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The Hope College Orchestra will be performing along with the Hope College Symphonette Strings on Friday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The concert will feature works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Dag Wiren, Antonio Vivaldi, John Corigliano and Felix Mendelssohn.
The first piece on the program will be Mozart's "Divertimento in D major." Following, the strings will perform the "Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 11," by Wiren.
Continuing with the program, four senior violinists from the Symphonette will be performing "L'Estro Armonico; Concerto for Four Violins in b minor," by Vivaldi. The featured performers will be Beth Barnadyn of BoyneCity, Tori (Baar) Zokoe of Holland, Kirsten Schroeder of Warren and Sarah Borzym of Elmhurst, Ill.
Following the Vivaldi, the Symhonette Strings will turn to the 20th century composition, "Voyage for String Orchestra," by John Corigliano. To close the program, the Symphonette Strings will perform "Sinfonia No. 9 in c minor," by Mendelssohn.
The orchestra is directed by Richard Piippo of the Hope music faculty, who is an associate professor of cello/chamber music at the college. Piippo has taught at Hope since 1999.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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A winner was selected from 185 designs submitted by 51 freelance designers.
We are one of the fastest growing Psychic networks in the country. We provide a service that helps people find their true life path, so that they can live a better life - full of love, success, and happiness.
Our brand Possible is an extension of the concept of identifying your true life path and living a better life.
You've probably heard the phrase, "anything is possible". Well, with a little psychic guidance, we believe "everything is possible."
In the past and even today, celebrities, royalty, and even Presidents have used psychics to help define their legacies. Today, people who seek the guidance of psychics are everywhere; however, our audience skews over 70% female. Our audience generally has a strong sense of faith or spirituality. They are typically between the ages of 25-54 and are often in a caretaker role either at home, at work, or both. Our callers are highly diverse and are typically looking for guidance regarding love, relationships, finances, or their career.
We are looking for a design that helps establish us as a world-class brand. This logo could be seen in print, TV, and web advertisements.
Some of the things we would like to convey in our logo (although maybe not all at once) is a powerful brand, hope, inspiration, and healing.
We are open to most color schemes; however, we would like to avoid pink, fuchsia, and red. We are often partial to blue; however, open to other colors.
Most likely, we are looking for a logo that is type face (like match.com) or slightly stylized. We do not want to overly stylize and diminishes the brand. We are open to letter form logos, abstract logos, web 2.0 (as long as it isn't too distracting), and wordmark logos. We are most partial to woodmark, letter form, and abstract.
Considering our audience, we are open to feminine logos; however, not so much so that we lose any brand prominence by having an overly light font; however, a lighter cursive may work.
Some concepts we kicked around even though we are open to many others is taking one letter of the word Possible and stylizing it with possibly a question mark, the eye of providence, a star, or something else; however, none of these concepts have produced a logo that we liked thus far so either they need better execution or we need more creativity from you to try something else and design something better.
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Students and staff gather for annual See You At The Pole.
Students and teachers at Skyline Schools met at the pole on Wednesday, not the north or south ones, but the flag pole for the national See You at the Pole event.
"See You at the Pole is a student-initiated, student-organized, and student-led event taking place the fourth Wednesday every September," Skyline teacher Summer Younie said.
Sixty-seven people attended Skyline's event. The theme was "Awakening."
"I think it went well. We had a great mix of younger students through seniors, faculty and parents," Younie said.
The Skyline Fellowship of Christian Athletes provided donuts, juice and milk.
See You at the Pole has been around for 22 years. In the last three years Younie and FCA have hosted the event at Skyline.
"See You At The Pole brings teenagers to their school flagpoles to intercede for other students, their schools, families and nation, asking God to bring moral and spiritual awakening," Younie said.
Whether a single student standing alone, two or three huddled together in unity, or hundreds gathered in front of the school, See You at the Pole was about students praying for awakening on campuses all over the world.
"We all come together as one body to pray for our country and our school," Skyline junior Abby Giles said.
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FTC To Require Advertisers Using Testimonials To Show Typical Results
Subway spokesman and occasional thin guy Jared Fogle may soon be out of work thanks to a new FTC rule banning commercial testimonials that warn "results not typical" or "individual results may vary." Under the new rule, marketers using, say, body builders to advertise weight loss pills are also going to have to show an average lardass whose results might be more typical. You can guess how advertisers are reacting to the change…
The revisions have drawn sharp criticism from product manufacturers, advertising agencies and trade groups who say it is the "aspirational" theme of their ads that motivates consumers to purchase their goods. Show less than the ultimate achievement, they say, and consumers are less likely to buy.
Translation: Easily deceived consumers wouldn't buy useless products if they knew they were useless.
"For a good part of the last decade, we have noticed a problem, particularly with consumer testimonials," said Richard Cleland, assistant director of the FTC's division of advertising practices. "The use of consumer testimonials had become almost a safe harbor for companies as long as they threw in some sort of disclaimer about results not being typical."
The rules are undergoing a final review, after which they will likely be adopted. Late night and daytime advertising will never be the same!
Federal Trade Commission's plan to change rules on ad endorsements, testimonials worries marketers [Chicago Tribune]
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For many visitors, it's the simple lakeside lodges and cabins—with their opportunities for fishing, boating, and hiking—that appeal the most. But hotels in Minnesota can be luxurious too. Stay in one of the many luxury Minnesota hotels found in its thriving cities and you'll be able to unwind in steamy saunas, or dine on classic Scandinavian cuisine. Travelers who prefer a bit more adventure will enjoy a stay at one of Minnesota's winter resorts, with skiing and snowmobiling on offer. And in a land of wide open skies and endless plains, the appeal of a road trip—checking into one of the many motels in Minnesota along the way—is also hard to resist.
Things to see in Minnesota
The Twin Cities hold many of the state's most popular attractions. They range from the highbrow culture of the Minneapolis Institute of Art to the shopping extravaganza of the Mall of America, famed for its amusement park, aquarium, and 530 stores. Minneapolis is where you'll find one of the nation's most eulogized waterfalls, the Minnehaha Falls. Made famous by the poem The Song of Hiawatha, the surrounding park is also home to a 19th-century train station. The port city of Duluth has its own river-based spectacle, the 100-year-old Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge. This curving latticework of steel raises itself some 180 feet into the air to let ships pass beneath. The state naturally has many fantastic outdoor parks, the most unspoiled being the Voyageurs National Park. Only accessible by boat or plane, here you may be lucky enough to see moose, loons, or even bears.
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Minneapolis is the place to head to if you're looking for business accommodation in Minnesota—it's the most important commercial center to be found between Seattle and Chicago. It also makes a great base for discovering the wider Twin Cities area. The other half of the Twins, St. Paul, is quieter, known for its charming Victorian neighborhoods and theaters. Many couples come here for a romantic vacation. Bloomington, as the home of the largest mall in the U.S., is the perfect stayover for fans of retail therapy. The pretty wooded lakeside town of Duluth attracts visitors wanting to soak up its easy-going atmosphere, or to explore the wildernesses and open plains further north.
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Extremely disturbing news from the East African nation of Tanzania, where police are accused of routinely assaulting, raping and torturing gay men, lesbians, transgender women, sex workers and drug users. Medical staff, health workers and some HIV/AIDS organizations have denied these marginalized populations healthcare, which undermines efforts to reduce HIV infections, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.
Researchers found that sex workers, sexual minorities and drug users were arrested and detained for days on end, beaten and raped by the police. Officers gang raped children as young as 12 years old. "I have had sex with policemen many times so I cannot even remember how many," Halima, a sex worker, told HRW. "He catches me, he wants money, but I do not have money so he will force me to have sex with him. ...
HRW identified dozens of cases in which health workers turned away sex workers, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people and drug users without offering services or they publicly humiliated them. Jamal, a man who has sex with men, said a doctor refused to treat him for gonorrhea because of his sexual orientation. "He said: 'You already have sex with men, now you come here to bring us problems – go away," Jamal told HRW.
Gay men are often singled out by Tanzanian authorities for abuse and rape, reports Voice of America.
In a case recounted from a December 2010, an 18-year-old man identified as gay was forced by police at gunpoint to call five gay friends and tell them to meet him at a bar. When they arrived, police arrested the group and brought them to the central station where they say they were repeatedly raped by fellow detainees. The police, victims said, refused to help.
According to the report, Tanzanian law classifies some high-risk groups as criminals. ... The criminal status, the report indicates, drives gay men underground, preventing them from seeking or receiving medical attention and making them easy targets for human rights violations by law enforcement.
While Tanzanian authorities have pledged to reduce stigma attached to marginalized groups and work toward decriminalization of same-sex intimacy and sex work, Ghoshal says it is time the government acts on the commitments.
Tanzania is adjacent to Kenya but is far more conservative than its neighbor on LGBT issues. Tanzania is one of at least 38 of 54 African nations that criminalize same-sex activities. Sexual relations between men are criminalized and punishable by up to 30 years imprisonment, descrbed as "one of the most severe punishments for gay sex in the world" by Human Rights Watch. In late 2011, the East African nation slammed UK Prime Minister David Cameron's suggestion that aid would be cut unless it relaxed its anti-gay laws.
More recently: In July 2012, one of Kenya's leading LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS actvists was brutally murdered in his Dar es Salaam home. Maurice Mjomba was a founding member of Tanzania's leading group for men who have sex with men, Stay Awake Network Activities (SANA). Police have not reported any leads or arrests.
President Obama will visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania later this month.
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Milisi Kecoa is a punk rock band from Bandung, Indonesia.
In english, the band's name can be translated as "Cockroach Militia". Why is that? Because cockroach is an interesting insect that have a lot similarity with a global punk community. Like a global punk community, cockroach can be found everywhere in this world. They are everywhere and never be extinct. Cockroach never be domesticated unlike dog or cat. They have no human-master and never play tricks with human. They also become a real psychological threat for many people, like a global punk community. Can you stay calm if a bunch of cockroaches come to your house in a fantastic number? Stomp your feet on one of us, and the rest of the militia will freak you out. "Militia" and "military" isnt the same word. Militia refers to a bunch of people (or cockroach!) that organised and armed themself spontaneously, with a main purpose to defend their life (family, land, source, etc), while military refers to a group of well-trained people, organised but the state to defend state's interests. Military based its action on the leader's command, but militia based its action on solidarity. So thats the story behind our name.


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How to know the real cost, efficiency and profitability of each activity
The Municipal Transport Company of Madrid (EMT) needed to get a clearer view of its costs – which of its operations were profitable, and which weren't? It needed to develop a more precise cost system so it could accurately assess the direct and indirect costs of its activities and transfer those costs to each of the individual lines and buses.
To strengthen its cost control systems, EMT launched an activity-based costing project using SAS® Cost and Profitability Management. As a result, it can now obtain accurate information on costs and profitability of each line and bus.
Before this project, EMT – which is responsible for Madrid's public bus transportation – didn't have sufficient cost information to make informed decisions. Its financial control system provided only aggregate information, without much detail. "We now have detailed knowledge of all costs, direct and indirect, by activity – allowing us to make better business decisions and provide better services to our citizens," says José David Pérez, Deputy Director of Finance at EMT.
We now have detailed knowledge of all costs, direct and indirect, by activity, allowing us to make better business decisions and provide better services to our citizens.
José David Pérez
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It is important for EMT to analyze the effectiveness and profitability of its services. With SAS Cost and Profitability Management, EMT can identify which processes are consuming the most resources, or if any of the activities have costs that outweigh their benefits.
This comprehensive analysis of costs helps EMT make better operational decisions, such as expanding the number of buses on a particular route or improving the customer services and optimizing scarce resources. "A cheaper bus may not be cost-effective if we have higher tire usage costs," Pérez explains. "This is the comprehensive information we get with SAS. Thanks to this, we can identify all costs, direct and indirect, generated from each particular type of bus."
A very powerful analytical model
SAS Activity-Based Management has great flexibility and analytics, which allows EMT to compare costs by different variables such as bus model, operations center, lines and shifts, the profitability of these lines in each time slot, or cost per kilometer or passenger transported.
"SAS deepened the cost analysis to the level of detail that we needed," Pérez said.
SAS experts collaborated with the University of Malaga to tailor SAS Cost and Profitability Management to EMT's needs. The results of the model are analyzed using visual reports that will help future decision making.
EMT uses the information from SAS Cost and Profitability Management to generate three types of reports: one for senior management, which provides a broad view of general costs; one for the business managers to understand and analyze the profitability of each line and the cost per bus; and a third for the operations centers. EMT can also easily access all of the information the system provides through more detailed ad hoc analysis or drill-down reporting.
EMT now understands the costs of its services and activities. This information allows it to improve efficiency by optimizing resources, and therefore meet its commitment to provide a quality urban transportation service.
The current EMT reporting system did not include details such as cost per individual bus and line.
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Access to detailed reports by cost per activity, bus route or individual bus.
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EMT is responsible for the Madrid's public bus transportation. It manages a fleet of 2,092 buses running on 216 lines, serving the public 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Annually, they travel about 62 million miles and transport roughly 425 million passengers.


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Autism spectrum disorder is a serious neurodevelopmental disorder that impairs a child's ability to communicate and interact with others. It also includes restricted repetitive behaviors, interests and activities. These issues cause significant impairment in social, occupational and other areas of functioning.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is now defined by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) as a single disorder that includes disorders that were previously considered separate — autism, Asperger's syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified.
The term "spectrum" in autism spectrum disorder refers to the wide range of symptoms and severity. Although the term "Asperger's syndrome" is no longer in the DSM, some people still use the term, which is generally thought to be at the mild end of autism spectrum disorder.
The number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder is rising. It's not clear whether this is due to better detection and reporting or a real increase in the number of cases, or both.
While there is no cure for autism spectrum disorder, intensive, early treatment can make a big difference in the lives of many children.


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Dwindling exports and increased competition from Brazil have combined to reduce the price outlook for corn and raise expected ending stocks both in the United States and globally.
USDA lowered its projection for corn exports by 50 million bushels to 900 million bushels, the lowest level since the 1971-72 crop year, based on the sluggish pace of current sales and anticipated new-crop supplies from Brazil that will compete with U.S. exports, according to the February World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) released Feb. 8.
"The corn market has been trying to rollover for the past couple of days," says Jack Scoville, Vice President of The Price Futures Group, Chicago, the commentator on an MGEX press call following the release of the report. "But it's looking pretty bad on the charts, and now we know why."
The department left corn use for ethanol production and feed demand unchanged but increased use in the seed, sweetener and industrial category. To offset the expected decline in exports, USDA raised the 2012-13 U.S. corn ending stocks by 30 million bushels to 632 million bushels, which is not only still smaller than the previous marketing year but also the lowest carryout since 1996. Trade estimates prior to the report were calling for a carryout of 618 million bushels.
USDA also lowered the season-average midpoint farm price by 20 cents to $7.20 with a range of $6.75 to $7.65 per bushel. "Reported monthly prices received by farmers to date continue to reflect forward sales made at prices below prevailing cash market bids," USDA says in the report.
Elsewhere in the World
Even more bearish than the U.S. numbers are the world numbers. USDA raised 2012-13 world corn production by 2.1 million tons to 854.38 million metric tons, with increases in Brazil, Mexico, India, and Ukraine more than offsetting a reduction for Argentina. As a result the world carryout increased slightly more than 2 million metric tons to 118 million metric tons.
USDA raised projected production in Brazil by 1.5 million metric tons to 72.5 million metric tons based on higher yields and planted acres for the country's first-season crop and good prospects for second-season.
"The Brazil crop will have to be watched," says Scoville. "If the first-crop (grown in the winter) can't be harvested, they won't get the rains needed to plant second crop. There's an excellent chance that Brazil's corn production number will have to go down. The crop is far from being in the bag."
Mexico's expected corn production was increased 0.8 million tons due to higher acreage for the summer crop. USDA raised corn production in India by 0.6 million tons due to higher acreage. Ukraine's projected production increased 0.4 million tons on higher yields.
Meanwhile, USDA cut Argentina's expected production by 1 million metric tons to 27 million due to persistent dryness that is threatening yield prospects, particularly for late-planted corn.
Scoville notes that some analysts anticipate a much smaller crop in Argentina. However, he says, if world production numbers are realized and the U.S. crop is large, U.S. corn prices could drop to $5 per bushel this fall.
For the next two to three months, corn prices will remain volatile and highly dependent on South American weather, he adds.


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dip into (one's) pocket(redirected from dips into your pocket)
dip into (one's) pocket
To spend a lot of one's money. We had to dip into our pockets after our construction budget ballooned beyond what we had planned.
dip into your pocketor
dig into your pocket
COMMON If someone dips into their pocket or digs into their pocket, they pay for something with their own money. As a player, you must dip into your own pocket at times, for boots, training gear, and the odd hotel room. Note: You can also say that someone puts their hand in their pocket, with the same meaning. The only time you'll have to put your hand in your pocket is for the spa treatments. Note: Pocket is used in many expressions with similar meanings connected with paying for things. What this club needs is for the directors to dip their hands in their pockets. Note: To talk about paying a lot of money, expressions such as dig deep into your pocket are often used. Adrian dug deep into his own pocket and published the book himself. Note: You can just say that someone digs deep, or that they dig deeper. At Christmas, most will dig deep and spend more than last year. We are asking the richer nations to dig deeper.


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Study Of Single Ascending Doses Of PBL 1427 In Healthy Volunteers
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First Posted : March 14, 2012
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As per the randomization schedule, capsule(s) of A or B will be administered to each subject with 240 mL of water at ambient temperature. Subjects will be instructed not to chew or crush the capsule(s) but to consume it as a whole. Compliance for dosing will be assessed by a thorough check of the oral cavity immediately after dosing. Administration of investigational products will be carried out while the subjects are in sitting posture and they will be instructed to remain seated for two hours after dosing except when clinically indicated to change the posture or in case of any natural exigency. Thereafter, the subjects will be allowed to engage in normal activities while avoiding severe physical exertion.
The following treatments in the below cohorts will be followed as given below:
Cohort 1: A single oral dose of 20 mg of PBL 1427 (n=6) or placebo (n=2) Cohort 2: A single oral dose of 40 mg (20 mg X 2 capsules) of PBL 1427 (n=6) or placebo (n=2) Cohort 3: A single oral dose of 80 mg (20 mg X 4 capsules) of PBL 1427 (n=6) or placebo (n=2) Cohort 4: A single oral dose of 150 mg of PBL 1427 (n=6) or placebo (n=2) Cohort 5: A single oral dose of 300 mg (150 mg X 2 capsules) of PBL 1427 (n=6) or placebo (n=2) Cohort 6: A single oral dose of 600 mg (150 mg X 4 capsules) of PBL 1427 (n=6) or placebo (n=2)
Dose levels may be modified and intermediate dose levels might be tested to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD)
The number of cohorts, dose levels, frequency and conditions of administration for the subsequent cohort may be altered by the Principal investigator and Sponsor after evaluation of the results of the previous group.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|48 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Phase I Study To Determine The Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics And Pharmacodynamics Of Single Ascending Doses Of PBL 1427 In Healthy Volunteers
|Study Start Date :
|July 2012
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|July 2013
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|September 2013
|Experimental: PBL 1427 capsules
Drug: PBL 1427 capsules
PBL 1427 capsules 20 mg and 150 mg, single dose
|Placebo Comparator: Matching placebo
Drug: Matching placebo
Matching Placebo, single dose
- Number of subjects with adverse events [ Time Frame: Pre-dose and upto Day 5-9 ]Safety and tolerability of PBL 1427 will be assessed after single ascending doses when administered alone on the basis of AEs, vital signs (BP, pulse rate, and body temperature), ECG, laboratory parameters and clinical assessment.
- Pharmacokinetics Variables (Cmax, tmax, AUC, t1/2, kel, CL/F & Vz/F) [ Time Frame: 48 hrs post dose ]Pharmacokinetic parameters of single ascending doses of PBL 1427 : For each subject, blood will be collected at the following time points: pre-dose, 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 1, 1.5, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 16, 20, 24, 36 and 48 h post-dose.
- Pharmacodynamics assessment (glucose, insulin, C-peptide, lactic acid) [ Time Frame: Pre-dose and upto 4 h post-dose ]Pharmacodynamics will be assessed using markers like glucose, insulin, C-peptide, lactic acid and the exploratory markers plasma DPP-IV activity and plasma GLP-1 (Glucagon-like peptide I) levels
- Exploratory markers (plasma DPP-IV activity and GLP-1 levels) [ Time Frame: Pre-dose and upto 48 h after dosing ]Pharmacodynamics will be assessed using markers like glucose, insulin, C-peptide, lactic acid and the exploratory markers plasma DPP-IV activity and plasma GLP-1 (Glucagon-like peptide I) levels
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria: Subjects to be enrolled in this trial must fulfil all of these criteria:
- Sex: male
- Age: 18-60 yr old, both inclusive
- Having a Body Mass Index (BMI) between 18.5-28 kg / m2 (both inclusive) and body weight not less than 45 kg
- Full comprehension: ability to comprehend the full nature and purpose of the study, including possible risks and side effects; and to comply with the requirements of the entire study
- Voluntarily given written informed consent to participate in this study
- Be of normal health as determined by the principal investigator from medical history, physical examination and laboratory investigations, 12- lead ECG and X-ray chest of the subjects performed within 10 days prior to the admission of the study
- Ability and willingness to abstain from alcohol, methylxanthine-containing beverages or food (coffee, tea, coke, chocolate, "power drinks") and grapefruit (juice) from 48 h prior to each admission until study completion
Exclusion Criteria: Subjects meeting any of these criteria will not be enrolled in the study:
- Employees of FCRL or PBL
- Not willing to use contraceptives (preferably condoms) during sexual activity for the period of 3 months from the date of check-in
- History of hypersensitivity and / or intolerance to Dipeptidyl peptidase (DPP)-IV inhibitors or any other related compounds.
- History of anaphylaxis to drugs or allergic reactions in general, which the Investigator considers may affect the outcome of the study.
- Clinically abnormal ECG and Chest X-ray.
- Physical findings: clinically relevant abnormal physical findings (including body temperature) suggesting underlying pathologies or those which could interfere with the objectives of the study.
- Gastrointestinal disorders likely to influence drug absorption including acute gastrointestinal symptoms (e.g. nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, heart burn), preceding one week to admission.
- Laboratory values that are significantly different than the normal reference range and/or are deemed to be of clinical significance by the investigator
- Presence of reactive disease markers of HIV 1 and II, HBsAg,, HCV or VDRL.
- Positive for alcohol breath test and/or urine drug screen (barbiturates, benzodiazepines, amphetamine, cocaine, opiates, tetra-hydro cannabinol).
- Any evidence of organ dysfunction or any clinically significant deviation from the normal, in physical or clinical determinations.
- History of Diabetes Mellitus or intake of any anti-diabetic medication
- Diseases: relevant history of renal, hepatic, cardiovascular, respiratory, skin, haematological, endocrine, neurological or gastrointestinal diseases. History of depression, psychosis, schizophrenia or any other severe psychiatric diseases, or epilepsy, or any other illness that may interfere with the aim of the study. History of any significant illness in the 4 weeks preceding the screening
- Medications: history of intake of any medications including over the counter medications (OTC) during the 4 weeks period prior to dosing with the IMP.
- Investigational drug trials: participation in the evaluation of any drug in the 3 months prior to the start of the study (dosing with IMP).
- Blood donation: Subjects who, through completion of this study, would have donated and/or lost more than 300 mL of blood in the past 12 weeks
Note: In case the blood loss is ≤ 200 mL; subject may be dosed 60 days after blood donation or last sample of the previous study
- Regular smokers who smoke more than 10 cigarettes daily or have difficulty abstaining from smoking for the duration of each study period.
- History of drug dependence or alcoholics
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): NCT01554293
|Contact: Dr Deepak C Chilkoti
|+91-129-4090 900
|Fortis Clinical Research Ltd
|Faridabad, Haryana, India, 121 002
|Contact: Dr Deepak C Chilkoti +91-129-4090 900 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Dr Deepak C Chilkoti
|Principal Investigator:
|Dr Deepak C Chilkoti
|Head-Clinical Operations
|Responsible Party:
|Panacea Biotec Ltd
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|March 14, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|May 16, 2013
|Last Verified:
|May 2013


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Angela Baxter Hubbard
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Posted: April 19th, 2008 @ 3:17am
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Young lovers
Angela Baxter arrived in Pine Valley in 1982. She was a High School senior who came to PV with her mother Pat, a homemaker and father Les, an attorney. Angie was befriended by Jenny Gardner. Jenny was also best friend of Jesse Hubbard, who came from a hardscrabble background. Angie was introduced to Jesse by Jesses Uncle, Dr. Frank Grant. Frank asked Angie to tutor Jesse.
Angie was a straight-laced honor student who would never dream of breaking the rules. She thought Jesse was an obnoxious poser who wasnt really as tough as he pretended to be. Jesse thought Angie was a stuck up rich kid who knew nothing about the real world.
Like modern day Romeo and Juliet, they were drawn to each other. Along with Jenny, and her boyfriend Greg Nelson, Jesse and Angie became inseparable. This proved totally unacceptable to Angies father. Les saw Jesse as a low life punk who was in no way good enough for his daughter. Despite Les' protests, Angies feelings for Jesse grew steadily stronger.
Les did everything in his power to keep Angie and Jesse apart. He even sat with them when Jesse would come to see Angie and refused to let Angie go out of the house with Jesse. Nothing could stop the feelings between the two, not even Daddy. Jesse, like any teenage boy, was anxious to make love to Angie. Angie tried to go along with the idea, but she was just too proper to think of premarital sex. Angie and Jesse eloped Valentines night 1983. They didnt tell anyone about their marriage except Jenny and Greg.
About a month later, Angie discovered she was pregnant. She was afraid Jesse didnt want children so she told him she wanted a divorce. Jesse was crushed. During this same time frame Jesses beloved Uncle Frank for whom son Frankie would later be named, passed away from a heart attack. Jesse was sent reeling.
Angie never told him about the baby. She flew to Haiti and got a quickie divorce. She was sent to live with an aunt until it was time for the baby to be born. Dear old Daddy talked her into giving up her baby for adoption. Angie reluctantly agreed. Ever the detective, Jesse found out about the baby just as Angie was giving birth. He arrived at the hospital and told Angie how wrong she was about him not wanting the child. Alas, it was too late. The papers had been signed.
Jesse refused to accept this. After a heated exchange with both Angie and Les, Jesse set out to find his son. His determination to get his family back together won Angie over. The two soon united and managed to find the home of the couple that had adopted their baby boy. Though it was not his finest moment, Jesse was desperate to get his boy back. He and Angie kidnapped the baby and moved to Center City, not far from Pine Valley. They were eventually found and tried. The pair convinced the judge to give custody back to them and the charges were dropped. Jesse never forgave Les. Pat divorced Les and went to live with Angie, Jesse and little Franklin Quentin Hubbard.
A year later, Eugene Hubbard arrived in PV. He was Jesses half brother. Eugene took an immediate liking to Angie and decided he was better suited for her than Jesse. He enlisted the aid of Yvonne Caldwell, Jesses sing partner to break the pair up. Yvonne did manage to seduce Jesse. Eugene sent Angie to Yvonnes home in time to catch him sitting on her sofa wrapped in a towel. What had transpired was obvious. Angie went ballistic. She moved out of their home. She did not however, fall for Eugene. After much begging, pleading and kicking Eugenes butt when Yvonne admitted the plot, Angie took Jesse back and the Hubbards were happy once more. Briefly.
Jesses best friend in the world beside Angie was Jenny Gardner. By now Jenny and Greg were married as well. Jenny jilted Tony Barclay by leaving him at the altar to run off and marry Greg. Tony didnt take this well. He rigged a pair of water skis that Greg was supposed to use, with explosives. Jenny decided at the last minute to take the first turn. With Greg and Jennys older brother Tad watching Jenny was blown to pieces. PV was stunned. Jesse was bereft.
Jesse had become a police officer. In the middle of a case involving a black market baby ring, Yvonne returned to PV stating she was pregnant and the baby was Jesses. Though this proved false, it shook the Hubbards confidence as the uber happy couple. In trying to capture the head of the baby ring, Jesse found out the mastermind was his own father-in-law Les Baxter. He did not tell Angie. During a scuffle in a warehouse Les fell over a banister and was killed while trying to shove Jesse.
Angie was distraught to say the least. She vowed never to forgive Jesse and for months would have nothing to do with him. Jesse was devastated and Angie was miserable. True love would not be denied. Angela was doing her internship at PVH by this time. Dr. Voight, her attending physician, began sexually harassing Angie. Jesse found out and devised a way to catch Dr. Voight in the act so that the hospital board would get rid of him. (Angie wouldnt let him punch the creeps lights out.) Also on Angies plate at this time was a case involving an AIDS patient that Angie had grown particularly close to. The stress of all this sent Angie back into Jesses arms. The two reunited and all was well. Briefly.
Jesse was working an undercover drug operation. He was assigned to get close to a local businessman, John Remy Remington. Someone had it in for Remy. Jesse was shot by a gunman aiming for Remy. (Remy would later repay the debt by trying to move in on Angie before the casket had been lowered good.)
Angie was crestfallen. The love of her life was dead. She spiraled into a series of dead end relationships including doctors Jeff Martin, Cliff Warner, and Cal Cummings. Angie also dated current PV police chief, Derek Frye. No one could fill Jesses shoes. In 1991 Angie and Frankie left PV.
In 1993, Angie and Frankie settled in Corinth PA. Soon after her arrival, Angie was kidnapped from while leaving the hospital. Charles Harrison a police officer, saved Angie. Charles fell for Angie and she decided to try love again. Marrying more out of gratitude than love, Angie wed Charles. It was hardly the passionate union she had with Jesse. Jesses memory lingered on. One day a stranger that would change Angies life landed in Corinth. Jacob Johnson (later to reveal his real surname was Foster) arrived and Angie was immediately drawn to him. He was the spitting image of her beloved Jesse. It was later revealed Jacob and Jesse were distant cousins. Despite trying to fight their growing physical attraction, Angie and Jacob were bedfellows waiting to happen. One night temptation got the best of them and Angie and Jacob made love. That was it. Angie knew Jacob wasnt Jesse, but she also knew he was as close as she was going to get. The girl who had to be married to make love the first time had committed adultery. The marriage to Harrison was over. Angie and Jacob found themselves deeply in love. Jacob and Angie eventually moved to New York City where Angie founded a free clinic. Frankie was a teenager and seemed ok with his mothers relationship. Jacob arranged for a candlelight wedding in their loft. Angela Baxter Hubbard Harrison Foster was happy at last. Briefly.
Angie had a terrible bout with anemia and was diagnosed as carrying a strong sickle cell trait. Afraid that she would pass it on to a child (Frankie never developed sickle cell), Angie and Jacob talked of adoption. The Fosters adopted a baby girl abandoned in a dumpster and name her Cassandra.
Angie and Jacob would eventually divorce but remain good friends. She stayed away from PV for 17 years because the memories were just too painful.
In January 2008, Angie Baxter Hubbard (the rest dont matter) returned to PV. And the rest is AnJ Nation HISTORY!!!
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Language of politics: Fair shot or freedom? Words define campaign 2012
If sometimes it seems like the two candidates for president are speaking different languages, the reason is simple:
They are.
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney use distinct vocabularies -- each employing a campaign glossary of sorts to define himself, criticize the other guy, and highlight opposing economic philosophies: Fair shot or economic freedom? The nation's welfare or class warfare? You're-on-your-own economics or the heavy hand of government?
The president has tried to cast himself as the champion of the middle class. He claims Romney wants to perpetuate failed economic policies that favor the rich and privileged business interests over everyday workers. Obama regularly denounces tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires and frequently talks about the importance of "playing by the rules."
Romney has portrayed himself as Mr. Turnaround, the hands-on guy whose 25 years in the private sector give him the ideal resume to revive an economy he contends has gone from bad to worse under the president. His speeches are filled with patriotic references to the Founding Fathers and regular mentions of "free enterprise" and "prosperity."
"In a lot of ways, it's the standard party line -- Democrat, working-class rhetoric, Republican, business class," says Mitchell McKinney, professor of communication at the University of Missouri. "Both are playing to the base. ... Obama has to address those disparities in the economy without seeming that he is anti-business, anti-capitalist. ... Romney wants to tout the making of money and successful working of the capitalist system but not highlight in any way the downside. In that sense they both have fine lines they're trying to walk."
Both men already have tripped on their own rhetoric -- Obama's recent retreat from his assertion that "the private sector is doing fine," Romney's full-throated declaration that "corporations are people." In coming months, McKinney says, the candidates, surrogates and super PACs will repeat certain words and phrases "so America comes to accept their narrative as reality. Clearly, words do matter."
So which ones matter most? Some examples from the still-evolving economic glossary of Campaign '12:
ECONOMIC FREEDOM: Or, government get out of the way. Romney subscribes to a longstanding Republican philosophy that the less government, the better the chances for a flourishing economy. He reiterated his belief in unfettered markets and minimal regulation in a March speech at the University of Chicago. The school's economics department has long been regarded as friendly confines for such thinking. It was home to Milton Friedman, the influential economist and apostle of free-market theory. (Romney began his speech with a Friedman anecdote.)
In "The Freedom to Dream," Romney uttered "freedom" 29 times.
"When he talks about economic freedom and saving the country -- the religious is entwined with the economic," says David Frank, a University of Oregon professor and expert on presidential rhetoric. "It's a very powerful message ... the government should not intervene in the free market, one ruled by individuals who are successful because of God's grace."
The message also echoes former President Ronald Reagan, who famously declared that government is the problem, not the solution.
COLLECTIVE AMNESIA: Obama's critique of what he says is a trait shared by Republicans who've championed laissez-faire policies but ignored the results. The president argues they've conveniently forgotten that inadequate regulation, an irresponsible financial sector and a free market that operated without "rules of the road" led the nation to the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression.
The president's pitch: Remember the financial debacle of 2008, the "broken-down theories" that helped trigger it and don't forget Romney and other Republicans are offering more of the same.
FAIR SHOT: Also see fair share, fair play and fair. A central campaign theme for Obama.
His belief that the government has a role in creating conditions for prosperity, that the growing income gap is hazardous to the nation and the recipe for a stable middle class is to give everyone a fair chance to succeed.
Obama used some form of "fair" 15 times in his speech last December in Osawatomie, Kan., reiterating his call for higher taxes for the rich and rejecting trickle-down economics as a dry spigot.
The prairie setting was ripe with personal and political symbolism: Obama's mother and grandparents were from Kansas (good chance to flash his humble roots credentials). Osawatomie also was where
Teddy Roosevelt in 1910 unveiled his vision for a New Nationalism, calling for "practical equality of opportunity for all." Obama invoked the former president's name and pointedly noted Roosevelt was branded a radical and a socialist back then -- labels that have a familiar ring to Obama today.
"He really wants to hit the equality of opportunity, the fairness argument that has traditionally worked very well for Democrats," says John Murphy, a University of Illinois associate professor specializing in presidential rhetoric. "Think way back to the New Deal, the Fair Deal, those were all slogans based on, 'Hey, everybody gets an equal shot."'
Murphy also says the recent Wall Street protests -- where anger over income disparity prompted the rallying cry, "We are the 99 percent!" -- deserve credit for putting the issue on the radar. "The Occupy movement has given an opening to Obama to make the arguments that might not have been there," he says. "It helped set the agenda just like the Tea Party did in 2010."
OPPORTUNITY SOCIETY: A phrase with long Republican lineage now used by Romney to describe a society in which people and businesses succeed based on merit and free enterprise, not government doling out benefits, regardless of effort. Reducing the size of federal government is essential. Reagan spoke of an opportunity society and Newt Gingrich's Conservative Opportunity Society (founded in 1983) preached the importance of moving from a 'liberal welfare state' to one centered on opportunity.
ENTITLEMENT OR GOVERNMENT-CENTERED SOCIETY: See above. Romney's criticism of Obama policies, contending the president is transforming America so people rely more on government because the economy does less. Romney synonyms: "heavy hand of government" or "the invisible boot of government," which he claims stifle free enterprise, "one of the greatest forces of good this world has ever known."
YOU'RE-ON-YOUR-OWN ECONOMICS: Obama's words to describe how he says Republicans respond to Americans unable to fend for themselves. His shorter version: "Tough luck." He says that's the GOP's response to those who need help because they're poor, don't have health insurance or are jobless. Obama calls it a "cramped narrow conception" of liberty.
SOCIAL DARWINISM: The label some Democrats have attached to GOP House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's fiscal austerity plan for a sweeping overhaul of Medicare, deep social service cuts and lower tax rates. Many Republicans, including Romney, have expressed support as a way to curb government spending. Many Democrats say this approach would squeeze the already struggling poor, forcing them to compete for fewer resources while the wealthy would thrive, a cruel economic survival of the fittest. (Obama called the plan "thinly veiled" Social Darwinism.)
CLASS WARFARE: A wide-ranging criticism by Romney and other Republicans of the Occupy Wall Street movement and Obama policies that highlight income inequity, notably the Buffett rule. The proposal is named after billionaire Warren Buffett and calls for everyone earning a $1 million a year or more to pay at least 30 percent of their income in taxes. Buffett himself has complained that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
Romney claims Obama is trying to stoke envy by focusing on the income gap on the campaign trail. Early this year, Romney told a TV interviewer: "I think it's fine to talk about those things in quiet rooms and discussions about tax policy and the like."
Obama says asking the rich to sacrifice more to help in tough times is not class warfare, but advancing the nation's welfare.
FOOTNOTE: During the GOP primaries, the "class warfare" line was a verbal bludgeon for Republicans to bash one another. Rick Santorum and Gingrich both pilloried Romney with the phrase.
JOB CREATORS: A popular phrase, often appropriated by congressional Republicans (Romney also has used it) to lionize small business owners while opposing plans to raise taxes. At times, repeated with the unanimity of a Greek chorus. A term also criticized by Democrats and others, including Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times op-ed columnist. He recently wrote that a "right-wing political correctness" has rendered it impossible to discuss ideas that challenge "established order" so instead of the wealthy "we're supposed to call them 'job creators"' and talking about inequality is deemed "class warfare."


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Netflix's new content deal with Disney may not end happily-ever-after for consumers, Kelli Grant discusses on digits. SmartMoney's Kelli Grant reports on Digits. Photo: Netflix.
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SAC CITY – Bond has been set at $1 million for an Early man, charged with murdering his mother.
Kirk Levin, 21, made his initial appearance in Sac County Magistrate Court this morning.
Levin, of Early, was originally charged with the kidnapping and assault of a 21-year-old Storm Lake woman. While authorities were investigating last week, they discovered the body of Levin's mother, Marilyn Schmitt, in her home at 2242 Ira Ave. in Early. An autopsy revealed that she had died of sharp force injuries.
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WA Lawmakers Debate Employee Privacy in Digital Age
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Today in Olympia, one topic is workers' privacy in social media. A House committee looks at a bill that would allow employers to be sued and fined for requiring a worker, or prospective employee, to hand over passwords for online accounts as a condition of employment.
Widespread use of social media has blurred the lines between personal privacy and employers' concerns about release of company secrets or unflattering product reviews. And according to attorney Jesse Wing, with the Seattle law firm MacDonald, Hoague and Bayless, it's important to set limits for how far employers can go to scope out their work force.
"For example, you can find out a person's age, whether they have disabilities, what their religion is, their sexual orientation," says Wing. "All this information might be on a person's social media site that they would never provide willingly, or an employer would know they're not allowed to find out."
Wing adds that workplace legal challenges have arisen, based not just on information that is posted online, but on issues such as who owns the social media account and content after an employee leaves a company. Overall, he cautions people to take responsibility for keeping their work life and personal life separate, online.
"Setting the privacy settings is also a message of how important you think your privacy is," he states. "And if you don't set them very high, that may be held against you if you were ever involved in a court battle: that you didn't think this information was all that private."
Wing says all the caveats that started years ago with email are just as important on Facebook, Twitter and other social media: Before posting anything you might be embarrassed by in the future, think it over; and also consider the third-party privacy rights of people you interact with online, whose information, meant for you, might be seen by others.
The legislation would set a $500 civil penalty for employers who make demands found to violate workers' privacy, though employers could still search for any information in the public domain. The bill started in the Senate, where it passed unanimously earlier this month.
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Continuing the Greek food and drink glossary. The letters in bold italics show where the accent goes.
tarragon - trahoori
tea - tsaee
thyme - theemaree
tomato - domata
tripe - patsas
trout - pestrofo
truffle - troofa
tuna - tonno
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - While authorities investigate the causes of the 34-minute Super Bowl blackout, documents show that Superdome officials were worried last fall about losing power at the big game.
Tests on the dome's electrical feeders showed decay and 'a chance of failure,' state officials warned in a memo dated Oct. 15. Also, the utility that supplied the stadium with power expressed concern about the reliability of the service before the NFL championship.
Entergy New Orleans, the company that supplies the stadium with power, and the structure's engineering staff 'had concerns regarding the reliability of the Dome service from Entergy's connection point to the Dome,' the memo adds.
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The lights-out championship game proved an embarrassment for New Orleans just when it was hoping to show the rest of the world how far it has come since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. But many fans were forgiving, and officials expressed confidence that the episode wouldn't hurt the city's hopes of hosting the championship again.
To New Orleans' relief, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the city did a 'terrific' job hosting its first pro football championship in the post-Katrina era.
'I fully expect that we will be back here for Super Bowls,' he said, noting a backup power system was poised to kick in but wasn't needed once the lights came back.
Fans watching from home weren't deterred, either. An estimated 108.4 million television viewers saw the Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers 34-31, making it the third most-viewed program in television history. Both the 2010 and 2011 games hit the 111 million mark.
As for possible culprits, it couldn't be blamed on a case of too much demand for power.
Meters showed the 76,000-seat stadium was drawing no more electricity than it does during a typical New Orleans Saints game, according to Doug Thornton, manager of the state-owned Superdome.
He also ruled out Beyonce's electrifying halftime performance. She brought along her own generator.
Officials with the utility and the Superdome were quick to note that an NFL game, the Sugar Bowl and another bowl game were played there in recent weeks with no apparent problems.
The problem that caused the outage was believed to have happened around the spot where a line that feeds current from Entergy New Orleans connects with the Superdome's electrical system, officials said. But whether the fault lay with the utility or with the Superdome was not clear.
Determining the cause will probably take days, according to Dennis Dawsey, a vice president for distribution and transmission for Entergy. He said the makers of some of the switching gear have been brought in to help figure out what happened.
Cinthia Hedge-Morrell, chairwoman of the New Orleans City Council's Utility Committee, called an emergency committee meeting Friday with Entergy representatives and others, seeking additional information.
The blackout came after a nearly flawless week of activity for football fans in New Orleans leading up to the big game.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu told WWL-AM on Monday that the outage won't hurt the city's chances, and he joked that the game got better after the blackout: 'People were leaving and the game was getting boring, so we had to do a little something to spice it up.'
The city last hosted the Super Bowl in 2002, and officials were hoping this would serve as the ultimate showcase for the city's recovery since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The storm tore holes in the roof of the Superdome and caused water damage to its electrical systems, and more than $330 million was spent repairing and upgrading the stadium.
Sunday's Super Bowl was New Orleans' 10th as host, and officials plan to make a bid for an 11th in 2018.
--- Associated Press writers Beth Harpaz, Brett Martel and Barry Wilner contributed to this report.


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In which we finally share the sexual frequency of Burqueños in greater detail
Welcome back to the unscientific sharing of self-reported sexual proclivities of Albuquerque residents. This stuff is straight out of the SurveyMonkey data banks (you can also blame them for the cheesy infographic look), so I don't want to hear any more complaints about histograms, telegrams or candygrams. This is as scientific as it's gonna get.
The main take-aways here? Alibi readers do it frequently, probably more often than they floss their teeth. They do it together and they do it alone. They have no fear of employing power tools or other prosthetic devices, and they "sometimes" like to mix it up with booze and illicit substances. In other words, this town is one big sex party. Here's the proof:
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The AAFP has asked the House and Senate appropriations subcommittees to increase funding for key primary care-related programs in fiscal year 2011, or FY11, as the federal government prepares to implement provisions of the newly enacted health care reform law, known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
In written testimony submitted to House and Senate appropriations subcommittee members, AAFP President Lori Heim, M.D., of Vass, N.C., pointed out that the recently enacted health care reform legislation contains a number of provisions to increase the primary care workforce. For example, it amends and expands many of the existing health workforce programs authorized under Title VII of the Public Health Service Act, and it allows medical education program payments to go to teaching health centers in an attempt to encourage the training of more primary care physicians.
"The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act holds the promise of health security for Americans and moves us toward genuine health system reform," said Heim. She added, however, "successful implementation of health care reform requires an investment to strengthen our nation's primary care workforce."
The AAFP has long championed Section 747 of Title VII, which provides the only federal grants for training family physicians. In her testimony, Heim urged the committees to provide $170 million for Title VII, Section 747, in FY11, an increase of $116 million from FY10. Heim also asked the committees to provide an appropriation of at least $600 million for all of the health professions training programs authorized under Title VII in FY11, an increase of $346 million from the current fiscal year level.
Heim praised other programs that have led to an increase in the primary care workforce. For example, the National Health Service Corps, or NHSC, has "long served to provide access to health care to underserved Americans" while offering incentives for primary care physicians to enter primary care, she said. The NHSC also provides important student debt relief for new physicians.
"The AAFP recommends that the National Health Service Corps receive $414.1 million in FY11, as authorized in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," Heim said.
The NHSC is funded at $142 million for FY10, but it received $300 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds in 2009 and 2010.
Heim also lauded the mission of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, in improving the quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness of health care, saying that AHRQ's mission closely mirrors that of the AAFP.
"Family physicians recognize that AHRQ has a critical role to play in patient-centered comparative effectiveness research," said Heim. In her testimony, she requested $611 million for AHRQ in FY11, an increase of $213 million from the current fiscal year.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act also created a primary care extension program under AHRQ to provide support and assistance to primary care providers regarding evidence-based therapies and techniques. The AAFP has asked for $120 million for the extension centers in FY11, the same amount authorized by the act.
Heim also praised the creation of rural physician training grants under Section 749B of Title VII in the new health care reform law. These grants will help medical schools recruit students likely to practice medicine in underserved rural communities while increasing the number of recent medical school graduates, she said.
"The AAFP requests that the committee provide $4 million in FY11 for Title VII, Section 749B rural physician training grants," Heim said.
At the same time, the AAFP encouraged the committees to provide $176 million for programs administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration's Office of Rural Health to address the "many unique service needs of rural communities," according to Heim.
"Family physicians provide the majority of care for America's underserved and rural populations," said Heim. "Despite efforts to meet scarcities in rural areas, the shortage of primary care physicians continues."
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Union chief defends telework program, says managers' claims of abuse are unfounded.
The president of the Patent Office Professional Association blasted a recent Washington Post story alleging that some patent examiners who telecommute routinely lied about the hours they worked.
Robert Budens, whose association represents 8,000 examiners and other professionals, told Government Executive on Wednesday that the initial internal Patent Office report on which the newspaper partially relied was based on an "inaccurate draft" prepared by the agency's human resources officers. He also insisted that any misreporting of time and attendance were "not telework issues but management issues."
The Aug. 11 Post story described two versions of the report, one of which was heavily rewritten by the agency's general counsel and chief administrative officer. The revised draft struck the Commerce Department inspector general as having been edited to downplay the problem.
"This is not an issue of geography or where people here are located," Budens said. "Telework is a very successful program that has helped the agency accomplish many of its goals. It allowed us to hire examiners and keep them while we work down the applications backlog and reach the goals that Congress and the user community have been after us to do for a while."
Budens said the Patent Office -- whose telework program is highly rated -- has reduced its attrition rate among examiners to 3.5 percent from 13.5 percent a decade ago when, in the George W. Bush administration, 10 percent of examiners were let go and the agency had to hire two examiners for every slot just to replace those leaving. "One of the benefits that keeps examiners is telework," he said. "But the people in employee relations [who wrote the first report] were showing their biases toward wanting to be able to fire examiners."
The general counsel, he said, "used the same data" and wrote a different report. "It's ridiculous to conclude that management does not have the ability to take care of people who are messing with the system," he said. "This agency represents people in investigatory meetings almost every day of week. We've always had the ability to deal with problem employees, and our appraisals are written with performance standards."
As patent examiners climb the ranks from GS-9 to GS-12 and GS-14, Budens added, their production requirements increase accordingly. Examiners are expensive to train, and "by keeping them, we keep the productivity of the agency up," he said.
The union leader said the Post story was a blow to staff morale. "It troubles me that this stuff was leaked, when in fact it was an internal document, not completed," he said.
He points to comments in the original report from employee relations staff complaining of a lack of access to time records, describing managers as "frustrated" and "being told to look the other way." That's the type of thinking, Budens said, that "hits morale and kept us for years in the basement" of the rankings of agencies that are the best places to work.


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