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AIDS Treatment News
Retroviruses Conference Overview:
While little was surprising or revolutionary at this year's
4th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
(January 22-26 in Washington D.C.), the work presented was
high quality and contributed solid advances in many fields.
This Conference is widely regarded as in many respects a very
successful one -- to the credit, of course, of the thousands
of researchers, who made more progress in 1996 than in any
previous year of the epidemic.
The meeting had its problems as well. Most people with HIV who wanted to attend were barred from this meeting (see article below). And some areas, such as nutrition, were largely absent. The rejected abstracts may be as important a story as any other from this meeting, but it is hard to learn about them because no list is available. This Conference reflected one particular group's vision of scientific quality and prestige.
Here are some of the central messages which we took away:
AIDS Treatment News will publish more detailed reports in separate articles on these and other results.
Retroviruses Conference:by John S. James
AIDS Treatment News will continue to summarize presentations
from the Retroviruses conference, but more detailed and
technical information can be found elsewhere, especially
through the Internet.
One of the best in-depth sources of information about the Conference is the Web reporting of Healthcare Communications Group, http://www.healthcg.com. Each night a team of leading AIDS physicians and treatment writers summarized major presentations from the day before, creating extensive reports which healthcare professionals can use for CME (continuing medical education) credit. The writing is aimed at physicians, and is often difficult for those without some background in AIDS treatments. This reporting was published despite strong opposition of the Conference organizers (the Steering Committee of the Scientific Program Committee).
For excellent reviews of treatment developments, at a less technical reading level, see the Project Inform site, http://www.projinf.org/RetrConf.
Other useful sites, all of which have different material, are:
The American Medical Association, http://www.ama- assn.org/special/hiv/retrocon.htm. This has links to the Healthcare Communications Group site and to the official Conference site (see below). It also has relevant news releases, and essays by experts.
The Body ("an AIDS and HIV resource"), http://www.thebody.com/retro197/retro197.html, includes reports on the Conference by Andrew Pavia, M.D., and Ramon (Gabriel) Torres, M.D. Also, it allows you to ask them questions electronically; the questions and answers are then posted for public access.
The International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care has a series of reports from the Conference which were written for its journal. Its site is at http://iapac.org/conferences/aidscan3/preliminary.html.
The National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project, http://www.aidsnyc.org/natap, has reports focusing on protease inhibitors.
The official site of the Retroviruses conference, www.retroconference.org, includes only about a third of the talks which were given. It does have many of the slides shown in those talks, the only place the slides are generally available. The talks themselves are in audio, not in text; one can select a slide and hear the part of the talk which goes with it. The published abstracts of the talks are also available on a different page of this site, with a search function to find all abstracts which contain a certain word (e.g. the name of a drug). Unfortunately, the address of the abstracts page has been changed from time to time, apparently to prevent other sites from linking directly to the abstracts (and bypassing the Conference's home page and survey); this means that a "bookmark" (for easily getting back directly to the abstracts later) may not be reliable; it is better to bookmark www.retroconference.org, and go through the introductory pages and survey each time. Also, one is likely to encounter technical problems before successfully using the audio and slides.
Immunet (http://www.immunet.org) is preparing a page to link to all of the sites reporting on the Retroviruses conference; it should be ready within a week.
Low Vitamin B-12 Bloodby John S. James
A study at Johns Hopkins University, in over 300 men in the
Baltimore MACS cohort (Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study), found
that those with an abnormally low level of vitamin B-12 in
their blood serum progressed to AIDS almost twice as fast as
those with a normal level. This result was first presented as
an abstract at the XI International Conference on AIDS at
Vancouver1 last July, and was published in detail in the
February 1997 issue of JOURNAL OF NUTRITION.2 It was not
submitted to the Retroviruses conference. This study was
funded by two grants from the U.S. National Institutes of
The study did NOT find evidence that additional vitamin B-12 serum levels (beyond that necessary to avoid a deficiency) were associated with additional benefit.
The analysis was done retrospectively, by analyzing stored serum samples after a followup period of about nine years. Therefore, it is impossible to know whether the low levels caused the faster disease progression, or occurred as a result of it; a randomized trial would be needed to be sure that correcting an abnormally low level will improve a patient's prognosis. But the researchers suspect that the low levels were causing disease progression, not vice versa, for various reasons -- including the fact that the relationship was found even in the healthiest patients at least three years before development of AIDS, who presumably would have been least likely to have low blood levels as a result of the disease.
In contrast to vitamin B-12, serum levels of vitamin B-6, or of folate, were not found to correlate with disease progression in this study.
The almost two-fold increase in progression to AIDS in those with low B-12 levels was found "after adjusting for HIV-1- related symptoms, CD4+ cell count, age, serum albumin, use of antiretroviral therapy before AIDS, serum folate concentration, and frequency of alcohol consumption . . . Therefore, serum vitamin B-12 concentrations seem to be an early and independent marker of HIV-1 disease progression."
Note: An earlier study by the same Johns Hopkins group,3 which found greater survival associated with vitamin B-6 and several other micronutrients, was different because it estimated nutrient intake based on food questionnaires. It did not measure blood levels. (See AIDS Treatment News issue #214, January 6, 1995).
GS 840 (Adefovir Dipivoxil):by John S. James
The Community Program for Clinical Research on AIDS of the
U.S. National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
is seeking over 2,000 volunteers for a phase III trial of GS
840 (also called adefovir dipivoxil, or bis-POM PMEA), a drug
being developed by Gilead Sciences of Foster City,
California. The trial, being run through the offices of
hundreds of physicians and clinics in 16 U.S. cities, will
test whether the drug, taken orally once a day, can increase
survival of persons with advanced HIV, and also whether it
can prevent the development of CMV disease. A similar trial
will be run in Europe and Australia.
Volunteers need to have a CD4 count less than or equal to 100, and be in reasonably good health ("not require considerable assistance and frequent medical care"). They can be using almost any medication, except for permanent or maintenance use of CMV treatments such as ganciclovir or foscarnet.
GS 840 is an oral prodrug of PMEA, meaning that it is changed into PMEA in the body. PMEA itself has long been studied as an antiviral, but is less practical as a drug because it must be given by injection. In this study, participants will continue their regular antiviral treatments, and add GS 840 (120 mg) or placebo once a day; the nutrient L-carnitine will also be given (to both the drug and placebo groups), at the request of the FDA, since GS 840 has been found to lower L- carnitine levels in the body.
GS 840 is known to be active against CMV, hepatitis B, HHV6 (human herpes virus 6), and Epstein-Barr virus. It has shown modest activity against HIV, with about a 0.6 log decrease in viral load. Resistance seems to be slow to develop, and the drug is active against many viruses which have become resistant to other drugs. Unlike most available HIV treatments, it is believed to be active against HIV in macrophages as well as lymphocytes.
The informed consent for this trial lists its five purposes:
Bis-POM PMEA has been studied in more than 200 HIV-infected subjects who had a CD4+ cell count of 100 or more. Most of these subjects were not taking other drugs to treat HIV infection and were able to tolerate taking bis-POM PMEA.
Because much is unknown about how this drug will interact with treatments the volunteers are already using, the first 400 persons in this trial will be entered into a special safety-and-virology cohort and receive intensive followup. Also, the first 400 must be CMV positive by a blood test; later volunteers can be either CMV positive or negative.
For more information about this study, including participating physicians and clinics in your area, call the AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service, 800-TRIALS-A, between the hours of 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday; ask for information about trials of GS 840 (or adefovir dipivoxil). Or call Gilead Sciences Medical Information, 800-GILEAD-5 (press 3), from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific time.
Opportunistic Infections:
A 134-page report on the current state of diagnosis,
treatment, prophylaxis, and research on more than a dozen of
the most common opportunistic infections was released January
1997 by the Treatment Action Group (TAG). It is edited by
Michael Marco and Mark Harrington of TAG, with an
introduction by William G. Powderly, M.D., principal
investigator of the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit at Washington
University Medical School in St. Louis. Both approved and
experimental treatments are covered.
The opportunistic infections addressed are:
Acyclovir-Resistant Herpes:
Certain patients with herpes lesions which do not respond to
acyclovir are eligible for expanded access to topical
cidofovir gel. Cidofovir -- formerly called HPMPC -- is
active against many viruses and is currently approved for
injection use in treating CMV retinitis in persons with AIDS
(under the name VISTIDE(R), or cidofovir for injection). In
January 1997 Gilead Sciences applied to the FDA for approval
to market a gel formulation, under the name FORVADE(TM), and
announced a pre-approval expanded access program for this
To be eligible for this program, patients must have mucocutaneous herpes simplex infection unresponsive to at least a ten-day course of treatment with acyclovir. They must be over 13 years of age, and must not concomitantly use drugs with anti-herpes activity, or use other topical medications for the lesion. There are some other inclusion/exclusion criteria.
For more information about this program, patients should have their physician call Gilead Sciences Medical Information, 800-GILEAD-5 (press 3), from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific time.
Protease Inhibitor Failures:
A Web site for both users and prescribers of protease
inhibitors has been set up to collect reports of failures of
these drugs.
"We are collecting stories from people who have failed protease inhibitors, or who have had unusual responses to the drugs. 'Unusual responses' would include the following:
"Users who wish to report serious side effects are also welcome to report their experiences, although this is not a focus of this project.
"For more information, contact Rick Loftus, 415/695-3818, firstname.lastname@example.com."
The Web address for this project is: http://www.netcom.com/~protease.
Non-Approved Liver Treatments:
AIDS Treatment News is collecting reports of first-hand
experience (positive or negative) of "alternative" (not
recognized by U.S. mainstream medicine) treatments for liver
problems -- such as glycyrrhizin (from the licorice plant),
silymarin (from milk thistle), alpha lipoic acid (also called
thioctic acid) and others. This information could be used to
help design a clinical trial to see if any of these popular
treatments have measurable benefit.
If you have information, contact Denny Smith, AIDS Treatment News, P.O. Box 411256, San Francisco, CA 94141, or fax to 415/255-4659, or email to firstname.lastname@example.com. Or call 800/TREAT-1-2, and leave the number and time best to reach you.
Retroviruses Conferenceby John S. James
At least 15 security guards, some flown in from San
Francisco, blocked about 15 people with HIV who came to the
Sheraton Washington Hotel in Washington, D.C., hoping to
replace last-minute no-shows and attend scientific and
treatment discussions at the 4th Conference on Retroviruses
and Opportunistic Infections (January 22-26). Guards also
threatened to expel or arrest persons distributing flyers to
Conference participants or the press asking that future
conferences be open to those with HIV -- or informing
activists of a post-conference meeting to discuss a national
strategy to address growing problems in expanded-access
programs. Conference organizers did provide open video feed
(without badge checks) from only one of often five
simultaneous sessions, as well as allowing access to the
poster hall when posters were available for viewing but not
being presented.
Apparently the security was hired to deal with several individuals who often disrupt AIDS meetings in San Francisco, where security at AIDS forums is now routine; the guards knew some of those people by name, and presumably were chosen because they knew their faces and tactics. But none of them showed up in Washington. No one came to disrupt the Retroviruses conference, so the expensive security only stopped people with HIV seeking medical and scientific information. (For background on the San Francisco disruptions, see AIDS Treatment News issue # 244, April 5, 1996.)
The official waiting list of researchers and physicians who also were denied attendance was approximately 500, but it is clear that many more people wanted to attend but were unable to. Some of the nation's leading AIDS research physicians -- as well as the Chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS -- were among those who tried to go but could not get in. Some applicants never heard back after they faxed their initial application -- and unless they called within about two days of the official opening date and learned that there was no record of their application, and that they had to send the paperwork again, it was usually too late.
One of the many press restrictions was that faxed newsletters reporting from the Conference with pharmaceutical-company support were prohibited. The International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care -- threatened with having its writers and staff banned from future conferences -- in the last week had to cancel its plans for daily reporting to its member physicians, at considerable cost to the organization. This affected many physicians, whose patients ask about treatments that are in the news; without daily medical reports from an ongoing conference, it can be hard to get in-depth information quickly.
The annual Retroviruses conference was started at the request of Federal agencies (the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), and has in fact become the U.S. national AIDS conference. As far as we can tell, all decisions regarding arrangements for this year's meeting were made by a four-person Steering Committee (which is within the Scientific Program Committee): Douglas Richman, M.D., chair; Constance Benson, M.D., vice chair; Chip Schooley, M.D., last year's chair; and Melissa Sordyl, M.B.A., executive director of the IDSA (Infectious Diseases Society of America). The rationale for limiting attendance was stated by Dr. Richman as the first words of the Conference:
"Before we start the program, I'd like to make a few remarks about the principles of this meeting. The Program Committee, in the design of this meeting, (wanted) to have a forum put together by basic and clinical investigators for basic and clinical investigators to present and exchange information, and with that objective in mind, the program committee confirmed -- by a very large proportion of the participants over the last three years -- (that they agreed) to keep it a meeting of this size and not expand it. . . The cost of that has been a (meeting) limited in size, and with some frustration, obviously, to some people, but there's always a trade-off between having a meeting of unlimited size with all of the circus-related activities that we've come to experience with some of the larger meetings, and something of this size. . . "
The four-person steering committee and others met privately on January 24, and is rumored to be inclined to enlarge the Conference by 1,000 to 1,500 additional people next year, although no official decision has been made.
At least four organizations or coalitions have started, or
are considering, legal action to prevent a repeat next year
of what happened at this Conference. Federal laws regarding
disabilities, and regulations on closed meetings and
dissemination of publicly-funded research, are being
Comment: Access to InformationMost activists involved with this Conference find it unbelievable that in 1997 people with HIV are fighting for access to scientific meetings, an issue which otherwise had been resolved years ago. The situation is widely seen as a serious threat to the partnership between persons affected and the research community -- a partnership firmly in place since 1990. AIDS treatment activists have made immense contributions to developing clinical trials that can recruit volunteers and otherwise work in the real world, greatly speeding drug development. They attend scientific meetings not only to get information, but also to raise questions, and to get researchers to interpret data in terms of what it means for people's care. If persons with HIV are not allowed to be full partners in the research effort, they cannot just walk away, because their lives are at risk. If partnership is denied, the relationship will shift from teamwork and support of research funding, to seeking information access through Federal rules, Congress, and the courts.
We believe that activists should avoid a negative focus on this particular meeting, by looking beyond it to the larger problems of medical information dissemination in an epidemic (including the Retroviruses conference). The system is not working. A current example concerns CPCRA 006, a study comparing daily vs. three times a week pneumocystis prophylaxis. This study, the largest controlled trial ever in AIDS, was surprisingly rejected from presentation as a "late breaker" at the Retroviruses conference. As a result, it was blacked out of all public and most private conversation at the Conference, where experts lectured on pneumocystis and its prophylaxis without mentioning the new information. Because of a U.S. Division of AIDS policy against releasing summaries before peer review, the results of CPCRA 006 might not be published until the ICAAC conference, September 28 - October 1 in Toronto. (Conferences such as ICAAC, or the Retroviruses meeting, are minimally peer reviewed in that presentations, submitted as abstracts, can be rejected. Journal peer review is usually more extensive, because the entire article is submitted and the reviewers can ask for changes, instead of only being able to accept or reject.)
Unfortunately it has become almost routine for information of medical and public-health importance, obtained with public funds, to be kept secret from the public and from most physicians. (Another major example is the International AIDS Society treatment standards, delayed for months before their release on July 10, 1996 when they were already largely obsolete.) This semi-secrecy, ostensibly to keep publication standards high and avoid misleading the public, really serves to increase the sales and prestige of scientific and medical journals by putting them at the center of national publicity when important news breaks; otherwise, there would be little objection to releasing the information during or after review, but before publication of record. Researchers cannot take the lead in correcting these abuses, because they fear retaliation when their own work is considered for publication.
But activists could blow the whistle. It is usually easy to confirm the existence of withheld information, given a detailed tip, even an anonymous one -- and usually dozens of people, sometimes hundreds, know enough to provide the tip. If there were a high-profile organization addressing this problem, anyone who knew about wrongful or questionable withholding of information important for public health would know whom they could write or call, at no risk to themselves. (For an example which already happened, note the recent press leak of the two-thirds drop in AIDS deaths in British Columbia during the last two and a half years; see "1997 Outlook," AIDS Treatment News #263, January 17, 1997. This information, important worldwide for treatment reimbursement and access to care, could otherwise have languished indefinitely awaiting publication -- although it is hard to see how peer review could much improve a simple report of a two-thirds drop in death rates.)
Another approach would be to investigate whether the current system of "information purgatory" -- major medical and scientific advances produced with public funds but withheld from the public for months -- provides unfair advantages to companies and investors with the right connections, creating a trade in private favors. Does this help to explain why a clearly dysfunctional system has been so resistant to change?
But the first steps should not be confrontational, but rather
to work with researchers, physicians, publishers, and others
concerned about medical care and effective information
dissemination, to devise a system which better serves the
public interest. A mechanism of rapid peer review followed by
Internet or online-journal publication (to avoid the weeks or
months of wait for physical page space) -- and which would
count as peer-reviewed "publication" in Medline and elsewhere
-- would be a major step forward. Meanwhile, activists can
support researchers who want to release their findings more
quickly, but are not in a position to advocate for a more
rational system.
For More InformationShortly before the Conference, a coalition of major AIDS organizations, including the AIDS Action Council, AIDS Project Los Angeles, AIDS Research Alliance, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Linda Grinberg Foundation, Project Inform, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, and Treatment and Data Committee, began a campaign to persuade the Conference organizers to move the meeting to a larger location next year. On January 22 they released a five-page press background statement focusing on the issues of physicians and researchers excluded. During the Conference, several press releases from several individuals and organizations addressed the importance of access to persons with HIV; and the Conference organizers replied with their press release. A consensus statement calling for a more open meeting is also being drafted, but is not finished as this issue goes to press.
Also see "Strange Bedfellows Damage CDC and NIH Credibility," a strongly worded editorial in the February 3 issue of AIDSWEEKLY PLUS, an AIDS newsletter published since 1985, which was denied access to report on the Retroviruses conference.
For an information packet -- or to connect with other people who want to work on these issues -- contact either: Gary Rose, AIDS Action Council, 202/986-1300 x3026 or fax 202/986- 1345; or the Linda Grinberg Foundation, 310/471-4108 or fax 310/471-4565.
Note: Before publishing this article, we faxed a draft to the Steering Committee, asking for their comments about any facts in dispute, or other changes they might suggest. The Committee replied that "there are several inaccuracies in your story, particularly related to access to information, security, policy decisions related to the Conference, fax newsletters, registration for the Conference, and distribution/publication of new information in late breaker abstracts not accepted for presentation." The reply did not specify which of our statements were considered inaccurate, nor did it suggest any corrections or changes that we could make to meet their approval. We may publish a longer statement from the Steering Committee in the future.


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Bioengineers have isolated the neurons that carry split-second decisions to act from the higher brain to the brain stem. In doing so, they have provided insight into the causes of severe brain disorders such as depression.
In organisms as complex as humans, the neural mechanisms that help answer the question, "Is it worth my effort?" can fail, leading to debilitating mental illnesses. Major depressive disorder, for instance, which affects nearly 20 percent of people at some point in life, is correlated with underperformance in the parts of the brain involved in motivation. But researchers have struggled to work out the exact cause and effect.
Clinicians refer to this slowing down of motivation in depressed patients as "psychomotor retardation." According to Deisseroth, who is also a practicing psychiatrist, patients may experience this symptom mentally, finding it hard to envision the positive results of an action, or, he said, they may feel physically heavy, like their limbs just do not want to move.
"This is one of the most debilitating aspects of depression, and motivation to take action is something that we can model in animals. That's the exciting opportunity for us as researchers," said Deisseroth, who also holds the D.H. Chen Professorship.
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Your Highness the Aga Khan
Dear Guests
Ladies and Gentlemen
We give Your Highness and the illustrious delegation accompanying you, our warmest welcome do this Pearl of the Indic. It is our pleasure, above all, to be able to directly reiterate our felicitations on the occasion of the celebration of Your Highness' Golden Jubilee as the 49th hereditary Imam of the Ismaili Muslim Community.
It is a great satisfaction to be united – not only to celebrate the work that has been constructed over half a century of spiritual leadership of this religious community, but also for the projects you are developing in many parts of the world. We extend our wishes for great successes in the pursuance of your role and, in making available more cooperation and support to the various populations of the world, including the Mozambican people.
In your role as Founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network, you have, with great perseverance and enthusiasm, contributed significantly towards the integrity of mankind and towards the integrated development of the countries in the world.
Amongst us, we have encouraging signs which intensify our certainty that the bases are launched, for a wider, diversified and long-lasting cooperation with the Aga Khan Development Network, whether considering the integrity of mankind or the integrated development of our Mozambique. Let us consider as an example:
• The rural and integrated development project of the coast in the Province of Cabo Delgado;
• The investments in the Polana Hotel, a touristic and architectural reference, and of great importance in Mozambique;
• The project of the Aga Khan Excellency Academy in Matola.
Part of these activities, which also include the areas of health, the development of national entrepreneurship and microfinances, currently benefit approximately 100 000 mozambicans.
Our people have access to these projects and its benefits, regardless of gender, religion and social status and, thus, the Aga Khan Development Network participates, in a sustained manner, in the battle against poverty in Mozambique, in the rural areas and in the city, from Rovuma to Maputo and from the Indic to Zumbo.
The dialogue we maintained this afternoon resulted in the identification of other areas which can be included in the co operation we are developing. Within this context, we underline our interest and commitment in seeing these areas identified and transformed into projects with results that will have a direct impact on the lives of our People.
We are sure that the implementation of the projects currently underway and with the materialisation of those which we identified today constitutes milestones of friendship and compassion amongst this Network and the Mozambicans. They are also a priceless contribution in the reduction of poverty and for the attainment of the Millennium Development Objectives.
It is convenient to recognize and highlight, that this compassion and friendship that the Aga Khan Development Network finds in Mozambique and within the heart of our People is born from a relationship many centuries old, during which the oriental traces and those of Islam were crystallised in our Beloved Motherland. With this exchange, our cultures have mutually grown and, from this relationship both have benefited as has benefited the rest of Mankind.
Your Highness,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Mozambique is characterised by Peace, stability and social and economic development. Last October the 4th, we celebrated fifteen years of peace and reconciliation in the breast of the Mozambican Family. One of the most marking moments of the celebration was the religious ceremony during which several religions jointly prayed for a Mozambique that continues do develop the principle that the only alternative to peace is Peace itself.
The stability in this Pearl of the Indic is further promoted by the environment of a multi party democracy, of dialogue, and of the inclusion which we cultivate in our everyday lives. It is equally sustained by the internal partnerships which we establish with several national players who, like us, have worked to transform Peace and stability into another important resource that has been put to work towards our social and economic development.
During these few days of your visit to our beloved Motherland, Your Highness will note that the new social and economical infrastructures are rising in our horizon as monuments that mark the victories we are attaining in our fight against poverty. More schools, more health posts and more fountains of drinkable water that are being introduced, along the height and width of our Mozambique, are having a considerable impact on the lives of our people. Likewise, more locations and Mozambican citizens are benefiting from:
• More reconstructed roads and new bridges;
• Mobile and fixed telephone network, and energy 24 hours a day;
• They benefit, yet, from more work posts that are being created by the public and private investment – both national and foreign. Recently, we inaugurated the project of Moma heavy sands which has had a visible impact, inclusively near the local communities.
Your Highness,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The presence of Your Highness the Aga Khan amongst us, is a particularly distinct moment to exchange our views regarding the internal situation of Mozambique, and of the impact of the Aga Khan Development Nework's projects. It is, simultaneously, an opportunity to reiterate our joint commitment to proceed with our share in the construction of a world that is characterized by the culture of peace, solidarity, and prosperity.
Hence, we invite all present to join us in a toast:
• For His Highness' health and happiness;
• To His Highness' Golden Jubilee;
• For the successes in the cooperation between Mozambique and the Aga Khan Development Network.
Thank you all for your attention.


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Blackberry BBM adds social music cloud
An interface that even riot youths can use has to be good
RIM is adding a music service option to its Blackberry phones.
What distinguishes this from just-another-cloud service – and there are dozens – is that RIM has its own social network, and the service will be deeply integrated into BBM. And BBM, as many people - not least underprivileged, rioting British youths who might struggle with any UI that was at all difficult to use - is the greatest user interface ever created for a communications device.
The service will offer unlimited playback, and subscribers will be able to keep a cache of 50 songs to carry around and advertise to their mates, swapping 25 a month in and out of the library. Users can grow their allocation by inviting more users. Playlists can be shared or built up from other playlists. The BBM view of the world, which is naturally timeline-based, will include friends' music activity. As you'd expect, songs can be stored for offline use.
RIM says the service, which is provided by Omnifone, will retail for $4.99 when it goes live later this year. Omnifone provides the infrastructure and licensing for Sony's Music Unlimited service. Songs can be shared but physically stay on the server. 7Digital provides the service for RIM's tablets.
Ask for a song
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The BBM network has 45 million users. RIM is developing phones based on its QNX OS that will run Android applications, Bloomberg reported this week. ®
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Sounds of history
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Before TV there was the radio. In the evenings, after dinner, everyone would pull up an easy chair around a radio in the living room and listen to the news of the day or the antics of the characters in their favourite radio serials.
Thanks to the internet and your audio players, you can take a trip back in time to revisit some of the sounds that made history.
Before you can hear sound clips on the various websites around the world, you will need one or more audio players.
There are many different audio file formats used on the web and not all players can play all of them, so you'll generally need two or three players. The main players are QuickTime, RealPlayer and Windows Media Player.
If you're using a Windows computer you will probably have Windows Media Player already installed. To find a download for the RealPlayer, visit www.real.com/realplayer.html for the free player. A free Windows version of the QuickTime player can be downloaded from Apple (www.apple.com/quicktime/download/win.html).
Once the players are installed you should be able to play just about any sound clip you find on the web. And there are plenty of them.
Historic broadcasts
To take a trip down memory lane, whether you remember these clips because you heard them in their original context or if you're just wondering what all the fuss was about, visit the History Channel's audio archives.
Here you'll find four pages of links to audio clips of speeches and interviews including those of Neil Armstrong as he took his first steps on the Moon, King Edward VIII's abdication speech, Thomas Edison on the development of electricity and even the inimitable Mae West talking about men, women and diamonds and speaking her famous line: "Come up and see me sometime. Anytime. The sooner the better."
There are also excerpts from the rousing WWII speeches of Winston Churchill at the BBC's history site.
Serial bytes
One of the radio serials that kids in the US listened to around the same time Churchill was making his speeches were the antics of Captain Midnight. At the Radio Days archives (www.otr.com/cm_archives.shtml) you'll find MP3 audio files of nearly 60 early episodes of the Captain Midnight radio show which ran from 1938 until it finally morphed into a TV series. Each episode kicks off with ads for the Captain Midnight New 1940 Flight Patrol that kids were encouraged to join.
There are excerpts from two popular Australian radio serials Blue Hills and Argonauts Brains Trust (in addition to the calling of the 1932 Melbourne Cup) at the ABC's site.
Classic voices
If the classics are more your interest, you can hear excerpts from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and From the Legend of Good Women read by professors in Middle English. They emphasise the pronunciation of the texts and, if this is confusing, there are also transcripts of what is being read so you can follow along at the same time.
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ROCKFORD — ArtsPlace, an arts apprenticeship for youth ages 14-18, will showcase its students' finished work at "Emerge," an art exhibit and performance to be held Aug. 7-10 at various Rockford venues.
The ArtsPlace theater team will present "Clik!" at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 7-8 at Riverfront Museum Park, 711 N. Main St.; and the visual arts team will present Artists at Work from 3 to 8 p.m. Aug. 8 at 317 Studio & Gallery, 317 Market St. Original works of art will be available for purchase at the gallery.
The dance and poetry team will present "Beginnings" at 7 p.m. Aug. 9 and at 3 p.m. Aug. 10 at Riverfront Museum Park. Admission: $5, adults; $8, VIP; $3, children 10 and younger.
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Jobs are the focus of this year's National Urban League Conference in Philadelphia. Guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with President and CEO Marc Morial, about how the League has progressed on that front, and asks about the biggest issues facing African-Americans today.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) - A St. Louis woman who staged a fight involving her 2-year-old daughter and a 3-year-old boy, then posted video of the crying toddlers on Facebook, has been placed on probation.
KSDK-TV (http://on.ksdk.com/VmaHXK ) reports that 22-year-old Latonya Davis must also attend parenting classes as part of a plea deal. She was sentenced Tuesday. She was charged in July after police said Davis directed her daughter and a boy she was babysitting to fight while she made the video.
Investigators said Davis could be heard laughing and encouraging the children to hit each other with their fists while they cried hysterically.
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SALINA, Kan. (AP) _ A Salina man has been convicted of first-degree murder in the death of a 27-year-old mother of five children.
A Saline County District Court jury on Tuesday also found Dane DeWeese guilty of conspiracy to commit murder for his role in the April 2013 death of Kristin Tyler.
Tyler's body was found in rural Salina about two weeks after her family and friends last had contact with her.
The Salina Journal reports the jury deliberated only about two hours before convicting DeWeese. He will be sentenced June 16.
Another man, Joel Heil, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in Tyler's death. He is scheduled to go on trial May 7.
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Phraya Singhanatracha Memorial
Situated at the foot of Doi Kong Mu, this monument commemorates the first governor of Mae Hong Son. Phraya Singhanatracha is a Thai Yai native from Burma (Myanmar). He was regarded by the people as the governor of Khun Yuam Town, which was to the south of Mae Hong Son. Later, he was officially installed as the governor of Mae Hong Son by the King of Lanna in 1874.
Wat Hua Wiang
Opposite Wat Phra Non, Wat Kam Ko is a Burmese-style temple built in 1890. A special architectural feature is the cover over the passageway from the entrance arch to the chapel. It also stores text in Thai Yai script chronicling the Thai Yai history.


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And then there's the WSJ article calling Cornell Law School "white hot" and it wasn't clear what the reason was.
Some Cornell Law School applicants were citing that Andy Bernard character on "The Office" — in the clip — so the school "decided — let's have a little fun with this." They put the "Office" character on the front page of their website in a slideshow along with various "distinguished" alumni.
And some alumni, distinguished, presumably, but a lack of a sense of humor, started blogging things like "Somebody at the Law School Needs to be Fired." Oh, now they've updated that post to specify that the problem is that Andy Bernard isn't a positive character. He's "like the uncle in your family that nobody quite likes" and "you don't bring him up unless asked." And what are we to think about someone who demands that somebody get fired because he pushed the comedy envelope a little? If I had an uncle who did that I wouldn't quite like him.
An ear for humor is an excellent attribute for a prospective law student. When you read legal arguments, one thing you do is ask: Does this pass the laugh test? Understanding humor is a legal skill, people. Use it. And value your colleagues who have it.
So I think the new popularity of Cornell Law School might be that there are a lot of smart young people who think it will be cool to be able, some day, to say: "I went to Cornell.... Ever heard of it?" And I hope when they get into court, they run rings around the stuffed shirts who can't understand why you'd want to identify with a fictional fool.
Disclaimer: My son went to Cornell.
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By Michael Aneiro
Treasuries are tanking after the minutes of the Fed's latest policy meeting were inadvertently released early on Wednesday and showed "all but a few" Fed officials are in agreement that they wanted to maintain the Fed's bond-buying program "at least through midyear," but beyond that officials are in disagreement about how to proceed, and several see it ending by year-end. That stands counter to recent statements by Fed officials indicating these programs would likely continue through year-end or beyond.
The 10-year note is down 10/32 early Wednesday, lifting its yield to 1.784%, per Tradeweb data, and the 30-year bond is down 31/32 to lift its yield to 2.981%.
Bear in mind: This meeting took place before the release of the latest employment figures last week, which showed hiring unexpectedly slowing to a trickle in March. So at the time of the meeting the Fed was looking at a stream of increasingly positive economic data. I'd doubt Fed officials are still in as much of a rush to end QE at this point.


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DVDs Including "London 2012 Olympic Highlights," "Gymnastics: Going for the Gold," "Swimming: Going for the Gold," and the High Definition Commemorative Blu-ray Set of All Three Programs Available for Pre-Order at www.nbcolympicsstore.com
Universal City, Calif., July 31, 2012 - The NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group will release multiple DVDs of the London 2012 Olympic Games and a collector's edition Blu-ray set, available from www.nbcolympicsstore.com. The DVDs include "London 2012 Olympic Highlights," "Gymnastics: Going for the Gold" and "Swimming: Going for the Gold." "London 2012 Olympic Highlights" is a spectacular retrospective of the moments from the Games of the XXX Olympiad, featuring a captivating, extensive look at the various competitions, gold medal finals and London's Opening and Closing Ceremonies. The gymnastics program will showcase all of the drama and excitement from the individual and team competitions for both men and women, and the swimming program will bring viewers closer to the pool than ever before to re-live the greatest moments of the thrilling swimming competitions. This year, all three programs will be combined into a breathtaking high definition commemorative 2-Disc Blu-ray Collector's Set for the first time ever.
The NBC Olympics Store currently has all four items available for pre-order at www.nbcolympicsstore.com, along with this year's wide variety of Olympics collectibles, pins, souvenirs and NBC exclusive products. The first ten-thousand customers to place their order for any of the three DVD titles or the Blu-ray Collector's Set will also receive an Official Collectable NBC London 2012 Logo Pin, while supplies last. All will ship beginning September 25.
Ten Mayflower Productions will produce the footage of the London 2012 Olympic Games in association with NBC Olympics, and has partnered with Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment to provide home entertainment retail and digital distribution for NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, during its production of the London 2012 Olympic Games. "With the breadth of distribution across both physical and digital platforms, along with the strong retail relationships Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment brings to this relationship, we are thrilled about the opportunity to work with them on the Olympic releases," said Brad Turkel, Owner of Ten Mayflower Productions.
"We are very proud to join in a new partnership with Ten Mayflower Productions and look forward to bringing the high-quality productions of Olympic coverage to fans through our extensive physical and digital distribution network," stated Bill Sondheim, President of Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment.
"With NBCUniversal as the as the U.S. media partner of the Olympic Games, we are thrilled to offer these special highlights of the London 2012 Olympic Games to fans and collectors at home," said Shelli Hill, Vice President, DVD, Music and eCommerce for NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products. "To have all three programs available in one commemorative, high definition piece this year will make for a beautiful way to relive the excitement of the London Olympic Games for years to come."
About NBC Olympics
A division of the NBC Sports Group, NBC Olympics is responsible for producing, programming and promoting NBCUniversal's Olympic coverage. It is renowned for its unsurpassed Olympic heritage, award-winning production, and ability to aggregate the largest audiences in U.S. television history.
Having produced every Summer Olympics since Seoul in 1988 and every Winter Olympics since Salt Lake City in 2002, the networks of NBCUniversal are synonymous with the Games in the United States. In 2011, NBCUniversal acquired the U.S. media rights on all platforms to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics, the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and the 2020 Summer Olympics. At the conclusion of the 2020 Games, NBCUniversal will have presented 17 total Olympic Games and 11 consecutive, the most for a U.S. media company in both categories.
NBC has won an unprecedented 91 Emmy Awards for its Olympics coverage, as well as a prestigious Peabody Award for its presentation of the Beijing Opening Ceremony in 2008, which USA Today said was "the best overall Olympic experience ever provided by a U.S. network."
In addition to its unsurpassed heritage and award-winning production, NBCUniversal is known for aggregating large Olympic audiences, as nine of the top 11 most-watched U.S. television events of all time are Olympic Games presented across the networks of NBCUniversal. The Beijing Summer Olympics rank No. 1 with 215 million viewers.
About NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group
NBCUniversal is a leader in providing entertainment programming to the domestic and international marketplaces. NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products Group manages all global ancillary television business endeavors for the NBCUniversal Television Group, including third-party home entertainment distribution, consumer products, musical soundtracks, special markets projects and the NBCUniversal Online Store. For the latest product updates and an overview of the properties managed by the group, visit the NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products portal at http://nbcuconsumerproducts.com.
About Ten Mayflower Productions
Ten Mayflower Productions, Inc. has been a leading producer and distributor of special interest content for multiple media platforms over the past 15 years. In partnership with organizations such as NBC, IMG, United States Golf Association, United States Figure Skating Association, and Altitude Sports & Entertainment among others, Ten Mayflower has created a variety of sports, entertainment and children's programming.
About Gaiam Vivendi
Gaiam Vivendi, Inc. (Nasdaq: GAIA) is a leading producer, distributor and marketer of entertainment and lifestyle media. With a diversified distribution network that spans more than 60,000 retail doors as well as an extensive digital platform, the company dominates the health and fitness category and ranks among the top five providers of non-theatrical programming. With content focused on film, fitness, sports and family programming, Gaiam Vivendi provides sales, marketing and distribution services to many of the home entertainment industry's most prestigious brands, including World Wrestling Entertainment, NFL Films, Ten Mayflower, Jillian Michaels, Televisa, Shout Factory, Marvel Animation, National Geographic and Discovery Communications.


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The cart is a move to annex property north of I-71 into the city limits, and the horse is completion of a utility bore under the interstate that would pave the way for sewer access to businesses that could be annexed.
Mike Frazier, one of several property owners, indicated that putting the cart before the horse could affect how the owners vote.
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Gov. Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Legislature have led the way in 2011 in improving their state's business climate by enacting a major civil justice reform package, but other states are aggressively following the same pro-jobs, pro-investment path. Sherman "Tiger" Joyce of the American Tort Reform Association reports promising developments in major states around the country in a piece in Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, "Prospects for Tort Reform Strong in Many States."
Despite the shellacking its candidates took in last November's elections, the nation's always-formidable lawsuit industry remains optimistic about advancing its liability-expanding agenda here in Washington. What the new House majority may prevent plaintiffs bar lobbyists from achieving legislatively, they expect to achieve administratively through the regulatory agencies of the executive branch. Read More


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Girl Scouts of Central & Western Massachusetts and Southwick's Zoo in Mendon is hosting a Sundown Safari for Cadette, Senior, & Ambassador Scouts on Saturday night from 6 to 8. Juliette Scouts in grades 6-12 may also register. This event is for Troops and individual Scouts. Troops must adhere to safety-wise rules. Individual Scouts must attend with an adult.
PROGRAM: Zoo staff will guide Scouts through an after-hours adventure. Go behind the scenes with an exciting tour that brings you up close and personal with many exotic species. Scouts will learn about the history of the zoo, captive versus wild environments, exhibit design, adaptations, animal behaviors, enrichment and healthy diets. Some of the animals that we'll focus on are: tortoises, giraffes, parrots, kangaroos, monkeys, chimps, white rhinos and large cats. Bring your flashlights!
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures dropped Wednesday, with strength in the U.S. dollar and a bigger-than-expected climb in last week's U.S. crude inventories sending prices back below $85 a barrel. December crude oil CLZ2, +0.62% fell $4.27, or 4.8%, to settle at $84.44 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices settled at their lowest since July 10, according to FactSet. The market saw strong increases in U.S. supplies of crude and gasoline, said James Williams, an energy economist at WTRG Economics. "Consumption of gasoline is down by over half a million barrels a day due to [superstorm] Sandy. Nothing [President Barack] Obama does will impact crude in the short term."
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The line given was "I support justified war". Since all war is "justified" by some rationalization on one side or the other, we can toss out "justified" so the line becomes "I support war".. sounds pretty pro-war to me. It wasn't "I support defending our nation" or "we are obligated to defend those without the means to defend themselves" after all.
Besides, can you point to a "justified war" in recent history? Something that didn't boil down to invading a nation to obtain control of it's natural resources?
(edit) I meant also to include - Even if there is "justified" warfare; is the acceptance speech for a peace prize the appropriate place for such comments?
But, I also don't include "the war on" various crime themes as real war. In those cases, the word is simply a marketing spin term to sell a political campaign. (policies proving to be complete failures only increasing the target problem no less)
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October 9, 2007 > Get the most from your pension
If you're among the nearly 44 million Americans eligible for an employer-provided pension plan, consider yourself lucky: Since 1980, such plans have decreased by nearly 80 percent. And, while more companies now offer 401(k) or other plans, where employees themselves fund some or all of the savings, about half of Americans have no employer-sponsored retirement plan at all.Probably the best retirement savings advice I'd offer is, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." Between disappearing pension plans, Social Security's uncertain future and historically low personal savings rates, your smartest move is to save as much as you can, beginning as soon as possible, and using whatever means available - whether it's an employer plan, a traditional or Roth IRA, or regular after-tax savings.If you do have pension benefits through your current or past employers, here are a few considerations:With traditional pensions, also called defined benefit plans, your employer sets aside and manages money on your behalf and then guarantees you a specific benefit amount upon retirement. Your pension amount likely depends on years of service, age at retirement and your earnings at that job.Your pension plan administrator should provide a summary plan description (SPD) that explains key information such as vesting requirements, pension calculation formulas, payment options and more. Carefully review it and if you don't understand something, ask.The administrator should also send you an annual statement with updated benefit estimates. Check it for accuracy, especially the income level used to calculate your benefit. Also, let them know about any life changes that may affect your benefit, including marriage, divorce, death of spouse, etc.Review your plan documents to make sure you understand the definitions of normal retirement age (commonly 65), early retirement, deferred retirement (working past normal retirement age), spousal death benefits (if you should die) and what happens if you leave the company before retirement age.Make sure you understand the different payment options available to you. Because so much hinges on choosing the right benefit payment option, you may want to confer with a financial advisor to determine which is best for your situation. Common payment options include:Single life annuity: You receive a fixed monthly benefit until you die; then no further payments are made to your survivors. Commonly, if you're married, your spouse must agree in writing to this option. Qualified joint and survivor annuity: You receive a fixed monthly benefit until death; then your surviving spouse receives a benefit (amounts vary among plans) until his or her death. Lump sum: Some plans allow you to receive the entire value of your benefit at retirement, with no further payments. Then, it's up to you to invest the money. Again, consult a financial advisor before choosing this option. If you've held numerous jobs throughout your career, keep track of any pensions for which you may be eligible. If you've lost track of the company or it has gone out of business, contact the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), the federal government corporation that protects and guarantees pension plans, for assistance (www.pbgc.gov).Other good sources of information on pensions and retirement planning are AARP (www.aarp.org) and Practical Money Skills for Life, a free personal financial management site sponsored by Visa USA (www.practicalmoneyskills.com/retirement.)Bottom line: It's your retirement future - you need to actively manage how you're going to pay for it.Jason Alderman directs Visa USA's financial education programs.


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Pensacola jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the first and it has been nothing but goose eggs ever since. Tim Crabbe 5IP 4H 1ER 2BB 3K.
Pensacola jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the first and it has been nothing but goose eggs ever since. Tim Crabbe 5IP 4H 1ER 2BB 3K.
Dayton brought the late lumber by scoring 5 in the bottom of the 7th inning, winning 8-3. Dragons pounded out 13 hits. Perez and Arias had 3 apiece. While Waldrop and Gonzalez each chipped in with 2 hits. Daniel Tuttle pitched six effective innings. Dan Jensen notched the win with two scoreless frames. He has an ERA of 0.00 after 13 innings. In a sports oddity even with an ERA of 0.00 he has lost two games.
Lutz homered in the first for Bakersfield, with Lohman and Yorman aboard. Sharky Rogers will take a 3-0 to the slab.
Andrew Means is back. He tripled in his first at-bat of the season and scored on a single by Barnhart. 4-0 Blaze in the second.
Cody Puckett's third single of the night plated two of Pensacola's three runs in the ninth, and the Wahoos lead 9-3 going into the bottom. Drew Hayes straightened himself out with two spotless innings (3 K).
Didi Gregorius: 26 hits, 26 singles, .403 average.
Serrano gives up a ninth-inning HR. Pensacola 10-4, over and out.
Gregorius also added 2 walks. You have to wish he would flash a little bit of power, but a .403 average is nothing to scoff at. He's looking like a big-time prospect already, with the way he's hit and the raves he's gotten from the organization about his defense. His floor is looking like Janish, with his ceiling Elvis Andrus.
Pensacola seems to be playing much better than their 9-10 record would indicate. Most of the guys are performing very well with the exceptions of Parch and Hayes... Without their blowups, this team could probably be near the top of the division by now.
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BTW, Elvis Andrus probably isn't the best comp (went with a first glance of current shortstops), given that Gregorius doesn't steal much. Replace the steals with a higher OBP and a little power, and you have a good idea of what I mean.
Doug, who would you give as the best comp?
I am not a big fan of comps. They often are full of misinformation. Some player comps are based on how the guy looks/swings, but they aren't projected for similar results. Other guys are making comps for a statistical base and I am more comfortable with that, but I really don't know who I would compare him too because I could see a fairly wide range of outcomes at this point still.
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pics of my new $100 soob
Posted 04 April 2005 - 06:31 PM
well heres the pics
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Posted 05 April 2005 - 06:32 AM
BTW anyone gotta ea71 disty they wanna get rid of? lol
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Posted 05 April 2005 - 09:23 AM
nah i wouldnt bring this 1, its just my around town beater and my tow vehicle, ide take my wagon in the far background of the last pic if i could come.
BTW anyone gotta ea71 disty they wanna get rid of? lol
you can use a ea81 disty as well...
Posted 05 April 2005 - 11:20 AM
By the way lmdew, thanks big time. Got it working this morning, I was 1 tooth off like I thought.
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morgan yeah gotta love them and actually other than most of the interior being rough other than the seats, and the dash, the only body damage on it really is on the pass side as you see and a little denting on the hood, the drivers side is pretty much all straight, thing even has a bumper mount tow hitch on it.
lefty i might try imming him a little later on today as i gotta get off here as soon as im done this message for now.
tscinmd i gotta call a guy back in a few and find out about if he has a disty and if he doesnt want a rediculious amount for it ,if that doesnt work out, ill def get in touch with you , because i really need to get this going in a cpl weeks at most since im fixing to move
Posted 06 April 2005 - 05:35 AM
its runs great, i do have a couple of things im gonna have to do to it though, the clutch catches way to low and the gas pedal seems to do the same, but other than that it seems to do just fine, glad i didnt waste $100!!! lol
Posted 06 April 2005 - 06:53 AM
you wagon in the back ground in last pic,is it a gl? looks like the one i use to own(as much as i can see)same color an the roof rack an lil wing on the rear
Posted 06 April 2005 - 07:36 AM
try looking in the seabrook area there at least used to be a butload of them there when i was last up there a few years ago. ill be moving back up there next spring so we gotta meet up sometime. we were living in portsmouth nh before we moved to this hole in the wall about 7 yrs ago, and my dad is still up there in epping.
Posted 06 April 2005 - 05:35 PM
makes me think i gotta do some fine tuning to my wagon since this little ea71 has way more power than the ea82 in my wagon
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The Dolphins are hoping right tackle Vernon Carey and wide receiver Brian Hartline can play against the Jets. Sorry, fellas, but hope doesn't often cure a sprained knee and a broken hand/finger.
Therefore the team would do well to make other plans -- just in case.
And it is.
"We have plenty of backup plans," coach Tony Sparano said today, "and we're sitting here on Thursday and [neither] practiced so those plans are in motion."
Hartline is the less likely of the two players to participate in Sunday's game against the Jets. The backup plan with him is for everyone to yell, in unison, "Braaaaandon, please come out and play!"
That's right. Brandon Marshall, who has missed the past two weeks with a strained hamstring, has been limited once again this week in practice. But at least he's practicing. So the Dolphins are hoping he'll be available for the Jets.
That means Marshall and Davone Bess would start while Roberto Wallace and Marlon Moore back up and enter in multiple receiver packages. Moore, by the way, has to step up his game off last week. He dropped a pass and ultimately went without a catch against Cleveland -- a step back from the Oakland game.
While Hartline seems less likely to play than Carey, the situation is more serious at the right tackle spot behind Carey because the "plans in motion," pretty much stink, frankly.
Without Carey at right tackle, the Dolphins may resort to Pat McQuistan, John Jerry, Lydon Murtha, or gulp, rookie Matt Kopa at the spot. Maybe the team can convince Ron Heller to come out of retirement for a couple of hours and he can play the spot.
None of this instills confidence because the Dolphins are hoping to fire up an otherwise extinguished running game, and mixing and matching offensive linemen is not the way to do that. If' I'm the Jets, by the way, I'm expecting a lot of running plays to the left.
On the other hand, the Dolphins could resort to throwing the football and hoping quarterback Chad Henne can get the ball off before Jason Taylor or Calvin Pace smashes him in the face after beating whomever is playing right tackle.
Actually, it's not that bad. The Jets are not a great pass-rush team. But the situation I've just painted should show how much the Nate Garner injury really hurt Miami this year.


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EMC is signing up distributors to build converged storage, server and networking infrastructures based on its VSPEX reference architecture.
Ingram Micro, Tech Data and Arrow are among the distributors being certified by EMC to configure and assemble converged infrastructures using EMC's VSPEX reference architecture, which is a set of blueprints provided by the vendor that specifies how to connect EMC storage with servers and networking products from other vendors.
The distributor-configured solutions will be based on such EMC storage technology as its VNX and VNXe SMB storage lines and its Avamar and Data Domain deduplication technologies, said Daniel Coetsier, vice president of global services for channel and partners for the vendor.
[Related: EMC Lenovo Deal Raises Questions For EMC-Cisco VCE Partnership]
While solution providers can configure and assemble converged infrastructures based on EMC's VSPEX reference architecture, Coetsier said he expects they would see the benefits of having that assembly done by distributors.
"I suspect it will be more efficient for them to work with the distributors," he said. "VARs must decide if they want to do lower-end assembly services or focus on their own services."
Chuck Bartlett, vice president and general manager for Tech Data's Advanced Infrastructure Solutions division, said having the VSPEX solutions assembled by his company will help boost solution provider efficiency.
"In many cases, resellers have to turn their customer sites into an assembly facility," Bartlett said. "Depending on availability, part of the order gets there one day, and part on another day, unless there is a request to ship complete. We have two 25,000-square-foot facilities, one in New Jersey and one in California, to do this."
Bartlett declined to state how much Tech Data would charge to do the configuration and assembly, but he said it would cost less than if solution providers handled the task themselves.
"EMC's program allows partners to leverage the configuration and assembly capabilities of Tech Data while freeing up their people to look for new opportunities," he said.
Tech Data is providing configuration and assembly help on VSPEX solutions featuring Cisco UCS servers and Nexus networking products, as well as on solutions with IBM servers and Brocade networking, Bartlett said. Configurations featuring Hewlett-Packard servers and networking will be less likely to be ordered because HP provides complete converged infrastructure solutions, he said.
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Fleta Mae Waldrop
Funeral services for Fleta Mae Waldrop, age 93 of Seminole, Texas will be held Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church with Pastor Matt Edwards officiating. Burial will follow at Gaines County Memorial Cemetery (north). All services are under the direction of Boyer Funeral Home.Mrs. Waldrop passed away Saturday, June 18, 2011, at Memorial Health Care Center in Seminole, Texas following a lengthy illness. She was born June 10, 1918 in Enid, Oklahoma to Benjamin Freeman and Ether Ethyl (Johnson). She married Levi T. Waldrop on August 15, 1936 in Carlsbad, New Mexico.Mrs. Waldrop was a Baptist. She enjoyed writing poetry and reading. Mrs. Waldrop made Easter clothes for her girls every year and made quilts for every family member. She was a very humorous lady.Fleta Mae Waldrop is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Levi in 1998; two sisters; three half brothers; and one half sister.She is survived by one son, Fred Waldrop and wife Lucia of Sweetwater, Texas; three daughters, Regina Garrett and husband Ray of Seminole, Texas, Carolyn Jones and husband Larry of Wortham, Texas and LaDonna Flora and husband Andrew of Seminole, Texas; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.


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MARPLE — A Chester man was killed in a predawn crash on the Blue Route Tuesday when his SUV struck a guardrail and rolled across the median into oncoming traffic.
Pennsylvania State Police said Brian L. Bagley, 34, was ejected from his Chevy Trailblazer as it rolled toward the northbound lanes near mile marker 8.1 at 5:28 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene by an investigator from the Delaware County Medical Examiner's office.
In a press release, Trooper James Lark said Bagley was traveling south in the right lane before his SUV struck the center guardrail and rolled over "multiple times." The vehicle came to rest on its roof in the northbound lanes.
Bagley, who was not wearing a seat belt, landed on the shoulder of the roadway.
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To the editor:
The recent tragic event in Connecticut has caused a national outcry to address gun control. It plays well to those who have a passion to eliminate or seriously control the Constitutional right of the people to keep and bear Arms. Some say that this Amendment is vague and out of date; others are overacting and just buying into the media. On the other side there are those who fear that once we start with limited control of certain guns it will result in the continuing elimination with the government gaining more serious power.
Lost in this passionate outcry is, in my view, the most serious cause of this unbelievable carnage of killing. I would guess most citizens have little idea of the violent video games which is all about killing, the rap music with hidden messages of sex and violence including killing, and the movie industry producing violent use of guns, sex and killing. The money producing this violence is directed to the youth and it pays because to them, it's cool and sells. Isn't the result acting out the product of violence? The bad guys become the hero.
We have come a long way from when the movie industry had little nudity, women had to have one foot on the floor sitting on a bed, and Jack Parr got in a lot of trouble using the word "water closet" which meant toilet. Can we say reality has gone too far? Foul mouth, lack of respect and responsibility is the result of modern culture. What's wrong with being nice, doing nice things and being respectful of those of all ages?
Gee, am I missing the point, or am I missing the way it used to be going to the movies and feeling good and feeling safe no matter when I went? Life should be simple and fun.
Tom McNulty
Cape Cora


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I bought two magazines with MEPIS 3 on....Linux Format APRIL 2005 and APC (Australian Personal Computer) MAY 2005 ...............extracted the ISO's and tried to boot from them....................both come up with an intact intro screen to make choices for the type of installation. However, the screen suddenly goes fuzzy, as though the software is addressing wrong screen resolution and I end up with four screens on the one.......each with their set of identical icons, including mouse pointer, entry fields etc...........
How do I get the software to address the correct screen resolution?
In addition, when I get to the login screen (replete with all four presentations across the screen) it requires a username and password...........I haven't assigned one.............cannot find a readme file on the boot disk so cannot determine if a password or username is provided.
Is anyone able to help please? If so, as well as posting to the forum would you send me a direct answer on email@example.com please? Many thanks
The Mad Psych


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"Imagine a 102° dry room. Then imagine practicing intense yoga in there for 60 to 75 minutes. Then repeat that for 150 days. Welcome to the last several months of my life.
The first time I went to class, I simply wanted check out the new Moksha Yoga London West studio in London, Ontario. The next day a friend wanted to check it out, so I went again. The next day, another friend. And then it was just me--and I figured, why not just keep going?
While I do realize that one is supposed to be thought-free while practicing yoga--moksha, after all, is Sanskrit for release--as a business owner and writer, I couldn't help but notice how my commitment to hot yoga impacted my day-to-day life and my business."
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It should work on portobello mushrooms and also on tofu. I marinate both and then either grill or sauté them. Should be yummy.ETA: Not a vegetarian though
I wouldn't soak a portobello for more than 30 minutes. You're right about the potential squishiness.
Update: Wow! That was delicious!!! I need to do those as filling in a veggy burger.
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Risotto Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
Portobello mushroom caps are stuffed with a creamy risotto and topped with cheese. The wine infused risotto is a delectable filling for the meaty mushroooms.
1 1⁄2 cups carrot, diced
2 tbsp. garlic, minced
1 tbsp. butter
2 cups arborio rice
2 cups dry white wine
1 qt. chicken stock, hot
1 cup red bell pepper, diced
1 1⁄2 cups California ripe olives, wedged
1 cup scallion, chopped
1⁄2 cup prosciutto, diced
24 portobello mushrooms, stems removed
1 cup asiago cheese, shredded
1. In a saucepan, sauté carrots and garlic in butter 3-5 min. Add rice and sauté 3 min. Add 1 cup wine; stir over low heat until wine is absorbed. Repeat with remaining wine.
2. Stir in chicken stock, 1⁄2 cup at a time, until stock is absorbed. Stir in red pepper.
3. Stir in hot water, 1⁄4 cup at a time, until rice is al dente. Add olives, scallion and prosciutto; cook 1 min.
4. Arrange mushroom caps on a baking sheet. Fill with risotto and sprinkle with cheese. Bake at 400° F. for 15 min.


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|Use raw sunflower cheese as a dip or sandwich it between cucumber slices
All my life, I have been extremely healthy. But last September, after enduring a previous year rife with all kinds of unmentionable, health-related unpleasantness, I learned that my petite frame was toting around an ovarian cyst and a grapefruit-sized fibroid. Coincidentally [not!], my medical problems began around the time my marriage was breaking up. Too much stress is just as unhealthy as too much junk food, and during this tense, sad chapter of my life, I comforted myself with – you got it – more coffee, wine and sugar-laden treats than usual.
Most people assume a vegan diet automatically equals a healthy diet. My story shows this is not necessarily true. Although I had always lived by the adage, "Everything in moderation, including moderation," during my stressful years, moderation somehow became the exception and not the rule. Over the past 6 months, I've been slowly regaining my equilibrium. I've "tried on" juice fasts; eschewing all alcohol, coffee and sugar; eating 100% raw, but in the end, embracing small, healthy diet and lifestyle changes was much easier and more realistic. And so I've come home to my original adage. I don't want to face surgery, and so far, I've been successfully managing my condition with only a few bumps.
In the spirit of delicious moderation, here's an easy Raw Sunflower Seed Cheese recipe. I love it as a veggie dip and sandwich filling.
|Sunflower seeds are high in vitamin E, cancer-busting selenium and cholesterol-lowering phytosterols
- 2 cups raw sunflower seeds
- 1/4 cup hijiki, soaked in about 1/2 cup pure water [You don't need to drain it]
- 1/4 cup organic red bell pepper, lightly chopped
- 1 carrot, grated
- 3 garlic cloves, lightly chopped
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- Sea salt, to taste
- Up to 1/2 cup pure water
Makes about 2 cups
Whiz everything in the food processor until smooth, adding as much water as needed to reach a "creamy-cheesy" consistency.


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