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The Bucks' rookie guard believes that one of the reasons why he was not picked to play on the USA's world championship basketball team was because he is not a Nike client.
Jennings, who wears Under Armour, told Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports that "it's not my call. That's on them. But if you want to get technical about it and you really want to look at it, half of the guys there are Nike guys. I'm not saying it's a Nike thing, but Nike is kind of running a lot of things right now. To have a guy like myself on the USA team that's flashy and really outgoing, you don't want Under Armour to get all that (publicity)."
Mike Krzyzewski, the coach of the USA team, is a Nike client and of the players only Chauncey Billups, Derrick Rose and Eric Gordon did not wear Nike. The team uniforms were also Nike issue.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
Michael Hiestand has covered sports media and marketing for USA TODAY, tackling the sports biz ranging from what's behind mega-events such as the Olympics and Super Bowl to the sometimes-hidden numbers behind the sports world's bottom line.

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A Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of ASP015K in Moderate to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis Subjects
This study has been completed.
Astellas Pharma Inc
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First received: July 23, 2012
Last updated: July 25, 2013
Last verified: July 2013
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This study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of ASP015K monotherapy and to evaluate the dose-dependent response of ASP015K in moderate to severe Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) subjects given ASP015K for 12 weeks.
|Arthritis, Rheumatoid
|Drug: ASP015K Drug: Placebo
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase 2b Study of ASP015K -Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Dose-Finding Study in Moderate to Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis Subjects -
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Genetics Home Reference related topics: rheumatoid arthritis
MedlinePlus related topics: Arthritis Rheumatoid ArthritisU.S. FDA Resources
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Percentage of subjects achieving American College of Rheumatology Criteria 20 (ACR 20) response [ Time Frame: Week 12 ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Percentage of Subjects achieving ACR 50 response [ Time Frame: Week 12 ]
- Percentage of Subjects achieving ACR 70 response [ Time Frame: Week 12 ]
- Change from baseline in Disease Activity Score using 28 joint count and C Reactive Protein (DAS28-CRP) [ Time Frame: Baseline and Week 12 ]
- Safety assessed by the incidence of adverse events, vital signs, 12-lead ECGs and clinical labo-tests [ Time Frame: During 12-week treatment period and 4-week follow-up period ]
|Study Start Date:
|February 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|July 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: ASP015K lowest dose
Drug: ASP015K
|Experimental: ASP015K low dose
Drug: ASP015K
|Experimental: ASP015K medium dose
Drug: ASP015K
|Experimental: ASP015K high dose
Drug: ASP015K
|Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Drug: Placebo
Detailed Description:
This is a Phase 2b, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, placebo-controlled, dose-finding, monotherapy, multi-center study with once daily oral ASP015K or matching placebo in subjects with moderate to severe RA, with or without prior antirheumatic medication, and regardless of responsiveness to the medication.
The study is comprised of up to a 4-week Screening period, a 12-week Treatment period and a 4-week Follow-up period.
Subjects in each treatment group will take ASP015K or matching placebo orally, once daily, after breakfast for 12 weeks after the screening period.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subject has received a full explanation of the study drug and this study in advance, and written informed consent to participate in the study has been obtained from the subject himself/herself
- Outpatient has RA that was diagnosed according to the 1987 revised criteria of the ACR at least 6 months prior to screening
At screening subject has active RA as evidenced by all of the following:
- ≥ 6 tender/painful joints;
- ≥ 6 swollen joints;
- CRP of ≥ 0.5 mg/dL or ESR of ≥ 28 mm/h.C-Reactive Protein (CRP) of ≥ 0.8 mg/dL or Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) of ≥ 28 mm/hr
- Subject meets the ACR 1991 Revised Criteria for the Classification of Global Functional Status in RA, Class I, II or, III at screening
Exclusion Criteria:
- Positive tuberculin (TB) test within 90 days of Screening
- Abnormal chest x-ray indicative of an acute or chronic infectious process or malignancy
- Receipt of live or live attenuated virus vaccination within 30 days prior to the first dose of study drug
- Hepatitis B virus or hepatitis C virus carrier or has a history of a positive test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
- Any other autoimmune rheumatic disease, other than Sjogren's syndrome
- Previous history of clinically significant infections or illness (requiring hospitalization or requiring parenteral therapy) within 90 days of the Screening visit, or a history of any illness that would preclude participation in the study
- History of any malignancy, except for successfully treated basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or in-situ carcinoma of the cervix
- Does not meet specified washout criteria for the following RA medications: etanercept, certolizumab, adalimumab, golimumab, infliximab and tocilizumab, rituximab, abatacept, anakinra, methotrexate, sulfasalazine, hydroxychloroquine, gold, penicillamine or leflunamide
- Previous intolerance to Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors
- Receipt of intra-articular or parenteral corticosteroid within 28 days prior to the first dose of study drug
- Receipt of plasma exchange therapy within 60 days prior to the start of study drug
- Receipt of any investigational agent within 30 days or 5 half-lives, whichever is longer, prior to first dose of study drug
- Receipt of medications that are CYP3A substrates with narrow therapeutic range within 14 days prior to first dose of study drug
- History of heart failure, defined as New York Heart Association (NYHA) grade 3 or greater
Contacts and Locations
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, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01649999
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01649999
|Chubu, Japan
|Chugoku, Japan
|Hokkaido, Japan
|Kansai, Japan
|Kantou, Japan
|Kyushu, Japan
|Touhoku, Japan
Sponsors and Collaborators
Astellas Pharma Inc
|Study Director:
|Medical Director
|Astellas Pharma Inc
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Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Keywords provided by Astellas Pharma Inc:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on June 23, 2017
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Takeuchi T, Tanaka Y, Iwasaki M, Ishikura H, Saeki S, Kaneko Y. Efficacy and safety of the oral Janus kinase inhibitor peficitinib (ASP015K) monotherapy in patients with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis in Japan: a 12-week, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase IIb study. Ann Rheum Dis. 2016 Jun;75(6):1057-64. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-208279. Epub 2015 Dec 15.
|Responsible Party:
|Astellas Pharma Inc
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01649999 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|July 23, 2012
|Last Updated:
|July 25, 2013
Keywords provided by Astellas Pharma Inc:
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Joint Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Rheumatic Diseases
Connective Tissue Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
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Get an overview of this hotelRomantic Merelbeke bed & breakfast in Bottelare with free breakfast
Popular property highlights
Located in Bottelare, this romantic bed & breakfast is within 6 mi (10 km) of Gemeentelijk Museum, Ghelamco Arena, and Harry Malter Family Park. St. Anne's Church and Museum of Fine Arts are also within 9 mi (15 km).
Property Features
A library, multilingual staff, and a garden are available at this smoke-free bed & breakfast. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include gift shops/newsstands.
Room Amenities
All 4 individually decorated rooms feature free WiFi and DVD players. Comforts include Egyptian cotton sheets and down comforters, and guests will also find conveniences like refrigerators and coffee makers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access. This romantic bed & breakfast also offers a library, multilingual staff, and gift shops/newsstands. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
Bed & Breakfast La Clé du Sud is a smoke-free property.
- Smoke-free property
- Free breakfast
- Total number of rooms - 4
- Number of floors - 1
- Free self parking
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Library
- Multilingual staff
- Garden
- Year Built 2009
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Down comforter
- Coffee/tea maker
- DVD player
- Premium bedding
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
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- In-room safe
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Egyptian-cotton sheets
- Individually decorated
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Guests are offered a complimentary buffet breakfast.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
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Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-in time ends at 9 PM
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Washington » The heads of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank pledged new resources Thursday to fight the worst global downturn since the Great Depression, while warning that the crisis is far from over.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said U.S. and European leaders need to fulfill pledges they made during a summit in London earlier this month to clean up their banking systems by removing distressed assets from banks' balance sheets. With the right policies, the world economy could recover in the first half of 2010, he said.
"We still have long months of economic distress in front of us," Strauss-Kahn said.
Strauss-Kahn said there "may be need for more" stimulus spending by individual countries in 2010. The IMF's board agreed to double the borrowing limits for 78 of the poorest countries in an effort to meet the needs of developing nations harmed by the downturn.
Also Thursday, World Bank president Robert Zoellick said it will provide $45 billion over the next three years to support road building and other infrastructure projects in poor nations.
The comments came as finance officials from around the world were gathering in Washington for three days of discussions beginning Friday that seek to resolve differences over the best approach to take to combat the current downturn.
The discussions are set to begin Friday with meetings of finance ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy nations -- the U.S., Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada. Those will be followed by talks over dinner that night among the Group of 20 nations, which adds major emerging powers such as China, Russia, India and Brazil to the mix.


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Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, Kris, Bruce and Kylie Jenner, Scott and Mason Disick, Mark Ballas and Lamar Odom all enjoyed dinner at the El Floridita Cuban Restaurant in Hollywood to mark the special occasion.
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
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Well, so you've come back! Great. :-) Let me tell you a little more how the idea of the sanctuary came about.
I live in a neighborhood of large lots, from 1 to 2 acres each. These lots have extensive lawns and some are are sprayed regularly and kept weed-free. My 1.25 acre lot has 3 neighbors backing up to my property on one side and 1 on the other. To boot, my property backs right up to a golf course. You can only imagine the amount of pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides, etc. float around here.
I leave my lawn natural, more of a mown meadow. It is filled with violets and dandelions in the spring and blankets of white cover during the summer. One of my neighbors also has such a mix. This summer, after he'd also seen the PBS special about CCD we discussed how difficult it is for both us to mow our lawns when we run over honeybees on the clover. So I decided that I just wasn't going to mow down my clover regularly, but instead left almost half an acre in bloom.
At the same time I started investigating what I could do with my existing gardens that could turn to benefit bees. I took a look at some of my long-time gardening methods. Simple things could make a difference. Take coleus.
I've always loved the colored leaves of coleus and to increase leaf production I'd religiously pinch off flower buds to make the plants bushier. I'd never really liked the long untidy flower stalks. But come to find out, those tiny flowers are like bee magnets! I let all of my coleus bloom this year. I had nearly a dozen huge plants up on the deck and not only did the bees line up for these tiny treats, but the butterflies and hummingbirds visited every day! So I also let my basil plants bloom as it has the same kind of long flower stalk. Again, the bees were all over the plants.
And then there were the zinnias. I had originally planted perhaps 50 of the 'cut-n-come again' variety for their riot of color and summer long blooms. Turns out it was standing room only on those blossoms: every kind of bee around here visited. So did at least 8 kinds of butterflies, dragonflies, hummingbirds, hummingbird moths, a preying mantis and lots of goldfinches. It was amazing and when friends came, we would sit next to one of the zinnia beds and watch the action. And up to that point all I'd done was let some clover bloom and not pinch back the coleus and the basil!
All that bug activity, of course, drew in more birds than usual. (A note: as always, I provide a dependable supply of fresh water in the form of bird baths, especially one on the ground where the squirrels and chipmunks and the occasional injured bird can have easy access. This year it was especially important due to drought conditions in Ohio. Another benefit of all that dependable water - it saves my tomatoes and other crops since with easy water around, the critters don't chomp into something juicy to quench their thirst.)
Talk about fast gratification. If just a few things like I did during that first couple of weeks could make that much difference, just imagine what a determined effort might do? Keep watching this post and I'll let you in on other little things I did that are making a big difference in the gardens.
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THE social media tool Twitter has helped spark a number of news stories in its short tenure from Wayne Rooney's hair transplant to the break-up of Demi Moore's marriage – and now it has hit HS2.
Campaigners against the £33billion rail link have long raised concerns over taxpayers' money being spent by HS2 Ltd, the body responsible for the route, on staff and the roles they perform – and one appears to be monitoring protesters' Twitter feeds.
Chiltern District Councillor Seb Berry had contacted HS2 Ltd regarding a community forum in his area, and was surprised that the response back stated HS2 Ltd 'have noted your comments on Twitter on April 16, 2012'.
Cllr Berry had been enquiring about the first community forum arranged for Great Missenden, South Heath and Wendover and also tweeted to ask if anyone attended.
The Great Missenden campaigner said: "Taxpayers will quite rightly be appalled that HS2 Ltd is wasting public money employing people to monitor Twitter and other social networks.
"There is already a taxpayer-funded HS2 spin operation – it's called the Department for Transport.
"Yet the transport secretary Justine Greening has given her blessing to HS2 Ltd advisors costing hundreds of thousands of pounds per year – this is an outrageous waste of public money."
Campaigners are hoping to block the rail route through the heart of Chilterns with a succession of legal challenges.


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|Jesuit General Arturo Sosa Absacal left of Pope Francis: is the
"Black Pope" spreading heresy?
Memorandum against the "Black Pope"
Does the Jesuit General Want a "Christianity without Christ"?
Jesuit genius "too smart" to openly represent a heresy
"If the Pope does not quote these passages, it means that he has made a distinction and does not consider it authentic. They are therefore not binding. But all the popes have taught the contrary! So what? They will be wrong. Or they have said true things and taught for their time, but not for ours. "
"This gives the Pope's a reading to the family pastoral, which deviates from the traditional doctrine."
Jesuit General: "We know today that Jesus never taught that marriage is indissoluble"
"We know today," that Jesus probably, probably almost certainly, never taught that marriage is indissoluble. The evangelists would have misunderstood this."
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Build a simple notification service with Node.js and MongoDB
Do you ever find yourself trying to orchestrate the behavior of a growing set of disparate tools to create some larger system? In my case, our development team needs to assemble a continuous delivery pipeline and sequence their operation. One option is to employ a notification service that supports creating, signaling, and subscribing to events.
Such a service might be applied to a build system to announce the availability of a new build. Downstream components of the pipeline can then receive notifications and take action based on the presence of a new build. The action might include proactively provisioning a new test system and running a regression suite.
"A notification service doesn't have to be exciting to be useful."
I developed this simple notification service using the Node.js runtime for its support for rapid development of HTTP servers with a RESTlike API. I also chose to employ MongoDB for the back end. Its document orientation seemed perfect for rapid prototyping and I didn't need strict support for ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) properties.
What you'll need to build a similar app
- A basic familiarity with Node.js and a Node.js development environment
- These Node.js modules: Express, Underscore, Nodemailer
- Additional modules for automated testing: Mocha, Should, Supertest
- A MongoDB NoSQL database
After you install Node and MongoDB you'll be able use Node's package manager (npm) to load the required dependencies. See the package.json file in the code you downloaded from DevOps Services for specific versions of the modules and frameworks that enable this application.
Let's get started!
Step 1. Create the APIs
The API is REST-like in that resources are accessed and modified by using unique URLs that apply HTTP verbs: GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE. Any application with an HTTP messaging capability can access the service. This approach provides a clean interface for future, browser-based tools.
The primary resources managed by the service are events and subscriptions. An API is available for each of the create, read, update, and delete actions.
I based this API on the Express framework because it includes a robust set of features for web application development and because it's super easy to use, if you follow the conventions. Take a look at the code from the main server.js module of the application that sets up routing for incoming request directed at events:
console.log ('registering event routes with express'); app.get('/events', event.findAll); app.get('/events/:id', event.findById); app.post('/events', event.addEvent); app.put('/events/:id', event.updateEvent); app.delete('/events/:id', event.deleteEvent);
This same basic pattern is then repeated for subscriptions:
console.log ('registering subscription routes with express'); app.get('/subscriptions', sub.findAll); app.get('/subscriptions/:id', sub.findById); app.post('/subscriptions', sub.addSubscription); app.put('/subscriptions/:id', sub.updateSubscription); app.delete('/subscriptions/:id', sub.deleteSubscription);
In addition to these basic actions for events and subscriptions, there are two additional important APIs, specifically:
- An API to signal an event:
app.post('/signals', signal.processSignal);
- An API to retrieve a log of recent signals:
app.get('/signallog', signallog.findRecent);
Step 2. Work with the back end
MongoDB provides a persistent store for the service. I work directly with back-end documents (collections) rather than use an object mapper. The Node.js native driver provides all the needed capability.
The two primary resources, events and subscriptions, map directly to
database collections. Access to them is straightforward. For example, a
GET request to the events resource results in a call to
event.findAll as defined in the previous code section. The
findAll function is defined in the events.js module:
exports.findAll = function(req, res) { mongo.Db.connect(mongoUri, function (err, db) { db.collection('events', function(er, collection) { collection.find().toArray(function(err, items) { res.send(items); db.close(); }); }); }); }
findAll function simply connects to the database, obtains
a handle to the events collection, returns all elements, and then closes
the connection. All API requests are handled in this similar and very
direct way. In the following example, the delete event request is handled
by the
deleteEvent function from the events.js module:
exports.deleteEvent = function(req, res) { var id = req.params.id; mongo.Db.connect(mongoUri, function (err, db) { db.collection('events', function(err, collection) { collection.remove({'_id':new BSON.ObjectID(id)}, {safe:true}, function(err, result) { res.send(req.body); db.close(); }); }); }); }
As before, a connection is established and a collection handle is obtained. Next, the collection element is removed based on the provided ID, and the connection is closed.
Step 3. Send notifications
In addition to performing the create, replace, update, and delete operations against the managed resources, this service also sends messages to appropriate subscription endpoints when events are signaled. This first version of the service provides email notifications. The next few code sections trace the entire process, end to end.
A signal is received through the signals route. You can see from the
server.js module that we handle this route with the
processSignal function in the signals module:
app.post('/signals', signal.processSignal);
exports.processSignal = function(req, res) { var signal = req.body; console.log('Processing Signal: ' + JSON.stringify(signal)); mongo.Db.connect(mongoUri, function (err, db) { db.collection('subscriptions', function(err, collection) { collection.find().toArray(function(err, items) { matches = _.filter(items, function(sub){return sub.eventTitle == signal.eventTitle}); _.each(matches, function (sub) {processMatch(sub, signal)}); res.send(matches); }); }); });
As before, a connection to the database is established and a handle is
obtained for the associated collection. We then filter to get all
subscriptions with a matching Event title. Each element of this subset of
matching subscriptions is then processed by the
Did you notice my use of
_.filter and
These are both from a very cool library called Underscore, which provides
slick helper functions that are quite familiar to users of object-oriented
languages such as Ruby.
processMatch function simply assigns values appropriate
for an email message and calls the
function processMatch(subscription, signal) { opts = { from: 'Simple Notification Service', to: subscription.alertEndpoint, subject: subscription.eventTitle + ' happened at: ' + new Date(), body: signal.instancedata } // Send alert mailer.sendMail(opts); }
sendMail function is also straightforward because I use
another library named NodeMailer. You can see that my
sendMail function
just makes use of a few NodeMailer capabilities to send the email
notification. It basically initializes a transport object with
authentication values, then specifies message content (subject, body,
address, and so on), and initiates a send:
exports.sendMail = function (opts) { var mailOpts, smtpTransport; console.log ('Creating Transport'); smtpTransport = nodemailer.createTransport('SMTP', { service: 'Gmail', auth: { user: config.email, pass: config.password } }); // mailing options mailOpts = { from: opts.from, replyTo: opts.from, to: opts.to, subject: opts.subject, html: opts.body }; console.log('mailOpts: ', mailOpts); console.log('Sending Mail'); // Send mail smtpTransport.sendMail(mailOpts, function (error, response) { if (error) { console.log(error); }else { console.log('Message sent: ' + response.message); } console.log('Closing Transport'); smtpTransport.close(); }); }
Step 4. Test the app
I have covered the major functionality of the notification service. Next, I'll quickly address automated testing.
Another slick framework in the Node.js ecosystem is Mocha for testing.
Combining Mocha with add-ons such as
supertest for HTTP
goodies and
should for assertions provides readable
functional tests for my API. Here is a snippet from the
eventtests.js module that verifies the
Event API:
it('should verify revised News flash 6 event', function(done) { request(url) .get('/events/'+ newsFlash6id) .end(function(err, res) { if (err) { throw err; } res.should.have.status(200); res.body.should.have.property('title'); res.body.title.should.equal('News flash 6 - revised'); done(); }); });
This syntax and format is very readable and I expect it will be relatively easy to maintain.
My automated functional regression test suite includes tests for each API
and I have structured a test folder that includes all tests. Mocha
recognizes this convention. To run the test suite, issue the command
mocha from the root of the project.
As shown in the following figure, the output from the test suite is terse if there are no failures:
My current process is to run this regression suite locally (and often) as I make changes. I always run it before pushing changes to source control. An instance of this service is running on the Bluemix platform.
I essentially have two environments today: my local development system where I make changes and perform tests, and the production system on Bluemix. This arrangement works fine for now, but a next step is to create another hosted staging environment on Bluemix. A new staging environment can enable me to run the regression suite in a more production-like environment and open up options like automatic test and deployment into production after source changes. When I take that step, I'll be sure to blog about it.
Consider building a similar, simple notification service to manage events across a broad set of tools. Give it a try and let us know how it goes!


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Well, the Bulls will get at least one more chance to add another chapter to their storybook postseason as they handed the Bonnies an 80-66 loss and advance to the semifinals of the WNIT. The "Green and Gold" got the win in front of a raucous 4,133 fans at the Reilly Center, a school record for women's basketball. USF now awaits the winner of Georgetown and Boston College who play at 5 p.m. on Sunday in Boston.
St. Bonaventure ends the season 23-11 while the Bulls improve to 25-10.
The Bulls got huge afternoons from its seniors as four of the five players in double-figures were in the senior class. Shantia Grace led the way with 20 points while Jazmine Sepulveda and Jessica Lawson added 14 points, and Janae Stokes and Brittany Denson chipped in with 11 and 10 points respectively.
Grace shot 3-10 from the field and 1-4 from behind the three-point arc, however the guard from Sarasota was automatic down the stretch from the charity stripe hitting 13-13 from the line including 8-8 in the second half. Her perfect performance from the line equals the second best in school history for a single game, joining Sonya Swick's 13-13 against UAB on Jan. 16, 1998.
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It took a long time for a performance everyone could be happy with to emerge at these national championships.
After four days almost entirely on the downbeat both on and off the track, Steven Hooker produced that one result, clearing 5.65 metres to finish second to Dmitri Markov in the pole vault yesterday. As that equalled the Olympic A-performance, Hooker will be joining Markov in Athens later this year.
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Devastated was Paul Burgess, the remaining of the four vaulters who came into the competition with an Olympic A-standard. Burgess finished fourth. His Olympic chances may disappear today if the selectors decide Chistiakov's status as a finalist at last year's world championships warrants making him a discretionary choice.
And given what has gone on at and around these championships over the past four days, if only two are unhappy, that qualifies as mass delirium.
Only about a dozen Australian athletes will be told today that they can start packing their bags for Athens.
The tough selection criteria imposed by Athletics Australia means that the likes of world 400m hurdles champion Jana Pittman, sprint stars Matt Shirvington and Patrick Johnson and hammer thrower Debbie Sosimenko will have to prove their form and fitness and wait until July 4 before being formally added to the team. All four missed their pet events at the trials through injury or illness, although Pittman ran an impressive split time of 51.8 seconds in the 4 x 400m relay yesterday.
Pittman, Katerina Dressler, Rosemary Hayward and Annabelle Smith ran a time of three minutes 29.79 seconds, which ranks just inside the top 16 and there is a further chance to go faster in Canberra in a fortnight's time.
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Lauren Hewitt ran two Olympic B-qualifiers in the 200 metres, but just missed out on the A-standard she needed to make the automatic nominations.
It was warm and windy when she ran 23.03 seconds in the heats, cold and windy when she ran 23.09 to take the final. Hewitt will run in Canberra and Adelaide in the next three weeks, but will have to wait until July to find out whether she will be selected for a third Olympics.
Petrina Price narrowly missed the A-standard in the women's high jump, the 19-year-old winning with a leap of 1.93m before missing her three attempts at 1.95m. Again, she will have to wait until July to find out her Olympic fate.
Kris McCarthy and Tamsyn Lewis had much to lose in the respective 800m titles, having suffered rare losses to domestic rivals recently - for Lewis the first such defeat in seven years.
McCarthy took the national title in finishing second in 1:47.34 to Tanzanian Samwel Mwera's 1:47.99. Todd McDonald, who beat McCarthy in Melbourne on February 12, was third in 1:48.37.
Lewis was beaten by Rikke Ronholt, 2:01.68 to 2:02.24, but she finished comfortably ahead of third-placed Libby Allen, who clocked 2:03.33.
The immediate fate of McCarthy and Lewis may, along with the men's pole vault, be one of the issues provoking debate among the Olympic team selectors in an otherwise fairly straightforward initial task.
Each has the A-standard; each reached the semi-final stage at the world championships; each, barring that one defeat, is comfortably ahead of their domestic competition.
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Mascot Contest - Printable Version
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- iceb0x - 2011-05-06 19:13
j3n2 Wrote:
That has got to be the most hilarious thing I have ever seen!!!!
Did you draw that
I'm pretty sure it's not gonna win - BUT GOOD JOB
- j3n2 - 2011-05-06 19:18
Yeah Icebox -i did the "multitasking" bunny
and thank you
- Jono00 - 2011-05-06 19:55
Here's my entry:
Hope you like it I don't think it's the best of the bunch, but I like it.
XBMC Buddy - b00zer - 2011-05-06 20:20
Hi Guys,
I decided to enter the contest. This is a scalable vector file that can be converted into 1, 2, 3, 4+ colours for printing on t-shirt, embroidery, etc. I am a t-shirt graphic artist so I'll be able to create the silkscreens versions as well with little trouble.
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- VegaOrion - 2011-05-06 20:54
b00zer Wrote:Hi Guys,
- dubstar_04 - 2011-05-06 21:25
This is my first pass at drawing.
its not really a mascot though!!
- VegaOrion - 2011-05-06 21:55
Reminds me of that theme with the dog on the tv.
2nd entry and yes i own the artwort :) - resetnos - 2011-05-06 22:28
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3rd attempt on the mascot - resetnos - 2011-05-06 22:39
here its better
but ill stick to my first post
just an idea and yes i own the artwork
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Hi Guys,
Greetings from South Africa, Yip we also love this program ;-)
Here is my submission to the contest!
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- Piers - 2011-05-07 03:19
Here is my idea - created from scratch (took fookin ages lol)
Available in RGB and CMYK @300DPI. Colours can be changed to any others if chosen.
Tshirt with black or green logo:
- htpc guy - 2011-05-07 04:10
Here he is in full color
Another Forum Member helped with the name. This is Ecksby!
and the orignial B&W
I like both versions. Both could be used for specific applications. I can see the black version being used with the XBMC logo and the color version used on the XBMC.org site.
- pike - 2011-05-07 04:46
^what a cute & mute dragon
- korsairtuga - 2011-05-07 07:06
The dragon is my favorite, but without the cat 5 plug maybe, it's confusing.
Try to picture yourself explaining it to your girlfriend and you will understand.
- Montellese - 2011-05-07 09:46
korsairtuga Wrote:The dragon is my favorite, but without the cat 5 plug maybe, it's confusing.
Actually I just did that yesterday and she found that it's a nice way of showing that it's something "computer-related" (her words).
I like the B&W version of Ecksby but I'm not sure on the colored version. There I wouldn't have recognized the plug if I wouldn't have known from the B&W version.


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Nothing startling here, but U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand gave her most extensive remarks that I'm aware of on a national infrastructure bank today.
"This is a basic public private partnership that cuts government spending as it takes pressure off state and local government and pressure off our property taxes to do some of these long-term, large-scale infrastructure projects," Gillibrand to the Association for a Better New York breakfast.
Following is a full transcript of her remarks on infrastructure:
Another very common sense idea that I think would be so important for NewYork is a national infrastructure bank. Now this is not a Democratic idea or a Republican idea ,it is just a good idea.
As we know in ny our roads, bridges, highways, sewers, and ports desperately need investment. Many are crumbing before our eyes. Fixing these is not just an economic issue about how do we create jobs now or in the future, it's also an issue of public safety.
A national infrastructure bank will allow for direct private equity investment into these long term large scale infrastructure projects. It will be a vehicle for investment for pension funds, life insurance companies, for private equity, and the trillions of dollars that is sitting on the sidelines of our economy today. It's a vehicle whereby we can invest in traditional and new infrastructure.
We could do high speed rail, we could do rural broadband, we could do health care IT, we could do a new electric grid.
All of these investments create long term growth opportunities. Instead of being run at the whim of politicians who come and go, a national infrastructure bank would be run by a non partisan board of directors, similar to the Federal Reserve -- experts serving terms well beyond a campaign cycle.
It would be like having a capital budget just like states and businesses do -- not an operating budget run through the appropriations process.
So the idea could really make a difference.
When you look at history infrastructure has not been a Democratic idea or a Republican idea -- really is a non partisan idea. For example Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the national highway system and President Ronald Reagan who increased the investment while he was president to maintain it.
This is a basic Public Private Partnership that cuts government spending as it takes pressure off state and local government and pressure off our property taxes to do some of these long-term, large-scale infrastructure projects.
When you reduce the government's role in spending you can take the politics out of the process so that many of these projects can move forward.


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2009 has been a tough year for almost everyone—We know times are tough and people are tight on money, we're right there with you. We talked about saving money and being more efficient and came up with a plan. Our original intention was to raise awareness to the Fighter scene in North America, and promote it. The magazine was what felt like a very solid proclamation of whats going on in North America, however printing and distribution was a monetary burden on us and our advertisers. We figured out how to effectively cut costs, but still bring you the same quality content and feel.
What this means is CF Mag is going web based! That's right, taking it to our internet roots, where our beloved fighterers found us in the first place!
We will be able to bring you the same stories, granted not on paper, however on a much more regular basis and much more free for you. Without having to delay for an affordable print schedule there will be no more reading about Fighter Fest in the winter (beside for the upcoming story), no longer will I have to keep my new bike a secret for 6 months so I can debut it to everyone (besides for this upcoming story), and this opens us up to be able to cover a lot more forum activity and show it to the rest of the world! We will also be offering the stories up in about every language through a very neat translation software utilized with our blog software. Our reach will be much greater, our content more current and relevant!
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text: SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Dec. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading and award-winning developer and publisher of digital entertainment Telltale Games, in collaboration with leading and award-winning developer Gearbox Software, and publisher 2K, announced today their partnership to create an all-new story-driven episodic game series entitled, 'Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Games Series', set to premiere digitally in 2014 on home consoles, PC/Mac, and mobile devices."Gearbox shares the independent spirit that Telltale was founded on, and like Telltale, they've broken the boundaries of what to expect within a gaming genre," said Dan Connors, co-founder and CEO of Telltale Games. " Our partnership is something that we are very excited about, because it will unite the incredibly rich world of Borderlands with Telltale's focus on story-telling driven by player choice, and characters that people truly care about." ' Tales from the Borderlands' will explore and expand on the stories of existing and all-new characters from the world of Pandora, as seen in the critically-acclaimed and best-selling Borderlands ® 2 from Gearbox and 2K. "At the 2012 Spike TV VGAs, our studios and games – Borderlands 2 and The Walking Dead - were fortunate to do incredibly well that night winning more awards than any other games! So we met up later for a great first date, one thing lead to another and, well, we're having a baby," said Randy Pitchford, President of Gearbox Software. "Borderlands is incredibly important to us, so it is meaningful to share that with this partnership. I have great confidence and excitement for what Telltale has in store for its all-new adventures in our universe." Developed by Gearbox Software, and published by 2K – a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. – the Borderlands franchise has sold-in more than 15 million units worldwide, won more than 55 editorial awards, and was a breakout original property that invented a new genre, the FPS/RPG hybrid known as "shooter-looter."


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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - Criminal charges were filed today against a Palm Springs doctor accused of sexual battery against an 18-year-old female volunteer at the clinic where he worked.
Daniel Glywn Walters, 66, facesfive misdemeanor counts of sexual battery, with arraignment scheduled May 2 at the Larson Justice Center, according to court records.
Walters was arrested March 7 at his place of employment, SleepWise Sleep and Behavioral Medicine Center at 1801 E. Tahquitz Canyon Way, according to the Palm Springs Police Department.
The alleged victim, whose name was withheld, contacted police to claim that Walters had "committed sexual battery upon her" on March 5 and 6 while she volunteered as an extern at SleepWise, according to a police statement. The statement didn't elaborate on the alleged offenses.
The woman started volunteering at the center on March 4, police said.
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any of the participating cities. Users find it easy to use and terribly convenient to search from one Web site, instead of jumping from one individual city Web site to the next."
If You Can't Beat Them ...
Though NWProperty.net can clearly help the Puget Sound region compete with other regions, some worry that participating cities will ultimately compete against one another to attract businesses.
"We stress that we're not competing with ourselves; we're competing with other geographical centers, other states," said Backman. "When a business looks at NWProperty.net, they are getting a view of us as a region -- not as individual cities. In addition, every city has its own niche -- where suppliers are located, educational attainment in the area, etc. This gives businesses a better chance at finding exactly what they want and need while simultaneously improving the overall strength of the state -- something that is ultimately important to all our cities."
Craig Ward, assistant city manager of SeaTac, Wash., said NWProperty.net gave his city a more affordable option for economic development efforts.
"Before NWProperty.net came along, we were actively considering the services of a private vendor," he said. "In checking references of private vendors, we became aware of NWProperty.net. We contacted them and found out it would be a significant cost savings compared to the private vendor and would provide us with more flexibility. We decided the cost savings were worth the risks of engaging in this new venture."
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The eCityGov Alliance was formed in 2002 out of two different collaborative projects.
Building officials from Bellevue, Kirkland, Issaquah and Mercer Island collaborated for several years to align business objectives, code administration practices and philosophy to provide more consistent, uniform service delivery to customers.
At the same time, a group of city officials in the King County area were considering a collaborative project to provide online services to reduce operating costs.
Both efforts came together, evolving into the eCityGov Alliance.
Before NWProperty.net, the alliance successfully implemented a regional e-permitting application called MyBuildingPermit.com and is now working on an equivalent service for regionwide recreation class registrations to be called MyParksandRecration.com.
The alliance continues looking for opportunities to reduce costs and improve service delivery. In some cases, an individual agency brings an application to the alliance and offers to share it; in others, the alliance develops its own application or purchases an existing application. The alliance also works on interagency coordination for data sharing and structure (GIS data and addresses) to improve data sets and lower members' operating costs.
Though it's too early to tie any direct economic improvements to NWProperty.net, Ward said the site already has produced some additional advantages for SeaTac. City employees are often asked to track down lists of available properties for developers and conduct research to help developers assess the city's suitability to their clients. "This gives us a mechanism to respond to those requests quickly, saves our staff time and provides us a capacity we didn't have before," he said.
Because the GIS application allows prospective companies and brokers to search for data such as steep slopes, wetlands and environment protections affecting a potential property, a good amount of due diligence can be done electronically, saving time for those in search of property.
"The more information we provide and the easier we make it to access and use, the better our chances of improving our attractiveness to new and relocating businesses," said Ward. "We may not be the cheapest state in which to do business, but we offer many other benefits and a quality of life you can't find in other places."


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Replacing 15 amp breaker with 20?
I'm finishing my attic and it only has one 15A circuit, which my electrician said would be fine for the 800 sq. ft. space. However, I'm installing a home theatre system and I'm getting a little nervous about the power requirements.
At this point all of the wiring is done, as is the insulation, and we're getting ready to sheetrock. I know that the attic is wired with 14/2. How much of a problem is it to simply change the 15 amp breaker with a 20 amp? Will a 14/2 line handle the 20 amp circuit?
If your not sure...split the circuit at a logical location for the room and run a new feed to that half. Are the lights and outlets on the same circuit? Do you have the home theater equipment? If you do, do a rough estimate of the combined amperage of your equipment/tv and don't forget the draw of floor lamps.
Woah Woah a red flag time just stop for a min you say if you want to change breaker from 15 amp to 20 amp on 14-2 NM wires ?? the answer is NO you can't do that it stated in clear in the NEC code it spefically 14 gauge wires = 15 amp circuits , 12 gauge wire = 20 amp circuits , 10 gauge wire = 30 amp circuits that will cover all the genreal circuits in resdentenal and commercal / industrail useage but they have few part have specail exmept for specal useage but right now we are not going into it for now.
IMO it should have 12-2 NM wire installed in first place it may only cost little more but have alot more loading in the circuit you have there with 15 amp you can load up to 1800 watts but when you have 20 amp circuits you can load up much as 2400 watts so that make the diffrence there
Merci , Marc
Thanks for the warning. Okay, here's a list of all my electrical stuff:
Projector: 145 W
Receiver/speakers: 650 W
DVD player: 60 W
Xbox: 200 W
(6) recessed lights: 360 W
(5) wall sconces: 200 W
Table light: 100 W
Compact refrigerator: 150 W
iMac computer: 150 W
TOTAL: 2,015 W (If everything is on and running at full power)
p.s. There's a second circuit in the attic, but it powers the furnace. Could I break up the circuit and tie into that?
Get the 12-2 installed. Show the electrician your power calculations and ask him to cut you a break on running the new wire, since you were going by his previous advice. Don't tap into the furnace circuit.
How are you handling surge suppression and power backup? I have my TV, Internet router, and Xbox on a UPS (along with some other items) so that only extended power outages interrupt my gaming time. :thumbsup:
The electrician was simply piggybacking on a 15A circuit that already existed in the attic. To swap out all of the 14/2 with 12/2 would be difficult, especially since the insulation is already up. I think the best solution is to locate another circuit in the attic to help with some of the load, or separate part of the circuit (perhaps the lights) and run a separate line to the main panel for those.
If I detect correctly what your saying the "electrician" jumped off an existing 15 amp circuit to supply the power for the attic? And he knew that it would be a home theater up there? And he wants to attach a 14/2 to a 20 amp breaker to supply more juice for your stuff??????
If that is correct I would find the largest baseball bat I could find and club him over the head at least 20 times!!!!!:thumbup:
If it was up to me I would run at least 2 12/2 lines to the attic and then attach them to 20 amp breakers. One would do the job right now(just barely) but if things are still somewhat open why not leave room for some future expansion and a generous margin for safety. Look at the electronic changes that have happened in the last 5-10 years. A room that was wired 10 years ago with no thought to future expansion would be woefully underpowered by now. Think what the next 10 years will bring. For a little extra cost be safe than sorry
But I would figure a "Electrician" would know and tell you that
Or at least I would think he would /should
Thanks for the reply. No. No. The electrician wasn't suggesting a 20 amp breaker. That was me. Here's some background. Basically we have a third floor walkup unfinished attic, which we're now finishing. The only thing that was in the attic was a single outlet and two pull chain lights.
What my electrician suggested was to simply use the existing 15 amp circuit, which really wasn't being used, to power the whole attic space, which is approximately 800 sq. ft. Getting power up three floors would have been really difficult without ripping up the house. I actually wasn't going to make this space a home theatre. That was his idea, which is really cool!
We're also going to install a diner booth in a small 10' x 10' area adjacent to the main room and make the whole space sort of a 50's retro look. However, when we were shopping for a microwave I was surprised that they use about 1000 watts or more. That's when I canned the microwave idea and I became nervous about my power needs.
So that's were I am now.
From not seeing the layout I would bet the service and panel is in the basement. Think outside the box for ways to get 2 or 3 new lines to the attic. Depending on the layout you could think about running the lines outside the house and up into the attic. Use the proper conduit for outside runs and make sure its secured to code and with the proper wire. I have done this before and it works ok. Looks better if you keep it as close to a corner as possible.
More often than not there is a pipe chase or chimney chase from the basement to the attic that a wire is easily fished in.
I would find another electrician. If the new one doesnt suggest adding AT LEAST one whole new 20 amp circuit, (in addition to the existing 15 amp) find yet another electrician.
Doubtful that the REceiver & speakers are drawing 650watts, that would be the amp load for output to the speakers overall. Same for the Xbox. Personally, I would put the electronics on a seperate circuit that is protected by a Surge system, or even an isolation transformer.
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But we do have a clue when to expect the Samsung DROID Charge to be released and the good news is, it could be as early as this Tuesday. A leaked screenshot that apparently was meant for Verizon eyes only says that kiosks will start receiving inventory of the phone on Monday with all locations "fully stocked" by Wednesday. According to the document, the Samsung DROID Charge cannot be sold before Tuesday and Costco has placed a "Do not sell" red flag on the phone. It also says that "Confirmation of a revised launch date will be sent Monday."
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White House Calls on Colleges to Adopt Clear College Cost and Financial Aid Disclosures
Mark Kantrowitz
June 05, 2012
The White House is calling on all college and university presidents to provide incoming students with clear and easy-to-understand college cost and financial aid disclosures.
On June 5, 2012, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Richard Cordray and Domestic Policy Council Director Cecilia Muñoz hosted a roundtable with presidents of ten leading colleges and universities who have agreed to provide incoming students with transparent and accessible information about college costs and financial aid starting with the 2013-14 school year.
Last fall the Obama Administration posted a draft version of its Financial Aid Shopping Sheet for public comment on the CFPB's Know Before You Owe web site. This model financial aid award letter was developed by the US Department of Education in partnership with the CFPB, as required by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. The US Department of Education will release a revised version of the Financial Aid Shopping Sheet this fall after incorporating more than a thousand public comments. (Public comments will continue to be accepted through June 20, 2012.)
The Financial Aid Shopping Sheet provides families with clear and concise information to help them make informed decisions concerning the tradeoffs between college affordability and other criteria for choosing a college. "While a quality higher education remains a sound investment, students and families need to clearly understand the costs and benefits of each college they're considering so they can easily compare choices and identify the best value prior to enrolling," according to a statement released by the White House.
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- The student's total cost of attendance for one year of college.
- Information about the financial aid available to the student to cover college costs, with a "clear differentiation between grants and scholarships, which do not have to be repaid, and loans, which do."
- The student's net cost after subtracting grants and scholarships from the cost of attendance.
- An estimate the student's likely debt after graduation and the monthly loan payments associated with that debt.
- Data concerning college quality and student outcomes, such as retention rates, graduation rates and loan repayment rates.
The colleges and universities that have committed to providing improved college cost and financial aid disclosures include:
- Arizona State University
- Miami Dade College
- North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
- State University System of New York (64 colleges, universities, and community colleges)
- Syracuse University
- University of Massachusetts System (5 universities)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University System of Maryland (12 universities)
- University of Texas System (9 universities)
- Vassar College
Momentum is building for the establishment of a mandatory college cost and financial aid disclosure. On April 27, 2012, President Obama signed an executive order requiring colleges that accept Tuition Assistance and GI Bill money to provide military and veteran students with the Financial Aid Shopping Sheet. Senator Franken (D-MN) introduced bipartisan legislation on May 24, 2012 to establish a standardized financial aid award letter similar to the Obama Administration's proposal and to make the standard mandatory.
Mark Kantrowitz is a nationally-recognized financial aid expert. He testified before the Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance in March 2011 and a U.S. Department of Education meeting in September 2011 about the need to standardize financial aid award letters. He has written articles about standardizing financial aid award letters for the Council on Law in Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed and Higher Ed Watch. Mark also wrote Fastweb's Quick Reference Guide to Evaluating Financial Aid Award Letters and developed FinAid's award letter comparison tool.
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Absorbing Terrorist Attacks
Marc Theissen is outraged that President Obama reportedly said that the U.S. could "absorb a terrorist attack."
These are stunningly complacent words from the man responsible for stopping such a terrorist attack. Obama uttered them last July, after America suffered two near-misses—the failed attacks on Christmas Day and in Times Square. Rather than serving as a wake-up call and giving the president a sense of urgency, these attacks seem to have given the president a sense of resignation. He is effectively saying: an attack is inevitable, we'll do our best to prevent it, but if we get hit again—even on the scale of 9/11—it's really no big deal.
In fact, it would be a big deal, particularly to the people who would bear the burden of "absorbing" another attack—the victims and their families. Obama's statement is unimaginably cavalier about the deaths of nearly 3,000 people, and disturbingly resigned to the prospect of thousands more perishing in our midst.
First, what President Obama said seems correct. The U.S. can absorb a conventional terrorist attack and continue to function (a WMD attack would be a different story, but fortunately those are much harder to pull off). It's not as if President Obama is suggesting an attack is a good thing or that we should encourage them. In a free society, it's impossible - impossible - to stop every last individuals or small groups of people from committing acts of terrorism. Pretending otherwise, as Theissen appears to, is not only naive but infantile.
Now, the other point is whether this means the administration is "complacent" and "resigned" to future terrorist strikes. If one defines counter-terrorism as consisting of a set of policies beyond
torturing people enhanced interrogation, I think it's hard to argue that they are. There's been an expedited drone war in Pakistan, a surge of troops into Afghanistan, and an uptick in not-so-covert support to Yemen and Somalia. One would not embark on those policies if they took a blase attitude about the threat from al-Qaeda.
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IT'S PEAK WEEK! If you get a PR this week – LET YOUR COACH KNOW so we can mark it on the board!
ELEMENTS: None – we have the next few weeks off due to the move!
SPECIALIZED SESSIONS: Mobility with Tim at 730pm.
GAMES: None! Mobilize thyself so WHATEVER comes at us on Wednesday night will be doable!
SELF-MYOFASCIAL RELEASE AND MOBILITY: Foam Roll generally for 3 minutes. IT Band/TFL flossing with the Lacrosse Ball, 1 minute each side. Box Assisted 90/90, 1 minute each side. Gastroc/Soleus Stretch, 1 minute each side.
DYNAMIC WARM-UP: 5 minutes of double under practice, every time you break, hang out in a Spiderman Stretch for a little bit.
SKILL WORK: Snatch Balance. You may practice landing in a full overhead squat, but for our purposes today, landing in a partial squat is optimal. Check out the video.
STRENGTH: Two Choices, you can complete a max set of 15 reps (with bodyweight x 15 as a goal) or you can complete an Overhead Squat for a Max of 1 rep. You may not do both.
*To be done OUTSIDE*
Rotate through the following stations four times (for a total of 12 minutes of work):
1 minute of a Plank
1 minute of a Waiter's Walk with a barbell overhead (135/95)
1 minute of a Farmer's Walk – 1 kettlebell by your side in each hand (2/1.5)
Are the kettlebells too easy? Find some plates to pinch grip! (see here)
Your score is the number of times you must rest.
Example: Resting on the plank scores you a point. Resting on the Waiter's Walk scores you a point. Resting on the Farmer's Walk scores you a point. You get NO POINTS for moving any specific distance… but you should keep moving…if you haven't picked up the barbell 15 seconds into a minute you get 10 points added to your score. Stay between Juniper and 13th Street in a safe radius (so that you can make sure you can rest on the sidewalk if any cars are coming).
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Addtional collaborative work has included: In dance, "Cinderella" with Christopher Wheeldon at the Dutch Nationla Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. Also with Wheeldon "A Winter's Tale" for the Royal Ballet in 2014. Darkness and Light with Pilobolus and "Wonderboy" with The Joe Goode Dance Company. In drama, Paula Vogel's play "The Long Christmas Ride Home" (including directing and designing the West Coast Premiere at The Magic Theatre), "Red Beads", "Peter and Wendy", puppetry for the Oskar Eustis-directed "Hamlet" for New York's Shakespeare in the Park and Des Macunuff's "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" at the La Jolla Playhouse
Basil has taught at leading Universities such as Stanford, Duke, New York University and Brown and as a guest lecturer of the US State Dept in Russia. He has received an Obie, a Drama Desk Award, five UNIMA Awards, two Bessie Awards, a New York Innovative Theatre Award, a Henry Hewes Award, a Guggenheim, a USA Artists fellowship and was most recently awarded a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. In 2012 Washington D.C. hosted a retrospective of his work, Twist Fest D.C. He is the director of the Dream Music Puppetry Program at HERE in New York. His new site-specific commission "Seafoam Sleepwalk" for the La Jolla Playhouse made its premiere in the Pacific Ocean in San Diego in 2013 as a part of their WOW Festival.
His maverick "Rite of Spring" – a ballet without dancers, made its world premiere in 2013, commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts and will be presented in October of 2014 as a part of Lincoln Center's White Light Festival. Twist currently serves as Artistic Director of HERE Art Center's Dream Music Puppetry Program, one of the few programs in the country to develop and commission contemporary, adult puppet works.
Director, Scenographer, Puppetry artist
A native of San Francisco, Basil Twist is a third generation puppeteer now living in New York. He is the sole American to graduate from the École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mezieres, France. Basil's work was first spotlighted in New York by "The Jim Henson International Festival of Puppetry" with his award winning "The Araneidae Show". Coupled with the subsequent critically praised and multiple award winning "Symphonie Fantastique", Twist was revealed as a singular artist of unlimited imagination. "Symphonie" has since toured internationally and throughout the United States.
Highlights of Twist's subsequent work have included "Petrushka" (commissioned by Lincoln Center) and "Dogugaeshi" (The Japan Society), "Behind the Lid" (Silver Whale Gallery) with the legendary Lee Nagrin and "Arias with a Twist" (HERE) co-created with nightlife icon Joey Arias. His productions have toured throughout the world.
On Broadway he created and staged the puppetry in "The Addams Family" for which he won a Drama Desk Award and staged the puppetry for the beloved "Pee-Wee Herman Show". He made his debut at the Comedie Francaise as designer and co-director of "A Streetcar named Desire" with Lee Breuer. Basil's work is deeply musical in nature.
He has conceived and directed two successful operas, Ottorini Respighi's "La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco" with the Gotham Chamber Opera at the Lincoln Center and Spoleto USA Festivals, and Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel for the Houston and Atlanta Operas. "Master peters Puppet Show" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has adapted his "Petrushka to concert hall staging with full orchestra for the Fort Worth and Phoenix Symphonies.


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IAC aims at coaching African managers whether they work for African or Western corporations who have subsidiairies in Africa. IAC is headquartered in Dakar (Senegal). IAC will also train African consultants and HR Managers willing to use Coaching as part of their professionnal practice.
- Managers
- Consultants
The company's based in Senegal and the initial clients will come from Western Africa (Senegal, Cameroon, the Ivory-Coast, ...).
Coaching and training modules are done using French as a language, so it is important to refer to IAC as the "Institut Africain de Coaching"