppermint or a decadent black tea like Verdant's Laoshan Black or Teavivre's Black Dragon Pearls. Black currant flavoured blacks also tend to give me a happy. :)


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Used 2010 Toyota Tacoma Access Cab Pickup
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The 2010 Toyota Tacoma may be the Japanese automaker's smallest pickup, but it has long since left the realm of the compact courier. The Tacoma is the best selling pickup in its segment and dwarfs the Ford Ranger and Chevrolet Colorado in every area that counts. Its closest competitors are now the Dodge Dakota and Nissan Frontier and, while worthy opponents, neither can match the Tacoma's long history of reliability and high resale value. Wrapped in muscular, aggressive sheetmetal and touting the most powerful V6 engine ever to grace a small Toyota, the Tacoma has much to offer those who take their pickup trucks seriously.
You'll Like This Car If...
If you're looking for a capable pickup larger than a Ford Ranger, but not as massive as a Dodge Ram, look into the 2010 Toyota Tacoma. When it comes to reliability in this segment, many organizations rank it at the top of its class.
You May Not Like This Car If...
If you've driven the Honda Ridgeline or Nissan Frontier and were impressed by their car-like ride and handling, you might be disappointed that the Tacoma still drives very much like a truck.
What's New for 2010
The Toyota Tacoma sees no major changes for 2010.
Driving It
Driving Impressions
The Tacoma we tested was a Double Cab, long-bed model equipped with a V6, four-wheel drive, five-speed automatic transmission and the SR5 package that includes an automatic limited-slip differential. Put the pedal to the floor and you can feel and hear the powerful V6 working, conveying a refined sort of ruggedness. On the highway, our Tacoma rode rather nicely, but it almost seemed out of its element negotiating city streets. In general, the Tacoma always felt like it'd be happier hauling or towing something or negotiating rocks in a river. On one hand, that's exactly the attitude many buyers will require for a truck. On the other hand, the Tacoma's competition includes some other very capable trucks that offer a more "car-like" daily driving experience – namely the Honda Ridgeline and Nissan Frontier.
Favorite Features
Supercharger Kit
The optional Eaton-Roots type supercharger kit increases the V6's output to 304 horsepower and 334 lb.-ft. of torque, and carries a five-year/60,000-mile warranty (or the remainder of the powertrain warranty at the time of installation) when installed by a Toyota dealer.
Functional Bed
All Tacomas feature a composite inner bed with built-in storage compartments and four rail-mounted sliding tie-down cleats.
Vehicle Details
Getting into and out of the 2010 Toyota Tacoma is easy, and the firm seats are designed with pleasant bolstering and adjustability to fit most body types and sizes. Access and Double Cab models now feature active headrests which move up and forward in the event of an accident. A recessed, three-ring instrument cluster looks handsome and is in clear view. Most, if not all of the controls are easy to reach and adjust, and steering wheel-mounted controls for the radio are available. Overall, the midsize Tacoma feels very roomy. On the Double Cab, the big back doors open up to a back seat as roomy as that in many small sedans.
The 2010 Toyota Tacoma succeeds by blending classic Toyota truck styling with design features of some larger domestic models. Oversized headlamps and a wide trapezoidal grille dominate the Tacoma's assertive-looking exterior and, at a glance, the Tacoma might be mistaken for a domestic truck. The overall exterior of the Tacoma is well done, and an impeccable level of fit and finish is a known characteristic of Toyota products. Double Cab models offer a class-first roof-rack system that attaches to the roof rails. Integrated deck rails found in the bed can be used to secure optional accessories, such as the fork-mounted bike rack and diamond-plate storage boxes. The Tacoma's bed features a protective composite bed liner that is both durable and light.
Notable Standard Equipment
The two-wheel-drive Tacoma's base four-cylinder engine displaces 2.7 liters. Other standard equipment includes an AM/FM CD satellite-ready sound system, auxiliary audio input jack, anti-lock brakes (ABS), front side-impact and side curtain airbags, traction and stability control, tachometer, two instrument panel powerpoints and rear mudguards. Access Cab X-Runner and Double Cab models include bucket seats with center console, power mirrors, power windows and power door locks.
Notable Optional Equipment
Options include the 4.0-liter V6, four-wheel drive, JBL audio with Bluetooth connectivity, the SR5 Packages, which adds color-keyed overfenders and front bumper, chrome grille surround and a chrome rear bumper and the TRD Off-Road Package. Double and Access Cabs can be fit with a rear backup camera while transmission upgrades from the base five-speed manual include a four-speed automatic, five-speed automatic and six-speed manual. Optional body configurations include Access Cab and Double Cab models, plus a long bed. Hill-start Assist (HAC) is available on V6 models with automatic transmissions. There are also a myriad of TRD parts available including the Big Brake Package and a supercharger.
Under the Hood
Both of the Tacoma's engines, the four-cylinder and the V6, feature Toyota's VVT-i technology (Variable Valve Timing with intelligence) that minimizes the compromise between low-end torque and peak horsepower. Combined with a choice of four available transmissions, two- or four-wheel drive, three cab styles and more, Toyota makes it easy to get exactly the pickup you want. Maximum towing and payload capacities are 6,500 pounds and 1,535 pounds, respectively.}
2.7-liter in-line 4
159 horsepower @ 5200 rpm
180 lb.-ft. of torque @ 3800 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 20/26 (2WD, manual), 19/25 (2WD, automatic),
17/22 (4WD, manual)
4.0-liter V6
236 horsepower @ 5200 rpm
266 lb.-ft. of torque @ 3800 rpm
EPA city/highway fuel economy: 15/18 (2WD, manual), 17/21 (2WD, automatic), 14/18 (4WD, manual), 16/20 (4WD, automatic)
Pricing Notes
The 2010 Toyota Tacoma is available in 18 distinct model configurations with a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) that ranges from a low of about $16,000 for a two-wheel-drive Regular Cab to more than $32,000 for a nicely-equipped four-wheel-drive long-bed Double Cab model. The Ford Ranger and Chevrolet Colorado cost less, but don't offer as much power or interior room. The Dodge Dakota can match the Tacoma's size and even offers the option of a V8 engine, but its resale values don't come close to the Tacoma's. A look at the Fair Purchase Price will show you the typical transaction price paid for the Tacoma in your area, so be sure to check it out before you begin negotiations. When it comes to resale value, Kelley Blue Book expects the four-cylinder base models to retain better-than-average residual values, while the V6 Access Cab and Double Cab models should do even better.
Toyota Tacoma Access Cab Consumer Reviews
Charley souv
December 10, 2018
Best truck ever my third one never have any problems with engine,yes get one
Charley souv
December 10, 2018
Best truck ever my third one never have any problems with engine,yes get one
Charley souv
December 10, 2018
Best truck ever my third one never have any problems with engine,yes get one
December 06, 2018
Great Truck
I've had this 2006 Tacoma for almost 5 years. I bought it back in 2014 when I was 19 years old for $17,500 with 117,000 miles on it (TRD...
November 16, 2018
One of the best things in my life ... I LOVE it
13 yrs old, still solid even with minor maintainence. Totally dependable, good mileage, looks new
November 03, 2018
Love my Tacoma Baja Series - what a BEAST!
This 2014 Tacoma TX Baja series is a great machine! Quality, reliability, and super capable. Tow capacity of 6,800lbs with tow package....
November 03, 2018
Love my Tacoma Baja Series - what a BEAST!
This 2014 Tacoma TX Baja series is a great machine! Quality, reliability, and super capable. Tow capacity of 6,800lbs with tow package....
October 20, 2018
Very nice truck. Would highly recomend. Holds its
Truck handels very well. Easy to park in crowded areas. My wife is very short but says she loves to drive the Tacoma TRD Sport and has...
October 14, 2018
Toyota always reliable
My 2008 Tacoma, V6, 4x4, access cab has been absolutely perfect for 10 years. Never had it in the shop, always did my preventative...
Nick P
October 08, 2018
4 years old. Runs and drives like new
The reliability of this truck has been incredible. Not one problem.. The engine transmission and suspension work well together on the...


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The idea of a imported recession, not of Canada's doing, is the primary way the government can deflect responsibility. Couple the economic origins with the argument of relative fiscal strength, any deficit we incur, much less than other jurisdictions, and it softens the impact of running in the red. We've already heard many government Minister's reference the American deficit, to show things could be much worse. It's a fairly persuasive argument, because economists and pundits will support the notion of relative fiscal health. Canadians see deficits everywhere, the global reality more cause than our government's actions, we're still relatively well off.
The other theme, potentially problematic for the Liberals, the Conservatives can argue that we too support a massive stimulus, which makes a large deficit inevitable. How can you blame the government, when your own party supports a massive injection into the economy? You argued for a stimulus, now you blame us for a deficit, which your policies demanded? That domestic fact, in concert with all other countries providing stimulus, allows the government to argue deficits are just the reality of the situation, not a reflection of competence or management.
It is imperative, that the Liberals argue forcefully, from all quarters, repeated ad nauseum, until it's imprinted in our brains, the following:
Next week (Prime Minister) Stephen Harper presents his financial budget after a decade of Liberal surpluses," he said. "Where are we? We are facing a deficit of $40 billion and this deficit is squarely Mr. Harper's responsibility. He spent us down to the red line in the good times and so we face the hard times as citizens of this great country with the cupboard bare."
Michael Ignatieff
This government spent wildly, in the lead up to this recession, further eroding our fiscal room. This government embarked on a series of tax cuts, universally rejected from the same economic people that are now supposed driving the budget thought process. This government abandoned the contingency fund, which was put in place for exactly these sort of extraordinary circumstances. This government claimed to have prepared us for the coming economic storm, and yet they rendered the government impotent, destroying any fiscal room to act, without plunging us into deficit. YOUR children are on the hook for the Conservatives fiscal mismanagement, and structural deficits have returned.
Whatever the size of the deficit, the Liberals need to argue that it didn't necessarily have to be this way. It is true, that we do need to go into deficit, during this economic downturn, but the SIZE is entirely a function of Conservative blunders. If the government moves on more tax cuts for the middle class, the Liberals have a counter- we simply can't afford it, given the way the government squandered our fiscal health. The "cupboard bare", that is the legacy and we will all pay a dear price in the future, for that reckless management.
There will be an epic battle of "frames" in the coming weeks and months. It is beyond crucial that the "wear it" narrative takes hold, otherwise, in many respects, this government receives a pass for their past actions. This tug of war is the first real test for the new era Liberal Party, can it be heard against the sharp messaging campaign of the government? The words of our leader today suggests we understand the importance...


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McMetal - that TRU store either wildly over-ordered or massively undersold the majority of these sets...I think it was just a rouge TRU. See my pic in this thread from over a year ago. That store still had just about as many sets from then just last month before they started the clearance.
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Psychology Major Publishes Analysis of Racial Dynamics in the Wizarding World
By: Jordan Pye
Posted: October 20, 2011
When a fan asked her about the political allegories in her book series, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said, "I wanted Harry to leave our world and find exactly the same problems in the wizarding world."
By exploring this idea, one senior psychology student, Christina Thai, put her love for Harry Potter to use in a comparison of how societies perceive people of mixed racial backgrounds. Her work will be published in "A Wizard of Their Age: Critical Essays from the Harry Potter Generation," a compilation by students who applied concepts in the series to their own fields of study. Thai's chapter is called "Harry Potter and Blood Status: A Psychological Look at Blood Stratification in the Wizarding World," which she compares the racial dynamics in Harry Potter's wizarding world to the historical relationship between European Americans and African Americans in the United States.
"I wanted to write this paper because Harry Potter made me into who I am," Thai said, adding that she has read and re-read the series as new books and movies debuted. "I started reading the books when I was eight and I can remember when my teacher read it during snack time. I fell in love."
Thai, a native of Fairfax, Va. with a second major in biology, found inspiration for the topic during her first semester of research in the Cultural and Racial Diversity Studies lab with Dr. Matthew Lee. After studying racial identity and discrimination, Thai built upon alumnus Candace Vanderpoel's honors thesis research on hypodescent among African Americans and Asians. This concept is the belief that a bi-racial person has both minority and majority race heritage, but their minority identity overshadows their majority status, so their community considers them a minority.
Thai translated this idea to social hierarchy in the Harry Potter series, where witches and wizards of "pure blood" descent have a higher status than Muggles, who have no magical heritage, and the "mudbloods," who have a mix of wizard and Muggle parents. Harry himself had a wizard father and a witch mother who was born a Muggle. Thai mainly focused on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the last book in the series where Voldemort assumes power of the Ministry of Magic and enacts laws that promote pure blood status and discriminate against Muggles and mudbloods.
"There was a lot of usage of derogatory terms that people used to distance themselves from those [they considered] beneath them, like Mudblood, to show superiority by assigning a word to discriminate against them," Thai said.
She also found similarities between Southern slave owners' calls for citizens to "do the right thing" by capturing escaped slaves, and the "Snatcher" wizards dispatched by Voldemort to bring him mudbloods and the "blood traitors" who sympathize with them.
Because of extensive knowledge of the series, Thai said the paper was the easiest she had ever written, and lots of fun.
"I think after writing this paper it solidified in my mind that doing research and being a professor is better suited for me than med school," she said, adding that she plans to continue researching hypodescent as the topic of her own honors thesis.
"Harry Potter has been with me longer than any other thing," Thai said. "It's the epitome of my childhood."


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 5th Mar 2013 10:44 UTC, submitted by Laurence
Steve Mann on his 35-year history building and wearing computerised eyewear. "Was it blind luck (pardon the expression) that I was wearing this vision-enhancing system at the time of the accident? Not at all: I have been designing, building, and wearing some form of this gear for more than 35 years." Glass has the potential to have a huge impact on the world - and just like with the advent of the mobile phone, people are afraid, cynical, and unable to see the possibly huge benefits of systems like this.


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Apples-Weekender The Great Getaway Bag
Added Feb 28, 2012
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I used the pattern from
The Bag Making Bible: The Complete Guide to Sewing and Customizing Your Own Unique Bags
http://www.amazon.com/dp/071533624X/ref=rdr_ext_tmb from Lisa Lam
The name in the book is: The Great Getway Bag
I needed 3 days with two tricky sewing machines and it was my 4.bagproject
Material Notes
green leather-like fabric (normally for upholstered furniture)
cotton fabric printed with apples
green cotton fabric for the lining
two different kind of liner
leather for the handles and buckle
acrylic glass for the ground
long zip
magnetic lock
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Feb 28, 2012, 07.23 PMby step-van-b
Wow, die ist ja toll! Echt genial.
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Looks great! I like the fabric you used!
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this book is very great!! I love it! <3 I bought a German one with more patterns before, but I only like there 2 of them, the others are not very interesting or nice. But in this book are 7 (or 8) patterns and all so wunderful and nice and so good distructions with many pictures. My English is not the best, but it is very easy with this book. In the summer there will be a new book of the autor. I am looking forward this and I am going to buy it :)
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Dr. Joe Collins� eyes would blaze when speaking about St. Vincent Island National Wildlife Refuge.
Dr. Joe Collins� eyes would blaze when speaking about St. Vincent Island National Wildlife Refuge.
The late herpetologist, a world-renowned professor from the University of Kansas and the Center for North American Herpetology, was first drawn to this area by the federal government and the allure of that island.
An island, Collins loved to say, was unique in the state, a barrier island which had remained largely untouched since the Native Americans and explorers found this part of the world.
To Collins, who tragically passed away in 2012 while in the area for the annual counting of snakes and amphibians by the kind doctor and his merry band of �herpsters�, the island was something new to discover, something a man of science with decades of experience in all things snake could find new, exciting.
That impish pleasure in the things that go ick in the night on that island remained part of the boyish charm of this 70-something man until his passing from a heart attack while doing what his heart loved most.
And how he loved St. Vincent.
That island was his first exposure to North Florida, coming through a contract with the federal government to assess the vitality and diversity of the cold-blooded population within the national wildlife refuge.
For some six years, Collins and crew would alight on St. Vincent and walk merrily through the forest to look under the sheets of plywood and sheet metal that Collins would scrounge from the area to scatter about the island, providing habitat to the creeping crawlers.
That habitat was also perfect for counting.
Where most of us, myself especially, would impulsively run from something wriggling from beneath a board we just pulled up, for Collins and his band of �herpsters� that wriggling was cause for celebration.
A chance for gazes like a long-lost lover found, for photos and high fives � at least the herpetological version, maybe �low eights� or something.
Another species counted, another species documented.
Collins� lifelong love of snakes and frogs and lizards satiated for at least a moment.
From those years of research would come a pocket-sized guide to the snakes of St. Vincent Island. What also arrived was rabid advocacy for St. Vincent.
By picking up and reading that guide, going out to the island to explore, an individual, Collins said, would become invested in the island, invested in preserving this unspoiled 12,000 acres located in Gulf and Franklin counties.
The local folks and tourists alike, Collins said, should more fully grasp the uniqueness of this barrier island with no land connection, an island that provided so many clues to the diversity and natural gifts of this postcard paradise.
There was simply nothing like the island for providing a snapshot of what nature provides; the breadth and depth.
�It is an island refuge that has been relatively untouched for a century,� Collins said. �Find me another in Florida.�
And Collins loved the Supporters of St. Vincent Island for the group�s passion for the island and maintaining it. The Supporters have become even more essential over the years as budget cuts have impacted staffing and programs.
Next week�s annual Open House is on a Friday for the second-straight year due to staffing cuts.
But it is an Open House worth attending for no other reason that as a reminder of the natural gifts this spot on the map offers and what we must nurture and save for our descendants.
As much as that Open House is a celebration of natural gifts, this Friday will provide a full-throated celebration of a man-made asset, Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf.
Or as I like to refer it, the little hospital that could.
Built long before it would have been under usual circumstances, this facility was constructed in substance to meet the expected need created by the build-out of WindMark Beach, now long in a holding pattern.
But the hospital was embraced by the community, which chipped in more than $2 million in construction costs as well as support of a half-cent sales tax to underwrite indigent care.
And having had occasion to visit the hospital a number of times, having had to make use of the facilities and staff, this has turned into one sweet deal for the community.
The doctors, nurses and staff are extraordinary with bedside manner, their treatment of patients as humans, for the timeliness of services provided and provided with a smile, a kind word or a soothing touch.
The ranks of the volunteers inject this facility with the human touch and grace that represents the best of any community, there to help, to wheel a chair, to sit and assist with paperwork and logistics for transportation, there to complement, by any definition of the word.
And despite the lack to date of the population boom the hospital was constructed to meet, the facility has grown by leaps and bounds since its grand opening three years ago.
A new medical office building offers a variety of services and health care.
New doctors have come onboard, a Women�s Center opened and the latest in equipment installed.
This is a $38 million hospital that has meant far more than dollars by, if nothing else, carving into the �golden hour� that is the critical window in medical emergencies and which far too many county residents had come to spend on the road heading to Bay Medical Center.
So, take a time for a short drive out to the hospital this Friday and enjoy the festivities to celebrate the anniversary of the arrival of this community marvel.
And next week, head out to St. Vincent Island and bask in the beauty that nature has provided.
Then, praise yourself for your choice of homes.


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Determining Risk in Latent Tuberculosis
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01571739
Recruitment Status : Terminated
First Posted : April 5, 2012
Last Update Posted : December 5, 2018
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- Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death worldwide. Those who are exposed to the TB bacteria but have not become sick are said to have latent TB. Many people with latent TB will not get sick from it, but some people will develop active TB and become sick. Much is known about how to treat and diagnose active TB, but little is known about the best way to treat latent TB. Researchers also want to know more about the risk that latent TB will develop into active TB, and whether it is possible to test for this risk.
- To test possible methods of determining a person s risk for developing active TB.
- Individuals between 20 and 60 years of age who (1) have active TB, (2) were exposed to someone with active TB in the past 9 months, or (3) have not been exposed to TB.
- Participants will be separated into groups based on their exposure to TB.
- Healthy participants who were not exposed to TB will answer questions about their medical history. They will also provide blood and urine samples.
- Participants who have active TB will have a physical exam and medical history. They will provide blood, urine, and sputum samples, and will have a chest x-ray. They will be treated with the standard of care for active TB. Some participants with active TB may have additional tests as part of this study.
- Participants who were exposed to TB and have latent TB will have a physical exam and medical history. They will provide blood, urine, and sputum samples, and will have a chest x-ray. They will be asked to return for five more clinic visits over the next 12 months to repeat these tests. They may also have additional chest imaging studies depending on the study needs.
- Some of the exposed participants may have been exposed to drug-resistant TB. These participants will receive the drug isoniazid to take on a regular schedule to help prevent the latent TB from becoming active TB.
|Condition or disease
|Latent Tuberculosis
The efficacy of treating tuberculin skin test (TST) positive, or interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) positive, contacts of tuberculosis (TB) cases to prevent progression to disease is well established. However the length of treatment, and the toxicity associated with the currently used regimens, means that the risk may outweigh the benefit and treatment completion rates are poor. In addition, no proven regimens are available for contacts of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases. Because as few as 2% of contacts develop active TB over 1 year and no surrogate markers are available, drug trials to assess novel treatments typically require thousands of subjects followed up for many years. (18F)-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computer tomography (FDG-PET/CT) may prove a useful surrogate for more targeted chemoprophylaxis as well as a means to rapidly evaluate novel prophylactic regimes in future studies.
Up to 40% of immune-sensitized TB contacts with normal chest radiographs (CXR) have abnormalities on conventional chest CT. FDG-PET/CT not only will allow characterization of the metabolic activity of these lesions but is also likely to reveal significantly increased metabolic activity within regional lymph nodes that may otherwise be anatomically normal. Based on previous studies, we predict that up to 65% of contacts will have combined chest PET/CT abnormalities and that up to 50% of contacts who are treated, will have increased FDG uptake that will resolve with treatment. By contrast, PET screening studies demonstrate abnormal pulmonary FDG uptake occurs in 0.9% of healthy individuals.
The development of biomarkers more predictive of disease progression is also highly desirable, but for similar reasons evaluating them is challenging. This novel approach of using FDG-PET/CT to benchmark the dynamic immunological, transcriptional, or metabolic changes that occur early in tuberculosis infection, we hope will accelerate biomarker discovery. In this study we propose to evaluate these predictions in order to lay the foundation for future studies.
|Study Type :
|Actual Enrollment :
|18 participants
|Time Perspective:
|Official Title:
|Risk Stratification in Latent Tuberculosis: PET/CT Findings in TB Contacts
|Study Start Date :
|January 2, 2012
|Study Completion Date :
|May 20, 2014
- To estimate the rate of PET plus CXR at baseline among all study participants.
- To estimate the rate of PET+/CT- at baseline among all study participants.
- To estimate the rate of regression of PET plus scans (to normal) at 3 and 12 months among the untreated subjects (n=30).
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:
|20 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Either confirmed sputum smear positive and culture positive for M. tb within the last 12 months OR sputum smear positive and genotypically confirmed M.tb with culture awaited
- Age greater than or equal to 20 years old
20 Smear Positive Pulmonary TB Biomarker Index Case Controls:
- Genotypically confirmed sputum smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis
- Culture awaited or confirmed Mtb
- Not commenced anti-tuberculous therapy
- Age greater than or equal to 20 years old
- Age >60 years old
- Known diagnosis of chronic inflammatory condition (e.g. Sarcoid, RA, connective tissue disorder) or on immunosuppressive medication
1) Culture negative for M.tb
QF-GIT Positive Contacts:
- Contacts of index case
- QF-GIT positive
- Age greater than or equal to 20 years old
- Normal CXR
- Exposure to an index case who commenced treatment for a current episode of TB (one that was not successfully treated, per WHO definition) more than 15 months ago
- Previously diagnosed or treated TB
- Symptoms or signs of active TB
- Symptoms or signs of acute illness
- CXR suggestive of active tuberculosis or parenchymal abnormalities known or suspected to be caused by alternative pathology
- HIV positive or other significant immunocompromise
- Age >60
- Smoker >30 pack years
- Previously diagnosed malignancy
- Previously diagnosed chronic lung infection (e.g., non tuberculosis mycobacteria [NTM], Fungal, Paragonimus)
- Known diagnosis of chronic inflammatory condition associated with pulmonary pathology (e.g., Sarcoidosis, RA, Wegener s granulomatosis, bronchiectasis)
- Inhaled or systemic steroid use within previous 2 weeks (subject may return for enrollment 2 weeks after last dose) and need for ongoing steroid therapy
- Breast feeding, pregnant, or planning pregnancy
- Anticipated poor compliance
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): NCT01571739
|Korea, Republic of
|National Medical Center
|Seoul, Korea, Republic of
|Principal Investigator:
|Clifton E Barry, Ph.D.
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01571739 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|April 5, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|December 5, 2018
|Last Verified:
|May 20, 2014
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC):
Latent Tuberculosis
TB Lymphadenopathy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Latent Tuberculosis
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Mediocrity seems to be the trend/norm in almost every sector these days.
There are already many innovations that are years ahead of this discussion in the defense contractor 'sphere' of development, involving unmanned drones and attack craft.
Comparing the x-37B to the space shuttle is like comparing a model airplane to the real thing. It has nowhere near the same capabilities. While I do agree that its technology is a start in the right direction, There is perhaps more merit in revisiting an idea like the VentureStar:
In order to replace something, you must meet and surpass the capabilities of what you intend to replace. IMHO, We should keep flying the shuttles until an idea like this can happen as we really don't have a real replacement option.
SSTO (Single Stage to Orbit) would be a great evolution away from using wasteful expendable rockets, only burning fuel in the spacecraft's engines to reach orbit.
Thanks for Reading. :)
Indeed. This is one rep who has had to deal with the TSA even though they knew who he was.
They seriously should have "None of the above" in every election as a standard option.
No more happy ending.... :(
...and "Stuff costs more than it used to." I would add that his social security check is late, but in his case, just the check is late would get somebody sued.
Indeed. The maggotry is astounding! :)
However, never in any circumstance underestimate their ability for a complete and total relapse to any of the other above 3 stages. :)
Cute story.
I suspect that there are many 'souls' on the interweb that flunked English. :)
I'm still seeing updates for it go through for client computers on my networks. :)
"The technology sector," -is relative to the era. In those terms, start-ups keeping an idea secret before release is nothing new. The same goes for corporations. We have been doing it for over a century. As far as failure to keep an idea secret in today's world, look no farther than the internet and today's culture. Today, people as a whole are far too willing to blab about anything instead of choosing one's words carefully. "Stealth mode" is just the late4st buzz term to describe when everyone at a given company should keep one's yap trap -shut about their jobs. Look at the defense industry for example. Way back it was considered a patriotic good deed not to tell anyone what you were working on at your job. Whereas people over the last 30 years have been increasingly loosed lipped about secrets. Again, that is just an example.
Transparency has it advantages. Take Microsoft and its various "bread and butter" products like office and Windows 7. They have learned to be smart about it by making the world their testing department. The result, better software releases.
Another commenter mentioned: "but aren't patents supposed to encourage people not to be stealth by encouraging transparency?"
Transparency through patent in today's "Information age" (god I hate buzz words) is a given, when all a person has to do is search them by keyword on a website.
It wasn't as easy just 20 years ago, let alone 30 - 100 years past when such things were conducted through a lawyer, on a local visit to a patent office if you were lucky to have one, or through snail mail. The result in the past was much the same that it would take months or greater to get an answer on your patent. Again, its relative to the era. My point? The state of things were much less organized and decentralized than today, as was the whole apparatus itself was just plain inefficient. :)
To Mike: While I enjoy reading your articles, you tend to focus on patent and copyright far too much in my opinion. I do agree that perhaps you do so to point out the shenanigans and goings on. Maybe you should look around the tech industry for other stuff to write about?
Thanks for reading. :)
Agoratextphobia: The fear of strange people texting you.
Texteimers: would be difficulty remembering who to text, or who you texted, or who's texting you... :)
Turrext Syndrome would benot over overreacting to texts, but replying with random words of curse. :)
Textophobia: The fear of texting.
No, but I'm sure that early versions will scare the hell out of you, just the same. :)
Very - So TRUE! :)
Well, as long as these guys didn't sign a non-compete - Non disclosure agreements when they left Universal, I don't see how they think they can touch them. Those agreements usually only last six months to a year, and are largely treated as BS by courts anyway, since a person has to work in their profession to survive. :)
Very funny... :)
We call that one "Shatner Rock" in our house. :)
Wait for whatever the contracts that were signed by the "big wigs," to expire. I have lived through two corporate acquisitions. When that contract signed at purchase expires, things will change. They always do. They always come in with the "nothing will change" speech, saying "we want that uniqueness that is ." But the sad truth is that a VERY HIGH percentage of corporate acquisitions are made to remove the competition.
They will be assimilated! :)
Well said, I was thinking the same thing. Aren't they still one of the only industries that use the multi-angle features on DVD's?
PR0N definitely helps innovation. Now only if it would help innovate our ISP's to produce faster Internet connections....
"Delivering your pron, at the speed of light!" :)
Riiiight.... And that dumb ass politician will get caught using that service, perhaps in the latrine at the airport?? :)


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Jennifer Ehle, Kellie Overbey, Amy Irving, Felicity LaFortune, Richard Easton, David Manis, Ethan Hawke and Billy Crudup (L-R) are among the 70-character, star-filled cast of Tom Stoppard's epic trilogy, "The Coast of Utopia."
Stoppard's 'Utopia' opens with some soul searching
By Jerry Tallmer
Nikolai Gogol only appears in "The Coast of Utopia: Voyage" that is to say, gets mentioned in passing as a young writer who, coming along in the wake of the great but all too tragically dead-by-duel Alexander Pushkin, may someday give the benighted dark-ages 19th-century Russia something to be proud of.
Gogol's ironic masterpiece, "Dead Souls," had already seen publication (under a different, censorship-imposed title) in 1842, two years before the last scene of "Voyage." The word souls was Tsarist-era Orwell-speak for serfs, and the more souls you and/or your estate had, the richer and more comfortable you were. Without its souls slaves Imperial Russia would not exist.
What underlies every line and every scene of "Voyage" the first third of Tom Stoppard's astonishingly dramatic, intellectually gorgeous trilogy on the intellectual-philosophical run-up to what some 75 years later will be the Russian Revolution of 1917 are the 500 souls belonging to crusty old Alexander Bukanin, pater familias of the beautiful easygoing Bukanin countryside estate at Premukhino, 150 miles northwest of Moscow. We see these souls either as hooded nonentities or massed spectral figures behind a scrim throughout Jack O'Brien's no less astonishing staging of "Voyage" that opened Monday at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Who but Tom Stoppard, our own generation's heir to George Bernard Shaw plus Oscar Wilde, would tackle a subject that, in its trilogical span of 30 years, must bring to the stage 70 characters, most of whom except for (as here) Turgenev, Pushkin, and possibly Alexander Herzen are, to most of us, largely unfamiliar Russian philosophers, critics, editors, revolutionaries who, in their 20s and 30s, don't yet know they'll be revolutionists, including one or two who will be taken early by the White Death, tuberculosis, before we even get out of Part 1.
So here is Alexander Herzen, age 22 (he will reappear in depth in the later two plays, "Shipwreck" and "Salvage"), eating an ice cream at the skating rink at the Moscow Zoo:
"You remember those puzzle pictures when we were children. There'd be a drawing with things wrong with it, a clock with no hands, a shadow going the wrong way, the sun and stars out at the same time... and it would say: 'What's wrong with this picture?'… Someone sitting next to you in class disappears overnight, nobody knows anything. In the public gardens ice creams are eaten in all the usual flavors. What is wrong with this picture? The Kritski brothers disappeared for insulting the Tsar's portrait. Antonovich and his friends for forming a secret society, meaning they met in somebody's room to read a pamphlet you can buy on the street in Paris…There is something wrong with this picture."
A breakthrough magazine called The Telegraph is closed down for giving a bad review of a play by somebody named Kukolnik whose stuff is admired by the Royal Family. There is something wrong with this picture. (A later playwright, name of Stoppard, squares accounts by having a haughty, huffy woman say to the Telegraph editor: "You're going to look very silly, Mr. Polevoy, aren't you, in a hundred years, when 'The Hand of the Almighty Saved the Fatherland' is a classic and the name of Kukolnik is synonymous with Russian theatre.")
Herzen's clear-cut evocation of life under tsarist tyranny, tsarist terror a police state that would eventually dispatch him to six years hard labor in Siberia winged its way into me with such unhistrionic natural force that I never until later (much to his credit) figured out who was delivering it: Brian F. O'Byrne. You may have the same difficulty with many of the cast of 26 leading actors, though Ethan Hawke, as dashing, erratic, impetuous, always-dead-broke Michael Bakunin, eldest son at Premulkhino, Richard Easton as Michael's deeply disapproving old-world father, and Billy Crudup as the fiery literary critic Vissarion Belinski ("Russia has no literature!") drew, each in turn, appreciative bursts of applause at the performance I attended. And I forgive Mr. Crudup, after his nuanced yet firecracker delivery of one of Belinski's perorations, for having made a shambles, as I then thought, of Lincoln Center's production of Mr. Stoppard's "Arcadia" a decade ago.
"[I]t won't help us" [Belinski cries] when every time we say 'Russia' we have to grin and twitch like half-wits from the embarrassment 'Russia! Yes, I'm afraid so you've got it the backwoods, no history but barbarism, no law but autocracy, no glory but brute force, and all those contented serfs!' … [But when] the word Russia makes you think of great writers first and foremost, the job will be done you'll be able to walk down the street in London or Paris and when someone asks you where you're from, you can say: 'Russia, I'm from Russia, you poor bastard, so what do you think of that?' "
Old Bakunin, who never lets it be forgotten that he himself was in Paris at the time of the French Revolution, has this response to an earlier Belinski declamation: "If Mr. Belinski is a literary critic, so was Robespierre."
Poor Belinski, brilliant as he may be, is physically, socially, and emotionally as clumsy as a clown. Nor yet just Belinski but every character in "Voyage" is indeed emotionally clumsy, aching for love, unable to reach it off on voyages of their own, with Mr. Stoppard interweaving, in his fabric of hard thought, those threads, the personal, the romantic, the sexual, the aching for tender young women (see "Arcadia"), the aching by tender young women, as only he can do.
Nineteen-year-old Michael Bakunin implacable all-out anarchist of the future is at war with his father and mother (Amy Irving) who don't see why the kid has walked away from a cadetship in the Artillery. "The whole army's obsessed with playing at soldiers" is Michael's blithe dismissal of the question. And the canons make so much noise.
The ex-cadet is also making life miserable for his four sisters (actresses Jennifer Ehly, Martha Plimpton, Kellie Overbey, Annie Purcell), ruining their chances via disparaging sneers about this potential suitor or that one, being particularly nasty to an erstwhile comrade, the ultra-sensitive fledgling philosopher Nicholas Stankevich (David Harbour) who has the sweets for ill-married Varenka (Ms. Plimpton), sister No. 2. Michael himself is more than a little in love with his sister No. 3, 18-year-old Tatiana (Ms. Overbey).
It is as if the romanticism of George Sand were running wild through the veins of half the hopefuls in "Voyage," though a cynical pamphleteer named Peter Chaadaev (David Cromwell) has a more acrid viewpoint: "If I could bring Pushkin back to life by reducing George Sand to a fine powder and sprinkling it on his grave, I'd leave for Paris tonight with a coffee grinder in my luggage." It is this same Chaadaev who wants to know how did Russia become the Caliban the boorish, primitive troglodyte of Europe? Nobody knows.
All these young revolutionists are of course in the process of change, of going from the ideal to the practical, the pragmatic, from French flame to German soulfulness, from Fichte to Kant, or, as it may be, to Hegel philosophy is not the present playgoer's strong point.
Philosophy apart, it is Alexander Herzen a clear Stoppard favorite, and yours too, I venture, before this trilogy is out who recalls for Stankevich the time of the Decembrists, when he, Herzen, was a boy of 13, and all those anti-tsarist Decembrist plotters presaging the fate of Adolf Hitler's failed assassins were hanged on the Sparrow Hills in honor of the coronation of Tsar Nicholas I. "It was the hinge of my life," says the maturing Herzen, and it is the hinge of this remarkable almost three hours (seems less, except on the behind) drama.
It is also Herzen who, toward the end of "Voyage" with "Shipwreck" looming and "Salvage" to follow puts into three sentences (to Belinski) the resolution of all the warring truths and E.M. Forsterian halfway houses between the ideal and the real: "You've got Hegel's Dialectical Spirit of History upside down, and so has he. You don't storm the Bastille because history proceeds by zigzags. History zigzags because when people have had enough, they storm the Bastille."
I don't know if that's Herzen or Stoppard or both. But it's something to take home with you.
THE COAST OF UTOPIA: VOYAGE. By Tom Stoppard. Directed by Jack O'Brien. At the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center, 150 West 65th Street, (212) 239-6200.
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Searching for an affordable dining option for your outdoor area but want something cool looking? Your first thought might not be a picnic table (you don't necessarily want your outdoor oasis to resemble a country road rest stop area) but they've got a certain spunky type of potential we like exploring.
Affordable, it's true, picnic tables also fit a nice amount of folks for dinner parties and tend to handle the weather pretty well (even looking better and better as they age). If the idea of just a picnic table seems too basic, consider a few fresh ideas that might make you have more enthusiasm for this sometimes overlooked basic outdoor seating and dining furniture item.
Setting a picnic table with favorite tableware and flowers and greenery makes an awfully huge difference in transforming a simple, familiar wood form. But what about when you're not entertaining? A dramatically large set of plants and planters on top of a picnic table can be interesting and add some height to your outdoor area.
Using the picnic table as a spot to create a vignette of favorite outdoor items (perhaps even changing them season to season) can be a way to add character to this simple furniture form. And finally, don't forget paint: A fresh coat of bold color will instantly add relevance to a picnic table and if you're not sick of the trend yet, imagine how awesome chalkboard paint would look. And heavens...what if you painted an entire picnic table in a neon hue?!
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text: A new report identifies dwindling rates of homeownership, especially among African Americans and Hispanics. Demographic Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Housing Markets, a report by MacArthur grantee the Urban Institute, found that more adults are now living with their parents and that the children of Baby Boomers, especially hard hit by the recession, may be unprepared to purchase the homes that Boomers vacate upon reaching old age. The report was released at a regional forum hosted by the MacArthur-supported Bipartisan Policy Center Housing Commission in San Antonio.


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Hi Friends,
I am trying to work out what the 'RR' Parameter in the to_data function represents. Can anyone please explain.
I entered the following in sqlplus :
to_date(SYSDATE,'DD-MON-YYYY RR')
from dual
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ORA-01840: input value not long enough for date format
anybody know why?
What would be the correct syntax to display 'RR' as part of a date ?
What is it ?
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The Affordable Care Act was passed by the U.S. Congress (which was duly elected by the people), signed into to law by President Barack Obama (who was duly elected by the people) and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court as being constitutional.
The Affordable Care Act was passed by the U.S. Congress (which was duly elected by the people), signed into to law by President Barack Obama (who was duly elected by the people) and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court as being constitutional.
Rep. Bill Chumley's effort to challenge the federal law is profoundly misguided and just serves to demonstrate his arrogance, incompetence and complete ignorance about how government works. I am embarrassed to admit that he is my representative.
John V. Turner Jr.
As a first-time visitor to the U.S. last year, I spent many happy days in several Southern states, including South Carolina. I had a terrific two weeks in the Upstate, relishing your excellent quality of life and sporting facilities. I saw much evidence of community pride, passion and progress flourishing in Spartanburg.
I visited various colleges and experienced lively theater and great music. I enjoyed the facilities of the Chapman Cultural Center, including its art and history museums. I walked the Cottonwood Trail, and I explored the Walnut Grove Plantation and the city of Spartanburg. I picnicked at Milliken Park. And I marveled at the baseball skills displayed in a closely contested game between Dorman and a feisty Spartanburg High.
All the people I met were so friendly, hospitable and well-informed. And I believe I fell in love with the local accents.
Another high point was a visit to the Swim Center with its junior-size Olympic pool and gym. I spent about 40 minutes swimming laps and many minutes chatting with other pool users and the friendly Swim Center staff. It was a wonderful, memorable experience. This letter cannot begin to do justice to that excellent facility. It is truly a rare treasure, comparable to anything I have experienced in Europe.
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1. I attempted to spy another kingdom and failed (several times with increased spies). So is it logical to assume that I could easily fail at other types of scum attacks?
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3. Back to scum questions: Basically scum attacks are meant to prep a kingdom for near future land wins - is this correct? So maybe I need to do scum attacks so I can successfully spy?
4. I am on google chrome but whenever I go to this forum I lose track of the game. I am not very computer savvy but I do know that other online games I have played this problem did not exist. Whats up?


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