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Buspirone Therapy for Localized Epilepsy
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01496612
Recruitment Status : Terminated
First Posted : December 21, 2011
Last Update Posted : December 12, 2019
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- Buspirone is a drug that is approved for the treatment of anxiety in adults. Studies suggest that buspirone might act on parts of the brain that can increase certain levels of brain activity. Increasing this brain activity may help decrease epileptic seizures that come from certain parts of the brain. Researchers want to see if buspirone can reduce seizure frequency in people with seizures who are already taking antiseizure medication.
- To test whether buspirone can reduce the frequency of seizures in people whose seizures seem to start from one part of the brain.
- Individuals between 18 and 65 years of age who have seizures coming from one or more places in the brain.
- Participants must have tried at least two different antiseizure medications. They must also have had at least three seizures during a 1-month observation period while on current medicines.
- Participants will have a screening visit with a physical exam and medical history. Participants will complete mood and memory testing scales. Blood, urine, and saliva samples will be collected.
- Participants will have a magnetic resonance imaging scan to evaluate brain structures that relate to epilepsy. They will also have a positron emission tomography scan to look at parts of the brain that are affected by buspirone.
- Participants will start taking a study drug (either buspirone or placebo) twice daily. They will keep a calendar of seizures and record any side effects. Treatment will be monitored with clinic visits and blood samples.
- After 12 weeks on the study drug, participants will gradually stop taking either the placebo or buspirone over two weeks. They will stay off the drug for another 2 weeks.
- After 2 weeks, participants will start taking a study drug that is the opposite of the one they had before. They will keep a calendar of seizures and record any side effects. Treatment will be monitored with clinic visits and blood samples.
- After 12 weeks on the study drug, participants will gradually stop taking either the placebo or buspirone.
- Participants will have a final followup visit with additional blood tests, mood and memory testing scales and imaging studies.
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|Anxiety Disorder Seizures Epilepsy Partial Epilepsy Depression
|Drug: Buspirone
|Phase 2
To initiate a pilot clinical trial assessing the safety, tolerability and efficacy of the 5HT1A receptor agonist buspirone in patients with localization-related epilepsy. Buspirone is a 5HT1A receptor agonist that is approved for the treatment of anxiety disorders. Patients with localization-related epilepsy have reduced 5HT1A receptor binding on 18FCWAY positron emission tomography (PET). Increasing neurotransmitter activity at 5HT1A receptor sites may ameliorate seizures.
Forty patients with localization-related epilepsy
A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled cross-over, phase II clinical trial.
The trial will have a screening phase in which each patient will undergo physical and neurological examination, and standard blood tests, followed by a one month baseline phase. At the end of baseline, patients who qualify will have neuropsychological, anxiety, and mood evaluation, FCWAY PET and MRI (if imaging was not performed already). During the subsequent first study phase, patients will be randomized to buspirone or matching placebo. After completion of the first study phase, patients will be crossed over to the alternate study arm. At the end of the study, any patient who wishes to do so may remain on open-label buspirone.
- Difference in seizure rate comparing the 3 month placebo and active study phases
- Neuropsychological, anxiety, and mood indices comparing the 3 month placebo and active study drug phases
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|A Phase Two Clinical Trial of Buspirone Therapy in Localization-Related Epilepsy
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- Difference in seizure rate between the baseline and buspirone periods.
- Neuropsychological and mood indices before and three months after starting buspirone
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- Patients may be male or female.
- Patients will be aged 18 65
- Patients must have at least 3 seizures during the one-month baseline.
- Localization-related epilepsy diagnosed by standard clinical criteria that has not responded to treatment with two standard antiepileptic drugs either sequentially or in combination.
- Patients must be able to provide informed consent
- Patients must be able to remain on their baseline AED drugs and doses throughout the study
- Patients must be able to use seizure calendars to record seizures throughout the trial.
- Pregnant patients will not participate in the study.
- During the study, women of child-bearing potential must use a reliable method of birth control and will have pregnancy testing throughout the protocol.
- Use of any alcohol or recreational drugs starting two weeks before entering baseline and for the duration of the study.
- Patients on medications with potential for a clinically significant interaction with buspirone, including MAO inhibitors, clozapine, zolpidem, hypnotics, hydromorphone derivatives, oxycodone, and
- Current treatment for psychiatric disorder other than depression, anxiety or bipolar disorder.
- Patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
- Current treatment for another significant medical disorder, such as diabetes, or heart disease, or an untreated disorder, that might interfere with the study.
- Calculated Creatinine clearance of less than 80 ml/min calculated with the Cockcroft-Gault formula:
- Clcr = [(140-age) times ideal body weight in Kg] times (0.85 if female) divided by (72 times serum Cr in mg/dL)
- Evidence of impaired liver function based on serum chemistries.
- Inability to participate in the study procedures, such as MRI, PET, seizure and adverse event recording, or drug titration
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01496612
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|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
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|National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
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At a young age, Charolette Tidwell realized the importance of community and how working together can make a huge impact in someone's life.
"I was raised poor, with 10 kids in the house;" however, "my community always said, 'You can be anything you want to be, you can do anything you want to do, but you can't leave anybody behind,'" Charolette said.
Her upbringing inspired her to start the Antioch for Youth and Family* organization, which provides food assistance to approximately 7,000 people each month.
Charolette's goal is to provide food for families and educate them on the importance of good nutrition.
"Good food keeps you well," Charolette said. "And it keeps you up, it keeps you mobile, it keeps your brain fed so that you're able to think."
Charolette has focused on planting and growing healthy food in a community garden. As more children come to work in the garden, Charolette has seen a big change in the community.
"Now what the garden has done to this area is phenomenal. We see houses in these three block areas being refurbished. We see people walking with their dogs and walking over to the garden with their children and talking to the kids about the garden."
Charolette hopes the project she began will blossom into an even greater contribution to her community.
"My dream is that there is a resurgence in the areas we're in," Charolette said. "That people care for people…that people are concerned for people and that people jointly lift each other."
"It is a revitalization of a community, block by block. That's what we intend to achieve," Charolette said.
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One million dollars in prize money up for grabs at Transavia and Long Beach Grand Slams
Lausanne, Switzerland, April 7, 2014 – This year's Long Beach and Transavia Grand Slams just got more interesting with the historic announcement that the two events will carry a pot of $1 million in prize money.
For the first time ever in the FIVB's history, two of the Grand Slams on the beach volleyball calendar will have a prize pot of $1 million, while the other eight will feature a total purse of $800,000 – nearly double the prize money of $440,000 on offer for Grand Slams in 2013.
Never before has such high prize money been distributed in a beach volleyball tournament with the winners receiving a cheque of $70,000 and runners-up $52,000 in both the men's and women's tournaments of these Grand Slam events.
This year's Transavia Grand Slam will be the first time that multiple locations will be used for pool play rounds in a FIVB World Tour Grand Slam event. The Hague Beach Stadium in Scheveningen will be the main venue, while additional pool play will be held during the week in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Apeldoorn – the four cities that will also host the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships in 2015.
The prize pot is also a boost for the organisers of the Long Beach Grand Slam, which returns for the second straight year for the double-gender FIVB Long Beach Grand Slam after a decade away.
"This is a momentous year for beach volleyball and we want to support our players as well as to help grow beach volleyball," said FIVB Beach Volleyball Commission President Vicente Araujo. "The increase in prize money will help to raise the profile of the game and will only serve to strengthen our sport over the long term."
The FIVB has also confirmed that Chennai, situated on the south east coast of India, will host the ninth Open event on the 2014 beach volleyball calendar from November 25 to 30. While this is the city's first time hosting an FIVB Open event, Chennai has held FIVB Challenger Beach Volleyball tournaments in 2008 and 2010. More recently Chennai was the venue for the Asian Beach Volleyball Championship, which were held there in May last year.
The dates of the La Reunion Open have now also been confirmed by the organisers, with the second and final tournament for men only this year set to take place from December 3 to 7.
A record $10.2m in prize money, 10 Grand Slams, an inaugural FIVB Grand Slam Final and 11 Open tournaments are the highlights of this year's record-breaking 2014 beach volleyball calendar.
With the aim of providing athletes with more opportunities to participate, the FIVB confirmed a total of nine double-gender Grand Slams - with another Grand Slam to be added - for the 2014 season, supplemented by a further six double-gender and five single-gender Open tournaments, which represents a significant increase on the 10 Grand Slams and four Open tournaments which featured along with the World Championships in 2013 and carried total prize money of $6.4m. The previous record prize money for a season was $7.5m in 2011.


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LOS ANGELES -- Chinese supplier Wanxiang Group Co., which just won approval to acquire battery maker A123 Systems in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, said it now wants to help support A123's main customer, Fisker Automotive Inc., the financially troubled plug-in hybrid sports car maker.
"It's in our interest if we can help Fisker, in any way we could," Wanxiang America Corp. President Pin Ni said in a phone interview late Wednesday. He declined to say whether Wanxiang would invest in Fisker.
Roger Ormisher, a Fisker spokesman, declined to comment on discussions with the Chinese company.
Wanxiang's unit this week got approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to buy most of the assets of A123 Systems Inc., the battery maker backed with U.S. government funds that filed for bankruptcy in October. A123's failure cut supplies to Fisker, also a recipient of U.S. funds, as the startup was replacing flawed A123 lithium-ion packs.
"They're a customer so it will be in our best interest to support them, as a vendor or possibly in a strategic alliance," Ni said. Fisker, maker of the $103,000 rechargeable Karma sedan, late last year hired Evercore Partners Inc. to find potential investors or partners as the carmaker looks to raise more money and resume production.
That came after Fisker suspended work in a Delaware plant last year when the Energy Department halted access to portion of a federal loan because of failure to meet initial sales and production goals for Karma.
'Ongoing negotiations'
"We have had interest in Fisker from a number of different potential partners or strategic alliances spanning three continents," Ormisher said. "Given the ongoing negotiations, we cannot add any further specifics at this time."
Closely held Fisker was initially awarded $529 million in federal loans by the Obama administration in 2009 for U.S. development and production of plug-in hybrids. The company has said it's raised more than $1.2 billion from private investors and delivered at least 1,500 Karmas. Fisker has hired Huron Consulting Group Inc. to help manage day-to-day operations during negotiations. The company said Jan. 29 Huron's Hugh Sawyer is serving as chief administrative officer.
Fisker CEO Tony Posawatz has said the company still seeks to produce a second model, the lower-priced Atlantic plug-in, at the Wilmington, Del., plant, and needs additional funds to do so. The Karma is built under contract by Valmet Automotive in Finland, and goes as far as 40 miles (64 kilometers) on electricity before a gasoline engine kicks in.
Approval from CFIUS, as it is known, was the final hurdle that Wanxiang's U.S. unit needed to overcome to complete the A123 deal. The federal interagency group led by the Treasury Department was reviewing the sale after members of Congress expressed national-security concerns over allowing a foreign competitor to obtain the technology developed with government backing. Wanxiang's U.S. unit is based in Elgin, Ill.


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This clumping, robust perennial has stiff leaves radiating up and out in a fan-shaped pattern (Fig. 1). The flower spikes are topped with 3-inch white flowers marked with yellow and blue. Although short-lived (about 2 days), the flowers are produced sporadically throughout the year, especially in spring and early summer. Plants grow to 4 or 5 feet tall in standing water, making it ideal for water gardens and wet soil. They reach about 2 to 3 feet in soil. African iris is also attractive when used as an accent planted in a shorter groundcover.
Scientific name: Dietes vegeta
Pronunciation: dye-EE-teez VEDGE-jet-tuh
Common name(s): African iris, butterfly iris
Family: Iridaceae
Plant type: herbaceous; ornamental grass
USDA hardiness zones: 8B through 11 (Fig. 2)
Planting month for zone 8: year round
Planting month for zone 9: year round
Planting month for zone 10 and 11: year round
Origin: not native to North America
Uses: border; mass planting; container or above ground planter; naturalizing; water garden; accent; suitable for growing indoors
Availability: generally available in many areas within its hardiness range
Height: 2 to 6 feet
Spread: 1 to 2 feet
Plant habit: upright
Plant density: moderate
Growth rate: slow
Texture: fine
Leaf arrangement: most emerge from the soil, usually without a stem
Leaf type: simple
Leaf margin: entire
Leaf shape: linear
Leaf venation: parallel
Leaf type and persistence: evergreen
Leaf blade length: 18 to 36 inches
Leaf color: green
Fall color: no fall color change
Fall characteristic: not showy
Flower color: white
Flower characteristic: flowers periodically throughout the year
Fruit shape: elongated
Fruit length: .5 to 1 inch
Fruit cover: dry or hard
Fruit color: green
Fruit characteristic: persists on the plant
Trunk/bark/branches: typically multi-trunked or clumping stems
Current year stem/twig color: not applicable
Current year stem/twig thickness: not applicable
Light requirement: plant grows in part shade/part sun
Soil tolerances: extended flooding; slightly alkaline; clay; sand; acidic; loam
Drought tolerance: moderate
Soil salt tolerances: poor
Plant spacing: 24 to 36 inches
Roots: not applicable
Winter interest: plant has winter interest due to unusual form, nice persistent fruits, showy winter trunk, or winter flowers
Outstanding plant: not particularly outstanding
Invasive potential: not known to be invasive
Pest resistance: long-term health usually not affected by pests
African iris will bloom best on rich, moist soil but will tolerate moderately dry soil conditions, growing in full sun to partial shade. Plants in the full sun or in sandy soil grow best with regular and frequent irrigation. Cold temperatures (below 25°F) cause leaf browning. These leaves can be removed in the spring to clean up the plant. Otherwise, African iris requires no maintenance except for a light fertilization or two each year. Frequent fertilization increases growth rate, foliage color and flower production.
The cultivar 'Johnsonii' has larger leaves and flowers.
Propagation is by seed or division of the matted clumps. Whole plants are lifted, and the rhizomes divided every three years or when new plants are needed.
Nematodes are the main pest problem. No other problems appear to affect this durable plant.
No diseases are of major concern
This document is FPS179, one of a series of the Environmental Horticulture Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date October 1999. Reviewed February 2014. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.
Edward F. Gilman, professor, Environmental Horticulture Department, UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.
The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other UF/IFAS Extension publications, contact your county's UF/IFAS Extension office.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, UF/IFAS Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A & M University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place, dean for UF/IFAS Extension.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama held assets last year that were worth between $1.8 million and nearly $7 million, according to federal financial disclosure forms the White House released Wednesday.
Required by law, the forms allow public officials to list their assets in broad ranges, such as between $1 million and $5 million, which makes it difficult to determine a precise net worth.
Obama signed the eight-page report Tuesday and the White House released it Wednesday as the president remained on the defensive over how the administration explained last September's attack on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.
Obama also has been buffeted in recent days by the disclosure that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups and the Justice Department's decision to secretly obtain two months of records for multiple telephone lines used by Associated Press reporters and editors.
The disclosure forms show the largest jointly owned asset was Treasury notes worth $1 million-$5 million. The Obamas also had $250,001-$500,000 in a JPMorgan Chase checking account, and $100,001-$250,000 in Treasury bills.
The president and first lady also each had $100,001-$250,000 in individual Vanguard retirement funds.
The only liability listed was $500,001-$1 million on a 30-year mortgage on their Chicago home, at an interest rate of 5.625 percent.
The president also collected a total of between $250,000 and $2.1 million in royalties on his three best-selling books, "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," plus a children's book, "Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters."
Vice President Joe Biden reported holding assets last year worth between $120,000 and $550,000, mostly in investment accounts and life insurance policies. Among them were a United States Senate Federal Credit Union savings account held jointly with his wife, Jill, valued at $1,001-$15,000.
Biden represented Delaware in the Senate for 36 years before he was elected vice president.
Biden also listed as an asset a Wilmington, Del., rental property owned with his wife valued at $100,001-$250,000.
Biden's liabilities included the mortgage of $500,001-$1 million, and several home equity lines of credit.
Obama, Biden financial disclosure forms: http://1.usa.gov/10z1pdF
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On Sunday, so many people wanted to watch the season finale of "True Detective" that the HBO Go streaming service crashed.
The Sunday before, Twitter temporarily crashed after Ellen DeGeneres and friends broke the Twitter record for retweets for their selfie at the Oscars. I know this firsthand because I had trouble posting my witty Oscar tweets during the show. (Wouldn't you know it: Twitter crashed as I was posting this. You can't make this stuff up, people.)
And who could forget a couple of Christmases ago when Netflix crashed, leaving several people without their favorite movies to watch and forcing them to actually talk to their families for a change.
What all three crashes had in common was a high demand for that product. The fitness industry could use a trend or an exercise or some idea that generates so much interest that it crashes websites or causes an overbooking of classes. Perhaps we'll see a few of those this week at the IHRSA show in San Diego.
In a story last November, a club operator recalled an overbooking of a popular cycle class that nearly led to fisticuffs in the studio. Of course, violence is not the answer, but club operators should not shy away from a little member frustration now and then if it is caused by a class or a concept that members simply have to have. Just a quick fix or a resolution later, and members will forgive and forget.
Remember, the HBO Go, Twitter and Netflix outages weren't failures. In this day and age, they were hits.


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The Barrington Public Library District recognizes that the Internet may contain material that is inappropriate for the library environment. Responsibility for what children read or view on the Internet rests with parents or guardians. Parents are expected to monitor and supervise their children's use of the Internet. Parents are encouraged to discuss with their children issues of appropriate use and Internet safety. A parent or guardian may request expanded Internet access for his/her child by appearing in person to make this request each time expanded access is to be provided.
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Re-engineering the Machine Shop
New spaces and equipment remove barriers to inventiveness.
By Anna Fiorentino
Photography by John Sherman
Thayer School debuted its retooled machine shop fall term, complete with a larger space, reorganized layout, new equipment, and an expanded student task force to help run the shop. The improvements are making machining easier and safer than ever for students.
"Our mission is to be instructional," says machine shop manager Kevin Baron. "We made it easier to learn how to get about in the machine shop by the location and selection of the tools."
Walls were torn down to create an open-concept shop consisting of seven functional areas placed in logical adjacencies:
- fabrication lab (a.k.a. "Fab Lab")
- polymer processing room
- router lab
- welding and fabrication lab
- stock room
- tool room (a.k.a. machine shop)
- tool crib
"The layout was important so students could see the coherence of how things got made," says Baron. The openness also ensures that staff can keep an eye on students from any vantage point.
The Fab Lab, which is open around the clock, is a launch pad for fabrication. "The idea here was to equip a room with easy-to-use, easy-to-learn tools that students could access after hours," says Baron. "We can teach a student to use the tools in a couple of hours, and it's safe."
But even in the Fab Lab students can create sophisticated projects. A 2Bot Model Maker allows them to carve a foam model they've made in SolidWorks in as few as 20 minutes. A rapid prototyper lets them easily output parts. A laser cutter produces precision-cut shapes from 2D CAD images. "All you need to do at the Fab Lab is bring in your file, plug it in, press a couple of buttons, and the machine will make the piece for you," says machine shop design fellow Max Fagin Th'11, who helps students and faculty with design and fabrication work.
New equipment is boosting capabilities in other areas of the shop as well. About $700,000 in new mills, lathes, and other equipment replaced machinery that in some cases dated back to the World War II era. Reflecting changes in industry, all the new machines are digitally controlled.
"Software engineers are capturing in code all the expert knowledge that once made machining processes the domain of specialists. Now by answering questions, students are able to work way over their heads long before they've understood the details," says Baron. It helps that all the new machines are alike, he adds. "The controls run every one of them. You learn how to use one, you can use all of them."
In addition to the machine shop's four professional instructors, a large cadre of student helpers supports other students working in the new space. "We are engaging students at every level of operation—as users, as shop assistants, and in strategic planning," says Baron. Experienced students are trained to assist newer students with projects. Undergraduates carry out essential day-to-day tasks, such as keeping the shop clean, putting tools away, and being alert for unsafe conditions. Master of Engineering Management (M.E.M.) students help with operational strategies, including implementing a 5-S plan of workspace organization: sort, set in order, sweep, standardize, sustain. M.E.M. students are using social media to make the machine shop more user-friendly, and they're creating an electronic catalog to capture institutional knowledge. Christian Ortiz Th'11, the machine shop's first design fellow, helped develop the Fab Lab, and current design fellow Fagin has created several video tutorials to help students learn how to use equipment.
"I think the argument can be made that this is the finest machine shop accessible to undergraduates anywhere," says Fagin. "Here we get the best of both worlds: a completely open machine shop and a professional level of equipment and instruction."
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Gov. Pat Quinn sounded tone-deaf in his declaration that "Illinois is making a comeback" in his State of the State address Wednesday.
For example, Quinn's claim that the job market is on the rebound stems from the fact that unemployment is three points lower than its bottom-of-the-trough level of 11.3 percent during the Great Recession.
In December, unemployment in Illinois was measured at 8.6 percent, after the economy shed 3,200 jobs. That leaves Illinois with the second-worst jobless rate in the country, where it has been for months. Meanwhile, the Pew Charitable Trust projects Illinois will be dead last in job creation in 2014. The national unemployment rate is 6.7 percent.
Contrary to the theme Quinn repeated time and again during his speech in Springfield, that hardly sounds like "getting the job done."
Quinn also counted the courtship of international businesses, including Japanese railcar maker Nippon-Sharyo, which decided to expand its operation in Rochelle. Media reports on Wednesday also confirmed that Schaumburg-based Cancer Treatment Centers had decided to move its corporate headquarters to Boca Raton, Fla., the same city where Office Depot Inc. plans to move its newly formed company. That company chose Boca Raton over Naperville.
Quinn claimed credit for the pension reform legislation in which he had limited participation, a reform that will not stop the state's finances from sliding into a deficit in the billions within a few years without cuts in spending or increases in revenue.
Quinn talked of more spending – doubling the number of math scholarships for college students, expanding investment in roads, water systems and other infrastructure, and building the Illiana Expressway and a third airport south of Chicago.
Then there was the obligatory section of the speech that included the buzzword "middle class," but had little to nothing to do with middle-class taxpayers.
Instead, Quinn called for mandatory earned sick days for Illinois workers, and an increase in the minimum wage to $10 an hour. Missing was any mention of the growing property tax burden homeowners face, and, as expected, the state's income tax increase that is scheduled to "sunset" at the end of this year was not mentioned.
Yet it is those middle-class taxpayers who work to pay the higher taxes to the state and the too-numerous local governments that always seem to need more money. It is also they who seem destined to foot the bill for the ambitious plans of a governor who insists that higher taxes, too-high unemployment and continued, nagging bulletins about fiscal crisis constitute "getting the job done."


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STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — This is the land of die-hard Democrats — mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run for office.
But when it comes to President Obama, a small part of this constituency balks.
"Certain precincts in this county are not going to vote for Obama," said John Corrigan, clerk of courts for Jefferson County, who was drinking coffee in a furniture shop downtown one morning last week with a small group of friends, retired judges and civil servants. "I don't want to say it, but we all know why."
A retired state employee, Jason Foreman, interjected, "I'll say it: it's because he's black."
For nearly three and a half years, a black family has occupied the White House, and much of the time what has been most remarkable about that fact is how unremarkable it has become to the country. While Mr. Obama will always be known to the history books as the country's first black president, his mixed-race heritage has only rarely surfaced in visible and explicit ways amid the tumult of a deep recession, two wars and shifting political currents.
But as Mr. Obama braces for what most signs suggest will be a close re-election battle, race remains a powerful factor among a small minority of voters — especially, research suggests, those in economically distressed regions with high proportions of white working-class residents, like this one.
Mr. Obama barely won this county in 2008 — 48.9 percent to John McCain's 48.7 percent. Four years earlier, John Kerry had an easier time here, winning 52.3 percent to 47.2 percent over George W. Bush. Given Ohio's critical importance as a swing state that will most likely be won or lost by the narrowest of margins, the fact that Mr. Obama's race is a deal-breaker for even a small number of otherwise loyal Democrats could have implications for the final results.
Obama advisers acknowledged that some areas of the state presented more political challenges than others, but said that the racial sentiment was not a major source of worry. The campaign's strategy relies in large part on a strong performance in cities and suburban areas to make up for any falloff elsewhere among Democrats in this or other corners of Ohio.
The Obama campaign aggressively monitors any racial remarks made against the president, but officials rarely openly discuss Mr. Obama's race. The president released his birth certificate last year in an effort to quell a growing controversy about whether he is a United States citizen. He said last month that race in America was still "complicated."
"I never bought into the notion that by electing me, somehow we were entering into a post-racial period," Mr. Obama said in an interview with Rolling Stone.
"I've seen in my own lifetime how racial attitudes have changed and improved, and anybody who suggests that they haven't isn't paying attention or is trying to make a rhetorical point," he said. "Because we all see it every day, and me being in this Oval Office is a testimony to changes that have been taking place."
Researchers have long struggled to quantify racial bias in electoral politics, in part because of the reliance on surveys, a forum in which respondents rarely admit to prejudice. In 50 interviews in this county over three days last week, 5 people raised race directly as a reason they would not vote for Mr. Obama. In those conversations, voters were not asked specifically about race, but about their views on the candidates generally. Those who raised the issue did so of their own accord.
"I'll just come right out and say it: he was elected because of his race," said Sara Reese, a bank employee who said she voted for Ralph Nader in 2008, even though she usually votes Democrat.
Did her father, a staunch Democrat and retired mill worker, vote for Mr. Obama? "I'd have to say no. I don't think he could do it," she said.
But the main quarrels Democratic voters here have with Mr. Obama have nothing to do with race. They include his rejection of one proposed route for the Keystone pipeline, a stance they say will harm this area, whose backbone, the Ohio River, is lined with metal mills and coal mines.
And the economy, on the rise nationally, is still stuck here. About one in three residents in Steubenville live in poverty, double the national rate. Shale gas, which has begun to bring profits to some counties in Ohio, has yet to take off here, and downtown is a grid of empty storefronts behind dusty glass.
"The big word was 'change,' but there's not been much of that," said Christopher Brown, a union leader in Steubenville, who said more than 200 of his members were still out of work. "Members are saying, 'What has President Obama done for us?' "
As for race, he said, "It's not on the front table, it's in the back seat."
Just how far back is a question no one can definitively answer. "Race in America is always a work in progress," said Clement A. Price, a professor of history at Rutgers-Newark. "It's often a proxy for social anxieties, such as this long recession, joblessness and the war abroad."
Stephanie Montgomery, who is black and a graduate of Franciscan University in Steubenville, said her race came up so often in her job search in this area that she developed a technique for recognizing when it was happening. The sign: when warmth on the phone turns cool in person, and "they lose eye contact with you."
"You almost need a corporate environment to get a fair shot," she said while standing at a job fair in the Steubenville mall. She said that she did not vote for Mr. Obama in 2008 because she preferred Mr. McCain's more conservative platform, but that Mr. Obama seemed to be a lightning rod for criticism, in part because of his race.
"He's everything they hate," she said, referring to ultraconservatives. "An affirmative-action baby. Got the Nobel Prize without deserving it."
Many who raised race as a concern cast Mr. Obama as a flawed candidate carried to victory by blacks voting for the first time. Others expressed concerns indirectly, through suspicions about Mr. Obama's background and questions about his faith.
"He was like, 'Here I am, I'm black and I'm proud,' " said Lesia Felsoci, a bank employee drinking a beer in an Applebee's. "To me, he didn't have a platform. Black people voted him in, that's why he won. It was black ignorance."
Louis Tripodi, a baker in Steubenville who voted for Mr. Obama, blames talk radio and Republican rhetoric for encouraging such attitudes. " 'He's a Muslim, he's a socialist, he's not born in this country,' " he said. "It's got a lot to do with race."
Race has also helped Mr. Obama. It increased voter turnout among blacks in 2008, and some younger voters said it was part of why they voted for him. But now that history has been made, it is less of a pull.
"It was kind of like a bandwagon that a lot of young people jumped on because it was history," said Dee Kirkland, a 22-year-old working in a pizza shop in nearby Yorkville. "It was a fad to like him," she said, adding that "race shouldn't hinder you, but it also shouldn't help you."
Mr. Obama still has a number of enthusiastic supporters here. Diane Woods, the owner of Pee Dee's Brunch and Bar, a diner in downtown Steubenville, described him as "regal, and presidential," and said she would vote for him again because "when he talks, it makes sense to me."
The fact that race came up at all in 2008 "really showed how divided we still are," she said, cooking eggs one gray morning last week. "Blacks came out to vote for the first time because he was black, and you had all these whites saying, 'Oh, there's another vote from some drug addict.' "
Mr. Corrigan, who supports Mr. Obama, said he believed that the president would ultimately win this mostly Democratic county but that it would be very close, a prediction he said was underscored by a recent flurry of Republican visits. Rick Santorum came here twice during his campaign, and Gov. John R. Kasich, a Republican, gave his annual address here this winter.
"It's going to be a nail-biter," said Mr. Brown, the union official.


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Accounting May Daniel R. Bailey (New York) Insurance Accounting and Statistical Association International Conference, Minneapolis. "The Cost and Effect of Reinsurance." Frederick McDonald (New York) Insurance Accounting and Statistical Association, Minneapolis. "Computerization of Insurance Premium Financing 'Texas Note.' " June Howard H. Hankins (Orange County) Soroptimists, San Clemente, California. "Effective Financial Reporting." Fred M. Oliver (Salt Lake City) Municipal Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada, New Orleans. "New MFOA-NCGA Principles and Standards." Carl L. Sturgis (New York) The American Law Institute and The American Bar Association, Washington. "Problems of Brokers or Dealers in Securities under the Net Capital Rules." Gregg C. Waddill (Houston) The Journal of Accountancy, Current Reading, June 1968. Review of "The Financial Executive and the New Accounting." Robert E. Wailes, Jr. (Birmingham) Alabama CPA Society, Florence State College, Florence. "Accounting Principles Board Opinion #8—Accounting for the Cost of Pension Plans." July Clayton L. Bullock (Executive) Accounting Conference, Electric Utilities of Texas, Amarillo. "Comprehensive Tax Allocation." August Daniel J. Ciecko (Chicago) Illinois CPA Society, Chicago. (Also September 25.) "Reporting Requirements under the Securities Act." Jack H. Fisch, Martin Mellman (Executive) The Journal of Accountancy, August 1968. "Poolings of Interests: The Status of the Criteria." Thomas W. Hudson, Jr. (Greensboro) North Carolina CPA Association, Piedmont Chapter, Greensboro. "Accounting for Income Taxes." Martin Mellman (see Fisch) September John A. Favret, J. Byrne Kelly (Cleveland) The Cleveland Engineering Society- Management Planning and Control Seminar, Cleveland. "Understanding Financial Statements." J. Byrne Kelly (see Favret) Eugene L. Larkin, Jr. (New York) Maryland CPA Association, Baltimore. "Reporting Banks' Financial Results." Eugene L. Larkin, Jr. (New York) Operations Committee Meeting of the Twenty-Six Banks in the Financial General Corporation Group at Charlottesville, Virginia. "AICPA Disclosure Rules for Commercial Banks." Victor H. Schulte (Saint Louis) Saint Louis Financial Association, Saint Louis. "Independent Certified Public Accountant and the Security Broker." J. William Stewart, Jr. (Charlotte) American College of Apothecaries, Montreal. "What the Pharmacist Should Expect from His Independent Accountant." October Martin M. Friedman (New York) New York State CPA Society, New York. "The Summary of Earnings." Samuel Rees, III (Kansas City) Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. "Changes in Accounting and Accounting for Change." Auditing February Harold A. Hopper (Seattle) Institute of Internal Auditors, Seattle Chapter. "Auditape—the Auditor's Key to the Computer." March Floyd A. Petersen (Salt Lake City) Brigham Young University Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, Provo, Utah. "Haskins & Sells Auditape System and Its Usefulness to Auditors and Management." April Floyd A. Petersen (Salt Lake City) Utah State University, Logan, Utah. "What's New in Auditing—H&S Auditape System." May Dean H. Maddox (San Francisco) Data Processing Managers Association, San Francisco Chapter. "Changes in Auditing with the Advent of EDP." William R. Teager (Cincinnati) Villa Madonna College, Cincinnati. "Auditape System." June Frank J. Borelli (New York) Nevil G. Hawthorne (Toronto) Regional Internal Auditors, Continental Can Company, Montreal. "Cooperation Between Internal and External Auditors; Auditape System." Adrian F. Cummings, Jerry W Kolb (Chicago) Illinois CPA Society, Chicago. "Haskins & Sells Auditape System." Nevil G. Hawthorne (see Borelli) Jerry W Kolb (see Cummings) Kenneth G. Krueger (see Mansfield) William. B. Mansfield, Kenneth G. Krueger (Denver) Institute of Independent Hospital Auditors, American Association of Hospital Accountants Educational Foundation, University of Chicago Center for Continuing Education, Chicago. "Hospital Auditing Problems." William E. Rowe (see Stringer) Charles G. Steele (SanFrancisco) Central States Accounting Conference, Minneapolis. "Statistical Sampling— Where Are We Today?"
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A student thought to be skipping class was found to be armed and heading back to school to confront a bully, San Diego police said Monday.
According to police, a 15-year-old Serra High School student was found with an unloaded handgun in his backpack. He told the officer he was planning to confront a bully.
The incident happened last Wednesday morning.
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Lt. Steve Behrendt said a police officer was on a truancy sweep when he stopped the teenager just a few blocks from the high school. The teen said he had been bullied for several weeks and felt he needed protection.
"The previous day the kid that had been bullying him said some things that made him think his life was in danger," Behrendt said.
Police said the student admitted to stealing the gun from a secured box belonging to his uncle and then stashing the weapon in a canyon near the high school. He said he went to school, was bullied again and then cut class to retrieve the weapon. Police said it was a 1911 military-grade .45 caliber sidearm.
NBC 7 learned the teen first went to De Portola Middle School nearby to speak to a former teacher, who was unaware of the weapon. When he left to go back to the high school, Behrendt said the officer stopped him.
"It was a close call. Had he pulled out the gun in campus, there's no telling what could've happened," he said.
NBC 7 spoke to numerous students at Serra High who said they knew the teen was going through a tough time.
One student whose parent did not want him identified said, "He had a hard life. His dad died last year and he was living with his uncle."
Police confirmed the teen lost his father and that the gun belonged to his dad, but his uncle was keeping it for the time being. Many students said although they felt bad for their peer, this incident was scary.
"I think it's a miracle that he got caught," one student said. "It's kind of scary to think. He's in my class. He could've had it right next to me."
According to Lt. Behrendt, the teen faces possible prosecution on a count of possessing a firearm on a school campus because he stopped at De Portola Middle School.


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Space Monkey
|Space Monkey (Dmitri III)
|Tag Line
|"I'm not a #*%^ing spider monkey! I'm a squirrel monkey! Saimiri sciureus, you idiot human!!"
|Dumb Fact
|A hero of the former soviet union. There's a statue erected of him and everything.
|a trained squirrel monkey, voiced by Jim Parsons
|Dmitri the Third was a test monkey for the early Cosmonaut program in the then-USSR, who flew into space on a top-secret test flight of a planned-solar powered espionage network. Abandoned and left to die in space after the test, Dmitri ran into the Cosmic Rays, forever changing him into the hyperintelligent sentient being he is today. As a result of his already far-drifting course through space, the unexpected power of the newly Ray-energized solar engine, a slight miscalculation(for which he will never forgive himself), and time dilation, Dmitri arrived back on earth years many years after his departure. Though greeted in propaganda as a hero of the USSR, even receiving the highest medals from the state and a statue in Red Square, Dmitri's inability to connect with his own species and humans - a result of his intelligence, and his remembrance of being left to die, left him bitter and began a slow downword spiral into extreme alcoholism. Left penniless and shamed, he made his way to Paradigm City, where his past performance would lend it's name to the hero team the Hall of Cosmonauts.
Dmitri has met many individuals in his adventuring, but some have had a recurring role in his life. Most prominately is his sometimes-friendship/sometimes-hatred of Booze Hound, a sentient dog who shares the love of the bottle. Dmitri's rogue's gallery of villains include numerous other animals, such as Gorilla Gus, Cyro Chicken, Clint Beastwood, Tsarzan, Soberman Pincher, and Professor Hawk (a hawk imbued with the mind of Stephen Hawking). In his personal life, Dmitri has a way with beautiful women and is very much sexually active, causing many akward moments with fellow Hall of Cosmonaut Captain Condom.


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Kristin's Bikini-Body Routine
Kristin Davis is proud of her curves. "I have hips!" she says. "I'm never going to be the thinnest actress, and I don't want to be. When you're at peace with yourself and your body, you're automatically more confident." To stay in shape, she alternates between hiking, yoga, Pilates, and cardio, depending on her mood. "I can't just hop on the treadmill," admits Kristin, 45, who reprises her role as Charlotte in Sex and the City 2, which opens in theaters on May 28. "I need to mix things up and enjoy what I'm doing."
Here, she reveals how she stays in shape.
What was it like to pose in a bikini for our cover?
I'm not going to lie. It was very intimidating. There are people who feel comfortable in bathing suits, and I don't know how they do it. I worked with Kristen Bell and Malin Akerman on the movie Couples Retreat, and they didn't care about standing around in their bikinis for days. The guys in the movie were more self-conscious than they were!
Did you step up your workout to get ready?
Sarah Jessica Parker introduced me to trainer Tracy Anderson's gym in New York City, which is great for me because they change the workouts every 10 days. My favorite is using the stretchy elastic bands. They strengthen and tighten all parts of your arms without bulking you up. They also work on your core and posture. You end up feeling really strong.
Get Kristin's fave workout moves here!
What do you do when you can't make it to the gym?
At home I do the elliptical for 30 to 45 minutes, lots of planks for stability, and yoga and Pilates for my core. When I'm traveling, I do jumping jacks with resistance bands and a leg workout where all you need is a chair.
How Kristin Stays Motivated
Are you and Sarah Jessica workout pals?
At times. Sarah Jessica doesn't need a support buddy. She's one of the most motivated people I've ever met, and she has an amazing body even when she doesn't work out; though like the rest of us, she doesn't feel that way. For me, it's more fun when I have someone to go with.
How do you psych yourself up to work out when you don't want to?
I remind myself that the endorphins will make me feel better. Even if I'm in a bad mood or I'm tired, I try to do something active for at least 20 to 30 minutes.
What's your idea of exercise heaven?
I love hiking with my dogs Momma and Sam, two mutts I rescued. And I do yoga.
What do you consider fitness hell?
Aerobics! I've tried to do the routines, but I'm not that coordinated. Just saying the word routine makes me anxious.
What do you like best about your body?
My deltoids. That area is not the easiest place to get definition, so toning it gives me a sense of accomplishment.
Her Diet Dos and Don'ts
What are your go-to healthy foods?
I eat a lot of chicken, salmon, eggs and side salads. But if all I ate were salads every day, I'd shoot myself. Who cares if you can fit in your skinny jeans if you can't enjoy life and have something good to eat? I went through periods when I said I can't have this, I can't have that. Now I don't deprive myself. Food is meant to be enjoyed.
If you could indulge in anything, what would it be?
Chocolate! I especially love M&M's. These days, if I want some, I eat them. When it's hot in the summer, I have to have my ice cream. One trick I've learned is that if I have an ice cream bar, I'm okay having four bites and then throwing it away. I don't need to eat the whole thing to feel satisfied.
Secrets from Sex and the City — and Her New "Baby"
Did you become a runner because Charlotte on Sex and the City was one?
I actually started running when I was cast on Melrose Place. I wanted lean legs, so I got a coach and I'd go up to Santa Barbara and run seven miles on the beach. I loved running outside, but I got so many ankle injuries over the years that I've had to take a break from it.
What's the worst rumor you've read about yourself?
That the cast of Sex and the City hates one another. We're standing so close during filming that we touch for 18 hours a day, and then people want to say we don't get along. It's the funniest thing in the world.
What's the most surprising thing about you?
I've adopted a baby elephant named Chaimu. When I was in Kenya, the group I was with found her all alone, which is a very bad thing because elephants always travel with their families. I helped take Chaimu to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust's elephant orphanage. I help pay for her upkeep and veterinary care. I hope to go back to visit her this summer.
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Originally published in FITNESS magazine, May 2010.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) It's hard to imagine in a grudge match like the Michigan-Ohio State rivalry that a player wouldn't take it personally being snubbed by his hometown team.
But the Wolverines' brilliant point guard, Trey Burke, swears that he's OK with being bypassed by the Buckeyes - even though he grew up in Columbus and he longed to play with his longtime best friend, former Buckeye Jared Sullinger.
``I understood that they already had Aaron Craft and they were looking at Shannon Scott,'' Burke said of his two Ohio State counterparts. ``In high school, it fueled me and made me work harder. Now I feel I'm in the best situation I could have been in. I feel like I'm in the right place. I'm happy here. I don't see anything personal.''
Even though he's coming home, he's a former Associated Press Mr. Basketball in Ohio and he'll have 25 or so friends and family cheering him on, it's likely he'll get a cold reception when No. 2 Michigan (16-0, 3-0 Big Ten) takes on 15th-ranked Ohio State (12-3, 2-1) on Sunday.
With No. 1 Duke losing at No. 20 North Carolina State 84-76 on Saturday, the Wolverines are the last unbeaten team left standing.
As a freshman last season, Burke was a bit overwhelmed by the crowd when he came back home. So were the Wolverines. Burke had 13 points and five assists in a 64-49 loss to the then-No. 4 Buckeyes.
In the rematch at Ann Arbor, Mich., he had 17 points and five assists in a 56-51 upset.
When the teams met in the Big Ten semifinals - less than 24 hours after Michigan had gone to overtime to beat Minnesota - and Burke had almost as many turnovers (eight) as he did points (five) and assists (four) combined in a 77-55 loss. He made just 1 of 11 shots from the field.
Now he's guided the Wolverines to a fast start. A win against the Buckeyes and Michigan will set a school record for wins to start a season, currently shared with the 1985-86 team.
Burke says he's grown accustomed to hostile environments after fronting the Michigan attack for a year and a half.
``I'm used to going (on the road) and getting booed by a crowd,'' he said. ``I know there'll be a lot of people who want to see me do well; and I know there's going to be a lot of people who want to see me do bad.''
There are very few rivalries as intense as the annual football grudge match between Michigan and Ohio State. Now that enmity has been carried over to the wintertime, said Craft.
``It's Ohio State-Michigan. I don't care what sport it is. It could be synchronized swimming,'' Craft said. ``You always want to win.''
Especially this time. The Buckeyes, who have won at least a share of the Big Ten title the last three seasons and five of the last seven years, can ill afford another debilitating conference loss after a one-sided beatdown at Illinois on Jan. 5.
``(The Big Ten season) is a long grind but you don't want to get into that position of hoping things happen in your favor when you're not playing,'' said Ohio State coach Thad Matta.
Matta has had his way with Michigan in his eight previous years at Ohio State, winning 16 of 19 meetings.
From the outside the game will likely revolve around how well the Wolverines can guard 6-foot-7 Deshaun Thomas, the Big Ten's leading scorer at 20.3 points a game, and whether Ohio State can muster a way to stop Michigan's many scoring threats.
Burke leads the Wolverines at 18.2 points a game, with three other starters also hitting double figures. Tim Hardaway Jr. is at 16.3 and freshmen Nik Stauskas averages 13.5 and Glenn Robinson III contributes 12.6 points per outing.
Both teams have something to prove. Michigan's biggest two road wins have been over Northwestern (94-66) and Bradley (74-66). Can the Wolverines show their mettle against a rough-and-tumble ranked opponent?
And they can ascend to No. 1 for the first time since Nov. 30, 1992. That Michigan team, featuring the vaunted ``Fab Five,'' went on to a 31-5 record and lost in the national championship game before NCAA violations resulted in vacating that season.
Ohio State is 12-0 against unranked teams and 0-3 when playing teams in the AP Top 25. Do the Buckeyes have what it takes to beat someone at least as good as they are?
The rivalry provides an undercurrent for the game. Fans have been camping out - granted, in unseasonable temperatures approaching 70 degrees - to get prime seats at Value City Arena. The players have gotten texts, tweets and emails from fans and fellow students urging them to beat their chief adversary.
Matta said his team always gets a team's best shot, partly because of the Buckeyes' run of titles.
``The thing I've learned, and I like it, you either love Ohio State or you hate Ohio State,'' he said. ``There's no gray area like, `I like them.' When you've had some success, it definitely heightens the awareness.''
Burke said he's trying to distance himself from the emotion of the game.
``Last year I kind of made it a personal matchup at times. That was a sign of immaturity,'' he said. ``Now that I know what it takes to win, I'm going to try and do that and get the win.''
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Motorola SLVRlite V270 and SLVRcam V280
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Check out these two SLVR phone versions from Motorola. The Motorola SLVRcam V280 and SLVRlite V270 are both stylish and, from the looks of the specs, functional too. Here is the breakdown: The SLVRcam V280 has some very nice photo and video options. It has a VGA camera with 4x zoom, with built-in auto-timer and multimedia photo album creator. In addition, it can capture and playback MPEG-4, .3gpp, and H.263 video. It also has integrated Bluetooth, MP3 ringtone support, SCREEN3, and all the other standards. The SLVRlite V270 also has Bluetooth support, the ability to play video clips, GPRS, MP3 ringtone support, and a few other basic features. Both these phones should be available in the second half of 2005.
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Nintendo At GDC: Revolution Backwards Compatible
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In news that makes me smile with glee, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced that the companies next-generation console - codenamed "Revolution" - will be backwards compatible with Nintendo Gamecube games. This move adds a lot of power to Nintendo as the next generation race begins to heat up. Microsoft has been trying to tie this feature into the Xbox 2/360 feature set, and has been having difficulty doing so. Having a system be backwards compatible immediately makes it more appealing, as it has hundreds of titles available to play right out of the gate. Iwata also confirmed that the Revolution will come with integrated WiFi capabilities. From the way he was talking at the Game Developers Conference, it seems that Nintendo is finally going to get on board with the online gaming world.
Read More | 1Up
Nokia Promises Another Revamped N-Gage
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From the "Can You Please Just Let It Die?" department, Nokia plans to continue throwing millions away by backing the N-Gage cell phone/video game console hybrid. The latest from them is that they plan to bring an updated version of the N-Gage QD to the market, hoping that will breathe new life (or really, initial life?) into the device.
"We're looking at new colors, a new look and feel for the QD in the next few months," said Gerard Wiener, director and general manager of the games business program at Nokia.
Hey Nokia, I know technology moves really fast and all, and I know how forgettable it was. However, you did have an N-Gage before the QD, and no one bought it. Then you said you would bring a redesigned version to market, in the hopes that it would spark sales. It really didn't happen for ya. Now you can stop wondering why you guys have that sense of deja vu. You're welcome.
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AMD Turion 64 Launched
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AMD's answer to Intel's Centrino has finally launched. The Turion 64 features AMD64 performance, HyperTransport technology, and AMD PowerNow! technology that allows you to play or work longer on a single charge. Much like the Centrino, the Turion also provides wireless compatibility to support most popular wireless interfaces for connectivity wherever the road may take you. With performance that rivals the Centrino, the Turion 64 is sure to be a popular choice for people looking for light weight mobile computers with a low price tag without sacrificing performance.
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For Your Desktop: Tarantula In A GLass
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Looks like we've found the ultimate conversation piece, though I suspect it will frighten the women away moreso than attract them. This real-life tarantula comes encased in hardened acrylic so that you can check out all the creepy details without getting bit. I've actually seen something like this at my brother's house, who took the molten skin from his pet tarantula, framed it, and placed it on an end table. This venom-free item retails for $22.95.
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Supercomputer Behind Film Special Effects: Now For Hire
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The network of computers used to generate the special effects wizardry behind the Lord of the Rings trilogy is still being used today, on a work-for-hire basis, for a variety of purposes. One project is the design of a super yacht, while another is around the testing of gene sequencing algorithms. Doesn't get much more varied than that. Not to fear though, as film companies are still using the supercomputer for their effects, including Peter Jackson's King Kong remake. Able to crunch more than 2.8 trillion calculations per second, it is now 104th most powerful supercomputer on the planet.
Read More | BBC News
Sony's Flash Based Walkmans
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Last month there was a rumor about Sony's latest flash memory based MP3 player. Sony officially launched the beautiful MP3 player to challenge Apple's iPod Shuffle. The MP3 player is available in three flavors, 256MB, 512MB or 1GB and sports a 3 line OLED screen. Sony claims that some of its newer models can generate three hours of playback on a three minute charge! You can expect a 256MB version to set you back $133.84 (100 euros) and the 1GB to run about $321.22 (200 euros).
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ColorWare Mac minis
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It's pretty amazing what a good color job will do to an ordinary looking device. Not that the Mac mini was ordinary to begin with, but still, with one of 20 custom color jobs from Colorware, you will be the envy of Apple fans everywhere. You can pimp out your mini for $99, and they are also planning to offer matching keyboards and mice. Check out the jobs that ColorWare did on our iPod, and Xbox - they are a class act.
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Samsung 7-Megapixel SCH-V770 Camera Phone
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Yes, you read that right. This is the world's first 7 megapixel camera phone. Of course you're going to need to carry the optical zoom separately, but just think about how sharp those prints are going to be. The SCH-V770's has a 1/1.8 inch type CCD image sensor, 3x optical zoom lens, flash and manual focus control. It also has 32 megabytes of internal memory, enough to store what, like 2 pictures at this resolution?
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Gas Powered Blender
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ANAHEIM, Calif., March 18 (UPI) -- Nashville's Mike Fisher scored the go-ahead goal in the third period Sunday and the Predators rallied for a 3-1 victory over Anaheim.
Trailing 1-0 at the start of the final frame, the Predators notched the equalizer 79 seconds in when they held the puck in at the left point and David Legwand fed a streaking Patric Hornqvist, who fired home a wrist shot.
Fisher tallied the go-ahead goal midway through the period and Legwand added an empty-netter as Nashville snapped a two-game slide.
The win gave the Predators 92 points and a fourth-place tie with Detroit in the Western Conference with 10 games to play.
Anders Linback turned aside 30 saves to collect the victory.
Devante Smith-Pelly scored and Jonas Hiller gave made 24 stops for the Ducks.


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Six races on day one of the 2010 IKA course racing world championship was not only a test for the stamina of the riders, but also for the technical skills, as Copus Christi showed its windy side today.
With wind speeds at constand 30mph the entire fleet was challenged, conditions where extreme due to the heavy, rolling chop, and with the big new course racing boards the downwind legs proved to separate the great from the good.
Adam Koch (USA, Ozone) ruled today but neither Damien Leroy (USA, Cabrinha), Bruno Sorka (FRA, Cabrinha) or defending world champion Sean Farley (MEX, North) were too far off.
Race one started with Sky Solback (USA, North) taking first on a tri fin Paulo Rista board. He surprised the entire fleet and had the main contenders worried.
But after that race, Adam Koch took it up a notch winning races 2 through 6. He controlled the field and sailed perfect races with virtually no mistakes.
Bruno Sroka seemed to be the man chasing Koch throughout the day, but in the evening he had to take two scoring penalties which put him back into fourth.
In second after day one is Damian Leroy followed by John Heineken (USA), Bruno Sroka and Sean Farley. The top ten is completed by Sky Solbach, Jesse Richman (USA, Cabrinha), Abel Lago (ESP, RRD), Chip Wasson (USA) and Dirk Hanel (GER, North).
On the woman's side its is Kari Schibevaag (NOR, Ozone) chased by last years world champion Steph Bridge (GBR, North) and Kristin Boese (GER, Best).
While Steph clearly dominated last years racing in the womens fleet, Kari proved already on the firs PKRA racing event of the season that she seems to be on dominating equipment.
It seems to be another major step in the equipment development from the 2009 to the 2010 season, and the upcoming days will show how much is equipment, and how much it is up to the rider to win the races.
Tomorrows forecast calls for a little lighter winds, 18 to 22 mph which will for sure show changes on the leader boards.
Saturday is supposed to be the windiest day as a northwest front hits the Corpus Christi Bay and will have gusty winds up to 40mph.
Adam Koch in the Lead after day 1 - courtesy The Kiteboarder


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Part of me hoped that I was able to put beating the living crap out of women behind me, especially as we look to turn the page on this year, but I guess it wasn't to be. Soon after its sudden appearance and equally abrupt disappearance (due to being blocked for an international audience) the Danish anti-violence gamelet Hit the Bitch was discovered by the mainstream blogettantes and predictable levels of opinionifying ensued. Now, make no mistake, if you've read my previous post on the gamelet, you know that I found Hit the Bitch pretty disturbing on many levels and, ultimately, a tragically misguided attempt to mount a provocative intervention in the service of a cause that gets too little attention. You only have to scratch the surface of our society to find some pretty horrific levels of violence against women, and only the fact that most people engineer their lives to skate comfortably across the surface of life and society ensures that this remains invisible.
Therefore, one would hope, as the developers of the gamelet undoubtedly did, that their work would be controversial, that it would provoke discussion. But what has been obvious from the blogosphere's reaction to Hit the Bitch is how insubstantial and inconsequential has been the nature of that discussion. But that insubstantiality is interesting for a couple of reasons. First, for those of us who study games and gaming this lack of substantive critical appraisal of games (frequently descending to the level of outright idiocy) is nothing new in the mainstream media. The mainstream media is–with only rare exceptions–incapable of discussing anything related to electronic gaming with subtlety, insight and nuance (as is abundantly obvious when the media gears up to wring its hands about gaming violence). Of course, a cynic would say that the same is true of the media's coverage of anything. However, we are told ad nauseum that the blogosphere is supposedly the new, hip, interactive, penetraing, insightful, engaged, world-saving alternative to the mainstream media. It is, therefore, intriguing to find the blogosphere mired in the same lack of critical nous as the mainstream media when it comes to dealing with game-related controversies. In one sense this is only to be expected. It is hard to sell subtlety and complexity. It is easy to sell controversy and outrage if it's all presented in an easily digestible package.


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