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Lot 134: Bellin, Samuel after Edward Henry Corbould 1847 Large Mezzotint Etching. My Chickens for Sale
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Description: Mezzotint with Etching Published 1847, London. Engraved Samuel Bellin after Edward Henry Corbould. Paper Size: 23 x 16 inch (58 x 41cm) Several margin tears and chipping to margins. Minor soiling. A little surface wear to image.

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JINAN, China (MarketWatch) — Chinese prosecutors unveiled details of charges against former Communist party star Bo Xilai as he went on trial Thursday, including allegations that he took bribes sometimes with the help of his wife and son and that he abused power during the murder investigation involving his wife.
The trial of Bo, whose fall from power exposed splits among China's top leadership, is China's most politically sensitive court proceeding in more than three decades.
While experts say it will almost certainly result in Bo's conviction because the party controls the courts, it will be watched closely for how authorities handle the case of a rare Chinese politician with media savvy and remaining popular appeal in some parts of the country.
The Intermediate People's Court in the eastern Chinese city of Jinan on Thursday said on its verified microblog account that prosecutors alleged Bo took bribes totaling 21.8 million yuan ($3.6 million) USDCNY, +0.0058% from officials at two Chinese companies, which they identified as Dalian International Development and the conglomerate Dalian Shide Group.
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Bo told the court that he hoped the judges could hear the trial in "a reasonable and fair manner." A person at Dalian International said the official named by prosecutors in the indictment had retired and she had no further information on the matter. Dalian Shide couldn't be reached and Bo Guagua didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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In 1943 the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was formed as a replacement for the men's league when most of those players went off to fight in World War II. By 1954 the league had dissolved. This short eleven year period is a slice of time that a select few were able to be a part of. One of those select few is Sioux Falls resident Agnes Allen. SDPB's Kevin Patten visited Agnes and got her extraordinary story.
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Translocation and Degradation of Bromoxynil in a Resistant and a Susceptible Species
D. E. Schafer and D. O. Chilcote
Weed Science
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The relation of translocation and degradation to selectivity of 3,5-dibromo-4-hydroxybenzonitrile (bromoxynil) in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L., var. Nugaines), a resistant species, and coast fiddleneck (Amsinckia intermedia Fisch. & Mey.), a susceptible species, was examined. Radioautographic and extraction analysis revealed that the label from ¹⁴C-bromoxynil was more mobile in coast fiddleneck than in wheat. Higher levels of soluble radioactivity were found in extracts of coast fiddleneck than wheat. Higher levels of insoluble label were found in tissue residues of wheat than coast fiddleneck. In both species, most of the activity remained in treated leaves. A high percentage of the soluble activity was attributed to ¹⁴C-bromoxynil in both wheat and coast fiddleneck. The evolution of ¹⁴CO₂ by wheat treated with ¹⁴C-bromoxynil significantly exceeded that of coast fiddleneck. The difference in susceptibility between winter wheat and coast fiddleneck appears to be explained partly by differential translocation and degradation of bromoxynil.
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Last night was my first introduction to what I'm told is a hallowed Australian tradition - the TimTamSlam. Bite the corners off the biscuits, place in glass of port, suck the port up through the biscuit and then eat. It was possibly the defining moment of my life. Deeeeelish.
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Hehe, I must agree that this is indeed the best way to eat a TimTam. Have you tried doing the same but with coffee/hot chocolate?
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George Stephanopoulos may take Diane Sawyer's spot on 'Good Morning America.'
"We're at the beginning of a process that we said was going to take a couple of months, and we're just about a third-of-the-way through it," says ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider about finding a replacement anchor on the show.
The former Clinton staffer is trying out for the position this week while Sawyer is out.
Sawyer is leaving in January to take over for Charlie Gibson on 'World News.'
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A bug in a key Linux Wi-Fi driver means a hacker can take control of a laptop even when it is not on a Wi-Fi network. The bug affects the widely used MadWi-Fi Linux kernel device driver for Atheros-based Wi-Fi chipsets.
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Jewish World Review April 13, 2007 / 25 Nissan, 5767 No smackdown, please, we're Republicans By Wesley Pruden
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Floor traders have been talking about what Peter Giacchi, a designated market maker (DMM) for GETCO, did last week.
Business Insider has learned that Giacchi was the DMM who saved the day before market close last Friday when he identified and stopped an erroneous order from occurring thereby preventing a broker-dealer from losing millions of dollars.
Here's how it happened, according to the Reuters report.
At 3:59:59 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, a broker-dealer placed an order for 17 million shares of Monster Worldwide, which was trading at $8.50 a share, with no offers in site.
Typically, when an order comes in at the close, NYSE has a procedure to go out and solicit contra-side interests to fill the order, but given the thin book for Monster Worldwide, something smelled off this time, said Pastina.
The DMM saw it, alerted the operations staff, the stock was halted, and the broker-dealer was contacted. It turned out the broker-dealer did not want to buy Monster Worldwide. Rather, it was looking to buy an unspecified amount of Monster Beverage Corp, the Sara Lee coffee and tea spinoff that was a new entrant to the S&P 500.
We were able to speak with Giacchi over the phone Monday after the closing bell.
Giacchi, who started his career at the American Stock Exchange before moving to the Big Board in 1996, said there were two obvious standouts when this order came across causing him to alert operations that this was an erroneous order.
The first, he explained, was the size of the order. The second was that there wasn't a news event associated with the stock.
"The size of the order and no news event and something wasn't quite right. The customer needed to be contacted," he said.
Since this was brought to our attention by an anonymous floor trader, we asked Giacchi about what the reaction has been like amongst his peers.
He told us no one bought him donuts or drinks or anything like that.
However, Tom Facchine, a senior leader at the DMM unit at GETCO and NYSE executive board governor, told us that Giacchi did a great job.
"Pete did a fantastic job. If anyone is going to buy him a donut, I will," Facchine said, adding, "It's really a process that we've done for years. Ultimately, the market was served well and that was the most important thing."
A NYSE floor trader from a different firm, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, told Business Insider earlier that this shows another reason why their model--which combines human judgment with computerized trading--is more efficient .
"I think some of the feedback from our peers on the floor is obviously that the market structure that the New York Stock Exchange has in place is very effective," he said. "I think people were happy to see that. I think in this circumstance, the New York Stock Exchange model worked very well."
In our phone conversation, we also learned that Giacchi wanted to work on Wall Street from a very young age.
Growing up in Brooklyn, Giacchi was exposed to Wall Street early on. His father was a barber on Wall Street and his mother was a broker.
He told Business Insider he knew he wanted to work on Wall Street from the first time his mother took him to the lunch club at the New York Stock Exchange.
"It has been an actual dream to work in this job. It's a dream come true. I'm very fortunate to have this job," he said.
After he graduated from Santa Clara University in California in 1992 he came back to New York that summer to work at the American Stock Exchange as a specialist.
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Aegis
AEGIS (Gr. Aigis), in Homer, the shield or buckler of Zeus, fashioned for him by Hephaestus, furnished with tassels and bearing the Gorgon's head in the centre. Originally symbolical of the storm-cloud, it is probably derived from 'αïσσω, signifying rapid, violent motion. When the god shakes it, Mount Ida is wrapped in clouds, the thunder rolls and men are smitten with fear. He sometimes lends it to Athene and (rarely) to Apollo. In the later story (Hyginus, Poet. Astronom. ii. 13) Zeus is said to have used the skin of the goat Amaltheia (αιγίς=goat-skin) which suckled him in Crete, as a buckler when he went forth to do battle against the giants. Another legend represents the aegis as a fire-breathing monster like the Chimaera, which was slain by Athene, who afterwards wore its skin as a cuirass (Diodorus Siculus iii. 70) It appears to have been really the goat's skin used as a belt to support the shield. When so used it would generally be fastened on the right shoulder, and would partially envelop the chest as it passed obliquely round in front and behind to be attached to the shield under the left arm. Hence, by transference, it would be employed to denote at times the shield which it supported, and at other times a cuirass, the purpose of which it in part served. In accordance with this double meaning the aegis appears in works of art sometimes as an animal's skin thrown over the shoulders and arms, sometimes as a cuirass, with a border of snakes corresponding to the tassels of Homer, usually with the Gorgon's head in the centre. It is often represented on the statues of Roman emperors, heroes and warriors, and on cameos and vases.
See F. G. Welcker, Griechische Götterlehre (1857); L. Preller, Griechische Mythologie, i. (1887); articles in Pauly-Wissowa's Real Encyclopädie, Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie, Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire des Antiquités, and Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (3rd ed., 1890).


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With only three days before the release of World War Z, Brad Pitt and the the executives at Paramount Pictures continue to endlessly promote the massive zombie thriller.
Over recent weeks, Pitt has been flying around the world to personally premiere the film to preview audiences, sometimes appearing at four showings a day, and now iTunes has released a new clip of the movie that will certainly add to the growing suspense surrounding the film.
The minute-long clip doesn't feature much action, instead focusing on a conversation Pitt's Gerry Lane has on a plane en route to South Korea, but it definitely hints at something big right around the corner.
Watch the new video at Apple's Movie Trailers website. World War Z hits theaters this Friday.


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MSNBC's All In Discusses The Dark Money Billionaires Who Funded Trump's Campaign Propaganda Machine And Breitbart
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has received endorsements from four national newspapers -- all of which either have familial or financial connections to his campaign, have repeated falsehoods and conspiracy theories to advocate for conservative causes, or have espoused outright racist views. Meanwhile, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's newspaper endorsements include a number of Republican-leaning publications that find Trump too "dangerous" to support.
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Roger Stone received $12,000 from his pro-Trump super PAC despite previously bragging that he was working for the group as an "uncompensated" "volunteer."
Stone is a longtime ally and adviser to the Republican presidential nominee. In December 2015, he announced that he was joining the Committee To Restore America's Greatness to support Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
After Stone joined the super PAC, he reportedly "said 'it would probably be wise' for him to cease conversations with Trump about the campaign due to conflict of interest rules which bar coordination between the two entities." Stone has nonetheless continued to talk regularly with Trump throughout the campaign and informally advises his campaign on strategy.
When Stone made the move from the campaign to the super PAC, he dismissed the idea that he was trying to cash in on his Trump connections and emphasized on Twitter: "I am a volunteer and uncompensated as a matter of fact."
Stone has apparently changed his mind about taking contributor money, according to the Committee To Restore America's Greatness' recently filed Federal Election Commission report covering July 1 through September 30 of this year. The super PAC paid $12,000 in July to Drake Ventures for "consulting." Stone owns Drake Ventures and used the LLC when he worked as a consultant for Trump's presidential campaign last year. (The business registration is now technically inactive as it was revoked in September 2015 because of a failure to file an annual report, according to the Florida Department of State's website database).
The Committee to Restore America's Greatness' activities include spending $32,000 on its "Super Trump" advertisement in Florida and the non-swing state of New York.
Stone also heads the connected 527 group Stop the Steal, which aims "to stop the Democrats from stealing the election from Donald Trump." The Guardian noted that Stone claims he has "around 1,300 volunteers" who will conduct "their own crowd-funded exit polling on election day, ostensibly due to fears that electronic voting machines in certain areas may have been 'rigged.'" However, election experts told the newspaper that the tactic "could intimidate voters" and "exit polls in particular were a dangerously inaccurate way to gauge the legitimacy of an election."
Stop the Steal's third quarterly report to the IRS stated that the group received only $7,162 during that period and transferred $63,000 to the Committee to Restore America's Greatness to "provide for programs of Stop the Steal." (The committee gave Stop the Steal $50,000 in April.) Both Stop the Steal and the Committee to Restore America's Greatness share the same address and contact person.
Stop the Steal's website is currently signing up volunteers to be "vote protectors." Its website also features headlines from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' website and a bizarre "exit polls" map:
Conservative media are using a report from the Center for Public Integrity (CPI) to reinforce Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's claim that the media is rigged against him, pointing to the report's claim that media figures have donated more to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign than Trump's. But according to The Washington Post, the report doesn't "tell the whole story" and doesn't prove "widespread bias" because it does not include any campaign trail reporters who influence coverage of the election.
In just two days, broadcast news networks devoted more than three times as much airtime to baselessly scandalizing a flawed Associated Press (AP) report on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton than covering a story about an illegal donation by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The AP piece examined meetings Clinton took with Clinton Foundation donors as secretary of state, while the Trump story centered on an illegal donation he made to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.
In the two days after the AP report was published, the broadcast news networks ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted 19 minutes and 10 seconds to covering the flawed August 23 report -- which dubiously hyped "possible ethics challenges" on behalf of Clinton. The same networks devoted merely six minutes of coverage to Trump's illegal donation to Pam Bondi in the week following the revelation.
In the report, the AP claimed that "More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money -- either personally or through companies or groups -- to the Clinton Foundation." Journalists and media critics widely derided the report for "ignoring well over 1,000 official meetings with foreign leaders and an unknown number of meetings with domestic US officials" Clinton held at the State Department. Some in the media -- including broadcast and cable networks -- nonetheless hyped the report for the "breathtaking" and "disturbing" "optics," even though the report found "no evidence" of "ethics breaches." Despite the backlash, the AP issued a statement claiming it was "transparent in how it has reported this story."
The Washington Post reported on September 1 that the Trump Foundation paid the IRS a penalty after he illegally donated to a campaign group in 2013 for the re-election of Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. The Post explained that Trump paid the IRS a $2,500 penalty for "violat[ing] tax laws" with his donation. Bondi personally solicited the donation from Trump around the same time her office was considering joining the New York attorney general's fraud investigation against Trump University. Shortly after Bondi received Trump's donation, she decided not to join the case. Cable news hosts called the episode "ugly" and "a classic example" of pay-to-play politics.
The Trump Foundation's donation is also yet another example of Trump's history of "breaking campaign finance laws" and "evading" legal donation limits, as CNN's Jeff Zeleny explained. The New York Times wrote that Trump's donation to Bondi was part of his "decades-long record of shattering political donation limits and circumventing the rules governing contributions and lobbying."
Media Matters searched Nexis and SnapStream for coverage of Donald Trump's donation to Pam Bondi between September 1, 2016, and September 7, 2016, on CBS, NBC, and ABC's morning, evening, and Sunday news programs using the terms: "Trump AND Bondi." Media Matters searched SnapStream for coverage of the AP report on meetings Clinton took with Clinton Foundation donors between August 24, 2016, and August 25, 2016, on CBS, NBC, and ABC's morning and evening news programs using the terms: "Clinton OR Clinton Foundation."
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Broadcast news outlets largely ignored the allegations that the Trump Foundation engaged in pay to play with Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi until this weekend, after The Washington Post reported that Trump paid the IRS a penalty for his illegal donation in support of Bondi. The omission came despite reporting from other sources dating back to March on the charges made against the Trump Foundation and the fines the IRS leveled against it.
ProPublica's Faturechi: Media Should "Ask Harder Questions" Before Quoting Or Publishing Corporate-Backed Research
ProPublica reporter Robert Faturechi is calling for journalists to "be more skeptical" and "ask harder questions" about the corporate funding and influence behind pundits and research organizations passing themselves off as independent.
In an August 10 post published on The New York Times' Room for Debate blog, Faturechi proclaimed: "It's our job as journalists to make sure that lawmakers and the public aren't making major policy decisions based on compromised studies." He added that journalists should "ask harder questions" about think tank researchers' corporate backing "[b]efore we quote them or their studies, or publish their op-eds." His post comes days after the Times published an investigative series about how think tank scholars offering themselves as independent arbiters "have become part of the corporate influence machine" affecting policy in Washington. One article examined 75 think tanks and found that many researchers "had simultaneously worked as registered lobbyists, members of corporate boards or outside consultants in litigation and regulatory disputes, with only intermittent disclosure of their dual roles." Another explained that think tanks scholars are "pushing agendas important to corporate donors," which "blur[s] the line between researchers and lobbyists," and they're often doing it without disclosing their connections.
Several Media Matters analyses have found that fossil fuel-funded pundits passing themselves off as independent experts often publish op-eds or are quoted in the news without disclosing their industry ties, and a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that oil-funded organizations are "more likely to have written and disseminated texts meant to polarize the climate change issue." Media Matters has also outlined how for-profit education companies and other corporations have backed a broad network of think tanks to influence education policy in their favor.
From Faturechi's Room for Debate post:
It's our job as journalists to make sure that lawmakers and the public aren't making major policy decisions based on compromised studies. Big name universities and prestigious think tanks provide researchers with an imprimatur of independence. But as The New York Times and other outlets have shown, their work is often funded, and sometimes shaped, by special interests with a rooting interest in particular findings. Reporters and editors need to be more skeptical of experts, and the false sense of security that their name brand affiliations provide. Before we quote them or their studies, or publish their op-eds, we have to ask harder questions about their funding and their outside employment.
Oftentimes simply asking won't be enough. When the research is being done at a public university, we have an easier time digging up undisclosed conflicts. Emails between professors and their funders are typically subject to public records requests. Those communications can be revelatory, but they're harder to come by when the researchers are working for private think tanks. In those cases, we have to rely on less straightforward entry points, like think tank researchers happening to communicate with government officials who are subject to FOIA. Or we have to hope for leaks. Neither method is particularly reliable.
Research that is funded by a corporation, or any other special interest for that matter, isn't necessarily flawed. And researchers who are moonlighting for outside groups aren't necessarily untrustworthy. But lawmakers and the public deserve more visibility into the research that is shaping policy in Washington and in statehouses across the country. Investigative reporting is one remedy. Another would be stricter transparency rules.
The editorial board of The Gazette newspaper in Colorado Springs, CO, has consistently praised U.S. Senate candidate Darryl Glenn (R) without ever disclosing the financial ties between the editorial board and the campaign. Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show that the wife of Colorado Springs Gazette editorial page editor Wayne Laugesen received over $3,000 for campaign consulting services in 2015.
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Donald Trump's GOP presidential campaign is reportedly telling donors to give to a Super PAC backed by hedge fund manager Robert Mercer, who is also reportedly a major investor in the pro-Trump Breitbart News Network.
Trump's national finance chairman has directed a least one major donor to give to Make America Number I (also known as "Defeat Crooked Hillary PAC"), which is funded by Mercer, according to a June 23 Wall Street Journal report:
Tech billionaire Darwin Deason, along with his son, Doug, and wife, Katerina, met with Mr. Trump and his top aides during the New York businessman's swing through Texas last week, Doug Deason said in an interview. During the meeting, the Deasons asked Mr. Trump and his aides whether the campaign planned to endorse one of the several super PACs that have said they're raising money to back him.
In response, Steven Mnuchin, Mr. Trump's national finance chairman, said the campaign preferred donors give to the Mercer-backed super PAC, Mr. Deason said.
"He said that'll be the one," Mr. Deason said, adding that he hadn't previously known about the group.
A spokeswoman for the super PAC said Mr. Mercer would be the primary funder for the group, but that it would also solicit other donations. The group will air ads primarily against Democrat Hillary Clinton, rather than promoting Mr. Trump.
Make America Number I is likely to be among the best-funded super PACs backing Mr. Trump.
In an April 2015 article on Mercer's support for a super PAC that backed Sen. Ted Cruz, Politico reported that Mercer "is also one of the most generous backers for Breitbart News Network, a group of right-wing news and opinion site that command considerable influence among the conservative base."
Breitbart News' ridiculous shilling for Trump has been widely disparaged by media observers throughout his presidential campaign.
Roger Stone's pro-Trump super PAC raised roughly $310,000 in the first quarter of this year, with approximately 80 percent of the money coming from television and film producer John P. Middleton. Stone previously pledged his group would be "funded by small donors."
Stone is a longtime Trump friend and ally who heads the super PAC Committee to Restore America's Greatness. He is also involved with the newly formed and related 527 group Stop The Steal. Stone and the super PAC have been claiming that Republicans are attempting to "steal" the GOP presidential nomination from Donald Trump; they are also spreading false claims that Trump has been the victim of election fraud. Stone has come under heavy criticism for his plan to release the hotel room numbers of delegates who are purportedly stealing the nomination.
The Committee to Restore America's Greatness recently filed its quarterly report with the Federal Election Commission. The group states that it raised $310,806 from January through March, while spending $191,063.
John P. Middleton gave the group $250,000 this year, accounting for roughly 80 percent of its total receipts. (Middleton gave $100,000 total and John Powers Middleton Companies gave $150,000.) Middleton, the son of Philadelphia Phillies co-owner John S. Middleton, is a regular Republican donor and activist. He works in the television and film industry and co-produced The Lego Movie and executive produced Run All Night, Bates Motel, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. Middleton has promoted Trump on his Twitter account.
Middleton is supporting Stone despite the consultant's virulent attacks against the Bush family. Middleton hosted a 2015 fundraiser for a super PAC supporting Jeb Bush. Stone has said that Jeb and the Bush "crime family" ran drugs in Latin America; claimed the Bush family was behind the attempted assassination of President Reagan; and attacked Barbara Bush for being "shit face drunk."
When he helped form Committee to Restore America's Greatness last year, Stone pledged the group would be funded by small donors, telling the Associated Press: "I don't expect large contributions from anybody. This will be funded by small donors who are opposed to Marco Rubio and the establishment Republican candidates." At the time, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski -- a target of Stone criticism -- called the group "a big-league scam." Lewandowski's power in the campaign now appears to have been diminished with the ascendancy of Stone's former business partner and friend Paul Manafort.
The PAC disbursed $84,000 to a Florida business called Citroen Associates. Citroen is owned by John Paul Kakanis, who is also the registered agent for Roger Stone Exploratory Committee LLC (Stone had explored a run for Marco Rubio's Senate seat). Citroen received money
The group also spent money on advertising with WND.com ($5,093) and Newsmax ($5,230).
A Media Matters analysis of the broadcast evening and weekend TV news coverage of mass protests against money in politics organized by Democracy Awakening and Democracy Spring revealed that the networks devoted only two segments -- a total of 29 seconds of airtime -- between April 11 and April 18 to the week-long demonstrations.


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The play was published and produced in 1930 and was Kaufman and Hart's first hit as collaborators. The play is set in New York, a Pullman car, and Los Angeles in the 1920s.
The plot may have been partial inspiration for that of the movie musical, Singing in the Rain. A comic romp in which three vaudevillians decide to make their fortune in the then new era of "talkies." They arrive in Hollywood with the plan to teach elocution, but the most witless of the three manages, on the strength of his idiocy, to get himself appointed studio director. His further follies and mistakes manage to make the careers of all three, as well as that of the director's equally stupid love interest, who is likewise catapulted to stardom and success. Collaborator Kaufman played a bit rôle as the New York scriptwriter who goes mad in his forgotten and ignored (but nicely paid) Hollywood niche.
The workings of the film industry haven't changed very much in the intervening 70-plus years. See also, Bowfinger, the memoirs of William Goldman and John Gregory Dunne, and the many other films, plays and essays that deal with the workings of the mainstream studios.
You don't get to make too many mistakes in life and the ones that you do make should be ones that hurt only you. But, as the old saying goes, if he only knew then what he knew now, they might all be a lot better off. Well, him anyway. After the intial shock, the rest of them have have probably gotten along just fine.
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, well… how did I get here?
There was a time, many, many years ago when he thought he could have it all. He was young and had more than enough friends, fans, admirers and lovers to see him through. At the time, they all thought he was the living embodiment of the American Dream come true. He was everybody's boy next door, the one who helped little old ladies carry their groceries down the block, the one who never struggled through school or sports like some of his compatriots. Straight A's and Most Valuable Player Awards made up his early resume and his life seemed to be handed to him on a silver platter which was adorned with every known delicacy known to mankind. The rest of his family knew it was only a matter of time before he would leave the safety of his own home and go make his mark upon the world. Destiny was right around the corner.
He joined the service, served his time, and came out ready to take the world by the balls. It was different back then. At the time, good jobs didn't require a college degree and an interview was more about judging character than it was judging credentials. There was no need to be put through a battery of lie detector tests. He didn't have to piss in a cup and wait a week for the results to come back and he didn't have to his name sent off to an anonymous credit reporting agencies to tell him he was a man of character. His handshake and his word were enough for most folks.
So he got the good job. He got the good wife. He had the three point two kids and took the family dog for long walks in the park. On Sunday's he'd still get together with the old crowd and toss footballs and softballs to each other. Later, they' retire to the local tavern where they'd sip their beers and recall with a certain fondness the days of old. Then it was time to go home again, to the bosom and warmth of his family.
And you may ask yourself "How do I work this?" And you may ask yourself "Where is that large automobile?" And you may tell yourself "This is not my beautiful house!" And you may tell yourself" "This is not my beautiful wife!"
As we all know, appearances can be deceiving. What's hidden away, tucked beneath the covers is often ugly and nobody likes to talk about it. Even when it does dare to crack the surface after a few too many beers, it's talked about in hushed and muted tones, like the telling of it aloud might betray its own ugliness.
In the back of his own mind, he had his own inner demons to wrestle with. He felt that too many people depended on him and he'd like nothing better than to chuck it all, assume a new identity and just blend in with the masses. Outwardly, he seemed to bask in the light of the center stage while inwardly it was everything he could do to keep the tears from falling down his cheeks. So one day, he started making plans to hatch his own personal great escape.
At first, he started squirreling money away. He was careful though. Not enough to be noticed, a couple of buck here and there wouldn't be missed. He'd pick up the odd shift here and there and do some jobs under the table and pocket most of the cash. What he thought would take many years only took two. One weekend, when the wife and kids were off visiting relatives (he feigned illness, kissed them on the cheek and waved goodbye), he withdrew his nest egg, packed a few essentials and boarded a Greyhound Bus for ports unknown. He disappeared like a thief in the night.
And you may ask yourself "What is that beautiful house?" And you may ask yourself "Where does that highway go?" And you may ask yourself "Am I right? ...am I wrong?" And you may tell yourself "My God!...what have I done?
He remembers staring out the window of the Greyhound Bus as it made its way across America. Across the green fields with yellow and orange flowers that covered the expanse like a blanket. There were snow capped mountain in the distance and they passed through small towns with stores that had hand painted signs advertising their wares. As night fell, there was no glare of the neon lights to blind him, only the blinking of the stars on a cloudless night. There was no honking of horns, only the constant hum of the buses engine that played like his own personal symphony inside his head. There was no television on telling him what to think and how to think it. The only debate that raged wasn't between Liberals and Conservatives, pro war and anti war, right to life or abortion, it was about what to eat and where to go next when the bus finally came to a stop.
As he got so his seat, a new face had appeared. A man, just about his age had taken up temporary residence next to him. Thinking this stranger might be a fellow road warrior, a man in search of adventure much like himself, he decided to risk some conversation. This being a Greyhound Bus, he decided to ask the obvious.
Him: "Where ya headed?"
Stranger: "Home, to see my family ."
The bus rolled out and the conversation became one sided. The stranger talked about how long he had been away, about how much he missed the simple little act of opening his door and being greeted by his loved ones. All he could contribute was a muffled "Uh-huh" every now and then.
As the miles rolled away, his mind no longer drifted to strange faraway places, his eyes no longer craved to see what was over the next horizon and the thought of tasting exotic foods left a stale taste in his mouth. The things he debated so passionately were dropped from his mind. In fact, he could only think of one word over and over again.
Lyrics lifted from the Talking Heads fine tune called Once in a Lifetime
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Pokemon White Walkthrough :
This walkthrough for Pokemon White [Nintendo DS] has been posted at 23 Sep 2010 by Bramblefang and is called "Dento, Paddo, & Koon - The Elemental Trio!". The Walkthrough have a rating 1 by 5 our users and has been commented 7 times. If walkthrough is usable don't forgot thumbs up Bramblefang and share this with your freinds. And most important we have 18 other walkthroughs for Pokemon White, read them all!
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Walkthrough - Dento, Paddo, & Koon - The Elemental Trio!"Welcome to the Sanyou Gym! Have you been studying your Pokemon facts? Well, you'll get to use them here! Just step on the panel with the Pokemon type you think is effective on the type on the curtain!" As the guy said above, you must step on the type panel which you think is effective against the type on the curtain. While doing that, you have to battle two mandatory trainers. |
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Bankers, unlike most businessmen, have a great start in life. First they decimate customer service by sacking hordes of troops, then they pay depositors 0.5 per cent interest, while charging borrowers 19.9 per cent, and earn fortunes for doing very little. They then gamble these profits and expect to earn vast bonuses on winning bets while ignoring losing bets.
Bankers' guile never ceases to amaze me. We are told that if we don't pay them huge bonuses they will move to other countries, whose taxpayers will willingly bail them out. The RBS directors suggest that if their staff do not receive £1.5bn in bonuses they will move to other banks. As an RBS shareholder, I would be grateful if they did.
As far as I am concerned, when the RBS has repaid all the taxpayers money lent to them and the share price has reached 50 per cent of their peak price, then they can pay themselves what they like in bonuses. Until then, they should not receive a single penny. The Government should take a hard line; bankers have to be dragged into the real world.
Malcolm Howard
Banstead, Surrey
I am beginning to feel sorry for these bankers. To be so cordially loathed by an entire country for one's greed and ineptitude must take its toll on morale. Can a mere £1.5bn in bonuses really assuage such trauma when you've got used to absorbing sums hundreds of times greater from generous taxpayers?
Add to this the corrosive doubt that you may not be as good a gambler with other people's money as you hoped, having imperilled an entire economy by your recklessness, and mere six-figure bonuses must seem pretty paltry compensation.
Christopher Martin
London W2
I am sick of pussyfooting around bankers. It is time for Alistair Darling to put his mouth where our money is and tell the RBS and other banks that it is the end of bonus culture. If the RBS directors do quit, I am sure there are many within the company equally good at doing their jobs.
Honora Morrison
Could the bankers who seem determined to hang on to their huge bonuses do us a favour this Christmas? Reinflate the economy by spending the lot.
Julia Doherty
Uckfield, East Sussex
A state in terror of photography
I found your story "Warning: do not take this picture" (3 December) extremely disturbing, but not surprising. Britain under New Labour is fast becoming like the Soviet Union, where everything – even ancient medieval bridges – was deemed to be a state secret: photography forbidden!
Thanks to the hasty, ill-conceived Anti-Terrorism Act, which will probably not now be repealed, even by a Cameron government, and over-zealous police officers who regard every member of the public as a potential terrorist or criminal, we are fast becoming the police state that our enemies want.
As an amateur photographer interested in architecture, I have been taking photos for almost 40 years, but only in the last few years have I encountered overzealous security guards who tell me I cannot take the interior of shopping malls, or even stop me in the street, as happened in London recently, when the occupants of an insignificant (but apparently paranoid) business took objection to my photographing the road outside their premises.
Thank you for highlighting this latest incursion into our rights and liberties.
Garth Groombridge
The problems you describe have been raised in the photographic press for months. It is clear that among police, community support officers and security guards there is an enormous lack of knowledge. They are ignorant of the law, of photography, and above all of human nature and the motives that make people want to take photographs. To them, anything beyond their understanding and experience has to be stopped.
It is not so long since Britain was outraged when a group of plane spotters were arrested in the former Yugoslavia. Today we are moving towards conditions formerly found only in one-party states – where a camera is automatically a subject of suspicion to anyone with a uniform.
Photographers should refer to www.sirimo.co.uk/ukpr for a useful explanation of photographers' rights. It should be compulsory reading for all police officers. Meanwhile, what next? Is it safe to use binoculars?
Roger Marriott
Wing, Buckinghamshire
Counter-terrorism laws are not, and never have been, designed to stop people taking photographs. People have the right to take photographs in public places for legitimate reasons and will continue to do so. But we face a terrorist threat where people planning attacks may scope potential targets. Evidence produced in recent court cases has shown this activity includes taking pictures.
The Government and the police are very conscious of the need to use counter-terrorism laws sensitively and sensibly. In August I wrote to all chief constables whose forces have Section 44 powers to make it clear they cannot be used to stop photographs being taken in public places or to make people delete images. There are no offences within counter-terrorist legislation which would capture an innocent member of the public or tourist taking photographs.
New figures show stop and search dropped 40 per cent in the capital after the Metropolitan Police responded to community concerns by changing how the tool is used. Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has welcomed this reduction, but has stated in his 2009 annual report that section 44 is still necessary and proportional to the continuing and serious risk of terrorism.
David Hanson MP
Minster for Crime, Policing and Counter Terrorism
Home Office, London SW1
Last summer, a 30-year-old friend of mine arrived early for an appointment with a doctor in Chelsea. As it was a pleasant evening and he wanted to do some exercise, he decided to walk around the leafy square a few times instead of sitting in the waiting room.
After a few minutes he was stopped and questioned by two police officers on the grounds that it was an area with a high rate of car crime and there were several expensive cars parked around the square.
My friend is from Germany and, being unaware of his rights, co-operated and so gave his name and address and the reason for him being in Chelsea that evening, and tried to explain why he was walking around the square repeatedly. After about 15 minutes of questioning, the officers left him, but only after he had insisted on being given a copy of their written record of the incident. I was amazed, embarrassed and horrified to see that, in the space specifying the reason for being under suspicion, the police officer had written simply "Walking around the square".
And he wasn't even taking photographs!
Helen Mordsley
London N20
Afghan war for moonshine
One can sympathise with General Lamb and Captain Beattie in their worry that our troops are being undermined by scepticism regarding Britain's adventure in Afghanistan ("Troops fear defeat at home", 30 November).
Yet the military objective, defeat of the Taliban, is only meaningful if the political objective, the establishment of stable, secure and representative government throughout the country, is realistically attainable.
The ambition of our politicians is breathtaking in its arrogance and lack of realism. Hoping that somehow the warlord class that has delivered local security for centuries will happily abandon power to a quasi-democratic government in Kabul is moonshine.
So too is the idea that any government in Kabul can afford to bankroll a force large enough to take control of the whole country (even given the willingness of its forces to fight for Kabul rather than local lords). The cost of such a force has been estimated at fivefold the national budget of this impoverished land.
One thing only unites the country: confronting a foreign army. Our troops are dying in vain.
David McDowall
Richmond, Surrey
Knifed to death for being different
Before I had opened The Independent this morning (3 December) a friend telephoned me to say that a learning-disabled friend of his, living in a flat in the community, had been found knifed to death earlier this week. I then read your article on disability hate crimes.
As a member of the disability community, and as a human being, I was horrified, but not surprised. Historically, when life is as bad as it is now for so many people, anger and hate are turned towards people of difference – read it on every page of your paper.
This type of hate crime may well be fuelled, in my opinion, by the sudden and widespread prominence of disabled people in various media. For instance, Cast Offs, the Channel 4 series setting disparate disabled people on an island, will in my opinion, be grist to the mill of those many who not only hate us, but who do actually want to hurt us. Shouting "F. . . . . . Spaz" at us in the street in no longer enough.
Anne Rae
Macclesfield, Cheshire
'Zionists' on the Iraq inquiry panel
Will The Independent ever insist that its authors distinguish between the terms Jewish, Zionist, pro-Israeli and neocon?
Richard Ingrams, column (28 November) begins by calling Iraq panel members Sir Martin Gilbert and Sir Lawrence Freedman "Jewish", before repeating a pejorative description of Gilbert as an active supporter of "Zionism".
Ingrams then accuses "American neocons" of planning and executing the Iraq war; says many of these "ardent Zionists" care more about Israel than America; and implies that the British "pro-Israelis" on the Iraq Inquiry panel will cover all of this up!
The Independent might have recognised such conspiracy theories and fifth-column accusations for the dangerous nonsense that they are.
Mark Gardner
CST, London NW4
Richard Ingrams reiterates that two members of the Iraq inquiry are Jewish. That may be the case. However, to this Yank that is not what makes the inquiry panel such a disreputable lot.
What horrifies me, as someone who lives in a great country once crushed by British imperialism, is that all members of the inquiry are British and all are thus imperialists. I hardly see how such a biased body can come up with any finding that will condemn British crimes against humanity. Crimes that began with the Stamp Act.
Inna Tysoe
Sacramento, California, USA
Dog danger
There is a simple way to avoid dogs biting, mauling and killing (Terence Blacker, 2 December), which would be much more effective than the licence being proposed here in Northern Ireland – all dogs should be muzzled at all times.
Dennis Millar
Safer cycling
The headline "cyclists three times more likely to die on UK roads" (3 December) obscures the fact that even in the UK the health benefits of cycling outweigh the risks. Cycling is safer in places where more people cycle. In order to get more people cycling, we need to change the perception that it is a risky activity. CTC would like to see greater priority given to traffic law enforcement for all road users, more 20 mph speed limits in urban areas and cycle training available to all.
Debra Rolfe
CTC, Guildford, Surrey
Vote for decency
After the Swiss "minarets" vote, Ed Edmunds (letter, 2 December) wonders about the desirability of true democracy, preferring our pretence of popular representation on issues such as immigration, torture and capital punishment. In fact, Switzerland has proportionally twice as many asylum seekers as the UK, is the home of the International Red Cross, the world's leading organisation fighting torture, and carried out its last execution 20 years before the UK. What is it you're afraid of Mr Edmunds?
David Williams
Name a decade
Now that we are entering the last month of the decade, the question arises of what we are going to call the next one. I never really warmed to "the Noughties", but at least it served. "The Teenies" won't really work, since they wouldn't start until 2013. So where do we go from here?
Peter Harvey
Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Christmas time
Not only Saturn worshippers were appeased by the announcement of the date of Christ's birthday (letter, 2 december). The Roman soldiers, who of course were living everywhere throughout Europe, worshipped a god called Mithras. By an astounding coincidence, Mithras's birthday was 25 December.
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If there's one thing video game players love, it's being badass, unstoppable gamelords that blow through every supposed "challenge" thrown their way in record time with a cocky grin on their Gamer Grub-encrusted mouths while weaker nerds toil in obscurity.
That, or proudly proclaiming all of the above on internet forums.
Nearly every game has a subset of people bemoaning the lack of a Hardcore mode, where death is permanent and the difficulty is cranked to 11. Taking aim at these masochists, Fallout: New Vegas' hardcore mode looks to present some serious challenges. Will their approach be hardcore enough?
If you die in the game, not only do you lose your character but you die in real life AND all the savegames for other titles on your system are deleted.
All items - including equipment, inventory and bottlecaps - degrade by 1% each time you take a step. Nothing can be repaired. There is a Repair skill, but using it causes your character to strike his throat repeatedly with the Pip Boy until its dull corner punctures a hole in his jugular.
You must eat and drink every three minutes to stay alive. Food must be manually prepared by the player following actual recipes and cooking methods. If it is overcooked or poorly seasoned, it will disappear without being eaten. If it is the slightest bit undercooked, the main character will die.
Players whined about the effects of radiation in Fallout 3, so this time around you will begin the game with a near-lethal dose of radiation that renders you blind.
No fast travel. No running. Walk speed has been reduced to a stationary lean forward.
To simulate the poor conditions of firearms in the post-apocalypse, all guns are more likely to misfire or jam than to shoot. When you do get a shot off, it will be as accurate as pulling the trigger in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. while unscoped, running, and attempting to hit a target nearly a mile away.
Your attacks do 0.001% of normal damage to your enemies, and 300% damage to yourself. On the other side of the coin, enemy attacks scan your computer's browser history and email it to all of your contacts, then shut off your computer.
V.A.T.S. is disabled, and replaced with A.A.A.A., which simply makes you turn counterclockwise in slow motion while being ravaged by bullets.
Character Interaction
Conversations are much more involved and rewarding in the main game, with many more options to help you feel connected to the setting. In hardcore mode, your only response to every line of dialogue will be, "I am a child murderer. Here, take my weapons and armor before you kill me."
Upon entering a casino with the hopes of gambling, security will escort you into the back and crush your head in a vice. You don't want to know what happens when you get caught cheating.
Companions display different levels of affinity for you. The first is "Murderous Rage", followed by "Feeling A Little Guilty That I Killed That Dude", and finally "Now That I've Dug Him Up I Changed My Mind, I'll Just Set Him On Fire".
All goals will be changed to timed escort missions that involve navigating an area jam-packed with explosives and fragile items that will end the mission in failure if anyone shoots them.
Rewards range from being de-kidneyed to an enormous golden nugget that will immediately overburden and kill you.
Alter Ego
You could say this was the Citizen Kane of adventure games if you wanted to live the rest of your days without being trusted by anyone ever again. 2/10
Madden '11
Good stuff, but between in-game ads, sponsored achievements, sponsored replays, EA Coinz, DLC, actual video commercials and unskippable spam for other EA products, at this point Madden might be more disgustingly shameless advertisement (while still costing $60) than video game. 7/10
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days
I'm not sure what's more surprising - the fact that this sequel was made or that anyone will be surprised by the end result. 4/10
Monday Night Combat
Way more fun than a game based on Team Fortress/Warmachine fanart has a right to be. 8/10
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
While the comic and movie successfully walked the fine line between creatively referential and annoying pandering, this dives into the latter while screaming "BARF!" and failing to hide the boner it sprung fantasizing about its own cleverness. 6/10
These sponges will make your hair WHITE and your teeth CURLY.
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Timing with vortec heads
I got my motor built and decided to upgrade dist. to a summit unit with the higher coil/module. Anyways what should my initial timing be set at with this head. I had a guy set it to total timing of 36* and it pings. Now I could back off and drive it and keep doing this til it stops, but realistically is there a number. Seems like the timing is way advanced. The vac. module is almost touching the intake. The guy is a good good mechanic, but he does not know about the vortec heads. He runs dart sportsmans and other stuff.
I know with this head you are supposed to run less timing. Also, should I have the vac advanced hooked up to a vaccum source or not
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I prefer, use and recommend using full manifold vacuum source for the vacuum advance. |
Yeah, I was told I needed to drive the 87 octane out and replace with 91. We have only 87, 89, and 91 in ca. I've been told that this will solve it. One way to find out is to put some octane booster in it now.. to see what happens. I have to barely drive it or not put a load on it so it doesn't ping. If that does not help, then I'll have to back the timing down a notch.
F-Bird '88 Vac or no vac source to the vac. module. I had it connected without a vac source. We switched it to a vac source off the carb. I was told to put it back the way it was also (may be adding too much vaccum connected) to see what happens. I keep getting told you want a non metered vac source. What's the deal I bought a summit distributor. |
I called summit tech today and they did not know believe it or not. There is an adjustment inside the vaccum module that you are supposed to use a 3/32 allen wrench for. I turned the timing down a bit because it still seemed to high for vortecs (36*). Before I moved it down, I did put 91 octane.. and it helped a lot, but the pinging was not higher in the rpm band. It seemed ok.. but I went ahead and moved it anyway because it still heard pinging.
Now to the distributor.. I'm about to send this thing back to summit. With my old HEI when I floored it, it would shift the truck and get on with business and be at 90 withing seconds. Now when I hit it.. the truck dies. Should I adjust the thing inside the vaccum adcance. I never had a distrubutor like this before.. so kind of puzzled. Also, I am stil confused as to if I'm supposed to have vaccum to the vac module or not. It seemed to run better with the old dist. I also put headers.. and I was thinking it would be louder.. it is quieter. This thing is really breathing too good if that's a possibility. A friend mentioned I needed to fatten it up now with headers. |
You should not have to adjust the vacuum advance cannister at all for your engine combo. More than likely there is nothing wrong with the distributor you got from Summit. The problem is with the timing and /or possibly the carb accelerator pump adjustment. I mention this because you stated that the engine dies when you "hit it". |
Not only does it die, but it does not act like the beast it used to when I nail it. It used to downshift, then get going. Now it never downshifts.. just goes slowly... til 90mph now. It used to take at least 3 seconds.. now it's taking 8-10 secs to get up to 90 and it's not opening up like it used to. My tranny also started slipping after I added headers. I think the additional 15hp supposedly sent it over the top. Thanks for the information. I will take to my guy today and say do this. Not sure where my timing is at now.. but it was at 36* and i knocked it down about a qtr.
Also, you seem to think the summit dist. are ok. Maybe my problem is with trans.
Is the kickdown cable connected to the carb and is it adjusted correctly? I doubt you gained 15 HP from a header and distributor swap; but even if you did, it should not have "sent your trans over the top". Is the trans fluid level correct? Forgot to mention this but ALL timing info I have posted is for a non-computer controlled distributor and using a carburetor for fuel intake. The timing info does not apply to computer controlled ignition or fuel injected systems. Back to the timing. 36 degrees BTDC for Total Mechanical Timing with no vacuum advance present when the timing is being checked or adjusted is usually too far advanced when running Vortec heads. Drop the timing to 32-34 degrees BTDC and after setting the timing re-connect the vacuum advance hose and use a full manifold vacuum source. Total Mechanical Timing should be "all in" between 2500-3000 RPM. If it isn't, then the centrifugal weight return springs will have to be swapped out to yield the results. Usually on a GM style HEI distributor, using one light and one medium return spring will get you in the ballpark. |
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Evaluating Two Exercise Training Programs to Reduce Leg Pain in People With Peripheral Arterial Disease (The EXERT Study) (EXERT)
Tracking Information | ||||
First Received Date ICMJE | May 6, 2009 | |||
Last Updated Date | September 5, 2014 | |||
Start Date ICMJE | January 2009 | |||
Primary Completion Date | April 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) | |||
Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE |
Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE | Same as current | |||
Change History | Complete list of historical versions of study NCT00895635 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site | |||
Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE |
Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE | Same as current | |||
Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE | Not Provided | |||
Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE | Not Provided | |||
Descriptive Information | ||||
Brief Title ICMJE | Evaluating Two Exercise Training Programs to Reduce Leg Pain in People With Peripheral Arterial Disease (The EXERT Study) | |||
Official Title ICMJE | Exercise Training to Reduce Claudication: Arm Ergometry Versus Treadmill Walking | |||
Brief Summary | Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a disorder that affects more than 8 million people in the United States. As a result of decreased blood flow to the legs, people with PAD may experience leg pain and difficulty with walking. This study will examine the effectiveness of two exercise programs—a treadmill walking program and an aerobic arm exercise program—at increasing walking distance and decreasing leg pain in people with PAD. | |||
Detailed Description | PAD is a condition that occurs when atherosclerotic plaque builds up in the peripheral arteries and restricts blood flow. People with PAD often experience reduced blood flow to the legs, which may cause painful leg cramping while walking, known as intermittent claudication. Claudication affects over 4 million people in the United States, and many people with this condition can walk only ½ to 2 blocks before leg pain begins to occur. Regular treadmill walking has been shown to be effective at increasing walking distance and reducing claudication in people with PAD. However, walking on a treadmill may prove difficult for some people with PAD and usually causes increased leg pain, both of which may reduce exercise frequency. Aerobic arm exercises do not cause leg pain and may be an effective way for people with PAD to improve overall cardiovascular fitness and increase the amount of exercise they do. The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of a treadmill exercise program and an aerobic arm exercise program at reducing symptoms of claudication and improving walking ability in people with PAD. This study will enroll people with PAD and claudication. At a baseline study visit, participants will complete a treadmill walking test; a blood collection; and questionnaires to assess walking status, daily activity levels, quality of life, and mood. One week after the baseline visit, participants will attend a study visit for an assessment of forearm and leg muscle blood flow and a hand-bike test that will measure upper body strength using an arm cycle ergometer. The ergometer is a device with bicycle pedals that people move using their arms. Participants will then be randomly assigned to either a treadmill exercise training program, an arm ergometry exercise program, or a control group. Participants in the treadmill exercise training program will attend a supervised program at one of four study sites and exercise on a treadmill for 1 hour three times a week for 12 weeks. Participants in the arm ergometry exercise program will attend a supervised program at one of four study sites and exercise using an arm cycle ergometer (hand-bike) for 1 hour three times a week for 12 weeks. Participants in both groups will also receive written instructions about exercising on their own. Participants in the control group will continue to receive usual care from their regular doctor for the treatment of PAD and will be provided with written exercise instructions. Once a week for 12 weeks, participants in the control group will attend study visits to discuss any health problems. All participants will be asked to monitor their daily exercise for 3 separate weeks during the 12-week period by wearing an accelerometer, which will measure and record physical activity. They will also record their exercise habits in a written diary. All participants will attend study visits on 2 separate days at Weeks 6 and 12 for repeat baseline testing. From Weeks 12 to 24, all participants will be encouraged to continue to exercise on their own at least three times a week for 30 minutes. Every 4 weeks, study researchers will call participants to offer encouragement and answer questions. At Week 23, participants will again wear an accelerometer and keep an exercise diary for 1 week. All participants will attend a final study visit at Week 24 for repeat baseline testing. |
Study Type ICMJE | Interventional | |||
Study Phase | Phase 3 | |||
Study Design ICMJE | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
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Publications * | Not Provided | |||
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline. |
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Recruitment Status ICMJE | Completed | |||
Enrollment ICMJE | 104 | |||
Completion Date | April 2014 | |||
Primary Completion Date | April 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) | |||
Eligibility Criteria ICMJE | Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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Ages | 18 Years to 90 Years (Adult, Senior) | |||
Accepts Healthy Volunteers | No | |||
Contacts ICMJE | Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects | |||
Listed Location Countries ICMJE | United States | |||
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NCT Number ICMJE | NCT00895635 | |||
Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE | 631 R01HL090854-01A1 ( US NIH Grant/Contract Award Number ) |
Has Data Monitoring Committee | Yes | |||
U.S. FDA-regulated Product | Not Provided | |||
Plan to Share Data | Not Provided | |||
IPD Description | Not Provided | |||
Responsible Party | University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute | |||
Study Sponsor ICMJE | University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute | |||
Collaborators ICMJE | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) | |||
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Information Provided By | University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute | |||
Verification Date | September 2014 | |||
ICMJE Data element required by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors and the World Health Organization ICTRP |