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Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean.
The county town is the city of Gloucester, and other principal towns include Cheltenham, Stroud, Cirencester, and Tewkesbury.
When considered as a ceremonial county, Gloucestershire borders the preserved county of Gwent in Wales (now Monmouthshire), and in England the ceremonial counties of Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Somerset and Bristol. As an non-metropolitan county, it excludes the area covered by the South Gloucestershire unitary authority.
According to a 2002 campaign by the charity Plantlife, the county flower of Gloucestershire is the Wild Daffodil.
Gloucestershire is a historic county mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the 10th century, though the areas of Winchcombe and the Forest of Dean were not added until the late 11th century
Gloucestershire originally included the "small town" of Bristol. The "local" rural community moved to the port city, (as Bristol was to become) and Bristol's population growth accelerated during the industrial revolution. Bristol became part of the administrative County of Avon in 1974.
Upon the abolition of Avon in 1996, the region north of Bristol became a unitary authority area of South Gloucestershire and is now part of the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire.
The official former postal county abbreviation was "Glos.", rather than the frequently used but erroneous "Gloucs." or "Glouc.".
In July 2007, Gloucestershire had the worst flooding in recorded British history, with tens of thousands of residents affected. The RAF conducted the largest peace time domestic operation in its history to rescue over 120 residents from flood affected areas. The damage has been estimated at over 2000 million pounds.
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Casco Manufacturing Solutions Creates custom products just the way you want them – it all starts with a piece of fabric.
With Casco, your ideas become reality. Suppose you have a novel idea for a new product made from fabric. Or maybe you need a special upholstered product that is custom made to meet your specifications.
At Casco, we partner with you and your company to make it happen. We offer custom manufacturing solutions, along with exceptional service and value.
Who We Are
Casco Manufacturing Solutions is a third generation, family-owned company with over 50 years of innovative manufacturing experience. We are:
- Certified as a woman-owned business and a woman-owned small business
- Registered with the FDA
- A member of several group purchasing organizations (GPOs)
- The selected manufacturer of several large contracts for US based companies
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Using top quality fabrics and foam – along with innovative sewing and sealing methods – we custom design and manufacture exceptional soft goods.
"Custom" is the key word. We make your product just the way you want, in any size and shape you want. And we're happy to work with you in research, development and product testing as well.
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We custom create durable fabric products – whatever you need – including:
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We manufacture products for customers in a wide variety of well-respected businesses and organizations, including:
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Ayurveda has been a part of yoga for more than 5000 years. It is a holistic system of medicine that comes from India, in Sanskrit it means the "Science of Life".
Our bodies are intelligent and very hard working. Every day it has to process and eliminate harmful toxins. Many of us hold onto unresolved emotions and live stressful lives. Despite the body's miraculous ability to "digest it all" there is some degree of toxicity that builds up over time. This is called, Ama, and can compromise our health. In original Sanskrit texts and teachings of Ayurveda it is said that we should "eliminate that which is not wholeness, that which is disrupting, by that which is suitable for the self, using procedures and preparations to restore the self..."
It is always a good time to eliminate old habits, stress, start fresh, and renew! This 7 day cleanse is gentle and suitable for all body types, it is not a fasting cleanse, but is based upon traditional Ayurvedic principles. It will encourage you to give your body and mind a break, allowing the body to ultimately repair itself.
The focus of this cleanse is to improve the strength of "the metabolic fire" or Agni in the GI tract. Agni, or fire, is essential to the Ayurvedic tradition reaching far beyond the physical element. It is believed that all illness and imbalance begins in the GI tract. Suppressed emotions, stress, and lack of peace of mind also play a major role in our health. This particular 7 day cleanse will encourage the body and mind to rest and purify the digestive system, ultimately aligning the body to re-balance.
What to expect
This style of cleanse is based on a mono-diet, meaning to mainly eat the same meal for seven days. The cleanse encourages long-standing imbalances and toxins to move into circulation so that they can be eliminated. As with many cleanses, there may be a possibility that you also have unresolved emotional conflicts surface throughout the week. It is important to mention, so that you can be prepared to allow for such cleansing to occur as well. If any emotional toxins surface, remind yourself that this is a time to simply witness these states as they arise and together we will create a space to honor, move, and release them in a healthy way. Throughout the week, you will gain a new knowledge of self -care, tools for future healthy living, and encourage the body to repair itself.
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There are a few common suggestions to prepare the body for almost any cleanse, and I would encourage you to do them leading up to this cleanse as well. To eliminate the use of: caffeine, tobacco products, and alcohol. Reduce the intake of: fast foods, processed foods, refined sugars, and sweets. Focus instead on eating simple meals and whole foods. This will not only set the body into cleanse mode, but will allow the body to optimally benefit from the cleanse process as a whole.
Benefits :
· Eliminates some degree of toxins from the body
· More energy and vitality
· Helps rebuild the nervous system and calms the mind
· Helps to regain your natural glow
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DAM High Access is a Kent based high access facilities support company helping businesses with all their maintenance needs. We provide a High Level Cleaning & Maintenance service as well as a Cherry Picker Hire service on our MEWPS and Cherry Pickers. We also have a High Pressure Jet Washing and Steam Cleaning department as well as a Window Cleaning service for customers across the South East of England and beyond.
DAM can hire our MEWPs, more commonly known as Cherry Pickers by the hour or the day...
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Started in 1995 we have carried out contracts for many customers around the South-East including small commercial, educational establishments, PLCs and local authorities.
We have continuously invested in new equipment to allow us to offer the best and most comprehensive service.
We are fully insured and offer free site surveys and quotes, allowing us to supply individual method statements and risk assessments before commencing any work.
DAM are specialists at working at heights, if you have a high level access problem, we have the solution.
We own and operate our own Access Platforms and all our operatives are IPAF licensed and qualified to operate a range of access platforms from specialist compact machines which will fit through a single doorway, small and large towable machines to large truck mounted machines.
If our equipment will not solve your problem we will source the piece that will.
Although we specialise in height we carry out all aspects of Facilities Support covering mechanical, electrical and all general maintenance.
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Eurobites: Italy's Open Fiber Secures 3.5B Loan for Mega-Rollout
News Analysis4/16/2018
Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe
Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe
Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Telecom Italia signs movie deal; Nokia brings LTE to connected car trial in Japan; UK and AI; Vodafone board change.
Commenting on the report, Israel's Amdocs Ltd. (NYSE: DOX) optimistically maintains that any job losses caused by AI are "likely to be balanced out by the creation of new jobs freeing up workers to do more productive tasks." And if you have a comment on Amdocs' comment, why not stick it on the message board below?
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Death, traumatic injury, or hazardous contaminations are events that few people ever plan to experience. Unfortunately, the problems that arise from these events are very difficult for people to cope with. Scene Kleen, Inc is ready at all times to remedy any situation that may arise from such events. Our clients choose us for our proven expertise in providing prompt, professional cleanup services and restoring property to is original condition.
Scene Kleen, Inc service all types of trauma, distressed property, and biohazard scenes in communities across South Florida. We are dedicated to assisting law enforcement, public service agencies, and property owners/managers in restoring property that has been contaminated as result of crime, disaster or misuse. Scene Kleen, Inc is available to serve you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Owned and operated by professional firefighters and paramedics. Please call our number for a prompt, free consultation. If you need more information on how a Scene Kleen, Inc team can be of service to you, call (954) 658-1999.
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Sensory Trail – Cranbourne Gardens
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Set in 16 hectares of bush and landscaped gardens in Langwarrin, the McClelland Gallery+Sculpture Park is a not-for-profit organisation that ...Read More >>
Geocaching is the free high-tech treasure hunt where you use your GPS receiver to find caches hidden by other players. ...Read More >>
The Australian Garden The Australian Garden is a fantastic place for people of all ages! Children will love: The Kids' Backyard – A play space with lots to explore including the Hortasaurus. The Desert Discovery Camp – Dig in the sand, explore the fossils and footprints and discover what is hidden in the ...
Highfield, part of the Mornington Peninsula National Park, is known for its Kangaroo population. You can access Highfield from Boneo Rd and there are multiple walking tracks that connect into Greens Bush. Highfield is managed by Parks Victoria.
Hastings Foreshore is home to a number of pelicans. They can be found walking along the sand through the mangroves and nesting on the pier. Buy some fish from the fish shop to feed them.
Established in 1852 to protect the State against disease from foreign shores. Guided tours of approx. 1 hour include a leisurely walk around the historic buildings with time to browse through the Museum, annex, and view the varied displays of artefacts covering over 100 years of the Quarantine Station Operation.
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Major kudos to the AV Club for posting this interview with SNL's Fred Armisen and his alter ego, Jens Hannemann. The YouTube clip is priceless as it spoofs a world I knew a lot about during my teenage drummer years: the instructional drum video. If you've ever looked up at one of the TVs in Guitar Center, chances are you've seen one of these instructional videos.
In no disrespect to those that want to learn an instrument beyond the basics, there's a blurry line between playing and over-playing. Oftentimes people go a little overboard. In the spirit of great satire, Armisen's nailed another memorable character here, even if it's just for drummer nerds like myself.


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My goal is not only to provide the best programming and exercise guidance but to give you the tools and information to make positive lifestyle changes. Whether you participate in group exercise classes, work out on your own or are new to exercise, I will give you the tools to get the most out of your workouts. Identifying your strengths and weaknesses, understanding how poor posture and movement imbalances can lead to pain and injury and knowing how to correct them will empower you to achieve WELLNESS in your life.Brian is passionate about fitness and enjoys participating in a wide variety of activities, including Running, Hiking, Cycling and Music Production.
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CP Company Chrome Nylon Patch Logo Swim Shorts in Dutch Blue
Be poolside ready with these innovative regular fit CP Company Chrome Nylon Patch Logo Swim Shorts in Dutch Blue. Using CP Companys chrome fabric which is derived from the nylons used in military canvas fabrics. The weaving technique used produces a lustrous shiny shell that is quick dry, breathable and water resistant. The Dutch Blue CP Company Swim Shorts have a mesh interior with two pockets at the front with a drawstring waistline and fit true to size. The signature CP logo patch is sewn on the left leg. These shorts are made from 100% polyamaide and machine washable.
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C.P Company have been manufacturing Italian casual wear for men since 1975, the founder Massimo Osti first created jackets with lens after studying military garments. The main aim of the company is to produce garments that are unique using new fabrics and finishes.
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How-To Draw a Doozer!
Season 2 of Doozers is now in production and we thought it would be fun to get in the Pod Squad spirit by learning how to draw a Doozer!
Our friends at DHX helped us create this how-to draw video. Click to download the activity sheet and get to drawing!
We challenged our staff at The Jim Henson Company to draw a Doozer. See their works of art below!


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The thematic network S2S is a European Community Project carried out in the "Competitive and Sustainable Growth" programme and funded in part by contract number G1RT-CT-2002-05092.
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text: Malaysian Pulled Tea Posted by Mango Tours on February 22, 2018 Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps Teh Tarik, a milk tea, is the famous national drink of Malaysia. This is achieved through a distinct process of pouring and "pulling" the drink between two containers (cup or pitcher). The drink is said to have Indian-Muslim immigrant origins in the Malay Peninsula back when these were served in drink stalls at the entrance of rubber plantations during the post-World War II. Preparing it starts with tea leaves of any kind being brewed (some of which with certain spices added), then mixed with evaporated and condensed milk in boiling water. The "pulling", which is a pouring technique ideally done at arm's length, follows and is constantly repeated a number of times to cool the brew while creating a more flavorful, rich, and frothy drink. It is believed that a good brew is achieved through 6 important things: the tea leaves used how the tea is mixed the way the tea is "pulled" and the duration of the "pulling" the level of sweetness through amount of sugar added the water volume the quantity of evaporated and condensed milk beverage Culture drink food scene foodie Malaysia milk tea pulled tea Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email Other Apps


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UNC Horizons substance-abuse treatment program opens base in Carrboro
It takes a lot these days to bring Republicans and Democrats together, but UNC-Chapel Hill's medical program managed it Wednesday with the formal opening of a new treatment center for women who have substance-abuse problems.
The new North Greensboro Street facility will host the UNC Horizons, a 24-year-old program for "pregnant [or] parenting women" and their children. It includes a full day care, allowing clients the time and space to attend to their medical and employment needs.
Gov. Roy Cooper and U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., shared the stage with Chancellor Carol Folt, all agreeing that the program's founder, Dr. John Thorp, and its staff have built a model treatment program.
For his part, Thorp said he and his colleagues hope to replicate it across the state, the country and eventually the globe.
"This is not a disease like cancer or pre-term birth that needs the discovery of a miracle cure to see substantive gains occur," said Thorp, an obstetrician in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. "Progress is only a matter of will and resolve. [Addiction] at its core is a disease of despair."
The treatment center occupies about half of a 20,000-square foot building in Carrboro's Shelton Station development. UNC has put about $3 million into the project, launching it via a outside grant that covers a third of the bill and an in-house loan from its own foundation.
The foundation loan allowed officials to jump-start construction as they continue to raise money for the project, said Gordon Merklein, associate vice chancellor for real estate operations. He added that UNC has ownership of Horizons' space via a condominium arrangement.
Shelton Station, meanwhile, survived early controversy to gain a foothold on North Greensboro Street. The development cleared the town's Board of Aldermen by a narrow 4-3 vote in 2012.
One of the development's then-supporters, Mayor Lydia Lavelle, said backers had to address concerns that included such matters as traffic, noise and workforce housing. She also said she'd heard "early on" that the Horizons program was "one of the groups being considered" as prospective tenant.
The move marks a return to Carrboro for Horizons, as it had once used space downtown near the Armadillo Grill, said Lavelle, an N.C. Central University law professor.
"We're happy to welcome this group back to Carrboro," she said. "It fit right in with our spirit and our town."
Thorp, meanwhile, said the program's growth owes much to the ethos on campus of giving "social entrepreneurs" on the faculty "a protected place to implant and develop" their ideas.
For their part, Cooper and Burr said Horizons fills a critical need, given the human and economic damage various forms of addiction are causing in rural North Carolina and some urban areas where jobs are in short supply.
Burr sees it as "one of the most innovative design models" around.
"You look around the country and you see [other treatment] programs, all these programs separate individuals from their families," he said. "This one is focused on keeping the family together."
Cooper, a Democrat who took office in January, added that "substance abuse and addiction can do as much as anything" to undermine people's hopes of becoming educated, healthy and prosperous.
"My brother's a District Court judge," Cooper said, alluding to his brother Pell Cooper, who presides in three-county area of eastern North Carolina. "He sees it on almost a daily basis. Addiction causes domestic violence, causes financial strife, causes child neglect."
But UNC Horizons is a promising counter, for being able to draw on "the amazing tools of our state universities," he said.
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The Financial Coach Foundation offers Basic Financial Training & Mentoring.
The Vision for this Training and Mentoring is to:
- educate, empower and equip all individuals
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- provide practical help with Budgeting, Managing Debt and Writing Wills
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We are currently experiencing huge financial problems in SA. Many individuals have high debt levels, pay exorbitant interest rates, are living beyond their means, and have limited access to quality financial products. There is a lack of access to financial education, and the high level of inequality between the rich and the poor is growing. Many do not have a savings culture. Financial literary is not something that is taught at school level, so where do people turn to for sound advice?
At The Financial Coach we "Manage People and their Emotions around Money"…..
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Hide Your Cables with Power Block
The power block is an elegant way to hide your cables. As we all know in these days every little gadget must be charged and sometimes the socket might look awful with all those wires all around. Seated on the floor against the wall, it masks so elegant the wall socket. So today your home can look more clean by using the power block. A simple, but smart and elegant idea. You can the power block from here and the price is 115.00 €.


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The beleaguered Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was dealt another blow Tuesday with the announcement that T.V. Carpio, who plays the villain Arachne, will be sidelined for the next two weeks following an injury sustained during one of the show's many fight scenes.
According to The New York Times, Carpio was hurt during a March 16 preview performance in an aggressive Act II showdown between the eight-legged Arachne and Peter Parker (played that evening by Matthew James Thomas). Although the newspaper reports the nature of the injury was not disclosed, it's believed to be a neck injury; Broadway World contends it's "whiplash."
Understudy America Olivo has been performing as Arachne, and will continue in the part until Carpio's return.
Carpio is the fifth performer injured in a production plagued by difficulties. In fact, she took over the role of Arachne from original actress Natalie Mendoza, who left Spider-Man in late December after she suffered a concussion during the problem-filled first preview.
The $70-million musical, by far the most expensive and technically ambitious show in Broadway history, has had a tumultuous month -- which is really saying something, considering its rocky past: In the wake of overwhelmingly negative reviews and rumors of behind-the-scenes tensions, director Julie Taymor stepped aside on March 9 to make way for an expanded creative team tasked with overhauling the production. And just this week a report surfaced that producers are seeking to replace choreographer Daniel Ezralow, a Taymor loyalist responsible for designing the ambitious flying sequences.


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No, is the short answer. We support people who are in receipt of social care support that enables our services to be treated as Exempt Accommodation.
No, is the short answer. We support people who are in receipt of social care support that enables our services to be treated as Exempt Accommodation.
This is where the Landlord providing the accommodation is a Local Authority (Council) or a not-for-profit organisation (Charities) that also provides support to its tenants either directly or by a third party on behalf of the Landlord.
At present we source and lease all our properties from the private rental market. We currently have properties in the South London boroughs and on the South coast – Brighton & Lewes areas.
No. It is our long-term plan to purchase properties, but in the short/medium-term we will continue to lease properties.
Because we lease from the open market we can offer almost all types of properties from studio flats to large detached houses. We are not restricted by empty housing stock as we don't own any properties. All new referrals for housing are treated as bespoke services and we source accommodation based on the housing specification for each new tenant.
The term 'home for life' has long since gone from Government strategies. Most local Councils only offer short-term tenancies, even though they own the property, so that they retain flexibility in future to change arrangements. Council housing is very limited and often have long waiting lists.
Council housing is very limited with very long waiting lists (over a year in most cases). Housing Associations work in partnership with Councils to plan and build housing stock based on local plans. These plans are pre-allocated years in advance and do not offer the flexibility to provide accommodation for unplanned immediate need. Zetetick Housing fulfills this local demand and bridges this gap in social housing need.
Not necessarily. Many Councils via there HA partners only offer AST agreements of 12 months or less. It is more common within local Council provision, for short-term weekly licenses to be issued rather than the more secure and protected AST agreement.
Although we cannot offer a 'home for life' in terms of the building, we can offer and become your Landlord for life. As long as you need support to live in the community and meet our eligibility criteria then we will support and provide all your accommodation needs both now and in the future. When you are ready to move on, we will find and provide you with a new home/s that grows and changes with you.
Yes this is possible, albeit a last resort, should the tenant's circumstances change to such an extent that it makes the tenancy unsustainable.
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Anne de Courcy's thrilling true story of Margot Asquith, wife to the Prime Minister during World War One, MARGOT AT WAR, is out today in paperback from Weidenfeld & Nicholson.
Known for her wit, style and habit of speaking her mind, Margot Asquith transformed 10 Downing Street into a glittering social and intellectual salon. Drawing on unpublished material from personal papers and diaries, Anne de Courcy vividly recreates this extraordinary time when the Prime Minister's residence was run like an English country house, with socialising taking precedence over politics, love letters written in the cabinet room and gossip and state secrets exchanged over the bridge table. It tells of Margot's heartbreak as she witnessed her much older husband fall hopelessly in love with a young friend.
The book was shortlisted for Political Book of the Year 2015 in the Paddy Power Political Book Awards.
Anne de Courcy is the author of many highly acclaimed works of biography and social history, and her bestselling THE FISHING FLEET (film rights sold at auction to Ridley Scott) was chosen as one of Lady Antonia Fraser's best books of 2012 in The Daily Mail.
Praise for Anne de Courcy:
'Anne de Courcy combines the perseverance of the social historian with the panache of a novelist' – The Sunday Times
'Compulsively readable, and immaculately researched… popular social history at its very best' – Mail on Sunday


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Pure Vinyl Records, what a great little shop!
I dropped into Brixton's Pure Vinyl Records yesterday, what a great little shop! Situated a few yards from Brixton tube station in the Reliance Arcade, this shop is a little gem and well worth a visit if you are in the area.
I met Markie, partner of the owner Claudia who was very helpful and friendly. It's one of my bugbears that when you visit some second-hand record shops the service is really poor, not even getting an acknowledgement or a hello when you enter is not good. Surely in this tough business you want to encourage buyers back, makes sense to me?
Markie was a nice guy, happy to play some singles that he thought I might like and I came out with a new 12″, Stop the Wars by Ras Teo on Roots Youths Records. A nice roots track, one of those soundsystem singles that gets the whole room dancing.
They had a good selection of second-hand reggae plus some local new releases, they also stock hip-hop and funk. Give them a visit, it's well worth it and support London's latest vinyl shop.
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UK Men's Basketball
All options on table for Rupp Arena, Gray and Barnhart say
Renovate Rupp Arena? Build a new arena?
During a Monday briefing for reporters, Mayor Jim Gray and University of Kentucky Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart said that Lexington leaders will be prudent, consider all options and be mindful of the needs of UK basketball and the city as they explore creating a downtown entertainment district that includes either Rupp or a new arena.
Advice from Mayor Michael B. Coleman during a fact-finding trip to Columbus, Ohio, earlier this month made an impression on Gray.
"Dream big," he said of Coleman's advice. "You can always adjust."
Barnhart echoed that statement when he spoke about what he learned on the tour of Columbus' Nationwide Arena and the Ohio capital's 75-acre Arena District.
"When the time came to take a risk, they swung big," he said.
The Arena, Arts and Entertainment District Task Force has set a goal of deciding on a plan by early next year.
But Gray noted that the process of exploring options is a long way from the finish line. "We're at Step One or Two," he said. "This is a project that will have 10 steps."
Barnhart said UK would be "open-minded" to either renovating Rupp or building a new arena. "My job is to protect University of Kentucky basketball and make sure it has what it needs to be the flagship of college basketball," he said. "... We think about the next 30, 40, 50 years of Kentucky basketball, and how we can be partners with the city in what the mayor's trying to get done."
In one of the early steps, the task force hired a Philadelphia-based consulting firm, Global Spectrum, to look at the civic center complex. Global Spectrum officials are in Lexington this week to assess whether Rupp can be renovated or whether a new arena is needed. An opinion from Global Spectrum is not expected until mid-fall, the mayor's office said.
A second consultant will be hired to make recommendations on the entire 46-acre project that would include the arena and surrounding area. Those recommendations are expected around the first of the year.
"When I think of this project, I think of an event experience that includes university basketball, all the other events that go on in Rupp, the convention center and the needs of the city," Gray said.
How to finance an entertainment district must be determined. Gray noted how a partnership of public and private financing can be key. "Not just here, but across the world," he said.
The city of Columbus paid for such infrastructure as streets and sewers. Nationwide Insurance led the private sector's contribution.
With an eye toward the shaky economy, Lexington businessman Jim Host suggested earlier this year that Rupp Arena be preserved as college basketball's Fenway Park. Rather than go through the expense of building a new arena, Lexington could renovate Rupp more economically, said Host, who headed a task force that planned the Yum Center in Louisville.
"We'll be open to looking at everything," Barnhart said when asked about Host's comments. "... I'm not going to say we're locked into one thing. My thing is to be open-minded."
Gray echoed that sentiment. "You don't prejudge," the mayor said. "There are a lot of moving parts in a project like this."
Gray said that either Rupp Arena or a new downtown arena had to meet the needs of UK's basketball program.
When asked how Rupp Arena was not currently meeting the needs of the program, Barnhart said, "In today's world, we've got to make sure the fan amenities are what we think our fans deserve." Those amenities include "electronics" and updated concession stands, he said.
Barnhart also said that a historic building like Rupp does not impress recruits as much as people might think, implying that a new arena could be a more effective recruiting tool.
"Generally, kids have a three- or four-year window," he said. "They don't look much past that."
Whether a new arena is built in downtown Lexington or the existing Rupp Arena renovated, Barnhart expects Coach John Calipari to provide plenty of input.
"One of the things I appreciate (about Calipari) is he respects Joe (B. Hall) and Coach (Adolph) Rupp," Barnhart said. "He will absolutely have a vision of what he thinks we can do to carry on (their legacy). ... He will have ideas, and I'm thankful for that."
A question about luxury suites and the ever-evolving nature of providing access to fans prompted Barnhart's comment.
After a reporter noted that revenue can be generated by having fans pay extra to watch halftime locker rooms, Barnhart smiled and quipped, "That scares me."
Former UK Coach Joe B. Hall attended a media briefing. He suggested Lexington not simply follow the footsteps of planners in Columbus or Indianapolis. Members of the task force are scheduled to visit Indianapolis on Friday.
"I hope we don't copy anybody else," said Hall, adding that he hoped the project "would be better than everybody else's. Not in expense, but in design, in excitement. I'm sure that's what people are looking for. Let's make it unique (to) Kentucky."


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McConnell gives up on repeal and replace for GOP health care bill
After Republican Sens. Mike Lee and Jerry Moran said Monday evening they would not vote to advance the GOP healthcare bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said he would abandon the effort to repeal and immediately replace Obamacare.
McConnell said in a statement Monday night that the two senators defections made it "apparent that the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failure of Obamacare will not be successful."
Instead, McConnell endorsed an approach supported by President Donald Trump to repeal the Affordable Care Act without immediately replacing it with different health care legislation.
Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2017
"In the coming days, the Senate will vote to take up the House bill," McConnell said, adding that a majority of the Senate supported such a measure in 2015 in the form of "a repeal of Obamacare with a two-year delay to provide for a stable transition period to a patient-centered health care system that gives Americans access to quality, affordable care."
Former President Barack Obama vetoed that bill at the time.
Lee, of Utah, and Moran, of Kansas, tweeted Monday that they could not support the Senate's bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. Without their support, the bill would not receive enough votes to pass a procedural hurdle and reach the floor for debate.
My colleague @JerryMoran and I will not support the MTP to this version of BCRA #HealthcareBill— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) July 18, 2017
For the same reasons I could not support the previous version of this bill, I cannot support this one. #HealthcareBill— Jerry Moran (@JerryMoran) July 18, 2017
Moran said in a statement that the Better Care Reconciliation Act, or BCRA as the Republican bill was called, didn't address what he said were the fundamental issues with Obamacare.
"We should not put our stamp of approval on bad policy," Moran said. "We must now start fresh with an open legislative process to develop innovative solutions that provide greater personal choice, protections for pre-existing conditions, increased access and lower overall costs for Kansans."
Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky had announced over the weekend that the bill would be indefinitely delayed following news that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., would remain at home recovering from surgery to remove a blood clot. McConnell had expected to vote on it this week and needed McCain's support.
Republicans needed at least 50 votes — Vice President Mike Pence would break a tie — to pass their repeal and replace effort. But senators were divided on the bill, with some saying it didn't do enough to roll back Obama's signature legislation, and others arguing it was too harsh and would kick their constituents off their current plans. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky had already announced their opposition to the bill.
After its initial effort failed to garner enough votes, the House passed its repeal and replace effort in May. The Senate has also struggled to follow through on Republicans' main campaign promise, with McConnell delaying a vote on the Senate version originally scheduled to take place before the July 4 congressional recess. Changes were made to that bill in attempt to get everyone in the party on board, but McConnell's decision Monday demonstrated the difficulty the leader faced in getting the entire Republican caucus to back the same bill.


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Some days are very hard when it comes to homeschooling a child who is twice-exceptional. There is the learning disability that makes quite a few things difficult. There is the anxiety that can get in the way. And then there is the high intelligence and passion that makes things so very interesting. It takes a good deal of patience and understanding to school a child like this. I feel I do a fairly good job of it because I have a so much experience homeschooling and because I had many of the same struggles when I was younger.
The youngest boy's days look very different from the twins. They were/are fairly academic and hard workers, so their day reflects a more typical school day. The boy's day reflects more of how an unschooler's day might look and for him I think this works. It allows him time to follow his passions, and it is through his passions that he learns.
For instance, one of his passions for a very long time has been Scooby Doo. He loves the books, the tv show, the movies, and he knows everything about the history of Scooby Doo. Because of this passion he has been writing Scooby books for years (which he is soon going to publish online) and collecting Scooby Doo books. He has grown quite a collection, and some of his favorite books to collect are the Italian Scooby Doo books.
Unfortunately he never has a good way to translate the books, so he could read them all the way through. Last week though he found out that Itunes was carrying the Scooby Doo Italian books to buy for the iBooks app. From there he discovered an easy way to translate them all, and within a few hours, the boy had purchased several of the books and translated them all. Then he read them all, which was quite an experience for him.
He couldn't believe how different they all were from the American Scooby Doo. Of course he realized that some of these differences could be put down to translation, but after reading several of the books, he could tell that was not the only reason for the difference. The topics were different (including one plot dealing with plastic surgery), the personalities of the characters were different (Fred comes off as mean), and there was cussing throughout the books. The boy got such a kick out of the differences and really enjoyed reading them all.
Of course being a very passionate kid, he was not yet done in his study of Italian Scooby Doo books. He was unhappy that all the books were not available yet on iTunes, so he has been researching how to write a letter to Itunes and to the Italian publisher, so he can let them know how he feels. And he has started to write his own Scooby Doo Italian book. This book is in the style of the Italian books and includes a slightly weird plot line, the different character traits, and the occasional cuss word. When he is done he is going to translate the whole thing into Italian, so that it truly is an Italian Scooby Doo book. I can't wait to read it!


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Pico PV has emerged as a new keyword in rural electrification. Also called Solar Pico Systems (SPS), Pico PV are the younger brothers of Solar Home Systems (SHS) and could enable people in non-electrified areas to get access to modern energy services in cases where the cost is not affordable or the energy demand is too low to be powered by SHS. In this regard, Pico PV can also help to replace current expensive and polluting kerosene lamps and dry cell batteries.
SPS are "Plug & Play" systems typically below 10 Wp and mostly with a voltage not above 12 V. The cost ranges from $2 to $ 200, being most of the times below $100 (check the graph below)
Several innovations over the last years have contributed to the development of Pico PV systems:
· Fall in the price of PV modules
· Advances in the development of LED technology.
· Improvement of the life cycle of modern accumulators
LED technology:
Modern LEDs can provide bright electric light (up to 160 lm/W) with very little electrical power. In this regard, LEDs are up to 15 times more efficient than conventional incandescent lamps and about 3 times more efficient than good CFL lamps. Nonetheless, there are also SPS powering CFL lamps, but it is not very common.
Rechargeable batteries are the most expensive component when considering the cost over the SPS lifecycle. As shown in the picture below, there are a variety of technologies available with different efficiencies, demand in terms of charge controller, lifecycle, etc.
A few considerations:
Lead Acid batteries: are usually too heavy compared to the size of a typical SPS and tend to fail due to sulfation.
NiCd: should not be used as Cd is a poison and most of the target countries do not have a proper recycling program
Nickel Metal Hydrate (NiMh): show no sulfation and are also much lighter. Special types of NiMh batteries have a low self-discharge behavior and most of them do not need a charge controller or, if so, only a relatively simple one.
Li-Ion batteries: still remain relatively expensive but are high energy density, so allow more charge/discharge cycles (check LIFePo in the picture above) and also a smaller size. Most of them present an excellent efficiency.
Two different topologies of Pico PV systems are available:
Pico solar lanterns: besides providing light, some of them also provide energy to charge a cell phone or operate a radio.
Pico PV Home Systems: can provide energy for several lights, a radio and charging a mobile phone. Under this configuration, SPS are scalable and so can be extended in case the electricity demand grows over the years. Additionally, this scalability also provides a strategy for financing the system. Instead of paying connection fees and undertaking to pay a fee-for-service every month, users can upgrade their systems gradually when their economic circumstances allow it.
What are the current limitations of SPS in the rural electrification market?
Quality: gates are opening for bad quality products at very low-cost which often relates into higher cost compared to the existing solution (e.g. kerosene) This includes lab and field test according to international standards, product labels, instruction manuals. When talking about Led lamps, this becomes essential. The field tests have revealed that lab tests alone are not enough, since lamps which have been successful in the lab, usually show significant technical problems in the field (5)
Consumer education: some results from field surveys show that users often place their solar lamp on a table in their main room (as they did with former kerosene lamps) even if this inhibits an optimal light distribution. Also it is often that users place the panels in inappropriate places for charging (5)
Recycling and Post Return: Only in Africa the potential market amounts to 300 Million people. The problematic of electrical waste and how to recycle the products have to be integrated into the product assessment yet.
Saturation effect: user willingness to pay is highest for the first kWhs and decreases with the amount of electricity consumed.
Solar lighting as merit good: improving studying conditions, improved air quality and reduced safety risks when replacing kerosene lighting…These social and psychological effects of the use of Pico PV systems that go beyond the easily measurable socio-economic benefits are usually in the mind of policy-makers but has to be "transferred" to the end users through suitable informative campaigns (4)
2012 is the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, but no consensus exist to the date on how to define a minimum service level at which a household can be classified as "electrified", that is, what is the Basic Electrification Threshold. And also in this regard, what is the difference between lighting and electrification?
Typical SHS and mini-grids based electrification programs provide electricity in the range of 150-200 Wh/day/home. If that is the reference, it seems clear that Pico PV systems are not the solution for the rural electrification challenge. Nevertheless, they can become a perfect complement of those in electrification programs to power the poorest people that cannot afford the cost of the connection fees or are out of the scope of the mini-grid. Also, SPS seems to be a good tool to raise interest among rural people in environmental-friendly and long-term cost effectiveness solutions to power their homes.
However, according to my experience, Solar solutions are often considered as low-cost and low-quality solutions among the rural people, mostly because of bad practices in some projects implemented (not always related to technical issues but to lack of long-term sustainability of the projects) In this context, current situation of Pico PV market does not help at all to revert this situation and a great effort to define minimum international standards are needed.
Author's observations
(1) Solar Pico Systems: Problems, opportunities and solutions. Andreas Paul (Phocos AG)
(2) Ways to protect consumers from low quality Pico PV products (GIZ)
(3) Pico PV: Policy implications of a new technology option (GIZ)
(4) Pico PV: An overwiew. Prof. Peter Adelmann (Univ. of Applied Science,Ulm)
(5) How are Pico PV lamps performing under real-life conditions in developing countries? Anna Brüderle (GIZ)
* All the above are papers presented during the 2nd Symposium on Small PV-applications (Ulm, June, 2012)


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This page is for students to have entered the MEES Program prior to Fall 2016. If you enrolled in the MEES Program beginning in Fall 2016 and thereafter, please click here to be directed to the appropriate curriculum information.
Areas of Specialization
The MEES Program consist of 6 different Areas of Specialization (AOS) listed below. Each AOS track is designed to allow students the unique opportunity to tailor their education to their specific interests. The Areas of Specialization are Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Environmental Science, Fisheries Science, and Oceanography - which is broken down into Physical and Biological Oceanography. Each AOS is listed below with a short overview, however just click the name of each AOS for a more information regarding the AOS, program requirements, and admission criteria.
Ecology is a broad discipline encompassing both terrestrial and aquatic environments. Specific areas of study include behavioral, community, evolutionary, marine, benthic, limnological, systematic, and physiological ecology. Variations and/or combinations of one or more of these sub-disciplines are common.
The objective of this AOS is to train research scientists to apply basic chemical principles to the study of the environmental behaviors of natural and anthropogenic chemicals. Environmental chemistry includes interdisciplinary studies of various realms such as geochemistry, transport processes, and toxicology to determine the fate and effects of chemicals in the natural environment.
Molecular approaches pervade every biological discipline. Expertise within MEES includes molecular endocrinology of fish growth; development and reproduction; methods of drug delivery; environmental stressors contributing to fish physiological dysfunction and oncogenesis; mechanisms and stressors of nitrogen fixation; molecular models of marine surface colonization; molecular cues of organism-organism interaction; and invertebrate immunity. Faculty in this area study macromolecular-environmental interactions using recombinant DNA and hybrid approaches. The AOS encourages interaction between campuses and is synergistic with other AOS.
This AOS was created for students who do not want to specialize to the extend the other Areas of Specialization require, but would like to gain experience and take courses in variety of scientific, economic, and social disciplines related to the natural environment. These requirements are also very appropriate for students wishing to specialize in environmental management.
Drawing expertise from the biological, physical, and social sciences. fisheries scientists study populations and communities of aquatic resources, their responses to exploration and changes in environmental conditions, and their management. Research is quantitative and may be either basic or applied. The multidisciplinary nature of fisheries science requires broad training in areas that may include ecology, oceanography, aquaculture, economics, mathematics, seafood technology, pathology, and disease, and management science.
USM has emerged as a nationally and internationally recognized center for oceanographic research, with sub-programs in biological and physical oceanography. Students have access to extensive oceanographic facilities within USM. Fundamental courses in three major sub-fields of oceanography are required to provide interdisciplinary breadth.


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Abdulla Salem
Abdulla Salem is a multi-faceted brand targeted at both corporate finance and men's fashion. Within the Brand Abdulla-Salem, on the "corporate side" the aim was to arrive at a forward thinking modern identity, which delivered individuality and a professional approach,maintaining an air of approachability.
While Brand Abdulla Salem – "fashion" presents a lifestyle experience for the fun, sporty and spontaneous gentlemen who appreciates quality.The identity for Brand – Abdulla Salem is one that is classic, versatile yet playful. The logo mark relates to the brand name and the monogram of a classic "A" and a casual slab/san serif "S" coming together seamlessly creating one form, Brand – Abdulla Salem.


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Launching the Launch Pad!
Sep 23, 2015 by Hsing Liang
Welcome to the first issue of BrandSpark's Launch Pad e-newsletter. At BrandSpark, we help CPG brands develop, launch and support new products. In Launch Pad, we will draw upon the experts in our BrandSpark Custom research division, our Best New Product Awards, our BrandSpark Most Trusted Awards Programs, our new highly engaged Shopper Community platform – Shopper Army – and, of course, our industry-leading annual BrandSpark Canadian Shopper Study. In the inaugural issue of Launch Pad, we focus on new products — highlighting some innovative entries in the 2016 Best New Product Awards program, as well as why it is so hard for brands to launch new products successfully. We also introduce our Chatbox interactive-engagement platform with members from our new Shopper Army, giving you specific insights into the ways your customers think and also letting you interact directly with them.Read More


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The Destabilizer is an energy rifle of alien origin which is added to Fallout 3 with the Mothership Zeta. It is the unique version of the Alien Disintegrator.
The Destabilizer is a unique fully automatic version of the Alien Disintegrator, and has the highest listed base damage out of all the Energy weapons in the game, and can be increased another 20% with the Xenotech Expert perk. Despite this, it does less damage per shot than the Disintegrator. It does, however, have a higher damage per second, making it better for clearing rooms, should the player not mind using far more ammo. It is slightly less accurate than the Disintegrator, and only fires a single round in VATS, despite being automatic. This, coupled with the Destabilizer's not significantly lower AP cost, makes the Disintegrator a better candidate for VATS-heavy usage.
This weapon is found in the Weapons Lab's shooting range, after beaming up from the Space Walk and proceeding through the Observation Deck. It is in the same room as where the Xenotech Expert perk is obtained. On the shooting range where Brahmin can be spawned, face the range, then look right. The Destabilizer should be on a low shelf next to you. It is the only item on that shelf. Be sure to pick this up the first time you go through because the ways of getting back are limited as you go through the ship due to teleporters being the only mean of transportation.
The Destabilizer appears in the Mothership Zeta add-on for Fallout 3.


text: Uncategorized WFMW: Cleaning Up Yo' Grill Welcome to Works for Me Wednesday. Each week a bunch of us share our solutions for our family with our readers. If you want to get the full experience, please visit Shannon's blog and you will find hundreds of ideas for your family & simplifying your life. I have a quick and easy tip if you are looking for an easy solution for cleaning your grill. If you have a self-cleaning oven in your home, simply take the grill grates from your outdoor grill and pop them in with your oven. Run it through the self-cleaning cycle and go to bed. In the morning you will have a shiny clean grill and a shiny clean oven. What could be better than that? Here is the listing of all my other grand ideas- feel free to browse around and I hope you find this tip helpful!! Good Ol' Plastic BagsEasy Carrying & StoringFind Just What You Are Looking ForTarget PharmacySay No to Hand CrampsFoamy SoapAdventures in ShippingFrugal Exercise SolutionsMicrofiber ObsessionsSand Between Your Toes Blues Giving the Gift of Magazines (Frugally)Solution for Cheap Trash BagsProgramming Your Cell PhoneFree Up Pantry Space: Make a SnackWeeding Through Your Child's Art Work CreativelyUsing the Coffee Maker With EaseMaking Your Spice Rack UsableMaximizing Space Published September 27, 2006 by: Amy Allen Clark is the founder of MomAdvice.com. You can read all about her here.


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An Open-Label Study of the Effects of Desloratadine (Aerius.) Treatment on the Quality of Life of Patients With Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria (Study P02540)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00795522
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 21, 2008
Last Update Posted : April 21, 2015
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
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Brief Summary:
This open-label study is being conducted to determine the effect of DL treatment for CIU on symptom and disease severity, quality of life, daytime functioning, and quality of sleep.
|Condition or disease
|Drug: Desloratadine
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|51 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|An Open-Label Study of the Effects of Desloratadine (Aerius.) Treatment on the Quality of Life of Patients With Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria
|Study Start Date :
|July 2003
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2005
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|March 2005
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MedlinePlus related topics: Hives
Drug Information available for: Desloratadine
Experimental: Arm 1
Drug: Desloratadine
Subjects will receive DL 5 mg daily for 28 days. Each active DL tablet contains 5 mg of desloratadine
Other Name: SCH 034117
Primary Outcome Measures :
- Change from Baseline in the Short Form 12 (SF-12) Health Survey Questionnaire, mental, physical and total scores on treatment days 7, 14, 21, and 28. [ Time Frame: treatment days 7, 14, 21, and 28 ]
Secondary Outcome Measures :
- Change from Baseline in work/school attendance and self-assessed productivity as measured by the WPAI questionnaire [ Time Frame: treatment days 7, 14, 21, and 28 ]
- Change from Baseline in pruritus, the number of hives and the maximum size of hives, sleep quality, and activity impairment [ Time Frame: treatment weeks 1, 2, 3, and 4 ]
- The percent of subjects who rate their response to therapy as either Complete, Marked, or Moderate Relief [ Time Frame: day 28 ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects must demonstrate their willingness to participate in the study and comply with its procedures by signing a written informed consent.
- Subjects must be >= 18 years of age, of either sex and any race.
- Women of childbearing potential (includes women who are less than 1 year postmenopausal and women who become sexually active) must be using an acceptable method of birth control (e.g., hormonal contraceptive, medically prescribed IUD, condom in combination with spermicide) or be surgically sterilized (e.g., hysterectomy or tubal ligation). Women of childbearing potential should be counseled in the appropriate use of birth control while in this study. Women who are not currently sexually active must agree and consent to use one of the above-mentioned methods should they become sexually active while participating in the study.
- Subjects must be in general good health; i.e., they must be free of any clinically significant disease (other than CIU) that would interfere with study evaluations.
- Subjects must understand and be able to adhere to the dosing and visit schedules, and agree to complete the questionnaires and to record symptom severity scores, medication times, concomitant medications, and adverse events accurately and consistently in a daily diary.
- Subjects must have at least a 6-week history of CIU (pruritus and hives) prior to Visit 1 (Screening).
- Subjects must have a pruritus score >= 2 and a hive score >= 1 at Visit 1.
- Subjects must be experiencing a current CIU flare of at least 3 weeks duration, with hives present at least 3 days per week, prior to Visit 1 (Screening).
- Subjects must score the overall condition of CIU >= 2 at both Visit 1 (Screening) and Visit 2 (Baseline).
- Subjects must have a total pruritus score of >= 14 for the sum of morning and evening (reflective) diary scores for the 3 days prior to Visit 2 (Baseline) plus the morning score on the day of Visit 2.
- Women of childbearing potential must have a negative urine pregnancy test at Visit 2 (Baseline).
Exclusion Criteria:
- Women who are pregnant or nursing.
- Subjects who have not observed the designated washout periods for any of the prohibited medications outlined.
- Subjects with asthma requiring chronic use of inhaled or systemic corticosteroids.
- Subjects with drug or food allergies that manifest as skin reactions.
- Subjects with urticaria that is primarily due to physical urticaria or other known etiology.
- Subjects with CIU unresponsive to antihistamines.
- Subjects who have been hospitalized (including an emergency department visit) because of deterioration in their CIU within 3 months prior to Visit 1 (Screening).
- Subjects with a history of hypersensitivity to desloratadine or any of its excipients.
- Subjects previously randomized into this study.
- Subjects who are staff personnel directly involved with the administration of this study.
- Subjects who have any clinically significant metabolic, cardiovascular, immunologic, neurologic, hematologic, gastrointestinal, cerebrovascular, or respiratory disease, or any other disorder which, in the judgment of the Investigator, may interfere with the study evaluations or affect subject safety.
- Subjects with a history of psychosis, antagonistic personality, poor motivation, hypochondriasis, or any other emotional or intellectual problems that are likely to limit the validity of consent to participate in the study.
- Subjects with a history of noncompliance with medications or treatment protocols.
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|Responsible Party:
|Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00795522 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|November 21, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 21, 2015
|Last Verified:
|April 2015
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Skin Diseases, Vascular
Skin Diseases
Hypersensitivity, Immediate
Immune System Diseases
Cholinergic Antagonists
Cholinergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Histamine H1 Antagonists, Non-Sedating
Histamine H1 Antagonists
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Commentary: A GTMO anniversary, and a new debate
Just one year ago, on January 22, President Obama issued a White House directive. A key sentence in it read: "The detention facilities at Guantánamo for individuals covered by this order shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order." That date has arrived, and, as is now widely understood, the U.S. military prison in Cuba for foreign national captives suspected of terrorism ties may not be closed for many more months, if then. Some in Congress, in fact, want it to remain open indefinitely.
In the meantime, the fate of the detainees there — now numbering a few less than 200 — is being worked out largely in response to a Supreme Court decision that was issued seven months before the new President made his vow to shutter Guantanamo. A case-by-case process — with the Executive Branch on one side, detainees' lawyers on the other, and fifteen federal district court judges in the middle — is the main mechanism for working out who stays at Guantanamo, and who leaves. The failure to empty the Guantanamo prison, and the process unfolding in the courts (a process that has sometimes frustrated both sides and the judges), has produced a number of policy debates in Washington. But now, on the anniversary of the President's promise, one debate topic is rising to prominence: should the whole thing be handed over to Congress. to lay down some rules and guidance?
There are some close observers of detention policy and practice who have concluded that the courts simply cannot handle — or cannot handle well — the task handed to them by the Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush. Those observers, in various forums (books, newspaper columns, seminars, scholarly studies), have been trying to make the case for a legislative solution. One of the most energetic proponents of that approach is a Brookings Institution scholar, Benjamin Wittes. Lately, his basic point has been drawing support from some federal judges themselves.
Now, on the anniversary of the Obama directive, both Wittes and some of the federal judges are intensifying the debate.
Wittes, joined by University of Texas law professor Robert M. Chesney (who also has an affiliation with Brookings), released on Thursday a new study of how the federal judges have been processing the detainee cases. The full text of the report is here. It examines cases that federal judges have resolved, and draws some conclusions, suggesting that the process has been "a struggle," has failed to resolve key issues, or has produced such fundamental disagreement that little, if anything, is clear about the scope of detention authority they have articulated.
The orientation of the study is clear from its very first page. In the opening paragraph, the authors write that what is going on in the District Courts is "the chief legislative mechanism" for developing detention policy. In the third paragraph, they call the process a "peculiar delegation of a major legislative project to the federal courts." And, before applying those labels, the authors lamented that the President has decided not to ask Congress for a new law on the subject, and, in any event, Congress has "a lack of interest in the task." A little later on, they openly confess their "significant concerns about the habeas process as a lawmaking device" — a comment that, by referring to it as "lawmaking," further fostered the impression that habeas judges are doing Congress's work.
It thus is apparent that this study proceeds from a strong hint of institutional illegitimacy. Never mind that what is actually happening is that a constitutional ruling by the Supreme Court, giving Guantanamo detainees a right to pursue the ancient legal writ of habeas corpus under a statute that dates back to 1789 (and a heritage that goes back to 1215 and Runnymede), is being interpreted and applied as judges always do when the Supreme Court makes a declaration. The Court did not tell the judges chapter and verse to how to do the task, but it is entirely clear that the Justices trusted that the trial judges could and would do it, and quite well.
The fifteen judges, in quite remarkable bursts of creativity that is entirely judicial in character (partly in response to even more legal creativity by squads of volunteer lawyers), have been deciding which individuals are entitled to be freed from Executive Branch detention, and which are not. That, of course, is what habeas has always been about: justify the detention of a particular individual, or let him go.
The discrete facts of the forty-plus cases so far decided have only a little in common, and the actual judicial outcomes have differed, mainly because of the variations in the facts but also, to a degree, because the judges have interpreted detention authority from differing perspectives (though it is easy to exaggerate the differences in the standards they have spelled out, and the Wittes/Chesney study does so).
In reality, each of the judges has started with a piece of legislative guidance that Congress laid down just shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. That guidance came in a quite loosely worded enactment, originally having nothing to do with detention authority: the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (or AUMF). It is the only source of law on which the Obama Administration has relied in claiming the authority for long-term detention of terrorism suspects without charging them with a crime. (The Bush Administration had another claimed source — "inherent" Executive power — but the Obama Administration has explicitly forsaken that.)
One must take seriously the Wittes/Chesney claim that "our purpose in this report is to describe in detail and analyze the courts' work to date — and thus map the contours of the nascent law of military detention that is emerging from it." Even so, the analysis is clearly filtered through the underlying orientation of the authors, and their very real discomfort with the judicial method for resolving difficult legal issues.
Not one of the fifteen judges working on detainee cases since the late summer of 2008, but most diligently since the late fall of that year after some common procedural issues were worked out by Senior District Judge Thomas F. Hogan, has shown any doubt that the task is, indeed, very difficult. There is little to go on, except a few World War II Supreme Court precedents, and the judges differ in how they read those precedents. There is also, of course, the AUMF, but it is such an open-ended congressional endorsement of potential anti-terrorism responses that no two lawyers or judges who read it can agree exactly on its essential scope.
And some of the judges, it is now clear, are quite uncomfortable with the difficulty they have encountered. One judge on the D.C. Circuit Court, Janice Rogers Brown, took the occasion of that Court's first ruling on an actual Guantanamo detention decision to call on Congress to step in to provide some guidance. (That judge, of course, had no difficulty in drawing a very explicit judicial conclusion: international law plays no role in determining whether a Guantanamo detainee can be held or must be released.)
Judge Hogan himself has said he would appreciate some guidance from Congress. And now, three of his colleagues on the district bench have given press interviews to express their desire for some help from Capitol Hill. (Their interviews, given to a news entity, ProPublica, are recounted here.)
The judges, of course, have faced frustrations in trying to apply Boumediene. One of the greatest is that the process of getting information from the Executive Branch, to justify detentions, has often met with heavy resistance. It has not been uncommon for the judges to display publicly their impatience with the responses, particularly, of government intelligence agencies and the Pentagon. Another frustration is that the trial judges have had very little expectation that their handiwork on habeas would survive appellate review in the D.C. Circuit. The Circuit Court majority has maintained a deeply skeptical attitude about judicial second-guessing of the political branches, especially the Executive — an attitude that has led to three direct overrulings of that Court by the Supreme Court.
Another frustration is that most of the district judges have had to put a good part of their other work to the side, or to give it less attention, in order to give priority status to the detainee cases. At one time, there were more than 200 of those cases in the District Court, and, after Boumediene, each of them took on a new urgency. The Supreme Court made clear that further delay in resolving long-term detention status would not be tolerated.
And there is the perhaps daunting challenge — and this is the source of the complaint the judges have made in their public statements asking for help — that they are the front-line in the judicial enterprise of giving meaning to the mandate of Boumediene. Trial judges are more comfortable, in general, fitting existing rules to new facts, and vice versa, and they would prefer to know the rules in advance rather than having to craft them along the way. It may be, however, that the prospects for a new legislative effort to craft detention rules for them to apply are not very promising.
While Congress is currently more or less standing by, discontentedly watching the judges implement Boumediene, past efforts by the lawmakers to craft detention policy have not worked out very well. The lawmakers' first preference, of course, was to keep the courts out of detention affairs altogether. That did not pass muster in the Supreme Court. Their second preference was to devise new machinery to implement detention policy — a military trial system that has faltered repeatedly, and a Circuit Court detention-review policy that ultimately bogged down and then was scuttled by the Circuit Court itself. Their third preference was to dictate that no detainees could be released into the U.S., and no detainee could be released to any other destination until Congress was first notified — and that preference is now under review in the Supreme Court.
So, on the date when Guantanamo was to be closed and the fate of the detainees there largely if not totally resolved, the new debate over where to turn next has no predictable outcome, but the judges and the Justices will proceed in the meantime.


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The Infiniti M35h (earlier post), aka Nissan Fuga Hybrid in Japan - 日産フーガ ハイブリッド, will become the world's first hybrid to feature an audible pedestrian warning system as standard when it goes on sale in six months' time in Europe.
"The new Approaching Vehicle Sound for Pedestrians (VSP) system – is computer controlled and links an in-car sound synthesiser with a speaker built in to the front bumper. It automatically works from start-up to 30 km/h, cutting back in at 25 km/h as the vehicle slows.
Instead of just a single tone, a range of high-low sounds at different volume levels was chosen after an extensive research programme to find the most effective, but least intrusive, noise. The team developing the system in Infiniti's parent group worked with cognitive and acoustic psychologists studying areas from pedestrian behavioural patterns to noise pollution.
The result is a sine-wave sound that extends from 2.5kHz at the high end to a low of 600Hz. It is a range readily audible to all age groups while avoiding a sound range (around 1,000Hz) that would add unnecessary noise to the environment.
The noise sweeps from high to low frequency depending on vehicle speed and whether the M35h is accelerating or decelerating. It is loudest at start-up to give a clear indication the vehicle is beginning to move off, while an intermittent tone is used when reversing – both sounds calculated to ensure the M35h cannot surprise pedestrians and the visually impaired as it approaches.
Although the M35h can travel at speeds of around 80 km/h on engine noise-free electric power alone, road noise past 30 km/h means the M35h generates sufficient sound for the Approaching Vehicle Sound for Pedestrians to remain off. An extensive testing programme during the hybrid's development showed that, in mixed driving conditions, the M35h was able to drive in electric-only mode for as much as 50% of the time.
Unlike other manufacturers and in keeping with Infiniti's generous standard features policy across all its models, Approaching Vehicle Sound for Pedestrians will come ready installed on every M35h in Europe when sales commence from spring 2011 (depending on country). Approaching Vehicle Sound for Pedestrians joins a host of innovative safety systems available on the M35h including the Dynamic Safety Shield, standard on Premium versions."


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Night mode is an automatic setting which takes advantage of the new wide-angle camera that's in the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro models. It's equipped with a larger sensor that is able to let in more light, allowing for brighter photos when the light is low.
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Apple in Talks to Acquire Home Automation Firm R2 Studios
R2 Studios sole public product is an Android client for Crestron whole-home control systems. Crestron released its own clients for the iPhone and iPad several years ago.
R2 Studios, which is developing home-media and automation technology, has remained largely mum about its plans but last year released an app that turns Android phones into touch panels for controlling heating and lighting systems wirelessly. R2 Studios also holds some patents related to controlling electronic devices and interfaces.The WSJ reports that R2 also owns some patents related to "controlling electronic devices and interfaces", in addition to its existing app work. R2 could fit in nicely with Apple's rumored expansion plans, including its efforts to remake television viewing.
The status of the discussion and terms under consideration remain unclear. A deal may not happen and some talks may be preliminary.
The market for home automation has been seeing a lot of activity recently, with former Apple executive Tony Fadell's company releasing the Nest thermostat last year. AT&T has announced plans to get into the home automation market as well.
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I am way, way, way ahead of all of this with my Universal Devices ISY and Insteon control of my home. I can access everything via my iPad and iPhone from anywhere on earth and know the status of appliances, HVAC, the pool pump, lighting and even the electric blanket on the bed. I can control my thermostat and the system acts as a load controller during peak demand hours. I am already living in the future today. Hehehe....ahead of the curve for once!
Somehow this doesn't sound like an impulse purchase my mother would make.
If Apple thinks the TV is a hobby, what would they consider this? I don't see it happening.
But Tim recently stated in his Forbes interview that they have an intense interest in this hobby.
I want my TV to pause or my phone to buzz when someone rings the doorbell then have my phone and/or TV to show me the person. That would be great. Then I want simple but complete control over TV, Light, Thermostat, Stove, Blinds, faucets and such. But I want it to be smart like turn on and off as I enter rooms or say a command. I want it to do things like Siri and keep track of my schedule and leave messages for the wife and kids.
I know there are pieces of tech out there that do all this but it would be nice to have it in one package before I die. I think when I build my house I will incorporate these things. :D
Home automation is a great area for expansion. Think what Apple has done so far has been life-changing? Think of what they could do with home automation.
If apple came out with something like this, I would purchase it with no hesitation. The ease of use and hassle free setup that they have on existing products put them over android for me (I have a buddy with a android/windows 7 ecosystem and my apple setup is wayyyyy better).
I could only imagine how they would takeover home automation
Savant Systems would be a better acquisition:
http://www.savantsystems.com/savant_and_apple.aspx (http://www.savantsystems.com/savant_and_apple.aspx)
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Last updated for WordPress 4.9.
Did you know that the
index.php file in a WordPress theme can be empty? There's no need for it to contain anything at all, as long as you have the following template files in place:
Last updated for WordPress 4.9.
Did you know that the
index.php file in a WordPress theme can be empty? There's no need for it to contain anything at all, as long as you have the following template files in place:
I thought I'd run some stats on WordPress contributors over the years. The only contributor stats I have are the ones published in each release announcement on wordpress.org, so I've put these stats together myself from those lists.
Unfortunately the release announcements have only listed the contributors since version 2.9 (June 2009). If anyone wants to get me the list of contributors for earlier versions I'll happily update this post. It'd be interesting to see the numbers over the years.
This plugin allows you to display Instapaper 'Read later' links next to each post on your blog just like on Give Me Something To Read. You can either automatically insert the links adjacent to your blog entries, or you can just use the template tag to insert the links wherever you like.
From instapaper.com:
Instapaper is a fast, easy, free tool to save web pages for reading later. When you find something you want to read, but you don't have time now, you click 'Read Later'. When you do have time to read, you visit Instapaper on your computer or phone and get whatever you wanted to read.
Check out instapaper.com for all the details and to sign up.
By default, this plugin displays a 'Read Later' link adjacent to each blog entry on your blog. If you wish to control where the links are displayed, you can go to the Settings -> Read Later Links menu and choose between a few display options.
If you choose to disable automatic placement, you'll need to add the following code to your theme in order insert the 'Read Later' link for each post:
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The code must be inside the WordPress loop.
This plugin requires WordPress version 2.7 or later. Tested up to 3.4.2.
Version 1.2 ZIP file from downloads.wordpress.org
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View-source. You've gotta love it. But it's a bit boring sometimes – line after line of hypertext, with the only highlight being nice indentation if you're lucky. I thought I'd liven things up a bit by putting some nice messages into the source of my web pages. For example:
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That would surely cheer up any source code haxor. So I decided to spread the love and create a really big source code text generator. Give it a go below.
You can use the generator below to create really big source code text for your own website. Type the text you want to show up really big in your source code into the box below. It will show up in the larger text area underneath. Numbers and several punctuation characters work too, you'll have to try them.
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1- Establish and support educational institutes and vocational training hubs at all necessary vocational and academic levels to ensure young people's employability and participation.
2- Promote and develop youth activities in artistic and cultural fields.
3- Seek to acquire scholarships for young students at all levels and disciplines.
4- Enhance practical skills and professional capacities of young people.
5- Increase capacities of young people to speak out and advocate for their rights and represent themselves in their community.
6- Enhance participation of young women in economic, social, political, and public life.
7- Promote leadership spirit skills and attitudes among young people.
8- Network and pool resources with local and international stakeholder.
9- Enhance use of civic participation in democratic processes.
10- Promote tolerance through education and dialogue among different youth groups.
11- Exchange youth experience and build bridges among different youth groups.
12- Develop young people's skills to prevent conflicts and resolve problems.